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I am not making up a WORD of this.

THIS IS INSANITY

#writing #horrorlit #rebecca #the birds #jamaica inn #daphne du maurier

The magazine will unveil a redesign in March that will feature women in provocative poses, but they won’t be fully nude.

“Don’t get me wrong,” Jones said of the decision to dispense with nudity, “12-year-old me is very disappointed in current me. But it’s the right thing to do.”

#playboy #nomoreboobs #ireaditforthearticles

A 16-ounce regular Coke contains 54 grams of sugar – that’s 13 teaspoons [...] This amount of sugar represents the daily recommended limit of sugars from all sources

The New York Times, http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/12/the-more-we-learn-on-nutrition-the-more-we-ignore/?ref=health

#sugar #soda #sugaraddict #woahsugar #damn

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E2CNZIlVIg)

#state song #state songs #geography #fun geography

Even Duolingo teaches it. And Google Translate translates it. Huh.

From Wikipedia: “Esperanto is a constructed international auxiliary language. It is the most widely spoken constructed language in the world.[5] Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto("Esperanto" translates as "one who hopes"), the pseudonym under which physician and linguist L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, on 26 July 1887. Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy-to-learn, politically neutral language that would transcend nationality and foster peace and international understanding between people with different languages.Up to 2,000,000 people worldwide fluently or actively speak Esperanto, including perhaps 2,000 native speakers who learned Esperanto from birth. Esperanto has a notable presence in 120[6] countries. Its usage is highest in Europe, East Asia, and South America.[7] lernu!, the most popular online learning platform for Esperanto, reported 150,000 registered users in 2013, and sees between 150,000 and 200,000 visitors each month.[8] With about 220,000 articles, Esperanto Wikipedia is the 32nd-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles,[9] and the largest Wikipedia in a constructed language.[10] On 22 February 2012, Google Translate added Esperanto as its 64th language.[11] On 28 May 2015, the language learning platform Duolingo launched an Esperanto course for English speakers. As of 21 August 2015, over 100,000 users had signed up.[12][13]

#language #TIL #esperanto #international #duolingo #translate

Dan Pfeiffer explains what HBO's scathing comedy gets right about Washington — and what everyone else gets wrong.

“Lastly, and most importantly, Veep gets the absurdity of our current politics exactly right. In last Sunday’s episode, we heard the White House chief of staff respond incredulously to a member of Congress, “You make it sound as if there’s a correlation between what should happen and what actually happens.” That’s our discourse in 2015 in a nutshell. In a time of great challenge, our politics is too often pulled by some sort of tractor beam to the realm of the absurd. The episode in which the Meyer administration becomes embroiled in a political firestorm because they removed the only painting by a Native American from the White House seems ridiculous on its face. It isn’t. The Obama White House has spent much of the last six years being attacked for removing a bust of Winston Churchill — yes, a statue of a world leader from another country. President George W. Bush’s White House had to answer questions about whether the president was wearing a secret transmitter to help him in a debate. And let’s never forget the time when, in the middle of a discussion about the unrest in Iraq and Syria, Washington decided to focus on President Obama’s decision to wear a tan suit. All of these could have been Veep plotlines. Sadly, they are not. Shining a light on this makes for great comedy, but it is also a great public service.” I miss you, #veepHBO. Come back to me real soon or I might die.

#veep #veephbo #veep hbo #grantland

Next time I do/say something embarrassing and am mortified (note: will almost certainly occur within the next 24 hrs), I'm going to look at this and think, "Hey, at least I'm not Brittany S."

#most embarrassing moment #brittany s #mortified #ohshit

You know you're married to the right person when, in a game of Scattergories with L as the letter and "things with balls" as the category, you both put 'Larry Bird'

#scattegories #scattergories #thingswithballs #larrybird