You fucking people are ridiculous

45.3% of Livejournal users reported wanting a Pulitzer over an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy or Tony award.
I can't say I'm surprised because you need a personality for the others but you can have 0 personality or talent and hide behind the excuse of being "so deep and complex" and delude yourself into believing you'd claim a Pulitzer.
Personally I wouldn't want any of those shitty awards. I'd rather win the triple crown of scifi awards:
Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Award.
Only one book in history has managed that and it's Neuromancer.
And here we go for our "Fuck Off" Friday.
I found this tripe through the ONTD_P article "The Kissing Sailor, or 'The Selective Blindness of Rape Culture'".
It's that picture from WW2 of the sailor kissing that nurse and apparently they didn't know each other when he just grabbed her and kissed her.
Prepare for impending buttmad.

It seems pretty clear, then, that what George had committed was sexual assault. Yet, in an amazing feat of willful blindness, none of the articles comment on this, even as they reproduce Greta’s words for us. Without a single acknowledgement of the problematic nature of the photo that her comments reveal, they continue to talk about the picture in a whimsical, reverent manner, “still mesmerized by his timeless kiss.” George’s actions are romanticized and glorified; it is almost as if Greta had never spoken.

Welp.
Why does anyone give a shit about this? A woman got a surprise kiss (she wasn't actually raped) 70 years ago.
Worse shit happened ten seconds ago.

In a way, I understand this. The end of war is a big deal, and the euphoria felt throughout the nation on that day is an important part of American history.

The end of WW2 is "pretty important".
As far as I know the order of important events goes as follows:
The Fall of Rome
The Third Crusade
WWII.
I don't even want to ask what registers as "really important" in terms of history.

For so long, this photograph has come to represent that unbridled elation, capturing the hearts of war veterans and their families alike. The fact that this much-loved photo is a depiction of sexual assault, rather than passion, is an uncomfortable truth, and to call it out as such might make one seem to be a priggish wet blanket. After all, this sailor has risked his life for his country. Surely his relief and excitement at the end of the war is justified? Surely these are unique circumstances? The answer to the first question is yes. He is perfectly entitled to be ecstatic. He is perfectly entitled to celebrate. However, this entitlement does not extend to his impinging on someone else’s bodily autonomy.

The guy probably shot like 500 Japs in the Pacific and this is our memory of the guy.
He kissed some woman against her will who probably would have anyway if he asked her.
Listen, bro, you were a drunken idiot and it wasn't cool probably but all right let's pretend it didn't happen.

15 years ago during sex ed class at school my class mates and I were taught that grabbing someone and kissing them is not funny.

This was 70 years ago and black people still weren't allowed in the same schools as white people.
These were different times. Stop pretending like people from then should be as enlightened as you claim to be.

Anyway time to review blogs.
so, ive been thinking about the lords lately, partly due to new stuff, and partly due a book i brought. and ive got a strange surgestion

Motherfucker isn't being cute with his (her, its) spelling. That is how bad it is.

currently, the clammor is for an elected lords. the problem is, people want a lords thats both elected and expert. this is, to put it mildely, unlikely. an elected lords is proberbly going to be filled with PPE people like the commans

its also, of corse, full of old goverment hands who will back the goverment in all chances

i surgest cutting the politcal. currently, cross bench peers are chosen by a commite of said peers for there knowlage and skill.

Jesus Christ, man.
You bought a book?

heres the things. im not gay. im not looking to get married. and so in meny sences im more or less disqulifed.

I'm about to disqualify you from writing with a shovel if you don't fix this bullshit immediately.

then, theres "changing the purpose of marrage". im genunely intriged. what is the purpose of marrage? to ensure a male eire to the family line? its cool, the commenwelth agree, its strait succession now. to have kids? well, lesbian couples have artifical insimantion. gay men are, alas, denied such a direct rout, but adopt, and love children, like meny couples.

Just stop.
I'm not even wasting time explaining the purpose of marriage when you don't even know how to spell the word.
Look, maybe you have a learning disability or you're doing this to piss me off--
I don't know.
Plz go.

then theres all the stuff i cant examin. im in no postion to question the use of words. for starters, im fairly relaxed on such things.

Fairly relaxed on the use of words.
Fairly.

final food for thought. when my friend got her civil partnership, she called it marraed. i call it marrage. her other half is her wife. i ask after her wife, as her wife (ive an awful memmory). if civil partner ship is de facto marrage in public consunes, why not make it de jure?

Civil partnership is neither de facto nor de jure and I really don't know why I'm explaining Latin to someone who thinks "many" has an e in it.

i belive magie thatcher once said, without the Bomb, there would have been no peace in eroupe.

i have little doubt she was right

mankind faught a war so white hot with rage and fury in the second world war that it exausted the arsnales and manpower of most of the world. it was ended with the atom bomb.

... You seem to think the Pacific Theater and the European Theater were somehow married at the hip.
You do realize Hitler lost the war well before the Japanese gave up, right?

but if there were no atom bomb, what then? i have little doubt that the cold war would have turned white hot.

... There wouldn't have been a Cold War in the first place without the nuke because the only reason the war was cold in the first place was to avoid a nuclear apocalypse.

hey live journal! i'm looking for someone who might be willing to give me honaste opions about my poetry, so i can pick lives and what dies. anyone up for this kind of thing? there are some bits that exist atm, but this would mostly be on an going then whenever i achuly spat something out.

thanks :)

Yeah.
Kill it all.

tomorrow (today, ed) im going to hang around from 7 AM for applinces to arive. i picked carpet, and payed for half of it, and ive got the boiler saga contuning (it dosent work, no ones done anything to it, its got no crttificate)

This guy is British.
I thought British people were supposed to be good at spelling.

ive been watching ghost in the shell: stand alown complex, and along with a resent entry im reading about plagruem from the net and peoples views of it, it made me wonder...

Yes.
Plagruem.

cybernetics is a field witch is alot borader then most people give it credit for. 

Oh yes.
Brilliant.
You, semi-literate idiot, tell me about cybernetics.

a friend and i were talking in a car discuesing cyberntics and implants. he complained that we havent gotten that far yet. but i think we have. we are already a million times more advansed then 1910. in writing this, i have, or will have visisted wikipedia, google, yahoo, the way back machine, and meny other things. cybernetic relships are a part of out lives, a highly visble, and yet invisible part. the artical about pagrism is one example. the information is out there, and so easy to find that its literly childs play

...
Unrelated to cybernetics, I'm afraid.
Are you sure you know what cybernetics is?

further more, comptuers intrude in to every part of our lives. we have a highly symbotic relship with smart phones, for example.

Highly symbiotic.
So without the phone we'll die?
Some people might act like it but no, I'm sure that's not the case.

we were looking for a pizza express, so i go off, find out where we are, and then we put the post code in to the smart phone. hey presto there we go. not far off cyborgs when you think about it.

No I'm pretty sure installing that technology directly into your brain so you can control it with thoughts is a pretty huge hurdle we won't see the technology to achieve or the end of the ethical debates of doing so in our lifetime.
Nice try though, idiot.

 of course, some others have gone further. a number of people have implaned RFID tags under there skin, like finger prints, only elctronic. my friend surgested that this could revloutinise commerce. all i could see, saddly, was the screaming as "OMG WTF MARK OF THE BEAST" was screamed by fundies in the us. but there we go. im a synic. 

Not sure you're allowed to make fun of anyone after reading this blog, dude.
Also I'm not sure if a subcutaneous chip counts as a cybernetic augmentation.
I can't read this.
Jesus Christ, dude. Pick up a spelling book.
Also learn what a cybernetic augmentation is you fucking dipshit.
Jesus Christ.
Using Google on your smart phone doesn't qualify.
If you can't see the difference between this and this fucking kill yourself.

im not a very good writer,

NO, STOP!

If you had me alone, locked up in your house for twenty-four hours and I had to do whatever you wanted me to, what would you have me do? 

Get the fuck out of my house before I call the cops.

All comments will be permanently screened because it's a secret. Then repost this in your LJ. You might be surprised with the responses you get.

And no one posted a comment.
For once Livejournal shows some discretion.

recently, ive been thinking about free speach and censorship

free speach is a consept enshrined in a great meny pleaces, including the US constion (first amadment)

Yes.
The first amadment.
My favorite part of the constion.
Learned all about it in histre class.
govermunt class, pacifecly.

now, a while ago, i was in a debate about free speach. i argued for speach without harm (the majority postion), witch is to say, provided the words "lets go kill some people" never left your mouth, your alowed to say it. the edges of this are up for debate, but the prinsble is simple. 

I've adjusted my stance on free speech. Excuse me, FREE SPEACH.
Everyone has the freedom to say whatever they wish except this guy.

hello internet

thought you ourght to know

passed my degree (With a third, not great, but...)

so, i now damand i am adressed at all times as red pill, phil BA hons! :D XD

all things consdered, im very pleased :)

BA honors.
Guess a Bachelor of Arts isn't worth anything.
Anyway fuck this I'm going to do something else.
P.S. I still quit.

Thanks for that I guess

Trigger warning after the article.
THE DAMAGE WAS ALREADY DONE.
My delicate labels
irreparably damaged.

Registered sex offenders in California are suing to block a Simi Valley law that would keep them from putting up Halloween decorations and require them to display a "No Candy or Treats" sign. WNBC's Ted Chen reports.

Whatashame.

"It's similar to Jews in Nazi Germany who had to wear the yellow star on their clothing," Bellucci said.

That's a good point.
Not being able to give candy to children during a holiday invented for the purpose of giving candy to children while being a known child rapist is totally equivalent to the Holocaust.
I'm really glad we had this dialogue. You're a great lawyer.

The Simi Valley measure is part of a trend of increasing strict restrictions on the activities of convicted sex offenders who have "paid their debt to society," Bellucci said.

Her organization intends to begin filing lawsuits to challenge other statutes, she said.

If this were my court here's how I'd handle her lawsuit.
Shoot one of the sex offenders then ask that.

And don't fucking come at me with "oh but this one innocent kid" fuck that, don't be skeevy and don't pretend that the sex offender registry is full of wallowing innocents. Yeah, the system discriminates against some people--mostly those who are engaging in survival sex work or women like the hypothetical 14 year old sending pictures of herself--but the system doesnt give a shit about those people anyway, and "enabling pedophiles and flashers" isn't the way to fix that.

"Yeah the system does discriminate against some people"
THUS SPAKE ONTD_P.
That's a really surprising stance for them to take, quite frankly.
These are the same people that suggested if you're against gay marriage you should be killed in real life.
"Oh some innocent people are harmed BUT WHATEVER IT DOES MORE GOOD THAN HARM" now we're walking down my political alley.
I think you came to the wrong rodeo, milk drinkers.

Seriously, I am always just ... non-plussed about the plight of rapists, flashers, and child molesters. Oh, you can't have pumpkins on your house, how sad.

My problem is a flasher is lumped in with a rapist and a child molester.
The guy's an asshole but these crimes clearly aren't equivalent.
Anyway, onto blogs.

In an awesome turn of events, I have turned Animorphs fan-fiction into ethnographic study which makes fan-fiction and the fan-fiction community my semester-long assignment! 

You know I spent half my day substituting for a creative writing class where the writing quality was cuttingly close to fanfiction. Do I really want to do this in my spare time?
I'm not blaming them because they're 16 and I wrote some embarrassing shit when I was 16 and at least they have the common decency to not put it on the internet but that excuse kind of wears out when you're graduating college and still writing fanfiction.
Fucking
Animorphs fanfiction.
How bottom of the barrel is this shit?

A friend and I went to the (local, organic, friendly) pet store to get cat supplies and there were little baby tortoises there. They could fit in the palm of your hand. I mean, google "baby tortoises" and you'll see what I mean, if you didn't already know. 

Local, organic, friendly.
The triumvirate of "pandering to twats".

I am catching up on her at the moment, which is awesome.

The blood bank called to tell me it's time to donate again, and while I was on the phone with them anyway I asked them if I even could donate because was in South America for several months. I was switched to another person who took some details, but they couldn't answer tonight so they've said they will call tomorrow.

Wait.
This is all very familiar.
Fuck it I already did this blog.
FUCK EVERYTHING I QUIT.

PUNISHMENT

I guess today is punishment for my hubris in saying I'm immune to retard germs because NOW I'M DYING OF EBOLA.

Good thing the job I was supposed to have this morning flaked out on me because that would have been pretty shit for everyone involved.
Mostly me.
Today I'm just going through ONTD_Political.
Not because I'm lazy or dying but because the first three posts are legitimately more entertaining than any three posts I'd find in another shitty blog so fuck it I'm doing this.

It was Lyndon Johnson who best understood that the key to political empowerment for the disenfranchised was to give them access to the electoral process. That's why he made passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 his top priority.

What a disaster.
The plebeians shouldn't even have a vote. This is why the country is shit.
There should be one plebeian leader to prevent the abuse of the plebeians but no, they shouldn't all be able to voice their ignorant opinions like their opinions are equally valuable.
ONTD_Political, I think, illustrates the foolishness of giving everyone a vote.

WASHINGTON -- Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan promised again on Sunday that Mitt Romney’s tax plan would bring lower tax rates for all Americans while remaining revenue-neutral, although he didn’t fully explain how it would accomplish that.

Oh gee imagine that. A politician lying.

The Obama campaign has blasted the Romney-Ryan ticket for not providing details on how it would give Americans such large tax breaks without growing the deficit.

That's rich.
Obama bitching about the deficit.

Ryan reiterated in an interview on "Fox News Sunday" that the plan would drop taxpayers' bills by 20 percent without costing a dime, due to closed tax loopholes, but he was short on specifics when pressed by host Chris Wallace.

“You haven’t given me the math,” Wallace said in one exchange.

“I don’t have the ... It would take me too long to go through all of the math,” Ryan responded.

Then get the fuck off my show until you stop lying.
Come on Wallace.
If you're going to lie at least lie convincingly.

“But let me say it this way,” he went on. “You can lower tax rates 20 percent across the board by closing loopholes and still have preferences for the middle class for things like charitable deductions, home purchases, for health care. What we’re saying is people are going to get lower tax rates and therefore they will not send as much money to Washington.”

Okay.
How?
Mitten's campaign is especially bad about this.
He never says how.
At least with Obama you know how: by fucking the middle class.
Then this asshole comes along and basically says I'M GOING TO DO EVERYTHING OBAMA PROMISES AND IT'LL COST NO ONE ANYTHING!
Unless you're importing slaves or something I don't see how.

Wallace played a clip of President Barack Obama mocking the Romney campaign’s lack of details on the loopholes while on the campaign trail. “No matter how many times they tell you they’re gonna start talking specifics really soon, they don’t do it,” Obama said. “And the reason is because the math doesn’t work.”

Not that your math works either, Obama.
People in glass houses shouldn't cast stones.
God. What a cowardly lot of weaklings. No one wants to take the measures to fix this shit because someone will get their feelings hurt in the process.
If you vote in this election you're a fucking retard.
Let's look at the comments where I'm sure Obama is getting the most sumptuous e-blowjob imaginable--
Amazingly it's mostly just Mittens hate.
Well whatever. I can deal with that.
I won't be following it because zzzz but okay.

“Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” TLC’s new show about an energetic, self-identified redneck family that, to a member, follows the law of honey badger — they don’t give a shit — has become the latest must-see reality TV show since its premiere two weeks ago.

If ever there's a condemnation of US culture it's "The Learning Channel" shows this crap and you can buy fast food at a gas station.
Like really that's all you need to know about the US as a society in 2012.
Also the history channel is 99% shows about how aliens made the pyramids.
I used to make fun of the history channel because it was like all history was a 5 minute Powerpoint presentation leading up to WW2 and that event is still ongoing but really, I'd take that over ALIENS DID IT any day.
At least WW2 was history, if a really narrow window on history.
Remember when TLC used to show crap about whales and it was like sitting in school?
I miss that, actually.
Now it's HURR DURRR WATCH A 12 YEAR OLD GET KNOCKED UP!
Basically what I'm trying to say is we're a society of cretins and morons voting for cowards to fix our considerable societal problems without realizing the problem is we, as a collective, are shitty people.
And I'm not about to say Europe or anywhere else is any better but I live in the US so that's what I know.

This past weekend, the L.A. Times ran a piece on the “virtual stoning” of June, the 300-pound force of nature who, more than Alana, is the star of the show, one of those innately intelligent, verbally dexterous, blithely unconcerned, totally individual individuals that make for riveting television.

>riveting television.
>hillbillies jumping into a mud bog for half an hour (dead serious that's the first episode)
Well if you needed a reason to never watch TV again--
here it is.

Go-go juice and pageants, with all their creepy JonBenet Ramsey overtones, have been enough to stack public opinion against June, but “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” works as a piece of lighthearted entertainment explicitly because it is not at all a show about bad parenting. As Calhoun puts it, “The kids have what they need. They seem secure and happy. What exactly is the problem here?”

The first episode of the show featured:
growing children eating cheese balls for breakfast
the eldest child (16) about 8 months pregnant
the entire family stuck in bumfuck, Alabama with little concern for betterment or escaping the nonstop purgatory of the Deep South
the entire family (including the pregnant teenager) swimming in a lake clearly marked with a sign that states there might be flesh eating bacteria in the water
I'm no expert on raising children but one or all of these things might be a slight indicator we're not dealing with the greatest parents ever.

And while I've never seen the show, I really hate people who fat shame others, especially a child. That's how eating disorders begin.

But eating cheese balls for breakfast = A-OK.
Can't you just be a normal weight?
Why does diet = eating disorder in 2012?
Oh right because that means not going to the Sheetz to shovel 50 hoagies into your fat maw while filling your car that gets 3 miles to the gallon.
My mistake.
This whole fat shaming thing is amazing to me.
As a society people have decided skinny chicks are way hotter than fat ones so the fat ones (over 50% of the population) have decided that they're going to stay fat and that's somehow everyone's fault that they're not considered beautiful.

She encourages her daughters to lose weight, takes care with the household budget, insists the girls clean up the messes they make, forces them to wear helmets while they drive four wheelers through the mud, rarely loses her temper, kisses and hugs them, and regularly sets limits on their behavior.

But avoid the flesh eating bacteria soup?
Well she's a good mother but not mother of the year, come on.

Uhh, sorry but fuck you. There is absolutely NO REASON why any child, much less a seven-year-old should ever be "encourage[d]... to lose weight."

Future health concerns?
Pffft.
POSITIVE BODY IMAGE IS ALL THAT MATTERS.

California has become the first state in the nation to ban therapy that tries to turn gay teens straight.

Banning therapy that doesn't work.
Welcome to FDA regulations 100 years ago.
Congratulations, everyone.
I'm not even looking at the comments where everyone is acting like total twats because that's the only reaction you should have to this.
Stand back you rats because we have a trigger warning.
So da pacem domine and all that shit.

MONTREAL – For months, Bahar Ebrahimi had been rebelling against her parents, complaining their Afghan culture and Muslim religion were suffocating her. “I want to enjoy my life. I want to feel what the other ones feel,” she told them, according to her mother’s statement to police.

Quia non est alius
Qui pugnet pro nobis
Nisi tu Deus noster.

As Dylan wrote on Monday, most — though not all — economists will tell you there’s a good theoretical case for taxing capital gains and investment income at a lower rate than normal income. Mitt Romney, in other words, should be paying a low tax rate.

Because people like that are more likely to invest in riskier ventures, then.
Welcome to actuarial studies.
Not always fair.

But it’s also worth understanding why more and more tax wonks are wondering if the case holds up under current conditions. For one thing, the low rate on investment income has been an important contributor to rising inequality.

If I'm an economist the only thing I'm saying in this, the year of our Lord 2012 is "it's breathtaking how much money we don't have. If we had 900 trillion dollars, after rebalancing the books, we'd have 0 dollars."

China accused Japan of stealing the Senkaku Islands and "grossly" violating Chinese sovereignty during a verbal war that erupted at a U.N. session among senior officials from both countries.

THEY'RE A BUNCH OF TINY FUCK ISLANDS WHO GIVES A SHIT.
I'm giving them to Korea. Fuck both of you.
I guess the concern is there might be oil drilling to be done there but come on. At least state that's what this is about and not HURRR PATRIOTISM.

By now, we’re no doubt all familiar with the distressing case of Jill Meagher.

Indeed.
Wait, who?

For a while now, pictures purporting to show Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, modeling in 1950s bondage and fetish porn have been floating around the darker corners of the Internet.

Seen it.
I hang out in the darker corners of the internet, apparently.
I'm so proud.

These days the price of a standard civilian hit-job can run as high as $2 million. That’s not the price to get the job done―that’s the price if one of your underlings gets caught. The whole inflationary spiral started with one dumb yakuza stiffing McDonald’s on the price of a cheeseburger in Kyoto a few years ago.

What is this world coming to?
First Obama might get reelected then this?

Oh dear, SlutWalk London. On Saturday you're marshalling crowds of women in fishnets and bras to chant "my dress is not a yes" and promoting petitions insisting that the Home Office should prosecute rapists.

Yes, I dress promiscuously because it's so comfortable.
I know it's not an invitation for rape but when you act like you dress like that because you're comfortable with your body--
I dunno, it strikes me as very fake.

"President Obama is a uniquely gifted speaker, and is widely regarded as one of the most talented political communicators in modern history," Myers writes, calling Obama a "universally acclaimed public speaker."

I find it very hard to pay attention to Obama while watching his mechanical tics from left teleprompter to right teleprompter.
Is that uniquely gifted?
Being able to read?
IN 2012 IT SURE IS HEY-OH!

BILLIONAIRE J.K. ROWLING: Here's Why I Didn't Leave The UK Even Though We Have High Taxes

"because I'm a billionaire so even if I lose 250 million I still have billions. GOD IT'S GREAT BEING RICH."

Because unlike all the irresponsible deadbeats who don't pay much in taxes, the story goes, rich people are smart, independent, and resourceful, and they won't stand for having their money confiscated. Instead, they'll just move somewhere with lower tax rates. Like Monaco.

Lower taxes, beautiful weather and brown girls.
But no, you're a villain if you're rich and move there.

Rowling loves her country, and she wants her kids to grow up there. And, as someone who once depended on the safety net designed to help those going through hard times, she feels a debt to her society.

"I also coincidentally have a book about the intrigues of small town politics coming out but I PROMISE THAT'S A COINCIDENCE AND THIS ISN'T A MARKETING STRATEGY."
Here's a story about some 19 year old dog that got donations for arthritis and everyone is cheering and crying in the comments--
can't die with dignity as a dog, I guess--

A Hong Kong billionaire has offered up a staggering, if bizarre, "marriage bounty" to any man who can woo his married lesbian daughter.

Have I mentioned how much I love Hong Kong lately?
Because only Hong Kong can generate headlines like this.
Of course the comments can't have any fun with this--
Fucking ONTD.
Ohhh goodness.
Anyway fuck this noise.