Ride Of The Rohirrim

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Veep | S05E09 ‘Kissing Your Sister’ | directed by David Mandel | written by Erik Kenward | 2016

[hither2]

i’ve never seen this show but that’s the funniest line i’ve ever heard

[big-chief-woodenhead]

Ok he is i and I am him

[little-miss-rasputin-pageant]

[theshadowedqueen82]

@thevastnessof​ how dare you leave this in the tags

[endangeredbodiesnyc]

Someone needs to turn this into a horror movie.

[questbedhead]

I’ve been thinking a lot about my old cleaning job lately so here’s a list of dumb shit I saw in rich people’s houses:

motion activated toilets - every time you so much as looked at them the seat would lift and it would start spraying like, disinfectant or smthing

A two-story walk-in closet

an on-suite home movie theatre located between the master bedroom and its bathroom

separate his-and-her on-suite bathrooms. As in two different bathrooms, one for ‘him’, one for ‘her’. 

the literal ugliest decoration ie; a huge ass piece of quartz just. chained to the wall. Like industrial chained to the wall. 

so many marble countertops with coffee mug rims (fun fact! marble is extremely porous!)

a single woman in her 20′s living in a 3′000 sq ft house which was always already clean because she only used three rooms- rec room, bedroom, and the second bedroom which acted as an extended closet, and the kitchen is not on this list because instead of cooking her mother, who lived across the lane in a 6′000 sq ft house, would just send the private chef over with meals for her. 

the aforementioned 6′000 sq ft house which had 6 different sitting rooms, two of which used to be what looked like a gorgeous patio and balcony which some fucker enclosed because for some fucking reason they thought this house needed more fucking sitting rooms. 

many, many children’s rooms that were clearly designed more for aesthetic than for children to exist in. 

A 60 sq ft shower

a broken smart home system that wouldn’t let anyone open the blinds.

A half furnished vacation apartment we had to pretend to clean every month for its absentee owner

an apartment absolutely fucking covered in animal furs and horns. Like almost wall to wall dead animal skins.  Zebras, goats, wolves, I think a caribou, beavers, so many fucking bears, including a polar bear cub.  Anything that could be made of horns was made of horns. There was literally a wreath made of dear antlers. So many fur coats. I had to vacuum a bear and I’ve never been the same. 

a shelf full of vegan cookbooks, in the apartment mentioned above. 

Anyways, skin the rich and vacuum their sins away; godspeed to any cleaning staff in this trying time. 

[questbedhead]

do-you-sea-whatididthere 

#…I wanna see the shower

It’s actually not all that interesting

[Image description: a line drawing of a smallish room. The right wall is half glass with a glass shower door; a showerhead and nobs are on the far wall. The left wall has a bench and the floor has a shower drain. A small cartoon woman sprays the ground with a hand shower with a bored expression. End description.]

So pretty much just a room, but with a drain and shower nozzle right in the wall. The thing about most of these places is the idea of them is a lot cooler in theory than practice. Like the marble countertops; sure marble is the Best And Most Expensive, but it’s just not practical. No one’s ever gonna need a shower that can fit ten grown adults. The people with the two-story coset never used the upper floor. The woman with the 3k sq ft house had a whole finished basement the sie of a decent apartment, and it was completely empty. She didn’t even use it for storage. 

Before I took this job I used to dream of having a huge house- huge enough to get lost in. But now that I’ve seen these kinds of homes I can assure you they’re nothing special. All they do is waste space and gather dust, and the people who own them don’t even have the decency to care for them themselves. 

If all of this ever ends, I hope the time theses rich people spent without cleaning staff makes them really appreciate domestic workers; but I wouldn’t bet on it. 

[Image description: A line drawing of a the woman from the first picture, vacuuming a bearskin rug. The rug says, “Remember, they would grant you no greater dignity.” End description.]

[amari-omaru]

Please repost and share this information.

This is very scary and concerning for black people. AGAIN DEHUMANIZING BLACK PEOPLE

Black people health conditions aren't taken seriously compared to others.Many black people are scared to go to the hospital for this reason

Black women are 4x likely to die from complications of childbirth than white women in the United states.they've had experience that has unacceptably poor maternal health outcomes

[flyingtentacledlampfucker-deact]

any mention of black lives matter has disappeared off my dashboard so i thought y'all might want to know that police stormed a peaceful vigil in memory of elijah mcclain, attacking mourners with pepper spray. families were there. children were affected. this movement isnt over just because it's no longer trendy.

[books-read-in-nooks]

Me: “I want to read a book.”

My Brain: Then read one...?

Me:

[lickrustdavid]

Ok but. Same.

[chrissongzzz]

[alurdunfinn]

Aren’t you gay?

I like how this implies I did something heterosexual. If so, I apologize.

[maturiin]

nothing to see here just the lord of the glittering caves and his elven prince husband

[catchymemes]

[sssquiddles]

[serene-elysium]

another pic, different angle

[randomklutz]

^ important

[probsjosh]

big boy

[tincansamurai]

michaelangelo could put all that work into perspective tricks and he still couldn’t sculpt a titty

[i-aint-even-bovvered]

Look, he was a genius, but he was also Gay

[whitepeopletwitter]

[gahdamnpunk]

This pandemic is really proving that government has the means to solve all problems they just choose not to

[bemusedlybespectacled]

I studied abroad in London in 2014 and my British Politics professor literally brought in a former homeless woman who had been made not-homeless when, during the 2012 Olympics, she and everyone else were given temporary housing to keep them off the streets. and while some people returned to being homeless afterwards, most people didn’t, because it turns out it’s easier to get a job and be secure if you already have the house thing taken care of.

the government could absolutely fix homelessness today, and it would solve homelessness not just temporarily, but for the long term. but the government chooses not to, not because it’s expensive (it’s more expensive to have homeless people than it is to give them homes), not because it doesn’t work (there are a lot of studies confirming that it does), but because some people think that being poor is a moral failing that can only be solved by shitting on them some more.

[wtfwljd]

Stokeley Carmichael knew/knows what’s up.

[gothhabiba]

“Another myth that is firmly upheld is that disabled people are dependent and non-disabled people are independent. No one is actually independent. This is a myth perpetuated by disablism and driven by capitalism - we are all actually interdependent. Chances are, disabled or not, you don’t grow all of your food. Chances are, you didn’t build the car, bike, wheelchair, subway, shoes, or bus that transports you. Chances are you didn’t construct your home. Chances are you didn’t sew your clothing (or make the fabric and thread used to sew it). The difference between the needs that many disabled people have and the needs of people who are not labelled as disabled is that non-disabled people have had their dependencies normalized. The world has been built to accommodate certain needs and call the people who need those things independent, while other needs are considered exceptional. Each of us relies on others every day. We all rely on one another for support, resources, and to meet our needs. We are all interdependent. This interdependence is not weakness; rather, it is a part of our humanity.”

— AJ Withers, “Disability Politics and Theory” (via vulturechow)

[alexandrastillreadsthings]

people aren’t stuck in poverty because they’re dumb, like I know it’s a really hard pill to swallow but no one is poverty stricken because they deserve it no one is poverty stricken because they placed themselves there no one is poverty stricken out of choice