Architectural Ferrets

Precision Engineered Miscellany

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awidesetvagina:

this is still the best story ever told at a talk show

(via suavebadass)

Filed under donna meagle conan o'brien video pffft applause for awesome

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You need to learn cursive because you’ll be using it all the time when you get older.

Everyone responsible for my trust issues. (via kamidoodles)

NO. FUCK EVERYONE. I LOVE CURSIVE AND I DO USE IT ALL THE TIME. ughhhhhh it’s not even taught in schools in this state any more and that

is

sad

(via zombizombi)

When I was substitute teaching an English class for seniors in High School, I wrote the instructions for the day in cursive. 90% of the students couldn’t read it so I had to break them into groups and teach remedial cursive. It broke my heart and frightened me a little. Especially since all my students in Japan (Middle School) had almost flawless cursive.

(via isolationary)

How unsurprising and sad. This both breaks my heart and frightens me a little, too.

(via zombizombi)

Who caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaares.  IT’S USELESS.  IT’S OBSOLETE.  THERE IS NO FUCKING REASON TO LEARN IT ANYMORE.  ANYTHING THAT MIGHT BE GAINED FROM LEARNING CURSIVE (if you could tell me what that might be without falling back on really tired, intellectual elitist tropes, I will be amazed) COULD EASILY BE LEARNED THROUGH SOME OTHER METHOD.

I mean for fuck’s sake you sound like hand-wringing 1950s parents worried over the state of Kids These Days.  Is that the kind of person you want to be?

(via notcuddles)

Also cursive is extremely difficult for people with certain kinds of learning disabilities — when kids are pressured to learn it, it becomes another way the ~good~ ~normal~ kids end up being placed above the ~losers~

I know this; I had to do cursive practice plenty in school and I still can’t read it most of the time or write in it. it just doesn’t click for some people.

srsly, writing instructions on the board in cursive is like deliberately fucking over some of your students who might never be able to read that as well as others. for no good reason, really.

ooooh let’s do it in code shall we! for no discernible reason except elitism. so only the ~superior~ children can read it

-_-

(via mswyrr)

While I do wish my handwriting was neater, I distinctly remember everyone in my class cheering when we reached the grade level where we would no longer be required to write all in cursive. I also distinctly remember how I was unable to finish an essay on a state exam because I had to write it in cursive, and I was grateful when I could complete tests without having to do that.

(via madamedevideoland)

being made to write neatly in cursive sucks.  though it is the basis for the highly bastardized fast form all my lecture notes were taken in

basic principal for handwriting: if it’s legible, i don’t fucking care what it looks like.

(Source: danielkoeker, via suavebadass)

Filed under handwriting cursive my handwriting is pretty good but my lecture notes are basically incomprehensable to anyone else all slurred and dropped letters but it's really fast

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k-iamironman:

singingoah:

apocalyptictacolord:

thoooooooooooooor:


#trying to get my ship to be canon #come on ship #lets go

Unpopular Ship?

Unknown ship:

Trying to get other people to ship your ship:

Ship remains non-canon?

Ship remains non-canon part 2:

You ALMOST Ship something:

Someone ships something you don’t ship?

Someone insults your ship:

Ship becomes canon:

What is the conclusion?  Jack Sparrow is a Shipper.

No, Jack Sparrow is the entity of “shipping”.

When someone shoots your ship down:


that’s CAPTAIN* Jack Sparrow to you

k-iamironman:

singingoah:

apocalyptictacolord:

thoooooooooooooor:

#trying to get my ship to be canon #come on ship #lets go

Unpopular Ship?

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Unknown ship:

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Trying to get other people to ship your ship:

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Ship remains non-canon?

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Ship remains non-canon part 2:

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You ALMOST Ship something:

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Someone ships something you don’t ship?

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Someone insults your ship:

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Ship becomes canon:

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What is the conclusion?  Jack Sparrow is a Shipper.

No, Jack Sparrow is the entity of “shipping”.

When someone shoots your ship down:

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that’s CAPTAIN* Jack Sparrow to you

(Source: themagicofvenice, via turtletotem)

Filed under fandom shipping captain jack sparrow patron saint of shipping and shippers

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demonsofslash:

Plot twist: There is no third Hobbit movie. They cram the entire rest of the book into Desolation of Smaug, and they don’t tell anyone about it. So you sit in the theater for six hours, completely unprepared as the film just keeps going.

(Source: beam-me-up-assbutt, via stewardish)

Filed under the hobbit i'd imagine you'd start to get really tense about 3 hours in wondering when the credits were gonna roll but they don't so you get tenser and tenser and way more invested in them not rolling because if they roll now there's gonna be a year until the rest and there's not much left anyway but you weren't prepared to handle all these emotions i don't know whether i'd be happy to get the whole thing at once or explode at the end