February 2012
144 posts
Trueamericanenglish started following you:
mybelovedcheshire:
totallymydivision:
trueamericanenglish:
totallymydivision:
trueamericanenglish:
totallymydivision:
Hello.
Hey-hey! How’re you?
Good, good.
A bit hungry though.
How about you?
Being very unproductive.
And reverting to my pre-school Tumbling days.
Good for the soul. Not for the grades.
I know that feeling bro.
Im like failing 2...
So for various convoluted reasons...
…I’m currently in charge of a friend’s kid. Just us two in the house.
I’m a responsible adult, see.
Which is why it’s midnight, she’s… doing whatever it is 11-year-olds do on laptops, I’m on tumblr and we’re waiting for a burger and kebab to be delivered.
why cant I live in the UK where there is good television and the birthplace of so many attractive people
I’m fairly sure I read somewhere that there are more brits living abroad than there are foreigners living in the UK. So, y’know, it can’t be all that.
Bored with nearly everything
And pissed off with everything else.
No point taking it out on you lot, so not going to be around for a while.
I am Not Dead
Just in a job I like.
So apparently today...
…is one of those days where I just can’t cope with how stupid people are being. So I’m going to sit on the floor and puff away at my coffee-flavour e-cig while doing a bit of knitting. Yes.
I note that electronic cigs are also great for...
Kids at my school: I like to smoke weed and get high and I also like to smoke cigarettes.
Me: Sometimes when it's cold, I like to breathe really heavy and pretend i'm a dragon.
We're not using the Z-word!: While everyone's... →
oxfordtweed:
Seriously. Sherlock asks her for help, and then what? Where does she go? Sure, that’s part of the whole mystery, her having buggered off to do something, but she doesn’t just do that. She fucking vanishes.
That’s not the bit that really gets me, though. Jim tells Sherlock that he has three…
…good point.
Do you know what I love about Europe?
s0mmerspr0ssen:
pmzzo:
When you’re driving over a border you have to look rather closely to find out where exactly the border is because when you’re not on a main road, there often won’t be sign. When you think about that a couple of decades ago the European states at best eyed each other warily and at worst were at war with each other, this is pretty amazing.
Ahaha, I know. I’m always like...
“[…]And then she sent me an email. ‘This - I’m sure you will say no - but, I’m...”
– Neil Gaiman on how he met Amanda Palmer (X)
Well that’s… different.
Some days...
…you just can’t move for the stupid.
Also, I am alarmed to note, harsh braking to avoid side-swiping the fucktard in a white van who decided to cut me up on the M60 coincided exactly with my car becoming a cyclops. I really don’t want to go and stick my arm into the wheel arch to replace the bulb right now, it’s raining.
Just a thought...
…is there a site that’s, like, a guide to englishness for foreign writers?
The little details like how our phone numbers are put together, what our street signs and signals look like, what we call different styles of car and the parts of them, where we go to tax our cars, words and phrases we just don’t use and ones we often do, all those little things that often give away the...
More on UK/US fic confusion:
Writer says “Vest”
US reader sees
UK reader sees:
Writer says “Suspenders”
US reader sees:
UK reader sees:
or
Why british/american words and spellings matter in...
huggs5:
mostly10:
heathyr:
What a british person sees in their head:
What I see in my head:
OMG I LAUGHED SO MUCH HARDER THAN I SHOULD HAVE.
I submit for your consideration:
vest
suspenders
braces
I'm bored.
The ask box is open. Anyone going to put sommat in it?
The 21st GIF is who you get drunk with on your...
shoesofmoriarty:
timedetective:
nominominus:
krissycupcake:
imgettingalong:
worldofdistractions:
bakedstitches:
thegifinyourfolder:
<coincidentally also my favorite gif ever
WE WILL GET DRUNK ON BAILEY’S IRISH CREAM!!!!! (in an airport apparently)
But Greg, don’t you want to get drunk with me?
…I am quite ok with this
…as I remember it, I...
Anyway...
There appears to be no such car as the CLK. And something will cause it to not happen. but whatever. Jesus, is this fog EVER going to lift?
So I might just have found a job.
Them: When your contract ends, how would you fancy a job being admin/PA/chauffeur?
Me: Erm, I'm a techie? Trying to progress a bit in IT? You know as well as I do that taking a 'girl job' would make all future employers go "must have been crap at IT to take that job!" and scupper that.
Them: It's perm and paying 2x what your current contract does. You could get debt-free in a year and start working on Heinz.
Me: Yeah, but, the future...
Them: Well progression within the organisation is sort of expected and is largely based on pay grades. So you can go up a pay grade in your current part of the business, or cross-train and go to a different part of the business at the same grade. Could be an in to a whole new career.
Me: Well... yeah, but I've been told that before...
Them: The boss's company car lease agreement gets transferred to you, and it's for personal use too. She suggests you get a Mercedes CLK. But it's a new car every 3 years.
Me: ... OK I'm out of arguments.
Remember when you had the image of a good husband...
thatgeeklover:
Then suddenly Rupert Graves.
To be honest… no.
I went to a girls-only high school, and my focus there was the work. But it’s not been something I was ever interested in.
I mean, when I was a little kid, most of my friends were boys. And people would say “Oh, are you two going to get married when you grow up?”
Sometimes the boys would enthusiastically...
The Queen of The Geeks: Reblog if you are a girl... →
snowdarkred:
verachuckanddave:
starkwords:
Snow has a professor who is, for lack of a better word, stupid. Also tacky and heteronormative and unwilling to believe that women can be attracted to guys kissing.
This is problematic.
Prove it wrong.
Just out of curiosity,…
…examples from the internet you say. So… basically this guy needs to look at Livejournal and tumblr....
"Most women don't find two men kissing attractive"
tygermama:
snowdarkred:
onetine:
snowdarkred:
OH MY GODS GET ME OUT OF THIS CLASS, MY PROFESSOR IS STUPID
How did you not start laughing hysterically? I would have had to leave from giggling too much
last time i saw him i got into a roaring argument about singular they. i’m holding my tongue on this one.
I can’t tell if this is mansplaining or just wishful thinking on the...