You Guys Remember When I Said We Were All Going To Watch The White Princess Even Though We Bitched About

things my impossibly young looking Roman history lecturer has said

‘listen to your seminar tutors over the booklet, but only for seminars - in lectures i am king. unless you have me as a seminar tutor as well, in which case i am your king and god.’

‘has anybody played Rome: Total War? no?’

‘Cataline tried to burn the city and everyone he hated but he failed because, in short, nobody liked him.’

‘the mediterranean diet didn’t include tomatoes in the ancient world. i know. oh my god. i know.’

‘so of course when Hannibal turns up, the senate goes ‘sod it, lets kick his arse’.’

‘one man’s optimates is another man’s silver-spoon bearing prick.’

‘we don’t have much information about the 70s BC, largely because Plutarch doesn’t care.’

‘i’m not saying Rome: Total War is entirely accurate, but its battle campaigns are surprisingly historically informed.’

[hand drawing a map in chalk because the projector is broken] ‘i’ll give it a go, this is why i hate technology, and oh. well. that’s not italy.’

‘every army needs bakers and prostitutes, this is just a fact of life.’

‘Sulla. He’s a bit of a badass, but also a bit of a prick.’ 

‘yes, that is a slide from Spartacus. The film, not the series, which is more accurate and less like soft porn.’

Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow. The lake froze solid and the Weasley twins were punished for bewitching several snowballs so that they followed Quirrell around, bouncing off the back of his turban.

“hearts can starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses”

@hwaetever should like this, I think

(originally taken from Facebook, baker/bread artisan was credited as Vanessa Munroe) EDIT: Found the baker’s Twitter!: https://twitter.com/vanessa_munroe

@歷蜀記Lishuji

🍲火鍋底料 hot pot base

Wholesome cutlet (x)

HIS SHIRT CAME OPEN SO FUCKING SMOOTH…EVERYTHING HE DOES IS SMOOTH. KILLME.

CR: @chattyang

Am I the inly one seeing Crockpot Cold Water?

The neural network has weird ideas about what humans like to eat

So I’ve been training this neural network to generate cookbook recipes by letting it look at tens of thousands of existing recipes.

The generated titles can get a bit odd.

There’s a creativity variable I can set when the network is generating new recipes, and when I set it low, it comes up with its best guess at the most quintessential recipe titles:

Cream Cheese Soup Cream Of Sour Cream Cheese Soup Chocolate Cake (Chocolate Cake) Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Cake Chocolate Chicken Chicken Cake Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Cake Chocolate Chips Chocolate Chips With Chocolate Chips

When I tell it to get creative, things get even weirder.

Beef Soup With Swamp Peef And Cheese Chocolate Chops & Chocolate Chips Crimm Grunk Garlic Cleas Beasy Mist Export Bean Spoons In Pie-Shell, Top If Spoon and Whip The Mustard Chocolate Pickle Sauce Whole Chicken Cookies Salmon Beef Style Chicken Bottom Star * Cover Meats Out Of Meat Completely Meat Circle Completely Meat Chocolate Pie Cabbage Pot Cookies Artichoke Gelatin Dogs Crockpot Cold Water

My family is deathly allergic to wasps. Like, I see the point you're trying to make, but if my 7-year-old cousin gets stung by a wasp, her airways will get blocked and she could suffocate to death. Same with my aunts, other cousins, my brother, and my mom. It's cool that your garden is a fairy tale and you feed birds out of your hand but that's not the reality for some people.

zoologist: This species plays a vital role in its ecosystem and it won’t hurt you unless you provoke it.

some of you lot: Yeah, but I don’t personally like them so they should all die, sorry.

But then somehow he was back at Winterfell again, in the godswood looking down upon his father. (Bran III, ADWD)

The thought of Jon filled Ned with a sense of shame, and a sorrow too deep for words. (Ned XV, AGOT)