Cool and snappy things to say when you see someone fall over
- “clean up on aisle that guy”
- “hahaha walk much?”
- “wow looks like someone just fell over and that someone is you”
- “hey look at ol’ stupid legs over here”
- “hope you remembered your travel insurance and passport for that trip you just took lmao”
- “it’s called ‘gravity’ get used to it bucko”
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Veronika Scott was a fashion student at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit when her teacher, Stephen Schock, challenged her class to create a product that filled a need, rather than satisfying or creating a fad. Veronika’s design was a coat for homeless people that could transform into a sleeping bag, since in her city, she says, “you are constantly faced with the homeless epidemic.”
Not only did her design win a International Design Excellence Award from the Industrial Designers Society of America, it’s become the core of Veronika’s nonprofit organization, The Empowerment Plan, which hires people from homeless shelters and transition homes to help her make the coats. Now, three years later, the 24-year-old social entrepreneur expects that her team of 15 seamstresses will produce over 6,000 coats in 2014 — all of which will be distributed free of charge to people living on the streets.
Veronika originally designed the coats seeking input from people at a homeless shelter. After receiving feedback from people who used the prototype over a Detroit winter, she refined the design to create her final version which, in addition to being a waterproof and windproof coat and sleeping bag, also transforms into an over-the-shoulder bag with storage in the arm sockets.
When she started out, Veronika states,“Everybody told me that my business was going to fail — not because of who I was giving my product to but because of who I was hiring. They said that these homeless women will never make more than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich — you cannot rely on them for anything. And I know my ladies enjoy proving everybody wrong.”
And, their impact is growing — according to CNN, which recently honored Veronika as one of their 10 Visionary Women of 2014, “The Empowerment Plan expects to launch a ‘buy one, give one’ program that will make it sustainable beyond the donations and sponsorships that keep it running now. Hunters and backpackers who’ve asked to buy the coat will be able to do so, and the Empowerment Plan will still create coats for homeless people who need them.”
Veronika is also excited to show other clothing producers that local manufacturing is possible: “I think we’re going to show a lot of people: you think it’s outdated to do manufacturing in your neighborhood, but I think it’s something that we have to do in the future, where it’s sustainable, where you invest in people, where they’re not interchangeable parts.”
You can read more about Veronika’s organization on CNN, or watch a short video about her work here.
To learn more about The Empowerment Plan or how you can support their work, visit http://www.empowermentplan.org/
For a wonderful book about women’s great inventions throughout history, check out “Girls Think of Everything” for readers 8 to 13.
For those in the US who would like to support efforts to end homelessness and help the over 600,000 people who experience homelessness on any given night, visit the National Alliance to End Homelessness athttp://www.naeh.org/ or to find a local homeless shelter to support in your area, visit http://www.homelessshelterdirectory.org/Important in so many ways.
This is amazing and wonderful.
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druidheartA mighty fine rule of thumb is that nothing with the word “origins” in the title will ever be much cop. Another good rule is that releases from WWE Studios are uniformly shite. Of course, there are exceptions to both - the first Dragon Age game for the former, Oculus and The Call for the latter - but in general, they’re to be avoided.
The two rules absolutely prove true with Leprechaun: Origins, the seventh film in the series and the first in eleven years. Quite why WWE thought it a good idea to revive a long dormant, cult-concern-only franchise is something known only to them. That said, Origins deserves some praise for at least trying to be a proper horror film. Taking a sharp swerve away from its comedic Warwick Davis-starring forbears, Origins reshapes the titular tiny terror (now played by WWE’s Dylan “Hornswoggle” Postl) as a feral beast, an inhuman creature that feasts solely on attractive 20-something American backpackers with more in common with the cave-dwellers of The Descent than a cheery cereal mascot. Despite this rebooting of the franchise, there’s little to differentiate this from any other bog-standard “protagonists get picked off” horror, other than the faux-Irish flavouring. Apparently, everyone in Ireland is middle-aged, greying, wears a flat cap and braces, and sits in a remote pub in the middle of the day; the film didn’t even bother going to Ireland to film, instead deciding Vancouver is a good substitute.
You don’t even need to watch the film to call its spots; a pre-credits death of unnamed monster fodder, hapless protagonists stumble across locals who turn out to be malicious and are told of some evil and/or mysterious thing, a literal cabin in the woods (a trope which really should be banned after Cabin In The Woods), a jump-scare, an initial confrontation with the creature, someone goes down into a basement, the group separates, they get picked off, blah, blah, etc, etc. To be fair to the filmmakers, they do a decent job of keeping the leprechaun off-screen and in the shadows to maximise its scare potential, a la the xenomorph in Alien, although one suspects this may be down to the shoddiness of the practical effects - I’ve seen Nikki Bella dropkicks that were more convincing - and the extreme suspension of disbelief that something no more than three feet tall and all skin & bone could be such an effective killing machine. As such, there are very few real scares to be had and only one or two notable moments of gore (involving gold piercings). Such scrimping on the necessary elements for a successful horror could be excused if the rest of the film wasn’t so poorly made in every regard, from effects to cinematography to screenplay to direction, sound and acting. It wouldn’t surprise me to find out that even the catering on set was below par.
★☆☆☆☆
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looking forward to learning how to circumvent the ol “sandwich under cardboard box propped up by a stick” ploy
60% of straight women say they would never date a bisexual. 50% of straight men say they would never date a bisexual. 40% of gay men and lesbians say they would never date a bisexual. Bisexuals are obviously just greedy. They’re just bisexual so they can sleep with fewer people and lose opportunities for relationships based solely on their sexual orientation.
look at this fucking crab. this is so unnecessary why do you need legs that long. how do you even go anywhere. what the fuck
Peter Böhme
Space KittnzIn recognition of today’s successful landing of Curiosity rover on Mars. Watercolours/pencils on paper. 06-08-2012
Emma-Rose Gibson can see clearly no more than three centimetres in front of her, but a new device is allowing the nine-year-old Ottawa girl to watch TV.
The legally blind Grade 4 student, who is diagnosed with optic nerve hypoplasia, is one of the first users of the eSight eyewear, a pair of computerized glasses officially launched Tuesday in Toronto.
The device — made by Ottawa-based eSight Corporation — reconfigures images captured by its high-definition camera in a way to optimize a user’s vision. The processed images are then fed into two LED screens in front of the user’s eyes.
Gibson, who has been using the device since May, said it allows her to participate fully in class and grants her a degree of mobility she didn’t have before.
“When I first heard of it, I was like, ’Wow, this can actually change my life.”’ (Photo: Ethan Lou / The Canadian Press)
What the. This is great.
Another step closer to Star Trek.
The VISOR
i love seeing girls close ranks when their fella is cheating, instead of defending him and attacking the other girls. like seriously. it warms my cold, cold heart so much.
i need the rest of this story, where did you put the body
I’ve always wanted to do this. I hope they all went out for ice cream later too.
i want an update on this
FUCKING AMAZING
FORCED TO FLEE WITH HIS NAN
Charlie Fisher was met by the girls shouting “liar, liar” as he walked out of arrivals.
A cheating boyfriend got his comeuppance when he touched down in the UK following a holiday – and walked straight into his three girlfriends.
Charlie Fisher, 20, had barely set foot on English soil at Luton Airport when he heard someone shouting ‘liar, liar’ – and saw the three girls he had been seeing being each other’s backs marching towards him.
Becky Connery, 17, said she planned the (not so) welcome party after finding out her love rat boyfriend had been texting a girl behind her back.
‘He came out and froze,’ she told The Sun.
The girls found each other through text and Facebook and hatched the plan (Picture: Lizzie Leeland-Cunningham)
‘We started calling him a cheat and a liar really loudly. He didn’t have anything to say.’
After seeing the message, Becky got in touch with the 20-year-old girl – who does not want to be identified – and together, the pair found a third girl through Facebook, Lizzie Leeland-Cunningham.
‘I just wanted to see his face when all three of us were in the same place,’ Lizzie, 19, told The Sun.
Becky later said that after confronting her cheating ex, he ‘ran to his nana’.
Charlie, from Hertfordshire, would invent friends and lie about family commitments in order to juggle the three girls, according to reports.
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