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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8107039.stm WTF

hahaha I love you Toblix. In a way.

I'm not the one whose name is an anagram of a racist word, Ginger.

There is also a really high level of rape crimes in South Africa, which goes hand-in-hand to support the survey results. I've been hit on by a number of south african men and honestly, with no PC sugarcoating... a disproportionately high number of them were extraordinarily sexually aggressive and "slimey" ("I believe God sent you, an angel on Earth, to meet me. I believe it is fate. You are the most beautiful women I have ever seen"... blah blah blah). I'm pretty sure that most women who have been hit on by random SA men can tell you it was not a pleasant experience, maybe even verging on quite scary. Whether you want to be over-opinionated in a way that is different from me about it or not, Thunderpeel, as a girl I can tell you that the vast majority of experiences I have had with SA men have been overwhelmingly bad. Of course this is not reflective of all south african men - I'm not stupid and I don't judge an entire group of people based on a couple of them that I have happened to meet. However, it does seem to reflect on an attitude adopted by an obviously significant number of people in South Africa, towards women. I think it's safe for us to discuss this without being deemed racist The article was really amazing and saddening for me to read. There is also apparently a high level of male-male rape, which was pretty amazing to me. I guess it is a power thing, but I have never been to SA and haven't met enough real (born and raised) SA people to really feel like I have enough of an understanding to discuss it properly. Interested in hearing what everyone else has to say about it. Anyway it's pretty fucked... PS when I say SA men, I mean men who were born and raised in South Africa. I can't think of an example off the top of my head where I've had similar uncool experiences with men from South Africa who were raised in or have lived in the UK for a good number of years.

"awesome cok" hehe.

Okay check this out First look at this and this http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/Yufster/photo5-1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/Yufster/photo3-5.jpg Now listen to this music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pybSRca-cA as you look at the next picture Now look what happens when the glasses come off: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/Yufster/photo2-5.jpg Need I say more. I'll take cash for this concept, I think if you fit a movie storyline around this and a pumping 80s soundtrack, and stick a prom dance at the end, it will be an instant hit.

I just received a copy of The Colour Wizard through the post. I bought it in the hope that it might be an old childrens book I remember from my childhood, about a Wizard who painted the sky. It isn't the same book, however the story is similar and I have discovered that if you replace the word "gray" with the word "gay" it's much more interesting. Let me read to you. PS the words in bold are also in bold in the book. A long time ago, and a long way away, there lived a wizard by the name of Gay He was a brown man. <- I did not edit this, this is in the book. But his beard was gay. His clothes were gay. From hat to shoe that wizard was gay. And that's not all. His castle was gay. His tower was gay. His cats and his dragons and his bats were gay. His flowers and his grass and his trees were gay. gay as fog. Then one gay day the wizard said, "What we need around here is a little red. Red is bright!" So he painted his coach. He painted his door. He painted his tower from roof to floor. His dragons said they were wild about red. So he gave each one a dab on the head. They looked proud! But that colour wizard wasn't through. "It's time," he said, "to paint something blue. Blue is cool." So he painted his castle and his fence all blue He painted the statues in the garden too. Then he drew a horse with a curly horn and PRESTO! He made a unicorn. True blue. Now Wizard Gay was having such fun that he stirred up a colour as yellow as the sun. Mellow yellow! He painted his walls. He painted his chair. He painted a golden sun up in the air! He painted the flowers. He painted a tree. He painted his little cats - one, two, three. They looked like tigers! But then that wizard got carried away. He painted all night. He painted all day! Orange clouds... tan ducks... green dogs... black grass... purple birds... white frogs... Then he dipped his brush into each colour pail and sailed through the sky on a rainbow trail. By the time that wizard put his colours away, there was nothing anywhere that was not gay. No castles or towers or dragons or bats, no coaches or flowers or statues or cats.

Hey, if anybody has that edition of the Faraway Tree that Spaff posted above, I will actually pay you as much as I can afford for it. It brings me happy memories but I have been unable to find it these days

In The Night Garden is terrifying, I hate it. It's really creepy. I had a nightmare about it once. Scariest book I've ever read on the toilet. On the other hand, Jo Zette et Jocko FOR THE WIN! Auch, die unendliche Geschichte! Also loved anything by Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, Hergé... Also:

I haven't but now I must order it. I have some basic french, enough to struggle through Les aventures de Jo Zette et Jocko and have a pretty good idea what's going on.

Identified correctly!!! And I've seen Coraline, it's great There is also a psychonauts poster and a glastonbury ticket, somewhere. OssK I would be taken out of high school I imagine.

You are a genius! I've been looking for this book for YEARS!!! I'm sure my version was in English but come to think of it my mother read it to me so she probably translated it. Cool!!!

Dude... what was that book called? I think that might be the one I was trying to find.... Did it have AWESOME illustrations??

I'm already finding it slightly less funny to be honest, and I'm looking for other words to replace "gray" with already.

Hehehehe this made me laugh a lot.

Holy crap that's hilarious and genius!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Party They hate black people, foreign people, gay people, etc

http://www.vg247.com/2009/06/03/peter-molyneux-to-make-announcement-at-midnight-est/ He's coming out of the closet! Or wardrobe, or wherever children keep their clothes.

That is cool and, Thunderpeel, you're also very goodlooking! So congratulations.

Monkey Island 3 and 4 were JUST A DREAM. There, done. Anyway YAY!

Hey... what? You're confusing me with Marek I think.

I just write anyway even though I know it's crap. Then when I'm done I leave it a while, then look over it a day or so later and usually it's either not as crap as I thought it was and I can edit it to make it good, or it's really rubbish and I can see exactly why and set about writing it again. Then again, I'm a rubbish writer, so don't listen to me.

DID loads of people open up their eyes to something new, Ginger? Jay Z is mainstream, I can name several of his songs right now and hum them and I don't like him or his music, and I don't have a tv or radio so fuck knows how I got exposed to them - but I did. I don't think anybody discovered something new from Jay Z being there. But then given some of the shitty headliners this year I don't think it matters really. And I just looked up Status Quo... jesus christ.

I must admit that although I'm really excited about Glasto this year, I was disappointed to see Dizzee Rascal and Lady Gaga on the fucking lineup. And Prodigy and Blur clashing WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH sort it out. Is anybody from here going to Glastonbury btw? Jay Z was fucking appalling, sure have him as an act but don't make him a headliner surely. And the intro to his set got applauded by critics but I thought it was incredibly embarrassing and shit. But maybe that's just me. It kept the n00bs congregated in one place for a while so I guess I don't care too much.

Am I the only one who thinks the Sherlock Holmes movie looks genius?