Have you ever sat next to the person on the roller coaster who starts screaming before the drop? Part of you thinks, what the heck are they doing while the other part wishes that you could be that excited. I find that if I’m no longer motivated to let loose wild screams, the ride is no longer sufficiently fun. Last weekend I was at a water park with a fat innertube waterslide. Going by myself was fun, but riding with my sister was something else entirely. She launched into the experience screaming all the way–invoking hoots of laughter from me.
It’s all about SPIRIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Last year at homecoming I was the biggest loser ever…maybe I dressed up for one of the days-color war- and that only involved wearing a pink shirt. BORING!! So this year there were a few changes. Each day I played up to the fullest- my pink costume for color war was augmented with hot pink shorts, pink socks, running shoes w/ pink on them, pink hair accessories, and somewhat pink sleeves. I attended all the activities (that I was around for) and even went to the homecoming game…even though it’s football, not particularly my favorite sport. AND GUESS WHO HAD FUN AT HOMECOMING THIS YEAR!!!! Me, that’s who.
It may take a little of looking like a complete idiot to get yourself into the spirit of the moment, but it’s ok…especially because even when you DO look like a complete idiot, everyone else wishes that they could be you…wishes that they wouldn’t mind looking like a complete idiot so they can steal a little bit of that excitement you’ve got. So scream down the 2 ft. water slide, wear a grass skirt and coconut bra on hawaiian day, make people laugh and you will too. The task now is to plan something spectacular for Halloween…
This site has been squeezed into some new trousers! I was really unsatisfied with the clutter of the last design, and how everything had a dropshadow and rounded corners etc. This design is a vast simplification and beautification. Please, tell me what you think of it.
I’m fairly certain I’ve broken things here and there, so let me know if you find anything in need of fixing.
Suggestions welcome.
There are people who mutter expletives every other word, and there are those that dive under the bed and cover their ears in defense. So who’s in the right, and who’s in the wrong? Is there a way to bring up this subject without invoking the rage of English speakers everywhere? Uh oh, I may be in trouble…
I personally don’t mind cursing, in moderation. I am not one of those people who never curses and is appalled at the the widespread use of cursing in today’s world …no… I wouldn’t say I swear regularly, but stubbing my toe or running into a pole or knocking over all the bikes in my garage will produce a hearty “shit.” If the person I’m talking to decides to throw in a few profanities, so be it…whatever… I just don’t tend to go around calling my teachers bitches and my enemies assholes…(I’ll just use…prettier language to achieve that purpose) I don’t like cursing people out, and I don’t like those shouting matches in which every other word would be bleeped on public television. I’d have to say, in general, that I don’t approve of cursing in mainstream language…but once in a while it’s acceptable. (Now aren’t I a supercilious sycophant…goody-goody who thinks too much of herself)
But who am I to put a label of good and bad on anything? Obviously some people think absolutely nothing of it and don’t see any difference between swear words and …er… non-swear words. What I want to know is why these few words are so special, why some people love or hate them so much, and what their meaning has come to be. I suppose these words were first used for the shock factor…or even before that to actually mean whatever the word was supposed to mean. Psh…who does that anymore. Sure, “screw” and “fuck” are still used to describe sex acts, but as far as what I’ve been hearing… the majority of the time they are just completely out of context. In fact, most swear words are just completely out of it. For example… some guy calls this girl a complete bitch for annoying him in class all period. Now bitch was originally female dog…and began gaining use as a term for a female who would gallivant off with any guy out there…and how did it get to being annoying? Some heartbroken guy calls his ex a bitch for running off with another guy…and slowly it becomes a term for any female (typically…not to say that it can’t be used for males…or objects…or tasks…etc.) that displeases the name caller in any way.
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I heard another great reason why creationism still blows today.
Okay, so a common argument for creationism is to look at how well a complex organ such as the eye functions, and to speculate that something so complected and perfect could never evolve naturally. But further examination of the eye shows that this organ is not in fact perfect. In fact, it’s fairly poorly planned out. An omnipotent being would not make such a simple mistake as this.
So here it is. The retina, which receives the light entering the eye, has hundreds of little sensors that turn the visible light into nervous impulses. All these receptors connect to nerves which all twine together behind the eye to form the optic nerve. Our intangible creator needed a place to put it, so he decided to make the beginning of part of the retina. That area, called the optic disk, cannot have any light receptors due to the fatty nerve that’s in the way. This creates a blind spot that we usually don’t notice, right, because we have two eyes. But if you have one eye closed, there will always be a spot in your near peripheral vision that cannot be seen.
No problem, right? I mean, it’s not like I walk around with one eye closed all the time, right? Well here’s the kicker: This supreme power actually fixed it once! Octopi have there optic nerves attached to the backs of their retina. They have no blind spot. Their eyes are the perfect ones. Ours still have flaws. He decided that we weren’t good enough to have perfect eyes.
We didn’t evolve from Octopi, so we didn’t get the non-blind eye that evolved after our common ancestor (probably a jellyfish, or something).
I was wandering around Barnes and Nobles this morning by myself, in the sexuality section. I started flipping through this book and i saw that one in three men cheat on his partner and only one in four women do. It is interesting to me that men and women act so much differently than each other. Allegedly men, when they are working on something, use a lot of their brain to do one thing, but women use smaller parts but multitask. Weird. Is there some kind of primeval reason for this difference in the way that our minds work.
Another interesting fact that i have recently found out is that testosterone is what makes people horny. So a very easily aroused girl, in fact, just has a lot of testosterone. It makes sense in a strange way. Both mails and females have testosterone and estrogen, but what does estrogen do for males? Make them gossip?
Men lose their virginity at a younger age than females do. Is it because they reach the stage in their development where they want to become sexually active but don’t have the maturity and intelligence to keep themselves out of trouble, or is it because men get around to a lot of women (very unlikely, i think). It is mostly likely caused by mens single mindedness about sex. If you are always thinking about it and then an opportunity arises to shag what are you going to do? Make waist of all those hours alone? But what if you hardly ever think about it, then when someone proposes a toast, or such, to you you will be surprised and probably veto the idea.
Men and women will never understand each other, but if either of them ever figures out the other first i think would be women figuring out men, they read Cosmo (They know everything).
This is something very random that came to my mind one day and I decided that I would let you’ll have a look at it. I think this has tons and tons of problems. And I’m curious what you think is good about this (if anything), and why you think this wouldn’t work (mainly what I’m interested in).
This picture gives a visual aid to the words below. This picture may or may not actually aid you in figuring out what I mean.
Picture yourself as one of the parents, I’ll describe what’s going on from there. You would have kids at a younger age then our society does today because; instead of you caring for your kids your parents would care for them. Thus, the persons who would be caring for your kids are people who are more mature, older, and are better established.
Since one’s body is programmed to have kids at a younger age, this would allow teens to have kids at the age their bodies are programed to have kids. With the PKC tree teens would have kids and someone more responsible and older (the teens’ parents) who would take care of them. This would create a chain where every kid would be taken care of by two generations above them instead of just one generation above them. Now why doesn’t this work?
Problems:
This tree creates many problems. And I have to say, I think it’s a really bad idea but I thought it was interesting.
In no particular order.
1. First off if your engaging in a partnership in you teen years, taking care of the baby is one thing this would solve. But you’d still have to decide on your life partner at a very young age. Which would most likely turn into a divorce later on. Then who does what?
2. This tree has no accommodations for non-heterosexuals.
3. The population would increase by double because people would be having kids at a younger age. Thus making the world overpopulation problem even more of a problem then before.
4. Instead of having two guardians you would have four (or more).
5. Things would get super complicated if one had more than two kids. Or really things would get really complicated anyway who do you actually care for?
So what do you have to say? There are more things that don’t work, what are they? What’s your overall opinion?