"With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life." - P. J. O'Rourke

Random Playlist Song: Bach - Concerto for 3 harpsichords D minor BWV.1063 - 02 - Allegro

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Someone: anyway, take this the suffering [core economics modules] u have to go thru to do the good stuff.

Me: what good stuff
more maths ah

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Someone: macro is actuallyvery fun
maybe your lecturer got carried away with her phd education
econs phds are very mathematical

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The new Friendster layout displays very clearly what the relationship status of the person whose profile you're viewing is.

Tsk tsk, as if it wasn't obvious enough.


Why do people always choose black and white photographs for their funeral pictures, looking so sombre and formal in them?

For my putative funeral, I want to have a colour photo of me doing something wacky.
It's how I wish to be remembered.

(Then again, someone informs me that she's never seen black and white photos at funerals, and sometimes the people are smiling. Hmm.)


Since truffles are located/dug up by pigs or dogs, does that make them haram?

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Catholic Church recruits more student exorcists

"Applications are invited for exorcism training at the Vatican's Rome university, the Athenaeum Pontificium Regina Apostolorum. The 10-week course includes sessions in exorcism rites, how to talk to the Devil, the tricks he uses to fight back and signs of the occult hidden in rock music and video games.

Students also attend classes in psychology so that priests can distinguish between "real cases" of satanic possession and illnesses such as schizophrenia."