Tag: History
Opaque transparency
It takes a lot to make me write about current events. Usually because I’m not a creative thinker
Read MoreMusings of a teacher on the cusp of retirement
By a teacher who is getting old. I can see my own teachers shouting and rolling in their graves, how did she become a teacher?!
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Bring it Back: Ponies
Nobody takes ponies seriously anymore. Not even you. I saw you chuckle just then.
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Bring it back: Creative moustachery
I hate facial hair on guys. Hitler moustaches however, can be sexy, depending on the context*.
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Bring It Back: Sexy
Sexy is dead. It died sometime in the 1980s after the rise of giant shoulder pads, Kenny Rogers and corporate America.
Read MoreBring It Back: Useful Dogs
Dogs is an anagram of gods. This is no coincidence. Dogs ARE gods. Well, at least they were, until around the 1960s when they started becoming as lazy and useless as their human owners.
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Bring it back: Queues
I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know. Queues suck. Can you really think of anything worse than standing behind another person who’s standing behind another person?
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Bring it back: Daphne Lingerie
Victoria’s Secret dominates the lingerie market. They’re a multi-cajillion dollar business that, as far as I can tell, targets its ads primarily at the eyeballs and regular balls of pubescent and post-pubescent men.
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Bring it back: Ghost Nannies
Yeesh, things certainly have become rather serious on The Ruminator. Other writers have been talking about racism, sexism, anxiety disorders, and techno-annoyance (of this and this). It’s enough to cramp your furrowed brows.
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Bring it back: The Great Egg Obsession
I love eggs so much. I guess you could call me an eggthusiast.
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Bring it back: Weird competitions
I am very competitive. Very. I’m only writing this blog post because I’m not currently winning this blog. I don’t even know what that means.
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Google Me This
I’m 32 and I feel like I wasted my education. At present, I’m in France, traipsing around the countryside admiring castles and all sorts of other old shit. I’m scouring the leaflets and information signs attached to various wonders, but the main thing they illuminate is my ignorance.
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Bring it back: Creepy window displays
Sometimes I see a picture of something from the past, and I get jealous to the point of becoming angry. I’m jealous that the thing I saw and its sheer awesomeness no longer exists in modern day society.
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