“MY WATER.”
What the fuck, Starks. The direwolves are like your own personal 90’s version of death row Suge Knight. Robb, the fuck you locking him up for? “Ooooh he gets really bloodthirsty and antsy.” …And? Muhfuckas out here choppin’ ya daddy’s head off on the block kid! Trust NO damn body. The North remembered that shit till the (Michael) Boltons came up in the spot with the fuck shit. Fuck shit has killed more people and especially direwolves in this series than… I can’t even finish the joke because I figuratively can’t think of anything else. Fuck shit is the leading cause of animal companion death in Westeros.
Ghost almost got fucking clipped on that shit too when Jon locked him away. Jon locked his boy up and got the acupuncture treatment to the abs. He came back to life and Ghost was lookin’ at him like, “And that’s what ya dumbass gets for putting me away. The fuck wrong with you, man. You think an oath gon’ stop fuckboys from doing fuck shit? Hell no! You know what stops them? Me and these fangs, and that Valyrian steel piece on your hip with me on the hilt. Lockin’ me up… must be out your fucking mind, man. I should howl at Nymeria to get me ’cause y’all on that dumb shit up here.”
Well this is just fantastic:
If seekers answer the questions incorrectly, they can be rejected for not being true converts. But if they answer correctly, they can be rejected for simply memorizing the correct thing to say.
“Christian convert asylum seekers are still being asked detailed factual ‘Bible trivia’ questions, which is too simplistic a way to judge if an individual is, for example, a genuine convert,” the report stated.
For example, Mohammed, a Christian convert from Iran, was asked what color the cover of the Bible was.
“I knew there were different colors,” he told the BBC. “The one I had was red. They asked me questions I was not able to answer—for example, what are the Ten Commandments. I could not name them all from memory.”
Franzoni and Brown went on to say that they envision actors like Leonardo DiCaprioplaying Rumi and Robert Downey Jr. playing Shams of Tabriz, a significant wandering dervish who altered Rumi’s life. “This is the level of casting that we’re talking about,” Brown told the Guardian, noting it was too early to begin casting.
Representatives for DiCaprio and Downey Jr. did not immediately reply to BuzzFeed’s emails asking if the actors would consider playing the roles should they be offered formally offered them.
AHH Celeste Ng shared this on Twitter, it’s six years old and FASCINATING:
My article on the world’s last four Shakers was at first only unusual because it was a rare glimpse into daily life at the Protestant monastic sect’s idyllic hilltop village in rural southern Maine. Never could I have imagined that that story, of all stories, would become the story behind the story of how I met, and eventually married, the long-sought love of my life.
Wayne Smith was one of the Shakers I profiled, whom I initially knew as Brother Wayne. Seven months after we met, he renounced his religious vocation and vow of celibacy after 26 years at the Sabbathday Lake community to pursue our relationship. It was 2006, and he was 43. “Sometimes you just know,” he says, tapping his heart, “here.”
(settles in with a cup of tea):
In 1968, John sold his share in his corporation, and he and Barbara used that money (over $1 million today) as the down payment for their “perfect civilization,” their New Sexual Utopia. They soon found the ideal property: 15 secluded acres way up a winding dirt road in Topanga Canyon, close to Malibu and just far enough from the city. (The Monkees had tried to purchase the place, but the deal fell through.) With a multi-bedroom main house, two guest cottages, and a separate structure that contained an Olympic-size swimming pool, this was the bourgeois free-love compound they’d been dreaming of.
The couple set about engineering the right mood. Barbara decorated the 60-foot-long living room on the main floor with plush carpeting, velvet sofas, a crystal chandelier, giant ferns, and floor-to-ceiling curtains—everything in natural tones, everything designed to feel good on naked skin, and only the most flattering lighting. In the large basement, complete with massive fireplace, they covered the floor with a collection of mattresses and waterbeds. They christened this space the “ballroom”—you know, for balling. And in the final stroke in their return to nature, the Williamsons removed all the doors, converting the bathroom on the main level into a kind of thoroughfare. “There was no backstage at Sandstone,” Barbara writes. “Whatever anyone did was done openly in front of everyone else. I always felt that constant exposure made it virtually impossible to be dishonest.”
I never listen to podcasts but I wanted to see if Mallory would mention me also her voice is so enchanting.
The PRESUMPTION of people never ceases to amaze me. I have a lovely dad and we didn’t do any of this stuff because we would both have literally died of awkwardness, you do you:
Q. Father-daughter dance dilemma: My father and I had a falling out several years ago and haven’t spoken since. I’ve met a wonderful man who makes me happy, and we are planning on marrying next year. I don’t foresee my father making any moves to mend the bridge between the two of us anytime soon, but the more planning that goes into this wedding and the more I hear, “Who will walk you down the aisle?” and “Are you really not having a father-daughter dance?” the more it eats away at me. Should I invite a man who so willingly wrote me out of his life to the best day of mine, as some sort of olive branch, or should I continue to plan our day without him?
well, you’ve convinced me:
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aravisthequeen 134p · 460 weeks ago
v_d_budenmayer 127p · 460 weeks ago
foxinthe_snow 130p · 460 weeks ago
Toasties, I am waiting to hear whether or not I’ve been offered a job I (second) interviewed
for last week. When I’m feeling reasonably ok I feel like I can do the work and conquer the learning curve that comes at the beginning of any new job. But when I’m depressed I feel like it’s a terrible idea and I’d be biting off more than I can chew. I ricochet between these two feelings constantly, and not knowing if it’s a decision I even need to make is driving me crazy. Is this Schrodinger’s Job Offer? I’m not very good at Not Knowing.
Also I’m sick of dealing with depression and I wish it was something none of us had to deal with ever again.
dreadfulwind 156p · 460 weeks ago
mmcoulston 134p · 460 weeks ago
geekcrackteam 118p · 460 weeks ago
CNW · 460 weeks ago
CleverManka 143p · 460 weeks ago
fatslut 133p · 460 weeks ago
AAAAAAAAHAHA HA HA HA HA HA welp
alliana07 128p · 460 weeks ago
On this day in 1876 was the death of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, better known by her pseudonym of George Sand; a French writer, feminist, and socialist. Born in 1804, she is said to have had a very liberal upbringing at her grandmother’s estate of Nohant, in the French province of Berry. In 1822, she married Casimir Dudevant, who was the illegitimate son of a Baron, and had two children, Maurice and Solange. (Both were later best known with the last name “Sand”.) In 1831, however, Amantine left her husband and took her two children with her, embarking on what some called a period of “romantic rebellion” (aka she decided to live her best life), that lead to her career as a writer, and more.
In the years that followed, Amantine (who soon renamed herself as George Sand) had a number of affairs with prominent men, including Jules Sandeau, Alfred de Musset, and Frederic Chopin. She also had what historians call an “intimate friendship” with the actress Marie Dorval, which sparked rumors of a lesbian affair. Supposedly these were “unconfirmed”, but in a letter from Sand to Marie, she once spoke of “wanting you either in your dressing room or in your bed”. Chopin, however, was one of her longest and most well-known affairs, lasting for 10 years before they fell apart over both one of Sand’s books (which featured a character based on Chopin), and Chopin’s support of Solange, when George and her daughter were not speaking due to a fight over money.
George (then still Amantine) began her writing career during her affair with Jules Sandeau, publishing a few stories and a novel (Rose et Blanche) together under the name “Jules Sand”. In 1832 however, she published her first novel on her own, Indiana, under the new name George Sand, which she kept for the rest of her life. Indiana was a novel written as an impassioned protest about marriage and how it binds women to husbands against their will and leaves them trapped in miserable marriages. In her novel, which earned her immediate fame, George’s heroine leaves her unhappy marriage and finds love. This basic concept extended to her novels Valentine and Lelia, which took the idea of free association beyond marriage to social and class relationships as well. Eventually she found her “true form” in writing what were known as “rustic” or “pastoral” novels, involving the countryside and characters who represented George’s socialist and feminist views. Many of her novels featured passionate free women, and people who transcended class and convention in pursuit of love.
George was also known politically for her essays and writings, some published in a newspaper she began during the 1848 revolution. She was a supported of the poor, the working class, and of course women’s rights. She is also known for causing a sensation when she began dressing in male clothes in public; she stated her reasons as being that they were less expensive, and more comfortable. Her male dress allowed her to roam more freely in Paris, giving her access from venues where women normally were blocked. She also shocked people by smoking in public (gasp), which women of her class weren’t “sanctioned” to do at the time.
George was referenced in a number of works, and painted by numerous artists, including a double portrait of her and Chopin by Eugène Delacroix, which was later split into two pieces. According to V.S. Pritchett (a writer of short stories) she was, “a thinking bosom and one who overpowered her young lovers, all Sybil—a Romantic”, and Ivan Turgenev (a Russian novelist and playright) once said, “What a brave man she was, and what a good woman.” But one of the most widely-used quotes related to George Sand was her own: “There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
rococopacetic 107p · 460 weeks ago
Chance_Hale 132p · 460 weeks ago
thebellewitch 122p · 460 weeks ago
threatqualitypress 136p · 460 weeks ago
geekcrackteam 118p · 460 weeks ago
Seriously, if the universe could let up a *little* bit that'd be great. At least I have a date with a boy this weekend that I'm well excited for, we're going to the beach with his 3 dogs (beaches, boys and dogs, aka my favourite things.) and he just told me theres a woods at his house. I am literal heart eye emoji right now.
apple_pi 110p · 460 weeks ago
robindavisdesign 119p · 460 weeks ago
sausagedog 127p · 460 weeks ago
Also, that kid was like 90% of my high school dude friends. "I want to give her one more chance because I want to believe that she has changed and will give me the time of day."-- what on earth would give you the idea that she's "changed" when you stopped talking to her, first of all because you're proving her instincts correct, that you didn't deserve her time, and second of all, because YOU HAVEN'T SPOKEN TO HER?? This is obviously not about a specific woman, it's about some twisted fantasy in your head about how romance should work for you.
theburnersmydestination 142p · 460 weeks ago
bookwormV 119p · 460 weeks ago
See also: if i get married and the registrar annouces "the new Mr and Mrs [partner's surname]!" i will immediately stop whatever I am doing to turn on them and deliver an angry rant about assumptions and the patriarchy. Stop projecting your ideas about what a wedding should be like onto me!
littlehuntingcreek 135p · 460 weeks ago
ashurredly 115p · 460 weeks ago
Their caption for Sansa would probably be something like:
"This...is a small, fuzzy warhorse. We only rate dogs. Please only send in dogs. Still cuter than all dogs though...15/10."
irreverantontheinternet 126p · 460 weeks ago
hapsatou 113p · 460 weeks ago
"We turned the corner into the living room, and that’s when I saw her. Her eyes are huge and almond-shaped, her ears point upwards (a signature of the breed), and her paws are striking in their size. Peggy Sue is a Siberian lynx, over 60 pounds, with powerful legs and sharp, two-inch-long canine teeth. She has not been de-clawed. I’d been aware of this fact, but only in this moment does it truly register: Barbara shares her home with what is, more or less, a small tiger.....Barbara tells me they sleep together in the bed at night, sometimes curled up around one another."
houblonchouffe 123p · 460 weeks ago
elesmi 106p · 460 weeks ago
champagneghost 128p · 460 weeks ago
from LMM: "The Whoa's in My Shot share an interval w the AOL dial up sound,
the sound of an idea first connecting w the world" woah
GoatlessSon 129p · 460 weeks ago
More specifically, if I want to view a specific author's work here, viewing older stuff doesn't work, and only shows the newer stuff.
Example: http://the-toast.net/author/mallory-ortberg/page/... shows only the articles on page one. Ditto for /page/3 and on and on, it still only shows the most recent few articles.
This happens when I try to access these pages on my mobile too. Does this happen to others? Is it something I have on my browsers that I can fix?
bibliowrecka 104p · 460 weeks ago
JGlows 120p · 460 weeks ago
Is there still time for an Ayn Rand's Sermon on the Mount?
teenybuffalo · 460 weeks ago
I mean, people join the Shakers because they want to. (For those just joining us, the Shakers were/are a faith that lived together as chaste adults, and raised the kids people brought with them in a communal group.) Some people don't want to have sex, some don't prioritize it in their lives, some wish to give it up as an ascetic practice. And don't get me started on the whole, "Ha, ha, what fools! They didn't breed, so their religion has died off!" I used to work at Hancock Shaker Village and tourists said that to me constantly. *twitchy eye*
First off, the Shakers thrived for a hundred years, and still survive now, because they've made converts. (And adopted children and raised foundlings; back before social services, the Shakers were the most humane people to place a homeless child with.) Second off, as Brother Arnold of the current Shakers says, are you born a Boy Scout because your parents were Boy Scouts? Or do you have to choose to become one? Third off, why don't people get this worked up about nuns, monks, and priests? (well, I'm sure there's anti-Catholic bigotry out there too, it's just not a part of my day-to-day.)
(Actually, I think the resentment towards the Shakers is because of the whole "genders living together in a big group house" thing that the Shakers did. Something about that really bugged most of the tourists I met. They were almost all BUT SHAKERS MUST HAVE BEEN BONKING??? RIGHT??? HIDING BEHIND THE BARN AMIRITE??)
(ffs the barn is round, there's no way to hide *behind* it.)
Mainstream culture is so messed up. Most of the time it's like, "Sex is shameful and you are bad for wanting it," and people thoughtlessly recirculate that message. But bring up the Shakers, and people flip right over to, "BUT ALL HUMANS MUST HAVE THE SEX. SEX IS MANDATORY."
so yeah, wild-eyed Shaker stan here and Mother Ann Lee fangirl, ask me anything
LaxMom 106p · 460 weeks ago
Jungle_Red 116p · 460 weeks ago
welp.
betsymore 124p · 460 weeks ago
*Not to erase Victoria Woodhull and Shirley Chisolm, of course! But this is a different category.
thebeagee 127p · 460 weeks ago
GruntledDave 115p · 460 weeks ago
grumblyqueer 139p · 460 weeks ago
Unreadaethel 127p · 460 weeks ago
bird_internet 123p · 460 weeks ago
My psychiatrist quit her job last October, and between then and now I've been calling the clinic every couple of weeks to see if they could get me in with the new doctor. Didn't happen until LAST WEEK. That is the better part of a year, you guys. Months in which a psychiatric practice was looking over files for existing patients going "hey, do you think we should move these over to the new doctor we just hired? Ehh, let's not."
In the meantime they've been promising to fax my prescriptions to the pharmacist every month. Guess how well that worked! I got to have some fun SSRI withdrawals and spent many days at work over the course of seven months repeatedly calling the front desk (they rarely answer the phone) and trying to explain that I'm already a patient and my records are in the file to someone who clearly does not plan on passing along my message.
ANYWAY I finally got to see the new doctor last week; at first I thought it was just my general bitterness that made me think he was kind of incompetent. But then I took my prescription to the pharmacy and they refused to fill it because IT WAS FILLED OUT INCORRECTLY. And not in like a "ha ha, doctors have bad handwriting" way, I mean he wrote both of my prescriptions on the same sheet and didn't sign it in the right place. After a number of phone calls earlier this week, I now have to go there in person this afternoon.
What the fuck! I have pretty sweet insurance through work and I live in a large, well-served city. Why is it this bad?
geekcrackteam 118p · 460 weeks ago
NO WONDER THIS COMPANY DOESN'T GET ANY WORK DONE. I am so done with this place.
adoptraya 114p · 460 weeks ago
Do you love mythology, mythical beasts, and compendiums thereof? Do you love slightly eerie artwork, and meticulous categorization?
WELL LOOK NO FURTHER, MY FRIENDS.
I stumbled across this AWESOME website of Japanese yokai yesterday. For those of you who don't know what yokai are (me up until yesterday!), the site gives a definition:
Yokai, 妖怪, are strange and supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore. The word is a combination of the characters 妖 (yō) — attractive, bewitching, calamity — and 怪 (kai) — mystery, wonder.
Many different English words have been used as translations. Yokai is sometimes translated as monster, demon, spirit, or goblin, but it can encompass all of that and more. The world of yokai also includes ghosts, gods (kami), transformed humans and animals (bakemono), spirit possession (tsukimono), urban legends, and other strange phenomena. It is a broad and vague term, and nothing exists in the English language that quite describes it. Like samurai, geisha, ninja, and sushi, yokai is one of those words that just works better in its native tongue.
Check it out y'all, it's amazing. Also, the yokai page I linked to above is for the kejōrō, a hairy prostitute yokai who wanders red-light districts and strangles young, virile men with her hair. I figured it would be the perfect entry point for Toasties into the world of yokai.
iwouldwalk500giles 118p · 460 weeks ago
Scared_Vagina 117p · 460 weeks ago
Angelan_ 110p · 460 weeks ago
Anyway it's my birthday today and I got a nintendo DS and ocarina of time, so I'm officially 13 going on 30.
halloweenjack64 115p · 460 weeks ago
Meagan · 460 weeks ago
Do we have any TOASTIES in San Diego? I'd love to do a meet up on July 1st cocktails maybe to talk about our dear friend The Toast.
Bent_fork 111p · 460 weeks ago
Hmmm, where have I heard that kind of thing before?
http://www.foxearth.org.uk/SwimmingOfWitches.html
ladyimogen 112p · 460 weeks ago
keristars 105p · 460 weeks ago
anyway one exploratory application had this 65-70minute assessment (I forget the exact estimated time) and I was like "oh, wow, some math and reading comprehension and a little bit of personality test, annoying but whatever" and then I did it and it was some of the most insulting nonsense. 20-25 minute logic exam??? which I love doing normally, and these kinds of puzzles are one of my favorite things about the admin/planning side of my current job, but 1/3 of the way through I was like Fuck This Nonsense I'm Not Even Half-Way and stopped bothering to read the questions/answers just to get through it. And then there was the DISC personality test which was annoying as hell and I don't do well with those tests because my anxiety disorder skews my answers (I know because I did one with a therapist once and she pointed out that my answers may have been technically truthful, but the answers I discounted or ignored were also correct, based on her observations of me and her interpretations of what I told her about myself - and sure enough, we did an exercise when I was on a low anxiety/depression phase and she was right, that I am better at interpersonal stuff than i think, etc)
I figured that with my Anxiety-brain/pessimistic personality profiling and completely ignoring the logic test would throw my application out and not let it go any further, and it was kind of a relief, because I hate change and it was all very stressful.
But then I got an email an hour ago about coming in to chat in person, and I don't know if I want to do that, after such an awful application process, or that I'm ready to move to a prelim interview so fast. I am so sick with anxiety about it right now. It's affecting the rest of my work a little negatively, because the knot in my belly and Fight or Flight feelings are messing with my head.
I don't know what kind of advice I want or anything, but A) holy crap that assessment thing was utter nonsense and I really am offended by it (even if I understand the purpose) and B) i need my anxiety brain to GO AWAY.
adoptraya 114p · 460 weeks ago
Hey, do y'all know about unclaimed property?
Unclaimed property (sometimes referred to as abandoned) refers to accounts in financial institutions and companies that have had no activity generated or contact with the owner for one year or a longer period. Common forms of unclaimed property include savings or checking accounts, stocks, uncashed dividends or payroll checks, refunds, traveler's checks, trust distributions, unredeemed money orders or gift certificates (in some states), insurance payments or refunds and life insurance policies, annuities, certificates of deposit, customer overpayments, utility security deposits, mineral royalty payments, and contents of safe deposit boxes.
What this means in laywoman's terms is that you just might have some unclaimed money sitting in an account somewhere. Every state has an unclaimed property department (take a look at this website to find yours) that you can search to see if you have unclaimed property in that state. You can also go to <a href="http://www.MissingMoney.com" target="_blank">www.MissingMoney.com and search your name, which will pull up accounts in multiple states.
I am not guaranteeing that everyone will have unclaimed property, but a fair number of people do! I found over $300 in unclaimed property for my boss yesterday, ~ $250 for co-worker, $107 for another co-worker's boyfriend, and $50ish for my sister. Plus, searching is addictive as heck, so even if there isn't something for you, you can search ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY and possible find money for them, which will make them love you even more than they already do.
Try iiiiiiiiiiiiiit! And if you want, please tell me how much you found for yourself or another person. I LIVE for this kind of stuff!
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