americans think ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN of driving 7 hours. they’ll drive 7 hours just for dinner. they’ll drive 7 hours just for chips and dip
My friend in the UK told me that they only see their father like 2-3 times a year because they live so far away. When I asked how far do they live, they said that it’s a 45 minute drive……. my commute to work, five days a week is an hour.
Okay, so I have a friend from schul who is an American married to a Brit, and when she and her husband moved to Oxford, her parents came out from the US to help them get settled in their new place.
So one day her mother goes to a shop to buy them a housewarming gift, and she starts chatting to the woman ringing her up at the till about how her daughter just moved to the UK and that she’s going to miss her so much, and the woman goes “Oh, I know exactly how you feel. When my daughter got married and moved away, I cried for days and days.” So my friend’s mother says: “Oh dear, where did she move to?” to which the woman replies: “London.”
And my friend’s mum is just like “That…that’s a 50 minute train ride from here???????”
you can tell that driving in Panama is a God damn nightmare when we are smaller than England,like 3 times smaller, and it still takes more than 12 hours to drive from one side of the country to the other
we legitimately can not drive on a straight line because we have hills everywhere
That bit about us driving 7 hours for food is not an exaggeration btw. I have an uncle who has driven to other states for barbecue. And we live in Texas, which means 2 things.
1. It takes an even greater portion of forever to get anywhere and
2. We have perfectly good barbecue right here.
A friend of mine is planning a trip to go get Grandy’s. It’s about 3 hours round trip.
Three of the four elements are represented in types of hockey; Air hockey (air), field hockey (earth), ice hockey (water). Fire hockey needs to be a thing.
fire hockey 100% does not need to be a thing
Yes. Yes it does.
Fire hockey already exists. Welcome to pelota purépecha, or Mayan Fireball hockey.
…this is the most awesome thing I’ve ever seen.
Guess who has an appointment with a new vet next week
How do people with good eyesight go to sleep? When I’m done with the day I take my glasses off and the world is suddenly a pleasant blur of the most generously monet filter of vision degradation and it’s like. We’re done. You don’t gotta see anything anymore. You try sleeping with perfect eyes??? Seeing stuff????? Sad. Shitty eyesight uncorrected is half a dream state already where you did lose your fucking glasses and you won’t find them till morn but it don’t fucking matter till morn do it
Also people with contacts are strong because we casually remove things from our eyeballs, people with 20/20 vision are coddled and weak and they will not survive when the eyeball touching winter comes
Bless this post because I had some problems after I got contacts because the Blurring of the World was an important part of my bedtime ritual and I thought I was weird.
Next Tuesday (September 25) is National Voter Registration Day, a holiday that sees the nation-wide coordination of nonprofits, libraries, media companies (like Tumblr and others) and more all working to register as many eligible American to vote.
Why?
In 2016, 1 in 4 voters were deemed ineligible due to a registration problem (missed deadlines, etc.). Our democracy works BEST when more people have access and express their voice at the ballot box.
So why is this important in 2018?
One word: Midterms.
This year, decisions will be made that determine who runs your state, legislatures, governorships, city elections, and more… and how your state is represented in Congress
By all accounts, this year’s midterms are on the minds of the American people in a way that seems wholly different than 2014’s elections. A June report from Pew Research shows that voter enthusiasm toward this November’s election is up 10% over the last midterm four years prior. Many nonprofits have felt the energy in the streets and online. This year just seems to feel different.
And maybe that’s because Americans are coming to understand that midterms, while not as flashy as the general election, have MAJOR consequences on how they live their life day-to-day. At a state level, there are dozens of Governors races that have direct influence on everyday concerns – how much money will be spent on education, the environment, defense? That decision is in their hands and they know it.
For a better picture, here’s what registered American citizens will be deciding IF they are registered to vote:
· 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives
The Paradox Machine 