Charissa Cotrill's Blog, page 53
July 21, 2013
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So excited about the upcoming ongoing TF2 comics series. Seriously. Expect awesomeness.
Oh my God
Ooooh myyyy goooood
July 20, 2013
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This is undoubtedly an amusing...
This is undoubtedly an amusing headline, but it actually touches on a serious issue in democracies: How can policymakers sell and implement necessarily policy when the general public is almost comedically misinformed about what policy is needed? The poll cited showed that Britons believe that 24% of jobless benefits are fraudulently claimed (the actual number is .7%); that violent crime is rising (it’s falling); that immigrants comprise 1/3 of the population (more like 13%); and that teen pregnancy is roughly 26 times higher than it actually is. “Politicians need to be better at talking about the real state of affairs of the country, rather than spinning the numbers," said one of the pollsters involved. In addition, “the media has to try and genuinely illuminate issues, rather than use statistics to sensationalise." So, in other words, the incentives structure of politics and the media needs to do a complete 180 from where they are now. Awesome, that should be a quick fix. source
GOOD GRIEF IT’S ALMOST LIKE THE CONSTANT BARRAGE OF BIASED REPORTING DESIGNED TO SELL SWINGEING CUTS TO SOCIAL SERVICES AND SUPPORT SYSTEMS WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY SPUNKING MONEY INTO MP PAY RAISES AND CLEMENCY FOR LARGE CORPORATIONS AVOIDING TAX HAS HAD SOME SORT OF NEGATIVE AFFECT ON THE POPULATION’S UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION IN THIS COUNTRY.
AND GOOD GRIEF, WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT, THERE HAVE BEEN SOME UNPLEASANT SIDE-EFFECTS:
INCREASED VIOLENCE AND ABUSE TOWARDS PEOPLE WITH VISIBLE DISABILITIES
INCREASED SUICIDES
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the downside of being a virgin is that u can literally be used as a...
"My brother is a tall, skinny, black kid with an athletic build who frequently wears a hoodie, often..."
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This is Rachid Nekkaz, a French businessman who announced he will pay all fines for women who are charged with wearing the niqab — not just in France but “in whatever country in the world that bans women from doing so”.
The niqab is a filmy cloth attached to the headscarf that covers all but the eyes. Any woman found to be wearing the niqab in France in public can be fined upto €150 ($200) and ordered to attend ‘re-education classes’. Belgium, Italy, Denmark, Austria, the Netherlands and Switzerland all have — or are planning — similar legislation.
The businessman has already paid fines for women in both France and Belgium where wearing the piece of cloth is outlawed. He said:
I’m in favour of a law to convict a husband who forces a woman to wear the niqab and who forces her to stay at home. But I’m also for a law that lets these women move freely in the streets, because freedom of movement, just like any freedom, is the most fundamental thing in a democracy.
He is pictured above with Kenza Drider, the longshot “freedom candidate" for French presidency, after accompanying her to a police tribunal in Paris where she appeared for violating the ban. Drider told The Associated Press in an interview:
When a woman wants to maintain her freedom, she must be bold. I have the ambition today to serve all women who are the object of stigmatization or social, economic or political discrimination. It is important that we show that we are here, we are French citizens and that we, as well, can bring solutions to French citizens.
Nekkaz put up a €2m ($2.5m) property to fund his campaign.
Photo credit: Getty
Wow wow wow. Bless his soul
I’m in favour of a law to convict a husband who forces a woman to wear the niqab and who forces her to stay at home. But I’m also for a law that lets these women move freely in the streets, because freedom of movement, just like any freedom, is the most fundamental thing in a democracy
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This makes me want a video game about a zombie apocalypse that only affects men so it’s up to the housewives of 50s’ America to save humanity.
…saving this idea for class.
i would play the heck out of that game, it is an amazing idea.
Also can there be a character design screen so you can make your little housewife?
I think it’d be entertaining to see what guys could come up with for making their female-selves. If you ask me.
I would so play this game.
I would suck at it but I would play it.
I’ve never played a zombie game, but you got me at 50’s.
Hngggggggg I love 50s clothes give it to me
OMG I already thought of some sort of premise:
In 1953 a certain laboratory on an undisclosed location developed a serum that could genetically modify humans, giving them enhanced speed, agility, strength, and brainpower.
Scientists found a way to modify the serum such that it could only activate itself in the presence of a Y chromosome, thus isolating the effects to men, mostly because of female discrimination at the time.
The serum was a success, and sales skyrocketed just a few weeks after its release.
What the developers did not anticipate, though, was the human body’s incapacity to handle the serum. The mental and physical over-exhaustion triggered a mental decay which starts out slow, but speeds up exponentially within a few months after usage of the serum. The brains of the users are left with only the most basic survival reflexes, transforming the users into strong, fast, agile, emotionless human shells, devouring any mobile life form in their path.
Bites from the affected individuals could place copies of the rogue serum into the bodies of the bitten, giving them the symptoms. Shortly after, the serum evolved into a sort of genetic virus, causing mental decay in just days. No one was safe. No one…
…except the women.
*cue in epic music*
Can you imagine the shitstorm this game would cause. I’d laugh pretty hard.
Would still play it though.
Not gonna lie, I’d play the shit out of this.
I approve of this concept 100%
I want a montage in the beginning of the housewife getting ready to kick ass
She puts on her best dress, a string of pearls, does her hair taking out the curlers, puts on her most stylish flats, and the finishing touch, her engagement ring with the big diamond in it, and when they fight, they look fabulous and kick ass like they were trained by Catwoman and Harley Quinn
Lipstick the shade of the blood of my enemies
oh my god everything about this post forever
I want this
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instead of flirting guys should just start doing weird complex dances...
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instead of flirting guys should just start doing weird complex dances...
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Fun fact: Humans are deuterostomes, which means that when they develop...
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Fun fact: Humans are deuterostomes, which means that when they develop...
In June of 2009, a rare total solar eclipse blanketed certain...
In June of 2009, a rare total solar eclipse blanketed certain portions of the planet in total darkness. Czech photographer Miloslav Druckmüller traveled to the middle of the Pacific ocean to the Marshall Islands to capture the incredible event.
To create the photos above, he compiled over 40 images shot from two different cameras.
Total Solar Eclipse Captured From the Middle of the Ocean
via Notcot
