Dear LJ, why will you not post my things? Why? WHY???

[changeling]

I may or may not have just baited a reader on my sister's LJ. Slightly.

We were just watching A Current Affair (now with 95% recycled content!). They're doing a segment on how food additives are bad for you, but getting people historically known to be allergic to food additives, and getting them to eat food with them.
Um.
Is it just me, or is this not exactly gonzo journalism at its finest?

I have been reading the Acts of Gord. They are good. Go forth and savour.

As Theresa says, Sumer is icumen in ...

lucylou does exceptional art

Hi! my name is Kasandra, it is the best name in the world, you all should name your babie girls that! I am a greek goddess, i see the future but no one listens to me!
---Kasandra [sic]

(What the fucking shit?)

Brittany after the statue- Brittania
'Cause nothing in, say, France is called Britanny. Nothing big like a province. Nothing else in England called Britannia, either. Nothing big like...England.
Their hatred of this particular woman is the only thing England and France have agreed on since 1066.

From here
Man, and I thought I was bad for wanting to name a child "Laudanum". At least I can spell. And have no plans to have children. Fer crying out loud, one of these women wants to call her child "Heaven Starr". That's Starr with two Rs. Because she's a unique and beautiful snowflake. Some other woman is convinced that "Charity" is pronounced "CHAIR-it-ee". The OED calls you a liar, sweetheart.

Ooh! Ooh! This is one of my favourites:

I like the name Jayden for a girl and Jaden for a boy. I'm also thinking of other bisexual names.
Try taking out a personal ad in the adult weekly.

Comments

[spirail.livejournal.com]

gord rocks

no... im not reading!!!

look! a mispelled diverstion!

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

You ought to. I read the entire site yesterday. V. funny stuff.

[aphephobia.livejournal.com]

Laudanum I LOVE IT!!!

People think "Maldoror" is weird and wrong. I think Shanae and such is wrong, as do I have issues with people making Is Ys and stuff just so their kid has an "exotic" name.

You should see some of the rippers I've encountered on a certain parenting site. If I see one more person think Madison and MacKenzie are exotic and original, I think I'm going to be tempted to fulfill my homocidal urges somewhere fun and inappropriate. I'm sure there's a proverb in some culture that says, "You're only as cool as what you name your children." Thus my opinion that most Australians are fucking morons.

A friend here found a baby name site where... wait for it... Vulva-Mae was seriously listed as a name. I guess that wouldn't be accepted out here because anything "indecent" isn't acceptable. (I remember filling out the governmental paperwork for after Lewis was born... it's a surreal experience...)

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there's a proverb in some culture that says, "You're only as cool as what you name your children." Thus my opinion that most Australians are fucking morons.
Frankly I think the Americans are way ahead of us on that.

I was standing behind a woman in a queue the other day, and I swear I heard her call her child "LAH-bia".

According to that site (you should read it, it's classic), "Madison" means "Maud's son". As they say, "What a perfect name for a girl." The one that gets me is "Jameson". James's son. For a girl. Are these people retarded?

[aphephobia.livejournal.com]

Frankly I think the Americans are way ahead of us on that.

Yeah, but we're copying them... I think that's dumber. Rather than pointing and laughing at their mainstream idiocy, we're going, "Hey, this is a plan!"


Okay, here come some politically incorrect comments from me...

It's my strong belief that most mothers get shot up with some IQ-lowering drug- or they get a lobotomy- after giving birth. This explains why they think the world outside the mothering realm is non-existant, why they get convinced that raising children/having sex with a husband/cooking/cleaning/[insert "women's work" here is biologically driven]; why they vote for John Howard and why they think nothing's wrong with the world. And why they can't spell properly or use decent punctuation on the internet.

My Aussie HP friends can spell and can think for themselves. By and large they aren't parents. My Aussie geek friends can spell and think for themselves. They also tend to be child-less/free.

The Aussie mothers online? They're turning me into an even bigger cynic and intellectual snob.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

My mother has two degrees and is studying part-time towards some sort of new thingie at Monash Uni.

I can't help but wonder whether some of it is a reaction against feminism. I don't know. Anyway, think of pegkerr! And light_music! Granted, they're not Aussies, but they are mothers.

I think some of the mothers who are "stupid" are not stupid because they are mothers, but rather the other way around. Not that becoming a mother is stupid, but they don't have many other career prospects or goals.

[aphephobia.livejournal.com]

D00d... our parents were a different generation... and what's to say they're not "weird?" It's my experience that most parents are really... not like your Mum.

D00d... most of my Flist are US mamapeople. I'm honestly wondering if I'd be better off in the US... *sighs* At least I know there are other people with brainage over there.

I'm wondering, too- it's a chicken and egg thing. The scary thing is that the people I know who AREN'T stupid and who are Aussies tend not to have kids, and the most aggravatingly annoying DO have kids. And... in all honesty... right now I don't know WHAT I want to do with my life. I have a few ideas about what I don't want to do, but... if I had any clear and feasible ideas, I wouldn't be seeing a careers counsellor... ;) From talking to- and seeing- some of those folk, I don't think it's an ambition thing... I truly think it's just stupidity. (I mean... Crabbe and Goyle were Slytherins, weren't they!?! *G*)