Defending the NHS, like courtesy of king_josie.
"To us Brits, the NHS is like a son who is basically decent but you just wish would apply himself a bit more and try to live up to his proper potential, and you grounded him last week for coming home drunk and throwing up on the stairs. Naturally you call him every name under the sun, but if one of your neighbours lays a finger on him you’ll kick your neighbour’s ass."
I can't find a better description of my feelings than this.

Memory Alpha. How the hell did I not know about this?! And it has some of Janeway's coffee quotes! "Coffee: the finest organic suspension ever devised...I beat the Borg with it."

This Xena wiki has only been around for a couple of months. That's my excuse for not knowing about it. There isn't all that much in the way of articles yet but I'm sure there will be soon.

Protectors of the Plot Continuum, an organization dedicated to the extermination of badfic. How can you not love this? I found a link to this from an lj community that I stumbled over about a week ago(fanficrants) which I now read obsessively but refuse to join because the moderators come across as complete wankers :(

Living root bridges. I spent a while here utterly fascinated and just staring at the pictures. I'd never heard of this before
"The root bridges, some of which are over a hundred feet long, take ten to fifteen years to become fully functional, but they're extraordinarily strong - strong enough that some of them can support the weight of fifty or more people at a time."

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• Went to the pub to see Sam the day after her birthday, didn't stay for long though


• Going out with Sam and seventy million of her friends tonight to a Chinese restaurant. Should be good fun.


• Took my brother to London yesterday. Made him climb all 193 steps at Covent Garden because I really hate crowded lifts. Walked around Borough Market and Selfridges to. These were all places that he wanted to see. I love the markets and Covent Garden but I have never ventured near Oxford street of my own free will.


• Went to Southend today with the family, we didn't do much, just walking around. I had a nice time


• I desperately need a cheap bike. I really want to have one by then end of the week

If there is a desert (the sand kind) and there is a coastline with a sandy beach, where does the desert stop and the beach begin?

I found something mentioning drift lines but I think I need to research more on that subject...

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Remember everyone: if the handcuffs aren't fuzzy, you're a sick fuck who needs therapy.

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Awesome Geekery!



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubens%27_Tube

Stolen from pretty much eveywhere on the internet. I love the message, but as noone will be suprised to hear, I think the wording is wrong.

Men get raped too.

Women can be rapists.

It drives me nuts that everyone seems to forget that


If a woman is drunk, don't rape her.
If a woman is walking alone at night, don't rape her.
If a women is drugged and unconscious, don't rape her.
If a woman is wearing a short skirt, don't rape her.
If a woman is jogging in a park at 5 a.m., don't rape her.
If a woman looks like your ex-girlfriend you're still hung up on, don't rape her.
If a woman is asleep in her bed, don't rape her.
If a woman is asleep in your bed, don't rape her.
If a woman is doing her laundry, don't rape her.
If a woman is in a coma, don't rape her.
If a woman changes her mind in the middle of or about a particular activity, don't rape her.
If a woman has repeatedly refused a certain activity, don't rape her.
If a woman is not yet a woman, but a child, don't rape her.
If your girlfriend or wife is not in the mood, don't rape her.
If your step-daughter is watching TV, don't rape her.
If you break into a house and find a woman there, don't rape her.
If your friend thinks it's okay to rape someone, tell him it's not, and that he's not your friend.
If your "friend" tells you he raped someone, report him to the police.
If your frat-brother or another guy at the party tells you there's an unconscious woman upstairs and it's your turn, don't rape her, call the police and report him as a rapist.
Tell your sons, god-sons, nephews, grandsons, and sons of friends that it's not okay to rape someone.

Don't just tell your women friends how to be safe and avoid rape.
Don't imply that she could have avoided it if she'd only done/not done x,y or z.
Don't imply that it's in any way her fault.
Don't let silence imply agreement when someone tells you he "got some" with the drunk girl.
Don't perpetuate a culture that tells you that you have no control over or responsibility for your actions. You can, too, help yourself.

I read this post yesterday and it immediatly pissed me off. Not because it is wrong (it's not), but because it is missing so much.

"And I am sure that you, Guy Who Is Reading This, is That Guy. You're the guy who would never rape a girl passed out on your bed (who, for that matter, knows that such an act would be rape), or the woman in the village your battalion/troop/whatever is overrunning. You're the guy who wouldn't do such a thing even when his buddies were heckling him, telling him he's a fag and a pussy if he doesn't. Even more, you're the guy who would stop his frat brother from raping that girl, and get her home. You're the guy who would stop his comrades, or at least report them."

The problem I have is the words "That Guy".

In that entire post there is not a single mention of the duty women have to do the exact same thing.

How many times at parties do you see a drunk girl pass out? It's not uncommon. How many times do you see someone make sure that she is okay and ensure that she will be safe? Not nearly often enough.

Where are the guys who should be looking out for her? Where are the girls who should be looking out for her? I've seen way more concerned guys than girls

Even worse is when there are stories of girls waking up naked with no idea what happened. That is horrifying to most people but the stories of guys waking up naked with a candle shoved up their arse, now everyone thinks that is funny.

It shouldn't be.



How about having no actually mean no?

Again we blame men exclusively when the issue isn't nearly as simple. I had a friend who could be a complete idiot at times, and I'm sure there are thousands of other women like her out there. She was cheating on her bloke and to make herself feel less guilty she would say to whoever she was with "no, we really should stop". Stopping was the last thing she wanted to do and some guys would then refuse to continue. She'd spend hours complaining about that the next day.

For that matter, can we please try saying no when we don't want to do something? And FFS stop initiating sex just because you think it is expected!



Walking home alone. It's a bad idea.

Be willing to walk a little out of your way to see your friends home safely. Pretty much what you always hear that men should do. If you are alone then don't take that shortcut through the dark alley or through the woods, stick to well lit streets.



Look out for your friends and even total strangers in the same way you would hope they would look out for you.

Don't go to a party where you don't know anyone and drink too much

Let people know where you are

Don't let your friend go home with this guy/girl she just met without getting an address

It's all things that should be common sense, so why aren't people doing it?



No. Men are not fundamentally entitled to women's bodies. Everyone needs to remember this, both men and women. There is a problem with a society that lets some people not realise this and it is up to everyone, both male and female, to put this right.



Guys, even if one woman said no and then begged you to continue because she didn't mean it, it does not mean you should ever ignore it in the future.

If you see someone in trouble then HELP THEM! If it looks like a girl is getting unwanted attention then at the very least check she is okay.

If you are in a group and someone suggests taking advantage of a woman then don't hesitate to be the first to object. You are not a coward for not wanting to, you are a hero for stopping it. Group mentality is a dangerous thing, object before everyone starts agreeing and the person who suggested it will look like the arsehole he is.

If you need to do more than verbally object, do it. If you need to call the police, do it.

All those things you hear about what a gentleman should do? Those are the things any decent person should do. Walk girls home, wait with them for taxis.

You really need a reason other than it being the right thing to do? Respect. Girls will respect you, guys will respect you and most importantly, you can respect yourself.



As always, saying something like this will probably piss people off. Some people equate saying that women should do something to reduce the risk with believing that women who are sexually assulted in any way somehow deserve it. That is NEVER the case. But I feel these points have to be made

University is hard. We work 20 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 2 weeks a year.

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I have my tickets booked for Christams!!!!!!

I'm dressed from head to toe in girls clothes.

This is weird