06
Jan
De Me Semper Dubitandum Est
06
Jan
goodigotitgetitgotit///negativepleasure///adultcrash///zsommand///falloutbeauties///janitoroflunacy
A few years ago some family friends bought a church just outside of this small town and ever since I’m wanted to buy one and live in it.
Like, can a church run out of money? Would it be expensive? I’m serious about this.
Holy fuck. That’s the best plan I’ve ever heard.
I saw a former church in Salisbury, England, an old one (17th or 18th century, I thought), stone walls, lead roof, etc. It had all the crosses removed from the outside, and it was an appliance store.
Churches change hands in other ways, too. There’s a former Christian church in St Paul, I think, that’s now a Hindu temple. And in South Minneapolis, there’s a former synagogue that’s now a Universalist church.
06
Jan
(via weetzie-bat)
Um, the nearest star is Proxima Centauri. It’s 4.2 light years away. 800,000 light years is far outside of the galaxy. The galaxy is 100,000 light years across, and the galactic disc is about 1,000 light years thick where we are, some 30,000 light years from the centre of the galaxy.
But the fact is, we can see not only a billion stars. We can see billions of other galaxies, some 13 billion light years away, galaxies that formed when the universe was only a few hundred thousand years old. The fact is, the universe is 13.7 billion years old, and to deny that is to reject science. To reject science, I think we can agree, is idiocy.
06
Jan
Words That Don't Exist in the English Language
delastele///gypsybeatrock///nowthatiknow///just-dandy///estnespes///lisaelaine
Gheegle: (Filipino) The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute.
Culacino: (Italian) The mark left on a table by a cold glass.
Sgriob: (Gaelic) The itchiness that overcomes the upper lip just before taking a sip of whisky
L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”
Pari-pari and Saku-saku: (Japanese) Hard-crispy verses Soft-crispy, i.e. a rice cracker versus fried chicken
Stam: (Hebrew) An agreement out of amusement and frustration that something doesn’t have a satisfactory answer among those talking.
Forelsket: (Norweigen) The euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love.
Manja: (Malay) A characteristic or action for affectionate and pampered/being pampered.
Dupey (pronouced Duh-Up-Pee; Jamaican Patwa) A bothersome ghost or apparition.
Ooh, I have one: Iuákuči (Yamana) to carry a living thing in your mouth and bring it into a boat.
05
Jan
05
Jan
THE COCKATIEL JUST DIED.
CUE THE MONTY PYTHON JOKES.
It’s probably just pining for the fjords.
05
Jan
05
Jan
Where was you when you found out Michael Jackson had died?
I was in my bathroom washing my face.
Krazy House in Liverpool.
sat on my computer getting excitied for gullivers world the next day </3
At work at the pub I used to work at. Someone got a text and so we put Sky News on the big TV… it was odd!
In the shop of a train station, I wasn’t even planning to buy a newspaper until I and everyone around me at the time looked at the papers and realised they all said the same thing.
I had to think about this.
I had fallen asleep in the day, listening to progressive radio, and as I awoke I heard Ron Reagan saying something about Michael Jackson. Some minutes later, as I got out of bed, they were confirming his death.
“Where was you”? Seriously?
Anyway, I don’t remember. But I remember what I thought: Michael Jackson died? Huh, that’s weird.
05
Jan
I like the one in Spanish. It says “Fon’t fuck with me anymore!”
It is spelled wrong, though; it should be “No chingues.”
05
Jan
