Month / March 2012

by crowfooted

starrose17:

dataanxiety:

A quick geography lesson

It’s quite confusing to people to understand what the difference is between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and the British Isles…

By Anne Debenham, reproduced under CC License/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk.

YES! Thank you! That’s my biggest pet peeve of foreigners (namely Americans I have to say) referring to people as British and they’re only thinking of England.  Yes all English people are British, but not all British people are English, there’s Scotland and Wales in there too!  It’s like when someone was saying James McAvoy wasn’t British when he won some British award a little while back. He IS British! He’s just not English!

Thank you thank you thank you! Formerly confused American here; I’ve been a bit paranoid for a while because I didn’t understand how everything was split up (particularly embarassing because I know most of my ancestry is Scottish/Welsh and so I felt it was something I should know). This graphic is now saved to my harddrive lest I ever forget.

by crowfooted

Untitled but happy: paperbackmountain: gokuma: paperbackmountain: ““I don’t really diet or…

paperbackmountain:

gokuma:

paperbackmountain:

““I don’t really diet or anything. I’m miserable when I’m dieting and I like the way I look. I’m really sick of all these actresses looking like birds… I’d rather look a little chubby on camera and look like a person in real life,…

These quotes always depress me quite a bit, because they remind me that it’s not okay to be skinny.

I’ve been getting made fun of for my weight/build since I was in preschool. I spent close to  20 years trying to gain weight in any way I could think of. It never mattered what I ate or how much; indigestion was the norm for most of my childhood because I’d eat and eat, hoping that it might make a difference. I tried putting on muscle mass – turns out I’m very wiry; when I started working on my forearms they actually got skinnier because the muscles compressed as they got stronger.

I’m pushing 30 now and I NEVER wear short sleeves in public. Even in summer when it’s close to triple digits, I stay covered to my hands so I don’t have to worry as much about people thinking I have an eating disorder. If I’m eating with someone other than family or close friends, I worry that if I don’t eat a lot they’ll think I’m starving myself; I worry that if I go to the bathroom soon after eating they’ll think I’m throwing up.

What message can I take from statements like the quote above, aside from another reiteration that you should be proud of your body – unless you’re skinny, in which case you’re a pitiful, self-destructive freak whose issues can be solved by simply eating more.

Untitled but happy: paperbackmountain: gokuma: paperbackmountain: ““I don’t really diet or…

by crowfooted

Meet me here a week from now: Reblog if you were terrified of Unsolved Mysteries

stickthisbig:

Every time one of these “Oh my god I was four in 2001!!!!!!” things goes around, this is what I want to do. Or “Reblog if the Crypt Keeper still freaks you out” or “Reblog if you liked Crystal Pepsi” (shut up, I loved it) or something like this.

Because Jesus fucking Christ, I’m only in my…

Not so much terrified or freaked out, because I loved horror, etc. But yes! Crypt Keeper! And Unsolved Mysteries. And Hellraiser.

Meet me here a week from now: Reblog if you were terrified of Unsolved Mysteries