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I don’t really Go Here but u can always rely on this man to read a right wing politician’s outfit for filth

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CONTAINMENT BAY P1T6: THE SCALES OF WISDOM

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We need to bring back children’s programming that focuses on reading. I’m so serious

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No joke is one-size-fits-all, but adding "but I remain optimistic" at the end of any somewhat-speculating statement makes it funny, taking a different tone in each.

Adding it to the end of something positive gives it an unexpected twist - implying that whatever the good thing that happened was, it wasn't what you expected or hoped to happen, but you're yet to give up hope of whatever the fuck you've now vaguely implied towards might still happen. "He survived and is expected to make a full recovery, but I remain optimistic."

Adding it to a neutral statement implies that you think something can be done about it, funniest if the statement is something that obviously can't be affected. "Apparently it's tuesday tomorrow, but I remain optimistic."

And the bleakest, most hopeless statements just become bleakly funny by the grim absurdity. "About 30 seconds remain until impact, and the chances of any of us surviving the crash are zero. But I remain optimistic."

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Harry struggling to eat a taco while Kim laughs at him

kim gets a sensible salad bowl, i feel his struggles

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Salma is a form of embroidery from Rajasthan in India, using metal threads, which is usually slightly less exquisite and used to embellish the cloth.

At first the design is imprinted on the material with the help of oil and ink. The work commences from exterior to interior that is the outline of the motif is worked with the twisted metallic wire gigai, followed by filling with twisted circular metallic wire, called salma. For fixing the metal threads, back, running, and chain stitch is used. Salma embroidery is exclusive to menfolk, and usually done in workshops. The motifs are usually floral or geometrical.

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self-recognition through the other (concerned)

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Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns

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Found my 53yo very-much-not-online father in the kitchen today meticulously arranging cutlery on the countertop and i was like 'what are you doing' and he looked up at me with the world's most shit-eating grin and said "Your mother told me this is how you rick-roll the Youth" and i looked over and it was fucking. Loss.jpg.

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Draw badly. Write nonsensically. Embroider messily. Burn what you bake and cook. Get paint everywhere. Read half a book. Lose your mind for a bit. Plant things. Have faith in the process. Abandon 70 wood-carving projects. Get a kit and do some of it and never return to it. Get comfortable with sucking and losing motivation. Continue to create with reckless abandon.

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"You'll be the most co-ordinated cat in the computer room."

[Retro commission for Nyxgoesmeow]

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I LOVE PASTA AND I LOVE WOMEN