February 2011
18 posts
January 2011
8 posts
Generation Y women losing 'female' skills such as cooking, ironing and sewing →
news.com.au
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.
Though one can hardly take seriously an article that uses the incorrect “to.”
I can’t roast a chicken, but that’s probably because I don’t fucking EAT chicken.
Downy wrinkle release, Publix, and tailors for the win. (Actually, I can do all three. So suck it, The Courier-Mail.)
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 →
thoughtcatalog.com
“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 insists that her narratives are rich, her supporting cast colorful, and her typeface bold. You, the girl who reads, make me want to be everything that I am not. But I am weak and I will fail you, because you have dreamed, properly, of someone who is better than I am. You will not accept the life that I told of at the beginning of this piece. You will accept nothing less than passion, and perfection, and a life worthy of being storied. So out with you, girl who reads. Take the next southbound train and take your Hemingway with you. I hate you. I really, really, really hate you.”
“Every major style guide—including the Modern Language Association Style Manual and the Chicago Manual of Style—prescribes a single space after a period. (The Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association, used widely in the social sciences, allows for two spaces in draft manuscripts but recommends one space in published work.) Most ordinary people would know the one-space rule, too, if it weren’t for a quirk of history. In the middle of the last century, a now-outmoded technology—the manual typewriter—invaded the American workplace. To accommodate that machine’s shortcomings, everyone began to type wrong. And even though we no longer use typewriters, we all still type like we do.”
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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.
I LIKE MY BLOG: god →
cartoonfoods.tumblr.com
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.
BUT— I’m not sure this is worth the collective freak-out the internet seems to be having right now. First of all, there have been abridged and edited versions of Huck Finn (and pretty much every classic text ever) published before. Is it any less offensive to take out pieces of a novel’s plot than it is to change a word, no matter the context?
So for years, people have been choosing between reading an original text or the Reader’s Digest version. They can do the same now. Just because a tiny publishing house in Montgomery, AL decides to release a “less offensive” version does NOT mean that every other publishing house is going to follow suit. If Random House or Penguin or a publishing house that actually mattered were to make this decision, there might be a bit more cause for concern, but standard texts of the novel will ALWAYS be available. New South Books, on the other hand, is a tiny, southern publishing company that markets books to tiny, southern bookstores and mostly publishes memoirs written by tiny, southern grandmas.
Also, New South’s reasoning behind their editorial choices is not to erase racism from the South or even from the novel’s plot (which, arguably, would negate the whole story). Alan Gribben, a Twain scholar and editor of the book, notes in his decisions were made “to counter the preemptive censorship that has increasingly formed a barrier to these works for teachers, students, and general readers.” So basically, he’s sending out a big “fuck you” to the obnoxious parents who submit proposals to ban the book in public school districts. I’d rather students read a “watered down” version of a classic novel than not read it at all.
