you saved me

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thank u guyz

Bob
Amelia Ohio
just east of Cincinnati

I think I’d agree with that!

I think the problem lies with the way that society as a whole and almost all forms of media push the idea that it’s normal to sleep around, and at increasingly younger ages. Meanwhile people who even suggest considering abstination in any way are demonised and branded as prudish fuddy-duddys who don’t live in the ‘real world’.

Contraception seems to be a slight issue too. I understand that people who have no objection to any form of contraception should use them: it just makes sense. There’s a big difference though between telling people what and where contraception is available and actively throwing it at them because ‘they’re bound to use it anyway’. It encourages sex at younger ages. Contraception also shouldn’t be held up as a cure-all, it’s not always 100% effective for one thing, and the contraception mentality means a lot of people think that they can sleep around with no consequences (which is, statistically alone, likley to increase the number of young people having sex regularly, which is bound to increase rates of pregnancies and STDs. It just makes sense).

It seems that children who have sex at a very young age (under 16s probably) are never actually told that what they did was wrong. I’m not talking about judging them harshly or going back to the thankfully long gone days when people were terrified and ashamed if they had a baby outside wedlock, but there’s a whole world of difference between treating people well and stopping them taking responsibility for their own actions. If they feel old enough to have sex then surely they’re too old for us to pretend they’ve done nothing wrong.

Parents will have a large part to play in this too, I think. In the last few years I’ve seen little girls walking around wearing t-shirts emblazoned with the words ‘Foxy Siren’, ‘Hooker’, and even ‘Porn Star’. Presumably it’s just a coincidence that children are becoming sexualised very early…

He looks like one of the ponies that are for sale now (a G3 pony, as opposed to the ones in the 80s and 90s). If you get a white pony all you’ll need is a bit of paint for the face and some hair dye – the difficult bit will be the costume, but playing about with a needle and thread might get some results.

There’s a lot of information on this excellent site though http://www.aikarin.com/mlp/customs/customs.html so it might be of some use. If I find anything else out I’ll post it too. Sorry I can’t be of more help x

Come and mourn…

Oh, well: there was only a narrow time window during which you could have influenced my actions, so no blame attaches itself to you; although your resistance to being contacted for even the best of reasons still bothers me, and I’d still appreciate any information you might be able to provide.

I’m expecting a scintillating post of fascinating informativity and stylistic elegance when you finally pass this way again, mind. (Failing that, we’re still waiting for Teikyo Festival report part two. Or has that been altogether abandoned?)

Please do so in this case. I have another ‘delicate’ matter about which I’d like to consult you.

(I’ll spare you a lecture on the importance of being earn^H^H^H^Hcontactable right now…)

My guess is that a mere two comments on a post aren’t sufficient to trigger panic mode, so either she’s found something distracting to do offline, or…

“Snake, what’s wrong? Snake?! SNAAAAAAAAAAKE!!”

Or we’re just failing to be sufficient exhibitors of abundant wit and perspicacity to earn a response.

To answer your question, I suggest assuming passersby are all familiar with Wikipedia and basic Googling, and so not bothering unless you have some particularly fine or moderately obscure links in mind. But then, that’s my standard policy anyway, and clearly it isn’t yours, so——

So that’s a database app. (I think), a French band, and now a dog, plus the flower… Eventually this trend could become confusing.

Among other definitions. Alright, among sixteen others for the noun alone.

thankyou

However, if you give in people who forget to save in a more widely compatible format will never learn, so I recommend just e-mailing back a lament. Convert the file in case it contains urgent information but pretend you didn’t.

Don’t get me started on people who send as a .doc attachment what could be said in plain ASCII…

Now I have to wait… I can’t cope!

You are really, really inviting a pointed response here.

Sorry, that sounds harsh. However, if you should require any tips on coping with the psychological trauma of waiting, I’ll be around. (And annoying, and persistent, and… persevering.)

I can’t imagine where you learnt such a disposition.

Anyway. Your Yuletide sonnet is condemned to have the kind of self-absorbedly melancholic opener that’s becoming my signature, but seeing you haven’t completely sunk into torpidity will help me write a more upbeat ending than you might have suffered.

I’m reading H.J. Jackson’s Marginalia at the moment, and although it’s not going to convert me to bespoilment (except by way of reply, as confessed previously) it has given me a fuller appreciation of why some people feel they make a book ‘lived in’ or enable a kind of link to previous owners. But… I wonder whether part of that is the informal spontaneity; DIY covers seem a bit ‘forced’ by comparison. I was chuffed to find my second-hand copy of Popolocrois (PSX RPG) had the original pack-in stickers untouched, and I’d probably think the same way of a second-hand book.

I’d never heard of this book; I’ll have to look it up… er, when I’ve finished these other books. (*Glances at work pile, pleasure pile, misc. others…*)

(Sorry, Maria–)

(I know I’ve told you about that before, but it fits, and passersby might not have seen it.)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5×0rdtAv9jg

I thought you were being a bit unresponsive under the circs.

Fungus cat isn’t a reference, he’s actually supposed to be four plants (if you look closely you can see a single green leaf struggling out of his left cheek. I’d like to know if that leaf was healthy or if it was just somehow preserved). The fact that it quite clearly failed to become four plants was what made me worry about my masters.

Incidentally, your ‘currently a student’ line is out of date now.

slainte,

Scott

More to the point, is ‘Fungus Cat’ meant to be a reference?

Blogger doesn’t support trackback, so here’s the paragraph from http://faceofthemoon.blogspot.com/2007/10/darkness.html in which I respond to you:

In Alfirin’s analysis ‘this step has the feel of all those patronising student committees in schools, where school children jump to the chance to change things and have their opinion heard, failing to realise not only that they will have no more attention paid to them than before, but also that they are being used as part of a propaganda war to make the school look better.’ So long as the consultations are merely decorative, manipulated affairs they won’t change anything, so they’ll merely be an annoyance and a net cost; the government is in any case adept enough at hearing what it wants to hear. But I worry that a government which doesn’t always know what it wants to hear – remember the famous obsession with focus groups in the early Blair years – might actually look to student juries for inspiration and fool itself the more effectively into thinking it heard vox populi. Bad prospects either way.

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/projects/disraeli/modpol001-acz-1.html

Okay, I should have just sought to make up.

Hmm. Your reply isn’t showing up in the comment feed on Google Reader; it works in Firefox’s Live Bookmarks though. Glitches…

I have to admit that I didn’t even read the Japan profile properly I wrote the blog post having looked at a few countries, and couldn’t decide which to use. It was very nearly a fact file about the Vatican instead, but having done a relatively exclusive religious-ey post very recently I thought it might be overkill. So I picked Japan in the end just… because :S and didn’t really pay any attention.

Now that I look at it it *really* doesn’t look like a coat of arms. Curses! I’m going to have to look things up now *wanders off*.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_%28crest%29#Modern_usage

Having taken the plunge into meta-commentary, the next step is to become morbidly interested in referrer links. (I find I get a lot of people who searched for strings like ‘faces of the moon in October 2007′, which explains altogether too many hits.)

So with thousands of visitors coming through during the week, almost all of whom will spend a minimum of pound (more likely several) the village will make a nice profit for the school, Church, and hall. I think they deserve it

In most modern Churches the piscina is normally a special sink behind the scenes, but in Churches which are either old or incredibly cool the piscina remains near the altar (where I think they’re technically meant to be).

No excuse.

I hope the productive something will leave you with time free for epistolary communication again.

And I just saw the YouTube videos and the coordination, it’s amazing, after being up all night with my project deployment they were indeed funny and refreshing.

As for bell ringing, it’s not quite the same as the Muslim call for prayer but it’s still a very nice comparison, and one that I’d not thought of. It can only be carried out where there are bell towers (obviously) and it’s usually done during religious services to add to the worship. Although it’s typically associated with Christian services it’s important to remember that the bells are musical instruments; this means that the bell ringers will have to rehearse the tunes that they play (the tunes being formed by the ’specific sequences’ of ringing – and those sequences are interesting enough in their own right) outside the times of services, and also sometimes play for the fun of it.

From what I’ve seen people are really attracted to bell ringing because of the social aspect: as an ‘instrument’ ringing Church bells requires several people to be playing at once, so as well as drawing people together during worship it also adds to the community of the Church.

Sorry that my reply was so long I tend to waffle on for far too much time Oh, and I’m very glad you liked Stellarium – it really is such an impressive program.

I’m beginning to think it’s good that he’s been unmasked though: I watched something on the Forbes website yesterday, and Fake Steve has a book coming out in a little while and was considering coming clean about the blog just before his book would be released. I think that would have spoilt it for me more than having a random journalist finding out.