Hey Geoffrey, have you ever wondered if Joe Biden and Barbara Bush were the same person?
- What? No. You’re being stupid again.
Seriously, Geoffrey. Like, have you ever seen them together before?
- Well, I don’t know, probably not. But they don’t even look anything alike.
Regarding motives: the Sikh Temple shooter was covered in white supremacist tattoos. [motherjones]
Twit Wit: Sarcastic Rover lampoons Curiosity. [twitter]
This is not Twilight: Nicole Cliffe interviews a mosquito named Edward. [thehairpin]
Crack for your Eyeballs: Tumblr’s editorial department has a new curated feed of visually interesting WTFery called Reblorg. [laughingsquid]
Up top: The two faces appear to be a woman on the left and a man on the right, although both are the same computer-generated face with slight differences in contrast. [dashblingbling]
What does white lady liberal feminism and classic economics have in common? Answer: racism, both explicit and casual.
Clarissa is an academic who writes about feminism and everything else, cuz academics know all of it. This week, she wrote about closure – an “American” phenomenon.
“English-speakers try to obviate the difficulties they experience in interpersonal communication by creating a series of rules that are supposed to regulate any human contact. The concept of closure is one of those rules. I can see how it might be useful in a culture that views any form of human communication as inherently dangerous. For me, however, it has no use. When I left my ex-husband, for instance, I just packed and moved out. Then I sent him the divorce papers.”
So, closure is American and refers to all English speakers. Please refer, first, to diagram 1.
Diagram 1 - there is a lot of non-English in America
I have this bad habit of ignoring the fact that I’m hungry when I’m working. I wait until the hunger grows to anger before I finally find something edible and wolf it down like a pissed off… wolf.
My girlfriend hates that. “Did you even taste it?” she aks me.
But I know that I’m not alone. To prove it, I’ve created eatingangrily.tumblr.com and uploaded a bunch of stolen images from various places around the web. And if you feel so inclined, you can submit your own photos of yourself eating something angrily. It’ll be fun. After it goes up you can send a link to your friends and say, “look at me! My picture was featured on eating angrily dot tumblr dot com and now I’m an internet celebrity and/or meme! That makes me sort of famous!”
Before you know it, some larger website will give it a new name like “Angreating” and then, under it’s new name, the craze will sweep the nation. “Angreating” will become “the new Shamrocking” before morphing into a dangerously competitive version of its former self. People will start eating things normally thought inedible, like drywall and bricks, all while scowling and grimacing harder and harder until someone finally dies of a simultaneous aneurism and burnt esophagus.
And we’ll all laugh about it, then get pissed off again and demolish some falafels. Oh! It’ll be a hoot!
Before I forget, here are those photos of people eating angrily.
The way some people present themselves when looking for a partner is just awesome. The things they’ll say and do on their OK Cupid profiles leave no question as to why they’re single and looking for love. OK Cupid Enemies features some of the best experiments in self-awareness the dating site has to offer.
Yankee Candle has Man Candles now. So, you know, now you can buy candles that smell like ball sweat or something.
The Internet nearly exploded off its hinges with the birth of the newest, fastest growing, biggest, most viral meme ever: Ridiculously Unremarkable Guy.*
I love memes. A lot. But I think Creamsicle became my all time favorite meme in about 12 hours. Let me explain. It all started with this image:
The image was posted by tumblr user beekkake as a parody of special snowflake syndrome. Beekkake is a Homestuck fan, and Homestuck fans, god bless them, have a subtle troll-based sense of humor. Most people reblogging the image didn’t realize it was a parody and were outraged by the implied slut-shaming. Then, in the midsts of heated feminist arguments, someone suggested that those two girls should just kiss and make up. Then something AMAZING happened.
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