Tanuki Racoon

I like it. Short, concise. Everything one of my editors tells me I shouldn't do :) I like it -- wide range of emotions in a short space.

Des. Those are GRRRRRRLLLLLS. Shame.

http://caitlinomara.com/2008/06/pizza-hut-japan/ Point. Set. Match. Please don't puke on the floor.

There is a tool called "USER AGENT SWITCHER" for Firefox. You install it. When you need to use your browser as (IE/OPERA) you just change it and your FF pretends to be IE. It works on MANY websites (not any that use flash or ActiveX) and you can not even use IE. It fools my bank. It's important you switch back because if you try to use any flash page your browser will blow up if the user agent switch is wrong. It isn't good enough to be gay.

Ditto China, Hong Kong (especially), Taiwan, and Macau -- all from my person experience.

Hm. So you're telling me I should go to Sainsbury's on boxing day as I had planned?

I agree, his answer is very very good. Double points for him. To be clear this is the part, I was referring to. It shows a good thought process:

HAHAHAHAHAA

If your editors are half as stubborn as you, holding your breath would be a fatal error.

Really lazy programmers. And that's the truth. Programmers are not what they used to be. The use libraries with 50 functions but only need one. So you get code that isn't needed. It's bloatware. A good programmer (raises hand) will code his own shit rather than use an entire library to do something silly. Plus modern compilers compiler for speed not RAM space. Bad programming. Really. I blame (no jokes) Visual Basic as the first program that created programs that were really huge and made tens of thousands of people think they were programmers. I can write a sort routine in any number of languages off the top of my head AND write device drivers to format a disk. I can write in high languages and in native machine code. Nice, small code. TexEdit for the Mac will do this. One of my friends uses Ubuntu and except for scanners can do whatever he wants. Scanner drivers seem to be an issue.

I must clarify. For those of you running PC's that use Unix/Linux, I have no objection. My real objection is to Windows. A proper question would be Windows vs Mac. Bruin, the issues with Linux, as you have seen is the driver software. But more and more 3rd party drivers are out there. I run both MacOS, Windows XP, and Linux on my Mac. Triple :) The Windows is so I can run Procomm so I can connect to the server at work. Linux is for geek-factor. The MacOS is for USING my computer.

They make a tasty pizza, indeed. I hope to be dining at one soon :) Anyway, to answer Cole Slaw's question: On a plain cheese pizza, I would add the following toppings: 1. Canadian Bacon (I will accept ham as a poor substitute) 2. More of #1 3. Extra Cheese (If I can combine one and two, then I will add pineapple and if number three doesn't count, sweetcorn rocks on pizza but pizza express doesn't do that.)

12 - Microsoft?s on your team And with that, I rest my case. The Mac is better than the PC. Because Microsoft is NOT on our side. Point. Set. Match. And we already had this thread.

New moral: learn proper English and then don't bother to use it. Lovely.

Yes, the author can do anything. However, if an author just really does things that are incorrect, do you WANT to read the story? You ever see those stories with impossible punctuation? Authors who think irregardless is a word? I mean if you KNOW it's wrong (and it's not something in quotes that a character says), why would one perpetuate an atrocity on your readers? There's a difference between doing something for "art" and just doing something "because" you can irregardless of the facts. (And nothing I say will ever make this sentence acceptable in any story.)

Wibby is an author and sometimes needs a reality check on future plans. Wibby is NOT planning a murder*. * Commas are grounds for murder.

And my answer is ABSOLUTELY I could. I've not done it, but I can tell you with unwavering certainty I could do it. I don't particularly WANT to do it. But I have over the years realized what circumstances would make me plan and/or execute it (pun intended). There is nobody I'm planning on killing, so don't freak. But I can easily envision the circumstances that would drive it and the various outcomes. Could I get away with it? Yeah. I think so. 'cept I'd gladly get caught if the circumstances came true -- which they likely won't.

Do you think, given the right circumstances, you could kill someone? I am not talking self-defence, nor protection of a loved one. I am talking do you think you could plan to kill someone (given any set of circumstances you could contrive) and actually execute the plan. Forget, for the exercise, whether or not you're good enough escape or if you will get caught. There is a point to this, other than extreme curiosity. But I won't tell. So, do you think you could murder someone in cold blood? Given circumstances, and access to the means within reason. (And if you have done it, please post no confessions. Your IP stuff is logged by this system.)

Tell me about it. That one licked my fur and in the wrong direction. I'm not sure. I mean he bit my arse, but that was to hold me to take the photo. But he didn't ask, and just sunk his teeth in. Then had the nerve to complain about the taste? What do you expect a raccoon arse to taste like?

Ele? It's not the hat. Sorry. Someone had to tell you. :D

It's rubbish. I've seen the drawings. They're cartoonish, badly done, and while ENTIRELY OFFENSIVE, they are as close to child porn as a photo of a baby taking a pee. One depicts Maggie looking for a pacifier and Bart giving her his penis instead. Tacky, stupid, barely amusing. Pornographic, yes. Child porn? Only a complete idiot would think so. You need a real child. It's a FICTIONAL CHARACTER /and/ a DRAWING and not even one of a real person.

No, you misunderstand. I had to have the human hold me up to take the photo. Raccoons don't have opposable thumbs. I am the raccoon. The human is a minion and will be disposed of promptly, like offal that your entire species is.

Well you're not that far off in years. I'm tall, pasty, and ugly. One out of three ain't bad. Oh wait, that's a fail.

Ecko. Clearance at the outlet store $19.95 (down from $60). I got several.

Here is a picture of me so you can all know what I look like. I realize many of you have wondered so I took this photo today. This photo is as accurate as most of you will ever get. If you click on it, it will render in a larger size. I have no choice but to trust in your discretion. 'ware the 'coon for he is subtle and quick to anger.