Claire
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Young, attractive female artists who think it's "brave" and "edgy" to exhibit naked photos of themselves.
Likewise people who think self mutliation is deeply transgressive.
Ooh, good point, and that reminds me - "artists" who think they can get away with claiming that a bucket of menstrual blood slopped over a blank canvas is "art". You're fooling nobody, you deviant fucks.
And from the other side of things...people whose response to land art or installation work is "I could've done that".
Um, but you didn't. And that's the whole point. Don't confuse posessing the ability to copy something with the ability to create it. After all there are plenty of competant painters and forgers who could copy the Mona Lisa, that does mean they're as good as da Vinci.
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Young, attractive female artists who think it's "brave" and "edgy" to exhibit naked photos of themselves.
Likewise people who think self mutliation is deeply transgressive.
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So if we take it on faith and do not actually understand or even try to prove scientific theories ourselves doesn't that mean that to most people it is a religion?
In that case any aspect of life where people follow the advice or theories of people more knowlegable in field than themselves could be termed a religion.
Though thinking of politics and economics that might make sense.
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Think it once and you'll think it every time you see a shut eye...
It was either post the eyeball thing or tell all about my childhood fears of beetles eating my feet during the night. I foiled them by sleeping with my feet propped up on a pile of cushions under the covers, with the covers winched as tight and tucked in. I don't know why but feet eating beetles are completely unable to climb up cushions.
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There are a number of factors to the declining numbers but I was just conducting a quick straw poll to see if my thoughts were backed up by the cinema going behaviour of people here.
I'd agree ticket price is a big issue, but for me it's more the mutiplex homogenity versus the massive variety of DVDs. It seems to me there's less and less movies coming out at the cinemas (I can remeber watching a new movie every week at my small town cinema 10 years ago) and that the all show the same flicks at the same time. In comparasion I can go down the video store and get almost any film of note from over a hundred years of film making.
I find it saddening as I love going to the movies-making an event of it, having to sit in a darkened room, givening all your attention to the screen, surrendering yourself to the film.
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Often when I watch people sleeping I become convinced that they they have no eyeballs, that their eye sockets instead are tightly packed with hair, and that the eyelashes are the curly ends of this hair poking through the eyelid.
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Rogan's back on the boards and all's right in the world!
Good to have you back chum.
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Been doing the holidays-comfort-reading-old-favourites thing. Persuasion, Cryptonomicon and Cold Comfort Farm.
All this talk of American Gods has got me seriously craving a re-read of that and Good Omens but I own neither. Damn.
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1 here, too.
What? I've known Mrs. Nova since I was 17 ("known" her since I was 18!). I'm 28 now. Quit looking at me!
Well I ain't looking at you funny. I'm the person that voted 1. Same situation, met a lovely boy when I was 16, still with him at 23.
(And I'm guessing you and the missus upped your stats without cheating in a threesome?)
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Wikipedia doesn't have the half of it. See amended post above.
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Generally speaking, ANY kind of memory aid helps, because the simple act of doing a specific action to remember something adds impact to the memory of the thing you want to remember. This is, btw the single most important reason to take notes during lectures. NOT to read the notes later, but because writing things down right after hearing them makes it more likely that you will remember them.
Yep. If I think I'll forget something I ask someone to remind me of it and the very act of asking them ensures I'll remember it on my own.
Unless it's numbers, then I have to write it down. Usually on the underside of my forearm- less smearing.
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Only person on my despised list that isn't a ditto- Graham Capill
He's also the only person I hate and despise in a real, viseral way rather than in abstract.
(Edited because Capill's NZ specific.)
In the 90's Capill was the leader (maybe founder as well I'm not sure) of the Christian Heritage Party. You can probably guess their agenda "pro family" policies of the no sex outside marriage, no sex ed, gays and lesbians are perverts, naked statues cause the breakdown of society kind.
Anyways he was eventually ousted from the party and looked like he was going to fade into obscurity.
Then at the beginning of 2005 he was put on trail for unlawful sexual connection with an 8 year old. Turns out the whole time he was "New Zealand's moral watchdog" he was also sexually abusing three 5 to 11 year old girls. Truly awful detail- for one of his victims being molested is her earliest memory.
And as despictable as all that is, what makes it worse is that, aside from in court, he has never shown any remorse. He has said he's sorry for disapointing his politcal followers but never, publically or privately, appolgised to his victims.
He's even tried to defend his actions. While on trail he sent a email to his former friends and supporters defending his rape of a 9 year old because
a) it wasn't rape in the "biblical sense"
b) the girl instigated it by being affectionate
c) she didn't fight him off so therefore it was consentual.
That's right- if a 9 year old wants a cuddle and doesn't fight off the large grown man trying to have sex with her, it's legit!
Luckily one of the recipiants fowarded it to the police and they were able to submit it as evidence. Kind of demolished his in court crying repentant act and quashed his chances of early parole.
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Have you heard any of their other anti-masturbation tatics?
To prevent nocturnal emissions men would slip a leather ring with inward facing spikes on to their member. Any nightime tumesence would result in the "prick being pricked" as it were, thus preventing shameful stains on the sheets the next day.
To me it all sounds like a grand way to form a lasting association between sexual arousal and pain, and so create a generation of devoted maschocists, but hey, that's the Victorians for you!
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Jeeze Christian, I don't think I can add much to what every one else has already said, but ridiculous and ineffectual as it is, I'm sitting here on the other side of the world with my eyes screwed up trying to send you a sense of love and human warmth.
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Nothing's arrived for me yet. I moved house on the 28th so I assume it's just taking a while to be redirected.
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I cooked a Christmas dinner for my boyfriend, as he was alone on Cristmas and missed out (NB I was living in a different city until Dec 28th). Then we ate trifle and watched down loaded season two episodes of Veronica Mars. Pretty damn good New Year in my book.
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Something's just occurred to me, and it's so screwed up and puritanical, it could very well be the reason that in THIS country of all places, circumcision is practiced: if boys aren't circumcised, they have to wash their wieners regularly. If they do that, they are rubbing the heads of their wieners with fingers lubricated with soapy water. If they do that enough times, there's a good chance that they'll like the feeling and start masterbating!
That may be BS, but I'm wondering if that rationale can't be found in the medical literature at the time the practice was started here....
Josh, you're pretty much spot on.
Circumcision took off in a big way in Victorian England as an anti masturbation measure. I think their rational was that by circumscising the penis and making it less sensitive boys wouldn't get accidental sexual pleasure from day to day handling, and thus would avoid falling into the solitary vice.
I'm guessing it kept going longer in the US due to an unholy blend of sexual puritanism and hygiene fixation. And I suppose, unlike in the UK or NZ, it's pretty hard for all the doctors and relevent officials in the USA to get together and decide something.
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Selkie,
you remind me of rituals i've read.... but what are you really doing, if one permitted to ask?
I'm also dying to know. And yes I am too curious for my own good and would not last more than five minutes as Bluebeard's latest wife.
Any way, on the subject of making the big move out of home, exactly one week ago I packed up my bags and moved from my mum's house in Christchurch (South Island NZ) to Wellington, our charming capital (North Island NZ) to live with my boyfriend.
For the first time in some 9 or 10 months we are resident in the same city. I spent the last week soaking up the domestic bliss. My Lawrence is a stand up guy, and I arrived to find he'd set up a study for me with my own PC all loaded up with Photoshop and a kick ass Internet connection. Not to mention he's registered frailsistercomics.com for me and is all poised to help me build a website. I think I shall now be obliged to love him forever.
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Try the Animorph's books as well.
I heartily second this.
They appeal to both boys and girls and are a mix of sci-fi, conspricy thriller, animal stories and a bit of horror- voila, something for everyone!
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Taking a break from the cooking marathon right now, having just put a batch of cinnimon rolls in the oven to have for breakfast tomorrow.
Christmas dinner this year will be-
Starter: Mussels grilled with brie and breadcrumbs.
Main: Roast lamb served room temperature with mint sauce
Ham
New potatoes
Asparagus
Grilled capsicum, corgette and fresh tomato salad
Pudding: Mum's strawberry cheesecake
Pavalova
Ambrosia
-in other words slightly modernised Kiwi traditional.
I shall be rising at 6:30 to resume cooking.
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So glad it arrived in time, and that you like it.
I went to town on the card because it felt like a bit of a cop out sending my comics instead of making a gift specially.
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Yesterday I had my first sitting-in-the-sun-drinking-beer-with-my-mates afternoon of the season, and all is now right in the world.
WTF??!! *checks where Claire lives* - Ah yes - it's in fact SUMMER where you are. Lucky you.
Ah we pay the price in winter though. It's long cold and wet, with no holidays or festivals to cheer it up.
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December. Summertime, school holidays, Christmas and New Year's Eve=bbq season.
Yesterday I had my first sitting-in-the-sun-drinking-beer-with-my-mates afternoon of the season, and all is now right in the world.
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Yay! Tony's back!
As for what's going on with me, go here and scroll down to "Best Writing"