Obama is such a sore loser. Booh, booh, Bill picked on me, call the racial police. Why don't you take your fight to Hillary, you fucking hanky panky pussy pansy. Or are you afraid of the mighty vagina?
One apple, one lemon, and a clove of garlic, liquefy in a blender, add a spoon of olive oil, blend and drink. If you do not puke, then you did something wrong. Add a bit of ginger?
For good measure, try a spoon of salt in your coffee, I guarantee you will enjoy.
RIPOriana Fallaci. You will be greatly missed. I think she would have loved the paradox of the current situation, with the Pope being forced to retract when he said that Islam brought only evil and destruction into the world by... a horde of Muslims baying for Christian blood.
Coming from a country without government or law, the idea that help is only a phone call away amazed Yussuf, whose parents were killed and who is traveling to the U.S. alone. 'So if anyone bothers me, I just call 911 and the police come and beat them?' she asked. 'Life must be very easy.'"
The other post is by ana, referring to this recording of a woman who called 911 because Burger King did not fulfill her order fast enough. ''Oh my god, oh my god, I am so hungry, please, this is an emergency".
This is my delayed celebration of 9/11. I hope you had a nice 9/11 too.
I absolutely hate commenting on other people's journal, I don't know how you people do it. I avoid it at all cost, it always sound silly or I don't have the context and will make a misstep.
I also avoid writing anything that could seem ingratiating, at the cost of not expressing my appreciation for a nice entry or understanding for a situation or commonality of views.
I just don't have the time for making comments and then worrying about them, I already spend so much time thinking how everything I do is interpreted by others. Most of the time, I just end up being misunderstood or ignored.
What a shame with all psychologists and all those who work in the mental health professions. I thought in my naivety they were supposed to side with those who do not fit in this degrading society, but they seem to prefer siding with the State, society, trying to get you to `fit'.
Freud defined a mental disease as the inability to function in society. I had thought he meant that in a liberal sense, that this meant no behavior could be properly labeled as a problem as long as one was comfortable with it and could still function properly. But now I realize how conservative and repressive his thinking was. He was to be interpreted literally, what he meant was that his role was to get people to adapt to society, that society set the standard, not the person.
He saw his work as that of putting people in `working order', for them to become docile cogs, no matter what society they were living in, no matter how unjust, repressive, intolerant, dysfunctional. Put him in Saudi Arabia with a woman patient, and he would see no relation between her ailment and the society that forces her to wear a veil or let her husband take a second or third wife. At best, he was inspired by the notion you can't change society so better fit in it. At worst, he was a willful lackey of the State. In any case, nothing like a revolutionary or a progressive.
I now see those shrinks are tools of the system, re-engineerers of the psyche, people who see the problem in the individual, not in its vicious environment. Oh of course, they will pretend otherwise, try to mollify you, but the proof of my assertion is that they won't let go of you until they think you are back in line.
They will go as far as pretending to `accept' you, letting you believe they have some genuine understanding, they will pretend to side with you, but all the while they won't accept they themselves are part of the system that is the problem.
They prefer betraying their vocation, forgetting why they took up those professions and blocking the way for those with genuine will and a genuine ability to help. Shame to them for misappropriating their science and putting it to use against those it was meant to help. Sellouts. Usurpers. Fakes with diplomas.
How many times did they try to convince me of their theories on my behalf, and when I held steadfast and refused to adopt their interpretation, used their same theory to `prove' me wrong. How can I even be wrong if I don't believe one word of what they say, or when I disproved them. And how beneficial to me can it be to have to defend myself constantly, asserting myself against some tool of patriarchy.
The worst thing in all this story is that I am convinced they know the extent of their treachery and they know they can't build anything on this perversion of their profession. When they ask me to partake in their little useless plays, they actually ask me to betray myself in a futile compassion for their impotence. As if I could ever make real the illusion they have that they can help. As if by some magic I could build anything based on a conscious lie.
Oh, what I hate most are their false promises, the utter waste of time they impose on me. That horrible mix of arrogance, power, greed, lack of means, impotence, and perpetual failure that seems to typify this whole sector in the medical establishment. And what I hate most is me for having to frequent those truly sick, despicable people.
Frommadamealexis, Bush 'assassinated' in TV drama. I don't know if I would really call this a 'drama', it is more like my dream finally realized... if only in fiction. I looked for better pictures, or even a video, because I can't quite see his face as he is dying. I hope the actor that was selected looks sufficiently like him that people like me can actually entertain if only momentarily some fleeting illusion that this is for real.
Anyway, that does make for a very entertaining start to a documentary. They seem to be looking at what would happen if somebody actually gored the pig. I just wish somebody would check whether their fiction turns out to be accurate and well informed *hint, hint*.
I dislike football, just as I dislike any other team sport for that matter, especially spectator sports involving hairy men making fools of themselves, but I suspect that, were I in Iran, I would develop a sudden antagonistic fondness for that sport. I really wonder why. Maybe a bit of the same way so many Polish people went Catholic in the Communist era.
So here we have a pervert, (Wayne Buckle from New York) who makes completely unrequited sexual advances to a woman (note how he chose a 'petite' woman as his target, probably because they seem less threatening to this impotent slob). She and her friends beat him up and then he has the gall to call this some 'hate crime' against 'straight white men', a category of people we all know is of course widely victimized and under great threat of prejudice in the US...
The idiot admits in his testimony that he had been hanging out in this same place where he was 'attacked' ('punished' is a better word) for some time, over many evenings, probably intimidating countless other women before finally some took justice into their own hands. In the story he targets one woman with his none too subtle sexual advances, (imagine, a rich white asshole, 5ft10, 175 pounds, he thinks he is the king, he thinks he is irresistible, of course, he has all the privileges this society gives to people of his background).
He targets her because, as he says, he 'liked how she wore her hair', as if she was some kind of merchandise on display specially for him to appraise and choose. The woman is freaked out of course, and tries to ignore him (note how this perv' reports she half-smiled, a typical delusion for that kind of sick mind who think all women want is to sleep with them). Thankfully, she is not alone and her friends come to her help. The guy, startled by this unexpected resistance, calls them lesbians and spits on them. Then he is surprised they retaliate and beat the shit out of him...
I hope the guy learned a lesson, though from what I read at the end of the article, the guy says, more or less, that he will "know which girls not to talk to". Yeah, I fear the only thing he learned is not to attack groups of women in a public place again. Note how he still doesn't understand what is wrong with what he did, claiming that "It's not a crime to say hello to a human being" when in fact he randomly molested a woman in the street when she rejected his sexual advances.
I am surprised they seem to be letting him out freely. That guy is guilty of a hate crime, he attacked those women because they were lesbian. Out of sexual frustration, he did not hesitate in physically assaulting them because they made fun of his appearance. I only wish they had finished him off or that the blade had targeted his genitals. Hopefully he will have permanent scars forever reminding him of this oh so special and delightful evening. Street justice. Sweet justice.
I have hereby and henceforth decided that from now on I will always be using a straw for the consumption of any liquid, thus eschewing the barbarian habit of drinking from a glass or a bottle. Damned be the rules of propriety.
They do have a catchy tune: "Yalla ya Nasrallah, we will screw you inshallah, we will send you back to allah, with all the hezbollah". Yes, it rhymes. Apparently, big bombs, blowing up buildings and fighter jets are cool in Israel.
They have been hacking Lebanese TV and playing that video for the Lebanese to watch. Most humiliating for the Hezbollah must be to see those Israeli women soldiers, especially that fighter jet pilot at the end who is taking off to blow up some more Lebanese civilians. I really liked that. Great psychological warfare. That is the only upside to Tsahal I can think off.
This is the list of people I banned over time. I can't remember why for most of them. There are three main groups of banned users: the obsessive, the abusive and the argumentative. A group that is always at the margin are the over-attentive, those people you wish you could get rid off but who never give you any real motive for doing so.
The obsessive are those that keep on nursing old griefs, they are mainly humiliated males that want to get their payback. They keep on harassing you long after you banned them, and will go as far as posting regularly about you and your activities and will look for any ways to get in contact with you. They have elephant memories and can remember everything that was ever posted by or about you. They however lack any sense of logic and will entertain the most amusing or downright puzzling theories about you and your psychology. The best way to get rid of them is to ignore them, which is why I will not mention any name and directly go into the discussion of:
The abusive are much less of a bother, they will just show up one day and begin hurling abuse at you. A quick ban gets rid of them. In other cases though, the abusive start out as regular folks making nice and reflective comments, and will gradually evolve into more hurtful and subtly aggressive notes. They are the passive-aggressive, who are much more difficult to detect and ban in time, especially since they are often able to trick you into liking them at first. Examples of such toxic people are akfelecia2, quasidan or ghostlight. Behind their attractive appearance lies a psychotic personality that never will let out any real feeling and is unable to have any truthful and honest interaction.
The argumentative are a common breed on livejournal, they are people that insist on being taken seriously even when their drivel does not warrant any serious attention. They are convinced of their rectitude and of their right to take you to account for any of your misunderstood utterances. They often have an agenda, though it can be summarized as "I am right, I am always right, I am always absolutely right". Examples are tyrven, talam or 1001nuits, though I must admit I have a hard time distinguishing them from the abusive. They might be amusing to entertain at first but will end up draining too much of your energy, by which time your terse responses to their pamphlets will have enraged them to the point of the abusive.
Finally, the over-attentive, whom I could also call the mildly annoying, are those people who will keep making random uninteresting comments, with no real purpose and without being able to attract any real interest on your part. While I label them as over-attentive, I suspect them to be attention seekers who wish to trade their attention for some attention paid to them. Of course, this is a lost cause and they thankfully stop commenting after a while, diverting their attention to nicer personalities than mine. They otherwise turn out of frustration into another of the above categories. Note they often have relationship problems in their life and seek to compensate on LJ.
So, this is the list. I am not sure everyone fits into one of the above categories, because I can't remember why I banned most of them. I guess I could add a category of the forgettable that would account for them.
People seem to misinterpret my program for the extermination of men. They call it indiscriminate killing. On the contrary, I would be very discriminate. I would start by killing all of them but one. Then only would I be killing the last remaining one. So this really is precision killing, it is not like I would not be making distinctions. I must make sure I have a last remaining one to kill. That means I would have to put in place very sophisticated systems so I know exactly when I reach stage two of the extermination. That can only be done by determining, every time I consider killing one of those, whether I keep him for the end or not. I can’t think of any system that is more individuated than this one.
I hate it when intellectuals claim to have a "clear and unbiased" view of events, especially in the case of the situation in the Middle East. There is quite enough people claiming the correctness of their view in that area, and adding to that mass does not solve the problem. How dare they have such certainty in the truth of their analysis. I would think a decent intellectual life would lead one to have less confidence in one's ability to understand and take account of everything. Not to mention applying to oneself one's learning on the behavior of other; more stupid than stupid is thinking that one is immune from stupidity, especially after observing so many stupidly self-confident people going astray.
Then they complain they are shunned or made irrelevant. Maybe they could be a bit more humble and also have less reverence for some "power" they make responsible for everything and still wish to 'advise' in order to influence decision making. Whoever said intellectuals are meant to be "guiding lights" whose role would be to generate truth and then report it back to "power". How deceitful. What a sell-out. Intellectuals have their own power and don't need to defer to any power other than their own. Maybe they could actually engage into the formation of public opinion and, rather than bypassing the democratic process in the belief of their duty or right to do so, participate in that process fully. Oh but I forget, their only valid interlocutors are the people in 'power'. Won't get very far that way.
I wonder why that is I was so happy when I learned Hezbollah was able to launch strikes on big cities in Israel with big fat 100kg explosives. Finally, the playing field seems to level a bit, no longer will Israel be able to strike at Lebanon and remain unpunished. Maybe they will think a bit before bombing civilians. And maybe the Israelis should take some swimming lessons.
People tell me I am being ignorant and as long as I don't live there then I shall shut up. No way, I shan't. Those who live there are completely blinded by hatred, and I better trade ignorance for hatred any day, thank you very much. I am sure I have a much clearer view of the situation from here than in Israel where people have lost any patience with any rational thought. And anyway, there is no chance I would ever go live in such a hot country.
The way I see Israel is like a bull constantly annoyed by mosquitoes who loses his temper from time to time and then goes thrashing around futilely blinded by his fury. Or better yet, I see Israel as the bull in a corrida, with the whole world cheering along every time banderillas are planted into his shoulders. The frustration and resentment of the Israelis is all part of the show.
I can't wait for when the Israelis realize they will never be at peace and just let go and go on a new diaspora. Except there is not much of a way out once you enter the arena. Anyway, once this all is finished, I doubt they will get much respect for messing up their whole country and all its surroundings. Talk about a failed state.
I wonder if Bush masturbates at the thought of all those he killed. His penis must have become grotesquely elongated with all the practice he got. I wonder if that is why they don't let him go to soldiers' funerals; his state of sexual arousal would be too obvious for all to see.
ION, there is nothing more dispiriting than an intellectual fuming against intellectualism. They just can't let go of their brain, that is quite simply pathetic. You want to tell them, "OK, let go, breathe, breathe, tell us what is on your heart", but no, they keep gyrating inside their skull, they just can't get out of it, they process everything through the brain, and I can tell you, digested feelings don't look good, no, not at all. It makes me pretty sad for them, I would like to take one of those wretched bodies and bring it back to life, but they have developed potent antibodies, they can't let themselves be held.
"My death will be by a thousand paper cuts". I didn't know that was an established expression. But there it is.
I know it shouldn't, but the hypocrisy of the LJ team never ceases to amaze me. They made a post ostensibly to reassure LJers that Vox would not distract developers' attention from LJ. In fact this was specifically designed to advertise Vox on the sly.
I did go see what Vox looks like. That is just a MySpace copycat, a LJ for the old and crabby, those who don't want to mingle with the younger LJ crowd. This is the low-tech middle-upper class alternative to Typepad, some kind of platform for the disillusioned mid-thirties to advertise their mediocrity and expose their boring foreign trips and stupid new gadgets. Frankly, who wants to learn about some middle-aged housewife whose main weekly event is her kids' soccer match.
All that to say I am quite happy to stay here. Not to mention the main focus of Vox seems to be on social networking, which I am not interested in at all, rather than on personal writing, which IMO is what makes blogs interesting. But then I guess the boring and the old progressively lose any interest in charting the inner space and end up bubbling it all on the surface. Or keeping it all private, since the main Vox marketing pitch seems to be that it ensures better privacy control than LJ. What about public journaling, what about opening oneself up for others to see. Seems like the "grownups" are just too jealous with their intimacy.
Re: nipplegate (also here, here and here), how am I going to argue for banning pictures of topless men if the cows win the right to expose their udder? I would much prefer not having to endure the sight of those mommies basking in triumphant motherhood and those repugnant babies sucking on their nipples. I can literally see those poor girls being drained of their brain in the process. I don't identify as a milk container, breastfeeding is a loss of time imposed on us to make motherhood more burdensome, lengthen the time off work and put additional hurdles in our careers. Not to mention how it totally messes up with breasts. I sure don't think the best move is to give babies a part of our own body to chew on. I bet they would be perfectly happy to gnaw on some dog treat instead.
Aww, my two little lovelies together at last, this is so cute, look at Hitler's pretty swastika pin. So precious, such a gentleman. Stalinistiskaya looks so happy too; her mustache is frizzing with anticipation.
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I don't know if I would really call this a 'drama', it is more like my dream finally realized... if only in fiction. I looked for better pictures, or even a video, because I can't quite see his face as he is dying. I hope the actor that was selected looks sufficiently like him that people like me can actually entertain if only momentarily some fleeting illusion that this is for real.
