ever notice that the mean voice in ur head that insults u is awful confident for something thats literally never done anything in its life except be mean to you… like… one of us is pathetic and its not me buddy… get a hobby… yikes
Hello, I am trying to locate the letter where Walking Disaster Aaron Burr rambles at length about setting himself on fire whilst attempting to light a candle with a gun, can anyone point me in the right direction
Found it!
“I did go to bed at 10, promising myself a rich sleep. Lay two hours
vigil; that cursed one single dish of tea! Note: My bed had undergone a
thorough ablution and there were no bugs or insects. Got up and
attempted to light candle, but in vain; had flint and matches but only
some shreds of punk which would not catch. Recollected a gun which I had
on my late journey; filled the pan with powder and was just going to
flash it when it occurred that though I had not loaded it someone else
might; tried and found in it a very heavy charge! What a fine alarm it
would have made if I had fired! Then poured out some powder on a piece
of paper, put the shreds of punk with it and after fifty essays
succeeded in firing the powder ; but it being dark, had put more powder
than intended; my shirt caught fire, the papers on my table caught fire,
burnt my fingers to a blister (the left hand, fortunately); it seemed
like a general conflagration. Succeeded, however, in lighting my candle
and passed the night till 5 this morning in smoking, reading, and
writing this.“
This man was 53 years old with the preservation instincts and caffeine tolerance of an infant with ADD
Who … what sort of person thinks a GUN is a sensible thing with which to light a candle? How, as this much of a disaster, does one survive 53 years???
nothing sexier than that picture with the italian players on top of eachother after the win and the english ones going through the 5 stages of grief in the back