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- Pangrams are fun
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz. The five boxing wizards jump quickly. How vexingly quick daft zebras jump! Quick zephyrs blow, vexing daft Jim. Two driven jocks help fax my big quiz. The jay, pig, fox, zebra and my wolves quack! Sympathizing would fix Quaker objectives. A wizard's job is to vex chumps quickly in fog. Watch "Jeopardy!," Alex Trebek's fun TV quiz game. By Jove, my quick study of lexicography won a prize! Waxy and quivering, jocks fum.
Kim Stanley Robinson
- Redefining Hope
If you redefine hope as something biological, it doesn't go away just because you're feeling discouraged. You can imagine that you're hopeful at the cellular level and that it's stubborn and it doesn't go away. It's just always there, it's the understory, it's your hunger. You eat your breakfast and you've actually acted on a hope that you had to stay alive.
-A Typist
- Four Men In a Boat
Ok so there are four guys in a boat, all smokers. They have five cigarettes but no way to light them. What do they do? They throw one cigarette overboard, and the whole boat becomes a cigarette lighter.
- A Typist
- Why do I enjoy this?
This has got to be one of the weirdest sorts of online communities I've ever found, this strange typing test forum. Why do I even enjoy doing this? Is it because doing something you're good at is always sort of enjoyable, even if it's something as mundane as typing? And who are the other people on here - we only interact through these quotes or by speaking into the void as I am doing here. I am here to say I understand you!
Anonymous
- I am a failure
I am a failure. Finals start tomorrow and I've barely studied for it. I'll literally do anything but study. Watching crochet videos on youtube, typing on this website, spending heaps of time on stan twitter, reading fanfics, staring out a window contemplating life. Midnights comes out in 9 days and I have a paper on release day. Louis just announced Out Of My System that's dropping this Friday. I have a paper too. Harry's on tour and My Policeman comes out same day as Midnights. I am drowning.
Theodore John Kaczynski
- Oversocialization, Industrial revolution and it's consequences
Psychologists use the term socialization to designate the process by which children are trained to think and act as society. Some people are so highly socialized that the attempt to think, feel and act morally imposes a severe burden on them. In order to avoid feelings of guilt, they continually have to deceive themselves about their own motives and find moral explanations for feelings and actions that in reality have a non-moral origin. We use the term "oversocialized" to describe such people.
Louis de Broglie
- from "Matter and Light"
We thus find that in order to describe the properties of Matter, as well as those of Light, we must employ waves and corpuscles simultaneously. We can no longer imagine the electron as being just a minute corpuscle of electricity: we must associate a wave with it. And this wave is not just a fiction: its length can be measured and its interferences calculated in advance. In fact, a whole group of phenomena was in this way predicted before being actually discovered.
Ned Fulmer
- Ned's "Apology"
Family should have always been my first priority, but I lost focus and had a consensual workplace relationship. I'm sorry for any pain that my actions may have caused to the guys and the fans but most of all Ariel. The only thing that matters right now is my marriage and my children, and that's where I am going to focus my attention.
Dr. Dave Grossman
- Neurological overview of paraphiliac disorders
Thousands of years of evolution have allowed men to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even troons who "pass" look uncanny and unnatural to a man. Your bone structure is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a drunk guy home with you, he'll turn tail and bolt the second he gets a whiff of your diseased, infected axe wound.
Boards of canada
- Nothing is real
Jesus, was it you indeed, to flirt unkindly with my greed? Promising eternal life, when you knew it was not right? When you knew that what I'd need was willingness and comfort there?
Anonymous
- You won't get it - Pt.1
A few years ago I read a book called "Wait It Out." I don't remember many things from the book but one thing I do is a point Jamie Grace makes. She says, "Promise not to call your future husband, or boys in general, names." All weekend I have been fighting against calling you names. There are hundreds of names flowing through my head I want to call you. Names I've wanted to call you in front of others or all by myself. Names I know would hurt you. Honestly, I'd say them so they would hurt you.
Anonymous
- I know - Pt. 4
I wish so badly to be wanted. More than I can even explain, I want to be desired. Everything in me is telling me I need not talk to you as much and I'm starting to listen. I'm beginning to realize my gut is pretty trustworthy. So to the sweet boy who made me feel like I was something worth looking for in a crowded room, I hope you find your Juliet. Much love (and a halfway broken heart), A.
Anonymous
- I know - Pt. 3
I know that I don't matter to you enough for you to care. And I know that I care about you more than you'll probably ever care about me. I know and it hurts a lot. This isn't your fault but it rubs salt in an already sore wound. It knocks me down and makes me remember that that isn't for me. At least not right now. The love, the affection, the shy glances, the hope. All of it, it's not for me. Not yet.
Anonymous
- Trust.
Why do I attract such bad relationships? I got ghosted twice, and people constantly milk me for what I can give. I tried to find better people. My fatal mistake comes here: I let myself hope. I finally had a relationship where we balanced each other out perfectly. She was attentive and understanding. We could relate on multiple levels, confide in each other, and would always make each other laugh. Turns out she used me as well. Will I be able to trust anyone ever again?
Anonymous
- I'm trapped.
When I was little, I was bullied. When I was a teen, I was ignored. Now, I'm the last option; the back-up, the safety net. I'm always there for them, but they're never there for me. For most of our interactions they ask where our other friends are, or could I help with something? It seemed our friendship would last forever, but after 4 years it's degrading; I'm being used. The way out seems clear but I cannot escape the grasp of my depression, my social anxiety, always wanting to blame myself.
The Quadratic Formula
Here is the quadratic formula: x is equal to negative b plus or minus the square root of b squared minus 4ac all over 2a. This doesn't make sense typed out in words, but there's the knowledge you didn't ask for.
me, in another life
- Bubbly
I could force myself to talk to someone new, pummel them with loads of questions, laugh at things that weren't funny, and smile wide until my jaw was sore. And my entire being always felt sore afterwards. I hated trying to mold myself into what I thought people wanted, and you made me realize that there was never any need to. I was already what you wanted.
PeachFlavoredRings
- You should do more.
Knowing that somebody you do things for all the time thinks you're lazy and should be doing more for them, is one of the worst feelings. What bothers me most about it is the fact that everything thing I do for them is either going unnoticed or they feel like what I'm doing for them isn't enough. If I tell them about how hard I've been working, they always find a way to turn it around and make it like everything I've done is lesser compared to what they've done. I'm just tired.
Steven Pinker
- Why academic writing stinks
Academics mindlessly cushion their prose with wads of fluff that imply they are not willing to stand behind what they say. Those include almost, apparently, comparatively, fairly, in part, nearly, partially, predominantly, presumably, rather, relatively, seemingly, so to speak, somewhat, sort of, to a certain degree, to some extent, and the ubiquitous I would argue. (Does that mean you would argue for your position if things were different, but are not willing to argue for it now?).
Steven Pinker
- Why academic writing stinks (p. 4)
Thoughtless writers think they're doing the reader a favor by guiding her through the text with previews, summaries, and signposts. In reality, metadiscourse is there to help the writer, not the reader, since she has to put more work into understanding the signposts than she saves in seeing what they point to, like directions for a shortcut that take longer to figure out than the time the shortcut would save.
