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Apple Zone / MAN DEPORTED FROM SAUDI ARABIA FOR BEING TOO DAMNED SEXY.
« on: April 27, 2013, 02:36:49 am »4
Apple Zone / Hey, I'm writing a thing about RPG games, LARPS and safe spaces
« on: April 18, 2013, 03:30:50 pm »
I was having a convo with someone about how sometimes the gaming table or larp group can get squicky, triggery or upsetting, would any of you spags be interested in reading the blog post I'm working on?
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Apple Zone / Yo, Navkat!
« on: April 16, 2013, 01:44:32 am »
Don't want to jack the other thread, thought this would be informative.
http://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/meet-the-predators/
Potentially TW needing.
http://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/meet-the-predators/
Potentially TW needing.
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Aneristic Illusions / Cain and other UK spags! Tories trying to cripple the UK equality law.
« on: April 15, 2013, 10:07:15 am »Quote
Urgent call for action.
The coalition government plans to sneak through legislation to remove rights to equality tomorrow.
It is the repeal of part 1 s3 General Duty of the Equality Act 2006 and is worded as below:
3 General duty
The Commission shall exercise its functions under this Part with a view to encouraging and supporting the development of a society in which—
(a)people’s ability to achieve their potential is not limited by prejudice or discrimination,
(b)there is respect for and protection of each individual’s human rights,
(c)there is respect for the dignity and worth of each individual,
(d)each individual has an equal opportunity to participate in society, and
(e)there is mutual respect between groups based on understanding and valuing of diversity and on shared respect for equality and human rights.
If this goes through in laymans terms it will mean:
(1) people’s ability to achieve their potential is limited by prejudice or discrimination.
(2) there is no respect for and protection of each individual’s human rights.
(3) there is no respect for the dignity and worth of each individual.
(4) each individual does not have an equal opportunity to participate in society.
(5) there is no mutual respect between groups based on understanding and valuing of diversity and on shared respect for equality and human rights.
This is nothing more than an attempt to prevent legal challenges to their ill thought out and damaging policies.
Write to your MP now and ask them to vote against this travesty. PCS have a page which lets you email your MP, all you have to do is enter your postcode.
http://action.pcs.org.uk/page/speakout/save-section-3
This popped up on my FB feed today.
Thoughts? |My thought is while the working class are busy with the "ding dong, the Witch is Dead" they are burying this!
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Apple Zone / Nigel!
« on: April 02, 2013, 08:44:12 pm »
So i'm in a pickle. Is me pointing out cultural appropriation that isn't for example Irish, a shitty thing to do?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/508558235838893/permalink/624414687586580/?comment_id=624442740917108¬if_t=like
Asked a friend who is Native/ First Nations and she was cool with it.
Hell I'm probably going to KEEP doing it and just make sure I use sources from folks of the culture being appropriated saying "no, this isn't on" and give them a signal boost rather than claim any authority.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/508558235838893/permalink/624414687586580/?comment_id=624442740917108¬if_t=like
Asked a friend who is Native/ First Nations and she was cool with it.
Hell I'm probably going to KEEP doing it and just make sure I use sources from folks of the culture being appropriated saying "no, this isn't on" and give them a signal boost rather than claim any authority.
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Bring and Brag / I wrote a poem on why xenophobia pisses me off.
« on: March 31, 2013, 01:48:32 am »No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs.
I do not want to see a nation return
to sentiments like these in windows of B&B's
“they are stealing our jobs!”
“they are taking our council houses”
“illegal immigrants are benefit tourists”
I hear.
Enough.
I am the daughter of an economic migrant.
A man once considered as much worth as a dog.
Although a dog would get a scratch behind the ears, and “who's a good boy, then?”
My dad, not so much.
To be illegal is to be undocumented, you can't get a flat without a passport stamp.
Saying “They let me in, see, right here, guv”
You can't get anything from this land, if you are not supposed to be here.
Except exploitation, overcrowding, and hate.
I think they mean asylum seekers, who get a small chunk of fuck all.
Due to torture, systematic assault, rape as a weapon of war.
They land here with nothing but pain and PTSD
I have had ENOUGH of
Xenophobia in my family
my “friends”
My Facebook feed.
Deny the dignity, and that these people are human beings.
I welcome these people with a hug, and a cup of tea,
I get excited about the potential for new cuisines, for when they find their feet on this land.
And I hope for an end to their nightmare that was no dream.
Enough.
Complain about outsourcing, but please, the person on the phone
When your internet goes down
Was given that job by a corporation.
They are, like you and me, just trying to struggle on.
The anger aimed at “Steven”, or “Lisa” in Mumbai
Is misaligned. A poor aim.
The Wrong Target.
The Polish girl, Marta, whose Gran lived downstairs and would put potted plants in the hall.
Sorted the post, and hoovered the floors of the entrance.
Used to live in my one bedroomed hole.
With a shower and a loo in a cupboard in the corner.
A 2 ring cooker and oven
that would make the large hob not work when it was switched on.
space for a washing machine
a small fridge and a sink.
With her mum
Her Dad
Her sibling
When I used to spin poi in the tarmac come car-park come fly-tip come place for drying clothes
she would talk to me.
About when 4 became 5
and Flat 5 was vacated
And they had to leave a room barely big enough for just me.
Enough.
With the “piss off, we're full” screen-savers on Blackberries.
Photoshopped onto the White Cliffs of Dover.
The misinformation memes from and that form the Daily Hate Mail
Your last boss may have been a bully who was not white.
But do not forget that bullies are not all the people you see
who do not look like you
speak like you
dress like you
pray like you
they are not homogeneous.
Enough.
You raised me better than that.
I expect more from you.
I do not want to see a nation return
to sentiments like these in windows of B&B's
“they are stealing our jobs!”
“they are taking our council houses”
“illegal immigrants are benefit tourists”
I hear.
Enough.
I am the daughter of an economic migrant.
A man once considered as much worth as a dog.
Although a dog would get a scratch behind the ears, and “who's a good boy, then?”
My dad, not so much.
To be illegal is to be undocumented, you can't get a flat without a passport stamp.
Saying “They let me in, see, right here, guv”
You can't get anything from this land, if you are not supposed to be here.
Except exploitation, overcrowding, and hate.
I think they mean asylum seekers, who get a small chunk of fuck all.
Due to torture, systematic assault, rape as a weapon of war.
They land here with nothing but pain and PTSD
I have had ENOUGH of
Xenophobia in my family
my “friends”
My Facebook feed.
Deny the dignity, and that these people are human beings.
I welcome these people with a hug, and a cup of tea,
I get excited about the potential for new cuisines, for when they find their feet on this land.
And I hope for an end to their nightmare that was no dream.
Enough.
Complain about outsourcing, but please, the person on the phone
When your internet goes down
Was given that job by a corporation.
They are, like you and me, just trying to struggle on.
The anger aimed at “Steven”, or “Lisa” in Mumbai
Is misaligned. A poor aim.
The Wrong Target.
The Polish girl, Marta, whose Gran lived downstairs and would put potted plants in the hall.
Sorted the post, and hoovered the floors of the entrance.
Used to live in my one bedroomed hole.
With a shower and a loo in a cupboard in the corner.
A 2 ring cooker and oven
that would make the large hob not work when it was switched on.
space for a washing machine
a small fridge and a sink.
With her mum
Her Dad
Her sibling
When I used to spin poi in the tarmac come car-park come fly-tip come place for drying clothes
she would talk to me.
About when 4 became 5
and Flat 5 was vacated
And they had to leave a room barely big enough for just me.
Enough.
With the “piss off, we're full” screen-savers on Blackberries.
Photoshopped onto the White Cliffs of Dover.
The misinformation memes from and that form the Daily Hate Mail
Your last boss may have been a bully who was not white.
But do not forget that bullies are not all the people you see
who do not look like you
speak like you
dress like you
pray like you
they are not homogeneous.
Enough.
You raised me better than that.
I expect more from you.
Creative Commons if you want to share.
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Apple Zone / THE ORANGE EATING CONTEST IS baaaaaaaack!
« on: March 12, 2013, 02:29:43 am »
nO, SERIOUSLY.
I HAVE 30 OF THESE
HERE BLOOD ORANGES.
I CANNOT BELIEVE I AM DOING THIS, IT'S DECIDEDLY NOT SENSIBLE AT ALL.
I HAVE 30 OF THESE
I CANNOT BELIEVE I AM DOING THIS, IT'S DECIDEDLY NOT SENSIBLE AT ALL.
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Apple Zone / 2012 Prediction proven right, dead rise from their graves!
« on: December 25, 2012, 10:43:55 pm »
~Love from Payne
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Apple Zone / STOP CONFUSING ME YOU FUCKS
« on: December 05, 2012, 10:38:21 am »
fucking polar bears fucking everywhere and I can't fucking tell who is who.
Original irritating Hungarian fuck is easy to tell, but his avatar brings me out in hives.
STOP IT NOW!!
Original irritating Hungarian fuck is easy to tell, but his avatar brings me out in hives.
STOP IT NOW!!
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Aneristic Illusions / Oh for feck's sake, Ireland!
« on: November 15, 2012, 10:57:34 am »
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/14/savita-halappanavar-medically-unnecessary-death?intcmp=239
Irish pro-choice activists are fucking fuming at the moment. I hope they get a change in the law, but in this case I would say that it has come too late.
I have decided not to visit Ireland until there is a change in the law to the equivalent of UK law or better.
Irish pro-choice activists are fucking fuming at the moment. I hope they get a change in the law, but in this case I would say that it has come too late.
I have decided not to visit Ireland until there is a change in the law to the equivalent of UK law or better.
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Discordian Recipes / Sanity Soup, AKA Pixie's Jerk Chicken and Bean Soup.
« on: October 30, 2012, 11:18:31 am »
Do a roast chicken marinaded in Jerk Seasoning, serve with rice and black eyed beans,
make gravy using a vegetable stock and the chicken juices. I tend to use Vegetable OXO as the stock.
eat your roast chicken.
leftover gravy gets poured over the chicken.
Soak dried soup mix overnight, cover chicken leftovers and shove it in the fridge till tomorrow.
next day, rinse your dried soup mix with the pearl barley, lentils, split peas, normal peas and those other bits of stuff they put in that. Put that shit aside for later.
Add more pearl barley if you are a sucker for that stuff when you soak it. I didn't this time cos I like to put a fuckton in and Payne is kind of ambivalent about it.
chop carrot, onion and garlic.
pull all the easy-to grab meat off the chicken. Do this whilst singing along to the songs on your headphones, put that shit aside for later and cover.
chop some chorizo.
put olive oil and butter in the big assed pan.
fry the onion, garlic and chorizo in the butter, till the onions are nice and soft and the paprika and pr0k fat turns it all orangey lookin.
fill the pan with some water (I use boiled water from teh kettle, because I'm an impatient fuck and this shit takes long enough.)
add the carrots.
put your chicken carcass in the pan. cover with water. boil for 2 hours to make your stock. stick a lid on the fucking pan. You remember the leftover gravy you poured over the chicken? That shit is now an awesome jelly full of tasty tasty shit. pur boiling water over that shit, add it to the pan.
when your stock is stock shaped, fish out your chicken bones and strip em of their meat, add the meat you stripped to the stuff you made earlier.
get rid of the bones, you don't need that shit any more, the good shit is gone from that chicken.
add your dried soup mix stuff that you soaked, boil for an hour. If you have to go to the docs to get your head checked before you wreck yourself, just turn the heat down and go get that shit sorted out.
add your cans of black eyed beans and cannelini beans, or whatever other beans you have. Add the chicken. you can add sweetcorn if you feel like it. I didn't this time.
turn that shit down to low heat, add some yeast extract like Marmite or Vegemite or shit, this shit is your salt, and has extra B complex vitamins... It's far superior to salt health wise, and rounds out all the flavours nicely.
add some ground black pepper, a little bit of jerk BBQ sauce and some dried chilli flakes. let it heat for about another half an hour.
sometimes I add saffron, sometimes I don't. It all depends on what seasoning I got in the kitchen and what I feel like on the day.
get some bread and butter and a couple of bowls. serve up some soup after you've washed all the dishes and crap, eat that shit.
divide up what is left over into tubs for the freezer, label that shit, freeze it once it has cooled down, for the days your head is so fucked you cannot be fucked to cook.
it's always better after the first day because the spices and flavours mingle in together and it gets spicier.
This is Sanity Soup.
make gravy using a vegetable stock and the chicken juices. I tend to use Vegetable OXO as the stock.
eat your roast chicken.
leftover gravy gets poured over the chicken.
Soak dried soup mix overnight, cover chicken leftovers and shove it in the fridge till tomorrow.
next day, rinse your dried soup mix with the pearl barley, lentils, split peas, normal peas and those other bits of stuff they put in that. Put that shit aside for later.
Add more pearl barley if you are a sucker for that stuff when you soak it. I didn't this time cos I like to put a fuckton in and Payne is kind of ambivalent about it.
chop carrot, onion and garlic.
pull all the easy-to grab meat off the chicken. Do this whilst singing along to the songs on your headphones, put that shit aside for later and cover.
chop some chorizo.
put olive oil and butter in the big assed pan.
fry the onion, garlic and chorizo in the butter, till the onions are nice and soft and the paprika and pr0k fat turns it all orangey lookin.
fill the pan with some water (I use boiled water from teh kettle, because I'm an impatient fuck and this shit takes long enough.)
add the carrots.
put your chicken carcass in the pan. cover with water. boil for 2 hours to make your stock. stick a lid on the fucking pan. You remember the leftover gravy you poured over the chicken? That shit is now an awesome jelly full of tasty tasty shit. pur boiling water over that shit, add it to the pan.
when your stock is stock shaped, fish out your chicken bones and strip em of their meat, add the meat you stripped to the stuff you made earlier.
get rid of the bones, you don't need that shit any more, the good shit is gone from that chicken.
add your dried soup mix stuff that you soaked, boil for an hour. If you have to go to the docs to get your head checked before you wreck yourself, just turn the heat down and go get that shit sorted out.
add your cans of black eyed beans and cannelini beans, or whatever other beans you have. Add the chicken. you can add sweetcorn if you feel like it. I didn't this time.
turn that shit down to low heat, add some yeast extract like Marmite or Vegemite or shit, this shit is your salt, and has extra B complex vitamins... It's far superior to salt health wise, and rounds out all the flavours nicely.
add some ground black pepper, a little bit of jerk BBQ sauce and some dried chilli flakes. let it heat for about another half an hour.
sometimes I add saffron, sometimes I don't. It all depends on what seasoning I got in the kitchen and what I feel like on the day.
get some bread and butter and a couple of bowls. serve up some soup after you've washed all the dishes and crap, eat that shit.
divide up what is left over into tubs for the freezer, label that shit, freeze it once it has cooled down, for the days your head is so fucked you cannot be fucked to cook.
it's always better after the first day because the spices and flavours mingle in together and it gets spicier.
This is Sanity Soup.