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I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

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My boyfriend is trying to explain cricket to me again. “He’s only got two balls to make 48 runs”, he says. The camera focuses on a man. Underneath him it says LEFT ARM FAST MEDIUM. A ball flies into the stands and presumably fractures someone’s skull. “There’s a free six”, my boyfriend says. 348 SIXES says the screen. A child in the audience waves a sign referencing Weet-Bix

#long post

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So, here's the thing about the Golden Snitch:

Only Seekers are allowed to touch it

The game doesn't end until it is caught

Most importantly, catching it is worth 150 points (15 goals)

This means in most cases except for very one-sided games, whoever catches the snitch wins the match, seemingly making the rest of the game pointless as indicated above. The thing is, it really wouldn't be that difficult to make this work. 1. Make the Seeker a fourth Chaser for the majority of the game. 2. The snitch is only released onto the field during overtime at the end. Once the match has gone for an allotted period of time for a satisfying match (say about 90 minutes), then the snitch is released and the designated Chaser on each team becomes the Seeker. (Nb. The Seekers can still interact as Chasers, if they want). 3. If no one catches the snitch after 10 minutes, the role of Seeker rotates to a different Chaser, and so on. 4. The snitch isn't worth anything. Catching it just ends the game.

This means, if the scores are close and the lead keeps changing, so must the strategy of the Seekers. One moment they want to catch it, then the other team scores and they immediately have to switch to stopping the other Seeker (without catching the snitch themselves). If the game is one-sided, the losing team's Seeker may chose to ignore the snitch and the other Seeker entirely and keep playing as a Chaser to try to catch up the score (effectively playing 4-on-3).

And that's how you fix Quidditch.

#harry potter

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this one is my favorite clickhole quote

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Ugh, was having a great time mocking my recently imprisoned rival when I noticed the camera positioning makes it so that I appear behind the bars, thus framing me as trapped in a metaphorical prison of the narrative, now my whole day is ruined. Fuck.

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I’ll never get over this bizarre interlude in the middle of the original Michael Jackson ‘Smooth Criminal’ music video, where it suddenly and inexplicably descends into a Lynchian orgy fever dream dubbed by a lunatic. I did not edit this.

Like, I mean… r u ok? … Annie?

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"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived.

My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed.

I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.

There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'.

There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.

I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then. It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century.

I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit! So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity.

You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.

And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."

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sick of hearing about "healing crystals" that "cleanse your mind and body of negative energy" i want to know which rocks can hurt you and fuck up your vibe so bad

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proud of my son. good job

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How (And Why) The Right Stole Christianity |  SOME MORE NEWS

#cody johnston #christian nationalism #right wing #uspol #trump #evangelicals #religion #hobby lobby #racism #abortion #bible #Youtube

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“how would you feel if someone blocked you just because they found you annoying?” then i wouldn’t have to interact with someone who thinks i’m annoying? i don’t see a problem