Incident at Bromsgrove

My name is Shannon, and I'm 29, and I'm from Chicago. Also, I am obsessed with Paul McCartney and Eric Idle. The only things I really care about in life are The Beatles and Monty Python.

[oriocookie]

obsessed with the way my robotics team lead talks

she’s reinventing hieroglyphics

[mp-lily]

She’s the only person who truly understands how emojis were meant to be used.

[spookybecc]

Cause of death cameron boyer

[beemovieerotica]

[thisbirdhasflownx]

GEORGE IS SO PRETTY

[rev0lverluvr]

[prokopetz]

The whole Polybius thing is my favourite conspiracy theory because nearly every individual element of the story is absolutely true, but not for that reason.

Did some early arcade games cause people to suffer hallucinations, memory loss, and short-term personality changes? Yes, they did – because many folks who played them were experiencing close range exposure to bright, rapidly flashing lights for the first time in their lives, and – at the time – public awareness of photosensitive epilepsy was practically nonexistent. Most who had it were undiagnosed, and its symptoms often weren’t recognised when they arose – and if you have no idea what photosensitive epilepsy is, those symptoms might look a lot like alien mind control!

Were early video arcades frequented by serious-looking men in dark suits? Again, yes they were – because they were suspected of being money-laundering fronts for illegal gambling rings, and thus were routinely placed under federal surveillance. And those suspicions weren’t unfounded – it later transpired that many early video arcades were, in fact, money-laundering fronts for illegal gambling rings.

Did arcade cabinets with strange titles and indecipherable gameplay quietly pop up in out-of-the-way places, then vanish shortly thereafter, never to be seen again? Absolutely – because a thriving black market in off-brand bootlegs arose almost immediately. Quality control was nonexistent, so many such cabinets had operational lifespans measured in weeks, and you’d most often see them in arcades with poor locations simply because they were cheap.

It was a perfect storm of largely unrelated factors that added up to the convincing appearance of a shadowy conspiracy, even though each element by itself had a fairly boring explanation.

[fatadoggy]

Paul McCartney in I Need You from Help! (1965), dir. Richard Lester

[alliecathayes]

I’m not talking about lust either, ladies. I’m talking about deep, meaningful, head-over-heels, his-n-hers towels, let’s-grow-old-together L-O-V-E.

— HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS (2003) dir. Donald Petrie

[gacktova]

[iamrusty]

enough of girl math what about boy division

[gemglowstix]

Corporate wants you to find the difference between these two pictures

[willgrahamscock]

Hey are you offended by the word bitch? I'm going to send you a hate anon, but I saw that you go by she/her and I respect women

don't let anything stop u from being a hater king

[willgrahamscock]

take your time

[gayvampyr]

[justatallstick]

amazing things going on over on twitter after the beatles films were announced

[javelinbk]

Paul McCartney listening to his transistor radio in New York, 9th February 1964

[soundsof71]

Elton John and Bernie Taupin babies! via EltonJohn official

[big-barn-bed]

paul got his hofner back :’)

[beatleswings]

THE BEATLES with ED SULLIVAN after their performance on their third appearance on THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW. Aired on February 23, 1964, taped on February 9, 1964.