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antisociallysplendid: agoraph0bia: “Swearing is unattractive” I’m not attractive anyway so fuck...

Sun, 26 May 2013 00:55:49 -0600

agoraph0bia:

“Swearing is unattractive” I’m not attractive anyway so fuck off

basically my fucking life

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Mon, 20 May 2013 23:46:42 -0600

"The real problem here is that we’re all dying. All of us. Every day the cells weaken and the fibres..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:44:13 -0600

“The real problem here is that we’re all dying. All of us. Every day the cells weaken and the fibres stretch and the heart gets closer to its last beat. The real cost of living is dying, and we’re spending days like millionaires: a week here, a month there, casually spunked until all you have left are the two pennies on your eyes.

Personally, I like the fact we’re going to die. There’s nothing more exhilarating than waking up every morning and going ‘WOW! THIS IS IT! THIS IS REALLY IT!’ It focuses the mind wonderfully. It makes you love vividly, work intensely, and realise that, in the scheme of things, you really don’t have time to sit on the sofa in your pants watching Homes Under the Hammer.

Death is not a release, but an incentive. The more focused you are on your death, the more righteously you live your life. My traditional closing-time rant – after the one where I cry that they closed that amazing chippy on Tollington Road; the one that did the pickled eggs – is that humans still believe in an afterlife. I genuinely think it’s the biggest philosophical problem the earth faces. Even avowedly non-religious people think they’ll be meeting up with nana and their dead dog, Crackers, when they finally keel over. Everyone thinks they’re getting a harp.

But believing in an afterlife totally negates your current existence. It’s like an insidious and destabilising mental illness. Underneath every day – every action, every word – you think it doesn’t really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise. You make it up with your parents, and become a better person and lose that final stone in heaven. And learn how to speak French. You’ll have time, after all! It’s eternity! And you’ll have wings, and it’ll be sunny! So, really, who cares what you do now? This is really just some lacklustre waiting room you’re only going to be in for 20 minutes, during which you will have no wings at all, and are forced to walk around, on your feet, like pigs do.

If we wonder why people are so apathetic and casual about every eminently avoidable horror in the world – famine, war, disease, the seas gradually turning piss-yellow and filling with ringpulls and shattered fax machines – it’s right there. Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside of jigsaws.

Only when the majority of the people on this planet believe – absolutely – that they are dying, minute by minute, will we actually start behaving like fully sentient, rational and compassionate beings. For whilst the appeal of ‘being good’ is strong, the terror of hurtling, unstoppably, into unending nullity is a lot more effective. I’m really holding out for us all to get The Fear. The Fear is my Second Coming. When everyone in the world admits they’re going to die, we’ll really start getting some stuff done.”

- Caitlin Moran (via relatedworlds)

Dollars Over Decency: School Kids Without Money Have Lunch Taken Away And Thrown Out | Addicting Info

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:40:21 -0600

Dollars Over Decency: School Kids Without Money Have Lunch Taken Away And Thrown Out | Addicting Info:

callingoutbigotry:

searchingforknowledge:

alexandraerin:

randomactsofchaos:

ATTLEBORO — As many as 25 students at Coelho Middle School were denied meals or told to throw their lunches away Tuesday because they could not pay or their pre-paid accounts did not contain enough money, school officials said today.

Parents said some of the children cried after they were not allowed to eat or had to toss out their lunches.

School officials said an on-site employee from Whitson’s, the school system’s school lunch provider, apparently gave the order not to extend meals to students who could not pay or whose credit was already overextended. SOURCE

Imagine, for a second, the mindset required to force hungry children to throw food in the garbage? It’s not like the food was given to a child that could pay, it was just wasted. It’s the ultimate in conservative thought: I will gain nothing from this but the satisfaction of knowing you did not get a free meal.

This is why privatizing government functions is a bad idea is almost every circumstance but particularly in those that provide a direct service. Once a profit motive is introduced, it ceases to be about fulfilling a public need, now it becomes about making a profit by any means necessary. The idea of providing children a nutritious meal so they can grow and learn and contribute to society becomes a narrow and selfish pursuit of the bottom line. If children are left to go hungry, well, that’s capitalism for you!

It’s not as if they couldn’t feed them, the district has a policy where a student that can’t pay for the regular meal will be provided with a cheese sandwich and milk. It’s not the most appealing of meals but it will certainly keep a child fed. But instead, this privately run company decided that over twenty kids simply shouldn’t eat if it was going to cost the company money:

Parents said they were told by their children that some pupils in the cafeteria line had already picked up their lunch and were told at the checkout they had to throw it away.

Victoria Greaves, 11, a fifth grader at Coelho, said a cashier told her to throw away her lunch because there was not enough money in her account. She said she threw her meal away and got nothing to eat.

We’re left to wonder what the cashier planned on doing if the child refused to comply. Would they physically take the food away? Was the couple of dollars really that important?

The larger question that isn’t being asked yet is how did we come to a point where anyone can even think that depriving children of food is a moral thing to do? In the richest nation on Earth, are we so blinded by greed and the pursuit of the Holy Dollar that we don’t even consider that going out of our way to let a child go hungry to be the act of a sociopath? Would we rather throw food in the garbage than let someone eat it for free? Who thinks that way?

House Republicans recently proposed cuts to nutrition assistance that will kick 280,000 low-income children off automatic enrollment in the Free School Lunch and Breakfast Program. Those same kids and 1.5 million other people will also lose their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly food stamp benefits) that help them afford food at home.

Ah. Well, that explains that, doesn’t it?

We’re left to wonder what the cashier planned on doing if the child refused to comply.

Probably depends. Are there cops in this school?

FUCK. THIS. COUNTRY.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

These hungry kids had food right in front of them and they had to throw it out. Not give it to anyone else, just waste it.

Fuck every single thing

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Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:50:35 -0600

adrifts: Izzy

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:40:15 -0600

adrifts:

Izzy

crazyfilipino:

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:30:16 -0600

crazyfilipino:

chibird: And soon you’ll have an entire wall full of happy...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:20:25 -0600

chibird:

And soon you’ll have an entire wall full of happy notes. :D

dukeandduchess: jillbiden: this is only like a fraction of why...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:10:31 -0600

dukeandduchess:

jillbiden:

this is only like a fraction of why he’s awesome and i love him

he’s done so many good things for america and is an amazing politician.

whaaaattttta man

oh and btw, him and barack are the cutest of the cute tbh

And he has also plagiarized a few things, like a speech or his law paper, but no big deal.

harlequinwolves: shitshilarious: meredith, how do i open a new...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:10:31 -0600

harlequinwolves:

shitshilarious:

meredith, how do i open a new tab

kittehkats: “Eskews me Ralph, but wud u mind takin ur gigantic...

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:20:21 -0700

kittehkats:

“Eskews me Ralph, but wud u mind takin ur gigantic slobbery tongue outta my butt?”

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Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:10:24 -0700

yoga-body: stopwishing-and-dosomething: theowlofgallifrey: THI...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:50:27 -0700

yoga-body:

stopwishing-and-dosomething:

theowlofgallifrey:

THIS MAKES ME FEEL SO BAD FOR MONDAY LET ME HUG YOU MONDAY

HAHAHA FRIDAY

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Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:40:37 -0700

http://dolce-vita-lifestyle.tumblr.com/

“He’s awesome, we are not a couple though,”

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:30:37 -0700

“He’s awesome, we are not a couple though,”

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Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:20:23 -0700

m4gically: Everything is dark,It’s more than you can take..But...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:10:22 -0700

m4gically:

Everything is dark,
It’s more than you can take..
But you catch a glimpse of sun light,
Shining, shining down on your face. (♬)

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Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:10:52 -0700

healthiie: Headaches The Tea: Chamomile, Ginger, Green,...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:10:20 -0700

healthiie:

Headaches

The Tea: Chamomile, Ginger, Green, Feverfew

The Yoga: Extended Puppy Pose, Reclining Bound Angle Pose, Childs Pose

Sore Muscles

The Tea: Black

The Yoga: Sphinx Pose, Cow Face Pose, Extended Side Angle Pose

Head Cold

The Tea: White, Ginger, Green

The Yoga: Corpse Pose, Seated Forward Bend, Upward Facing Dog

Gas and Bloating

The Tea: Peppermint, Lemon Balm, Fennel

The Yoga: Wind Relieving Pose, Half Lord of the Fishes Pose, Legs Up the Wall Pose

PMS

The Tea: Guelder Rose, Chaste Berry, Skullcap

The Yoga: Bow Pose, Fish Pose, Head to Knee Forward Bend

Back Pain

The Tea: Ginger, Rosemary, Black

The Yoga: Upward Salute, Cat Pose, Cow Pose, Plow Pose, Garland Pose, Sphinx Pose

Depression

The Tea: St Johns Wart, Chamomile, Licorice, White

The Yoga: Corpse Pose, Childs Pose, Cobra Pose, Warrior I, Warrior II

Hangover

The Tea: Ginger, Green, Peppermint

The Yoga: Bound Angle Pose, Half Lord of the Fishes Pose, Childs Pose, Easy Pose

Nausea

The Tea: Peppermint, Ginger, Raspberry

The Yoga: Easy Pose, Childs Pose, Legs Up the Wall Pose, Reclining Hero Pose

Insomnia

The Tea: Jasmine, Lavender, Chamomile, Peppermint

The Yoga: Corpse Pose, Supported Shoulderstand, Revolved Head to Knee

Fatigue

The Tea: Green, Sage

The Yoga: Downward Facing Dog, Warrior I, Extended Side Angle Pose, Extended Triangle Pose

♥ If you’re pregnant you should ask your doctor before drinking medicinal tea or doing yoga.

- Amy, only one thought, one simple instruction - don’t follow...

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:40:19 -0700

- Amy, only one thought, one simple instruction - don’t follow me under any circumstances.
- I won’t.