July 2012
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Observer New Review debate: Chris Brown →
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laurasnapes:
I was the “against” side in an Observer debate about whether Chris Brown’s rehabilitation is/should be complete. Going by the comments, I’m not sure that that many people agreed with me, but I stand by everything I wrote. Whilst fulfilling the terms of a sentence is one thing, I do find it alarming that we’re touting the notion of total forgiveness...
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So that’s where all the rain goes - Local -... →
ThIs striking picture shows where some of the heavy rainfall Britain has experienced this summer goes – it’s sucked down a plughole.
June was one of the wettest on record in the UK, with torrential rainfall causing floods in many areas around the country, and the April-June quarter was the wettest second quarter in the UK since records began in 1910.
But overflows like this amazing sight at...
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“I didn’t mean to create controversy here. Did you hear, there was somebody...”
– President Obama’s favorite Girl Scout cookie: Thin mints. And that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
Girl Scout cookie debates: They can get fractious.
(via barackobama)
ONLY AWESOME PEOPLE EAT THIN MINTS!!!
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thefandommenace:
How we imagine most English people speak.
How most English people actually speak.
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On July 19, 1957...
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“…five Air Force officers and one photographer stood together on a patch of ground about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. They’d marked the spot ‘Ground Zero. Population 5’ on a hand-lettered sign hammered into the soft ground right next to them.
As we watch, directly overhead, two F-89 jets roar into view and one of them shoots off a nuclear missile carrying an atomic warhead.
They wait....
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