Possibly my favourite and the best scene in the TV show Girls, thus far. Two of my favourite quotes:
“I don’t even want a boyfriend. I just want someone who wants to hang out all the time, and thinks I’m the best person in the world and wants to have sex with only me.”
“You might not know this, but you are very, very charming. And I really care about you… and I don’t want to anymore because it feels too shitty from it.”
Random paragraph I wrote for non-fiction class.
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The best place to hear the most absurd things people will say is on the bus. Two young men, probably in their early to mid twenties, dressed like typical skateboarders sat behind me on the number 20 bus. One was telling the other about this TV show involving a man owning a prison. One day, the warden made the prisoners change their uniforms to rabbit constumes, as it was around Easter time.
His friend quickly asked, “Is he gay?”
Everyone knows the solar system and the planets; we’ve all learned it in primary school. But this BBC series, narrated and hosted by professor Brian Cox, takes us on a voyage to the little known wonders of space. It’s not a general look at the planets, but more of the road less taken, the cool attractions in a city one doesn’t get to see. Again, it’s been a while since I saw the series so I’m not super familiar with everything, but there are 5 episodes total, all an hour long.
With Cox’s mellow narration and his simple constructed diagrams like bottles of condiments at a diner which make it easy for stupid people to understand (a good thing, btw), the series examines things from the beginnings of life on Earth in episode two, “Order Out of Chaos”, to volcanic activity on Saturn’s moons in the “Dead or Alive” episode. This is a fascinating, interesting, high-definition look at the rarely talked-about things in our solar system that is sure to make you wonder how complex, bizarre, and cool the world is beyond our planet.
The only thing that bugged me about everything was Cox’s pronounciation when it came to words that end in a “g”. It’s part of his accent, I’m sure, but for whatever reason, it kinda annoyed me whenever he would say words like, “thing-guh” or “thinking-guh”, always saying the “g”. Anyway, that’s just me and North American-ness.
Wonders of the Solar System
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