I just don't get it...
EVERYtime I go to meet someone from VR, it happens.
We end up at a resturaunt at some point.
We end up finding out we have all sorts of things in common. And raising hell about life in general and VR in particular...to a great deal of hilarity from the waitstaff...
We ALWAYS get put at a table with old people in the general vicinity...
And we ALWAYS end up either scaring, running off, or startling ALL neighboring tables half to DEATH....
hehehehehehehe.....
In the immortal words of Peter Venckman:
"Boys, boys, you're scaring the straights, okay?"
I had a wonderful time. Jaime and Josh are every bit as warm, wonderful and hysterical as I expected them to be, and I told them so there. I felt like we had known each other for years, same as I did with the gals from Kentucky, and why not? We have, in a sense.
But honestly....I'm gonna start wearing my VR shirt, and telling the greeters NOT to put us around small children, old people, animals.......
and here we go....
Anybody who has kept up with my journal since it's inception knows that I have a "thing". Some call it empathy, some call it intuition, some don't call it at all, cause they think I'm making it all up.
Most of you know me better than that.
It has been a long time since I have been around a person who immediately set off all my alarms and I didn't even have to get CLOSE to the person, much less talk to or touch them.
I worked a wedding Saturday night, which involved training one of the new bartenders. The wedding thankfully ended early so I ended up leaving work at 12:30 instead of the function being over then. And a good thing it was, because I had to be BACK at work at 10:00 the next morning (hence why the aforementioned meeting with LordV and LadyC hasn't gotten in here yet: uploading even as we speak...lol)
I got up at 8, got ready, and got to work with 15 minutes to spare. Again, I was training the OTHER new bartender this day, so I had alot of free time on my hands while he was getting settled into being behind the bar with us. So while he was working, I was leaning against the bar and watching the Arbonne ladies drift into the room, and find their tables for their plated lunch and Mercedes giveaway. I turned around to check on the new guy, who was doing fine, and then looked back at the door.
That's when SHE walked in. I don't get this often, as a matter of fact, looking back, I was still working at the Hilton in Tallahassee the first time it happened, and the last time before this one. She was willowy, dark hair, carrying a 3 month old on one hip, pretty dress, smiling and talking to all around her. But I looked at her eyes, and not just into them, but at them.
The skin on her face was so tight around her skull, she might as well not have had the covering. The circles under her eyes had completely bypassed dark and gone straight to black, even underneath her eye makeup. And looking into her eyes made me physically ill. There simply wasn't anything there. It was like looking at two flat, wet, black rocks. It was like looking death straight in the face when he doesn't care if you see him for real or not. Trust me when I tell you, this was a thoroughly upsetting and unsettling sensation, and I quickly disappeared into the kitchen for a few minutes to catch my breath.
I have a friend at work. Diane is one of the chefs, and we have been best friends since I started at Westwood. All I did was walk into the kitchen, she took one look at me and RAN to the cooler and yanked open the door. I spent a good 10 minutes in there, trying to get a grip on myself, but I did, and I came back out. I let her know I was ok, and I would tell her later- she nodded and off we each went (again, she is one of the biggest reasons I keep going back to work out there...lol)
I went back out to the bar, only to discover that this woman was sitting at the table virtually in front of the bar. Since it was a plated function, the servers were running out in stages; bread and butter, then salads, then the main course, which was where they were when I walked out.
I watched this woman as she sat at the table. She had her son face down across her lap, trying to eat and balance him at the same time, and NO ONE was helping her. That look on her face was beginning to look like it was going to be carved in stone, and suddenly I had the most brilliant flashback I have ever had in my life. I could feel everything she was feeling, because I had gone through EXACTLY the same thing. I got pregnant, had Connor, and EVERYBODY around me just automatically assumed that I was instantly going to become the perfect mother, they wouldn't have to do a thing, and woohoo, all's right with the world.
Didn't happen. And of course those of you who read my journal also know what happened after.
I tighten my grip on my stomach, and my legs, and walked over to the table. I leaned over the lady, and when she turned around to look at me I thought I was going to literally vomit right there in front of her. But I pushed it all down, got a grip on my faculties, and asked "Would you like me to hold him so that you can eat the rest of your lunch? I'd love to if you don't mind."
.........wow
Her face just seemed to suddenly develop it's own glow from inside, to almost become fluid and rearrange itself, she smiled at me, and said "Sure, if you want to that would be nice."
So I wandered around the Pan room bar for about 20 minutes, cooing and talking to this little bit of kidlet, rocking him and bouncing him around, and just in general keeping him happy. Once mom was through, I returned him to her arms, asked her if she was through I would get her plate and silverware out of the way, and the smile she gave me was one that not only will I not forget, but absolutely broke my heart...
I did the right thing, and I feel good about it. But I hope that God sees fit to put someone who can help her in her path, because that is a woman living on the edge, and I hope I NEVER see something like that again....
COMMENTS
All it takes is someone with a good heart to really care about someone else. Things tend to take care of themselves after that. It always warms me to see someone doing something that is considered a good deed for people they don't even know, by just being nice to fellow humanity. The good we send out always comes back to us. That woman was probably sitting there thinking there was no good left in the world when you walked up to her and made her change her mind.
Random acts of kindness to fellow humans....sometimes we are compelled to them to a certain person at a certain time without knowing why. But in the end..we know we did it because it was the right thing to do.
It is hard, when someone's energy has gotten so ugly that it presents in such a way- that you were able to stop it even if for a short time you were a light for her to remember where she needs to be- not where she is.
It is the small things...
Who I love in hockey games.....
The Canucks, The sabres (hi sugar) and anybody who can beat any team form Cali-fuckin-fornia....
LA positively got dey ASSES handed to them this evening, and I am loving life and living large...
GO CANUCKS!!!
Final Score? 7-2
heeheehee
COMMENTS
WOOT!
It was a good night!
They can smack around the Kings all they want, but I love me my Sharks!
no offense MC- I lived in California for 4 years, courtesy of the military, and for a southern woman, that was just plain 4 years too long...lol
And I have NEVER liked their hockey teams. And after what I saw last night, I think I am justified at least as far as the Kings were concerned.
Bet you thought I forgot, dincha...lol
Strawberry Shortcake
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Ingredients:
1 shot Amaretto
1 part Ice-cream
1 part strawberry Daiquiri mix
1 part Ice
Top With 1 tblsp Whipped cream
Graphic content to follow....I'm just saying...
I just can't....
I mean REALLY....
phone, work, insurance forms, PAP smear, bloodwork, housework,
If I don't get some....
What I really need is....
Oh just AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHH
We had to change out the soda bags in boxes for the Gallery bar, because we so seldom use it during the winter, most of the sodas and juices that come from the gun had expired. One of them was a completely full bag of coke, which we managed to get out of the box holding it, and get into the sink. I looked at Joel, who was helping me, and he handed me a large steak knife, and said "Do you want to?"
I took that knife, and literally gutted that syrup bag. I am here to tell you, that was one of the most satisfying, bizarre, and releasing things I have EVER done....
And yes, it was JUST like that.....
If you have ever used an electric fence (and even if you haven't) you should read this
If you don't laugh hysterically at this,...CHECK YOUR PULSE...this is
funny....and true. This was sent by a retired dentist.
We have the standard 6 ft. fence in the backyard, and a few months ago, I heard about burglaries increasing dramatically in the entire city.
To make sure this never happened to me, I got an electric fence and ran a single wire along the top of the fence.
Actually, I got the biggest cattle charger Tractor Supply had, made for 26 miles of fence. I then used an 8 ft. long ground rod, and drove it 7.5
feet into the ground. The ground rod is the key, with the more you have in the ground, the better the fence works.
One day I'm mowing the back yard with my cheapo Wal-Mart 6 hp big wheel push mower. The hot wire is broken and laying out in the yard. I knew for a fact that I unplugged the charger. I pushed the mower around the wire and reached down to grab it, to throw it out of the way. It seems as though I hadn't remembered to unplug it after all.
Now I'm standing there, I've got the running lawnmower in my right hand and the 1.7 giga-volt fence wire in the other hand. Keep in mind the charger is about the size of a marine battery and has a picture of an upside down cow on fire on the cover............ Time stood still.
The first thing I notice is my pecker trying to climb up the front side of my body. My ears curled downwards and I could feel the lawnmower ignition firing in the backside of my brain. Every time that Briggs &
Stratton rolled over, I could feel the spark in my head. I was literally at one with the engine.
It seems as though the fence charger and the piece of shit lawnmower were fighting over who would control my electrical impulses.
Science says you cannot crap, pee, and vomit at the same time. I beg to differ. Not only did I do all three at once, but my bowels emptied 3
different times in less than half of a second. It was a Matrix kind of bowel movement, where time is creeping along and you're all leaned back
and BAM BAM BAM you just crap your pants 3 times. It seemed like there were minutes in between but in reality it was so close together it was like exhaust pulses from a big block Chevy turning 8 grand.
At this point I'm about 30 minutes (maybe 2 seconds) into holding onto the fence wire. My hand is wrapped around the wire palm down so I can't let go.. I grew up on a farm so I know all about electric fences ... but Dad always had those piece of shit chargers made by International or whoever that were like 9 volts and just kinda tickled.
This one I could not let go of. The 8 foot long ground rod is now accepting signals from me through the permadamp Ark-La-Tex river
bottom soil At this point I'm thinking I'm going to have to just man up and take it, until the lawnmower runs out of gas.
'Damn!,' I think, as I remember I just filled the tank!
Now the lawnmower is starting to run rough. It has settled into a loping run pattern as if it had some kind of big lawnmower race cam in it.
Covered in poop, pee, and with my vomit on my chest I think 'Oh God, please die ....Pleeeeaze die'. But nooooo, it settles into the rough lumpy
cam idle nicely and remains there, like a big bore roller cam EFI motor waiting for the go command from its owner's right foot.
So here I am in the middle of July, 104 degrees, 80% humidity, standing in my own backyard, begging God to kill me. God did not take me that day ...he left me there covered in my own fluids to writhe in the misery my own stupidity had created.
I honestly don't know how I got loose from the wire ..I woke up laying on the ground hours later. The lawnmower was beside me, out of gas. It was later on in the day and I was sunburned.
There were two large dead grass spots where I had been standing, and then another long skinny dead spot where the wire had laid while I was on the ground still holding on to it. I assume I finally had a seizure and in the resulting thrashing had somehow let go of the wire.
Upon waking from my electrically induced sleep I realized a few things:
1- Three of my teeth seem to have melted.
2- I now have cramps in the bottoms of my feet and my right butt cheek
(not the left, just the right).
3- Poop, pee, and vomit when all mixed together, do not smell as bad as
you might think.
4- My left eye will not open.
5- My right eye will not close.
6- The lawnmower runs like a sumbitch now. Seriously! I think our little session cleared out some carbon fouling or something, because it was better than new after that.
7- My nuts are still smaller than average yet they are almost a foot long.
8- I can turn on the TV in the game room by farting while thinking of the number 4 (still don't understand this???).
That day changed my life. I now have a newfound respect for things. I appreciate the little things more, and now I always triple check to make sure the fence is unplugged before I mow.
The good news, is that if a burglar does try to come over the fence, I can clearly visualize what my security system will do to him, and THAT
gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling all over, which also reminds me to triple check before I mow.
COMMENTS
I don't see how anyone wouldn't find this funny
LO L , OK "shocking " experience To say the least.
Wow, that actually IS pretty funny.
I keep thinking of this persons face in my mind with one eye shut and the other wide open covered in poop and piss and vomit .*laughs* gaw I'm so mean.. :D
OMFG THAT was hilarious.
Makes my few brushes with currents seem petty!
1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to
immediately clear your computer history if you die.
2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.
5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
6. Was learning cursive really necessary?
7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on #5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the Person died.
9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.
10. Bad decisions make good stories.
11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.
12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blu Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection...again.
13. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.
14. "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this - ever.
15. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello?), but when I immediately call back,
it rings nine times and goes to voicemail.
What did you do after I didn't answer? Drop the
phone and run away?
16. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day.
What a waste.
17. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
18. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
19. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lite than Kay.
20. I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option
21. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the heck was going on when I first saw it.
22. I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in paper bags.
23. The only time I look forward to a red light is when I'm trying to finish a text.
24. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
25. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?
26. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front.
Stay strong, brothers and sisters!
27. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
28. Is it just me or do high school kids get dumber & dumber every year?
29. There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.
30. As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.
31. Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
32. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I'd bet my a#$ everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds,
eyes closed, first time, every time!
COMMENTS
wow they are so true
*wipes tears of laughter from eyes* LORD that was funny..and so true...the "avoid Ghetto" thing made me spray my soda...LMAO!
From Lastresort:
hey i was here when kajira first designed the profile. She announced in the profile before she updated it that it was aracon. that she had designed the profile to show another side of herself. Course now she has erased it but it is aracon. so this negates any apologies or memo that aracon made.
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*And of course, it's whiplash time again folks- which means once again Kajira has re-re-re-rerated my profile a 10.....You would think she would have had enough of this by now, but I guess stupidity never fades away.*
Kajira
Date: 18:01:00 - Apr 13 2010
Rating: 10
Comment:
Kajira is at it again- rerated me a "1" for who knows what this time. I guess she missed that memo....
And just in case she changes her mind AGAIN"
Date: 00:02:22 - Apr 13 2010
Rating: 1
Comment:
COMMENTS
Now you know its just cause your so damned Pretty and she lubes you!!!she wants you to feel special.
Christ, is this shit ever going to stop? And here I thought it was over.
Apparently not. I suppose as long as they are here, they will keep this going. And as long as they want to keep making themselves look stupid, I am all for giving them the public forum to do so.
Kajira/Aracon
*sigh* i see some things have not changed around here ............. people dont know what enough is enough means
i think maybe the memo needs to be sent out in diff languages or diff reading levels so people might understand it this time lol
Kajira is aracon. its a profile she created when she started being slave of rawdeal.
Being a good leader does not mean letting your coven run the show for you- I personally have taken on more as a CM so that the ACM's in my coven do not have to. Personally, I don't understand how you can be an online 'slave' anyway....lol
'Designing Women' star Dixie Carter dies at 70
By ANDREW DALTON, Associated Press Writer Sun Apr 11, 1:21 AM PDT "Designing Women" star Dixie Carter, whose Southern charm and natural beauty won her a host of television roles, has died at age 70.
Carter died Saturday morning, according to publicist Steve Rohr, who represents Carter and her husband, actor Hal Holbrook. He declined to disclose the cause of death or where she died. Carter lived with Holbrook in the Los Angeles area.
"This has been a terrible blow to our family," Holbrook said in a written statement. "We would appreciate everyone understanding that this is a private family tragedy."
A native of Tennessee, Carter was most famous for playing wisecracking Southerner Julia Sugarbaker for seven years on "Designing Women," the CBS sitcom that ran from 1986 to 1993. The series was the peak of a career in which she often played wealthy and self-important but independent Southern women.
She was nominated for an Emmy in 2007 for her seven-episode guest stint on the ABC hit "Desperate Housewives."
Carter's other credits include roles on the series "Family Law" and "Different Strokes."
She married Holbrook in 1984. The two had met four years earlier while making the TV movie "The Killing of Randy Webster," and although attracted to one another, each had suffered two failed marriages and were wary at first.
They finally wed two years before Carter landed her role on "Designing Women." Holbrook appeared on the show regularly in the late 1980s as her boyfriend, Reese Watson.
The two appeared together in her final project, the 2009 independent film "That Evening Sun," shot in Tennessee and based on a short story by Southern novelist William Gay.
The middle of three children, Carter was born in 1939 in McLemoresville, Tenn.
Carter was the daughter of a grocery and department store owner who died just three years ago at 96. She said at the time of his death that he taught her to believe in people's essential goodness.
"When I asked him how he handled shoplifting in his new store, which had a lot of goods on display, making it impossible to keep an eye on everything, he said, 'Most people are honest, and if they weren't, you couldn't stay in business because a thief will find a way to steal,'" Carter said. "'You can't really protect yourself, but papa and I built our business believing most people are honest and want to do right by you.'"
Carter grew up in Carroll County and made her stage debut in a 1960 production of "Carousel" in Memphis. It was the beginning of a decades-long stage career in which she relied on her singing voice as much as her acting.
She appeared in TV soap operas in the 1970s, but did not become a national star until her recurring roles on "Different Strokes" and another series, "Filthy Rich," in the 1980s.
Those two parts led to her role on "Designing Women," a comedy about the lives of four women at an interior design firm in Atlanta.
Carter and Delta Burke played the sparring sisters who ran the firm. The series also starred Annie Potts and Jean Smart.
The show, whose reruns have rarely left the airwaves, was not a typical sitcom. It tackled such topics as sexism, ageism, body image and AIDS.
"It was something so unique, because there had never been anything quite like it," Potts told The Associated Press at a 2006 cast reunion. "We had Lucy and Ethel, but we never had that exponentially expanded, smart, attractive women who read newspapers and had passions about things and loved each other and stood by each other."
Carter appeared on the drama "Family Law" from 1999 to 2002, and in her last major TV appearance she played Gloria Hodge, the surly mother-in-law to Marcia Cross's Bree on "Desperate Housewives."
Carter said the role was far from the kindly woman she played on "Designing Women."
"It's a vast difference," Carter said while filming the series. "Gloria Hodge doesn't have any redeeming qualities except her intelligence."
In addition to Holbrook, Carter is survived by daughters Mary Dixie and Ginna.
Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press
Imagine if you will:
Dozens of men, dressed in kilts, dancing to "Cotten Eyed Joe"
*dies*
Then:
*SNARK*
A young man in a kilt, about 10-12 yrs old, walking up to the bar, so I asked him if he wanted another diet coke, and he looks at me and says in the most adorable Scottish accent "Am I that predictable?" to which I replied "Honey, when you do this for a living, EVERYBODY is predictable."
A man who spent all night flirting with the other YOUNGER bartender, then when we closed the bar, lands on MY bar, saying he just wants one more. I told him no, everything was put up already. But I love you, he says to me....and in true Julia Sugarbaker form, I announce to the rest of the room:
"Oh, HELL no. You do NOT just spend over 2 hours parking your ASS at the other bar, flirting with my YOUNGER bartender, and then come over here and tell me you love me to get another drink after we have already closed for the night. If you think for ONE minute that you are going to get anything from me, you can KISS my ASS."
The man laughed so hard, he spit out his gum, and his buddies laughed at him and told him next time to suck up to the boss instead of the other bartender...
Scottish meets Southern- ohmigawd.....*dies some more*
On 00:07:25 Apr 09 2010 (-0 GMT) Doru wrote:
My rating was just a demonstration to show how his "hate rates" were wrong. I do not want to pick on anyone. I think you are a nice person but do not feel the same towards your House member who hate rates. Experience is the best teacher because you live the moment, not just watch it happen to someone else.
On 00:46:52 Apr 09 2010 (-0 GMT) RedQueen wrote:
I do not require a demonstration about how people rate. I don't care how other people rate, all I care about are my own guidelines. And you rated me and several on my friends ones, then changed them to tens. That doesn't make any of them or you look smart.
The fact of the matter is, Aracon and her coven where WRONG. Other people have said so, I stand by what I did with my journal, and I don't need you or anybody else from that coven rating me or not rating me. Those of us with sense have moved on. I suggest you do the same.
FROM: Doru
I did and will again if I choose to rate that way again. The choice to give "1's" or "10's" is up to me and me alone. Don't forget that!
FROM: RedQueen
But apparently only you and Aracon are allowed to do that? All I was doing was rating profiles. That is also MY right. Yet she and her coven members bombed my profile because they didn't like a rate I had supposedly given to a member. And they also threatened bullied and harassed me to make me change my rate to what THEY wanted it to be. And as it turned out, which you would know if you had read my journal, their assumption that I had rated one of their members a "1" was a LIE. So the only reason they caused all this trouble for me was because of a lie and to start trouble. So seems to me that if you are supporting them in their actions, you are definitely backing the wrong horse. And all LordV did was to give them a taste of their own medicine. So, let me get this straight:
1) They can rate whatever they want, but I can't.
2) they can down rate me because they don't like my rating, despite the fact that I NEVER gave any of their members a one, but my friends can't do the same in defense of me.
3) I am supposed to admit that I made some sort of mistake, but as the whole site now knows, I didn't rate anybody a one, OR block them, but they are supposed to be the victims here.
Right. Have fun living with that. .I am done with this, because the stupidity is never going to stop, and I have better things to do with my time.
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Of course, he now has me blocked. Can't stand the truth, so this is their answer. I might add here, that he originally rated me a ten long ago, then a one for this mess, then back to a ten, now back to a one. I swear, I am going to get whiplash from these people constantly changing their rates...lol
COMMENTS
I personally don't block unless it gets to the point where I'm being harassed, of course at times I simply ignore that. Now if only the fucktards on this site would stop using that as a weapon we would all be happy...
I want to let everyone know that while the coven of Fratrem Draconis tried to bully me, threaten me and harrass me into changing a rate that we all now know I never gave, the one member who showed true manners, gentlemanly behavior and total graciousness, who went to bat for me with Aracon, for all the good it did him, and who tried to mediate this peacefully from the start, was Wraith. While I have no sympathy for the rest of the coven, he tried to help, he came and asked my side, and tried to mitigate the damage this all did. So please, for all of you who are standing by me through all this, bear in mind that while in that coven, he had no part in this madness.
Thank you.
COMMENTS
Yet, the madness remains in your House. I do not turn the other cheek, I return the deed, and always will in the future.
I'm sorry you had these problems and I commend you on giving Wraith credit for trying to help. It's always nice to have someone in your corner.
I agree Red on that Wraith is the only one I have any respect for in that Coven. I refused to downrate him for thier Covens Actions. We have seen many a DramaQueen come and go on here and this is no difference.
Well shoot- this is one thing I'm glad I missed as I would have a lot to say about it!
Your house is greatly respected by me as I am a former member- what is not is being attacked when I have one nothing. DeathComesRipping is being attacked for the fact that I am in FD with it- I don't follow the leader and attack like some others do so I would love to see this bullshit end really. GrievousDemon hit me with a 1 but I rated him a 10. Why? Because I'm just not that petty.
after seeing this journal,i'm almost shocked though not surprised, Aracon and her lackeys are fucking stupid.
Everyone knows how the rating system works and that we can use all numbers but in her lala land everyone MUST give her and her coven 9-10s
it seems we members are not allowed to have free speech or opinions that are not what she likes.
that coven really needs to be disbanded.
not all members there are like her,rawdeal and deathrider.some are pretty cool and drama-less.
which is another thing.she obviously cares just as less about her own coven to drag them through this mess.
i have been rated 1's before and depending on my mood/his or her reasons and profile i rate either a 1 in return or a ten for a good profile but i do not leave hateful comments or cry to my cm because i got a low rating or get my friends to attack someone.
those members that messaged you queen, are a bunch of mindless children...wait no..they are dogs who always do what they master tells them.
Same difference, Mort.
The attacking needs to stop. No more 'circling the wagons' when someone says or does something you don't like- that's bullying and you can be suspended if not kicked from the site for that. But, of course the ones who have others think for them will never listen to reason.
To say that Wraith is the only one in "that coven" which one might have respect for because he play an acknowledged role in the matter or that one has no sympathy for the rest of the coven is a blanket statement of such ignorance I don't even know where to start. A statement which places you within the ranks of people who's comments are part of the problem. You people have cornered the market of nastiness here. You get respect By Being Respectable... PERIOD!!
There are many people in Fratrem Draconis that don't hate rate and there are many within Our Coven that asked countless times for civility amongst our ranks.
Countless faces that worked just as had to put an end to the mass hate ratings. Faces you have just slapped... What about those people that were forcibly inducted that didn't rate anyone but were hate rated in return because of Guilt by Association!!
Nastiness is not a God Given Right its a Man Made Choice. I would ask that people try to reflect more on their actions and a little less on the next punch line.
Well, well, well. I saw a stamp on someone's profile that said VR- we know drama.
We certainly do, don't we. And when things get dull around here, we can always count on some of the people around here to create it just to keep the conversation lively.
And so it has been for the past few days.
I rate profiles. EVERYBODY rates profiles. I don't always like what I see, because of shitty attitudes, moronic sentences, or just total lack of imagination. Throw in a couple of "if you want to know ask" or "if you don't like it fuck you" and Ima gonna give the "PROFILE" a one. Period. That's just the way I roll. But I am ALWAYS willing to go back and rerate any profile if a person updates and asks like a mature, civilized adult.
I don't respond well to threats.
So when the Coven of Fratrem Draconis swooped onto my profile in defense of one of their own because I supposedly gave that profile a one, and TOLD me I had to change the rating or ELSE......
It all went into my journal. Damn skippy- think I'm just going to stick all that in an anonymous file on my computer somewhere and just bury it? Think I'm not going to let EVERYBODY know the truth about what went on?
Think again.
And in so doing, I gave this coven enough rope to hang themselves, make themselves look as stupid as they are, and a chance for a MULTITUDE of people to come out of the veritable woodwork both pro and con.
Here's the deal.
I am well within my rights to rate anyone anything I SEE FIT. Be that a ten or a one, it is my RIGHT. And as I have reiterated to these people AD NAUSEUM, I do not rate people. I rate profiles, and I don't revenge rate. Ain't my style, and not worth the trouble. I rate the profile what it is worth according to MY standards.
So. After three days of this crap, and not ONE SINGLE member coming forward from that coven to tell me that THEY were the one I rated a one, and not one single OTHER member of that coven nor it's CM being able to give me a name, I put on hip waders and went a huntin'....
Know what I found out?
That virtually all of the members of Fratrem Draconis were now in ANOTHER coven. So I sleuthed a bit, found the coven, and went through
EVERY. SINGLE. MEMBER.
Ya know what I discovered?
MOST of the members I hadn't even rated.
Of the ones I DID rate, most of them got a TEN.
The LOWEST rating I gave out was a 3.
There is not a single, solitary one rating in the entire BUNCH.
NOT. ONE.
Now, the question is this....is the Coven Master going to apologize for what turned out to be a totally vengeful, unnecessary, unWARRANTED attack on my profile for what turned out to be an absolute LIE?
I doubt it. Problem is, she fucked up, she ordered her coven members to attack me for NO reason, she created drama where none existed, she lied not just to people on this site but to some of her own coven members, who also lied, and she refused to listen to reason. Anyone who has ANY doubt about any of this can see for themselves in my journal, my ratings and comments, and the comments in my journal. And that is WHY I put all this in my journal. So people could see the truth. And now she is so deep, she can't get out or stay in without looking stupid.
We'll see who mans up now.
COMMENTS
I'm with LadyC I think you should have to take some form of a test, just like you have to if you want to become an administrator and such. Also as a coven master she should have just let the rate go and been an example to her other coven members about not revenage rating. It would have shown that she and her coven are mature enough to handle a low rate. After all it's a web site, it's not like it will matter in a credit score or something
*Raises my hand* Definitely, in fact we've been discussing that very topic in my coven. I wonder if she's disbanding?
Well, yes I think that is a great idea. And being that she likes to quote my comments in journals, The same thing happened a year ago and it didn't fly then and it obviously isn't going to fly now. And again its the same damn people. Gee I mean really even a child knows if you stick your hand in fire your gonna get burned, what do people expect ?
What's next, a quizz to use the blast... message center... Heck! why not add some quizz to each page when you need to enter into a new page you have to answer a quizz.
You all just now seeing the BS she is about. She spins so many lies and deciet she dont even know what is truth or BS anymore.
So until I hear a public apology to RedQueen - The House of UO and ImmortalSin and the Ancient Myth member's you have all disrespected with your BS.
Yeah, they all moved to my coven temporarily. I was once a member of UO like you are now, and currently my DeathComesRipping profile is a member of the coven Fratrem Draconis- knowing I have a great amount of respect for the house and its alliance I have done nothing but rate highly if I indeed did. GrievoudDemon however, did not.
Aracon was my friend but when i got to FD she was different,i think being a cm got to her head.in her world people have to put her and her coven on a pedestal and rate her a 10. she obviously can't take criticism or low rates as she gets her shadow watchers to attack them until they change their rate,she is a bully and has broke members into changing their rate to 10.
i recently found out she is quite greedy too as she charges over double the favor she bought a member for.(she bought a member for less than 7500 and is now charging 20,000 for him)
also she is liar and big hypocrite.she talks honor and respect and that we all to show her some but a lot of her action bloody disrespectful and dishonorable.
there is no need to put up some test for if someone can or not can start a coven. That is a stupid idea. they who raise hands on that silly idea are no better themself in my opinion.
Not so sure a CM test would have an effect on how things are done, besides it's every CM's right to maintain their covens as they see fit so long as rules are not broken in how they do. After all, not every CM will eventually take over a house- some just don't care for it.
Unfortunately, I don't think a test would have prevented ANY of this. You can be smart enough to answer the questions the way they need to be answered to get a coven, but that has no bearing on how you deal with people, etc. There is no test for attitude when it comes to this kind of shit
It never fails to amaze me that we can drift along, day to day, either here or in life in general, but then suddenly something can go boom and you think you are standing in the middle of the shitstorm all alone.
But the dust settles (so to speak)
And you look around.
And suddenly, you see why and for who you hang around this site for. And for that I would like to say thank you.
To Images in Words, Moonie, Nightgame, and Vampirewitch39 who had such intense and supportive things to say in their journals, I say thank you.
To Lady Chordewa, LadyKrystalynDarkstar, Angelus, Images, and Nightgame, who talked to me all day, helped me with coding stuff, and just in general lent their unwavering support, I thank you and think you are the shizzle…lol
To all the new friends I made as a result of this, I thank you too. It’s nice to know that even people I have never met are willing to stand up and say what they believe in to support someone they don’t even know. You guys are the bomb.
And to Aracon and all her coven members at Fratrem Draconis, thanks for not only showing all of us just how childish some people can be, but giving me the chance to exercise my inalienable right to rate as I see fit on this site.
And thanks to Cancer for giving me not only the right, but the site to exercise it on, and the friends to talk to about it…
COMMENTS
Friends are what make the world go round. And with having a wonderful friend like you, it makes my days brighter and my life enriched.
You are like the first few drop of rain on a hot summer day. The first ones are always the most refreshing and the others just can't compare. ;)
I am well pleased to know there are members as such as yourself on VR.Who speaks from her heart.Good luck RedQueen.
Wow, I am offline a few days and look what happens.
Hugs Honey!! Way to show that Southern Grace!!
Get your facts right. Redqueen rated one of my members poorly. We, as a coven support and defend each other. So we, out of courtesy informed her of WHY she was being rated poorly in return, and that IF she changed her rate, so would they. It was HER that made this shit public. Not us. Not at least until I put an entry into my own journal too earlier today.
Dang I missed the drama....meh not to worry another one will come along in no time at all *hugs*.
I,m sorry but This is suppose to be adults here , It is Childish and immature to get a whole coven to rate someone low just because they got a low rating , yes I have been guilty of low rating some people but it was for a valet reason not because someone told me to,I would never want my coven mates to join in on something they had nothing to do with. Its Childish. I find Red Queen to be a Fair and Sweet person who doesn't deserve this kind of treatment.
~Walks over to take a stand next to the others~.You got my support too Redqueen.We have never been "friends" We dont know one another that way.But I have known who you are for a long time and you have always been a fair person who seems to treat peeps right.What they did is simply put.Bullshit.
Thank you too - right back at ya! It means a lot more than you'll ever know that you mention me here.
If VampireRave is just a Website, and we are fit to rate any profile what ever number we like...
Then why do some members bitch and moan AND cause Drama if a member reads and/or writes something in a VampireRave page/journal...
Then isn't it just the same as rating whatever...and writing/reading whatever...
Since the VampireRave members have the use of the situation to do so.
I know you're aggravated at the coven Fratrem Draconis for their actions, but please understand that not everyone in the coven attacks on command. As a CM on my main profile I have better things to do than cause meaningless drama- though it always seems to come my way.
COMMENTS
sweetie, if i could tell ur ass and your face apart then i would be able to tell you what the cold thing up your ass was. However, i have yet to come to a conclusion.
If we don't know a fair rate if it bit us on the ass, then hon, you wouldn't either. You rate as you want, so will we. And as for the morons, maybe time to stop and take a long look in the mirror hon! You get what you give!
Plain simple truth of the matter is simple....REDQUEEN = DISRESPECTFUL, TROUBLEMAKER, IDIOT, Who will suffer from (1)'s!
Deal will that RED (ASS) QUEEN FACE!
Wow... these comments just show you all for what you are. How do you judge someone online? When it is just their actions and words you go by? *points above* That is how.
My only judgement is by what i know and what has been presented upon me. Same as how it is in real life.
You see a man, in raggedy clothes, sitting on a bench in the park..you may think.."homeless" However that man can be the richest guy in your town.
You see a woman with jewelry, a beautiful coat, and name brand clothes. You may think.."rich bitch" but actually that could be her only good pair of clothes, due to she does not have much.
You can only make judgement upon what you see and know.
And you know what? You'll never know. Because instead of coming to me like a man and asking me about it, you chose to blindly follow someone who told you to bomb someone you didn't even know. And thanks to that immature action, that's where it ends.
Get your facts right. YOU were the one that rated one of my members poorly. We, as a coven support and defend each other. So we, out of courtesy informed YOU of WHY you were being rated poorly in return, and that IF you changed your rate, so would they. It was YOU that made this shit public. Not us. Not until at least I put an entry into my own journal too earlier today. Those emails weren't harrassing to my knowledge, they were merely courtesy emails informing you that IF you changed your mind about rating one of my coven members poorly then we too would change our rates.
With these other people posting in these journals, it has nothing to do with you. It is between a few certain parties and that's it. Those that know the real truth to which also KNOW what went on. The rest of you are just as much of a mob as our coven is now regarded as. LOL. So it's ok for all of YOU to band together, but not for a coven??? LOL... Still hypocritical.
Bottom up, of course...
Message To: RAWDEAL
Change the rates or else.
Your message, not mine. Or else what? And what about that DOESN'T sound like a threat?
On 23:16:38 Apr 05 2010 (-0 GMT) RAWDEAL wrote:
No threats being made! You rated us low we rate you low. That is it!
On 23:15:18 Apr 05 2010 (-0 GMT) RedQueen wrote:
I'm not going to all that trouble. I rate what I thik a profile is worth, not what I think of the person. You can't hang with that, tough. You don't think I can, check the TOS. You think you can threaten and scare me into changing my rates? Think again.
I don't respect childish assholes who think they can bully their way into getting what they want. Lots have tried, and you are certainly neither the first to do it or the best AT it.
On 23:12:31 Apr 05 2010 (-0 GMT) RAWDEAL wrote:
Here is the answer for you MISS, go to the coven we are in, click members list....and look at the bottom of their of the profiles at the rate box....you will see your last rate you left and the crappy messages you wrote on our profiles.
This would NEVER happen if you would rate people in a friendly respectful way! You have done this crap of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,'s to a ton of people on VR and cause tons of enemys!
My advice to you is STRART rating 9 and up and become friendly and stay respectful!
On 23:05:44 Apr 05 2010 (-0 GMT) RedQueen wrote:
Okay, again. I can't change it if I don't know which member you are talking about- so unless you can tell me that in your next answer, I'm not wasting anymore time with you.
On 23:03:18 Apr 05 2010 (-0 GMT) RAWDEAL wrote:
Neither can you witch! Neither can you! Change the rates or else.
On 23:02:04 Apr 05 2010 (-0 GMT) RedQueen wrote:
Nice pithy comment honey- still haven't answered my question, AND you can't spell. Go team
On 23:01:05 Apr 05 2010 (-0 GMT) RAWDEAL wrote:
No problem! Choose to be stupid an a ass great combo working for ya!!
Enjoy the love from our coven!
On 22:58:35 Apr 05 2010 (-0 GMT) RedQueen wrote:
Okay, you're apparently stupid. I can't CHANGE a rate on someone if I don't know WHO the rate was for. So stop wasting my time. And I ain't here to win popularity contests. Don't like it? Tough.
On 22:56:57 Apr 05 2010 (-0 GMT) RAWDEAL wrote:
well the next step is approx. 25 blocks or so which will help your overall numbers .....
Change your rates RED or we can be an ass just like you.
On 22:44:20 Apr 05 2010 (-0 GMT) RedQueen wrote:
I haven't acted anyway- I rate profiles according to my guidelines, not yours. I am not acting out of any personal angst against your coven, since until today, I didn't even know about your coven. And agian, I could care less about your ones, and if you can't be bothered to tell me who I rated a one, I can't be bothered to change it.
On 22:40:14 Apr 05 2010 (-0 GMT) RAWDEAL wrote:
Simple, U act like a complete ass! Since you choose to be an ass to a lot of my coven members ....our rates stand!
CHANGE or Keep your 1's!
On 22:37:57 Apr 05 2010 (-0 GMT) RedQueen wrote:
I could care less about your ones, sugar- and I can't take a second look at a profile if I don't know WHO it is I rated a one. So until you guys ante up a name, the one stands. And since I checked yours, and I didn't rate YOU a one, I know it isn't you.
On 22:33:03 Apr 05 2010 (-0 GMT) RAWDEAL wrote:
Enjoy the one's ....we are just showing you your true ranking....-1.
BYE
On 21:57:48 Apr 05 2010 (-0 GMT) RedQueen wrote:
I do not "attack" profiles. I rate profiles what I think they are worth in "my" opinion. I could care less about your rates, and so you and your little friends are asting your time.
On 06:02:26 Apr 05 2010 (-0 GMT) RAWDEAL wrote:
Want to attack our coven members profiles....ok enjoy the 1's cause they fixing to vist you!
Change the rates or enoy the 1's!
COMMENTS
What the hell?!?
"Oh Good grief!"
...I wonder if they realize that according to the site rating policy a one is not an unfair rating. The scale is one through ten, and to be honest here, you are certainly not the ass.
Here we go again. Can't change a rate without a name. Shouldn't have to go through every single profile. Idiotso.
*shakes head*
This is why I lurk -
You can rate whatever you want. People that try to bully you into rates they want need to learn the rules better.
Wow... some things never change... and as stated above we can rate what we WANT to rate not what we are TOLD to rate.
Funny their coven master told me that me and my coven were going down because she has issues with one of my members.
This is the best line EVER:
Okay, you're apparently stupid.
I would have left it at that.
If the 'offended' coven member can't come forward to request a re-rate on their own behalf, then that's their problem.
This is starting to remind me of the three stooges.
These things wouldn't happen if people would rate on the content of the profile and NOT the person behind it. Judgement rates earn judgemental rates in return.
And btw, as a coven we WILL stand together united, regardless of what people think, say or do. That is what a coven is about, isn't it? LOL.
Sheep.... just a bunch of sheep.
Start trouble with (1)'s and crybaby comments....you receive some right back at ya!
What is this? The Coven of the Douchehammer?
Pfffft. Get a life and stop worrying about a number on a website.
First Member: Hey! I'm gonna give you a 1, because "that is how I rate.".
Second Member: Hey! I'm will give you a 1, so will some other members...
First Member: Hey! WTH? *cries like a baby*. And writes stuff in their profile/journal/pages...
Second Member: Hey! If you didn't like the 1's that certain members gave, then DON'T give other member's a 1.
First Member: *cries like a baby*. And writes more ugly Drama in their Journal... And then complains to certain other members higher up.
.......
And in the mean time... A Holy War of words starts to erupt into the uglyness...
.......
First Member: Hey! This is just a Website. So why the *@@@@*...complains and bitches and moans...
Second Member: If this is just a Website... Then why did you give me a 1?
First Member: This is just a Website. I have every right to give you a 1.
Second Member: SO DON'T COMPLAIN ABOUT GETTING A 1, AND THEN COMPLAIN ABOUT IT...IF THIS IS JUST A WEBSITE..AND IF ANY MEMBER IS ALLOWED TO FLEELY GIVE A 1.
First Member: *cries like a baby* complains. Writes more uglyness in their Journal.
...On and On and On...and On and
See how the mess can erupt in more journal complaints and war of words???
It's bullshit like this that make the good members of the coven look bad. There are actually good members, they're just not the ones starting shit like this.
I find it funny that Aracon, CM of Fratrem Draconis, is threatening me with ones from her coven et al., thinking she can scare me into changing a rate, and yet this same woman has it clearly posted how she rates on her profile page. Yet apparently she and only she can have guidelines on how she rates....
Amazing, isn't it....
COMMENTS
She forced inducted a friend of mine then blinded him because he cannot be on here 24/7 posting in her coven.
Oh my gosh...
Yes but I don't always give a 1 rate just for the hell of it either and I certainly don't do it just because I don't like a person either. I rate according to profile content, not the name behind the profile.
Another crybaby journal post by REDazzQueen!
RED DRAMA QUEEN
OUIT CRYING
One for all and all for One
Drama queen, DEATHxRIDER? Really? That's pretty damn funny considering that the one who makes such comments was responsible for the drama in question to begin with. How pathetic, and that's the reason why DemonWind KICKED him.
It would seem that we have a coven of babies on here. I went off rating on Sunday night, because I had use of the computer, and as usual, after wiping the blood from my eyes, I rated according to guidelines which are CLEARLY posted in my journal. I don't rate people an automatic 10 just because they have a profile here. Just sticking your name in a computer is not sufficient to earn a ten in my book, but I am generally more generous than a one. AND I usually leave my stamp letting people know I will rerate if and when they update their profile.
I have been this way for 5 YEARS since I joined this site, updated my own profile with help from members who had been here longer, and set up what I judged profiles on.
Most of the time, I piss people off, cause they take it personally. Know what? Don't care.
So apparently I have attracted the attention of The Coven of Fratrem Draconis, because I rated one of the members a one. Notice that in all the messages, no one ever mentioned WHO it was I rated a one, just that they were going to "bomb" me with ones.
Like I care. I didn't join this site to win any popularity contests, and I ain't about to start now. You don't like the rate I gave you? FIX IT. Leave me a message that you have changed something, and I will certainly come back by and take a look. Take a look at the messages:
Message To: PALERIDER
I was not being horrible to you. I rate profiles based on their substance and content, not just how many pretty pictures and glittery things they have. I did not judge you in any way. I rated you a six because you had an attractive profile, but there was nothing of any substance about you beyond a paragraph or two. I am well within my rights as a premium member of this site to rate profiles as I see fit, based on my own criteria. If you do not agree with that, then I am sorry. But I am not going to adjust my standards just because you got a bunch of your coven mates to bomb my profile. I could care less.
On 05:17:17 Apr 05 2010 (-0 GMT) PALERIDER wrote:
RedQueen, Why are so horrible when it comes to rating profiles? Why so judgemental?
Message To: RAWDEAL
I do not "attack" profiles. I rate profiles what I think they are worth in "my" opinion. I could care less about your rates, and so you and your little friends are asting your time.
On 06:02:26 Apr 05 2010 (-0 GMT) RAWDEAL wrote:
Want to attack our coven members profiles....ok enjoy the 1's cause they fixing to vist you!
Change the rates or enoy the 1's!
Message To: Wraith
I don't even know what your coven is sugar. Never pay much attention to that kind of thing, outside my own house. I certainly don't know any of your coven members, and haven't had an issue with anybody. Perhaps you can get some more information, and let me know what is going on.
On 21:26:40 Apr 05 2010 (-0 GMT) Wraith wrote:
Hey hun how have you been doing? The reason ive contacted you is because you and I have know each other for years and ive noticed there seems t be an issue between yourself and some of my coven members and I was wondering what caused this to take place and if there is a way we can resolve this issue.
Message To: Aracon
First of all, I am entitled to rate profiles as I see fit, according to my own guidelines. Something you should be well acquainted with, since you have your own set plastered on your profile. If I rated someone a 1, it was because either there was absolutely nothing worth it's substance on their profile, or they were inflammatory and rude. Those are MY rules, and I will abide by them as I see fit. I will change my rating when AND if the profile is changed sufficiently to my guidelines to warrant a rate change, NOT because you and your band of kiddie thugs threatened me with low rates and messages and blocking me. If you don't like it, take it up with Cancer, or any of the other members who can do something about it. And since I have NO idea which member you are talking about, I'm not going to go back through all the profiles I rated and hunt it up. And, here are the messages that your coven members sent me, and my responses, just so there is NO confusion. One messaged me, threatened me with a low rate, told me to change my rate on this member whoever they are, and then BLOCKED me. So her message is of course not here.
On 05:50:25 Apr 05 2010 (-0 GMT) Aracon wrote:
Hey hon,
While I usually don't get involved in such things like this, I hear that you have been rating some of my coven members a 1. If you do not change your rating, you will be sorely hit by a whole coven and then some. Please do the right thing and change your rating of the member that you rated poorly. Personally differences on VR shouldn't get in the way, but when one of my members are attacked, we attack back. We have also a number of covens as alliances and allies, and they will back us up IF you do not change your rate. When however, that you do change your rate, please let me know and we will change ours also.
Aracon.
CM of Fratrem Draconis.
Message To: Wraith
I don't even know what your coven is sugar. Never pay much attention to that kind of thing, outside my own house. I certainly don't know any of your coven members, and haven't had an issue with anybody. Perhaps you can get some more information, and let me know what is going on.
On 21:26:40 Apr 05 2010 (-0 GMT) Wraith wrote:
Hey hun how have you been doing? The reason ive contacted you is because you and I have know each other for years and ive noticed there seems t be an issue between yourself and some of my coven members and I was wondering what caused this to take place and if there is a way we can resolve this issue.
So since we now appararently have a coven of whiners here, let me be perfectly clear...
I don't CARE if you have half of VR rate me a one. I rate profiles as I see fit, not as people TELL me to rate. That's the beauty of being on here. I have that right. Don't believe me? Take it up with Cancer.
If you ask me nicely, and have done something to expand/modify/improve you profile, I will certainly come back and take a look. If you threaten, the only thing I am going to do is block you, and any of your buddies who bother me. That is ALSO a right I have here on VR.
You don't like my rules? STAY OFF MY PROFILE
COMMENTS
W T F.. Seriously. It's like high school all over again. "Oh you've hit my friend so now our lil group are going to jump you by the monkey bars!"
How friggin stupid and childish is.
Apparently they all have me blocked, more or less. One even rated me a one, but left a stamp saying he had rated me a twn. Tards.
You know what - the whole rating thing is so dumb - but you are kind of my hero right now.
Good for you girl! Why should your rules have any less merit than someone elses???
This all rings a familiar bell with me. I cannot believe this is going on once again. Wait. Yes I can....
Im not sure what I said to have the honor to be placed in your journal as I had come forward as a friend simply to find out what happened and as a matter of fact i stear far away from drama, I had figured as a friend maybe if I knew what was going on maybe this could be handled in an adult fashion however i feel placing this in your journal is equally childish as well as placing my good sentiments here.
I agree with Wraith here. And you're wrong in regards to most of my members blocking you. If you can prove that they have, I'd like to see it. So many presumptions... LOL.
REDAzzQUEEN you piss people off just by leaving your dungen and walking out in the public!
You are the puke of shame who is nothing more than a crybaby!!
(1) and deal with that REDAzzQUEEN!
What I've learned from Cancer, proprietor of Vampire Rave.
A valid rating is between 1 and 10 with 1 being the lowest score and 10 being the highest. How you choose to rate a profile is totally up to you.
There is no such thing as "Profile Bombing" at Vampire Rave.
1 is a valid rating. If it wasn't a valid rating, it wouldn't be a rating option.
Every valid account can rate any account on Vampire Rave in any way the owner of the account deems fit.
Yeesh, it's things like this that make me wonder just why I even log in anymore besides my coven. People need to stop causing so much drama and grow the hell up.
Also, I thoiught your stamp actually was kinda funny, LordV.
So shall we hit the highlights?
They had a band called "Pop junkies" and these guys absolutley rocked. Best music I've heard in a long time, and they even did Skynard, Georgia Satellites, and AC?DC.
The groom's mom walked into the room looking like she had just bit into a lemon stuffed with catshit, I kid you not.. I'm not sure what it was she didn't approve of, but I'm just saying.....
One of the Bride's uncles bought a bottle of 10 year old Dom Perignon, which I made sure was tucked away in the cooler to get cold, took care of, then had him tell me I didn't know how to properly open a bottle of champagne....
I had one lady who wanted a sauvignon blanc spritzer, with perrier or san pelligrino, both of which we were out of, so she said she would just have to "suffer" with club soda if that was the "best" I could do....amazing how congenial she got when she was on her tenth one and wanted that one last drink after last call...lol
I had this little lady who was in her 50's and sounded like Betty boop, asking for a glass of wine and a glass of ice...
I had a MULTITUDE of guys in their 60's who thought playing air guitar for me was just the shizzle...
And I had one guy who got his drink, smarted off at me, and who promptly got schooled in return, who said point blank "You're evil, but I love you"
Thank you, Captain Obvious....*chuckling*
And now, on to tonight's wedding. See you kiddies after the matinee.....
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For a short time, e-mail addresses that were meant to be hidden were made available.
Private e-mail addresses that many Facebook users wanted to keep hidden were revealed publicly last night on a multitude of Facebook profiles, Gawker reports. The glitch lasted about 30 minutes before Facebook sealed the gap.
An anonymous tipster altered Gawker of the breach in an expletive-riddled message: "6:46PM: I cannot [bleeping] believe it. Everybody's email has been turned on to the public for at least the past 30 min. I tried going into my account to remove my email b/c I have an issue with a crazed stalker. But I wasn't able to. God I [bleeping] hate FB!! When will they ever learn?!"
It might be that Facebook's recently proposed changes to its privacy settings could be to blame for the hiccup. PC World writer Paul Suarez reported that "One of those changes [to Facebook's Privacy Policy and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities] would make it possible for Facebook to send your name, photo, friend list, and any public information about you and your friends to preapproved third-party Web sites." A slight tweak to broadcasting profile information could have resulted in this embarrassing flub.
Facebook desperately wants to be known as a site where users can expect a reasonable amount of privacy, but sometimes this isn't the case. Briefingsofpreviousmistakes make it clear that Facebook has a lot of work to do, possibly at the risk of tarnishing its original smiles and hugs philosophy. Thankfully this most recent trip-up only lasted approximately 30 minutes; any longer would have spelled disaster.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The first discovery was gruesome enough: a head and torso tucked inside a red biohazard tub that arrived at a Kansas company. Then it got worse. Six more heads and torsos showed up in the next week after someone apparently dismembered the bodies with a chain saw or another cutting device, police said.
Authorities are investigating a New Mexico company that was supposed to have donated the organs in the bodies to science and had the remains cremated. The owner of the Albuquerque company, 31-year-old Paul Montano, was arrested Thursday.
One man whose father's head and torso showed up in Kansas in the shipment said the family received ashes of what they thought was their 83-year-old dad after he died of a stroke.
Now they are in shock at the thought that the ashes they scattered in a heartfelt remembrance last year may not have been their father — or at least not all of him.
"To not give you everything and to have the head shipped some place else, it's really disturbing," said Chuck Hines, of Bosque Farms, N.M.
The 31-year-old owner of Bio Care Southwest denied dismembering any bodies. He told police his father picks up and delivers bodies to Bio Care. The investigation is ongoing; his alleged motive was not immediately known.
Bio Care receives donated bodies and harvests organs and other parts that it sells for medical research. The researchers return the organs to Bio Care once their experiments are complete, then Bio Care sends the remains for cremation and gives the ashes to the families, investigators said.
Bio Care's Web site says its mission is to advance medicine through donated non-transplantable human tissue, allowing scientists to study a donor's organs to better understand disease.
"At Bio Care, you will always be treated with dignity, respect and honesty," its home page says.
The company has a contract with Stericycle, based in Kansas City, Kan., to dispose of any leftover medical waste.
Stericycle told investigators it receives medical waste, soft tissue and organs and occasional limbs — but never heads and torsos. Homicide detectives in Kansas City began investigating the grim body part discoveries, and they were eventually traced back to New Mexico.
Court documents identified three of the bodies as Jacquelyn Snyder, Charles Hines and Harold Dillard.
Snyder, 42, died Nov. 1 in Albuquerque of a methadone overdose, and Hines died last September of a stroke, according to officials and family members. Dillard was from Albuquerque, but the cause of his death was not immediately known.
The younger Hines turned to Bio Care to harvest his father's organs for science after learning it would take up to a year to get the body back if he donated it to a university. The process was much quicker with Bio Care.
Bio Care sent back a sealed box with what Hines was told were all his father's cremated remains. He memorialized his father at a simple gathering of friends last October at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, an event the elder Hines helped organize decades ago. Hines scattered a few ashes at the site and took ashes to Tucson, Ariz., where his father grew up.
He said he felt "scammed" and was going to contact an attorney.
Robert Noblin, owner of Riverside Funeral Home in Belen, N.M., where Hines learned about Bio Care, said his company had worked with Bio Care. "Unfortunately, I think many funeral homes and families alike have been misled," Noblin said.
He said he is "deeply concerned" about the families and loved ones "whose remains have been desecrated or improperly dealt with by Bio Care Southwest."
"We are troubled, industrywide, when anyone does not follow procedures designed to protect the sanctity of a body or remains of any individual."
Riverside would receive sealed, labeled containers from Bio Care Southwest that were supposed to cremated remains, which the funeral home would then give to its clients.
Montano also is an on-call employee for the state Office of the Medical Investigator. He's on a rotating list of medical examiners to be called out in Valencia Count when bodies fall under the state's jurisdiction, said spokeswoman Amy Boule.
Montano was booked into the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center late Wednesday on three counts of fraud. A judge on Thursday lowered his bond from $100,000 bond to $50,000, citing Montano's ties to the community.
Montano's attorney, Rudy Chavez, did not return a call Thursday seeking comment.
Montano said Tuesday his company wasn't involved in the body parts found in Kansas. He did not return several messages left by The Associated Press on Wednesday, and the main telephone number that had been listed on Bio Care's Web site had been disconnected Thursday.
The case brought back memories of another gruesome body parts scandal in recent years.
A New Jersey funeral home operator made millions of dollars by plundering hundreds of bodies sent to funeral homes on the East Coast and selling their often-diseased parts and tissues to medical companies. Among the bodies carved up without permission were that of "Masterpiece Theatre" host Alistair Cooke.
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Fisher contributed to this report from Kansas City, Mo.
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sahahria
21:35 Apr 29 2010
Heh I wish I always had VR as an excuse to scare people :P
Oceanne
22:03 Apr 29 2010
Looks like you had a nice time.Great pix too.
Nightgame
22:58 Apr 29 2010
Dang that looks and sounds like fun I wish I'd been there. I think they like scaring the "straights" it gives them something to laugh about in the back.
CarnelianMyst
01:03 Apr 30 2010
Aww...sweet! I wish I lived closer to some VR peeps so I could meet some of them!
QueenxMorbid
03:37 Apr 30 2010
You all look wonderful. Wish I had been there.
LadyChordewa
04:01 Apr 30 2010
Hey, at least we were entertaining. I noticed the smiles on more than one person, laughing at some of your southern phrases. LOL.
Definately have to do that again and find another place, other than Olive Garden to scare the "straights"?
Shall we go goth next time?
Vampirewitch39
04:15 Apr 30 2010
Next time I think you should head north... we go south. :) I want to meet LadyC and Lord V. And get some puppy loving.
LOL-- god I think the usually places we ate at still put us in the back room in fear.