February 2012
2 posts
“If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually...”
– Clement Freud
January 2012
3 posts
Why the friendzone is bullshit and self-proclaimed... →
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Wow, accidentally deleted my original post. Reblogging so I can keep it in my archives.
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As defined by urban dictionary, the friendzone is…
“When you are expected to support a girl you really like while she searches for a smarter, richer, and more handsome boyfriend. There is little you can do without feeling like a dick. All in all, one of the meanest things a girl can...
December 2011
13 posts
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I would never encourage anybody to stop using...
Thanks for being so patronizing, Facebook ads.
I know I can always count on you.
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Buddhism - It's just like nihilism, but sillier.
Or, Buddhism - Nihilism for the intellectually dishonest.
As the Dalai Lama calls it on the first page of The World of Tibetan Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism is “universal salvation”. This tells us immediately that the focus of such practices will be on all people, not on the individual, as he later discusses in the book. Therefore, it should be no surprise to us that our actions towards...
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Enacting economic policies up in this bitch.
Me: CUDDLE EMBARGO
Girl: I ENACT A MAKE OUT TARIFF!
Me: You sunk my battleship.
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“For self-preservation man has conceived the idea of an immortal Soul or Ātman,...”
– Rahula, Walpola (2007-12-01). What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada (Kindle Locations 1268-1270). Perseus Books Group. Kindle Edition.
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November 2011
9 posts
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David: also, straight girls really need to step it up and be more fucking awesome like lesbians
me: TOTALLY OMGZ. Every day on the way to work dude. i see this lesbian in like, badass boots and a peacoat and short black hair, and i want to like
David: somehow explain that you're totally gay for her
Me: YES
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NERDPOWAS
me: yep its a universal binary, it will work
Emmakarin: youre a universal binary
me: aww, thanks baby
You sir, are a degenerate.
Me: I just want to drink an entire bottle of Ardbeg whiskey.
Kathryn: in my experience, nothing bad has come from a goal like that
me: Exactly.
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October 2011
5 posts
David: oh yeah happy birthday. you doing anything fun?
me: Yeah going to class until 10pm
David: DUDE FUCK YEAH, I'LL BRING THE CONDOMS
“When both have examined the better and the pleasanter human course, The wise one...”
– none (2004). The Upanishads (Penguin Classics) (p. 277). ePenguin. Kindle Edition.
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Oops
This kind of ruins the previous quote.
‘When one has faith, one thinks. If one has no faith, one does not think. If one has faith, one does think. You must seek to know faith.’
Faith / thinking are mutually exclusive, in my mind.
Not to mention the heretical classification of strength as greater than intelligence, which takes place slightly earlier in the text. Religion is silly.
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“…if someone knows much, but is without intelligence, folk say of him,...”
– The Upanishads (Penguin Classics) (p. 184). ePenguin. Kindle Edition.
September 2011
15 posts
“We’re here to prove style and warmth aren’t mutually exclusive (but remember...”
– http://www.businesspundit.com/work-place-shoe-faux-pas/
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“Another important measure we have developed in our overall strategy is applying...”
– L. Paul Bremmer, Ronald Reagan’s “Ambassador at Large for Counter-Terrorism”
That’s right, criminals. Not enemy combatants. Not soldiers on some sort of metaphorical battlefield. Criminals. They should be treated as such.
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“The immediate priority should be supporting demand—or at least not doing harm to...”
– The Quest For Jobs
The Economist, September 10th 2011
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“Gārgī, do not ask too many questions, lest your head should split apart. You are...”
– The Upanishads, Penguin Classics, Pg 48
FACT: Religion promotes and encourages ignorance and blind faith.
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“One of the requisites of sanity is to disagree with the majority of the British...”
– Oscar Wilde
Applies just as much to modern day America as it did to 19th century England.
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“Bruce Sterling Interview: Cities - Boing Boing”
– Do you think governance can scale with the increasing size of megacities like Jakarta, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, (via followmejustsayyes)
I’m not entirely sure - but we have to try. The alternative is what? Anarchy?
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“In a survey of 13 emerging markets by the Pew Global Attitudes Project in...”
– The new middle classes rise up.
The Economist, September 3rd 2011
They’re right. I don’t find this shocking at all.
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“Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of...”
– Jim Rohn
I’m not much for motivational quotes, and I especially despise self-help “gurus” like Jim Rohn, but I find this particular quote to be fairly prescient.
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“The council’s chairman, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, a grandfatherly former justice...”
– Good Intentions, Fragile Legitimacy
The Economist, August 27th 2011
This man has an inspiring commitment to rule of law if he is sincere, and I have no reason to doubt that he is.
Anonymous asked: Why do you always wear flannel?
Anonymous asked: Are you gay? Cause you look like it
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August 2011
13 posts
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“In 2008 the world economy was saved from depression by a bold and co-ordinated...”
– How to Avoid a Double Dip
The Economist, August 27th
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