"I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on." - Beryl Pfizer

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Me: heard of ***?

Someone: nope
what's that?

Me: http://www.atsui.org/media/non/***.jpg

Someone: who the hell is that?
why does he have blue geisha eyes?

Me: I've a friend who's crazy over It

Someone: It?

Me: why does he look like a girl
and not a normal girl like that
I'd be less freaked out if he looked like a jap AV [Adult Video] star

Someone: he doesn't look like a girl lar!

Me: he looks like a freak
damn japs

Someone: well he has quite nice hair

Me: he looks like some chaos magic got into him when he was in the womb

can you come up with anything else to describe the horror and revulsion I feel when gazing upon that twisted visage?


Someone: my dad say he will vote for opposition if ur father is a opposition party politician
haha

Me: wth
what does that have to do with my father

Someone: dunno la
any relatives whatsoever

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A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain: APPENDIX D The Awful German Language

"Every noun has a gender, and there is no sense or system in the distribution; so the gender of each must be learned separately and by heart. There is no other way. To do this one has to have a memory like a memorandum-book. In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has. Think what overwrought reverence that shows for the turnip, and what callous disrespect for the girl. See how it looks in print--I translate this from a conversation in one of the best of the German Sunday-school books:

"Gretchen. Wilhelm, where is the turnip?

"Wilhelm. She has gone to the kitchen.

"Gretchen. Where is the accomplished and beautiful English maiden?

Wilhelm. It has gone to the opera."

To continue with the German genders: a tree is male, its buds are female, its leaves are neuter; horses are sexless, dogs are male, cats are female--tomcats included, of course; a person`s mouth, neck, bosom, elbows, fingers, nails, feet, and body are of the male sex, and his head is male or neuter according to the word selected to signify it, and NOT according to the sex of the individual who wears it--for in Germany all the women either male heads or sexless ones; a person`s nose, lips, shoulders, breast, hands, and toes are of the female sex; and his hair, ears, eyes, chin, legs, knees, heart, and conscience haven`t any sex at all. The inventor of the language probably got what he knew about a conscience from hearsay.

Now, by the above dissection, the reader will see that in Germany a man may THINK he is a man, but when he comes to look into the matter closely, he is bound to have his doubts; he finds that in sober truth he is a most ridiculous mixture; and if he ends by trying to comfort himself with the thought that he can at least depend on a third of this mess as being manly and masculine, the humiliating second thought will quickly remind him that in this respect he is no better off than any woman or cow in the land."

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The Frikadel: an obsession investigated - "One website, which says the Frikadel was invented 50 years ago in Brabant, suggests that the worst also contains pork and chicken offal. But in reality, it says a Frikadel is primarily made of horse flesh. Other sources have suggested brain as a distinct ingredient."
I had one and it was just a sausage battered and fried. Nothing special. I prefer a kroket, or even a bamiblok.

The world of Dutch fast food - "If that's too heavy for you, you can always try a salad. But don't expect a feast of healthy and crunchy greens if you order a huzarensalade or an eiersalade. The occasional vegetable particles hide well from the inhospitable climate of the Netherlands under a thick cover of mayonnaise. This is a cold and wet country, your body needs fat and calories, and the Dutch snack supplies them."
I love this magazine. No wonder these people cycle so much.

A Four-Letter Word - ""Slut" is for liking it. "Slut" is for wanting it. "Slut" is for going after it. Men hunt, women gather; men chase, women wait. Look it up, slut."
The misandry is palpable and repellent. [Addendum: "misandry - Hatred of men."]