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portentous-offerings: pg-chan: serialreblogger: jaubaius: A bird explaining to a hedgehog crossing so it doesn’t die. !!! ok but that’s legitimately what it’s doing!! That’s a corvid right there (looks like a hooded crow, to be precise), which means it’s intelligent enough to recognize, a) cars are dangerous and streets should be treated with a certain degree of caution, b) this car’s slowing down for them–cars do that sometimes–which means they’re not in imminent danger, so it doesn’t have to fly away just yet, c) that hedgehog’s still gonna get killed if it doesn’t MOVE, FAST (cars can change speed very quickly and the hedgehog’s still in the way), and almost certainly also d) if the bird does nothing it gets a free lunch. Y’all, Y’ALL. This bird is consciously deciding to put itself in danger in order to save the life of a very stupid creature. A creature which, if the bird did nothing, could be free food. i can’t - look if you follow me you know I have a thing for corvids, but this is - like!!! People are always saying “ah yes they have sub-human intelligence and don’t consider anything that isn’t immediately necessary for their own survival/pleasure,” but! Whether or not it can do philosophy, this crow is clearly demonstrating compassion. Even if it’s just the kind of compassion a toddler shows to a snail, a social creature that instinctively recognizes the potential for emotion in other beings, that’s still huge and cool and important and corvids!!! are! neat!!! Also, by the car stopping for them, that hedgehog has two other species actively working to help it stay alive for no gain of their own. Reminds me of that professor who said the beginning of civilization was when someone took care of another. The broken thigh bone thing. “Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts. We are at our best when we serve others.” - Margaret Mead : portentous-offerings: pg-chan: serialreblogger: jaubaius: A bird explaining to a hedgehog crossing so it doesn’t die. !!! ok but that’s legitimately what it’s doing!! That’s a corvid right there (looks like a hooded crow, to be precise), which means it’s intelligent enough to recognize, a) cars are dangerous and streets should be treated with a certain degree of caution, b) this car’s slowing down for them–cars do that sometimes–which means they’re not in imminent danger, so it doesn’t have to fly away just yet, c) that hedgehog’s still gonna get killed if it doesn’t MOVE, FAST (cars can change speed very quickly and the hedgehog’s still in the way), and almost certainly also d) if the bird does nothing it gets a free lunch. Y’all, Y’ALL. This bird is consciously deciding to put itself in danger in order to save the life of a very stupid creature. A creature which, if the bird did nothing, could be free food. i can’t - look if you follow me you know I have a thing for corvids, but this is - like!!! People are always saying “ah yes they have sub-human intelligence and don’t consider anything that isn’t immediately necessary for their own survival/pleasure,” but! Whether or not it can do philosophy, this crow is clearly demonstrating compassion. Even if it’s just the kind of compassion a toddler shows to a snail, a social creature that instinctively recognizes the potential for emotion in other beings, that’s still huge and cool and important and corvids!!! are! neat!!! Also, by the car stopping for them, that hedgehog has two other species actively working to help it stay alive for no gain of their own. Reminds me of that professor who said the beginning of civilization was when someone took care of another. The broken thigh bone thing. “Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts. We are at our best when we serve others.” - Margaret Mead

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baconmancr: m–ood: Magical encounter while free falling. Can you imagine being that bird? You see a big falling dot off in the distance, so you go to investigate. And it’s a human. Just, like, hanging out, in the middle of the sky. Plumbing toward earth at terminal velocity. “Huh, that’s weird” you think to yourself. You land on them. They seem nonplussed by their predicament. But you’re a busy bird, you’ve got places to be. So you just fly off. Good luck, crazy human. Hope you make it. : baconmancr: m–ood: Magical encounter while free falling. Can you imagine being that bird? You see a big falling dot off in the distance, so you go to investigate. And it’s a human. Just, like, hanging out, in the middle of the sky. Plumbing toward earth at terminal velocity. “Huh, that’s weird” you think to yourself. You land on them. They seem nonplussed by their predicament. But you’re a busy bird, you’ve got places to be. So you just fly off. Good luck, crazy human. Hope you make it.

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Always looking fly!: Always looking fly!

Always looking fly!

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omgcheckplease: ★ Notes on Year 4, Comic 26 - Check, Please ★In the summer of 2013, I was fully mourning my completed time as an undergraduate at Yale. One of the college’s traditional songs—which they strategically have students sing during their first weeks as Yalies and then again at the moment we’re conferred our degrees—goes like this:Bright College years, with pleasure rife,The shortest, gladdest years of life;How swiftly are ye gliding by!Oh, why doth time so quickly fly?Et cetera. The first time you sing it, you mumble the words and don’t know a single person around you. The last time you sing it, wearing the mortarboard and gown, you’ve got the lyrics memorized and you’re surrounded by some of the most important people in your life.That summer, with “How bright will seem, through mem’ry’s haze/ Those happy, golden, bygone days!” still ringing in my ears, I started CHECK, PLEASE. The comic’s first panels emerged on an ancient laptop, through a borrowed bamboo tablet, and on a free drawing program called gnu-IMPShop. I had no plan. I wanted to explore my newfound fascination with hockey and share silly cartoons on Tumblr. But unconsciously, I also wanted to pour the nostalgia of those bright college years into the Haus, Faber, Samwell, and Bitty’s story. I wanted to bottle up those moments where we grow and change and fall down and pick ourselves back up. Drawing CHECK, PLEASE was how I revisited those experiences and how I sifted through the bittersweet feeling of concluding something I loved. Perhaps this is why finishing CHECK, PLEASE calls back those same emotions. Just as Bitty would bake affection into a pie, I might have encoded into CHECK, PLEASE the heartfelt fondness I had for my time in college, the love of the friends I made there, and the gratitude I have for my own growth.I have always found it easier to express gratitude face to face. And even though I would not have gotten to meet all of you, the greatest downside of being unable to participate in a book tour is that I can’t say thanks in person. I could write a thousand words, yet they couldn’t replace a high five at a bookstore signing or a handshake at a convention. I could write the blog post to end all blog posts, but it’s not the same as yelling with you about an episode or chatting about a fandom we both happen be in. For me, it’s those moments that somehow equate to my abundant appreciation for you, the reader.I look forward to the day when I can let my actions speak louder than my words!In the meantime: thank you. I am incredibly blessed to get to create a story and then share it. This is all I want to do in life. These characters get to have a readership overflowing with love and enthusiasm for them. This comic, somehow, has found ambassadors. This story gets to be told. Thank you! I’m excited to share with you the unusual, fun, and hopeful narratives I’m working hard to develop.So with that, I’ll sign off on the last blog post! Thank you for reading this comic. Thank you for sharing it with friends. Thank you for caring about Bitty’s story and CHECK, PLEASE.Thank you!John J. Johnson.Just kidding, it’s Ngozi. :^) Tee hee. Bye now!: omgcheckplease: ★ Notes on Year 4, Comic 26 - Check, Please ★In the summer of 2013, I was fully mourning my completed time as an undergraduate at Yale. One of the college’s traditional songs—which they strategically have students sing during their first weeks as Yalies and then again at the moment we’re conferred our degrees—goes like this:Bright College years, with pleasure rife,The shortest, gladdest years of life;How swiftly are ye gliding by!Oh, why doth time so quickly fly?Et cetera. The first time you sing it, you mumble the words and don’t know a single person around you. The last time you sing it, wearing the mortarboard and gown, you’ve got the lyrics memorized and you’re surrounded by some of the most important people in your life.That summer, with “How bright will seem, through mem’ry’s haze/ Those happy, golden, bygone days!” still ringing in my ears, I started CHECK, PLEASE. The comic’s first panels emerged on an ancient laptop, through a borrowed bamboo tablet, and on a free drawing program called gnu-IMPShop. I had no plan. I wanted to explore my newfound fascination with hockey and share silly cartoons on Tumblr. But unconsciously, I also wanted to pour the nostalgia of those bright college years into the Haus, Faber, Samwell, and Bitty’s story. I wanted to bottle up those moments where we grow and change and fall down and pick ourselves back up. Drawing CHECK, PLEASE was how I revisited those experiences and how I sifted through the bittersweet feeling of concluding something I loved. Perhaps this is why finishing CHECK, PLEASE calls back those same emotions. Just as Bitty would bake affection into a pie, I might have encoded into CHECK, PLEASE the heartfelt fondness I had for my time in college, the love of the friends I made there, and the gratitude I have for my own growth.I have always found it easier to express gratitude face to face. And even though I would not have gotten to meet all of you, the greatest downside of being unable to participate in a book tour is that I can’t say thanks in person. I could write a thousand words, yet they couldn’t replace a high five at a bookstore signing or a handshake at a convention. I could write the blog post to end all blog posts, but it’s not the same as yelling with you about an episode or chatting about a fandom we both happen be in. For me, it’s those moments that somehow equate to my abundant appreciation for you, the reader.I look forward to the day when I can let my actions speak louder than my words!In the meantime: thank you. I am incredibly blessed to get to create a story and then share it. This is all I want to do in life. These characters get to have a readership overflowing with love and enthusiasm for them. This comic, somehow, has found ambassadors. This story gets to be told. Thank you! I’m excited to share with you the unusual, fun, and hopeful narratives I’m working hard to develop.So with that, I’ll sign off on the last blog post! Thank you for reading this comic. Thank you for sharing it with friends. Thank you for caring about Bitty’s story and CHECK, PLEASE.Thank you!John J. Johnson.Just kidding, it’s Ngozi. :^) Tee hee. Bye now!

omgcheckplease: ★ Notes on Year 4, Comic 26 - Check, Please ★In the summer of 2013, I was fully mourning my completed time as an undergr...

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Young fly and sexy: Young fly and sexy

Young fly and sexy

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The Queen can fly: The Queen can fly

The Queen can fly

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Let’s fly: Let’s fly

Let’s fly

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Either the glass is made in China, or the fly is made in Germany: Either the glass is made in China, or the fly is made in Germany

Either the glass is made in China, or the fly is made in Germany

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Either the glass is made in China, or the fly is made in Germany: Either the glass is made in China, or the fly is made in Germany

Either the glass is made in China, or the fly is made in Germany

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I fly fast, yes?: I fly fast, yes?

I fly fast, yes?

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my-pansexualmess: urbanfantasyinspiration: supreme-leader-stoat: mylifeisafairy-tale: satansbitontheside: bathedinflames: nerdyandyouknowit: cheerfulmetaphysics: tsamthepoet: I hardly see any heroic posts about Muslims on here, so here you go. I love that it takes the time to specify that his attack of choice was a flying kick The hero the world needs I remember this. But I feel we’re missing some key points. When it happened, he was out jogging with his puppy: He heard screams and sprinted towards them. He jumped a fence, saw a man pinning a woman down and immediately fly-kicked him in the face, knocking him out. He then gave the woman his jacket because her dress was ripped and got her a taxi home. She only managed to get in contact with him and tell the papers cause she later found his driver’s license in the pocket of the jacket. “If I see a person in danger then I will intervene. I would not want to ignore it and then read the next day that a woman had been raped or murdered.” And his message to the attacker: “He is a coward and a man with no morals. I won’t forget his face.” Glaswegians will always fly kick someone I swear. Good on him. Something else I love about this is that they’re calling the rapist a “beast” because that is an appropriate word to use for someone who would do something that horrible instead of showing him any form of sympathy or humanizing him What a lad proud of him : my-pansexualmess: urbanfantasyinspiration: supreme-leader-stoat: mylifeisafairy-tale: satansbitontheside: bathedinflames: nerdyandyouknowit: cheerfulmetaphysics: tsamthepoet: I hardly see any heroic posts about Muslims on here, so here you go. I love that it takes the time to specify that his attack of choice was a flying kick The hero the world needs I remember this. But I feel we’re missing some key points. When it happened, he was out jogging with his puppy: He heard screams and sprinted towards them. He jumped a fence, saw a man pinning a woman down and immediately fly-kicked him in the face, knocking him out. He then gave the woman his jacket because her dress was ripped and got her a taxi home. She only managed to get in contact with him and tell the papers cause she later found his driver’s license in the pocket of the jacket. “If I see a person in danger then I will intervene. I would not want to ignore it and then read the next day that a woman had been raped or murdered.” And his message to the attacker: “He is a coward and a man with no morals. I won’t forget his face.” Glaswegians will always fly kick someone I swear. Good on him. Something else I love about this is that they’re calling the rapist a “beast” because that is an appropriate word to use for someone who would do something that horrible instead of showing him any form of sympathy or humanizing him What a lad proud of him

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my-pansexualmess: urbanfantasyinspiration: supreme-leader-stoat: mylifeisafairy-tale: satansbitontheside: bathedinflames: nerdyandyouknowit: cheerfulmetaphysics: tsamthepoet: I hardly see any heroic posts about Muslims on here, so here you go. I love that it takes the time to specify that his attack of choice was a flying kick The hero the world needs I remember this. But I feel we’re missing some key points. When it happened, he was out jogging with his puppy: He heard screams and sprinted towards them. He jumped a fence, saw a man pinning a woman down and immediately fly-kicked him in the face, knocking him out. He then gave the woman his jacket because her dress was ripped and got her a taxi home. She only managed to get in contact with him and tell the papers cause she later found his driver’s license in the pocket of the jacket. “If I see a person in danger then I will intervene. I would not want to ignore it and then read the next day that a woman had been raped or murdered.” And his message to the attacker: “He is a coward and a man with no morals. I won’t forget his face.” Glaswegians will always fly kick someone I swear. Good on him. Something else I love about this is that they’re calling the rapist a “beast” because that is an appropriate word to use for someone who would do something that horrible instead of showing him any form of sympathy or humanizing him What a lad proud of him : my-pansexualmess: urbanfantasyinspiration: supreme-leader-stoat: mylifeisafairy-tale: satansbitontheside: bathedinflames: nerdyandyouknowit: cheerfulmetaphysics: tsamthepoet: I hardly see any heroic posts about Muslims on here, so here you go. I love that it takes the time to specify that his attack of choice was a flying kick The hero the world needs I remember this. But I feel we’re missing some key points. When it happened, he was out jogging with his puppy: He heard screams and sprinted towards them. He jumped a fence, saw a man pinning a woman down and immediately fly-kicked him in the face, knocking him out. He then gave the woman his jacket because her dress was ripped and got her a taxi home. She only managed to get in contact with him and tell the papers cause she later found his driver’s license in the pocket of the jacket. “If I see a person in danger then I will intervene. I would not want to ignore it and then read the next day that a woman had been raped or murdered.” And his message to the attacker: “He is a coward and a man with no morals. I won’t forget his face.” Glaswegians will always fly kick someone I swear. Good on him. Something else I love about this is that they’re calling the rapist a “beast” because that is an appropriate word to use for someone who would do something that horrible instead of showing him any form of sympathy or humanizing him What a lad proud of him

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Mi gatito will always look fly during tax season: Mi gatito will always look fly during tax season

Mi gatito will always look fly during tax season

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bellabucchiotti: Flying with an Insulin Pump I am a firm believer that no disease should be an excuse for staying home. As a person with Type 1 Diabetes, I know that flying with an insulin pump can cause some worry for new travellers. I wear an insulin pump and fly all over the world on a regular basis. READ MORE HERE about Type 1 diabetes and flying with an Insulin pump. You can also follow Bella Bucchiotti on her Blog, Instagram and YouTube!! Photo: Tom Barrett : bellabucchiotti: Flying with an Insulin Pump I am a firm believer that no disease should be an excuse for staying home. As a person with Type 1 Diabetes, I know that flying with an insulin pump can cause some worry for new travellers. I wear an insulin pump and fly all over the world on a regular basis. READ MORE HERE about Type 1 diabetes and flying with an Insulin pump. You can also follow Bella Bucchiotti on her Blog, Instagram and YouTube!! Photo: Tom Barrett

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bellabucchiotti: Flying with an Insulin Pump I am a firm believer that no disease should be an excuse for staying home. As a person with Type 1 Diabetes, I know that flying with an insulin pump can cause some worry for new travellers. I wear an insulin pump and fly all over the world on a regular basis. READ MORE HERE about Type 1 diabetes and flying with an Insulin pump. You can also follow Bella Bucchiotti on her Blog, Instagram and YouTube!! Photo: Tom Barrett : bellabucchiotti: Flying with an Insulin Pump I am a firm believer that no disease should be an excuse for staying home. As a person with Type 1 Diabetes, I know that flying with an insulin pump can cause some worry for new travellers. I wear an insulin pump and fly all over the world on a regular basis. READ MORE HERE about Type 1 diabetes and flying with an Insulin pump. You can also follow Bella Bucchiotti on her Blog, Instagram and YouTube!! Photo: Tom Barrett

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Deebo can FLY. #NFLPlayoffs #GoNiners 📺: #GBvsSF on FOX 📱: NFL app // Yahoo Sports app Watch free on mobile: https://t.co/jti8uZSrIn https://t.co/zXitLPOvVy: Deebo can FLY. #NFLPlayoffs #GoNiners 📺: #GBvsSF on FOX 📱: NFL app // Yahoo Sports app Watch free on mobile: https://t.co/jti8uZSrIn https://t.co/zXitLPOvVy

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cummunismkillls: bukkakebarbie: lindsaychrist: omg the gasp is what sent The gasps HKHJGJGJ : Tik Tok @johnnyflys THIS BUD'S FOR YOU. Emirates FlY BETTER LA Health cummunismkillls: bukkakebarbie: lindsaychrist: omg the gasp is what sent The gasps HKHJGJGJ

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………..: W iam_wonderwoman 2h o 0o V338,718 likes iam_wonderwoman Boys... supper_man When did she take this? @sulkybat sulkybat @iam_wonderman ! Remove this immediately! And damn it @iamfreakkingtheflash ! Stop making an account for me! DAMN IT CLARK! You CANNOT FLY BRUCE I HAVE BATWING! ………..

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fly: @meezytk why everyone in the purge want to kill people? if crime was legal i'd just want to steal clothes so when the purge over I can be fly as shit 10:48 PM 24 Jul 14 Source: momjeanswag

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.@KirkCousins8 lets it fly to @athielen19 for a gain of 34 yards! #Skol #NFLPlayoffs 📺: #MINvsNO on FOX 📱: NFL app // Yahoo Sports app Watch free on mobile: https://t.co/BngxhzS5KF https://t.co/Lh2Iz9h63P: FOX WILD CARD 04 3RD & 13 10 VIKINGS SAINTS 3rd 6:15 04 3rd & 9 7 FOX WILD CARD 04 3RD & 9 VIKINGS 13 10 3rd & 9 SAINTS 3rd 6:15 04 .@KirkCousins8 lets it fly to @athielen19 for a gain of 34 yards! #Skol #NFLPlayoffs 📺: #MINvsNO on FOX 📱: NFL app // Yahoo Sports app Watch free on mobile: https://t.co/BngxhzS5KF https://t.co/Lh2Iz9h63P

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Cars in space: Customer: Cargo space? Me: Car no do that. Car no fly. @123RF FR o123RF 123RF @123RF Cars in space

Cars in space

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fly: K. Baba @Unkle_K I Thate flying insects man, you can fly FOR FREE. You could fly to any holiday destination of your choice but here you are in my face

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solacekames: 8:08 AM PDT 8/16/2019 by Kareem Abdul-JabbarThe NBA great and Hollywood Reporter columnist, a friend of the late martial arts star, believes the filmmaker was sloppy, somewhat racist and shirked his responsibility to basic truth in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.’Remember that time Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. kidney-punched a waiter for serving soggy croutons in his tomato soup? How about the time the Dalai Lama got wasted and spray-painted “Karma Is a Beach” on the Tibetan ambassador’s limo? Probably not, since they never happened. But they could happen if a filmmaker decides to write those scenes into his or her movie. And, even though we know the movie is fiction, those scenes will live on in our shared cultural conscience as impressions of those real people, thereby corrupting our memory of them built on their real-life actions.That’s why filmmakers have a responsibility when playing with people’s perceptions of admired historic people to maintain a basic truth about the content of their character. Quentin Tarantino’s portrayal of Bruce Lee in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood does not live up to this standard. Of course, Tarantino has the artistic right to portray Bruce any way he wants. But to do so in such a sloppy and somewhat racist way is a failure both as an artist and as a human being.This controversy has left me torn. Tarantino is one of my favorite filmmakers because he is so bold, uncompromising and unpredictable. There’s a giddy energy in his movies of someone who loves movies and wants you to love them, too. I attend each Tarantino film as if it were an event, knowing that his distillation of the ’60s and ’70s action movies will be much more entertaining than a simple homage. That’s what makes the Bruce Lee scenes so disappointing, not so much on a factual basis, but as a lapse of cultural awareness.Bruce Lee was my friend and teacher. That doesn’t give him a free pass for how he’s portrayed in movies. But it does give me some insight into the man. I first met Bruce when I was a student at UCLA looking to continue my martial arts studies, which I started in New York City. We quickly developed a friendship as well as a student-teacher relationship. He taught me the discipline and spirituality of martial arts, which was greatly responsible for me being able to play competitively in the NBA for 20 years with very few injuries.During our years of friendship, he spoke passionately about how frustrated he was with the stereotypical representation of Asians in film and TV. The only roles were for inscrutable villains or bowing servants. In Have Gun - Will Travel, Paladin’s faithful Chinese servant goes by the insulting name of “Hey Boy” (Kam Tong). He was replaced in season four by a female character referred to as “Hey Girl” (Lisa Lu). Asian men were portrayed as sexless accessories to a scene, while the women were subservient. This was how African-American men and women were generally portrayed until the advent of Sidney Poitier and blaxploitation films. Bruce was dedicated to changing the dismissive image of Asians through his acting, writing and promotion of Jeet Kune Do, his interpretation of martial arts.That’s why it disturbs me that Tarantino chose to portray Bruce in such a one-dimensional way. The John Wayne machismo attitude of Cliff (Brad Pitt), an aging stuntman who defeats the arrogant, uppity Chinese guy harks back to the very stereotypes Bruce was trying to dismantle. Of course the blond, white beefcake American can beat your fancy Asian chopsocky dude because that foreign crap doesn’t fly here.I might even go along with the skewered version of Bruce if that wasn’t the only significant scene with him, if we’d also seen a glimpse of his other traits, of his struggle to be taken seriously in Hollywood. Alas, he was just another Hey Boy prop to the scene. The scene is complicated by being presented as a flashback, but in a way that could suggest the stuntman’s memory is cartoonishly biased in his favor. Equally disturbing is the unresolved shadow that Cliff may have killed his wife with a spear gun because she nagged him. Classic Cliff. Is Cliff more heroic because he also doesn’t put up with outspoken women?I was in public with Bruce several times when some random jerk would loudly challenge Bruce to a fight. He always politely declined and moved on. First rule of Bruce’s fight club was don’t fight — unless there is no other option. He felt no need to prove himself. He knew who he was and that the real fight wasn’t on the mat, it was on the screen in creating opportunities for Asians to be seen as more than grinning stereotypes. Unfortunately, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood prefers the good old ways.: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Bruce Lee Was My Friend, and Tarantino's Movie Disrespects Him 8:08 AM PDT 8/16/2019 by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Alamy Stock Photo Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bruce Lee during the filming of 1978's 'Game of Death.' solacekames: 8:08 AM PDT 8/16/2019 by Kareem Abdul-JabbarThe NBA great and Hollywood Reporter columnist, a friend of the late martial arts star, believes the filmmaker was sloppy, somewhat racist and shirked his responsibility to basic truth in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.’Remember that time Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. kidney-punched a waiter for serving soggy croutons in his tomato soup? How about the time the Dalai Lama got wasted and spray-painted “Karma Is a Beach” on the Tibetan ambassador’s limo? Probably not, since they never happened. But they could happen if a filmmaker decides to write those scenes into his or her movie. And, even though we know the movie is fiction, those scenes will live on in our shared cultural conscience as impressions of those real people, thereby corrupting our memory of them built on their real-life actions.That’s why filmmakers have a responsibility when playing with people’s perceptions of admired historic people to maintain a basic truth about the content of their character. Quentin Tarantino’s portrayal of Bruce Lee in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood does not live up to this standard. Of course, Tarantino has the artistic right to portray Bruce any way he wants. But to do so in such a sloppy and somewhat racist way is a failure both as an artist and as a human being.This controversy has left me torn. Tarantino is one of my favorite filmmakers because he is so bold, uncompromising and unpredictable. There’s a giddy energy in his movies of someone who loves movies and wants you to love them, too. I attend each Tarantino film as if it were an event, knowing that his distillation of the ’60s and ’70s action movies will be much more entertaining than a simple homage. That’s what makes the Bruce Lee scenes so disappointing, not so much on a factual basis, but as a lapse of cultural awareness.Bruce Lee was my friend and teacher. That doesn’t give him a free pass for how he’s portrayed in movies. But it does give me some insight into the man. I first met Bruce when I was a student at UCLA looking to continue my martial arts studies, which I started in New York City. We quickly developed a friendship as well as a student-teacher relationship. He taught me the discipline and spirituality of martial arts, which was greatly responsible for me being able to play competitively in the NBA for 20 years with very few injuries.During our years of friendship, he spoke passionately about how frustrated he was with the stereotypical representation of Asians in film and TV. The only roles were for inscrutable villains or bowing servants. In Have Gun - Will Travel, Paladin’s faithful Chinese servant goes by the insulting name of “Hey Boy” (Kam Tong). He was replaced in season four by a female character referred to as “Hey Girl” (Lisa Lu). Asian men were portrayed as sexless accessories to a scene, while the women were subservient. This was how African-American men and women were generally portrayed until the advent of Sidney Poitier and blaxploitation films. Bruce was dedicated to changing the dismissive image of Asians through his acting, writing and promotion of Jeet Kune Do, his interpretation of martial arts.That’s why it disturbs me that Tarantino chose to portray Bruce in such a one-dimensional way. The John Wayne machismo attitude of Cliff (Brad Pitt), an aging stuntman who defeats the arrogant, uppity Chinese guy harks back to the very stereotypes Bruce was trying to dismantle. Of course the blond, white beefcake American can beat your fancy Asian chopsocky dude because that foreign crap doesn’t fly here.I might even go along with the skewered version of Bruce if that wasn’t the only significant scene with him, if we’d also seen a glimpse of his other traits, of his struggle to be taken seriously in Hollywood. Alas, he was just another Hey Boy prop to the scene. The scene is complicated by being presented as a flashback, but in a way that could suggest the stuntman’s memory is cartoonishly biased in his favor. Equally disturbing is the unresolved shadow that Cliff may have killed his wife with a spear gun because she nagged him. Classic Cliff. Is Cliff more heroic because he also doesn’t put up with outspoken women?I was in public with Bruce several times when some random jerk would loudly challenge Bruce to a fight. He always politely declined and moved on. First rule of Bruce’s fight club was don’t fight — unless there is no other option. He felt no need to prove himself. He knew who he was and that the real fight wasn’t on the mat, it was on the screen in creating opportunities for Asians to be seen as more than grinning stereotypes. Unfortunately, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood prefers the good old ways.

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laughoutloud-club: Solid programming advice: Why I'm not advancing in my technique master? Have you seen the sunset when the seagulls fly flaming across the plain? Yes master And the water from the waterfall hitting the rock without achieving anything? Yes master And the moon reflecting on calm water? Yes master There's your problem. You keep watching stupid shit instead of practicing laughoutloud-club: Solid programming advice

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Like. NO CAP. looking fly af: LEONARDO ngl He lookin tly af like no CAP See what I did there?O0 DA-GAP-RIO Like. NO CAP. looking fly af

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Merry Christmas / Frohe Weihnachten / Feliz Navidad / Buon Natale https://t.co/sXDbN5Yy9Q: YOULL NEVER WALK ALONE LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB EST-1892 fly TrollFootball OTheFootballTroll STER EICEST ANCHESTE FOOTRALL CLUB CHELSE CITY UNITED CLUB SHEFFIELD FOOTBALL 1889 UNITED VEWCASTLE INITED Arsenal CRYSTAL PALACE RC AFCRournemo Everton AVFC WEST HAM UNITED WATFORD OUTHAMPTON PREPAAED y TrollFootball O TheFootballTroll, CITY Re Bull fy TrollFootball O TheFootballTroll BAVERAY ONCHD CHEN B B 04 09 1904 BAYER Leverkusen FCA 2ES UNION ERTH BERLIN L.FC KÖLN 95 SC PADERBORN 07.v. fy TrollFootball OTheFootbaliTroll TSG 1899 Hoffenheim FCB fy TrollFootball O TheFootbalITroll CHAFE ATHLETIC CLUB C.F. VALENCIA CF BAO LEVANTE U.D. CLUB DEPORTIVO SPA LEGANES fy TrollFootball OTheFootballTroll JUVENTUS SSLAZIO fy TrollFootball O TheFootballTroll ATALANTA CAGLIARI ROMA 1927 1907 PARMA F.C. BFC 1909 TORINO 1906 FC 1899 HELLAS VERONA U.S. SASSUOLO fy TrollFootball OTheFootbalTroll AC BSEC S.P.A.L Merry Christmas / Frohe Weihnachten / Feliz Navidad / Buon Natale https://t.co/sXDbN5Yy9Q

Merry Christmas / Frohe Weihnachten / Feliz Navidad / Buon Natale https://t.co/sXDbN5Yy9Q

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In 1931, Germany, Found hidden in the home of a rabbi’s family was this picture. On it’s back said “Our candles will burn for far longer than their flag will fly.”: In 1931, Germany, Found hidden in the home of a rabbi’s family was this picture. On it’s back said “Our candles will burn for far longer than their flag will fly.”

In 1931, Germany, Found hidden in the home of a rabbi’s family was this picture. On it’s back said “Our candles will burn for far longer...

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fly me to the moon [oc]: fuckthemoon ø3 S LET ME KICK ITS FUCKING ASS S FLY ME TO THE MOONJ FUCK THE MOON LET ME SHOW IT WHAT I LEARNED J SIN MY MOON JUJITSU CLASS FUCK THE MOON @fthemooncomic IOf fly me to the moon [oc]

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fly: i wish i was like that plane Because its hanging from the ceiling Bęcause it can fly?

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Great ideea: Whats the first thing you would do if you were invisible for a day? I would probably fly to paris, find a street performing mime, and beat him to death.. the applause he would get would be astounding. Ah, Iseeyoutre a man of culture as well. Great ideea

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nestofstraightlines: jabberwockypie: kyraneko: darkmagyk: seananmcguire: nokeek: Dorothy just wanted something that she could believe in,A gray dustbowl girl in a life she was better off leavin’.She made her escape, went from gray into green,And she could have got clear, and she could have got clean,But she chose to be good and go back to the gray Kansas skyWhere color’s a fable and freedom’s a fairy tale lie. Alice got lost, and I guess that we really can’t blame her;They say she got tangled and tied in the lies that became her.They say she went mad, and she never complained,For there’s peace of a kind in a life unconstrained.She gives Cheshire kisses, she’s easy with white rabbit smiles,And she’ll never be free, but she’s won herself safe for a while. Susan and Lucy were queens, and they ruled well and proudly.They honored their land and their lord, rang the bells long and loudly.They never once asked to return to their livesTo be children and chattel and mothers and wives,But the land cast them out in a lesson that only one learned;And one queen said ‘I am not a toy’, and she never returned. Mandy’s a pirate, and Mia weaves silk shrouds for faeries,And Deborah will pour you red wine pressed from sweet poisoned berries.Kate poses riddles and Mary plays tricks,While Kaia builds towers from brambles and sticks,And the rules that we live by are simple and clear:Be wicked and lovely and don’t live in fear Dorothy, Alice and Wendy and Jane, Susan and Lucy, we’re calling your names, All the Lost Girls who came out of the rain And chose to go back on the shelf. Tinker Bell says, and I find I agree You have to break rules if you want to break free. So do as you like — we’re determined to be Wicked girls saving ourselves. For we will be wicked and we will be fairAnd they’ll call us such names, and we really won’t care,So go, tell your Wendys, your Susans, your Janes,There’s a place they can go if they’re tired of chains,And our roads may be golden, or broken, or lost,But we’ll walk on them willingly, knowing the cost — We won’t take our place on the shelves.It’s better to fly and it’s better to dieSay the wicked girls saving ourselves. (Seanan McGuire) This is breathtaking. I heard this poem once a million years ago, I have been looking for it ever since, and had now found it. I love it so much more then I remember. You might be interested to know that she set it to music and it’s also a song. @darkmagyk And people have made fanvids set to it! (The CD is out of print right now - I have it and I love it so much, but I she’s re-printing a different one … soonish?) Mmmmm I get it but I’m not sure about the implication that real life is an inherent punishment for girls, and I find this kind of feminist take a little reactionary and keen to flatten out female characters and their stories into simple terms to make a kind of Yass Queen point. Anyway here’s a video I love examining the differences in feminist-related theming between the book and movie of The Wizard of Oz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz15yFVF1TI And here’s a Hark! A Vagrant comic that is very much that’s-it-that’s the-book re. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: : TA 轉p ETER PAN PIPPILONGSTOKING+LINDGE ATHE WIZARD ERANK Jot OZ OSAUM the Lion ie i theterdenne C.S. LEWIS HOKEEK.TUMBLR.COM Potter LERBY HED HARRY PLEF nestofstraightlines: jabberwockypie: kyraneko: darkmagyk: seananmcguire: nokeek: Dorothy just wanted something that she could believe in,A gray dustbowl girl in a life she was better off leavin’.She made her escape, went from gray into green,And she could have got clear, and she could have got clean,But she chose to be good and go back to the gray Kansas skyWhere color’s a fable and freedom’s a fairy tale lie. Alice got lost, and I guess that we really can’t blame her;They say she got tangled and tied in the lies that became her.They say she went mad, and she never complained,For there’s peace of a kind in a life unconstrained.She gives Cheshire kisses, she’s easy with white rabbit smiles,And she’ll never be free, but she’s won herself safe for a while. Susan and Lucy were queens, and they ruled well and proudly.They honored their land and their lord, rang the bells long and loudly.They never once asked to return to their livesTo be children and chattel and mothers and wives,But the land cast them out in a lesson that only one learned;And one queen said ‘I am not a toy’, and she never returned. Mandy’s a pirate, and Mia weaves silk shrouds for faeries,And Deborah will pour you red wine pressed from sweet poisoned berries.Kate poses riddles and Mary plays tricks,While Kaia builds towers from brambles and sticks,And the rules that we live by are simple and clear:Be wicked and lovely and don’t live in fear Dorothy, Alice and Wendy and Jane, Susan and Lucy, we’re calling your names, All the Lost Girls who came out of the rain And chose to go back on the shelf. Tinker Bell says, and I find I agree You have to break rules if you want to break free. So do as you like — we’re determined to be Wicked girls saving ourselves. For we will be wicked and we will be fairAnd they’ll call us such names, and we really won’t care,So go, tell your Wendys, your Susans, your Janes,There’s a place they can go if they’re tired of chains,And our roads may be golden, or broken, or lost,But we’ll walk on them willingly, knowing the cost — We won’t take our place on the shelves.It’s better to fly and it’s better to dieSay the wicked girls saving ourselves. (Seanan McGuire) This is breathtaking. I heard this poem once a million years ago, I have been looking for it ever since, and had now found it. I love it so much more then I remember. You might be interested to know that she set it to music and it’s also a song. @darkmagyk And people have made fanvids set to it! (The CD is out of print right now - I have it and I love it so much, but I she’s re-printing a different one … soonish?) Mmmmm I get it but I’m not sure about the implication that real life is an inherent punishment for girls, and I find this kind of feminist take a little reactionary and keen to flatten out female characters and their stories into simple terms to make a kind of Yass Queen point. Anyway here’s a video I love examining the differences in feminist-related theming between the book and movie of The Wizard of Oz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz15yFVF1TI And here’s a Hark! A Vagrant comic that is very much that’s-it-that’s the-book re. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland:

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Creatures of freedom: WITH THESE WE HAUE BEEN REBORN AS CREATURES OF FREEDOM WINGS, ALAN WE CAN FLY ANYWHERE OUR IMAGINATION TA KES US Creatures of freedom

Creatures of freedom

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Creatures of freedom: WITH THESE WE HAUE BEEN REBORN AS CREATURES OF FREEDOM WINGS, ALAN WE CAN FLY ANYWHERE OUR IMAGINATION TA KES US Creatures of freedom

Creatures of freedom

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*distant barking*: keet @KeetPotato [at dave's who has like 9 dogs] me: "what d'you call a fly with no wings" dave: "keith dont" me: "a WALK!" [drowns in a tidal wave of dogs] 2/10/15, 09:14 bradwagon182: this is how I want to go out *distant barking*

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*distant barking* by the_saddest_one MORE MEMES: keet @KeetPotato [at dave's who has like 9 dogs] me: "what d'you call a fly with no wings" dave: "keith dont" me: "a WALK!" [drowns in a tidal wave of dogs] 2/10/15, 09:14 bradwagon182: this is how I want to go out *distant barking* by the_saddest_one MORE MEMES

*distant barking* by the_saddest_one MORE MEMES

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laughoutloud-club: Solid programming advice: Why I'm not advancing in my technique master? Have you seen the sunset when the seagulls fly flaming across the plain? Yes master And the water from the waterfall hitting the rock without achieving anything? Yes master And the moon reflecting on calm water? Yes master There's your problem. You keep watching stupid shit instead of practicing laughoutloud-club: Solid programming advice

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Very cool idea by connor24steele MORE MEMES: Whats the first thing you would do if you were invisible for a day? I would probably fly to paris, find a street performing mime, and beat him to death... the applause he would get would be astounding. Ah, I seeyoutre a man of culture as well. Very cool idea by connor24steele MORE MEMES

Very cool idea by connor24steele MORE MEMES

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Why does it fly? via /r/memes https://ift.tt/35w2j4z: Shart Angus @lolChrisNelson I was watching Planet Earth 2 but I hadn't seen the first one so Im completely lost. What the fuck is a bird? 2:27 AM 16 Apr 19 Twitter for iPhone Why does it fly? via /r/memes https://ift.tt/35w2j4z

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For 6 years I’ve tried to capture the essence of raising kids in our Christmas cards. Here is this year’s card.: fLY Lite Santal 58 $2019 2018 7 Bus!! 2017 SiritA STOP Here FeN GUD 2016 2015 RININY 2014 For 6 years I’ve tried to capture the essence of raising kids in our Christmas cards. Here is this year’s card.

For 6 years I’ve tried to capture the essence of raising kids in our Christmas cards. Here is this year’s card.

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For 6 years I’ve tried to capture the essence of raising kids in our Christmas cards. Here is this year’s card.: fLY Lite Santal 58 $2019 2018 7 Bus!! 2017 SiritA STOP Here FeN GUD 2016 2015 RININY 2014 For 6 years I’ve tried to capture the essence of raising kids in our Christmas cards. Here is this year’s card.

For 6 years I’ve tried to capture the essence of raising kids in our Christmas cards. Here is this year’s card.

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: ?r/AskReddit u/Knifezz17h You get 1 wish, but 65% of the entire population also gets exactly what you wished for, What's the wish? Discussion 23.0k 9.1k T,Share BEST COMMENTS Ibspredh S 10h the ability to feed myself with photosynthesis Reply 10.8k Conocoryphe 7h 61 MORE REPLIES thomaslansky S3.10h Do they know about the wish as well? If not, l'd ask for something with a weird trigger, that nobody would ever do, like "every time I spin around 4 times, wink, and say piddle paddle ping pong poop pile', gain the ability to fly." pile, I gain the ability to fly. Reply 18.3k

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The Migratory Pattern of The North American Pigeon: OBSERVE THE MIGRATORY PATTERN oF THE NORTH AMERICAN PIGE oN. DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO Do SPIN SPIN OH SHIT, DID SOMEONE PUT A DUMBASS BUILDING IN MY FLIGHT PATH? SPIN SPIN THIS IS How PIGEONS ERK FLY. IT'S VERY NORMAL. WHAT A COMPLETELY UNAVOIDABLE ACCIDENT. O @RORYBLANK KINGOF BLOOD.COM RORYBLANK OPISSCASTLE The Migratory Pattern of The North American Pigeon

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awesomacious: Friends are important: MAYBE I COULD I WISH I HELP WITH THAT. COULD FLY. WHEE! awesomacious: Friends are important

awesomacious: Friends are important

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Friends are important: MAYBE I COULD I WISH I HELP WITH THAT. COULD FLY. WHEE! Friends are important

Friends are important

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If only it were that simple…: phausette Follow @brownboklit me: i'm sad rich people: then remove yourself from your toxic environment. quit your job now and fly to milan. shop for a week straight and buy a yacht it helps me heal. build a house in the tropics and drink fresh fruit juice the power is yours don't be lazy and complain 8:12 pm - 29 Dec 2018 36,953 Retweets 131,758 Likes 2I 37K 109 132K If only it were that simple…

If only it were that simple…

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Ter Stegen this season👌 https://t.co/PDL2N5IErL: fy TrollFootball O TheFootballTroll QATA AIRWR Marcos Fussballecke Marcos Football Corner en MORE ASSIST IN THE LEAGUE ETIHA AIRWAY eep AIA Fly Emirates Rakute BAA CHO Pluss00 THAN THESE GUYS. nira Ter Stegen this season👌 https://t.co/PDL2N5IErL

Ter Stegen this season👌 https://t.co/PDL2N5IErL

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Poetry: Slap my nuts SHUFFLE PLAY I'm Waking Up Tim Flanders • I'm Waking Up To Ash and Dust If I May • No Man's Land i EXPLICIT Kendrick Lamar • i Wipe My Ass EXPLICIT Robyn Fly • Wipe My Ass and EXPLICIT EDEN• think you think too much of me i EXPLICIT Kendrick Lamar • i Slap My Nutz - Tone Mix 1 Poetry

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awesomacious: True friends: WE CAN'T FLY, BUT WE HAVE EACH OTHER. HERE, I MADE YOU THIS HA, I'M JUST LAZY. I CAN TOTALLY FL- WALKIN' BUDS CLUB WALKIN BUDS CLU MRLOVENSTEIN.COM THIS COMIC MADE POSSIBLE THANKS TO ALEXANDER VON WAHLBERG awesomacious: True friends

awesomacious: True friends

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Why are birds so brutal?: I'LL profect you I'LL keep you warm until you're ready until you're ready I'Ll carry you until you're ready fly, bitch wae FO THESQUARECOMICS Why are birds so brutal?

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Arsenal 03/04 - The Unbeatables Arsenal 19/20 - The Unmanageables https://t.co/ZvzTbdpI1J: Rrans caley Emira Fly Iminite rly Emirates Emirate En a LE Fly Emirates Fly Emirates FIV Emirates Temirates Lmirates Emirates Emirate Ely Emirates Emirates Emirites Emirate Arsenal 03/04 - The Unbeatables Arsenal 19/20 - The Unmanageables https://t.co/ZvzTbdpI1J

Arsenal 03/04 - The Unbeatables Arsenal 19/20 - The Unmanageables https://t.co/ZvzTbdpI1J

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