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[~His Kitten~]

Also, besides fly strips, what's a good way to get rid of annoying gnat/fly thingies?

I can personally recommend frebeeze, hair spray and/or lysol.

 

[VandalHeart]

Dear Vandal,

Is there a reason you aren't answering the other question about which came first?


Also, besides fly strips, what's a good way to get rid of annoying gnat/fly thingies?

To the first, I have no idea what you're talking about.

To the second, the suggestion Kitten made is good, and I can also recommend using a flammable aerosol and cigarette lighter combo. Seriously. You also get the added fun of watching the little buggers explode. Other than that, just keep everything clean and sooner or later, they'll go away.

 

[gesshoku]

What came first: Cats or Dogs?

That question

I apologize if I missed the answer!

The Flies are finally gone! GAH!!!!!!!! I'm so happy to have my house back! Thank you for the suggestions!

 

[VandalHeart]

What came first: Cats or Dogs?

HOLY SHIT I MISSED THIS.

Thank you, kasumi, ReiRei, I am SO sorry.

The answer you're looking for is dogs. The earliest member of the canine family was carbon dated at around 40 million years old. The earliest member of the feline family, only 25 million years old. So there you go.





























But fuck age, cats rule.

 

[HotFaerieMama]

cats do rule ( i have three)



anywho onto my question..

i've noticed that the vast majority of people that i know.. who like the color purple.. are kinky.. but not all kinky people like the color purple... why is this?

 

[VandalHeart]

cats do rule ( i have three)

anywho onto my question..

i've noticed that the vast majority of people that i know.. who like the color purple.. are kinky.. but not all kinky people like the color purple... why is this?

Interesting question. Here's what my research has rendered.

Purple is often a color associated with royalty, nobility and the upper class, although it is also the signature color of the ever elusive combination of sensual love and intense sex known as The Funk. You know it, baby...ain't nothin' gonna move you...like The Funk. Oh, yeah. Seriously, though, purple has been associated with forms of dominance for most of known history, even by cultures that had no contact with each other. For example, the actual translation of the Chinese Forbidden City, seat of the imperial throne, is the Purple Forbidden City. In the Byzantine Empire, the royal heirs were born in a purple chamber set aside for nothing but that event. It became such a deep-seated practice that the royals were referred to as "Porphyrogenitus" which translates directly as "born to the purple." I bring this up because forms of sexual and intimate dominance have often been translated as forms of homespun nobility and rulership. That may be what you're thinking of. Also, purple has recently been associated with the sense of pride when applied to certain fringe groups, especially the gay pride movement. Now, those of us in fringe lifestyles may not always like it, but we owe a lot to the homosexual rights movement, having often been associated with ALL forms of deviance, sexual or otherwise, and have thus been associated with kinkiness in all it's many incarnations. Purple having been adopted as a symbol of gay pride, it easily translated into pride in anything considered sexually deviant. Of course, all of this may simply be a coincidence, since most people don't put that much thought into personal preferences. It may just be that people like the color itself, simply because of the aesthetics of it.

But, while looking some this up, I found out some other interesting things about purple and the things it represents. Just for the value of "you learn something every day," I'll provide some examples.

Purple has often been associated with general wierdness, due to it's low occurrence in natural land-based specimen. Most plants have an overabundance of green and brown, and though purple is easily found in nature, statistically, they are rare, when considering how many other colors there are in nature in relation to how much purple there is. When writing up the specifics for the Start Trek universe, scriptwriters needed to make the aliens...well, as alien as possible. Part of this was describing the seething blood of the Klingon race a deep, viscous purple. In the Halo universe, the collection of fanatical races known as the Covenant use weapons that almost all feature purple in some manner, with only one or two exceptions. One weapon, the needler, even boasts its crystalline ammunition outside the handgun's superstructure. One guess as to what color the crystals are. That's right: pink. (Had you going there for a second, huh?)

In 1984, American cinema took the major dive in self-respect with the release of the song, album, and subsequent movie known in a few places as "Purple Rain," although more widely known as "That Crappy Movie That Gave Singers the Idea to Act and Thus Ruined Half of All Subsequent Movies, Ever." The artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince, in a stunning combination of gospel, rock, arguable musical talent, and strangely enough, clairvoyant vision, the phenomenon known as Prince's Purple Rain preceded the geopolitical event with the same name by five years. I'd never heard of this until I started researching this question, but there was an incident in 1989 in South Africa known as the Purple Rain Protest. A protest of the Apartheid regime was organized and was intended to march on the South African Parliament building. It was stopped on Burg Street, mere blocks away from the Parliament, by a police vehicle fitted with a water cannon. However, the water inside had been loaded with purple dye, so that all the protesters hit by the water cannon were marked for easy identification and subsequent arrest. One protester with a certain sense of justice and wits jumped onto the water cannon and manhandled it to shoot adjacent buildings and landmarks, staining the surroundings for weeks. On top of this, graffiti found later showed that the dyed water had produced an unwanted effect on the Democratic Movement in South Africa: purple had become the rallying color of the protest, and the movement had found a flag. The message on the graffiti? "The purple shall govern."

Anyhow, I could go on and on, but I think that's enough. Just thought you'd like to know.

 

[HotFaerieMama]

Dear Demon...

what is the best way to get rid of bull ants?? i keep finding them in my room.

 

[VandalHeart]

Dear Demon...

what is the best way to get rid of bull ants?? i keep finding them in my room.

Unfortunately, if you want to get rid of any kind of hive insect infestation, you have to destroy the entire hive. This means you're going to have to spread enough poison around your house to kill all the ants in the immediate area around it. Spreading the poison in your house is a good or bad idea depending on what kind of poison you use. Go to your local hardware store and ask someone for suggestions. Having a small child in your house as you do, you need to be exceptionally careful. As with any insect infestation, keeping the house clean will help cut down on their presence, because if they don't have any food, they won't bother to come around much. Thus, the cleaner the house, the less the insect will look for the food that they can't smell anymore. Just remember, one cup of sugar can feed an average ant colony of 100 ants for between two and three weeks. Clean means REALLY clean.

 

[Lady Reiha]

Dear Vandy,


Please explain WTF is up with this movie??? I need to know details.... AND find a copy of this epic, epic movie!

^ yes, this is a link. You need to watch ALL of this video before you can reply with a answer (it's worth it).

 

[VandalHeart]

Dear Vandy,


Please explain WTF is up with this movie??? I need to know details.... AND find a copy of this epic, epic movie!

^ yes, this is a link. You need to watch ALL of this video before you can reply with a answer (it's worth it).

...

*blink*

...

*blink, blink*

...

Um...wow. I think my inner child has just been molested. Again. Which is messed up, because I thought the little bastard was dead after that poison cocktail I fed him. Can psychological constructs go through death throes twice?

Anyway.

I would like to start by saying that this movie is yet another in a long line of movies that go so far beyond trying too hard that, up until recently, there was no word or phrase to describe it. However, that phrase has been invented. When I first found the following image, I did not understand it. Since then, I have been enlightened, but even though I didn't know what it meant at the time, the picture was still priceless, so I kept it. To explain, the phrase to describe those movies and games...and stories...and roleplaying adventures...and porn movies...(yeah) that try so hard to please everyone that they graduate to another level of stupidity and self-embarrassment is:

This is so awesome, it is made of
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/DaddyPandersnatch/WinandGod.jpg

Yeah. Just study that for a moment. I think the best part is the Nazi officer in the formula one racer with machine guns mounted on it. That has to be my favorite part.

Anyhow, as for where to find such a thing, Amazon has around 20 copies ready to be bought. If you want it for free, though, good fucking luck, because the thing is so old, the likelihood of it being on a torrent or something is slim. But yeah, there you go.

And remember, kids: there is no such thing as a bad movie that someone likes. If even one person enjoys a piece of art, then it's art. And even the worst piece of crap movie has had at least one person who felt it was the greatest thing ever made. I heard recently that MTV was planning on updating the Rocky Horror Picture Show. My initial reaction was abject horror, but the possibility exists that they will make a good revamp (heh) of the classic. The thing that made the old one so great was the shitty budget and over the top...ness...of it. Sorry, my language failed me and I'm not in the mood to fix it. See? Substandard is better, sometimes. It's all in what gets your blood pumping.

May we all celebrate the movies that make us feel like this.

 

[VandalHeart]

HOLY CRAP!!!

SPOONY WAS WRONG!!!

IT IS IN DVD FORMAT!!!

IN GERMAN!!!

 

[Lady Reiha]

That..picture..is..TOO EPIC!



Must..get..German..copy..

 

[Lady Reiha]

That..picture..is..TOO EPIC!



Must..get..German..copy..

But seriously? The English version is in VHS, and the DVD is in German?


This gets more fucking odd by the minute!

 

[VandalHeart]

That..picture..is..TOO EPIC!

Must..get..German..copy..

But seriously? The English version is in VHS, and the DVD is in German?

This gets more fucking odd by the minute!

Keep in mind that the German DVD is region 2, not one, so the chances are your DVD player won't play it.

 

[Lady Reiha]

Keep in mind that the German DVD is region 2, not one, so the chances are your DVD player won't play it.

Who said I was going to play it on my DVD player?



(it's totally going to be played at work! We have a region 1 and region 2 DVD player(s) because we have a few world cinema movies that just won't fucking play).

YOR'S WORLD HE'S THE MAN!

 

[HotFaerieMama]

Dear Demon... Why do i like the taste of metal??

and on a side note.. i get to pick out my new training collar and when my Master gets back from iraq He's gonna give me my perm. one. thought i'd share the good news!..

 

[VandalHeart]

Dear Demon... Why do i like the taste of metal??

and on a side note.. i get to pick out my new training collar and when my Master gets back from iraq He's gonna give me my perm. one. thought i'd share the good news!..

I heard somewhere that if you like the taste of metal, you may have an iron deficiency. you might think about eating some liver every once in a while or some other iron-rich food.

And congrats on the new collar!

 

[ImpishSeraph]

Dear Demon,

Is it really true that "it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all"? I don't mean loss by death, and I also don't mean family love but more like being in love.

 

[VandalHeart]

Dear Demon,

Is it really true that "it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all"? I don't mean loss by death, and I also don't mean family love but more like being in love.

Unfortunately, I cannot answer this question with any degree of scientific accuracy. This is a question of opinion. Emotional quandaries like this require some soul searching, and because of that, you have to answer it for yourself to find the correct answer.

As for me, the answer is a resounding yes. And by resounding, I mean, I hear Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell" playing in my head every time I hear that quote. And it really is much like that in my head. It is a personal revolution for me, and don't give me any crap about being sappy. It's a gamble, really, and as any addict of gambling will tell you, there are few greater thrills than the fear of having something vitally important to you laid on the line. Winning is nice and all, but it's the risk that's the real fun part.

Some people can't handle that risk, though. For them, taking the step to trust another person that much is nearly impossible to even fathom. It's arguable that they would ever find the courage to do such a thing, and therefor, the idea that having had and lost a relationship could even be better than never having experienced the relationship in the first place is nearly outside the realm of believability.

Anything is possible, though, and there is always the "shellcracker" personality that can draw these people out and guide them through such endeavors. May the gods bless these people and their indescribable talents. And yes, I'm complimenting myself. Horribly. I should probably stop.

 

[HotFaerieMama]

happi danse!! happi danse!! i got my collar!!! *doin the happi danse* yeah i'm all happy!

now on to my question

Dear Demon what in your opinion is the greatest invention?

 

[SexyCleric]

It was stopped on Burg Street, mere blocks away from the Parliament, by a police vehicle fitted with a water cannon. However, the water inside had been loaded with purple dye, so that all the protesters hit by the water cannon were marked for easy identification and subsequent arrest.

That's... A really good idea.
Here, I'd just always decimated the native populations during uprisings...
Learn something new everyday.
Very thorough analysis of the color purple.

I have an inquiry, oh Demon...

Was Robert Heinlein a prophet, TARDIS hijacker, precognizant, or simply in tune with human social and technical progress?

Also, why did he think that all women were bisexual and distractedly horny?

 

[BoomerP]

Dear vandalheart
When you think a certain someone is growing bored with you, or losing interest should you just stop pursuing them?

 

[VandalHeart]

happi danse!! happi danse!! i got my collar!!! *doin the happi danse* yeah i'm all happy!

now on to my question

Dear Demon what in your opinion is the greatest invention?

Soap.

 

[VandalHeart]

That's... A really good idea.
Here, I'd just always decimated the native populations during uprisings...
Learn something new everyday.
Very thorough analysis of the color purple.

I have an inquiry, oh Demon...

Was Robert Heinlein a prophet, TARDIS hijacker, precognizant, or simply in tune with human social and technical progress?

Also, why did he think that all women were bisexual and distractedly horny?

Robert Heinlein, though I hate to use the term in reference to him, was a mere mortal. He was in possession of no time traveling devices or psychic powers. He was just an incredibly smart man. Unfortunately, much like the guy who got nailed to a tree for saying how nice it would be if we were all nice to each other, his ideas were only good if everybody follows them. Intrinsic flaws aside, they were good ideas.

As for his views on women, the thing you need to keep in mind with all of his characters is that most of them were based on people he knew. Plus, not all of the women he wrote were like that. If nothing else, read Friday. There's some real ho-bags in that one.

 

[VandalHeart]

Dear vandalheart
When you think a certain someone is growing bored with you, or losing interest should you just stop pursuing them?

Depends on the nature of your relationship with them. Since you used the word "pursuing," I'm going to assume the relationship is in the possibility stage, not the "we made a connection and are second guessing the whole thing" stage. If the person your after has ever shown any kind of interest and is now getting "bored," as you put it, then this person is not winning any cool points in my book. If they didn't, then they may not have any interest in you, but they aren't playing with you, as with the first scenario.

At the very least, you need to sit down and take inventory of your feelings and actions. Make sure you're not becoming what Wayne Campbell calls a "psycho hose beast." For all of you reading, just for your information, it is not a gender specific term. If you haven't told this person how you feel, you need to. The important part about this little telling is that you need to stay cool about it. Let them know that you want a deeper relationship, but that you aren't in a hurry. And if you are in a hurry, get out of it. Good things are worth waiting for, and if this person isn't worth waiting for, they aren't good enough for you. If they're good enough for you, then they're worth waiting for. The keys are honesty and patience.

Good luck.