February 2012
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Hedonism - give me hedonism! I want an endorphin rush.
January 2012
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Is the internet so popular because we can all contribute, no matter what it is and - perhaps more importantly - no matter what other people think, because you can be anyone: anonymous or the person you’ve always wanted to be in real life?
Schnapps
The worst peer pressure comes from family. When they don’t speak your language and you don’t speak their pure language well - and you definitely can’t understand their dialect - and you have trouble understanding their regional accent. When it’s just your aunt & uncle and their friends, and you, without parents or siblings. When they’re shouting your meal. When...
Snus
I’m interested.
Parked under my top lip it sat, quite happily perched until I speak. Slip. I push it back under.
- I was so awkward getting it to stay under my lip. You’re a natural.
I check my watch: 2 mins. Unlike my friend, it creeps to me. Was that..? I think it… Okay, now my head definitely feels funny. Headspin. I can’t seem to focus on anything properly. My...
“Consumer expenditure on alcohol in the United States in 1999 was $116.2 billion;...”
– Foster SE, et al. - Journal of the American Medical Association
What it costs to fight acute childhood...
doctorswithoutborders:
• It’s estimated just over $6 billion a year will cover the costs of supplying enough therapeutic and supplemental ready-to-use foods to fight acute childhood malnutrition worldwide.
“Everything that I learned from you, that you stole from me, I’m gonna give...”
– to Arnold Schwarzenegger, in Pumping Iron
Vodka intimate, an affair with isolation in a blackheath cell Extinguishing the fires in my private hell
- Fugazi
NY Goal #1: Do a Chinese firedrill.
The awkward moment when your sarcasm is so advanced that people actually think your stupid.
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Simple but Brilliant Ideas →
Reasons Wealth Doesn't Make Us Happy
The second reason is that as social creatures, we compare ourselves to our neighbors. This is why executives can cry about the $500 000 salary cap that comes with taking government bailout money. Their friends are making $3 million a year and live in igloo made out of cocaine.
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Brinicles - underwater stalictites lethal to the... →
“If God is love and love is blind then isn’t it a logical conclusion that...”
– Vincent Dublado
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December 2011
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Merry Christmas!
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