January 2012
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First impressions are like bus timetables: often...
One of my favourite Spike Milligan moments:
Towards the end of his life, he was being presented with a special award for services to television or something. Jonathan Ross was presenting it and announced that he had a letter from Prince Charles congratulating Spike.
He read out the first few lines about how Charles had always been a huge fan of The Goon Show and in particular, Spike. Before he could get any futher, Spike just casually...
Being able to watch television shows on the...
I said that when I was done with Glee and HIMYM,...
I’m at that point, but I’m psyching myself up for disappointment.
Only because, invariably, when something gets hyped as much as this has, it will disappoint.
Any advice, tips or pointers I need for going into a show, the historical canon of which I only have a broad, sketchy idea of? Bear in mind also, I read A Study in Scarlet and it’s on my list of most hated books, and...
How I Met Your Mother is a genius show for its narrative devices. It tells amazing stories with the use of unreliable narrators, flashbacks, flashforwards, forgotten details, unchronological events and amazing characterisation. I love how so many episodes take place over the course of one evening, or just a few minutes, and use the aforementioned devices to make sense of everything.
It makes more...
“When your friends have happy news, you are happy for them. For about a...”
– How I Met Your Mother
Who wants to race across London with me?
Car, bike, tube, train, bus, boat, taxi or on foot…?
Really Unpopular Opinion, I'm Sure...
You know all you people complaining that MegaUpload and its ilk are closing?
Why don’t you go and buy a bloody DVD? Don’t give me all that “expensive” shit, DVDs are not expensive these days, and if you shop around, you can get good deals.
If you like a show that much, you should be prepared to pay for it.
Just saying.
8 Simple Questions Science Can't Answer
1. Why do we sleep?
2. How many planets are there in the solar system?
3. Why is ice slippery?
4. How does a bicycle work?
5. How can you beat Solitaire?
6. How many species of animal are there?
7. How long is the coastline of the USA?
8. How does gravity work?
If you want more information on any of these, you can read the full article here.
If you want to view paradise, simply look around...
Growing Up
There’s a few bob in your pocket, and you’ve got good friends And it seems that summer’s never coming to an end Young, free and innocent, you haven’t got a care Well, apart from deciding on the clothes you’re going to wear The streets turn into paradise, the radio’s singing dreams You’re innocent, immortal, you’re just fifteen
And who dares tell the lambs in spring What fate the later seasons...
Sometimes things find you when you need them to...
“Boys can be girls, the old man can be young, ethnicity can be chosen,...”
– The Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology (via xfawnx)
Aries: Yeah hold on I'm just going to make a really risky decision...
Taurus: OKAY WHO SAID I WAS WRONG?! FUCK YOU, BITCH I AM RIGHT.
Gemini: Commitment? FUCK. RUN AWAY!
Cancer: *sobbing hysterically in a corner*
Leo: EVERYONE LOOK AT HOW BEAUTIFUL I AM. DAMMIT, I SAID LOOK! FUCK!
Virgo: LOOK AT THE MESS OF THIS FUCKING PLACE!
Libra: ORDER! ORDER IN THE COURT!
Scorpio: SO. FUCKING. HORNY. ALL. THE. TIME.
Sagittarius: CAN EVERYONE HURRY THE FUCK UP.
Capricorn: *busy scheming ambitiously in a corner*
Aquarius: *not even paying attention to anyone and is lost in their own dreamland*
Pisces: I still have no idea what I want. Nor what is going on.
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So I'm reading this book...
And it’s about the evolution of humans and so on, all the different species that died out on the way, and there was mention of this very intelligent experiment done a while back.
Basically, researchers showed photos of different habitats from across the world to children from every continent and every kind of background and basically measured which habitats they were most attracted to....
homelesstrolley:
electramayhem:
hi my name is brooke and i over think things.
hi my name is amy and i over think things.
hi my name is michael and i over think things.
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Found a picture of my old hair, wondering about...
But more than that, the picture is just making me realise how skinny I was. I miss it.
