“I’d rather be reading.”
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"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading." —Logan Pearsall Smith
33 Reasons Why You're Addicted To Books
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19 Things You Should Never Say To A Bride-To-Be
It’s not up to you to make her a blushing bride.
"You're eating pizza? Aren't you afraid you won't fit into your dress?"
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"Considering your, ahem, past, do you think it's appropriate for you to wear white?"
The Weinstein Company
"Whatever happened to that hottie you dated in college? You were so in love!"
Universal Pictures
"You know, 50% of marriages fail."
Twentieth Century Fox
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21 Oddly Satisying GIFs You Won't Be Able To Stop Watching
Why do these feel so good? Via Reddit .
Yeah! Cut that dough!
Slice that paper, you sharp little knife, you!
Fit that joint! Fit it!
R! R! R! R!
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You Can Now Explore 286 Miles Of The Colorado River In Google Street View
Google Canyon, anyone?
Today Google announced the launch of its Colorado River Street View program, where you can virtually float down the river yourself.
In August 2013, Google staffers traveled on an eight-day, 286-mile journey down the Colorado River.
During the trip they captured a 360-degree view of the river, along with five popular side hikes, captured using Google's street view Trekker camera.
This is the first time Google has used Street View technology to capture white water rivers in the United States.
Here are just a few of the views you can see while exploring.
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If You Sneeze Into A Trombone You'll Hear An Incredible Sound
The video of this clip is one of those things that you’ll replay at least 178 times.
Listen to this through headphones.
This incident took place a Salvation Army concert in Tiptree, Essex.
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Julian Bright, conductor and bandmaster of the Salvation Army's amateur London Central Band, which was playing at the time, says he's never experienced anything like it, despite his 35 years' experience playing in brass band and various music groups. "I actually thought something in the PA system had blown up," he said.
Via bbc.com
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19 Delightful Covers Of Your Favorite '90s Songs
Let’s face the facts: Ace of Base is best when someone else does it.
Basecamp's cover of Ace of Base's "All That She Wants":
Shy Girls' cover of Brandy's "Sittin' Up in My Room":
MØ's cover of the Spice Girls' "Say You'll Be There":
Benzel & Jessie Ware's cover of Brownstone's "If You Love Me":
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What Actress Would Play You In The Movie Version Of Your Life?
Let the casting begin!
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69 Thoughts We've All Had While High
As f*ck.
1. Huh. Still not feeling any type of way. I've probably grown immune to weed.
2. LOL JUSTKIDDING IT JUST HIT ME. I'M ON MY WAY UP. HERE WE GO.
3. Damn, I had dinner not even an hour ago and I can enjoy the shit out of a burrito right now.
4. Are the walls moving in or am I just growing bigger?
5. Is the world moving underneath me or am I moving on top of it?
6. Yo… cereal, though.
7. Who knew the divinity of Lucky Charms could reach new heights?
8. I was just thinking —
9. I just forgot what I was just thinking.
10. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
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11. I wonder if anyone knows I'm high.
12. I bet everyone on this train knows I'm high.
13. They totally know I'm high hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe.
14. I'm craving everything but I physically cannot peel myself off of this couch.
15. What do I already have in my fridge...
16. Half a block of cheese, hot sauce, and pita bread: Challenge accepted.
17. OH MAN SPICY CHEDDAR PITA BREAD IS AMAZING. THIS IS BRILLIANT, ME. I'M A CULINARY TRAILBLAZER.
18. I should make this all the time.
19. I wonder if my perception of reality is the same as everyone else's… like, are we all seeing the same thing or are all realities uniquely different from each other and they somehow work in conjunction so we can communicate and co-exist?
20. Colors….
21. Do we all see the same colors? Why do we call the colors what we do? What if someone else's name for "blue" is a different color than what I've associated it with?
22. I wonder if I'm my TRUE self when I'm high. Because when I'm sober, I'm inhibited with all of these social rules and restraints.
23. Fuck society.
24. And the shackles of its repressive hegemonies.
25. Quicksand is crazy.
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26 Sad Male Models Who Could Really Use A Friend
New BFFs?
"What do I do with a graduate degree in 18th Century French Literature, anyway?"
Eastlogue / Via four-pins.com
"Ugh. Left my thermos of organic heirloom brew on the credenza in the foyer."
"NO COFFEE FOR ME."
Eastlogue / Via four-pins.com
"When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you."
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"Did I leave the hair dryer on?"
Eastlogue / Via four-pins.com
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Tyler Hoechlin Is The Hottie Dork You've Been Waiting For
Science has proven that the Teen Wolf actor is, in fact, made of sunshine and puppies.
He's obviously cuddly.
I seriously can't decide who I'm more jealous of in this GIF.
wordpress.com / Via tvrecappersanonymous.wordpress.com
He's a baseball player.
No, really. As American as apple pie, blue jeans, and hot dudes in uniform.
His white boy dance moves are on point.
tumblr.com / Via ijustwonnabehappy.tumblr.com
Dance like no one's watching, Tyler.
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Troubled Yoga Brand Lululemon Tries To Reinvent Itself With A Fashion Collection
It’s called &go.
Late last year, Lululemon's CEO Chip Wilson claimed that some women's bodies "just don’t work" in the brand's pants.
The yoga brand's sales took a major nosedive, and after a lackluster apology ("I’m sad for the repercussions of my actions"), Wilson was ousted from his leadership role.
Now the brand is working on rebuilding its image, and they're hoping to do that in part through a new capsule collection called &go.
"You don't have time for a wardrobe that keeps forcing you to change," reads an ad for the collection. "You're busy living. We get it."
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19 Surprising Facts About Chocolate Chip Cookies
Courtesy of The Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book.
In the Middle East, chocolate chip cookies are topped with chocolate sauce and eaten with knife and fork.
Carolyn Wyman
13.5% of American adults admit to having eaten 20 or more chocolate chip cookies at a time.
The surprising part is that ONLY 13.5% will admit to it.
Those cookies the Cookie Monster eats on Sesame Street are actually rice cakes with brown dots painted on.
Real cookies would make the Muppet greasy, explains David Borgenicht in his book, Sesame Street Unpaved.
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One easy way to up the flavor of your chocolate chip cookies is to let the prepared dough sit in the refrigerator for 24 to 36 hours before baking.
Try this recipe from Averie Cooks as a guide.
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A Beginner's Guide To Removing A Spider From Your Bedroom
Australians are surrounded by spiders. No dramas.
An Australian YouTuber says we have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Here's Durainrider's guide to Dealing With Big Australian Spiders In Your Bedroom
Via youtube.com
Choose your weapon wisely.
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Improvise.
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44 Facts About United States Presidents That Will Blow Your Mind
Common fact: They’re all weirdos.
1. George Washington grew large amounts of cannabis.
2. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson went to see William Shakespeare's home in 1786. They then ripped off a piece of Shakespeare's chair with a knife to take with them as a memento.
3. Thomas Jefferson invented the Swivel chair.
4. James Madison weighed under 100 lbs. and was only 5'4".
5. James Monroe chased William Crawford, the secretary of the Treasury, out of the White House with a pair of fire tongs.
6. John Quincy Adams and Herbert Hoover both had pet alligators.
7. Andrew Jackson taught his parrot how to curse — it was so bad that the parrot had to be removed from Jackson's funeral for swearing too much.
8. Martin Van Buren was the first U.S. president to be born a citizen of the United States, but his first language was Dutch, because he grew up in a Dutch part of New York called Kinderhook.
9. William Henry Harrison commissioned bottles of hard cider in the shape of log cabins as part of his campaigning.
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26 Alleged "Pizzas" That Should Be Ashamed Of Themselves
In order of escalating insanity .
Cauliflower Crust "Pizza"
Cauliflower, there's nothing really wrong with you. You're a versatile, respectable vegetable. Honestly, you deserve more credit than you get. But the day you darkened pizza's door was the beginning of a slow, certain descent into madness. This has gotten out of hand, and you — yes, YOU – are to blame.
Polenta Crust "Pizza"
This one probably could have flown under the radar because polenta is nice and never did anyone any harm except for the tofu smothered all over it, which, come on. Insult, injury, etcetera.
Matzoh "Pizza"
If it's Passover, I guess there are worse ways to cope. If it's not, no excuse.
Quinoa Crust "Pizza"
There are plenty of acceptable venues for quinoa, but this ain't one of them.
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Bestie And Wackadoodle Are Now Words In The Oxford English Dictionary
Other words include cuntish, crap shoot, and DIYer.
The Oxford English Dictionary added over 900 new words, phrases and senses in its March 2014 update. Here are some of the more wackadoo entries.
Bestie (n.): a person's best friend; a very close friend.
Wackadoodle (adj.): crazy, mad; eccentric.
Katherine Connor Martin, Head of US dictionaries, explained that "similar sounding nonsense words" like wackadoo and wackadoodle "were used as refrains in popular songs like Doo Wacka Doo in the early 20th century."
AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Government Press Service, file
Beatboxer (n.): a performer who uses (amplified) vocal effects to imitate the sounds and rhythms of hip-hop music.
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The 14 Stages Of Book Addiction
I’m not addicted…I can stop anytime I want!
You buy a book you’ve heard a lot of buzz about and figure you’ll just try it out.
Via giphy.com
You’re a few pages in thinking “I mean, I don’t really see what all the fuss is about.”
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Fifty pages in and now you need to know what happens. You NEED to know.
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You look forward to even a few minutes of downtime because that is precious reading time.
Via tumblr.com
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What Mumford & Sons Song Best Describes You?
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Lake Superior Takes A Selfie
Have we reached peak selfie yet?
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The South's Next Rap Star Kap G Says His Mexican-American Experience Applies To Everyone
With an excellent debut mixtape, Atlanta rapper Kap G places familiar themes into a Mexican-American context, and opens up a new audience for major labels.
Atlantic
19-year-old Atlanta rapper Kap G looks like a high school homecoming king — tall and trim, his black hair dipped in blonde at its tips. At first glance, you might peg him as a kid that would want to take a nap on your couch and eat the snacks in your fridge, which is why it's so thrilling when, halfway into his debut mixtape, he confronts racist cops.
Kap's song "Fuck La Policia" isn't riotous or loud. Over a pan flute-embellished beat that sounds like a day that's sunny and humid, but oppressively so, Kap sounds dejected but firm. He tells a story about being young and mistreated by police — "I know what you thinking / Think I got no Green Card" — that's no less relatable because it comes specifically from the perspective of a Mexican-American. Kap wrote the song the morning after being pulled over in Atlanta suburb Forest Park. "They always pull people over," he told BuzzFeed last week. "They didn't have no probable cause and I didn't like it. They were abusing their power."
There's a lot of story packed into "Fuck La Policia." Kap charges cops with assuming he's not an American citizen, or that he sells drugs, or that his friends must be in gangs. But the song's overall tone is one of general frustration and dissatisfaction, not tidy accusation. "All this happened last night / I don't need your advice / I don't got my pistol on me / Quit flashing your flashlight," Kap raps, like a spokesperson for any kid who's ever been fed up with authority.
Kap G's parents emigrated to Georgia from Mexico in the '90s, when the population of Mexican-born immigrants in Georgia and the U.S. was growing rapidly. Kap isn't fluent in Spanish and his parents aren't fluent in English; he says their support has been a crucial part of his success, but that they can't analyze his lyrics. Kap was born in Atlanta, and raised in the city's predominantly black College Park neighborhood. He recently graduated from Tri-Cities High School, the same neighborhood school attended by the members of OutKast, the rap duo who helped legitimize Southern rap nationwide and encouraged listeners to embrace being different in the '90s and '00s. "It was always: Mexicans sit with the Mexicans, black people sit with the black people; that was just how it was," Kap said, describing the Tri-Cities cafeteria. "But I was the one who was probably sitting with the black people."
Kap played basketball and met a lot of people who were into music. He started rapping when he was 14, putting together a makeshift studio with a neighbor from his apartment complex. "At first I was just talking about things like looking nice, girls, regular stuff. I was always proud of my culture. But I never really spoke about it at first. When I tried I was like, this don't really sound cool and I know for a fact people are not gonna really like this," he said. But as he practiced and developed skills, he began to push his Mexican identity to the foreground of his lyrics. "When I got better, it got easy for me to talk about my life," he said. "The things that mom and dad have been through, I just like talking about it. There's a lot of stereotypes about Mexicans, things like cutting grass, being trapped in the house or like being illegal, all that. But it's not like we just do all that for fun — there are reasons why. I know some people don't understand that. There's a story to tell that people haven't told yet, and I feel like it's very needed right now in hip-hop."
Musicians like Miguel and Selena Gomez sometimes talk about the significance of Mexican culture in their lives, but Kap G unabashedly pushes his experience as the America-born kid of Mexico-born immigrants to the center of his mixtape, which is called Like A Mexican, an intentional flip of what's often a derogatory term. He talks about standing alongside immigrants outside Home Depot looking for work, says he has trouble trusting federal authorities, and brags that he's got a girl who makes him chorizo in the morning. He talks about relatives that reside in the U.S. illegally, too, but grants that his experiences with deportation have been largely secondhand: "I was the younger person in my family, so I was never the person who would be talking to the person who got deported — they would be older than me." A generation later, though, he acknowledges the emotional toll that non-citizenship can take. Talking about a relative, he says, "He has a family here, he's started a whole life. But he don't got no license so every day he wakes up paranoid."
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