Author: chris

  • wilwheaton:

    I love my family so fucking much.

  • goddessofcheese:

    brofligate:

    did-you-kno:

    Source

    There is literally nothing better than a sexy, badass lady.

    CHING MOTHERFUCKING SHIH

    This lady was such a badass, I can’t count the ways, but let’s try.

    She got married to an already successful pirate, Zheng Yi, and took over when he died. She was crazy strict to keep an iron fist over her fleet of pirates, and the punishments for stepping out of line were brutal. If you stole or looted from a town that provided assistance or tribute to the pirate fleet, Ching would chop your fucking head off with a battle axe and dump your lifeless body in the ocean.  If you stole from the pirate treasury, or she thought you were stealing from the pirate treasury, Ching would chop your fucking head off dump your lifeless body in the ocean.  Raping any captured female prisoners was punishable by immediate death.  Fuck, if you had consensual sex while on duty you got your head chopped off and the woman was chucked off the boat no matter where they were at.  Ching wasn’t fucking around, and she wanted to make damn sure you weren’t fucking around when you should have been working.

    Two years after she took over, she got so notorious for ransacking towns and taking taxes on them that she pissed off the entire Chinese government, and sent out a massive fleet to bring her in line. Most pirates probably would’ve said this was out of their pay grade and taken off to hide out or ransack some other country.

    Ching Shih said fuck that.

    She not only faced them head on, she wiped the floor with them, killing hundreds and capturing sixty-something ships from the Imperial Fleet. Prisoners were given the choice of joining up or being executed on the spot. The Admiral of the Chinese navy, Kwo Lang, was so afraid of being captured by her or going back to admit he’d been beaten by her that he committed suicide.

    For the next two years, Ching Shih not only kept on pirating, she fought off Chinese forces as well as Dutch and British warships that the navy called in to help. Finally the government gave up and offered her amnesty as well as amnesty for her then SEVENTEEN THOUSAND crewman. Ching Shih got to keep all her plunder, so she retired to the countryside where she opened up a brothel and lived until she was 69.

    tldr: I’ve come to terms with the reality that I’ll never be as terrifyingly badass as this woman was.

    is this now the standard to compare all potential girlfriends against? Daaamn.

  • chibird:

    A little penguin encouragement to support you when you need some motivation. 😀 <3

  • thatdjspider:

    This? May seriously be the CUTEST Calvin and Hobbes cosplay ever.

    EVAR!

  • wilwheaton:

    stfuconservatives:

    autumnyte:

    (Rebloggable version of this reply, per request.)

    Well, here’s the deal, anon. The Salvation Army is an evangelical Christian group, and they impose those beliefs on the people that they employ and the communities they serve. Here are a few examples:

    They are so opposed to LGBT rights that they have lobbied multiple times for exemptions from Federal and Local anti-discrimination laws, and threatened to withdraw their services. 

    They refused to provide shelter to a homeless gay couple, unless they broke up and renounced their homosexuality. 

    They refused to provide a transgender woman with shelter that was congruent with her gender presentation, instead insisting she house with men. She chose instead to sleep on the sidewalk and died from the cold.  

    Speaking of gender, there was also this charming incident where one of their hostels refused to open the door for a 17-year-old victim who had just been brutally raped (or even call the police for her) because that particular hostel had a strict “men only” policy.

    Children who can’t prove their immigration status are turned away.

    The organization also disposes of any Harry Potter or Twilight related donations (rather than giving them to other charities), because they claim the toys are “incompatible with the charity’s Christian beliefs”. 

    During the Bush Administration (thanks to ‘faith-based initiatives’) they fired about 20 long-time employees (Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Gay), simply for refusing to sign the organization’s statement of Christian belief.  

    So, that—in a nutshell—is what’s wrong with it.

    Winter is coming… and so are their buckets. Remember this when they’re bothering you for change.

    Consider that there are a number of worthy, non-denominational organizations all over the country that serve people without regard to their race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, or anything else that rational people don’t care about. Those places deserve your money and your support.

  • itswalky:

    goddessofcheese:

    shadesoffantasy:

    bradamantium:

    dduane:

    (chuckle)

    Yessss.

    make this HAPPEN!!!!

    okay

  • smartasshat:

    Damn Siri, that’s harsh.

    I guess she really is a mean piece of silicon. 

  • The modern miracle would be getting it approved for selling.