Postcards from an Idle Mind
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CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Asks Atheist Tornado Survivor If She ‘Thanked The Lord’
Maybe news people shouldn’t assume things about their subjects’ religion.
Also, if you listen to the rest, this woman handled it in a way I wish religious people would handle things.
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Background is a pale Autism Speaks puzzle piece with the “No” or “Not allowed” circle and strikethrough. The text reads:
Autism $peaks has ZERO autistic leaders
Autistic Self Advocacy Network: 100% autistic leadership
Self Advocates Becoming Empowered: 100% leadership with intellectual or developmental disabilities
National Down Syndrome Society: 7 leaders with Down Syndrome
Autism Society of America: 5 autistic leaders
Autism $peaks: ZERO autistic leaders
Autism Speaks needs to change their name. I don’t believe that they’re useless like some people (speaking as an aspie) but we should just admit they’re for the parents of autistic kids, not for the kids themselves.
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How the Logic of "Friendzoning" Would Work If Applied in Other Instances:
- *Man walks into a store and finds employee*
- Man: Alright, I've had enough. Why haven't you guys hired me?!
- Employee: Uh...well sir, when did you put in your application?
- Man: I never filled out an application.
- Employee: Well sir, we can't consider you for employment if you've never filled out an application.
- Man: No, that's bullshit, because I've been coming here for years now, and every single time I tell you all how much I love this store and how much I appreciate your customer service, unlike some of your other customers might I add!
- Employee: Well, but that doesn't-
- Man: AND I even told you that I didn't have a job!
- Employee: But sir, that doesn't indicate to us that you would like a job at our store. And again, if you've never filled out an application, we can't consider you. Besides, we're not hiring.
- Man: OH! Not hiring, HA! What a laugh. I see your store go through seasonal workers all the time. They come and go like nothing, but you won't consider me as a part-time employee even though I KNOW you've been looking for workers to fill positions? That's insane!
- Employee: Sir, we've been looking to hire a few people for management positions. Do you have any management experience?
- Man: Well no, but what does that matter?
- Employee: ...Well sir, that's what we're looking for. You won't be suitable for the position without management experience.
- Man: Oh that's such a load of crap. You know, you'll be waiting around a long time for a manager if you don't lower your standards a little. Who cares if someone knows how to manage a store? I LOVE this store and I'm willing to work here, that's all that should matter to you.
- Employee: That...doesn't make any sense.
- Man: NO! I'm done. This is over. From now on, no more Mr. Nice Guy.
- Employee:
- Man:
- Employee:
- Man: Fuck you, slut.
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This is simultaneously the best and the worst thing I have ever seen
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA remember when that ruined you, Paul Ryan? good times.
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The reason why nobody is taking conservatives seriously on this issue - aside from other crackpot conservatives.
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Fool Me Once, Abercrombie
Don’t ask the bully to change by giving the bully a bully pulpit. Shut them up by really taking them down a peg. They don’t want their clothes on uncool kids? Good. Give them to the most socially unacceptable people like this filmmaker who is giving the clothes to homeless people. Find them in second hand shops and deface them and wear them around with holes and spray paint on them to your comic book stores and Dungeons and Dragons games. Make that brand as “uncool” as it can possibly be. Don’t try and get them to accept you by asking nicely. Fool me once…
Stores like this will never change. People like this will never change. I have spent too much of my life hoping they would…starting movements over things that weren’t in anyone’s best interests. Don’t ask permission for the cool kids to accept you. Find the coolness in yourself and watch as the cool kids who wouldn’t give you the time of day implode. You’re a square peg…stop trying to fit in a round hole.
The fall from coolness happens sooner or later and the fall is enough to make a hater wince in sympathy. Don’t ask for permission to fall with them.
Full text here.
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Dorothy Zbornak aka the Queen of the Bitch Face
i really fucking needed this today. God bless Tumblr.
(Source: estellegettys)
