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i heard the gavlebocken is facing some new opponents this year

#gavlebocken #gavle goat

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my favorite thing about the mystery genre is that we all accept the concept of "world famous detective" without hesitation even though that is absolutely not a real category of celebrity

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People are like “it’s so beautiful no clouds at all” it could use a little clouds if I had to be honest.

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unfortunately social media puts the activist meeting, the bitching session, the public outreach, the group therapy session, the silly blow off some steam gossiping about people private chat, and the group d&d session all in the same place, and so people mistake, for example, an outpouring of legitimate grief and rage as somehow a public-facing political statement, or a carefully edited and tactical political statement as a reflection of a person's most deeply held private feelings, etc

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-the spider mites on my balcony

humidity is god's worst invention by FAR

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#relatable

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Respectfully King Arthur himself could not pull me out of you

This is fucking hilarious

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I can’t be bothered to look up the quote right now, but I’m pretty sure that it’s mentioned somewhere in the book that Mr Gardiner lives near his warehouses (plural) so the trade likely involves goods of some sort and of a sufficient quantity/variety to require being stored in more than one warehouse. Not that this narrows things down much at all.

In P&P do we know many specifics about Mr Gardiner's income? For Mr Bennet to believe that he has ten thousand pounds readily available to bribe Wickham, wouldn't Mr Gardiner's income be considerable? And even larger than Mr Bennet's if Elizabeth cannot fathom how the Bennets could repay even half such a sum?

The most we know is what you've said.

She had a sister married to a Mr. Philips, who had been a clerk to their father and succeeded him in the business, and a brother settled in London in a respectable line of trade.

Most people agree this means it wasn't the slave trade. But it doesn't say if the line is particularly profitable or not. What we do know is that they dress and act well enough to be mistaken for people of higher rank:

Mr. Gardiner was a sensible, gentlemanlike man, greatly superior to his sister, as well by nature as education... “What will be his surprise,” thought she, “when he knows who they are! He takes them now for people of fashion.”

And of course, we know that Mr. Bennet believed that his brother could easily bad or borrow £10,000 pounds. What that indicates about his income is unclear because he may have assets that would serve as good leverage against a loan of that size, I doubt he had that amount in money. Similar to how a store has thousands of dollars of inventory at one time, but their income is not that high.

I have always thought the Gardiners are doing very well for themselves. There were certainly tradesmen making it rich in this era, as we see in with the Bingleys and trade heiresses in Austen's works.

#pride and prejudice

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Me: *scrolling twitter in bed*

My gf: "I like to think Mario and Luigi are both colour blind and think they have matching outfits"

Me: *fucking losing it*

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People seem to take my «you should read better books» as «you should read Books That Are Certified Highbrow By The USAmerican Educational System instead of Books That Are Fun To Read» when I’m literally setting the bar for «better books» at «the author has, in fact, put conscious thought into choosing the words that go in the story»

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Anything is possible when you're the heroine of a novel!

(Here's the original ad, you know you want to watch it again)

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razor ads "that's right, we're not like those stuffy old squares who try to control your body. we're not afraid to say it: i'm a woman, and i love shaving my armpits! yeah, we went there - we said the word: armpits. *airhorn noise* *record scratch* uh, yeah, women have hair! wild notion, right, grandpa? we'll get used to it! except don't get too used to it, because it's gonna get shaved. for feminism"