I Wish Birds Brought ME Presents

[…] Physician and author Dr. Susanna Way Dodds, who wrote in 1883: “The spices in it are bad, the vinegar is a seething mass of rottenness … and the poor little innocent cucumber … if it had very little ‘character’ in the beginning, must now fall into the ranks of the ‘totally depraved.’” Jews did not get this memo. When Lower East Side public schools let children out at lunchtime, kids ran en masse to the nearest pushcarts. Social service workers were horrified. “Pickles were seen—by a nation on its way to Prohibition—as a compulsion for those too young to drink alcohol,” noted Ziegelman. They were often classified as a “stimulant,” along with coffee, tobacco, and whiskey.

this article is even more hysterical than i suspected (via pipistrellus)

Watch: This is spot on — but polls show it will take a lot to change public opinion.

If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.

Socrates (via fyp-philosophy)

something I need to tell myself daily

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Best Relationships for the Signs

Aries: Physical relationship: Cancer Intellectual relationship: Virgo, Capricorn Soulmate relationship: Scorpio

Taurus: Physical relationship: Aquarius Intellectual relationship: Sagittarius, Leo Soulmate relationship: Libra

Gemini: Physical relationship: Virgo Intellectual relationship: Scorpio, Pisces Soulmate relationship: Capricorn

Cancer: Physical relationship: Aries Intellectual relationship: Aquarius, Libra Soulmate relationship: Sagittarius

Leo: Physical relationship: Scorpio Intellectual relationship: Capricorn, Taurus Soulmate relationship: Pisces

Virgo: Physical relationship: Gemini Intellectual relationship: Aries, Sagittarius Soulmate relationship: Aquarius

Libra: Physical relationship: Capricorn Intellectual relationship: Pisces, Cancer Soulmate relationship: Taurus

Scorpio: Physical relationship: Leo Intellectual relationship: Gemini, Aquarius Soulmate relationship: Aries

Sagittarius: Physical relationship: Pisces Intellectual relationship: Taurus, Virgo Soulmate relationship: Cancer

Capricorn: Physical relationship: Libra Intellectual relationship: Leo, Aries Soulmate relationship: Gemini

Aquarius: Physical relationship: Taurus Intellectual relationship: Cancer, Scorpio Soulmate relationship: Virgo

Pisces: Physical relationship: Sagittarius Intellectual relationship: Libra, Gemini Soulmate relationship: Leo

Sketches by Jian Li