November 2009
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Las leyes fundamentales de la estupidez humana →
Esto es un clásico, pero lo mismo queda por ahí alguien que no lo ha leído. Sabiduría y risas, todo en el mismo pack.
“Los estúpidos son peligrosos y funestos porque a las personas razonables les resulta difícil imaginar y entender un comportamiento estúpido. Una persona inteligente puede entender la lógica de un bandido. Las acciones de un bandido siguen un modelo de...
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Proverbs and quotations about language in many... →
dailymeh:
Omniglot has a list. I like these:
“The more languages you know, the more you are a person.” — Bulgarian saying.
“It’s no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase ‘As pretty as an airport’ appear.” — Douglas Adams.
“Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations… Language is the most massive and...
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reasons to drink
Apparently, it’s “night of the lists” on the Internet.
bringtheruckuss:
accomplishment.
defeat.
birth.
death.
praise.
criticism.
betrothal.
hatred.
love.
cold.
heat.
day.
night.
boredom.
activity.
nudity.
routine.
sex.
peace.
war.
neutrality.
the mother land.
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How to make a woman happy →
Easy stuff.
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Re: Pets in the building →
Este tío es el DIOS de las respuestas por email. Muero del descojone.
From: Helen Bailey Date: Friday 22 May 2009 9.43am To: David Thorne
Do you have pets in the apartment or not?
From: David Thorne Date: Friday 22 May 2009 11.27am To: Helen Bailey
Dear Helen, No. I have a goldfish but due to the air conditioner in my apartment being stuck on a constant two degrees celcius, the...
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Top 20 Unfortunate Lessons Girls Learn From... →
So fucking great. 1, 8, 15 and 16 are my favorites.
If a boy is aloof, stand-offish, ignores you or is just plain rude, it is because he is secretly in love with you — and you are the point of his existence.
Secrets are good — especially life-threatening ones.
It’s OK for a potential romantic interest to be dimwitted, violent and vengeful — as long as he has great abs.
If a boy tells you to...
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“Commas are probably the most misunderstood of all punctuation. They frequently...”
– The Fake AP Stylebook
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A slight glimpse of perfection from this album.
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Exhibit: Iranian banknotes uprising
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Anti-government activists are not allowed to express themselves in Iranian media, so theses activists have taken their expression to another high circulation mass-medium, banknotes. The Central Bank of Iran has tried to take these banknotes out of circulation, but there are just too many of them, and gave up. For the activists’ people it’s a way of saying “We are here, and the green...
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Random Wikipedia Facts: Behavioral sink →
“In 1958, ethologist John B. Calhoun conducted over-population experiments on rats on a farmland in Rockville, Maryland which resulted in the publication of an article in the Scientific American of a study of behavior under conditions of overcrowding. Calhoun provided a cage of rats with food and water replenished to support any increase in population, but the cage was fixed at a size...
