thiswillonlyhurtalittle:

darjeelingandcoke:

An ancient Greek walks into his tailor’s shop with a pair of torn pants.

“Euripides?” says the tailor.

“Yeah, Eumenides?” replies the man.

This is so awful. It must go on to infect others.

explain-like-i-am-five:

In the early 19th century, intellectuals and those well-traveled would often drop French words into the conversation to show how clever they were. They would then point out that the word they had just used was French, often to embarrass someone nearby who was less fluent in the language.

To counter this, the less well-traveled (often poorer) people would, after swearing, loudly proclaim, towards those that had previously used French in the conversation, “Pardon my French.” – The latter stuck.

Explain Like I`m Five: good questions, best answers.

gorps:

there is literally no better feeling on earth than finding out that the essay you thought was due tomorrow is actually due in two weeks, in this essay i will

ohroses:

it’s actually really fascinating to me that

• roses originally grew almost sideways, their thorns intended to be used as hooks to expand and spread, their petals were limited to five and their fragrance was overpowering. they attracted wildlife, creatures, birds, anything to them. their intent was to propagate like an idea.
• humans then bred them to have more petals, to grow upright and therefore require excessive pruning just to remain upright, and then the thorns became largely superfluous
• then, when those newly bred roses needed plucking and pruning, and humans pricked their fingers on the thorns, guess what happened?
• the rose became this dual figure of bloom enticing and thorn rejecting, it became an idea of things that don’t add up, that bring you closer and cut you
• when in reality, humans did this to themselves and in doing so, did this to the rose