Watching Novices Try to Erg for the First Time
They’re like…
16
May
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#Watching people who don't know how to erg is highly entertaining
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16
May
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#Eoin Macken #Tom Hopper #of course xD
The Fault In Our Stars, John Green
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Man Lives on cliff and talks down suicide jumpers for last 50 years
Meet the Australian Who’s Saved 160 People from Suicide
Don Ritchie lives across the street from the most famous suicide spot in Australia: A cliff known as “The Gap.” Most people would move, but Ritchie’s stayed for almost 50 years—saving an estimated 160 people from suicide.So what’s his big secret? Ritchie wakes up every morning and looks out the window for “anyone standing alone too close to the precipice.” If he sees someone who looks like they might be contemplating a jump, he walks over and… strikes up a conversation.
He just gives them a warm smile, asks if they’d like to talk and invites them back to his house for tea. Sometimes, they join him.“I’m offering them an alternative, really,” Ritchie says. “I always act in a friendly manner. I smile.”
Ritchie’s house might be the worst real estate ever. One person a week commits suicide at the “the Gap,” the cliff he lives across from. It’s protected only by a small, one-meter fence, despite its legendary reputation as a suicide spot dating back to the 1800s.
But the former life insurance salesman says he doesn’t feel “burdened” by the fact that people are always contemplating jumping to their deaths outside his house. In fact, he and his wife Moya see it as a blessing: “I think, ‘Isn’t it wonderful that we live here and we can help people?’”
Ritchie, who basically sounds like the nicest guy in the entire world, is 84, and has spent much of the last year battling cancer. But, as you might expect for a dude who’s managed to live across from a fucked-up, tragic place, and not become a casualty himself, he’s optimistic: “I imagine somebody else will come along and do what I’ve been doing.” I hope so.
This is unbelievable. This man is such a hero.
People like this give me hope.
I heard he saved about 500 lives. Still, he is amazing.
I want to make a new friend.
Any takers?
16
May
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#Sorry dear #no new friends here #BUT I STILL LOVE YOU #<3 #You should promise people a glockenspiel again #because that made me laugh #and people love a nice glockenspiel.
When I first saw this scene, I thought that Matt Smith was going to play the Doctor as if he had forgotten all about the pain of losing everything and everyone in the Time War, and it saddened me. Still in mourning, I thought, ‘Ten never would have agreed that he was lucky that he didn’t have a family anymore.’ Now that I know the depths of the pain that Eleven is hiding, I’m not sure how to interpret the joy with which Matt Smith delivers this line. I can’t even chalk it up to his happiness over being alive, over crash-landing and living and meeting a lovely little girl who feeds him fish fingers and custard. Because even though it’s his early days, I find it hard to believe that he could be so nonchalant about something that is still so exquisitely and sharply painful, and so this one little line bothers me every time.
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16
May
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#Doctor Who #The Doctor #Eleven #Amelia Pond #Doctor Who feelings
Story of a Five Year-Old Avenger, Meeting the Avengers
“Hi, Loki!” my wife said (100% sure she didn’t know Tom Hiddleston’s name). “Can my son get a picture with you?” she asked. “Can I put him on my shoulders?” Loki asks. “Um … okay?” is Jill’s response and hands Tom Hiddleston our son. He hoists him up on to his shoulders (I should mention that this guy is like 8 feet tall), and my wife takes out her Blackberry, only to find that it’s on its last battery leg. Nonetheless she manages to get a couple of shots. Hiddleston puts Edison down, shakes his hand and says goodbye…
… Evans crouches down next to Edison, who extends his hand and shakes the hand of The First Avenger. “Can I see your shield?” Evans asks and Edison hands his battered toy shield over. “Wow, you’re getting a lot of use out of this. You fighting a lot of bad guys with this?” he asks. Chris Evans and Edison proceed to have a conversation about the finer points of shields and fighting the enemy.
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16
May
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#I totally paraphrased this line #It was awesome
So you know how the Avengers was really good? →
I guess you could say
It was Marvelous
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16
May
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highlanderhufflepuffhugmachine:
“Killed 99 bears”
a fact that if actually accomplished, should be put on a tombstone.
My favorite part is “We hope he has gone to rest.” What, like… they weren’t sure? Maybe, if ever the bear uprising should start again, he would rise from the ground to finish what he started and slay that 100th bear?
Was this man so powerful they are concerned he might not have decided to rest at all and is simply biding his time?True bear hunters never rest. They only wait.
