So on Halloween the dude in the pics above went out dressed as a … well, a Men’s Rights Activist, I guess, or maybe a GamerGater, or Redditor? Something along those lines. Whatever he was, he apparently won second prize in some sort of costume contest.
Well, the dude at the Tumblr blog Indefinite Free Pizza is having none of it:
I have to admit he’s kind of got a point about the Doritos.
And he does have some awesome cat pics on his Tumblr as well.
I mean, just look at these awesome cats.
But I think there’s something terribly wrong with this bird.
H/T — r/againstmensrights
I never got the point of fedoras (or trilbys) the brim is a bit too narrow to actually provide any shade (which is why I wear hats)
Falconer:
Yeah, but Charles was five!
Cripes, if Douglass is kicking racists’ arses, no wonder he has to limit himself to certain days. He’d be on the go 24/7 otherwise and I’d bet he has better things to do.
And hey, big picture of Douglass = good!
Also Owen and Durer, damn yes! I love that Durer self portrait.
Ooh, I did not hear about that! Details?
When I was in high school, I had a total crush on Filipino revolutionary Emilio Aguinaldo. I am convinced that only his failure to die prematurely prevented him from achieving Che-like status.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Emilio_Aguinaldo_(ca._1898).jpg
@Katz: A fragment of aluminum found on the Nikumaroro atoll seems to match a patch installed on her aircraft in Miami, and sonar imaging off that atoll showed up an object that’s the right size and shape to be her plane. The object is under 600 feet (!) of water.
http://io9.com/amelia-earhart-plane-fragment-identified-1652466086
But Elgen Long (first transpolar circumnavigation) and a panel of experts, including a Lockheed engineer who helped build Earhart’s plane, examined the aluminum sheet just after it was found and decided it came from the wing of a PBY Catalina instead.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/11/141104-amelia-earhart-forensic-photo-spectral-imaging-analysis/
So I guess I’m going to have to walk it back a bit. This one group (TIGHAR) is pretty much sure they’ve found her.
@GrumpyOldMan: Dulce Et Decorum Est has always moved me.
I tend to shy away from Siegfried Sassoon — his war poems tend to be heavy lifting, emotionally.
I seem to have made it an informal tradition to listen to Eric Bogle’s “The Green Fields of France” every November 11.
Can’t link, but back in college I saw a photo of Chou En-Lai as a nineteen year old student.
Just yum.
Yep, that’s another addition to the hot political leader hall of fame.
I am in LOVE with the guy in the costume. A guy w/ a sense of humor who “gets it”? Sign me up!!!!
@Charles Montgomery Burns: I really think there is. In their weird fantasy world, it’s a zero-sum game and any gain for women is a loss for men. I also get the impression many believe that the goal of feminism is not equality of women but subjugation of men. So even if they conceded the former was a worthy goal (which they won’t, a lot of them deny sexism towards women even exists) they would oppose feminism for fear of the latter.
@Emil Sideman: An actual fedora can certainly have a wide enough brim to keep sun out of your eyes. A good one is also more or less waterproof so it works for rain too. Really though, it’s a style thing. I have one but I’ve barely worn it in years because it doesn’t match up with most of my wardrobe. You can’t usually wear a hat like that with casual clothing without looking like a jackass. The stereotypical “nice guy” doesn’t seem to understand that.
::nods::
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Premier_Zhou_1919.jpg/220px-Premier_Zhou_1919.jpg
Charles II
http://en.wahooart.com/Art.nsf/O/8LT4JH/$File/Philippe-de-Champaigne-Portrait-of-King-Charles-II-of-England.JPG
Louis XV
http://kat.mecreant.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/louisxv.jpg
@Falconer
“and their general inability to read critically or Google anything”
There are indeed plenty of younger people on Tumblr who fall too easily into the “not doing the damn research” trap. However, I’m fairly certain that a lack of critical thinking and lack of Google skills transcends age barriers and is consistently displayed throughout the internets. Obviously being gullible is a common Tumblr trait, but I wouldn’t go so far as to attribute their age as being the primary factor in that. It’s unfair to the younger people who actually do the damn research and do their best to correct the inaccurate information…which usually gets ignored because of course, the truth never does get as much attention as the initial falsehoods. But hey, they try.
I come on here sometimes to just look at the awesome cat pics. That cat on the hood. Awesome. Nonetheless that guy’s costume was great. Good idea, glad he got a prize.