Aww, Halloween has come to Denmark too, but with little Danish twists of course.
Here the kids say “Slik eller ballade” which means “Candy or trouble”
Also, we have a few American and British families in this area and their kids rarely wear costumes but seem to be the most excited. I assume they didn’t know we celebrate it here too, so when they saw kids trick n’ treating they were like “Oh shit! I gotta go NOW!”
Edit: Haha, a little girl just said “Candy or death!” with the biggest smile.
Since he first looked in to see whether or not Trump had followed through on a promise to send millions to veteran’s groups (not), David Fahrenthold of the Washington Post has been diligently working through the records of the Trump Foundation. In those months the story he’s turned up has been one of a fund used to buy whatever Trump wanted, bribe political officials to look the other way on Trump shenanigans, pay off Trump’s legal bills, and act as a slush fund to hide income all the while illegally accepting donations from across the country.
He’s also found that Trump not only isn’t very charitable, he lies about it.
In the fall of 1996, a charity called the Association to Benefit Children held a ribbon-cutting in Manhattan for a new nursery school serving children with AIDS. The bold-faced names took seats up front. … there was a seat saved for Steven Fisher, a developer who had given generously to build the nursery.
Then, all of a sudden, there was Donald Trump.
“Nobody knew he was coming,” said Abigail Disney, another donor sitting on the dais. “There’s this kind of ruckus at the door, and I don’t know what was going on, and in comes Donald Trump. [He] just gets up on the podium and sits down.”
Trump was not a major donor. He was not a donor, period. He’d never given a dollar to the nursery or the Association to Benefit Children, according to Gretchen Buchenholz, the charity’s executive director then and now.
Give nothing. Take credit. And in the process, Trump damaged the relationship between a charity and a donor who had actually deserved to be on the stage. It’s just a one incident … in a very long line. Donald Trump, philanthropist, is an absolutely shameful charade.
the “poor person who refuses handouts” is a classist microaggression, it tells poor kids that the worst possible thing they could do is accept help and that poor people who do get help are “lesser” (because anyone who does get help is always portrayed as screwing the system somehow, ie. “welfare queen”), as well as emphasizing to people that your pride is more important than your continued survival or general well-being.
Funfact: As a teenager, I literally starved until I passed out because of this trope.
I know lots of people who could really use the help of food stamps or Medicaid and their first comments are always something like, “I don’t need it.” When they’re literally starving or are constantly sick.
fake-ass humility is one of the worst things we teach kids imo
The Fair Folk, the Kindly Ones, the Shining Host, we don’t call them by nice names because they’re nice people. We’re going HEY POINTY-EARED VOLDEMORT INSPIRATIONS, PLEASE DON’T WEAR OUR SKINS AS BEAUTIFUL GOWNS.
Because they will.
They fucking will.
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So I came home from work today and there was a kindle addressed to me that I did not remember ordering. I spent the afternoon trying to figure out how I accidentally purchased a kindle from Amazon, and when I came back from hanging out with Catherine, I told my parents, guys, you will not believe what I accidentally ordered for myself.
“Huh,” said Dad very casually. “Did you get charged for it?”
I spent the next five minutes checking my bank account and came back into the living room to announce, “No, I didn’t. Do you think it’s a mistake? But it has my name on it! what does this mean”
It was around the time that I started to sound panicked that Dad confessed to buying it for me (“I didn’t realize the mystery of it would be so terrifying”). Which was very, very sweet and slightly unfortunate because yesterday I purchased a replacement kindle for myself.
So anyway, we now have a family kindle
Me and Mom were talking about the kindle this morning, and she told me about how a few weeks ago, she got into her car only to discover that it had been mysteriously cleaned.
“But who would do this?” she said to my father who said he was sure he had no idea. “A student? A stranger? Someone who broke into my car to steal it but felt bad about how dirty it was? WHO??”
Eventually Dad was like, “Honey. It was clearly me.”
Poor Dad just wants to be a man who expresses his love through silent actions, but his family consists of panicked, suspicious women who apparently are very sure that strangers will ominously do nice things for us
Dunking on the “Blacks for Trump” woman and a Carmilla shoutout is the kind of glorious content we have to look forward to when networks finally stop hiring only straight cis white dudes to host late night shows. Please.
I really want Hillary to just say “Donald how does a bill get passed” and just wait for his response
We all know how a bill gets passed. There are some great bills. Beautiful bills. Unbelievable bills.
Will you pass bills, they ask me. I will pass some bills. Some of the best bills.
Hillary will never pass bills. She’s never passed any bills. I will pass them. I’ll pass so many bills it’ll be yuge. Hillary passed some of the worst bills. Worst bills ever. Unbelievable. She’s married to Bill Clinton.
women have long suffered the side effects and responsibility of hormonal contraception. Just last month, a Danish study confirmed many women’s long-held suspicions when it revealed a link between hormonal contraception like the pill and depression—though the side effects of hormonal birth control have been documented since its inception. But new research from the University of Edinburgh suggests that men may be able to help to carry the burden of hormonal birth control sooner than previously thought. However, the study was halted due to side effects not entirely dissimilar from what many women using hormonal birth control currently experience.
Men continue to be weak, water is wet
fuck men.
I’m so pissed
Announcement followed by every woman who has ever taken birth control staring into the camera like they’re on The Office.
Me: why do I feel so sad right now
My brain: you're a human being with emotions and a lot of stuff going on in your life, on top of that you have a known history with depression which means sometimes you have moods that don't necessarily reflect your situation, and you've just got to be patient through the times when your contentment lies fallow
Me: no that doesn't sound right
My brain: oh shit then maybe we should buy like ten dollars worth of candy
Me: that seems right, that feels right, I'm glad we had this talk
TBH all those “ask me” lists on tumblr are for young people, like “have you ever kissed anyone?” and “do you ever skip class?” If there were ones for older people they’d be like “have you ever refinanced your mortgage?” “how many times have you been married?” and “what body part hurts the most?”
“The Orange Lord is not concerned by this petty attack,” said a spokesman for the Trump campaign.“Only a cowardly child would act like this, and Donald
challenges his attacker to meet him in debate where he shall win, and
win, and win again.”
To show he meant business, Trump took off his jacket and rolled up his sleeves to threaten anyone who would wish him harm.
However when Trump handed his jacket to his spokesman to hold, the spokesman cried ‘Dobby is free!’, and vanished.“
