Posts by Abaddon

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Fangs for the memory; would you become a vampire?

by Abaddon in

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now, first off, there's no such thing.. but, let's imagine that we live in the same dimension as buffy (most of the guys and a few of the women start paying attention), or the anne rice novels, blade, whatever.. vampires are real.

god is distant and removed.

there is an epic, but drawn out and irresolvable struggle between good and evil.

Abaddon

Buffy Vamps seem to be loosely based on Vampires in 'The Masquerade', although without the clan structure of the Vampires in that mythos.

The logic (liberally lifted from Anne Rice) is that Vampires get harder the older they get, but also have a basic strength based upon how many generations of Vampires seperate them from the original Vampires (Cain and Lilith are faves for this role).

This is used in films like 'Blade', where the 12/13th Gen trailer trash vampires are really, really quite pathetic, but where an 8th generation vampire is really, really bad news.

Has anyone played 'The Masquerade'? It's a live role playing system... I did it with a old gf of mine a few times, it's quite a laugh; apparently it's pretty popular in some American and Canadian cities, where there are groups playing Vampires, Slayers, Techo-Mages (don;t even ask) and Warewolves, all interacting together, or more accurately, trying to kill each other. The Vamps have the best fun of course, as they try to kill each other in a perpetual struggle between the clans, and there are 'bad guy' vampires too, who don't respect 'masquerade' a centuries old compact which means that the existence of vampires is kept a secret from the world.

It's a bit like (i.e. similar but way more complex) 'Killer' a live role playing game I introduced in my High School. You basically try to 'kill' fellow players, last one standing wins... very amusing to have to run down a packed corridor from someone waving a bannana who's trying to get within the 2 metre effective range of a bannana. Most people don't know about the game, so their reactions are great... Other 'weapons' were water ballons and pistols, confetee, water, toy guns, ping-pong ball bazookas... rulers, handfulls of super rubber balls.

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Fangs for the memory; would you become a vampire?

by Abaddon in

jw
friends

now, first off, there's no such thing.. but, let's imagine that we live in the same dimension as buffy (most of the guys and a few of the women start paying attention), or the anne rice novels, blade, whatever.. vampires are real.

god is distant and removed.

there is an epic, but drawn out and irresolvable struggle between good and evil.

Abaddon

Louis doesn't come second, he doesn't come ANYWHERE. He's a wimp. Forget the nice pretty actor they wrapped the appalingly anal actor in. Lestat was studly.

But Spike; oh yeah. He's bad. Angel? Forget it, bloody do-gooder wimp with p[retty boy affectation.

Spike's character development has been great, although it's a bit of a shame they've allowed him to turn into a reluctant good guy, as he was GREAT as a bad guy (they're repeating the first episodes he's in on BBC2 at the mo'), and Drew... well, she reminds me of an ex-fuckbuddy (couldn't really call her a girlfriend), but Drew is wonderfully sick.

Hey Naeb, answer the goddamn question; vampire or lunch? Not that you know anything about vampires ("Even Louis could smoke Angel"). Huh"! Lousi couldn't make a good job of finishing off Christams decorations, let alone Lestat; against Angel, well, unless Angel was doing 'her' hair, he'd have no chance.

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Fangs for the memory; would you become a vampire?

by Abaddon in

jw
friends

now, first off, there's no such thing.. but, let's imagine that we live in the same dimension as buffy (most of the guys and a few of the women start paying attention), or the anne rice novels, blade, whatever.. vampires are real.

god is distant and removed.

there is an epic, but drawn out and irresolvable struggle between good and evil.

Abaddon

Oh, Anne Rice's vampire sexuality is a little attenuated and homoerotic for me. Sod that. I mean vampires that screw. I think both me and my girlfriend would definately think TWICE if we had to give up sex. So think Buffy vampires.

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Most Frightening Door to Door Experience

by Kenneson in

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in my hometown, this other witness and i were.

going from door to door one day when we reached one particular house.. the householder became so agitated by the presence of jws.

that he "sicked" his dog on us, but thank god it had a muzzle.

Abaddon

Do you know those doors that are this 'obscure glass', from top to bottom; all you can see is vauge shapes through it?

Ladies, a tip; do not go to the door naked if you have one of those doors. Obscure glass or not, it's not obscure enough, and would make Kate Moss look like she had terminal cellulite.

I know.

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Fangs for the memory; would you become a vampire?

by Abaddon in

jw
friends

now, first off, there's no such thing.. but, let's imagine that we live in the same dimension as buffy (most of the guys and a few of the women start paying attention), or the anne rice novels, blade, whatever.. vampires are real.

god is distant and removed.

there is an epic, but drawn out and irresolvable struggle between good and evil.

Abaddon

Now, first off, there's no such thing.

But, let's imagine that we live in the same dimension as Buffy (most of the guys and a few of the women start paying attention), or the Anne Rice novels, Blade, whatever.

Vampires are real. God is distant and removed. There is an epic, but drawn out and irresolvable struggle between good and evil. You get accosted by a vampire in an alley, and, for some reason, they decide that you'd make a better recruit than meal.

So, given a choice between being dinner, and becoming a vampire (standard pros and cons; very strong, getting stronger over time, almost unkillable, unless someone has a pencil or holy water, continued existence unless killed, funny sleeping habits and not very good reaction to direct sunlight), what would you choose?

Anne Rice nicely explores the dillema in 'Interview with a Vampire'. You have Lestat, very cool, whose attitude it "humans are cattle, let's party". And it's a bloody good point - if you were four hundred years old say, humans would appear so transitory that one's moral qualms over feeding from them would be equivalent to thier qualms eating lamb. Or you have Louis, who is a whinning little whimp, and can't see what an opportunity he has.

Your eventual fate is ceasing to exist; I'd prefer pert teenage girls to Van Helsing or forgeting the SPF100 anyday. But until then, well... oh, and you could 'take' whoever you wanted with you, friends, family, lovers.

So, dinner, or 'demon'? What would you do?

Personally speaking, me and my girlfriend have decided that Spike and Drew are raw amateurs, and that we'd be far more stylishly nasty than them.

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Can Satan create life?

by peacefulpete in

the familiar tale of moses approaching pharoah with the demand to free israelite slaves has always purplexed me.

the account says that yhwh miraculously changed moses staff into a serpant but then just as miraculously pharoah's priests did likewise.

does this not "prove" that satan is equally capable of creating life from nothing?

Abaddon

Xenu; "The Apollyon is an agent of deception."

Well, thanks, you barely know me!

Mystical powers? Well, someone's obviously been talkling, but honest, I'm mortal.

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Passing water at assemblies.............

by ISP in

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friends

the mens toilets were generally ok, never got to see the sisters.......but the sisters had to queue!!!

!i mean, really long lines!.

isp

Abaddon

It is funny women take longer, because, if you timed it, a woman doesn't take as long to empty her bladder as a guy does (or perhaps pees when there's less in her bladder. Even with the sitting down and fluffing hair stuff, it shouldn't take longer.

I recon it is a conspiracy. The women are revolting and plotting in private. Or something.

If you think assemblies are bad, go to a music festival.

There the toilets are either portaloos or trenches with sit-and-drop cubicals over them. If the weather is cool, the smell is not too bad until day three. If the weather is bad, you can't help but grin at the muffin heads setting up their tents in the nice clear areas immediately down-wind from the bogs, as by noon day two they will be humming.

Even with regular cleaning, the portaloos get full. And sometimes overfull... I have a picture of a portaloo with a mountain of, welol, crap, over the level of the seat, so much so that the last person had to use it obviously was good at water skiing or something...

But, the music is better at music festivals, no one gets bent out of shape over girls taking their tops off, being blasted off your arse is almost dereguire, and you are positivly encourage to do things you can get disfellowshipped for.

Bad associations spoil dumb habits.

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Is Cybersex considered adultery

by butalbee in

what's your opinion on this?

what if you caught your husband or wife engaging in an odd situation at his/her computer screen?

is it cheating?

Abaddon

Flirting is flirting. £@%^ing is £@%^ing. Porn (from piccies to live naked ladies or men dancing for your enjoyment) is porn. Three different things, whether they are IRL, on the 'phone or online.

£@%^ing someone else is cheating, unless you have an open relationship. By £@%^ing I mean sexual activity, as in activity that is sexual. Doh. I do think there is a difference between doing it online and IRL; Lilac, you say your friend is just as hurt... nah... I think she'd be even MORE hurt if it was IRL.

Flirting may make your partner angry or sad because of their insecurity, or may be taken so far by you that it would make the most relaxed person annoyed. There's innocent flirtation "Heya sexy legs, you look great in that" "No, your tits are fine, don't get a breast job", etc., and there is flirting with intent. Innocent flirtation is or should be fine. Flirting with intent is nasty.

Porn... well, it really bothers some people. I think people who object to their partner ever looking at porn 'because why should they do that when they have me at home' should just get over themselves. Obviously if it's a question of never being able to use the PC because it's sticky and surrounded by tissues, then ball busting is reasonable. But some porn here and there? God, rather that than sport or war movies.

Butalbee, I don't think you're a sex addict, I just think you need £@%^ing. Completely natural. If you were a sex addict, then you'd be getting £@%^ed, as that's what addicts do. Calling you a sex addict is like telling someone who talks about drugs a lot a drug addict. Hmmmm. Non sequiter.

Just because someone is horny and likes talking about sex, and because they are horney lust after the last bit of action they saw does not make them a sex addict. I hope you find a nice bloke or blokette to move your world.

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NYTimes/FEMA WTC Update

by SYN in

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&u=/nyt/20020329/ts_nyt/towers_withstood_impact__but_fell_to_fire__report_says .

oooh boy.

they must think we're really stupid.

Abaddon

Hot steel gets bendy.

Bendy steel builds bendy buildings.

Bendy buildings fall over.

In the BBC documntary about why the towers fell, they did the science, and then showed footage where you can see the outside steel members buckling in exactly the same way as the science described, as the collapse started.

The towers fell 'cause they got hit by airplanes.

Why the planes ended up hitting the towers may well not be as simple as we are lead to believe, but the towers fell because of the planes.

As for the stuff on this http://www.apfn.org/apfn/halluc.htm website, well look at this quote;

"America is not in a moral crisis. America is in an Intelligence crisis. Over 50 percent of American's have an I.Q. between 90 and 110."

Now, I can explain this, but I can't be assed. Anyone who thinks this is worrying should look into bell curves and other distribution curves. This guys is saying something along the lines of "Did you know that half the population is below average intelligence?", which can seem worrying to the hard of understanding, but is a mathematical result of an average.

As I say, there might be stuff in the lead-up to the towers being hit that are being kept concealed, but Mr. Brainiac at the website quoted is not going to be the person to listen to, as he couldn't think his way out of a wet paper bag.

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Why don't people like me

by joelbear in

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friends

i've recently discovered that the great majority of my problems are my own fault.

which leads me to conclude that it is also my own fault that people don't like me very much.. y'all have pretty much seen me at my best and my worst.

why do you think people don't like me?.

Abaddon

I think ashitaka makes a good point, that reminds me of a story I heard once.

This guy goes with a friend to a medium. She does the cards and starts lauging hysterically the minute she laid them on the table. So, this guy hits her - boof! - -right on the nose and walks out. His friend goes after him and asks him why he did that. He answers "I always wanted to strike a happy medium".

Bad joke. You are a lovely bloke, genuinely lovely. I think sometimes your worrying and obsessing get on some people's nerves. I think sometimes your worrying and obsessing gets on your nerves too! But my best friend gets on my nerves sometimes - it doesn't mean that I don't like him.

Please try to remember that when people don't like what you're doing, it doesn't mean they don't like you, it means they probably just don't like what you're doing. Two different things joely baby.

COMF's idea is good. Have an ice cream, relax, and let yourself feel loved.

Warmest regards

Gyles