Hehe. :D
I got the same. I liked the picture of Tony Blair scarfing a bit of food. :p
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Hehe. :D
I got the same. I liked the picture of Tony Blair scarfing a bit of food. :p
I wonder when - if ever - I'll stop calling myself a girl and start saying "woman" and when I'll start saying "men" instead of "boys".
If I think of women and men, I think of people who are much older than I ( 10 years at least). I never thought of 20-year-olds as "girls" or "boys" when I was still a child. Hmm...
Music is such a beautiful thing that I won't know what I should become without it. The healing poer of music is so great that it makes me just love it. Oh dear, how I feel relaxed and peaceful. Music, my dear beloved, if only you could be a women, I'd marry you. hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...................
Does it even matter anymore?
Why do I always forget to pull up real player so I can listen to some tunes when I'm online?
I hope this time the teacher will be there. I don't want to go to town, only to find him absent again. I want to listen to an oral exam, not waste my time!
I get off-topic easily.
******-******!!! I just bit down on my cheek really hard.
I wish I was slimmer! :(
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4672256.stmQuote:
Sales of chewing gum are at record levels (and creating a costly headache for council clean-up teams). Why?
It may be the scourge of the bus seat, the pavement and the school desk, but we love it more than ever.
Gum consumption in the UK is at its highest for decades, according to research by Mintel, and is expected to rise further in the coming years. Last year in the UK, £317m was spent on gum, up 37% on 2001.
And while Wayne Rooney may be one of its high-profile consumers, it is the middle-aged who are driving its growth. Nearly half of people aged between 45 and 54 chewed gum in 2005, twice as many in that age group in 1975, says Mintel. And three-quarters of children aged between seven and 14 indulged last year, slightly down on previous years.
TYPICAL GUM CHEWER
Female, aged 15-24
Lower middle-class, employed, large family
Mintel's consumer analyst Julie Sloan says it's no longer considered just a sweet.
"It's become more relevant to today's consumer. People are thinking it's two-in-one - a sweet fix and cleaning your teeth or freshening breath at the same time. More people are light users, maybe a few times a month, which suggests it's more a case of sharing gum like after a spicy meal, rather than a standard habit."
A stronger focus on healthy eating has also contributed to gum's appeal, she says, because people are turning to sugar-free gum in an attempt to make some kind of "sacrifice" in their diet. The sugar-free brands now make up three-quarters of the total market.
Stress relief is another factor, although not so many gum-lovers admit to it, says Ms Sloan. Traditional spikes in gum demand occur at New Year, Lent and No Smoking Day, when nicotine consumption falls. With a smoking ban in pubs due in April, chewing gum sales are expected to rise another third before 2010.
Speckled pavements
So will the UK's streets pay the penalty? After all, gum chewers, including Sir Alex Ferguson and Britney Spears, like to spit their gum out. And not usually into a litter bin.
It's a habit costing councils, using high-powered hoses, a futile £4.5m a year. To do the clean-up job properly would cost them £150m, it's estimated.
But we are hopeful a rise in gum sales does not mean more litter, says Peter Gibson of Keep Britain Tidy, who is encouraged by events in Preston, where gum-dropping fell by 80% in a pilot scheme last year. The council invested in education through advertising, better enforcement of fines and free plastic pouches to deposit the gum.
"We're using that model and trying to develop it with local councils into a national campaign," says Mr Gibson.
Other imaginative solutions have also been tried. In Huddersfield, people were invited to put their used gum on a Yes or No board to answer a debate. And in Manchester, a man equipped with a megaphone humiliated offenders in the city centre.
Meanwhile the holy grail - a biodegradable gum - is also being developed.
It's easy to think of gum as a very American product of the modern world, but the ancient Greeks loved a chew too - for them it was mastiche, a resin taken from tree bark.
White settlers in the US adopted the Native American habit for spruce gum, but it wasn't until the 1860s, when the magic ingredient chicle was added to give it a stickiness, that modern chewing gum was born.
Beauty is so relative that mine and yours are different.
If we were the same, would there be no harm?
Life is so difficult that I dread living it alone.
If you were with me, wouldn't be the same?
Pain oh why are you here so soon
If mine is like yours, would you give me no blame?
Oh my Lord whom I'm so afraid of
Shall I ever be pardoned and be cursed no more by love
Pardon me my Lord I bear it no more
If you don't heal, there is no healer at all
...lovely...
Doh! What to do! what to do! Do I got to the party or not????
RAWRBGARD TCFCFBCWCHVXGCXDGCBAQWILLOPNHFHDGAXATRIPCU.
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Why are barriers put at a hieght that someone might try jumping over when they're in a hurry? All barriers/fences/ walls etc. should extend ten feet into the air, it would make the world a safer place.
Why are there so many rude people in this world? Have the masses completely forgotten their manners?
Now this is truly vile, brearth-takingly ugly and wonderfully inept art.Quote:
Originally Posted by emily655321
Lovely.
that clown would terrify me at night, rather like Mr. Marbles, the marionette on Seinfeld.
Chips and queso is not at all a healthy choice for breakfast and yet it just calls to my hungry bone in such an evil way. It's almost lunch-time anyway, so there.!
If modern art is all about shocking or provoking an audience, then maybe the cartoons of Jyllands Posten are some of the greatest works of modern art in the 21st century?
Yeah, but by that logic, so would be the "works" of "artists" who do things like **** in the middle of a room and stick a price tag on it.
well coz then people would go under them and to be honest that wouldnt make a very good barrier. nd peeps wont make like solid ones coz that would be way more expensive nd well sum peeps r cheapskates . . . lol. thats wot my logic says anywayQuote:
Originally Posted by kilted exile
Quote:
Originally Posted by mingdamerciless
Yes, but the hieght they are at leads to people like me hurdling over them in an effort to save time from walking around. And as a result tripping and wrecking my ankle
Sometimes I hate myself; sometimes I hate the world; sometimes I hate being with you; sometimes I hate looking at you;, but all the time I know that what sometimes I hate are the things that all time I love.
zomgwtfbbq. about thirteen minutes ago, a mysterious melody started playing inside my head. i couldn't get it out, so i took out one of my poems, incorporate the words into the mysterious background music, and baraboom i think i just wrote a song. the only thing i regret is that my old poem is cliched and that the melody resembles something ryan cabrera would come up with. ah well.
His and mine souls are the same. My love for Edgar is like those of falling leaves but my love for Heathcliff is like those of solid rocks - Catherine Earnshaw.
Coming home this morning, I met a pretty girl walking on the street. How beautifull she is! I thought. But what makes her look beautiful in my eyes? Would she look beautiful in the eyes of another person? If so, what is beauty then? If I talked to her, would she still be beautiful in my eyes? If no, what makes me change my opinion? So, I'm sitting here reflecting on what beauty is. Does the outside reflects the inside? There are some plants that look beautiful but are dangerous. I like lions but they may kill me. There I thought of some people, not beautiful but kind, helpful, and lovely to be with. They always make me lough and I enjoy being with them. Then I wondered, those are like medecine, tasting bad but there deeds are healing. And it came again, Does the outside reflects the inside? And what is beauty then?
This is an incredible waste of bandwidth. :D
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4699654.stmQuote:
Queen of the library Catherine Cookson has lost her crown after falling from the top 10 most borrowed authors for the first time since records began. The romance author, who died aged 91 in 1998, lost top place to children's author Jacqueline Wilson three years ago, but latest figures put her at 11.
Wilson kept the number one spot for the third year running.
Thriller writers, such as Ian Rankin, also feature heavily, suggesting reading tastes may be changing.
According to the figures published by the Public Lending Right (PLR) since 1984, Wilson - whose works include The Illustrated Mum and The Story of Tracy Beaker - notched up more than two million loans during 2004/5.
The author, currently Children's Laureate, said she was "thrilled" to be number one for the third year running.
MOST BORROWED AUTHORS JULY 2003-JUNE 2004
1. Jacqueline Wilson
2. Josephine Cox
3. Danielle Steel
4. James Patterson
5. Mick Inkpen
6. Janet and Allan Ahlberg
7. John Grisham
8. Ian Rankin
9. Roald Dahl
10. Bernard Cornwell
Source: Public Lending Right
Chick lit novelist Josephine Cox was second in the list of most borrowed authors, followed by Danielle Steel.
Thriller writers James Patterson, John Grisham, Ian Rankin and Bernard Cornwell were in the top 10, alongside children's writers Mick Inkpen, Janet and Allan Ahlberg and Roald Dahl.
In the last list, Cookson - who has had more than 100 books published - was at fifth place, but new figures suggest the love affair with UK readers could be over after plummeting to number 11.
In a separate list of the most borrowed adult fiction titles, she does not figure in the top 10 at all.
Patricia Cornwell tops this chart with her thriller Blow Fly, with John Grisham, James Patterson and Ian Rankin figuring highly.
The story is very different to five years ago, when Cookson occupied nine out of the top 10 places in the fiction list.
Simon Brett, chairman of the PLR Advisory Committee, said: "The data helps to build up a revealing picture of the nation's reading habits. This year sees crime fiction and thrillers stealing a march on romance.
"Maybe this is an indication that national tastes are becoming increasingly macabre."
Everything's fading away
“I love to see you at my table, Nick. You remind me of a—of a rose, an absolute rose. Doesn’t he?” She turned to Miss Baker for confirmation: “An absolute rose?”
This was untrue. I am not even faintly like a rose.
The Great Gatsby
Things will never be the same again!
Discovered the talent of fs.
As usual, when we discover some thought-provoking estonian poetry, we try to translate.
Sorry for doing it so badly.
We only did the first and last poem.
*
humiliate yourself
cut down you hair
burn stigmata on your hands
cut wrists and palms
humiliate yourself
fall on your knees
in the middle of the street
on asphalt
in front of a muddy puddle
besides an ugly Lutheran church
in the bus-stop of bus number five
lower your head
and drink the muddy waters
with great draughts
humiliate yourself
lower than an animal
lower than a MACHINE
be fs
now
write a poem
how does it feel like?
*
with big cars death is carted
day is faded
stone is grey
electricity gives no love
with big cars death is carted
honor the work of the driver
don't search for his eye
behind the dark glasses
his hands are firmly on the rudder
he does not err from the road
through night and day
through rain and sleet
drought and blizzard
with big cars death is carted
noone errs from that road
Shakespeare really had a peculiar view of comedy. What he might have found funny, I find strange so far and perhaps tragic but never funny..
Like what? Give an example or two.Quote:
Originally Posted by Themis
I'm currently watching "The merchant of Venice" and I haven't found a single scene or dialogue that I could have found funny so far.
His other comedies that I know of, like "Much ado about nothing" weren't much fun either though this one surely is in front.
We got invited into the army.
Compulsory miltary service, yay!
Luckily, we can get extension of time due to still being in school if we fill in a blank and get a document from school that proves that we study there. (well, or at least attend to classes)
Probably we can extension of time when we go to university too, which makes it probably at least three years till being a mindless zombie bearing a weapon.
But still, it bodes military slavery.. um, we mean service to be able to protect our country with the price of our life and killing other people and so on. Right. Exactly. Yeah. What fun.
Phuck!
Very few people want to open up, learn more about the people around them or improve their environment and why do they keep buying gas guzzling SUV's? Madness.