i think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy
because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless
and they don’t want anybody else to feel like that
(Source: circumcisions)
Today’s Style: Galileo & Gears
- Suit: Sinister Sartorialist by House of Bespoke
- Tie: Black Peace Now
- Shirt: Express
- Cufflinks: Gift
- Shoes: Steve Madden
- Everything Else: The Galileo Museum in Florence, Italy
During my trip to Italy, I found the Galileo museum in Florence and I fell in love with it. Everything from the giant clockwork globe to Galileo’s own sketches, telescope and fingers. Yep, even his fingers were on display there.
Cute boy + Nice clothes + eldritch looking clockwork thing + big awesome map = oh no swoon immanent
ya know what just going to go ahead and put this on the main blog too
BREAKING: First pro male athlete comes out as gay
Jason Collins, 34-year-old center in the National Basketball Association, is the first openly gay athlete in major American sports.He wrote this piece for Sports Illustrated detailing his decision:
I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.
I didn’t set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I’m happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn’t the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, “I’m different.” If I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I’m raising my hand.
This is huge. This is so huge. Follow-up to come; we’ll be talking about this one for a while.
i have spent way too much time lurking through the scarier parts of the internet and i’ve discovered a horrible website with the funniest descriptions of sex toys that i have ever seen
that’s a good question
struck by a thunder oh my god
HOW DOES THIS EVEN QUALIFY AS A SEX TOY
um
well then
I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING WHAT THE FUCK
i don’t even need to say anything else
More logical fallacies for your viewing pleasure (1/2)
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why the hell didn’t i have this during philosophy ;____________;
So you have a merry bunch of French dudes dancing on a Macklemore’s song in a Japanese street. No reason to scroll past that.
(Source: meme-meme)
“Recreate any Series cover using ONLY Clipart and Comic Sans”
I bent the rules slightly but I think I got the message across.
Sex Does Not Sell
psdo:
Shattered-Earth linked me to these and I thought I’d post some highlights for tumblr.
- “While almost half of the man said that they liked sexual ads, less than 10% of those that were exposed to the sexual ads could recall the brand that was advertised (compared to 19.8% for non-sexual ads). MediaAnalyzer calls that the “vampire effect” – with the sexual object sucking up all the attention. On the women side, 28% of them said there were too many sexual ads, and while they tend to avoid the sexual imagery when looking at sexual ads, their brand recall with sexual ads was less than half that of non-sexual ads (10.8% vs. 22.3%). The study hypothesizes that this might be attributable to a general numbing effect that sexual stimuli has on the brain.”
- “The study found that, contrary to popular belief, sex and nudity failed to positively affect a film’s popularity among viewers or critics and did not guarantee big box office receipts.
- “One of the study’s co-authors, Dean Keith Simonton, said theirs was the largest sample of its kind used for film research. The results surprised him, he said. […] “Sex did not sell, whether in the domestic or international box office, and even after controlling for MPAA rating,” said Simonton, who is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis. “In other words, even among R movies, less graphic sex is better.”
- “Tom Jacobs, staff writer for the research-driven consumer magazine Miller-McCune, wrote […] “These researchers really put that belief to the test and crunched the numbers,” Jacobs said. “What I took from the study is that a hint of sex is perhaps more enticing than out-and-out nudity.”
- Article comically uses an image of Robert Downey Jr. handcuffed to a bed in Sherlock Holmes, apparently ignorant of the fact that Robert Downey Jr’s sheer animal magnetism, both in and out of clothing, generates money enough to compete with a Nintendo handheld console.
- Article contains a solid list of reasons why the myth that sex sells may have arisen and proliferated.
- “For the many products that are not related to sex, using sex to sell them does not work. It can even backfire. A recent University of Wisconsin study shows that audiences view ads 10% less favorably if they use sex to sell un-sexy products.”
- Article contains a list of reasons why sexual images may be an ineffective marketing tool.
Let that bit from the first article sink it.
“general numbing effect that sexual stimuli has on the brain.”
Off-duty sailor beats the shit out of an attempted rapist
A bus driver who tried to rape a passenger at knifepoint chose the wrong victim, a court heard yesterday.The woman, an off-duty US navy sailor, knocked the knife from his grasp, broke it in two, bit his hand, wrestled him to the ground and put him in a stranglehold between her thighs.
Having beaten him into submission, she left the bus and reported the incident to her commander.
she broke a knife in half
“wrestled him to the ground and put him in a stranglehold between her thighs”
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