A Kitchen Witches Corner

In response to:Miss Bimbo, A Reviw: Part One

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:19:50 +0200

i actually like miss bimbo. it's a light hearted bit of fun. i don't think it should be taken too seriously.

In response to:Little Mother Goddess Poppets/Charms

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:28:21 +0200

Lovin this. Protective symbolism is a vast uncharted and overlooked resource. I find a silver triple pentacle works with dark energy in the workplace. But I simply don't have enough knowledge to furnish something like this with the necessary embellishments.
Thank you so much for sharing your art.
Love & Peace.

In response to:A little political rant (poverty edition!)

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:38:57 +0200

I hear you. I am in the same situation over here in the States. We're all sitting here hoping our new president will be able to offer some kind of solution, but that will probably prove not to happen.

In response to:A Pagan Without a Coven - Reflections

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:35:49 +0200

Personally I think I am more of a Nanny Ogg, I love the idea of red shoes!!! Great to know there are more people from our land out there. Thanks!

In response to:A little political rant (poverty edition!)

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:58:14 +0100

Everybody should read your post. That's why I am so political; wasting money on illegal war and yet unable to look after the poor and old and vulnerable. L;ittle wonder people smoke and drink to calm their exasperation with politicians David.

In response to:A Pagan Without a Coven - Reflections

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:09:57 +0100

You too!! :o)

In response to:A Pagan Without a Coven - Reflections

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:00:57 +0100

Hooray! Another Granny Weatherwax! Pleased to meet you :)

In response to:A Pagan Without a Coven - Reflections

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:52:36 +0100

At last....someone who feels as I do...I am just like you!....It's so refreshing to hear from someone who thinks along the same lines.

In response to:MissBimbo Clothing

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:32:01 +0100

Hello!

I am a twat who thinks he gets to use other people's blogs for free adspace.

In response to:More Pretty Nice Guys

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:53:12 +0200

Anti-sex puritanism? Have you read the rest of my blog at all?

This isn't anti-sex, it's anti-shit attitudes. Besides which, do you really see every woman... every. single. one. as a potential fuck? Honestly? Your more attractive aunts, cousins, siblings included? Because that is just creepy.

If not, hardly relevant. Note that I speak of Nice Guys doing things for attractive women, and nice guys doing things for people. People. Of any gender. Hint, hint.

Did I say wanting sex is bad? No. What is bad is expecting sex as some form of payment, without having offered any overt signals that this is what you want. And treating/thinking of the woman as a bitch if she doesn't put out. Such men want every woman to be a dirty little whore... who happens to have kept her virginity just for him. That is what separates a nice guy, from a Nice Guy.

ITT; "Nice Guy" sees a blog post that hits too close to home, and gets butthurt. A 10 month old blog post.

In response to:More Pretty Nice Guys

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:58:36 +0200

Two things:

Re men holding men to cultural standards of manliness more than women hold men to those standards: So what? Everyone already knows this. Anyway the same is true of women re cultural standards of femininity. If you think all this is a bad thing, the interesting and useful thing would be to propose a way out of it.

Re wanting sex from attractive women making a man not truly "nice": Every straight man wants sex from every woman he finds attractive. Every man acts on this want some of the time and refrains from acting on it the rest of the time--for example, a faithful married man acts on this want only with his wife. There is nothing not "nice" about wanting sex or about sex, and wanting sex is not coextensive with objectification of women. To the extent you think you have known men who did not want to have sex with you, the fact is either that they were not attracted to you or that they did want to have sex with you. Again, just because they wanted to doesn't mean they acted on that want. Anyway, let's leave the anti-sex puritanism to reactionary so-called Christians and discredited 1970s so-called feminists

In response to:Lughnasad is Coming!

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:52:24 +0200

Ooh,good question! I'll get back to you :)

In response to:More crazy weight-loss Crap.

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:39:00 +0200

Or, as the old saying goes, "Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum."

In response to:Lughnasad is Coming!

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:16:30 +0200

Interesting - but what are you planning for Samhain? ... as the annual problem of navigating one's child around and away from the ritualised door to door begging approaches, I'd be interested in some alternative ideas.

In response to:More Pretty Nice Guys

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:48:25 +0200

I'd say the responsibilities are still very much expected, at least in the Southern United states. Of course, down here it seems like the women's movement never really gained much ground sometimes.

That's pretty much the list of how men are supposed to act down here, and as you can imagine, we get a lot of heavily conditioned douchebags as a result. You make a good point, though, women never make a big deal about this, which is okay if you don't particularly care about having male friends.

In response to:Communication- a few handy links and some anecdata for the Menz

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:44:47 +0200

This has happened to me a lot. In fact it's pretty rare that I don't piss men off when I voice my opinion on a topic (especially when I seemingly know more than they do). I've had so many men flirt with me and then become angry if I don't return the advances & instead express my thoughts on politics, current events, etc.

In response to:title-4574307

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:10:06 +0200

Thanks :-)

In response to:title-4574307

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:07:12 +0200

Exactly! I mean, I write letters for a living and sometimes write copy for my employers advertising; and the amount of thought and effort and consideration that goes into EVERY. SINGLE. WORD. I can only imagine how much MORE of that there must be for really big businesses like Sony.

BTW; just checked out your blog. So much goodness and oh am I ever in awe of your wit!

In response to:title-4574307

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:29:34 +0200

It's good that they pulled the ad, but let's be honest: advertising execs know what they're doing. It's their job to know how an ad will be perceived. Sony can claim ignorance all they want, but they had to have known that their ad wasn't "sensitive" to racial issues.

In response to:title-4574307

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:38:47 +0200

I was going to point out the same thing Walrus pointed out. But that's not the only example I can think of. Sony also stubbornly backed the Beta format for home video, in the mistaken belief that a superior format was all it needed to win in the marketplace.

In response to:title-4574307

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:29:16 +0200

I would not be at all surprised to learn that!

In response to:title-4574307

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:52:12 +0200

Ah, Sony. The copy protection on their music CDs mucked up any Windows computer you played it in, and they ended up having to compensate a lot of people.

I don't think they have a customer relations department.

In response to:Obsession

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:16:43 +0200

Oh, short term weight loss is possible, but long term isn't quite so easy. The World Health Organisation defines a successful diet (ie, as in the diet plan itself, not the individual dieter) as one which allows a set amount of weight loss to be sustained for 5 years.

Under medical test conditions, between 95-98% of participants in ANY weight loss regime regained most, if not all, of their lost weight within 5 years and many actually gained overall, following successful short term losses at the start of the programme. Most of the tests done under funding by diet businesses don't even run for 5 years, and still show massive regain.

Personally, I think pretty much everyone would just be better off forgetting about the size of their pants and just living healthfully for the sake of their health.

In response to:Obsession

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:00:08 +0200

Grain products?

Wait... couscous is bad for me, now?

In response to:Obsession

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:59:35 +0200

If I walk to and from work every day, avoid the junk food, and keep grain products to a bare minimum (if not avoiding them entirely), I will lose weight.

The problem is avoiding the junk food and the grain products, because they are everywhere...

In response to:Obsession

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:34:50 +0200

I can so relate to that. I know where you are coming from. Losing weight isn't that hard. Just eat less and move more is the rule of thumb. In the time they had bored the pants off you, they could have walked two blocks and had the chocolate anyway. Talking won't burn calories but walking will do it every time. Keep smiling and the day you finally lose it and you decide to go in with the machine gun, just make sure they are first! Just kidding :-)

In response to:I love the PCG Gaming Community.

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:23:12 +0200

I... I am way too tired to work out what you mean, right now...

In response to:I love the PCG Gaming Community.

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:04:13 +0200

im l33t

1'll run over U with my 0wnag3 train on COD4

w00t w00t

Epic Fail. lolz

Women can play games i guess, but on XBlive they only seem to get abuse, either that or hit on - very, very badly.

Have fun
Brendan :]

In response to:MissBimbo Clothing

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:17:53 +0200

My ears are burning! ;)

Yeah, so as far as I can tell, tanning/scouring is the only way to change your Bimbo's 'ethnicity', so to speak (although I really think that when she's over-tanned, she really just looks like a white girl who's tanned, as there's no way apart from plastic surgery to change your Bimbo's facial features). So far for me, this is one of my biggest complaints against the game. If I were a non-white kid playing this game, I think I'd be a bit gutted that I'm not really represented. I wish you could pick from the start from a variety of different Bimbos, and I also wish you could pick any number of paths to follow like to be a girly-girl or a sporty girl or a smart girl or any number of different lifestyles (like how in MMOs you can chose a race and job class).

Also, so far I've been quite pleased with how the clothing options have expanded as I've progressed through the game. I find my Bimbo dressing more and more like me now that I can buy her dark t-shirts and cargo pants.

In response to:Miss Bimbo, A Reviw: Part One

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:01:03 +0200

You're right, it should be.

Damn, considering I type for a living, that looks pretty bad, doesn't it? :) Thanks for pointing it out.