firespirited:

infamousbrad:

kyacchan-comics:

My contempt towards a brand is directly proportional to how often they interrupt my playlists.

My late father was the one who taught me to be cynical about advertising, for all that putting up ads was literally his whole job. He taught me from a very young age that advertising is expensive, and they tack that cost onto the price. That if something is heavily advertised, you can count on the fact that there’s an identical product out there, usually even manufactured in the same factory, that’s cheaper because they don’t spend all that money on advertising.

A German friend walked me through Lidl, turning over items to show the factories where the items were manufactured and what expensive brands they correspond to, we did taste tests on some of the more pricey food things later and they were the same product. learning about food manufacturing was a hobby for her.

European glasses and sunglasses are made in the same Italian factories that make the luxury ones, they have the same quality control and warranty. You are paying €100 for a logo.

Some things cost more because they are actually made with better quality materials and where the workers are properly compensated, others are the same product as the off brand version with the brand name markup. It takes a lifetime to learn the intricacies which is why consumer advocacy associations and legal protection by (truly) independent agencies is crucial.

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bluejay-in-flight:

joycrispy:

Zepotha will never be Goncharov because when it comes down to it, tumblr culture is collaborative, while tiktok culture is merely iterative, and those are not the same thing.

Op I refuse to let your tags stay in the tags cause THIS!!!!!

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bemusedlybespectacled:

realphilosophytube:

maha-pambata-is-my-patronus:

dukeofbookingham:

penfairy:

oh! I have to tell you guys a great story one of my professors told me. So he has a friend who is involved in these Shakespeare outreach programs where they try to bring Shakespeare and live theatre to poor and underprivileged groups and teach them about English literature and performing arts and such. On one of their tours they stopped at a young offenders institute for women and they put on a performance of Romeo and Juliet for a group of 16-17 year old girls. It was all going really well and the girls were enjoying and laughing through the first half - because really, the first half is pretty much a comedy - but as the play went on, things started to get quiet. Real quiet. Then it got up to the suicide scene and mutterings broke out and all the girls were nudging each other and looking distressed, and as this teacher observed them, he realised - they didn’t know how the play ended. These girls had never been exposed to the story of Romeo and Juliet before, something which he thought was impossible given how ubiquitous it is in our culture. I mean, the prologue even gives the ending away, but of course it doesn’t specify exactly how the whole “take their life” thing goes down, so these poor girls had no idea what to expect and were sitting there clinging to hope that Romeo would maybe sit down for a damn minute instead of murdering Paris and chugging poison - but BAM he died and they all cried out - and then Juliet WOKE UP and they SCREAMED and by the end of the play they were so upset that a brawl nearly broke out, and that’s the story of how Shakespeare nearly started a riot at a juvenile detention centre

Apparently something similar happened during a production of Much Ado at Rikers Island because a bunch of inmates wanted to beat the shit out of Claudio, which is more than fair tbh

honestly Shakespeare would be so pleased to know his plays were nearly starting brawls centuries into the future

I played Claudio once and I fully support this

“When we took Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure” into a maximum security woman’s prison on the West Side…there’s a scene there where a young woman is told by a very powerful official that “If you sleep with me, I will pardon your brother. And if you don’t sleep with me, I’ll execute him.” And he leaves the stage. And this character, Isabel, turned out to the audience and said: “To whom should I complain?” And a woman in the audience shouted: “The Police!” And then she looked right at that woman and said: “If I did relate this, who would believe me?” And the woman answered back, “No one, girl.” And it was astonishing because not only was it an amazing sense of connection between the audience and the actress, but you also realized that this was a kind of an historical lesson in theater reception. That’s what must have happened at The Globe. These soliloquies were not simply monologues that people spoke, they were call and response to the audience. And you realized that vibrancy, that that sense of connectedness is not only what makes theater great in prisons, it’s what makes theater great, period.”

Oskar Eustis

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angelnovus:

angelnovus:

anthony “acts of service” crowley forced to do words of affirmation and he looks like he’s about to have a heart attack the whole time

ALT

THANK you tumblr user p4nishers

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finnglas:

Sexually explicit material is not immoral, actually.

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headspace-hotel:

flyttadigs:

batsy-bueller:

agentfrostbite:

ritterdoodles:

brokendreamsandpyramidschemes:

sergle:

ocdnatural:

when dealing with mosquitos do you:

1. leave them alone and let them hang out around in ur room (normal)
2. trap them with a cup and a sheet of paper and put them outside (mostly normal)
3. slap them in the air or on your skin (sure)
4. hit them while theyre on the wall or a piece of furniture so it leaves a stain (absolutely fucking deranged)

ABSOLUTELY love these tags I respect this person so much

You can tell OP has never lived in an area infested in mosquitoes, those assholes suck to the highest degree

Plot twist, OP is an alien researcher attempting to gather information and wildly misinterpreting humanity’s reactions

OP this you?

i had to live the majority of my life in the louisiana heat, terrified of malaria and the west nile virus since i was a child, and breathe in the mosquito killer gas that trucks regularly spray down the street in the summertime just to read someone on tumblr say that its normal to let a mosquito live

I promise mosquitoes are not in short supply. Smash those fuckers flat

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mr-nault-it-all:

tayloralison:

getting rid of family vlog channels one state at a time let’s gooo

HUGE!

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thebibliosphere:

Migraine simulators should exist so that people who say “oh yeah I get headaches too. Just take a tylenol” can finally shut the fuck up.

a-daks:

lower-ones-eyes:

dni-archive:

ALT

ALT

the american media rating systems

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bucksboobs:

cir-c:

bucksboobs:

Yes we need more chaste twee baby gay romances like heartstopper and yes we also need more shows where men fuck raw to express their love for one another like Élite and yes we need more toxic gays having hate sex like Interview with the Vampire and yes we need more incidental gay characters like the dads in cartoons like Owl House.

It’s not a competition! It’s a hoard and I’m like a gay little Smaug.

the normalization of porn in mainstream media is a weird take to have

Normalization of gay desire and yes, even gay sex, is paramount to gay liberation actually.

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viviantimmet:

obfuscatingintelligence:

if you set off a rube goldberg type death trap to kill someone, if it’s a long enough machine, it ceases to become your fault if somebody dies at the end. that’s how I’ve gotten away with it all these years, and why I’m still going to heaven.

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weepingwitch:

truly, no harsh noise project can ever approach the sheer auditory torture of existing in the same room as someone scrolling tiktok, like professional bad sound engineers couldn’t make a listening experience this unpleasant if they tried

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only-tiktoks:

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