Semifinals Date Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 02:56 AM PST Topic Entertainment It is time again for one of those oh so famous multi-posts. I try to tie them together to make sense out of them and to make them more fun to read. Sometimes these are brain drizzle; sometimes they are someone's notes for a real article, sometimes its just random hate mail. Read on at your own risk. My comments, as usual, are in italics. firefly7 What is suburbia coming to? Picture if you will a small town known as Averill Park. There is a high school with sport teams and drama clubs and even a play gound, like any other small town would have. Jocks, preps, potheads, nerds, goths- it's a small fairly normal town (Okay maybe not completely... if you saw the articles about the teabagging at APHS... well, that's the school I'm speaking of). Anywho... this is not Troy, or NYC, or any other sort of city area. I think I have over empasised this but: WE LIVE IN FREAKIN' SUBURBIA, IT'S NORMAL HERE... THE BOONIES- HICKSVILLE! I think the world's gone mad... again... There are gangs forming in Averill Park... In the past two days I have seen "The Spedo Banditos" "The STD's" "The Bad Guys" "The Good Guys/New Age Radicals" and "The Brown Flag Gang" Alright... "The New Age Radicals" don't actually count because it was just some random friends of mine making fun of the other gangs, but anyways... Why would you start a gang in a place like this... what are you going to do? Rob Miller's (The local food selling establishment)? Hold up the library? Oh, maybe you could have a gang war in friggin' Butler Park (The play ground across the street from my school)! I can just see them all running at each other with plastic knives and spoons from the cafeteria. What would they have gang wars over? "Hey dude! You made the football team and I didn't... you're going down!" "You bitch... you stole my boyfriend! Bet watch out, "The Stupid Ugly Girls" gang is gonna kick your ass!" sighs, shaking her head" We need help out here... alot of help. I think I'm just gonna stay home... nice and safe... with no testosterone driven, setroid addict football players chasing me with plastic butter knives... Now where is my red bandana there is a difference between the boonies and the suburbs, but I think we can let that one pass. Gangs are a "normal". They are the most usual result of people without jobs (or at least lots of free time), something in common, and lots of people. Funny but when its all girls it tends to be called a clique still Merry_Widow Fiction: The Gift There you are. I thought you would be home earlier. Oh well, no matter. Come here. I have something to show you. Of course I'm not going to tell you what it is, silly. Just come and see. I know these past few months have been a little rough on you. Broken hearts are hard to fix up. Believe me, I know. So I thought of a little something that would help cheer you up. I would have had it sooner, much sooner, but you wouldn't tell me her name. It took forever for me to find her. There, see? Doesn't she look fantastic? I know some of the bruises aren't precisely symmetrical, but I still think the over all effect is nice. Here, look at her back. See, I didn't break the skin. Every lash is uniform, perfectly straight, and all lined up. The classical checkered shirt. And the rope I used on her wrists is nylon, so it won't leave those ugly welts. What? Well of course she's still alive. That's why she is crying. You don't cry when you're dead. I think. I guess you could. I mean, bodies do leak. Don't they? Why are you looking at me like that? Don't you think it's nice? Stop looking at me like that! I'm not the one who hurt you! She hurt you, she's the one who made you cry. I was perfectly fair! One lash, one mark for every tear! Stop looking at me like that! I'm not a monster! I did this for you! I did this because I love you! Don't you love me? Don't you like my gift? 's What can I say other than beware of pissing off your friends? AlteredMind You screw me once, Shame on you............. What do you do when people around you become DRAMA BITCHES ???? It all started in September, aroung the start of school........It was my senior year, and I thought it would be kick ass..........I was hanging around this " group" of girls...........we had been friends since my junior year, and one of them turned on me... Her name is (name removed just in case)............, so she is one of those people who can only have one friend at a time..........she turned against me, and started talking shit to all the others in the group.........they were making plans with me on the weekends, then ditching me at the last minute........I got really fed up with it .........I tried to talk to them about it and they kept saying " everything isn't about you "...when to tell you the truth it was all about them..and what they wanted..........they never cared what i had to say.....where i wanted to go ......or my feelings.......... they never thought about anybody else but themselves.......Finally (name removed just in case) got them all turned against me , and added a few more.....Then I just decided to ignore all of them and see if they'd come around, and they did.......I let them back into my life , and it wasn't long before I got backstabbed again.........They've all written me really nasty letters talking shit about me to me ........It was last week on Tuesday that i finally stopped giving a FUCK! I told them all to Fuck off ...and that i didn't want them in my life..........I guess it stunned them........they were laughing at me over it...........Here's the fact: you can only treat someone like shit for so long before they say FUCK OFF! Just remember that old saying your mom used to tell you " you screw me once, shame on youyou screw me twice, shame on me" don't let anyone get the best of you...just get rid of them in your life and move on ! Fuck all that Drama bullshit ! Anyone agree?!?!?!?!?!?!? Now on this one; please remember people have to be able to read what you write, people have to be able to care about what you write, paragraphs are good things, and spell check is your friend. Now as for content, well what can I say? Details help give a story life, it is best to remove names so I don’t have to, and curse words work better if they are used with feeling. AlteredMind Bondage I know it is a goth trademark so to speak, but really what is it that fascinates us with bondage? The thought of being tied up, and helpless to someone else is very intresting to me......The sex part of it I'm not quite sure of because I like to be in control sometimes......I don't know about you guys but it intrigues me.......I've always been a strong person, and it's very hard for me to give in to someone else.......Personally I like to tie people up......especially guys.......I don't hurt them or anything I just like to do it.....Maybee there is something wrong with me, or maybee I'm just admitting what we've all been thinking when it comes to bondage..............When I got my first pair of handcuffs I had them with me everyday for a long time....now they just sit in my room on my shelf waiting to be used........Is bondage normal, or am I just a FREAK?!?!?!?!? Now on this one; please remember people have to be able to read what you write, people have to be able to care about what you write, paragraphs are good things, and spell check is your friend. Now as for content, are you really asking about your freakship or are you rather bragging about it? And are you over 18 or 21 depending on state? We do need to know before we respond so that we don’t accidently break the law. MystryssRavynDarque Is There a Chance for Life? Today I was again reminded of how much I hate war. My American History class watched a flim on the testing of atom bombs, hydrogen bombs, and thermonuclear devices during the 1950's, the beginning of the cold war. The US and the USSR were both trying to stay one step ahead of eachother by creating disgusting weapons of mass destruction. To watch the devistation that just the testing caused is so very very heart wrenching. Cruel testing was done on the animals too, and even some innocent people were hurt in the testing period. If you think about it, if it is sad to see a few number of people and animals hurt in testing, what the hell happens when we really are in war. More and more people die than that. More and more innocent lives are lost over just one person causing a problem. Just as my mind raced over all of this my teacher reminded us of something. He reminded us that these weapons we were watching happened to be much smaller than the ones we are being threatened with and what we are threatening with. That sent my mind on a spiral until it reached a point that said, "Will I die before I have the chance to live? Will I live physically, but not really LIVE?" I have yet to experience the love of another's arms, the love in a sweet embrace. The warmth and joy in a kiss. There is so much that I have yet to do, and because of the war mongers in this world( I wont mention any names here because we all know who I am talking about *wink wink*) it is only a matter of time before any chance of living is smashed into millions of pieces right before my eyes. I also thought about my niece and nephew. Will they grow up in a world of isolationism. Will they be deprived of the simple pleasures I had as a child? Will they live at all? All of this war bullshit makes me very angry, but it also rips my heart into shreds and makes me saddened for all of the other people in the world who have to deal with this everyday. Do you every cry, at least inside? Are you at least saddened? If not, I feel quite sorry for you. I just have one more thing to say in the words of a great band Anti-Flag "Don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me!" People please remember basics of English/American! This stuff makes my eyes bleed. As for the sentiments, war is hell. 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