I found my CD folder from 2011 and its actually kind of painful how normal my taste in music was at that time.

Ripping these things to my computer and remembering who the fuck James Blunt is. This dude's music was featured in like literally every rom com for like five years.

Listen.

I had a variety. Train, Michael Buble (but NOT a Christmas album), Chumbawumba, Amy Winehouse...

But easily the album I listened to the most that year was Linkin Park's Thousand Suns- which so many people regarded as one of the worst albums at the time and I think that says something about my mental state as someone driving solo across the country through a wildfire.

Okay but let's be real, it's an absolute banger of an album, just nobody really knew what to make of it because "a concept album about the horrors of nuclear devastation" was not on anybody's bingo cards for what Linkin Park might possibly do next, but that sure was what they did next. Like, it's legitimately extremely good. It's just out there as hell. Still kinda is compared to any of their other stuff, but it's ended up one of my all time favorite albums of any artist and I hesitate to try and count how many times I've listened through the entire thing. But that's like peak driving solo through a wildfire music.

Concept albums are hard to sell, even when a band has made it.

Seeing the smoke in the distance as the first 'ping' sounds in Requiem, to realize that you are indeed heading towards the fire in When They Come For Me...to come out the other side of it with it dying down behind you while Chester sings you out in Messenger...

...will do a few things to your sense of appreciation for a concept album about nuclear war.

for the love of fucking god let me reblog ads tumblr

is that a fucking game boy cartridge case?

this is a legit lifehack because keeping a condom in your wallet is bad news. the friction from it being in your pocket or jostled around wears down the latex and can cause it to tear. if you keep one on you in a gameboy cart case that won’t be an issue because no one will have sex with you

The saga of Peanut the Squirrel

I know this against my will but the owner of peanut was repeatedly warned that he needed to give him up and could not have him without a license, and the reason peanut was euthanized was bc he bit the cop that came to get him and since the owner had never bothered to get him vaccinated for rabies they had to euthanize him (peanut) to test his brain for rabies. So actually this really is pretty much completely all on the owner.

Every cop should get bitten by a squirrel and contract rabies. You’re a shameful coward

I didn't think I had to clarify my point was that every pet should be vaccinated against rabies at a bare minimum, not that peanut deserved to die for the crime of biting a cop. The cop biting part was admirable.

Did the orange felon show up on tv or something?

2010. A Japanese woman sits down to take photos of her shiba inu dog for her blog. Suddenly, a man leaps out of a time portal. "Sorry, I can't let you do this. I cannot tell you why." She asks: "Is it forbidden knowledge from the future?" He sighs: "No, it's just too fucking stupid to explain."

lindt is being sued in a class action in the united states because they are one of MANY brands of chocolate that tested high for heavy metals. and this is despite lindt claiming their chocolate is "expertly crafted with the finest ingredients". no recall was issued after the tests came out. lead and cadmium can fuck the body over BAD.

lindt's genius defense is that they are going to stop saying the whole thing about being expertly crafted with the finest ingredients, so nobody can complain about the heavy metals in their chocolate anymore! and that makes it okay. source: trust me bro

(now please drop the lawsuit thanks)

consumer reports test results of a bunch of different chocolate brands <- original report being referenced

even more chocolate brands that were tested for heavy metals

imagine this. you advertise yourself as "the coolest dude around". your whole persona is being "cool" and "chill". and then one day, you burn someone's house down on purpose. they inevitably sue the shit out of you. and your defense is that you will stop calling yourself "cool" or "chill" so nobody can reasonably expect that you will not set things on fire, because fire is hot, which is the opposite of cool and chill. and therefore everything is fine now and nobody can be mad at you anymore.

that is lindt's defense here.

The great thing about huge declarations is that the most times you're ever going to have to deliver on them is ONCE. And even that is vanishingly unlikely. The dishes happen every day. My feet hurt now. The kids need a lift to piano lessons every week. The grenade is hypothetical.

Remember the opening of Stardust?

Dudes swearing all kinds of oaths to the girl he's obsessed with. Climb every mountain, swim every ocean, he gets as far as promising her a baby polar bears head before they see a shooting star and she gives him a week to go bring it back to her, seemingly just to get him away from her for a week, she shows no real intrest in his attempts to gain her attention.

What happens?

He meets a woman who speaks to him like another person. He learns to fight and has to use his wits to save his own skin. He befriends people who don't see him as a doormat, and learns about himself along the way.

When he gets back he finally realizes he was being taken for a fool when he meets the girl who sent him on his ridiculous quest, and quickly turns his back on the situation he started in.

I guess the metaphor here is that any guy offering to jump on a grenade or fight a bear is asking to be sent on a mission of self discovery, because he's an immature idiot who needs a wakeup call and some real friends.

This quote from Guards! Guards! hits real hard right now.

thread count is a lie perpetrated by Big Bedsheets. what really matters is the material.

i said this as a joke but then i googled this and

turns out i was right?????? high thread count IS a lie?????

Considering our biggest airport is in a city that can't even go two hours into a new year without a murder, probably high velocity lead poisoning.

How does superglue REFUSE to come out of the tube when you're actively trying to get some out, but as soon as you give up and put it down, the damn thing decides it's time to do world's best pineapple-with-a-werewolf-boyfriend -impression?

This website makes it impossible to communicate with normal people.

For weird dice wednesday, I present to you, the dUltimate die.For when you friend forgets their dice and asks to borrow a set.

[image: two stormtroopers from Star Wars, each with a measuring stick showing their height. the one labeled "Imperial Stormtrooper" is five feet eleven inches tall; the one labeled "Metric Stormtrooper" is one hundred eighty centimeters tall."]

just overheard my wife spelling something on the phone and i shit you not saying the words “E as in Eeyore” i am on my hands and knees wailing screaming crying pleading and begging people to learn the NATO phonetic alphabet

like the reason this exists is because none of the words sound like each other, which means that even with a terrible signal both parties should be able to clearly understand the words being spelled

i am dead serious that i believe this should be taught in school

Me in a Starbucks: It's Mike-India-Kilo-Echo

The Barista: Order for your Kindy Achillo-Hecko sir

A THEFT