| RavenBlog |
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| Comments on Friday 11 April 2003: |
| Fantastic. Randomly on the subject of being hungry and eating people or paper (two readily available resources where food was not), I wondered whether it would be possible to print out edible pictures of people. Indeed it is; edible flavoured inkjet inks and A4-size rice-paper. I'm sure there's a market for that somewhere. Also on the subject of incredibly frivolous products; in consideration of lack of snow in Australia, and wondering about an alternative to visiting snow-prone places, I thought there might be such a thing as a small-scale snow machine; indeed there is; $4000 for a snow machine seemingly capable of covering a ten feet by ten feet area in two feet of snow overnight. [05:34] |
| Kanada Ten |
| Great! Now we can combine those propaganda pamphlets that we drop across the nations of starving, illiterate peoples and emergence food relief! Edible paper could solve all our woes! Wow, the wonders of modern society. |
| Tee |
| righttt bone apitite or however you spell that me I would rather have roost beef (and yes I am a meat eater get over it {actually in my family you have to be meat eater's lol<\/A>/ thats pretty much all my father ever cooked poor Raven he and my father would not get along}). |
| RavenBlack |
| Um, sounds like you need to get over it more than anyone else. Certainly I never had a problem with your eating meat. Gorge on the stupid animals all you like. I don't see why 'poor me'. Not as if I'm going to meet your father or anything. Indeed, lucky me, I don't have to get along with him. |
| Tom |
| Where were you when only people and paper were presented as possible foods? Were there no carpets? Or grass? After all, you're likely to get some sort of prion involving disease if you go about eating people, and environmentalists will mulch you if you don't recycle paper into paper. Most varieties of carpet, properly chewed, provide useful roughage and may prevent colon cancer. This is imporant to know if you eat lots of roost beef. It's like a chicken, except that it roosts in your colon laying evil carnivorous cancer eggs of doom. Eat carpet, and the roosting beeves in your colon will lay in vain. This has been medically proven. Seriously, some scientist invented a breakfast cereal that was shaved up plastic, to increase roughage in the diet. Lowered colon cancer in rats. Makes me feel better about eating biros anyway. |
| C. Copperpot |
| I'll spare you the obvious bad jokes. *cough* |
| Tee |
| Hey Raven I'm sorry I meant for that to be taken as a joke. I do have a question though like you say you don't eat any meat (and to think you made a game of human's that eat each other lol<\/A>/) How do you manage to stay fit like do you take any vitamin's or anything like that? |
| RavenBlack |
| Nope. I just eat a decent variety of stuff, and occasionally base my choices on instinct. You know how pregnant people crave weird things? I think everyone does, just to a less extreme degree. Listen to the cravings, and you get the nutrients. |
| Eps |
| So you go to MacDonald’s Raven? (They have don't meat in their burgers right?) Why don't you like meat? Eps - Mmm bbq... |
| RavenBlack |
| Translation: "Oh, you don't eat meat? So you eat shit and bricks?" I answer your proper question with a question; think of something you don't like. Why don't you like it? (Answers such as "I don't like the taste" or "I don't like the consistency" are recursive and unacceptable.) |
| Tom |
| Interesting point. Is shit vegan friendly? It is an animal product after all. I know vegans who won't use standard photo film because of the ground up animal bits involved, won't physically touch anything that can even remotely be construed as originating from an animal in any way, and so on. Can a truly hardcore vegan go to the toilet? How to wipe afterwards without getting up close and personal with an animal product? Perhaps a bidet is the solution. Unless the taps are made of steel. Amazing how many vegans don't know that animal fats are often used in the production of steel. Come to think of it, sex. OK for women, as a condom can be used to contain any animal products produced (I guess this means no kids). But the poor vegan guy has to emerge from the encounter with a plastic bag full of animal products attached to his intimates. Can a vegan mother breast feed the baby that she shouldn't have had in the first place as it's creation involved mixing lots of animal products together? Or should female humans be treated with less respect than a cow? Has nothing to do with you Raven, of course. I know you eat a vegan diet due to taste issues and quite happily wear dead animal leggings and the like. You may even have sex sometimes. Brick production involves animal products, and therefore bricks are not vegan friendly. Especially if thrown with sufficient force. |
| Tom |
| Sorry, should add that most vegans are not quite so insane as this. My sister is vegan, and I do most of the cooking here. I go out of my way to provide her with food that won't compromise her principles. I just like making fun of people who can't make fun of themselves. |
| RavenBlack |
| I don't think any of them read my blog. |
| Tom |
| They just comment then? Bastards. |
| RavenBlack |
| I thought it was quite obvious that they didn't read. |
| RavenBlack |
| Do they not have you sign a non-disclosure agreement about that stuff? I don't eat at fast-food places. How they make the fries is just as bad as how they make the burgers. The flavour is from New Jersey. Have you smelled New Jersey? I wouldn't eat it. |
| Eps |
| Raven, I make no lies when I say I _love_ meat. It is my favourite food group. Now my sister is a vegetarian, which is a good thing because I can eat her share at dinner! But normally when I ask why some one is a vegetarian /vegan I just want to know why, I find it a bit interesting. Only a bit though and you get good answers some times. </rant about crap> But meh, other things to do. Oh and I like the paper food idea. Eps - Any linux geeks here... I need some helpz0r... :P |
| Tom |
| I've had a veggie whopper. But only because they'd just run out of meat patties. (Was lateish). Not bad. No food from such establishments is vegan friendly, frying a veggie burger on a grill you've just used to cook up dead cow doesn't make it. We actually have two varieties of Burger King down here. When Burger King first decided to expand into Australia they discovered that the name "Burger King" was already trademarked here by some guy running a local hamburger/fish/chips/etc shop. So they called it Hungry Jacks. Same food just a different name for the restaurant. At some later stage they met with the guy who'd trademarked "Burger King" and paid him lots of money or had him killed or something. After this the Burger King corporation could open stores called Burger King in Australia. But the people running Hungry Jacks restaurants didn't want to give up the brand name they'd built up. So now we have both. Which is a good thing because a whopper is a better hang over cure than a big mac. But here, a hamburger is just not a hamburger if it doesn't contain beetroot. Most of the world can't handle beetroot in their hamburgers. This is because they are terrorists. Try it. Ask an average terrorist if he likes beetroot on his hamburger. Not a single terrorist I've asked this question to has said yes. Proof that Australia is the only un-terrorist country in the world. |
| RavenBlack |
| You're beyond help. You can't even spell helpx0r. |
| Eps |
| /me is now scared of Raven... He knows how to spell helpx0r. *Hides under a rock.* I've never seen the snow; I might be this year though. :) A snow blower is useless in Australia anyway. The snow would melt before you got chance to play in it. Anyway, I’m tired and in on of those moods where you don’t want to annoy any one but you seem to anyway. So I’m off to go watch rove [live]… Eps – What The? |
| RavenBlack |
| "The snow would melt before you got a chance to play in it." And in melting, would reduce the ambient temperature of the location, until eventually it's not so hot that the next lot of snow will melt. Sufficient snow will settle. A snow blower would indeed be quite useless, though, since it's a completely different piece of equipment, almost the opposite of a snow-making-machine. |
| Tom |
| Eps. You need to learn how to spell lunix before you get onto advanced topics that involve helpx0r@ting. You might try getting in touch with http://slug.org.au as this is the best user group in Australia. http://www.linux.org.au should help you to find a group closer to you. |
| Eps |
| Quote | Tom - You need to learn how to spell lunix. - ^^Man you must feel stupid for that stuff up! Also I talked to some friends and it is Helpz0r, so there! Thanks for those sites. Though I worked out the problem and how to fix it but I'm not sure of the linux equivalent commands... Eps - Helpz0r! |
| RavenBlack |
| You have the wrong friends. And I'm afraid you look foolish for thinking Tom made a mistake. |
| RavenBlack |
| Testing alteration to the comments thing; & should still be &, but é should be an accented character now. |
| RavenBlack |
| Doh. Höaut;w about now? |
| RavenBlack |
| Aha, worked, apart from me remembering the wröng codé. |
| RavenBlack |
| And & is still &, hopefully. |
| Eps |
| And I though that things Raven said made sense, then again tonight is the first night I've been here when I've had anywhere near the recommended three hours sleep per night thingy. That could have something to do with it. The suckyest part is that I feel tireder now after my sleep than I did before it... Anyway. Hmm wrong friends, well I don't really get to pick and choose in the matter. Tom made a spelling mistake, or was this one of those jokes that I just missed? I hate those types of jokes… Eps – Sl33pies… |
| RavenBlack |
| You don't get to choose your friends? Do your parents make arranged friendships for you? I don't think you always hate the jokes you miss. More likely indifference. I expect you don't notice most of them at all. |
| Tom |
| I feel very stupid. |
| C. Copperpot |
| I feel quite good. |
| Solistus |
| I think helpz0r is acceptable. I've always been a "z-er" myself, particularly because it flows better with certain altered forms (luzar > luxar). testing: lol<\/A>/ |
| RavenBlack |
| But you shouldn't be altering *those* forms at all. Tsk. |
| Kanada Ten |
| "Shouldn't be altering" or "Shouldn't have the ability to alter"? G&ah. I j&ust w&ant&ed t&o t&est th&e acc&ents. |
| Kanada Ten |
| wröng codé |
| RavenBlack |
| Shouldn't be altering words to forms where the x-substitution would be pronounced incorrectly. |
| Tom |
| People can <a CLASS="mutter" TITLE="Talk of German mothers">mutter</a> now? |
| Tom |
| Ah, only if they lol<\/A>/ when doing so. |
| Tee |
| ummm I see I'm not going to be able to l-o-l now (did that still do it hehe grrrrr {see there are many ways to show laughter there Raven}). Now about signing a form about not talking about whats to be made at work ... well I did sign some forms but I don't recall any of them having to do with anything saying I wouldn't talk about what goes on in there. Even if I did ohhh well they promised me a raise to and I have yet to see that so..... but no really I didn't tell you to not get it in fact I didn't even say anything that goes on those two sandwiches (by the way Tom your right with your "frying a veggie burger on a grill you've just used to cook up dead cow doesn't make it" comment *laughs at the thought of a BK running out of whopper or burger meat*). No sometimes though we do run out of things one time we ran out of whopper bun's and we had to make the whopper sandwiches on a burger bun (talk about flying saucer hehe). |
| Dundee |
| Based on the current regression (or the regression of certain unnamed individuals) it almost feels as if you need to make posting comments a registration based privledge. Or perhaps just start an alternate board for jacknapes and millowers to post on. |
| RavenBlack |
| Meh, if the volume of stuff here ever exceeds the whining emails I get, then I'll consider making an effort to lock it down. |
| C. Copperpot |
| Excess is tasty. lol<\/A>/ indeed. |
| C. Copperpot |
| I'm torn as to whether or not I should have capitalized that 'lol<\/A>/.' |