[what-even-is-thiss]

You know even with all the World Cup hype I think I’ve only seen like one thing partnering with the US men’s soccer team. All the other stuff is just kind of advertising the idea of soccer.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Americans aren’t super duper into soccer but we do generally grasp the importance of the World Cup. Also our men’s team is generally forgettable so with these two realities put together we just end up hyping up the general idea of soccer.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Oh I forgot to mention that NBC national news did an interview with Lionel Messi to inform Americans about who he is and I haven’t seen one interview with the US men’s soccer team lol

[what-even-is-thiss]

We as neighbors still have something beautiful in common during these trying times.

[consulships]

i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

[literaryreference]

Time to take this post entirely too seriously:

I often wonder if this is why you so commonly see the sentiment that we are in an era of uniquely bad literature, or at least that the fact that most books don't have artistic aspirations and are not aiming to be anything other than mindless entertainment is new. In fact what's new is the idea that everything is worth preserving (and also the internet making it easier to preserve it). The dumb artistically unambitious trash books of the past have survived only sporadically, because people thought of them as literally disposable.

When I was in college I had a professor who was an expert on detective fiction. He had a longstanding beef with the idea that "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was the first detective story. He thought that it seemed way too polished to be inventing a new genre, and also that the whole orangutan business had the vibe of someone subverting preexisting audience expectations and maybe engaging in a bit of stealth parody. With the help of some student volunteers, he went trawling through old magazines and newspapers and found hundreds of detective stories from the early 1800s that just hadn't garnered enough individual attention to be remembered. This was because most of them sucked balls. He created an online archive of them, so you too can read these mostly terrible stories.

[tricky-pockets]

I've spent a ridiculous amount of time on Project Gutenberg sifting through forgotten old fiction and lemme tell ya. a lot of that stuff sucks ass.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Tremendously comforting, really.

[road-2nowhere]

Metalmania Festival

Megadeth - United Abominations (2007)

Katowice, Poland - March 8, 2008.

[datelinepentagons]

[luca-changretta]

Go to Hell, 1991

[theydontlovey0ulikeilovey0u]

[silkysong]

which littlest pet shop are you choosing in pokemon winds and waves coming 2027

[scoobydoomistakes]

Like a wine and cheese pairing, some gifs just belong together.

[polldermodel]

Heb jij een favoriete Pokémon?

Ja, dat is... (tags of comment)

Ja, maar is geheim

Nee heb ik niet

Ik heb nog nooit van Pokémon gehoord

Heb jij een favoriete Pokémon?

Ja, dat is... (tags of comment)

Ja, maar is geheim

Nee heb ik niet

Ik heb nog nooit van Pokémon gehoord

Remaining time: 2 days 20 hours

[fuzzyghost]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[botanyshitposts]

scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple

the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

[flipocrite]

[clickityweasel]

[catboybiologist]

Btw the thing this discovered is like. A foundational lab technique now and has revolutionized genetics

[actuallyitsstar]

TOP GUN (1986) + (A FEW) ICONIC QUOTES

@topgun40fest day six: quotes+ insp.

[bishopony]

my really funny and original concept

[revilonilmah]

Just out on the open sea with your buds

[trapped--under--rice]

please behold the 24 Hours of Lemons race, in which you can only spend $500 total on a car to cross country race for 24 hours

named after the legendary 24 hour Le Mans race, Lemons rallies barely legal cars in an endurance race across America. had the privilege of sharing the freeway with this race and seeing the absolute art od this event

[friendly-neighborhood-patriarch]

This is so American I could CRY

[hogmilked]

oh this is nothing. some of my favorite lemons entries are:

an airplane stuck on a toyota minivan

this miata built by rocket scientists

the mr2 boat

the nyan cat bmw that i think actually played the song at all times

the homer simpson car built by uranium workers

this limo whose brakes caught on fire

the dumbest corolla and supra wearing funny hats

and so much more. 24 hours of lemons my beloved

[road-2nowhere]

Megadeth Unplugged at Musique Plus Musique Plus Studios, Montreal, Canada - May 17, 2001. ➙ [ 1 - 2 ]