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[rivendellrose]

Apparently (and I say that because it took me digging all the way to the back of my friends-list to find out), today is International Women's Day.

As usual, others have said what I would want to say much more succinctly and intelligently, so I'll just link.

Another day of classes and work. I had some fun making icons last night, at least, and was beaten repeatedly with a cardboard tube had fun with the roommates when I should have been in bed. Also, I took a peek at the books-on-CD that the UW library has - it's a pretty impressive collection, and I can't help thinking it'd be a great thing to check out. I could get significant amounts of reading done and not kill my eyes!

...By which I mean that college is hazardous to one's health, and I am finally paying the price for a lifetime of gluttonous reading habits. Alas.

Still working on the damned playlist-fic-meme. Who'd have thought it'd be this hard to write five fics based on five random songs from one's playlist?

Also, I'm tempted to inform a recent poster on little_details that not knowing how to spell the name of a religion indicates to those in the know that no, you would not be a good resource on that religion, even if it were a religion that had central authority and dogma and could be understood and taught by any single individual. When last I checked "Pegan" was not a religion. Or anything, for that matter. Perhaps you are a struggling author (and incapable of proper spelling) because of all those drugs you've listed yourself as an expert on.

Anybody know a good 'proper ritual' (*gag*) to exorcise idiots from one's religious category?

...And it's not the same thing as Wicca, either, bitch.

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[nekokoban]

Qwik-n-Handy Ritual:

1. Take a large heavy blunt object of choice -- not so heavy you can't heft it easily, but something with a definite weight to it.

2. Invite idiots for tea. Or spooky seance thingy. Either/or.

3. Introduce idiots to Mr. Big Heavy Object. Repeat introductions as necessary; idiots may not get it immediately.

4. Hope to ye gods and fishes they don't remember anything when they wake up. :D

... I kid. I think.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Oh, but I think that might be exactly the answer. *Grins* These girls all seemed like the sort of hippy-dip pagans (or, excuse me, pegans) who could easily be coaxed into a seance. Then I can bean them over the head with... er... my cat?

[becksbooks.livejournal.com]

your cat? what'd he do to you? I'm sure you have an old, ugly coffee cup that just won't break (no matter how many times you 'accidentally' drop it...)

If not, I have several that you may borrow.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Ongoing household humor - my cat, who I dearly love, is a bit overweight... and just plain huge. So the housemates and I tend to make jokes about his weight, stuff like "I know where you sleep - I'll come in one night and put my cat on your chest, and he'll suffocate you" or "lift with the knees!" when someone's picking him up.

...Not really the kind of thing that's funny to anybody outside the house, but it's become such an ongoing joke that I couldn't resist throwing it into such an already-ludicrous conversation. ;)

[nekokoban]

Forget beaning -- you'll suffocate them with him. If he doesn't go O___O OMG GURLZ and run away first. XD

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

True, true.

...Icon! I can't help it, I giggle every time I see that darned thing!

[theladyfeylene.livejournal.com]

I want to kind of strangle little_details today. And smack all of the new members and tell them that we really don't give a flying fuck what your credentials are, how smart you are, how many years you went to college, how you're an expert in random fields or any other nuggets of info you feel like cluttering up our Flists with. Seriously, we're not the Happy Shiny Info Sharing Fun Group.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Whoops, I just commented about this on your LJ before I saw this comment!

Yeah. I.... yeah. That's pretty much all I can say. Plus, half of their "credentials" are kind of completely pointless. The whole idea of the comm is that people ask what THEY need to know, and the people who have a clue chime in with their answers. Not the other way around.

Also? Is it just me, or has there been more than the usual amount of "bitch, you sooo need to do your own gods-damned work" kind of questions over there, lately? I mean, seriously - I have my bad-google-fu days, too, but some of this is obvious that they just can't be buggered to do their own fact-checking. The community is meant to be for the kinds of tiny little things that you couldn't get out of a basic search on teh subject. Fucking asswads.

[theladyfeylene.livejournal.com]

Hehehehe.

I know! The one that made me really go 'bwuh?' was the elite horse breeder and her paragraphs of crap. And she admitted that all that she knew was easy to look up! Gah!

There really have been. I only use that community when I have been searching and searching and can't find anything. Other than that: Google is your friend. It's not that hard to do a little research. If I can find what the person is looking for in under a minute on Google, they don't need to be asking there.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

That's okay, since 95% of the comm recently has been stuff that any trained monkey could look up if they had access to a computer or library. Or even a fucking encyclopedia. The one that got me was the one who was listing all sorts of illegal substances, "self-inflicted harm" and OCD. There's a healthy individual who should be asked for research help. *Headdesk*

I honestly only use it if I can't figure out how I would find something out. If it's something where I could just Google, or pick up a book from the library or something... no! But these idiots can't seem to figure out the most basic of questions, or even realize that "what kind of ___ would a rich person have" is not a valid fucking question. People have different tastes, morons. Go and fucking do some research on your own. This sort of laziness is totally starting to represent the downfall of humanity, in my mind.

[theladyfeylene.livejournal.com]

I know. Gah, I saw that! I mean, I suppose they could be a counselor of some sort - I didn't read with any attention to detail - but still!

You know, you ought to read Today's Scary-Go-Round, which deals with the laziness of humans being their downfall. It is vastly appropriate for this conversation, I think.

I know! I saw that and wanted to beat my head against the desk. Expensive furniture! Now go and look up expensive furniture until you see what you think your character would like!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I seriously doubt that she had such a good reason for that knowledge.

Yup. That pretty much covers it. I swear... I just don't understand people. I really don't.

And the car one a few weeks ago was really special, too. This one just really got me, though - it's so damned easy to just look up stuff like that. Now, I could probably help out with their moronic little problems pretty easily given that my dad used to make furniture for fun and I've heard more than the average human being about various kinds of wood. But... no. I will not encourage that kind of stupidity.

[becksbooks.livejournal.com]

Pegan (n) (pay-gan)

1) Pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-religious person. They tend to have 'seances' that rely heavily on the use of a Ouija board, 'rituals' involving lots of red wine and incoherent babbling (ritualistic incoherent babbling can be distinguished from NORMAL incoherent babbling as participants will likely be in a circle, holding hands and 'communing with the Great Mother Earth').

Synonyms: Vagan (vay-gan) (n.) People who do not eat animals or animal by-product except for sushi b/c it's totally the best food EVER, and whipped cream, because really, what's a mocha without whipped cream, and come to think of it, they really like bacon. But other than that - NOTHING.

2. Twats who should be irradicated from the face of the earth.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

....I love you. ♥ ♥ ♥