Cynicism is a terrible, disfiguring character trait if used by the individual who is forced to carry a bitter chip. He will use his cynicism to cope with the weight of life and all its trials. But cynicism harnessed to your advantage can help debunk fraudulent mysteries that prevent us from sharing in what is possible and what is ours. At all times cynicism must be balanced with a belief and faith in the intrinsic goodness of our fellow man. Nobody really wants to be ad, even when they are pulling the trigger or handing out the towels for the non existent showers.—the JAMs, The manual: how to have a number one hit the easy way

..has anyone else noticed someone with a lot of time on their hands has added ADSL2+ information links and phone number ranges for telephone exchanges all over Perth? Nutty.

GLOMP THE BISHIES!

Either i'm too tired to find this satirical tutorial on being a furry offensive, or i have a better sense of humour than i thought. It's quite difficult to hate it because someone's put much more effort into taking the piss than i'd expect anyone to.

..here is a song you may dig: TV on the Radio's Wolf Like Me, one of the better songs about werewolves i've ever heard. Preview it at Bleep or watch the video which isn't actually that good.

I miss you heaps, man.

I have a furaffinity account now as kurreltheraven. Unfortunately it's down.

..this will probably tickle anfael: a transcript of Jhonen Vasquez and his mate Aaron making fun of Rikki Simons, the voice of Gir and devotee of ham. To start off..

0:31:52 Aaron A.: Hmm. Rikki said Screw On Head was coming on right now, but I don't see it. I think he is on acid.
0:32:19 Jhnen V: rikki is generally drunk.
0:32:58 Jhnen V: on ham.
0:33:10 Jhnen V: christmas hams from several seasons back.
0:33:12 Aaron A.: It's sick, isn't it. Ham drunks.

..and it just gets sillier from there..

3:25:05 Aaron A.: I just picture his big sweaty head poking out of the earth, waiting for ham.
3:25:17 Jhnen V: just his head is sticking out?
3:25:34 Jhnen V: the rest of him, absorbing vital ham juices that have seeped into the earth.

...and sillier...

3:31:11 Jhnen V: once, against the army's orders, this one scientist, gentle and curious, argued that RIkki was peaceful, and that to destroy him would be a loss to science and to our very humanity.
3:31:39 Jhnen V: He approached rikki, and when RIkki made some mumbling sounds in response, the scientist turned to the army men and said "see...he does understand!"
3:31:57 Jhnen V: and then was incinerated by flecks of white hot ham that rikki belched at him.

There's even fan art of this conversation. Woo!

I'd be posting this as Dooj but i've forgotten the password and can't be fucked retrieving it. Haaahaha. Egh.

Ah whatever.

That's it then. Pope Bob's body has finally given out on him. In his own words: Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd.

Easy for you to say. Ah well, thanks for leaving so much good stuff behind there, Bob.

( A bit )

This LJ is now a meme and irritation dump. I'd say coredump except i never figured out what that was except for something that made a file that took up all my user space on the UNIX server at uni.

So after today wolphin and i should both have wee air conditioning units in our rooms. The price for Wof? Lots of money.

The price for me? Being hauled out of bed at 8 in the morning by an English gentleman with a hammer drill. :)

..the word girt cops a lot of shit for appearing in Advance Australia Fair in the context our home is girt by sea. It's no surprise that there's strange words in our national anthem given it was written by a Scot, and given the Scottish dialect of English has a lot of words in it that haven't stuck around in modern English. Girt is one of them.

It's a proper word, the present form being gird apparently from the Old English gyrdan from which we also get the words girdle (are you paying attention now vulpyra?) and girth which is the English word for circumference. As well as imparting ideas of surrounding, encircling and fastening ("Trees girded the green fields, Dooj was immediately girt by eager furries"), gird also has the meaning of preparing for action or mustering strength. (Dooj girded himself for the day with breakfast.)

You could sing our home is surrounded by sea but you'd be doing some intense syllable-mashing to replace one syllable with three. You'd also be speaking French. Then again Australia is a Latin name.

I know Australia has a fairly horrible and plodding national anthem but someone really needs a good shake and slap for associating this foul Christian dreck with it.

With Christ our head and cornerstone,
We'll build our Nation's might.
Whose way and truth and light alone
Can guide our path aright.
Our lives, a sacrifice of love, reflect our Master's care.
With faces turned to heaven above, Advance Australia fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing, Advance Australia fair.

"Missing sixth verse" my fucking arse. That verse is girt by shite. Peter McCormick was far too busy writing about how early European Australia was England's long-distance bitch to be such a blatant god boy.

Actually the national anthem sounds really good as a cheesy trance tune. No shit.

I just had some noodles without vinegar, as some people have suggested i should. To those who think cheap noodles can be eaten without vinegar i say this: you are wrong. Now i have a mouth full of beef flavouring and horrible corn and i am sad. Moo. :(

Yarr. I finally got around to watching Treasure Island yesterday at my dad's place. He gave the DVD to my brother as a Christmas present, and watching it i learnt the following important things:

1) Pirates, despite their reputation, are fucking useless. When they're not double-crossing do-gooder English gentleman types, they're double-crossing one another, getting completely paralytic on rum, or killing one another. They also can't shoot straight and go completely to pieces without a strong leader.

2a) Long John Silver is Milo Kerrigan's long lost uncle.

2b) Ben Gunn is Gollum's long lost nephew.

3) G-rated movies used to be way more violent in the 1950s: Treasure Island features quite a few stabbings, a few impalings, numerous gun shots to the face (including one at point blank) and a great deal of duplicitousness on behalf of its characters. Fairly brutal but well entertaining stuff.

4a) An inebriated pirate with a dagger is no match for a poncy little kid with a gun.

4b) An inebriated pirate with a dagger is still no match for a poncy little kid with a gun even when said poncy little kid is pinned to the mast with a dagger.

5) Pirates might be horrid but they're still Christians. Apparently.

There's probably more but that's enough food for thought.

..but this one ends on an ultrasonically high note: