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Good Yule! God Jul! Glædelig Jul!  Gleðileg Jól!  Hyvää Joulua!

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Tarot Cards

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I could not not share this.

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f O R M A T  C H A N G E

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Adventures in Learning Spanish: Having a freak out edition.

Adventures in Learning Spanish: Having a freak out edition.

I’ve been in Chile for almost 9 months now, time flies eh? My Spanish level is frankly pathetic for the amount of time that I have been here and everyone keeps telling me that too. “You’ve been here so long, you are learning very, very slowly.” ……Yeah, okay. I get it. I’m mad at myself too but the constant reminders aren’t helping with the learning process, they are just stressing me out even…

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man sorry for the #long post but boy is this creepy

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we have come full circle

So, in the Victorian era, there was this hilarious concept of “the mustache spoon”.

Do you see how it works and what it’s supposed to do? Mustaches and facial hair were very important to the Victorians, so the mustache spoon has that little weird barrier in there that prevents food (soup, mostly, and other things you could basically sip from spoons) from getting on your mustache. Cuz sucking on your mustache to get stuff off of it is considered kind of bad form, even if it is efficient. 

The mustache spoon went obsolete once we hit about 1900. Facial hair quickly went out of style in the 20th century (that’s another post entirely), so there was no use for it. Plus, there was the fact that people looking back on the Victorian era thought it was completely ridiculous that such a froufrou, unnecessary thing as a special spoon to protect your mustache gained any sort of popularity to begin with.

Of course, anyone who’s been outside or on the Internet in the past few years knows that facial hair is making a comeback. Once confined to the Portland hipster stereotype, beards, mustaches, whiskers, and facial hair of all types have been on the rise among trendy young people of all types. 

Enter 2016, and enter … The Whisker Dam.

It probably looks pretty self-explanatory, but in case there’s any question: It’s to keep things from getting on your mustache. It’s to keep beer foam and liquids from getting in your mustache. 

Possibly out of worry that contemporary people will find it as totally silly as 20th century people found the mustache spoon, the website for it is very serious and manly. “The best dam invention for keeping your whiskers dry,” the website proclaims. And: “It’s like an umbrella, for your face.” And even: “Since the 1800′s gentlemen have been creating various contraptions to protect their magnificent Whiskers.” 

This is amazing. This is so funny to me. Mustache spoons are back. I can’t wait to find out what weirdo thing from centuries past we revive next. 

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When you work at Lush and customer comes in and bites the soap because they think it’s cheese

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so today i found out that i’m allowed to carry a knife with me to school as long as it’s smaller than 3 ½ inches but i still can’t show my shoulders and if thats not a perfect description of american schooling idk what is

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I want to see them do an episode of The Price is Right with ultra rich people I want to see Mitt Romney try to tell me what he thinks the price of dish soap is

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You know you're European when:

They have to defuse a WW2 bomb in your city and nobody is really concerned because that happens from time to time. 

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i met him as soon as i set foot in germany and he is my first german friend 

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I love this entire thing!!