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OOOH. i just said i wanted more in the other thread, and when i get out of it, there's a new poll! :dance: good august for me, minus the coming back to school part :mean:

ooh, i thought the weekend random polliness was starting again :sad: can it? i love those random questions :D

seeing them october 26 and november 1. deffi no nice curls by then :sad: but i can't be TOO sad, because WE'RE GETTING THE BEST XMAS PRESENT EVER.

Oh. My. God. :dance: times INFINITY. december 26?!?! but chris should have kept his hair :bigcry: he's still going to be bald by the time i see him.

this is the third-most popular bumpersticker on facebook right now:

^ooh, where's your avi from? i love it! :D and good luck at uni!

westconn! that's right where i live. i know several people there, but they'll be quite a few years older than your brother. these days, going back home to westconn looks kind of appealing to me. i really hate dorm life, and if i went there i could live at home :D

i've never had marmite and don't think i ever will. it looks too gross, and the ingredients don't even sound appealing. i think i'm in the minority of americans that actually know what it is, though.

haha, what's with all the thread bumping, dave? :laugh3: white and thick for me, though i did develop more of a taste for brown bread this summer.

i love watching british parliament sessions on cspan. it's HILARIOUS how it's ok to just shout at each other and cause a general ruckus with no problem. in america, it's all very boring and official. maybe things would be better if the senators and everyone got to shout at each other while going about business. nah, probably not :P

^agreed. i'd rather go for change in the way obama's describing it than status quo. obama's going to make mistakes too. i just hope he's not going to lie to his entire country, get us into a never-ending war, and leave everything up to his VP like someone we know.

i'm OK with biden, i think he's a good choice, minus the big-mouth factor. not that i wanted him to pick hillary in the slightest (i'm very glad he didn't stoop that low), but it would have been the best thing for his campaign, i think. now with mccain's VP of palin...i'm more worried than anything. i must say that i was quite impressed with biden's speech at the DNC last night, though. obama's was amazing as well, but amazing is par for him. i was still in love with it, but other speeches of his have moved me more, personally.

yes, i didn't see this coming from mccain at all. i was expecting him to pick leiberman (which would have pained me, though very minorly, in other ways), but some virtually unknown lady from alaska that's only been governor for two years? it has next to nothing to do with her experience and everything to do with her conservativism (member of the NRA, austistic daughter that she didn't abort [which i think is extremely honorable, BTW, even though i'm pro-choice]), her oil, and her vagina. had to be said. touche, mccain. but my brain keeps saying "SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT."

(CNN) -- Sen. John McCain has picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, CNN learned Friday. The 44-year-old Palin, who's in her first term as governor, is a pioneering figure in Alaska, the first woman and the youngest person to hold the state's top political job. She catapulted to the post with a strong reputation as a political outsider, forged during her stint in local politics. She was mayor and a council member of the small town of Wasila and was chairman of the state Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which regulates Alaska's oil and gas resources, in 2003 and 2004. The conservative Palin defeated two so-called political insiders to win the governor's job -- incumbent Gov. Frank Murkowski in the GOP primary and former two-term Democratic Gov. Tony Knowles in the 2006 general election. Palin made her name in part by backing tough ethical standards for politicians. During the first legislative session after her election, her administration passed a state ethics law overhaul. Palin's term has not been without controversy. A legislative investigation is looking into allegations that Palin fired Alaska's public safety commissioner because he refused to fire the governor's former brother-in-law, a state trooper. Palin acknowledged that a call was made by a member of her staff to a trooper in which the staffer suggested he was speaking for the governor. Palin has acknowledged that the call could be interpreted as pressure to fire state trooper Mike Wooten, who was locked in a child-custody battle with Palin's sister. "I am truly disappointed and disturbed to learn that a member of this administration contacted the Department of Public Safety regarding Trooper Wooten," Governor Palin said. "At no time did I authorize any member of my staff to do so." Palin suspended the staffer who made the call and the investigation is continuing. Palin has been focused on energy and natural resource policy during her short stint in office, and is known for her support of drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, a position opposed by McCain but supported by many grass-roots Republicans. Her biography on the state governor's Web site says one of the two major pieces of legislation passed during her first legislative session was a competitive process to construct a gas pipeline. Palin started Alaska's Petroleum Systems Integrity Office -- an oversight and maintenance agency for the state's oil and gas equipment, facilities and infrastructure. She created the Climate Change Subcabinet that would forge a climate change strategy, according to the biography. At present, Palin chairs the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, a multistate panel "that promotes the conservation and efficient recovery of domestic oil and natural gas resources while protecting health, safety and the environment," the biography says. She has been named chair of the National Governors Association's Natural Resources Committee. That panel is focused on legislation to make sure that federal policies take state priorities into account in agriculture, energy, environmental protection and natural resource management. She is a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association and takes part in two of Alaska's popular pastimes -- fishing and hunting. The governor's biography says Palin's other priorities have been "education and workforce development, public health and safety, and transportation and infrastructure development." The biography touts other achievements during her time as governor -- the investment of $5 billion in state savings, overhauling educational funding, and implementing a program to help low-income elderly Alaskans. Born in Idaho, she is a longtime Alaskan and a Protestant. Her biography says she arrived in Alaska in 1964, "when her parents came to teach school in Skagway." She graduated from Wasila High School in 1982 and received a bachelor of science degree in communications-journalism from the University of Idaho in 1987. Her husband is Todd Palin, who is a lifelong resident of the state and an oil production operator on Alaska's North Slope. They have five children, including a son who enlisted in the Army last year. Congressional Quarterly notes Palin's other past occupations, including commercial fishing company owner; outdoor recreational equipment company owner; and sports reporter. Palin also made an unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor in 2002, Congressional Quarterly said. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/29/palin.republican.vp.candidate/index.html ____________________________________________________ :bigcry: I'm not too happy about this, because now all those former Hillary-supporter feminists who were thinking about voting McCain will definitely vote McCain. I feel a bit sick with worry.

i completely agree with everything you said. as much as i'd love to honestly say that coldplay are the beatles of our generation, i really don't think they are. it's such a different dynamic with fanbase, musical innovation, the time we live in, and the simple fact that coldplay can't be the beatles because the beatles exist. nothing will ever be the beatles again. U2 is the next best thing, and coldplay after that, but i truly don't believe there will be a large-scale mass mania over a band even remotely resembling what the beatles again ever again in history. music is too diverse these days, with so many more genres and so many more artists in each of those genres that we're all so innundated and overstimualted with musical acts that it's pretty much impossible for one act to universally please like the beatles did. there have been so many bands these days that have made huge advances in musical innovation, but not in any way that remotely touches the beatles. as much as i love both bands to death, i love them for different reasons, and i think that no matter how much bigger and more impressive coldplay get in the years to come, they or anyone else will ever really touch the beatles.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EMMA!! :dance: :dance: :dance:

the first time i heard "viva la vida" the song on that day it randomly showed up on itunes, i was actually shaking. i had heard "violet hill" and "a spell a rebel yell" before and liked them, but wasn't bowled over. "viva la vida" was all i had wanted and more. so yes, goosebumps and beyond for me. also with "lovers in japan (acousitc)," "strawberry swing," and "death and all his friends."

i was in target today, and every like 15 mins they would pump this viva la vida ad over the sound system in the entertainment department :dance: it had some annoucer guy, then clips of violet hill and viva la vida...and lost too, i think :D

^aww, that's so cute :laugh3: i've never seen that before!

^ i think they just suck at grammar :P most people do the "their" thing when it technically should be "he" or "he/she." "their" just sounds better, though, and sounds less pretentious.

^ i think they just suck at grammar :P most people do the "their" thing when it technically should be "he" or "he/she." "their" just sounds better, though, and sounds less pretentious.

me neither, lore. i mean, i don't think i dress like a total fool, but basically i just go for comfortable. not that i'm a total slob, either, but i have been known to wander out to do errands in my pj's...or class :P mostly it's just jeans and t-shirts for me, but i've started to up that a little bit with nicer jeans and flats and cardigans.

ooh, where did you get it? AND HOW CAN YOU PEOPLE NOT OWN FLIP FLOPS?! seriously! :laugh3: well, i guess i didn't own a single pair of flats until last year. now i own two, with another on the way :P

^haha, i saw that pic in the radiohead thread and was like "wow, thom is following a trend of an ethnic scarf?" :laugh4: i have a red scarf similar to that, but i've been wanting to find one like that for a while! and now thom's wearing one :D

:cheesy: happy 6th birthday, AROBTTH! :dance: in my opinion, their best album, though only slightly surpassing parachutes.