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"no, keep going."

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Tumblr post 2: Stories are all too fluffy and happy and such it is fash revisionism to shy away from the darkness What we need in these times is stories that are cathartic and unsettling that is truly revolutionary

“Look at those idiots, both walking when one of them could ride the creature.”

“The boy riding while the father walks? Kids these days have no respect for their elders.”

“What a cruel man, riding while such a young boy is forced to walk!”

“Hey! Both of you get off that donkey before you kill the poor thing!”

So they tied the thing up by its hooves to some wooden poles carried over their shoulders, like a hunted boar. When they were crossing the bridge into town, the townsfolk laughed so raucously at the pair finding the worst solution imaginable that the startled donkey started to kick free of its restraints and it fell into the river and died.

MORAL: There is some secret sixth way to transport the donkey that makes everyone happy and they just didn’t think about it long enough to figure out what it is. You can always please everyone with your creative works or self-expression if you just try hard enough (lie).

Banksy has confirmed that a new statue erected in London is his work and I think it might be one of my favourite pieces by him.

Called "Blinded by the Flag" it... actually, you don't need me to explain it, it's art, you'll get it and interpret it yourself.

Which is to say, that now that I have a baby of my own, I understand so much better the common cultural practice in which unmarried women wear their hair loose and uncovered, while married women have their hair covered and/or bound back.