It’s incredible, it morphs, it’s chameleon-like — and yet for some reason we can’t go back to calling it the “incredible morphing chameleon thread.”
This forum tries to stay on topic longer than the random threads do. Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.
Current topic: Games/Pastimes: Conkers for starters, but the discussion is bound to move on soon
Families
Disappearing bees
Historical restoration and re-enactment
Philosophy
We’re still on the topic of philosophy I guess?
Until a new topic comes along.
C’we talk about West Side Story? It’s like my TOTAL FAVE OLD MOVIE!!! Especially the fighty-dancy scenes.
Wuzzaheck is West Side Story?
Can we talk about RENT? That’s my all-time fave movie. I even like it better than Star Wars, which is saying something if you know me.
West Side Story is a musical about two lovers who belong to/are accosiated with warring gangs. Think Romeo and Juliet in 1950s Manhattan. It’s quite good.
If we wanna talk about movies we can go to the movies thread…
Talk about philosophy! Come on!
What about the philosiphy that states that your life is already predetermined before the world began?
there is this awesome song in the charlie brown musical called: my new philiosophy!
10- Oh! Do you mean “Your a Good Man, Charlie Brown?” I was in that when I was like 8. I got to sing the book report song. Best. Part. Ever. *starts singing* A book report on Peter Rabbit, Peeeeter Rabbit…
10, 11- twenty four twenty five twenty six twenty seven twenty eight – ha!
down came the sack full of lead smash!
Oh, yeah? that’s what you think! Well, why are you telling me? I can’t stand it! No! *wanders off singing you’re a good man charlie brown songs*
This thread isn’t talking about philosophy. Or anything else, for that matter. Let’s talk about restoring old ships! *is totally obsessed* If that’s too specific, howbout historical re-enactment? Museums?
I reallyreallyreally want to restore this old sailing ship. I can’t say what she’s called because people might use it to locate me… No, that’s dumb. Her name’s Wawona. She’s like over a hundred years old and in really bad shape. I WANT TO FIX HER UP!!!
How about the Titanic or the Lusatainia (or however it’s spelled).
This thread should be on the complexity of the human brain and how it relates to a computer. yeah.
This thread is remarkably slow, considering it was made yesterday.
Give it time. It’s got a lot of competition just now.
GAPAs – why can’t you go back to calling it the chameleon thread?
13 РI go to MI every summer (and sail), and there was this life-sized replica of the Ni̱a sailing around, visiting cities. I got to see it, but not actually go on it because it was really expensive. But it was really cool!
Cool! I want to work on a tall ship when I’m older. Like the Lady Washington, or the Lynx.
Bah!
I wish I was a viking.
I’d build a thousand ships.
I’d ride the raging waters,
with sword hanging from my hips.
I’d ride the wind to Rome
And take the Vatican by storm.
Rob them of their feeble hope
and decapitate the Pope.
20-cool !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
20- Me like! Are you christian?
Sorry. Dumb question. I looked at the religions list. Your asat-whatsit? Cool!
23-he’s asatru and he loves to pretend he’s a viking…so watch out!!!
20-never knew you liked poetry and were good at it! w00t!
okay, we’re alking about historical stuff? i’ve been on the Mayflower 2 like 4 times and it is tiny, cramped and they had to fit 100 people on it! my respect for the pilgrims grew immensley!
24- the Mayflower? That’s like 400 years old; I didn’t know it was still around. Cool.
26-or both!
25-nononono! not the Mayflower! the Mayflower 2! like as in a remake.
i also see plymouth rock a lot….horrible tourist attraction. all it is is a small boulder(square shaped) with the letters 1620 on it. its not like the pilgrims landed on it or anything. you can’t land a ship on a rock. the only good thing aout it is that if you go there at low tide you can slip your hand between the bars and steal some change that people throw there. GAPA’s, don’t snip this cause it dosen’t give anything away about my location….the state of MA is vastly populated.
(20) FS, please…
Anyone with a decen grasp of sociology, psychology and history will arrive to the same conclusion. I keep forgettung your 12, american, and therefore not my intellectual equal. You should learn more, read more history books, listen to opposing viewpoints, confront different ideals, and then you will be qualified to argue.
20- Gotopoemsandsongs! It’s diiiieing… all you other people too, go there!
Hmm. I am not really a history person. At all… some parts are interesting, but it’s not my thing.
Re-enactments are very cool, though. Anyone here ever been to Medieval Times? I went there for my birthday in, wat was it, 5th grade? Anyway, long time ago. Me and my friends dressed up in costume and talked in accents… so fun
One of my friends knew the kight who won the tournament, Leland, he had her grandmother as a teacher. Very cool.
(30) What is it about history that makes you say it’s not your thing?
29 – FS, pleeeeeeeeease!
*leaves before he blows up*
Oh, darn, I posted that under my alter-ego name, so I’ll post this one under it too.
31- If I want to learn it on my own it can interest me, like if I am curious about a certain point in time I can research it and it will hold my attention and I may actually learn something. I guess I should say I’m not a hostory-tought-in-school person, because what I like learning and what they test us on are often very different things. Memorizing dates, places, that doesn’t really make me want to shout for joy. However, if we could debate more on what we think happened and why, what was so-an-so’s motivtion, I would probably be more into it.
As it is, I should be doing my history notes right now. Which is basicly copying dates and places from a text book. *sigh*
20 – lol. My brother used to be really big on Pope jokes. Of course, this is also the person who caused my mother to ban the use of the word “bourgeoisie” from our house for the summer – he’s in college and only comes home for some breaks.. and then spends the entire time reading Nietzche, Derrida, etc..
Down, Fridgey. Down. Good boy.
35-that was crude
Listen to opposing viewpoints…..
More than one person could benefit from that advice.
Maybe you should also RESPECT different viewpoints.
35 – huh?
why is nobody talking about the subject? maybe we should change it to “Hey lets all argue and waste time fighting fridgey!”
talk about something that has a point!!!!!!!!!
I like Colonial reprints. They’re pretty. Once I made a pillow with a colonial reprint.
That was completely on topic.
3: I know we’re not on this topic anymore, but WSS is one of the weirdest movies I’ve ever seen. I thought it was extremely boring EXCEPT for the dance-fighting, which was, um, surreal.
Haha, my friend’s one-sentence summary of West Side Story is, “You killed my brother… kiss me!”
Historical re-enactments… hm. Well, I:
~Went to see the tall ships when they stopped on the Lake Erie shore. There was a guy who did a bunch of magic tricks with a rope and knots. Also one of the ships was Ukranian and my mom got a T-shirt with a picture of it.
~Have been to Hale Farm and Village INNUMEROUS times.
~Once went on vacation to Greenfield Village, but I don’t remember much of it.
~Went to a re-enactment of the Underground Railroad. It was neat: We went on a group hike and at different spots the actors would come act out part of the plot, and hikers had an active role too, playing along with what the actors told you, carrying messages to the next people, etc. It was all to celebrate this holiday I can’t remember the name of, something to do with civil rights or some kind of victory over slavery.
Has anyone read the book Running Out of Time, by Margaret Peterson Haddix? It is about a group of people who live in this “museum” type place, where everything is old fashioned. The adults know they are living in conditions a century behind them, but the children have no idea they are not living in the modern world. This description is probably making no sense, but I don’t want to give anything away. But it is a really good book, and I suggest you read it!
42- I love that book!!! I think it is an…accurate description if you don’t want to give stuff away.
41- That sounds super fun.
42- I should see if my library has it, it sounds good.
I may manage to go sailing on a tallship this summer/month. I don’t know, I’m a bit scared actually.
29- I agree with you and have considered these things also, and i’m 12. Age dosen’t always matter.
42-That sounds really good. I’m gonna see if my library has it.
20-FS! Come on, is Religion all you can talk about? Please stop. BTW, how old are you?
Hmm, history. I am good at history, but I find it kinda boring sometimes. I like reading about the famous people in history, and right now we are studying the Renaissance, which is really FUN, and I also like studying Ancient China. My favorite person in the Middle Ages/Renaissance is Johannes Gutenberg, with Martin Luther at a close second. One time in 5th grade, we did a day called Colonial Day, where we acted like we were living in one of the thirteen colonies and did all these activities relating to the time.
I’m 16.
This topic is not grabbing the interest of anybody. What’s more, I am in an end-of-the-world-ish mood because of the disappearing bees. Does anyone want to discuss that?
48: Please explain…
I have no clue what you’re talking about.
For all those who don’t know about the disappearing bees, here’s a link to a new york times article if the GAPAs let it through:
http:// http://www.nytimes.com/ 2007/ 02/27/ business/ 27bees.html?pagewanted= 1&ei= 5088&en= 3aaa0148837b8977&ex= 1330232400
There are plenty of bees in my backyard i think its specificcally honeybees dissapearing
49- Honeybees are disappearing. No bodies, nothing-just gone. When all the bees are gone, we will starve, because bees are the main pollinators(sp?). It’s really scary.
h, I’ve heard about the dissapearing bees thing, It has been directly linked to GMO’s, I’ll have to ask my mom for the details, she studied it before she did a talk on biotechnology. Something about….oh, i’ll have to ask, I don’t want to say anything that isn’t true.
Well, some people are saying that it’s from cell phones, but we have a friend who keeps bees, and his bees left him, even though you can’t get a cell phone signal within miles of his house. So yeah. I think they just got tired of us idiot humans and left. My mom thinks that it’s because there used to be people who would tell the bees about changes, and people honored the bees and now no one does.
It’s like a book, except that if it was a book, some people with powers would save the world, which is unlikely in real life. (Though if bees can disappear off the face of the planet, anything is possible.)
I want to take up beekeeping. I think bees are amazing and magical, honestly. Anyone ever read Linnets and Valerians, by Elizabeth Goudge?
I’m not scared for the bees, wherever they are, they’re perfectly fine. I’m scared for the whole, idiotic, human race, and all the animals to boot.
It’s called Colony Collapse Disorder. And there’s nothing to suggest it’s caused by cell phones, the study only tested the effects of mobile phones (house phones with no cords, rather than in-your-pocket type cells) and their results were inconclusive, as some of the control groups disbanded as well. Even so, it can’t be good. It’s probably mites that have been taken out of their natural habitats and which are extremely hard to get rid of or something else we’ve done.
They’re DISAPPEARING! No bodies or anything! And I want to believe the impossible, so I will. I don’t think it’s cell phones or mobile phones or any of that. Mites, maybe. It would be a realistic answer. I don’t think they’re dead, though. I also like the theory that they’re leaving because we’re total idiots (we as the species, nothing personal), because that way maybe we can convince them to come back.
I heard about that too. I also heard that scientists are experimenting with free-ranging bees to pollinate crops. So far it seems to be working, but there is a problem with finding enough free-ranging bees for it to be practical.
50: Thanks, I read the article.
“Beekeepers are the nomads of the agriculture world, working in obscurity in their white protective suits and frequently trekking around the country with their insects packed into 18-wheelers, looking for pollination work. ”
For beekeepers to make a living, are they hired by the growers?
54: Just wondering, how are bees magical?
What’s that book about? My library doesn’t have it.
56: Okay, they’re not literally disappearing. Basically they leave the hive to go pollinate, as they do every day, and don’t come back because they die.
58- Then why haven’t they found any dead bees? Sorry. I like to think that magic could happen, even if it’s a frightening circumstance.
Linnets and Valerians is about a bunch of children who run away, and by chance they find their uncle(?) when they run away. Lots of magic ensues, not least of which is the bees. They are really intelligent, and they go get help when something bad happens, and they- well, I’m coming close to spoilers here, so I should say no more. There’s a man in the book who talks to the bees. It’s a wonderful, magical, book and a million times better than I described it.
59: Sorry to burst your bubble on the whole magic thing, I admit it’s fun I like mysterious things as much as the next person :P, but really they haven’t found the bees because a given colony that went out to pollinate and didn’t return would be spread out across a large radius in which, since bees are so small, it would be nearly impossible to find the dead bees.
60- Whatever you say. It’s more likely (VERY likely, in fact), but I prefer to stick with mystery. Not magic quite so much, but sort of. I’m strange. I believed in Santa Claus till I was twelve. (When I was eleven I was having doubts though.) I am extremely unexposed to the outside world (hence the Santa claus thing.) I have no reason to believe that it doesn’t happen, and at least I don’t say that it happens, but in everyday ways. That’s the most irritating thing ever.
Ohmygod, I just realized that my book that I’m writing is not so far out at all… Teenagers running around believing in magic is not as implausible as I thought, especially if they have proof.
Didn’t you hear? Santa is an anagram of Satan ZOMG.
62-huh?
never heard of the dissapearing bees….but very creepy. alice, i love to beleive things are magical! when something goes wrong i always blame it on the faeries! never really beleived in santa clause and all the holiday stuff but i still like to beleive in magic. it makes life more interesting. and it helps me grow an imagination!!
who doesn’t believe in magic? Boo hoo
Not that I do or anything
ha….ha
actually, disappering bees is kind of creepy
I know the idea of this thread is it’s supposed to be magically chameleonesque and morph its way along, but i saw something on west side story up there. the reg english class is watching that now! Right after they finished monty python and the holy grail. SO JEALOUS OF THEM! We’re doing lord of the freaking flies. i hate that book so much.
my eyes dead…my light’s off (because i never bother to turn it on until it gets dark, and when it got dark i didn’t bother to turn it on cuz i was on the comp) so it’s just the screen and then all completely black around it. (usually i can see better in the dark than that, but not w/the screen brightness way up like it is)
anyway, i just looked off to the side for a sec adn it looked really weird. so yeah.
this is all pretty random. heh whoops. But i don’t know anything about bees, disappearing or otherwise. So i’ll leave now.
The bees are getting lost. Then they die. Why? Here’s my two favorite theories:
It’s all in the Plants:
Pollinating genetically modified plants may be either weakening thir stomach linings or strengthening a deadly bacteria that is attacking their stomachs and may be killing the bees.
Cell Phones:
Cell phones release small amounts of radiation that make it very hard or impossible for bees to find their way back to the hive. It is a known fact that bees stay as far away from cell phone towers and places with many cell phone calls.
So What?:
According to Einstein, four years after bees die off, people will start to die off, too.
Now would be a rather good time to PANIC!
68 – The moment the hot-pink bunnies took control of you, it was time to panic.
67- But a friend of ours lost his bees, and there is no cell phone signal anywhere near his house. How do you answer THAT?
68- No kidding?
My uncle says that it’s not the first time. So maybe it won’t be the last, either. Maybe they’ll come back. *brightens* He also says that honey bees aren’t native to the US, something I ought to have known, maybe… But maybe not. Anyway, that means that there must be some native pollinators, and my mom also says that we have some of the aforesaid in our front yard.
I’m no longer worried about the humans. I still wish the bees would come back though. I wonder if bumble bees pollinate. I saw several of them today.
My thoughts on the honeybees:
1)The level of pesticides has reached an intolerance level, and the bees can’t take it anymore.
2)It’s a bacterial infection.
3)It’s a viral infection.
4)It has something to do with global warming.
5)They are upset about something and are on a hunger strike.
6)The Federation of Planets has retaliated by unleashing a deadly bacterial or viral infection (see 2 and 3).
7) Some symbiotic bacteria died, probably because of 1, and now the whole thing is going to hell in a giftbasket.
52-No, no, there are lots of bodies. They’re dying, not evaporating.
67-That’s not true. There would be food left for humans because some foods are cross-pollinated and a lot of it could be artificially pollinated.
71- I like #5
But I don’t think it’s #1, because they lived throught the 60’s when god knows we sprayed everything. And there would be some food, but artificial pollination would be extremely difficult on a large scale. The bees go, and we’re pretty screwed.
I LIKE COOKIES!!!
…why do i come up with theese random comments?
*stares up into the sky wondering*
73 – That belongs on the random thread.
I have no opinion on the disapearing bees, for two reasons-
a) I have no clue what is going on. I’ve just about figured out that bees are leaving and not coming back.
b) Hee hee… I don’t really care. They’ll be back. Butterflies pollanate as well, so….
But, just for the sake of it, here are some reasons, and my arguments against them.
We’re doing something wrong. Well, we’re always doing something wrong.
We’re doing something else wrong. See above.
I got the wrong answers on my science test last week and the bees are mad at me. I don’t live in that area.
There isn’t yet an international Honey Bee day, and the bees are having a strike. Hmmm.. . I like that one.
I agree that we’re doing something wrong. And that we’re always doing something wrong.
And that last one may be somewhat close to the truth. See my post 54.
Yesterday i caught my friend trying to step on a downed honeybee. I don’t understand him. I really, really hate unnecesarry animal killing.
That’s so awful! What did that bee ever do to him?
Some people assume all bees are evil because they sting people. Or they just like squashing stuff and killing things (influenced by bad video games).
I know! If it had stung him, he wouldn’t have had the chance to get revenge!
The precious is MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
New topic: Movie voiceovers.
LOTR, moria, on the wierd stairs.
“Who carries the ring?”
“I do!”
“and who’s the main character?”
“me!”
“exactly. The main character can’t die. Look, that rocks gonna fall exactly where we need it.”
“what, are you kidding me??”
some time later.
“Gandalf! Where’s the weed!”
“It’s all in my pocket!” *lets go*
“NOOOOO! The weed! let me go! Through me down!”
ummmmm… Gollum? you remind me of my little sister. she ALWAYS makes gollum voice. (my fault)
I just did an extra credit summery/reaction on an article on dissapearing bees yesterday. It said one solution might be all the solitary bees living in north america, about 75% of the bee population are loners.
72-There are also foods that are wind-pollinated. Just not many. Of course, bees might be cloned…
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I finally, finally, remembered the name of the holiday I was talking about at the end of post 41… it’s called Juneteenth. Wow. I’ve been trying to remember that since, well, ten days ago.
I would try to relate this to bees, but the topic is just about dead. We need a new one. Hmm… what about Godwin’s Law? I just learned what that was an hour ago, from today’s xkcd comic, then the forum discussing that specific comic, then wikipedia. Yay for the Age of Information.
Just Wikipediad (word?) Godwin’s Law. It’s interesting, but what exactly is there to discuss?
Should we talk about the big immigration bit? Ooo I can’t wait to see what Fridgy will find wrong with American policy there!!!
ooh! New topic! Crazy family members, family stories, stories of what you did as a small child, etc.
hahaha soo many stories. anyways, this weekend on saturday, me and my friend decided to play dress up. we put on spandex pants, japenese “happy shirts” or whatever, bandanas, belts and ballet flats. then we decided to go and find my brother, who was out playing tennis.we walked down to the park and found him. unlike my parents he was not ammmused. later at supper he was screaming at my parents to punish me. but it was realy fun. these girls about my age were staring at us for, like 5 minutes.
i din’t do anything crazy as a child but i make up for it now! hehe.
87: I don’t know, just throwing something out there. : P
mwah ha! One time we went to England with some friends and mom locked her passports in the hotel safe in London (you can see where this is going, right?) and then we went to… Wales… with the passports safely locked away in… London. ^_^ *snickers* Anyway, after mom discovered this…
mom: Betsy! Betsy! call the hotel and pretend to be me!
Betsy: why?
mom: I’m to embarassed!
Betsy: Oooooookay.
me: wha- what? (it was, like, 10:00 pm)
Hannah: ?!?!?!?
mom: ACK!
Betsy: (on phone) “yes, my name is… er… Nora F. and I’ve done something stupid…”
mom: *on paper* phenomenally stupid!
Betsy: *on phone* “Phenomenally stupid. You see, I left my passporst in the hotel safe…
LOL. good times, good times…
More recently, (three years ago) I promised Hannah that she could give me a makeover for her birthday present (seemed like a good idea at the time – figured she’d forget.). Oh no! she remembered, alright… *sigh* Anyway, she and Kaja (our German exchange student) stayed at our house for a week and… ugh. I don’t know what they did to my hair, but, I swear, it was five inches above my head… and… *traumatized for life*
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Crazt stories. Hmmm. If someone wants to hear more about the following, tell me. These are what I did, but it’s the reactions or how it happened that are generally funny.
1. I was nearly landed on by a hot air balloon. (Kindergarten)
2. I climbed a tree that was taller than a two-story house. (1st grade)
3. I give a “Confidence” award to someone and somehow accidentally insult them (7th grade)
4. A really weird guy asks me to a dance ( fifth grade)
5. I hold a sleepover with ten other girls (seventh grade)
Okay, all of these are pretty funny. If anyone’s interested in haring more, post.
Yes, I’m interested in hearing more.
93- tell them all!
I’ll have to think about this one for a bit. We’ll see what I come up with!
speaking of families has anyone read flowers in the attick by V.C andrews? if you haven’t don’t. the family in it is so twisted. the parents are half-brother and sister and they had four kids. at the end of the book the older son rapes the older sister. the mother tries to kill off her kids so she can get the will of her father. very sad.
93- Elaborate, please
96-oh. thats sick(as in gross/disturbing and unnecessary to repeat in public)
92~ Your story reminded me of one time my mom locked the keys in the car.
Last winter Mom and I were at a historic house listening to some friends play music. So all was good. Untill we had to leave and Mom couldn’t find her keys.
So, we look EVERYWHERE and then find that she’s locked them in the car. It’s 10:30 PM, and our friends are in full colonial dress, trying to think just how we can get the keys out. So, after another half hour or so of trying to open the car, to no avail, Paul says,
“WHat you need is one of those little magnetic boxes with a spare key in it…” Mom gets this funny look on her face and goes, “OH!!!! I have one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Paul: “WERE YOU BLONDE?!?!?!?!”
Ha ha, I still ask her if she was blonde!!
how much time do you have?
I have…7 parent-like figures
6+ siblings
8 grandparents…
urgh. Divorce, remarriage. Divorce, remarraige
My mother is purely insane. She won’t let me have an iPod because “It turns your brian to mush.” Bull.
101- Yes, but there are several documented cases of pedestrians being hit by passing automobiles they didn’t notice because they were listening to their ipods. And ipod addiction is increasingly rampant in teens.
Just in case anyone is wondering, you don’t need a passport to cross the border between England and Wales. Just courage, and a certain foolhardiness.
I want to go to Wales. And Cornwall, and England, and Scotland, and most of all Ireland.
My great-grandfather turns 90 next March. All my family wants him to make it to 100 because only one person in our family has ever gotten past 100, which was my great-great-great aunt, who clocked 101. But she’s not even a direct ancestor of mine.
My great-grandpa lived to be 102.
Yes, it’s time I had a look at Ireland, now they’ve stopped shooting each other over there. They have very pretty mountains, apparently. And some interesting bogs, which they respect enough not to snorkel in them.
My uncle’s been to Ireland, I think. He took lots of pictures of boats. They were very pretty.
HAha! Speaking of losing keys, anybody know in what movie it is said “I couldn’t find the lock so I tied the chains in a knot”???
107- Bog-snorkling? Is that what you do when you’re not moderating our comments, then? Why on earth do you come back at all? (
) Sounds interesting though. My friend went to Ireland two or three years ago. *is über-jealous*
103: what are you implying about welshland?
*is insulted on behalf of Welsh ancestors*
*thinks about French ones*
*and Irish*
*and Scottish*
*and English*
*and Corsican*
*and Native American*
*and-*
*is hit by a pie*
My family is faaaaar too complicated.
101: I don’t have one either. And to put it quite frankly, I don’t want one. I’ve got enough technology with IM and email. Meh.
Hi! I was a newbie…then no one replied…then I came back. How is everyone? I shall tell you of my family stories in another comment.
113 – Sorry! *pies* There’s already a MuseBlogger called “Poet Maniac who loves Muse* so I assumed you were him/her.
113 – here is my (in) famous kamehameha pie.
KAA…MEEE…HAA…MEEE…HYAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
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113- Hello! *pies* I don’t know when you came, or if you posted on a thread that I visited . . . But sorry nonetheless! *pies again for good measure*
*hands pie to Poet Maniac and Lover of Muse*
I thought I remembered you from earlier, but I also thought I welcomed you. Maybe you just never went back to the thread I welcomed you on! Well, in any case, PIES AGAIN!!!
NOTE (to anyone but mostly for newbs): You can call me Red-tailed HAWK, red-tailed hawk, Red-tailed Hawk (or any other combination-people often don’t like to use many capital letters), R-tH, RtH, r-t h, r-t HAWK, etc…
Red-tailed HAWK
Pies Newbie.
I have been to Wales multiple times (Because we are on the Severn). Paul, have you ever been to Tenby? It is cool!
Umm… Yeh. I’ve been to Ireland once,
My Dad’s side is from the border of Germany and France, and my Mom’s side is from Ireland, who was then transported to Australia on the First Fleet. Then some came to America after establishing a wool farm. His name is in The Fateful Shore.
118- Cool! Do you see the bore?
111- hehe, me too. are those all? I’m Welsh, English, Irish, Scottish, Swedish and Cherokee.
I’m English, German, Scottish, probably a little Irish, Dutch, French-Canadian . . . and most likely a good deal more. It seems like there were some I’m missing. And that’s just what little I know.
I’m Ukranian Jewish, Lithuanian Jewish, and Japanese. And that is it.
Wow. I only posted on this thread once…. one outta one hundred twenty two!! Welcome to Poet Maniac and Lover of Muse *gently hands pie* Well, you can do the honors yourself.
110 – I dont bog snorkel. I play conkers in season, and at other times I prune things. And I make hurdy-gurdies. Not many people can say that. especailly in Ireland.
124- My mom loves hurdy-gurdies! I wonder what she would say if I told her.
119- Alas, no. We happen to be on the mouth bit, so the bore evens out a bit and turns into a wave. We can see Wales on a clear day though.
124- Wheeeeeeee! Conkers! I like conkers. We used to play conkers at my Primary School, and the one year I did the school “Championships” I managed to…. beat one person before my conker flew off the string and into a bush.
I have never played conkers. Probably because I live in America, on the west coast no less. What is it?
??? Didn’t you see Paul Baker’s article in the January issue?
Great. No, I don’t think so. But it does sound slightly familiar . . . I know vaguely that it is some game played with chestnuts of some kind, that are threaded onto a string/shoelace. What you do afterwards though, is a mystery. I’m off to find a measly picture-less version of the article.
I play guitar in my free time.
124- Too bad, about the bog-snorkling. But conkers are fun too, not that I’ve played, but I’d like to. No conker-trees near me, unless they’re very well hidden/in someone else yard.
Free time? Hmm. I read. And write. Sometimes I draw. I play flute too. And I come on the computer more than i probably should, but I also go outside a lot.
In my free time i LOVE to dance, read, email friends, sing, play piano, watch Orlando Bloom movies, talk nonstop, and laugh histarically.
130- i would love to learn to play aucoustic guitar, it is beautiful
77- i know you said that a while ago, but i totally agree. I cant kill anything except misquitos. No offense to anyone, but i dont know how anyone could hunt, sorry. Animals are like a part of me, i am a vegetarian, they treat animals so cruel at many many many slaughter houses. I also dont understand why companies test on animals either, you can make products without it.
On subject: I also love to listen to music, it pumps me up!
133- Sorry, but I have to say this. How is killing mosquitoes to keep them from biting you any better than killing animals for food?
I mean, slaughterhouses are cruel and I disapprove of all factory meat, but say you had to hunt to live, or you ate un-farmed meat?
134 – Becaue mosquitos have brains the size of pinheads and don’t matter squat.
128 – She just recently reneweed her subscription.
135- Whatever you say. I disagree, but then, I quit killing mosquitoes because I felt guilty, and I eat meat. (Mostly un-farmed meat, though.) So maybe I’m just weird that way. I have absolutely no scruples about killing biting flies, on the other hand.
“What do they live on when they can’t get hobbit?”
– Either Sam, Merry, Pippin, or Frodo, regarding mosquitoes.
137 – I eat meat, though mostly free-range. I only swat mosquitos until they land on me and start to bite. Then I want revenge.
I detect a change in the discussion topic.
Lets not. I don’t want to talk about vegetarianism.
134- Killing misquitos is different becuase you could get diseased from them, and killing animals for food isnt necessary for humans. By killing masquitos you are protecting yourself, and it is necessary if they are carrying deadly diseases, but eating animals is not necessary, i havnt had a bite of meat in my whole life and my doctor says i am one of the most healthy kids she has seen. And my grandma is a vegetarian, is in her 80s, and still goes to the gym for light work outs. If you HAVE to hunt for food thats different, but i dont eat meat becuase they treat animals horribly at slaugher houses and i dont HAVE to hunt for food. If you eat unfarmed meat that is totally different becuase they werent put through cruelty. I wouldnt just becuase i dont like the idea of killing something and eating when it isnt necessary. I am sorry, i am very touchy about this subject becuase i have lost friends in the past just becuase i was a vegetarian.
135- masquitos mean alot, they provide food for many organisms and are very important to the food chain like every organism on this planet. Even if they are unpleasant for humans and carry diseases, but its just part of the circle of life.
138- I think its cool you eat free range, but be careful, becuase on NBC on the radio not too long ago they said many companies that claim to be free range arent after all. Just saying.
139- why not? i like to talk about just about anything so i dont really care, just wondering though.
140- I don’t eat storebought meat much at all, and just to clarify, I mostly eat meat that a) comes from our farm (i.e. sheep, and pork some years ago) or b) comes from the farms of people we know. So.
And I don’t want to talk about vegetarianism because for some reason it gets my blood pressure up. I’ve nothing against vegetarians, I just . . . I don’t know . . . Do you drink milk or eat cheese or butter or eggs? That gets me. They treat the animals just as bad in that situation as the other, and those animals don’t even get to die and get it over with.
I’m sorry, I’m not trying to flame anybody. Really. I hate this topic, but I can’t stay away from it if it’s brought up. I’m really, really, sorry if you misinterpret that post. I’m not trying to be rude or mean or anything. Sorry!
True, you can get diseases from mosquitoes. But then again, rhubard is poisonous, certain fish can kill you if you eat the wrong part, etc. I sometimes kill mosquitoes, but not much. I still don’t let them bite me. I am neutral.
Weird. Some people can’t stand eating meat, and some people can’t stand killing mosquitoes. To each her/his own, I guess.
139 – Yea. To sensitive a topic.
141 – That’s why some people are vegans.
What I find extreme is the Jains [a religious group], who are so strictly advised not to kill any living thing that they only eat fruit (squash, corn, peas and such are included in this definition of fruit). But they even sweep the sidewalks as they walk to avoid stepping on things and wear cloth over their mouths to keep from inhaling any tiny insects. Where should you draw the line?
141-i do eat cheese and drink milk and everything, but i look up the company to make sure they treat them well and we buy our eggs from people we know. I dont buy anything that is from a bad company. I dont eat fish either, becuase it is a living animal. And i hate Rubarb just to say. I dont mean to hurt anybody either, again i am just really touchy becuase i have lost friends in the past from the fact that i am a vegetarian (i get upset easily) and have had people make fun of me.
This is kind of random, but can we have a thread for like the subject “Different” like for people who like to talk about how some things they do are different, or different cultures, or different things about yourself. You know? I think that would be fun.
Okay, so we have determined that we are both touchy about the subject, and both try to (or do) eat good milk/cheese/butter/eggs. Some of us kill mosquitoes and some of us don’t, and neither of us want to offend anyone. Can we change the subject now?
Wow this thread has only had four topics and 146 posts?!?!?
Hey nobody even looked at my idea in post 88!!!!!!!!
Hey! Who do i ask 2 have my own museblog mubobber?
We can’t answer that if we don’t know what a “museblog mubobber” is, can we?
What is a MuseBlog mubobber?
146- Hot Topic. Vegetarianism is hot enough for me. Besides, I thought you were being sarcastic.
147- A wot?
Also, are you new? *pies, if so*
147- Mabye your name on the who’s here page? if you are new, introduce your self on the newbie page!
Haha. Overheard in the dining hall: “I need to eat something that screamed when it died!”
I eat meat. But not every day. Mostly non-red when I do. Hurray for sentence fragments.
don lika meat. no really because of animal cruelty and stuff, i just dont like the taste. i like D&D&D&D& ect
153- D&D has absolutely nothing to do with vegetarianism. But it is fun…
Hey, if animals have emotions and a perception of life and death beyond instinct, maybe we should give them rights like people and turn them all lose to do what they want, when they want. Because pigs are people, too. So there.
Did I do a good job of sounding snobbish and opinionated?????
155. i think so! also did you change your name? or are you new?
i like meat but i also like piggies and cows they are my favorite animals!
I agree that this is a toucht topic. I’m a vegetarian BUT only because I do not like the taste of meat, not for any other reason. Otherwise I would eat it.
I never thought so many people would be vegetarians because they don’t like meat.