Dear Antifuckers,
This, my break from writing a highly ambigious essay for Anthropology will be dedicated to sharing with you some utterly worthless pieces of information.
*Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Now, I assume this is a broader step executed by our dolphin friends to further become human; as we all know dolphins are one of only 2 non-human creatures on earth who have sex for pleasure and as such keeping one eye open while sleeping must double as an ability to perv on other dolphins as well as survival etc etc.
*The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Nuff said...
*Somehow, an iguana can end its own life.
My sincerest apologies to our emo colleagues, a small scaled creature who can also grow its tail back has beaten you to the goal in regards to the installation of a 'self-end' command...and it didn't even need a sharp object let alone any object at all...neat ey?
*A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
As such, when faced with a choice between an animal that could possibly be the most stubborn of all the domesticated creatures and a similarly tempered one who is sterile-evaluate whether you shall be encountering any quicksand on your journey to work and choose wisely.
*The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.
I can now relate to my vegetarian friends who regard egg eating as murder, let's do the mathematics shall we?
Assuming the avergae caged hen on a normal egg farm is alive for 3 egg-laying years, then it would lay:
(19 x 12) x 3
= 228 x 3
= 684 eggs
Multiply this by the average hen population in that normal
egg farm is about 500 on a small scale local establishment.
We also assume that 50 of them at any one time will not lay:
228 eggs per year x 450 hens
= 102,600 eggs
A very basic guess as to how many hens there are in the World who are laying
and having their eggs taken away from them...lets say 1 Million?
102,600 x 1,000,000
= 102,600,000,000
It's chickencide I tell you...
In summary,
*Don't go swimming with the dolphins, especially in tight swimwear
*Keep away from the giant squid; if possible direct its attention to the dolphin and they'll have a staring competition,
*If you're an emo, befriend an iguana and learn the ways of self-kill without using sharps and therefore not making a mess,
*Forego the donkey and choose the mule,
*Lay off the eggs...
Sigh...one should always appreciate puns...
Mina...
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
DebtSwap by 180 Degrees
Not everyone has Facebook, and not everyone follows the news either. And for those who do follow the news, this topic can be easily missed because it's only briefly mentioned - not front page material.
This topic I am talking about is an idea called 'DebtSwap' - created through the thinkings of my friend's Sydney University society called 180 Degrees. It made it into the news because the idea has been accepted for discussion during the 2020 Summit.
Because I'm not a Sydney University student, meaning I don't speak verbose, I am going to put this as layman as possible...
The basis of DebtSwap is a student does community service and in return gets their HECs reduced. Regulations and rules around this idea haven't been 'founded' yet, so don't ask what they are because there are none.
However, 180 Degrees are now opening the floor for suggestions on how to approach DebtSwap that will be beneficial for Australian university students. As a good friend with one of the Directors, I'm posting this idea in ANTIFUCK to allow non-facebook users to discuss and give suggestions.
There has been already criticism and debates occurring in regards to DebtSwap, such as an article in the Australian suggesting that it will only be beneficial towards rich students.
Now here's a little excerpt my friend wrote that might help narrow down some questions:
Now, in the spirit of the 2020 summit we want to open the floor to you, our members and prospective beneficiaries of this scheme to make sure that our proposals capture the best interests of all stakeholders:
- is HECS the most appropriate mechanism or are other means preferable, especially in helping low-income students? is it preferable to have a range of options for students so they can choose what best suits their circumstances.
- what sort of areas would students be most capable and interested in working in?
- what sort of accountability and administrative measures are required? how do we balance
- how should it be funded - government, business or a hybrid model
- what lessons can be learned from similar proposals in other countries?
feel free to post here or email debtswap.180degrees@gmail.com
Excuse the verbosity, it's a USyd thing. What do you think?
This topic I am talking about is an idea called 'DebtSwap' - created through the thinkings of my friend's Sydney University society called 180 Degrees. It made it into the news because the idea has been accepted for discussion during the 2020 Summit.
Because I'm not a Sydney University student, meaning I don't speak verbose, I am going to put this as layman as possible...
The basis of DebtSwap is a student does community service and in return gets their HECs reduced. Regulations and rules around this idea haven't been 'founded' yet, so don't ask what they are because there are none.
However, 180 Degrees are now opening the floor for suggestions on how to approach DebtSwap that will be beneficial for Australian university students. As a good friend with one of the Directors, I'm posting this idea in ANTIFUCK to allow non-facebook users to discuss and give suggestions.
There has been already criticism and debates occurring in regards to DebtSwap, such as an article in the Australian suggesting that it will only be beneficial towards rich students.
Now here's a little excerpt my friend wrote that might help narrow down some questions:
Now, in the spirit of the 2020 summit we want to open the floor to you, our members and prospective beneficiaries of this scheme to make sure that our proposals capture the best interests of all stakeholders:
- is HECS the most appropriate mechanism or are other means preferable, especially in helping low-income students? is it preferable to have a range of options for students so they can choose what best suits their circumstances.
- what sort of areas would students be most capable and interested in working in?
- what sort of accountability and administrative measures are required? how do we balance
- how should it be funded - government, business or a hybrid model
- what lessons can be learned from similar proposals in other countries?
feel free to post here or email debtswap.180degrees@gmail.com
Excuse the verbosity, it's a USyd thing. What do you think?
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Dear MQ,
---First Order of Business---
Dear Macquarie University Students,
I would like to introduce myself as the pathetic university student who transferred from UWS at the beginning of this year in the hope of achieving a degree more suited to my preferences and favoured subjects.
Aside from a the horribly long waiting time to find out whether my application had been successful or not; the transition was quite smooth.
And that my dear reader is where the niceties stop...
Whereas at UWS I had a solid group of companions- at MQ I was met with drained faces whose main sustenance was based on cigarettes and coffee.
Aside from that is the fact that I sat in my first Geology lecture next to a couple of asians (who i don't mind to label because that is what they are) who seem to be incapable of initiating or maintaining conversation.
Is it really that difficult to tell me what you like to do?
Or how you are?
I mean seriously, are all exchange students from ALL backgrounds unable to converse in the most widely spoken language on Earth?
Must you make University life a drag by linking each other's arms under a very strangely coloured silk umbrella and jabber to yourselves in Mandarin while walking past me?
Moreso, it can be said that some of your manners are atrocious considering I can open doors to buildings for you while not even receiving a nod of gratitude to recognition.
Keeping in mind that yes you have things on your mind, study, money, work etc etc; it will not however cause you a stroke to say goodmorning back sometime.
I am yet to encounter anyone at Macquarie University with any charisma, character or sheer whackiness of which UWS students possess in abundance.
And Hey!...If I can come here at the age of 3, keep my language at home and amongst my community and still talk with those around me in English; then I'm sorry but you can too...
That is all...
Dear Macquarie University Students,
I would like to introduce myself as the pathetic university student who transferred from UWS at the beginning of this year in the hope of achieving a degree more suited to my preferences and favoured subjects.
Aside from a the horribly long waiting time to find out whether my application had been successful or not; the transition was quite smooth.
And that my dear reader is where the niceties stop...
Whereas at UWS I had a solid group of companions- at MQ I was met with drained faces whose main sustenance was based on cigarettes and coffee.
Aside from that is the fact that I sat in my first Geology lecture next to a couple of asians (who i don't mind to label because that is what they are) who seem to be incapable of initiating or maintaining conversation.
Is it really that difficult to tell me what you like to do?
Or how you are?
I mean seriously, are all exchange students from ALL backgrounds unable to converse in the most widely spoken language on Earth?
Must you make University life a drag by linking each other's arms under a very strangely coloured silk umbrella and jabber to yourselves in Mandarin while walking past me?
Moreso, it can be said that some of your manners are atrocious considering I can open doors to buildings for you while not even receiving a nod of gratitude to recognition.
Keeping in mind that yes you have things on your mind, study, money, work etc etc; it will not however cause you a stroke to say goodmorning back sometime.
I am yet to encounter anyone at Macquarie University with any charisma, character or sheer whackiness of which UWS students possess in abundance.
And Hey!...If I can come here at the age of 3, keep my language at home and amongst my community and still talk with those around me in English; then I'm sorry but you can too...
That is all...
Introducing...ME
hello...welcome to this stark and simple page
why are you here? because you unlike so many people have decided to read something which doesn't involve any klingon, shiznit or ranting about how you're best friend stole your boyfriend from you and you're using a blog to hide behind an LCD panel swearing on the very little power you possess to make her life a living hell...
if you are one of these people, please zip your fly back up and turn the lights on...watching porn in the dark will give you macula degeneration...
my name is Mina...
please don't step on the flowers..
why are you here? because you unlike so many people have decided to read something which doesn't involve any klingon, shiznit or ranting about how you're best friend stole your boyfriend from you and you're using a blog to hide behind an LCD panel swearing on the very little power you possess to make her life a living hell...
if you are one of these people, please zip your fly back up and turn the lights on...watching porn in the dark will give you macula degeneration...
my name is Mina...
please don't step on the flowers..
Alice's first post
I'm horribly lazy.
Don't Cha!
Oh yes, to all Antifuckers, please label your posts - it makes it easier for referencing. :)
Don't Cha!
Oh yes, to all Antifuckers, please label your posts - it makes it easier for referencing. :)
(Dean) Global Warming What ?? Atlantis
I have just read the most interesting article on Global Warming and the notion of Atlantis. It was by truth one of the most far fetched notions, but when i do think about it, it kinda makes me laugh... then worry.
For those who don't know what Atlantis is, in short, Plato put forward the notion that there was one city that technologically and culture was far advanced in all means than ever seen before. They had this kick ass city in the middle of the ocean away from.. the rest of the world and society. Plato put forward the notion that all human life, languages, culture etc.. was formed from there and influenced. But Alas Due to some unseen events Atlantis sank beneath the oceans and the lost city was never seen again.
Now for the interesting part, I read this article on Plato's notion of Atlantis, and its links to now-a-day society. It was very "out there" i do admit but interesting. The notion that we are going to ignore global warming (kinda happening already) and the Sea levels are going to drastically rise, War will spread (oh look increasing global warming) till... well my guess is Japan because hey they like import all their wood and don't cut down their forests and are techno freaks.... Anyway till one nation thrives over the rest controlling what ever little land is left in the world due to global warming.... Kinda creating an Atlantis
Creating the last form of human existence on a floating island home in a dome.... Atlantis. Over time global warming will stabilise, Ice will form, water levels will drop... Japan, oh i mean Atlantis will add to this and then re-populate the world influencing the culture of the area's that pre-existed there millions of years ago.
Then the fun part, some eco-terrorist, or something happens and japan sinks under the water lost forever.
Hmm was Plato's notion of Atlantis a vision of the not so near future hahahah I kinda really like this theory.... i think im going to move to Japan.
For those who don't know what Atlantis is, in short, Plato put forward the notion that there was one city that technologically and culture was far advanced in all means than ever seen before. They had this kick ass city in the middle of the ocean away from.. the rest of the world and society. Plato put forward the notion that all human life, languages, culture etc.. was formed from there and influenced. But Alas Due to some unseen events Atlantis sank beneath the oceans and the lost city was never seen again.
Now for the interesting part, I read this article on Plato's notion of Atlantis, and its links to now-a-day society. It was very "out there" i do admit but interesting. The notion that we are going to ignore global warming (kinda happening already) and the Sea levels are going to drastically rise, War will spread (oh look increasing global warming) till... well my guess is Japan because hey they like import all their wood and don't cut down their forests and are techno freaks.... Anyway till one nation thrives over the rest controlling what ever little land is left in the world due to global warming.... Kinda creating an Atlantis
Creating the last form of human existence on a floating island home in a dome.... Atlantis. Over time global warming will stabilise, Ice will form, water levels will drop... Japan, oh i mean Atlantis will add to this and then re-populate the world influencing the culture of the area's that pre-existed there millions of years ago.
Then the fun part, some eco-terrorist, or something happens and japan sinks under the water lost forever.
Hmm was Plato's notion of Atlantis a vision of the not so near future hahahah I kinda really like this theory.... i think im going to move to Japan.
Welcome to the AntiFuck
Seriously people think about it.... That is my issue of the day... well when i think of it, it seems to be more like the issue of the year!
Yes and for those of you who are sitting there reading this and claming... "Well what the fuck is this notion of "it" that i am ment to be thinking of".... Well i have two simple things to say to you
1) First your not thinking hard enough, nor actually opening your eyes because it is more than obvious when you start trying
2) And Second... "It" is everything you think of, Why not try to doubt the fact you are doubting about the perspective of the IT. (atleast it will make you think harder solving your #1 problem)
To be honest i am tired of society, when i sit down and think to myself about the perspective of the human individual I envisioned him or her to be an ill-Mannered and psychologically unstable individual. With an extremely uneducated and barbaric frame of mind, whose vocab display's nothing but ridiculous jaargon, shocking sexual audacity and repulsive images of the capitalism. However, after further analysis of society I can deduce that when i think of the human individual he or she is the epitome of antidisestblishmentarianism (Yes i love that word... and No i cant spell it without looking it up a few times)
Seriously people think about IT! The world needs to be Anti-fucked, litterly sideways because how i view things at the moment is, to be blunt, bleek
Yes and for those of you who are sitting there reading this and claming... "Well what the fuck is this notion of "it" that i am ment to be thinking of".... Well i have two simple things to say to you
1) First your not thinking hard enough, nor actually opening your eyes because it is more than obvious when you start trying
2) And Second... "It" is everything you think of, Why not try to doubt the fact you are doubting about the perspective of the IT. (atleast it will make you think harder solving your #1 problem)
To be honest i am tired of society, when i sit down and think to myself about the perspective of the human individual I envisioned him or her to be an ill-Mannered and psychologically unstable individual. With an extremely uneducated and barbaric frame of mind, whose vocab display's nothing but ridiculous jaargon, shocking sexual audacity and repulsive images of the capitalism. However, after further analysis of society I can deduce that when i think of the human individual he or she is the epitome of antidisestblishmentarianism (Yes i love that word... and No i cant spell it without looking it up a few times)
Seriously people think about IT! The world needs to be Anti-fucked, litterly sideways because how i view things at the moment is, to be blunt, bleek
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