thebubblegumbutch:

motherjones:

mental_floss on tumblr: Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent

mentalflossr:

Sometimes we must turn to other languages to find le mot juste. Here are a whole bunch of foreign words with no direct English equivalent.

1. Kummerspeck (German)
Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon.

2. Shemomedjamo (Georgian)
You know when you’re…

“Grief Bacon”

J’aime.

Philip Larkin, 1971 

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authenticfauxhemian:

aliceguyjr:

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gq:

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”

- Groucho Marx

wildlinging:

Hamlet Act 1 [inspired by mmorrow]

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craftyjai:

ride-the-vibes:

This is JASON FYLES and he goes to my university (Newcastle University, North East of England) He is 19 years old, 5’8, ginger hair and slim. He was last seen in the Sandyford area at 2:45am on Thursday morning and has not been seen since. He was wearing a blue shirt, grey cardigan, beige chinos and brown ankle boots. Everyone in uni is so worried about him along with his family and friends. We are coming together as a university to appeal for his safe return. It is thought that he lost his friends on the night out and tried to make his way back by himself. Please, I am begging for you to REBLOG THIS, even if you don’t live in Newcastle, or England. Every REBLOG means that someone else will see his face, they will know who we are looking for, and your followers could be the one to know his whereabouts. Stay safe Jason, we’re looking for you. 
THIS WILL NOT RUIN YOUR BLOG! 

Local news report

PLEASE. Nobody reblogged my own post on this which I posted an hour or so ago so I’m wondering if nobody will now. This guy is my friend. If I have ever sent you a nice ask or reblogged something of yours and it made you happy for a second (or even if I haven’t; this is about helping him, not doing me a favour) for God’s sake just help now, help to find my friend Jason. You want me to make him human to you?

• Once we all grew beans in pots as part of a Biology experiment- the experiment failed miserably and made the whole lab stink, but his was the only bean that grew and he was actually pretty proud about it
• He learned to knit as part of a school project where he had to learn a creative skill, and when a couple of people teased him about it he said “gender is a social construct” and carried on knitting like a badass
• He loves the scene in The Great Gatsby where Gatsby throws all his silk shirts around and he and I used to giggle over it together
• Once I asked him if he had a string of tinsel I could use in a photoshoot and he brought me a big cardboard box full of tinsel and fairy lights because he’s a helpful and lovely guy

He’s HUMAN and he needs our HELP and just PLEASE PLEASE FUCKING REBLOG THIS??? He’s been missing for four days now- when he went missing he would have been wearing his contact lenses and he won’t have had his (very thick) glasses with him so by now he’ll have had to take his contacts out and throw them away and he won’t be able to see well and oh God just please signal boost this

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kardigone:

Oh god, not French.

ANYTHING BUT THE FRENCH.

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fuckyeahbehindthescenes:

Funds earned by Pink Floyd’s album “The Dark Side of the Moon” went towards funding The Holy Grail. The band were such fans of the show they would halt recording sessions just to watch Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)

I occasionally forget how much I love Frank Turner, then I remember that this song exists.

“And we talk about the weather and how she drowns her pain in drink, and I nod and never ever dare to tell her what I think”

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fat-birds:

mumblingsage:

snarkeet:

billiondollarbooty:

jeffreymann:

White Blue Peacock

This bird is a crossbreed between blue and white peacocks. The result is one spectacular creature. 

wow, I haven’t seen such a dramatic display of genetic mosaicism before.

It’s a Shiny Pokemon.

There are two kinds of people.

this needed to be on this blog because of reasons

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I wish I could go back to being an ice queen because these “emotion” things are tiring me out and have made my day extremely stressful.

10 days left. The unfairness of this situation is wearing me down, today more than ever.

I never want to hear the words “in an ideal world” again, for a start.

pinkerrrton:

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Dans de Lit, 1893

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