Forum posts made by sprite

yes. just yes. :)

Here is my rifle,
Here is my gun.
One is for shooting.
One is for fun.

Of course a person should be able to own a gun, rifle, pistol. I prefer a 12 gauge shot gun, you just point it. It takes about a hour for the cops to get to my place, where my 357 or shot gun is just a second away.

Stupid question.

the argument, at least mine is, 1) should you be allowed to own an assault rifle and 2) should you have to go thru a back ground check before obtaining your shotgun and 357. it's that simple. if you are cleared, then go ahead, i'm fine with your shotgun and 357. is that really asking too much?

Seems everyone is against guns,til you need one and wish you had it,but by then it's usually too late..

i am against guns. i have been up close and personal for a non-lethal shooting. i didn't wish that i had a gun. i have had bullets, three, fired thru the wall of my apt bedroom. if i'd had a proper bed frame instead of just a box springs and mattress on the floor, i'd have been hit. i didn't wish i had a gun. i have been raped at knife point. cut once, stabbed once. i did not wish i had a gun (if i had, i'd probably be dead).

there fore, i am going to lump your argument for the validity of carrying a gun in with the 'guns don't kill people, people kill people' nonsense category. :)

why does everyone have problems with cheetahs? i think they're beautiful. :)

http://kassowal.com/wallpaper/Animal-wallpaper/Cheetah/8.jpg

Sprite,
you write so powerfully on this. I don't know anyone who has experienced this, but I can imagine and what you said really moved me. My Nan is a very old fashioned person and I don't think she meant it in a malicious way, it's just her. She's probably not thought it through. My Mum has had quite a heated argument over it with her!

I just wonder when this celebrity rape outing thing will all end.


sadly, the more power you have, the more fame, the more money, the easier it is to dodge the charges. you can buy the best lawyers and celebrity buys a lot of get out of jail free cards. we look at allegations suspiciously when it comes to celebs - in it for the money, that's it - the girl's a skank. look at Kobe Bryant, Ben Roethesberger, Michael Jackson. money can buy silence. i know what that's like. funny, you can look at something so obvious, and still, people don't believe you - even friends, they don't want to believe that someone they know could do that, so they choose not to...

Along that vein, the framers of our constitution hated the idea of their new country having a standing army. There are numerous quotes from our founding fathers stating that very fact. This is why it's actually in our Constitution that funding budgets for our armed forces MUST expire every two years, and MUST be re-authorized by an act of Congress. They feared the idea of a standing army and wanted the army to always be beholden to the civilian government for it's existence. They reasoned that as long as the general citizenry could be counted on to rise up and organize into an effective militia, armed with the most effective military weapons they could possess, the standing army could very well be dispensable.

'Strue.

so would all the pro gun people here have an issue with this? you can buy anything you want, no limits, we disband our armed forces and, anyone who owns a gun, when we get into a conflict such as iraq or afghanistan will be enlisted and sent over seas to fight? i mean, that's what the founding fathers wanted, you know! glad to see Mr Nudie pants has come over to my way of seeing things :)

sadly, there is always more abuse then is reported. women, (or men for that matter) for a variety of reasons, don't come forward. sometimes out of shame, out of fear, out of the knowledge of what being branded will do, not wanting to live through it again, sometimes that will happen if it goes to court or to the media, not wanting to be 'slut shamed' a very real phenonemon... sometimes out of ignorance or resignation or cyncism. unless you have gone thru it yourself, you can not imagine how messed up your mind became about what has happened or what is happening. rationality, common sense, logic are tossed out the window... fear and anger and depression dig in and it's hard to shake them loose - i don't think you ever really do, you just learn to cope with them...

and then, someone does come out, and it opens up the flood gates, gives other women the courage to do it as well, makes them want to support that one brave soul by speaking out and saying 'yeah, me too.' and stand beside her. i've seen it happen. you 'admit' to be being harassed, abused, molested, or raped, and suddenly, there's are friends, co-workers, family, even strangers walking up to you with nothing but love and understanding... yeah, me too. you are not alone. you need to talk about it? and it inspires you to do something, even if it's just to open up, to share your story so that others don't feel so alone and isolated...

so yeah, sometimes it becomes 'fuck you - you are not going to do this to anyone else, not going to make them feel like you made me feel, not going to get away with it. fuck you, i am taking you down, you prick.' and i think, i hope, that is what is happening... for anyone who says it's women 'jumping on the band wagon' for compensation, sorry, but fuck you. 54% of sexual assaults go unreported. that's rape. the instances of sexual harassment are much higher. 95% of sexual harassment is never reported. 95%.

common reasons: i don't want to make trouble, lose my job, turn my family members in, he didn't mean it, it was a misunderstanding, he said he was sorry and would never do it again....

I am not an angry girl but it seems like I've got everyone fooled
Every time I say something they find hard to hear
They chalk it up to my anger and never to their own fear
And imagine you're a girl just trying to finally come clean
Knowing full well they'd prefer you were dirty and smiling


~ Ani DiFranco

I've been wanting one of these too but in the clear/diamond coloured crystal. So pretty!

i just got a quick giggle, btw, taking another look at these... 'green light for go, yellow for slow down, red for stop' sort of went thru my head. :)

i'm rather small and tight and it takes a bit to relax me for any kind of anal, so i only have smalls in my toy drawer. honestly, i have to be a little high or a little drunk or incredibly turned on (and always well lubricated) for anything larger and that usually consists of a dildo not a plug.

I just want to quickly interject that a woman losing her clitoris is not comparable to a man losing his penis, for several reasons.

on of which is that clit's are actually useful. (see what i did there?)

i do. it's my exes. i keep it in a jar on my nightstand. :)

Sprite, I get the feeling your copy of the Kama Sutra has some typographical errors in it. If it does, my I borrow it?

my favorite position is The Wascally Wabbit followed by the Porky Pig.

:)

http://www.youtube.com/embed/0jTHNBKjMBU

How gay lol

i assume you meant that as a compliment, such as:

damn, how gay is that, i LOVE that song, it makes me feel so good and everything seems better when i hear it! cause honestly, gay is a beautiful work and every time i hear it, i light up from within.

Yes but did Ben Franklin and the like ever dream of television bringing about a new form of spreading hate speech and the like. Did ever dream that every reporter would think they have the God given right to report every little thing they felt was newsworthy. You can apply that logic to anything. There is no way they could have known about any of the technology that would come available. Do you think they ever dreamed that people would take fertilizer and use it to blow up buildings.

Do you think that they would have thought people would have taken the freedom of speech right to mean they could call anyone any name they wanted and use speech to incite others to beat and kill others they didn't like?



i'm honest enough to admit that those are all very good points, so i'll add to mine. when the second amendment was drafted, the idea was that the states didn't actually have a regular army and they needed the resources to put one, a militia, together at a moment's notice. that was why there is that line about the militia in there. now, we HAVE a regular army. if we go to war, we don't need to put together an armed militia from our citizens, we simply call in our army, marines, airforce, and navy to 'get 'er done'.

Yes, I know the second amendment does not constitute a nuclear weapon, nor chemical weapons or biological weapons.

And yes, the second amendment does not give citizens the right to violence with weapons. But it WAS intended for citizens to resist against corruption within local governments.

Times, weapons and technology has changed, and so must the citizens. I'm not saying that all people SHOULD be driving a tank, what I'm saying is that it is protected under the second amendment.

yep, good old Ben Franklin said: you know, one day people will get the technology to build tanks and fighter plans, and dammit, we'd better make sure their rights are protected. it's a far cry from the freedom to own what are really primitive weapons and as much used for day to day survival as for anything else.

My stick figure skills are unparalleled...just throwing that out there. :-"

But in all seriousness, Sprite is an excellent artist, as well. I don't know how she feels about me just throwing her out there like this, but she'll be nice about it either way.


thanks Dani, and i don't mind, but honestly, i have way too much on my plate right now as it is - i haven't actually done much for a while now, in fact, besides doodles. :)

A is for Ash and Abi and Ally.
B is for... well... it's simply B...
C is for CuriousKitty
D is for Dancing Doll
Zebra is for LiZZy.

B is the odd ball, so i chose B.

my one night stand has lasted 5 years now. :)

try this one:

http://www.lushstories.com/forum/yaf_topics20_Relationship-Advice.aspx

Translated by aliens? xD That's too fuckin' funny. I'm not even going to comment on how fucking ridiculous you sound.

Jesus christ, what is wrong with schools these days?

underfunded. funny, the NRA can pour $19 million dollars into political campaigns alone (2011-2012), and another $6 million into lobbying, all to assure that, when the time comes to vote on background checks for gun purchasers, it will fail, and yet they're not willing to put any into education. seems like the issue with schools these days is that people care more about the right to be armed than they do about the right to be educated. :)

I don't just believe this, I know this because it is a fact. U.S. citizens have a right, under the United States Constitution, to own a gun, tank, fighter jet, submarine etc... And there are many citizens on U.S. soil who own such a thing - if they can afford it.


That kind of thinking scares me. so, you'd be ok with someone, as long as they have enough money to do it, with.... oh, let's say building a compound out in Texas along with a lot of like minded friends, laying down an airstrip, purchasing jet fighters, arming them with missiles and bombs, arming everyone with military grade weapons, throwing in some tanks, maybe have some surface to air missiles set up on the grounds. you'd be ok with that?

oh, and another thought. apparently you had no issue with the two guys who set off bombs a the Boston Marathon as well? right, they had every right to have bombs. it's in the constitution, after all. the right to run around with bombs in duffle bags. good god...




You misunderstand the entire concept. Not just British tyranny, but local as well - Battle of Athens 1946. I understand that it is a human right, under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but I'm pretty sure Britain/Australia has some local problems they can be dealing with, and shouldn't be wasting their time on American issues. It's understandable as to why, but completely disrespectful. Especially if the foreigners have never visited the United States.



it's not 1946. it's 2013. what worked then would, today, probably be carried out through the medium of social media and, hopefully, peaceful intervention. if i understand you correctly, you seem to believe that citizens have the right to armed and violent protest. You'd have supported the Rodney King incited riots in '92? you think the confederacy was justified into going to war in 1861? how about the '99 world trade riots in Seattle? we cool with guns here? Civil rights? Stonewall? Just because it worked in '46 doesn't make it right nor does it apply to the world as it is today.


The days of separate nations are long over? What does that mean? Are you speaking about the "New World Order" conspiracy theory? Or are you speaking about the trade and treaties? Sure, treaties and trade are healthy for nations. But it's not healthy when nations that are in economic troubles ask the U.S. for a big check for a few hundred million U.S. dollars to bail out their economy - and that's basically all the world is right now. Stupid socialist programs that cause economies to collapse, and no politicians ever learns from these mistakes. I think it's humorous how we are the most hated country in the world, yet we are the one who has to save the ass of every nation in crisis. What would happen if the U.S. closed its borders, treaties and trade, and became self-sufficient? The U.S. would start to grow again, and the rest of the world would be in pure chaos. That's sad and funny all at the same time.



nope, i am so not a conspiracy theorist. in case you hadn't notice, our economies these days are very intertwined - the status of the euro affects the us economy, the us economy affects the global market, the situation in the mid east affects the oil market, china owns part of our debt, the list goes on.

on top of that, news access, media access is instant these days - very little happens that can't be transmitted around the world to a wide audience in a matter of seconds. if there's a gov't take over, or collapse, the entire world will know about it moments after it happens. btw, if we became a seclusionist country, don't forget we'll lose global trade as well, both imports and exports. prices will go up, companies relying on overseas distribution will go broke, all those who come to this country to make contributions will be shut out. how would that affect us? one example in many. Penicillin, while it was developed for sythisized mass production in the US, it was discovered by a Scot and developed for medicinal use in England and Austrailia.


I won't even comment on your last statement. Your ignorance runs rampant.

not sure why you felt compelled to go with the personal insults, but whatever. just pointing out that the British are not the only one with a run of tyranical decisions. please don't tell me that the Shah of Iran was put in place for the good of the Iranian people, that the Invasion of Iraq was justified, that the entire fiasco of Vietnam was something we should have been involved in. :)

First, the right to own a firearm IS OUR right, as constituted by the second amendment. Obviously, anyone who has to question the second amendment of the United States Constitution is clearly reading it wrong.

Let's break the amendment down with the thoughts of our Forefather's in mind:

A well regulated Militia (civilians that band together in times of emergency), being necessary to the security of a free State (not as in the 50 states, but as in a state of being free), the right of the people (law-biding citizens) to keep and bear Arms (any unclassified weapon - from a handgun to a fighter jet), shall not be infringed (weapons will not be taken away, in order for the civilian population to rise against tyrannical governments).

The possession of a firearm has been in American culture since the birth of our nation. Since the days of fighting the tyranny of the crown *cough cough* Great Britain. *cough* You clearly have not done your American history homework.

I do not think that any foreigner to the United States should be giving their two cents about U.S. laws. We will deal with it ourselves. We as Americans do not judge British/Australian laws because we disagree with them. You have your country - we have ours. I'm sure that there is plenty of other issues in Australia that you can be dealing with - not to mention that I could easily nitpick the mistakes and ignorance of British history, but I won't.

so... let me get this right... you believe we, as american citizens, have the right to own any type of arms we desire? gun, tank, figher jet, scud missle, drone, BOMB, etc? i'm just asking for clarification here, btw.

oh, and pretty sure we haven't had in issue with british tyranny for quite some time - also, it is the right of anyone to state their opinion (that whole free speech thing) about anything they wish, whether or not they are an american citizen. do they have the right to change US policy? no. but voicing their opinion is a HUMAN right, not simply an american right.

btw, i've heard plenty of Americans judging British and Australian laws. happens all the time. the days when we were such separate nations are long over, the world is moving more and more towards co-dendency as our technology keeps evolving. :)

another thing, i could nitpick the mistakes of British history as well... Vietnam. Iran. Iraq. oh, wait...

When I first started reading this inane thread a few minutes ago (I had a weak moment... I'm sorry )
The first thought I had was female mutilation/castration.
The question is a little on the warped side. And I can usually stomach and even dish out some warped shit but even this is beyond me.
You may want to rethink the question posed here. Cause in all seriousness... It's fucking weird.

when i first read the question, i kind of went with 'magical genie', quit honestly (ok,a not too bright magical genie). that said, Ruthie brought up the subject of the practice of female genital mutliation which is a HUGE issue in some parts of the world and a valid point to make if that was where her thoughts, and yours, went. Do i think that was intended? no. do i think that it could be construed that way? obviously, it was.

I'd give up my clit if it meant I never had to read another goddamed mutherfukkin stupid question in the Lush forums.

lol - guess you're not going to have to worry about losing it, then. :)

lol - is this even a serious question?

i don't. in fact, i don't get jealous at all - not sure why, but jealousy has never been an issue for me - if someone i like, or love even, is flirting, or into someone else as well, or even having sex with them, as long as they're open and honest about it, i don't have an issue. i don't know, maybe i'm broken

No I wouldn't do that but I'd die for her if it were necessary.

i'm sure she wouldn't enjoy that as much as you'd think, buz.

Like Ravyn said, more power to the guys and gals out there who are into it - myself, i don't have an issue with it, but it's not a personal turn on for me. then again, i like girls peeing on me, so...