January 2011
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"[She's] often right."
Philosophy started fifteen minutes late today, and then went really quickly downhill. In a discussion about fairness (in the video we were watching) 46% of people thought it was fair for Wayne Rooney to earn more than a care-worker*. Yes, almost half thought that it was fair. The first person to try and justify this choice: “I think it’s fair because he gets like, more exercise....
Breakfast for dinner at 11pm.
My life is gr8!
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Found a tenner on the floor.
Today is a good day!
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“Closing libraries is child abuse.”
– Alan Bennett (via cabbageandking) So fitting for what is going on right now. The library in my village is closing; the Botley library is closing; the one in Henley is probably closing (very annoying because it’s about ten seconds from college). It’s fucking stupid. Libraries are...
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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
– Aristotle (via kari-shma)
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I Like You When You Are Quiet, Pablo Neruda.
I like you when you are quiet because it is as though you are absent, and you hear me from far away, and my voice does not touch you. It looks as though your eyes had flown away and it looks as if a kiss had sealed your mouth.
Like all things are full of my soul You emerge from the things, full of my soul. Dream butterfly, you look like my soul, and you look like a melancoly word.
I like...
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Unpopular opinion.
theslytherinchiefette:
Read More don’t want Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 to be in 3D.
Honestly? I getting tired of all this 3D bullshit. Everything is in 3D now! I prefer much more to watch “regular” movies. I was thrilled when Warner Brothers announced DH1 wasn’t going to be in 3D.
Unless the 3D glasses are like Harry’s. If they are, then I’ll be more than happy to wear...
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“All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you’ll be quite...”
– Dr Seuss
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Autumn Scene - Yiruma “[A child] was playing...
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"Do not be intimidated by the eloquence of...
I got this in a fortune cookie on Tuesday. I know everyone (some people? Most people? I don’t even know) says fortune cookies are bullshit and yeah, alright, but so what? A lot of the fortunes I get are actually quite appropriate (the above being just one example - a perfect response to something I’d been thinking earlier in the day, in fact) and I really, really, really, really like...
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An inappropriate crush on my philosophy teacher.
It would appear that every girl in my class has one, but it’s hard to see how one couldn’t, really. One girl said today “I fancy him so much, like… my heart actually hurts!”. Another: “[he]’s really good [as a teacher] but I get too distracted; he’s too pretty!”. We basically just sit in our chairs and stare at him, wishing that he would take...
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“And there’s a train in my heart
That doesn’t seem to start
Unless you’re lying...”
– First Impression - DeYarmond Edison.
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OFFER FROM EXETER! OFFER FROM EXETER!
I’m so fucking awesome. AND HAPPY. AND YAY.
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“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants a...”
– Nietzsche
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Apparently, there's going to be a new Bon Iver CD...
Colour me superly-duperly excited! This year is going to be a good one, then.
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My dad never stops whistling.
It’s making me crazy and I think I’ll end up hiding out in my bedroom for the rest of forever just to avoid the noise.
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The Calculus of Saying "I Love You" →
“[He] made it clear that he would not be saying “I love you” until he was sure… Judy, obviously disappointed by this response, pressed and asked WHEN exactly that would be. His response: when dLove/dt = zero.”
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“Call her.
You have nothing to lose and everything everything everything to...”
– Too often we are scared - Barry Sanders.
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It's 4am and I'm still awake.
My bedroom is adjacent to the bathroom and I just heard the strange roaring-glug of water going down the drain. It really can only mean one thing: Mammy fell asleep in the bath again.
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that...”
– Thomas Jefferson.
There are far too many people in the world who could do with understanding this.
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“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
– Plato.
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Norbert Maier →
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Under the Stars/Simba Alive - Hans Zimmer. I was...
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Oh, Justin Vernon.
If possible, I would like to marry this man. He’s almost all I’ve been listening to for the past couple of weeks. Bon Iver is the perfect winter music; though of course, would you expect anything else with a name like that? If I don’t know what I want to listen to, if I can’t be bothered to think, if I just want to be calm and ok even though the temperature’s...
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Reactive Paint →
Shi Yuan has created a way to turn normally passive things into something with a life of its own. Like this wallpaper that reacts to heat, the painting that react when you touch it, or the daily calendar that fades away during the day.
It is made using heat sensitive paint - and it is incredible.
So, today in Psychology
kirstyyyc:
we were doing all about lynchings and stuff and how white people used to kill black people all the time (like, one every week at least!) and I don’t get it. I just don’t get it. Like, how can people kill each other? Especially over shit things like skin colour? It’s fucking ridiculous; it angered me to no end.
Fuck the world.
(I know it was ages ago, but racists, homophobes,...
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Cats try to understand treadmill. →
(via marxisforbros)
It will take three minutes of your life, but oh, they will be a great three minutes.
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constant-resurrections replied to your photo: Slovenian €0.20 coin, featuring two Lipizzaner…
Plus, Slovenia is the most awesome country ever.
They have horses on their coins, so I am going to have to agree.