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Goths
18:58 Jan 30 2008
Times Read: 714


I have liked goth (black lipstick, pale skin) since I was 11 years old, and the church and school teachers told us these things are evil.



I told them to fuck off.



Never before I was 15 did I see someone with 10 piercings along their ears and nose, on a tv show from New York.



My jaw dropped. This is the coolest thing I have ever seen in my life.



My desire for non-confirmatory grew, in elementary and high school girls are allow one earing per ear, boys with short hair. No dyes allowed along with the rest of the rules and school uniforms applied to every school.

Stupid bloody Coven and House
18:48 Jan 29 2008
Times Read: 727

The Coven of Oppressed Debauchery and House Eternal have been having a ball with these things. Here's the latest one...a little late...but just to inform you all.



We in discussions in our private conversations as a coven were wondering how important are ratings to the average VR members.



So to find out we (only our unblinded members) will be rating everyone that rates us or that we choose to rate for the week of Jan 26th- Feb 2nd a 1.



After the 2nd any POLITE requests to change our rate will be changed to a 10, as we are able to. Remember we do have jobs and such.



Any “revenge rate” of 1, will keep the one we give them, and will also earn them a special place in our experiment page.



This notice is being posted in the main forum, sent as a masters message and will be posted in our coven “Experiment” page.



Now let’s find out who reads… and who does not ;)



The basic points of doing this little thing are to..

a.) Piss people off

b.) Get a rise out of people

c.) Get attention



They don't care about their ratings because, in all honesty, ratings don't really matter until it comes to your house/coven score. So they find amusement in threats and messages that some of the lower life forms of VR will send. If they rate you lowly, just check which house or coven the rater is in. If it stands by one of these two, keep your cool and message them politely.



"Could you please rerate me when you find time."



That is all your message need say. Nothing else and DO NOT go back and rate them a one...that is grounds for blinding in this house.

Jock of the Bushveld
21:02 Jan 23 2008
Times Read: 733


Jock of the Bushveld is a true story by South African author Sir Percy Fitzpatrick.



The book tells of Fitzpatrick's travels with his dog, Jock, during the 1880s, when he worked as a storeman, prospector's assistant, journalist and ox-wagon transport-rider in the Bushveld region of the Transvaal (then the South African Republic).



Fitzpatrick later recounted these adventures as bedtime stories to his four children. Rudyard Kipling, a good friend of Fitzpatrick, also took part in these story-telling evenings and eventually persuaded him to collect these tales in book form. Illustrations for the book were done by Edmund Caldwell, a brother of Mary Tourtel, creator of Rupert Bear.



The book was first published in 1907 and had an extremely warm reception, being reprinted four times in that year alone. Since then it has achieved the status of a classic South African book and has been also widely read abroad - more than one hundred editions have been printed and it has been translated into Afrikaans, Dutch, French, Xhosa and Zulu, amongst others. Jock was saved by Fitzpatrick from being drowned in a bucket for being the runt of the litter (he would ruin the litter if left with them). Jock was very loyal towards Percy, and brave.



He was once enticed to fight a baboon by Seedling. He killed the baboon in the fight, due to his small, stocky build. (This is ironic because it is common nowadays for breeds similar to Jock to be stolen to compete in dog fights in Alexandra, Johannesburg.)



Jock permanently lost his hearing when a kudu cow kicked him. This is attributed as one of the main reasons he died, as he could not hear Tom Barnett when he called him, and was mistakenly shot, because he was thought to be the dog killing chickens on the farm (when Jock had meanwhile already killed the other intruding dog).



Jock was a Staffordshire bull terrier.



The book was made into a movie in 1992, and featured the music of Johnny Clegg on its soundtrack. The movie did not prove popular with American audiences however, primarily due to its sad ending. Another fictional movie with an ending that was more palatable to this audience was therefore released in 1995.



There is 2 Statue of the legendary dog. One is in front of the City Hall in Barberton, Mpumalanga



The other is in the Kruger National Park.



Author: Percy Fitzpatrick

Illustrator: E. Caldwell



Language: English

Subject(s): Jock of the Bushveld

Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co

Publication date: 1907

Media type: Hardback, 475 Pages

Cell phones are bad for you
16:51 Jan 21 2008
Times Read: 736


Cell phones linked to disturbed sleep



The evidence on mobile phone safety has been contradictory

Using a mobile phone before going to bed could stop you getting a decent night's sleep, research suggests.



The study, funded by mobile phone companies, suggests radiation from the handset can cause insomnia, headaches and confusion.



It may also cut our amount of deep sleep - interfering with the body's ability to refresh itself.



The study was carried out by Sweden's Karolinska Institute and Wayne State University in the US.



Funded by the Mobile Manufacturers Forum, the scientists studied 35 men and 36 women aged between 18 and 45.



Some were exposed to radiation equivalent to that received when using a mobile phone, others were placed in the same conditions, but given only "sham" exposure.



Those exposed to radiation took longer to enter the first of the deeper stages of sleep, and spent less time in the deepest one.



The scientists concluded: "The study indicates that during laboratory exposure to 884 MHz wireless signals components of sleep believed to be important for recovery from daily wear and tear are adversely affected."



Researcher Professor Bengt Arnetz said: "The study strongly suggests that mobile phone use is associated with specific changes in the areas of the brain responsible for activating and coordinating the stress system."



Another theory is that radiation may disrupt production of the hormone melatonin, which controls the body's internal rhythms.



Electrosensitivity



About half the people in the study believed themselves to be "electrosensitive", reporting symptoms such as headaches and impaired cognitive function from mobile phone use.



But they proved to be unable to tell if they had been exposed to the radiation in the test.



Alasdair Philips is director of Powerwatch, which researches the effects of electromagnetic fields on health.



He said: "The evidence is getting stronger that we should treat these things in a precautionary way.



"This research suggests that if you need to make a phone call in the evening it is much better to use a land line, and don't have your mobile by your bedside table."



Mike Dolan, executive director of the Mobile Operators Association, said the study was inconsistent with other research.



He said: "It is really one small piece in a very large scientific jigsaw. It is a very small effect, one researcher likened it to less than the effect you would see from a cup of coffee."



Last September a major six-year study by the UK Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme (MTHRP) concluded that mobile phone use posed no short-term risk to the brain.



However, the researchers said they could not rule out the possibility that long-term use may raise the risk of cancer

03:09 Jan 20 2008
Times Read: 746


I am in extreme distress, everyone is lying to me, manupuling me.



I AM SICK OF THIS SHIT. I MAY BECOME HOMELESS ANY MINUTE NOW.



To my dear friends and housemates, I may disappear for a few weeks.



=/=



edit: I just had a brilliant thought: unhappiness is what dark matter is. This is what makes up the universe !

Thoughts shared
17:58 Jan 16 2008
Times Read: 752

Thoughts shared from my Twin, RavenBloodZero.

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.



In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.



My only purpose here is to die, so that then I can finally live. I live not for tomorrow, but for tonight.



Never make someone a priority when they only make you an option.

Bloody Roman Catholics
17:10 Jan 15 2008
Times Read: 759


Scholars protest at papal visit

BBC News



Lecturers and students at a prestigious university in Rome want a planned visit by the Pope to be canceled as they object to his position on Galileo.



Pope Benedict XVI is to make a speech on Thursday at La Sapienza university.



Sixty-seven academics have signed a letter saying the Pope's views on Galileo "offend and humiliate us".



They say he condoned the 1633 trial and conviction of Galileo for heresy. The astronomer had argued that the Earth revolved around the Sun.



The academics said it would be inappropriate for the Pope to open their academic year on Thursday.



"In the name of the secular nature of science we hope this incongruous event can be cancelled," said the letter addressed to the university's rector, Renato Guarini.



In a separate initiative students at La Sapienza have organised four days of protest this week. The first revolved around an anti-clerical meal of bread, pork and wine, the BBC's Christian Fraser reports from Rome.



The banner at their lunch read: "Knowledge needs neither fathers nor priests".



The official programme has been changed so that Pope Benedict will give a normal speech - as opposed to a keynote speech, which is usually the centrepiece of the ceremony.



Vatican Radio said the protest at La Sapienza had "a censorious tone".



Pope Benedict was in charge of Roman Catholic doctrine in 1990 when, as Cardinal Ratzinger, he commented on the 17th-Century Galileo trial. He has been quoted as saying the trial was "reasonable and just".



Galileo's inquisitors maintained the scriptures indicated the Earth was stationary.



Galileo, a devout Catholic, was forced to renounce his findings publicly.



Fifteen years ago Pope John Paul II officially conceded that in fact the Earth was not stationary.



This is half the reason I have hatred for Catholics.



How many times did these bloody jack asses prevent scientists from advancing science and understanding ?



AND EVOLUTION SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS AS FACT, NOT OPTIONAL OR CONTROVERSIAL.



At least twice that I know of in Europe, and the true inventors of the airplane, the first successful flight (they crash landed halfway between a few trees and a river in Natal).



But their mother told them "not to mess with God, so they just left their invention and the knowledge of their success was lost for many decades, it is not acknowledged by practically anyone in the world. Their is almost entirely unknown even today.

I fear for my family
18:22 Jan 08 2008
Times Read: 771


I fear for my family back home. President Mbeki passed a law that is it illegal to collect and report crime figures in any media (newspapers, internet), so suddenly the country does not even show up as the worst crime rate on the planet, it is not even on that list at all.



9000 people were murdered in the last 7 months, including targeted home invasions.



The age of those killed range from as old as 87 years to young infants. Genocide Watch has stated that these attacks constitute early warning signs of genocide against Boers and has criticized the government for its inaction on the issue, pointing out that the murder rate for them is four times that of the general population.



Human Rights Watch, however, states that the term "farm attacks" is misleading, as it suggests the presence of an organized campaign, rather than simply increased crime rates.

'Dumbest criminal' caught
18:17 Jan 08 2008
Times Read: 773


Police in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, claim to have to caught the "dumbest criminal" this year.



The man walked into a station to report that he had been held up at gunpoint by a gang who had stolen his cell phone.



But when the detective phoned the number of the phone reportedly stolen, it rang in the complainant's pocket.



"The shock left him speechless for a few minutes," said police spokesman Eugene Opperman, adding that the man, 25, was then arrested for perjury.



"He told the detective that he'd given him the wrong number," he said.



"But couldn't explain why the phone in his pocket had the corresponding serial number, or why it was same make and fitted the description he had given of the 'stolen phone'."



South Africa's reputation has long been tarnished by the high levels of crime, often accompanied by extreme violence involving guns.