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Did you notice your leg warmer pic posted 6 times?? lol

Oh good lord. I just did! I scheduled it last night and it didn’t seem to be working… so I just tapped the button over and over. Yes, I’m blushing. 🤦🏼‍♀️

#askme #so cringey #someone take my phone away

A Ballad For James Martin

Dedicated to James Martin and all service people around the world

Germany was on the move, And Britain had joined the fray. The First World War had broken, And today had come the day.

The offices were flooded, With more men coming in. A man was trying to be heard, Above the roaring din.

“Since so many men are here, We only want the best. You and you and you can stay, You have passed the test.”

A man pressed in a corner, Waited quietly for his turn. He stepped up to the desk, As his insides churned.

He’d been watching all the other men, And noticed they were young. As he’d feared, he was turned away, He was too old, and not as strong.

On the way home he was quiet, He couldn’t bear to face his family. Young Jim came up and said, “Don’t worry, I’ll take your place in the army.”

But young Jim was only fourteen, He’d never be allowed to go. So he threatened his parents to leave, And never write, he said so.

His parents tried to convince him to stay, But in the end they gave in. At the office he was given the label: “The finest specimen we’ve seen.” At training camps, living in knee deep mud, Jim learnt all he needed to know. Though his parents worried all day, Jim could not wait to go.

At last they were going to join their mates, The Berrima was docked in the bay. Thousands of people lined up on the dock, To celebrate the joyous day.

In Egypt Jim trained in hot desert heat, And had tea in the Egyptian town. He slept and ate sand in everything, And climbed to the pyramids crown.

Jim and his mates boarded the Southland, To finally join the war. Excitement was broad, and spirits were high, But danger was lurking afar.

A German Sub took a shot at the boat, And as it began to sink, Jim fell overboard and drifted away, And wasn’t able to think.

He was rescued four long hours later, And as they rowed to shore, They watched the broken Southland sail, Under way once more.

Only days later, they set off again, This time headed for Gallipoli. At last they reached the rugged Anzac cove, Finally able to fulfill their duty.

Replacing the men from Victoria, Who looked so dirty and thin. They waited the time until morning, Unable to sleep through the din.

Jim learnt the land, and the use of the guns, Taking a shot at the Turks. Eating their food, which was covered with flies, While sitting in holes dug of dirt. Jim found the waiting long, and so boring, While manning the periscope gun. They caught the bombs that the Turks threw, And lobbed them back at their guns.

The Anzacs raised dummies above the trench lines, Cut in the shape of the Kaiser. The Turks shot at such targets with great pleasure, He was neither side’s favourite guy.

The two sides often had shooting contests, With food and cigarettes for prizes. A battalion near Jim was sent smoke papers, Thrown over from the Turks front line.

A shell exploded near the men’s dugouts, A shard of metal flew past Jim’s eye. “A close enough shave” said the Sergeant, “You won’t need your razor tonight!”

When Jim and his mate were on water duty, A shell landed by a two-up game. Four men were dead and one hit in the guts, He wasn’t going to survive the day.

Water was scarce; only two cups a day, And the disease rates were high. Vermin were everywhere, fleas, lice and rats, In the corpses piled up to the sky.

Though Jim stayed healthy, as fit as a horse, His spirit was sorely hurt. For though he wrote letters home every week, Not one letter did he get.

Then came the cold winds and misty fogs, For winter was settling in. Lethargy in the limbs, and a throb in the head, Not quite tip-top was young Jim.

His coughing got worse, and his stomach ached, His nose bled once or twice. Jim’s mate Cec said he should see the medics, But Jim wanted to stay and fight. He didn’t get better; he woke with a fever, Was ill the next day on duty. His fever rose; he didn’t know where he was, And then started the dysentery.

Jim couldn’t sleep from the pain in his gut, He couldn’t keep anything down. He was afraid to report sick to the medics, In case his true age was found.

The sergeant came to see him; said he was brave, But he’d have to go to the medics. So the next morning, Jim made himself get up, Although he was still very sick.

Jim couldn’t think, the voices were reeling, He collapsed right there on the floor. They took him down the hill on a stretcher, And left him there on the shore.

They took him away in the five o’clock cargo, To the hospital ship off the bay. They cut off his clothes and sponged his thin body, And settled him in for the day.

The nurse came by, Jim called for more water, So sweet on his parched throat. His fiery thirst quelled, he fell into sleep, Rocked by the moving boat.

Jim’s sleep was deep, and undisturbed, He was never to wake again. Sacrificing himself to fight for his country, Only fourteen, yet a man.

Three cheers for the old Twenty-first, Three cheers for the bold Twenty-first, There is nothing on earth that will stop us Three cheers for the old Twenty-first.

The Rilla of Ingleside book club, and all the talk about Water and his poetry, reminded me of a poem I wrote when I was 14. It's inspired by the story of Australian boy James Martin, who lied about his age to enlist in WWI and served at Gallipoli. Re-reading this now, 20+ years later, I am cringing at some of the rhyme choices and meter (and also the romanticised view of WWI, though it very much accords with how we were taught the history of the ANZACs particularly in school in Australia - and is a good parallel to some of the views presented in Rilla).

#rilla of ingleside book club #wwi #my poetry #so cringey #but i thought it was interesting to share and show how romanticised aspects of WWI still were in the 1990s/early 2000s in Australia #the dedication is exactly the one i included at 14 #and the last stanza comes from a song or chant from Martin's battalion #i did not do much research/fact checking when i wrote this #it is almost entirely based on soldier boy by anthony hill #which refers to Martin as 'Australia's youngest known Anzac'

I don’t want to yick nobody’s yum, but I just can’t get behind Xaden’s nickname for Violet

It gives me the biggest ICK

#violet and xaden #xaden riorson #fourth wing #iron flame #the empyrean #violet sorrengail #I get where it originates from but like ugh #so cringey #I can’t

Jungkook reading out shippy comments during his live 🙃 are yall not EMBARRASSED?!

#jikook #taekook #they were all so inappropriate #i wish yall ALL felt embarrassed #so cringey

OMG BakuDeku is getting their own DanUp yogurth bottle in Mexico! 🤣 Courtesy of Danone (Dannon) shipping contest.

But the shippers went to rub it in to KiriBaku shippers' faces and it's chaos out there 😅 I honestly didn't see this coming.

#Boku no Hero Academia #My Hero Academia #Katsuki Bakugou #Izuku Midoriya #Dynamight #Deku #BakuDeku #mexican humor #humor mexicano #Look at them #I love strawberries #So cringey #BkDk

childhood friends to lovers with naoya

I think this is the funniest thing in the world, because you get to witness:

1. Naoya's emo phase.

2. Naoya's first crush.

3. Naoya trying to make friends.

4. Naoya's rants about Toji.

5. Naoya trying to be friends with Gojo and failing at it.

6. Naoya failing on executing his technique and freezing himself in time way too many times.

7. Naoya's era when he made a lot of quizzes about dumb stuff.

8. The first wild hair style he tried out and made him look bad.

9. His obsession with anime husbandos and waifus.

among others.

And then you become his spouse and threaten to blackmail him with his past self alksdjaklsd

#baby naoya #so cute #so cringey #we love him #letters 💖