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276  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Nightlife Nightmare on: 2005 September 25, 15:18:17
What if the damn piece of junk you've got in your house only has... ONE goddam CD drive?  Shocked Eh? Suggestions on postcards please.
277  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Hurricane Katrina on: 2005 September 25, 15:10:42

Yes. Healthy paranoia I reckon.  Grin

Cheers. Nice to know that I'm still on the right track.  Grin
278  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Hurricane Katrina on: 2005 September 24, 21:46:38

Look at this article that appeared (unsolicited) in my personal email:
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An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State

An Objectivist Review

by Robert Tracinski | The Intellectual Activist

When confronted with a disaster, people usually rise to the occasion. They work together to rescue people in danger, and they spontaneously organize to keep order and solve problems. This is especially true in America. We are an enterprising people, used to relying on our own initiative rather than waiting around for the government to take care of us. I have seen this a hundred times, in small examples (a small town whose main traffic light had gone out, causing ordinary citizens to get out of their cars and serve as impromptu traffic cops, directing cars through the intersection) and large ones (the spontaneous response of New  Yorkers to September 11).


I think there may well be a smidgeon of truth in that essay, but I can see plenty of distortion in it too. After all, I live in the UK which is known for its extensive welfare system and while there are troublesome areas, and people, it is not the welfare state that has caused this. There has always been a part of society that is less than salubrious, and there have always been murderers, thieves and poor. Society was a damn sight less safe two hundred years ago than it is today, and violent crime common. Mugging is not, contrary to belief, a new thing and has been around in all its nasty glory for quite some time.

I wonder if what we're seeing here is the power of the media and journalism? We live in an century were news is the norm and everyone has instant access to it (well, in the developed nations). That news is edited to within an inch of its life, so who knows what we're really seeing or hearing. Could be anything they bloody well want to feed to us! Tongue Or is my paranoia showing?
279  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Hurricane Katrina on: 2005 September 21, 13:49:58
As a woman blessed (?) with more than her fair share of mammary (let's not go size, cos when I was feeding babies the damn things came into the room before me) tissue I can honestly say they have been the bane, and the joy, somewhat perversely, of my life. It hasn't even made any difference if I was fat, or thin, they are always the only thing a bloke looks at. However, I have found, for some men, breast size correlates closely to IQ. That is, the bigger the boobies, the smaller the brain. This is not good. At least for them... This involves me having to take charge of a situation and deriving some enjoyment from total humiliation. Spleen removal has been an option, J.M., as has heart, but eyes are good too.

And I agree, Judecat. Most rapists are known briefly to their victim, though sometimes the rapist will believe they've got a relationship where none exists. It's about power too, not sex, and not if a woman "deserves" it because she dresses in something skimpy. Damn, I used to dress in things that were barely there and still had respect from my male friends. The others I didn't give a fig about because they were only there to buy booze.  Grin
280  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Hurricane Katrina on: 2005 September 19, 23:17:35
Judecat, no, stop! It would be bad to turn this into a thread full of sex-starved, boot-wearing, shaven-headed, ultra-feminist loons with penis envy... We must be caring of the poor little darlings that are so misunderstood. Unfortunately, mysogyny (did I spell that right?) is alive and well in the 21st century, and I could barely get my hat on (local saying) when I read about so-called rescuers' (original thread) in NO who would not take some young women into their boat because the women wouldn't show their tits. My, doncha just wish you could get a big knife handy?
281  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Nightlife: Censor Blur won't die!!! on: 2005 September 19, 23:04:07
I just feel that at the age of 51 (in my MIDDLE-AGE lifespan) I shouldn't be told I can't look at a man's willy.
As a fellow MIDDLE-AGER (46), I'm on that bandwagon with you. In bifocals.

Motoki, I've argued that logic with others ~ who don't play the Sims, but have read Thompson's propaganda ~ and they just don't get it! Those who don't actually play the game believe what he says about pedophiles using naked Sim-children to practice their disgusting acts. Not only do they not believe me when I tell them there are no such animations in the game, that children can do no more than HUG an adult, or give a friendly family kiss, they don't seem to grasp the fact that, as the game is shipped, those actions can only occur while the Sims are both fully clothed, with no blur. And if anatomically correct and "invisible clothing" skins are used on a child (shame!), the only time the blur bothers to show up is in the tub or shower, or on the toilet. And Sims shower and pee alone. So what's the point?!?

It's like talking to a stump.

I've forgotten what one looks like too, dammit, so need to have gentle reminders hence nekkid sim lads. As to the rest of this post, I know I've come in rather late, but what a goddam twat! Unbelieveable nonsense...  Roll Eyes

As for MTS2 and sharing files, I have to say that there are some really ungrateful gits who aren't above bugging the bejeezus outa folk and slagging them down for creating the stuff they're going to use!  WTF Huh (On a bit of a line with them at the mo cos the damn forum is full of morons who can't debate and only like to abuse or flame.)  
282  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Hurricane Katrina on: 2005 September 19, 22:25:12
Not all men are wasters... just some of the motherf**king bastards!  Grin
283  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Hurricane Katrina on: 2005 September 19, 10:54:43
My current favourite is "So many men... So many reasons to sleep alone."
284  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Rant: Hacks are ignored by Nightlife on: 2005 September 19, 10:38:19
As soon as J.M. says "all is well, idiots", then I shall rush (saunter, possibly) to buy NL. Until such time, I can't be arsed. Too much fecking hassle.
285  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Hurricane Katrina on: 2005 September 19, 10:33:36
That would seem to be the case, though I hadn't really thought about evolution as a bell curve even though it is a statistically proven thingy.

J.M.'s right. In the great plan (life), males are expendable because you just don't need that many to fertilise females. All the energy in procreation goes into rearing young, and the general rule of thumb is that females do that. There are some exceptions (aren't there always?), but the hairy ones tend to get away scot free when it comes to the kiddies. We are also symmetrical, genetically speaking (XX) and men aren't. Check nature out carefully; she do love the old symmetry.  Smiley

286  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Rant: Hacks are ignored by Nightlife on: 2005 September 17, 11:19:39
So many people with NL... Don't sound too hot at the mo so I think I'll wait till J.M. has it all figured out and running smoothly.

Where is he, by the way? I miss his meaness.  Cry
287  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Hurricane Katrina on: 2005 September 17, 11:07:03
Yeah, because if a female does well it has to be because "she's had more help and the system favours girls".  Roll Eyes I would try banging my head or chewing on the table but it's a pointless exercise. Males are, sadly, evolutionarily designed to have shorter attention spans, less communication capability (and they do, still, go "uug"), and be driven to shag the youngest most fecund female. Plus there's the whole peacock tail feather thing as soon as you get them mixed with girls. And I like men, I really do.

My, didn't you know you can't get pregnant if you are over the age of thirty? For a start, who's gonna want to have sex with a wrinkly?

Gotta ask, though, completely off topic, what's happening to the thread as it's gone very quiet? Are people playing the new EP? And is it any good, and should I waste my hard earned or am I going to have a struggle to get the damn thing to work?
288  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Hurricane Katrina on: 2005 September 16, 17:58:32
It isn't just single mothers who have to take time of work if their child is sick!  In most families, the wife is still expected to do this, mainly because her earnings are lower and therefore the family budget suffers less, but also I think it's still because it's seen as their role!  And employers tend to be more understanding if a woman takes time off for a sick child than if a man does!

Interesting arguments about payscales and glass ceilings, though!  Which sex on the whole leave school better qualified?  In the UK teenage girls still do better at school than boys, and mostly I would suspect, are more willing to start work or go on to college than boys, yet the minute they take time out to have a baby they're penalized!  As if it's women's fault that they are the sex that gets pregnant!  (In an ideal world, couples would be able to take pregnancy in turns,
but unfortunately it isn't an ideal world!)

Not sure that I agree with that first part, but only because men taking time out to go to a school event are looked upon as heros whereas it's just a necessary part of the daily grind for a woman. Possibly a tad cynical, but hey... I think that either gender are frowned on if you take time off for any reason, but especially if a child is sick. Family Friendly Policy? Please, do me a favour  Lips sealed I work in Social Services and the HR people know it exists (so do the union) but no-one has ever seen the bloody thing. I believe it to be a work of fiction.

And I've seen the frilly lipped look in action for pregnancy. Women are considered to be a liability. Still!

Yes, girls perform better across the board. It's called the XY Divide and is a known phenomena. You look at any school, or learning disabilities home and you'll see that far more males are intellectually challenged. They also have a higher rate of attrition from birth as well as higher levels of physical disability. Don't it make ya glad you got the double 'X' (unless you got two defective and are colourblind etc)?
289  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Hurricane Katrina on: 2005 September 13, 17:41:33
Pay equality is a myth. Women are still, in many situations, in the worst paid jobs, and I will agree with Judecat that it is because it is known that men will not lower themselves to accept that level of pay. So they're left to people who will, usually women who have no qualifications and/or young children that need them at home. They may even be single parents, and trying to get away from that berated welfare system. You have only to look at statistics to realise just how little the gender gap has decreased and that there is a glass ceiling for women. There are still more men at the top of their league than women, and until our primary role of "caregiver" is challenged I do not see that changing in the near future. Who here, as a working single mother, has had to fight to take some time from work for her child if said child was ill? Or if time was needed to go to an important event? Things like this are seen as disruptive to companies (public or otherwise) and show a severe lack of commitment by the parent to their employer. After all, isn't that where your first loyalty should be? This is one of the reasons we are still at the bottom the pile; our ability to reproduce. That and industry and society dislike change, no matter how slow it is.

290  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: HUZZAH! Banned from Rentech.com! on: 2005 September 13, 17:14:41
Sorry Zeph, don't mean to sound like a smartarse, and I just do that, go off on describing drugs etc as I work with so many of the damn things.  Tongue

As for doctors, I've come to the conclusion that the "General" part of their title means exactly that and that most of 'em know jack. I base this observation on a number of misdiagnoses I am aware off, not least my brother who was told he had a slipped disc. The slipped disc turned out to be advanced secondaries of the spine and liver and he lived for a fortnight. So go rattle some damn cages cos the bleeders never listen unless you're shouting in their faces.

Brynne: Your son sounds like so many of the kids I work with. ASD is a nightmare to live with, and those extremes of violent behaviour are really common. A young man I had as a service user attacked and injured 17 times in the space of 3 months, causing such issues as difficulty to place in any care setting. He is a danger to the public also and has to have 4 staff in attendance at all times. Even the drugs don't seem to be working as he's a big lad and the dose he needs is massive. He is, off course, on a psychotropic drug with a sedative "to calm him down" when he's in a frenzy. Trouble is you can't get close enough to medicate him when he's off on one.

As for gallbladders, I'm just glad mine was whipped out.  Cheesy

291  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Hurricane Katrina on: 2005 September 11, 16:15:26
Judecat, you're quite right in saying that Communism or Marxism doesn't work - just read George Orwell and you'll see why...people are greedy, and they always want more - whether that be power, goods, land or money. Those political systems are an ideology but ones that many very good ideas can be taken. Can the same thing be said of the extreme right, however? I personally have doubts if there is anything good about the extreme right, unless, of course, someone is an out and out bigot that feeds on prejudice.

Socialism is a system where by we get to make certain that the people at the bottom end of the social ladder are assisted, and that is the operative word - assistance. When I was destitute and homeless, there was never any occasion that I wanted to be nannied or taken care of. What choices I make are my own and I am the person that likes to make them about my life. I don't need some jumped up little beaurocrat to tell me how to live my life or what I have to do to improve it. I will, though, willingly pay in a small amount of money if it means that someone gets a better chance at life. Isn't that what some of my taxes are for (I'm a Brit, so things are slightly different)? Welfare and socialism are not synonymus. Welfare is a socialist idea, but it is not one that decides you shouldn't work, or help yourself.

Z.Z. says, quite rightly, that in Socialism all jobs are seen as equal. And they are, with the possible exception of those who act for a living, or sports people on phenomenal and obscene salaries. Without a dustman, society would be up shit ( Cheesy) creek good and proper. Just because the job is less glamorous than those mentioned previously does not make it less important. Some jobs are undervalued in the society we live in, and it is that which gives me a pain in the butt.

She has a point, too, that when the Soviet Union fell apart the people who leapt in to take over were the crooks, those super capitalists who want to screw everybody... even you comrade. And that is what I hate about modern capitalist societies.
292  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: That was SOME woohoo! on: 2005 September 11, 15:39:47
Heh...

LOL!
It would make sense to get skill points in woohoo, wouldn't it? I mean, who starts out THAT good? My first time wasn't even close to fireworks! LOL!

Innit the truth?  Grin
293  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: HUZZAH! Banned from Rentech.com! on: 2005 September 11, 15:31:01
Z.Z. - Dihydrocodeine sends you off anyway. It is an opiate and addictive. In fact, in this country it has only just been licensed for sale over the counter but I can't recall what it retails as. Might be worth checking with the quack about any counterindications with current meds you're taking and also if there are any real issues for folk with thyroidal probs.

My poor mum has to have paracetamol for her arthritis as she takes Warferin, but has a thyroid problem too. I believe she was on something stronger before the DVT set in so I'll ask and see if she remembers the name of the drugs.
294  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: What do you make of this? on: 2005 September 09, 20:34:29
There you all go again, making me envious. My ghosts seem to be just as boring as my sims, all they do is float around and scare people.

Mine too. I want a funny ghost, dammit...  Angry
295  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Hurricane Katrina on: 2005 September 09, 20:30:21
Aint society grand, eh? But it is one we have created, all of us, as we play into the materialistic side of life. Those people on the lower echelons are wannabes. They see all the stuff they are not able to have (advertising, TV and whatever) or afford, and get to thinking they deserve those things by any means they can. Our money grabbing, oil guzzling, land destructive ways have bred a new scary variety of Homo Sapiens that don't care for anyone but themselves and can self-justify at the drop of a hat. A grow-your-own-sociopath generation... Special, huh?

Being on benefits is no fun, nor is single parenthood. I've done both (am still doing the latter), and have hauled myself up by my own bootstraps. Damn, looonnng hard work. I retrained, putting myself through Uni as a mature student, and eventually got my own house. My older daughter is off to Uni on the 24th, and my younger starts 6th Form College next week. You can do it, it just takes sheer bloodymindedness, and a willingness to graft your guts out. So good for you, Danni. More power to you.
296  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: HUZZAH! Banned from Rentech.com! on: 2005 September 09, 20:09:10
Ugh, gallstones... Had those and they were the worst pain I've ever had to endure. I had dihydocodeine, which is a lovely, spacey drug that sends you off into la-la-land. Unfortunately, when I had mine out they didn't use keyhole surgery and even now I look like the surgeons used a wood chisel and hammer to get in there and do the removal.  Grin

Z.Z. - acupuncture is good, no doubt about that. I know that some G.P.'s refer their patients and it can be available on the NHS in some areas. I take it you don't live in one of those though?
297  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Hurricane Katrina on: 2005 September 09, 17:11:44
Yeah, and as they wouldn't have FTL drive then all those Ark ships could be left behind when we develop proper technology. Good bloody riddance.
298  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: HUZZAH! Banned from Rentech.com! on: 2005 September 09, 17:07:52
Arthritis is a bitch. It's rife in my family, so I'm looking forward to the day when I can't move. I already think that I'm getting twinges in my ankles.

Have you tried anything from alternative sources? I have read that a sulpher compound "MSM" has had some positive results relieving pain which is backed up by some research. I have to admit that I don't know what size the group was that was tested, but hopefully it was decently designed experiment with proper controls.
299  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Hurricane Katrina on: 2005 September 09, 16:33:23
As a non-American, these sites are very reassuring to me...

http://www.sorryeverybody.com/

http://www.apologiesaccepted.com/index.html

New Zealand is a small country and has little world power. It is very scarey to many of us here that someone like Bush is in charge of such a large world power, terrifying, the man cannot even speak logical grammatical sentences, he invades oil-rich countries for no other reason than he can and refuses to sign treaties that will help the world environmentally - given that America is responsible for so much pollution.

The man is a fool, and an absurd one too. I think the fact that he is so obviously a puppet and at the beck and call of his administration means that all those hard-nosed right wingers in America have far more power than anyone ever should have. I also worry about his use of religion as a tool to direct the masses. Scary stuff.

Just don't start me on pollution again, Witch, as I'm an active campaigner with Greenpeace and it makes my blood boil. I will say this though, that when I did go out canvassing and spoke to some Americans (Mormons on a mission to save us poor rebrobate Brits from ourselves) that they are frighteningly close minded about environmental issues. Seemed to think my passion for what is, after all, the gift their god gave to mankind (not mine cos I'm pagan through and through) a joke. Speaking to some other Christians that I know they think it's because such fundamentalists believe that god will swoop down and save us all so it doesn't matter that we are destroying the planet!  Huh (Good sites, by the by.)

Dammit, I know not all Yanks (sorry if it offends) are that way, so why did I have to find the ones wearing blinkers? Grrrr...

Z.Z./Kelly: I have 4 cats all of which rule me with an iron paw. Yesterday I had a vole on my stairs which I nearly trod on, and this morning there was another offering on the kitchen floor. I'm not entirely certain if this isn't their way of making me know that they are savage killers and will rip my face off if I don't give 'em meat instead of the accursed biscuit.

And you're soooo right, they have staff.
300  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Sexual Preference Not Changed By Woo-Hooing? on: 2005 September 08, 12:57:47
Interesting.
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