February 2011
18 posts
January 2011
8 posts
Generation Y women losing 'female' skills such as... →
lizake:
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awlbiste:
Awwww shit bitches, look out!
BASIC “female” skills are becoming endangered with fewer young women able to iron a shirt, cook a roast chicken or hem a skirt.
Just as more modern men are unable to complete traditional male tasks, new research shows Generation Y women can’t do the chores their mothers and grandmothers did daily, reported The Courier-Mail.
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Why I love HIMYM #394
Robin: Why is this kid around anyway? Shouldn't he be with his mother? I mean, what kind of lawyer does this guy have if he has to take care of the kid all the time?
Lily: A good one. He won full custody.
Robin: He won? Oh god, getting the kid is winning, isn't it? Don't tell anyone I said that.
You Should Date An Illiterate Girl →
“Don’t date a girl who reads because girls who read are the storytellers. You with the Joyce, you with the Nabokov, you with the Woolf. You there in the library, on the platform of the metro, you in the corner of the café, you in the window of your room. You, who make my life so god damned difficult. The girl who reads has spun out the account of her life and it is bursting with meaning. She...
“Every major style guide—including the Modern Language Association Style Manual...”
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Space Invaders: Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period.
I’m a very visual person. Two spaces after a period drives me batty. So just so you know, one space is correct. As is the Oxford comma, but that’s a whole other story.
(via brklyn)
Amen.
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Even after adjusting for differences in weight, smoking, occupational physical activity and risk factors like diabetes, high blood pressure and other longstanding illnesses, as well as marital status and social class, those who spent four hours or more of their leisure time in front of a screen…
Who has four hours of leisure time a day??
The (edited) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
As some of you may or may not know, a new version of Huckleberry Finn will be published in February—one that replaces Twain’s use of the n-word with “slave.” People are up in arms about how these changes are an effort to “erase a history of racism,” etc., etc. And, at face value, I am obviously against changing a classic literary text to make it more P.C.
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