*gags*

Well, I'm a bit PMSy (it's the most wonderful time... of the month!) and, having no midol, decided to take an aspirin.

It got stuck. I swallowed it and it didn't go all the way down, and then it must've dissolved and GAH that stuff is NASTY.

That was an hour ago. I still can taste it. I remember reading once an article that said that if you were having a heart attack you shouldn't just take an aspirin, you should chew five or six of them on the way to the hospital. They must've been kidding. There is no way, no fucking way I would do that. *shudders*

Oh dear god...

I guess the thought police had to step in and make sure every thing was PC and sympathy. sad world we live in, it really is. someone can act like a lunatic and i am supposed to be nice to them. *gag*

Yes, you really are supposed to be nice to them. Yes, really. Yes, even if they "act like a lunatic". Yes, even if you think they have an actual disorder like OCD. No, I'm not kidding. No, I'm really not. Nope. You're supposed to be people. Period.

Some of my friends watch apod.

For those friends, I would like to introduce epod_feed. You have to click on smaller images to get to the main page, but it's just as interesting, and slightly more relevant, I think.

Um. Yeah. That's all.

Okay, this is something that irritates me...

And a lot of people do this, so by making a post I'm just avoiding having to tell each of you individually. I'm also doing something else that annoys me, but we'll get to that.

If somebody does/says/posts something I don't like, I will often post about it in my journal. And then, sooner or later, somebody comes along who disagrees with me, so I get to read: "They have a right to say/do this! I really don't like it when other people try to take away their right to free speech/get upset that they use their right to free speech".

I'm only saying this once, or twice, or I don't know. Probably often.

I'm not taking away anybody's right to free speech.

I'm not deleting their LJ accounts, or disconnecting their computer, or threatening them.

I'm also not upset because they used their right to free speech. If I'm upset, it's about what they said, not the fact that they said it. I also dislike the stuff that Jack Chick spews out, but I notice that when I have mocked him in the past, nobody defended him because of "free speech". And when I complained about a homophobic discussion in my English class, nobody told me that all the other people in that class had the right to say what they did - they do have that right, and I wouldn't dream of taking it from them.

But, weird thing, free speech is something I have too. So if somebody has the right to say a prejudiced, or stupid, or offensive thing in their journal, I have the right to call them on it in my journal. I have the right, if they enable comments, to go over to their entry and tell them what I think. Or, if this is real life, I can tell them in person. And if they don't like it, they can argue with me.

Now, free speech has its limits. I can't libel/slander somebody (libel is in print, slander is spoken), so I have to restrict myself to the facts as I see them. I can't say "so-and-so eats kittens and babies" just because I'm mad. And I really can't make threatening comments in my journal (I'm going to kill so-and-so and eat his babies!!!) either. But other than that... yeah, freedom of speech.

So, please. If you don't like something I say, tell me. I like to know. But don't tell me I'm upset about somebody "using his right to free speech" or am "taking away his right to free speech" unless I actually say that. Because otherwise, chances are that you're wrong. I'm upset because a person revealed himself to be an ignorant asshole, or a bigot, or a bad parent, or an abusive pet-owner, not because they had the nerve to talk about it.

Oh, and the other thing that annoys me?

When somebody is mad at somebody else, so they make a very vague post in their journal. And then that somebody else usually won't respond, but half the population of LJ will, just to make sure that they're not the offending person. And everybody thinks that this is a way to prevent drama, but really it just creates more drama. I'm a hypocrite. Sorry, everybody.

This is what I get for reading my friend of list...

The amount of misinformation contained here is scary.

It is perfectly natural to not masturbate. Some people just don't. And, of course, it's perfectly natural to masturbate, and to want to - it will not make you go blind, grow hair, or get pimples. I'm a bit wary of searching for a link to prove that a lack of masturbation isn't connected to a frequency of wet dreams (don't want to find nothing but porn!) but I'm 93% confident that I am correct in that statement.

Nobody *has* to masturbate. You won't die if you don't. It's just that most people prefer to than to not.