September 2008
46 posts
extra hot chilli whopper = pure evil
the extra hot chili whopper is pure evil in every aspect: when you eat it its too hot to be really enjoyable.5 hours later, when you shit it out, it gives you the runs and your ass stings worse then your mouth…. pure evil, i won’t be eating it again
Kredietcrisis voor dummies - Binnenland - de... →
brocatus:
Just what I needed; credit crisis for dummies though a bit old and Dutch only.
Op de 16e dacht men dus dat Fortis “too big to fail” is. Ik weet niet of die reporter dat vandaag weer zou schrijven….
Oops, that was dutch. In the article (on the 16th) they write: Fortis is too big to fail. I wonder if they would have written that today also…
Bailout rejected →
brocatus:
squashed:
Whoa.
I’m actually more interested/ excited than concerned about this. Might be because I’m not American, but still. Select quotes:
Earlier, speaking on the House floor, Pelosi said “$700 billion [is a] a staggering number, but only a part of the cost of the failed Bush economic policies - policies that were built on budget recklessness … combined with an anything goes...
We used to know better.
walpaper:
axiomecho:
This is Abraham Lincoln, then an Illinois state representative, speaking in the legislature on January 11, 1837. He’s referring to a dispute between private shareholders of the Illinois State Bank:
It is an old maxim and a very sound one, that he that dances should always pay the fiddler. Now, sir, in the present case, if any gentlemen, whose money is a burden to them,...
"The Week America's Economy Almost Died" →
walpaper:
noraleah:
This radio (and written) piece, produced by NPR and “This American Life,” is a clear explanation of what went down on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 18-19, to trigger that Friday’s announcement that the economy was collapsing and only hundreds of billions of federal money could save it.
By the way, next week’s “This American Life” episode will be devoted to the economic...
Watchwalpaper:
via nickmcglynn
Crazy video of near misses and lucky hits.
I wonder what the emotion is called that one gets watching this. Empathic relief?
Really quite amazing!
Dirty Secret Of The Bailout: Thirty-Two Words That... →
my advice: No Deal. such interesting times, I am really curious if this will pass. America on the brink of total sell-out. Is it time for a revolution?
What was the #1 Song on the day you were born? →
meaghano:
Prince “When Doves Cry” FUCK YEAH
”One Bad Apple” by The Osmonds, never heard of it :)
my daughters birthday: “Slow Jamz” by Twista featuring Kanye West & Jamie Foxx
my wedding day: “Tha Crossroads” by Bone thugs-n-harmony
haha, so cool, pity its the usa charts…
meaghano:
lamb:
Radiohead’s “Creep,” as covered...
“If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago, you would...”
– New Retierment Planning for Small Business - josh katinger’s “stuff i’d otherwise forget” peterwknox : soxiam : adamgotterer (via walpaper)
“An even better comparison is the Netherlands, which has a teenage birthrate...”
– Ed Brayton (via syntheticpubes)
verdad! and I know because I am dutch
walpaper:
betterthancupcakes:
“Sometimes you...
Watchwalpaper:
(via windycitygirl) simko:
DIY video instructions on how to create “balls of water”…
In contact with the air, this ”water” looses polar hability and sticks to itself, transforming into solid water spheres.
got to try this…!
Everything you need to know about the Large Hadron...
brocatus:
aaronwhite:
nrbd:
There are a lot of misconceptions floating around about the LHC, and considering that I’ve been looking forward to this thing for, oh, 3 years or so, I’d like to clear up some of the concerns. I’ll offer simplified answers that save you the trouble of parsing through Wikipedia, and REALLY really simplified answers that you can tell your friends when they say, “OH...
“A Danish chain of gyms is now offering membership free of charge, with the only...”
– Genius. The Long Tail: Microblogging random examples of free (via slantback) (via brocatus)
Ha! this is really good. I have heard about this reversed business model. There’s a real incentive there. A results based fee would also be nice. You agree how much weight you want to loose, how much...
some of her high school classmates still openly... →
ratherfancy:
“So Sambo beat the bitch!” This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
Watchwalpaper:
(via andrewmuto)
How do these people exist? Please watch.
oh man…..
“Nixon sided with middle America, mercilessly exploiting elite liberal values as...”
– Janet Albrechtsen, “Impaling Sarah Palin”
In case there is any doubt Janet Albrechtsen is one of the most right-wing, conservative, anti-intellectual commentators in Australia.
(via atheistramblings)
also, i forgot to tell you
meaghano:
yesterday at yoga our teacher told us to engage our buttholes. im not kidding. okay she said ANUS. and the only thing weirder than hearing your yoga teacher say, “Okay, I just have tosay it… YOUR ANUS,” was kind of opening one eye and looking around, realizing everybody else in the room— which incl. a pregnant lady, no less— was sucking in their buttholes, too. Cmon, I’m all for...
“I think God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that...”
– Governor Palin, addressing graduating students at her one-time church.
The gas line in question was a $30 billion pipeline project that she wanted built in Alaska.
(via atheistramblings)
Right Now: What Are You Doing? →
brocatus:
So, now I need to make this stay at the top of my tumblr dashboard…
i hope this repost helps…
“Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It...”
– Diana Rankin (via onherway)
