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Me leave? I live here...

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natequarter

listen, if you, known shampoo expert, have taken it upon yourself to write a book about shampoo across the nineteenth-century world, and then proceed to only investigate Known Shampoo Hotspots such as berkshire and egypt, and Shampoo Vendors of Mild Curiosity, florence, italy, in the regency of george iv and the long summer of 1877, i think i am allowed to get a bit annoyed about you branding yourself as Nineteenth-Century Worldwide Shampoo Expert who has written a book about nineteenth-century shampoos across the globe. just saying

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natequarter

listen, if you, known shampoo expert, have taken it upon yourself to write a book about shampoo across the nineteenth-century world, and then proceed to only investigate Known Shampoo Hotspots such as berkshire and egypt, and Shampoo Vendors of Mild Curiosity, florence, italy, in the regency of george iv and the long summer of 1877, i think i am allowed to get a bit annoyed about you branding yourself as Nineteenth-Century Worldwide Shampoo Expert who has written a book about nineteenth-century shampoos across the globe. just saying

what i am getting at is that if you then go on to give a talk about nineteenth-century shampoos in all seven continents and then continue to only talk about ahmad mohammed's brilliant shampoo shop in cairo 1842 − 1898 (still running to this day under the name ahmad's marvellous haircare products) which unfortunately went under due to an incident involving a french aristocrat who had run out of hairbrushes and fireworks, and the delights and wonders of florence's two-in-one conditioners which are frankly excellent for the discerning gentleman with dandruff problems that we absolutely promise will remain private but sadly have not been sold since 1834 and can only be found in a curiously locked warehouse in phoenix, arizona, then you have misled me and this is false advertising

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listen, if you, known shampoo expert, have taken it upon yourself to write a book about shampoo across the nineteenth-century world, and then proceed to only investigate Known Shampoo Hotspots such as berkshire and egypt, and Shampoo Vendors of Mild Curiosity, florence, italy, in the regency of george iv and the long summer of 1877, i think i am allowed to get a bit annoyed about you branding yourself as Nineteenth-Century Worldwide Shampoo Expert who has written a book about nineteenth-century shampoos across the globe. just saying

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the fact that so often ppl are told to read shakespeare rather than watch it is so weird. like yeah sure reading it can help u get the language and stuff. but it’s meant to be watched. imagine your favorite movie or tv show episode. and then imagine how much less fun and interesting it would be if u just read the script instead of watching it. Shakespeare meant for his works to be watched and performed not read. not saying u can’t get something out of reading them obviously. just saying the way it’s taught and presented to ppl is often fundamentally flawed. 

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someone should’ve introduced data to crochet. i think that would’ve been good for him.

crochet can’t be replicated by a machine but one of the central points of data as a character is that he’s not just a machine. just imagine someone giving him a hook and some worsted weight yarn, and he makes an absolute beaut of an afghan and then geordi probably mentions that he hears crochet can’t be done by a machine and then the look on data’s face, u know the look. u get the vision.

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[ID: A reaction image of Lisa Simpson crying /End ID]

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A gētylman that was called mayster Baryngton/ whose wyfe was afterwarde maryed in Cambrydge vnto a gentylmā called mayster Caryngton/ so that there was but one lettre chaunged in her name/ yᵗ is to say C for B. And of her also I herde the same story/ all though (as she sayde) she was not present. This sayde gentylman Baryngton was a great swerer/ & dyd customably vse great othes/ specyally by the blode of our lorde/ or (as more communly they swere) by goddes blode. And vpon a sondaye or els a feestfull holy daye he went forth on huntynge or hawkynge/ & nothynge spedynge after his mynde he came vnto an alehouse at a through fare called Pulcryche .v. myles from ware in the hygh way to Cambrydge/ the one syde of the whiche through fare was in yᵉ sayd parysshe of Stondon/ where this gentylmā was/ & called for drynke/ & anone he began to swere after this vnhappy custome sayeng. By goddes blode this daye is vnhappy. And in a whyle after in swerynge so/ he bledde at the nose/ & therwith more vexed he began to rayle and rayne god (as they say) in sweryng goddes passyon/ goddes woūdes/ goddes flesshe goddes nayles/ and euer his holy and blessed blode/ tyll at yᵉ last he fell ferther to blede at the eares/ at the eyes/ at his wrestes/ & all the ioyntes of his handes & of all his body/ at his nauyll and foundement/ and at other places of his body/ in meruaylous great quantyte & stremes of blode/ and shotynge out his tonge in a meruaylous horryble/ vgsome & ferefull maner/ as blacke as pytche/ so that no persone durste come nere hȳ/ but stode aferre of/ & cast holy water towarde hȳ/ & so he cōtynued euer swerynge/ blasphemynge and bledynge/ tyll he expired and was deed. And on yᵉ morowe after they layd hym in a carte/ & caryed hym vnto the sayd chirche of Stondon/ and euer yᵉ body bled tyll he was buryed in the waye as they came in very great habundaunce. This was a playne token that god was moche displeased with that sweryng/ & dyd openly punysshe the same/ in example vnto all vsuall swerers.

Richard Whitford, A werke for housholders or for them ye haue the gydynge or gouernaunce of any company

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That then the iustices of Peace in euery shite...

that's a humiliating typo to have recorded in print

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what i want from doctor who:

  • a historical episode set prior to 18 november 1558. you can have james i if you're really that desperate, but if you do elizabeth i again i'll fucking bite you
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every deep thinkpiece about how israel doesn't actually exist is utterly useless because israel demonstrably does exist and does have a cultural identity and complicated existence stretching back, in various senses, over thousands of years. you may as well say that ireland doesn't exist because it was only established as an independent, modern state in 1922, despite the fact that it obviously does exist and has its own complicated history. it is possible to imagine a world where palestine and israel are two separate and equal states where palestinians are allowed to live without being systematically oppressed and murdered. it is possible to criticise the concept of states and countries across the board - a common theme in anarchist political theory. what it is not possible to do is to say that israel doesn't exist because you called israelis some mean words. criticise the israeli government's actions based on what they have done, not based on this bizarre idea that a country doesn't exist Because Colonialism. grow up.

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Always hilarious seeing people say they think Moffat was better under RTD's direction because the way RTD tells it he just left Moffat alone to do what he wanted because he trusted him to always deliver something good.

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edward vi is the boy king of all time because he never grew up. he's the peter pan of autocratic blood feuds. he ruled, but he never reached his majority; he wasn't deposed, but his vision was destroyed; his dreams live on in some strange, abstracted sense today, yet what he wanted is a far cry from what his sisters established. he was fanatical. he was manipulated. he was just a kid. he died a horrific, agonising death which brought about the destruction of his dynasty, all for nothing. i am faint; lord have mercy upon me, and take my spirit. if nothing else, his memory lives on.

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