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Why are you defending embarrassing behavior? Cringe culture isn’t perfect, but it’s why we don’t have to put up with SuperWhoLocks anymore. There’s way less annoying people because shaming helps people give up bad/cringy behaviors.

i would absolutely rather be mildly annoyed by happy people enjoying stuff im not into than miserable people who feel embarrassed about everything they do. ill take a million superwholock kids any day over 1 weirdo adult who enjoys making people feel bad

WAYFAIR IS SEX/CHILD TRAFFICKING!!

WE CANNOT BE SILENT ABOUT THIS!

IMAGINE HOW MANY OTHER COMPANIES ARE DOING THIS!!

ALSO, WHY WOULD WAYFAIR TAKE DOWN THE CABINETS FROM THEIR WEBSITE INSTEAD OF SHOWING EVIDENCE THAT IT IS NOT TRUE?!

THAT'S SUSPICIOUS AS HELL

The Iliad Drinking Game

‘Athene of the Flashing Eyes’. Take a sip.

‘aegis-bearing Zeus’. Take a sip.

‘laughter-loving Aphrodite.’ Take a sip.

‘White-armed Here.’ Take a sip. Or ‘Here of the white arms’.

‘Hector of the flashing helmet’. Take a sip.

‘Briseis of the lovely cheeks.’ Take a sip.

‘black ships’ or ‘good black ships’. Take a sip.

‘Wise Odysseus.’ Take a sip.

In fact take a sip for every ‘X of the YZ’ sentence construction. 

‘Night descended on his eyes’ or night is used to represent death. Take a sip.

A character gets killed off BEFORE Homer tells you his lineage. Take a sip. 

The tide of the war turns- ie the Trojans start winning or the Achaens stop losing- take a shot. 

Someone mocks the enemy. Take a shot.

A character does something that would be beyond the strength of a normal man but they can do it because they are Heroes/Demigods. Take a shot. 

Homer describes armour in such loving detail that you want to own said armour for yourself, even if you don’t usually drool over cool armour. Take a shot. Oooh Agamemnon’s blue enamel armour oooh

You get to know and like a character in just three lines… AFTER Homer’s killed him off. Take a shot.

You think “wow, Helen’s characterisation is much more sympathetic and badass than I was led to believe by pop culture”. Take a shot.

A character has a wound that should kill them, but the gods/gods’ armour saves him. Take a shot. 

A character is told to say something or give a message and says the exact same words even though the two segments are only a handful of lines apart. Take a shot.

Someone gives a monologue that they really shouldn’t have the time or the breath left to say. Drink for the duration of the monologue.

Homer pauses the plot to give a long, detailed simile. Drink for the duration of the tangent.

May you not run into assholes that say "is it that time of month?" to tease you

May your next period be light and end quickly

An easier way to tell the difference is through the literal meanings of "kita" and "sa'yo"

"Kita" means 'you' and "sa'yo" means something like 'to you'

This means that "Isinusampa kita" means "I curse you" and "I sinusampa sa'yo" means "I gravely promise to you"

But don't completely take my word, I didn't ask my parents (they're the native speakers)

Edit: DANG WROTE IT WRONG

Filipino Lesson #4 [Tagalog]

SUMPA can have two meanings depending on moral purpose.

It can mean CURSE or GRAVE PROMISE.

"Isinusumpa ko" can mean "I curse" or "I gravely promise". It depends on the context, but putting different nouns can distinguish them.

Isinusumpa kita - means I curse you.

Isinusumpa ko sa'yo - means I gravely promise you.

Why would I say 'gravely promise' instead of just 'promise'?

The things is, using SUMPA for promise means you are definitely taking this promise seriously that you are willing to die for it.

There's a lighter and more casual way to say promise: Pangako.

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Do you know that there is a city on Earth that actually lives in a dystopian future? and it's terrifying.

Who are the Uighurs?

The Uighurs are mostly Muslims, and number about 11 million in western China’s Xinjiang region. They see themselves as culturally and ethnically close to Central Asian nations, and their language is similar to Turkish.

But in recent decades, there’s been a mass migration of Han Chinese (China’s ethnic majority) to Xinjiang, and the Uighurs feel their culture and livelihoods are under threat.

Nowhere in the world, not even in North Korea, is the population monitored as strictly as it is in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.  Oppression has been in place for years, but has worsened massively in recent months.

- Uighurs can no longer openly practice Islam

- Men are not allowed to wear beards. Exception only for old people

- They can no longer learn their native language at school

- They cannot move freely around the country and cannot leave it

- All mosques have been turned into shops and office centers

Beijing has also turned Xinjiang into a security state that is extreme even by China’s standards, being a police state itself. The provincial government has recruited over 90,000 police officers in the last two years alone - twice as many as it recruited in the previous seven years. 

At the same time, Beijing is equipping the far-western region with state-of-the-art surveillance technology, with cameras illuminating every street all over the region, from the capital Urumqi to the most remote mountain village. Iris scanners and WiFi sniffers are in use in stations, airports and at the ubiquitous checkpoints - tools and programs that allow data traffic from wireless networks to be monitored.

Checkpoints are installed in every district of the city. In simple terms, you can not get from one area of the city to another without passing the checkpoint and the police.

The data is then collated by an “integrated joint operations platform” that also stores further data on the populace – from consumer habits to banking activity, health status and indeed the DNA profile of every single inhabitant of Xinjiang.

Anyone with a potentially suspicious data trail can be detained. The government has built up a grid of hundreds of re-education camps. Tens of thousands of people have disappeared into them in recent months.

“Qu xuexi,” meaning to go or be sent to study, is one of the most common expressions in Xinjiang these days. It is a euphemism for having been taken away and not having been seen or heard from since. The “schools” are re-education centers in which the detainees are being forced to take courses in Chinese and patriotism, without any indictment, due process or a fair hearing.

Xinjiang, one of the most remote and backward regions in booming China, has become a real-life dystopia. It provides a glimpse of what an authoritarian regime armed with 21st century technology is capable of.

Uighurs are very intimidated and refuse to talk to the press, even if they miraculously escaped the country. 

What’s happening in China is terrible. Maybe some people finally realize that the concentration camps are the reality of our time. There are concentration camps in America too. Don’t forget that. 

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Protesting is a FELONY in Tennessee now…Facism at it’s finest (x)

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Seeing friends after an exam like...

"Hey guys it's me! The biggest disappointment you know!"

"Your sentences border on senseless, and you are paranoid in every paragraph"

"I am damaged... Far too damaged..."

"I'll be in my bedroom, wake me when I'm 21!"

"One more day until the slaughter..."

Can't think of anymore right now... 😒