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Masks stop you getting oxygen which is why you see surgeons regularly keeling over the operating table. Brides fainting halfway down the aisle. Hijabi women just passed the fuck out. Dental hygienists falling face first into your gaping mouth. Cowboys falling off their horses
Dying because Rage Against the Machine posted a message in support of Palestine and people are telling them to stay out of politics and calling them woke. WHAT DID YOU THINK THE MACHINE WAS a fucking washer dryer??
My mom is sending some of her embroidery work to be considered for an exhibition and just sent me her latest piece. She has early onset dementia (she's in her 50s) and epilepsy, and she made this as a visual representation of her brain 💕
Jim Carrey died filming the 1994 film The Mask. The lesser known sequel Son of the Mask is a dead parent revenge story. Like a green Batman. Batman is fine because his mask does not cover his mouth or nose
Every halloween hundreds of masked trick or treaters knock on your doors begging for sweets. You think the zombie ghost is a costume but you would be wrong
When they said all your heroes are dead they meant Spiderman, Daredevil, Ant Man, The Flash, Wolverine, Ironman and those kids from PJ Masks who died due to decreased oxygen saturation
However terribly homeschooling is going, be grateful that you're not the parent who inspired the "can all parents walking round in the background of virtual classes please ensure that they are adequately and appropriately dressed" email from my kid's school
(I just found out one of the guys from Slipknot actually did die so you can replace them with Mushroomhead if you get that reference or idk Phantom of the Opera, is that guy still alive?)
Hi if you’re trying get healthy or start exercising for new years please allow me to share some things I have picked up over my last few years of exercising fairly regularly
When I was a teenager the biggest burn of all was calling ppl fake fans and moshers at the weekend but now I am more welcoming of people who radicalise their politics through whatever accessible (or edgily appealing) gateway but listening to RATM and NOT getting angry wtf is that
Watching Friends earlier, my kid walked in and said ‘urgh, I *always* see that guy on this show’ while pointing at Ross. He’s annoyed that Ross from Friends is in every single episode of Friends
I met someone today who said he’d met me before at a party. I was like, nah don’t remember mate and he replied ‘I do, it was the night I broke up with my gf and you told her “don’t cry over him, he looks like a horse in a man costume” while I was sat next to her’
Idk just I have spent my life having rando men point at my band t-shirt and ask what my favourite songs are and knowing I could not get away with naming any of their popular hits, just baffles me you'd out yourself like that??
missed replies on this cos I mute anything that gets ten rt (the internet is a trashfire for women trying to make jokes) anyway nothing to promote so here's a playlist of angry songs that are prob not about politics (pls don't @ me with boring opinions)
Now that Oasis are back I think it's a good time to remind you how easy it is to make a boring man absolutely furious by pretending you've never heard of them
I have a lot of new followers so while you're all here, as an expert on being extremely cool, smart and funny, let me tell you, transphobia is extremely not cool, smart or funny
You can only apply for and manage your Universal Credit account online. I don't think enough people moaning about poor people having smartphones even realise this
Oasis? Who the fuck? I mean, they’re hardly Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci are they?? Ooh that’s good, I might use that when he gets back from practising his argument in the bathroom
You need to lift heavy. Especially women. Bulking up is not a thing you need to worry about. Osteoporosis is. Also looking strong is sexy af. Aim to look unfuckwithable. Aim to look like you could crush a man with your thighs
He’d rather believe that someone who grew up in this country in the 90s has never heard of Britpop rather than a girl might just be fucking with him 🤷🏻♀️
I said ‘I dunno dude, I was more into All Saints and reading Smash Hits magazine’ and now he is on his phone googling Smash Hits magazine covers from 1995
Hope this helps and doesn’t too sanctimonious. I just read all the books and blog posts and went to classes and tried all the things and then I got sick and I had to change my attitude to my body a lot again and I learned a lot of lessons these past few years
Don’t weigh yourself if weight is not your goal. Don’t measure yourself if you’re gonna get hung up on the numbers. Weight is a numerical representation of your relationship with gravity and nothing else. BMI is bullshit and everyone knows it
Forget ‘never miss a monday’ and other prescriptive fitspo bs. Workout if and when you can. A good rule of thumb is never go more than three days without exercising or three days without a rest day
Make sure some of your goals are not measurable by distance, speed, a scale or a measuring tape but by your happiness, confidence, mental wellbeing, sleep, feeling strong etc
Running sucks till you’ve done 6-9 runs, after that it feels pretty good and you’ll probably never regret going for a run but you have to do at least 6 runs (without a months gap between) to get there
@Beardynoise
My mom used to be into Germaine Greer style feminism and then my sister came out as trans and suddenly my mom was petitioning the health authority to advocate for her treatment and can reel off stats about why affirmative care reduces incidence of mental distress and self-harm
As keeps happening on this website, I have not seen a single tweet criticising Simone Biles but hundreds of tweets criticising tweets criticising her and I just think y'all need to be more selective about who you're following and allowing into your headspace
I mean, the kid prob failed at interview but also: who actually thinks the work put in at private school and the family background who can afford to send you there is the same as the work required to achieve the same grades with none of the privileges and twice the barriers?
🗣“It’s social engineering,” says a Surrey consultant whose son was rejected from Cambridge with four A*s.
“My son and his cohort worked damned hard but his four A*s don’t seem to be worth as much as two A*s and an A from someone at a state school.”
I think one of the things I hate most about this website is that when something big or tragic happens in the world I know I have nothing of any value, comfort or wisdom to add to the situation - and neither do most of us tbh
BREAKING: A tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for Covid-19. 6 other tigers and lions at the zoo are also showing symptoms. Believed to have been infected by an asymptomatic zoo worker. All doing well. To my knowledge, this is the first animal to test positive in the U.S.
Facebook is full of the same people who were saying kids shouldn't miss school during the deadly pandemic now saying the schools should be closed for twelve days of mourning
Some people won’t get it*. That’s ok. You‘ll outrun them soon. Or benchpress them
*My ex laughed at me a lot that first year I started running. I got strong and then I dumped him
People love to make fun of women in sportswear, saying it’s not a fashion show or whatever but I really believe if you feel good and hot and comfortable in your athleisure yoga pants then it gives you a little boost (people will criticise women whatever they do anyway)
Finally. Exercise is not a punishment for existing in your body. It should feel like a celebration of being alive*
*eventually. Those first few workouts are gonna be tough, but you are tougher
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@imteddybless
’ book and had to stop and write out this line from the section on self-validation in my journal... “Honey, I Shrunk My Self-Worth To The Point I Let Other People Treat Me Carelessly Because I Think I Deserve It”