Thing

I live in the North west of England, in a county called Cheshire, in a town called Runcorn.We had a surprisingly cold summer this year (still sunny though), and although it's supposed to be Autumn (or fall) it's still really cold. If it wasn't for the leaves still being on the trees, everybody would think it was winter.

How many of you people are addicted to Xisto and its forums??

 

Its only been few days i have joined... but i am already addicted enough to Xisto and its forum. Spending hours together in the site. Are you addicted... if your addicted whats the percentage??

 

What do you do most often in the forums??

 

My addiction percentage is -- 78%

I wouldn't say I was a Xisto addict, it takes quite alot to get me addicted to forums (even when they are for the musicians I listen to, I don't usually get latched onto posting). Although I don't consider myself an addict, I do try to post frequently, for my website's sake.

 

The thing I do most often? I'm unsure as to exactly what, but I'm more likely to be found sifting for topics to reply to, rather than chatting in the shout box.

 

If you had to rate some sense of addiction I have for this forum, I'd say about 15-20%, on most days.

It's a bit higher today, you see.

And lawyers really need to look inside their own black hearts to see how they can live to defend such scum (if he was really unfit to be a parent).

Some people wouldn't mind, aslong as there's some sort of pay check, I guess.

ooh! It looks pretty interesting actually, I will probably go to see it when it's released...

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21386988/

 

Dad charged in 9-year-old girl's sledding death

After drinking, man pulled daughter in an inner tube behind pickup truck

 

VANCOUVER, Wash. - Authorities charged a man Friday with vehicular

homicide in a sledding accident that killed his 9-year-old daughter last

winter.

 

 

Peter Gecho was pulling the girl, Madison, in an inner tube behind his

pickup truck when the tube slammed into a low brick wall Jan. 16,

according to Clark County Superior Court documents. Witnesses told police

Gecho had been drinking and that the girl was not wearing a helmet,

prosecutors contend.

 

 

The inner tube was attached to the truck by a rope as Gecho drove along

snowy country roads to Thomas Jefferson Middle School, Senior Deputy

Prosecutor James David wrote in a probable cause affidavit. Several other

people were in the bed of the truck.

 

 

On the school grounds, Gecho revved the engine and began spinning

"doughnuts" as the tube sailed behind. The tube slammed against a low

brick wall at an estimated 20 mph, killing the girl. An 18-year-old man

also riding in the tube soared over the wall and suffered only bruises.

 

 

Gecho's lawyer, Thomas Phelan, called the charge "a travesty." He said

his client is innocent and would never have deliberately harmed Madison.

 

 

"This was nothing but a tragic accident," he said. "His life has been, as

one might expect, incredibly empty since his daughter died. This simply

adds to the emptiness."

Even if the guy wasn't drunk, it's pretty clear that dragging your nine-year-old daughter on a sled attached to your pick-up truck while you're drunk is an incredibly dumb idea. He obviously wouldn't have intended to kill his daughter though, but isn't being reckless enough intent in the eye of the law?

Not everyone will think the same person is ugly.
A lot of people will, however, agree if a person is fat.

That is really quite true, atleast from what I have seen.

Erm...I'd much rather go with a guy who is "fat" than an anorexic one. Or an "ugly" guy rather than a "pretty" one. The problem with some attractive guys (and girls) is that if you let them know it, it can go straight to their head. But with that said, if someone is told that they're fat, it goes straight to their head aswell, but their heads deflate rather than inflate - as would some one's head do if they were told they were attractive - metaphorically speaking, of course.

The Vatican has confirmed local newspaper reports that a high-ranking Catholic priest has been suspended.

 

The man, who works in the department in charge of clergy around the world, appeared on Italian TV earlier this month admitting that he was gay.

 

The prelate had been suspended pending further investigation, said Vatican spokesman Father Frederico Lombari.

 

He says he was interviewed "fraudulently" with a hidden camera and now denies his earlier statement.

 

In a letter published in an Italian online newspaper, Petrus, he writes: "I said I was homosexual in order to unmask those who really are."

 

Disguised voice

 

He has been publicly named as Tommaso Stenico, and has confirmed that he gave the interview.

 

Father Lombardi said that he had clearly acted in a way that was incompatible with his status inside the world headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church.

 

Monsignor Stenico appeared on an investigative programme about gay priests on an Italian commercial TV channel, La7.

 

He was filmed inside his private office in the Vatican.

 

Although his voice was disguised, colleagues and friends easily identified him as a monsignor who frequently used to appear as anchorman and even celebrate Mass on a well known local Catholic TV channel.

 

Monsignor Stenico told his interviewer that he did not regard himself as being in a state of sin because of his homosexual activities but was forced to keep them secret because of the church's teaching on the subject.

 

The BBC's David Willey in Rome says the Vatican rarely comments on sexual scandal involving priests and the prompt admission of this priest's suspension is unusual.

This can't be serious, can it?

 

Oh, as I forgot:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7043056.stm

In an interview with The Sunday Times, the 79-year-old said he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really".
He went on to say he hoped everyone was equal but that "people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true".

A spokesman for the Science Museum said: "We know that eminent scientists can sometimes say things that cause controversy and the Science Museum does not shy away from debating controversial topics.

"However, we feel Dr Watson has gone beyond the point of acceptable debate and we are as a result cancelling his talk."

The scientist has courted controversy in the past, saying that a woman should have the right to abort her unborn child if tests could determine it would be homosexual.

BBC
Independent

However, the fact that she's expressing her suffering means that she's probably just trying to get attention. People who cut or make serious suicide attempts try to hide it because they don't want people to stop them. I mean, they do, but they don't. And anorexic/bulimic girls do their absolute best to hide their eating disorders.

Yes, I agree. If she had really been cutting herself, she wouldn't go around bragging about it. I know of this, as another friend of mine had cuts on her arms, that I saw accidentally. When asked about it, she hid her arms and didn't say a word. Rather than the friend i mentioned in my first post who practically brags at every chance she can get.

If you are still good friends i would suggest you tell her to stop all this right now and make her promise to stop it, if youre not so close to her then ignore her antics, it might make her stop doing/saying these things as she wont receive the attention but of course it could backfire and make things worse

Ignoring her has actually made her cool down with her antics. She is almost back to normal, just sometimes starts with a bit of overreacting, but that dies down pretty easily.

I haven't spoke to her for a few days, but it seems like (from seeing her talk to other people) she has stopped it. I'm worried though, if she would just start it again soon, maybe when I start talking to her again?
She's not going to do the show if she has no audience, so to speak.

Is my friend attention seeking, or does she just have some serious issues?

 

She used to be a really close friend of mine. We'd only hang out at school and sometimes afterwards, but still quite close.

 

Only it seems like she can think of some great big lies.

 

Such as once, she claimed her mother had hit her for no apparent reason, and this was why she ran away from home one evening, in Spring this year. After hearing this story and talking to my friend about it for a few days afterwards, it turned out to be that my friend was giving "her mother cheek", so her mother threw a scrunchy bobble (hair bobbles made out of light material, non metal) at her just before she decided to "run away".

 

After a week or so, she "ran away" again, probably because in her mind, her mother wasn't treating her very well. She keeps "running away" until the police find her wandering the streets of our town late one evening, and warn her that if she runs away again she'd get sent to some juvenile detention centre.

 

I write run away in quotation marks, simply because she only walks around the streets or hangs out at friends' houses for four or five hours and then returns home again. Not actually leaving home and living elsewhere.

 

My once friend also likes to storm out of class after small arguments, slamming the classroom doors and screaming before rushing away.

 

All the things I have mentioned above were from some months ago, now she differs her tactics to more extreme ones.

Just last week, she was bent on suicide by starving herself. She resided to starvation after five or six claims of attempted suicide via a bottle of pills only to be caught by the unsuspecting mother or younger brother. Somehow she doesn't realize that starvation would take quite a while.

Every day she would ask how pale she looked, and when I or one of my friends would say that she was starting to look pale, her face would brighten up for a moment, then the happiness simply disappears.

 

Just today, she was sat behind me in my French class, scratching the underside of her arms. When asked my one of my friends why she was doing that, she replied "making another scratch". I commented on this, telling her to stop it and stop being stupid, only to be snapped back at straight away. At least she stopped the scratching.

Is that self harm, even if she doesn't even make a proper mark on herself?

 

I stopped being friends with her after her rude behaviour (snapping, constantly insulting, sarcastic tones), even though she could probably do with a few friends.

 

She blames all these antics on her mother. Her mother doesn't treat her nicely (not letting her on the computer, is what she says). Her mother won't let her have everything she wants.

 

Maybe this is all very bias of me, and she really needs some real help. I don't know.

P. S. Answering your unspoken question - yes, I am an atheist.

I'm not religious, I have no religion at all, yet I believe in this to some extent. So in that way, religion doesn't have to do with PA...

If you ask me, paranormal stuff is like. When we can't explain something we think well. It must be like paranormal.

Good point. If it was to do with religion, it would not be called Paranormal Activity, but "miracles".

I love school it is so cool and you can still meet so many people especially if you are involved in some exchange of students and so on. I just love it it is so cool. Really and you all should love the school because it will give you your future.

That is a good point actually.

And why are a few people just focusing on the bad points? stop being so negative, and just enjoy "the best years of your life" (as it is said)

my name is steve, and i'd like to believe

that i'm no fool cus i think your cool

your name is marmar, but your no farmer

i think your sweet, like a dog in heat.

I think that's quite funny...how long did it take? 10 seconds?

 

Welcome to the board! I will try to help you out...

 

Marmar? Is that spelt phonetically?

If it is then:

 

She's like no one you've ever seen

I didn't think I'd charm her

But I've been living like a dream

All this time, I've been in love with Marmar

 

I could probably think of something alot better...but how is that?

The topic description pretty much says it all. If you are a musician, what do you play?

 

I. myself, am a bassist. I play primarily 4 string, but can play upwards of 7. My preference when it comes to fingerboards is unlined fretless. At the moment I am playing a decent enough ESP to hold me over until I finish building the bass I'm currently working on (you can see that Here.)

Seven Strings? That's pretty awesome. My sister plays bass, but at the moment, she can only play 4 or 5 strings.

 

I myself am a musician, also. I play guitar, like so many people on here and alot i know offline do. I play mainly electric rather than acoustic (I do not really like the sound of acoustic guitars).

I own a "fake" Les Paul, which cost me Ł129, two years ago. I get lessons for free at my school, but I don't know what grade I'm at - I haven't been taught through grades until now (learning a Grade 5 piece for my GCSEs)

 

I do like to sing aswell, although I haven't had a single lesson of tuition on it, I plan to sing in my band some day.

 

Another way that I'm a musician is through writing lyrics, music and sometimes complete songs.

Well this I find quite interesting and dumb at the same time. Ernie Chambers, Senator of Nebraska, says he is suing God because he has caused many catastrophes like hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, etc; that have caused many deaths and much damage in the world to innocent people.

If God lost this case, who exactly would pay the winner? Saying God is real, would he reach down from heaven with a pot of gold? Or would some form of the church have to pay for it?

I don't think it would ever reach court, basically because it is an absolutely ridiculous case, and like said before, just a publicity stunt.

hey, welcome to the board!Looks like you've already made yourself at home though What kind of a website are you looking to have hosted by here? One for art or games? or something else?

I would kill to be able to do actual ICT work in my ICT lessons! All we ever do is write essay after essay, after essay. It's driving me mad, I have ICT essays coming out of my ears!I have little annoyances about all lessons, but other than that, school is great. I don't understand why people should dislike it. (Those who can't, teach. those who can't teach, teach P.E.)

I live in a town, the nearest City I live near is the capital of my county (Cheshire), Chester. The next nearest is Liverpool, then Manchester.

 

Town : Runcorn Country : England Specialties :

Runcorn is an industrial town and cargo port within the borough of Halton in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England

 

Population :

In mid-2004 its population was estimated to be 61,252

 

Wikipedia Page for my town. Some interesting trivia:

Edward John Smith (1850�1912), captain of the Titanic, purchased a retirement home in Higher Runcorn but never lived there because of his death aboard the Titanic. The singer Nicola Roberts (1985� ) from the British girl band, 'Girls Aloud,' also comes from Runcorn.

I actually skipped the final 10 minutes of my science class today. We had a supply/substitute teacher. While he was at the back of the classroom, myself and four others ran out of the door and to the dinner hall. Bad thing is that we stuck out like sore thumbs - us final years around a couple of hundred first years, but nobody noticed.I tried to get out of maths early, which was my last lesson. I attempted this in the same manner, when the teacher was occupied away from the classroom door, and myself and three of the group I was with before, managed to get out. We half-ran half-walked down the stairs, to the school exit, only to get stopped by our year head. He didn't shout at us, just asked why four pupils are out of lesson blah-de-blah. One left us, saving himself saying he had to go to reception for some lame-excuse of a reason.It's funny, because if we were a couple of seconds later or earlier, we would have made it.I'm definetly trying it again.I suppose it is okay to get out of class early, rather than skipping the whole lesson.

I love my friends, whom I've met at school. I love my classes, they interest me alot (most of them), and apparently, they're good for my future plans. Therefore...necessary.I don't like how the school has turned our lessons into longer sessions, and our lunch to a smaller session. 30 minutes is not enough time for 2 school years (400 pupils, I'll have you know) to queue up and then to sit down, eat and hopefully digest some of their food. i get bad indigestion alot. Queue jumpers don't really help either.I don't like how we're not allowed to wear a coat or jacket. The get confiscated as soon as you enter the building. There's no point in wearing coats anyway, because they don't fit over the jumpers/sweatshirts or blazers that we have to wear. They're vile. i hate them. But it's just uniform.I voted yes, because other than those couple of points, I love my school.

Most of the other pupils at my school seem to, even though a few blame it on their little brothers or sisters liking it and it wearing off on them.It does'nt really appeal to me, from what I've seem on adverts, so I haven't watched it. Yeah, you'll probably say that's not enough to form an opinion of it, but I think it is...

It's gotta be friends, no wait scrubs, no friends!!! Arrggh Son of the beach!

Argh. Me too. I can't decide between the two at all.

I love comedy movies so I'm a fan of Happy Gilmore, and other related films. Usually any Adam Sandler comedy is a good bet.

Oh me too! I love movies Adam Sandler is in...especially The Wedding Singer. I've seen Wedding Singer and Happy Gilmore a million times and I still laugh

All the journalists were ask... ordered to leave the trap for their own security

The above line does not make sense?

When I see all that lies and unfair abuses of power happening in my native country my soul starts crying out for help to such supreme powers as NATO, and the UN. Today almost 1.5 years have passed since that day, but not a single person involved in that criminal has been punished by law, and faiths of many tenths of protestants are still unknown.

If you build on this paragraph, say more about your opinions and back them up with facts, you could use it as a conclusion

When I've been asked out to the movies by guys, we've always gone to watch a comedy. I don't think that going to the cinema would really help you get to know someone. Okay, there's the time before and after the movie, but not during it, and this time may only be 5 minutes if you meet up at the cinema or something.But a trip to the cinema wins over a meal at a 'resturant', for a first date anyway. Definetly too awkward. And what if they ate like a pig? haha...Am I making any sense?