Sumpta

Ugh, Twilight. During my last visit to London, I bought the books, devourer of all books that I am and easily fascinated as I get by hypes (Harry Potter, anyone?). And I need help. Seriously. I have an obsessive love-hate relationship with these books. I simply hate how badly they are written, I want to tear my eyes out at the awful editing, I hate the plot, I hate the flagrant copying of Austen, Shakespeare and Brontë (No, Meyer, you are not them, never ever ever will be), I hate Bella's stupidity and Edward's condescending over-protective crap. I laugh out loud when I'm really supposed to cry and vice versa and as much as I am against burning books, every single copy of Breaking Dawn deserves to be turned into a pile of ashes. BUT. I. CAN'T. STOP. READING. Gah! The film has the same awful effect on me. I giggled a lot when the actor tried to look all depressed and woeful (Look at meeeee, I'm torn! Torn, I tell you!). I had to clutch my sides during the fighting scenes. Oh, and the sparkling scene! But to be fair, this is a film I love to hate. Robert Pattison's damned and cursed crooked smile has me sighing and swooning like an idiot. And as far as book adaptations goes, Twilight is very very true to the original. A pretty "perfect" book-screen adaptation, actually. By the way, I have a university degree in English literature... and I even wrote my thesis paper on vampire literature/culture... I really should know better. *Hangs her head in shame*.

Haven't read all the posts here, but why is sex considered bad? Well, is it really considered bad? In any case, sex changes everything. It's all-consuming, it's very powerful, it's about control, power, love, reproduction, violence, passion, loss of reason and so on. No wonder the christian faith, which is all about restraint, likes to caution against it and tries to narrow it down to love and reproduction. Sex can be a god too, easily. In part, I think our resistance to sex is ingrained in ourselves, rather than part of a religious feeling. We like to think we are rational creatures, so we rationalise sex.

Oh God. Why? Why do I return to TIF to have Shakespeare as the second topic to see? Anyway. Midsummer Night's Dream is brilliant. I prefer the comedies to the tragedies. In any case, the important thing about his plays is... Well... that they're plays. Reading them is really nothing to playing them or seeing them. Many of his characters are an actor's wet dream, because they're so well drawn, so deep and the text so lyrical and well, textured, if that's a word. Lady Macbeth, oh my god, love!

Hmm, in answer to the original question. Sumpta on TIF = Sumpta is a bit bored at work.

INFJ, as always, when I take the Myers Briggs test.

Well, when you're called weird your whole life, you start to believe it. Well, I'm sorry, but that's rather silly of you. For those among you who seem to think I'm the average person and cannot possibly understand your ways of difference, I've been called different/weird/strange all my life for a specific number of reasons I'm not going to expand on now. That doesn't actually mean that I am that different. To be able to tell if you're different, you have to be able to define yourself. You can define yourself in so many ways, that anybody can prove both things, that he's different or that he's mainstream. We definitely haven't agreed on a definition here, so saying you're different is meaningless to me. Or: saying that you're different, means that you compare yourself to something else. When you compare, you relate and relativate, and in doing that, you destroy the concept of uniqueness (is that a word?). Well, don't know if that's very clear, but no matter.

I love how full TIF'ers can be of themselves. Nobody's really that different. Human = human = human. There aren't many variations to the theme. At high school, it often feels that way, because you move in rather small circles of people who differ largely in intelligence, interests,... Most of the people around you are still growing up and developping their personalities. It becomes important to have a norm and to stick to that norm and if you don't stick to it, you're different. Some start wearing this difference as a label to distinguish themselves, but you're just fooling yourself. As you grow older, and move in specific circles (e.g. studies, job,...) you'll meet similar people, the differences fade and you'll find that the average isn't removed from you that exceedingly far.

Don't straight girls also have sleepovers for girls only? Doesn't mean they're organising some secret mass lesbian sex romp... Oh, lesbian spank inferno!

1) You can't make anyone love you. 2) What she said was pretty harsh and manipulative, in my humble opinion. Teenage girls/girls starting to date, having relationships etc can be very very cruel, even the sweet, nice and principled girls. -> first she tells you that there's this guy she would have dated if he'd lived closer -> then she tells you she doesn't love you... but don't consider dumping her for it, because *tadaa, let's pull out the magic word to see how far he's willing to go* NOT YET. So basically: don't expect anything from me now, but I might someday love you. I'm not saying there are no chances for the two of you, but be weary. Be very weary. By admitting you love her, and she saying she doesn't, there's inequality. And where there's inequality, there's a struggle for power. This is the kind of girl who can make you hurt so badly that you'll behave like a jerk to all the other women in your future.

I do toadflax, but then again, I don't care a jot about the experience.

What really annoys me is that people mix up the terms "grammar" and "spelling" far too easily. It makes you look like an idiot, so I'll condescend to give you all a short language lesson. Grammar: the language system Spelling: the set of rules made by linguists on how to write. Grammar is inherent to a language and it evolves gradually. It defines how we link up sounds and attribute meaning to them, how we form sentences and so on. In fact, grammar reflects the way we think and the way we put those thoughts into language. Linguists can write grammar guidelines, but they are descriptive. On does not 'make' a grammar. Grammar evolves naturally in the spoken language. Spelling is nothing more than some rules, usually made by linguists and written down in prescriptive guides to make sure that we all write the same. Written language is completely secondary to spoken language, which was there first. Spelling is usually looked down upon by linguists, because it's only important to make sure we understand each other when we communicate through written language. Spelling can change without changing anything about the language system itself. Spelling is important on a forum simply because we communicate through the written word, and through the written word only. The less the spelling mistakes, the better we understand each other.

I'm a woman and I don't understand women either. I much prefer the company of men. Well, it depends. In a one on one conversation, I prefer a man. My friendships with women are often doomed, ending in hysteria and extremely silly and personal accusations by the by then nearly ex-friend. Men are much more down to earth and don't put huge expectations on you. It's okay if you don't phone them for a few weeks, it's okay to make a stupid joke and you know he won't be thinking he's prettier or more attractive. Much more relax, really. In a group, I still prefer other women, simply because men can be such idiots when you put them together, especially when there's a female around.

I'd love to answer that one. Can everybody pay attention here? Yes? Yes, you too, in the back. Thank you. My hair's very lovely today, don't you think? Oh, wait, I was going to answer this question, wasn't I? Silly Sumpta (yes, that's me!!). ... That there's far too many of them, narcissists, that is -.-.

I'm experiencing a déjà-vu, we all are, I guess. I too joined this forum after feeling completely cut off from the RS society, liking the game, but hating the players in it. I think many people join this forum after having been called "noob" once too often. Just stick around here, read the help forum and the archive of wisdom and post your questions here. You'll learn loads and find out that there are plenty of helpful players as well.

What kind of a complaint is that :S My name being too "immature" Sorry but I didn't know you had to not swear/have a proper name to become part of your "mature" group :roll: If that's your logic I would rather not follow it because I find that... well pathetic to say the least. Swearing is against the rules of this forum, a forum that also likes to endorse Jagex' rules. Inappropriate nicknames are frowned upon by the community and there's really no reason to call this attitude pathetic, as your taking part in this forum indicates a modicum of desire to be part of that very community. Personally, I couldn't care less if you change your name or not, but your name does create a certain impression. ^ Yeah that would be good, just like MM. Especially if they made it very costly. I'm just trying to imagine the rants: "omg I paid 75k to have my TT clue solved and all I got was a rune full".

Yeah, you need full worlds, which means that you can get fierce competition. All the miners go to full worlds. I usually have most luck with W2 :.

In my days at school, and that's a while ago, but not exactly ages either, you were obliged to write in cursive. I don't really know how to write in print... and in cursive has a lot more style and personality, I think. Then again, I hardly ever write anything by hand anymore. Only shopping lists and the sort. Resumes, CV's and letters should always be typed, unless expressly asked otherwise in the ad.

Nearly all slayer monsters have worthwhile alchables. In theory, everything above the cost of a nature is. You could also bring the explorer ring for free (low) alchs for lesser drops but maximum mage training. Also good for a few run recharges for distant locations.

Because America feels that they need/have a say in every country of the world's politics. The person you choose as your president, will have quite a bit to say about things that concern me too, even though I'm seperated by an ocean from your country. Kinda ironic too, given they spent so much of their time stopping Hillary from becoming the first female president. Yeah. Now it was suddenly important to have a female as a leader?

this. No. You have to pay ores to bank and still have to run too far. Those ores you lose add up when you're mining a lot of them. Best way is crafting guild or that mine on the Fisher King Island.

Agree big time on #2. I'm 99 slayer, got it quite a while ago now, when Bandos was brand new and piety was for monster hunting instead of everyday slayer experience. I'm actually getting nervous about re-entering the slayer grounds (going to once I've achieved some other goals). Heaven forbid I wear the 'wrong' gear or don't piety! For some mysterious reason, there are plenty of people out there these days who assume there's only one good way of trainer slayer, namely with efficiency maximized to the absurd. I guess there's just too many people desperate for that cape?

LOL no i dont JUST want to train F2P skill, i just have certain goals i wish to accomplish before the year is over. I'm going to be annoying and post something which isn't an answer to your questions: chances are, once you discover the members' skills, that those goals are going to shift big time. When I became a member, I was so mesmerised by the new skills that I forgot all about the f2p ones for months.

Also, if there's some minigames you've never tried out, do them. Takes a minimum of time: you just enter and leave, and usually unlock at least one song, often more... though you risk not making yourself popular by hopping in and out :.

[hide=Quote thread concerning poverty] No, but a vast majority were already born privileged. I came from an average family...slightly higher than average actually (dad makes $80,000 atm but he's a Federal employee). I am working for it, but you have to remember that I was still given opportunities that the average American is not. The average household in America makes $45,000 a year, and I'd say it's a lot lower than that simply because of the richest 5% owning more than HALF of the wealth, and 20% own over 80% of the wealth. So really, just because Bill Gates walks into a bar, not everyone is a millionaire simply because he makes billions to average everyone else out. I hope you understand what I meant by that. However, I was privileged. I didn't have to drop out of high school, and get a job, just to help my parents pay the bills. I didn't get a teenage woman pregnant, while not having received proper sexual education to know about the consequences. I didn't grow up in poverty. I didn't go to a [cabbage] high school. I was given many opportunities that I didn't work for, that many others are not given. And even I am struggling. Obama wants to raise the tax rates to LESS than that of Clinton. How is that out of hand? We had a surplus during the Clinton years, and there was a less wage gap. America currently has wage gaps worse than countries like Kenya, according to the United Nations (at least that's what we're approaching). Don't you see a problem here? The thing is, as hard as some people might work and try, it doesn't guarantee prosperity. That is the lie that is the American Dream: few live it. I'm not saying it's impossible to stay poor, but it usually is. Poor people are generally poor, because they made bad decisions, I'm not saying they were risky, but generall bad. But I wonder, how do so many poor people rise up to be rich? Simple, the gap is less existant then you guys would like to realize. I mean, it would take a lot of hard work, but it's been done before. Exactly, it's like those people who have ten children and point the finger on Bush for making them poor. There will always be extremely rich and extremely poor people. There's really no way around that, it's the way it's always been. [/hide] I cannot believe the simplicity of the things I have read here. You guys really have got to wake up out of this American Dream. There is inequality, there are people who have fewer chances, and it is downright unethical to say "oh, too bad, let them work it out for theirselves, we will always have poor people anyways, hehe". I have no words for people who feel that if people can't pull themselves out of the swamp, they should simply die. Even if being poor had anything to do with bad decisions, which it usually does NOT, how dare any of you condemn people for them? Can you yourselves swear you'll never make a mistake, never have something awful happen to you? You cannot. The way I understand it, and correct me if I'm wrong, the social net in America is so non-existant that even a fairly well to do family can fall into abject poverty simply by having a few blows dealt to them by fate (falling ill, having an accident, losing a job/house,...). Oh, or is it the wrath of God that they probably deserve anyway? Let alone how difficult it is for those who were born in poverty. I don't understand how knowing about poverty and seeing poverty can leave anybody cold to it, as long as their own income is safe. In Belgium, we all pay heavy taxes on our wages, I as a civil servant even more than 50%. I am still rather well to-do with what remains of it. And I know that if I fall ill, I'll be protected. I know that when something happens to my only parent, it won't throw me in financial problems. If I lose my job, there'll be services to help me through the jobless months and to help me find a new job. When my employer treats me wrong, I have services to give me legal aid. Should I one day, heaven forbid, come into poverty, there'll be services to provide me with a minimal income to survive. These are my rights, here, and I am very glad to have them and to know that other people can benefit from them, even if it means paying taxes.

He isn't nationalising the means of production, or the distribution of land. If anything the bail out was closer to socialism than anything Obama is advocating. Taxing the wealthy more to pay for improvements to those less fortunate is the cornerstone of most tax systems. All governments redistribute wealth in one way or another, Bush gave to the wealthy and hoped it would trickle down, Obama is building from the bottom. America will still be a capitalist nation. Bingo. This. Capitalist free market >< socialism. At most, you could call Obama an American Socialst, and even at that, I'm sure there are finer examples available. I don't get it. What's scary about redistributing the wealth if it's going to be done by taxing the rich more than the poor? It's not like he's going to pull up a small army of civil servants knocking on people's doors to remove their secret stashes of money to hand them out to the poor, is it? I think it's high time the US pulls together some form of social security. It can be done, has been done by many countries before, without invading anybody's liberty or damaging their standard of life. Quite the contrary.