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Originally posted by Zaknrfama:
I am not sad! Damnit! Why am I not sad? This sucks! Somebody fix this! Make a crack about my mom or something! I can't fit in here if I'm not sad.

Why must I be optimistic?

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Originally posted by Zaknrfama:
Oh, hey, how many wrong ways am I allowed to take that in without you hurting me?

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Originally posted by Zaknrfama:
I am not sad! Damnit! Why am I not sad? This sucks! Somebody fix this! Make a crack about my mom or something! I can't fit in here if I'm not sad.

Why must I be optimistic?

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Originally posted by safeat2nd:
At what age does one start disliking birthdays?

So I'm at my parents for my "birthday dinner". Don't get me wrong, I like my parents BUT I had a horrible revelation. I'm starting to see things through my dad's eyes.
What started it was, he's a big fan of tribute CD's. He has a tribute to Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Dyan etc. all the stuff I didn't like growning up.

Here's the scary part... I found myself liking the music. So I leave there feeling... well.. old and with Johnny Cash stuck in my head. I get home and pop in Space Above and Beyond, and there he is again, Johnny Cash.

I don't want to get old. I'm still a Toys R Us kid at heart...

Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny

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Originally posted by seryn:
After a fine suggestion from Casualty. This is the place for the letting off of steam.

So, rant thee away...

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Originally posted by seryn:


Its bad enough seeing all the fat footie boozers proudly displaying their pasty hairy beer bellys at the first hint of sunshine peeking through the April clouds.

You know how you guys have signs saying shirts and shoes or we wont serve you? we don't have them, so trips anywhere become exercises in dodging the sweaty half naked bloke.

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Originally posted by seryn:
And Citizen is just one of those super-intelligent blokes that you get on every sight like this, 'cept he also has a penchent for wading in and getting into arguments for the sheer entertainment value. Which is what I do as well, but with out the MegaBrain(tm) to back it all up.

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Originally posted by RiveR6213:
Hey! No one's ranting in here! Where are all the rants and raves?

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Originally posted by slayer730:
First of all, when I tried to reply to this the first time, my computer went all wonky for no reason (as it is quite prone to doing). I had to fiddle with it forever just to get it to start displaying web pages again. But this is not the true meat of my rant.

What it comes down to is this: My husband and I are skinheads. No, NOT Neo-Nazis. No, NOT racists. The problem with our culture, or at least the idiots in my town, is that all they choose to embrace is the sensational. To most people, all skinheads are racist, hateful Neo-Nazis or Aryan Nation/Brotherhood members. It's more shocking and interesting, so they believe it. Look at when the Neo-Nazis went on Geraldo Rivera's talk show and broke his nose. This is how the public came to believe all skinheads are and act. This is simply untrue. No one chose to do a follow up show with the other side of the story... peaceful skinheads?!? NON-racist skinheads?!? That simply doesn't enter into most people's imaginations.

My husband and I are what you call SHARP skins. (SHARP = SKINHEADS AGAINST RACIAL PREJUDICE). At its core, the skinhead movement in America isn't about who you love or hate, or what color, religion, or sexual orientation a person might be. It's a working class movement that says be a productive member of society, work for a living, fight hard, drink hard, well...you get the rest. All that with a dash of politics. :)

Sure, it splintered into hate groups that adopted the boots, braces, and shaved head because it looks tough. But there are other skinhead groups out there that are the exact opposite, like SHARP and ARA (ANTI-RACIST ACTION). My husband and I are not violent people, as most people believe skinheads to be. I am a 27 year old woman...why would I get in a fist fight? I haven't been in a fist fight since high school, and that was 10 years ago.

I'm tired of living in this redneck, racist town where SHARP skins are seen as a menace, but gangs are shooting each other every day. People don't take the time to ask you WHY you do things, or dress a certain way. My husband and I have been "seig-heiled" in parking lots, given dirty looks all over, been followed by security, been called all sorts of horrible names, and basically looked down upon because we're skinheads. People don't feel like they need to know any more about the situation.

And the ultimate irony is...THEY are the racist ones! They want to call us Neo-Nazis but they are the racists! My town has the highest population of KKK on the East Coast and also a huge group of Neo-Nazis called the KSS (Keystone Stars - guess what state I live in!) I rant because people make assumptions based on what you look like or what they believe you to be.

I never push my skinhead ideology on people. I'm just grateful for the few that will stop and listen, so I can tell just one more person that not all skinheads are violent racists. Besides, I'm proud of being a skinhead: epecially a SHARP skin who is vocal in fighting AGAINST all of this racist, ignorant nonsense.

Ok, I think I'm done... Oh wait. By the way? That abortion guy with the "definition"? He needs to be shot.

***Never judge a book by its movie***

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Originally posted by seryn:
don't try to get fat, just don't deny your self.

The words LIFE IS TOO FUCKING SHORT have never applied more.

Trying to get fat just triples your health issues, just eat when you want to. For god sake, its your body, no-one elses.

But what you said is true, no one respects you when you are fat - I get it all the time, and its not just retarded pikey brats calling you names in the street. Its everyone. I'm upset, everyone assumes its because i'm fat, i'm shy in social situation, its because i'm fat.

I'm not allowed to be a person, i'm not a fully functioning human being, I don't have a full range of emotions, thoughts, and desires, because to others I stop and start at my excess body tissue.

Even supposed medical professionals can't see it - starting when I was young, I went to see if I had allergies, I was given a nasal spray and told 'I would feel better if I lost a bit of weight'. In college I went for advice on counselling, I was having so many problems with debts and crap like that, i'd just found out I was dyslexic and was facing an uphill struggle to get any kind of help for it, I had all that unresolved crap I mentioned earlier, plus another two relationships worth and what does the doctor say? 'you might feel better if you lost a bit of weight'.

Even lately, i've been chronically tired, no balance and freguently dizzy and nauseous, so I went to ask about the tiredness, 'I'm sure you would feel better if you lost weight' and I end up in Fat Asses Anonymous. Which triggers, yup, you guessed it, the depression.

Aparently, allergies, depression and dizziness/vertigo and tiredness are all caused by, and only ever happen to people with, fat arses.

Years ago, fat people used to be venerated, they were 'jolly' happy go lucky, baccanalian, in love with life and all its splendours, wise and kind and human.

Now even Santa appears to be dieting.

Fat people have lost their PR team somewhere, now they are nothing but half people, shallow paintings greedily using more than their fair share of paint - 'if we credit them with minds of their own, then we can't feel superior to to them, and then we'll have to go back to bullying gay and black people'

So no-one respects fat people, because they are represented as one dimensional freaks devoid of the humanity of 'normal' people. (you want proof? Apainting of a nude, thin, it is interpreted in terms of personality and thought, a fat person? It is a study of the flesh)

And note that I will never use the words 'plus size' or 'fuller figured' how bloody patronising do you need to be. Lets stick to adjectives and facts, not stupid PC labels, designed solely to keep fat people in their place, separated from the good people trying to shop for their nice clothes without being bothered by the distressing sight of a body that doesn't hit the dictated norm.

Which is where my beef with women who wear badly fitting clothes come from. Its about self respect, and dressing to reflect yourself. These women in crap fitting clothes are invariably only wearing them because some womans rag has told them that to be found attractive they must wear this or that, and this and that can only be found in sizes to small, and they haven't got either the confidence or the imagination to say no, screw you, i'm going to wear what makes me feel good, and if it happens to co-incide with what you say is ok, then so be it, but until then, go play hopscotch across a motorway.


oh my god i'm on a roll...

(*disclaimer, I am of course, taliking from personal experience, generalising, and excepting present company etc, etc, I know full well that it not how all people think, but I am speaking mainly of the unwashed masses and certain members of the supposed 'intellectual' 'artistic' and 'cultural' societys.

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Originally posted by Jadehand:
Reasons? You see through the bollocks, the lies, the intentional mis-representations that the chaff falls for. The 90% of the world (men&women) that we all rant about here. The world sells lies everyday to the masses. I like people that just aren't buying it.




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"Bollocks" is a swear word meaning testicles in British English. The word is often used figuratively, most commonly as a noun to mean "nonsense" or as an expletive following a minor accident or misfortune, but also in a number of other ways; as an adjective to mean "poor quality" or "useless", and in various compound expressions (see below). Due to its versatility, bollocks has been called the Swiss Army Knife of andrological profanities.

Perhaps the best-known international use of the term in this sense is in the title of a Sex Pistols album. Testimony in a resulting lawsuit over the "obscene" term demonstrated that in Old English the word referred to a priest, and could also be used to mean "nonsense" (see Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols for details).

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Originally posted by seryn:
That is a really interesting point you made about the flappers. I'm ashamed to say that it never seriously occured to me.

ok, going to spend a few days reading up on that and working out its place in the evolution of fashion according to Helen.

To me the cause of this obsession with weight and the body started with the 70's and womens lib and the bra burning movement (if I'm saying the wrongs words sorry, I hope you know what I mean) - that getting rid of external corsets, waspies etc, but not ending the desire to change ('perfect' possibly?) the human form meant that now theres this huge pressure to achieve the small flat waisted corset shape but through exercise and dieting. But you are right, it goes back further than that.


ooooh, interesting.

And thank you for the compliment. Honestly, I start a thread to be a total bitch and three separate people say nice things to me. I gotta do this more often!

But where did you see the picture of River[numbers](i'm sorry sweetie, dyscalcula, -crapness with numbers - sadly not Duckula's cousin) I have this image in my head of perfect hair and a power suit and I want to see if i'm right.

yup, the right one will come along, despite all the overthinking and cynicism, I somehow still believe that. I'm hopin he just comes glowing and with a big neon sign.

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