Questions of the Week

1. Do you think I can convince my Buddhist friend that he owes me money from two lifetimes ago?
Added by: Sners

2. Should India have a seat on the UN Security Council?
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3. Should the character of The Joker appear in the next installment of Batman?
Added by: indysara

4. Do you promote YT on other sites?
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5. Would you rather spend a day with an eight year old or an eighty year old?
Added by: juni

1. Scrubs trivia quiz
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2. What Military Aircraft Are You?
Added by: Okkid123

3. Which metal guitar are you?
Added by: piemeister10

4. Which dinosaur are you?
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5. What kind of Chapstick are you?
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Funniest Comments of the Week

From a journal titled 'free sex advice' :
Mr Bungle: Ok first off. What is this sex?
Rik_Khaos: I think it's that feeling you get when you haven't ate in like 15 hours. You know when you need to have something inside you.

Random Thread:
newtownninja: Why can't most Americans understand what socialism is in the first place? Obama is a modern liberal not a socialist.
Noldor: My definition: the more you tax, and the more government control you have over businesses, the more socialist you are. Until you get to a point where you become just a plain ol' communist.
A_C_Jobim: Today I had steak for dinner. My definition of steak is a salad.

Q: Would you ever have sex with your boss? :
rik_khaos: Nah, I prefer to just stick to sex with my g/f.
le_berger: Same here, Rik's gf is plenty enough.

A journal in which a teenager admitted to getting drunk and stripping at a party:
EmoXNaruto: Jin, I am 15 and I like drinking.
Avant-garde: You're being incredibly stupid. Not only would you be ruining your health and making a bad reputation for yourself. You are putting your life at risk every time you drink to much by making yourself extremely vulnerable to the less savoury members of society out there.
4evame: You gonna get raped, is what they are trying to say
Avant-garde: There I was dressing up that phrase in delicate bows of linguistic beauty and you bulldoze it with your straight talking, no nonsense attitude.

Random Thread:
BluPineRidge: We did frogs in school
postallbear: You did frogs in school? Wow. I guess that's Michigan for ya...
twisebaker: We did frogs in middle school as well - funnily enough, I got out of that section of science for a history project. However, the next summer I took a college-esque course and while they did the tiny frogs in school, in THIS class we started with an earth-worm, then went onto a GIGANTIC bull-frog, then a fetal pig.
Tezmata: I am so glad you missed that joke because this post is priceless.

Joke of the Week

Alligator Shoes

A young blonde was on vacation in the depths of Louisiana. She wanted a pair of genuine alligator shoes in the worst way, but was very reluctant to pay the high prices the local vendors were asking.

After becoming very frustrated with the "no haggle" attitude of one of the shopkeepers, the blonde shouted, "Maybe I'll just go out and catch my own alligator so I can get a pair of shoes at a reasonable price!"

The shopkeeper said, "By all means, be my guest. Maybe you'll luck out and catch yourself a big one!"

Determined, the blonde turned and headed for the swamps, set on catching herself an alligator.

Later in the day, the shopkeeper was driving home, when he spotted the young woman standing waist deep in the water, shotgun in hand. Just then, he saw a huge 9-foot alligator swimming quickly toward her. She took aim, killed the creature, and with a great deal of effort hauled it on to the swamp bank.

Lying nearby were several more of the dead creatures. The shopkeeper watched in amazement. Just then the blonde flipped the alligator on its back, and frustrated, shouted out, "Damn it, this one isn't wearing any shoes either!"

Member of the Week

The member of the week is comunismsfun. A member since June 2004, Com recently beat out several other YTers in a pick the college bowl games challenge. Congrats!

JoeInterview's Member Feature

This week's interview features LiJasMom. This interview was conducted by travbowman.

JoeInterview: First off, how did you find YT?

LiJasMom: I was very bored one night and was looking for quizzes. Then I stumbled upon YT. At first I mainly just answered a few questions and lurked. Took me quite a while to make my first post, which I think was in the late GMYT thread.

JI: What would you say is the biggest reason you keep coming back for more?

LJM: Light answer: for the fun, the discussions, the contact with people from far away places: Serious answer: When I first joined I suffered from a major depression which pretty much kept me indoors. YT was a way to talk to others without having to face the real world.

JI: How long had you suffered from depression?

LJM: I suffered from winter depressions when I was a teen, young adult. Nothing major, just generally feeling more moody come wintertime. When I joined YT it had changed. It was bad, it was all the time, probably for a couple of years. My best friend forced me to seek help, and I've been on medication since.

JI: Please educate the ignorant on Scandinavia- - how long does Winter last out there?

LJM: Forever? - We had a lousy summer, fall started early with loads of rain. Now it's December and it hasn't even snowed properly yet. So all in all our weather just sucks.

Usually we get snow around January and February. Then it slowly becomes spring again, very slowly...

JI: You recently got engaged to another YTer. What was the first meetup like?

LJM: The flight over was nervewrecking. I did have a pretty good feeling about it though, since we'd gotten to know eachother pretty well during the past months. My main worry was lack of chemistry. The second I kissed him, we both knew that it was meant to be, which is also why I said yes, when he proposed to me at the airport.

Very romantic, very embarrasing.. (People clapped ffs!) Yes, it sounds like something from a movie, and very corny, but it's true all the way.

JI: What do your daughters think of Brunnen_G?

LJM: My daughters are very protective of me, since we've gone through some rough times, but they are extremely pleased that I've finally found happiness. They've both spoken to him on msn and apparently they seem to like him...One can only wonder!

JI: Besides the wedding, what are you most looking forward to in 09?

LJM: Apart from Brunnen moving over? I'm really looking forward to Obama. I hope he'll make a huge difference. We've not been that keen on Bush here in Denmark apart from our pm, who's an idiot....

JI: What's the best thing about being Danish?

LJM: Porn.

JI: What was the teenage version of LiJasMom like?

LJM: I was far too good to be true, Never fought with my mom, always did my homework, got extremely good grades...UNTILL I began what we call Gymnasium, which would be somewhat like like the US version of Senior High.

Oooh, the world of partying opened up to me, with alcohol and boys. In Denmark back then there were no age limit to drinking, so we partied HARD! (now it's 16 in general and 18 in bars.)

JI: How did this experience influence you once you had teenage daughters?

LJM: Well, I've been alone with them most of their lives. We've always been an extremely open family and from an early age, whenever they asked me about sex, I told them what they needed to know at the age they were at. My oldest have a steady boyfriend, she's 19 so she's an adult, and what she does in her private time, I don't care about. (She does tell me though... sigh)

Youngest, who's 16, is still a virgin and not really interested in changing that anytime soon.

Drinking wise.. we don't have a lower limit for when you can drink, though teens have to be 16 before they can buy it themselves. Because I've always had a very trust based relationship with my girls, they've been allowed to drink opposed to some of their mates.

I've been told many stories about how drunk the other people were at parties, when especially my oldest always came home sober. She knew she was allowed, so it wasn't really that interesting.

JI: What do you do for a living?

LJM: Currently I work as a cashier at a supermarket. Mainly because I just needed a job, I used to work as a teacher, but because of the depression issues I had to give it up. I'll get back to it eventually, since it's my passion.

JI: What did you teach?

LJM: English (duh), Home Ed. History, Crafts (FIrst year, I had no idea what I was doing) Religion and Computer Science... as in teaching the kids how to use all the progams on the computer. I'm rather computer savvy.. Even replaced a few harddisks, cdroms, and whatnot in my time....And I'm the one my friends calls when they have computer problems...

JI: What are your views on religion and how did teaching the topic influence you?

LJM: My parents weren't religious at all and of course it had some influence on me. They always told me and my brother that whatever we chose to believe, it was okay with them. My mom once said some very wise words: Religion is a matter of where you've been born.

I have to agree with her. I've had far too many bad things happening to me in my life so I can't really find religion anywhere, but if you can, what does it matter if it's God or Allah, or Budhha or Krishna or a fricking stone you worship? Teaching the subject.. it's all about being very objective and just tell the basic facts.

So teaching it hasn't influenced me at all. Studying religion has always been extremely interesting to me, the whole concept of people believing in a higher power since the dawning of mankind.

JI: Where have you never travelled that you would like to visit?

LJM: The US - it's a country that intrigues me. You seem to have it all, yet you have such a high rate of poverty as well (and I use the term YOU, since YT is mostly us folks). If I had the money I'd drive all over the US and get a feel of what it's really like. Apart from that I'd love to visit Australia, since so many nice YT'ers live there.

JI: What's the last good movie you saw?

LJM: Depends on what you mean with good. I have a strange and unusual passion for super hero movies, enjoyed Iron Man a lot, saw half of the latest Batman, but fell asleep midways. Not because I hated it but because it was 4 am...

JI: What's been your favourite superhero movie ever?

LJM: Ooh, tough one. I really liked Spawn, it's dark and sinister and Spawn really isn't the typical superhero at all. I'll pretty much watch and adore any superhero movie though. It's a flaw.

JI: When drinking, what's your drink of choice?

LJM: Drinking? MOI?? It depends on the situation really. On a hot summersday, nothing beats an icecold beer. When I'm with friends and having dinner, I like wine, Italian Amarone especially.

When I'm partying I fancy something called a FILUR, it's vodka, juice and raspberry soda... mmmmmm, delicious!

JI: If Buddy sells YT to you for a dollar, what's the first thing you change?

LJM: I'm going to assume that I also have unlimited funds as well. I wouldn't change the site to a pg18 site, but I'd make a forum for the 13-17 year olds, where they could frollick all they wanted, I'd make it so that only keymembers could make profiles and whatnot, and I'd change the OS forum access to one year.

Oh and since I have unlimited funds, I'd hold a contest every year, where people could win access to the ultimate YT meetup, all expences paid for.

JI: Where would be the first locale for the ultimate YT meetup?

LJM: It would have to be a place I've never visited, but one I'd really love to see, so I'd say Hawaii. It seems extremely beautiful and friendly. We'd have a luau, with loads of food, drinks, talking into the wee hours of the morning.

JI: Any final words of wisdom to share with your fellow YTers?

LJM: If all else fails, follow your heart AND never stroke a porcupine the wrong way.

This week's article is titled 'Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches', and the thread was posted by handys003.

This week's link is titled 'Make your own Magic Eye 3D Stereogram ', and the link was posted by catos.

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A story I started a few months ago.
Excerpt: Kirmene is sitting in the back of college physics lecture hall next to a caramel skinned girl. Intricate designs of geometric shapes are cluttering up the margins of her page and it is obvious that she is not paying attention to the professor at all.

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