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Boosting a couple of awesome people trying to get more into streaming games. Would recommend watching they are quite amusing.

Mick: I have an idea!

Ray: We’re not setting anyone on fire.

Mick: I have no ideas.

twicetolivetwicetodie

Team Legends

Sara Lance

Leonard Snart

Mick Rory

Jefferson Jackson

Ray Palmer

Martin Stein

Nate Heywood

Amaya Jiwe

Kendra Saunders

Carter Hall

Rip Hunter

keatonpatti

Love Time magazine’s cover!

maxofs2d

The French army performing a Daft Punk medley on our National Day is pretty good as it is… but what truly pushes this video from “good” to “great” is the juxtaposition of certain shots by our public service TV

agoodcartoon

nothingburgers: then, as now

(see part one: civil rights cartoons)

in the 1970s, america experienced an unprecedented crisis as those mean ol’ democrats ganged up on poor ol’ dick nixon

and now they’re doing it again!

it was all the media cared about too but nobody else gave a shit, nosirree

it’s all just words, see!

the president is squeaky clean, he’s above all these baseless accusations

they got nothin i tell ya, its all in their imagination and in fact they’re acting very irresponsibly

they’re just wallowing in filth, they’ll never find anything!

ok they found something, but whaddabout all those even worse crimes committed by those mean ol’ dems! why isnt anybody trying to impeach them

(huge thanks to Pakled and Rebel Bob for digging up the old-time cartoons)

mysharona1987

niknak79

moving-assbanditkirk-blog

whoa canada

someone needs to turn down that sass level

truthandglory-deactivated201409

Two things to know about Canada!

We are smart enough to know hot things should be hot.

We are sorry if you don’t

anotherpapercut

fun story about the reason they do that (at least in America)

once this lady spilled her McDonald’s coffee on herself and ended up getting like 3rd degree burns and since there was no warning on the cup she was able to claim she didn’t know it would be hot (or at least that hot) and won a lawsuit against McDonald’s for $1 million

prokopetz

That’s what the media smear campaign against her would have you believe, anyway. The truth of the matter is that the McDonald’s in question had previously been cited - on at least two separate occasions - for keeping their coffee so hot that it violated local occupational health and safety regulations. The lady didn’t win her lawsuit because American courts are stupid; she won it because the McDonald’s she bought that coffee from was actively and knowingly breaking the law with respect to the temperature of its coffee at the time of the incident.

(I mean, do you have any idea what a third-degree burn actually is? Third-degree burns involve “full thickness” tissue damage; we’re talking bone-deep, with possible destruction of tissue. Can you even imagine how hot that cup of coffee would have to have been to inflict that kind of damage in the few seconds it was in contact with her skin?)

bogleech

Yeah I’m tired of people joking about either the “stupid” woman who didn’t know coffee was hot or the “greedy” woman making up bullshit to get money.

She was hideously injured by hideous irresponsibility, it was an absolutely legitimate lawsuit and the warning on the cups basically allows McDonalds to claim no responsibility even if it happens again. Every other company followed suit to cover their asses.

So they can still legally serve you something that could sear off the end of your tongue or permanently demolish the front of your gums and just give you a big fat middle finger in court. “The label SAID it would be HOT, STUPID.”

elfyourmother

obligatory reblog for the great debunking of the usual ignorance spouted about this case

obligatory mention that the media smear campaign to twist teh facts on this case and get public opinion against the victim was deliberate and fueled by the right wing tort reform movement

it was seized upon to limit the rights of consumers to hold giant corporations accountable for wrongdoing

watch the documentary Hot Coffee, it lays out all of the facts and examines the response to this case and explains why everything you think you know about this case is bullshit, and explains why tort reform is bullshit in an entertaining and informative manner

thepoisonroom

The woman injured in Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants was 79 years old at the time of her injuries, and suffered third-degree burns to the pelvic region (including her thighs, buttocks, and groin), which in combination with lesser burns in the surrounding regions caused damage to an area totaling a whopping 22% of her body’s surface. These injuries that required two years of intensive medical care, including multiple skin grafts; during her hospitalization, Stella Liebeck lost around 20% of her starting body weight.

She was uninsured and sued McDonald’s Restaurants for the cost of her past and projected future medical care, an estimated $20,000. The corporation offered a settlement of $800, a number so obviously ridiculous that I’m not even going to dignify it with any further explanation.

The settlement number most often quoted is not the amount that the corporation actually paid; the jury in the first trial suggested a payment equal to a day or two of coffee revenues for McDonald’s, which at the time totaled more than $1 million per diem. The judge reduced the required payout to around $640,000 in both compensatory and punitive damages, and the case was later settled out of court for less than $600,000.

Keep in mind that at the time, McDonald’s already had over 700 cases of complaints about coffee-related burns on file, but continued to sell coffee heated to nearly 200 degrees Fahrenheit (around 90 degrees Celsius) as a means of boosting sales (their selling point was that one could buy the coffee, drive to a second location such as work or home, and still have a piping hot beverage). This in spite of the fact that most restaurants serve coffee between 140 and 160 degrees Fahrenheit (60 to 71 degrees Celsius), and many coffee experts agree that such high temperatures are desirable only during the brewing process itself.

The Liebeck case was absolutely not an example of litigation-happy Americans expecting corporations to cover their asses for their own stupidity, but we seem determined to remember it that way. It’s an issue of liability, and the allowable lengths of capitalism, and even of the way in which our society is incredibly dangerous for and punitive towards the uninsured, but it was not and is not a frivolous suit. Please check your assumptions and do your research before you turn a burn victim’s suffering into a throwaway punchline.

gaylormoons

#don’t fricking get me started on Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants the level of misinformation floating around is staggering#I know that it’s an older case but it still makes me really mad that people treat it as this big dumb thing?#the fact that the media took a serious case and turned it into what it is to us today should piss people off#the level of distortion of facts is astonishing and upsetting and nobody seems to hear about it?#sorry I’m done I just#it upsets me when a legal travesty like this is just dragged out for some#’haha americans are sOOOOOOOo dumb!!1!’ humor#I MEAN GODDAMN IF YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE FUN OF AMERICANS AT LEAST MAKE FUN OF US WITH FACTS OKAY

bregma

jesus, i actually didn’t know about any of this, thanks for clearing that up

okayto

Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants at the American Museum of Tort Law

The McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case: Know the Facts at Consumer Attorneys of California

mysharona1987

The sad problem with the new season of House of Cards: “Oh aren’t these people crazy and evil and dysfunctional?” Um, have you seen the real world recently?

Man, I know Frank is awful and all, but at least he has a three-digit IQ and is somewhat competent.

America has gotten so bad even the Netflix villains seem preferable.

mysharona1987

ask-blue-zircon

Can zircon make any lawyer puns?

“Of course I can! After all, lawyer puns never lose their appeal!”

nekoladyproductions

My brother pointed something out about the Zircons

If their hoods are actually hair, then that means they have manes. (Or hair wrapped around their necks, but I digress.) A mane is hair that grows around your neck like a lion. So, if the Zircons let their hair all loose and stuff, it should poof out like Lion’s hair if they do in fact have manes.

I like to think that their neck hair (fur?) is styled to be shaved down or tucked under their clothes.

I want a fluffed up bunch of Zircons, please.