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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get.  Level: 73  Posts: 444/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| *still anguishing over elections* (I'm going to be like this for a few days, people...) |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 445/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| You know what Aussie lizard would be good to have as a pet, if you could get them? Frilled-Neck Lizard  Course, I don't know if you're allowed to have them as pets. |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 446/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Hello Just so you know, this should probably go in the Hardware/Software forum And yes, Firefox is good.... To get rid of the "unused bar" (the bookmarks toolbar), right mouse click on the regular toolbar and uncheck "Bookmakrs Toolbar". Not sure how to move Google/Search as I like it where it is. And just a note, you can also make Google an Amazon, Dictionary.com, Wikipedia or other search if you want As for a theme, I like Qute. |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 447/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Yeah, I see lots of angry smilies... :::::::: : : : : I don't get it... |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 448/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Originally posted by Cymoro Yeah, I wondered if it had to do with breaks, with the way each smiley was on a different line too. Very odd. :::::::: and that is fun  |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 449/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Bleh, I didn't realise it was so narrow in IE. Yet another reason why I hate IE, it turns perfectly valid CSS into smooshy crudsmellybum *^%^$$. | |||
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 450/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Very sad news, on more than one level. I feel sorry for his family and friends, and it is sad that he died so young. I enjoyed the Superman movies, and after his accident, I admired the way he carried on with his life, with determination and optimism, where many others would've given in. I also feel sorry for those for whom Reeve was a beacon of hope. Reeve was known to be outspoken about stem cell research, which had the potential to help Reeve, and countless other people. Reeve was one of the most outspoken supporters of stem cell research, and his loss will be felt even more by those affected by similar conditions. I for one, am very sad to hear this. |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 451/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| I really actually hate it when somebody says that somebody is a "pussy" or whatever for committing suicide. I think it shows how misunderstood this whole thing is. I'm going to try to explain why I don't like the whole "pussy" thing. Here's my own example. Of course, other people's experiences are likely to differ a bit. I'm clinically depressed, and I have my moments where I am suicidal. These moments, for me at least, are usually very sudden, and more often than not triggered by something. Once triggered, it is *very* difficult to regain composure. Has anybody here read George Orwell's 1984? If so, do you remember the Two Minutes Hate? When I am feeling suicidal, it is my own personal Two Minutes Hate (actual time may vary). During my Two Minutes Hate, I am both the object of hate (Emmanuel Goldstein / Eastasia / Eurasia in the book), and I am the hater (The members of the Inner and Outer Party in the book). Just like Winston in the story, I find myself completely drawn into my Two Minutes Hate, and completely (irrationally) filled with feelings of rather frenzied loathing, pretty well against my will. I put myself down. I tell myself I'm a bad person, I deserve bad things to happen; that I deserve to die. I tell myself I'm a burden on others, and that if I died, it would be easier for them. I put myself down in all kinds of ways, internally screaming at myself just as rabidly as the Outer Party members scream at the picture of Goldstein during the Two Minutes Hate. Course, Goldstein in the book doesn't actually get to hear this stuff.. (lucky bastard) he's a picture on a telescreen. But in my own version of the Two Minutes Hate, I DO get to hear all this stuff, and so while part of me is yelling at me and hating me, the other half is crying, and feeling horribly hurt and afraid and pathetic. And from there, the whole thing spirals downwards at an alarmingly fast rate. IT IS A HORRIBLE FEELING. It is out-of-control, sheer irrational lunacy. It is fucking scary when it happens to you. I feel quite literally like I am no longer in control, completely stripped of rationality, filled only with raw, horrible emotion. I don't know if my experiences are anything like those of people who have committed suicide, but I do know that some people I know have thought this way also, and they found it just as scary as I did. I don't think that people who commit suicide are rational. I don't think they are thinking about the impact of things. I don't think they're seeing suicide as an "easy way out". If somebody is considering suicide, there is something very, very wrong, and they're not just being attention whores, pussies or whatever else. They need help, and they need all the support and friendship they can get. My $0.02 |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 452/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Originally posted by Ziffski Cheers for the welcome, I've been depressed two years and counting, but anyways. I was more trying to explain the complete out-of-control lunacy that I experience though, for those who have no idea at all. I have "thought" about suicide before, and "thinking" about suicide in my life has been a fairly benign experience. I think about it, I say "no" and I move on. What I was talking about was not "thinking" about suicide. It was something else entirely. I wonder how many other people go through that... and I wonder if that weird state gets the better of them. I'm pretty sure that there are people who have died that didn't "think" about suicide per se. We're lucky for those that get scared by that kind of thing and go commit themselves, in that way.... it must be really scary knowing that you're not safe from yourself. |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 453/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Might I also note the only time I have these little... "turns" is when I'm not medicated. In fact, it was the first one of these that frightened me enough to go to the doctor and talk about the way I was feeling. I had been on a cliff edge, with my car moments before. My car had been in gear, the handbrake was off, I was facing the ocean, there was nothing between me and the sea, there was nothing stopping me. Part way through driving to the edge, I freaked. I guess I "came to" of sorts, realised what I was doing, realised how fricken close I got, and I FREAKED. I slammed the brakes on (too fast, it stalled my shitty car engine) and I freaked out. Then I reversed, went home, and called the doctor. Later that day, I had a diagnosis of clinical depression, and a prescription for anti-depressants. When I'm medicated, I don't lose the plot like that. I feel down, sure I feel real down. But I don't have the temporary moments of insanity I described. I have to wonder, how many other people out there are undiagnosed, unmedicated, and feeling the kinds of things I felt? Even worse, how many of them don't get freaked out by it? Think it's normal? And because of that, don't get help even from friends, just let it get worse? I think mental illnesses have to play a big part in suicide. And I think that the attitudes that people have towards the mentally ill, and towards suicide itself, do not help. Telling somebody that they're "weak" for feeling a certain way is not the best way to go about things. But that's pretty much what society does to people who are suicidal -- it tells them that they're weak. They're selfish, they're wrong, they're going to hell. Do they really need that, and is perpetuating those ideas the best way to help people who feel that way? |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 454/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| That's the scary thing -- it IS easy to end your own life, it IS easy to get yourself into a state where you'll do it. I don't think there's any courage in doing it. I think it's bloody fucking scary -- but that's also after I freaking calm down. In the moment, it's anything but scary, it's like some bizarre evil adrenaline rush.... I just wish there were better ways of preventing people from getting into that state where they'd do something. Instead of calling people who feel that way "weak" and stuff, maybe asking them to talk to you about things might help. |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 455/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Originally posted by Apple And I hate when people make snide comments about other people and their depression, as if they know everything. I mentioned the two years cause I thought Ziff's welcome was well.... kinda late Eh, as for preventing suicide, I'm guessing it's damned near impossible when it gets to the irrational point.... but maybe not putting down people that're like that would help... I mean, if you think about it, going around calling people "weak" for feeling a certain way isn't good. You're not hurting the people who have already committed suicide by doing that -- but you're hurting those that may be feeling depressed and stuff. Rather than calling them weak, there has to be some other way to tackle it. (edited by ChibiTaryn on 10-12-04 12:43 AM) |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 456/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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You know, in some ways, two years depression *is* a little bit of a bragging right.  I haven't injured myself or anybody else seriously yet... That's good, right? (Sure, I tried to kill my boyfriend, but... he deserved it  ) And I broke some china, but see, that's fun to do when you're angry   |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 457/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Originally posted by Valentine Revolution On the note of cutting, I have never cut myself, I have never taken really to playing with knives. My thing seems to be heights, and vehicles. Like my example with the car -- driving a car off a high cliff, into the ocean. Standing on the roof of a city building. Peering over high railings, walking out in front of a bus. When I start feeling suicidal, the things that come to mind -- more or less flash into my mind -- are not knives. It's rooves, railings, buses, balconies, trains and cliff-faces. For whatever reason, my mind picks out things that are fast, violent, and (most likely) final. I don't want something to be final. I don't want to die. So I hope that I never *really* lose the plot, because I am terrified of what might happen if I do -- the way my suicidal mind works doesn't give me much room for second chances at living. |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 458/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Shock, Horror! "And next, the family outrage at McDonald's promotion, encouraging children to gamble" Lately, McDonalds have been having Neopets toys in Happy Meals in Australia. Now it shows up on the news today (or rather, the crappy sensationalist current affairs program after the news) the "horrifying" story of the "McDonalds" product teaching kids how to gamble -- complete with screenshots of the chance games on Neopets. (mmm... jub jub blackjack...) Basically, a bunch of Helen Lovejoy types are in outrage over the way McDonalds are corrupting their children (they don't seem to really get that Neopets is a seperate entity to McDonalds either...) OMG, they're all going to become addicted to gambling!! OMG, what ARE McDonalds teaching the children... the poor children.. won't SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!? There's a child psychiatrist that says that this is a surefire way to turn kids into gambling addicts. He says this is sanitising, normalising and glamorising gambling. And they're saying it's worse because it's coming from a "family friendly company like McDonalds." Now McDoanlds are talking about shutting down the gambling components of the website.... They kept displaying a McDonalds version of the website at points, so I wonder if it's a "special" Neopets website that will have the gambling shut down... or have there been changes to the canon Neopets site? Heh... |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 459/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Yeah, I've spoken to doctors, and I've spoken to friends. Unfortunately, a few of my friends have made it blatantly obvious that they don't seem to "approve" of me being depressed (like it was a decision I made, and I had a choice in the matter), and I've had a few fallings-out with friends too. That, of course, doesn't make things any better, but the friends that *have* been supportive are worth their weight in gold. And Legion -- *applauds* That's how I think most the time. And if I wasn't crazy from time to time, it'd be all the time too Whatever doesn't kill me only makes me stronger. |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 460/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Heh, I heard about this, I find it... interesting. I wonder how many people have been affected? There are exploits out in the wild already, a trojan one in particular, and I know people who have been infected. Well.... I guess the old saying about how "you can't get a virus just by looking at porn" is no longer true -- at least on the internet level. |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 461/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Bleh, I haven't listened to much new music for ages, and I'm starting to feel music-starved. I've gone through other threads on here looking for ideas, and downloaded a few things, but... I need more... MORE!!! And I'm sure you guys know of a bunch of really good music that I might be interested in... So, I was wondering, what kind of music would you recommend somebody else listen to right at the moment? My tastes are reasonably broad, but I am not a huge fan of hip-hop, nor am I particularly big on metal. I will listen to both of those, but generally I don't all that much. Stuff I've already downloaded on "recommendations" (other posts) on this forum include music by Modest Mouse, and Snow Patrol. And I enjoyed that stuff, it was good So, can anybody recommend any artists I should investigate right now? And if you can, can you recommend a song by them, that you think is their best song? I'll recommend one for you guys too. I recommend the John Butler Trio. They're an Australian band, I think from Perth, but I'm not sure. I don't know really how to describe it, other than it's Rock, with perhaps folksy or country influences. I recommend the song "Pickapart" from their album "Three". What music would you recommend for me? |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 462/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Haven't got it, and probably won't. Never liked windows media player particularly. I hear that DRM is more fully integrated in this version. Because, y'know... we can't be allowed to do what we like with our music and all.... |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 463/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Originally posted by MathOnNapkins Heh, well they should at least be teaching Blackjack, to reduce the number of sheer idiots at the table that mess up the whole thing.... |
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