A Vichyssoise of Thoughts

bairnsidhe:

dankmemeuniversity:

On this bitch of an Earth as it is in Heaven.

(via heartmarierose)

aavec:

raychjackson:

cheeso:

cheeso:

i have been in america lately and tried its Various cuisine’s here is my review

wendys

• what i had: four for $4 burger and lemonade.
• what i thought: this is the same as mcdonalds but there is a smiling girl! the guy who invented wendys was called somethng else so who is wendy. Food apparaition?
• rating: 3/5. food was boring but mysterious girl warmed my heart
  

cook out

• what i had: hot dog and shake
  
• what i thought: holy shit. also milkshakes in america are like, solid ice cream. i was expecting nesquik
• rating: 5/5. the hot dog was nauseating but cost a dollar and the cashier liked toys

steak n shake

• what i had: you can only have burgers and shakes from this restaurant so thats what i got baby!! when in roam!! hasta la vista!!
  
• what i thought: siri didnt know how to get there so we got lost on the highway at 1am. WOOPS!!! thats the american life
• rating: 4/5. tasted like i was dying, but pleasantly

cracker barrel

• what i had: friday fish fry up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
• what i thought: there was lots of old people in this restaurant. the waitress avoided me because my nails were painted. this is a well documented phenomneom but biscuits are definitely something different in this country than my country
• rating: 2/5. scary torture cabin

costco

• what i had: piza slice
  
• what i thought: i know this isnt technicaly a restaurant but drinks were 50 cents so it gets an honorable mention. there was a crate of mayonnaise but i didnt try that.
• rating: ???/5. costcos most precious secrets are lost to us all

chipotle

• what i had: burrito. do they make other things?
  
• what i thought: the logo is a chilli pepper but there werent actually any chilli peppers you could have in the food? i enjoyed the dainty red basket
• rating: 3/5. guess burritos just always taste good, no matter what theyre made of. i think the chipotle burritos were made using some kind of food product but im not sure.
  

sonic drive thru

• what i had: loaded chilli cheese dog’ fourht of july baby!! happy star wars day
  
• what i thought: very inconceivable. there is a sit in a drive in and a drive thru and the sonic drive thru person comes over to your car in roller skates. its a made up cartoon store. it doesnt exist
  
• rating: 5/5. we spent 20 minutes googling if you tip at sonic and in the end we drove off so my guilt prevents me from assessing it poorly

taco bell

• what i had: it only sells tacos in like threes so i got three tacos.
  
• what i thought: its like a dorito with a leaf stapled to it. why is it called taco bell? also, who am i, inside?
  
• rating: 4/5. i flung six tacos in the microwave when we got back and i enjoyed watching them roll over each other playfully -  made me think of my childhood and the political conspiracy around my birth.

sheetz

• what i had: chicken nuggets at 2am
  
• what i thought: it was interesting that about half of the items on the interactive menu ended with a ‘z’ rather than an s. while that was fun - i would not go so far as to say i died at sheetz but i certainly did not leave it in one piece due to the colossal spinning death blade embedded into the milkshake machine
  
• rating: 5/5. ordering entirely through a little touchpad is a natural progression in a society of unwholesome, evil food production and distribution
  

my kind or content

Please read this whole thing because it only escalates the food related nonsense

(via hikari1996)

superhero-nerd:

stuckinthe-climb:

*plays assassins creed to study for my ap history exam*

This is actually really funny. In high school my humanities teacher told us a story about one of the Europe trips he had gone on with the school a few summers past. So him and the group of kids were in the middle of Rome and the tour guide had gotten lost. They could figure out how to get to some church they were going to see. All of a sudden one of the students like call attention to himself. He says he knows where to go and just start walking around the streets, taking back roads and side streets and within 20 mins they’re at the church they needed to get to. My teacher asks the kid if he has every been to Italy before. He says no, he just knew where to go because he played Assassins Creed Brotherhood.

(via hikari1996)

fujiwaranomokou:

trampvire:

czolgosh:

@ everyone saying it wasn’t a UFO

1) it’s unsure what it was
2) it flew
3) what the fuck do you think UFO stands for

NEW FAVORITE POST

#anything can be a ufo if youre bad enough at identifying things

(Source: gayquicksilver, via heartmarierose)

sharing-of-words:

dvasxmeka:

trinandtonic:

dragonkitty:

hoppers-eleven:

the-sui:

leeferal:

goldenmeme:

catsuggest:

lord-kitschener:

instructionsfordancing:

artaeum:

lord-kitschener:

Obviously I want you to take care of your pets and make sure they get food and fresh water on a regular basis, but cats being huge drama queens and screaming hysterically at you and acting like they’re tragic famine victims who haven’t eaten in weeks and are about to drop dead from starvation right mcfuckin now, because you’re 10 minutes late feeding them is always going to be one of the funniest things to me

the cat who lives at the vet clinic i volunteer at was mad yesterday because his dinner was half an hour late due to a busy day. he proceeded to go to all the (empty dw) garbage cans and tried to knock them over and started desperately scavenging for scraps of food because obviously no one loves him or cares about him and if he must eat garbage to survive then so be it

not food related, but one time my cat cried at me for 20 minutes before i worked out that the reason why she was upset was because there was a coat hanger on her favourite cushion

This is absolutely beautiful and changed my life, thank you so much. Please protect her from hangers at all costs

wow. am STORVING and humaines here making joke laugh at cate honger ?!

My cat is a social eater who is not food motivated at all, so I was baffled when I first got him because he didn’t seem to care about food but he would SCREAM at me for hours when I knew his bowl was full. Any time I went to double check that he did indeed have food, he’d book it to the bowl and snarf like his life depended on it, but as soon as I walked away he’d follow me screaming again.

Eventually I figured out that he just wanted a dining companion and was screaming about how we’re a family and families eat together, god damnit! I moved his food bowl under my computer desk and it fixed the problem. But if I’m ever out for more than 12 hours I’ll come home to find him in a passive-aggressive kitty huff because dinner has been ready for hours but he’s been trying to be considerate (unlike some humans) and waiting for me to eat it. 

My cats are indoor cats. Being indoor cats, they can’t go outside to hunt for food (mice, rats, birds, etc) to gift to my sister and I.

But they know that the kitchen has food. They know where the easily accessible cat food is. And obviously my sister and I are just Really Big Stupid Hairless cats.

So if my sister and I go without leaving our rooms for too long? My cats will sit outside our doors and scream for our attention, lead us to their food bowls, and then only stop the screaming and leading once they see us sit down at the table and eat something. Because they think we’re hungry.

Your cats are the sweetest beings on the Earth, it makes my heart warm knowing that they exist. They love you very much and they care so much, they want you healthy and happy and will make sure you don’t neglect yourself and oh god they are so perfect. Real pure love exists, I am happy to be alive today.

My neighbor is a hardcore drunk. Like, 9am and dude is drinking vodka, but he had a cat that’s pretty much his honest to god caregiver because I have seen this cat visibly screaming at this man to keep him from hurting himself and sometimes when he hasn’t been outside for a while, the cat will scream at my door until I go outside to knock on the door to check on him. Cats are literal angels.

I have a cat named a Kitty Pryde who has an extra thumb and these giant paws and while she’s not super bright she did learn that she likes being pet. So I must like being petted right? So if I’m watching TV alone she’ll come up and just with her giant paw gently stroke my arm or hand until I pet her back and she waits and pets me again and it goes on a while. Cats are angels.

My cat once stuffed my bath mat into the litter box

Mine wakes me up if I sleep in too long cuz she wants me to take my pills. Fiance said she was yelling at him all day yesterday. She stopped whwn I got home…and asked him if he tooks his meds. He hadn’t.

My girlie screams at me if she thinks I’m up past bedtime. Apparently this transfers to my new roommates too: Maeve led @katculator to her room, yelled until she was under the covers, then came back to the kitchen to do the same to me.

(via heartmarierose)

portraitoftheoddity:

Tumblr culture seems to have a lot of trouble with the concept that

“This made me uncomfortable” =/= “this harmed me.”

I’m gonna make the radical hot take here that discomfort can be good. Not all discomfort is harm. 

Discomfort often happens when we learn; when we grow; when we have our view of the world challenged; when we are forced to confront something about ourselves we don’t like. 

To think of it metaphorically; after a workout, you’re going to be sore. Uncomfortable, if you will. This doesn’t mean you’ve harmed yourself – you may just be growing stronger. There’s a difference between a slight post-workout ache and an actual harmful injury you’ll need to see a doctor for. And what genuinely injures you might be an ordinary part of someone else’s workout routine, so it’s not exactly fair to say “no one can lift over 40lbs” just because that weight made you wrench your shoulder.

Let’s take it back to tumblr:

If you’re LGBT+ and something with LGBT+ content makes you uncomfortable, that does not automatically make the thing homophobic/transphobic – maybe it is! but maybe it just portrayed a version of the LGBT+ experience that differed from yours, and that push to recognize that other people in your community have vastly different experiences from you caused you discomfort. Because it invited you to change your understanding of your own identity, and that can be hard!! But it’s also a good thing for making you a more understanding, compassionate individual.

Books can make you uncomfortable. Fucking no one is comfortable reading George Orwell’s 1984 – it’s a nightmare of a story. This doesn’t automatically make it an evil-bad-wrong book because it gave you some unhappy feelings! It has its flaws, sure, but it’s also a culturally valuable piece of literature that challenges readers to look critically at institutions. And maybe you aren’t at a good place right now to read 1984 – maybe you’re too depressed, too terrified by your nation’s political situation, and it’s not going to do you good. That’s okay! You don’t have to read it – just like you don’t have to lift more than 40lbs at the gym if it’s going to hurt you (knowing your boundaries is good!) – but someone else might want to read that book and benefit from reading it, and taking that opportunity away from them by insisting the book is ‘harmful’ just because you have identified your boundaries is a very selfish approach to the world. And trust me, the crowd that likes to ban and burn books? Is not a crowd you want to hang with. Whether you like a particular book or not.

Having our biases challenged, or our preconceptions debunked, is uncomfortable. Being called out on something racist/sexist/ableist/etc.? Uncomfortable as fuck. Hell, simply being made aware of systems of privilege from which you unwittingly benefit is super uncomfortable. But having it pointed out to you is vital for changing your behavior or adapting your attitudes and growing into a better person. That’s good! 

And not all biases are as obvious or culturally insidious. Maybe you just think no one under 21 should ever be depicted or mentioned as having sex because you’re under 21 and find the idea of sex incredibly distressing. And you’re allowed to find it distressing! No one should ever coerce you into having sex before you’re ready, whether that happens when you’re 17, 27, 97, or never! But if someone writes a YA novel where they draw on their own experiences of losing their virginity at 17, and it makes you uncomfortable – they are not sexualizing you. That YA author has no idea you, as an individual, exist. Instead of leaping to that explanation for why you find yourself uncomfortable, consider the chance that what you’re actually reacting to is someone portraying the experience of being a teenager in a way that you don’t identify completely with, and being challenged with the non-universality of your experience is what’s making you uncomfortable. 

And depictions of others’ experiences that are different from yours are not a personal attack on you. No matter how uncomfortable you feel. 

Having a narrow mind in a large world is uncomfortable. People often cope with this by trying to make the world smaller – by silencing those whose experiences are not identical to theirs, by banning books, by supporting censorship of anything that challenges them enough to make them vaguely unhappy – but consider whether it might be better to expand one’s mind instead. To accept the wild diversity of lives lived and to question one’s assumptions and to grow more confident in one’s identity, that you don’t feel threatened by any variation from your thoughts and experience of the world. 

There’s a lot of angry straight white dudes out there who are furious at the idea of stories being told by women, by POC, by LGBT+ folks, by people whose experiences and stories might force them to reassess their own views on the world. And they demonize these stories and their creators because the end result makes them uncomfortable. Consider whether the 4chan trolls of GamerGate, ComicsGate, Sad/Rapid Puppies, etc., are the example you want to follow.

Does this mean nothing is actually bad and you aren’t allowed to be genuinely uncomfortable at genuinely harmful things? Of course not! But stop, take a moment, and ask yourself why you are uncomfortable, and whether your discomfort is a result of an actual attack (sometimes it is!), or whether it’s just an unpleasant growing pain, or a disappointing inability to identify. Before you go on the offensive, take a moment to be thoughtful, and explore whether there’s elements of your reaction that indicate you’re being challenged in a way that you can use to grow and expand your capacity for compassion. 

We should all aim for more compassion in this world. And sometimes, that means a little more discomfort – in order to cause a little less harm. 

(via hikari1996)