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Category: General

  • Decisions, Decisons

    I’m trying to decide whether to go and look at cars tomorrow (preferable in terms of them not selling before I go look) or friday (more time for dongle and software to arrive).

    Both the Diagnostic Software and the cable say that they should be here today. It would be really nice to be able to turn up, plug in the cable and go ‘ah, no’ or ‘ah, let’s go for a test drive’ without faffing about with guesswork about the state of the batteries, or whether there are any known dubious faults with the car.

    In a way it’s good, it’s nice to have that reassurance that I can plug in a device and it should tell me lots of important things about the car, I’m not so reliant on listening and feeling for problems (a system that obviously worked so well when buying the Austin), but also it’s scary modern shit.

  • reminder for bisexuals

    lyricalred:

    today is bi visibility day. as such, bisexual people will be completely visible for the next 24 hours. this is a bad day to engage in bank heists, ghost impersonations, covert operations for vague yet menacing government agencies, and other common bisexual hobbies that rely upon our powers of invisibility. 

    reblog to save a life. 

  • socialjusticekoolaid:

    HAPPENING NOW (9.24.14): The situation in Ferguson is escalating quickly. Protests continue, following this morning’s burning of a Mike Brown memorial, and another frustrating Ferguson City Council meeting.Looks like the same “antagonize over de-escalate” tactics are back online. Prayers to all those out in the street of Ferguson right now fighting for their right to exist. #staywoke #farfromover (PT I, PT II, PT III)  

    Bringing back the dogs, choppers, charging the crowd, attempting to bottleneck protesters into an area, AND live shots possible fired into the crowd… what the ever-living fuck is Ferguson PD trying to do?! We’re a month and a half into this saga, and they still don’t know how to de-escalate a situation. Pray y’all. That might be all we got right now.

    socialjusticekoolaid:

    HAPPENING NOW (9.24.14): The situation in Ferguson is escalating quickly. Protests continue, following this morning’s burning of a Mike Brown memorial, and another frustrating Ferguson City Council meeting.Looks like the same “antagonize over de-escalate” tactics are back online. Prayers to all those out in the street of Ferguson right now fighting for their right to exist. #staywoke #farfromover (PT I, PT II, PT III)  

    Bringing back the dogs, choppers, charging the crowd, attempting to bottleneck protesters into an area, AND live shots possible fired into the crowd… what the ever-living fuck is Ferguson PD trying to do?! We’re a month and a half into this saga, and they still don’t know how to de-escalate a situation. Pray y’all. That might be all we got right now.

    socialjusticekoolaid:

    HAPPENING NOW (9.24.14): The situation in Ferguson is escalating quickly. Protests continue, following this morning’s burning of a Mike Brown memorial, and another frustrating Ferguson City Council meeting.Looks like the same “antagonize over de-escalate” tactics are back online. Prayers to all those out in the street of Ferguson right now fighting for their right to exist. #staywoke #farfromover (PT I, PT II, PT III)  

    Bringing back the dogs, choppers, charging the crowd, attempting to bottleneck protesters into an area, AND live shots possible fired into the crowd… what the ever-living fuck is Ferguson PD trying to do?! We’re a month and a half into this saga, and they still don’t know how to de-escalate a situation. Pray y’all. That might be all we got right now.

    socialjusticekoolaid:

    HAPPENING NOW (9.24.14): The situation in Ferguson is escalating quickly. Protests continue, following this morning’s burning of a Mike Brown memorial, and another frustrating Ferguson City Council meeting.Looks like the same “antagonize over de-escalate” tactics are back online. Prayers to all those out in the street of Ferguson right now fighting for their right to exist. #staywoke #farfromover (PT I, PT II, PT III)  

    Bringing back the dogs, choppers, charging the crowd, attempting to bottleneck protesters into an area, AND live shots possible fired into the crowd… what the ever-living fuck is Ferguson PD trying to do?! We’re a month and a half into this saga, and they still don’t know how to de-escalate a situation. Pray y’all. That might be all we got right now.

    socialjusticekoolaid:

    HAPPENING NOW (9.24.14): The situation in Ferguson is escalating quickly. Protests continue, following this morning’s burning of a Mike Brown memorial, and another frustrating Ferguson City Council meeting.Looks like the same “antagonize over de-escalate” tactics are back online. Prayers to all those out in the street of Ferguson right now fighting for their right to exist. #staywoke #farfromover (PT I, PT II, PT III)  

    Bringing back the dogs, choppers, charging the crowd, attempting to bottleneck protesters into an area, AND live shots possible fired into the crowd… what the ever-living fuck is Ferguson PD trying to do?! We’re a month and a half into this saga, and they still don’t know how to de-escalate a situation. Pray y’all. That might be all we got right now.

    socialjusticekoolaid:

    HAPPENING NOW (9.24.14): The situation in Ferguson is escalating quickly. Protests continue, following this morning’s burning of a Mike Brown memorial, and another frustrating Ferguson City Council meeting.Looks like the same “antagonize over de-escalate” tactics are back online. Prayers to all those out in the street of Ferguson right now fighting for their right to exist. #staywoke #farfromover (PT I, PT II, PT III)  

    Bringing back the dogs, choppers, charging the crowd, attempting to bottleneck protesters into an area, AND live shots possible fired into the crowd… what the ever-living fuck is Ferguson PD trying to do?! We’re a month and a half into this saga, and they still don’t know how to de-escalate a situation. Pray y’all. That might be all we got right now.

    socialjusticekoolaid:

    HAPPENING NOW (9.24.14): The situation in Ferguson is escalating quickly. Protests continue, following this morning’s burning of a Mike Brown memorial, and another frustrating Ferguson City Council meeting.Looks like the same “antagonize over de-escalate” tactics are back online. Prayers to all those out in the street of Ferguson right now fighting for their right to exist. #staywoke #farfromover (PT I, PT II, PT III)  

    Bringing back the dogs, choppers, charging the crowd, attempting to bottleneck protesters into an area, AND live shots possible fired into the crowd… what the ever-living fuck is Ferguson PD trying to do?! We’re a month and a half into this saga, and they still don’t know how to de-escalate a situation. Pray y’all. That might be all we got right now.

    socialjusticekoolaid:

    HAPPENING NOW (9.24.14): The situation in Ferguson is escalating quickly. Protests continue, following this morning’s burning of a Mike Brown memorial, and another frustrating Ferguson City Council meeting.Looks like the same “antagonize over de-escalate” tactics are back online. Prayers to all those out in the street of Ferguson right now fighting for their right to exist. #staywoke #farfromover (PT I, PT II, PT III)  

    Bringing back the dogs, choppers, charging the crowd, attempting to bottleneck protesters into an area, AND live shots possible fired into the crowd… what the ever-living fuck is Ferguson PD trying to do?! We’re a month and a half into this saga, and they still don’t know how to de-escalate a situation. Pray y’all. That might be all we got right now.

    socialjusticekoolaid:

    HAPPENING NOW (9.24.14): The situation in Ferguson is escalating quickly. Protests continue, following this morning’s burning of a Mike Brown memorial, and another frustrating Ferguson City Council meeting.Looks like the same “antagonize over de-escalate” tactics are back online. Prayers to all those out in the street of Ferguson right now fighting for their right to exist. #staywoke #farfromover (PT I, PT II, PT III)  

    Bringing back the dogs, choppers, charging the crowd, attempting to bottleneck protesters into an area, AND live shots possible fired into the crowd… what the ever-living fuck is Ferguson PD trying to do?! We’re a month and a half into this saga, and they still don’t know how to de-escalate a situation. Pray y’all. That might be all we got right now.

    socialjusticekoolaid:

    HAPPENING NOW (9.24.14): The situation in Ferguson is escalating quickly. Protests continue, following this morning’s burning of a Mike Brown memorial, and another frustrating Ferguson City Council meeting.Looks like the same “antagonize over de-escalate” tactics are back online. Prayers to all those out in the street of Ferguson right now fighting for their right to exist. #staywoke #farfromover (PT I, PT II, PT III)  

    Bringing back the dogs, choppers, charging the crowd, attempting to bottleneck protesters into an area, AND live shots possible fired into the crowd… what the ever-living fuck is Ferguson PD trying to do?! We’re a month and a half into this saga, and they still don’t know how to de-escalate a situation. Pray y’all. That might be all we got right now.

  • It Looks Like An Ugly Trailer. When You See What’s Inside, You’ll Be Impressed

    It Looks Like An Ugly Trailer. When You See What’s Inside, You’ll Be Impressed

    theaminorjourney:

    It looks more like an industrial power generator than anything else, but this trailer is hiding something awesome beneath its rough exterior…

    I did promise I’d be sharing car stuff occasionally. And this is one such time. Wow, given time and money, I’d love one of these, perhaps with some spare batteries and a 4×4 off-road EV to go with it. 

    Buy me it, someone, please? 

    My gods, that’s an awesome trailer.

  • When I started Stargate, I got the part, I was SO thrilled to have this INCREDIBLE character, to be playing someone in the military. I had SO much respect, to be playing someone who’s so smart and so liberated and… I thought “Yes!”

    I had two weeks to move from Toronto to Vancouver. I flew out there, I had my first wardrobe fitting. And one of the things that was in… THE thing that was in the wardrobe room was a very low-cut tank top and a push-up bra…
    And I turned to the costume designer – whom I’ve worked with since, who’s wonderful – and I said “What… What is this?”
    And she said “Well.. they wanna see what you look like in it.”
    And I said “…but this… NOBODY in the military, no captain in the US airforce would wear this… while her male counterparts are wearing crewneck t-shirts and… I c… I can’t do it!”
    And she said “Well, they just wanna see what you look like and take a picture and…”
    I was like “…”.
    And I PANICKED because I thought, I had just been given this AMAZING opportunity – I didn’t know it would last 10 years but I knew it was gonna be a kick-ass show – and I was like… “I can’t do it…”

    And I started to cry and I said “You have to go upstairs and tell them I’m not doing it. And if it means that they recast the part then recast the part but you’ve cast a smart woman and you’ve cast somebody who has NEVER tried to get a job based on her looks or her body, I’ve always played strong, smart women, I… I can’t do it. So if they wanna recast the part I totally get it but I’m not playing THAT version of this character.”

    But I’m saying this while I’m blubbering because I’m suffering that I’ve just lost maybe the best job of my career…
    And so she said “Okay” and I said “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’ve NEVER been difficult, I don’t… but I CAN’T do that!”
    So she went upstairs and she came back down and she said “Okay, no problem.”
    And I said “Okay, so what’s my costume?”
    And she said “Well…”
    And I said “Just… What are the guys wearing?”
    So she handed me a black T-Shirt and the BDUs, which is what my character would wear in the field with her male counterparts, and that’s where we went from there.

    But that to me was the defining moment of…
    And I STILL cry about it because I still remember that young woman on the verge of breaking into the… new something big, being petrified that she was gonna loose it, but… I knew that I couldn’t play the TNA version of Sam Carter.

    Amanda Tapping

    [x]

    (via xgfan)

    Every time I read this I’m so moved, because I just remember loving her character so much and being amazed by her, and how did this character come to be?  Well, the answer is a young, brave woman: Amanda Tapping.

    (via esteefee)

  • Oh dear lord, this is my entire existence.

    (Ella Frances Sanders, via Boing Boing)

  • I see this and I can only think of one person…. theaminorjourney

  • theaminorjourney:

    The dreaded test machine.

    It does look like you’re heading for some sort of Sci-Fi denouement in which you get to be a superhero or somesuch. 

  • seananmcguire:

    magpiedminx:

    I am so heartbroken by the convo I just had with my cuz

    villainny:

    karmaplus:

    I Asked my 9 year old cousin Emma if she wanted to be on the phone with me when she watched DW tonight. She’s only allowed to stay up late when DW is on – it’s on an hour later here in Denmark, timezones yo. (she has watched all episodes in the past year and I…

    When did the Doctor make fun of Clara’s weight?

    Pretty much constantly since the Capaldi era started?  He comments on her hips, he comments on how she’s given up, he asks if she should be wearing certain things…I don’t have access to quotes right now, but it’s been in there.

    It’s funny, because I actually love Capaldi as the doctor. I love that he’s harsh and not lovely, that he’s abrasive and rude. I like that because the Doctor has not always been a fun, kind, friendly person; and seeing it come back is good. It’s good to have change in the Doctor, and I’ve missed that side of his character.

    It’s just the way it’s been done is fucking awful. Even through the Moffat era, up until now I’ve still felt excited about Saturday night being ‘Who night’. There’ve been enough good bits or good episodes, and perhaps enough of a history that I’ve coped. It’s been one of the very few bits of live TV I’ve actually bothered to watch, live, for the last few years.

    This season though, I’ve been steeling myself to watch it; to see what new ignominious low they’re going to put my precious doctor through. And I’m really struggling to get up the energy to try and watch the latest episode, because they’ve all been so very, very bad.

  • They obviously train medical staff here on sarcasm.

    theaminorjourney:

    My dearest friend, @Pyoor, happens to work in the same hospital as I am in. We’ve joked for the past few days that the medical and clinical staff have a predilection for sarcasm. 

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    So, after being told that 1) I can’t drive yet and 2) I may not go home yet, my wonderful cardiologist told me, with a glint in his eye, that you will be pushed hard in my stress test. 

    I’m done with this hospital thing. Please send me home. 

    As I explained yesterday, basic sarcasm is part of the induction programme. Of course, a natural predisposition to sarcasm is vital to work in the NHS.

    Bear in mind, my induction programme opened with a photograph of the hospital and the phrase “Welcome to East Germany”