Emerson

Personal blog attending to personal interests, rants, obsessions, etc. of a slightly strange female college student

loftkits: They’re harder because people make a conscious fucking choice to put in their headphones and listen to their iPod when they walk around the mall.  They’re harder because people text each other from right across the room instead of keeping the negative things inside or saving important things for later.  They’re harder because people don’t know how the fuck to be where they are, when they are, in nearly any of their five senses.  They’re harder because we get to feel a catharsis for every blog post we make bitching about something instead of bottling it up and either having a nervous breakdown, or working our fucking asses off to make the world a place we’d rather live in. They’re harder because the worst thing about this generation isn’t its music or its attention span or its obsession with sitting around and doing nothing but watching ten shitty tv shows at a time. Its how bad we are at being human.

loftkits:

They’re harder because people make a conscious fucking choice to put in their headphones and listen to their iPod when they walk around the mall.  They’re harder because people text each other from right across the room instead of keeping the negative things inside or saving important things for later.  They’re harder because people don’t know how the fuck to be where they are, when they are, in nearly any of their five senses.  They’re harder because we get to feel a catharsis for every blog post we make bitching about something instead of bottling it up and either having a nervous breakdown, or working our fucking asses off to make the world a place we’d rather live in.

They’re harder because the worst thing about this generation isn’t its music or its attention span or its obsession with sitting around and doing nothing but watching ten shitty tv shows at a time.

Its how bad we are at being human.

Pyrrhic Comedy: michaonthemoon: yaoibutts: I love how potato in French is pomme de... »

handsomesharks:

michaonthemoon:

yaoibutts:

I love how potato in French is pomme de terre, which pretty much means “earth apple.”

like what stupid frenchman saw this:

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and said “zis petite légume looks like a, how you say, APPLE! hmmm… but it grows in ze earth… HON HON HON! MAIS OUI! C’EST UNE POMME DE TERRE!”

j’adore comment ananas se dit pineapple en anglais, ce qui veut littéralement dire “pomme de pin”, genre quel type anglais a vu ça:
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et s’est dit : “ow cette étrange big fruit ressemble à une, how do you say, POMME! hmmm… mais plutôt une pomme qui pousse dans les pins… HU HU HU! OH YES, IT’S A PINEAPPLE!”

(z’avez vu, on peut le faire aussi… hon hon hon!)

(via joouheika)

“The planet does not need more ‘successful people’. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds. It needs people to live well in their places. It needs people with moral courage willing to join the struggle to make the world habitable and humane and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture is the set.”

– Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama (via Swanfeather Songs)

“Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.”

– Haruki Murakami (via hellanne)

im-a-kittycat:

“So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last month, and I had been searching everywhere for new-creative inspiration for her 5yr pictures. I noticed quite a pattern of so many young girls dressing up as beautiful Disney Princesses, no matter where I looked 95% of the “ideas” were the “How to’s” of  how to dress your little girl like a Disney Princess…We chose 5 women (five amazing and strong women), as it was her 5th birthday but there are thousands of unbelievable women (and girls) who have beat the odds and fought (and still fight) for their equal rights all over the world”

 - Jaime Moore, Not Just a Girl