-_- of course, second day of classes and I get sun poisoning. Damn my inability to handle UV light. Now I have to work a fourteen hour shift sick as a dog. -_-
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I THOUGHT THIS WAS KIDDING SOGMLASG
HOLY SHIT
THAT IS AWESOME
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- May. 21, 2013 @ 23:23 ♥ 282434
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“I kill flowers too you know.”
~ Death from “One night at Mercy.” a Twilight Zone episode. Perspnally my favorite incarnation of death.
Stupid quick doodle to celebrate the lifting of my diet! I can eat POTATOES AGAIN!
THIS. IS. AMAZING!
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damn fuck shit shit shit shit. so TIRED of it.
If any man has a problem with Angelina Jolie’s preventative mastectomy, put 5 bullets in a standard 6-chamber revolver, then close your eyes and spin the chamber without looking. Now put the gun to his head and pull the trigger. He has an 83.3% chance of being killed in this scenario, which is slightly better than her 87%. If you want, you can ask him if he would trade this for surgically becoming bald before pulling the trigger.
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- May. 12, 2013 @ 0:18 ♥ 13124
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- May. 12, 2013 @ 0:09 ♥ 240
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Kitten update! and also help.
I know it has been a while since I said anything about our unexpected house guests but I thought I might update and ask for a bit of help.
All four of them are healthy and loveable. We were able to socialize them and now all but one can not get enough human love. Cuddleface though prefers to give love rather than take love from humans so she is not too fond of petting. All four of them are girls and Glen’s name is now Glinda. All four are not litter trained and will eat anything you give to them. Pictures of them to be added later.
Here is the bit where I ask for help if there is any. Their mother who we coined Honeybun is no longer with us. She took off into the night a few weeks ago and we have not seen hide or hair of her since. They are getting to be the age where they can leave the house but our options are limited. We are already at the limit for animals we can keep in my house and keeping any of these babies is not an option. When checking into our local no-kill animal shelter/humane society they told us that they are overbooked with kittens they are not finding homes for. That leaves that out of the question. We also can not let them go stray outside. Unfortunately I live in an area where a lot of my neighbors have a no tolerance policy when it comes to strays. They set out traps and bowls of antifreeze on a regular basis. So that awful option is thankfully a no go as well. That leaves finding them homes.
For two weeks we have searched and asked and posted everywhere that we have kittens to give away for free. Not a single person has taken them and our time with them is running out. If we can not find homes for them we will have to let them go stray. I would really like for that not to happen.
So here is the helping bit. If anyone lives in the Wooster/Orville/Rittman Ohio, or anyplace near that they are willing to come get a kitten from, and you want a new cat please think about taking one of ours. If not then please signal boost so everyone of these babies can find a loving home for the rest of their lives.
It would be much appreciated.
- YOU AREN’T AN IDIOT FOR DOING SOMETHING WRONG
- YOU AREN’T AN IDIOT FOR SAYING SOMETHING WRONG
- YOU AREN’T AN IDIOT FOR NOT KNOWING SOMETHING
- YOU AREN’T AN IDIOT
- YOU ARE A WONDERFUL HUMAN BEING AND I LOVE YOU SO, SO MUCH
I’ve needed this for so long
made me cry what the
bless this post
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- May. 10, 2013 @ 19:19 ♥ 48392
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I want to make something clear. I did not mean to assume anyone was not overweight themselves nor that they did not know the challenges with medication and weight loss. If I did then it was not intentional and I apologize.
What the original post was about is two things. 1 is the rallying behind the use of shame as a motivator. It is a thing the privileged and the unprivileged do alike but that does not make it right. 2 was the comparison of smoking and obesity. It is both insulting and dealing in absolutes. People pick up cigarettes and make themselves and other’s sick. While some people pick up unhealthy food and get fat, many others do not. We get off our so called “fat” asses and work and exercise and diet and what else but there are those of us who can not do anything about ourselves. It is not like smoking at all.
This is what I got onto the original poster for and any misconstruing of the words was mostly my fault.
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sanitysleash:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN MAY I PRESENT A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THIN PRIVILEGE.
Article about Fat Shaming adds on Oddee.com and this was the first comment to show up.
NEWS FLASH: Smoking and weight are both things you can actively control and chose to do or not do. Being fat is something you can change, whether you like it or not. Just cause you refuse to lose weight, does not mean you should shove your opinion down other people’s throats about your personal hard on for your body.
Here’s a nice study that wasn’t written by your “media brainwashing” conspiracy theorists. Oh, and if you’re an avid fan of TITP, it might help ease your mind to know that it wasn’t “funded by diet companies”. It ust so happens to be an Italian journal as well, which further demonstrates the range of the obesity epidemic.
Cizza, G., & Rother, K. (2012). Beyond fast food and slow motion: Weighty contributors to the obesity epidemic. Journal of endocrinological investigation,35(2), 236–242.
Decreased physical activity and marketing-driven increased consumption of “junk” food, dubbed “The Big Two”, are generally regarded as the most important contributors to the obesity epidemic. However, the full picture contains many more pieces of the puzzle. We address several additional issues and review current clinical developments in obesity research. In spite of dramatic advancements in our understanding of the adipose organ and its endocrine and immune products, the ultimate causes of the obesity epidemic remain elusive. Treatment is plagued by poor adherence to life style modifications, and available pharmacological options are marginally effective, often also associated with major side effects. Surgical treatments, albeit effective in decreasing body weight, are invasive and expensive. Thus, our approaches to finding the causes, improving the existing treatments, and inventing novel therapies must be manifold.
The obesity epidemic has developed over more than a generation. It is unlikely that this problem would resolve within a generation. We need the courage and the intellectual honesty to acknowledge that, although something can currently be done at a patient level, we may be losing the battle on obesity at the societal level. To reverse the current obesity epidemic it will take more than telling people to “eat a little less” and “exercise a little more”. As noted in a recent commentary “the apparent energy imbalance for much of the US population is 5–10-fold greater than eating an extra cookie a day or walking one extra mile a day, far more beyond the ability of most individuals to address at a personal level” (94). We cannot, and should not, solely rely on the will power of the isolated individual, although each one of us will always bear the responsibility to be as healthy as possible. In brief, it will take dramatic, structural changes. It will take a concerted effort with a focus on prevention, which should start very early, not even in utero but before conception. The good news is that those societal changes would have added benefits well above and beyond obesity.
[I apologize to followers for repeating myself]
News flash for you. Being “fat” is not something you can change in some cases. You are applying the same damn principles to everyone across the board evenly and you can not do that. Smoking and Obesity are two very different things to deal with.
By the looks of your other posts it seems you are under the impression that the “fat” get that way by having money for food. Most heavy people like myself barely have any money for food. I am paying off two college loans while working myself to death in a physical job six days a week. Do I eat a lot? Fuck no, and it is the same way with others. Do you choose the 2 dollar apple over the 99 cent pizza slice when there is only a buck ten in to your name? NO.
I do not REFUSE to lose the weight and you are assuming things you do not know. Do you know my struggles with multiple medications? Do you know the story behind why I am in such debt? Can you tell me it wasn’t because I am fat that people have treated me like less than human? That the scars on my back and arms from repeated beatings in school was not because I was the class “Pig”? Tell me oh wise one, how I am refusing to lose the weight that has plagued me so. I would really like to know.
By the way, I was calling that person out on their comparison of smoking and obesity as well as their statement on shaming to motivate people. Know who did not complain when they shamed smokers? NON SMOKERS. Know who does not complain when they shame fat people? THIN PEOPLE. Know who does not complain when they shame poor people? RICH PEOPLE. Know who does not complain when they shame gay/trans/and other non hetro-sexual people? STRAIGHT PEOPLE. The group doing the shaming never complains because they are not being shamed. Then when someone complains the shamers go “Oh shut up, this is for your own good.” Shame has NEVER ever worked in a positive way. Want to know why? People do not feel like being treated like shit, it makes the changes even harder. You HATE yourself for not being “right” and that makes things harder and harder.
Your article though makes a good point. The change needs to come from a social level. Better than shaming people and blaming people for being fat why don’t we increase minimum wage so people can eat healthier and feed their families better. Why not cut down the diet pill industry and invest that revenue into farming practices that makes fresh foods available to the spectrum of all people? Make gym memberships less so the poor can afford to go. Invest money in the world of medicine so we can come up with better medications that do not make you ill and feeble. Make help available to all people with any disorder or addiction so they can get treatment. Have jobs start running daycares so more people can get into the workforce without having to pay such high prices for people to watch their kids. Improve school funding in both the classrooms and the lunch rooms. Make health insurance and housing available for those of the LGBT community. These are all things society can do to help everyone without privilege. There is no shaming involved in any of that now is there?](http://25.media.tumblr.com/44b13269a617e645a69154a9afa9f711/tumblr_mmgr61HJp61r894e8o1_1280.jpg)
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN MAY I PRESENT A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THIN PRIVILEGE.
Article about Fat Shaming adds on Oddee.com and this was the first comment to show up.
NEWS FLASH:
Smoking and weight are both things you can actively control and chose to do or not do. Being fat is something you can change, whether you like it or not. Just cause you refuse to lose weight, does not mean you should shove your opinion down other people’s throats about your personal hard on for your body.Here’s a nice study that wasn’t written by your “media brainwashing” conspiracy theorists. Oh, and if you’re an avid fan of TITP, it might help ease your mind to know that it wasn’t “funded by diet companies”. It ust so happens to be an Italian journal as well, which further demonstrates the range of the obesity epidemic.
Cizza, G., & Rother, K. (2012). Beyond fast food and slow motion: Weighty contributors to the obesity epidemic. Journal of endocrinological investigation,35(2), 236–242.
Decreased physical activity and marketing-driven increased consumption of “junk” food, dubbed “The Big Two”, are generally regarded as the most important contributors to the obesity epidemic. However, the full picture contains many more pieces of the puzzle. We address several additional issues and review current clinical developments in obesity research. In spite of dramatic advancements in our understanding of the adipose organ and its endocrine and immune products, the ultimate causes of the obesity epidemic remain elusive. Treatment is plagued by poor adherence to life style modifications, and available pharmacological options are marginally effective, often also associated with major side effects. Surgical treatments, albeit effective in decreasing body weight, are invasive and expensive. Thus, our approaches to finding the causes, improving the existing treatments, and inventing novel therapies must be manifold.
The obesity epidemic has developed over more than a generation. It is unlikely that this problem would resolve within a generation. We need the courage and the intellectual honesty to acknowledge that, although something can currently be done at a patient level, we may be losing the battle on obesity at the societal level. To reverse the current obesity epidemic it will take more than telling people to “eat a little less” and “exercise a little more”. As noted in a recent commentary “the apparent energy imbalance for much of the US population is 5–10-fold greater than eating an extra cookie a day or walking one extra mile a day, far more beyond the ability of most individuals to address at a personal level” (94). We cannot, and should not, solely rely on the will power of the isolated individual, although each one of us will always bear the responsibility to be as healthy as possible. In brief, it will take dramatic, structural changes. It will take a concerted effort with a focus on prevention, which should start very early, not even in utero but before conception. The good news is that those societal changes would have added benefits well above and beyond obesity.
[I apologize to followers for repeating myself]
News flash for you. Being “fat” is not something you can change in some cases. You are applying the same damn principles to everyone across the board evenly and you can not do that. Smoking and Obesity are two very different things to deal with.
By the looks of your other posts it seems you are under the impression that the “fat” get that way by having money for food. Most heavy people like myself barely have any money for food. I am paying off two college loans while working myself to death in a physical job six days a week. Do I eat a lot? Fuck no, and it is the same way with others. Do you choose the 2 dollar apple over the 99 cent pizza slice when there is only a buck ten in to your name? NO.
I do not REFUSE to lose the weight and you are assuming things you do not know. Do you know my struggles with multiple medications? Do you know the story behind why I am in such debt? Can you tell me it wasn’t because I am fat that people have treated me like less than human? That the scars on my back and arms from repeated beatings in school was not because I was the class “Pig”? Tell me oh wise one, how I am refusing to lose the weight that has plagued me so. I would really like to know.
By the way, I was calling that person out on their comparison of smoking and obesity as well as their statement on shaming to motivate people. Know who did not complain when they shamed smokers? NON SMOKERS. Know who does not complain when they shame fat people? THIN PEOPLE. Know who does not complain when they shame poor people? RICH PEOPLE. Know who does not complain when they shame gay/trans/and other non hetro-sexual people? STRAIGHT PEOPLE. The group doing the shaming never complains because they are not being shamed. Then when someone complains the shamers go “Oh shut up, this is for your own good.” Shame has NEVER ever worked in a positive way. Want to know why? People do not feel like being treated like shit, it makes the changes even harder. You HATE yourself for not being “right” and that makes things harder and harder.
Your article though makes a good point. The change needs to come from a social level. Better than shaming people and blaming people for being fat why don’t we increase minimum wage so people can eat healthier and feed their families better. Why not cut down the diet pill industry and invest that revenue into farming practices that makes fresh foods available to the spectrum of all people? Make gym memberships less so the poor can afford to go. Invest money in the world of medicine so we can come up with better medications that do not make you ill and feeble. Make help available to all people with any disorder or addiction so they can get treatment. Have jobs start running daycares so more people can get into the workforce without having to pay such high prices for people to watch their kids. Improve school funding in both the classrooms and the lunch rooms. Make health insurance and housing available for those of the LGBT community. These are all things society can do to help everyone without privilege. There is no shaming involved in any of that now is there?
- May. 10, 2013 @ 3:02 ♥ 8
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The Cheapest Generation: Why Aren’t Millennials Buying Cars or Houses?
What if Millennials’ aversion to car-buying isn’t a temporary side effect of the recession, but part of a permanent generational shift in tastes and spending habits? It’s a question that applies not only to cars, but to several other traditional categories of big spending—most notably, housing. And its answer has large implications for the future shape of the economy—and for the speed of recovery.
Read more. [Image: Kagan McLeod]
It’s safe to say that a decent number of Tumblr users are a part of the Millennial generation. So, tell us: Do you own a car or house? If not, why?
IT’S BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO DISPOSABLE INCOME YOU THUNDERING IDIOTS. Fucking preference has nothing to do with it. 50% of college graduates have no job! They all have the most student loan debt ever! What are you asking this question for?!
Also: housing is a good bit more expensive now.
My parents got a 15-year mortgage on a new house in the mid-70s. The house was $32,000. Average home price in that area now? $190,000.
So, home prices went up. Food prices went up. Health care prices went WAY UP. Rent prices went up. Higher education went up so damn high that some of us forgo that all together. Energy prices went up. Car prices went up.
Prices of prices went up.
We also pay cell phone bills, internet bills, data plans, text plans, online subscriptions, cable/satellite tv, netflix, DVR subscriptions — bills that didn’t even exist 30-40 years ago. We also use computers and smartphones and microwaves and other consumer electronics that didn’t exist 20-50 years ago.
We need medications and doctors and contact lenses and tampons and maxi pads and other things that cost money just to be alive and keep us healthy.
Most of us can’t afford to:
Get married and have a “Traditional” big wedding
Buy a house
Buy a new car
PLAN to have children
Take two, consecutive weeks of vacation.
Jobs that paid 50k in the late 1990s now pay between 30-35. Interest rates that favor consumers have gone down.
So I say, no. We are not choosing not to buy homes. We’re not choosing to take the bus in cities where there’s no good public transit. WE ARE NOT CHOOSING TO LIVE WHAT SOCIETY DEEMS AS AN UNDESIRABLE LIFESTYLE.
Don’t even get me started on the fact that these two people in the picture are young white hipsters. Young black and brown folks have been forgoing homeownership and buying new cars for decades, this shit isn’t new, pal. You’re just acting like this shit is new because it’s hitting white folks.
anyway, my point is: We are fucking broke.
There’s also the fact that buying a house ties you to one spot. Jobs are so transient, you have to be able to move for a new job in case you lose your current one. the lady who does our taxes can’t understand why we don’t own a house. We’ve moved four times in the last six years. once across the states to california, then from LA to San Jose, then a short move to RC because my husband’s job moved to San Francisco. Can you imagine if we were trying to buy and sell houses in those places every time we moved? It’d be insane!
Yeah those hipsters in the picture don’t look frustrated and trapped enough.
I love how older, well-off people think that these are things we’re just choosing to do, man. Because being broke/unemployed, and having a house’s worth of debt by the age of 22 is totally the popular lifestyle thing these days. So totally nobody else’s fault but our own misguided whims.
Hahaha, yeah, people don’t own houses and cars cuz “they don’t feel like it”.
What better sign do you need of the eradication of the middle class.
I’ve moved five times in the past three years chasing jobs and running away from landlords who wanted to double my rent. Because I wanted to. Of course.
I remember a lot of people talking about the recession in ‘09 like it was new news. I graduated from college in ‘05, and was basically told to take any job I could because there was nothing. I went back to retail, and I worked it on and off until 2011. My wage didn’t change once in those six years. I moved ten times from 2001-2010. I only started leasing my first car this year.
Yeah, life’s not starting late for me at all.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m97qpaHmvN1qcokc4o1_1280.jpg)
The Cheapest Generation: Why Aren’t Millennials Buying Cars or Houses?
What if Millennials’ aversion to car-buying isn’t a temporary side effect of the recession, but part of a permanent generational shift in tastes and spending habits? It’s a question that applies not only to cars, but to several other traditional categories of big spending—most notably, housing. And its answer has large implications for the future shape of the economy—and for the speed of recovery.
Read more. [Image: Kagan McLeod]
It’s safe to say that a decent number of Tumblr users are a part of the Millennial generation. So, tell us: Do you own a car or house? If not, why?
IT’S BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO DISPOSABLE INCOME YOU THUNDERING IDIOTS. Fucking preference has nothing to do with it. 50% of college graduates have no job! They all have the most student loan debt ever! What are you asking this question for?!
Also: housing is a good bit more expensive now.
My parents got a 15-year mortgage on a new house in the mid-70s. The house was $32,000. Average home price in that area now? $190,000.
So, home prices went up. Food prices went up. Health care prices went WAY UP. Rent prices went up. Higher education went up so damn high that some of us forgo that all together. Energy prices went up. Car prices went up.
Prices of prices went up.
We also pay cell phone bills, internet bills, data plans, text plans, online subscriptions, cable/satellite tv, netflix, DVR subscriptions — bills that didn’t even exist 30-40 years ago. We also use computers and smartphones and microwaves and other consumer electronics that didn’t exist 20-50 years ago.
We need medications and doctors and contact lenses and tampons and maxi pads and other things that cost money just to be alive and keep us healthy.
Most of us can’t afford to:
- Get married and have a “Traditional” big wedding
- Buy a house
- Buy a new car
- PLAN to have children
- Take two, consecutive weeks of vacation.
Jobs that paid 50k in the late 1990s now pay between 30-35. Interest rates that favor consumers have gone down.
So I say, no. We are not choosing not to buy homes. We’re not choosing to take the bus in cities where there’s no good public transit. WE ARE NOT CHOOSING TO LIVE WHAT SOCIETY DEEMS AS AN UNDESIRABLE LIFESTYLE.
Don’t even get me started on the fact that these two people in the picture are young white hipsters. Young black and brown folks have been forgoing homeownership and buying new cars for decades, this shit isn’t new, pal. You’re just acting like this shit is new because it’s hitting white folks.
anyway, my point is: We are fucking broke.
There’s also the fact that buying a house ties you to one spot. Jobs are so transient, you have to be able to move for a new job in case you lose your current one. the lady who does our taxes can’t understand why we don’t own a house. We’ve moved four times in the last six years. once across the states to california, then from LA to San Jose, then a short move to RC because my husband’s job moved to San Francisco. Can you imagine if we were trying to buy and sell houses in those places every time we moved? It’d be insane!
Yeah those hipsters in the picture don’t look frustrated and trapped enough.
I love how older, well-off people think that these are things we’re just choosing to do, man. Because being broke/unemployed, and having a house’s worth of debt by the age of 22 is totally the popular lifestyle thing these days. So totally nobody else’s fault but our own misguided whims.
Hahaha, yeah, people don’t own houses and cars cuz “they don’t feel like it”.
What better sign do you need of the eradication of the middle class.
I’ve moved five times in the past three years chasing jobs and running away from landlords who wanted to double my rent. Because I wanted to. Of course.
I remember a lot of people talking about the recession in ‘09 like it was new news. I graduated from college in ‘05, and was basically told to take any job I could because there was nothing. I went back to retail, and I worked it on and off until 2011. My wage didn’t change once in those six years. I moved ten times from 2001-2010. I only started leasing my first car this year.
Yeah, life’s not starting late for me at all.
- May. 9, 2013 @ 23:36 ♥ 18804
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For real though guys, one of my favorite brOTP’s is Jayne from Firefly and the Heavy from TF2 hanging out together and going on picnics with Sasha and Vera.
