Genetic Lotteries

I thought this might just be a model whinging about how they are just normal people doing normal things and society judges them blah blah, actually I thought it was enlightening and really looks at how warped society is when image and appearance are concerned. I really think it is something worth watching and giving thought.

Spoken word by Sarah Kay

This woman actually has so much talent, her words give me goosebumps repeatedly. Big fan. 

Irish Reasoning

Obviously I have a hangover, because I'm an idiot, but these are things that have made me smile. After screaming the lyrics of Katy Perry's 'Roar' at anyone who would listen last night I have been loving her new track all morning. 

Also I found this picture and I loved what it was saying to me, so here you go a little bit of Irish reasoning in your life, HAPPY SUNDAY! 

Dancing Chicken

I don't know why but this is really funny...

What The Internet Looks Like

Graphic of Internet usage over the course if 24 hours (Internet Census.)

Who Invited Him (HP Love)

"Who invited him?"

 "Not me, mate."


"Think he'll notice if we leave? I've got the Cloak in my bag."


"Nah, he's too busy looking at the camera. Let's go."

Fake Playboy Post That Shouldn't Be Fake

When a new site was launched yesterday called Party with Playboy announcing that the company was devoting their annual college party guide to issues of rape and consent, and then when said site was quickly revealed not to be the work of Playboy, most people thought it was the work of the group FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture. They've now confirmed that yes, it was them.

Well, sort of. FORCE wants to clarify that while they helped with it (as did hacker "hacktivist" Dan Staples who also helped with the Pink Loves Consent project), the campaign "was mostly carried out by a national conspiracy of college students." The campaign successfully duped many into thinking Playboy really had produced this content, largely because of fake articles written on sites like BroBible and Huffington Post that made it seem valid:

Students from over 25 school across the country banded together to create the historic hoax. Consent enthusiasts hosted consent-themed tailgating parties, played games of “Ask First” beer pong, and excitedly pushed the prank on facebook and twitter, which is how it exploded all over the internet on Tuesday.

FORCE is also critical of Playboy's request that the Party with Playboy site be taken, which is sort of unfair, given that it'd be weird if the company didn't want it taken down: it's in clear violation of trademark laws, they didn't actually make the site and it implies that they have been promoting rape with their previous guides:

Trying to take down a website that is getting thousands upon thousands of people excited about consensual sex? Sounds like a party foul to us! We here at consent conspiring headquarters have one thing to say to Playboy: why not join the consent party, already??!?!! Of course you're invited! Consent is for everyone!

The goals of FORCE make a lot of sense, and their methods are incredibly effective, especially in an age when protest culture outside of the internet can seem hackneyed. Even more impressive are the many college-age women who banded together because this is an issue they care so much about. Perhaps the next step is approaching a brand like Playboy first before forcing them to deny that they made something that became so popular so quickly and seeing if they want in on it. Perhaps its naiveté, but given what we know about their history as a largely progressive company, I'm not sure they'd say no.

Source: Jezebel

Burberry Prorsum LFW

Lovin' it, but why the giant grandma panties? Who wears that? But maybe the panties aren't giant. Maybe the size 0 models make them appear to be giant...
Today, Christopher Bailey unveiled his beauteous spring 2014 collection for Burberry Prorsum, and it was an offering kind of pastel, see-through office wear. Which I loved, may I add. Burberry has moved so far away from its football hooligan ways.

A Darker Time....

And just in case your confused by Burberry Prorsum.....

A possum with blueberrys....

The Thirteen Year Old Who Makes You Feel Like You've Achieved Nothing

13-year-old Sushma Verma's father sold his land in north India so Sushma could afford to go to school. Not just any school — she finished high school at 7 and earned her undergraduate degree at age 13. What's next? Her master's in microbiology, obviously.

Sushma told the AP her parents "allowed me to do what I wanted to do" and said she "hoped that other parents don't impose their choices on their children." (Her choice would've been to go straight to medical school, but she can't take qualifying tests until she's 18, which is why she's getting a master's in the meantime.(Great, now I feel so stupid, not alone my dear, you are not alone)

Her family made her education their primary goal:

In another family, Sushma might not have been able to follow him into higher education. Millions of Indian children are still not enrolled in grade school, and many of them are girls whose parents choose to hold them back in favor of advancing their sons. Some from conservative village cultures are expected only to get married, for which their families will go into debt to pay exorbitant dowry payments, even though they are illegal.

For Sushma, her father sold his only pieces of land — 10,000 square feet (930 square meters) in a village in Uttar Pradesh — for the cut-rate price of 25,000 rupees (about $400) to cover some of her school fees.

"There was opposition from my family and friends, but I did not have any option," said her father, Tej Bahadur Verma.

Her father also drives her to school every day on his bicycle.

[AP]

Image via AP.

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Baby Turtles

Baby Turtles,
I will guide you.
Let me guide you to the sea!
I'm not like David Attenbourgh,  I will keep you safe.

Meet Panda

The Delicate Art of Swearing

I remember when swearing used to be exciting.

An analysis by Slate released Wednesday shows that our selection of expletives have quite a bit to do with who we are. The data, which Slate collected over a three day period from all Facebook interactions using a new developer's tool, revealed that the top 5 curse words in the United States were "shit" (10.5 million appearances), "fuck" (9.5 million), "damn" (6.3 million), "bitch" (4.5 million), and "crap" (2 million). Men and women use these words in more or less equal amounts, but other curse words—particularly anatomical words like "pussy" and "cock," diverged sharply between genders. "Pussy," "dick," and "fag" are all more popular among young men, while "cock" and -- with the largest gender gap in the bunch—"darn" were more popular among women.

Sexual profanities like "pussy" and "fag" are also strongly correlated with age, with more graphic obscenities tapering in use as age rises. "Darn," "fag," "dick," "asshole," and "pussy" also varied highly by region, with the West and the Northeast generally on opposite lexical poles. Us Northeasterners, for example, apparently say "dick" a whole lot more than folks in the West do, while you're more likely to catch "fag" on the Facebook of a Californian than a New Yorker.

According to psychologist Edward Mabry, cursing can fulfill more than one function. Based on an evaluation of 283 college students, he concluded that expletives generally fall into one of five categories: "abrasive," (e.g. "pussy") "technical," (e.g. "vagina") "abrasive-expletive," (e.g. "bastard") "latently sexual," (e.g. "scuz") and "euphemistic"(e.g. "shit"). The study was conducted in the late 70s so some of his featured slang -- like the apparently latently sexual word "goose"—comes off as a little dated, but you get the basic idea. Like Slate, he also found that each of these classes of words is employed with different frequency depending on factors like age, gender, region, religiousness, and political affiliation. Some of our most commonly used curse words, like "fuck" and "motherfucker," don't seem to fall into any one abrasive or expletive category.

The purposelessness (or omnipurpose, perhaps) nature of many swear words is a hot topic in fields like neurolinguistics. For example, why is it that when we can't quite grasp the word we're thinking of we might stammer "fuck fuck fuck" until the word comes to mind or we give up? "Fuck" is in this case what psychologist Timothy Jay calls a "neurological control," a way of re-routing a waylaid electrical impulses that might otherwise be expressed as more straightforward aggression. Cursing also has quite a bit to do with rebuffing systems of power, which is perhaps why religion, region, and gender affect which curse words you use, and transitively, our attractiveness.

A related cognitive explanation is that cursing is a part of our identity and that the words we use help remind us—and prove to others—who we are. Somebody who wishes to appear "no muss no fuss," for example, might say "pussy" or "faggot" with greater frequency than somebody who wants to come off as sensitive. You might also look at the problem from the opposite direction: everybody knows how to curse; the words we use have more to do with how we curb our innate attraction to the profane. Being highly religious, for example, will make you less likely to say "Jesus H. Christ!" when you stub your toe. For these reasons, public cursing can signal a desire to emotionally connect by concisely summing up, "Hey, I'm unconventional, religious, enjoy humor, and identify as female, wanna hang out?" without having to consciously or explicitly recourse to treatise.

Because of the strong relationship between cursing and identity, your use of obscenities actually has quite a lot to do with dating. Medicine hasn't exactly rushed to answer this question, but an informal poll by The Frisky offers some insight: cursing can be attractive at long as it doesn't seem forced. In other words, people who seem like they should curse are attractive when they curse, and people who don't seem like they'd curse come off as even less attractive for their attempts. YourTango tried a similar in-office poll and said that results were mixed: "One mate finds cursing always unladylike and unimaginative, another tends to think hearing the late George Carlin's famous seven words from a woman is sexy, and the tenuous agreement seemed to be that swearing is most attractive when used in the right place at the right time."
(Source Nerve.com)

How to Be Mysterious

Shocked Monks

(Image is from http://scorpiondagger.tumblr.com .)

Love/Hate Fashion of spring 2013.

Betsey Johnson
Okay, we get it you're really quirky and your having loads of fun.
And it is a bit try hard.
But I do kind of like it, mainly because you rarely models smile or actually look happy.








Thom Browne
It looks like he's raided the wardrobe of Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter, which is probably why  I like the colour palette, fabrics, textures, layering, shoes and some of the silhouettes a lot. I do think they went a little over-board with the flour though. And he spells him name 'Thom', seems a bit pretentious.







Guys Turning Gym Shorts into Dresses

One enterprising redditor came up with the idea and posted a photo of himself to r/funny. Just in time for New York Fashion Week, a new sartorial sensation was born.

Here's how it works: Get a pair of gym shorts. Put both of your legs into one of the legs of the gym shorts. Pull the other leg up over your shoulder, so that it acts as a sleeve and the waistband stretches diagonally across your chest. Adjust the waistband to obscure your nipple (optional). Twerk. I love this.  

Look at that handy work...

My Highlights of Fashion Spring 2013 (So Far)

Anna Sui
Part 20's screen siren, part wood nymph. I want to go vintage shopping and go for a frolic in the woods.






Jenny Packham
I have massive hair. So I'm loving this.





Marc Jacobs
For the evil, spinning chair, cigar smoking, silk pyjama wearing villain inside of us all....

How Moving To Uni is Treating Me.

This is the most accurate comparison I can make when people ask 'how's packing going?' .