June 2012
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Everybody Loves Ronan #2
A series, in which I highlight conversations with my housemate Ronan. Follow him on Twitter through @TheHairyPony.
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Ronan: Your computer’s shit. It’s so big. Why don’t you get a Macbook Air? You need an Air. Your shoulders will thank you.
Me: I would like to have a lighter computer. Aren’t they expensive?
Ronan: Yeah, but it’s totally worth...
Brazil has novel idea to cut jail sentences →
winifredjay:
Brazil will offer inmates in its crowded federal prison system a novel way to shorten their sentences: four days less for every book they read.
Inmates in four prisons holding some of Brazil’s most notorious criminals will be able to read up to 12 works of literature, philosophy, science or classics to trim a maximum 48 days off their sentence each year.
Prisoners will have up to...
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Cos your waist is small and your curves are...
Here’s a story. For a very long time - years - I’ve loved Sir Mixalot’s ‘I Like Big Butts’. I dance to it whenever it comes on, loudly and louchely, and I sing along to most of the words I can remember while drunk.
But I only realised the other night that when he sings, ‘So Cosmo says you’re fat, well I ain’t down with that’ that he’s...
kitty-libertine asked: That was a very rude anon message, and I liked your response to it. There's a post all for you on my Tumblr. ^_^
Anonymous asked: someone has daddy issues
Feelin’ it.
sixtiesgroove asked: Just wanted to say thanks for continuing your feminist analyses. So refreshing to see them in the mainstream media! People tend to look at the legal rights women have won and deem that indicative of our equal status. I think what needs to be illuminated is how misogyny is so naturalised in our culture through language, beauty norms, rape culture and street harrassment. Feminism has nowhere near...
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Everybody Loves Ronan #1
A new series in which I highlight conversations I have with my housemate, Ronan. You can follow him at @TheHairyPony on Twitter.
Me: There’s this new running app-
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Ronan: Is it the zombie one?
Me: Yes.
Ronan: That’s not new, that’s four months old.
Me: Well, I just found out about it so it’s new to me.
Ronan: Fine, but I’m just saying don’t...
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dearoldlove:
I will try my hardest to be who you need me to be, even if I want to be so much more.
This is the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever read.
