Michael Jackson
June 29th, 2009 (01:02 pm)
This is funny & brilliant! Language is absolutely NOT WORK SAFE!
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This is funny & brilliant! Language is absolutely NOT WORK SAFE!
The new puppy arrives today!! We have gone through several name ideas since we picked him out - now we're waiting to meet him and see what suits him.
I'll post some pics later!
Also - we've all been sick the last couple of weeks - I was going to take next week off on Long Service Leave to try and recover a bit (this flu knocks it out of you) but apparently we just got a new directive that we have to give a term's notice for leave. They want to bring non-teaching staff in line with teachers, which totally sucks as our circumstances are completely different.
I will talk to the BSM toworrow - hopefully she can slip me through retroactively, if not I will take another couple of days sick bt then I will have to go in. I can't afford to lose any pay. :-(
How are you all?
Food Facts about me:
I have never eaten a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I don't personally know anyone who has. Of course here in Oz it would be peanut butter & jam.
I have never tasted pumpkin pie. The only way I have eaten pumpkin is as a savoury dish, roasted in a baking pan with chicken or beef, boiled and mashed with butter or cream and salt & pepper.
I would rather have offal than steak. Liver (braised with onions or floured and fried) lamb hearts (roasted or boiled) kidneys (fried, yummy), tripe (boiled in parsley sauce or Chinese style in blackbean or ginger) But not brains, which I have tried but just can't warm up to.
I like rabbit. Roasted boiled or floured and fried I love it. We can only by farmed rabbit here though, and it's hard to find and bloody expensive.
If I had to pick one food it would be chicken - it's so versatile!
Just made my second purchase from Etsy - I love that place! I thought ebay was bad for my wallet - but Etsy has everything!
(Jacqueline - I just bought your birthday present!)
Possible win on the RSPCA complaint.
I peeped in on the backyard again on Sunday and the cage & the dog are gone! The ground is swept clean!
It gives me hope the RSPCA came and rescued the dog, because if they just ate the dog then the cage would still be there.
(Did I mention I was worried the dog was being raised for food? The whole garden is cultivated from fence to fence, and the dog cage was right next to the chicken coop. It's not as crazy as it sounds, the old couple are Vietnamese and lots of older Vietnamese people still eat dog.)
I have emailed the RSPCA lady who confirmed my complaint and sent me a complaint # - so I hope the news is good!
*UPDATE*
I wish to advise you that I am the area inspector for Durack and have attended the complaint lodged by you. Due to privacy reasons, I am unable to disclose information relating to the inspection, any investigation undertaken or information as to the persons involved, however I can assure you that your issues were addressed.
A while back someone on my flist shared a John Barrowman song - I just got around to listening to it and it's brilliant! I love it!
So, a retrospective thank you to that lovely person! Thank you!
Amd in other news:
Where's my $900 government beetches?!?!?
Want some invective? Insults? Abuse? Castigation, defamation, opprobrium? Then feel free to take a leaf from Sir Thomas Urquhart’s translation of Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel, dated 1653:
The bun-sellers or cake-makers were in nothing inclinable to their request; but, which was worse, did injure them most outrageously, called them prattling gabblers, lickorous gluttons, freckled bittors, mangy rascals, shite-a-bed scoundrels, drunken roysters, sly knaves, drowsy loiterers, slapsauce fellows, slabberdegullion druggels, lubberly louts, cozening foxes, ruffian rogues, paltry customers, sycophant-varlets, drawlatch hoydens, flouting milksops, jeering companions, staring clowns, forlorn snakes, ninny lobcocks, scurvy sneaksbies, fondling fops, base loons, saucy coxcombs, idle lusks, scoffing braggarts, noddy meacocks, blockish grutnols, doddipol-joltheads, jobbernol goosecaps, foolish loggerheads, flutch calf-lollies, grouthead gnat-snappers, lob-dotterels, gaping changelings, codshead loobies, woodcock slangams, ninny-hammer flycatchers, noddypeak simpletons, turdy gut, shitten shepherds, and other suchlike defamatory epithets; saying further, that it was not for them to eat of these dainty cakes, but might very well content themselves with the coarse unranged bread, or to eat of the great brown household loaf.
source
Years & years ago my younger brother worshipped Chuck Norris. I mean, he absolutely adored him. He met him once and was thrilled to find he was quite short - as my brother is himself vertically challenged.
And now it seems Chuck Norris is batshit crazy. Far Right, Palin-lovin', Republican apologist, gun-totin asshat crazy. (Check out some of his articles if you don't beleive me)
Another piece of my childhood dies...
Chuck! Why have you forsaken me??
And, for iibnf - Have accepted zombie-jesus into your life yet?
I just emailed a report to the RSPCA about a dog I hear through a fence on my walks with Sam. Poor thing appears to live in a tiny little homemade cage.
If they don't contact me back I'm just going to take a pair of pliers with me next week and break him out.
It's NINJA TIME!
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai signed a new law last month that critics say makes it legal for men to rape their wives.
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said he believed the adoption of certain aspects of sharia law in the UK was unavoidable.
The most senior judge in England, Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips, gave his blessing to the use of sharia law to resolve disputes among Muslims.
Iraqi Shia leaders are demandig their new constitution and laws are based on sharia.
The Thai government is considering the introduction of sharia law in parts of the Muslim dominated South.
Women living in the northwest region of Pakistan begin to feel the restrictive effects of sharia law as its courts start to administer justice. Under the newly imposed Islamic laws, which began last month, women living in Malakand area are not allowed to be or speak in public by themselves, they must cover their heads, and thousands of girls are likely to now be unable to go to school.
In 2005 Ontario, Canada's largest province, wanted to be the first in the West to introduce sharia law to settle family disputes. Only widespread protests locally and abroad put paid to these plans.
Q. So what is sharia law?
A. Complicated and depressing. Look it up, it will make you want to gouge your eyes out in 2.5 minutes.
Q. What are some of its effects - on women for example?
A. Good question, let's ask ex-Muslim auther Nonie Dawish. (source)
Under the Islamic legal system, women without a headdress on in public can be flogged, rape victims under certain circumstances can be punished, and adulteresses can be beheaded.
In her book, Darwish tells the story of a Saudi woman who was gang raped by seven men, but sentenced by the court to flogging because she was allegedly seen talking to a man who was not her relative. Her attackers said they saw that violation as justification to rape her and the judge agreed. Under Sharia law, women are not even allowed to make eye contact with men that are not their relatives.
Women are further at a disadvantage in courts because their testimony only counts as half the value of a man’s.
Sharia law is especially cruel when it comes to rape cases. To prove rape, either the rapist has to confess or there must be four male witnesses of the rape that testify on behalf of the victim.
Under Islam, husbands, in order to make their wife (or wives) obedient, are also given permission to beat her if she “rebels.”
The most shocking sexual privilege Sharia grants to men is that they are allowed to seek sexual gratification with children.
There is no legal age of marriage under Sharia and a girl can be given in marriage as young as the age of one. But marriage can only be lawfully consummated with a girl when she reaches the age of nine.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, the Shia Grand Ayatollah between 1979 and 1989, said in an official statement, which appears in his book, Tahrirolvasyleh:
“A man can quench his sexual lusts with a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate. Sodomizing the baby is halal (allowed by Sharia). If the man penetrates and damages the child, then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl, however, does not count as one of his four permanent wives…It is better for a girl to marry when her menstruation starts, and at her husband’s house rather than her father’s home. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven.”
Nice, eh?
Depressed yet?
Hey, I've been plagiarized! Is that a compliment?
Ironically the story is titled Stolen Memories and it's written in script form. The 'author' used the 'lost memory' idea, which is fair enough and hardly original. And she cut out the Wincest. But she did lift heaps of dialogue right out of my story!
FAIL, Lazy Writer! FAIL!
Things that made me laugh today:
1. The non-English-speaking taxi driver who had never used a QWERTY keyboard and couldn't find G.
2. My 78 year old mother pausing her Sex In The City DVD when I come on the room, so I won't see/hear the sex scenes.
3. My Sammy
People that I wanted to kill today:
1, The woman in the newspaper complaining that her 6 year sentence was too high. She stood by while her de facto totrured her three little children. The 2 year old is brain damaged. 6 years is not e-bloody-nuff for this bitch. I want her dead,
2. The de facto who tortured them.
3. The pet-owners on Animal Cops: Detroit & Animal Cops: San Francisco who neglected/abused/tortured their dogs and got away with it. Oh, and the ones fighting their dogs for money and setting their pit bulls on little shivering puppies to 'train' them. I'm sorry, 6 months suspended sentence is not enough. You have forfeited your Humanity Card and must die.
*wishes HEAD CANCER on these people*
Personally I don't think animated shows translate well to live action movies. But when I heard Avatar: The Last Airbender was being made into a live action movie I thought it would be worth taking a look at. It's a very human story after all, under the mysticism and the martial arts.
What it isn't though, is a European story. Here are our three main characters, (L-R) Katara, Aang & Sokka.
Sokka & Katara are from the Water Nation, an Innuit-like people:
Aang is an Air-Bender:
The fourth main character is a prince of the Fire-Nation, Zuko
Not very European you say? So why are they being cast thus, in the upcoming Shyamalan movie?
Aang:
Sokka
Katara
Zuko
I have nothing against these actors, they all look adorable, and for The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe, or Witch Mountain or something, fine. But Avatar??
Fail, Shyamalan. Fail Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall. FAIL.
Go write a letter, this brilliant person is organsing and has a bunch of details:
aang_aint_white
UPDATE! - Dev Patel is now up for Zuko - he's definitely Asian. Not sure if he's the right Asian for Zuko, but he's not blonde, which is a step up. </sarcasm>
audrarose quoted Michael Chabon from his essay on fan fiction:
"wildly limited men who find in each other, and only in each other, the stuff, sense, and passion of one whole man."
He was talking about Holmes & Watson apparently, but I agree with audrarose , this could be any slash pairing, and certainly the ones I fall hard for. There's something so wonderful in that sort of need for one another, that fulfillment in each other that two male characters can find together.
And it's absolutely true for my lovelove fandom right now, which is Master & Commander. In case anyone on my flist hasn't heard from me about this before, if you are a slash fan you should be reading these books. Captain Jack Aubrey & Dr Stephen Maturin form this incredible close bond and loving friendship - it's the finest I have ever read in any fiction.
Of course they're also rollicking good stories with sailing ships and big cannons and scurvy and espionage. But that's just an added bonus. It's the love these marvelous men feel for one another, the bond they have that transcends race and profession and character. They marry, they have families, but you are never left in any doubt that no one and nothing else is as an important to Jack & Stephen as each other.
LOVELOVE!!
Cos I like this bit:
1. Provide pictures and the names of 3 people.
2. Label which you would Marry, Fuck, and Kill.
Marry: Totoro
(because he is soft and chubby and loves to eat and sleep and is mythical)
Fuck: Jack Aubrey & Stephen Maturin.
(because - Hell YES!)
Kill: Anna Bligh, Premier of Queensland.
(because she is destroying the Labor Party! *spits*)
Spoilers for Season One of Merlin
My sister, jak_quill has donated $100 to the Victorian Bushfire Appeal. As soon as my pay comes in I will do the same. We're not rich people by any means, but if this is all we can do to help, then we'll do it. Thanks J, for setting a good example to your little sister!
This $100 will be the proceeds of the two eBay auctions I have going for the moment, which I think is cool, as the items didn't cost me anything and they're going to a good home.
