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sabertoothwalrus

all you suckers are spending $70 on totk but not me I’m emulating it on tumblr

never-a-good-thing-to-have-deac

Wait… Isn’t Ed Balls day coming up? ED BALLS DAY, I HAVE TO GET READY TO CELEBRATE

thewalrusfrompingu

What’s Ed Balls day?

never-a-good-thing-to-have-deac

Omg, okay explanation time.

On the 28th of April, 2011, Ed Balls got a Twitter account. He decided (as most people under the spotlight do) to attempted to look up his own name. However, all he did was tweet “Ed Balls”. This, for some reason, got retweeted by THOUSANDS of people. On a global scale. And because he didn’t know you could delete a tweet it stayed. Every year since then,the 28th of April is Ed Balls day.

This is the infamous tweet

and here are some gems to celebrate that have followed the years, including last year where they framed the tweet and got him to sign it for charity

There are also LOADS MORE in this article from the Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11566593/Ed-Balls-Day-fourth-anniversary-of-that-tweet.html

never-a-good-thing-to-have-deac

HAPPY ED BALLS DAY 2017 WOOOP

never-a-good-thing-to-have-deac

Now that the clock has struck midnight…

HAPPY ED BALLS DAY 2018 WOOOOOOOOOOP

lavender-and-red

IT’S HERE

flapjacques

incognitopolls

Uni students, do your student welfare payments cover your living costs, or do you also have to work?

Payments are enough to live on

Sort of/it depends

No, I also have to work/get money some other way (e.g. from my parents)

Not eligible for student allowance

My country doesn't have welfare payments for students

Not a student

Voting ended onDec 30, 2023

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#when i was a student they weren't enough for my specific circumstances but i had no other way of getting money #which is why i'm no longer a student #i studied in england btw

vinny-vox

Why are you lgbtq+? wrong answers only GO

#a terrible terrible accident

aropride

anxiety is so insane bc ppl will treat it like it's no big deal, like it's "one of the "easy" mental illnesses" or something, and then you have it and it's insanely debilitating and you lose most of your life and your time and energy to it. yesterday i spent 2 hours sitting in my bed trying to convince myself to go to a water fountain to get some water. one time i got so scared to take a bus i passed out. like sure it's a spectrum and i'm definitely at the more severe end of it but the fact that milder cases exist doesn't mean it's not still a problem? and it doesn't mean that those people aren't struggling too

#i nearly died twice because i was too anxious to call an ambulance #the anxiety told me i was overreacting and the paramedics would think i was wasting their time #tbf some of the time i was delirious which was making me paranoid but BEFORE that i would have made the call if not for my anxiety #i would literally rather have risked death than done something slightly embarrassing #sometimes i forget how bad it is now because i'm doing so much better than back then #but there is still a lot i can't do

northern-punk-lad

1 in 5 people should not be allowed on the bus thank the bus driver you cunt

#everyone saying it's the southerners it's not! most people thank the bus driver here (oxfordshire)#although i don't know what happens in oxford. might be different because there are usually more people on the buses #my usual bus route has small buses and the drivers recognise you if you travel regularly

haveyoueatenthis

Have you eaten linguine a la vongole?

Yes, and I liked it

Yes, and I didn't like it

No

I haven't heard of it

Voting ended onDec 15, 2023

#wait no i have eaten this (in 2013 i think?) it was delicious

paper--machete

HOW TO DODGE TALENT SHOW DRAFT

paper--machete

I DONT WANT TO SAVE THE TOWN

#my primary school held a compulsory talent show once but i managed to get out of it #i can't remember how

gabby-kh

they should put braille on all gaming keyboards so that gamers inadvertantly learn a useful life skill

#they SHOULD and we could convince gamers that it gives them an advantage #it would help ME (keep pressing the wrong key)#not on my laptop keyboard though because i switch languages too much

kikue33333333

baconwithmeat

Rosetsu Nagasawa - Slug

#art

valtsv

obviously people steal things from other people it's one of the oldest tricks in the book but it still always surprises me to learn that people plagiarise because my introduction to the concept was basically being told that if i ever plagiarised anything i would be executed by firing squad and my head would be removed and displayed on a spike outside the walls of the hallowed academic institution i was attending as a warning to others

illiteracy-for-everyone

at uni we had the big scary plagiarism talk, lots of reminders, an online quiz on like plagiarism and ethics and stuff that we had to complete or we'd be kicked off the course, and then on our FIRST group project a member of my group sent his section in at the last minute and it was really obviously copied from wikipedia but there wasn't enough time to change it. luckily the rest of us weren't penalised because it was supposed to be a gentle introduction to group projects, but i was TERRIFIED for a while

#i studied maths btw we weren't ready to have our own ideas we just had to understand and explain stuff

naamahdarling

ID: image of a tall sign in a medical waiting area. The text is red and black on white, and at the top is a stylized drawing of a person "yelling". The drawing is crossed out. The original poster has covered phone numbers and the clinic name. The sign reads:

Aggressive behavior will not be tolerated.

There is zero tolerance for all forms of aggression and incidents may result in removal from this facility. Our administration supports our medical professionals in pressing charges for aggressive or abusive behavior they encounter while caring for patients.

Aggressive behavior includes:

• Abusive language

• Failure to respond to staff instructions

• Physical assault

• Sexual harassment

• Sexual language directed at others

• Threats

• Verbal assault

WARNING: Assaulting a medical professional who is engaged in the performance of his or her official duties is a serious crime.

/End ID

So these signs have gone up in all the clinics in this system. They're big. Almost as tall as I am.

I have a lot to say, but first I really want to know how this sign would make you feel as a patient.

How would you feel seeing this sign immediately upon walking into your provider's office? (And if it would make you uncomfortable, why?)

illiteracy-for-everyone

i would not want to take my grandma there because she has dementia and if she isn't able to communicate properly with someone (either because they can't understand her or she can't understand them) she gets frustrated and can be aggressive. and she definitely has trouble responding to instructions quickly, you have to be patient with her and not snap or shout. if she got overwhelmed i don't know if they'd handle it properly or if they'd make the situation worse.

i think it's reasonable to warn people that they can be removed for being aggressive, but the wording is not good.

snarp

I want to be able to region-lock posts. Other people's posts

#i think i'd do it to random posts so that the op couldn't see their own post #i think it would be reserved for posts that are really bad but also really good. the cursed ones.#also i wish i could do that to some us politics posts #the ones that aren't relevant to to the dozens of people worldwide who live in a country that's not america

gremlingirlsmell

me: i think they should make something like an airfryer but it uses water. some kind of, water fryer

the alluring skull:

#getting lured by the alluring skull

prokopetz

Fulfilling my obligation to the King by paying tribute in the form of technically priceless but functionally useless works of art, then starting a rumour that he's a cultureless boor with no appreciation for the arts when he asks me to just give cash next time.

ayeforscotland

Shane MacGowan, The Pogues singer, stuck it out to outlive Henry Kissinger. Rest easy, lad.

i love it when i order something online and there's a free little sticker or chocolate or tea

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