thatmattdavies

that one guy with the lamest usernames

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Man.

I forgot about Towel Day.

I’m totally bummed out now.

Hopefully acting like it’s tomorrow instead will make me feel better. :)

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A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have “lost.” What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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Just finished watching Birdy the Mighty: Decode.

Man.

What

a good anime.

Seriously. Go watch it. It’s on Netflix so that’s easy if you have that, otherwise I’m sure you’ll find it elsewhere on the interwebs.

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the-misty-mountains:

This never gets old.

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staceythinx:

Glass Beach is a protected beach, but not for its natural beauty. Located just outside of Fort Bragg, California it became an illegal dumping ground for residents in the late nineteenth century who lacked any kind of refuse pickup. It wasn’t until 1967 that the illegal dump was finally closed by city leaders and the local water board. The beach was cleaned of large refuse, but small pieces of glass and plastic that had been worn down by the elements remain, giving the beach its name and its unusual beauty.

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lexcanroar:

so a lot of people (usually religious homophobes) use the argument “kids don’t need to know about gay people, introducing gay characters into kids’ tv etc is inappropriate because they don’t need to know about sexuality at such a young age”.

this argument would totally hold up except that there are straight relationships in ALMOST EVERYTHING KIDS WATCH. in cartoons, girls like boys and boys like girls. in Disney films, it’s men and women falling in love and getting married. and it’s not about SEXUALITY, it’s about RELATIONSHIPS. when kids see a Disney princess and prince getting married, they don’t think it’s about sex, they think it’s about LOVE. they’d think the exact same if they saw two men getting married, or two women.

plus, y’know, if kids are introduced from a young age to the idea that some people are gay and that’s just how the world is, they’re not going to be homophobic. kids find the idea of gay people VERY EASY to accept, because it’s not a difficult concept. and when they grow up they’re going to be like “hey, this is just how life works, no need to be a dick about any of it!”. even if you think that being gay is awful and unnatural, you can’t deny that it EXISTS. by teaching kids that it’s wrong, literally all you’re doing is inspiring hate, because you KNOW you’re never going to rid the world of gay people, you’re just going to nurture a lovely, hateful little homophobe.

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frezned:

Bless U

what’s THIS did I make a VIDEO

is it SHORT and SWEET yes it IS

because I like my videos like I like my fantasy dwarves

PAUNCHY

if you pronounce it like “punchy”

I like my videos punchy and my dwarves paunchy and the words sound kind of similar? if you had a really weird accent maybe

frezned out

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