December 2009
101 posts
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I think I might have been born in the wrong...
theadventuresoffishlady:
I think I’m actually supposed to be Canadian.
I don’t know what that means, but my life is starting to make a lot more sense.
Which is weird. I would have never guessed I was supposed to be a Canadian.
I mean, why else would I have a slight northern accent?
what else do canadians do?
i have so much to learn.
That really depends a lot on where in Canada you are. In...
Poor stupid girls.
Her: you either fall in love and love them forever or you never really loved them at all.
ME: oh, that's your bull shit, chick flick movie, chocolate eating, notebook watching, online dating, sex and the city, he's just not that into you bull shit side saying nonsense quotes that some chain email told you that if you didn't send it to 25 people and spin in a circle 12 times and count the number of freckles on your arm and divide it by 3.14 while thinking about your perfect man then you'll never get married.
Her: no, it says..
ME: No no no no no. It's such bull shit. Ok. You fall in love with someone and sometimes people change and they're not the person you fell in love with and it's ok that you don't love them anymore. You fell in love with a guy and he was awesome but 2 years later you caught him cheating. You didn't fall in love with him as a cheater, did you? No, you fell in love with him as the awesome guy. He changed. He's not that guy anymore. It's ok to not love him.
Her: ....
ME: It's like the lemon law. Everything ran great on the car when you left the lot. You didn't know the transmission was going bad and someone had illegally changed the mileage on the car. You didn't know it was once used for drug runs to Canada. YOU DIDN'T KNOW THEN. You find out 2 years later and you take the fucking car back and get your money.
Her: ....
ME: Aha! See? I'm right! Sex and the City didn't tell you that. I DID, without any chocolate in my system and never have been Notebook'ed. You tell Taylor Swift to put that in a song, maybe people will get it.
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naturalnumber: I think I love you! (Platonically, as I like the fairer sex (men), but still, you are my hero.)
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we...”
– Albert Einstein (via mnmal) (via proofmathisbeautiful)
Today I made fried rice with chopsticks, and then ate it with a fork…
I’m not leaving my apartment until the slush goes away, I gain super powers, or I take over the world.
Canada used to be known as a defender of the poor and under-represented nations of the world. Now we ignore them in climate talks. Why?
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22 Weird & Somewhat Useful Bicycle Facts for... →
I’m thinking about biking around town more… (come spring)
I hate remembering that I had a great idea only to realize that I’ve forgotten what it was.
You may be Canadian if...
fuckyeahcanadaeh:
You know the ingredients for poutine.
'Historical quirk' leads to charges of witchcraft... →
fuckyeahtoronto:
The case of a Toronto woman accused of fraud has shed light on a section of the Canadian criminal code that carries a hint of the Dark Ages: posing as a witch.
Vishwantee Persaud allegedly defrauded a Toronto lawyer of tens of thousands of dollars by telling him she was the embodiment of the spirit of his deceased sister, come back to help him in business. Ms. Persaud now faces...
“All sentient life gets to a certain spot, then gets stuck playing something like...”
–
Kieron Gillen, explicating a “glorious theory” about the Fermi Paradox. Presumably, he’s paraphrasing from somewhere else, but I dig the thought. (via allthewaydown)
This is a great point. Our increasing capacity for exploration will always be matched with an increasing capacity for simulation....
Getting a dog is like having a child. Getting a cat is like getting a roomate.
“Canadians … have no south of which they can speak warmly.”
– Priit J. Vesilind, National Geographic (via fuckyeahcanadaeh)