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   seinfeld:

   ”These pretzels are making me thirsty!”

   November 3rd, 2015 9:57pm

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   November 3rd, 2015 9:56pm

3. nevver:

   If you lie down on the floor in McDonald’s you get to meet the manager.

   — Shawn (@CakeThrottle) October 30, 2015

   November 3rd, 2015 9:53pm

4. In a skirmish with one of these advance guards, the Hapsburg troops captured a Mongol officer, who, to the surprise and consternation of the Christians, turned out to be a middle-aged literate Englishman who had made his way through the Holy Land, where he seemed to have developed a talent for learning languages and transcribing them. There is some speculation that with his level of education and his flight from England, he may have been involved in the effort to force King John to sign the Magna Carta in 1215. After fleeing England and facing excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church, he ended up in the service of the more tolerant Mongols. The presence of a European, and a former Christian, among the Mongol army made it clear that the Mongols really were humans and not a horde of demons, but the terrified Christians killed the English apostate before they could get a good accounting of the Mongols’ mysterious mission outside Vienna

   — “The Discovery and Conquest of Europe.” From Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, by J. Weatherford.
   (via historical-nonfiction)

   November 3rd, 2015 9:53pm

5. David Attenborough narrates Adele’s Hello

   jkottke:

   BBC Radio One got David Attenborough to narrate the first minute or so of Adele’s video for Hello as if it were a nature documentary. Solid gold. Although I am a little cross they made Attenborough say the words “hashtag flip phone”. 😐

   Bonus pseudo-Attenborough: the episode of Human Planet on The Douche.

   November 3rd, 2015 9:34pm