Right, I'm not prude, especially not sexually.
But: this media thing is just getting at me. What the hell
is going on?!? Where ever I look I'm being bombarded with
sexual images. In all shapes and forms, some suttle, some
right in the face.
I know that 20-25 years ago when I was a kid it just wasn't
like that. So what has happened here? Is this what we call
"sexual liberation"? Does this sex-obsessed western society
need, or better can it handle this degree of daily
brainwashing?
And what about the next generations? They are being fed
this food with mothers milk. Which degree of importance is
sex going to have in their lifes/society?
I don't think that this has much to do with appriciation of
the human physique, but that it's pure reckless moneymaking.
I mean it's kind of funny in one way, because most of us
( me included ) enjoy to see a halfnaked girl running
around on our TV screen, advertising trainers or cornflakes
or god knows what, and would probably miss to not see these
images anymore. But what do they do subconciously?
Jeez, it's a rainy day. Might have just got out the wrong
side of bed this morning.
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This is precisely what the 60s and 70s sexual
freedom generation and the 80s "constraints on our
actions are wrong" generation wanted: sexual liberation and
freedom. Well, now that the population has it, we realize
how truly detrimental it has been on society.
Desensitization to sex, violence, and drugs has produced an
infotainment-obsessed society where no one wants to lead, no
one wants to follow, and rules are declasse. How many
generations will it take for people to collectively realize
this and act? The current generation? Obviously not. Our
children? Doubtful.
Isn't time to take out the dildo? Or would you like to
borrow mine?
it's a good question,here's a point of view.
what we are seeing isn't a real view of sex it's a product
that is being marketed,and sold very well.we are being feed
a stream of information to make us feel inscure to make us
buy products to make us look sexualy successful and it seems
to be working .people are falling for it.so we will see more
and more of it.
in the 50 and 60 control was lost but nothing was put in
place to give a direction so nowdays the kids have no idear
apart from movies and music videos andthat is the example
that they are following so we are in for a lot of trouble in
the future.
Steven, I like it. Your insights are astounding.
... with Steven, too. Or, as ISIS is answering her own
question, it┤s "pure reckless moneymaking". Sex sells,
that┤s all.
Thanx for responses.
It was a very rainy day and had just watched those kids
taking in that trainers ad with all those bums and tits in
it. Got me freaked out somehow.
But really, I do think it is an issue which shouldn't be
ignored. Even though there is not much one can do about it,
part from trying to get peoples attention on it.
modern people have lost sight of the point of life,every one
seems to be liveing for themselves,the order that was once
taken for granted has vanished and in it's place sex and
drugs are the order of the day.sex and drugs are ok but they
are to be used as helpers to pull people and society
together for a common cause,people now see no point,they
look out into an empty universe so use sex and drugs to
blind there minds to the emptyness they feel insteed of
opening up and useing sex and drugs to get closer and more
conected to life.
.
. :)sorry about the rant.:)
it depends on what you make out of things. Give them
negative energy and they turn into nineheaded monsters,
give them possitivity and they will add sparkle to your
life.
Attitude, attitude, attitude. Probably the one and only
thing that will ever change the world!
how do you get and keep the right attitude,when someone look
s out on the world and all they see is pain and choas.how do
you spread or tell others that the universe is our home and
we belong.how do you make them feel connected?:)
I guess you can't.
I found out for myselfe that I just can't talk to people
who are not open about these things. If someone doesn't
want to believe, they won't. If the hole they sit in is the
save place they need than hands off!
But when I'm with likeminded guys, everything flows and
that gives a lot of strength to carry on. You know, it's
like quality food that makes you stronger. Not enough of it
around though!
One day.....
Really liked your story on the romantic thread, btw.
Off to London now for a long weekend of partying, horray!!!
See ya all next week.
it's hard to get to know people because the face they put on
to show the world is not there real self.when you find
people who are open and honest it's hard to trust that they
are not just pretending or showing you what you want to see.
sometimes i think i know people then they do something so
out of charactor.it makes me dought if you can ever realy
know someone.
hope you dont get to sick from all the partying.
didn't think this post would still be up today - nice
suprise.
Funny you should mention this stuff above. It's just what I
was dealing with at the weekend.
I stayed with a friend/lover and we had an honesty session.
He let me read bits of his diary and a few letters he wrote
to ex girlfriends. And for some reason I was really
shocked. There were so many things going strong in him
which I had barely noticed. And that is not because of any
masks - he is a really open guy. I think that it is just
difficult for an outsider to be emphathetic enough to read
the sighns right. We are all such complex beings, how can
anybody ever really understand us? Sad somehow, isn't it?
I got over the shock, but something has shifted somehow. He
is still the same person, but I understand much better
where he is coming from. Some things you can never express
through talking - they have to be written down, I think.
And I still don't know him....
So no, didn't get sick from partying, but nearly from
honesty!!!
Great weekend, though!
U allright? Sounding a bit low.
i don't think you can know anyone else,it's hard to know
yourself,i know that i keep lots of things back from people
for lots of different reasons,i hide things from myself or
just block them out,we take from the world what we like and
arange what we see to suit our selves so it is easer or
liveable.
and you are right i am a bit low,went to a family gathering
in the weekend,stress,travel seeing people that you should
know,but no one was honest,no one realy cared,it seems every
one put on there happy face,said all the same fake lines.
so now i'm back and feel a bit empty.
.
should never read other peoples diary's some times you find
out things you don't want to know,it's good to have honesty
sesions with people you are close to.i had one a while ago
with a friend/not a lover,it's strange to find out about
people you think you know,and they tell you things that
surpize you.
.
i like your posts to. everywhere i go here i am starting to
see the same names and following the trails of there posts.
:):):):) :P :):) ;)
to live in a society where it is save for everybody to just
be themselves. No masks, no judgements, no negative
criticism. Life would be so much more easy and exiting. I'm
sometimes so sick of not being myselfe - makes me think
that I've forgotten who I really am. If we could all
express ourselves savely we would probably deal with our
shortcomings in a much more aware and creative way. But
this fear of being misunderstud - and therefore rejected -
kills.
The TT is a bit of a psychological playground for me.
People - well, some of them - show sides they would
normally hide very well. Can't be taken seriously, but it's
fun to watch. And I can play around conecting them to
pictures of people I know. Makes a great soapopera!
Untill I get sick of it again...
Tryed to read my own diary today as if it was someone elses
and whow! it sounded so different!!! So unlike me, somehow.
Strange.
i often go back and read what i have written in my diary,had
it for about five years,i am aways surprized how i keep
doing the same old mistakes,being atracted to the same kind
of people,telling my self to change to do things different
but going back to the same old patterns.
i always found it strange how easy it is to change the way
you act around people,if you are talking to some one you
know and someone you don't know joins in what you talk about
changes the way you speak changes,your actions,what you
thing ,how you act,are all changed ,so how people perseve
you and what they think of you,is false.
what we show the world is a projection of what we think it
wants and as everyone is doing this no wonder everyone is
confused.????:):):):P
It's a catch 22. I show you what I think you'll like and
I'll see in you what I want to see. So easy at first, but
then after a few month or years it all ends in tears - and
the divorse rate is rising....
The sun is shining today - got to get out and make the best
of it!
See ya.
i think it changes as you get older,i found all the little
things i used to do to plaese people has gotten less and i
am starting to not give a toss about what others think.it's
like you know time is runing outand you have to do what you
want or you will never get to do itand you start to
understand who you are.
.
it's been very hot here,in the 20ies not much rain all
spring another killer summer coming up.
:):):):):)BYE
so how old are you then?!? Sound about 65 in this last post!
But basically I agree. If I look back on to those teenage
years I feel like super-wise-woman now. Don't give a shit
what people think in general, but then it depends on who it
is. There is still the odd person I meet where it seems too
important that they like me, so I might play the game for a
little while. And also, there are so many sides to me that
I can always kidd myselfe into believing that all I'm doing
is showing another side of myselfe. One which I might
usually not emphasise so much.
I'm feeling very challanged by all this in my relationships
at the moment, so writing and reading bits about it feels
good. It's such a mindfuck, though. Sometimes I think I
should just forget about it all and live 'normal' life and
worry about money and success instead, like 'normal' people
do. Seems so much easier!
Envy you for the summer. God, I could do with some heat!!!!!
i've never been normal always a misfit.
it makes life harder but i think you get more out of it.
i think the reason we have a very big brain is to handle the
social/sexual relationships,i know its a hassle but if you
stick to your nature and trust that you will make the best
choises.it means that what you do is your choise and not
what others want but sometimes we get it wrong and thats
what we have to learn from.
.
not 65 yet only 33 but people have always said i was mature
even when i was young.
i liked my teenage years,lots of fun,good friends it makes
life now seem very dull.
:):):)BYE FOR NOW.
No, I don't miss those teenage years. Having much more fun
now that I actually know what I'm doing and have the
selfconfidence to play with anything that comes up. Was too
insecure then, therefore lots of missed opportunities in
all areas. Feels like I'm catching up now!
Off for another weekend.
Wonder whether this will still be up next week...
Enjoy the sun :)
other way around for me,teenage years were fun,a couple of
very close friends,partyies no worryies.
now every one has growen up settled down,every one else is
into money,house they seem to have lost the spark of
life,doing the sameold thing over and over.
maybe i am just different from them and want more from life
than that,it seems that all the things thatwe treated as
important have changed.
this will still be up, it takes about a week of no one
posting befor it dissapears.
,
i hope your relationships are going ok ,wish i had one ,
see you monday:):):):):)
full moon is on it's way,
relationships are going okay as they are both ill and needy.
Have been trying to be a nurse for the last 3 days - not
something I'm very good at either!
Seems to me you are surounded by the wrong kind of people.
There must be some more likeminded guys for you down there
in NZ! Or are your expectations too high? U know, the
perfect doesn't exist - and if it does, there is no way to
hang around waiting for it by not giving the imperfect a
chance or two, too! But I have to admit that I'm struggling
with the same issue, as there never seem to be enough
people around me who have the same set of values as me.
When I still lived in the Findhorn Community in Scotland it
was very different. Everybody there is spiritually
orientated down to the basics of life. Very exiting place!
Maybe you should go and have a look there some time.
O
Fullmoon - when?
just reading a book on the findhorn community,it's the one
with peoples story's i'm up to the part where the man is
starting to have talks with pan as they walk through parks.
it must have been a different experance to live there.
part of life is to find people with common interests,over
the past year i have changed a bit,so it's just at the
momment i feel a bit disorentated,the people around me know
who i was,not who i am now,i guess it's the 7 year thing,0-7
child,7-14 teenager,14-21 trying to be adult,21-28accept
responabilty,28-35growing up?face life.
.
don't know the right date of full moon but will find
out,equinknox must be soon as well,people are starting to
talk about holloween partys have you any plans?
BYE
full moon,6th oct 9am,i guess thats moon rise.
half missed it myselfe - 23rd sept.
Yeah, I can relate to 28-35 as growing up phase. Doubt that
I will ever feel grown up though. At least in the way I
thought it would feel when I was little. Decided in the last
few years that I would rather stay slightly irrisponsible
and unpredictable than get stuck in the rutt too much. And
what does responsibility mean anyway? In this society mainly
to earn money, to not be a criminal, to fit in with society
and to not change things too much. For me it means to learn
about the universal laws and to try to follow them as much
as possible. Difficult enough!!
I never read much about findhorn, so I don't know how
acurate this book you are reading is. But I can tell you
that 8 years ago, when I was there it was a very warm
(emotionally warm) place which had lots to offer.
Halloween.....never found out what it is all about. We don't
have this celebration where I come from, so I only join in
with it a little bit here in England. But hopefully I will
be off travelling anyway at the time.
How do you celebrate it in NZ? Witches and pumpkins like
here? No, can't be pumpkins - it's spring over there!!
Christ, it's such a different concept. Hard to imagine for
us here - Christmas in summer and stuff... Guess it's a
matter of familiarity like everything.
My freaking phone is playing up. Hope it won't disconnect me
before I post this.
I think the 9am means the exact time of it being full.
Later :)
it's freaky alright,if you celabrate the seasons or try to
follow natures lead you end up out of step with everyone
else,chirstmas in summer with a pine tree covered in fake
snow is just so strange,
also the phases of the moon are backwood,it goes from left
to right and if you look in books at the picture of it its
upside down plus the sun goes anti-clockwise,
eveyone celebrates or i should say copies so we do have
pumkins and witches.most just follow like sheep so if you
tell them it's all wrong they don't want to know.
.
it's strange to read about places like findhorn because the
books are about ten years old so its hard to know what it's
like now,there are simalar places here,more or less but less
open .
.
i think how ever old you are relationships are hard,it's
something thats alive if you feed it it grows ,if not it
dies.
.
BYE take care:)
just missed you. I'm still on the computer - can't sleep.
Should think I'd have more exiting things to do at this
time a night! But that's life.
I got to get 'down under' some time to see what the moon
looks like the other way round. Kind of scary.
Relationship stuff is freaking me out at the moment. You
are right about the feeding. that's so important. Also
willingness to be together and to carry on. It's like two
people create this third being between them and it needs to
be feed and looked after like a baby.
But what happens after a few years when you just know the
other persons faults so well and feel like you just want to
have a break from this repetetive scenario and be on your
own again for a while?! Tough one for me.
a couple i know have been together for ten years last year
they desided to marry,it lasted a few mounts then they broke
up,pressure and following other peoples addvice.
don't know to much my self never had much luck myself it's
one of life's great quests i think to find people you like
is hard enough but to find someone you love is hard and to
make it last is harder still
but it's fun trying.
:)
it's like,you see two people who have something missing in
each of there lives,so when they get together they think it
will be made into one whole thing/relationship,but it never
works that way.
then you get two people who are each whole in
themselves,inderviduals who when they get together make
something bigger than both.
i know perfect people don't exist,but when i was growing up
the people around me seemed different to the people i meet
today .people had more time/freedom ,as you get older time
seems to be speeding up this year has gone so fast so the
little things seem more important,the time you spend with
friends and loved ones is very valued .
BYE:)
going to tell you to look at the posts on anatomy but i felt
a bit (voyaristic) reading other peoples post is like
invading there space,there are so many different
conversations going on it's fun to watch one thats been
going on for a long time,
i hope you started to read it from the start and didn't just
hop in at the end it has some very good posts ;)
BYE i think i'm geting addicted to this .
i am addicted,another interesting read is at 136 feeling
happy,it's about depression and medication,
BYE :)
Of course I've only jumped in at the end of anatomy! Or
would I be patient enough to spend hours reading peoples
sassy revelations?!?
I used to have ideas about the perfect relationship, but
I've realised that I would have to do A LOT of work on
myself first to get ready for that. So, as I am not perfect
I mix with equally imperfect people and fill my empty pots
with relationships and friendships of all kind. Am I
getting to honest here? :) Life is maybe more of a struggle
that way, but there are things I would have never learned
as fast as I did, if I had stayed single. I believe in
something like lifepurpose and for me relationships are
definitly part of mine.
Don't think that there are too many couples in this world
who don't substitute something for each other. Maybe the
important thing is to realize this at least.
Time is flying, isn't it. Untill 10 years ago time didn't
really exist for me, and now part of me is getting panicy
and trying to kram as much in as possible, because in 8 1/2
years I will be 40!!! HELP!!!! ;)
Watch out, you'll need to go on a cyber-detox soon if you
don't stop in time. ;) Always limit yourselfe to one time
logging-on per day only ( she says, having already wasted
most of her morning writing and reading nonsense!!)
I better go and read a book to support my theory on Lou's
time-thread!
See ya
i've never been one to fill myself with relationships .i did
the opposite ,shut myself down emotionaly.
there was a person talking on tv the other day about
(procrasternation) they said,if you procrasternate and dont
do the things you want then after awhile ,the things you are
doing seem empty because it's not what you realy want to be
doing,i have to admit i;ve mucked around so much ,i lost
myself somewhere along the way,
starting to find my way back now though.another weekend
coming up,think i do someting new,don't know what yet.
any (cerjestions) maybe i should learning to spell
have a fun weekend BYE.
.
ps don't worry about being fourty it will fly bye so
fast,worry about 60. BYE
um hi, i guess the original topic's finished huh? :)
good to hear from you again,
no it's not add your valued thoughts please.
Is this getting bad, or what? I'm even escaping the Friday-
night-party for a few minutes, just to check what's going
on on the TT!!
Well, steven, got many suggestions for the weekend, but
spelling would be a worthwhile activity, if not the most
exiting one!! ;) :) 'something new' sounds great as well,
what ever it may be.
Green: The original theme seems to have left a long time
ago, but it's never too late to add an opinion! Or anything
else for that...
Better go back to join in with reality again. Bye
is this sat. or friday morning in your parts. And where the
hell is Canberra???
i don't have any opinions really, i was just reading and enjoying your posts and ah, um identifying with them..
going through my own mid-life crisis (or should i say every alternate year crisis), but no big stories there just a general dissatisfaction about what i am doing and where i should be going.
well' camberra is in south australia [oz] when it's 1am
there it's 2am here,hour a head i think but it's also a 24
hour clock so if it says 15:35 that's 3 pm i think,plus we
have just had daylight saving this weekend so all the clocks
were put forward one hour so who knows what the time is.
.
this could be a 30's topic,if the dates on greens birthday
posts are right i am a week older than green and 1 1/2 years
older than isis,i wonder if thats why we seem to be having
the same thoughts about life,same time of life.
.
what are you doing slightly pissed and useing a computer
don't you know how danger fulled the web is who knows where
you might end up.party party party:):):) .
.
BYE
can my aquarian freespirit handle that?! ;)
green, you are worse than me. Talking about midlifecrisis
at 33! What are you on! Got a few years to go for that I
hope. I think it's just the early 30ies-realising-we -are-
not-getting-younger-crisis. Needs lots of reassurance, sex
and chocolate cake to get over it!
Steven, this chocolate kiss thing happend to me too!
Full moon tomorrow!
time 11:04am see what it prints as.
.
green eyes ,hmm so have i ,wonder if green has green eyes,
i'm not much of a leo ,well just as long as you aren't a
scopio girl i've had a lot of trouble with them they are all
crazy.but fun.
sex and food together can be very fun with the right person
my last girlfriend was into that she brought me out of my
shell she was a scopio girl.
what is it about chocolate cake,green is always posting
about that ,is it a women thing.
the moon was so bright last night but you get to see it full
by the time it gets back here it's 12 hours old lucky you.
crazy weather yesterday it was 15 degrees then it started to
hail with wild winds then five minutes later it was fine
again plus i see we are't go to have any ozone above us
,it's going to be sunburn city.
guess i'll have to go and have some chocolate cake BYE.
hi ya'll two
are we discussing star signs now ak no,
aquarian eh isis, well you get along fine with leos apparently
you got me confused there for a bit, had to check up with my birthday thread below, i am actually 34 (weep, sob, etc)
yup i'm a leo but i think i have a scorpio ascendent (or whatever) so that makes me a bit overdo the gloom bit :)
no i do not have green eyes! my name (for the last time) has been borrowed off Graham Greene.
steven, the chocolate cake, ahem, i think you are perhaps reading a bit too much into it hee hee, actually i found that it seems to be a universal favourite :)
perhaps i'm overcompensating ... :)
about the not getting any younger bit, i guess although i hate to admit it, it probably does add to my normal state of intellectual angst which i fear is out of fashion these days. i feel i've been in a rut for far too long - i have been working for twelve years now and not done much else. i feel if i don't just chuck it all up for a bit of searching i might never do it.
it's been raining heavily here, most uncharacteristic at this time of year
bye
is just the ultimate compensation, don't you agree, green.
There is not much that can beat the satisfaction you get
from it if you feel needy and/or insecure. Doesn't work as
well for men, I hear, so try the pub instead steven. Naa,
can't imagine you to be the pub-typ of guy!
.
green, it's strange isn't it: suddenly we are old enough to
be looking back onto something we've been doing for the
last 10+ years!! And that makes me feel so old. Remember my
mum saying when I was a child, that she would have had that
jumper or something for more than 10 years now. That made
her look ancient in my eyes. And now I'm there myself, but
don't feel any of the grownupness which I thought would
come along whith it! Still the same old me. And I guess
that won't feel any different when I'm 65.
steven - got quite a bit of scorpio lurking in my chart, so
watch out! But I'm not the stingy typ. Love crazyness in
others though!
No moon for me :( It's been raining for days and it won't
stop. Autumn is here.
spent a lot of good times in seedy pub backbars it's strange
the way we make images of people from little fragement of
conversation the picture we build is a projection of what we
have experanced,i think that the way we see people is mostly
down to self interest the values and way we see the world is
filtered and distorted,
sorry about that.see you.
sorry i'm in a bad mood today,so all my posts are quite
fuzzy it's strange the way your feelings afect the simple
act of puting words together,
BYE
It's unavoidable for me to project certain pictures onto
people I talk to regularly but don't know much about
because all I know is how they express themselves in
writing. It's this limitation which fuels my imagination.
Not that I consciously try to make a whole picture out of
the fragments I get, but what I read between the lines
somehow gets put into the equation - it's a VERY flexible
picture, though. And really, what does it matter? We are in
cyber-space, aren't we. Anything is possible here! :) :)
isis, yes that has been the hardest thing to come to terms
with, i thought the thirties would bring a sort of maturity
but i still feel the same as more than ten years ago and i
see many older people who are not just child-like but
downright childish. and it's no easier to cope with things
than it was in my twenties. though i will say it's not as
bad as the teens, thank god. perhaps when i'm sixty i will
feel thirty at last :)
~~
hey steven lighten up, that's an order now
i agree with you but that's okay so long as we can adapt to
a new perception later,
we shouldn't let it set us back or put us off though
hope your feeling better now :)
i think my internal clock stoped at about 18 i still feel
young and at times quite silly,but when you try to do things
that you did years ago they are so much harder,i used to
ride a motorbike around in the middle of winter and didn't
realy notice the cold last winter it seemed no matter how
many jackets i put on i was still cold .
feel a bit better today
see you
anybody here?
steven, a friend brought some slides back from NZ - watched
them the other night. Wow, it's just so empty! Never knew
that. Very beautiful, though. He says you can spend days
cycling whithout meeting any cars or even people. Makes me
realise how crowded we are over here. And in greens country
it's even worse, as far as I remember.
***
I think I've toughend up a lot in my 20ies, so things don't
hit me as bad as they used to and are therefore easier to
cope with. I'm more in control as in what I allow myself to
be affected by and from which angle I see what's happening
to me. A lot comes down to experience, I guess. If you've
dealt with it a few times before, you know what to expect.
***
U alright again, steven? What's up?
hi there isis,
green's country yup very crowded, stressful, noisy :)
i am however half from steven's country hee hee in fact
steven's city (sorry) that's why i once asked him what it is
like there.
emptiness um sounds great
isis i guessed i missed the part about where you are, i know
i read your post about outside the window (we are changing
office next week, no more mango trees) and that isis is the
god of death (isn't it also the name for the river thames?)
well anyway, your location is a bit hazy.
sorry for babbling on like that i'm strangely happy today
:)
part of the reason could be that the internet which was down
yesterday is up today arrrgh...
forget some times what it like here,spending time in the
city, christchurch has 450,000 people so it's quite big but
once you leave the city it's just empty countryside,it's
very easy just to take off for the weekend,hop in the car in
2 1/2 hours you have crossed the island it's like a
different country,east coast is hot ,dry ,beaches west coast
is wet,bush covered hills ,very wild.and in the middle the
mountains are so beautiful,.
.
isis is'nt the god of death,she is a(it's hard to put in
words because she covers so much)female allpurpose
goddess,covering,birth,life-femaleness/womenhood who is
equal and sometimes smarter than her male half,she is also
the one responable for the naming of the animals(i think)and
also the snake biteing the ankle thing .
.
what was wrong the other day i couldn't post here either.
.
feeling great to day,always get moody on the fullmoon,cant
sleep,hipper active then crash into funny moods.
i've got a party to go to today, it a gothic party so every
one will be dressed up,some of the people have gotten real
fangs from the dentist put in,it makes them look like real
vampires,when they smile you can notice the points sticking
down,it should be fun,hope you all have a good weekend.
.
SEE YOU BYE
are making live so much more exiting, don't they?! Well,
I'm trying to convince myself about this at the moment!!
Seems like I have to let go of someone here and it's just
not that easy. So I'm feeling sulky and retrospective today.
/
This party sounds great, steven. Hope you get bitten!!!! ;)
/
More when I've stopped sulking. :(
can't remember you asking about christchurch but just ask
anything now while i'm takeing notice,what would you like to
know???.
.
the party was fun,it was ment to be a afternoon party,but
itwent on very late,met some new people caught up with some
old friends ,didn't get bitten though but a good time was
had.
.
isis not a lot i can say that you don't already know,as the
song says" breaking up is hard to do".
life moves and changes,hold on tight sometimes it a bumpy
ride.but the sun aways rises after the storm.
BYE :):):)
Thanx, steven! Yeah, it's been a bumpy ride, but who likes
tarmack anyway? Still hurts, but life goes on and it's full
of myricals. Change, change, change. It's everywhere at the
moment for me.
*
green, I'm in England , Suffolk, originaly Austrian, soon
travelling to Spain for the winter and then to the middle
east, hopefully. Bye bye Britain!!!
*
Isis was the wife of Osiris, and he is the keeper of the
land of the dead. But she herself is a master of magical
spells (!), marital devotion, fertility and all those other
things steven has listed. And one of her symbols seems to
be the two snakes, biting each others tails, which is the
symbol for etenaty.
*
Yes, tell us some about Christchurch. I remember the slide
I saw of it. It's at the sea, isn't it?
chch is a strange town,it's next to a old volcano next to
the sea,built on a swamp,very flat.in the sumer it's
25degres in winter it;s -3degres frosty,snows on one or two
days,so you can have lots of different weather any time of
year,like the song says "four seasons in one day".
you can swim at the beach for a bout four mounts over summer
longer if you don't mind the cooler water,ski in winter for
two mounts if there snow,this year not much snow,lots of
people came to early no snow.
.
green what is your part of india like,seen it in the movies
what is it like to be there,it looks so hot.dont know if i'd
like to be around snakes are there any where you are.
.
isis,austrian?some say the southern alps here look like the
ones in switerland(sorry)but smaller,a friend of mine was
crewing on a bout in (meyorcar,spain)says its
great,
see ya,BYE
I just wanted to tell you that I've been eavesdropping on
your conversation occasionally. Not polite, I know but I
found the original topic interesting. But you Isis and
Steven seem like very reasonable people (I already know that
Green is), so I hope you don't mind me dropping by like
this. Just wanted to say hi and let my presence be known to
you!
thanx for saying hello. It's quite an intimate thread, nice
and quiet, but you are welcome of course. As long as you
are in your 30ies!!! :)
/
Austria: guess the Alps are smaller than the swiss ones,
but they are sure still big enough!! And we have warm lakes
and unpolluted countryside and NO nuclear power and lots of
snow in winter and lots of heat in summer - sounds a bit
like NZ, doesn't it? I'm not missing it, though. Looking
forward to Spain, where I've never been before.
/
BTW;the 'girl meets boy' thread is turning into something
quite interesting.
see ya
i think every one on the tt spys on every one else,it's so
much fun,
isis,do you meen anotomony when you say girl meets boy?
not alot to say today BYE
Yes Isis, I'm 32. I can't say that hitting the 30's meant
that much to me. I never had an age crisis or anything.
Maybe I won't until I'm 40. Actually I like both my age
right now and the person I am. I was far too insecure when I
was in my 20's.
---
Steven, Boy meets girl is a separate thread (somewhere in
the middle right now) and it's interesting. I've been
reading that one too.
---
Green, too busy working? :-)
HI ,another person in there 30's,i wonder what the average
age of the people on the tt is,gunilla is an unusual name
never heard of it be for,is it a common name in your country
or has is a meaning of it's own.
thanks for telling me where boy meets girl is ,i'll go see
it now so bye for now.
found it at last,read the whole thing,isis i like your list
it sounds like "men are from mars women are from venus" i
think she is just thinking out loud,in a safe
enviroment,geting it out of her sistem,it's good to get
things out in the open,it might help her,might just make it
more confusing.
.
we have been shifted down to fourth from the end,things seem
to betaken off very quickly if the talking stops.
BYE
Steven, both my name and I are Swedish. I wouldn't say that
Gunilla is a common name even here. Especially not among
people my own age or younger. And I've heard just about any
possible way to pronounce it, that I can think of.
---
I think somebody tried to figure out the average age of
people here at the TT. To my surprise it was 37 or
something. This was some months ago and people come and go
all the time.
---
Isis and Green seem to be busy.
Bye for now!
never been there, but your name reminds me on this woman in
the old german tale of Siegfried,the guy who fights the
dragon and whipes its blood all over himselfe to make
himselfe unvulnerable - you know that one? Used to read it
when I was little, and it left the deepest impression!
/
Steven, I did read 'men are from mars...' a few years ago,
and I guess you are right, it comes through in my list. But
the list is still mainly an accumulation of my own
needyness in this area. :) Reading 'Spermwars' now, which
is simularly interesting even though it's very different.
/
I think she's got some out of it - just talking about it
and being taken seriously can help so much. Gets it out of
your system, as you say.
/
Hey, I'd really miss this thread if it would get taken off,
so let's keep on talking! :) :)
hi there isis, steven and gunilla, hah about time you joined us,
haven't had time to write in detail, hopefully will find time tomorrow
isis. i've read sperm wars,the one i read was about all the
different things sperm do to get to the egg,it had lots of
different setings and questions,like if one women had sex
with three people whos sperm would have the best sucess to
reach the egg,read it a few years ago now.
green seems to be very busy,lots of people all over the tt
are trying to say hi to her,it's the price of popularity.
gunilla,sweden ,don't know much about it,just generaly where
it is and that sterotype of the blues and blonde hair thing,
hope everyone has a good weekend BYE
????!
.
i was talking to some young people that i know(young people
sounds strange but they are 15-17 so they are young) on
wedensday when a couple of their friends came up to them.
a young couple holding hands,i'd never seen them before,said
hello talked a while,said goodbye then left.
saw one of the young ones last night and she told me that
her friend the girl that came up the other day had found out
that her boyfriend had been seeing someone else.
so she went out that night and killed herself.
such a stupid a thing to do,such a waist of a life,every one
is very shocked/surprized.
it's a strange feeling i didn't know her but i still feel
a loss,it's like i can see what could have been,she was
young ,full of life,could have done any thing with her
life but choose not to,it makes you wonder about life,why
some things happen why others don't,how the life we have
could be changed in a minute,why we should value the time we
have and live life to the full because we never know when it
might end
.
we have the second highest youth sucide rate in the world
after finland i think,no one seems to know what to do about
it ,can't even say suicide on tv or radio because of the
people that copycat.
.
...hope you are all well and that your weekends are going
well i'm going out tonight to celabrate life, there's a
short film festervile on so it'll be a night of strange,wild
fun BYE.
been trying to think of something suitable to say but dash it, the words don't come
i'm sorry that such a terrible thing had to happen
hope the film festival was wild :)
i know ,when things like that happen it's hard to put in
words what's going through your mind,didn't know if i should
put it up here,didn't want to bring any one down,but it was
on my mind when i came here.
.
the films were great,they were student films from the film
school so there were lots of mistakes,bad lighting,terrible
acting,not alot of plot,but very funny.
BYE
I was only going to be away for a night - turned out to be
four days. In other words a great weekend!!!
/
steven, this is so hard to swallow, even if I never knew
this girl. Death always touches me a lot, even though I
believe in reincarnation and stuff. I don't know what it
is, probably the suddenness and the fact that it's
irreversible. And like you say a terrible waste of
opportunity. Hope her boyfriend gets some support. He has
to live with this now!
Glad you posted this.
/
I'm busy getting ready for my new life on the road, 2 weeks
and one day to go and so much more to do....
/
See ya
Steven, I just read your story. Must be terrible for
everyone; her family, her boyfriend, her friends... it never
affects just that one person. I've never experienced this
myself and I can't even imagine how I'd feel about it if
someone close to me would choose to take his/her own life.
This has made me think. I mean, it's hard enough when
somebody dies of old age, accidents or disease.
---
Isis, where are you going?
---
Talk to you later! Bye
two week will wizz bye, i hope you have it all planed
out,but remeber things never go as you plan so try to stay
carm.BYE
so you can't use the computer?!? Do you divorse him, get
someone to come round, don't talk to him again, or like in
my case use someone elses computer? Tough one.
/
gunilla, I'm going to Spain for the winter in an old bus
which we've done up. Enough of cold english winters.
/
steven, I'm not planning much at all. There are a few
comunities on the way which I'd like to visit - I'm also
living in one now. But part from that I feel open for
anything and everything. Treating it as an adventure.
/
Later
make your own password,steal his, or hipnotize him and make
him tell you his one,
make lots of friends who just happen to have computers and
then you can go and see them,
going around in a old bus sounds fun,lots of stops,cruiseing
around in the sun.
...........BYE.........
so the world is okay again - sounding like an addict!
/
We've had some very expensive soundequipment stolen last
night. I'm quite untouched by the loss, but it's so
upsetting for me that I have to protect my property against
other humans just because they are lacking respect and
morals. I just don't get it how somebody can justify going
round someone elses house to take their belongings. In my
world everybody would understand the laws of karma and
locks and keys would be non existent. Only dreaming....
Best thing is not to own anything of value, I guess. Or at
least nothing I couldn't let go of very easily.
/
later
it's one i've always had trouble with,do we in reality own
anything out side of our selves,been lucky only had a couple
of things stolen over the years,at times it seems that
objects own us,take the bus your are traveling in,you will
have to feed it,water it,if it gets sick you will need to
see someone to make it better,you will spend a lot of time
being controled by the bus,who is controling who,the more
objects we have around the more control they have over you.
if you have a house,garden,car,children,pets most of your
time will be spent in getting money to look after them,your
free time will be spent,fixing the house,mowing the lawn,
i've always tryed to keep my life as simple as i can because
i have a habbit of collecting things,so over the years you
get a lot of stuff that you don't need but you can't throw
away that just sits around gathering dust,
i think it the invasion of personal space that the worst,we
all build alittle space of our own,it's the brakeing of
invisable walls thats hard to take.
.
thunder storm going on outside,had two in three days,i realy
like the lightning, BYE
this thing about owning stuff or being owned by it is very
true. We all need things to live in a certain comfort, but
we should never allow these possessions to rule our lifes.
As soon as they turn into serious restrictions there is
something wrong. I believe it doesn't matter how much one
owns as long as you stay detached from it - same for people
in a way, but even more difficult. Detachment means being
able to easily let go of it again, so you keep your
independence. But I don't think it's right - not for me
anyway - to not own anything just because it might restrict
you in some absolute freedom, which doesn't exist really.
I'm not very materialistic, therefore emotional loss is far
more scary and touching than loss of valuables.
/
Thunderstorms....I love them too! ~~~~ #**@$&*#!!!
:)
also it how you see the world,you said in an earlyer post
that you believe in reincarnation,i don't i see who we are
as a set of things,when and in what time we were born,what
family like was like,how the biology of your body is set up,
so i think who we are is to some extent predeturmed by life
befor we have anysay,what and who we think we are is riged,i
like the phrase"ghost in the machine" or in computer talk
personality is software.when we die the set of things is
gone so the energy/sprit of life that goes on canot be who
you are
that said.
the values you put on things verse people/relationships i
see as not an expresion of will but apart of how you see the
world and our part in it .why are we here,to get and make
things or to met and express emotions.
.
i need a rest now,BYE
what is our roll in the universe,why are we here,we are here
to experance,to see and live life,what does that meen.if you
get a paint set,you can draw and paint what ever you want
but you can make a painting with no point or you can express
your self but it is still just a painting, life is still
just a life does it have a point,is it what you do with it,i
like the picture of life as the three women makeing a
tapistry,each life is a threed,some are long some are short
but all are needed to make the whole,we can't see the big
picture so we are condemed never to know why,but it's still
fun trying to find out.
......BYE.....
i don't believe the information we get through our sences is
true,it's like we are being feed information and only being
told a little bit,the world and universe is so much bigger
than us how can we hope to know or understand it,we are like
goldfish in a tank,we can see out but what we see is not
part of our world,the materal world is a strange place for
souls to live.
????
did I say I like thunderstorms? Wrote a long response to
your post this morning and a powercut whiped it all before
I could post it. Was an amazing storm,though! Lots of
lightening and even hail.
So, the meaning of life in a few words - easy:)
Agree that we can't understand what's really going on. We
can have a good guess and form our own picture, but it's
always gonna be blured.
My pic is, that we are born into circumstances which give
us the best opportunity to grow individually. Evolution and
growth being the purpose of it all. It's like this planet
is a playground for souls to experience, develope, learn,
integrate and therefore grow closer to our destination
which is to become superhuman - budda - jesus christ....
Difficulties are there to make us stronger and remind us
that all we will ever own is inside of us, not even our own
body, only what's beyond that.
Well, that's a longterm aim, though, and I'm telling
myselfe that there is no point in aiming too high, so I'm
taking it slowly. Wouldn't want to step out of this cycle
yet. Having to much fun living, making mistakes and
following the needs and desires of the phisical world. :)
/
Late, better go and get some sleep now.
sorry,can't agree with that we are growing towards being
super human or even to be better/good,i agree we grow and
learn ,that this is a playground for the soul but i don't
know if it has a point that we can understand.we collect
experances we make and change the world while we are
here.but when we die what happens to the memories,the things
only we know,is this world like a play with some thing
watching /collecting/ recording what we are doing,if we live
in multi-universe that repeats do we play out all the
different combernations,do we do all the things we wish we
had of in this life,and if we do what good is that if we
cannot remeber from life to life.
.
you will be off on your trip soon so you might be busy over
the next few days so i'll just say now thanks for talking
back it's been fun,good luck and happy traveling,
:) BYE
For heavens sake you two, exchange hotmail addreses before
Isis leaves!
You can't let this die.
:) :) :) this is sweet. Thanx for advice!! Hope it won't
get swamped with crap now.
/
On the subject: if we would remember from live to live we
would be carrying an unbearable burden with us, so all that
stays is experience, understanding, wisdom. Memories
themselves are not important, they only hold back from
having a new start.
/
steven, I can count the days now - exactly 10 left - ahhh
feels so good! And believe it, it will be full moon the
night I'll spend on the ferry!! O
I'll still drop in here untill I leave and after that I'll
use internet cafe's to check on my mail and stuff -
couldn't bear to give up computers all together! So I'll
see you around.
Later
hi there isis, steven, gunilla are you still there and equus, sure i never heard of you before :)
~~
great takeoff to the discussion, or should i say detached philosophising,
i am, funnily enough, preoccupied with detachment these days, it just is much more easier to say than do though :)
~~
it is only when one is detached and therefore not inextricably interwoven with what one's life touches that one can see 'the whole picture' or at least more clearly and with a heightened perception the things around us and where we ultimately are going.
do you believe reaching that phase can be stiven for without having travelled the hedonistic path ? or do you believe that one should practice something or partake of something in excess so that one can rise above it and move on to another stage?
but they are all probably just different ways of getting to the same place.
~~
umm am i making any sense here?
~~
steven about chch, my mother was born there, so perhaps we are related heehee. i lived there some months when i was little. it sounds a great place.
why do you think nz has a high rate of suicides, i read somewhere that australia did too, is it because it is a little country with not much of a global identity or is it because of the weather or some dark gothic depression that seems to be reflected in the films, ( vincent price, extreme measures even the piano)
~~
isis, suffolk eh? well are you happy to be leaving it then?. i'll say good trip now too, in case i can't get in later or you are too busy. where in the middle east are you going.good luck packing :)
hedonistic path is the way to go,what i meen by that is,when
we think about ideas we make false models in our heads so we
need to be grounded,when we live in the body not for the
body there is a difference.you can go out and get drunk
or get a nice drink that you like,take time to smell the
sent,get the flavour,have fun with the way it makes you
feel,or just drink lots get drunk and vomit.
you are in a body so it makes sence to experance what you
can with out going to extrems.
have read a few books on the aseticss in india,i think they
missed the point of life,they consentrat on one thing above
all else they miss so much.
heightened perception,had trouble with this one,it's so easy
to fool the brain it's hard to make a differance between
what we see outside of us or whats going on inside,we
project what we are feeling out on to the world then say
it's the world doing it to us.
.
suicide;i think it's because nz is so easy to live in,no
danger from animals,no countrys next door to bomb or
invade,no real experance of death for young people so they
dont have to fight for life,they dont understand how hard it
is in the rest of the world just to live,don't know how good
they have it.
ps the movie thing,movies made in nz seem to have a very
dark themes the darkist one i like is,vincent wards,vidual
,it very dark and depressing
BYE
10 days the countdown has begun.
got it wrong!!!!8 days to go.
.
NOT ANOTHER FULL MOON,just getting over the last one,BYE
:):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)
!!!!8 days to go .
.
not another full moon,just geting over the last!!!
:):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):))):)):):)
about that,when i sent the first one it said that there was
a fault but it seems to have gotten through ok,it's bad when
you type out a real big answer then when you go to send it
something happens and it will not send .
AINT BEEN HERE BEFORE BUT AM NOW ..... HI SWEETS
WHAT IS ISIS ... I THINK IT SHOULD BE ISNTISNT HAHAHAHAHAHA
OR IS IT I SIS ??? A SIS IS A BIG SORE THAT IS READY TO POP
HAHAHAHAHAHA SO BYE BYE - AINTAINT HAHAHAHA
TALK TO YOU SWEETS LATER
CHEERS
TIME THE COW JUMPS OVER IT HAHAHAHAHA ISIS MUST BE THE COW
THAT NEEDS TO HAVE THE TEATS PULLED ON ALOT .... REALLY MILK
THOSE BIG SAGGY TEATS HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
BEND OVER ISIS AN LET EM HANG ..... I WILL MILK EM ALOT FOR
YA ..... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
KISS KISS KISS SWEETS ...... OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH BIG NIPS HAHAHA
FOR THE BIG ONE
to all,nothing to say.
.
good to see the crazy people have computers to ;) i thought
someone had had a big conversation but it was only artur
just popping in between work
~~
halo there isis, steven and ARTUR, still doing your primal scream thing?
~~
steven: umm i was actually suggesting that senses and sense-related pleasures are just temporal and transient therefore not 'real' we live in a body that should be controlled by the mind not the other way around. the hard part is to control the mind
~~
vincent ward that's the name, sorry, made error above
~~
isis, hope the sun's come out. i'd hate to live somewhere where it rained all the time. and some day i hope to see london. hope you can drop in here from time to time on your travels but i guess once one is actually doing something the internet pales in significance eh?
~~
hey ya'll two do you work?
i don't agree with this mind body split,it's one and has to
be treated as one,it's more to do with who or what you thimk
you are,if what we feel and see is not real are we real,we
are only temperary so do we exist,how real is a thought.
the mind does not control the mind,it is controled by
automatic biological functions plus the power of the
will,but what that is and where it comes from i don't know.
.
i see it as one thing.when you need food,is it your body
telling your brain to get food oryour brain telling your
body,it's both....why should the mind control the body,if
you do whatyour brain tells you to,and don't listern to what
your body is saying trouble comes,
just thinking who is writing this is it my finger,my brain,
or me,what is personality,what makes us who we are,do we
have minds of our own,i know some of the time i don't,lots
of things i do are automatic
so in the end what do we realy control,if what we sence
isn't real,ifwe are only here for a short time,and we just
do as we are told with no thought.controled by
biology,controled by social regulation.whats the point?
...is freedom only a state of mind...
.
:) BYE
tryed to send a e-note hope it got there,happy traveling:)
computer has got packed away now, sniff :( ... but believe
me, there is life beyond computers! ;)
***
3 days to go
Still so much to do
***
Very strange to give up 'home', to not have an address
anymore or phonenumber, to be a nomad. Feels like I'm
pulling up my roots without replanting them anywhere else.
Maybe us humans are not meant to have roots...?!
***
steve, :) :) :) thanx. That's just how I see the future!
hi there isis steven,.. hmm am i interupting anything? :)
steven i guess i'll need more time and reasoning before i can launch my second mind control missive
once again isis, happy travelling :)
you are not interupting anything,i have just found a place
where i can send postcards from,i sent a happy traveling one
to isis and a travel one to you,did you get it.the computer
i'm useing has got blocks on it so it's not ment to send
e-mail or posts but some seem to work,for some reason it
lets me send things here,havent worked out why yet,but i'm
not complaning:):):):)see ya
you sent me a card, wow,
unfortunately :( i didn't get it
those blocks on you computer obviously work well, shh! don't
let them find out about tt
was so great talking to you guys! Will miss you, but not
too much ;)
Have fun, keep on chatting
See ya
Isis
oh well i'll try again,hope it works this time.
.
:( no more isis,
.
where's artur gone
.
is it just you and me green ?
bye isis, again, hope you catch this, and have wonderful
times
i don't know steven. gunilla, equus are you lurking? please
make presence felt. as for artur, he/she is artur.
gee thanks :)
sorry for over doing it,but it's hard to tell if
it's,gone,the computer says it's timed out,not that it's
been sent,good to know it works though.
.
and as for your posts #85,104#,mind controling the
body,it's very close to what i used to think but over the
last few years i've changed my mind.at the moment i'm
lookinging for wholeness ,the liveing in balance of mind
body spirit,
.
looks like it's just us at the momment
thanx steven i did some great travelling (are they pics of
nz?)
~
i'm off for a couple of days by which time i hope to
marshall some coherent thoughts on the subjectof mind and
body. :)
ta
i think they are,the dolphin one is from a place i passed
through about four weeks ago,haven't been there in
years,it's very nice,
there was a program on tv about the roads in india,it looked
very crazy,see you in a few days:):):)
hi steven
back again,
i guess india would look crazy especially if you looked at
the roads. what on earth was that programme?
it was ,jeramy clarksons motoring world.they showed some one
takeing a driveing test and all they did was drive in a
straight line for afew hundred feet and that was it
,everyone was driveing fast and crazy,is it like that all
over or just it the citys,he also drove around in a three
wheel taxi everyone tryed to run him off the road.do you
drive and how safe is it.:)
Howdy...Sicned this is a Lonely Planet thing...Does anyone
know the Lonely Planet song? I've tried Email - nada.
Thanx.
ooo do you watch jeremy clarkson then? you a motoring fan?
well they actually do have more than driving in a straight
line for a driving test, i believe they have to turn and
stuff like that, mostly though they just bribe the guy and
get a driving license :) alas, no i do not drive, but have
been thinking of learning. i don't have a car so there's not
much point unless i plan to get one.
i used to ride a two-wheeler, where i stay it is overrun by
two-wheelers but haven't for the last few years and now i
find the traffic situation too bizarre to feel like doing
it.
hmm i guess it's not safe at all, there are a lot of
accidents and hardly any rules
~~
Specboy, i'm afraid i do not know anything about a Lonely
Planet song. perhaps it's eleanor rigby?
i'm not a big motoring fan but i think hes very funny,by two
wheeler do you mean motorbike,i had a couple of bikes but
gave it up after a car pulled out in frount of me and we had
a crash broke a couple of ribs,
what is specboy talking about,when he says "tryed email"
does he meen emailing lonely planet and does he meen the
song to the tv show.
ps i think it's hay jude
you mean they play hey jude on the lonely planet show? no!!
well a two-wheeler could be a scooter or a motorbike or even
an ungeared two-wheeler you know, like you have in italy hee
hee.
i wonder where isis is now and if she's planning on checking
in from time to time.
why don't you pop in on the thread downstairs where we chat
sporadically, (always provided you can get in) i think you
know some of the people there from the anatomy thread if i'm
not mistaken
my philosophical pursuits (if such naive ravings can be
called that)have now taken a new tack, i find myself
increasingly taken up with the readings of carl jung)
hes an interresting man but i like the writings of his
daughter better ,more elemental,i'l try to find the posts
you speak of ,you say down, which way is that ,not many
below this one we are just about on the bottom.
hi steven, we've just shifted office so things are a bit
shaken up,
glad you made it downstairs although it is rather a long
way to go.
jung's daughter? oh oh, i think i'll first finish reading
some jung first i don't want to be too confused
so what's the weather like in nz now, is it getting warmer?
i'm a bit hazy on my geography i'm afraid. out here we're
heading for 'winter' and i'm feeling cold, the minimum
temperature is about 14 degrees centigrade!
okay don't laugh like that
it's 20 degrees outside and geting hotter i hope your winter
not to bad.
why are all the interesting posts onthe ones that take ages
to load
hi. steven said i could come visit here, i hope it's o.k.
i am in america and am most fascinated with "foreign
countries" and who lives there. we americans are quite
full of ourselves aren't we. i'm "foreign" to both of you,
too. When will isis be back? she is great. i only have 1
hand to type with since i am holding my new son. sorry
about the lack of capititalization. i am glad others pay
attention to the moon phazes also. hope to talk to you
interestingt people real soon. later;)
ps-i am 32 so that should meet your requirements
albert--don't be sad, i care about you. remember--people
will TELL you who they are, but you should believe who they
SHOW you they are.;););)
i think isis is going to be gone for a while ,lots of
traveling to do,and your 32 well thats about right for this
topic,see Ya,ps i never use capitals because i'm a hopeless
typer.:)
I tell everybody that I'm 27. The secret is that I started
backing up a couple of years ago. I always tell people the
truth anyway. I should be proud of my age and the things I
have accomplished but it is such a youth oriented society
it is easy to get caught up in it. You are NOT hopeless,
just inexperienced. Typing is not counted among your many
skills. Is she going just around Europe or does she have to
fly somewhere on her big trip? I hate flying. I would much
rather take a boat or a car or best yet; a train.
Be good and be safe angel face ;)
well hello there,
hi jujubee you a friend of steven's?
hey steven whatever happened to your other friend
babydollface (i'm sorry but i don't quite remember the full
name :) )
Yes, I am a friend of steven's. We met on another message
board and he advised me of these whereabouts. He also said
I could come visit. I have really enjoied all of the posts.
Gets a bit melancholy at times but mostly interesting.
I guess there is a reason it's called "lonely planet".
Even though threre are literally billions of neighbors, we
really are just alone here. It is nice to be able to talk
to others without the visual ridicule you can sometimes see.
ANYWAY-- Hi to you green. Swell name. Where does it come
from? Your favorite color? Or were your parents just
creative? My real name is so very boring anything else is
neat to me.
Later steven;)
thats a name from the past,she was the first person to
answer back to anything i written,it turned out that she was
a 16 year old,liveing in a family home,thats a house for
,run aways,kids that are trouble, we stoped talking because
she was kicked out and away from the computer there havent
seen or heard from her since.
from what i can remember isis is going to spain on a bus
the computer is packed so i guess it will not be taken out
till she gets settled.
some of the post are a bit down because we all can't be
happy all the time and what you are feeling comes out in
what you write.
will green say once again where green is from(go on)i know
you said you wouldn't,but thats the price of being popular.
take care all,see ya :)
I must have missed where she said where her name came from.
That's o.k. Green-- I'll make up my own story. I'll go
ahead and believe something about lime kool-aid or pond
algee. HAHA. That is a very funny story I just made up in
my head.
Steven--I was reading some of the other post topics and
found 2 that interested me. #185 American bashers or Why we
hate Americans 101. It might have hurt my feelings if I
were not such a strong hearted girl. There seems to be
quite alot of hatred going around. That's sad because we
all are probably very much the same outside of cultural
differences. Don't you think? O.K. enough.
#196 Hair and Social acceptance. VERY funny. I was quite
amused at the wide variety of opinions. My husband kept
asking what was so funny.
Sugarbabydollrose, huh? Too bad you lost her.
Also, sorry about the stupid questions but I won't know
unless I ask. Right? Ask me some stupid questions about
America. I promise I won't roll my eyes.;)
take a look at #43 morning by green .
see yya have n't got any silly question at the moment i'll
give it a think.:):):):):):):):)
Thanks Steven. I looked-my story was funnier.
We are looking forward to the big Thanksgiving holiday
here. You don't have that. I am used to cooking for 15-20
people but this year 2 of our children are elsewhere. And
our other regulars are with their respective in-laws so it
will just be Steve, me, Hannah(11), Twyla(3), and
George(6mos). If you had Thanksgiving, what would you be
most thankful for and who would you want there?
I am most thankful that my children are healthy (we lost a
son-Sam-to cancer 3 1/2 years ago) and I have you to talk
to. I wish we were having a big guest list-alot of work,
but also alot of fun. Talk to you on Monday. Or is it
Tuesday?;)
i thought thanks giving was 4 th july or is the intependance
day,is thanks giving,like christmas or do you have christmas
as well.
christmas is big hassle with out haveing another holiday so
close.
i have been thinking a bout wyhy there is a lot of fighting
on here,no easy answers,i think it just what happens when
you get a group of people who can say what thy like with out
the control of being there,americans make an easy
target,it's not the people is's the actions the goverment
has taken over things.
eg when the french secretly bombed the rainbow warror the
americans new but did not tell our govenment,lots of people
were annoyed but the people and workers on the operation
deep freeze,the us operation from here to the anartic,were
not held personal responable,it was the government that got
the blame but because they were the face of america
here,they would have felt the anger.
and as people on the tt show how they feel about some of
the actions taken by america they take it out on people who
are not to blame,so are confused as to were all this anger
is coming from.
sorry just me geting carryed away again,happy thanks giving
eat and drink to much,take care of the kids butdo not give
them to much sugar SEE YA :):):)
Yes, July 4 is our independance day. We also have
Christmas--This is called the "holiday season." These 2
huge holdays are 1 month apart, so it is a busy time of
year.
I don't remember what is the rainbow warrior? When did this
happen? Was it a ship? Why would the French of all people
want to hurt any N.Z.'s? I know they are rude, but really
this stretches even their rudeness boundries.
My husband is quite a bit older than I and we argue
frequently about the difference between people and the
gov't of those people. Specifically the Vietnamese. I was
alive during the war but was too young to really know what
was going on. My brother was drafted and had to go fight is
really all I remember about it. Steve had many friends that
were killed and others that came back with horrible stories
of what happened there. He now has a great dislike for
Vietnamese and is gradually carrying ove into other asians
as well. I don't understand it. How can anyone hate a whole
race of people because of the actions of a few? Or because
of their skin color? I will never understand racism.
Again a long post-sorry.
Thanksgiving is not until Thursday. Then we eat turkey,
stuffing, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. It's the law.
HaHaHaHa not really. later;););)
ps I am having a fight with some jerk named Jeb-do you know
him? :):):)
Thank you so much for the message on my board.
I was glad to hear from you. I was also glad to hear you
weren't alge. HaHa. You haven't posted here in a while and
I thought You were upset that I had invaded your space.
Leave me a msg. on my board any time I will be happy to
write back.:)
green pops back once in a while,she very popular so is tied
up all over the place.
the rainbow warror was the first ship in the greenpease
fleet ,it was about 10 years ago when the french were
testing nukes in the pacific,they were going to go out to
protest but the french sent a group of comamdos to blow it
up .one person was killed,two of the people were
caught,because they stoped off for a bit of sight seeing on
the way home!it was a big deal down here.
.
did you know that christchurch was the base of the american
operation for the south pole,lots of big planes and people
come through.
.
don't know jeb,where is it,get him good don't stand for any
nonsence.
.
i worked with someone who was in the big V he didn't like
any one,didn't like asians or americans,
.
see ya :)
really tired today for some reason. Luckily Hannah is home
from school this week for Thanksgiving and she can help
with Twyla. I just don't feel good. Maybe I am depressed
about something. I don't know.
Fulvia made a guess about what you look like over on
another page. She said you were probably tall and skinny
with long red hair. I think she is right. Is she? You never
talk about what you do for a job or your family so, who
knows? I have fun guessing about the faces of posters.
going to bed now.see you tomorrow.:):):);)
people talking behind my back,that is so flattering,it's
usually hard enough to get people to respond to what i have
written and fulvia got two out of three right!
I read yout post on that topic. Guess what? We are BOTH
being talked about on the BIO-board. Our conversation is
being monitered by a few people. We were complimented. Go
check it out--Life in the 50's-- read under Big Bubba to
Jane then Jane to Camey--I think. Anyway, we are mentioned
under that topic. I am pretty excited, too. Nobody else
pays any attention to me. Cool.
Tomorrow is the big day. As it turns out, one of the guys
that works for my Steve has no family to go to so...he is
coming to eat at our house. I'm glad to have the company.
The pies are in the oven, and I am starting to get hungry.
If you get hungry, Come on over, we have plenty. ;)
a look at(i'll always remember)it's at about 130!
hi you two,
steve, popular moi? LOL!!
jjb: hi, so ya'll are being monitored now? this i've got to
see:) happy thanksgiving, it is today i think?
i couldn't get in yesterday, seems like this thread is
getting long
plus i have a bit of extra work these days :(
cu
have been moved second to the bottom,will we make the 200
post i've found one in the oz section thats 700,see you soon
Yeah, they got rid of Fundamentals and Quagmires! Are we
next??? Scary. Do they only go to 200?
Thank you green. Yes, this was the day. We ate alot and
were thankful for our many blessngs. Especially our new
baby boy. He is helping me type this. Hi from George.
Steven--what does 130 mean? The #reply in this thread?
HELP! You are so complicated.~~~
lata gata:):);)
I got myself one of those hotmail jobs. Is this cool or
stupid? Anyway, you can e-mail me at remytate@hotmail.com.
Someone stole my name jujubee! Shocking. Steven you need
this so the ones on bio won't sneak and read. You can have
it even if you don't have a computer. It's FREE!!!! I am
quite sure I will never recieve any mail but it is one more
address to check every day.see ya tomorrow;)
was at 130 but now is at about 200?
so many posts cant read them all so am skiping most if you
find any that are good just say the name and title and where
they are roughly,
hope everyone ones weekend was ok mine was boring but i;m
back on line for another while, i'l try your new e-mail see
ya
sorry it's at 304
What is sarky? I thought this was supposed to be english.
i think it's short for sarcasm,pointed wit have you been
rude to someone.haven't seen greens name any where else for
a while,must be to busy to get a look in,what do you do for
hotmail,sounds fun.
green,hope you take a break and see us soon
I read it on another post--not to me. I was being nosey-
it's fun.
I saw green post a reply to brent when his gramma
died.posted today.
Go to www.hotmail.com and sign up. You need a login name
(remytate for me--jujubee was taken) and a password. You
pick it. They also want a question to be answered in case
you forget your password. I used the new babies name for my
password. If you remember it you can go look at your
picture.:) I saw a cute new sign:-D not quite as cute as my
wink, though ;) C U SOON ;)
I almost forgot... read #'s 65 and 146.
Funny names and sperm theft. Hilarious.
Look at the purple e-mail address! that is so cool.
Does it show up in purple on your computer?
Later sweets ;)
halo there steven and jjb,
steven you mean you don't have an e-mail address? i thought
all this time that your computer was work owned so you
couldn't get one
jjb, i haven't managed to get back to your page yet, this
week has been horrid workwise
this thread doesn't help matters by being so long
see ya'll,
halo there steven and jjb,
steven you mean you don't have an e-mail address? i thought
all this time that your computer was work owned so you
couldn't get one
jjb, i haven't managed to get back to your page yet, this
week has been horrid workwise
this thread doesn't help matters by being so long
see ya'll,
i see that theres 400 topics up now i stoped reading them it
took to long,this ones geting long to but i keep waiting for
isis to pop in,and say how surprized she is that we are
still here.
not alot to say to day so bye for now.
ps i think i will get email but it means i will only be able
to check it about twice a week and ti will take up more time
i spent three hours the other day and i could have spent
longer,i need to get a life.see ya
just to get here because I have so many stops along the
way. I haven't checked my new e-mail yet today. I will go
do that. I wonder if we should start a new thread with
ISIS as the title? I have been reading the hostel thread
and also the one about squat toilets. they are riotiously
funny. I woke the baby laughing. CUSOON;)
i went out to get a e-mial adrress this morning,i thought it
would be easy,but it 's not a good day for me so far.
it would notlet me use the name i wanted or the pass
word,and it wanted a zip code and state ,spent 1/2 hour
mucking around till i got sick of it,but i'll try again to
morrow.hope your days are going better.:(
I told you we were going to go look at houses today. What a
day! I can't believe how sick I am of looking already. We
went to 11 different houses. I liked 2 of them. My steve
liked 2 also. not the same 2. Also the $$$$ are huge!
One I liked $160,000.00. How much is that in N.Z. $?
Do you guys have pounds? I don't have that sign on my
keyboard. It is alot here. Well, alot for poor people like
us, anyway. I talked to my Mom on the phone today for 3
hours. AGH, the bill. I don't want to see it. I have
decided to only read the posts that are posted each day(the
new ones)instead of going through and reading my favorites.
Well, off to bed. It is 4:45am. Me sleepy.
tomorrow hon;)
the exchange rate is 52 cents so for every american dollar
you would get two nz dollars.a three bed room house in a
nice place is a bout 150,000.oo so it would only cost you
75,oo0.oo.a 600ml bottle of milk is 85 cents,petrol is 85
cents a letre,a big mac is 2;50,movies are$9.00,inter net is
$45.00 a mounth unlimited time,a good car is $3.000,apples
are 95 cents a killagram,.
today it only took five minutes to get the address,simple
and easy strange how some days it hard and others it's so
easy.
That seems like a pretty good deal to me, for the most part.
The movies and internet are pretty expensive though. We pay
$20.00 a month for unlimited use with free webpage. Movies
here are about $2.00 cheaper than there. Cars are cheap,
huh? Are average incomes lower, too? Then that would be the
same cost of living. I don't think I am making sense. I
know what I mean. If I make $150,000.00 a year here, It
would be 75,000.00 there. Or do I have it backwards?
aaaahhhhggggg!!!!
Full moon was tonight so I had alot to do today. Do you
have a Moon Ritual? We do. Small ceremony with blessings
each Moon.
Glad you got E-mail :-) I'll send you some. Got to go.
Have a good day today. :-) Wait, is it your weekend yet?
Well, Have a good weekend. be safe. You know how I get.
:):):) ;)
the cost of living is what things cost compared to wages,the
average wage here is five hundred a week,some parts of the
country cost more to live in than others,chch is about in
the middle.
a few years ago i made a new years resalution to see the sun
rise and set each day and when it was the full moon to watch
it cross the sky from moon rise to moon set,didn't stick to
it for long but i like to try to see the moon rise when it's
full,it rises over the sea and it is so big.
.
i was busy yesterday and for the past few day been a little
fuzzy and to night i have a fence painting party to go to,a
big fire and everyone brings a long a spray can or paint and
brushes and over the night you paint the fence with what
ever you like,
yep it 's the weekend so see you monday
.
ps green i will find out what the $ exchange rate is for
india is it still the rupee what is it compared to the usa
,see ya all:)
That party sounds great. Is it something like graffiti?
Or does the fence belong to the party giver? wow. Sometimes
I wish I had stayed single. I never get to do that type of
stuff. Probably good that I don't, I would get into
trouble;;;;;;;)
what a day
last night i got a phone call from a friend who lives in
england they say they were in town for a week .haven't seen
them in so long,5 years but we write,made plans to see them
next week but they said they were going to the market to day
so i just happened to be there and bump into them,her and
her new boyfriend and her mother,wow i got to see her for 10
minutes we talked it was a bit like old times,then as i
turned around who did i see but another old girlfriend who i
haven't see in ten years stoped and talked to her for 1/2
hour but left with out saying what was on my mind,i could
see from the way she was acting that all it would have taken
was for me to say,hay can i give you a ring next week we
could go out for a drink,she would have said yes and i would
have fallen in love with her all over again.so now my head
is buzzing.
how can people who you haven't seen in so long still have so
much power over you,even now i am still thinking about just
ringing her up.
please tell me i am crazy and not to do it.
have either of you to been in the same place,is it looking
back to (the good old days)withrose glasses on.
ps didn't go to the party i was buzzing to much from the
phone call.it was some ones side fence.a two story house
has been built on oneside which looks into the back yard so
to wellcome them to the street and to give them something to
look at the fence was painted and party was had.
see ya
You are crazy. Don't do it. Happy now? I didn't think so.
Do you love her???? Why didn't you stay with her? try to
remember. Was it a horrible pairing up, or was it just bad
timing? Think about it. If you love her, CALL HER!!!
Yes, this has happened to me. If I had called, Who knows???
I am very happy now, but nobody knows what might have been.
Think about it very hard and give yourself some time. maybe
she will call you.:-) happy thought. Don't let your heart
hurt. Mine aches for you right now. I can feel your anxiety.
As always, you are in my thoughts. talk (for real) to you
tomorrow, sweetie. ;)
Did you call her? did she call you??? are you thinking
about it???? good. i think you should. I bet she is scared
to call you, too. scared meaning hesitant, cautious,
nervous.
looking for you in the room. talking to you tommorrow.
:) ;)
hi to everybody. nobody is listening. that's o.k. i'm not
saying anything. bye
hi to everybody. nobody is listening. that's o.k. i'm not
saying anything. bye
This is funny. I was reading something from Blisterbug
wanting to know more about Jujubee. I remembered how I
argued with you about something a few weeks ago so I came
here and saw that the argument was mentioned in #129. I'm
currently arguing with Ingo (wacko animal rights activist).
She/he is so irrational. She/he calmly informs me that I
should die - how do you argue with that ? Anyway, no hard
feelings about argument #129.
wheres ingo,they ran out of a thing half way through a
argument,where are they now.
.
juju,she cant call me,so it't up to me to call or right,it
was ten years ago so we will now be differant people,i know
i am.don't think i will,to busy at the moment.
It's something about some guy Barry Horne (sp?) who's on a
hunger strike about animal rights. It got onto animal
rights etc. Ingo has an XTREME view to say the least - I
lost interest.
How are you? No hard feelings. Life is WAY too short for
that. Why does she(i'm sure)want you to die? Animal rights?
Ha. You are an animal too and you have the right to live
also. I'll go read that and back you up. As for
Blisterbug...he is a big sillyhead.
Steven, did you get the e-mail from green? I did not get an
address to reply to. I hope she doesn't think she is being
ignored. GREEN: you are not being ignored.
Looking for Barry Horne(sp)
C U Lata Gatas ;)
see you all with ingo,last time they ran out it the middle
of a good fight,
juju who's barry horne????
he is the hunger striker.
Jeb...did you cut out of there? ingo is almost too stupid
to be given a reply. I hope your diabetes is under control.
that sick freak to say such a thing. I don't agree with
frivolous testing either, but medical testing is another
thing altogether. My son died of cancer almost 4 years ago
after long-term chemo and radiation therapies that would
not have been possible without medical testing. I hope
nothing horrible ever happens to him-he might have to
compromise those lofty morals. I don't want to post to him
because this is too important to be handled in such a
flippant manner. Human life is infinately more important
than animal life.
Enough of that!!! Hey, it seems as if I have an admirer!:-0
I know. Can you believe it? me? Some guy named blisterbug.
I am flirting back.
steven--having fun with your friend? I am spending the
weekend shopping for houses again. At this rate we'll never
find one. Also, Christmas is coming--must shop for that,
too. What are the two of you getting for everyone? What do
you want to get? I want a new house. That'll be the day.
bye for now. Have a great weekend and i'll see you on
Sunday/Monday. ;)
ps--ingo is a guy.
sounds fun,happyweekend all,see ya
gone wrong here some of the topics have gone,and when you
look for them under the search,you can find them but if you
look inside it says it's something else i hope this one is
safe,had a great weekend,see you all soon
what you mean, i have lost some, too. if we lose this one,
we'll have to start a new one for isis to come home to.;)
Look how many posts were deleted today. Some that I have
been following fairly closely. Too bad. If I could think of
something clever to say, I would post a new topic. Let's
think of something. We'll talk about it on Thurs/Fri. Bye;)
a new name,what could it be,i'll think about it,i she you
are being talked about again,you are even on some peoples
list s of people,
I'm being talked about???? Where??? Why???? What is this
about???? Did I do something stupid? What list? Oh, now I
am upset. I didn't see anything. HELP! I'll talk to you
about it tonight and you better have answers.
AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
I am the most impatient person alive. My 1 big fault, that
and being american.
Don't fret...just lay low...the children are at play and
that I too shall survive. Don't say being American is a
fault. The real of us are still alive and well, and just
like our political leaders and here on LP...the children
are playing....may i quote roger waters:
"take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
and build them a home a little place of their own
the fletcher memorial
home for incurable tyrants and kings"
oh what the hell...i'm in the mood, think i'll post the
rest upstairs....
did i really do that?
i knew what was going on. Have I been naughty without
knowing it? HELP ME!!!! Steven and dwardE.
dwardE: thank you for the encouraging words. I appreciate
them.
Steven thanks for the fun chat time tonight, I feel like I
am really knowing you.
Usually I am proud to be american, but sometimes...well,
you know. Things can get tricky.
i will go look again...
welcome Boo. They just be possede' up there.
no afence juju but do we have people talking here again,good
to seeover the next few days there will be lots of people
saying lots of things about the usa ,try not to take it all
to heart,all i can say is long live( sexobsession )
no, I am trying to ignore it all. I made a decision not to
answer the onslought of insults. The general consensus is
that all the stupid americans believe that clinton is now a
hero and should be exaulted instead of impeached. My
opinion has certainly not changed. I am still believing
that if he had even 1 iota of honor he would have tendered
his resignation long ago. I don't believe there is any
choice but to impeach, as abhorrent as that is, because of
the dangerous precident censure sets for the future.
For example--The next time a regular, everyday person
commits pergury, his attorney can site the clinton thing as
a reason to just pay a fine, no jail time necessary! If I
had pergured myself in front of a grand jury, you can bet
your butt I would be sitting in PRISON for 8-10 years. Not
slick willy. He will manage to wiggle out of it. The whole
bombing thing, while maybe necessary, was at this time,
just a ploy to ease himself out of the vise of impending
unemployment. The reality is that if he is able to put it
off until after the first of the year, it won't happen.
Because we then will have a new congress, and how many of
the incumbents will want to go through this whole thing
again? It is sickening. I am appauled at the lack of
conscience in this country. The need to kill overwhelms the
need to do the right thing, which is get him out of office
before he is allowed to do even more damage. Iraq might
very well need to be bombed, frankly, I don't know. I do
know, however, that I don't want him making those types of
decisions. If he would screw his own family over like that,
imagine what he could do to the country. Very scary if you
ask me. Which you didn't. Sorry everybody.
What a rant that was! When I get mad, I sure can type!
To dwardE- Are you speaking english, hon? Cause either I am
a dimwit, Or you are making zero sense. Please tell me what
you are saying...I really want to know. :-)
Steven--what offence? They can say and believe whatever
they choose. I know I am right. If you don't believe me,
just ask and I'll tell you. I will answer any direct
questions--hope none come up--but I will not enter into any
debate about the issue. If I had known I would get so wound
up, I would have posted a warning first, hahaha. Long live
(sexobsession)!!!
blessed be steven and dwardE ;)
Sorry, I don't mean to make you feel like a dimwit. For
some reason I thought you had once said you were from new
orleans and I probably just automatically thought you
cajun. I am from Louisiana and sometime revert to my
upbringing.
Boo is a term of endearment.
Possede' is a menacing child.
As for what you say about this impeachment and the IRAQ
bombings, I agree. I don't trust Clinton or his motives.
I mean what kind of President would mess around with Monica
while under investigation from many other sex scandals?
And now we are suppose to believe him? I heard him answer
to the question "Is he bombing IRAQ to divert the
impeachment" and he said "No, what kind of President would
do such a thing as that". My initial thought was "you,
Bill".
see what the deal is,here we have a prime minster,he/she we
have a women at the moment,is just afigure head and when
they do some thing realy stupid and aposed to the normal
rubbish they do,they just get swaped to some one else it's
the partys that put them in power because they will do what
they are told,norm chomsky has agood quote but i cant
remembere it now,it like power is only given to people who
are able to be controled,it's as you move up,or promoted you
are only given the power as long as you are safe/they know
what you will do,it's easy to see the hold they had over
bill,give him a new intern and watch him go but why is that
part of the deal,how is that used to control him,oh no i'm
starting to rambel, better go,
i knew what boo was but not the other,BYE :)
I am living in New Orleans!!! I didn't understand the
context of BOO, I do now:-). The other word, I never heard
before. Thanks. Where are you living now? Still in La.?
Close by? Cool.
Hey steven- Weird posting I found in bio addressed to us
from that serial killer guy Nobuhdi N. Partikular. Scary. I
started wondering what all secrets I had told you...he
lives here in US!!! He left his e-mail, should I mail him?
Ignore him? What should we do? dwardE? Any suggestions? I
was looking back through the old posts for something, and
saw his name. apparently, I am the alarmist dwardE.
I have recovered from my rant of last night, but not from
the impeachment debate of today. Must go and will leave a
answering post later steven. ;)
I got lost on that...what are you talking about bio and
serial killer Nobody in Particular? I did not get on this
post till this week.. did not read ALL of the above...is
that where I am lost? My gut feeling is ignore, but I have
to see what it's all about.
I am from Lake Charles...live in Atlanta now...I'll be
going down for the holidays so I want to wish you all a
Merry Christmas and Blessed Holidays. Say a prayer for the
Innocent people in IRAQ.
OOOOH, I got a little upset with some guy named bob on a
thread upstairs-#28-Aboriginals in Austrailia--I couldn't
help myself, I had to yell. I know it was just ignorance
but it could not be overlooked by me. Sorry bob.
O.K. first dwardE-the bio is another msg board where steven
and I met. The topic was something about serial killers(?)
and we have been posting semi-privately for a long time.
Now we seem to have a freaky weirdo watching us. He
recently posted on a reply of a post from maybe a month
ago. Kind of a creepy guy, talked about walking around
thinking about killing people(seriously). Lots of people
think about that but he PLANS it. eeeekkkk!
Will you be going to Lake Charles for Christmas? Very neat.
Good that you get along with your family, isn't it steven?
O.K. Steven--- Our political process is a bit complicated.
In high school, government is a required course for
graduation. The whole point of free elections instead of
appointments, is that the people are doing the ruling. We
choose officials that reflect what we want done in our
country. That is the way it is supposed to work. The way it
really works is we elect the ones that make the best
promises. Noone can be what every voter wants, so they take
polls(usually people who have little or no education)and
then the results are quoted all over the place. Then
everyone who disagrees with the results(me)feels like a
minority-the only sane voice in the whole country.After the
poll results are in, the guy who wants to be elected tries
to identify with the majority of pollsters. Does that make
sense? Our constitution stipulates that we as Americans,
have the right to keep and bare arms(guns). Not for hunting
or personal protection but originally to defend our
constitutional rights from a high-handed gov't. That part
of the bill of rights was meant to remind the governing
officials that we, the people could rise up and overthrow
the gov't when they got out of hand and weren't doing what
we tell them to do, which is what their job is. We elect
them to represent us, to be our voice to other nations and
to work for the common good. At some point, Americans
became ambivilent about what goes on in Washington. "I
don't care anymore" is heard frequently on our newscasts.
How they manage to keep asking the same idiot redneck
trailer-trash, I will never know. I got off on something
there didn't I? Anyway, basicaly, we elect the guy we
believe will represent us the best. Sometimes, we choose
the wrong guy. C U Sunday/Monday. Good weekend sweets.;)
Same to you, too, BOO.:)
but the people you vote for are put up by the party,and the
the higer you get in the party the more it controls
them.every now and again you get a rich guy going it
alone(was it ross perrow)last time .but they never get real
power,the power is in the people behind the sence,the people
that tell everyone what to do,i'm very sinacal about
politics
anouff of a rant i'm going up to see you shouting ,
drawdE lucky you going down for the holidays wish i was.
does that have the same meening in america..happy holidays
all.....see ya....bye... :):):):):):)
they are calling you names upstairs you didn't shout loud go
back and set them straight,give them a good sturrrrrrrrrr
I answered that cris. I wish I was more mean, I can never
think or things to say. Insults are meaningless here
because you can never know if they are true, and if they
are, you could really hurt a persons' feelings. I wouldn't
want to do that, ever. Why aren't you at some party? It is
the weekend isn't it? Have I missed something? HMMMM, you
were missing me weren't you? Steven, you sweetie :-).
You are right about the nomination thing. THEN we are
allowed to vote. You are right. Now I am cynical, too.
You are right about something else...;; yes, it means the
same thing here...;) LLS
a very veryveryveyrveryveyrveyrveyrrevvyver boring weekend
the high light was watching the wwf ,i cant believe that the
same people are still in it.i see that the impeachment is
going to go ahead and he s going to fight it so now how long
is this going to take can he make it last untill the end of
his term,how long untill people get bored with it.
yes it was the weekend but i found a open puter the shops
have puters setup for people to try out,to buy for a present
and any one can use them.
bye
time no post. Where are you? have you forasaken your
sexobsession? What about isis?
I know you are about to be on holiday, and I miss you
already. If you see this before you go, remember I am
thinking of you...
everybody. It is Christmas Eve here even though the
timestamp says 25 Dec. So, Hope you all are OK today.
:-)
It is officially the day after Christmas. It was a
wonderful day for us, I hope for you, too. Sleep well.
As the author of post #1 ("Elder TT Contributor"), I am
disheartened but not surprised that this topic has not
generated meaningful discussion, which brings another
apropos observation. The desensitized TV generation cannot
even bring itself to intelligent exploration or discussion
of critical societal issues, much less take remedial action
to change some of the fundamental problems. Most younger
folk have no clue what the sexual liberation actually was!
,
The inability to rationally explore or discuss major issues
is consistent with the surficial infotainment-based world
of the 90's, where a large percentage of the population
have bizarre notions of what constitutes
reliable information, and what constitutes mere
dumbed down entertaining stimuli. Case in point: movies
nowadays. I astoundingly heard from numerous people
that they thought that Saving Private Ryan was a cinematic
masterpiece; "
the best movie in 1998", etc.
;
It merely was stimuli candy; no true exploration of the
issues.
You are right, This thread has changed. It is now a place
where we can discuss anything we are thinking of at the
time of posting. We are all friends here and converse as
such.
I cannot comment on the cinematic virtue of Saving Private
Ryan since I have not viewed it. I don't get to the movies
very frequently and usually wait until the video is
available.
I would love to comment on sexual liberation, however. I
grew up in the 60's and 70's, watching my mother bend to my
fathers' wishes and then in the mid-70's break out of that
ruining relationship. We sort of "grew up" together. I
learned that I could do and be anything I wanted. I went to
school and earned a degree but made a choice to stay at
home with my children until they don't need me at home
anymore. My husband supports me in this endeavor and
recognizes that it is a choice, MY choice.
I am offended that you would come here and jump to the
conclusion that we cannot bring ourselves to discuss, much
less try to change fundamental issues. You are only privy
to one avenue of discussion here. We discuss things of
importance elsewhere. I am trying to raise children to be
responsible, capable adults. That is an incredibly
difficult job. Explaining to my 11 year old why she can't
do the same things as many of her friends, is alot more
difficult than just throwing up my hands and letting her do
whatever. I can't give up. I have to try. These children
are the future of todays world. Without proper guidance,
they might turn out worse than we did.
I am greatly concerned with the issues, I am also allowing
myself an occasional break from reality by coming here to
the TT to talk to people I don't know, about things of no
consequence. I apologise to you if this offends your higher
conscience. Please excuse me.
Did you see that dwardE is back? He e-mailed me and left a
post upstairs. Are you back yet? lata gata ;)
Go and find another chat site to continue on your
meaningless ramblings with your idiot friends from across
the sea.
University degree, my arse. What did you major in, "being a
dropkick, 109".
Edward has every right to post what he did.
You and your fucked-up mates hijacked the post and screwed
it over big time.
And by the way, you are regarded as a retard by most of the
site posters up above.
See you later, imbecile.
Who is looking after your children while you waste your
obvious high intellect on this site ?
read some of the crap that you have posted above on this
page.
You sure showed 'em. I'll bet they feel really immature
and silly now that you've taught them how a grown up should
REALLY behave. To really rub in how you are going to save
this thread, perhaps you should point them to some of your
gem-like contributions. Save us from people actually
having conversations with friends!
Edward, nice to see you back. "The inability to rationally
explore or discuss major issues"...hmmm, we've discussed
that before I think.
Re saving Private Ryan. Dunno, Ed. I go to the movies for
fun. To be informed I observe, experience, read, study,
discuss and think. Each to his/her own, I suppose. I
haven't seen Ryan yet, what was the prob with it? Should I
bother seeing it as a good flick, or should I skip it
altogether? What movies do you rate as worthwhile and why?
Hi jjb and Steven.
And you can go and fuck yourself as well you racist prick.
I didn't ask for your opinion or your input either, you
loser.
You just keep selling those bullshit lines of yours on
equality in a white man's world, you tool.
was typical hollywood in its new "people are too dumb to think" mode. Lots of loud noise, eye-candy, action, explosions and the standard pseudo-emoto-plot where movies are shallower than the reflecting pool in my backyard. The movie failed to explore the issue of the perceived debt for benefiting from those who sacrifice.
Where was the analysis? Why the surficial treatment of what could have been an intriguing topic? Hollywood figures most people have too short an attention span to focus on an issue like this. I guess they are right.. Fortunately, Christian Science Monitor and an increasing number of movie critics have recognized the shallow cinematic value of Saving PRivate Ryan in their year-end movie reviews. Thank goodness. Maybe there IS some hope in this world. As for Edward, he was right on target.
was typical hollywood in its new "people are too dumb to think" mode. Lots of loud noise, eye-candy, action, explosions and the standard pseudo-emoto-plot where movies are shallower than the reflecting pool in my backyard. The movie failed to explore the issue of the perceived debt for benefiting from those who sacrifice.
Where was the analysis? Why the surficial treatment of what could have been an intriguing topic? Hollywood figures most people have too short an attention span to focus on an issue like this. I guess they are right.. Fortunately, Christian Science Monitor and an increasing number of movie critics have recognized the shallow cinematic value of Saving PRivate Ryan in their year-end movie reviews. Thank goodness. Maybe there IS some hope in this world. As for Edward, he was right on target.
;
You say "We discuss things of
importance elsewhere." Where would that be? Where is it that you take action to positively effect change? Somehow, the people who claim that they fritter away their time discussing TV-pop-trivia here but actually have meaningful conversation elsewhere are self deluding.
There there, of course you didn't ask for my opinion or
input. I think you need to have a nice cup of tea and an
iced vovo and a lie down.
Edward-Seasoned Traveller (cute, a bit of tradition!) I
think movies rarely get to the depth you seek, but I am not
sure that is their role. Bear in mind that cinema is
(obviously) a visual medium, not well suited to the
exploration of complex issues. If it does get into that,
it is better treated as documentary, rather than story
telling. I think this is why, generally, peiople often
feel that "the book was better" because the written word
can easily capture the depth you are looking for. Fo that
reason, if I am planning on reading a book AND seeing the
same movie, I try to see the movie first then read the
book, as if I do it the other way around I am invariably
diappointed that the movie did not capture the richness of
the book. Have you EVER seen a war film that explored the
depth you were looking for in Pte Ryan?
Re your comment to jjb about "We discuss things of
importance elsewhere." I think that was a bit uncalled
for. She can stand up for herself, but it seems to me she
has already answered the question several times, in
particular in her post 192, discussing how she raises her
child. Like it or not, the way you raise your children is
precisely taking "action to positively effect change".
Nice to see you back tho' Edward. Have you been away, or
just been in the background for a while?
Thank you very much.
I am choosing to ignore her juvenile renderings.
I think you have a good idea--reading the book and then
seeing the movie. You have had the same disappointing
experiences that I have. I think the whole point of going
to a movie, is to be entertained, not enlightened. If the
film can do both, so much the better. Very few of those
around, though.
While you are spending your time on this site, your husband
out working to support you, the bills and the kids, who is
looking after your children ?
You seem to spend a great deal of time posting but
contributing nothing..........."Oh No ..Who is talking
about me now..... Steve(NZ) who posted what about
what...AAARRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHH"
Yep, got a lot out of that stuff.
oh.... and Equus, I think you can do a little bit better
than that when flaming in return.
Think that I am Indian Woman or Asian Woman hurling insults
at you about your manlyhood and such.
How's this
"you're a meany!"
You're right, films that enlighten or even inform are
pretty rare.
I saw a good'n on SBS (our government owned multicultural
broadcaster) a couple of years ago which did fit the bill.
It was a peruvian made film about a young campesina woman
in a remote village in Peru during the worst days of the
civil war with Shining Path. The village and villagers
looked very authentic, and the political style of the
guerillas was pretty authentic too, according to my wife
who was a bit of a tire burner herself in her younger days
in Ecuador (though nothing like a terrorist).
The main thrust of the film was the story of a young woman
who ended up joining the guerillas on one of their sweeps
through the village so that she could be with her
boyfriend. He has joined partly out of idealism and partly
as a forced recruit.
The army comes through shortly afterwards and "de-briefs"
the village, pretty viciously, arresting anyone suspected
of helping the guerilleros, and appointing new village
authorities. The guerilleros come back, kill the new
authorities and appoint their own. You can see where all
this ends up.
Anyway, the girl's boyfriend gets killed in battle fairly
early on, and the girl is told to execute a deserter, which
she refuses to do, and bolts back to the village.
When she arrives though, everyone is gone, hiding out in
the fields in fear of both sides. Her family refuse to
take her in for fear of being killed by both sides, so the
last thing you see is her wandering off down to the main
road.
It was a rare combination of a gripping storry and a gritty
analysis of the impossible position facing peruvian
villagers during the civil war.
The point of this is two fold. One, films as complex and
deep as this one (I have hardly done it justice in my short
precis) are pretty rare, and are not readily available.
Two, I suspect that even with this film, the book (if there
was one) would have explored the issues in even great depth.
I wish I could remember the name of the damn film!
sound of hand slapping forehead. The films post was of
course mine, in response to Jujubee, not Jujubee in
response to herself.
We apologise for this small technical fault.
what the hell?
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sorry jujubee can't help you with the name of the film.
~
but wait, gotta read this post in detail to find out
whether in fact people are really too stupid to think
last night went to see "Shakespeare in Love" brilliant!-funny, hilarious even, erotic, and WITTY!
I see that your computer is working again.
equus--small technical difficulties happen. For a minute
there, I thought I was imposted. Sounds like a great film--
let me know when you remember the name. One not so
mainstream film I enjoyed--The Lover--Thought provoking,
and insightful. The epitomy of eroticism.
Hey green--glad to see you again. Sending you mail soon.
Voyeur--at least I am happy to SEE you.
If it ain't mainstream, my chances of finding it Canberra
are not high, unless I get lucky on SBS. Where is it from,
Jujubee?
Steven, where are you?
Maybe? The girl in the film is french. Her lover is asian.
The setting is 1930's-40's. She is in school and ditches to
go with him. There is opium smoking which leads one to
believe it is taking place in China. It has been about 5 or
6 years since last seen. Might be in video rental store or
on very late night cinemax. ????. What is SBS?
Steven seems to be taking a break.
Do you have blockbuster? By mainstream, I really meant not
boxoffice successful. (-:
But I'll have a look in the video shop. You never know
your luck I suppose. Can you remember any of the actors'
names? (I'm guessing there could be a few films by the
same name)
SBS is "Special Broadcasting Service", an Australian
government owned broadcaster whose charter is to add
cultural variety to TV, so you get lots of films from all
over the place, and very little mainstream Hollywood
stuff. You also get a LOT of soccer!
Cinema should be treated as "documentary"? Whaaa? How can you say that great cinema such as "Wizard of Oz", "Gone with the Wind" and "Casablanca" should be considered "documentary"?? They are NOT documentary and the problem in the 90s is that too many people go to movies and mistakenly think that they are getting documentary when in fact its pure entertainment. Oliver Stone's piece on JFK was documentary??? Hogwash and anyone who was alive in the 60s knows it. You hit the nail on the head. Too many people go to movies expecting to be educated. Savingt Private Ryan was NOT a discourse on WWII or a snapshot of WWII. Anyone in that war can tell you that the war was a hell of a lot more complex in emotion and impact than that movie presumed to suggest. Your response seems to confirm Edward's contention.
I actually had to go and re-read what I had written to see
what you are on about. Um, sorry if you read it like that,
probably my poor wording. I'll have another crack.
I actually agree entirely (as the rest of the conversation
should show) that cinema is mostly entertainment illsuited
to the exploration of complex issues. My point about
documentaries was not "one should view movies as
documentaries", but "if you want to deal with complex
subjects in detail, you probably need to make a
documentary, not a movie". Not always, but mostly.
I love the Wizard of Oz, and Casablanca too. Sorry, but
you can keep "Gone with the wind". I know it's heretical
of me but it seemed to me to be one long romance novel in
the most perjorative sense (gasp - ducking now). Not that
I have anything against onscreen romance (cf Casablanca!),
but GWTW did nuthin' for me.
I also agree about the "docutainment" problem. I'll bet
there were a lot of folks who walked out of the movies
thinking "so that's what happened".
Er, now that I have clarified that I agree its about
entertainment (which is what I was trying hard to say in
the first place) does my response still confirm Ed's
contention (and which one)? (gasp horror)
Shallow cinema with an emphasis on special effects, music-laden shock-value action images (e.g., MTV), and a lack of depth to characters, plot and point is common in the 1990s, unfortunately, as Ed points out. Emotional carnival rides do not a great movie make.
well isis its been nice chatting, time for adrink at the
corner pub, happy new year
I only saw one film in a theater this year and it was
excellent. It was "The Governess," with Minnie Driver. Did
anyone see it? Great plot, acting, dramatic moments, funny
moments, very educational about Jews & women in early 19th
century England.
I nearly always find Spielberg movies to be in bad taste, so
I skip then. BTW, my uncle fought in France in WW2, was
wounded and all, and he says that the opening scene in
"Ryan" is way too intense to be accurate.
Sorry to just butt in. I read the TT most days but never
read this topic. Assumed it was about obsessive sex or
something. Nice to see you again John, didn't know that you
used a new handle. Happy New Year to all.
Nice to see you dropping in. I got the new handle after
some imagination challenged chappy borrowed t'other one!
I didn't see the governess, was that the one about the
jewish refugee who pretended to be a catholic so she could
get work as a governess?
Have a good year
Seasoned traveller/Ed, thanks for the traditional touch for
a close of year pressie. I appreciate it! Re your comment
though, I don't agree its a nineties thing (I know, its
only in fun, but I am compulsive, so I'll debate it
anyway). My point is, what about all the schlock they
served up in the fifties? and the sixties - James Bond? I
think the only difference is that in the nineties, the
effects are higher tech and the music is louder. Anyway,
happy new year to you and all of yours.
Hi Steven, nice to see you, albeit briefly.
Edward, what movies you DO like, and why (by your criteria
as set out above)
Where is my apology you racist white pig. I pray every
night that my god will take you from this place.
Assuming I don't die, does that prove
A. God doesn't believe you; or
B. Prayer doesn't work?
to who ever posted useing my name on jan 1,but i am back,i
turn my back for a few days and everyone comes a long,
happy new year to you all,
.
movies,i like old b grade,the sillyer the better,also like
the ones mike more,from tv nation makes,i don't think movies
can show what realy happens,they can get close at times but
it's still someones point of what happened
i think the news on tv is also slanted some times,the
importance placed on some things and others left out because
of time constraints
by to all even cris who makes us all so happy with the fun
things said
to ju thank you for the tune,
.
looking forward to a new year to talk to you all.
off now to catch up with the people above,
love and peace to you all,
to who ever posted useing my name on jan 1,but i am back,i
turn my back for a few days and everyone comes a long,
happy new year to you all,
.
movies,i like old b grade,the sillyer the better,also like
the ones mike more,from tv nation makes,i don't think movies
can show what realy happens,they can get close at times but
it's still someones point of what happened
i think the news on tv is also slanted some times,the
importance placed on some things and others left out because
of time constraints
by to all even cris who makes us all so happy with the fun
things said
to ju thank you for the tune,
.
looking forward to a new year to talk to you all.
off now to catch up with the people above,
love and peace to you all,
must be a bit rusty,been up to see whos about and only got
half way through before the brain gave out,thats one of the
reasons i took a brake,there seem to be so many post,and it
is easy to start a conversation and then lose it or talk in
to many places you start to lose track.
i see the same topics are repeating again and the level of
flame is about the same,how to find the gold amoung the mud?
There IS a difference between movie making past and present. Sure there were shlock movies made in the 50s, but the ratio of great movies to bad movies was FAR higher pre-1960. The filthy language, the sex of movies present is appalling.
but it still doesn't tell us what films you think are great
(we'll never find out I suppose).
To tell the truth I am much more concerned about violence
in films than sex and swearing. Violence was just as
prevalent in 50s films (though perhaps less graphic due to
advances in FX). If the worst thing that we copied from
films was sex and swearing, I don't think I'd be too
worried. But it disturbs me to see kids running around
"killing" each other.
To be frank, even the violence in cartoons (especially
"Power Rangers" and the like) sends pretty poor messages to
kids. And from what I've seen of 50s cartoons, I don't
know that its gotten any worse.
hello all
i must admit i haven't seen a good movie in recent times..
saw the net, the other day on tv though, mildly
entertaining.
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why would you say spielberg's films are in bad taste?
violence was intentionally left off camera in most cases -- to the viewers imagination. This was, and is, a key to true movie making. It used to be that a good movie did not require violence to capture the viewer's attention. Today, directors are afraid to take the chance that the movie may not be of sufficient quality to hold the viewer without on-screen graphic violence.
John -- Yes, "The Governess" was the one about the Jewish
woman masquerading, but as a Protestant, and not a refugee
but fleeing an arranged marriage. There's more to the film
than that, though.
Green -- Bad taste, that's not what I really meant. What I
wanted to say was that Spielberg's films don't have much
intellectual thought put into them, so there isn't really
much that stays with you afterwards -- just a good show.
I'm thinking "Gremlins," "Raiders of the Lost Ark,"
"Poltergeist." I didn't care for "Schindler's List" that
much, so dark. The German film "Europa Europa" dealt with
the same themes but with more impact and humanity. I also
feel that Spielberg films are manipulative. I'm not sure
what I mean, other than that I rebel against scenes because
I feel that I am being forced to feel a certain emotion.
people have allways been violent and bad to each other,cant
blame the movies,does it make people more violent,some yes
but those people are already ready at the drop of a hat to
hurt others,most people it makes no differance,i have
watched heaps of horrors,friday the 13,and all the rest,but
i dont want to go around kill people,i think the view of the
world as a safe place where things are all fuffy is
wrong,kids should see it as it is,here yesterday a boat was
at sea and crashed into the rocks,the people on board when
rescued said it was,so bad and unexpicted,what dream world
do they live in,people see car crashes inthe movies and
thing they are like real ones,the trouble with movies is
that tomany peple think that it is real,we are being feed a
view of life thats not true and the young are believeing
it.what will that do in the future, your guess is as good as
mine.
I'll respond to your point after you tell me what movies
you like.
While on the one hand I agree with you - I watched a lot of
pretty violent stuff and yet I have grown up pretty stable
and anti-violence. On the other hand I watch my son
kicking and punching after watching that sort of behaviour
on a "children's" tv program. I now restrict his viewing
an awful lot. I can't say I agree that banning a five year
old from watching "power rangers" or "X-Men" is giving him
a fluffy view of life. Rather, it's trying to stop him
having nightmares. And I'd rather not cultivate the view
that violence is fun.
Interestingly, and not necessarily on the topic, he has a
very well developed understanding of death for a five year
old. He has worked out that despite what he sees on TV,
death is probably permanent, and inevitable. This has not
been prompted by me - I'd rather he stayed a kid with a
belief in personal immortality for a while. But he has his
own views, and is not happy about it. When we were talking
about Christmas, he said to me "Daddy, you know what I
wish, I wish everybody in the whole world stayed the same
older (age) and didn't die".
I don't recall having such a clear understanding of such a
fundamental reality at that age. Views anyone? Jujubee,
what did your daughter think about death at that age, do
you recall?
We have a special viewpoint on death at our house. When my
now almost 12 year old daughter was 5, her 2 1/2 year old
brother had just been diagnosed with cancer. She was pushed
into an understanding of death that no child should ever
have to face. She realised that all the trips in and out of
the hospital were not "normal". The two of them discussed
his illness and imminent death up until his last days. She
was present when he quietly died in our home. She held his
hand and kissed him on the head. As we approach the 4 yr.
anniversary of that sorry day, she has a mature
understanding that far exceeds her age. She is reproachful
of kids who are not careful with their lives and angry at
friends who complain about their little brothers.
I agree with you that frivolous violent programming does
little to increase awareness in our society.
Hello to steven and green.
No one is arguing that violence in movies make you more violent. The point is -- most violence in movies is gratuitous and adds nothing cinematically to the film, and provides no food for thought. You may not become violent by watching schlock like that, but you surely have deprived yourself of quality time challenging your mind. Society = people. When people numb their brain repeatedly, societal ills appear. Why not make a difference and do something productive?
i am so sorry my taste in culture is so bad the more plastic
the movie the better,yes i go to film festerviles to see
films of point and art but it's only a film.so back to life
....death...
as a kid i had pets that died,when i was six or so,a
grandparent came to our house to stay, and i watched him
slowly get sicker and sicker,death was never hidden so it
was not a shock or treated as something unnatural.
today i see kids who have never seen a death,apart from
tv,so when it happens to a friend or familly they handdle it
very bad because it is something new and unreal,
i see it as part of life not something to be afraid of bbut
something that is beyond our control so accept it as a
release for those in pain,an control on the power we think
we have,something we must respect and if we dont we pay the
price.
We watched Romeo and Juliet on video tonight - Martin
watched too. I was amazed to hear his very apropos
questions and to observe his good understanding of what the
whole story was about - depite the fact that it was in the
original shakespearian english.
Jujubee I am so sorry to hear about your son. I don't know
what to say - Martin is so precious to me - the loss of a
child must be truly heartbreaking and life changing.
Mind numbing activities (MNA) are fine I suppose if that is what you like; but it becomes a problem when a substantial part of your day or life is filled with MNA. With the dreck on TV and the poor quality of conversation between many people of the younger generation, sadly, the majority of people's lives are filled with MNA. Thats why we have the social problems we have these days. And that is the problem with mind numbing cinema; a little is ok, but 90% of what comes out of hollywood these days is insufferable. 40 years ago, the percentage was probably around 20%. Its impossible to go to a movie these days without: hearing profanities; seeing sex between two people who have no evident mature loving relationship; or violence. What a shame. I stay home and watch videotapes of the yesteryear movies where my mind does not have to be insulted. I can count the number of movies I have seen at the theatre in the last 5 years on one hand.
I'll just butt in for a minute to confess that I love the
"big-budget action" genre. I don't look to Hollywood movies
to change my life (in fact, I resent it if they try to),
just to be entertained for a couple of hours, maybe get a
little adrenaline going. That's what these movies are for.
If you're looking for food for thought, you won't find it
in most films - I mean, the bulk of the film industry (like
any other industry) is in it for the noble cause of money.
There's no shame in taking a break from the real world on
occasion: some people knit, some people read romance novels,
and some of us go to the movies.
No one is saying you should change your life, but there is not much to be gained from watching a violent movie or listening to someone swear repeatedly. Quality in = quality out. You become rather shallow if your interests are in shallow movies.
my answer to that is,they found a clay tablet from aseria
thats 2 thousand years old and it said,(life is hard,the
childern are geting out of control and will not do as they
are told,and the world is going to hell),,nothing
changes.
You are only watching Hollywood. Try diversifying.
still here,you all seem to have gone
I think you all got way too cerebral for me.
I think you should go see a movie because you want to be
entertained--if you want to be stimulated, read a book.
If a movie is trying to teach me something--fine. But if it
only promises to be entertaining, I take it at face value.
Entertainment for the sake of entertainment. Sometimes it
is good to get away from all the pressures of reality and
just relax for 2 hours. Do you really ALWAYS NEED to be
enlightened, and stimulated intelectually?
Hi to steven, equus, and green:
Steven--Go ahead and watch those b-movies. they are like a
dose of fun for your down days, aren't they?
Equus--Thank you for your words-It is something I would not
wish on even my worst enemy. It really should make you
treasure every day you have with your son.
Green--Waiting for a letter....patiently.
ugh, hi there jujubee, i've been meaning to get to this
thread and have been thwarted
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about movies, i used to love to watch just 'any' movie and
i still do to a large extent, and no intellectual
stimulation is not always necessary. but i've realised that
now i am more discriminatory and get impatient with badly
crafted or mindless films
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dufflebt yes i see what you mean, i used to think there was
an element of fantasy and magic in spielberg's earlier
films (et)but i was much younger then and perhaps a victim
of that 'manipulation'
then there are those black and white scenes in schindler's
list, they stay with me
umm wouldn't manipulation be inherent in any film-making
process
has anyone seen 1941, it was supposed to be a bad film but
i found it hilariously funny, i can't remember much about
it now except that the main guy (was he the main guy?) kept
dancing all the time
that about sums up my spielberg experience except for
jurassic park which i thought was terrible
halo steven, equus and all the casual observers including
ed
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I would prefer expanding my mind rather than going to a mind numbing movie. Why waste 2 hours of your life watching dreck on the screen? With all the other more creative and challenging forms of entertainment, there is no need for the sex violence, bad language of bad cinema. Foreign cinema is far more compelling than USA theatre. i get enough mind numbing on TV; why would anyone PAY to watch something that lacks creativity and just kills brain cells?
Green: I agree that manipulation is probably a good part of
good filmmaking, it's just that sometimes I resent it (and
call it "bad taste") and sometimes it thrills me. And that
film "Europa, Europa" is such a good movie, look for it on
Bravo or rent it.
Werner: Some good American movies come out, but I don't
look hard enough to find them. Seems all I see are foreign
movies, it's easier to see better movies by sticking to
them, at least the ones that get marketed in the US seem to
be of generally high caliber.
I feel that enough people get lost (from reality) in the
images of film, TV, advertising, and such that we should
treat evil images as evil, just as if they were real things
that are happening. I often hear people say things like
"children can differentiate between the reality of life and
the fantasy world of violent computer games" when it is
plain that plenty of grown adults cannot muster the maturity
to resist mindless advertising campaigns, and fall for the
fantasies presented there.
why when any form of reality is showen eg,death, sex,
murder,violence in the movies people say it's not
a reflection of life,but when we see a sugar coated view of
life people like to see that as life as it could be.
Sorry to bug y'all, but I've noticed this thread getting
fatter and fatter whilst a brain-drain threatens the very
fabric of the civilization (sic) writhing away at the top of
this branch. Please come back to us.
BTW, Post-realist russian critics said at the end of last
century that art is for people that don't experience life.
I believe the analogy was such: "what is worth more to
you, a picture of cheese or real cheese?" I guess it depends
on the context eh? They had some wacky ideas, those guys.
Alright, y'all come back now, y'hear?
Steven--I don't think anybody really swallows all that
shiney, happy people tripe, but it is very good to live a
rich fantasy life. They see and interpret what they wish.
Sometimes when a persons life is so full of crap, it is
nice to see someone that has a happy one, and pretend.
anotherliZa--Sometimes when you don't have any cheese, the
picture can look pretty good.
green--hi.
sorry to butt in folks, but i couldn't let casual
observer/ed's post go by without comment. seems to me that
the films of the 40s and 50s were far more escapist (or
'mind numbing' if you prefer) than films being made today.
i'm not denying that there's a lot of violent, gratuitous,
pointless, patronising crap out there now, but i'd be very
surprised if you could come up with more than ten 'golden
age' flicks that aimed to expand people's social
consciousness, raise a few issues or anything like that. i
agree that there's been an increase in gratuitous sex and
violence, but more importantly there's been an increase in
thought-provoking, independent cinema.
jujubee, you are dead right, just because the focus of a
film is entertainment pure and simple doesn't mean it's a
bad film. You gotta live a little folks!
Just dropping by.... Jujubee, I think you're referring to
the film "The Lover" based on a novel with the same name.
The name of the author is Marguerite Duras and is apparently
an autobiography. The story takes place in Vietnam, I think.
if you could all make a film what would it be.
????????????????
Gunilla--I have been driving myself and everyone I know mad
with this.
equus--See, I knew I liked you. You can see reason. heehee
Did you see the info about THE LOVER? above.
steven--I am giving this some real thought. No flippiness
from me today.
forget it.
You lot can stay down here in the dark in your own pathetic
little thread discussing fuckall.
You have nothing of any value to contribute up in the real
world, especially that snivelling jujubee, as pathetic as
her name.
(no relation to the former william here)
Steven, if I could write a film movie it would be about
life such as Tennessee Williams does so with such
resounding applause. I love all of his plays/movies.
Wondering? And you think you have a right to say anyones
name is pathetic? Shouldn't that be "wandering"?
Aimlessly....
Did you ever read "the Drifters"? I'd make a film about a
group of friends who travel through South America. The
film would be about friendship and living.
They would not take a tour, sorry Ed.
What is your point?
...Ex Edward (or whatever) , I kinda miss you.
PS Hi folks !
would be a real tasteless double b horror space alien movie,
with silly monsters,bad lines for people to say,lots of
blood,sex,and mindless violence.
sorry i have no taste or point to make in it,i'll leave that
for your movies
I want to watch yours, anyway.
I want to watch more "Based on Actual Events" movies. I
would really like to see some biographical films.
Tennesee Williams, Albert Einstein, Dalai Lama, Clive
Cussler. Many authors would be interesting. Old film stars,
too.
think you would,most of what we know about people is the
good bits if a movie was made on a good writer you liked and
it showed there real life,the drugs,sex wifebeating,there
bad moods ,the arguments,or just the bordom that they wrote
to get away from it would spoil the view you have of them.we
had on the news yesterday the new book on elivs, it's all
about his drug habbits,people are upset because it's not the
view they have of him,if you made a film would you make it a
true reflection of there life
I am interested in the real lives. I would show their
tumultuous lives in all the gruesome detail. Those things
are probably contributing factors to their art and genius.
I don't think my opinion of their work would change. Maybe
my opinion of them personally, but not their work.
i don't care much for too much real life (which probably
explains why i spend so much time here) and i like your
quote anotherliZa, it sounds desperate and hopeless, the
starving artist in the garret, an empty idealism almost a
lost art itself
argh, i digress,
dufflebt, shall look out for europa, europa,
i can't think of any one kind of movie i'd like to make
though, perhaps something like aguirre the wrath of god?
A few years back, I used to watch cooking shows on TV when I
didn't have any money for food. That was sort of the result
of a psychosis, though. I think nowadays a picture of cheese
would comfort me little if I had nothing to eat.
Someday, I'll find the article I read that in and let you
know the context. I'll just have to quick page through 900
pages of readings from that course. . .
I'd love to do a definitive "Lord of the Rings"
As a LOTR fan I was really disappointed in the half baked
(and half finished) semi animated attempt of the late
seventies (1978? Perhaps a bit later)
I also reckon Colleen McCulloch's Masters of Rome books
would make great movies.
did you know that peter jackson is making a three movie set
of lord of the rings here in new zealand ,it's a big
budget,with lots of computer action,with a cast of extras of
thousands,the casting for extras will be next mounth, and
lots of people i know are going to go along,it should be out
in 2000.
Thanks Steven, no, I had no idea.
I'll look out for it. I hope it lives up to the pretty
high expectations created by the book!
The moral and ethical messages in the movies from the golden age 40s and 50s were timeless and subtle -- movies didnt hit you on the head with a immature and simplistic repeated point like they do today.
Is this true or have I eaten something funny....
2 1/2 month and my thread is still alive! Yipee!
So nice to see you┤re still around steven, green and all the
others. Wish I had the time and money to read the lot.
Believe it, this is the first time I┤ve put hands on a
computer since I┤ve left GB! And no withdrawel symtoms ever
- travelling still beats the TT!
I┤m doing really well over here in the south of spain,
cristmas at the beach, what a treat, lots of other
travellers also in their vans and busses. It┤s just how I
imagined it, but better. So good to be a nomad and to not
have a home other than a bus - I can only recommend this to
you all.
Hope you all had a great New Year
Keep on typing
Hasta luego
know what you meen the picture people have in there heads
of the story and the players ,it will be hard to do to
please everyone.
katie, the movies of the 50 were not in any way a reflection
of how people lived it was the way people wanted it to be,
.
isis good to have you back for a little bit,will we here
from you again,ps check your e-mail,the old one if you have
a new adress.
hi there, great to hear your voice! and to know you checked
in
happy journeys..
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others all, halo
i'll be back (typical modern-day, immature and simplistic
blockbuster statement :)
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
You got that right steven.
just being abit silly,it seems to have gotten a bit
quiet,here so where did every one go
I guess.
winter hibernation
Big fluffy pillows....fat full sinking featherbed....soft
million-times washed sheets....
quilts made by Grandma....thick heavy comforters.
Sounds good.
if you guys stay asleep ... they're gonna chop this
one..hope this gives it a reprieve! Jujubee, please my I
borrow one of those thick heavy comforters?? it's going down
below zero(F) tonight..
You may have two. I have plenty.
Below zero....I wish I was there. It is in the 50's here at
night and 70's in the day. I love the cold and snowy
weather. Hot chocolate and crumpets. Mmmmmmmmmm.
Cozy. Cuddling weather.
it's been very hot here to high 20's some places haven't had
rain in a long time and some people are starting to get abit
worryed about a drought,we are going to have water
restictions soon,no baths or watering the garden
You have GOT to be kidding? Right?
Hight 20's? How does that convert to ferinheidt? Or however
you spell it.
It has been too warm here. No lack of moisture, though. I
would be happy to share some.
what was that film made in NZ, american girl plays a big
part in it she is kind of nasty, leaves the scene of a
tragic accident. the film could be a anti american metaphor
could you give a bit more detail,can't think of if off hand
but have seen most nz films.
yes ju thats right no baths but you can shower,i don't know
how they can enforce it,every three years the water
restrictions happen.once they said noone could water the
garden in the daylight,so everyone turned the hoses on at
night and used more than they would in the day time!
the american girl wears a red leather jacket, a maori makes
love to young white girl a lot of dream like sequences,
Saw Private Ryan last night.
Ed, I disagree with your comments entirely. It was a very
powerful movie, (and not actually all that entertaining).
I think it certainly dealt with the issue of "the perceived
debt for benefiting from those who sacrifice". You may
have disagreed with the answer it came up with, but it was
certainly there from both the beneficiary and sacrificee's
point of view.
It also got into the "what's the damn point of it" issue as
well, and came up with a range of different answers. If
you think there is a war movie that does it better, let us
know so we can watch it and consider.
Hi folks.
Hi equus, how are you? I thought you ditched.
steven--I am glad you can shower, I was worried about the
smell of it all. Interesting concept. I often wonder about
that in those western movies...they only bathed on Sat.
night and had no deodorant....phewie. Maybe nobody noticed
since they all smelled the same. I think I would notice no
matter how I smelled. Wouldn't you?
tom that still sounds like most movies from nz sorry i still
cant pick it, did it have lots of cars crashing, did it have
a crazy mexican,did it have police and bombers.
.
equus don't like war movies so cant help or comment
.
juju. the smell of cowboys?good point,all the dust and sweat
and heat,no wonder they always headed for the bath as soon
as they get into town,but the horses and cows would smell
even worse
Have you ever watched a movie while in the bath? Me neither.
For some reason steven, the "smell of cowboys...sweat and
heat" made me rethink my previous post. I might have liked
it. ;^) *wink, wink*
please don't give up so easily, this film is important, do
me a favor, go to the local video hut, and search all the
titles,thank you
do you know any folks over in gisborne? i once met two gals
from there.
What is a Gisborne?
sorry don't know anyone from gisborne
juju, gisborne is a town in the north island of nz, never
been there myself,it's also the first place in the world to
see the sun rise so on the eve of 2000 there is going to be
a big party and have a quess who is going to play at the
momment of change who will claim to be the first person to
proform in the new milinium(clue spiders from mars)
tom i still need more information,a girl in a red jacket
isn't much what else can you remember
I like your clue steven, but since I am from a backward
country, I will need more to go on. Spiders from mars......
some tarantula type band? Eight members? Is there any hope
of me ever guessing this in my entire lifetime? Doubtful.
I thought the first place to see the sun rise on 2000 was
some obscure and tiny island? Wrong again, I guess.
No one is debating about whether its ok to like mindless entertainment, but instead, the issue is what makes a movie cinematically great. Mindless entertainment is fine, but it does not usually represent great classic cinema. SPR is not great cinema -- further, its a bad depection of WWII and there may be some who think that the movie is the essence of what WWII was about.
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Mindless entertainment is fine if this is what interests you, but why should I go to a theatre and pay money to see schlock when I can watch it free on tv. This is the point. I get bored watching the "all flash and special effects and MTV-style editing"; I want substance when I see a movie.
Most critics disagree with you.. As I do. SPR failed big time to explore the subject of "the perceived
debt for benefiting from those who sacrifice". It touched on it in the first 20 minutes, but failed to truly explore this issue. Quite frustrating. It resorted to special effects and emotional string tugging but didnt scratch the surface on the implications and positives and negatives of benefitting from those who sacrifice. See the Thin Red Line.
i too, enjoy david bowie, will search for more detail
regarding NZ film
item in todays paper about a bicycle saftey film produced by
NZ Government featuring dogs ? i really read this.i am not
making this up
Bicycling dogs? Is that correct? What kind of bicycle?
Steven--did you see the chopping job done on the bio? They
mixed it all up. the dates are stirred around, too. I
started a new topic. It addresses you.
haven't seen the dogs,but rastas the cat has been on a few
times,untill some stupid driver kill him and him owner last
year.
the cat would ride on the handle bars of the motor bike,
with it's own helmet,and at christmas it would have dear
horns on it's head,kids loved it
tom has quessed right,it's bowie.
and no you are right, it's still up in the air where the
first to see the sun is,i thing they meen city not
place????????????!
sorry if this post is twice but it said the tt locked it out
so here goes again
Hey, get it?
Did anyone suggest this might be cat-abuse?
Was there a big funeral? I imagine a huge public outcry for
the offending drivers' head on a platter? I would hope so.
You only posted once, whew. That was close.
no,but alot of people thought he might fall off,because he
sat on the tank and had his paws on the handle bars with
his nose pointing into the wind.
the cat thought it was aperson and was trained like a dog,
the person who killed them had been at a party the night
befor and fell asleep at the wheel and crossed the to the
wrong side of the road on a bend,
he was sentanced to 6 mounts pd,which is work in the
community,cleaning up old peoples gardens that kind of
thing,people wanted his bloodand thought it was not
enough,but thats the way it goes,couldn't prove intent,to
cause harm so it was just treated as a axerdent.
more people were upset over the cat than the man and not
much was said about the girlfriend on the back who was
allso killed??????
Was this a regular bike, or a motorcycle? How did he ride
her on the back if it was a regular bicycle? Too weird,
really. Did the cat(M or F) have any kittens to carry on
the bike riding gene?
it was a classic old indian i think,no kittens sorry ,the
man also ran atrucking firm and the cat went with him every
where,into resteronts and motels if the cat could no go in
to the place he wouldn;t go in ever,but hte cat was a bit
famous so it could get in most places,the cat traveled
about500 miles a day every day,it got about so everyone
knows it,they did lots of work fund raiseing,all the kids
had it on there tee shirts.i meet the cat in person once it
was a strange thing,very smart cat
bye
How did this cat get so famous and popular? What started it
all?
You met the cat in person? Did you get a pawtograph?
Have you seen Toonces the driving cat on SNL? Not the same
thing, I bet. Can you get me a Rastas t-shirt? I would wear
it proudly. When was the kitty murdered? I am very
interested. I am not teasing one bit.
I haven't been back in here for a couple of months. Can't
believe it's still going.
Yes the diabetes is under control Jujubee - thanks. In fact
I think I need some sugar right now. Going to the vending
machine for some M&Ms....back soon.
i'll try to find out.there should be a web page on here
somewhere,tryed to find it yesterday but i think i spelled
it wrong,the english in my last post was very bad,must have
been in to much of a rush,he was killed some time early last
year,didn't get a paw graph but did get to pat it,it had
lots of people around it but it was not flusted.
wellcome back jeb
I wondered what happened to you...glad you are okay. Are
you supposed to eat sugar? I thought that was off limits
for diabetics. I really don't know much about it. You are
not allowed to drink though, right? I had a friend many
years ago who died from complications of his diabetes--he
drank a lot and went into a coma many times and then one
time he did not wake up. I think it is a very frightening
illness. But they are making progress in research, aren't
they? I hope so. Too many people are sick with it.
steven--what were you saying about your english? It was
very bad? How could it be bad? You do speak english...you
live in an english speaking country...how could it be bad?
You are so silly sometimes. Maybe they gave him a sedative.
Cats are not usually very calm. I do want that web address.
I will do a search, too. Maybe between us it will be found.
bye.
A tough subject to explain in a few sentences. I'll try
though:
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Insulin:
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Basically, the food you eat gets converted into sugar which
goes into your bloodstream. A normal pancreas will detect
the sugar in your blood and fire off some insulin. Insulin
is like a 'key' which unlocks the door to your cells so
that the sugar can pass through from your blood into the
cells to be used for energy.
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Diabetes:
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2 types of Diabetes. Type 1 (insulin dependent) where your
pancreas stops making insulin. Type 2 (Non insulin
dependent) where your pancreas makes enough insulin but it
just doesn't do the job it's supposed to. Type 2 is by far
the most common. I have Type 1.
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Diabetes before the discovery of insulin:
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1. You didn't get any sugar into your cells therefore no
energy. Lost weight, wasted away.
2. The sugar in your bloodstream got so high that it
damaged all your internal organs.
3. The body tried to get energy by breaking down fats in
the body. A byproduct of this process is ketones. These
build up in your blood and turns the blood acidic.
All of the above 3 will kill you within weeks.
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With insulin:
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The goal is to keep your blood sugar level as near as
possible to a normal person. If you can achieve this it'll
dramatically decrease the chances of the above 3 problems
occuring. It's all about balancing 3 factors. Exercise,
food, insulin. Exercise and insulin decrease the blood
sugar level. Food increases it.
~
Sugar:
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Most people think that this is a 'no no' for diabetics.
Diabetics HAVE to carry sugar/candy with them in case their
sugar level gets low (this can be caused by not eating
enough food to cover the insulin/exercise that you've done
throughout the day). It can also be used as part of a
regular diet for diabetics. For example a packet of M&Ms
has about 30g carbohydrates (sugar) and so does a large
banana. Sure the banana's better for you but I still crave
chocolate like anyone else. :-) That's not to say I go
crazy with chocolate, pastries, candy etc. (because they're
absorbed quicker into the blood they do cause a 'spike' in
your sugar level) but I do try and incorporate them into my
diet (moderation is the key).
~
Alcohol:
Alcohol has a weird effect. In the short term it actually
speeds up the insulin and can drive your sugar down too
low. This is dangerous and can make you lose consiousness
and go into a coma if you're not given some sugar. In the
long term alcohol damages your nerve endings (for
everyone). This is especially bad for diabetics because the
excess sugar in the blood also damages nerve endings and
blood vessels (This is why diabetics lose feet to
amputation and go blind). Having said that - I still drink
in moderation (Heck I'm only human).
~
All in all the disease sucks and it generally gets ignored
because people think that insulin is a cure. It kills more
people per year than all the high profile diseases put
together. As far as advances, hopefully all the research
into genetics will eventually lead to a way of preventing
the disease. As far as a cure. I'm not holding my breath.
The best I'm hoping for is a new way of delivering insulin
to the body. 3 shots a day, as well as 3 finger pricks to
test my blood is turning me into a human pin cushion. OUCH !
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A little more lengthy than I'd planned but I hope it's
educational. :-)
It was very educational. Very complicated, too.
I have an occasional drop in blood sugar that makes me
shaky and weak feeling. Not serious I just need some fruit,
or a sandwich. If I eat candy, I feel better immediately,
but I also have a more extreme crash soon after. Is this
the same feeling you get? With me, it is nothing serious,
just forgeting to eat at the regular times. I think this is
the reason they give you a snack at the blood donators
booth, they don't want you passing out on them.
My daughter went to school with a little girl last year who
is diabetic. At birthday and holiday treat time, we took a
special sugar-free chocolate for her...was this a good and
nice thing to do, or was that wrong? Sorry about the
ignorance, but if you don't ask, you won't know. Thanks.
Hi Steven, Jujubee, Ed, Tom and Jeb.
Nice to see this thread is still going.
Jeb, Thanks for the details on diabetes, I had not realized
just how complex this condition is, though from several
friends I had been made aware just how much of a pain in
arse it can be.
Steven, I am pretty sure I heard about the cat thing from
over here (not far I suppose). I vaguely recall seeing
news footage of the cat on the tank. We get a bit of the
dog on the bike stuff here. When I was a kid, our cairn
terrier used to escape regularly (he could jump any fence
we'd care to erect) and I'd go looking for him on my
pushbike. When I found him, I'd sit him on the carry rack
behind the seat with the spring clip thingy holding him
down. He'd sit there quite happily as I rode home. He got
quite used to it, and would try to hop up there when I got
the bike out. Crazy mutt.
Ed, finally, a movie recommendation. I will go see thin
red line. Are you suggesting it deals with the sacrifice
issue, or something else?. Btw, I think we must have been
watching different versions of Private Ryan. You reckon it
touched on ' "the perceived debt for benefiting from those
who sacrifice"...in the first 20 minutes," '? I think it
got into that a lot more in the scene where they assault
the german machine gun post and the kid talks them out of
killing the sole German survivior, and what happens with
him afterwards, as well as what happens when they finally
find Ryan. I don't see how the first 20 minutes got into
that subject much. Care to elaborate? Btw, I can find a
collection of critics who agree with me and not you. So
what. Is this like "My brother is bigger than you brother"?
Nice to see you all.
Did you get my mail? I never heard back from you.
Please don't give away too much of the movies....I want to
watch them.
i hope the spring on the carry rack was not to strong,the
one i had on my push bike would have squashed the pup,funny
the things pets will do.
Steven, no, it wasn't too squashy, he seemed to enjoy it
just fine.
Jujubee, I lost all my email and my address book when I
took my PC into the shop to get fixed. I did get one email
which I replied to a while ago, but my modem was being odd
by then, so who knows what happened.
I received one piece of mail, I responded one time. You
didn't miss much. Do you still have the same address?
I don't think I got the response though jjb.
hi guys, hope you dont mind i was curious that this thread
has been going on for so long so i took a peep and ended up
pretty much reading the whole thing. Thought i'd better let
my presence felt. Sorry about picking you up on the canberra
thing, thought i should though. byee
being corrected,i just had a guess at it and hoped iwasn't
to far out
Equus, The name on it is not Jujubee, it is my real name,
as is yours, I would assume.
Hi, Bull. I liked your Website--very funny, but you need
back buttons, I had to retype your address. I am not much
more computer proficient now than I was 6 months ago. Sad,
really.
O.K., if Canberra is the capital of Aus., what is ACT and
SA, and what is the deal with sometimes having Canberra
time and sometimes having Tasmanian time. I will never get
it. Why do I even keep looking at it?
thanks for checking out the page jujubee, hope you
remembered to sign the book! :) yeh i know the back thing is
a pain, the thing is a lot of the links are to other peoples
sites and they say they will recipricate and put a link on
back to mine but so far nothing, also its all so new to me i
am just learning how to do it, you should have a go at it
sometime its great fun.
ACT = australian capital territory
SA = South australia (to clear that up) as for the
tasmanian time v canberra time thing i haven't got a clue -
sorry.
This is such a nice thread down here its so good to find a
place in the YC where everyone is FRIENDLY with each other!
Do you know where in Suffolk ISIS was living? i spent most
of my life there and i would probably know it, i rarely meet
anyone who comes from there.
Anyway Hi to you all, i'll drop by again, hopefully they
will keep this one up for a while longer
got the email address wrong
Yes, most of us, most of the time. Cris has a problem
smiling occasionally, but we forgive that. (now watch the
flames ingite).
I do have a website that my husband maintains. He is a
computer geek. I am a computer illiterate. Our site is for
our whole family...you know pictures and school reports.
Cute stuff the babies do. NO PETS, though. HA! I don't give
out the site address here though. I will e-mail it, if you
want. We have some links with some of the Louisiana
tourists boards. Soon, it will be improved. Oh, I did not
sign your guest book, sorry, I will go back and do it.
Thank you for the time info....I am not stupid, just
uninformed-BIG difference! Bye-Bye.
Sitting in the Qantas Club waiting for a plane. Sigh.
Hey Ed I saw Thin Red Line on your recommendation. Very
good film, though it was a tad pretentious and a bit
excessive in parody in parts (like John Travolta's General)
and the cameo by George Clooney was distracting.
I think it captured very well the issues it was trying to
portray, though I thought from time to time it was just as
unsubtle as SPR, though in a different way, like when the
tooth guy is feeling remorseful and says "War doesn't
ennoble man,it turns him into a dog". I thought that was
spelling it out a bit too blatantly, but it distracted less
than the other bits above.
Brilliant cinematography, and the counterpoint of the
lovely nature shots with the battle scenes was very telling.
What did you think?
I hold to my view on SPR though, they were different films
with different stories to tell and points to make.
G'day Bull, thanks for reinstating my home as capital!
JJB, Steven, hi!
You drive me nuts! Why do you have to tell so much about
the movie? Now I won't be surprised when (now if) I see it.
Well, now that is out, you can tell me how SPR ends...do
they? You have to tell me. I am seeing it next week,
anyway. Go on, now. Tell me.
don't worry, those little snippets aren't telling you very
much at all. Still see it. I only slipped those bits out
because I knew that what was left was still very
substantial.
I guess what you are saying is that you are not going to
tell me anything? Why not? This is worse.
Tell you how SPR ends? If you really want to know that
one, email me, I am not reckless enough to risk the wrath
of Ed by telling an open forum how the movie ends!! :-)
All I really want to know is....do they Save Private Ryan?
Recklessness is the path to fun and excitement. Besides, he
doesn't care. He hated the movie, remember?
You'll have to sit through the whole danged 3 hours top
find out! :-)
Double rats!
you must be the laziest mother and wife around in the US.
Who is looking after your children and husband and the
house while you are spending so much time on the
internet.And posting such shit..."eqqus you have told me
too much.....AArrgghhh tell me the ending noe....."
and your husband is a "computer geek"...nice comment about
the man who allows you to sit on your fat arse all day
playing with yourself and the keyboard.
You are a pathetic bitch and should grow up.
*
And before you jump in Eqqus...I am not the same Cris that
you are doing battle with up the site.
Had to check - and yes, it┤s still live and kicking!
For those who 'know' me - travelling is still going well.
Spending time in some hippy heaven near Granada. Crazy
place - a modern british-german colony.
steve, checked my e-mail, but nothing there.
Maybe I can check in more often now
See ya
o well i'll try the e-mail again ,glad to have you back even
if it's only for a little while.
.
jujubee,cris is at it again, i think he has a very big crush
on you,notice how all his post have some sexual commet mixed
in with the abuse,
I also noticed how many there are of him/her/it. Makes you
wonder, doesn't it? I have counted 3. There may be more.
Hello to ISIS--Is the trip as much fun as you expected?
What have you done or seen that surprised you? Any serious
disappointments?
10c=50f
20c=68f
30c=85f
it was awhile ago but i have at last found out the temp
thing.
the last few days it's beenin the 28c range so thats
about80f but very dry heat.
well since i'm in here
jujubee, i'm certain i saw some approving remarks directed
at you from cris on another thread, damn, you lost ground
again!
~
hi steven how's it going?
~
isis, a hippy haven eh? sounds like you're having a great
time
~
i haven't seen any of the movies mentioned here, damn, :(
Yes I know---steven and I have discussed whether s/he loves
me, or hates me...maybe a stalking thing, I don't know.
Definately an obsession of some kind.
How are you? I don't go to movies, either. Maybe 2-3 times
a year I get to the theater....if we expect it to be a
spectacular movie, or the kids nag too much. IT'S A BUG'S
LIFE ranked pretty high with the short ones.
steven---Thank you, that clears things up a lot.
by me.
You are a pathetic lazy bitch who uses this site for your
moronic immature rantings. Go clean up the house and look
after your children and husband.
"maybe a stalking thing"...you wish...how could anyone find
anything worthwhile in stalking you!!!!!!
Find a job or do something to help your family.
The amount of time that you spend on this site, the crap
that you post and the way you posted to Bob in that other
thread up with the normal people indicates that you have no
friends outside of this medium.
Does that upset you....that you can not hold conversations
with normal people and can only have cyber-friends?
Does it upset you that your children refer to you as Aunty
Mom and your husband can not hold a conversation with you
about the internet, that the house is filthy and the
children unruly due to a lack of parental control by you?
It would sure as hell would worry me...but then again...I
only spend two hours a day in this cyber-world!!!!
Not my life.
I have always chosen to ignore your infantile rantings and
chalked them up to immaturity and boredom. It has become
clear to me, however that you are a very sad and lonely
person. You have nothing to fulfill your life and no one to
love you. I pity you. One day you might have someone to
love that loves you back and you will see how damaged you
really are. You need to get some professional help, seek a
counselor that can help you work through your anger and
hurt. There are people out there that can help you, but you
need to let them. Maybe you were abused as a child, maybe
your spouse left you for someone they met on the internet,
maybe you just feel inadequate as a human being, I don't
know. I do know that the reason one such as yoursself
berates another is to build yourself up in your own mind.
You can be a worthwhile person if you just try. I did feel
disdain for you, but now I feel sympathy and sadness.
Please get some help.
Oh...oh...you got me, how did you know so much about me?
Are you physic? do you have the ability to read ones mind?
*
It looks like you have just posted the concerns and
inadequacies of your own life on that post. It is certainly
not mine.
And obviously you are also a liar as you have not ignored
me in the past, your posts have been littered witrh
references to me.
My point, over this prolonged period of time, is that you
spend far too much time on the this site and you post
absolute rubbish.
Go back and read your posts and see what a fool you have
been and then look at your own pitiful life before trying
to analyse mine from 4 or 5 posts.
You are a loser.
as i go about the site i see your name every where,two hours
is all you spend,so i guess you should be congradulated for
your typeing speed,and fast reflexs
if you are not as jujubees says please make your next post a
happy joyfuled one to prove everyone is wrong about you
:):):)happy happy joy joy
You are such a meany
you pair are almost as bad as the mad bitch herself.
Remember this....before ..making...stupid ...comments
...that ...make
...you...look...like...an...ass...Research....what...you...
are...about...to ...post....first....
There are currently 4 criss and 2 crisoriginals posting on
TTYC. You figure it out, imbeciles.
what is the difference? They are all meanies.
there is one amongst us who does not worship the dark one.
Are you a schoolchild? Your language indicates so.
I wanted to say right off that I am in fact physic, as is
everyone and everything on the planet. Perhaps you meant
PSYCHIC?
First, you don't know anything about me or my life. You are
clueless. You are stupid. And you are without conscience.
I have people who post friendly things to and about me.
What do you have? Hate. I have a husband who loves me. What
do you have? nothing, nobody loves you. I have beautiful
children to hug and kiss me good night. What do you have? A
cat who won't give you the time of day, even though you beg
it to let you pet it. I have a life filled with love and
joy and happiness. What do you have? A life filled with
trying to make everyone else as miserable as you. These are
the reasons I pity you. I also pity that all you have in
your life to occupy your time, is following me around on
the ttyc. I pity you because you don't have anyone coming
to your defence like Equus and Steven came to mine. I have
friends....what do you have?
Steven and Equus---Thank you very much. Have a great
weekend, guys! ;-)
Go and play with your children and husband and do not worry
about my typos, you silly little woman.
I have obviously, and rightly so, hit a nerve with my posts
on your pathetic, moronic,immature rantings on the TTYC and
the lack of quality time that you spend with your family as
opposed to the time you dedicate to the fools on this and
the other thread.
Read the shit that you post.It is like you are living out a
second life that is more desirable than your real one.
Actually sit there and go through post by post that you
have contributed over the past couple of months and then
ask yourself if there really was something in there that
was on value.
And as for the pair of cellar dwellers that supported you,
in your opinion,...yeah...I am really impressed.
Your attempted cutting remarks on me just go to prove that
you are a very immature little girl as has your responding
to my posts.
If the roles has been reversed....I would have ignored you
and that rejection would have lead to you, at sometime,
ceasing to post such posts.
Mind you, you are a fool and do not have my high intellect .
for your happy and chairful post,it brighten up my day noend
yes some of the posts that are on here are not important or
meaning full,but that is why it's a conversation,it's not a
speach,like you try to give ,why are you trying to impress
us in your last post do you think we care,when you meet
people why do some people talk about the weather do you
think they realy care!no it's a means of geting to know the
person breaking the ice,to build a bond
and another way to do that is to be annoyying,to get in
peoples faces,lots of kids find that the only atenshion that
they can get is for being bad so they are,it's up to you how
you post and what you post,you are telling others to look at
there posts,why not tell us about why yours are so negitive
whats your gripe with the world,you don't care about anyone
here but you post and try to get atenshion, you now have it
so WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
to pushing the send button.
And also I did not address my post to you, dickhead, so get
back in your dank little kennell, you trained dog, and mind
your own business.
Jujubee is big, fat and ugly enough a skank to defend her
own actions without ferrets like you and Equus jumping in
to defend a pig like her.
no answer once again,where is the self reflection.
just more abuse,is this your idea of interlectual
conversation,you have gone from sexual referances to jujubee
to animal ones for me,what does this say of your view on
relationships.please show us some more of your interpersonal
skills.why do you hide behind anger what are you afraid of
in your self.
by which I mean Juju and Steven and equus .. the ONLY thing
to do with the cris-series is to strictly IGNORE it - just
move around the posts like a rock in the road..nad carry on
with your conversations..
Hey, Voyeur---How was your trip? Lots of fun and good food?
Good idea....that is what I did do for a long time, I just
got a little tired of the same old crap appearing again and
again.
steven---I heard it was raining there-good painting
weather, huh?
My daughter is doing a study on the giant squid researcher-
Dr. Clyde Roper, who is looking for it near Kaikoura, just
north of you. Have you heard of him? March 19th they are
having an interview via video-phone. They have found one
that was 59 ft long.
I think someone has an editing problem of their own, don't
you? Pity they can't tell the difference between a typo and
a misspelling. I never realised you had such animalistic
tendancies, pretty neat, steven, you ferret. Talk to you
Sunday!
Equus---How are you? Busy watching movies? You better watch
out, too. You might accidently bite yourself, when in such
a defending frenzy.
Nice to see you.
Don't worry about Cris, we're enjoying him taunting us.
Its a bit light when you walk past a fence and you see a
little terrier yapping and snarling. He can't really hurt
you, and its kind of amusing to see him trying.
Still, a timely reminder to get back to the business at
hand.
Jjb, no, I haven't seen a decent new movie for a coupla
weeks, though I did rewatch Pulp Fiction again recently,
and once again it cracked me up. Most of it's hilarious,
though the one truly poignant bit is where one of the
characters (I won't spoil it too much) gets whacked halfway
through in a way that belies the amount of character
development that had gone into him by that time. Most of
it is a cack (an australianism - need explanation?)
It combines music and style as well as bizarre adventure
and some really funny bits of humanity, as well as some
rather nasty unpleasantness that Ed woudn't like.
Anyone else see it?
Did I understand you correctly, they found a squid 59 foot
long? Is that from tentacle tip to tentacle tip (sort of
all splayed out) or from head thing to tentacle tip. Thats
one big goddam squid. Do they have a web site? This would
be worth seeing!
pulp fiction, splendid,
sigh it reminds me of the great time i had hopping from
movie to movie during the film festival the year pf came
out, saw some neat films that time, including schindlers
list (hmm..), fun, exotica, strawberry and chocolate and
dear diary
~
some downright strange ones like the bad lieutenant, anyone
seen that?
~
and disappointing ones like shadowland (was that it's
name?)
~
hi there voyeur
damn i actually wrote it's when i meant its i knew it was
just a matter of time :)
The website addy is seawifs.gfsc.nasa.gov/squid.html or
www.nationalgeographic.com or partners.si.edu/squid.html
I don't think there is an actual pict of the squid in
question, but the info is interesting. If I lived close, I
might go there and gat a visit with him. That squid is
frozen at the Stinis Space Center, not far from where we
live. She is going on a field trip to see it and have the
video-chat.
I loved Pulp Fiction. I own a copy and whenever my sister
comes for a visit, we watch it. The music was great and the
characters were fun. I especially have a thing for Tim
Roth. Did you see Resevoir Dogs? Lots of bloody mess there,
but more of Tim Roth.
Green-Hi. How are you doing? I did not care for The Bad
Lieutenant, I am not sure why--something to do with the
type of violence, I guess.
Don't worry about the typo, it happens to everyone
eventually, even you. :-)
squids are so much fun,just off kaikora is a very deep sea
trench lots of food for the sea life,lots of wales,dolfins
and gaint squid?they found a dead one that was very big,the
picture shows it over the mast and into the sea on each side
of the boat,ones about 20 feet long from nose? to the tip of
tenticle wash up on the beach but they are still trying to
study them because one thats alive and very big are still
hideing from them
.
sorry, I never pay much attention to who is who, unless I
already know, if you follow me. So which one was he in PF?
He was the robber-guy in Pulp Fiction. He was the bad guy
in Rob Roy. The undercover cop in Resevoir Dogs. He is
wonderful.
Steven, have you actually seen one of them dead on the
beach? We are going to go see this frozen one next month
and it kind of makes me queasy just thinking about the size
of it.
the best bit in the movie is when the gun goes off in the
car and they try to hide the mess
.
squid: the bigist inreal life i've seen was about three feet
long
on the news;tv;the bigist washed up was about 20 feet
picture of one on the boat was about40 feet but it was very
decayed so it was hard to tell what it was,the trouble is
that they go to bits very quicky after they die,every now
and again something washs up on the beach but it is hard to
tell what it was
theres lots of fishing boats but none have every caught one
alive so they must live very deep or be very rare
just got back from a week in S.A, great part of the world i
had such a blast, it always feels so good to get away and
experience other places a little doesn't it! They have so
much wild life down there on Kangaroo island...including a
huge Huntsman spider on my bedroom wall one evening! That
scared the shit out of me, ended up sleeping head to toe in
a small single bed with my boyfriend that night because we
couldnt bare to kill the damn thing but no way was i
sleeping in there with it! But it was quite romantic somehow
even with his feet in my face! Oh well just thought i'd
drop by and say hi.
But steven....you really must work on that sentence
constructing and spelling, wales and dolfins...they are
spelt Whales and Dolphins..even in New Zealand and even by
the mighty All Blacks...ask Sean Fitzpatrick.
Please continue on with the new standards of posting Juju,
so that I do not have to visit here again. We certainly do
not want to see a return to this;
**
WHAT????? Added by: Jujubee
I'm being talked about???? Where??? Why???? What is this
about???? Did I do something stupid? What list? Oh, now I
am upset. I didn't see anything. HELP! I'll talk to you
about it tonight and you better have answers.
AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
I am the most impatient person alive. My 1 big fault, that
and being american.
**
Keep up the good work and I hope the house has been cleaned
up.
Not quite sure I follow, Cris, old bean. Are you
moderating?
jujubee, hmm, tim roth, he's the guy they open the film
with isn't he, in the diner (pulp fiction i mean) yeah, i
approve i think i've seen more of him in something called
little odessa?
~
the red splatter bit was surprising/shocking but so were
so many other parts, i think that plus all that
inconsequential natter and 'normalcy' put it on a different
plane
~
about reservoir dogs i think i watched a badly chopped
version because i seem to remember it was rather
incoherent, or is it like that anyway?
~
over the weekend i saw costa gavras' music box.. and sidney
lumet's guilty as sin, not bad fare for our little idiot
box ;)
~
dunno anything about squid
I know that was a surprise. I went to see it in the theater
with the same sister mentioned above and we both jumped out
of our seats. Now when we watch it, we clutch hands and
hold our breath in anticipation.
He was the guy in the diner, with Amanda Plummer. And he
was in Little Odessa--I did not care so much for that
movie. The ending was not what I had hoped. It was more
interesting than the way I would have written it, true, but
it also felt unfinished to me.
Resevoir Dogs kind of goes back and forth in time--like PF
and some other Quentin Tarentino films. I like that. It is
hard to follow at first, but it grows on you. That normal
day-to-day stuff stirred in with the craziness adds a
quality that makes you think that all this could possibly
happen.
Have you all seen From Dusk Till Dawn? I loved it until all
the vampire stuff started happening. Lots of blood spilling
there, too. Then the vampires show up and it just gets
stupid. Plus, no Tim Roth.
You should see The Usual Suspects--great movie--again, no
Tim Roth, but it does have Kevin Spacey--another lovey.
green-Do you eat squid? I love it!!! The giant ones might
be a bigger meal than I am used to, though.
Bull-Welcome back--Glad that spider didn't get you.
Cris--I really don't care what you say or think about me-
your opinion means little. But, seriously, lay off the
spelling gripes. You understood the meaning, right? Why do
you care if someone can spell or not? Big deal. If you
would like, I can go through all of your posts and point
out all of your misspellings for you, and give you the
corrections. Would that be helpful? No, it wouldn't. The
whole point of language is to get your ideas and thoughts
across to another person--steven does that quite well.
hi there thanks for signing the guestbook, are you still
online?
Would like to know what the rest of you think if you get a
chance
www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Bay/5952
so whats on the agenda for today? i had such a huge one
last night i stumbled home about 7am, geat night, been lying
in bed playing on my compputer all day....wonderfully self
indulgent, have spent a stupid amont of time on this sight
today though, i came back after a week away and nearly all
the topics are completley different, what is wrong that no
new topics can last longer than a week? There is no chance
to get other postings going like this one has. Oh well, i
expect cris will have something to say about my latest
topic...te he...couldnt resist i'm afraid, well i really
must go and do something a little productive for the day.
Bye all
For someone who trys to give the impression of being a
University Graduate ( what a load of shit)you really are
quite stupid.
Do not reply and I will go away.
Stop impersonating the missing link between man and the
apes.
Steven, I hear that you can study the three Rs, together
with spelling, at nightschool.They are taking enrolments
right now.
when i stayed in auckland we had to sleep out side in atent
everything was going find till it came to turn out the
light, we had put the tent up under a light so we could have
a bit of light to see,now with the inside light out the one
outside showed up all the spiders on the outside of the
tent,the spiders are quite big but harmless,they used them
in the moive(aracnerphoba)spelling just for cris,they are
about the size of your hand but with the light behind them
they looked twice as big and moveing allover the
place,didn't get much sleep,don't like spiders much at the
best of times
.
juju the best bit of dusk till dawn is the vampire seen,i
loved it.
.
cris.i love you two,here's a big sloppy kiss Mmmmmmmmmmjust
for you do you feel special now,your comPASHion and careing
knows no bounds but still no information on you,why hold
back ,tell us about you ,join in,share commune,why are you
holding back,what are you hideing from,set your self free
Please let me know and I will not make comments about your
grammar and spelling, which is absolutely horrendous.
A 10 year child could do better.
If you are not...I suggest remedial training...you need it.
Badly.
Did you notice????
How funny is that?
Jan-dicapped????? hahahahahaha.
Oh, steven, if cris only knew.
You LIKED the vampire part? You are so weird. It was a
great bloody mess of a movie, until they threw in that
crap. We looking back and forth at each other because we
could not believe what we were seeing. I STILL can't
believe it. Bunch of freaks.
Spiders---EEEEEEKKK! Big black hairy ones. We have
tarantulas occasionally squished on the highway--what a pop
they make. I admit I do like spiders much better than any
kind of rodent-type animal. Rats make me vomit.
It is said that small things amuse small minds.
Congratulations...You have proven it correct.
the whole quote is"small things amuse small minds and
smaller minds take notice"where does that put you?
but back to the light banter,yes i am jan-decapped i type
with only one finger and have to look at the keys but if i
do that i can't see what i have written please take pitty on
me and show me the kindness you are reknown for,i crave your
blessing and atention on great one ,
to hear that you do have an excuse for your appalling
spelling. Have you heard of 'editing' your post prior to
hitting the send button??
I find that it gives a post that polished effect...don't
you agree??
Your handicap (or should that be jandicap)will not imped
you in that course of action as it only requires one finger
to edit but a good knowledge of the english language to
edit correctly.
Spell checker may be of use to you in this area.
I am sorry that I can not join you, Equus and Jujubee in
your discussions of current movies as I do not watch
them.Something to do with overkill when I work for a major
cinema group some uears ago.
Best of luck with your next post...I look forward to
reading it or 'sidelines' my alternate handle.
imped and uears...i don't think i need to explain!
You have spoilt the fun for Steven and Jujubee to be able
to nitpick on those deliberate mistakes that I have set up
for them. I have to let them feel that they win on
occassions or they may not play with me.
an idiot i might have fallen for that one...4\10 for effort
though. At least the others are able to communicate Cris,
unlike your poor mentally challenged self. Try saying
something nice for a change, or telling us something about
yourself! It won't hurt i promise!
and I do mean an ATTRACTION.
You are a female aren't you...I can tell from your
postings...so am I but I do like to play the male in
relationships. Do you like to be dominated ???
I am a very caring and kind person who uses this forum for
what it is....a make believe world that does not exist
outside of these bits and bytes...binary one could say.My
alternate self is portrayed here on this site for all to
see and be disgusted in.
The sad part of this is that it exists in all of
us...somewhere deep and dark inside...the evil persona that
can be used or forced to remain dorment... I choose to
allow mine to run rampant and unchallenged here....so that
to exercise it and learn it's control mechanisms for when I
need it's colours and beauty in the real world.
How about we meet up and you can see if you find me as
attractive in the flesh as you do in this world. Your
infatuation with me is quite stimulating and obvious in
that you choose to make comment on all my posts. I will
allow the black, evil side to remain on-line in the real
world............ just for you.
Till later.
LOL LOL LOL
oh man you crack me up!
have to say its an inprovement though!
Oh, BULL. You do know how to attract them, don't you?
First the spider, and now cris. Wow! You have the touch.
do you want to play a game???
What kind?
can we all play?
please go on.
now that you have showen your self to be interactive the fun
can begin,
The idea for the game is that I can show you how evil and
nice that I can be....I mean to the extremeties that are
known to mankind.
That is my role....
Your role is to come back with something that is opposite
to what I have posted...sounds good?
What that means is that if I am evil to you or
anyone/anything else...you must be nice/polite back.
If I am nice/polite...you must show your evil side that is
lurking below the surface.
If you are in agreeance....I will go first.
please let me know.
i feel a trap in operation, BTW Cris if your going to
impersonate me with lame arse websites i think you will have
to do better than the one up the tree a wee bit. *sigh* and
i'm usually asleep at 3am!!
LOl jujubee i sure seem to have attracted the pick of the
lot haven't i!! te he how are you girl anyway? Good morning
Steven!
impostering a slag like you.
Fuck your boyfriend must be one ugly bastard to go out with
a horror head like yourself.
Crawl back into your hole pretentious skank...you bore me.
YYYYAAAWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
This was a nice thread before you came along. Have you ever
thought that the other guys who were here way before us
might not want it to turn into such an ugly scene?. I
appologise to the rest of you for this scum bags behaviour.
I have enjoyed looking in on you all, sorry we didnt get
around to having a proper chat. But i can see any further
presence is just going to incourage Cris so i will catch up
with you all sometime in one of the other threads. Take
care. BULL X
next to drive BULL off the TTYC.
You were warned early in the piece, BULL , not to take me
on and then impersonate me on the TTYC like you and your
fool friend, sidelines, have done over the past week.
Jujubee and Steven...How about the competition...I would
like to join you guys down here as ...kinda regular... I
feel that we have more in common than you realise.
I promise that I will behave and I am learning to keep the
evil beast within controlled and only let it out at
nighttime.
one thing thought,the oppersite of something is not always
the most evil,if you are nice and say"have a nice day" and i
say "go to hell you gutless creep"it has no impact if i
don't know what pulls your strings,you might like to be
called names so i am infact not being evil but giveing you
your kicks,to be evil i would say"nothing"but that said, if
we say yes we will start and you post the first one as a
very nice message the most evil thing to do would be to
ignore you from then on,never respond again,to react in ways
you expect or want might not be part of the game
.
hay jay do ya wan na play
But as opposed to being an evil thing to do ...not replying
to me...that would be the smart thing to do!!
You never know when I may corrupt you and drag you to the
evil side of the TTYC.
you have already started to talk back,why do you think you
are so evil ,we all have our dark side some people express
it other try to control it the most warped denigh it giveing
it the most power over there unconshious,leting it grow in
darkness only to be released in times of most need,when
control is lost and the frenzy takes over
I become a very interesting person when on the dark side.
now now cris,leave the people above a lone
.
are we all ready to start, have you xplained all the rules
is all we have to do is post the opposite of you,
it sounds to simple,whats the trap
what do we need to enter the dark zone,i have a torch and
sword ready,
who will be the judge,or are there no winers,just wine-ers
i would say play fear but i don't want to PUNish you.
.
ps it's comeing up to the weekend so i might miss a
day.don't think i've run away justhaveing a bit of a life
maybe you can get one one day"just practaceing being evil"
did it sting you to the core
[evil laugh] HAHAHAHAHaaaaaaaa burp
.
hay jay better where overalls from now on this might get
very mussy
are we all ready to go!
I have my hip-waders on and I am as ready as I will ever
be.
SO........
Hit it shorty!
Cris, where are you?
I know where steven is.
Have had some other priorities in the past day or so and
have not been able to visit as much as I would like too.
So...if you are in agreeance with the rules we shall begin.
..
I will go first.
* I really enjoy reading your posts no matter where they
are on this site, TTYC.
I believe that we could become very close friends, the
three of us, and share experiences, likes &
dislikes,fetishes and the such and current on-going
concerns in our private lives and those affecting our
respective nations.
I find that both of you are very deep people and I believe
trustworthy and caring....Jujubee..I must admit that I find
you the most contributing, thoughtful poster of the TTYC
and steven..your posts are always full of interesting
information from the land of the long white cloud.
Please respond soon...I am waiting in eager anticipation
...Until then my friends.
cris is soooooooooooooooooo funny
ha ha ha RIP thats the sound of my side spliting.
we've been had
that cris is so bad
has he gone away
left us to play
all on our own
with only a bone
.
is it true or has he/she been called a way on important
affairs of sate,juju have your dreams been answered,did i
hear right you are now asking to see cris ,what has he/she
done to us we have benn infected,can we ever be cleansed of
his evil power or are we left in limbo with un answered
guestions,tune in next week for a nother exciting
installment same bat time
same bat channel.
da da da da da da da da da da batman.
The timestamps on #'s 398 & 399? You all were posting at
the same time. That is interesting----some kind of unusual
bond has formed---weirdness.
Did you notice I am 400!!??!!
Hey steven, do you really think cris has escaped our little
trap? Is his mind really that sharp? Ooops. No, that is
just his little pointy head. Sorry cris, I bet you hear
that a lot. An honest mistake. Hey, watch where you point
that thing!
as if we would care what the hell you do cris no one
cares,you only infest the tree we should get the
exterminators out to spray the tree to clean the crap that
you but up.
and as for the sucking up in your last post,it just proves
what a feltcher you are.
year the posts were just about on top of each other didn't
see cris till i came back today,i wonder how close you can
post,have you had the sign come up that says internal earra
on the tree,that might be to people posting at the same
time?
I have never gotten that particular message...sometimes it
is UNbelievably sloooooowwwww. I think that is what happens
to me. Sometimes, if it is a small thread, I will go look
at it and then there is another post same time as mine.
We have the fastest chip known to man, but it is still very
slow sometimes, depending on how busy the server is. Good
new, though. Very soon, my other Steve will be our server.
His company is getting their own system, so I get FREE
access and FREE websites, and I can use my own name JUJUBEE
on my e-mail, and my website. I also can complain directly
to the boss(Steve), no middle man who just sends placating
mails back. If my system is not behaving properly, no
angelfood cake for dessert! HA!
I did not think you could get any more pathetic, but you
did! You think that if you are nice and friendly that will
make us like you all of the sudden? NO! We have never liked
you, don't like you now, and never will. Why don't you go
take a shower, and wash your slimey, greasy hair. Soap and
shampoo are not very expensive, maybe your pimp could
supply you with some. It could increase his profits. Oh,
and brushing what is left of your green, snaggly teeth is
not a bad idea, either.
where have you been out playing on the dark side ,what has
the bulb in you night lamp gone out and theres noone to help
you change it,so what evil nasty things has a snivling
little ego maineack like you been up to over the weekend,no
dont tell us,we dont care what you do you'd only make it up
we know you haven't got a life all you do is sit at home and
vent your anger of your pitaful life at others over the
computer.
I am starting to feel sorry for cris. No, really. Poor,
sad, pitiful, thing. All he has to do in his so-called life
is pick his nose and examine the contents. Then decorate
the walls of his brown paper refrigerator box. Does he
invite his imaginary friends over to ooh and ahh over his
"art"?
Simplicity of life is a wonderful thing, isn't it cris? You
are lucky to be alone, with no one to love you. No one to
care about whether you breathe or not. No one with which to
spend holidays. No one to cry when you die.
Lucky, lucky you.
cris has taken off again,inconsiderate o well ,i hada look
at bulls page lots of things to see,hope she comes back
here now that cris is nice
i have been out for a couple days and see that nothing has
changed.
Hi steven.
I guess cris is just not taking this well-----he can dish
it out, but he can't take it, huh?
no i think it 's his. point now we are talking and wondering
more,he has gotten in to our minds,we have no answer to that
see you soon have a nice trip see ya when you get back
bye
ps where did every one else go,why are they so frightened of
cris and i see your post has taken the leed
a christchurch restraunt is being sued by the
beatles,because they have too many poster up on the walls,
or the menu is not quite right, any way the story is all
around the english speaking world,
Steven have you been to this place?
Suckers....what a sting and what pathetic replies from the
pair of you.
never been there but kristel says"I HAVE BEEN ITS CALLED
SARGENT PEPPERS STEAKHOUSE AND ITS ON COLOMBO ST-CENTERAL
CITY IT IS A BEATLES THEME RESTERAUNT WITH SO MANY BEATLES
PICTURES POSTERS AND NAMES FOR MEALS AFTER BEATLES SONGS IM
NOT A STEAK FAN BUT I ENJOYED IT THERE -I STOLE A REALLY
COOL MENU/PLACEMAT!!!!!"
.
cris good to see you back ,i missed you so much that i was
counting the seconds it you get back.
.
You shocked me again. I have never stolen anything in my
entire life, not even a pack of gum from the market.
Cris--I so value your esteemed opinion, thank you for your
constructive criticism. It was very helpful.
sorry that was K she was siting with me when i was looking
in here,thats her bit,i've never been to the place,she wrote
the bit in capitals and took the napkin/placemat ,i wouldn't
do anything like that ,i even hand things in that i
find,last thing i found was a little recorder/walkman,took
three mounths to get back from the police and i still
haven't used it
The other day we were at the market and got out to the car
and my Twink revealed a roll of Life-Savers hidden in her
hand---Kleptomania. I immediately rushed her back into the
store to return them-- I was so embarassed---the girl at
the counter laughed and thanked me. I always feel guilt
when there is none.
i think all kids are kleptos,they see something and there
little brains fry and the rest is history
thanks steven, i read your response, gotta go.
Quite a lot of crap here recently, eh. But I always believed
that ignoring is the best cure for attentionseekers.
Juju, totally agree with this Tim Roth thing. He is also in
this movie with Madelaine xxxxx, playing a prisoner who is
seducing his dentist - man, I wish someone like him would
once seduce me in that way!!
Thanx that you are all still showing some interest in my
whereabouts.
I┤ve been living in the most amazing place for the last 6
weeks, getting to know it better every day. Everything
there,from hardcore english techno guys, to leftover flower
power kids, to junkies, alternatives, and convicts who have
┤lost┤ their passports and will probably never leave this
remote valley again. I┤m learning loads about people, we are
all trying to get on well, and it works amazingly well.
Getting itchy feet, though and will soon move on.
Stealing- is a strange thing, kind of impossible to do for
me. There where those great olives on a tree, so jucey,
smiling at me, and I already pulled a bag out, but then I
just couldn┤t. And those solarpanals on a mountain which a
friend wanted to get down- I went nuts about it till we left
without them. I just feel that stealing is a definite case
of what goes around comes around.
steven, how are you doing? Still nothing at my address - I┤m
starting to get very curiouse now!! Well, one good thing
about Chris is that he is bringing your funny side out real
well!
Will be in Granada again tomorrow, so i┤ll try to get here.
See ya
cris is a very serious matter to play with people feeling
and minds is a very dangerious thing, but i thought the best
way to bring s/he out in the open wasto play the game,have
no idea whats up now,s/he seems to have vented and gone in
piece,
good to hear you are fine, the trip sounds so good i am so
jelious,why do freaks always end up in little valleys hidden
away for the world.
stealing?? i learned the hard way at a early age the
cost/effect the hidden repercushions of stealing so, in away
i have been lucky,some people don't understand the power of
the little white lie and where it can end up.
This feels like the old days back in England; getting up in
the morning, straight to the computer and into my thread on
the TT!
I was wondering about the same thing and I found out, that
remote valleys are the only places where freaks are accepted
and left alone by police, etc, because there they are far
enough out of the way of locals, tourists .... And to be
honest, if you see some of the guys outfit and acting,
you┤ll understand why. It┤s just a bit much to digest
for an old spanish farmer - kind of scary for them, as
they say. Also the general attitude towards locals is very
good, but like everywhere else there are always some who
take the piss out of the country they are visiting - which
couses general caution among the locals towards any
travellers.
I┤m off to the hot springs now. They are in the middle of
olive groves and one of my favorite spots on cool days -
even though they stink of rotten eggs!
Take care :)
funny how that happens ,people geting together to be free
and keep out of other peoples way.must be so many places
that no ever knows about apart from word of mouth,little
places tucked away,groupings of people that get to gether
then break up.
hot springs are fun there are some about 200 miles away i
have been to them in the winter it's so nice to sit in the
heat with snow all around,in the summer it'so hot out side
and the bugs and mosies eat you alive
the ones here don't smell but the ones further up the
country smell like rotten eggs
bye
everyones takeing a break for the weekend,see ya all soon
sorry to have gone without saying goodbye but the net does
not dominate my life like others here in cyberworld.I am
always aware that there is a realworld present with trees
and flowers and animals and interaction with human beings.
Agree with you Isis on what is happening up the site..pretty
pathetic goings on and not just from those pair of idiots
carrying on about accessed electronic mail accounts.
Anyway must run...time for the morning jog and walk around
the city...catch you back here in the not too distant
future.
The pain of separation is killing me! I know we live thousands of miles apart (roughly three thousand, according to my estimate), but surely we can overcome this obstacle.
Miss you much...kiss, kiss.
why leave us for the real world,we are much better and more
friendly and will put up with all your little spats
lots of love and wet kisses
bye
for the same cris!!! Pleeeaasse tell me you're directing your kisses at the female cris.
was supposed to be written TO steven, not BY him. Sorry, steven. What can I say - infatuation can fluster the best of us.
i have no idea if cris is male or female,
just haveing a stur
cris is all yours
This site is dissapating very quickly into a cesspool
quagmire with all the Cris,s', cris impersonators and jerks
blaming Cris for every little post that is of a left wing
or insulting nature.
Who would have thought that little old me would have such
an effect on the lives of some mant poor lonely sould out
there in cyberworld.
searching...I am missing our little chats...tell me more
about this previous person in your life who was a harley
hog fan.
Steven...will catch you on the thread..I think that i may
migrate down here for the spring as it is starting to
become pretty dark up above.
Off for another jog...what a lovely day it is..see you all
soon.
God, this is exhausting coming all the way down here to find you! Isn't there somewhere else we can meet?
In reference to the Harley guy, there's way too much to tell here. I believe I mentioned that he's no longer with us, though. It's my understanding that the person responsible is no longer in evidence, either. (It seems that certain old friends are extremely loyal.)
Now, in regard to this notoriety you've achieved. I think you find it just a bit personally satisfying.
tell us all about the hog guy,
spice up my day
I want to know, too.
Which cris are you? The good one, or one of the many
naughty ones? The same one that is always here, or are you
just a visitor? Tell us all about your relationship with
searching and the Hogg man. Titilating, I am sure.
just sent you a mail but realised that the post i was
talking about has actually been cut...ho hum story of my
life i suppose.
How is everyone? i have decided to brave the wrath of cris
and return, all be it temporaily.
Tell me stories of embarrassing parent situations! Mine are
a nightmare and i need to know things are the same for the
rest of you out there! (obviously it would be too much to
hope that the same went for the parents of Cris!)
Anyway catch you later. X
due to your unprovoked attack and attention given to me.I
have seen the light and mellowed., not changed.I have the
evil side under control at the moment but be warned.
Do not flame, insult or post anything about my family, the
size of my gentials, my posts, or my looks or you will see
the evil side like it has been shown before.
Just a friendly warning...post on.
Your favourite Cris, normally dominated by the evil side,
but using medication to overcome the problems.
The purveyour of good tidings and thoughtful advice to
those that require it.
searching and I have come across each other on a thread now
past and struck up a convo. on common grounds.Now we keep
missing each other on this ramshackled and fast
deteriorating site.
She is smitten with moi, and understandably so.
One day soon we will be on this site at the same time and
be able to post a convo. to each other.
I am a hog man, love the bikes and also ex-military.
searching was involved with a past president of a Harley
Davidson club.
Anyways...off to go a cruising around the sites...catch you
soon.
I have owned many bikes in the past....never anything but a
Harley. I now have a 1987 Sportster. Paint color Black-
Cherry Pearl--really a beautiful bike. What do you ride?
I cannot believe we have something in common. Will wonders
never cease? Are you as hot for searching as she is for you?
Maybe the hope of true love is the only medication you
needed.
Are we still playing the game, or have we given that up for
lent?
Hi Bull....glad to see you again. Hope you and cris can
find some neutral ground.
never had a road bike,but have had lot of trail bikes,had
one bike that i could stand on the kick start and only just
get it to turn over,the noise it made was a real deep base
beat,wish i never sold it.
.
bull.
parents ?what always annoyed me was,birthday gifts,never got
what i wanted,everything i got was like for kids a few years
younger,
Sorry I haven't dropped by. I have popped in occasionally
for a look, but haven't felt the desire to chat much. Nice
though to see you lot are still going.
Could have posted this upstairs but i was after sensible
replies! :)
I have had a really hectic weekend and now my boby clock is
totally screwed. I didnt wake up until 3pm (you'll notice
the first thing i did was get on the computer!) How can i
get my body clock back on track...and soon! I know i wont be
able to get to sleep until gone 2am and this morning i just
couldnt get up, i really tried! Any solutions?
I just knock myself out with a sleeping pill. Tylenol P.M.
works pretty well.
The catch is that you'll probably feel a bit out of it all day after you wake up again.
Jujubee - I see your questions have yet to be answered. The lack of response can be interpreted either way...once again, our friend discloses little of himself.
full moon makes my body clock go off,the only answer is to
keep patterens even if you don't sleep try to rest at the
same times,but sleeping late is great if you want to have
vivid dreams,try makeing your self get up at the same time
every day,reset the patterens,but it takes time.don't stress
over it,
I had heaps of trouble getting to sleep last night. Just as
i suspected! I eventually dropped of about 4am wondering
what the hell god awful time i was going to wake up. But i
was wide awake by 8am and couldn't possibly have slept
anymore! I got up had a workout, ate breakfast, sorted out
a whole bunch of stuff, had a business meeting and been
jumping around full of beans the whole day so far! Well
just goes to show i suppose! LOL (show what tho' i'm not
exactly sure!) So how have your days been so far?
I, the president-elect of an as-yet undetermined nation,
hereby do declare on this, the 30th of March, sometime in
the early afternoon on the other side of the world, that we
are officially in a state of "Kicking-Your-Butts" by a
margin of 88 posts.
In order to rectify this situation, you must contact our
Master/Mistress (whatever it is these days, Bob knows I have
no control over these things anymore) of the Mint as soon as
possible to arrange to borrow millions of dollars in
worthless promissory notes which must then in turn be used
to contract Think-Tanks composed of our nationals who will
devise ever-more-colorful and digitalized means of screwing
up your thread content even more thoroughly so that you
might accrue debt to us for these notes in the form of
monthly interest for the next 127 years or until we bomb
you.
Thank you for your prompt compliance. Failure to comply
amounts to will to revolt and will alert our active corps to
commence defensive tactics immediately. Don't want that now,
do we?
Have a nice day, then.
but ok, Bull.....
I have suffered from an acute case of insomnia for many
years. I have recently, somehow, (I am scared to type this)
gotten over it. I have not told anyone because I am afraid
it will come back. It seems to be creeping back anyhow so,
what the hell. This is what you do: go on about your
regular chores just as if the day has miraculously gotten
longer. Do the stuff you hate to do, or the stuff you just
never have the time to do---laundry, reading books, sewing,
baking, or watch some rented movies you have always wanted
to see but never got around to watching. I can think of a
hundred things to do. I have recently---a month or so just
all of the sudden gotten sleepy. Very strange for me. Try
doing something constructive with your time and then it
won't seem quite so wasted and if you really get involved
in what you are doing, you might not realise how long you
have been awake. It has finally worked for me, but only for
a little while because I am now looking at the clock and
wondering why I am not tired yet...Oh, well. I can't abide
the pill route, I hate that groggy feeling the next day
even worse than the sleeplessness.
LA (?) Jefita--I thought it was EL....Velly Intelestink.
You want HOW MUCH?????? FYI, I am the M.O.M. and I think we
refuse to pay you one red bloody tooth. Now what? Is this a
frootloopian stand-off? Neato.
searching----which questions are you referring to? I have
asked so many and I almost never get any answers. I thought
I was resigned to it. I am not.
you need to check the edges of the screen you seem to be
spreading/leeking down out the bottom into this thread,but
we are all one big happy family here at the tt.
so never mind,i don't mind that the above post is bigger i
have no evny problems
(please don't menshion the hollowed name of the master dr
bob)remember if menshioned three times he has to appear,and
as for your hopeless atempt at black mail,i laugh at you and
i'll be telling cris to come see you,ha ha ha
Darn darn darn, Thanks for the advice everybody looks as if
the time has come to start acting on it. Couldn't get to
sleep again last night, i guess its just because i have so
much on my mind what with packing up my life here ready to
move on and basicaly have TWO new ones begin in a few weeks.
I keep dreaming about houses, shipping companies, flights,
bond money...the list is endless, as is the list of things i
have to get done within a couple of weeks. And on that note
i better get out of here and get to it!
As for El Paso up there, feel free to evict me at any time
Hombre i could do with a kick up the proverbial backside!
JUJU ask your question again, i for one will promise to
(try and) answer. BTW have you ever wasted hours in this
thing when you cant sleep? It seems to be one thing which
works! LOL Hope the insomnia doesnt return. At least i think
i know the cause of mine and can see a time when i hope it
will end.
Well must get the nose to the grindstone again, thanks for
listening. XX
have been a little bit too busy to come and visit the LP of
late.
Jujubee, in answer to your question , I have a '96 Fat Boy,
60 % cromed up, fully worked and balanced...next to my
loved ones, it is my favourite friend.
So yes, we do have more in common than just this medium of
conversation across the land masses and oceans.
--
Searching..we are going to have to organise a time and
thread to meet to continue on with our discussion, sweetpea.
catch you all soon.
you have no idea how long it takes me to come all the way down here!
Your call...
you have no idea how long it takes me to come all the way down here!
Your call...
how that double post happened!
don't worry it happens to even the best of us.
will check in here every half hour or so from now to see if
we can catch up.
That would be a good plan if I didn't have to leave for work in 45 minutes...I'm already late. The best I can do from work is to (quickly and furtively) do a search on this branch - I don't dare post, since Big Brother is on the watch.
Will try to catch up with you when I come home on lunch break.
When I see all those ads with naked people and all those sex
related articles in magazines like Elle or Marie Claire - I
always think: it must be a bad thing if it needs that much
advertising! Makes you suspicious, really.
that I've been scammed! Highly amusing "Cris".
I believe I'll just exit this thread and take my keyboard
elsewhere. Show's over, folks.
no it's a mind control thing.it gets you excited andlooking
to take information in so when you scan the add,you take in
more information because you are looking for sex,sex sells
so what ever they are selling it will be used to get you to
buy,we are controled by our basic instincks,put a beautyfull
face on the cover of a mag and it will sell,
. . .always trying to "help."
on the thread way up this site. My response is #15 - you should be able to recognize me by my terminology. If that doesn't work, I don't know what will.
Now, if you'll excuse me for a moment, (and I know this isn't a terribly attractive image to conjure up), but I'm going to go spit nails!
to either post. What are you waiting for? More proof of identity? O.K., it's currently 3:25 a.m., Pacific Daylight Savings Time - check it out on an atlas. Thought you might be up and about, since we're obviously in different time zones. Now, I'm going back to bed - will check back in about 4 hours.
to either post. What are you waiting for? More proof of identity? O.K., it's currently 3:25 a.m., Pacific Daylight Savings Time - check it out on an atlas. Thought you might be up and about, since we're obviously in different time zones. Now, I'm going back to bed - will check back in about 4 hours.
it just take cris time give it a bit
that patience isn't one of my strong points? Seriously, though, I've since received a response elsewhere on this site. That's the good news...the bad news is that I can never be sure who's responding. Even worse, neither can Cris! (I've been "impostored" at last...can't say I like it much.)
The story continues to unfold...
HA! That way I won't have to scroll.
Searching....searching.....searching. Men, huh?
Can't live with them, can't find them on the internet.
You and cris? True love always and forever? At least until
your puter crashes. You all need a code word. One that only
the two of you know. One should ask a question in one post
that only the other can answer and then the other of you
should answer it. But complications arise....you can't even
share e-mail, because "someone" might crack it. The
torment. I truly feel bad for you both.
I see we're thinking along the same lines re. a code word. Not a problem - I have a plan, and it's foolproof...
As for e-mail - that's not a problem, either. I can use either my ISP address, or my e-mail address at work.
Incidentally, I work for a state government...it would be inadvisable for anyone to try to hack into that site!
Ha..HA!!!
code words,or just a phrasing,you could start the fourth
sentance with a code word,it must be very easy to do,i do
not see why anyone would spend the time to crack it,most of
the imposters are only going for a short while,but cris is a
special case,lots of imposters all over the place,
my idea would be impossible for anyone else to figure out,
unless they're among the handful of people on the planet who are in possession of specific documents.
I agree, though, that there wouldn't be any sense in someone taking the time to crack the code; "sense" being the key word. I don't know if you've noticed or not, but...
there are so many answers to any question, but there is
only one hic et nunc to do what's feeling good ...
What ARE you talking about? I'm afraid I don't speak your language...I'm not sure anyone does.
You are correct tidbid. That is a fact.
(humor them searching...they don't get as violent, that way)
Where is cris? I hope he did not crash that beautiful bike.
THAT would be a terrible shame.
I wish I had a specific document, all of mine are rather
vague.
In the future, I'll be more careful in communicating with aliens.
Cris is out of town on some sort of job - have no idea where or what kind. I anxiously await his return (parting is such sweet sorrow, you know).
So, you're in possession of vague documents. Am I to understand that, like me, you're employed within a government agency?
In the future, I'll be more careful in communicating with aliens.
Cris is out of town on some sort of job - have no idea where or what kind. I anxiously await his return (parting is such sweet sorrow, you know).
So, you're in possession of vague documents. Am I to understand that, like me, you're employed within a government agency?
for the code just pick a book thats out of print and use the
page numbers to get the letter to start the code,make sure
everyone has the book it'll take a lot of time but it can be
done.
searching,cris will be safe,the universe looks after the
special ones.
looks like this thread has disolved into an accute case of
paranoia
Maybe you're unaware of some recent goings on up above.
P.S.: If I get a double post again, I'm going to SCREAM!
Every other time I come down here, I get a double post -
it's absolutely exasperating!
i'm not paranoid.they are out to get me.
total paranoia is total awearness.
big brother is watching all
Even paranoids have enemies.
guy i was chatting to on ICQ last night. He was convinced i
was the sister of one of his best friends who he reckons is
out to get the pair of them. It was quite funny actually,
turned out to be quite a cool guy although i still think he
needed to get put that spliff out!! (j/k)
Searching:, Can't say i've noticed anything unusual going on
in the threads up above. At the risk of sounding nosey, what
did i miss?
yes please tell us whats going on,haven't been up for a look
in a while,so have lots the plot of most of the threads
the thread where Cris was attempting to make contact and god knows how many impostors pretended to be me. I finally did get the message, and I'm pretty sure it was easy to tell me apart from the impostors.
Oh, and to further complicate matters, someone else on the thread pretended to be Cris.
Anyway, that thread was cut yesterday.
the thread where Cris was attempting to make contact and god knows how many impostors pretended to be me. I finally did get the message, and I'm pretty sure it was easy to tell me apart from the impostors.
Oh, and to further complicate matters, someone else on the thread pretended to be Cris.
Anyway, that thread was cut yesterday.
Sweeyie...I am back...could not access an computer to send you messages while I was away and flew in late last night.
When you are next on-line..throe up a new topic and let's see if we can get this internet/lp/TTYc relationship of ours up and going..so Jujubee..I am a one man women and not into menage de touis....if that is the way that it is spelt.??
Post wityh you soon...Hi steven
My knight-in-slightly-tarnished-armor! I was pining away in your absence - so glad you're back, darling.
Yes, I too was shocked that someone had the audacity to impersonate you - the fact that it was totally unprecedented caught me completely off guard. (Sigh)...I
guess there's just no sense of propriety here in cyberland.
By the way, I've got to confess that I'm relieved at your message to Jujubee...not my scene, either. (I'm pretty sure Jujubee's husband would have objected, anyway.)
I'll attempt to post a new topic as soon as my brain is functioning better (if ever) - much too early in the day...
I'm not a morning person.
My knight-in-slightly-tarnished-armor! I was pining away in your absence - so glad you're back, darling.
Yes, I too was shocked that someone had the audacity to impersonate you - the fact that it was totally unprecedented caught me completely off guard. (Sigh)...I
guess there's just no sense of propriety here in cyberland.
By the way, I've got to confess that I'm relieved at your message to Jujubee...not my scene, either. (I'm pretty sure Jujubee's husband would have objected, anyway.)
I'll attempt to post a new topic as soon as my brain is functioning better (if ever) - much too early in the day...
I'm not a morning person.
... how bees fly, the sky's the limit ...
Ummmm, I will admit I am truly clueless this time. I wish I
knew what was going on, but I have not been reading
upstairs much lately. No 3-somes for me, the closest I
might ever get to that would be if the TV were left on. I
am going up there to see if someone has been pretending to
be me. This could be fun.
With wings, tidbid.
... the clue is in the air tonight ...
glad to see the thread has picked up a bit of life,
all is well
so was that really Cris on that thread that was posted
earlier saying that they were back? I dont think its still
there now. Why is sidelines turning into such a troll, they
used to be alright, are they just being impostered all the
time now or something?
I don't know what you mean by the post "they were back".
As far as I know, I have been in contact with the real (meaning the one I find so interesting) Cris. And yes, it seems that the impostors are still busy at work.
As for sidelines, I was also getting concerned about the apparent personality change. However, I don't believe the troll is the real sidelines at all. Interestingly enough, there's a post way up above that has been started by the troll. I don't remember the title offhand, but it has to do with being proud of being an American, etc. If you don't want to read all the 40+ responses, start reading at about post 33.
P.S.: How's the insomnia going? Have you thought about seeing a doctor for this? (Now it's my turn to suggest medical help - ha!)
... all's well that ends well ... so far ;-)
everyone keeps talking about the posts above so i have a bit
of time today so i'm going up for a look i'll report back
later
not alot going on,the one by ~ at 15 is abit interesting.
searching read your one,hope it all works out ok,don't know
if i believe it's cris,it's hard to tell because it's
strange to see him posting nice and senceable posts,
see the topics are the same a s always,sex,war,flameing,who
likes who,who hates who,
everything changes but stays the same.
Do you have any idea what the story is re. jujubee and tidbid? It seems that they have some sort of code they're using to communicate. I, for one, am totally confused.
(Although, this certainly isn't the only area of confusion for me! I'm reaching the point where I don't know what to think or whom it trust!)
Is the information you were talking about in that thread
above the same as what steven is talking about here?
you are skating very close the the edge.
Hey searching, how is it going?
Steven, good to see that you have returned.I didn't think that our game between you, Jujubee and me had ended as yet.
It is not over yet. Or is it???.....
You actually mean women I suppose. just an extension of
this obsession with female appearance - from beautiful
princesses in the fairy tales when we are too young to read.
I guess the ad men still think men buy everything.
Am I the only one who thinks it's disturbing that little
girls are dressed up in skimpy leotards to perform baton
twirling, etc. we wouldn't dream of dressing little boys
like that. Somehow it's acceptable for women, girls and
sex to mean the same thing.
i do wish women would keep their clothes on a bit more and
do us all a favour. we'd get taken alot more seriously.
it's biology,the people who know say that men like to look
at women,and women like to look at women so the adds in all
the mags have women,men just down sell so thats what it
comes down to.
juju is that post from you.?
cris the game never stoped .!
bull i have no idea what up with juju and tidbit or much
else for that matter,i'm a little mushroom siting in the
corner.
But if it really is biological how come humans seem to be
out of step with the rest of the animals? Usually it's the
male of the species which displays his wares - peacocks and
baboons and all that. Well okay they're the only ones I
can think of.
I think that women do like looking at men but not in the
way that men look at women. The ad men haven't really got
female desires worked out yet. Nor have women I think.
Personally I like a guy's hair and eyes and posture and
voice. Chests are nice too and arms. But guys are much
more attractive in motion than in poses.
i made it!
me2? You stole the #500 spot...I was sure I would get it.
Darn.
Don't worry steven and searching....just having some
fun..yes that was me.
Ah, the game.....who is winning? I have been being nice
this whole time...should I not be? This is confusion.
Time keeps on slippin, slippin, slippin......tidbid.
we are not out of step with the animals,as strange as it
seems women have the power in relationships,they are the
ones who choose, the men try to impress them, think of
heros,what do they represent,men takeing risks,being
brave,standing out.
why do good girls go out with bad boys,whats the
anvantage.in some fish the fish that swims toward danger
then runs away the fastest is the one the lady fish go for.
in nature the females choose the best male to mate with
what do you look for in a male:the job he has ,the car he
drives,how he treats you,i think we are ruled by our biology
more than we think,
try reading a book called "the lucifer princple"
it's about how as a spieces we make decissions,why
evil,war,murder happens,how we as all animals are controled
by our biology,
will be back soon, baby blue ... expectations are a quite
strange thing, right ?
don't be confused, just trust, the code is inside & beyond !
the 505 best. guess why ?
sorry mate but you were 2 h 18 mins late...
I know....I was mostly hoping.
Oh, tidbid...I like 501 better....do YOU know why? You are
correct about expectations....If you don't expect much, you
can't be disappointed. Can you?
...into the future.....
And if you expect ALL, you can't be disappointed either,
can you ?! Life's too good to be missed.
"... beyond our ability to comprehend ..."
any travel plans ahead ?
i think that most of the time "our ability to comprehend"is
to great so when we see what could have been and we see what
is.and can comprehend the differance thats where depression
comes in for what might have been
not to be sorry for what might have been. steven, move on !
Jujubee, be greeted from hazeldine county !
if you don't accept the dark you never see the sunrises,
I in fact was there just a few weeks ago. You were nowhere
to be seen, were you?
Are Cris and searching together right now, do you think?
as you post.
maybe
i should
there is darkness always in our lives, but I prefer
midsummer afternoons. Does nowhere-to-be-seen mean to be
not there or to be invisible ? Maybe not together forever,
but enjoying. With wings, Jujubee !
I can fly.
'Scuse me while I kiss this guy.
Hello everyone who has been writing this over the months.
I cannot believe you have been keeping it going for so
long. Ive been blown away by the way people who don't know
each other, have never seen each other and potentially live
on other sides of the planet can interact in such a
positive and meaningfull way. Keep it going everyone and
happy travelling. I am writing this from a the seventh
floor of the IBM building in Darling Harbour (Sydney) where
I am temping at the moment. Anyone any strange places
where they are writing from?
is that a bad jimi quote,
.
jon it doesnt sound so strange.
/.
A very bad jimi quote. I also like "There's a bathroom on
the right". Those are fun to think up.
Hi Jon. I am in a very strange place----my own home. hahaha.
It is amazing simple to make connections here. It seems
just inevitable for people to gravitate to one another, if
they share any interests or opinions or ideals. Sometimes
they don't have anything in common, just similar
personalities. Example--steven(nz) and myself. Completely
different, but still the same. We are all human---except
for cris of course.
Hi cris.
cris is human,or is he maybe he/she is a evil computer or
just atwisted bit of code come to life on the net.
THIS IS THE OFFICIAL END OF THIS THREAD.
DO NOT CONTINUE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!
BY ORDER OF THE FIRE MARSHAL.
the fire is still burning, and the bees are flying, juju !
Of course Janis. Was there ever any question?
Get it while you can.
wheres the fire
Do hear that siren, too?
but we keep it, no question, still gravitating around in
different lives all over the world. who will give signal to
dive ?
we are already at the bottom
Can't get too much lower than this.
Well, some could. I'm not naming any names, CRIS!
If I didn't know better, I'd think the two of you are missing Cris... (Now this is TOO funny!)
However, I don't think you're going to draw him out by baiting him - he's much too smart for that!
miss cris i was also wondering if the topic would be droped
because people had stoped talking for a few days
oh chris oh cris where have you gone.
I hope he has not come to meet a violent and painful end...
I am trying to stifle gleeful and sinister giggles as I
type this. No really, I miss him, too. Really I do. I am
not trying to convince myself. I DO miss him. I try to hit
him and I keep missing him. HAHAHAHA!
Cris.......come back..........ok, I'll say it........
please.
the female cris met the male cris, and that's it.
greetinx from the real world !
is this a cris cross or is a cross cris
Your post is pure bulls**t! (Pay no mind, steven...it's just an impostor.) Cris would never two-time me - certainly not with someone sharing his own name. One can only imagine how confusing such a relationship would be. Telephone calls, for example:
"You want to speak to Cris?...Speaking." "No, No! I want to speak to Cris!" "One moment, I'll get him/her." "Hello, Cris, here." "Oh, so sorry, I guess I need to speak to Cris after all." "But, I AM Cris!" "Yes, I know, but I actually want to speak to Cris." "For God's sake, man, make up your mind - do you want to speak to me or to Cris." "You moron, I just said I want to speak to Cris!" "O.K., that's it! I'm ending this conversation...do not call here again. And I speak for Cris as well!"
On a more positive note, it does occur to me that a great deal of money could be saved on greeting cards. The same one could be sent back and forth indefinitely...
Hmmm - there may be other possibilities I haven't considered. Perhaps I should change MY name to Cris. I believe I'll just go mull this over and have another little conversation with myself...
we could be a cris fan club here.
we could be all called cris.
cris could be cris 1
you could be cris 2
i can be cris 3
jujubee can be cris 4
tidbit can be cris5
any one else can just join along
or would that be to mixed up
sorry just bored
did you ever work out a code with cris so you can tell if
it's an inposter
A code wasn't necessary after all. We've found another means of communication...
This intrigue is getting to be too much for me. Where is
he????? At least give us (me) a hint. I am sure he is
thrilled over this attention, but that will have to be
dealt with later.
please stop it at once.!!!
if this catches on i will have no idea who's saying what
i see that some one has already imposted me 538#
.
do not worry searching cris will be back soon
#538 was me! cris 4...I mean, Jujubee - Cris is laying low for awhile. Couldn't tell you any more even if I were willing to disclose a lot of info. - I can't seem to connect with him, either. (It has a lot to do with living in vastly different time zones, although it seems that Microsoft/Bill Gates is also causing major communication snafus.)
what a crissy mess down under, all the fault of the mighty
Bill ? WHO IS WHO ? 4 potcay ?
Will you PLEASE quit speaking an alien language! I have no idea what you're trying to say. What the hell is "4 potcay"?
a little after i posted,it hit me it was you at cris 2.
i to have no idear what tidbit is on about most of the time,
it's been a while since cris has posted,do you know what
country hes from?dont know what the big BG has got to do
with it though,
.
hay tidbit give us more than a morsell!
Look up above - Cris (or, at least someone who sounds a lot like him) is posting again.
As for where Cris is from, I think it best to let Cris disclose any info. about himself he sees fit; as I've indicated, I couldn't tell you much, anyway.
Hey - feel like chatting? I'm pretty much at loose ends this evening, having declined a dinner and movie invitation (thought something more interesting might come up, but it hasn't...doesn't look as though it will, either).
I'm splitting now. It was fun while it lasted...
sorry to have missed you!
but i'm sure we will meet again
sorry to be nosey about cris but he is a bit of an enigma
by the way what are you "searching" for
We meet again! (Kinda, sorta). Just thought I should let you know that I've been advised the posts I referred to weren't done by Cris, after all - guess it was another impostor (a pretty good one, at that). Yeess, Cris is an enigma - no less to me than to you.
As to what I'm searching for...lots of things. Truth for one, although it's elusive at the moment.
I don't expect to be coming back here, so if you'd like to chat sometime, here's one of my e-mail addresses: freeatlast2@webtv.net
sorry to hear you going ,but i'll drop you a note,
hope you find cris in the end
happy surfing
I would like to find it. My mother once told me that if I
was honest with others, they would be honest with me. I
have not found that to be true. So, did she lie, or does
everybody else---not you steven---? I think you can only
find real truth inside yourself, if you look to other
people for the truth you will only be disappointed.
Isn't cris somewhere down there near you steven? I thought
I once read something from him that mentioned something
familiar to do with Austrailia. Hmmmm, maybe he is the
original Tasmanian Devil. heeheehee, that is really funny.
I know you all are laughing at that. You gotta be ROFLOL!
I really meant to say Australia. That was a tiny mistake
not even worth mentioning, right?
i have no idea where cris is from,can't remember any post
from down under
I must have imagined it.
Do you know that song--Hold me closer Tony Danza? My Hannah
thinks it is really--Hold me closer tiny dancer! Kids!
Sheesh. Where do they get these crazy ideas?
She's a black magic woman and she's gonna take a pebble out
of me. ----What I want to know is, how did the pebble get
in there in the first place?
that cant be right?
there used to be a very good page for lyrics but it was shut
down be cause of a court order
i dont know the tony danza song
funny how people hear differant words in songs some albums
arent aloud in to this country unless there is a lyric sheet
with the words so they can check them all out
five - that's life !
Hold me closer tiny dancer----Elton John song.
She's a black magic woman and she's gonna make a devil out
of me.---Santana song.
Sorry for the confusion, I was just teasing you.
I like to hear other words for familiar songs. My other
steve makes them up all the time--he has some very good
ones for a childrens Christmas song. Very funny.
lots of the confusion comes from thespeed that people sing
or the way they say the words,
.
five where are you now
.
i thought i would just drop by and say a quick hello, hope
everyone is well and happy. I head back to Sydney in a few
days time so hopefully i will be able to exchange my lemon
of a lap top (it died) and get something new so to be up
and running and wasting my time on here again! I was
reading some of the other threads (above) and i see that
not much has changed! The weather has been really nice here
in London this last month but i am still looking forward to
getting back to australia and then starting the big road
trip in about a months time. Well anyway take care one and
all. bye now
great to hear from you,but no dought you are now long gone
anyone still looking in hear or will we let the topic die a
pain less death.?
Its handy for me (to keep in touch) as by the time i get
around to looking in on any of the other threads they have
all been taken off and so there is really no point. This is
the only one i look in on anymore! Anyway hope you are
having a good weekend and i'll be back to see if the thread
has gone to the other great threads in the sky shortly.
Cheerio!
What a bunch of losers up there on the board. They all had
it coming for a long time.
I see you still can't spell worth a shit, Steven.
what a surprize ,how i am truely happy,
whip me beat me,make me wear leather
oh cris call me names
we shell worship you forever
.
why is it every time i think the thread is going to die that
everyone comes back,we have cris ,bull,jujubee. i wonder if
equis is still around,i'm sorry that searching has gone
what a start to a new week
read brave new world?
no haven't read it or any others by huxley, i tryed but it
was a bit to over written ,have you read nacked lunch,