1) How to get volunteers for this?
2) This just proves once again how sadistic medical pratices can be.
3) What is the training for those administering this treatment?
4) Who came up with this idea???
Man. Cops got called, people are fighting and throwing punches… working Black Friday is awesome! I’ve been called a bitch so many times today!
–Text from Catherine who works at Babies’R’Us (via duplo)
LMAO
Via Jessica C.Word of the day
scienter
PRONUNCIATION:
(sy-EN-tuhr)
MEANING:
adverb: Deliberately; knowingly.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin scienter (knowingly), from scire (to know; to separate one thing from another). Ultimately from the Indo-European root skei- (to cut or split) that also gave us schism, ski, shin, science, conscience, and nice.
NOTES:
In law, scienter is an important concept. Scienter must be shown, i.e. a person was aware — for example, the currency note he was passing was counterfeit — to prove the guilt. The word is often used as a noun.
USAGE:
“The judge said that the complaint, if true, would show BankAtlantic’s executives acted with scienter — the intent or knowledge of wrongdoing that’s the key to a plaintiff’s argument in a class action complaint.”
Brian Bandell; Judge Lets Class Action Suit Proceed Against BankAtlantic Bancorp; South Florida Business Journal; May 22, 2009.
thanks
If Santa is always watching us to make sure we are being good enough to get presents then shouldn’t he also be able to hear us say what we want him to bring us? Why do I have to write him a letter?
–How much longer do we have to play this game? Because I am kind of over making up excuses for and answering questions about imaginary people for the endlessly inquisitive short people who are always one step ahead of me. I don’t understand why anyone thought it would be a good idea to lie to people whose primary occupation is asking questions and trying to figure the world out.
These interrogations aren’t good for my already pounding head. Also, in case you wanted to know, looking at turkey parts in a pot is making me want to die.
Happy Thanksgiving!
(via beautifulordinaire)
Via the beautiful and the ordinairyVanilla vodka + pineapple juice + splash of grenadine = yummy pineapple upside-down cake martini
It really does taste like pineapple upside-down cake!
Eugène Atget - Vue prise sur les tois (flying buttresses), Eglise Saint-Séverin, 1903
From Paris Eugène Atget
There will be other things of course, but this is the first year I’m attempting a pheasant… thanks to Caleb.
Word of the day
apropos
PRONUNCIATION:(ap-ruh-PO)
MEANING:adverb: 1. In reference to. 2. Appropriately; relevantly.
adjective: Appropriate.
ETYMOLOGY:From French à propos (to the purpose), from Latin propositium (purpose), from ponere (to put). Ultimately from the Indo-European root apo- (off or away) that is also the source of pose, apposite, after, off, awkward, post, and puny.
USAGE:”Tom Stoppard said, apropos of his play Arcadia, that there were some works that made a playwright feel not so much proud as lucky.”
Alastair Macaulay; When Death (That Bowler-Hatted Gent) Comes Calling in Dreams; The New York Times; Mar 6, 2008.
About Me
Singular: being out of the ordinarySynonyms: curious, extraordinary, funny, odd, offbeat, peculiar, queer, rare, strange, uncommon, unique, weird
Related Words: bizarre, eccentric, far-out, outlandish, outré, way-out; aberrant, abnormal, exceptional, irregular; notable, particular, remarkable
Notions: small useful items
Synonyms: novelties, odds and ends, sundries
Related Words: bauble(s), bric-a-brac, gewgaws, knickknacks, trinkets; hodgepodge, miscellany, variety
