A Bird Flies Out

mental_floss on tumblr: Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:38:10 -0400

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”

aliensxexist:

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:35:24 -0400

aliensxexist:

petrovawarrior: “I don’t have perfect teeth, I’m not stick...

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:45:02 -0400

petrovawarrior:

“I don’t have perfect teeth, I’m not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn’t want to change anything.”

Photo

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:33:45 -0400

It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to...

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:00:39 -0400

It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.

clearly-misunderst0od: THE HUMANS DO IT ALL THE TIME, IT MEANS...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:17:52 -0400

clearly-misunderst0od:

THE HUMANS DO IT ALL THE TIME, IT MEANS YOU’RE A GOOD BOY

When my married friend tells me that men think I'm too aggressive

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:15:09 -0400

myfriendsaremarried:

NEVER!

Photo

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:14:45 -0400

Am I seriously having butterflies about this boy? What the hell is happening to me?

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:23:56 -0400

Am I seriously having butterflies about this boy? What the hell is happening to me?

thedailywhat: Restored Faith in Humanity of the Day: Reddit...

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:17:56 -0400

thedailywhat:

Restored Faith in Humanity of the Day: Reddit Restores WWII Veteran’s Damaged Navy Photo

Back in April, at the request of his 87-year-old grandfather, Redditor stevieboy1984 turned to the /r/PicRequests subreddit to see if anyone could clean up a scanned JPEG image file of his grandfather’s World War II-era photo taken during his service in the Navy as a submarine sonar/radar operator. After a number of people offered their photoshop wizardries to help its restoration, stevieboy1984 showed his grandfather six variations before handing him a framed version of top commenter unhi’s submission. Here’s a video of the big reveal. Grab a box a tissues, manly tears are coming.

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Wed, 15 May 2013 20:43:42 -0400

sirmitchell: colchrishadfield: With deference to the genius of...

Mon, 13 May 2013 07:49:13 -0400

sirmitchell:

colchrishadfield:

With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here’s Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World.

Huge thanks in the making of the video to the talented trio of Emm Gryner, Joe Corcoran and Andrew Tidby, plus Evan Hadfield and all at the CSA.

When my friend is telling me about her weekend with her husband and I just want to tell her my drunk stories

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:34:59 -0400

myfriendsaremarried:

and I’m like…

What else are your 20s for?? Can’t get away with this shit forever…

hijinksensued: lightspeedsound: manybodies: lightspeedsound: ...

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:26:08 -0400

hijinksensued:

lightspeedsound:

manybodies:

lightspeedsound:

lunapics:

theshells:

I can’t stop laughing at Harry running the fuck away, the boy who lived ladies and gentlemen.

….You realize, of course, that Hermione Granger lit a teacher on fire when she was eleven, and kept a person alive in a jar for a year when she was fourteen, and studies dark and forbidden magics for kicks, and is one of the brightest and strongest witches of her era. If she came at me, even wandless, I would aparate to Neptune to get away from her.

Hermione Granger also:

punched Draco Malfoy in the nose for being an idiot

purposefully performed a confundus charm on whatshsface WHILE HE WAS FLYING just so Ron would win (omfg that is so fucking dangerous)

literally pulled a fucking Bourne Identity on her parents and managed to set them up in fucking Australia (jesus christ she literally made it so that she NEVER EXISTED wtf that’s so fucking 007)

Convinced the Ministry of Magic to give her an incredibly dangerous and volatile device that allowed her to ALTER TIMELINES COMPLETELY (just because she was so smart, literally, that is the reason, her “potential”)

Has enough basic survival skills and badass magic to literally disappear to the middle of nowhere and flourish AND figure out Voldemort’s plot with Harry

Hermione also figures out not only what Voldemort’s plan is, but generally how to beat it, WAY BEFORE VOLDEMORT EVER DOES. Why? because she is just that much smarter and better at magic than everybody else

in conclusion: Voldemort wishes he could be as awesome as Hermione, that’s why he wants to kill her so bad.

Can we rehave this series with hermione as the protagonist.

Hermione Granger and “That Time I Used the Power of Research and Deductive Reasoning to Make Sure Harry Didn’t Die”

Hermione Granger and “That time I figured shit out and literally ended up petrified for the cause and it took my friends weeks to figure out that I had the research on me”

Hermione Granger and “That Time I Was a Time Lord”

Hermione Granger and “That Time I Realized I was Hot and Smart and Saved Harry’s Ass with Research. Again. All the Time. Really, He Would Have Died Without Me.”

Hermione Granger and “That time Harry was too emo to actually do shit so I did shit in his name because I am the power behind the throne clearly also PS fought evil deatheaters and won”

Hermione Granger and “That Time I told Harry about the Dangers of Copying off Somebody’s else’s work that wasn’t mine and OH LOOK I WAS RIGHT”

Hermione Granger and “That Time I let Harry Decide Where to Go and What To do and we ended up wandering the forests of dean for like 5 months before saving his ass at Hogwarts”

To be fair, Hermione trapped Rita Skeeter in a jar for like maybe a few weeks until Hermione let Rita out in London. She didn’t keep her there for a whole year

Lol

Fri, 10 May 2013 20:52:16 -0400

Lol

motherjones: fuckyeahdementia: Ryan Gosling won’t eat his...

Fri, 10 May 2013 20:50:40 -0400

motherjones:

fuckyeahdementia:

Ryan Gosling won’t eat his cereal

[tastefullyoffensive:ryanwmchenry]

Come on, man, just eat your cereal already.

serselmys: you can tell a lot about a person by who they think should rule westeros

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:14:15 -0400

serselmys:

you can tell a lot about a person by who they think should rule westeros

"When the days darken and the crops fail, you may wish you’d prioritized a little junk in the trunk..."

Sun, 05 May 2013 15:24:57 -0400

“When the days darken and the crops fail, you may wish you’d prioritized a little junk in the trunk over some pretty cheekbones, because you’ll be cutting yourself on them soon enough. Winter Is Coming.”

- Close-Reading a Controversial List, Take 2 | The Hairpin

Hottest men in Game of Thrones. Best list? Best reaction to list? Yes.
(via hijinksensued)

I’m Tony Stark. I build neat stuff, I got a great girl, and,...

Sun, 05 May 2013 15:13:08 -0400

I’m Tony Stark. I build neat stuff, I got a great girl, and, occasionally, save the world. So why can’t I sleep?

Iron Man 3 (2013) (x)

Can’t wait to see it again!

thedailywhat: Nice Structure of the Day: People’s Daily...

Fri, 03 May 2013 20:06:07 -0400

thedailywhat:

Nice Structure of the Day: People’s Daily Headquarters in Beijing, China

This is the exterior view of the new headquarters building that is currently under construction for China’s state-run propaganda newspaper People’s Daily. /Giggles/