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Flamer

http://julianut-nutt.blogspot.com/2008/12/penguin-is-dodo-that-can-swim.html

Flaming, also known as bashing, is hostile and insulting interaction between Internet users, often involving the use of profanity. Flaming usually occurs in the social context of anInternet forum, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Usenet, by e-mail, game servers such as Xbox Live or Playstation Network, and on video-sharing websites. It is frequently the result of the discussion of heated real-world issues such as politics, religion, and philosophy, or of issues that polarise subpopulations, but can also be provoked by seemingly trivial differences.

Deliberate flaming, as opposed to flaming as a result of emotional discussions, is carried out by individuals known as flamers, who are specifically motivated to incite flaming. These users specialize in flaming and target specific aspects of a controversial conversation, and are usually more subtle than their counterparts. Their counterparts are known astrolls who are less "professional" and write obvious and blunt remarks to incite a flame war, as opposed to the more subtle, yet precise flamers.^[1] Some websites even cater to flamers and trolls, by allowing them a free environment, such as Flame-Wars forum.^[2]



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Total Capitulation

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Amateur Psychiatry

The single major reason for becoming an Amateur Psychiatrist is this:


Pure Spite.

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The Book

The Book, is of course a book written by people who don't write books, but know all about books. Or people who write books and aren't that successful with their books, but still know more about books than any of YOU will ever know, or I will ever know for that matter.....in other words....The Ubiquitous "They" of the writing world who have made up rules for all of us good little authors to follow. Let's look at some:

Never start a book with the weather.

Never start with back story.

Avoid info dumps (this is a good one actually).

Don't use contrivances such as letters or a diary to convey back story.

Avoid long exposition, verbosity and wordy prose.

Tension, tension, tension--always! Courtesy of Donald Maass.

Never switch POV in the middle or....anytime. Unless it's third person and different people. 

Never use adverbs/verb modifiers  ("If you have to modify, you haven't found the right verb!" ~Author Hank Schwaeble) Although I still defy him to find the "right" verb for the phrase "kissed hungrily."

Get out your Thesauruses, go ahead. I'll wait.

"Show don't tell."

Never begin a sentence with conjunctions.

And so forth.

All and all decent rules. But when you're a good writer, all rules are made to be broken--they must be broken. It's a rule.

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Traditional Mawaige

 Traditional marriage, that ubiquitous term that has caught the nation's attention like the term "family values" did a while back. But from where do these terms originate, and what do they actually mean?

If you ask any conservative, they'll tell you, without even blinking, "The Bible."

Well let's take a look at that, shall we?

In the bible it was common practice for a man to have many wives, concubines and slaves.

In the bible, "love" is never mentioned as a reason for marriage.

In the New Testament, marriage was generally frowned upon altogether, preferring instead to exhort followers of Christ to be celibate and even eunuchs (ouch!)

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Imhotep

Okay, so that movie, The Mummy totally stole the name for their hot-but-creepy mummy, Imhotep. TOTALLY different guy.

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"Indie"

The style of "Indie" is about as easy to peg as "scene". Unlike Emo or Goth, Indie is relative to the teen's LACK of definition.

Indie kids thrive on being different versions of themselves and others. A typical Indie kid shops vintage clothes, wears tight jeans, tight sweaters, and generally attempts to look  as geeky as possible, in an attractive way, of course.

They typically give a shit, and that's something new. They have heart, sometimes too much. They have pet causes, whether it's veganism, environmentalism, anti-materialism, anti-capitalism or pro-animal protection, whatever it is, they believe in it, or defy it, hard-core.

Girls tend to gravitate more to it, based on my observations, because they seek the sensitive souls many Indie boys have. Little do they know, the boys are boys, first and foremost. Ehem.

They smell good, unlike wanna-be hippies who smell like B.O. and patchouli. Indie kids, if you have one, are not a bad way to go in terms of parents. The worst thing you can expect form them is a little dabble with Mary Jane. BACK TO POST.

The God Card

"The God Card"

This is the smug, self-righteous response given to querants who do not comply with the God Card Holder's belief system. Example:

Person #1: But I don't believe your church is true--I never received a spiritual witness!
Person #2: Then you must not hear the Holy Ghost's still, small voice because you're sinning.


Person #1: Please don't remove my fingernails! It hurts!
Person #2: I'm sorry, I can't argue with God.

Person #1: I'm dying of cancer.
Person#2: Then God must not have wanted you to get better.

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Basically the God Card places all blame on God to justify human stupidity. Back to post.

Role of Women in Mormonism

Please don't patronize me.

I was active in the Mormon Church for over two decades.

Don't brain-fuck me. I know what my role was. Women know what their roles are. It is an unspoken expectation among Mormon women to sit down, shut up and color.

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Balloon Fetishism

Yes.

Apparently blowing up, riding and and popping balloons is what turns some people's crank.

I don't wanna even KNOW how clowns fit in.

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The Universe

Unknown artist (I tried)

This is the New Agey-movement's reference to "God". The "Universe is responsible for:

• Creating abundance (aka: wealth, money and material possessions)

--See and whisper The Secret ("the secret, the secret, the seeecrrrrrretttt")

• Helping you find your 'soul mate'.

• Creating the life and bliss you desire--and deserve! The Secret website

• Creating serendipitous happenings and coinkie-dinks that are simply UNEXPLAINABLE with human logic or science.

• Visions, hallucinations, goose flesh, intuitive nudges, past life garbage, words like "journey" and "path" in reference to what a person chooses to DO for a living.

• justification for everything from having affairs, ignoring responsibility and culpability in any wrong doing, and anything that might go 'wrong' in a person's life.

• Lessons. The Universe is ALL ABOUT lessons. A common New Agey saying: "What am I supposed to be learning here?"

(Uhhh, you're supposed to be learning that when you park in a fucking red zone, you're

going to get a ticket.)

• Justification for every action or reaction a person has.

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IRL

"In Real Life."

I typically hate--HATE--cyber-spaced acronyms such as this.

Other ones I use and hate: LOL, LMAO, ROTF, ROTFLMAO, and the loathed "u" instead of "you", "4" instead of "for"...you get my drift, don't u? *

*Ugghhh shuddddder.....*

However, to illustrate my point, I used it. So sue me.

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Sexy Pout

....notsomuch.

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God-Given Gifts

Here are some of the more attractive "god given gifts" out there:

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wii

An outrageously priced gadget that requires you to buy everything seperate for an outrageous amount of money. And it's addicting as hell.

Nipples

You had to go there, didn't you?

Well, here's this for your trouble.

There, feel better?

Raynaud's Phenomenon

Stages of skin discoloration:

What it really looks like:

What happens on the inside:

Perfusion is the passing of fluid through blood vessals to organs or tissue.

Fun, huh?

Tolerance

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Let the Healing Begin

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