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At 6/3/07 09:23 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote:

Not as arbitrary as 35, which I had to have for one of mine. Only 1/3 of which could be online-only. One third. What exactly is one third of 35?

How many places have to tell you the same thing to make these people happy?

Oh, teachers, teachers.

I'm taking this US History "Honors" course...the joke is that we do less work than the kids in the "regular" course...no exams, nothing. Yet the course is based entirely around Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States," a book I had read, count them, two years before and concluded that it was B.S. then. I know the feeling of having an idiotic teacher...she was one of the two who created the class. What a commie.

At 6/3/07 09:49 PM, HighlyIllogical wrote: Oh, teachers, teachers.

Hey, we all know there is at least one incredibly brilliant, dedicated and beautiful teacher. *hint hint hint hint hint hint hint*

At 6/3/07 06:46 PM, SevenSeize wrote:

At 6/3/07 06:41 PM, Politics wrote:

What are the differences?

Tea leaf differences, brewing differences, growth differences.

Tea is like a fine wine. You need it for certain parts of the day.

Breakfast Teas(Scottish, Irish, Welsh or English) are good for the morning, Ceylon for Lunch and Earl(or Lady ) Gray for a good nightcap.

At 6/3/07 07:46 PM, Proteas wrote:

:Also; I want this guitar.

Ooh, very nice choice! Are you any good? Because if you're making an investment like that, you must be!

At 6/3/07 11:28 PM, Tal-con wrote: I love my new sig, and the kicker is I made it myself

Shouldn't be long before I get PM's asking for source...

eh? what about it?

At 6/3/07 11:35 PM, Tal-con wrote: Press F5, I just changed it so it may still show my old crappy one.

oh, your sig pic.

so, what was it before hentai?

At 6/3/07 11:53 PM, Tal-con wrote: 'Israel vs. Palestine vs. babies' sig

That gives me a delicious and probably already thought-of idea.

At 6/3/07 11:53 PM, Tal-con wrote: Erm... before the "sig under construction" message I had the RIP Jerry Falwell sig, and before that the 'Israel vs. Palestine vs. babies' sig

there used to be some really awesome sigs a few years back. when all those sig maker clubs were around and competing with each other

At 6/4/07 12:05 AM, Empanado wrote:

At 6/3/07 11:53 PM, Tal-con wrote: 'Israel vs. Palestine vs. babies' sig

That gives me a delicious and probably already thought-of idea.

Israel & Palestine vs babies?

Macri won I'm so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:D

The City does not like you, Kirchner muahahahahahaaaa!!!!!!!!

At 6/3/07 09:59 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: Tea is like a fine wine. You need it for certain parts of the day.

I think that's pedantic. Tea, like wine, or any other of the "finer things," should be enjoyed. It's all well and good to learn all you can about a subject, like learning the different kinds of tea and how they're created, but in the end you really ought to just drink what you like, when you like.
I, for one, enjoy a cup of Earl Grey in the morning. Irish Breakfast is good with a meal, even if it isn't breakfast. And some of the best tea I've ever had has been iced tea, which is a genuine tradition in its own right and should not be scoffed at. Iced sweet chai, to which I've recently been introduced, is amazing.

At 6/4/07 12:36 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote:

At 6/3/07 09:59 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: Tea is like a fine wine. You need it for certain parts of the day.

I think that's pedantic. Tea, like wine, or any other of the "finer things," should be enjoyed.

I worked at an upscale restaurant last year and they had a wine list thicker than some books I've read. The manager and supervisors knew fucking everything about wines.

I always though it would be cool to be a wino like that, to be able to taste all the weird crap they put in wine....

but then i realized, i like my chick drinks so much better. *curls up all nice with a bottle of mikes* mmmm....you can almost taste the vagina growing between my legs

At 6/4/07 12:53 AM, SevenSeize wrote: the calm after a storm.......

Is that near you? Thats really beautiful. But it also reminds me of a clip i saw. Its a gravity wave, i've never had the pleasure of seeing one with my own eyes, but this clip is pretty much enough for me. Check it out here!

At 6/4/07 01:23 PM, Malachy wrote: I always though it would be cool to be a wino like that, to be able to taste all the weird crap they put in wine....

A wino is a drunk, you know. A oenophile is a wine snob.

But I laughed heartily at your desire to be a wino.

At 6/4/07 12:36 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote:

At 6/3/07 09:59 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:

I, for one, enjoy a cup of Earl Grey in the morning. Irish Breakfast is good with a meal, even if it isn't breakfast. And some of the best tea I've ever had has been iced tea, which is a genuine tradition in its own right and should not be scoffed at. Iced sweet chai, to which I've recently been introduced, is amazing.

You blasphermer.

Hey, I like Ice Tea.
It's just nowhere near the level of real teas.

chai is a relatively entertaining tea.

At 6/4/07 03:34 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: Hey, I like Ice Tea.
It's just nowhere near the level of real teas.

That's because you're a goddamned Yankee. Iced tea is a TRADITION, just as much as hot teas are. and it's not just the South. Thai iced tea, for example, is fabulous.

i enjoy my brisk iced tea ^_^

and i'm irish/german, i'm destined to grow up to be a drunk, so i may as well be a wino and be socially accepted.

At 6/4/07 03:38 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote:

At 6/4/07 03:34 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:

That's because you're a goddamned Yankee. Iced tea is a TRADITION, just as much as hot teas are. and it's not just the South. Thai iced tea, for example, is fabulous.

Ah yes the South and it's traditions.

Men wearing t-shirt flannel shirts and making redneck jokes.
Black People hating.
Secession.
Krispy Kreme(seriously what donut place doesn't serve fucking coffee.)

At 6/4/07 03:37 PM, SolInvictus wrote: chai is a relatively entertaining tea.

Too creamy for my palate.

At 6/4/07 03:47 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: Ah yes the South and it's traditions.

Men wearing t-shirt flannel shirts and making redneck jokes.
Black People hating.
Secession.
Krispy Kreme(seriously what donut place doesn't serve fucking coffee.)

Dude, at least Krispy Kreme glazes most of its doughnuts, unlike Funkin Gonuts, or dunkin' douchebags or whatever.

Just kidding, I like Dunkin' Donuts too, because they also make me feel my health slipping away from me when I eat them. :D

The south may have "issues," but Krispy Kreme is awesome...

Just kidding about the south, but, seriously, K^2 is good (K^3 is bad.)

At 6/4/07 05:11 PM, SyntheticTacos wrote: Just kidding, I like Dunkin' Donuts too, because they also make me feel my health slipping away from me when I eat them. :D

they put nicotine and small pieces of fiber glass in their coffee because it's highly addicting

My cousin is becoming poor...
I feel like I'm a burden to him because I'm going to live with him and my godson, but the thing is that he loves to spend money. And like my family, he hates asking for help.

His wife is young (barely 17 now) and rather spend drift. Which is good because someone needs to protect the money. She puts my cousin in line, but I feel things are rather compounded for her. She was so young when they had a baby (barely 16) and to be a mother to the baby... and a husband. Wow. And I feel that she loves him, but at the same time she's growing really upset with him because he doesn't plan things out. Doesn't have any skills, education, or anything. The only thing he had going on was that he could have played soccor professionally, but he hadn't enough money to start up.

I've withdrawn about 500 bucks to give to her. We've gotten along really well even though we're not family, but we've quickly became one. I can't give it directly to my cousin because ... well... we're rather proud. I grew up poor and my mother could have recieved welfar, but she never did because for it was an embarassment. And I feel that even if he takes the mony... it wouldn't be saved or used properly. Maybe used to buy a TV or something...

In any case,
I hope that 500 bucks will some how lessen the burden of my stay over there.

But anyways...
Stuff I've found out of my family.

I found a love letter from my grandpa to my grandma. The writing is so elegent and so wispy-- it's really hard to read it. It was in my boxes of pictures and stuff. (I spent yesterday orgazining my own pictures-- so much work.) But I found out a secret of my mother that is still shocking me.

She was married before.

I don't know if I'm going to approach my mother and ask, but it's like huge for me. But I'm starting to put two and two together. I know that my mother was raped and she had a kid. And I heard "things"-- about my mother being abducted.

So I pieced out the story in my head: my mother was a young woman who was raped by my grandfather's supposed friend. She concieved a baby, my half sister. That's part of the story that I do know well. Later on, the man once more took advantage of my mother and married her. Her family, who felt ashamed of her, thought it best for her to marry him (even though he already had a family.)

But my mother didn't love this man, and now that she was a mother... she wanted to take care of my half sister. So, she escaped and illegally immigrated to the United States where she would work with my grandmother's sister (her aunt) in Watsonville. But my mother couldn't bring my half sister with her at that time, just only send money and try to bring her in. My mother's family, who are strongly Conservative, felt that my mother was a bad person because she was an unwed mother and started to tell lies about her to her daughter. (That my mother was a prostitute... that she didn't love her.) They soon take her in as their own daughter.

My mother's aunt was a harsh woman, just like my grandmother. Spent all day working because my aunt also disapproved her status as an unwed mother. And so my mother again escaped Watsonville and went with one of her cousins in San Jose (where we live now.)

And in here, she met my father.
But her family diapproved my father because he wasn't like them... he was dark skinned and not very White looking. And so the continued disapproving her and telling lies to my half sister.

My half sister grew to hate my mother (but needing her too.)
And that's why my mother was so anxious... so... mean at times. Sometimes borderline cruel, but so overtly protective.

So I'm born... and my sister.
I've had problems with my mom and her family. (Although, I love my mom... and don't much care for her family.) She always perplexed me as a kid because she wouldn't let me do things like... going to the swimming pool with friends. I now understand that she was nervous about losing us like the first kid. Maybe that's why she wasn't so ready to spur me when I turned out gay...

But... anyways.
Fast forward 23 years later, and I find out that I have a half sister... and we talk and puzzle things out through. And soon enough we see the lies in our life and form a beautiful bond together as reunited sibblings (to the disapproval of my mother's family.)

And fast foward two years after that when I go through pictures... and find my mother's first marriage certificate.

I don't know if this is the complete or true story... this is stuff that I've pieced out in my mind to fill in certain blanks in my family's history.

It's so melodramatic, but had this not happened to me... I personally wouldn't believe it.

At 6/4/07 05:29 PM, Malachy wrote:

At 6/4/07 05:11 PM, SyntheticTacos wrote:

they put nicotine and small pieces of fiber glass in their coffee because it's highly addicting

It's really not that good.

It's usually weak and burnt when I get it.

At 6/4/07 07:08 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: It's usually weak and burnt when I get it.

the coffee at my local Dunkin' Donuts always tastes fresh, a little sweeter than the crap i have at home and i can actually taste the coffee beans.

probably not anywhere near perfect, but it suits me

After looking at my sig, I wonder, what would happen if both the President-elect and Vice-president-elect were ineligible to assume the presidency? Obviously, that wouldn't be the case on a Bush-Cheney '08 ticket, but, say, a Bush-Schwarznegger ticket?

At 6/4/07 06:51 PM, fli wrote:

Wow, just wow.
My comfortable middle-class life seems very boring now :(

At 6/4/07 12:59 AM, SolInvictus wrote:

That gives me a delicious and probably already thought-of idea.

Israel & Palestine vs babies?

YES! Israel & Palestine in one side, baby crib on the other. Text: "Standing together against the common enemy".

Cookie to the first one that immortalizes such concept in sig-paper.