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The interaction between James Corden and Jimin was one of the cutest things I've ever seen

papa mochi has a gift for baby mochi

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Here are some pictures from my phone with Michael Sheen in them...

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This is too good I love it

my hand aches too much to finish this but i’m posting it anyway because good grief

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Lush was selling these today!🦈

Text SHARKATTACK to 40649 and sign the pledge!🦈

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Baby: *looks just above my head*

Me: what is it child. what invisible horrors do you see with your baby eyes.

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Is this not how I address my favorite asshole, Jack?

Blame @2impostors and @thegreyhunt on twitter

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Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.— James 5:1-6

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This is what it’s like living in Michigan

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i feel as if robert pattinson’s batman could go full slut and no i will not elaborate on that

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tohru hate is not tolerated in this house

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Oh goodness I miss my chickens now

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So. 10th grade English class. We all come in one morning to find a balloon and a perfectly sharpened pencil on each of our desks. No instructions, no explanation, which is strange, because our teacher is meticulous about that sort of thing. A couple of people try to ask her and she says we’ll get to it. She takes role and then announces that she needs to go to the copy room and she’ll be back in a couple of minutes

Kinda unorthodox, but no one is complaining because this is advanced English and the teacher usually goes kinda hard. So, y’know. Brief respite. We all sit and chat; one of the boys teasingly steals a girl’s balloon, but gives it back to her easily enough; it’s quiet and kind of a nice break. Then the teacher comes back, stops in the doorway, and just stares at us

After a long moment, she says, confused, “You didn’t pop the balloons.”

To which one of the guys about two rows over exclaims, “We’re allowed to pop them?” and immediately turns around and stabs his friend’s balloon with the pencil

There is a vicious revenge balloon-stabbing, and a few more people pop seatmates’ balloons or their own, and the whole time the teacher is just shaking her head. “I can’t believe you didn’t pop your balloons.”

Apparently we were starting Lord of the Flies that day and she wanted to demonstrate the basic concept of kids turning on each other when there are no authority figures present and it was basically my favorite failed social experiment ever

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Purposeful design is important but also, just making the character not look like a complete disaster would be a good start.

stan lee obliterates rob liefeld in the name of thoughtful character design

(yes the rob liefeld)

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(via twitter)

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This is important

On poverty and pronunciation in academia

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I am the scum of the Earth

I just told my 21 year old sister, my youngest sibling, to stop making pasta until she could figure out how to make it. She was upset, reasonably so. After all, who would I be to tell my precious sibling to not enjoy delicious, gluten-filled pasta with gusto? What of her child? What is he to eat if not tasty pasta with meat sauce?

Except I have "taught" her at least a dozen times how to make spaghetti. Which includes

Boiling the water

Salting the water

Putting the pasta in the pot in the boiling, salty water

Stirring and allowing the pasta to boil for 8-10 minutes, 9 for al dente according to the instructions on the package

Seriously. A dozen times. And ya wanna know what happens when I'm not watching the pot for her?

She dumps the pasta in lukewarm water and stirs it once to get it all wet THEN she turns up the heat so it can slowly rise up to a boil. And she walks the fuck away.

I'm not sure if you know what happens to slightly overcooked pasta but it gets a bit slippery and the texture has no bite. It's just a bit disagreeable. Way overcooked pasta tho?

Sticky af. Glutinous. Like eating partially dried clumps of glue. Like eating paper clay. No flavor, just like eating clumps of flavorless dough.

So I told her to skip on the pasta today. Why? Because I am tired and don't feel like babysitting the pot right now. Also, she wanted meat sauce and she never drains the excess fat so you end up with a pool of it on top of the classic spaghetti sauce she buys.

But I'm a terrible person for this. Just total trash for telling her to read the instructions on the back of the pasta. I should be struck down.

Next thing you know I'll be telling her that she needs to salt & season the spanish rice before allowing it to simmer. There is a special place in Hell for people like me.