“But just as Facebook has become an instrument for meeting and seducing new people, it is now also an archive of people you had once seduced or been seduced by”
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#Back burner #exegete #Social 歌舞伎
beauty in everything: 20 weird English words
- Erinaceous: Like a hedgehog
Lamprophony: Loudness and clarity of voice
Depone: To testify under oath
Finnimbrun: A trinket or knick-knack
Floccinaucinihilipilification: Estimation that something is valueless. Proper pronunciation based on Latin roots: flockə-nowsə-nəkələ-pələ-fək-ation.
Inaniloquent: Pertaining to idle talk
Limerance: An attempt at a scientific study into the nature of romantic love.
Mesonoxian: Pertaining to midnight
Mungo: A dumpster diver – one who extracts valuable things from trash
Nihilarian: A person who deals with things lacking importance (pronounce the ‘h’ like a ‘k’).
Nudiustertian: The day before yesterday
Phenakism: Deception or trickery
Pronk: A weak or foolish person
Pulveratricious: Covered with dust
Rastaquouere: A social climber
Scopperloit: Rude or rough play
Selcouth: Unfamiliar, rare, strange, marvelous, wonderful.
Tyrotoxism: To be poisoned by cheese
Widdiful: Someone who deserves to be hanged
Zabernism: The abuse of military power or authority.
During my Nudiustertian rounds, I deponed a pulveratricious mungo. Her erinaceous rummaging for finnimbrun made me take her for a nihilarian pronk, but her appearance was a phenakism. Scopperloit aside, she was a rastaquouere. Eschewing inaniloquent inquiry I went straight for limerance. Perhaps her lamprophony would provide some selcouth insight belying my initial floccinaucinihilipilification. However she saw love the same way the lactose intolerant see tyrotoxism, and was more concerned with making widdiful of the zabernists. As our conversation drew into the witching hour, I bade her a mesonoxian adieu.
weird word of the week:
#whiskers #pogonophobia #Ambrose Burnsidepogonotrophy - n,the act of cultivating, or growing and grooming, a mustache, beard, sideburns or other facial hair.
Hulk the Pooh? Wincredible Hoo? Edward Bear?
(Source: io9.com)
Merism - Wikipedia
A figure of speech by which a single thing is referred to by a conventional phrase that enumerates several of its parts, or which lists several synonyms for the same thing. See, e.g. “heavens & earth,” “high & low,” and “have & to hold.”
You May Have Won Now, But I Have Won Forever
h/t to Tristan
UPDATE:This would have been funnier as, “You may have won for now, but I have won forever.”
(Source: google.com)
Figured out how to put things under a cut. Because I’m a fucking scientist.
People rarely date their actual friends. They date friends of friends, and people they met in bars and slept with six hours later. They date coworkers and people they met on OK Cupid. I’m always amused by the clichéd “let’s just be friends” breakup speech for that exact reason. Chances are you were never friends before you decided to be lovers, so there’s no frame of reference, no way to detach one from the other. It’s why “being friends” so rarely works until you’ve both had time to properly move on (usually best accomplished by minimal to no contact and dating completely new people who smell and taste different and annoy you for totally new reasons, etc).
The rest of this is about quitting smoking, actual baggage, & enjoying annoying jokes…but this is the part I’ve fixated on.
#Oxford Comma #'Speach' isn't a Word #Friends Speech“I don’t like this expression ‘First World problems.’ It is false and it is condescending. Yes, Nigerians struggle with floods or infant mortality. But these same Nigerians also deal with mundane and seemingly luxurious hassles. Connectivity issues on your BlackBerry, cost of car repair, how to sync your iPad, what brand of noodles to buy: Third World problems. All the silly stuff of life doesn’t …disappear just because you’re black and live in a poorer country. People in the richer nations need a more robust sense of the lives being lived in the darker nations. Here’s a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.”
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Nigerian author and artist Teju Cole (via xkimberlyx)
This combined with reading Open City last year has cemented by fierce, unapologetic love for Teju Cole.
(via delacroix)
YES i have been struggling with how to articulate this
(via methodistcoloringbook)
Most of my family members were born and raised in post-colonial countries, and they complain about things like “The hurricane ruined my Pathfinder,” or “Working for a bank is boring.” But I still find this phrase HILARIOUS. It feels like a good rebuttal to all the self-importance of #FML. The only real problem I have with it is the very concept of First/Third Worlds, ‘cause it only made sense during The Cold War™
(via provocatoria)
“If you happen to be someone who looks at Durant, James, or Amar’e Stoudemire’s Foot Locker commercials — in which he stalks along a perilously lit basketball court wearing a letterman’s cardigan, a skinny tie, and giant black glasses (his are prescription) — and wonders how the NBA got this way, how it turned into Happy Days, you’re really wondering the same thing about the rest of mainstream black culture. When did everything turn upside down? Who relaxed the rules? Is it really safe to look like Carlton Banks?”
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Wesley Morris: LeBron, Dwyane, Amar’e, & the rise of the NBA nerd
“Nerd-drag” is much better description of this trend than “blipster.” The bit at the end ‘bout gay panic is on point too.
Baksheesh - Wikipedia
a term used to describe tipping, charitable giving, and certain forms of political corruption and bribery
“We believe the galaxy depends on dark matter,” said Richard Gaitskell, Mr. Fiorucci’s boss in a consortium of university research labs looking for evidence of the phenomenon. “But it is like marriage: We are doing it now on blind faith, and yet it may well be the most important thing we can know about the universe.”
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#nerd love #NUPTIALS #Clintern
