But Eventually Somebody With Overactive Gold-digging Glands Will Try This As A Means Of Racketeering

I could watch stuff like this all day. It's way funnier than watching our nation get unraveled by the clowns in government and the games that THEY play...

This is so funny I don’t even care for baseball but this is great

Yep, you do!

To whoever reads this… I am currently sending you love. You deserve it. Always.

My favorite piece of outerwear: The I-love-me Jacket. Ahhhhh, good times!

(It's kinda like the thunder shirt they sell for doggos easily stressed and upset by thunderstorms and loud noises. I highly recommend and endorse these. Hmmmm... maybe there's a Shopify or Etsy specialty store in the near future...)

For Elin...

If you knew this tragic and fragile beauty, then you'd understand...

I believe the OP just described the aim of the Leftist army currently at work in this country. The Congressional southpaws had their spin doctors try to make things ugly and hazy, casting dim spotlights on a wide array of conservative targets, as a way of inaudibly stating that Republicans are the source of the problem. Folks, ALL of Congress is at fault, in this and so many other issues. Conservatives/Right-wingers/ Republicans may not be your friends, but neither are Leftists, the new breed of Liberals Democrats, and the rising Socialist set...

to be very clear: coronavirus is not an “enemy”. being a virus, it’s at the junction of the non-alive and alive – so to call it an enemy is akin to calling a hurricane, or maybe the waves enemies. are they? or is it a way of life that makes hurricanes, floods and, yes, pathogens stronger every year? they all just happen. there is no one to blame here but the state, the economy and their shitty representatives. keep that in mind when the last death-throes of humanism, propped up by nationalism, try to mobilize health and illness as their arguments for more surveillance, more control, and more death

While the OP had some strong sentiment about the renovations of this church (which I respect, even though I'm of a different mind and perspective), I think this shows creative intent and energy. The success of this project is purely subjective, but I feel like the goal point of the re-imagined church project is the altar-turned-kitchen. As I think of it, kitchens are generally the soul of a home, the place within a dwelling where the family that resides within gathers to prepare meals or grab snacks, but lingers therein to commune and share the day and its encounters and adventures. This is what family and togetherness means to me, personally, and those things are gifts from God. So what better place to house this than the altar-turned-kitchen.

Me likes...

I posted this church before, when it was first listed in its original state. It’s a 19th century church, built in 1871 and situated in Middleton One Row, County Durham, England. Usually someone will buy a church, clear it out, and furnish it as-is, or they’ll remodel it. This one was bought by a developer who completely redid it and is selling it for “offers in excess of £1,000,000.”

So, first off, how about a working antique pipe organ in the kitchen? Apparently, there’s a secret “organ room” behind it, which is a great hide & seek place (It’s probably creepy, though. Have you ever seen the workings of a big ol’ pipe organ?)

Check out the backsplash. 

Clearly, this was formerly the altar. 

This is where the pews were, and it’s called an “open plan” living room, but to me, it looks like a basement, and I hate the indoor/outdoor carpet. He also added floors to the structure, so this is no longer open and the original high cathedral ceiling is gone. 

Stairs were added to access the upper bedrooms (there are 6) and this is not an attractive area. The owner gutted the property and has renovated everything.

The developer made 3 levels out of one huge church, so as you can see here on the 2nd fl., the windows are cut in half by the floor. 

The en suite bath. 

These are the stairs leading to the 3rd level, and you can see the original high ceiling beams up here. I would think that there was a choir loft up here, somewhere.

The tip of the original altar-now-kitchen is visible from here, on the 3rd level. 

There are smaller bedrooms made to fit the contour of the original ceiling.

The view from the small peep hole opening over the kitchen.

While he saved a lot of the original features and relocated them mostly to the kitchen, I don’t like the levels wiping out the windows and I really don’t like the “open plan” living room. I guess I just like when people live in a church as it is, making only minimal adjustments. 

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/118963637#/?channel=RES_BUY

Expertly presented advice and tutorial.

FYI: This same method works beautifully on any liberal state flag, as well as any flag that NATO, EU, and WOKE organizations come up with.

Note: Flame-based disposal, while not encouraged, is understandable. Just be careful...

rest in peace leelah. you’re gone, but not forgotten

It's always a sad moment when a child resorts to this to escape loneliness and despair. Parents out there: just because you don't understand or necessarily approve of your child/children's preferences in ANYTHING, please do not box them in and shut them down. Explore who and what the child is and what he or she is experiencing. Look past labels and the constraints of a society that trends toward rigidity and cold rejection of anything it can't or won't understand. Embrace your child as the most precious gift you will ever, ever, EVER receive. Hold onto that gift as if it is the only thing that matters in your life, from the time that child is born into your life until the day their hands rest atop your cooling hands. Do not let that brilliant star die, and please stoke the fires of love and humanity that burn as embers in the children. Know love and grace, and live eternally through your children.

For Leelah Alcorn, may you rest in beautiful repose in a greater existence. I never knew you, but as a person and a parent, I feel your absence from this world. My tears flow for what was lost to the world.

And for Leelah's parents: You don't deserve the other children in your life, not if you are so willing to throw one aside to mold your life for the approval of others. May you spend the rest of your petty, pointless lives mired in shame and regret. And I hope your other children abandon you as you did Leelah.

This is such a thing...

But then egos take over and the stories turn to shit...

reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

Bad press… The artist deserves a much better write-up from someone a bit more articulate and with an attentive eye to correcting poor copy and composition. Try being less cute; instead, apply a little bit more attention to detail and content. The effort rewards itself.

These are merely suggestions, relevant if you are aspiring to reach a broader audience. Poor editing is an instant turn-off for a lot of educated readers, including yours truly. I know I’m not perfect, and I’ve made errors, but I'malso conscious of those facts and take the time to clean up my copy before posting. Just sayin’…

Illustrations by Yohey Horishita

Yohey Horishita is a Japanese freelance illustrator based in New York City. He was born in Kagoshima, the capital of Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan, and raised in this Deep South of Japan. Yohey moved to Jacksonville, Alabama alone, and graduated with BFA and MFA in Illustration from Savannah College of Art and Design. Now he lives in NYC, but has never lost his Southern belle personality and love in soul food. He has such an intricate sense of colour, complexity in line works, and also unique creative solution in his illustration, which gives him ability to work extensively. Follow him on @Tumblr.  via

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