My karma ran over your dogma

[Quoth the Raven]

Silly phrase, but appropriate and funny.
Anywho, since my previous karma thread seems to have vanished, I thought I'd start a new one.
So bring on the questions. To forestall the obvious: I'm 19, male, and a student at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge (first year). I'm studying Ophthalmic Dispensing (go ahead and ask what that is, haha) and I intend to do a Masters in Contact Lenses.

[lithium]

*laughs heartily at thread title*

A perhaps entirely redundant question, but - what do you plan to do once you finish your degree?

And... if you were alone in the woods with Noel Edmonds and got attacked by a pair of wild dogs, what would you do?

[Quoth the Raven]

Once I finish my degree, I'm gonna go into practice part-time as a dispensing optician/contact lens optician. The rest of the time, and hopefully it'll get bigger and bigger, I'm gonna be building up my Kinesiology & naturopathy practice.

And if I was attacked by dogs while in the woods with noel edmunds, I'd chuck that stupid goit at the dogs and leg it.

[Peace-Phoenix]

Your old thread will still be there, just a few pages back. Anywhoo, what do you think's changed in your life since you wrote that thread?

[Quoth the Raven]

Your old thread will still be there, just a few pages back. Anywhoo, what do you think's changed in your life since you wrote that thread?
Ah.. I had the wrong display setting on, thought it'd been deleted or summat.
And blimey, loads has changed. let's see, I've:
- lost a girlfriend
- lost my purpose in life then found it again
- moved to Cambridge (nice city, shame I'll only be here for 4 years)
- gained some weight due to a lack of adequate motivation for healthy food ;)

[lithium]

And if I was attacked by dogs while in the woods with noel edmunds, I'd chuck that stupid goit at the dogs and leg it.What if you both had your trousers round your ankles?

[Quoth the Raven]

What if you both had your trousers round your ankles?
Are you implying something here?

I'd pull them up of course.

[IlUvMuSIc]

If you had the choise to be a stone, pebble or stick which would you be?

[lithium]

Are you implying something here?

I'd pull them up of course.I'm not implying anything. Though what would you be doing alone in the woods with Noel Edmonds, both with your trousers round your ankles?;)

[Quoth the Raven]

If you had the choise to be a stone, pebble or stick which would you be?
A stone. Pebbles are too small, sticks get burned in fires.

[IlUvMuSIc]

What question do you think i should ask next? after this one of course...

[Quoth the Raven]

What question do you think i should ask next? after this one of course...
Whichever one you want to ask. of course ;)

[IlUvMuSIc]

ummm but i cant think of anything :( oh no wait i remember

was it you who was gonna be an optician type person?
Or a dentist type person?

[Quoth the Raven]

optician, yes. And still am; it's what i'm doing my degree in. (See top ;) )

[IlUvMuSIc]

I actually looked at the top of this page and couldnt find it... *shame* then i figured it out.


Have you had any really really dumb moments?

[Quoth the Raven]

I actually looked at the top of this page and couldnt find it... *shame* then i figured it out.


Have you had any really really dumb moments?
Almost every day..
Like the time I was extracting about £60 worth of DXM.. I threw away the wrong layer. Ended up with yummy cherry-flavoured ammonia, but no drugs.

[IlUvMuSIc]

hahaha i dont know what DXM is but i can imagine that!! =D did you have to pay for the wastage? And do you know how to make rockets? only small ones... Not proper ones obviously ;)

[Quoth the Raven]

hahaha i dont know what DXM is but i can imagine that!! =D did you have to pay for the wastage? And do you know how to make rockets? only small ones... Not proper ones obviously ;)
DXM is a hallucinogenic that's present in some cough syrups.. and I had to pay for the wastage cause I'd bought the precursors beforehand.
And no I don't know how to make rockets, explosives aren't my thing. Seen too many photos on t'Interweb of people who got it wrong.

[IlUvMuSIc]

we were doin it in physics yesterday. The only group that didnt finish :D

what music do you like??

And i cant believe i didnt think of that question earlier...

[Quoth the Raven]

Hahaha... I like pretty much everything except pop and rap... psychedelic rock or psy-trance is my favourite though.

[IlUvMuSIc]

Do you cook for yourself? Or maybe a better question - what do you eat? Is it all freshly cooked or ready meals etc. ? Whats your fave food?

(i just made the best dinner!! ahhh ive had the best lunch ever, best dinner now i need the best breakfast!! :D)

[Quoth the Raven]

Yep I cook for myself.. it's mostly pasta. i never eat ready meals unless I can't avoid it.
Favourite food is pizza ;) but proper pizza not that ready-made shite.

[IlUvMuSIc]

lol...

Whats your fave TV programme?

[Quoth the Raven]

lol...

Whats your fave TV programme?
Probably a draw between The Simpsons and Heroes... Babylon 5 is fucking awesome as well.

[nynysuts]

OK, my turn to ask questions ;) Erm, what's the best moment at uni so far? And what's your relationship with your parents like?

[Quoth the Raven]

OK, my turn to ask questions ;) Erm, what's the best moment at uni so far? And what's your relationship with your parents like?
Best moment so far? Probably a draw between all the nights in the student bar ;)
And my relationship with my parents is good - not especially close, but not cold either.

[nynysuts]

Ok, lets wake this one up a bit.
Did you know the creator of the original St. Trinians cartoons went to ARU and based some of them on his time there?
Are you coming to Shambala?
What are your feelings on the New Age?

[Quoth the Raven]

Ok, lets wake this one up a bit.
Did you know the creator of the original St. Trinians cartoons went to ARU and based some of them on his time there?
Are you coming to Shambala?
What are your feelings on the New Age?
1. No, I didn't (what's St trinians?). I DID know Pink Floyd met there though ;) and I met a bloke in the Art Department who actually taught them (I was wearing a Floyd shirt as I was passing through and we had a bit of a chat).
2. Yes, most definitely.
3. Depends what you mean by new age.. if you mean the supposed "age of aquarius" that many people think is gonna come in 2012 then my attitude is "I'll believe it when I see it".
New Agers in general I dislike.. most of them seem to turn their common sense off permanently and don't realise their claptrap about angels and such is rebranded christian shite.

[nynysuts]

my attitude is "I'll believe it when I see it".

Glad to see you have the same attitude as me!

[Quoth the Raven]

my attitude is "I'll believe it when I see it".

Glad to see you have the same attitude as me!
That's one of the problems with being an alternative health practitioner - people tend to assume you subscribe to every fruitcake theory doing the rounds. I only accept the validity of what I've seen and experienced that works. Energy healing, yeah, I can DO that so it doesn't require any huge leap of faith. But the pseudo-religion that surrounds reiki, uh-uh, can't be having with that.
Past life regression on the other hand, I don't really buy. Since I don't believe in past lives (karma is a completely different story - what I'm talking about might be termed "soul migration"), the idea that specific incidents in a past life can affect us now in the same manner they originally did (i.e a guy with neck pain having been hanged in a former life - that's an actual diagnosis done by a practitioner I know) is, frankly, a load of bollocks. Past injuries in THIS lifetime are another thing entirely, and I do quite a bit of work with them ;)

So yeah, I have very little time for airy-fairy, flakey idiots, and even less for people who try and put ME in that category!

[nynysuts]

Don't worry, I wasn't putting you in that category! I had a bit of a crisis this year and nearly went and did a course at college in holistic therapy. But I realised taht my strengths were in geography, so that shall be it.

[Quoth the Raven]

Don't worry, I wasn't putting you in that category! I had a bit of a crisis this year and nearly went and did a course at college in holistic therapy. But I realised taht my strengths were in geography, so that shall be it.
Hey, no reason not to do both! With holistic therapy (well, apart from maybe chiropracty or osteopathy) grades and "formal" schooling matters very little. When I applied for my course I didn't even get asked about my qualifications. They came up in conversation later, but there wasn't any formal requirement other than a willingness to learn.

I DID find my biology/biochemistry knowledge useful, but there's people on my course that haven't done a day of biology since GCSE and they do fine.
Which therapy were you going to do?

[nynysuts]

Probably reflexology or aromatherapy, I hadn't really decided. Kinesiology sounds awesome though!

[Quoth the Raven]

Probably reflexology or aromatherapy, I hadn't really decided. Kinesiology sounds awesome though!
It is! You can incorporate it into almost any therapy.. there's kinesiologist-homeopaths, kinesiologist-hypnotherapists, even a kinesiologist doctor! (he teaches at the Classical Kinesiology Institute where I'm studying, very cool guy).
It's like.. well, to use an analogy, if the body is a computer, kinesiology is a monitor and the therapies are a keyboard. We assess the treatments the body needs (various ways of doing that) and the body tells us which one it prefers.

We say "the body never lies, you just need to ask the right question". Well, I say that, since I just made it up ;)

[nynysuts]

You are so awesome at quotes, you need to write that down somewhere!

[Quoth the Raven]

You are so awesome at quotes, you need to write that down somewhere!
Thanks :)
I do come up with some good'uns.. some profound(ish) some funny. My fave funny one is "sobriety is the unfortunate period when you run out of money or the bars are closed"

[nynysuts]

Haha, that's funny, as my good friend Jasmeet would say. She laughs then TELLS you she finds something funny. Anyhoo, questions...
If you had lived in another time, when would it have been?

[Quoth the Raven]

And where? Where is important too ;)
It'd have to be Britain, five or six thousand years ago - around the time Stonehenge was built. The pre-celtic britons (and the Celts too, come to that) had an innate understanding of nature - to them there was no separation between people, animals, forests, rivers etc. All one piece.

[nynysuts]

Wow, that's amazing. You're spouting some really good stuff tonight! I'm struggling with soduko on my sister's brain training!

[Quoth the Raven]

Wow, that's amazing. You're spouting some really good stuff tonight! I'm struggling with soduko on my sister's brain training!
Ah, it's probably the glass of sloe gin (homemade, of course).. in vino veritas, as the saying goes ;)

[nynysuts]

Haha, last time I touched alcohol-NYE. 2 glasses of Perry and 2 of cheap fizzy Asti. Haven't been drunk since May, I went to a party and spent the last hour 'sleeping' on the trampoline. Stylish, eh?

[nynysuts]

Which reminds me, sleep. Got to get up for bloody school tomorrow, double ICT amongst other delights. Goodnight x

[Quoth the Raven]

Which reminds me, sleep. Got to get up for bloody school tomorrow, double ICT amongst other delights. Goodnight x
Goodnight ;)
The joys of a day off...

[lithium]

What was the first record you bought?

[phoenix_indigo]

what's the one thing that can always cheer you up if you are feeling blue?

[Quoth the Raven]

Grateful Dead - either Without a net or I Will take you Home from off Nightfall of Diamonds.

[nynysuts]

What was I going to ask you. Oh yeah...
Do you have any piercings?
where's your favourite place in cambridge?
What would you say if a girl bought you flowers?

[Quoth the Raven]

No piercings.. extremely needle-phobic (had to have a spinal tap done a few years back.. never liked needles since).
My favourite place? Well, the market's really cool.. organic veg stalls, one selling bongs and hookahs, exotic spices etc.. but my favourite place isn't in cambridge. It's outside it, on the road past Trumpington, called Byron's Pool. Supposedly Lord Byron liked to go there when he was at university. Could be apocryphal, but it's a lovely place. path along the Cam, woods, nobody about (most people are surprised to hear it exists!)
If a girl gave me flowers, I'd smile and accept them ;)

[Quoth the Raven]

What was the first record you bought?
First record I bought was... erm.. don't think I've ever bought a CD. Had 'em bought for me for birthdays etc but I'm not sure I ever bought one.
Arr, I be a scurvy pirate!

[nynysuts]

It's outside it, on the road past Trumpington, called Byron's Pool. Supposedly Lord Byron liked to go there when he was at university. Could be apocryphal, but it's a lovely place. path along the Cam, woods, nobody about (most people are surprised to hear it exists!)

Sounds Beautiful! Personally the best place I've been in Cambridge is the park by the camb, I have really good memories of a May day bank holiday, eating sausages (this was pre-vegetariab) and dipping our feet in the river. And the time we hired a punt for my Grandad's 70th Birthday and my Uncle who couldn't swim fell in! And the time we hit someone with a frisbee by the graffham centre. I love Cambridge!

[Quoth the Raven]

Google maps (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=byron's+pool+cambridge&ie=UTF8&ll=52.171201,0.100529&spn=0.003079,0.010439&t=h&z=17&om=1) of the place.. about halfway between Trumpington and Grantchester (yes, THAT Grantchester ;) )

I've never been punting, but it sounds quite fun! I'm generally more about canoes and kayaks than punts, but it might be worth a shot.

[nynysuts]

Funnily enough, we punted to Grandchester and stood outside Jeffrey Archers house!!! It is good fun, best with a bunch of mates cos you can laugh if people fall in. Last time I went canoeing and kayaking (day course) I got very, very wet, but it was fun!
Oh and Byron's pool looks like the kind of place I could sit for hours just 'being'.

[Quoth the Raven]

Funnily enough, we punted to Grandchester and stood outside Jeffrey Archers house!!! It is good fun, best with a bunch of mates cos you can laugh if people fall in. Last time I went canoeing and kayaking (day course) I got very, very wet, but it was fun!
Oh and Byron's pool looks like the kind of place I could sit for hours just 'being'.
It certainly is.. I've done the very same thing! The concrete weir kinda detracts from the view though, but depite that it's a gorgeous place. The ride out there isn't so nice.. Hills Road then Long Road. Ugh. Smog city!

[nynysuts]

I'm definitely going to pay a visit next time I have a free Sunday to visit Cambridge. Hopefully in a few weeks, got to, would you believe, serve refreshments at a Church event tomorrow (Can't get sodding out of it) and the next week I'm buying clothes for my Duke of edinburgh expedition at the galleria. Yaaawn.
Anyhoo, we digress.

Where in the UK would you most like to visit?

[Quoth the Raven]

Ouch, church event..
Probably a stone circle - but one nobody's heard of so there's no bloody tourists and you can actually touch the stones! Doesn't matter where. Southern ireland is full of them, so probably there. Plus the area around Cork is beautiful.

[nynysuts]

Nine ladies stone circle in the peak district. It's on Stanton Moor right next to a campsite called Barn Farm. Admittedly it is fairly well visited, but you can touch the stones, your not likely to bump into many people and it's free to see them. It's a very special place, you can feel a vibe there. Or you can be idiots like my 'friends' and dance like your possessed. I was visiting the ninth stone, a little way off whilst they were doing this.

[Quoth the Raven]

Ooh, thanks for that - have to bear it in mind. It's a bit far to go on the motorbike, but maybe one day I will!

[nynysuts]

How awesome would it be to travel on a motorbike to every stone circle in the country? Hang on, that's not a question, that's just rhetorical wonderment lol.

[Quoth the Raven]

How awesome would it be to travel on a motorbike to every stone circle in the country? Hang on, that's not a question, that's just rhetorical wonderment lol.
Hehe, fuel would be a problem, a bike only holds like 5 or 6 litres!
And I'm not a big fan of taking people on the back cause I get terrified they'll fall off and then I'd have an accident on my conscience. Plus a lot of people don't know how to lean into corners, and if the passenger doesn't lean the bike can end up carrying straight on! The amount of times I've shouted "LEAN YOU IDIOT!"

Motorbikes aren't all they're cracked up to be, but they can be fun ;)

[nynysuts]

Lol haha, my Dad broke his neck on motorbike, so I can't say I'm too keen on them lol. I want a VW camper! Riding pillion is a bit of a scary thought too! Reminds me of the time I took my friend Chloe on the back of my pushbike and we ended up in a very painful heap and I needed stitches in my leg!

[Quoth the Raven]

Yeah, I'm not a fan of riding pillion.. never had a serious accident but I've come close. Several times I've fallen off and it's only been my gear that saved me from either a hospital visit or losing large areas of skin (I'm obsessively paranoid when it comes to gear - jacket, gloves, helmet ALWAYS. No exceptions. Legally only the helmet is mandated, but to go out without gloves or a jacket is just stupid).

[nynysuts]

Not to bang on about my Dad, currently not my favourite person, but he seems similar to you always going 'prat' to people riding in jeans and teeshirt etc. We live next to a, ahem 'wooded pathway', and we get scramblers with no helmet, no number plate, improper gear and all that, its just an accident waiting to happen.

[Quoth the Raven]

Well, I'm just annoyed because the NHS (i.e. me) foots the bill when they inevitably do something stupid ;)
And because I know that if I hadn't had my gear I'd have a lot less skin and possibly be paralysed.

[nynysuts]

Going to boomerang the same question back to you cos I'm lazy and having a bit of an air violin session.

[Quoth the Raven]

Going to boomerang the same question back to you cos I'm lazy and having a bit of an air violin session.
Acid, definitely. Weed is OK, but a bit "meh" sometimes.

[nynysuts]

Have you got any brothers or sisters?

If you could choose to make one of your household objects fly, which one would you pick?

[Quoth the Raven]

Yes, a sister.

Broomstick obviously, then I could fly on it.. ah, stereotypes.

[nynysuts]

Have you got an interesting hobbie or skill which noone knows of?

If you had the choice of listening to barbie girl on loop for 2 years or no music for 3, which would you choose?

Which colour reflects your personality? why?

[Quoth the Raven]

Have you got an interesting hobbie or skill which noone knows of?

If you had the choice of listening to barbie girl on loop for 2 years or no music for 3, which would you choose?

Which colour reflects your personality? why?
My interesting (and mostly funny) talent is sarcasm - but I certainly don't hide it!

No music for 3 definitely - sometimes silence is the best music.

I think blue reflects my personality.. the sky's blue and I like to feel as open and free as the sky.

[nynysuts]

Have you ever swam in the sea?
Do you own a particularly hippieish item of clothing? Do you wear it?

Oh,a nd sorry for hijacking your photo thread, I talk to much, especially late at night.

[Quoth the Raven]

Yep, I've swum in the sea many times.. been stung by jellyfish and sea urchins too! I wouldn't swim in the sea around Britain, too polluted.
I guess you could say roughly 70% of all my clothes are hippie.. the rest are rock band t-shirts. But hey, all my clothes are hippie because it's me that's wearing them ;)

No problem on the hijacking front, it's impossible to talk too much. unless you're a Trappist.

[nynysuts]

Cool on both accounts!
Erm, lets see of I can think of a slightly deeper question than 'what clothes do you wear' lol.
Is there any part of John Lennon's Imagine that you can actually imagine? ie no religion, no possessions, countries etc.

[Quoth the Raven]

Erm.. this probably invalidates my hippie pass, but I'm not a fan of the Beatles.
Shock, horror! But no religions would be a damn good place to start for world peace. more violence is done in the name of God(s) than in any other cause, except maybe market forces.
OK, so no coroprations AND no religions. Even better start.

[nynysuts]

I'm not the beatles hugest fan, I like a few of the songs, but seriously, I wouldn't go out my way to listen to them. I've acertained that religion is stubborness in this day and age.

[Quoth the Raven]

Religion is economics.. preachers spout on about money being the "root of all evil" from their mansions, politicians call on God to witness their fight for blood money, the raving fanatic bombs merely to secure the hegemony that blinded him.
Sickening. Get rid of religion, get rid of big business and we'll all be a lot happier.

[nynysuts]

Yeah, sounds about right. It's times like these communal living sounds good, a small vision of world peace.

[Quoth the Raven]

We need a UK hipforums commune ;)
My dream is an organic smallholding.. enough to support me, but not so much I'm in the fields 22 hours a day.

[nynysuts]

Sounds good to me! I'd like a piece of land to hold raves on, and they'd have to go as legal cos I'd give permission. Area of choice would be cornwall. This would add to my halcyon rambling cottage lol.

[nynysuts]

If you had the choice of being a monk or a straight woman, which would you choose? Presuming that your mind is still the same.

Describe an ultimate situation

[Quoth the Raven]

Ehh... depends on what kind of monk. Buddhist (Mahayana tradition) monk then yeah. Christian monk then screw that I'd rather be a woman!

How do you mean an ultimate situation?

[nynysuts]

A purely hedonistic situation. Where woudl you be? What would you be doing? Who'd be with you (if anyone)?

[Quoth the Raven]

Ahh.. hmm, I'd be in a meadow, having a big party with loads of hippies! I'd hand out crystal acid, everyone would have a big trip together in nature. I'd somehow resurrect Jerry Garcia to do the music, bring Bob Dylan along as well.
This whole shindig would be for as long as everyone's still there.. a week or longer ;)

[nynysuts]

Wow, awesome! Thing is, you could just put a cardboard cut out of Jerry up and let the acid do the talking! I would ahve loved to have been a deadhead back in the day. Sigh, I was born in teh wrong era. Or was I? Maybe I was born to spread the word of hippieness!

[Quoth the Raven]

We were all born in the right era for ourselves.. I sometimes feel nostalgic for the sixties, but it's our job to create the kind of world the hippies worked for in our own time.
The Man won a temporary victory, but will ultimately lose the war; peace and love will triumph!

[Nothing like a triple gin to make you wax philosophical]

[nynysuts]

May have to try that before my philosophy exam in May... If i was to have anything remotely acoholic in this house, I have a choice of cheap lager my dad drinks copious cans of or his really disgusting red wine. Oh how I looong to be able to buy decent alcohol!

[Quoth the Raven]

Yeesh.. lager and cheap wine, not good. Get someone who's 18 or looks it to buy you some.. gin is a bit of an aquired taste, but you can mix vodka with just about any juice.

I did my A2's mildly drunk, and I did OK (2 B's and a D)

[nynysuts]

Yuh, tried gin at 5, found it to be much more disgusting than lemonade and haven't touched it since. last time I was truly hammered I drank a mix of Barcardi breezers and red bull interspersed with cans of stella and some WKD stuff.

[Quoth the Raven]

Ah.. normally when I get hammered it's either flavoured vodka (a club I used to go to did a deal on flavoured vodka, 31 shots for £10! But that was back in 2004/5..) or Captain Morgan shots.. I'm not a big fan of VK/Breezer/etc, too sickly for my taste!

[nynysuts]

I find breezers ok, but the others are a bit yuck in my experience. It was a party and that was all we had, it was like 'bring a donation'. My parents didn't know there was going to be drinking(!) so I hadn't bought anything except for tescos 'Kick', which they'll let me drink. fortunately it was a sleepover...

[Quoth the Raven]

Haha, I always bring two things to a "bring your own bottle" party - beer and gin. Beer cause I know it'll go down well with other people, and gin for me to drink cause hardly anyone else likes it!

[nynysuts]

Haha, sounds like a plan ;)

[Quoth the Raven]

Haha, sounds like a plan ;)
Yep - i get a reputation for generosity (which is deserved - beer can be bloody expensive!) and I get to spend the evening with a drink I like.
Cider is bloody nice as well, but only proper organic cloudy scrumpy!

[nynysuts]

Ahhh, I love Cider!!!!

[Quoth the Raven]

Glad to see someone else does - everyone looks at me funny when I order it!
Of the "commercial" ciders, I think Three Counties i the best.. Gaymers/Strongbow/etc are just awful.
Kopparberg is bloody nice, but they seem to have stopped selling it! now you can only get their perry, which is OK but not great.

Gotta love organic scrumpy though.. like drinking liquid summer!

[nynysuts]

we're going to Zummerzett at Easter, i'll wangle some proper scrumpy then. I've had non-alcoholic koapparberg perry, tasted like acid drops! Magners is ruined if its over ice, its alright when camping though.

[Quoth the Raven]

I've only ever seen proper cider served at one pub in cambridge.. and would you know it it's one of the most expensive! The Mitre (on Regent Street I think.. not sure on street names but I know my way around).

[nynysuts]

I can well believe it in Cambridge, they just assume students will drink any old crap. I also couldn't tell you any street names in cambridge, or direct anybody to the station! But somehow I manage to find where I'm going (the mind boggles as to how)

[Quoth the Raven]

Yeah, someone could say "Go down king's Street, just past christ's pieces" and i'd be confused, but "just past the Rainbow Vegan Cafe" and I'd be all set ;)

[nynysuts]

There's a Rainbow Vegan cafe? Awesome!!!!

[Quoth the Raven]

There is indeed - not sure if it's vegetarian as well, but it's an awesome place to eat! Right by the market as well, so you can browse the cool stalls (hemp clothing, used books, bongs, hippie clothing, organic veggies, ah, paradise!)

[nynysuts]

Last time I went I got freshly squeezed grape juice, was luuurvely! I'm open to vegan food, I try and do the odd vegan day now and again. I actually prefer soya and rice milk to dairy anyway!

[Quoth the Raven]

Yeah, soya milk is awesome.. never, EVER get soya cheese though. It's just revolting artificial crap. Tastes like cheese flavoured plastic.
Gotta admit, I love my cheeses.. I think I could very easily go vegan if it weren't for cheddar and feta!

[nynysuts]

I really love wensleydale, edam and english brie, huge reson why i couldn't be vegan!

[Quoth the Raven]

Mm, wensleydale is nice.. with cranberries it's even nicer!

[nynysuts]

Tried it with apricots? That's definitely my favourite!

My computer froze up last night by the way and since it was 2am I decided to go to bed.

[Quoth the Raven]

Tried it with apricots? That's definitely my favourite!

My computer froze up last night by the way and since it was 2am I decided to go to bed.
Same thing happened to my brain ;)
Only it was at 4 AM.. I just got up haha.

[nynysuts]

Lucky you with the lie in! I would have got up later but I have a screaming 10 year old alarm clock!

[Quoth the Raven]

Well, I have 6 housemates, one working a night shift and three working evenings.. there's never any quiet around here!
You just learn to tune it out.. it's a useful skill ;)

[nynysuts]

One I'll have to aquire for when I'm at uni! I can't wait to get out of here, I really can't.

[Quoth the Raven]

Yep, learning to tune out people (both at night and in the daytime) is one of the most useful skills you can learn for uni!
Try it with your existing alarm clock. Not even the house alarm going off phases me! (That actually happened, lucky it was a power cut and not a burglar).

[nynysuts]

I sleep through my alarm clock, mind. Well, I'll initially get woken up by it then fall asleep dreaming of what's being said on the radio!

Anyhoo, since this thread has been completely sidetracked, I'd best ask some questions!
What holds more appeal, a violin or an accordian?
How was Granchester today?

[Quoth the Raven]

A violin.. although violin + accordion makes good folk music, a violin is a lot more versatile. You can do Chopin or Celtic (yes, I know, alliteration is poor english, ah well).
Grantchester was nice, although since I'd just walked about 4 miles I was a bit tired - didn't even have enough money for a pint!
So in total I did an 8-mile round trip on foot.. next time I'm using my bike it's a LOT easier!

[nynysuts]

Awww no! 8 miles is a hell of a way if you aren't expecting to go that far! I like alliteration, I find it awesomely amazing and absolutely alliterate. Ahem, moving on...

[Quoth the Raven]

Yeah, people think "8 miles, pfft, that's what, 10 minutes in a car" but it's a LONG way.. took me three hours, including a quick walk around Byron's Pool (the Cam's burst its banks along there so I didn't get far) then on into Grantchester.

[nynysuts]

People are so reliant on cars it's unreal. I swear some people forget what their legs are for, and so lose their sense of distance. That's why people begrudge walking, say, a mile to the shops. Cos it takes such a short time to get there in a car, the time it takes to walk puts things out of perspective.
I'm in essay mode at the moment, I nearly went and looked for a quote to back that up! Only 200 more words on why Christian's should be greener before I move onto pagans, buddhists and atheists!

[Quoth the Raven]

Haha, Christians should be greener cause they live here too.. it's not like their uber-faith in god will stop you getting lung cancer, or that praying will halt global warming!
However, because the Bible goes on about how God gave the world to humans, they think it gives them the right to fuck it up. No non-Judeochristian religion (Christianity Judaism & Islam) has anything like that.
Hinduism is all about respecting nature; Buddhism too, because that was the cultural background of the Buddha's time, the concept of NOT caring for nature was completely alien.
Pagans, well, worshipping the earth and fucking it up with chemicals are slightly incompatible!

[nynysuts]

Yeah, the Abrahamic religions are utter crap. I might write that in my essay actually (though using words to that effect...). I don't believe in miracles, sure they're nice stories, but true?

[Quoth the Raven]

The whole concept of humans being "above" animals actually comes from Egypt, funnily enough. Many, many Egyptian concepts found their way into the Bible (God making men out of clay, the Trinity itself, Jesus dying & resurrecting, etc etc).
The Egyptians believed in "Divine order": Gods, then Pharaoh, then nobles, commoners, animals, and so forth. The Israelites (this was after the time of Abraham, more in the time of Jacob) took this idea and ran with it, by the 16th century in England there were long, long lists of the hierarchy of humans & animals - the lion being the "King of Beasts" dates from the period of Jacob. Jesus is also known as the Lion, interestingly enough.
.. i could ramble about this forever, ancient history is just fascinating.

[nynysuts]

I agree, it is. It's the real story of how we got here, who we are and why we think the way we do. I used to want to do anthropology a long time ago, but I as interested as I was in History (so much so I nearly got press ganged into taking it at GCSE by 3 seperate teachers), I was never very good at writing essays about it. I could tell you a lot about victorians, but i couldn't write it down formally!

[Quoth the Raven]

I was never really into the history they taught at school - they picked the boring bits! The industrial revolution, the world wars.. basically how society went to shit.
Now if they'd done Ancient greece, Sumeria, Egypt etc, Id've been right on it!

[nynysuts]

That may very well be the reason why I went off history when I went to secondary school. In primary school we did Ancient Egypt, the greeks, Ancient Rome, even the anglo-saxons and vikings! At secondary school we did the romans formally known as the latins, which basically meant we looked at all their boring battles and their emperors and that was it. Then onto 'The Middle Ages', which was another look at social hierachy and kings and queens. the industrial revolution was what did it for me, all this 'Britain was great britain cos it owned x many countries in the world'. Tell me again why that's a good thing? Then we did the first world war, which as a topic i really ahted, all this war and fighting and what guns they used etc. The best part of year 9 history was when I did a project on the 70s, I had an outline of a person and dressed it up in different outfits depicting the times!

[Quoth the Raven]

haha, the 70s project would've been fun, we never did anything like that! medieval Britain, Victorian times, the british Empire (portrayed from a nationalistic perspective naturally).. all such a pile of crap.

[nynysuts]

Agreed. As is my essay so far:
Just as Jesus was the shepherd of people in the New Testament, the Old Testament shows God to be the shepherd of the earth. God could see what people were doing to the world and was angry:
‘As for you, my flock... Is it not enough for you to feed on good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of your pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?’
This shows that people have not given earth due respect even before the Common Era, and God has never been happy with it. Christians believe God gave us the world as a gift, and he expects us to look after it. Looking after the earth is Christian Stewardship, and Christians believe that God is angry when we ignore our part of the bargain. The Earth and the universe therefore are believed to be the pinnacle of relations between God and humans. Through give and take, Christians believe the earth is used as a communication with God.

Not happy with how its going. The first 750 words are in tomorrow, going to be a little shock for my teachers as they both thought I was this christian hippie!

[Quoth the Raven]

Nice start! maybe stick in something about so-called "Christian" industrialists poisoning the planet ;)

[nynysuts]

Hmm, yes, might just have to! That's one of my middly paragraphs, the first one is about zealous environmentalists, don't care merchants and pass the buck merchants.

[Quoth the Raven]

Then there's a fourth category: the ones that actually WANT to destroy the environment for profit, they go beyond not caring. i'd stick Bush and Cheney in that category!

[nynysuts]

cheersies, I'll put them in. I'm a hundred words short of 750, but I've finished my christian bit with a conclusion, which is better than giving in that plus a paragraph about atheists.
questions...
Jack Johnson or Newton faulkner? (I won't hold it against you if you haven't heard of them ;) but I reckon you have)
What do you think of solitary confinement as a punishment? How about sensory deprivation?

[Quoth the Raven]

Ehh.. I know they're musicians, but from what i can see neither of them are especially outstanding. Random pick: newton faulkner.

Solitary confinement definitely works as an effective punishment; whether it's cruel or not I'm not sure. depends on the individual really, some people are happier without people around, especially other prisoners!
Sensory deprivation isn't a good punishment, the whole point of it is that the punishee should know they're being punished. Sensory deprivation strips away your sense of time, so I don't think it'd work.

[nynysuts]

Both are acoustic musicians who write this reallyalid back music. I actually knew about Newton faulkner long before he went mainstream, really it's a shame he did. Jack Johnson, i'm ashamed to say, I had a 2 year crush on. I was going through a bit of a surfer phase as an aside to the beginnings of being a hippie. Both of them have a very soothing effect on me, though.
Solitary confinement is good in that sense, and it also isn't the easy way out that death is!

[Quoth the Raven]

Indeed - death isn't a punishment, which is why i think the US death row is so long; the government wants the inmates to KNOW they're gonna die. Horrible. At least with solitary there's a fixed time period, you know you're getting outta there someday.

[nynysuts]

Yeah, did you see that program called how to kill a human being? You can probably see it on BBC Iplayer if you wanted to. It looked at all the different ways the death sentance is carried out, lethal injection, electric chair, hanging, and also new ones like centrifugal(sp) forces etc. It was really interesting, if a little gruesome (a dead pig being electrocuted was rank), but it proved their is no humane, fail-proof way of killing a human.

[Quoth the Raven]

Ah, haven't seen that, I'll have to download it.
I think the quickest way to kill someone would be a shot in the back of the head.. they obviously didn't consider that to be slow enough for a method of execution!

[nynysuts]

Obviously not, yet it's definitely the quickest way. Incidentally the Horizon this week is on solitary confinement! I read the TV guide twice through at work yesterday due to the fact that every paper bar The Times was taken. And I wasn't reading that. Stupid how places seem to wnat force right-wing/conservative ideas onto you all the time. At school we have two papers in the library, The Times and The Daily Mail, both very strongly tory-related papers. The NUS offers The Times for 20p, but not the independant or any other less right swinging papers. I end up reading the Daily mail, only get The Sun at home!

[Quoth the Raven]

Ew.. only papers I read are the Independant, The Guardian or whichever socialist paper's being given out on the streets. i think it used to be called the Labour Leader, but that's not a good name any more...

[nynysuts]

I like teh guradian. their's a good socialist online newspaper as well, I have a feeling it's called The Socialist. We had to compare the layout of it with The Times in Media.

[Quoth the Raven]

I also like a french paper called Le Canard Enchainee ("The Chained Duck" literally, although the meaning is a bit more complex).
Political satire and cartooning at its finest - if you read french.

[nynysuts]

Grade B GCSE may not get me all that far...

[Quoth the Raven]

Possibly not, and I've never seen it for sale outside France!
Even B at A-level doesn't get me very far, some of the wordplay is very complicated. brilliantly funny if you can decipher it, but difficult.

[nynysuts]

I had the same french teacher for 5 years. He has veins which stick out on his forehead when he shouts and he's just generally very scary.

[Quoth the Raven]

Not good.. mine was actually french, was very funny and in all probably made me get the grade I did.
Although my friend managed to get 98% in German and 95% in French.. kinda ticked me off a bit!

[nynysuts]

My sister's german teacher is french! Mr Farina, my old teacher, is italian. Mr. farina did this thing where he'd start off talking then his voice would get louder and he'd break the sound barrier, often for hardly any reason. Best one was when two boys were sprinting down the corridor and one of them got pushed into our classroom. We were all laughing our heads off!

[nynysuts]

Righto.
Would you rather go on holiday camping or staying in wooden shed? Mountains or coast?
If you were anywhere right now doing anything, where would you be and what would you be doing?

[Quoth the Raven]

Camping.. tents are more waterproof than sheds. I'd definitely be in the mountains - although the seacoast's nice, I definitely feel more at home in mountain country.

If I was anywhere doing anything.. hmm, that's a fairly broad spectrum;)
I'd probably be back in the 70s at a Dead concert.. the music, the hippies, the acid, the great atmosphere!

[nynysuts]

I would have loved to have gone to a dead concert *sigh*.
Do you have an Irish accent?
Have you ever walked up a mountain? If so, how did it feel?

[Quoth the Raven]

Nope I don't have an Irish accent.. it's sort of Lincolnshire (a bit Northern but not as northern as leeds or liverpool, kinda like a softer Yorkshire) with a bit of Brummie mixed in occasionally (I'll often go "awlroight might?" - phonetic rendering doesn't do it justice though). it's just that my surname is originally irish.. or it could be Viking, there's a little bit of confusion on the matter.
I've walked up a couple of mountains - Mt. Skidaw in the Lake District and Mt. Patscherkoffel in Austria, plus a mountain in the Pyrennees that I don't think had a name.

No other feeling in the world quite like that sense of achievement when you reach the top.. the view, the oneness with nature, and above all the SILENCE! You never realise just how noisy our world is until you climb a mountain and get true silence for once.

[nynysuts]

It's beautiful, isn't it. I climbed scafell pike which is the highest mountain in England teh year before last and it was just immense. Just the feeling of being above all of england and looking down on Wastwater and to our wild campsite, it was just the most intense feeling of oneness with nature. That same year I also climbed a mountail called little inglebrough whilst doing a 24 mile route. This was 11 miles into it and I was a bit daunted by this mountain, but I got to the top and saw the sea, the sky, it was so clear I could see the Isle of Mann in the distance. Made me realise why I love nature so much and why I want to protect it.

Is there anything you couldn't live without? Why?
Would drinking poison be preferable to being suffocated?

[Quoth the Raven]

Nope, there's nothing I couldn't live without - as long as I've got food, water and a place to sleep (not necessarily indoors) I'd be happy. Posessions don't really exert that much of a hold on me.

Depends which poison.. cyanide, hemlock, heroin overdose then yeah, but not something like bleach or caustic soda!

[nynysuts]

bleurgh bleach, disgusting! Bad enough getting a mouth fall of shampoo now and again!

[Quoth the Raven]

Yeah.. bleach would be like really really concentrated swimming pool water. eurgh.

[nynysuts]

Even though I go swimming once a week, I hate the water!

[Quoth the Raven]

That kinda begs the question, why swim?
I'm OK with chlorinated water, but I hate swimming in salt water! The sea is OK cause there's fish and rocks and stuff to look at, but many swimming pools overseas are salinated rather than chlorinated. Yuk!

[nynysuts]

I'm lazy but I love hiking, so I need a fair level of fitness. Easiest way is to go to the swimming pool and swim lengths and do my own version of aquarobics on the side of the pool! Cheaper than the gym and is much more fun than walking around this area!

[Quoth the Raven]

True - I love hiking as well, but my dodgy hip can be quite annoying, anything above 10 or so miles and it starts to hurt like buggery.
I quite like to swim, but I can never be bothered to change my contacts so I hardly ever go (chlorine + monthly lenses = NOT GOOD) and with no contact lenses I can't see!

[nynysuts]

Awww, I know very well of the lense problem, my Mum has what I suppose are monthly disposables but she takes them out at night. She always keeps her head about 5 metres out the water lol. There are two eyesight genes in my family, either your short sighted when your about 10 or go long sighted when your 40. I'm lucky in that the short sighted gene bypassed me, but I my coordination is a bit rubbish whereas my sisters can do all sorts like cartwheels which I could never do.

[Quoth the Raven]

Heh, I'm very short-sighted - -8.50 if you know what that means.
I've had to wear glasses since I was 2 years old.. soon as I could I changed to contact lenses, I look a lot better with them!

[nynysuts]

Glasses are a pain, my Mum had the dreaded NHS ones from age 7! Her eyes are -5.00 in one ye and -5.25 in the other if I remember rightly. My sisters are both slightly short sighted, although my youngest one was told to see if her sight corrected itself in the next couple of months. Luiza however absolutely refuses to wear her glasses cos she thinks they're 'uncool' and therefore sits straining at the board. Hopefully the optician will have a thing or two to say about that!
I couldn't imagine you with glasses, you'd have to cover your lovely eyes!

[Quoth the Raven]

Yeah, and with my prescription my eyes look tiny! When I first wore contacts everyone said "wow your eyes look huge! Are you on drugs?"
I wouldn't say my eyes are lovely.. they're unusual though, they have a kinda zigzag ring round the middle which is sort of hypnotic :tongue:

[nynysuts]

Trust me, your eyes are lovely lol, all blue and mysterious. Mine are kind of khaki with a browny bit around the pupil, bit dull really.

[Quoth the Raven]

Nah, yours are lovely too. Green eyes always are, they're very unusual.

[nynysuts]

Thanks! I had blue eyes until I was 6, then they went green overnight.

[Quoth the Raven]

Yeah, that sometimes happens.. I had blond hair till i was 10 believe it or not!

[nynysuts]

So did one of my best friends, it's most definitely brown now!

[Quoth the Raven]

May I present, for your edification and amusement; my eye!
yes, it's lateish, it's more tired than usual ;)
http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/Me_017.jpg

[nynysuts]

Wow, you really do have a trippy eye! That's awesome! Oh bleeding heck got shouts of 'stop bashing that keyboard and go to bed', so I'll have to go *sigh*. Speak tomorrow!

[Quoth the Raven]

Lol ok, nighty-night!

[nynysuts]

Night x zzzzz

[Quoth the Raven]

Probably should catch some z's too.. 3 hour journey tomorrow.
Nighty-night x

[nynysuts]

Evening!
How long do you sleep if left uninterrupted?
Have you ever felt like your whole world was crashing down on you?
What kind of a drunk are you? ie a sleeping drunk, a puking drunk etc. etc.

[Quoth the Raven]

If left uninterrupted, probably about 10 hours. Any more and I feel REALLY cranky.

Yep, a couple of times.

I'm mostly a sarcastic drunk.. although I can be a professor drunk! I give out slurred lectures on random subjects, like biology, political theory, the problem with Americans etc.

[nynysuts]

About the same as me on sleeping, last Sunady I went to bed at 2 and got up at 12! Sound more like a rambling drunk to me ;) Better than me, I start to speak very loudly on subjects I would never normally have talked about (One which comes to mind was talking about the 'snogging scale' to a 40 year old) and then I get very drowsy.

[Quoth the Raven]

Haha, rambling drunks talk about stuff they know nothing about.. I know my stuff ;)
"Snogging scale"? :lol:

[nynysuts]

Oh perlease, most embarrassing moment of my life. Basically just a teenage game of how far have you gone with number 1 being goodnight hug and number 10 being 'the full monty'. Yeah, I'll shut up now lol.

[Quoth the Raven]

Ahah. Thought it was something along the lines of how men rate women out of 10.. except more in a "10 means I'd snog him/her" kinda way.. a cleaner version of the game we played lol.

[nynysuts]

Lol, I can only imagine...

[Quoth the Raven]

Yeah, the kinda thing students do when they're in a bar waiting for lectures.. good grief we even revived truth or Dare!
Second childhood here we come..

[nynysuts]

ooh, truth or dare! Why did I always get to be person 21? I've done some rather 'interesting' dares in my time, from stealing a football to letting down a tent...

[Quoth the Raven]

Hah, everyone always chose "truth".. I learned some things about my mates that I really didn't want to know!

[nynysuts]

Yeah, truth is always quite funny to do. Was a bit shocked when my 9 year old sister asked me if I'd kissed anyone in front of my mum!

[Quoth the Raven]

hahaha, awkward.
What was the reply? :tongue:

[nynysuts]

Told her I'd kissed my parents lol!

[Quoth the Raven]

The correct response to that would be "apart from them" ;)

[nynysuts]

Lol, i know, well, I wasn't admitting I hadn't kissed any boys, I mean I'm hardly the cool sister as it is!

[Quoth the Raven]

Nothing to be ashamed of.. I haven't kissed any boys either :tongue:

[nynysuts]

:P Glad to hear it! Not that I have anything against gay people or anything. But y'know.. Ah, I need to chuck my digging spade away.

[Quoth the Raven]

Yep, I'm completely straight.. well, in as much as they say nobody's 100% straight..

[nynysuts]

Lol, I couldn't imagine you being gay! I can honestly say I am also 100% straight. Well,a s near as you can get to 100% anyway!

[Quoth the Raven]

Good to know! Nah, I've never liked any men.. although I can tell if a bloke is "handsome" or not (like Johnny Depp), there's no attraction there.

[nynysuts]

It's more of a who would you would like to be thing with looking at people of the same sex really. like I think Keira Knightley is beautiful, but not in a lesbian way!

[Quoth the Raven]

yeah, I sure as hell wouldn't mind Johnny Depp's cheekbones!

[nynysuts]

Lol, can't say Johnny depp's really my thing. Jim Morrison, yeah, please, just not dead thanks lol. I am also in love with Newton faulkner's hair. Hmm.

[Quoth the Raven]

How 'bout Jerry Garcia? he's got the sort of teddy-bear look..

[nynysuts]

Lol, cute beard, but maybe a little bristly? Wouldn't say no to snuggling up with him mind.

[Quoth the Raven]

Haha, I'm sure beards are bristly.. they certainly itch when trying to grow one! (I only attempted it once and gave up after a week, it itched too damn much).

[nynysuts]

Not really into too much facial fuzz, a kinda goatee thing is ok on the right bloke, but I can imagine a full blown beard being really itchy.

[Quoth the Raven]

It most definitely is! I wear a 'tache sometimes (as you can see from my pics) but when I remember to I shave it off. A goatee would make me look demonic.

[nynysuts]

My dad has a fairly huge 'tasche, he looks scary when he shaves it off. I rememver when I must have beena bout 3 or 4 and walking into my Mum and Dads room. My dad had shaved his tasche off and very calmy I thought he was another man!

[Quoth the Raven]

Hahaha! I'd probably look completely different with a beard... not in a good way though. Who knows, maybe when I have hair down to my waist I'll grow a beard to match! but that won't be for a while, my hair grows very slowly..

[nynysuts]

Lol, don't ever cut your hair! My hair grows quickly whn its short and slow when it's long.

[Quoth the Raven]

I don't plan to - although I might get a bald patch one day!
I also know it's never gonna fall out from chemotherapy, cause I'm never setting foot in a hospital again unless I break a leg or something. Fuck that action, no way are the priests of babylon getting me sicker!

[nynysuts]

True, there are so many other ways which are overlooked! Sad how in this culture we only ever turn to chemicals as medicine. I was really annoyed cos I had to take bloody paracetomol for a headache today, I was at school and it was all i could nick off anyone.

Well I suppose its time for my Psychedelic purple PJs again. niiight xx

[Quoth the Raven]

Lol, nighty-night xx

[nynysuts]

Would you rather have a parrot or a hawk?
What are your feelings on golliwogs?

[Quoth the Raven]

A hawk, cause they're such beautiful birds..
What's a golliwog?

[nynysuts]

http://www.rosieross.co.uk/gra_lib/jnr_golly_lrg.jpg Not the best example, but that's a gollie. Aparrently they're racist, poor things.

[nynysuts]

Hmmm, who's your favourite author?
Damn, can't think of any other questions, guess I know too much about you now ;)

[Quoth the Raven]

Favourite author? Damn, that's a hard one.
If i had to pick just one, it'd be George Orwell, cause 1984 and Animal Farm made me think so much.
Other than that, all of the following: JRR Tolkien, Frank herbert, Isaac Asimov, david Eddings, brian Lumley, Stan Rice (fave poet), Anne Rice, James Clavell.

[Peace-Phoenix]

How are you finding Cambridge? What are your usual haunts?

[Quoth the Raven]

Cambridge is by far the best city I've been in.. well saying that the only other options are Lincoln Nottingham Leicester and Birmingham...
Usual haunts are the market square (cool stalls) the Rainbow Cafe for their scrummy veggie food, and when my hip isn't playing up I'll take a walk out to Byron's Pool out near Grantchester.

[Finnaz]

Pirates or Ninjas? and why? Also, what did it take you to get into Cambridge. Because I have become disillusioned with the idea after seeing how much work guys I know in the 6th form were cramming in.

[Quoth the Raven]

Ninjas, cause nunchuks are cool..
I didn't get into Cambridge, I got into Anglia Ruskin. And it took me precisely zero work. Know why? Cause I just rang up and asked if there was a place, took the initiative for myself and presto they obviously liked it. As for grades, BBD ain't too bad, didn't exertmyself over that either.
Why drive yourself into a hernia over bits of paper?

[Peace-Phoenix]

Pirates or Ninjas? and why? Also, what did it take you to get into Cambridge. Because I have become disillusioned with the idea after seeing how much work guys I know in the 6th form were cramming in.Having been through it all, I'd say all those sleepless nights were worth it in the end. God, I sound like I've just had three children....

[Finnaz]

Hmm, interesting. I'm more of a pirates man myself. Two differing opinions on the cambridge situation tho so errm, I'm a lazy bastard so I'll probably end up going to one of those "We've just started up and have one teacher...shall we just print you off a degree? No one'll know"

[Quoth the Raven]

Hmm, let's turn this into the longest karma thread ever, gotta beat Sal's :D

Any questions? Anyone?

[lithium]

Under what circumstances might you choke a rabbit?

[Quoth the Raven]

Erm.. under the circumstances where I had no other food supply, or if I was being savaged by a rabid rabbit ;)

[Finnaz]

Would you rather be mauled by hyenas, badgers or chickens covered in pins?

[Quoth the Raven]

Hmm... badgers, cause they are nicer than the other two, hyenas are nasty and chickens really freak me out.

[Finnaz]

Alektraphobia eh? I'm personally more scared of badgers, they're scary fuckers when they get angry, one turned up in my dog's kennel a while back after being kicked out of it's set, it was bloody angry when the rescue guy came to pick it up, and it stank of fish for some reason.

My Mum got some pretty cute pictures of hyenas rolling around in Tanzania, but yeah they probably are the nastiest. Actually, then again, badgers eat hedgehogs by breaking their spines open, so hmmm.

[nynysuts]

Come on people, where's your love for wildlife????

[Quoth the Raven]

Come on people, where's your love for wildlife????
chickens don't really count as wildlife ;)

[Finnaz]

I love badgers, just from a safe distance.

New question, favourite cereal of the following types:

.Chocolate
.Regular
.Sugar coated
.Fruity

[Quoth the Raven]

Fruity.. none of the other types appeal ;)
And chocolate was a fairly silly one to put in

[Finnaz]

I meant favourite cereal from each category.

Oh yeah haha forgot, doubt there's much in the way of cocoa in them, mostly brown paint and sweetners.

[Quoth the Raven]

Ohh..
chocolate: Coco Pops
regular: erm.. cant stand cereal without sugar
sugary: draw between frosties or sugar puffs
fruity: Jordan's Country Crisp with raisins, mmm

[Finnaz]

I'd second that lot, except for Wheetos for chocolate and Wheetabix for regular.

Views on the Israel Vs Palestine situation, (if that hasn't been asked yet)

[The manticore]

do you feel you'vr changed since exerimenting with psychedlics?