B-Random

It's better to fly than to hold on to shaky ground. It's better to let the feelings die when they're holding you down.

[mysharona1987]

[thegingerpowers]

[towritelesbiansonherarms]

[kyary]

would you like to buy some turnips

[animalcrossingmemes]

[pearly--rose]

I’ve been catching up on You’re Wrong About (thanks @perkymcbadsuit for the rec) and this episode is such a good listen. Dare I say, a little life changing? I don’t think I’ll ever be able to wake up one day and have a healthy body image, but there was something so affirming and comforting about this episode, and listening to it made me think that some day I might be able to be ok with myself?

[b-random]

When I say this episode is life changing, I absolutely mean it. The way Sarah and Michael approach the topic of obesity without a shred of judgment or condescension is reason enough that you should listen to it. But they also talk honestly about why dieting is so difficult and how your body reacts to losing weight and stress in ways that really aren’t talked about enough.

I’ve had body image issues all my life, mostly for being too skinny as a kid and young adult. But now as I’m starting to put on weight and struggling to keep it off, this episode really helped me forgive myself for letting it get to this point. I HIGHLY recommend listening to You’re Wrong About in general, but this episode specifically is a must listen.

I listen on Spotify, but it’s pretty much available anywhere you listen to podcasts.

[nessa007]

“The saddest thing for me, maybe in this whole show, was watching Eleanor reach out to people in different ways. She kind of systematically goes through the family looking for help. The episode was kind of built this way, once Arthur was out of the picture. Even when she was in the car with Luke, he asks her how she’s doing and she answers him. She doesn’t like to be at home alone. She hears things at night. She sees things. And he interrupts her. She reached out to Theo and Theo wasn’t really listening. The tragedy of Eleanor, for me, more than anything, is that there are numerous opportunities throughout this episode in her interactions with her siblings, with everyone in her family, that probably could have saved her. That is the kind of stuff I find the most haunting.” - Mike Flanagan making me cry even more over Nell’s story during his commentary for Episode 5 of The Haunting of Hill House

[willandgrace]

[whatsdifferentincanada]

[b-random]

Yeah, it’s the people outside of Ontario and Quebec that are crazy...

[just-shower-thoughts]

If you die while making food in a slow cooker, whoever finds your body will have a nice warm meal waiting for them.

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

They can also eat whatever is in the slow cooker too

[penroseparticle]

My favorite thing is that Europe is spooky because it’s old and America is spooky because it’s big

[meduseld]

“The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.” –Earle Hitchner

[burntcopper]

A fave of mine was always the american tales where people freaked out because ‘someone died in this house’ and all the europeans would go ‘…Yes? That would be pretty much every house over 40 years old.’

‘…My school is older than your entire town.’

‘Sorry, you think *how far* is okay to travel for a shopping trip?’

*American looks up at the beams in a country pub* ‘Uh, this place has woodworm, isn’t that a bit unsafe?’ ‘Eh, the woodworm’s 400 years old, it’s holding those beams together.’

[bedlamsbard]

A few years ago when I was in college I did a summer program at Cambridge aimed specifically at Americans and Canadians, and my year it was all Americans and one Australian.  We ended the program with a week in Wessex, and on the last day as we all piled onto the bus in Salisbury (or Bath? I can’t remember), the professors went to the front to warn us that we wouldn’t be making any stops unless absolutely necessary.  We’re headed to Heathrow to drop off anyone flying off the same day, then back to Cambridge.

“All right, it’s going to be a long bus ride, so make sure you’re prepared for that.”

We all brace ourselves.  A long bus ride?  How long?  We’re Americans; a long bus ride for us is a minimum of six hours with the double digits perfectly plausible.  We can handle a twelve hour bus ride as long as we get a bathroom break.

The answer.  “Two hours.”

Oh.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

English people trying to travel around Australia and wildly underestimating distance are my favourite thing

[marzipanandminutiae]

a tour guide in France told my school group that a particular cathedral wouldn’t interest us much because “it’s not very old; only from the early 1600s”

to which we had to respond that it was still older than the oldest surviving European-style buildings in our country

[iguana-sneeze]

China is both old and big. I had some Chinese colleagues over; we were discussing whether they wanted to see the Vasa ship (hugely expensive war ship which sank on it’s maiden voyage after 12 min). They asked if it was old, I said “not THAT old” (bearing in mind they were Chinese) “it’s from the 1500s.” To my surprise they still looked impressed, nodding enthusiatically. Then I realised I’d forgotten something: “…I mean it’s from the 1500s AFTER the birth of Christ” and they went “oh, AFTER…”.

[ceescedasticity]

My dad’s favorite quote from various tours in Italy was “Pay no attention to the tower – it was a [scornful tone] tenth century addition.”

[copperbadge]

My last boss was Chinese, and she said when her parents came to visit her from Beijing they pronounced Chicago “A very nice village.” 

[blondegingersaxon]

This post keeps getting better

[vintageski]

Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, Oregon.  As most Stanley Kubrick fans know this is where they shot the hotel exteriors for “The Shining”.

[oh-whiskers]

[mostlyfate]

♫ Welcome to John Adams High, where you are gonna die ♫

[soundsofmyuniverse]

[fluffygif]

The best pumpkins

[gifson-net]

[moveslikekeithrichards]

can u believe some people can see a cat & not immediately be filled with absolute unconditional love for that animal. they dont even get the urge to kiss them right on their little baby cat head. thats incomprehensible to me