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The next time you’re involved in a conversation about the degeneracy and moral turpitude of this generation, point your fellow debater at this video which shows that people in the 1930’s managed to overcome the threatening shadow of worldwide fascism and still be super gay. (Video via @severalbees)
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Anonymous asked: Do you reply to these questions? Where do the answers appear? But more importantly, what are you wearing?
1) I do. I just rarely notice I have them. How exciting!
2) I don’t actually know
3) T-shirt; jeans; hang-dog expression.
Anonymous asked: Why do Brits insult you and then ask you to agree with them? "You're a right tit, aren't you?"
It is based in the ancient anglo-saxon tradition of self-loathing and the protestant work ethic. In short, we often like to hate other people on their behalf to save them the embarrassment of doing it themselves.
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.” — Maurice Sendak (via bobulate)
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I don’t speak in public much - but I think I have it nailed: if you want to make a good speech, tell the truth as you see it, as simply as you know how. Even if you that means you’re just saying one sentence statements, one after the other.
Because if you don’t, then you can get lost in Trying To Make A Good Speech. And that mostly sucks for everyone.
But if you do, then you will at least tick the basic box: Get to the point.
And if you’re on your game you’ll find that - by simple virtue of the fact that you’re telling the truth and that’s easy - you can find some space between the sentences to add the odd grace note or wry aside. Pchew! You’ll look like a pro.
And, if God smiles on you, you’ll do something like the video above where, it seems to me, around about the 4m30 mark, Louis CK surprises himself at the depth of his feeling and the profoundness of the truth he was speaking.
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“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘This is mine,’ and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.” — Jean Jacques Rousseau - “On the Origin of the Inequality of Mankind”(1754)
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