You and I now, we can be alright

@theturtleandtheghost

Two friends, separated by grad school, who share a love of music, travel, reading, and things that are English. Music: Mumford & Sons, Sufjan Stevens, Noah and the Whale, Matt & Kim, The Strokes, Laura Marling, Johnny Flynn, Foo Fighters, The Hives, King Charles, Florence and the Machine, Two Door Cinema Club, Bright Eyes, Jimmy Eat World, The Beatles, The Avett Brothers, Adele, Andrew Bird, Regina Spektor, Monsters of Folk, Locksley, Holy Ghost Tent Revival, to name a few... Beware, there will be lots of inside jokes. Okay let's be honest we watch a lot of tv shows.

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meladoodle

A fun thing to do this Halloween is say "who are you dressed as" to any man dressed very clearly as the joker. Follow it with a "ohhhh right, I kinda see it"

yekkes

Fun thing to do this Halloween is say “who are you dressed as” to any man not in a costume

thyrell

fun thing to do this halloween is say “nice joker costume” to any man not in a costume

#halloween #men #joker

pdfbabe

if ibuprofen was a girl I would marry him

a-s-fischer

I grew up in citrus farming country, and had orange and lemon trees. And I saw a post today about how people in the US have gotten so used to everything being always availible that when they walk into a grocery store in January to buy a lemon, they expect the lemon to be there, and they never even consider how unnatural it is that we have lemons in January.

And this is so completely not the point of that post, which is why I'm making my own post, but this example really really bothers me, because as I said I grew up in citrus country, and citrus are winter fruits, and January is lemon season.

Which ultimately goes to prove the point of that post, that we are so used to this kind of constant availability, that most people don't even know what season is lemon season.

slutdge

gonna try to get some tasks done today

slutdge

funnytwittertweets

thetomska

Thoughts?

No thanks, I’m trying to cut back

olreid

help

catgirlhell

tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva

I love this post because the replies are like "for anyone who doesn't know what nestle did, they benefited from [insert human rights violation here]" but nestle has done SO many fucked up things you get a different topic in every comment

breakingboob

Nestle has:

Drained water from places suffering from drought for absolute pennies.

Made African mothers dependent on their milk formula, which they gave for free, until their milk dried up. Then they required them to purchase it, mothers could not afford it, mixed in too little to fulfill nutrient needs, and mixed it with polluted water. Children died.

Used slavery to produce their cocoa.

Pushed for water to be considered a “want” not a “need” and is at the forefront of arguments that water is not a human right.

Poisoned Chinese infants with melamine in their milk formula.

Demanded Ethiopia pay a debt owed to Nestle, during a FAMINE.

Price-fixed food items.

Contributed to deforestation for their cocoa farming.

The worst thing is, Nestle owns TONS of other brands, making it difficult to avoid for certain products.