The axe won! It's always that way!

May 14

“The Snakehole” (part 2)

The facial expressions are what really make this for me.

On all three of them.

if you ever think mythology is boring or serious business or whatever shit

just remember that cerberus, the hell-hound and guard dog of the underworld, comes from the root indo-european word ḱerberos, which evolved into the greek word kerberos, which got changed to cerberus when it went from greek to latin

ḱerberos means “spotted”

that’s right

hades, lord of the dead, literally fucking named his pet dog spot

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“As if that wasn’t enough, twin-bulged breastplates ignore the anatomical makeup of the female breast itself. To make a long story short, the breast largely consists of fat and modified sweat glands (for the production of milk, that is), and hence it’s not nearly as solid as a comparable mass of muscle. So all but the largest breasts can be bound quite flat against the woman’s chest without occasioning too much discomfort. In turn, this means a fighting woman probably isn’t going to need a breastplate with a chest profile larger than one worn by a fighting man of a similar height and general body shape, and therefore it’s quite likely that the woman would simply fit into the man’s breastplate with the aid of some padding to make up the slack in the waist and shoulders.”

Why female breastplates don’t need breast-bulges

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Check the link out, thought it would be interesting to people. :)

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May 13

“i’m sorry, but that’s just the way it is” people who benefit from the way it is and does not want to change it anytime soon and aren’t sorry at all

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May 12

Arrghhhuefhfrrrrrrrrgh

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May 11

While on the way back from the gym, a strange, somewhat saddening experience.

As I moved to alight the bus, the driver slammed the door in my face, and ordered Sarah and me to come to the front. We thought that he was trying to help us stay dry - it was raining very heavily and there was quite a flood on the road and pavement - but when we reached him he angrily pounded the bus-fare box and told us that we had not both paid.

Sarah explained that she had paid him.

Yes, the driver said, she had, but I had not.

Sarah exclaimed that she had paid two kuai. It only costs one kuai to ride the bus - so one was for her and the other for me.

I would have liked to have been able to tell him that this was the case, but my Chinese is so limited that I wouldn’t have been able to say any more than what Sarah had already told him. “She gave you two yuan.”

Well, it seemed that the explanation was good enough because he shrugged, said “ok,” and told us to get off. I was off the bus first, out into the rain. Since Sarah was a step behind me, she was able to hear the driver practice a little bit of his English on her.

“Fuck, you!”

The other passengers laughed as the doors closed and the bus started moving away. In retrospect, we agreed that they were probably laughing out of discomfort - we’ve noticed that Chinese people tend to do that - rather than laughing at us.

So, that was a little saddening, but Sarah made a great point afterwards that for every person like that, for every time we’ve been shouted at or glared at, or met someone who was annoyed by our poor Chinese, or had a ticket vendor try to fob us off because she didn’t want to have to bother with stupid waiguoren, there have been 10+ who have been friendly, helpful, compassionate, who have inconvenienced themselves in order to help us, who have taken the time to personally escort us somewhere while lost, or been on the phone to friends to help to translate something, or done so many other things to make us feel welcome and secure. I can’t put it any better than what Sarah said. Most Chinese people we’ve met have been

super friendly…to the point that I’m (even more) ashamed of how stupid white people in America treat foreigners.

So, at the end of the day, really we’re very lucky.

dexterlaboratory90:

The Trilogy.

It’s coming.

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May 10

aryaastarked:

Shaun of The Dead (2004) x Hot Fuzz (2007) x The World’s End (2013)

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thepeoplesrecord:

The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious” Black poor person
May 7, 2013

Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three Cleveland women presumed dead after going missing a decade ago, has become an instant Internet meme. It’s hardly surprising—the interviews he gave yesterday provide plenty of fodder for a viral video, including memorable soundbites (“I was eatin’ my McDonald’s”) and lots of enthusiastic gestures. But as Miles Klee and Connor Simpson have noted, Ramsey’s heroism is quickly being overshadowed by the public’s desire to laugh at and autotune his story, and that’s a shame. Ramsey has become the latest in a fairly recent trend of “hilarious” black neighbors, unwitting Internet celebrities whose appeal seems rooted in a “colorful” style that is always immediately recognizable as poor or working-class.

Before Ramsey, there was Antoine Dodson, who saved his younger sister from an intruder, only to wind up famous for his flamboyant recounting of the story to a reporter. Since Dodson’s rise to fame, there have been others: Sweet Brown, a woman who barely escaped her apartment complex during a fire last year, and Michelle Clarke, who couldn’t fathom the hailstorm that rained down in her hometown of Houston, and in turn became “the next Sweet Brown.”

Granted, the buzzworthy tactic of reporters interviewing the most loquacious witnesses to a crime or other event is nothing new, and YouTube has countless examples of people of all ethnicities saying ridiculous things. One woman, for instance, saw fit to casually mention her breasts while discussing a local accident, while another man described a car crash with theatrical flair. Earlier this year, a “hatchet-wielding hitchhiker” named Kai matched Dodson’s fame with his astonishing account of rescuing a woman from a racist attacker. But none of those people have been subjected to quite the same level of derisive memeification as Brown, Clark, and now, perhaps, Ramsey—the inescapable echoes of “Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife!” and “Kabooyaw,” the tens of millions of YouTube hits and cameos in other viral videos, even commercials.

It’s difficult to watch these videos and not sense that their popularity has something to do with a persistent, if unconscious, desire to see black people perform. Even before the genuinely heroic Ramsey came along, some viewers had expressed concern that the laughter directed at people like Sweet Brown plays into the most basic stereotyping of blacks as simple-minded ramblers living in the “ghetto,” socially out of step with the rest of educated America. Black or white, seeing Clark and Dodson merely as funny instances of random poor people talking nonsense is disrespectful at best. And shushing away the question of race seems like wishful thinking.

Ramsey is particularly striking in this regard, since, for a moment at least, he put the issue of race front and center himself. Describing the rescue of Amanda Berry and her fellow captives, he says, “I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway!”

The candid statement seems to catch the reporter off guard; he ends the interview shortly afterward. And it’s notable that among the many memorable things Ramsey said on camera, this one has gotten less meme-attention than most. Those who are simply having fun with the footage of Ramsey might pause for a second to actually listen to the man. He clearly knows a thing or two about the way racism prevents us from seeing each other as people.

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Now that you know this is a thing, please stop sharing these memes. Poor Black people speaking candidly about various serious incidents isn’t a hilarious joke.

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