Month: March 2015

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comparativelysuperlative:

kneesbutt:

westfailia:

what if a catholic priest were to just bless the entire ocean would it turn the entire thing into holy water or do priests have an effective blessing range? does that range increase based on your level? can the pope bless the entire ocean?

so technically any priest could, but shouldn’t for pooping reasons. 

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source: my brother is in his 4th year of study at a catholic seminary, and referred to one of his professors.

So if there’s an emergency where you REALLY NEED to bless the entire Earth water cycle, you’d just need to make sure everyone knows about it and has a self-contained recyclable water supply somehow? If humanity ever gets reduced to a few besieged survivors, the vampires aren’t gonna know what hit them.

#this does count as using it as holy water I hope

Well, but there’s also the part about having to see the water, which could get tricky if you’re trying to bless most of the Earth. My first thought was “live satellite video”, but I’m not sure that counts.

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#the more you know #reply via reblog

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harry2016:

HOLY TRINITY 

 

fannishminded:

MULTIPLE people I am following are asking what these are, why we call them holy when only one has a hole. If they are made by the same company, and what is with us praising these.

I weep for you people, from other countries. WEEP.

Aussies may have Tim Tams.

EU may have Kinder and All sorts of fantastic biscuits.

USA? Has GIRL SCOUT COOKIES.

Not only are these things SINFULLY good, they are only sold for a bit over 1 month of the year, depending on region, that month of the year changes.

That middle one is Chocolate, Caramel Coconut. The left one is Peanut Butter, chocolate and sex on a stick aka crumbly cookie/biscuit.

You can eat em straight from the box, but pros? Pros eat these bad boys frozen.

And thin mints, man. that right one? THIN MINTS. You may have heard of these. Chocolate biscuit infused with mint essence coated in dark chocolate.

Yeah.

Those thin mints.

The Thin Mints for which every grown ass American on a Medical Diet cries for when they see a girlscout.

The Thin Mints with 1000 copycats, and not a one of them successful.

Girl Scouts, regularly boycotted by Fundies and Anti-choice nutters, not only taste amazing, but you get the joy of giving money to a good cause, while subtly flipping the bird at overly wound up fundie groups.

It’s like donating to Planned Parenthood and getting a box of double dark chocolate with fudge filling tim-tams especially made for them.

 

doctorcakeray:

The reason we eat them frozen is that we buy as many boxes of thin mints as we possibly can during that short sale period, and then store them for the dark months, like proud American squirrels.

 

landscapesclothesandfootball:

PROUD AMERICAN SQUIRRELS.

 

pjcalamity:

AMERICAN SQUIRRELS REPRESENT

 

kyliesparks27:

This is the greatest explanation of Girl Scout cookies I’ve ever seen

 

elenabernalt:

Hey… gives us some, haven’t you been told to share?

 

justice-turtle:

NOBODY SHARES THIN MINTS, BUY YOUR OWN ;-)

fuck I missed it again, I hate being broke, SOMEDAY I will have money during February and buy Girl Scout cookies

Are there any late booth sales in your area? I know I looked it up recently and saw that the Girl Scouts of Western New York (my nearest council) had booth sales going well into March.

Unfortunately, my parents have since decided we’re not going to NY again until April. :(

(For the record, Canada has Tim Tams and Kinder. The Girl Guides here sell mint cookies in the autumn, but they have a layer of Oreo-like cream on top, just below the chocolate coating. Since I’ve never been too fond of Oreo cream, I find it renders them inferior to proper Thin Mints.)

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#Girl Scouts #food #reply via reblog #I own a Samoa keychain #I don’t even *like* Samoas #but it was the only cookie keychain the Girl Scout store had left in stock #(I hear they’re called Caramel DeLites now) #(whatever) #(I doubt they taste any better) #home of the brave

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mudfleas:

 

shadesofmauve:

magpiedminx:

percychekov:

sirdef:

northwangerabbey:

Sulu’s like “whatever, drama queen.”

is sulu texting

he’s livetweeting chekov’s problems

“You are so Russian.”

The idea of Sulu having a proportionally huge Future!Internet following to what Takei has now is making my day. I’ve been rewatching TOS; now I’m going to interpret every once of Sulu’s little smiles as “I’m gonna blog this.”

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#Star Trek #TOS

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ithilienne:

If you’ve never driven across Montana, it does this thing where – the sky in Montana is gigantic, they call it ‘Big Sky Country’ and that’s not just advertising – and there’s mountains in the distance and you think that you’re going to get to them but then you don’t, and you realize you are going to spend the night in Montana and then you drive and drive and the mountains never get any closer and never get any closer and then, holy shit i’m in the mountains! And it’s kind of like turning 30 in that regard.

ursulavernon, as quoted in Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap, Episode 89 “I Will Show You Fear in a Handful of Ramen” (the story then devolves into what happens when you’re traveling to college and find yourself at the small town’s singular restaurant on a Sunday morning after church)

 

tkingfisher:

Yes. I do a weekly podcast where my husband and I eat prepackaged food and get inebriated. For some reason, otherwise sensible people listen. (Also a very short one called the Hidden Almanac, but that’s weird alternate history and only five minutes long.)

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#Ursula Vernon #we listen because it’s *hilarious* #seriously I highly recommend KUEC if you are having a bad day #cheers me right up

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outofcontextdnd:

outofcontextdnd:

Okay first of all something is making all those stupid ad post I don’t know whats going on there.

obviously mine or one of the other mods accounts have been compromised.

Yeah, the “personality test app” is a fairly well-known virus. (Not always well-known enough, unfortunately.)

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#reply via reblog #PSA

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itsnotthatfunnyisit:

My talents include being able to hear a Fleetwood Mac song playing lightly in the background of a loud, crowded store or supermarket.

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#music #yes #I once did this with a Fleetwood Mac song that I had never previously heard #also with two Phil Collins songs that I had never previously heard #more recently I was in the grocery store and heard the sound of an alto holding ‘ohhhhhh’ #the longer it went on the more convinced I became that it was ‘No Light No Light’ #until by the twelve-second mark or so (when it ended) I was completely unsurprised to find out that in fact it *was*

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outofcontextdnd:

“Whatever their half-baked plans are, we need to make sure they don’t interfere with our own half-baked plans – otherwise we’ll all end up with quarter-baked plans and that’s practically raw.”