Cloud 9 Resort - OOC and IC chat welcome

[dragonrazor]

*shocked inhalation!!* "Shhh! My iphone will hear you! Its the love of my life!!!! Not a fan of the Macs though! Here they arn't overly popular. Mainly cos if you need something done support is miles and days away!!!

Plus the cost an arm and a leg vis a vis a pc!!

But I do love my iphone, despite the fact its tied to one network here, and I cant get a signal in my house!! All the other networks work fine, just the signal for my provider is much weaker, and my house has loads of concrete and steel in in and concrete floors and two foot wide walls, so no signal, except for holding it agianst one upstairs window!!!!

fact one. The very definition of PC includes the Mac. There is no Mac Vs PC Argument, because the Mac is a Personal Computer. Fact 2. Apple is idiotic for using proprietary anything (same as Sony and their failing flagship that's only failing because no one else is making the majority of the components it uses)

 

[chronicle_tenko]

Teach English Literature!!

"Those who can do! Those who cannot, teach!!"
apologies to all the teachers out there!

Eh I've heard it before, It's the big running joke in the class I teach for self defense.

 

[sallythescorpian]

fact one. The very definition of PC includes the Mac. There is no Mac Vs PC Argument, because the Mac is a Personal Computer. Fact 2. Apple is idiotic for using proprietary anything (same as Sony and their failing flagship that's only failing because no one else is making the majority of the components it uses)

Nothing can spoil my love of my Iphone! Similarly we have 3 desk tops and 5 lap tops in our house, and I bought them all. Macs might be great, but as I said, we have v limited support for them here, and they are like 3 times the price, so not a runner!!!

Sorry Razor!

The lady is not for turning!

(that quote being from Margaret Thatcher, British PM about 15 years ago, re internment of political prisioners during the Irish hunger strikes- but its a good quote, so ill use it)

 

[dragonrazor]

lol. I'm not a fan of Macs myself, as I'm a gamer. The only thing they're really good for until they get better third party hardware (IE, graphics cards) is the internet and data processing.

 

[thelittledeadgirl]

"Ultimate self defense mechanism!!! Can of flammable spray plus zippo or other good lighter.... muahahahahahaha! Oh the memories of blazing clothes and faces. Also real good advice, tear of peices!!!!! people don't like to fight anymore when they're in pieces especially in the facial region....

Oh! My favorite impromptu weaponry includes bike-lock-on-chain, railroad spikes, any long stick that's sturdy and balanced-ish, belt buckle, and of course, handy-dandy fire axes! I love self defense, any time someone's dumb enough to give me an excuse!!!"

(Sorry chronicle_tenko, you prompted happy-fun time memories and I went on a ramble)

 

[dragonrazor]

"Ultimate self defense mechanism!!! Can of flammable spray plus zippo or other good lighter.... muahahahahahaha! Oh the memories of blazing clothes and faces. Also real good advice, tear of peices!!!!! people don't like to fight anymore when they're in pieces especially in the facial region....

Oh! My favorite impromptu weaponry includes bike-lock-on-chain, railroad spikes, any long stick that's sturdy and balanced-ish, belt buckle, and of course, handy-dandy fire axes! I love self defense, any time someone's dumb enough to give me an excuse!!!"

(Sorry chronicle_tenko, you prompted happy-fun time memories and I went on a ramble)

my favorite is a pillow mainly because most people have no clue that you can die from a pillow.

 

[thelittledeadgirl]

"Pillow with brick in case?!? down pillow with feathers bunched up in bottom?!?

AHA!!! Pillow stuffed with porcupines!!!! AND Rabid Badgers!!!!!!!!

Keh heh heh heh heh! Fear the badger!!!!!!"

She reaches an arm around her neck and grabs ahold of herself. giving herself a firm shake, she gets on track and involved in computer discussions.

"So, um, yeah.... I'm just happy mine works.... it came from the curb."

 

[chronicle_tenko]

"Ultimate self defense mechanism!!! Can of flammable spray plus zippo or other good lighter.... muahahahahahaha! Oh the memories of blazing clothes and faces. Also real good advice, tear of peices!!!!! people don't like to fight anymore when they're in pieces especially in the facial region....

Oh! My favorite impromptu weaponry includes bike-lock-on-chain, railroad spikes, any long stick that's sturdy and balanced-ish, belt buckle, and of course, handy-dandy fire axes! I love self defense, any time someone's dumb enough to give me an excuse!!!"

(Sorry chronicle_tenko, you prompted happy-fun time memories and I went on a ramble)

That's fine, I teach actual self defense for actual women who've been hurt before, and I do it at charity. (Meaning I make nothing). so far it works well, and yes I do teach about your belt, but most women don't carry around other things like that. *Eyes the dead girl warily*

my favorite is a pillow mainly because most people have no clue that you can die from a pillow.

You mean smothering? Pretty sure anyone who's seen 'one flew over the cuckoo's nest' knew that one.

 

[dragonrazor]

That's fine, I teach actual self defense for actual women who've been hurt before, and I do it at charity. (Meaning I make nothing). so far it works well, and yes I do teach about your belt, but most women don't carry around other things like that. *Eyes the dead girl warily*



You mean smothering? Pretty sure anyone who's seen 'one flew over the cuckoo's nest' knew that one.

try telling that to the state of Iowa, who defines a Dangerous Weapon as anything that could conceivably be used to kill someone. Remember when I got arrested in 2003? I was charged with Assault While Displaying a Dangerous Weapon for carrying a FAKE sword to my mother's house. Anyone else think there's something wrong with even considering the concept of "While displaying"?

According to what they did to me, EVERYONE ON THE PLANET needs to be arrested and charged with that crime, including the cops. Because literally EVERYTHING we use in our daily lives qualifies under that definition.

 

[thelittledeadgirl]

(Replying to chronicle_tenko's assertation that most women don't carry things like that)

"Yes they do! Hairspray plus lighter equals instant rape, robbery and assault deterrent! Also the perfumes, they burn with such pretty colours, but they don't have the hold-down nozzle you really want. Hairspray and bug-spray work though!"

Edit: feeling the need to explain further... "Yeah I told the other Nursing students most of this in college because our section on safety was so pathetic."

 

[sallythescorpian]

Self defence is really important. In my job, I am often in quite high risk circumstances. I've learnt Judo, Karate, Tae Kwon Do and Kick Boxing, at different points. I'd be reasonably confident of being able to at least secure a nice bit of DNA before I shuffled off this mortal coil.

Of course the best defence, is to avoid the danger (in so far as possible) in the first place and Im a real big fan of that approach. No matter what, at five foot three, if some guy 6' plus attacks me, I aint gonna win!! Physics and all that!!

And we dont have guns, not even the cops!

 

[thelittledeadgirl]

try telling that to the state of Iowa, who defines a Dangerous Weapon as anything that could conceivably be used to kill someone. Remember when I got arrested in 2003? I was charged with Assault While Displaying a Dangerous Weapon for carrying a FAKE sword to my mother's house. Anyone else think there's something wrong with even considering the concept of "While displaying"?

According to what they did to me, EVERYONE ON THE PLANET needs to be arrested and charged with that crime, including the cops. Because literally EVERYTHING we use in our daily lives qualifies under that definition.

"Jesus tittyfucking christ! Really?!? Here in Ontario, Canada, we can carry a real 3 foot katana(example) if we really want to as long as it isn't concealed and as long as it's peace-bonded, meaning it can't be quickdrawn. Wierd the way it is in Iowa.... has somewhere in Iowa been robbed at airsoft riflepoint or something?"

 

[sallythescorpian]

(Replying to chronicle_tenko's assertation that most women don't carry things like that)

"Yes they do! Hairspray plus lighter equals instant rape, robbery and assault deterrent! Also the perfumes, they burn with such pretty colours, but they don't have the hold-down nozzle you really want. Hairspray and bug-spray work though!"

Edit: feeling the need to explain further... "Yeah I told the other Nursing students most of this in college because our section on safety was so pathetic."

that works a charm. Instant flame thrower. At one point, before I was with my husband, I shared a house with a number of girls, all of whom were moving out at the end of college, except me, and we had a stalker with a knife. I had the place locked up like fort knox, slept fully clothed and had lighter and hairspray at the ready. Eventually I just asked my boyfired to stay every night till someone moved in!!!!

 

[dragonrazor]

by law, so can we in the US. The Constitution guarantees us the right to defend ourselves in whatever way we see fit, and no one can LEGALLY tell us otherwise unless we've committed a crime with it. But our country has a rather odd thing. The states are allowed a certain level of autonomy. Legally, this only applies so far as it doesn't countermand or violate a federal law. In practice, however, 90 percent of the laws in every state in the country are in one way or another a violation of federal law. It's why the government is slowly working it's way across the country and bagging corrupt cops.

 

[sallythescorpian]

"Jesus tittyfucking christ! Really?!? Here in Ontario, Canada, we can carry a real 3 foot katana(example) if we really want to as long as it isn't concealed and as long as it's peace-bonded, meaning it can't be quickdrawn. Wierd the way it is in Iowa.... has somewhere in Iowa been robbed at airsoft riflepoint or something?"

In ireland, someone had been robbing and beating up elderly people in a remote area. They went for one guy in his late 70s and he fired his shot gun and killed the guy (who had over 100 prev convictions for GBH/ Robbery etc) The old guy got prison!!!

Here you can ask the robber to leave nicely and hope you dont offend him. Thats about the extent of homeonwer rights!

 

[thelittledeadgirl]

"Best one I've found is wasp/hornet nest killer sprays. you can get a good 15 meter jet of fire coming out the end of one of those cans! Funny thing though, I'd never use one of those cans for its intended purpose... what's a wasp or a hornet ever done to me? Humans though are a different story... and I learned long ago to only trust me to defend myself because most people are weak."

 

[thelittledeadgirl]

by law, so can we in the US. The Constitution guarantees us the right to defend ourselves in whatever way we see fit, and no one can LEGALLY tell us otherwise unless we've committed a crime with it. But our country has a rather odd thing. The states are allowed a certain level of autonomy. Legally, this only applies so far as it doesn't countermand or violate a federal law. In practice, however, 90 percent of the laws in every state in the country are in one way or another a violation of federal law. It's why the government is slowly working it's way across the country and bagging corrupt cops.

I'm sorry dragonrazor, you've prompted my recitation of wierd laws in the states.

*Clears throat*

In the quiet town of Connorsville, Wisconsin, it's illegal for a man to shoot off a gun when his female partner has an orgasm.

It's against the law in Willowdale, Oregon, for a husband to curse during sex.

In Oblong, Illinois, it's punishable by law to make love while hunting or fishing on your wedding day.

No man is allowed to make love to his wife with the smell of garlic, onions, or sardines on his breath in Alexandria, Minnesota. If his wife so requests, law mandates that he must brush his teeth.

Bozeman, Montana, has a law that bans all sexual activity between members of the opposite sex in the front yard of a home after sundown- if they're nude. (Apparently, if you wear socks, you're safe from the law!)

In hotels in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, every room is required to have twin beds. And the beds must always be a minimum of two feet apart when a couple rents a room for only one night. And it's illegal to make love on the floor between the beds!

The owner of every hotel in Hastings, Nebraska, is required to provide each guest with a clean and pressed nightshirt. No couple, even if they are married, may sleep together in the nude. Nor may they have sex unless they are wearing one of these clean, white cotton nightshirts.

An ordinance in Newcastle, Wyoming, specifically bans couples from having sex while standing inside a store's walk-in-meat freezer!

A state law in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts.

In Norfolk, Virginia, a woman can't go out without wearing a corset. (There was a civil-service job- for men only- called a corset inspector.)

However, in Merryville, Missouri, women are prohibited from wearing corsets because "the privilege of admiring the curvaceous, unencumbered body of a young woman should not be denied to the normal, red-blooded American male."

It's safe to make love while parked in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Police officers aren't allowed to walk up and knock on the window. Any suspicious officer who thinks that sex is taking place must drive up from behind, honk his horn three times and wait proximately two minutes before getting out of his car to investigate.

Another law in Helena, Montana, mandates that a woman can't dance on a table in a saloon or bar unless she has on at least three pounds, two ounces of clothing.

Lovers in Liberty Corner, New Jersey, should avoid satisfying their lustful urges in a parked car. If the horn accidentally sounds while they are frolicking behind the wheel, the couple can face a jail term.

In Carlsbad, New Mexico, it's legal for couples to have sex in a parked vehicle during their lunch break from work, as long as the car or van has drawn curtains to stop strangers from peeking in.

A Florida sex law: If you're a single, divorced, or widowed woman, you can't parachute on Sunday afternoons.

Women aren't allowed to wear patent-leather shoes in Cleveland, Ohio- a man might see the reflection of something "he oughtn't!"

No woman may have sex with a man while riding in an ambulance within the boundaries of Tremonton, Utah. If caught, the woman can be charged with a sexual misdemeanor and "her name is to be published in the local newspaper." The man isn't charged nor is his name revealed.

In Virginia, you can't have sex during the daytime, with a light on, or with socks on.

In Rohnert Park, California, it is illegal for a women to have sex with a cow, but it is legal for a couple to have a threesome including the cow.

In Oklahoma, it is illegal to have oral sex.

Mostly swiped from: http://www.turoks.net/Cabana/StupidSexLaws.htm

So are any of these still true to this day as far as you know?

 

[chronicle_tenko]

Used top live in Toronto, and I agree your weird ass states laws are strange.

It's a little different here, i would have to convince the police that a man entering my home was killed by my girlfriend because I (being registered) can't claim self defense unless it's in defense of my life with reasonable emotional levels to say I was in terror.

And kickboxing is good. what federation did you learn? And was it kick boxing or Muay Thai, I went to Thailand for six months to learn, met Benny the Jet. It was really cool.

 

[dragonrazor]

most of them are, but only because everyone's forgotten they exist. It's illegal to spit in front of a woman OR A HORSE in Dubuque Iowa.

 

[thelittledeadgirl]

*stunned expression on her face*

"A horse?!?"

 

[dragonrazor]

*stunned expression on her face*

"A horse?!?"

that was my response too. I don't even want to imagine the laws in East Dubuque, Illinois, where I now reside.

 

[thelittledeadgirl]

that was my response too. I don't even want to imagine the laws in East Dubuque, Illinois, where I now reside.

I'm doing a search for them now...

 

[dragonrazor]

and like I said. Most of these laws actually still exist, solely because no one remembers they existed in the first place.

 

[chronicle_tenko]

(Replying to chronicle_tenko's assertation that most women don't carry things like that)

"Yes they do! Hairspray plus lighter equals instant rape, robbery and assault deterrent! Also the perfumes, they burn with such pretty colours, but they don't have the hold-down nozzle you really want. Hairspray and bug-spray work though!"

Edit: feeling the need to explain further... "Yeah I told the other Nursing students most of this in college because our section on safety was so pathetic."

Hairspray and Lighter yes. Or mace or bearspray and a number of other things.

But most women don't walk around with a railroad spike or a fire ax. The bike lock on a chain is possible, but again rarer. This was my point. But i agree women should defend themselves. I'm a fan of a number of Very wierd laws and I support Penn Jillette's Pinky gun law mostly for fun.

Every 16 year old woman in the world should be issued and given a week of training with a Pink handgun with Pink shells. Now even if only a 1/3 of women use the pinky. That would cut down on violent crime against women. Cause most people (men and women) would think twice about there is a one in three chance this bitch could shoot me.

Mind you i assume that there would be A LOT more shooting incidents because of this so maybe not the most practical Idea but I agree with it in spirit.

 

[sallythescorpian]

I'm gonna have to go for a little bit . Grub up time in my house ! I'd say there plenty for everyone !! It's like feeding the five thousand!!!

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