Valentimes is serious times.

I figured since this is a Valentines comic, I should post it on my blog, because of a series of thoughts that are far too complicated to write in blog form.

For more jaded valentines antics, click here.

And without anything better to blog about...

...it's my birthday on Wednesday.
The 18th.


I've tried to write a good blog three times this afternoon, and none of them worked out.
Oh well.

The world is getting stupider.

Richard Williamson was a bishop who was excomunnicated from the Catholic church because of several things he said. Recently, Pope Benedict lifted the excommunication so that they could begin the process of rehabilitating him into bishopness again.

This is just one example of the general idiocy of some peope. Richard Williamson has repetedly denied that the holocaust caused the death of 6 million Jews. He is now "reconsidering" the historical evidence. So basically, he's gunna say "yep, sorry about that, the holocaust happened, my bad," and then become a bishop again.

This isn't the only thing he's said. He strongly believes that women should not be allowed to go to university or wear trousers. He also wants men to be more "manly." (just a side note, bishops wear pink robes, therefore opposing any generally accepted version of masculinity...just saying). He has been quoted to say "A woman can do a good imitation of handling ideas, but then she will not be thinking properly as a woman. Did this lawyeress check her hairdo before coming into court? If she did, she is a distracted lawyer. If she did not, she is one distorted woman."

First of all, the word "lawyeress" isn't exaclty the most PC term he could be using to decribe this idea of a "distorted woman" and secondly, it's ideas like this that's keeping us in the middle ages.

Seriously, check the graph.

Okay, so it's a graph about scientific advancement, but the idea remains.

It wasn't until the Renaissance that women were allowed to sing or play instruments either.

Now, I don't often go on rants about spesific people, but this one really deserved it.

Not so great...

Vitamin water.
I tried some today, not entirely sure what I was expecting, but I sure wasn't expecting the reality that is vitamin water.
Right, first off, what the hell is Dragonfruit? I've heard of it, but I'm not entirely sure what it should taste like, but I'm guessing that it doesn't taste like watered-down red cordial, and if it turns out that it does, then I will admit defeat, but until that happens, I will remain certain that the bottle lies.
And another thing, for something that claims to be healthy, it shouldn't have so much sugar. It claims to only have fructose (the sugar that comes naturally in fruit), so either it's lying, or there really is 27 grams of pure carbohydrate in dragonfruit. As a diabetic, I'm a little more knowledgeable about what counts as sugary and what doesn't than your average vitamin water buyer, so I'm not sure how many people think that 27 grams per serve is a reasonable amount, because it isn't. That's about the same as a large chocolate milkshake.
Which segueys (sp?) perfectly into my third point, WHERE WAS THE TASTE? There's a fine line between 'subtle' and 'virtually non-existant' and vitamin water doesn't come close. It tasted rather watered-down, and quite unlike it came from a fruit, dragon or otherwise. For something with so much sugar, it really should be sweeter.

So in conclusion, it's disappointing and sugary. I'm still trying to pull down the resulting high blood sugar, which is harder than it sounds.

I am a Vampire.

Holy bollocks, I didn't realise I actually have that song on my iPod.
In fact, I have the entire Juno soundtrack, WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE!
There's some kind of conspiracy going on, CDs are appearing in my iTunes library without my consent or knowledge...

Today...

Well! Today certainly was more interesting than your average monday...oooh, that's far too cliche...

Anyways, I got in trouble for swearing today...but it's not what you think, Izzie-guttermouth was actually innocent this time! Fancy that.
It was in English, and me and Ayla were quoting this video. We were quoting the part that says "Hallifax is a SEX KNIGHT!" but we weren't told off for the words "sex knight" we were told off for going "Shing! shing! shing!" What the frick?

Anyway, I also found out that there's actually an upside to having an ear infection. I know, stop the presses! There's an upside to having gremlins in your ear that seem intent upon killing you in your sleep!
The thing is, water makes the ear gremlins angry, so therefore, I can't go swimming, so therefore, I'M NOT SWIMMING IN THE SWIMMING CARNIVAL!!!!! And by that I mean, this time, I actually have an excuse, rather than just giving an excessively long fake name just to confuse people (last time it was Haushinka McO'Connerellmenhangenstork)

THOUGHT!

A thought occurred to me just then.

I was helping out Clare with her homework, and it was about Oral History (from what we could figure out, it was history that is mostly word of mouth) and it gave me an idea.
I'm wondering how far down a generation a word-of-mouth story can be passed, without writing it down and keeping it within one family (which, thinking about it, would make it really easy to detect inbreeding). Like one person tells their child/children, then they tell their child/children and so on.
It would be like one MASSIVE game of Chinese Whispers.