Stop that racket and sit down! Find yourself some work! Oh Lord. I shall have a seizure, I’m sure I shall.
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That is super kind of you, anon. Thanks! I hope you have a nice day too.
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I turn 58 next month. Not only do I still do this, I suspect I’ve reached the point where I’m starting to do it more.
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Swamp sparrow at #Savannahnwr. #birding #wildlifephotography #jaspercountysc #nofilter
https://www.instagram.com/p/B8J9cmulIZX/?igshid=1kjw7o64w282k
I agree with @dendroica‘s tags: I think that’s probably a Song Sparrow rather than a Swamp Sparrow.
An adorable birb either way, though!
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Rosamund Pike
©Rosaline Shahnavaz // Stylist magazine
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This is seriously one of the best moments in the entire Granada series. Violet Smith is traumatized and forced into a marriage ceremony with a complete villain in a thinly veiled rape scenario, all because the master of the house where she was working as a governess fails to tell her of the scheme to defraud her of her inheritance—his argument for not apprising her of the serious possibility she might be assaulted (indeed, she was already attacked once) is that she would have returned to her fiance and given up her position, robbing him of the chance to interact with her.
The dialogue here is almost verbatim from the canon with small shifts to modernize the syntax; Holmes demands to know why Carruthers didn’t warn her about Jack Woodley, and then Watson brings the full smackdown with “That might be love for you, you notorious asshat, but for me, that qualifies as full metal dickishness.”
Look at the last two gifs—Burke is speaking, and delivering the lines brilliantly, but meanwhile, Brett is murdering Carruthers with his eyeballs. It’s so brilliantly satisfying because even though the fair sex is Watson’s department, if you want to piss off Sherlock Holmes, try mistreating a lady. Try it. Go ahead, claim to fall in love with a beautiful musician and then stalk her on a bicycle. Brett’s acting here, the utter disgust and disbelief, is wonderful.
Remember, this is the guy who threw himself off a waterfall, probably so that *cough cough* certain people would no longer be in danger. If you explain love to him as “I just wanted them near me no matter the cost to that person,” daggers—in this case Jeremy’s daggers—will shoot from his irises. No matter whether you posit Holmes as ace, straight, or queer, it’s wonderful here to see what love means to him.
YES
I am reblogging this just for the phrase “murdering Carruthers with his eyeballs.”
Brett = <3
Oh, yes, and it should be noted that this was the first episode ever that Granada filmed. Jeremy and David got it right right out of the gate. <3
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“
From dark Dunharrow in the dim morning
with thane and captain rode Thengel’s son:
to Edoras he came, the ancient halls
of the Mark-wardens mist-enshrouded;
golden timbers were in gloom mantled.
Farewell he bade to his free people,
hearth and high-seat, and the hallowed places,
where long he had feasted ere the light faded.
Forth rode the king, fear behind him,
fate before him. Fealty kept he;
oaths he had taken, all fulfilled them.
Forth rode Théoden. Five nights and days
east and onward rode the Eorlingas
through Folde and Fenmarch and the Firienwood,
six thousand spears to Sunlending,
Mundburg the mighty under Mindolluin,
Sea-kings’ city in the South-kingdom
foe-beleaguered, fire-encircled.
Doom drove them on. Darkness took them,
Horse and horseman; hoofbeats afar
sank into silence: so the songs tell us.
”
– The host of Rohan riding to lift the Siege of Minas Tirith, Return of the King, The Muster of Rohan. (via tolkienmatters)
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scarlet-benoit-is-my-rolemodel:
And my weak ass elementary school got rid of our jungle gym because Ella was too weak to hang on and sprained her wrist
That is a death trap
ok fun but like… how do you stop?
I feel like this cannot possibly be the intended usage but also I can’t imagine any other possible intention for this contraption??
They’ve discovered a perpetual lawsuit machine.
Kids seriously have a deathwish
It’s like they took a Medieval torture device and converted it into playground equipment.
So based on the windows and what the kids look like (a crude measurement, I know, but it’s all the context I had to go on), I told a Latina coworker I was about 50% sure this was in Mexico, and asked her if she knew what the fuck it was. As soon as she saw it, before it even started spinning, she got this big grin and went “yeah that’s Mexico, that’s at a school. Mexican kids are SAVAGE.” So here are the answers to the questions posed:
1) yes, it’s actually a piece of playground equipment.
2) yes, that’s actually how it’s supposed to be used.
3) to stop, an adult or taller child has to come grab the center pole to stop it. Each child can then either do a handstand to get off, or climb back off from the top the way they got on.
4) yes, as long as the kids are using it correctly, it’s perfectly safe.
5) Mexico doesn’t have the same kind of litigious atmosphere as the US, where a kid tearing their knee open on the playground can get the whole park shut down. Any bumps, bruises, or even broken arms resulting from improper use would involve the parent seeking medical care if needed, and telling the child to hold on tighter or use a different piece of equipment.
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lies:
Bianca “You Can Clip Me In, But You Can’t Stop My Moves” Cook
Turn the Tide on Plastic, North Atlantic Ocean, May 25, 2018 [Source]
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Bianca Cook is heading a New Zealand-based Volvo 65 campaign for the next edition of The Ocean Race! Check the link for video of her being visibly stoked while taking delivery of the boat, last edition’s TTTOP. She talks about the emotion of seeing the boat for the first time since the conclusion of the last race.
https://livesaildie.com/nz-ocean-racing-the-vo65-arrives-in-auckland/
Throwback: watch video of her having an inadvertent life vest inflation after being washed off the stack by a wave in Leg 2 of the last race, and sending an adorable message to her mum – “It’s okay! I was clipped in.”
https://twitter.com/theoceanrace/status/927437762013392896
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it was also supposed to be temporary
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggests correcting mercenary post 9/11 power grab
this is something conservatives could get behind. removing a federal agency. decreasing the size and power of the federal government. cutting spending.
people who call themselves “conservatives” today often aren’t really conservative.
people who call themselves “conservatives” today are fascists.
not hyperbole. just where we are.
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