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From The Big Issue magazine no. 407
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For when you’re down, thanks Soph
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“There are two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we receive, and the larger kind we feel for what we give.” — Edward Arlington Robinson
okay i just went to that sad part of tumblr called tagged/olivia penpraze and that’s a ridiculously fucking awful story.
Specifically, because it could’ve been stopped. The first thing psychologists ask, if you survive a suicide attempt is ‘Did you tell anyone?’ This is how they determine whether the attempt was a ‘cry for help’ or ‘intent to die’. If you tell no one, it’s considered ‘intent to die’.
In fact, in her last video, she says ‘I’ve got Soundwave on Friday, so i’ll do it after then’. People that are willing to stay alive for Soundwave aren’t exactly in a rush to be dead.
The bottom line is that Olivia Penpraze posted a video to 900 people and none of them tried to help, and THAT’s fucked up.
RIP.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/parents-issue-warning-over-online-trolls/story-fn7x8me2-1226321172059
I can’t even fathom how someone could think of egging someone on to take their life as trolling. Yeah, Nina, every part of Olivia’s story is just so fucking wrong. Reminds me in some ways of Yueyue’s story..
This utter apathy, or lack of compassion, or disconnection with humanity, or whatever grand phrase I use to try to encapsulate whatever it is we’re experiencing, is it symptomatic of our technological age? There’s so much to do, see, catch up with, I know I’m constantly distracted. Are we too busy or lazy to engage in the complexities of realities, to connect to each other beyond surface level, to empathise and support and really be there? When it’s so much easier to watch romcoms and Masterchef and go clubbing and get mindlessly drunk and avert my gaze from the homeless and I don’t know how to live.. I guess Olivia didn’t either.. maybe all we need is to know that there are others who don’t know too
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watched this in our language and discourse tutorial yesterday..
(Source: -killerqueen, via ninaoyama)
The Scold’s BridleA scold’s bridle is a British invention, possibly originating in Scotland, used between the 16th and 19th Century. It was a device used to control, humiliate and punish gossiping, troublesome women by effectively gagging them. Scold comes from the ‘common scold’: a public nuisance, more often than not women, who habitually gossiped and quarrelled with their neighbours, while the name bridle describes a part that fitted into the mouth. The scold’s bridle was also known as the ‘gossiping bridle’ and the ‘Brank(s)’, and was commonly used by husbands on their nagging or swearing wives. The device was occasionally used on men; however, it was primarily used on women who agitated the male-dominated society of the era.
(via historicalslut)
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Anonymous asked: Are you going to "The Beatles: The Lost Concert" movie premier in a few weeks?
I wasn’t even aware of this documentary until I saw your question, so after some investigating, apparently it got cancelled? Were you planning to go, curious anon?
It looks interesting regardless, so I’ll keep an eye out for when it hits Australian cinemas (or the interwebz)… Thanks for inadvertently letting me know!
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Free Live Stream - BERLIN PHILHARMONIC BRASS ENSEMBLE -
anyone everyone who sees this yes you! (does that you I imagine exist?) please, if you are so inclined, tune in to the glorious brass of berlin and share the joy