I think you offended it, Richie
Which is creepier, this animatronic Elvis I ripped the face off of while disassembling it, or this selfie with me wearing it’s face?
Has anyone else noticed how, when you have a chronic condition of some kind, that there’s always the basic assumption from people around you that you’re not already doing everything you can?
It’s all about the illusion of control. People who are healthy like to believe they can always keep being healthy if they do the right things. They don’t want to think about how good people get struck with terrible circumstances for no reason. So they keep assuming that if they got sick, they could do something to make it better. And if you’re still sick, that must mean you’ve done something wrong or not done enough.
Nail. Head. The same attitude can be seen in how a lot of people talk about poverty.
And sexual assault. All they have to do is not go there not drink that not wear that not date them and they’ll be fine, right?
The Just World theory - that as long as I do everything right, I’m safe, and everybody who isn’t safe is at fault for not doing everything right - is perhaps the most harmful and widespread mindset today
if you ever see a conservative and wonder just how in the world they have so little compassion? they are genuinely convinced that most - not all, but most - bad things that happen are the fault of the person affected, because then they don’t have to feel bad
somebody explaining this to me as a young adult was, quite literally, the start of me seeing the world in a new way and moving considerably to the left politically. by letting go of the just world mindset my conception of reality shifted considerably
New promo photo for Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 5!
The fact that everyone is the same height means that either Terry is standing in a hole or Amy and Charles are standing on a crate to be taller
why not both?
Gonna leave this here….27 years…ok, then.
It took me 11 years to get mine. It’s not easy at all.
15 years give it take
Took my father around 25 years so I always find it odd that Americans have no clue how lengthy and tiring the process actually is..
Four years and counting.
I knew it took years, but had no idea it took decades


