Silver Tongue

Jul 20

chimaeraundying:
“  “The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty...

chimaeraundying:

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”

(Men At Arms: The Play, Terry Pratchett, 1993)

(Source: millennial-review, via tamascotchi-deactivated20190101)

just-shower-thoughts:

“Mad scientists” in fiction are never testing and verifying hypothesises through rigorous methodology and peer review. They built a tool to destroy the world so they are more like “mad engineers.”

(via newbarrk)

one-for-all-plus-ultra:

aversion-to-apples:

cobaltdays:

what y’all thinking about fellas

So garlic is a natural anticoagulant, but then why would vampires be allergic to it?

Hear me out:

What if vampires made up all the stuff about them being allergic to garlic so that their victims would eat it, thinking it would ward off vamps, but instead it makes their blood easier to drink!

Because it doesn’t clot!

This has really been getting to me recently. Have I uncovered their master conspiracy or am I going insane?

you know too much

(via newbarrk)

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shiphitsthefan:
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shiphitsthefan:

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(Source: wtnvtweets, via mbulteau)

jwblogofrandomness:

refuzz:

furbearingbrick:

diddly-darn-ghost:

2017: hate him for writing disappointing Danny Phantom series finale

2018: hate him for scamming people to pay $250k+ for an entertainment service Kickstarter that was literally just revealed to be intended to convert kids to Christianity the day after it was funded

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Y U P

This goes deeper than that, you have no idea.

He also insulted a fan during a live stream basically claiming that “if you can’t do whatever I do you aren’t allowed to critique me and I’m not gonna listen to you.”

Also he has said he sees “people that critique as weak” (seriously, this video is heartbreaking, he sounds less like a beloved industry professional and more like a school bully).

He believes that all introverts are selfish people who hate everyone.

On top of that he claims that suicide and depression are things that only happened recently due to modern and social media (”When I grew up, kids had a hard time, they got through it”).

Related to the above, in one episode of his podcast where he interviews Timmy Turner’s voice actress on FOP Tara Strong he mentions voice actress Mary Kay Bergman, the original voice of Timmy Turner in the Oh Yeah! Cartoons pilot shorts who sadly committed suicide before FOP was picked up for a full series. Butch then says to Tara Strong that she was the reason why Mary Kay Bergman committed suicide as a joke! (Keep in mind, Mary and Tara were close friends and the main reason Tara took over the role of Timmy was to pay tribute to her). 

(via jwblogofrandomness)

littlestpersimmon:
“  Haliya was a warrior goddess who would wear a mask of gold to hide her beauty.
In Philippine Mythology, Haliya was the name of a lunar goddess. She was said to be so beautiful that the sea goddess Bakunawa fell in love with her...

littlestpersimmon:

Haliya was a warrior goddess who would wear a mask of gold to hide her beauty. 

 In Philippine Mythology, Haliya was the name of a lunar goddess. She was said to be so beautiful that the sea goddess Bakunawa fell in love with her and sought her affections.

(via thescyfychannel)

maxburgiv:

vonisv:

puublack:

puublack:

Discord servers are great but all it takes is one ‘That Guy’ to ruin it.

By ‘that guy’, I’m talking about the kind of people who aren’t necessarily breaking any rules but are still unpleasant to be around because they make every conversation about them or spam the chat with some “hilarious” meme only they find funny while people are trying to have a conversation. And you can tell the admin wants to ban their ass but doesn’t want to go through the inevitable tantrum and/or tumblr drama for it.

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took us about 4 unnecessary arguments and 2 people leaving to ban our That Guy

we made two new rant channels for that guy and he would still rant in main about the dumbest shit because nobody cared enough to go to the other rant rooms. That guy was finally banned after arguing with over half the server at the same time

(Source: porko-rosso, via jadewares)

captain-cargoshorts:

heedra:

glumshoe:

goldengun:

furbies have forward-facing eyes. they are predators.

#or they could be scavengers who are not predated lets not get too black and white#its possible furbies just have no natural predators and also scanvenge corpses.

a single glance at the beak shape of the average furby dissuades notions of them being primary scavengers. they do not have the tools necessary for stripping meat and cracking bone. however, forward facing eyes could still indicate a primarily-herbivorous omnivore, as we see in many primates. the jury, as often in nature, remains out.

nothing about furbies is certain

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