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From today’s New York Times

Complete text of the letter:

To the readers of the New York Times:

Every January, we hope that the New Year will bring us prosperity, good health, happiness and delight, despite a lingering sense of gloom, helped along by hangovers, sleet, freezing subway platforms and other midwinter miseries.

Speaking of miseries, some company by the name of ‘Netflix,’ an alleged entertainment operation, will shortly be offering their adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events, which includes such unpleasantries as a notorious villain played by a one Mr. Neil Patrick Harris, three tragically unlucky children, a poisonous snake, store-bought cupcakes, and, yes, murder.

All of this will be “streaming,” a word that has been senselessly hijacked to now mean “appearing somewhat magically on various screens” on Friday, January 13th.

Did you hear that?

Friday the 13th.

That’s asking for more bad luck than deciding to fly out of La Guardia. And don’t fall for their showbiz trickery in getting said alleged ‘celebrity’ Mr. Harris and his other actor friends to lure you into watching.

But, really, why would you choose to view such a thing? After all, it’s 2017. Haven’t we suffered enough with 2016?

Now look away, don’t bother turning the page, and most importantly, don’t watch A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

With all due respect,

Lemony Snicket

Black-ish did that™

With its election episode, ‘blackish’ proved once again that it’s the realest show on TV

follow @the-movemnt

not to hype myself up but big noses are really beautiful & they honestly make for the most striking & eye-catching faces the idea that big noses are ugly would quite frankly be outright laughable if it didn’t do so much damage

thank you

The Last Days of Aleppo

“Aleppo is a place where the children have stopped crying.”

Scenes of sheer terror and grief in the last hospital in the last days of Aleppo.

Please watch video and share. Get everyone to act, we can’t just be bystanders to this genocide anymore. 

Does this make you uncomfortable? It should, i wouldn’t recommend just scrolling past it though. Help out and donate if you can.

We can’t just watch this genocide happening on the sidelines anymore.

Donate to White Helmets here: https://peoplesmillion.whitehelmets.org/donate/peoples-million

Donate to International Red Cross here: https://www.icrc.org/en/donate

Sign the petition for Word Leaders to invest further into Education here: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/action/syria-emergency-funding/

White privilege can also be hard…

THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO I’VE EVER SEEN

Dear God….

I am fucking dying omg

I’m the second “Berkley” yell

Oh my fucking god

Always reblog.

jesus christ, be polite to children and show them manners. fucking say excuse me when you walk past them, apologize to them when you cut them off, thank them when they’re courteous to you. they’re not little objects that don’t matter. you should be a fucking example and teach them how to treat people, instead of acting like they’re these invisible THINGS that don’t have feelings or don’t notice when they aren’t acknowledged. be polite to children the same way you’d be polite to someone of your own age group or older. you can respect a child.

blow my phone up when you miss me so I know it’s real

I’m worth so much more than the ways I’ve been treated

I’m not gay but I think Dwayne Johnson could give a mean shoulder massage.

I’m not straight but I also think Dwayne Johnson could give a mean shoulder massage.

Reblog if you want Dwayne’s Gentle Meaty Hands to knead the lactic acid out of your flesh.

LGBT:

Let’s

Get massaged

By

The Rock (Dwayne Johnson)

man, teenaged girls aren’t allowed to have a genuine interest in anything without being ridiculed for it. if a girl likes ugg boots and starbucks she’s stupid and stereotypical, but if she likes combat boots and obscure coffee houses she’s a hipster wannabe and is trying too hard. if a girl listens to boy bands and other popular artists she’s a dumb follower, if she reads comics or plays video games she’s a poser/fake geek girl, if she likes sex she’s a slut but if she doesn’t like sex she’s a prude, if she wears makeup she’s fake but if she doesn’t wear makeup she’s a slob, if she has low self-esteem she needs to learn to love herself but if she has high self-esteem she’s overconfident and vain, if she’s interested in politics she’s a crazy social justice warrior but if she prefers to stay out of social matters she’s a dumb airhead. girls are literally mocked for every single thing they like or do, no matter what those things are, and i’m really really sick of it.

you deserve someone who isn’t embarrassed to love you & tells all their friends about u & saves your selfies, & tells u they love & miss you

so much. // r.e.s (via thoughtsintorhymes)

i’m dying

Lmao this American girl walked up to a Hungry Jacks (Burger King) register with her drink and really, really loudly (I was at the other side of the place) proclaimed: “I asked for Lemonade, you gave me Sprite” in a really bitchy, entitled voice.

The cashier (and everyone within earshot) just looked at her like “the fuck is wrong with you”

In Australia, Sprite IS lemonade as far as we’re concerned.

Enjoy your 90c refund you cheap ass ho.

“Sprite IS lemonade as far as we’re concerned”

@fleamont can you verify?

Yeah this is correct. Lemonade is sprite. Clear fizzy liquid type thing. Solo is closer to what American lemonade is but we don’t actually have what you guys consider lemonade anyway so she was never going to get what she wanted lmao.

Y'ALL AIN’T GOT LEMONADE?!?!??

madness…

“we don’t actually have what you guys consider lemonade“

That entire continent exists on a different realm of existence

What the… Lmao

Why is it called lemonade then? 🤔

@casualswfan What is wrong with you guys?

IT IS THE SAME DAMN THING. You Yankees and your fifty brands of the same :P

LEMONADE AND SPRITE ARE NOTHING ALIKE

Things heating up in the drink fandom

I’m pretty sure the same is true in the UK at least was in 2010 except Sprite didn’t seem to be a common brand so I’d ask for Sprite get blank looks eventually figured out to ask for lemonade 

Sprite is a recognised brand here, but it’s not omnipresent, it is also considered a brand of lemonade.

This is fucked up.

Sprite: lemon-lime soda (pop/carbonated beverage). Lemonade: lemons, water, and sugar. Still.

LEMONADE IS NOT CARBONATED WHATT HEFUCC CK ARE YOU ALL DOIGN

Living? Sensibly?

Also on what planet does Sprite have lime in it.

Sprite, the lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage, is made on Earth.

Earth is the third planet from the Sun, the densest planet in the Solar System, the largest of the Solar System’s four terrestrial planets, and the only astronomical object known to harbor Sprite.

The people of Earth are known as “Earthlings” or “Spriteloids” interchangeably (although not to each other).

At least in the UK, if you order lemonade you’ll sometimes get Sprite, but if it’s proper it’s a lemon soda akin to the Italian gassosa - less sweet than Sprite.

Oh shit, I’ve had gassosa, it’s AMAZING.

I just want to say that the whole ‘lemonade and Sprite are interchangeable’ is pretty common throughout Asia as well, in my experience

@bre-e-e-e what madness is this?!?!?!?!

@kingkilling-and-stormlight so… what you are all saying is. Lemonade is … not fizzy… in America?

You guys have orange juice at least, right? Grapefruit juice? In the US, Lemonade is a juice, like orange juice, but made with lemons instead of oranges. You can buy “fresh squeezed lemonade” at many restaurants and fast food venues. Typically it’s diluted a bit with sugar water, so the sour flavor of the raw lemon juice isn’t so overpowering. 

In the south, it’s very common for people buy whole lemons and make their own lemonade at home using a citrus juicer.

In Germany, you’d ask for “Limonade” and yeah, you may get a Sprite or a Fanta; it’ll always be a fizzy nonalcoholic drink and usually come in lemon, lime, orange flavor. Only in healthfood or hipster establishments would it ever be an actual juice drink.

As a fan of homemade rosewater lemonade, I am twitching at the thought of sickly sweet carbonated beverages that taste like they were invented by someone who may have been in the same room as a citrus fruit once but can’t remember what it actually tastes like being called lemonade.

Wtf did y'all think beyonce was talking about????

oh wow I hadn’t even considered that. Like millions of people worldwide hearing the album title but not understanding what lemonade means even on the most superficial level.

This is so epically disturbing. Lemonade is such an integral part of spring and summertime. I just … this breaks my brain and my heart. The cultural references too. Just, all the American shows that reference lemonade and people in other countries are thinking Sprite? There’s a reason kids do freshly squeezed lemonade stands. You can’t buy it like that from a store. And there’s nothing quite like screwing it up and getting the sugar ratio wrong. And parents grinning through the too sour or too sweet mess and praising your efforts. Lemonade Is a Thing.

Wait does that mean Aussies make Shandies with sprite?????

Does this mean a significant portion of the global population don’t know what to do when life hands you lemons?

Yes, Australians make Shandies with our carbonated soft drink lemonade, though if you’re using it as a mixer, you’re less likely to be using Sprite and more likely to be using Schweppes, which looks like this:

Like. We absolutely have a concept of flat, juice-based lemonade, but as an earlier commenter said, it’s a niche hipster speciality rather than the default, and even then, it’s still going to be premade rather than fresh. 

OH GOD THAT’S WHY AMERICAN CHILDREN CAN MAKE IT AND SELL IT SO EASILY. I ALWAYS WONDERED HOW KIDS COULD MAKE A CARBONATED DRINK AT HOME.

Reblogging for Beyonce. This thread is gold.

@cresselian

amazing

is this true

of course it’s true it literally says it right there??

don’t question the facts

this dude is having a meltdown because blizzard made a middle eastern map that isnt a stereotypical a desert shithole

may your ass get fatter and your heart get wiser in 2017

May your wallet get thicker and soul become heavy in 2017

may your skin get clearer and your love reciprocated in 2017

Reblog for this to come true