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kids, when you’re choosing your college schedule, you’ll hear a voice saying “just take the 8AM class. it won’t be that bad. you’ve done it for this long” that’s the devil talking

I keep going back to watch this video it just captures my sense of humour perfectly

Ben Wyatt got balls

@ohdear–imqueer us

Honestly, Rick Rolling is the best practical joke ever. Like, there’s nothing offensive or mean  spirited about it. It’s just like “Oops you thought there would be something else here but it’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’.” which isn’t even a bad song. It’s fairly enjoyable to listen to. There’s no jumpscares, no screaming, no ill will. Just Rick Astley telling you he’s never going to give you up. I think that’s great. “You fell into my trap! Here, listen to this completely benign song that will have no negative effect on you.” 

I wish this were true. There’s a really good article about the problems inherent with rickrolling here.

Very interesting. I never thought about that and now I feel bad.

Srsly signal boost.

what if i told you that a lot of “Americanized” versions of foods were actually the product of immigrant experiences and are not “bastardized versions”

That’s actually fascinating, does anyone have any examples?

Chinese-American food is a really good example of this and this article provides a good intro to the history http://firstwefeast.com/eat/2015/03/illustrated-history-of-americanized-chinese-food

Stuff you Missed in History Class has a really good podcast overview of “Foreign Food” in the US.

Corned beef! England imposed a bunch of anti-Catholic laws to drive native Irish people into poverty while consolidating land ownership in the hands of English or Anglo-Irish Protestants. Beef raised in Ireland was for export back to England, and it was corned (salted) to keep it from spoiling in transit. Your typical Irish-Catholic tenant farmer had to make due with a tiny plot of land, and the main way to turn that plot into enough calories to keep your family alive was planting potatoes. The only meat most of these folks had access to was pork and bacon, since pigs can be raised on less land and with cheaper fodder than cows. But then Irish immigrants in places like New York and Boston discovered kosher butchers and kosher delis, which didn’t sell pork products for obvious reasons – but they sold corned beef brisket at an accessible price. So this “luxury” food replaced bacon and salt pork in Irish immigrant cooking, and Americans came to think of “corned beef and cabbage” as the Iconic ™ Irish Dish.

Reblogged from the source since someone deleted the text at the bottom.

this is so amazing

Not gonna lie this got me a bit emotional.

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power stance

“hey can you go ask they what does they want for dinner, and when is they coming over to watch movies with they?”

him big

once at dinner this lil kid was sitting in the booth attached to ours and she kept standing up and looking over the back of the bench and I made faces at her and she’d start jumping up and down and laughing and so I’d bob my head up and down and she’d jump more and lose it and her mom would have her sit down but she’d pop back up every few minutes and this went on for like 45 minutes and when they were leaving her mom told us “thanks for being so patient with her jumping around and looking over at you” and I was like “haha I was making faces at her the whole time” and her mom was like “OH THAT’S WHY”

Making faces at small children in public is one of the great joys on earth.

Can you believe 14 year old azula delivered the best line of any villain ever “don’t flatter yourself. You were never even a player” iconic

Actually the best line of any villain ever was, “Maybe you should worry less about the tides, who’ve already made up their mind about killing you, and worry more about me, who’s still mulling it over.” Also spoken by Azula, age 14.

Azula was scary af, and about 50% of that was her smooth delivery and amusement in her voice.

I love this dopey little strange cat