ornery_onion

Stolen without remorse, from Marielle

2009-12-20T14:51:42Z

Comment and I'll respond with the fictional character you put me in mind of and then post the meme in your journal, unless you've done it already.

ornery_onion @ 2009-12-15T09:54:00

2009-12-15T14:54:26Z

And the whole world has to answer right now
just to tell you once again who's Ornery_Onion.

Which song was this lyric from?

ornery_onion @ 2009-08-26T21:28:00

2009-08-27T01:24:08Z

I know that there is some great cosmic meaning behind this image about this fate of human existence.

I just can't see through my frustration at how it is ruining my GIS assignment!

Ganked from Marielle, who Ganked from Erik

2009-08-24T13:59:15Z

Bill Miner's Dewey Decimal Section:

989 Paraguay & Uruguay

Bill Miner = 292239458 = 292+239+458 = 989

Class:
900 History & Geography

Contains:
Travel, biographies, ancient history, and histories of continents.

What it says about you:
You're connected to your past and value the things that have happened to you. You've had some conflicted times in your life, but they've brought you to where you are today and you don't ignore it.

Find your Dewey Decimal Section at Spacefem.com

ornery_onion @ 2009-07-09T12:07:00

2009-07-09T16:20:35Z

Why are feminists so irritating sometimes.

http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/141135/

I especially love the comments, such as the one:

After a commenter says that the relationship is not as bad as the writer of the article says, you get this lovely response...

"honey, it's simple literary criticism. you're skimming the surface and just soaking up/feeding into what stephenie meyer wanted for you to."

First off, I hate the use of honey is a condescending way. It just bothers me.
Second, does anyone else find it the least bit hypocritical that the responder is accusing the original commenter of "just soaking up/feeding into" what someone else says on a feminist review of a book? I wonder if the second commenter actually read the book or was she just "soaking up/feeding into" what the article's author wanted her to.

I love how...
If a man is being aggressive, it's sexist.
If a woman is being aggressive, she's asserting herself.

If a woman is being meek or a housewife, she's been indoctrinated and oppressed.
If a man is being meek or a house-husband, he's spineless and a wimp.

What Big Cat Are You?

2009-04-12T00:27:26Z

You Are a Black Panther

You see through people. You understand others' motives and plans.
You have a knack for predicting the future. You just know what people are going to do.

People are attracted to you. You are naturally able to influence other people's thoughts.
You have the charisma to be a beloved guru or dictator. It's all about how you handle it.

What Big Cat Are You?

ornery_onion @ 2009-03-16T11:17:00

2009-03-16T15:29:06Z

I truly hate stupid people.

So I am online, checking up on some LJ communities and google alerts (bondage) and I come across these two articles.

http://tyrashow.warnerbros.com/2009/01/bisexuality_real_or_bogus_1.php

Tyra banks wants to find out whether bisexuality is real or not....
This makes my blood boil. It's disgusting that a sexual orientation is questioned by a national source.

The other article is from Germany:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jt_J1-0hZ8GQBu6jc2SC720sX48A

This one is a two-for-one deal on offensive and disgusting behavior.

1.) Not only is Merkel (the Chancellor of Germany) trying to equate violence with gun ownership (which is ridiculous to begin with), but the article says that "But Angela Merkel said she favours further restrictions, such as unannounced visits by state authorities to ensure owners have their weapons and ammunition locked away." So apparently, owning a gun is reason enough to break into someone's house and "check up on them"? Does anyone else have a problem with that logic?

2.) "Police said that during their investigation of Kretschmer's computer, they found horror films, violent video games and pornography featuring bondage. Some of the images showed naked, shackled women, police said." In other words, watching horror movies, playing "violent video games" and watching bondage porn can lead to a shooting spree. Does anyone else have a problem with that logic?

ornery_onion @ 2009-01-23T20:58:00

2009-01-24T01:59:10Z

Your result for The Steampunk Style Test...

The Ragamuffin

36% Elegant, 38% Technological, 50% Historical, 16% Adventurous and 51% Playful!

You are the Ragamuffin, the embodiment of steampunk playfulness. Chances are, you approach the genre from a much more casual and lighthearted standpoint than most other fans. To you, there is always an element of play inherent in the genre, and you may very well enjoy fashion as much for the opportunity to dress up as for the style itself. You probably wear goggles as an accessory, and rarely as actual eye-protection. Your outfits are likely to incorporate a lot of brown or cream, and combine large boots, Victorian corsets or vests, aviator caps or bowler hats, and gypsy skirts or slacks, simply because you like them all.

Try our other Steampunk test here.

Take The Steampunk Style Test at HelloQuizzy

Yay, I'm a ragamuffin. Impressive.

Frustration with Research

2008-12-11T18:08:40Z

As many of you know, I am currently working on paper from my sexuality class and my chosen topic is on pornography and aggression. The paper consists of a literature review and then I design an experiment. So, I am doing my lit review and I come across this study on the effect of alcohol and pornography on aggression. This line struck me:

"Moreover, studies comparing rapists to other men
have fairly consistently found that rapists, on
average, have a greater sexual response to nonconsensual
sex depictions than do non-offenders,
indicating that sexual arousal to coercive stimuli
may motivate some men towards sexually aggressive
behavior"

Does anyone else see a problem with this statement? Look again.

Which comes first: the rape or the rape depiction? Therefore, which causes the other?

The worst part is, the paper goes on...

"Because sexual arousal to violent sexual stimuli
predicts increased sexual aggression likelihood,
discriminates between rapists and non-rapists,
and plays a prominent role in models of sexual
aggression [Barbaree and Marshall, 1991], a better
understanding of factors that influence sexual
arousal to violent pornography is warranted."

I'm sorry, when did you prove any of that? This is why sociology is not considered to be a real sciene. You have crap like this being accepted as truth. Oh and for the record, I have yet to find a strong causal link between pornography consumption and aggression. If you have one, please let me know.

ornery_onion @ 2008-11-11T11:09:00

2008-11-11T16:10:18Z

Yet another state coming out against LGBT and polyamory relationships....

Damn Arkansas
http://www.sos.arkansas.gov/elections/elections_pdfs/proposed_amendments/2007-293_Adopt_or_Foster_parent.pdf

ornery_onion @ 2008-11-09T19:25:00

2008-11-10T00:27:09Z

It irritates me that there are still people out there like this...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/08/lesbianism

ornery_onion @ 2008-10-23T21:02:00

2008-10-24T01:09:57Z

Today in my women's sexuality class (where I'm presenting about BDSM and polyamory on tuesday, by the way) we talked about the question, "What causes homosexuality?" This is a completely unanswerable question. There is so much evidence for and against the two main theories of nature and nurture. So I was thinking of a better question that won't assume natural heterosexuality. I was looking for something that could account for heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, men in the Down Low and Str8 Dude cultures, married queer people and virgins. I came up with:

What causes someone to identify as their sexual orientation?

What does anyone think? Is this at least an improvement or do you have another even better idea?

ornery_onion @ 2008-10-08T08:46:00

2008-10-08T12:46:47Z

The Zombie Game is on the Colbert Report!!!

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/187340/october-07-2008/threatdown---zombies

I'm amused. (Check out Threat Down: Zombies)

ornery_onion @ 2008-10-07T15:05:00

2008-10-07T19:06:06Z

A productive way to waste time? Just maybe

Who you agree with politically?
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/MatchoMatic/fullpage?id=5542139

ornery_onion @ 2008-09-19T18:43:00

2008-09-19T22:46:48Z

Your result for The Quick & Painless ENNEAGRAM Test ...

7 - the Adventurer

Thanks for taking the test !

you chose AX - your Enneagram type is SEVEN (aka "The Enthusiast").

"I am happy and open to new things"

Adventurers are energetic, lively, and optimistic. They want to contribute to the world.

How to Get Along with Me

Give me companionship, affection, and freedom.
Engage with me in stimulating conversation and laughter.
Appreciate my grand visions and listen to my stories.
Don't try to change my style. Accept me the way I am.
Be responsible for youself. I dislike clingy or needy people.
Don't tell me what to do.

What I Like About Being a SEVEN

being optimistic and not letting life's troubles get me down
being spontaneous and free-spirited
being outspoken and outrageous. It's part of the fun.
being generous and trying to make the world a better place
having the guts to take risks and to try exciting adventures
having such varied interests and abilities

What's Hard About Being a SEVEN

not having enough time to do all the things I want
not completing things I start
not being able to profit from the benefits that come from specializing; not making a commitment to a career
having a tendency to be ungrounded; getting lost in plansor fantasies
feeling confined when I'm in a one-to-one relationship

SEVENs as Children Often

are action oriented and adventuresome
drum up excitement
prefer being with other children to being alone
finesse their way around adults
dream of the freedom they'll have when they grow up

SEVENs as Parents

are often enthusiastic and generous
want their children to be exposed to many adventures in life
may be too busy with their own activities to be attentive

Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele

The Enneagram Made Easy
Discover the 9 Types of People
Harper SanFrancisco, 1994, 161 pages

You liked the test?
so S P R E A D I T ! tell everyone!!! (use Quick-Paste below)

you wanna know MORE?
so check out, what Wikipedia says about your type...

...even more you'll find in Google

or do you prefer to

You are not completely happy with the result?!
You chose AX

Would you rather have chosen:

BX (NINE)
CX (TWO)
AY (EIGHT)
AZ (THREE)

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ornery_onion @ 2008-09-18T15:19:00

2008-09-18T19:21:12Z

54 seconds

In other news,

I found Jesus in prison today. He was there because a technical parole violation.

and I think I'm the only one in my Evolution of Women's Sexuality class who knows about anything sexually deviant (ex: BDSM, polyamory, transgender, bisexuality).

ornery_onion @ 2008-08-27T14:18:00

2008-08-27T18:33:38Z

So yeah, I got into an accident with scooter. I was test driving the scooter, but all I remember was that I was going toward a sidewalk and thought, "well, that's not good." Next thing I know, I'm in the hospital being pushed around on a gurney and staring at the ceiling. Apparently I have amazing luck (shocking, I know). The guy who was selling us the scooter was a trained EMT and there just happend to be an ambulance going by when it all happened. Also, so I've heard, when I was being interviewed by a cop to see my mental capabilities, they asked "do you know where you are?" and I answered "On the floor of the ambulance". This was followed by "Do you know who the President is?" and I answered "Unfortunately, still George W. Bush". My liberal snarky side must come out when I have a concussion. Anyway, so I go to the hospital and after going through a battery of tests, it turns out that I have no broken bones, just scratches, bruises and a minor concussion. I spent the night at the hospital and then this morning, and was passed off to a different team and a different are (The Transitional Trauma Unit ...joy). It was nice to be visited by parents, Marielle and Chuckles.

Yesterday afternoon, the physical therapist wanted to have me walk, so I did...to the door and back. I got dizzy and nauseous then went to a chair. This was repeated two other times, further every time with less nauseous. When the physical therapist wanted to test me on stairs, turned out that I could do them easily. Later on, a nurse offered me a sponge bath but wanted to make sure that Marielle and I were okay with her doing it. We opted not to do it, but it was still interesting. Joey, Kody and Chase drove up from Baltimore, dropped the girls at the house, then came to visit. Eventually I was released and came home. Spent the day trying to recover. Spent today doing the same and regretting the fact that I'm missing a week (my first) of school and of work. Oh well, hopefully by next week I'll be up to going to school at least if not going to work. If this seems a little confusing, blame it on the meds.

ornery_onion @ 2008-07-31T09:24:00

2008-07-31T13:25:03Z

This entertained me greatly:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1824625

ornery_onion @ 2008-06-26T10:36:00

2008-06-26T14:40:57Z

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold –
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac .
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Total Count: 15

ornery_onion @ 2008-06-22T16:20:00

2008-06-22T20:22:06Z

Hey all,

I know that in American society, there are two dominant ways of thinking about the “causes” of homosexuality, those being social and genetic. I was wondering how people think about some other orientations. In other words, do you think that people are Gay because of social upbringing or because of a genetic predisposition? And how about being Kinky or Polyamorous?

ornery_onion @ 2008-04-30T23:21:00

2008-05-01T03:25:40Z

what we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as ‘unread’ by LibraryThing’s users. as in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. even if you read 'em for school in the first place.

Addendum
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22*
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: A novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods*
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
Frankenstein*
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange*
Anansi Boys*
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984*
Angels & Demons
The Inferno*
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay*
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince*
The Sound and the Fury*
Angela’s Ashes
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere*
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners*
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five*
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Inquiry Into Values*
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood*
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield

ornery_onion @ 2008-04-19T11:35:00

2008-04-19T15:44:44Z

SCATTERGORIES!
SCATTERGORIES...it's harder than it looks! . *Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following... *they have to be real places, names, things...nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial.

1. What is your name: ....................................Bill

2. 4 letter word:..................................................Bark

3.Vehicle: ..........................................................Boxcar

4. A city:.............................................................Bethlehem

5. Boy Name: ....................................................Baxter

6. Girl Name: ....................................................Beth

7. Alcoholic drink: ............................................Bailey's

8. Occupation:....................................................Botanist

9. Something you wear:....................................Bodice

10. Celebrity:.......................................................Brad Pitt

11. Food: ...........................................................Broccoli

12. Something found in a bathroom: .........Bath

13. Reason for Being Late: ..........................Battery

14. Cartoon Character: ....................................Bugs Bunny

15. Something you shout:…............................Batter Up!

16. Animal: ........................................................Baboon

17. Body part:.....................................................Bottom

18. Word to describe you..................................Bold

ornery_onion @ 2008-04-12T19:51:00

2008-04-13T00:07:25Z

One word answers only...

1. Where is your mobile phone? dead
2. Your significant other? amazing
3. Your hair? hairy
4. Your mother? Maternal
5. Your father? Paternal
6. Your favorite thing? learning
7. Your dream last night? unremarkable
8. Your favorite drink? Liquid
9. Your dream/goal? Marriage
10. The room you're in? Common
11. Your ex? complicated
12. Your fear? fear
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? somewhere
14. Where were you last night? GIG
15. What you're not? Unloved
16. Muffins? Depends
17. One of your wish list items? Degree
18. Where you grew up? Allentown
19. The last thing you did? Smash
20. What are you wearing? Clothing
21. Your TV? Gaming
22. Your pets? Amusing
23. Your computer? Computing
24. Your life? Amusing
25. Your mood? content
26. Missing someone? Indeed
27. Your car? Torval
28. Something you're not wearing? hat
29. Favorite Store? Books
30. Your summer? Coming
31. Like someone? Engaged
32. Your favorite color? Black
33. When is the last time you laughed? Slo-Mode
34. Last time you cried? Syracuse

ornery_onion @ 2008-03-07T11:12:00

2008-03-07T16:13:31Z

ornery_onion @ 2008-02-13T17:11:00

2008-02-13T22:19:47Z

This is terribly offensive. What does the media have to portray S&M as some kind of disease that needs to be cured?

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02132008/news/regionalnews/they_beat_it_out_of_me_97391.htm

"I'm trying to learn to control myself and my emotions. I've seen doctors to help me," he said, adding that he's been unable to control his desires "from very early on in my life."