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promotion is not one of my primary skills! In addition to the readily apparent failings I neglected to say the times, 12-6pm, and to clarify that the "west campus" is not in new haven like the rest of yale but in west haven, though the text alludes to screwiness of the location and perhaps presumes people will use their personal machinery to look up the location like I had to. however, generally I assume that nobody I have access to on the internet has physical proximity to anything I might be doing so I only mention it at all out of anxiety over having been too busy preparing for it to show anything more interesting than mentions of it.
I hated this event but I did enjoy seeing people having serious conversations while nemitz was hugging a toilet behind them, which is probably the only thing I liked about this event the past four years.
This event being the annual City Wide Open Studios "member show" at Artspace in new haven, a location within 20-30 minutes of moderate car driving from where I am usually. Being a member just means you paid $90. I point this out becomes occasionally somebody wants to congratulate my involvement but honestly truly all it requires is 90 dollars and being able to get there to sign some forms. A few hundred people have 18×18 inch items set up on grids where almost nothing stands out and then every person is crammed into the floor space so that no valid human interaction can occur. I primarily paid for access to the actual personal large scale art exhibition I will be setting up at another location, yet still forced myself to give this one more attention than it deserved, except for in 2017 when I just reused 2015's painting, an act which nobody else seemed to notice or care about.
I speak about this so negatively, you may wonder why I am involved at all, and that is because the $90 also gets me a room for two days at the Alternative Space Weekend exhibition which is in a different place, along with a generous assortment of those few hundred others and so far I have found that worthwhile. The painting of course doesn't get to go there since it is for the member show, which is in a different place, and it is a weird size, too small to impress or control detail the way I like to, so every year I think "next year I won't bother" but 10 months later when I feel like less of a wreck I think "eh it wasn't THAT bad, was it?" and do it again. Maybe by "publicly" stating that I won't, I will prevent myself from doing so. Although knowing me, I already did that and merely forgot. Although if I knew me better, I would not forget things like that. I should spent more time getting to know me.
in 2015 i tried to impress with my painting skill.
in 2016 i tried to impress with a picture that I know people always liked the digital version of.
in 2018 i tried to make them laugh.
after failing to feel like I had been successful in the previous endeavors, this time I set out to annoy them,.
This is not finished to a degree that I like but considering that I did it between a friday the following monday night (the deadline) the time seemed relatively well spent; the fastest I had pushed one of these out and been done with it prior to then had been two weeks! If the crummy compressed gif works properly, it will be evident that nemitz (horrible red imp) was simple to paint, as I expected, but despite having the original quickly-done digital version as a guide I still misplaced the elements and had excess space on the right to fill, and made that harder than it needed to be!
Since almost all of my art is digital and NONE of it is optimized for a square… even though it used to be sometimes but I discovered none of the printing options I had access to favored squares, and likewise nobody sells hangable objects I could put a print into which would fill 18×18 inches well anyway, AND that I am useless at measuring, cutting, mounting and what-have-you, I have to seek out special 18×18 inch canvases and paint on them in my tiny little space which is not suited to painting. The nice acrylic paint I bought on past occasions which inexplicably is served in little toothpaste tubes almost all dried out.
However, the cheap 89 cent walmart paint rigid tubes i bought in 2008 for a terrible mural still worked just fine. What I found easily was lacking for a few colors, true red and something close to brown, primarily,
so I supplemented them with my 4.9-year old niece's presumably equally cheap paint.
As noted, a few hundred people participate in the city wide open studios mess each year. Considering that I have to explain to each and every person I know each and every year that the painting I am working on is NOT for my actual art show I definitely wonder how other participants go about the matter. If not for the fact that it temporarily increases my scrap of legitimacy in the eyes of family members who do not consider digital art actual art (unless it is done on an apple brand i-pad by someone they know better) and by extension my scrap of self-worth, I really have no reason to bother! Also, the parking in New Haven is awful.
This time the dropoff deadline was 5-8 instead of 2-4 or whatever it was in the past. I figured after the designated "rush hour" of people leaving new haven, it would actually be easier to get into, but I did not consider that an even greater number of people from outside quite willingly go into it and take all the parking spaces within walking distance to this dump. I could probably handle even that but my inexperience parallell parking led a bystander that I initially considered helpful to offer to guide me through it. I forgot that helpful-seeming strangers are usually pushy nutworks who aren't open to the idea that they aren't helpful.
Go in backward instead of forward, yes, helpful. Wait for this car to pass before backing out every single time a car wants to pass: obvious and not helpful. calling me "dude" when you aren't hulk hogan and "chief" in a manner apart from its historical function of acknowledging somebody of superior rank: not endearing. telling me "maybe you shouldn't be driving that car then" when I am unable to keep up with his rapid "turn the wheel [this way]" commands because it got stuck for the first time ever because I guess it doesn't like to be turned that much that often: I hate you. Reaching your hand through the window into my* car to point at [what I can't remember or guess]: I'm leaving so I don't start screaming at you. There was a less convenient street I could check for spaces which by that point seemed really convenient so i drove most of the way around the utterly 1-way block and went there instead.
The secret to driving well is to not be stupid or angry.
on that page
older version
very older version
what better way to honor the recently ceased publication that was one of my major influences in artwork and comic strips than by removing the most blatant reference to it?
I wanted to renovate the text on a lot of older pages because somebody who doesn't actually care about the comic that i inexplicably wanted to and thought that I COULD impress with a printed version of it, casually suggested to me replacing the hand-drawn dialog with fonts, not aware that I had taken considerable effort replacing fonts with hand-drawn letters. It prompted me to obsess beyond any past level over the legibility of the text in the second book. And I thought while I was at it I should deal with this old thing.*
I have seen some people (other than that one) in person enjoy this section, after being indifferent to the first few pages, but while it works for pog, overall it is terribly out of character for lope, especially when i introduce the concept that without its hat the pitiful lizard will not take bold action. I had worried about this prior to the first printing in 2015 but eventually decided it did not matter. However the more i saw it the more it mattered to me! At last year's alternative space weekend art show, I was telling people who laughed at that page that it was out of character! As if I didn't WANT them to like that page. Soon they will not be able to! Ha HA! That means I win!
And then for christmas last year a different person who I don't know offered the first criticism of that page, which was enough to finally inspire me to remove it. But looking now I see that he is only criticizing the number of exchanges and not the logic of that sequence of exchanges! The person also called the package "the MacGuffin," kumquat "the main antagonist," and pog "his side kick" even though each of those takes longer to type and say in addition to being less specific, and maybe I should not give too much weight to what he says, positive or otherwise. But something good came of it which is what matters [if i am a reasonable person, which i am not]. Also up to that point I always thought of kumquat as the protagonist of that section. Being told the opposite does not mean I have to change anything but it gives me rare insight into how other people might interpret a work that I wrote so long ago that its content has become in part abstract to me. Except on this one one part that I specifically worried about. It works better in an inconsequential pencil drawn comic strip made without a plan, before the lizard was assigned a personality or existence outside of that minor role.
I also ended up having to remove a view of the door that I really like, in the frame where pog says "did you want something?" but obsessive compulsion of course has made this a referendum on the artwork as well as the text so I end up changing a whole bunch of pages, again, I may [mentally un]well end up replacing a blander view of the door on another page with this one.
On a later page pog alludes to one of lope's comments, saying "didn't you eat the package?" which i now also had. I like that line; it only works BECAUSE the question and answer part is so inappropriate. Outside of that interlude it makes no sense for lope to claim to have eaten the package, and it is possible to imagine that you only imagined seeing lope say that, or retroactively interpret that as a silly thing that didn't "really" happen, like when I show inanimate objects talking or transforming between panels, and directly acknowledging that sort of thing is an act that characters apart from pog could not commit without being distracting, and now pog cannot even do it! Tragic!
I have a personal "rule" that no significant part of this comic strip should be dependent on a person's awareness of other media. On a much later page, elpse mentions "an ethnic sidekick from a lame Indiana Jones ripoff," in foreground dialog, but no other character acknowledges that elpse said that and it has no bearing on anything else, though I still may drop that line when I get to reworking that section simply on the basis of my personal assessment that the indiana jones series is rife with lameness and unoriginality already and more importantly my not wanting to imply that elpse, it of green and greenish skin, has a perspective on what is and is not ethnic in movies that don't even exist where it comes from, EVEN THOUGH to ME it is obvious that the INTENT of the line is to have be implicit that the ethnicity of the sidekick is relative to the protagonist, which in the case of Indiana Jones is definitively established, ethnicity and protagonistship both.
*And also replace every instance of "keilphix" with "kielphix" since the second way implies a more accurate, kielbasa-like pronunciation even though i no longer like that name at all and have shown kumquat being annoyed by it on newer pages, which of course means it cannot be changed! Even though only a few pages earlier lope announces that it changed its name from scragthrax so it seems like I am being redundant by having two characters that dislike their given names. However, lope, who is a little bit like me, definitively changed its name, whereas kumquat, which is much more like me, would not commit to doing so, and I likewise have not! ALTHOUGH kumquat lives outside of the law of any remotely functional society and really could call itself whatever it wants, but I only need to think further than hypothetical people who might criticize the comic strip, not ahead of myself thinking ahead of myself. But I will anyway so in four years I will probably change every pertinent page again to have an entirely different name than kielphix and also have kumquat not be annoyed by it.**
Did I have a broken video here for the past 5 days? I thought I switched it to one hosted on my own space but I must not have saved that. Whoooooopth.
A person identified as pinderhooks recently alerted me to this. Somebody uploaded the full film without permission from the copyright holder Pulse Distribution and I then likewise edited it without permission from that person.
"Hercules" is a low budget cartoon from 1997,that probably has only about a standard tv time slot's worth of animation which is stretched, sometimes painfully so, out to 48 minutes so it can occupy an hour block and present itself as a feature film instead. I assure you, the cutting room floor was EMPTY. Everything they had went in here and it still wasn't enough. Consequently its most striking feature is the profoundly horrid editing; at points there is up to 12 seconds of no/barely any motion before something happens. It has a look like it is animated by the company which did robert smigel's "saturday tv funhouse" cartoons with assistance from the cdi-Zelda gang for closeups. The only indication that you are seeing the film as intended and not an insulting edit like this one is that the music keeps playing and playing and playing unbroken. I really should have had the sound muted while making this since that dorky trumpet fanfare is haunting me now
I watched it once and had the terrible idea to cut out and assemble all the stupidest parts. Completely on a whim when I have obligations stacked higher than the person who storyboarded this I decided to spend several days making a cheap movie that nobody cares about look even cheaper and less worthy of interest. I initially endeavored to maintain the spirit of the original cut when altering the film but when it came out to over ten minutes, nearly a quarter of the full film's running time, I wondered if it would even come across that I didn't extend the length of those scenes myself, and in the event of such a perception, why had i chosen the most boring parts to do that in? Somebody thinking sensibly could probably get this under nine minutes but every time i go looking for stuff to cut out i remember another thing from my initial viewing that might be worth squeezing in there. Somebody wishing to only show everything important and not waste time could probably get it to five minutes.
At times the film resembles a bad stage play, in which actors struggle to remember their lines or read off of cue cards. I wonder if the dialog was recorded live, like an old popeye cartoon, with the actors watching the cartoon and waiting for the right time to say lines, but with a considerably lower production budget and no ad-libbing. At one point you can even hear a character, the boss hydra head, start to say "oh shut up" while the character is off-screen, then seemingly realize it, and wait for the scene to change to complete the line. It is not in this edit; eventually I considered that the significance of that would not come across due to all of my deliberately bad editing.
There are a few moments which could be seen as vulgar and uncharacteristic of what I usually produce but once they suggested themselves to it seemed pointless to not use them. They are vague and might not be apparent anyhow.
I do not actually hate the film, even if Hercules himself is dull and conspicuously beardless, since the primary marketing strategy for this sort of product was to get their product mistaken for the disney version, even if the actual content is quite different, and that second fact works in its favor, I think. Apart from calling every character by their Greek names except for Hercules, but that convention predated Disney's version. Eurystheus' voice amuses me. There are numerous bits of weird animation and dialog that I like just as they Are. The film is broken and confused, and I relate to that. It screws up and skews the myths but not to the banal extent that disney did. Hercules, as a "hero" who murdered hundreds of people, including his first wife Megara and their children, and had considerably more male lovers than female, chief among them Iolaus, his companion in this film and nephew (and also recipient of Megara as a re-gift-wife in versions of the story in which Hercules only kills their children and not her), is never going to be a g-rated 1990s role model for children. Hercules' murderous fit of madness is actually alluded to in this film but you only see a ruined city and it is said that only one person was killed, and that person is not even really dead.
Everything i know about the disney version is from contemporary advertisements for it and a description of Danny Devito's character that I read on a burger king cup around that time (as with the nuggets, Burger King didn't bother to not give the cartoon-branded products to regular customers) and what I read on wikipedia just now, but I know it depicts Zeus as monogamous and Hera as Hercules' biological, non-hating mother. Zeus' infidelity to Hera and Hera's utter hatred for Hercules is at the very core of the Hercules story. And making Hades the easy bad guy dumps all nuance of just what the god of the underworld is. He isn't Satan: he does not buy souls, he doesn't trick people, He isn't evil, he just happens to preside over the dead. The Greeks had this idea millenia before mopey nerds started obsessing over the idea of misunderstood sad monsters. Mopey nerds who of course only consider the disney versions of anything so they think this concept is new. Hades does covet the souls he has and takes revenge when people try to cheat death but all the gods are covetous and vengeful. Anyway Hades does not appear in this Hercules film so that is unimportant.
why did the people who did graphics for 8 bit games think this looked good? it didn't!
have you ever seen a drawing by a small child, where most of the background is white but then suddenly there is a strip of blue across the top? this reminds me of that. but i excuse that. to them, the sky is blue, and the sky is UP. anything beneath that varies.
But an adult getting paid shouldn't think like that. Hey, the sky is not suddenly weird and different after you go up a certain height! the fact that they almost always happen right at the top of the screen makes them much worse. It seems like that is the end of the universe. most likely this is only done because that is the only way to ensure, in games with only one background layer, that the lines never collide with background objects that need to have consistently colored backdrops. Usually the player character can't get all the way to the top of the screen so there wouldn't be objects up there. But that doesn't mean it looks GOOD!
Konami's castlevania 2, my first encounter with lines. they contribute to the creepy atmosphere, I would say beyond anything else. The secondary title is "Dracula's Curse" and I consider the mysterious appearance of the lines to be the primary indication of the curse.
It is a more extreme stylistic liberty than anything else in this game. castlevania 2 is supposed to be totally serious, and that effect is so strange. Thankfully Simon Belmont is never at risk of touching the lines. Then he would truly have no hope.
Aw naw! In Castlevania: the Adventure, for gameboy, Christopher Belmont can indeed TOUCH the lines, and live! However his sluggish pace and awful controls may be indicative of lines-poisoning.
from this page
"the iconic two-color sky gradient. Just wonderful."
the only definitive evidence I can find of somebody acknowledging it is sedate and positive. Where is the outrage?
Yes sure that guy makes almost three thousand dollars on patreon and i do less than fifty but that is because i am saying what others dare not.
Does it look like a gradient on certain televisions? do the light and dark, at varying levels, blend to look more like the blocks common in early snes games? that was never my perception. It was always just LINES to me.
The fact that nobody else noticed the lines or mentioned how creepy they were also amplified my fear of them. When only YOU are scared of something, that makes it scarier, since you get no sympathy or protection.
Lines were even on the konami BOXes of this period. In fact I could only hold one of these boxes in such a way as to not touch the lines. Maybe the effect was chosen to give the label art a feeling of urgency and dread.
I presume jack gets jumped by werewolves if he takes too long to putt.
monster party had some of the most egregious lines of any video game, even if they are all seen before the second level. You would need to torture yourself to get to the second. Of the three credited graphic artists, mobygames (which is ALWAYS right) suggests only one worked again, Taka Saito, who next toiled on "The Adventures of Gilligan's Island" and THEN stopped. while the adventures of gilligan's island lacks the lines, it also lacks any adventures on the part of the island.
I first encountered Monster Party when a rare instance of child-hud era friend whose house I visited regularly had rented the game and all I noticed or remembered about it was the creepy lines, the unintentionally (presumably) creepy background music and how impossible control it looked. I do not recall attempting to play it or being offered the option; it may just have been present incidentally. This was the same friend with whom I co-created Joey and Ian Gettin' Dead, about our two younger brothers, and it is entirely possible that Joey was using the game and and only gettin' dead in the context of the game's terrible controls and the low threshold of abuse that corresponds with the onset of what is commonly considered "death" in video games.
I was quite surprised years later to see monster party mentioned on the internet with regard to how zany it was and how heavily censored it was from the japanese version. I couldn't believe people had really gotten past the first level, much less willingly sought out alternate versions of the game in which to do that again, and had anything to say about the whole thing unrelated to the lines.
this is similar to monster party's; gratuitous and coming out of black, but i don't mind it as much here, possibly since this game is actually fun and has good music.
megaman 3 has this intermission screen but it is balanced out by having lines going the opposite direction so the effect seems more cylindrical and not implying that they are representative of the sky.
and so after 3 games safe comes megaman 4 aka megadope, a terrible graphic hack of megaman 4 that I made for no reason at a time of my life when I did a lot of things for no reason, unlike today.
the lines are so intense that even megadope won't smile at them.
Bear in mind that on an actual 1970s-80s television screen wouldn't necessarily be able to see to the actual borders of the display. That generous area of uniform color at the top in a lot of these here might be in practice much smaller.
megaman 5, dr right knows something terrible is about to happen since LINES have attacked his home. although these lines appear in the middle of the SCREEN, the introduction sequence crops the view to just the middle of the screen and the lines are still at the edge of the visible zone! And the "generous" area I alluded to is not allocated here because it is not meant to be seen!
megaman 6 brings back the lines yet again but finally puts them in the middle of the viewing area where i can handle them. it still doesn't make SENSE since the only things that should be black in front of it would be scenery at the horizon which the sun would be setting "behind," which i suppose would be the rocks but they are separate from and beneath whatever is black here.
this isn't a megaman game at all, it is an unlicensed chinese game about a little guy who throws boomerangs that they pretended was megaman to try and trick people. in which event i would ask why not just use the full megaman game if you undervalue your own work so much but whatever the case, there are those lines.
actually I like the one in double dragon since it simulates a perspective and uses its whole, limited space. only by chance does it go to the top of the screen.
double dragon uses it in all 3 nes games, but each example is unique and artistically done. Even double dragon 3 which is terrible in every way. other games will reuse the lines across large spaces in a manner similar to each other.
not as interesting but at least the presence of the sun implies a reason why the sky color would shift considerably in a small area.
however these look like apocalypse lines since they go into black. the sky above a sunset is not black!
darkwing duck! ending. These at least are neutrally placed and have more than two colors.
not on the sky, but needlessly near a screen border. as a small child i did not understand what this weird substance was that kuros could walk on but be damaged by. but it didn't matter since you have unlimited "lives" in this game. as a slightly less small child i realized it was lines and became more afraid of touching them than the meager damage penalty could bring about.
Power Blade! It of course gains its energy through power lines but THAT is not what i meant! Also the lines blatantly go behind a non-rectangular object which means they could have been placed further down in the image so they looked less creepy.
a brief collection of games that use it more neutrally
princess tomato's very first scene. fairly tame! really not threatening at all, but I sure REMEMBERED this was here for years after seeing a picture in, again, nintendo power magazine. I remember thinking it was a racing game at first.
adventure island 2 has lines going UP. when i saw pictures of this in nintendo power magazine it bothered me but i can handle it now
rygar falls somewhere in the middle because the lines are scary, and it goes into space, and I was terrified of this screen, but I was creeped out by the weird face foremost. I didn't even realize it had a body. I would see it when i closed my eyes. I was SCARED of that thing. As for the lines they go into white, and then abruptly to black, and it is just strange.
dynamite headdy uses lines extensively, but they are often dithered which makes for a less harsh effect. Even when they aren't, there is lots of other stuff going on and there are always intermediate colors. the clouds being larger above the lines creates a mild perspective effect which make the lines seem more like curving of the atmosphere above us in the distance than the end of the world immediately in front of us.
treasure land adventure also uses many lines but that is far from the only unsettling thing going on
fantastic dizzy. terrible game. don't believe british 1980s computer nerds. they are sick. everything in the game mames dizzy, you only get 3 "lives" in which to win a game as long king's quest 5 with as fragile a hero without saves or even intermediate goals to use as personal concepts of progress. these creepy lines, mercifully on this slide puzzle screen only, are about the only thing that WON'T destroy dizzy.
right near the edge! why? and this is a game that otherwise uses its colors really well to add a lot of detail to a fairly simplistic world.
adventures of lolo 3, also from the Hal Laboratory company. They used their mad science to devise a way to put the sun BEHIND the lines. It actually comes down from the top of the screen and the lines never change where the brightest point is nor move aside to let the sun in front. The neat effect of the water starting to reflect the sun as it appears closer is meaningless because the lines are so incorrigible. They really have to go.
Yet another from Hal, Rollerball. This one is really odd in that the upper edge of the lines leads to a color that matches one of the interior colors, so possibly this is supposed to be the edge of the horizon, yet it couldn't be because the vanishing point is about midway up the second R in "roller." The only conclusion to be made is what I have been saying all this while, lines are bad news.
this is the very first stage. unlike monster party, this is supposed to seem welcoming. there are animals out to destroy mickey mouse but you aren't supposed to be afraid of them. not yet anyway.
this game was localized as "Kid Klown in Night Mayor World" since it was published by Kemko and Capcom had exclusive rights to release disney video games internationally at the time.
there is something deeply wrong when you have a story about a kid who is a klown, with a k, from a FAMILY of capital k-klowns and i still find horizontal bands of dark blue more upsetting.
Kid Klown is also noteworthy for having loads and loads of intermission text which doesn't explain any of the things that need explaining.
a very capable alternative to lines oddly enough occurs in a bootleg felix the cat game. Which is not to say this game is good or that there aren't better things that could be done with all this space.
mickey mouse again! and not even the same developer. Mickey's DANGEROUS Chase by capcom. Which I also only know about from nintendo power
i couldn't figure out why that effect was in some screen shots but not others. now i see: the screen scrolls up to gradually reveal it as you progress, which is unsettling in its own way. even though these aren't LINES, the color difference is high and this really doesn't belong here. the presence of the word DANGEROUS in the title (and apparently only in the US release) and the blood-like red tint may also have had subconscious effects on me.
also unsettling, nintendo gives full maps for the first, easiest, self-explanatory levels and wimpy paragraphs for stages you might actually need help in.
scrubbo in the same issue, this i totally forgot about. Again not lines but creepy with the same intention. It looks like the monopoly guy is about to be abducted by aliens or crushed by a meteorite, nevermind the trauma caused to anybody in those barely visible purple houses in the distance who would see an enormous self-illuminating BACKWARDS DOLLAR SIGN. Also Nintendo Power gave six pages of coverage to this.
this can't be too far a drop since there is a little tree down there. surely it would be SAFER to go that way!
but the lines abruptly end so they aren't real, right?
I am uncertain if these are supposed to be lines with the same intention. while this is indicated to be outside, there is a pattern ABOVE the lines.
also an earlier level uses the exact same 8×8 pixel tile as something like a support beam for a fancy place that is plainly meant to be INSIDE. Lines have no power inside.
oh no more creepy lines, undeniable this time, going into BLACK, consuming the clouds, and i have to TOUCH them! Or Mario does. I sure am glad I am not mario.
Always the ne'erdowell, Wario tortures a creature by making it touch the lines.
In the demonstation mode of mario paint you can see somebody CREATING the lines! Somebody making the deliberate decision to add this. And that may be the only super nintendo game i have seen it in, at least as far as the creepy top-of-screen usage goes
The mario paint example is curious because it shows the sun amidst darkening. would the sun not cause a lightening?
a number of staff was shared between mario paint and super mario land, super mario land and wario land, but nobody was on all three games and I would be reluctant to point at any specific person for this.
the first two game worlds do an admirable job of recreating the sort of skies that uderzo put in actual asterix comics then suddenly in egypt it gets this hokey effect and bright turning abruptly to dark. instead of creating a feeling of vastness it is an eerie claustrophobia. and look at all that grey space at the bottom edge of the screen wasted! if they put that ABOVE the lines and made it the darker blue it would… STILL be too dark but it wouldn't be as much of that weird edge effect. They also could have opted for a more subtle color changing effect across a larger area.
here earlier in the same game, that is actually pleasant and one of few things in the game to evoke the source material and not just look like a quick cheap crummy licensed video game created by a company chosen because it was European and no other reason ("Bit Managers" in this case). Ironically it is a possibility that a similar cloud formation was the original visual inspiration for the lines, which i say based on having seen even more line-like clouds and wondering if those were the inspiration for lines.
I will say that a co-founder of the Bit Managers company, Alberto Gonzalez, did ambitious and well-programmed music on the better but still horribly misguided super nes game "Asterix and Obelix" that they also developed. He was uninvolved with the first Super NES Asterix game which seems to be based on the same design document as the nes one with additional questionable decisions but at least lacks the lines.
In the interest of making this more confusing, here is the superior if still impossible Asterix and The Great Rescue on the Sega Genesis, developed by Core Design, better known to people other than me for making the Tomb Raider games. This uses sky-lines but in a relatively innocuous manner. Don't tell anybody I rented this in 1992-3ish and couldn't get past the second stage because I didn't know you could make little platforms appear for jumping on.
It also has better music than a crummy licensed Europe game deserves, and I can't think why the followup Asterix and the Power of the Gods is full of dinkity synthesized awkwardly looping covers of public domain cliche "classical" dentist office music beyond that somebody found out they gave a crummy licensed Europe game better music than it deserved. That apparently is the power of the gods.
lines in real life:
chocoteague virginia, the shadow on this boat railing
mystic connecticut: look at this orange arrow on a sign
deviantart user domobot posted this image. similar to mario paint there is a sun but the light part is NOT radiating out from it! Also the creature appears to be wearing the legs-sticking-out-of-the-ground from the Monster Party screenshot
garfield makes it big, back cover. This is also the same book that featured the inexplicable traumatic head-first dropping garfield horrifying cuckoo clock reaction. (the linked page describes another instance of it happening and then briefly mentions garfield) Garfield is suffering from a similar ailment to the batman bee, in which oversized eyes enter into space conflicts and the artist doesn't care, resulting in sketchy facial expressions. Arlene can wear the hat properly. However Arlene also suffers from shoddy tsereotype design traits and i presume the hat doesn't want to mess with them. Also troubling and artist-not-caring-related here is that most of Jon's body is missing. The other characters have their feet below where Jon cuts off so it isn't like they reached the edge of the document space. I presume his body was sliced in half by the bar code sticker and the blue substance is actually his alien body matter spilling out and creating the lines as a punishment against humanity, until crummy merchandise and eventual braindead hipster memery could grow into adulthood to avenge him.
I found this in another terrible comic strip, thankfully i cannot remember which but whoever is responsible for it ought to be in jail.
there may be many people who need to be in jail but i would at this time request separate jails.
i filled the last 40 seconds better than before, but still not especially well.
I made a patreon page for no other reason than that new users are to be charged 8% instead of 5% of what they supposedly take in from this point onward.
If you are not familiar with patreon, I envy you! It is a website about trying to convince people to donate meager amounts of money at you just for existing. it can be very annoying to see people constantly promoting their own pages so I aim to be cautious in how I do so.
Is there any realistic reason that I should expect any great amount of success from this? Not at all, but I sure beat my self up making a stupid video, just because the site heavily implies you should have one and I was worried the page might not be approved if I didn't, not realizing that the "review" you submit your page for is instantaneous and probably just a filter looking for words to indicate you are a drug kingpin or Jared Fogle. Meanwhile I had almost no thought left over for what I could do with the page that would be worth attempting to charge people different amounts of money for.
this post contains the sort of description that ensures I stay obscure, so I wisely sort-of-hid it, which is the closest I come to deleting. No, nobody has to sign up for that. I just need to know that I put it there.
Also note that the video is one third irrelevant because I didn't want to cut off the music, even though the music isn't complete, particularly the part that occupies the filler section, and so it might as well not be there!
Gosh if I were organized enough that I could make good use of my "skill" or internet fame generating schemes I would have what's it called a "career" and not bother with dumb old paytreeon which seems to combine them all. Your worth expressed via a number beside your name? An utterly non-functional method for sorting posts? People being encouraged to think of and express themselves as if they are "brands?" It is all there.
I can replace the video since it is "unlisted" and not being shoved at anyone who did not request it. I probably shouldn't. I probably will. And I probably won't mention this anywhere else until after I do that! Which means I can expect more email from the website pestering me about how little activity the page has had, because it means no five percent for them.
They all but admit that you can't become popular unless you look like you already are. "Organic" might as well just be adjective to describe an organ.
If I had ten close friends or family members, I think this would be a rude way to treat them! What sort of person even has an "inner circle?" Cult leaders? Socialist dictators? Well that is who the ideal patreon user aspires to be. ME sending links in email is a REALLY good way to make sure that email doesn't go anywhere, and I never know because usually people don't reply to me anyway, and I don't want to ask because then if they DID get it then I look impatient and pushy even WITHOUT asking them to give me money. I literally have to describe a url on the telephone if I want to send it to anybody. "aiche teetipee colon slash slash… Yes two slashes. No no not back slashes… You know the one that goes back. The upside goes back. Yes exactly. NOT that one. didn't you get my email? No of course not."
A few people told me I should activate the mode that charges users immediately rather than at the start of the next month, because otherwise someone can sign up, save all your pictures and distribute them. Gorby I have been trying to get people to do that for YEARS! If leaving this unchecked is what it takes then consider it taken.
Whup this seems sad again. I am not sad! Just tired.
that seems like a rather defeatist moral to take from this.
Brienne of Norfair
i had meant to draw Brienne (from some book or tv show or something) with Samus (from some computer doohickey the kids like) years ago, but this came out instead, and more effectively distracts from my deficits drawing non-creature people.
i imagined the blood should be yellow but it doesn't look like blood when i do that. and crocomire of course is not defeated like that, but it does insist on being attacked in the mouth.
I wrote an in-depth report explaining numerous reasons why this pictures was not functional and why I should have expected that to be the case. Exhibiting the report would likewise not be functional! None of it is anything new.
The lesson to be learned from all this is that there is no lesson because anything good that happens is a fluke occurrence. The only LOGICAL course of action is ignore all precedent and hope for magic, which I did and will likely continue to do. OR accept that I will never get anywhere and not try anything, which is not a viable option until I get on to some serious medication that makes me not care. For now, caring is inevitable.
Eh I posted it as a comment on the entry. It is not funny or trying to be, just sad and analytical.
A few hours later I removed that comment, but then I put it back. I am embarrassed merely that it exists, not due to any specific thing I said in it.
I am too mentally ill to make comics. Usually, on the internet, being mentally ill is good for comics, if you are mentally ill in a relatable fashion and it manifests in such a way where you don't care how shoddily you draw. It may even be the case that the WORSE you draw, the more liked you are. Or if you are ill to such an extent that you have no idea you are and are extremely prolific in that. I have an illness of indecision, inability, hyper-awareness of inability and regret. Nobody on earth has any need for that manner of illness.
After relettering, respacing the same dialog boxes and redrawing the same negligible details ad-implausium I finally sent off the comic book order a few days ago. I won't see them for a month but I sure can't change them now! Consequently it is imperative that I do not look at any of the page images that I sent before the books get printed and sent to me. Or even after that point, just to be safe.
Ironically, the main person whose off-hand remark about the first book, that I should consider using fonts, looked over one my next to last proof copy inside a dark restaurant and said it was much easier to read the dialog, which meant I had done enough that I could stop, but I did not stop! I am like the text grinch; my scrutiny over my handwriting's legibility grew three sizes that day when it was criticized. However instead of becoming a hero to the town i became a total outcast since I needed to scorn all other activity and contact so I edit speech baubles for months. Of course Madison Connecticut town would prefer not to have me in it so that suits them.
the first version of this cover image appears as the inside back cover of the first book, which was printer in 2016. Up until the most recent proof of book 2, this part of the image looked JUST FINE to me. But the night I was preparing to send the final set of updated pages, suddenly it did not! The line of motion was inconsistent with the image around it, and the bug was not sourced at all. I thought I could draw it better than that, and I did, but it still was not good enough. I remembered I had some insect references I had used recently, so I used them again and got a yet better looking bug, but I decided those were not good enough because all my references showed bugs not in-flight. And were moths, anyway. It is already bad to use a standing bug as reference for a flying one, and using a moth as a reference for a fly is worse! Amateurish! I found a very good fly reference! But the angle was wrong. And was perhaps too detailed! It looked too aggressive, too fast, too big (this version was not preserved so it is not in the montage). The viewer should be able to see the wings, not the legs, much less six multi-jointed legs. But I couldn't just NOT include the legs because then it looks like I don't value accuracy. I made it smaller and blurrier, so there still ARE legs but only really visible if it is your destiny to make sure that I gave the fly legs. but at some point the details stop being distinguishable, since there are too many of them. The first bug looked gentle, which is funny, and the simpler design reads more easily, since it is a very small creature in a very small part of the image! I decided to try a proper flying moth reference but none of them looked like what I wanted. I went back to the fly, simplified it a bit, so I could make it let smaller. Being too realistic can harm the joke, anyway. But what even IS the joke?
The "joke" hinges on it being obvious that pog has no brain, and something flying out of there implies that the space is empty because i don't know why but it does.
Suddenly I had to think about it, and I didn't see any logical reason why a fly indicates an empty space, which means it must be based on a stereotype or a cliche which has become far removed from whatever base sense inspired it. I could not even remember where I first saw an example of a fly coming out something empty, but for some reason knew it was probably a wallet, so I looked that up, and while I gained no insight as to WHY, i learned that it was in fact supposed to be a MOTH coming out of wallets specifically. Since I have already moved the logicless stereotype from its roots, which are purely symbolic, changing the insect type also cannot be done! It would HAVE to be a moth! *I* had been misled because the cartoon in which I observed this, presumably Pink Panther –based on most the panther's situations are instigated by him being a lout and him specifically therefore needing a host of ways to indicate a lack of money without speaking– of course didn't care what the bug looked like and nobody else, the entire staff of the cartoon, the production company, the distributor, the networks which aired the cartoon decades later, cared either, and nobody watching it did, including me.
Well maybe it was a garfield comic. That much is irrelevant! What matters is that drawing a generic unsourced bug is a-ok when thousands, millions of people are going to see it. But when only me and maybe 14 other people are going to see it, such negligence is UNFORGIVABLE.
Now please try and imagine that with 40 images I will probably have this sort of stupid problem over and over on every one of them. I am a very sick person. I need to make a full print book order not because anybody else wants these books, only so that the production of the books no longer holds me irrationally captive.
Anyway, I went back to the moth version. A miracle occurred so that I found it acceptable, as awkwardly posted as it was, with the matter of the motion trail still not resolved, so I saved the image, reduced it to the print size, collected it with the other pages I was uploading, into a 167 megabyte zip file, started uploading it, went to the bathroom. this was approximate 3:38am. I was misled, however. The tyrant was not satisfied, it just had changed its focus. I began to panic because I considered that I had, during this session, because I was zoomed in and having problems with everything, also absentmindedly applied a cartoon-derived stereotype to the left-inside of pog's space (vertical lines) to imply it was metallic. Even though the inside of pog is NOT metallic and if I wanted it to look metallic I should not rely on hacky shortcuts anyway.
Even though it does not matter because this is an area smaller than the tip of a pencil. Without using the toilet I came back down, cancelled the upload, made a very minor alteration, exported the image again, checked that every other image was the right size, made a new zip file, and began uploading that again, and then I realized I had made the alterations WITHOUT reverting the image to its full size! Which means if I at this point decide to go back and change it again, as looking at this has made me sincerely, profoundly, want to, since I am now VERY conscious of the light colored streak on the right-inside of the space, I will have to first blow up the pertinent region and then draw over it to make sure it is a full fidelity image, even though is almost 0 zero chance across my lifetime or anyone else's that there will be any need for a full resolution version of this picture, and then once I do that it may not necessarily have the desirable qualities of the pre-blown up and redrawn version.
nobody on earth will know that I did or did not do it!
An update for august 31:
Here is or should be a big slow-loading gif which shows a vague version of the state of one page at the time of each of the three example prints and the final print (which does not yet exist). All of them AFTER incessant pre-print redrawing, remember. The point is that after waiting several weeks, I looked at every part of every page, three times, saw something incredibly minor, after I thought I was done, and had to open it back up again. On only nine of the pages I restrained myself from making more changes, even though I wanted to! The point the point the point is that I lost my mind and have evidence. I did not regain my mind, I simply was too tired to meet its demands.
Observe that the upper and lower left frames were changed with each printing but other places changed fewer times. This means I was able to look straight at something, on paper, think it was acceptable (after having looked at it prior to then numerous times across years and thought it acceptable), then look straight at it again at a later point and find it inexcusable beyond all reason. This means there could have been fifth, and sixth, and seventh prints, and I could still find fresh problems, just on the dumb letters. Letters too close together, too close to the bauble edge, WORDS too close together, veering too much up or down, not aesthetically balanced within the bauble. At no point, after no period of time, can I look at what I made and be satisfied with it. Even when logically I know that the longterm benefit of spending more time on it, rather than on anything at all else, no longer exists. Not only am I too mentally ill to make comics, I am too mentally ill to read comics.
And in the lower right can be observed my attempt to amend a minor legibility error by rewriting the dialog in a new temporary image layer above the base layer, but forgetting to delete the letters on the base layer before merging the temporary layer into it, and then forgetting to look in that space again until after the book was printed, thereby creating a MAJOR legibility error that would be impossible to overlook! This means that for each subsequent print I needed to look at every space of every page to ensure I had not committed that error anyplace else, even though such investigation would increase the possibility of me finding and obsessing over yet more imaginary problems. And then I ended up doing that in at least four other places anyway.
Seeing this gif now, it bothers me that I made kumquat's dialog green-tinted when kumquat is out of view, against a non-tinted room. This is confusing and makes it look like elpse is talking. I thought, for years, and then afterward, it is quite obvious from context and precedent who is speaking, but people always find a way to miss all my points, so they could well claim to be confused. But if they are confused by that then they couldn't possibly understand anything else, so I leave this green. But I will go back to the first fear, and have to explain to myself why this fear is unjustified, repeatedly. I know this is not entertaining. I need to make this understood as clear as I can make it so that in the future I can refer back to it rather than attempting to explain it again!
OH the windows and other details on the buildings are misaligned, the design on the billboard is indistinct, there is a little black speck just under the right side structure's roof, the eyebrows float off the panther's head and that hat is WAY TOO SMALL! How did this cartoon get made?
The sea captain's choice! or rather, I think, the sea captain's choice of what not to eat since it looked like cat food. Why should I assume that somebody who works on a ship is an expert on fish as food? There isn't a culinary standards component of the officer training, is there? I once knew a US Marine captain who told me he had to learn how to waltz to complete the certification, which DID strike me as somewhat out there, but his favorite food was gummy worms. However, a captain in the marines is a lower rank than captain in the navy, even though navies operate in marine environments, so maybe things get more specialized as you go up. Maybe to become an admiral you need to be able to knit your own socks.
on that topic (cats, not socks): are cats really PROUD that they defecate into a box in my house?
They would make much more money doing it in public places of business.
I remember when it was considered SHOCKING for the tv show south park to have a smiling, talking, singing, anthropomorphic lump of excrement, and now this is something you are allowed to display in a place that sells food.
That is just unsanitary. I saw them on adhesive bandages also. I cannot find the picture I took. Probably for the best. That seems like the opposite of what you want to do to disinfect a wound.
Where I really want to put that: my mouth.
how can you even tell when this is clean? When there are no worms crawling through it? The captain will be especially worried if they are gummy.
Made in china. this is taking jobs from American toilets. I call on consumers to stop buying Chinese sh|t.*
Wonderful now i feel ill. Why is there no smiling lump of dried vomit emoji? There is nothing so gross that you can't put a a face on it and make it grosser. Or grocery, even.
*Astute readers will see that I did not actually put an i in that word and therefore have not officially "said" the word that it looks like. My friend and colleague ms-dos will attest that all i committed was a syntax error.
This picture is a LIE. that is NOT who makes these, and the honey nut cheerios wand is NOT employed in the process.
The assembly line of workers who make the Lindor lumps probably look more like this, if we assume it is not entirely machine automated.
But since you brought it up, this this this THING, this striped lump on a stick, is ALSO a lie. Who, that buys honey cereal, even knows what that honey rod is SUPPOSED to do? It may "bee" beyond our ability to understand.
Honey Nut Chex is slightly more honest about it. The magic wand exists but it is just lying on the table unused, making a mess. It looks as if it has been murdered.
I have additionally observed that generic store brand honey cereals are only allowed to use the magic honey wand if the multinational brand doesn't want it. Assuming my web host's recent unannounced, extortionesque demand that I pay an extra $40 annually to obtain a "security certificate" for a totally invented, unsupplied non-reason and firefox's subsequent sabotaging of my site's functions has not damaged my ability to display the images, seen here are Food Lion Honey & Nut Tasteeos and Stop & Shop Honey Crunchin' Oats. They can't call it BUNCHES, but they MUST say something that rhymes with bunches, or else people will notice the ugly generic store brand label.
Also I acknowledge that the latter picture is from 2008 and that Stop & Shop has a much better store brand logo now, as can be seen on this page about Shop Rite, which, admittedly, makes every aspect of Stop & Shop appear superior. Firefox thinks it needs to prevent me from logging in and viewers from commenting to keep this website from being relevant, but that was never a risk.
That of course assumes "relevant" is a word that has an identifiable meaning. The one expert on what is relevant to me does not disclose the criteria nor the option to even know what has NOT been deemed relevant so that I may gain insight into the system or check its accuracy, only that this is so very important that material may be visibly not in ANY order. And then they are put into a different order after they have been seen, so that a specific one will be hard to see on purpose a second time. The people in charge maintain order by PREVENTING order. The fact that I know my next post is also going to be about honey nut cheerios suddenly seems uncommonly disciplined and of great magnitude. Yes I suddenly feel very important and well prepared to face the year ahead.
That will be all. Good day.


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The exhibitors will include: Get Green, Made by Porzeczka, Meat Love, nczekolada, Qmam Kaszę, Wootwórnia. The workshops will be run by committed Warsaw activists. Jodie Baltazar will talk about municipal composting units and check how much organic waste we will collect during the picnic. The Dobrze cooperative will introduce us to the idea of socially supported farming and familiarise us with the concept of cooperatives. Balcony plant growing workshops are also envisaged – together with Marta Wajda, it will be possible to plant herbs and take them home with a manual. Apart from that, visitors will be able to enjoy deckchairs as well as game, book and magazine rental.

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What is a difference between a fat wife and a thin wife?
What are the advantages of having thin wives, and what are the advatages of having a fat wife ?\
Fat here doesn't mean Obese or who weigh 80 kgs.
How mean you men are., wht iz dis what do u know about them? really bad comments bhai
Sina,,,, hmm Forget it.
31 Responses to "What is a difference between a fat wife and a thin wife?"
November 17th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
more sex from overweight women
and more respect from friends for skinny women
November 17th, 2010 at 3:25 pm
It doesn't matter if they are fat or thin. It matters how devoted they are to ALLAH(SWT)
(copy paste but i mean it)
( i was just messing with u guys earlier sorry)
Lmaooo, 6 thumbs down in 2 mins, amazing.
November 17th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Diz ..Shame on you bro…
The ONLY difference is There is More of the "FAT" wife to love!!!
Edit: Ranoush, My lovely sister you disappoint me, I once weighted 439 pounds and I got down to 200 pounds and now about 225 just because the baby food (hehe) I "test" before I give it to her. But now I am HALF of what I once was.
When I was THAT big, people give you strange stares, have rude comments (to some one they have NEVER spoken to) they laugh and giggle, point and make fun of you.
NOW.. I'm on the OTHER side of the coin, I do NOT judge a woman (or any other person now because of their weight)
Because I DO know from personal experience what is like to be judged because of my size.
A liar I am NOT, and yes what you said (even though it was not directed at me personally) has hurt my feelings.
I love you reguardless of hurting my feelings, reguard of your size, reguardless of your race color or indifferences.
Asalaam Alakium
November 17th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
The fat is useful in winter
November 17th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
More cushion for the pushin'?
November 17th, 2010 at 5:47 pm
What is a difference between a fat wife and a thin wife?
About 100 lbs…
November 17th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
I have no idea.
Maybe the thin wife would be more willing to go on long walks in the park with her husband?
Other then that, everyone should be blind of the outside.
Totally agree with Luwayla.
Wht is diz: Lol, stop posting dumb stuff.. You make it hard for the ones who aren't jerks 🙁
Ranoush: Don't call me a liar when you don't know me.
November 17th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
sr. Maria…isn't it obvious? One is fat and one is skinny! LOL! J/k. Well, you shouldn't be any of the extremes, if you are too skinny, it's hard to have a child and same with if you are too fat (I'm not saying that women are only meant to produce children, but if she WANTS to marry and have kids, it counts.) Being or the other is not healthy, but I think no matter what your body size is, the best way to stay healthy is to eat right and exercise and Inshallah you can avoid health issues in the future. I think for men, they would prefer the thin wife, because they are nicer to look at, it sounds shallow, but it's true. Even my husband admits to it. He said that thin girls are nice to look at, HOWEVER…often (and these are his words by the way) beautiful women know they are beautiful, so they are snobby and mean.
It's all in perspective. I hope I can be skinny and beautiful in Jannat Inshallah lol.
November 17th, 2010 at 6:41 pm
One is healty than the other. I can not say the advantages buuuuuut if one's wife is healthier they can go on longer walks together 🙂
November 17th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
If God is not impressed with man's outward appearance, why should I (or, anyone else, for that matter) be concerned? God looks at the heart of man (woman).
If the woman, (your wife?) is a child of God, what difference would her weight have to do with anything?
Here's a similar question. Fat or thin husband?
November 17th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
It doesn't matter if they are fat or thin. It matters how devoted they are to ALLAH(SWT)
November 17th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
physical difference doesn't influence the love of two Muslims.
Providing that both of them are humans, not Jins lol…
sina, sorry lol..
November 17th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
Go'head Luwayla. Girl, you deserve Best Answer!!
November 17th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
There's nothing wrong with overweight wives.
November 17th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
Luwayla is 100% right~!
It doesnt matter whats on the outside 🙂
November 17th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
you need to ask some one who got both
in science to compare means to make all other factors the same
theoritically this never can happen
you need two wives
marry both the same day
both are the same age
the same eyes colour
the same father
the same mother
more over you must be the same ,yourself,means,you cant judge them in two different times,it must be the same time
surprize me and tell me how you going to do that
November 17th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
There's no difference between a fat wife and a thin wife, Maria. It's the good wife that matters the most.
By the way Maria, your question is too vague (too put it mildly), hence the crude answers. And no offense, but it's a tad bit offensive. Perhaps you could rephrase it or be a bit more specific in your question. Thank you.
November 17th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
salam sis!wass up?
a fat wife will leave the husband starving! and broke!
a thin wife will be a perfect economic wife for a cheap husband!!!
but if my husband gets hungry he can eat me!im tunalicious!
November 18th, 2010 at 12:30 am
OMG…sorry guys,,,but every man who said that it doesn't matter if she's fat or thin is a liaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar
November 18th, 2010 at 1:07 am
i think its that they watch to many TV and think that all girls are like those Hollywood actors. TV,TV,TV. not all men think like that,but i would say most do.
edit, ranoush , some man really dont care, some actually find healthy women more attractive then thin women.
November 18th, 2010 at 1:59 am
A fat wife looks fat, not good looking and unhealthy
A thin wife looks thin, good looking and healthy.
There is no advantage of marrying a fat women, everything which happens from her to her husband would be a disadvantage… lol
@ Ranoush: I had to speak the truth cus of you… lol
@ ܓܨ: Your correct, even i thought to say that… lol
Anyways mate, check your email…
November 18th, 2010 at 2:34 am
"What is a difference between a fat wife and a thin wife"
Ans: about 4 kids.
November 18th, 2010 at 2:41 am
A fat women sweats allot, has bad breath, snores allot, fart's allot, fall asleep allot in my personal opinion i dont like fat womans.
November 18th, 2010 at 3:34 am
In some cases it really depends on personal taste. Most men who have fatter women know they are extremely passionate and sensual. My first husband was only interested in larger women. After our divorce he dated a slimmer woman and was not at all satisfied. My current husband only dated slimmer women. He fell in love with me because of my personality, characteristics, way of thinking, etc. I am the only fat woman he has ever been with and he loves it. We take long walks together, we go to the beach together, we do many activities together. As for what I said about fat women being extremely passionate and sensual my husband learned that first hand.
November 18th, 2010 at 3:42 am
Luwaylas answer is right.
November 18th, 2010 at 3:58 am
There's an old saying,"A fat wife and a full barn never did a man any harm"
November 18th, 2010 at 4:29 am
A fat wife suits for a fat man and a thin wife is for a thinman. Think of a fat wife walking with a thin husband and vise versa. They don't match in looks but after all their love and life depends upon their hearts how they love one another. Both are advantageous unless a woman is useless.
November 18th, 2010 at 5:15 am
u get to hit a thin wife but from a fat u get s…….. every once in a while
November 18th, 2010 at 5:52 am
i don't think there is any difference
November 18th, 2010 at 6:13 am
Well like everyone else is saying it really does not matter it depends how devoted they are to ALLAH (swt)
February 9th, 2011 at 7:06 am
moti wife ko to bhayankar chodu ki uski chut dard hone laggaye aur bobe chuso achi tarah gand mar do yar


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Miracle on 14th Street Holiday Market
Over a dozen vendors set up shop across two neighboring venues Tremont Public Works and Lava Lounge. Happening during Walkabout Tremont.
Lisa Paulovcin
Odyssey and Oddities
Stephanie Lee Paynter
The Prickly Bitch
Venus in Aquarius
Totally Sweet
Scott Pickering
Symmetry Polka
James Quarles
Liz Adams
CC Satchel Knits
Where? Tremont Public Works
What Time? 6:00pm
How Much? FREE


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The cause of assassination in New Zealand is the migration of Muslims
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Ed Sheeran is Playing Himself in a Beatles Inspired Film
Ed Sheeran is heading to the big screen!
He is actually playing himself in an untitled film inspired by The Beatles and he filmed his parts earlier this year in between tour stops.
The filming schedule was difficult because he would spend four days playing shows and then three days on set, but Ed said it was all worth it because the role felt perfect for him.
The untitled project has a release set for September 2019.
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Rolvenden Farmers and Craft Market
Cupcakes n Crafts are Sue Hardy and Adrian Hipkins, and together we create a range of wonderful hand-made products.
We also sell our products at a variety of craft and makers markets throughout the year. Details of how to find us are on our events page. Come and visit us or browse our web site to view a range of our products.
A delicious selection of cakesMarkets: West Malling, Penshurst, Shipbourne
Artisan bread, vegetarian pies & slices, croissants,continental pastries.Markets: Aylesford, * KFMA Wholesale hub, Gravesend , Ashford, Wye, Cliftonville, Herne Bay , Lenham
Try Jo's famous and fab Brownies, or Lemon cakes, carrot cakes, ginger, fruit and Orange cakes, her shortbreads and more !!!
Enjoy cup of coffee, buy a slice, small or large cake to take home; all freshly hand baked from local ingredients
We are a third-generation, family bakery based in Southborough, Kent where we bake a large selection of traditional and speciality breads including rye, spelt, herb, tomato and our own Rusty, as well as rolls, pasties, buns and cakes.
We also have a thriving wholesale business, a specialised cake making service, sell free range eggs and produce personalised greeting cards.Markets: Yalding, Penshurst, Hildenborough, Shipbourne
Bread, cakes, pastries and pies.Market: Capel-le-Ferne
A wonderful range of speciality cakesMarket: Cliftonville
I provide cakes and French patisseries to order as well tailored classes in baking and cooking.Markets: Chislehurst, West Malling
Home made small cakes and scones.Product: Cakes
Selling cakes and cupcakes
Traybake, muffins, cupcakes, tarts, meringues, sponge and fruit cakes. Orders taken.Market: Hildenborough
Cakes, Tray Bakes & MoreMarket: Chatham (Pentagon Centre)
Never Mind the Cupcakes is an artisan baking business making delicious breads, pastries, tarts cakes and other treats from fine quality ingredientsMarket: Cliftonville
Cakes, pies, eggs and apple juice.Market: Hildenborough
The Ottoman Dessert Refined To PerfectionProducts: Prepared Foods, Pastries, Cakes
Speciality bread, pies and sausage rolls.Markets: Hythe, Elham Food and Craft Festival, Capel-le-Ferne
Homemade Gourmet Brownies, Granola Bars and American Inspired Slab - all made with Belgian chocolateMarkets: West Malling, Bexley (Hall Place), Chislehurst, Rochester
Thomas Cookie is a brand new business where the thinking is as fresh as the baking.
We have located a gap in
the UK cookie market and will be filling it with our innovative, unique and
delicious take on this traditional treat. Our creations have been described as
the flavoursome equivalent of a tongue massage. (By us !!).
Following the feeding frenzy, feedback from our initial sample group has been overwhelmingly positive.Markets: Tunbridge Wells (Pantiles), Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, West Malling, Rochester
We have been Bakers in Dover since the 1930's and we specialise in traditional methods of breadmaking.We also bake cakes and savouries and our Celebration Cakes are a particular speciality. We are also very well known throughout the area.


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Zero Tolerance for Dangerous Driving in School Zones
A zero-tolerance approach targeting school and community safety zones will be applied to ensure that students get to and from school without harm from irresponsible drivers.
Superintendent Scott Baptist, the Toronto Police Service Traffic Unit Commander, made this clear during a back to school traffic safety event at Oakridge Junior Public School in Scarborough on September 3 as kids went back to class.
"We will not be issuing any warnings," he said. "Our kids are precious and every parent in this city want their child to get safely to and from school. Our officers will be in school zones throughout the year, but particularly over the next few weeks, doing enforcement. They are going to give out tickets. We need you to follow the rules. We need people to slow down and put their phones away as distractions are killing people in our city."
Last week, Sgt. Brett Moore did some enforcement in the school zone near Pharmacy Ave. and Danforth Ave.
"I was surprised at the number of people going through stop signs at 20 and 25 kilometres per hour and not even rolling through them," he said. "That is totally unacceptable. We have asked out officers to have a zero-tolerance approach to enforcement."
Toronto District School Board Chair Robin Pilkey said the safety of students and staff members will always be a board priority.
"This time of year brings a lot of new traffic to school communities and I am calling on drivers to slow down in school zones," she said.
Mayor John Tory, who is also a Toronto Police Services Board (TPSB) member, also urged drivers to slow down and pay full attention while on the road.
"The biggest responsibility must rest with drivers because they are driving powerful vehicles that are heavy and which protect them unlike other people who are using public spaces," he pointed out. "It's one of the reasons for us investing in road safety through our Vision 2.0 plan."
The five-year action plan is aimed at eliminating fatalities and reducing serious injuries with an emphasis on pedestrians, school children, older adults, cyclists and motorcyclists safety as well as reducing aggressive and distracted driving.
"The plan includes using technology where it makes sense to make roads safe," said Tory. "That is why you are seeing the number of red light cameras doubled because it shows, particularly in Scarborough where a number of people who lost their lives or were injured last year, that a great many of them had to do with people who are racing to get through a yellow light or even a red light."
Tory said the plan also ensures that schools are surrounded by school safety zones just like the one at Oakridge Junior. A total of 136 school safety zones have been implemented across Toronto and City staff will be working over the next four months to add 60 more zones that include increased signage and pavement markings.
The Mayor also confirmed that speed cameras will be installed in school safety zones.
"This starts in December and the cameras will be installed in different parts of the city," said Tory. "I believe they are going to be fundamental to the enforcement of speed limits and they will be a common sight across the city in 50 locations."
In the last few months, the speed camera technology was piloted in several parts of the city.
On Renforth Dr. in Etobicoke where the speed limit is 40 kilometres an hour, Tory said a driver was caught by the speed camera doing 202 km/h.
"In one month that the camera was deployed in test mode along that stretch of Renforth Dr., 25,511 vehicles a week were speeding on a road where the average volume is 37,000," he said.
On Rockliffe Blvd. in Etobicoke where the speed limit is 30 kilometres an hour, the cameras found almost 50,000 vehicles were speeding on a road where the average volume is 56,000 and a vehicle was clocked at 102 kilometres an hour.
"This kind of speeding simply can't continue because it leads to injury and death," Tory said. "We have seen that from the analysis we have done of the injuries and deaths we have experienced in the city."
While doing enforcement outside Oakridge Junior Public School on the day of the news conference to ensure drivers weren't stopping in areas designated for school buses, Const. Lee Cooke of Traffic Services noticed that a child wasn't safely secured in the back seat of a car.
"A child is required to be in a booster seat until age eight or it reaches the height and weight, which this seven-year-old didn't," he said.
The driver received two demerit points and a $240 ticket.


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How fed interest rates affect personal loans
You might want to pay extra attention if you have a variable-rate loan.
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How does the fed rate affect personal loans?
A federal rate change directly affects the interest rates banks charge on all new personal loans and some current personal loans. With current loans, how it affects you depends on what type of interest rate you have.
How does the fed rate affect variable-rate loans?
Changes in the fed rate affect both new and current variable-rate loans. With new loans, an increase or decrease means you'll start off paying either higher or lower rates than you would have before.
But since variable-rate loans fluctuate based on the lending market, a change in the federal rate will also cause interest rates on your current loan to go up or down.
How does the fed rate affect fixed-rate loans?
Changes in the federal rate only affect new fixed-rate loans. An increase in the fed rate typically means banks and other lenders will increase their fixed rates. Similarly, a decrease in the fed rate generally sees a decrease in interest rates banks charge.
Since fixed rates stay the same over the life of the loan, any changes to the fed rate after you sign your loan documents have no affect on your current loan.
How variable and fixed rates work on personal loans
What's the fed rate?
The fed rate, also known as the federal funds rate, is the benchmark rate the Federal Reserve uses to lend banks money. To understand the fed rate, you first need to understand how the Federal Reserve works.
The Federal Reserve is the US central bank. It's responsible for keeping the economy stable by controlling inflation and encouraging employment. One of the ways it influences the economy is through the rates it charges when it lends to banks.
As a benchmark rate, the fed rate is the lowest rate it charges when it makes loans to banks. When the Federal Reserve lowers rates, banks can afford to charge lower rates. When the Federal Reserve increases rates, banks also increase interest rates.
Why does the fed rate change?
The Federal Reserve changes interest rates mainly to maintain a stable economy. So if the economy is doing well, Federal Reserve rates typically increase to prevent inflation. When the economy is doing poorly, the Federal Reserve lowers rates.
The Federal Open Market Committee meets eight times a year to discuss whether or not the Federal Reserve should raise rates.
What's the current fed rate?
The current fed benchmark rate is 1.5–1.75%, as of October 2019.
What happens when the Federal Reserve changes rates?
When the Federal Reserve changes its benchmark interest rate, interest rates on new and variable-rate financial products change. That's because banks must charge a higher interest rate to make a profit, so when the Federal Reserve changes its interest rates, so do banks.
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How else can a fed rate increase impact me?
The fed rate doesn't just have an impact on personal loans — it affects most financial products that come with an interest rate or yield rate. Here's how:
- Credit cards. Credit cards typically come with variable rates, so any change to the fed rate should impact the rate on both new and current credit cards.
- Mortgages. Variable-rate mortgages and new mortgages can see an increase or decrease in interest rates along with the fed rate. Current fixed-rate mortgages are unaffected.
- Car loans. Variable-rate and new auto loans also go up or down with the fed rate, but current fixed-rate car loans stay even.
- Student loans. Congress sets federal student loan rates, so they're usually not directly affected by the fed rate. However, variable-rate and new fixed-rate private student loans are impacted by the fed rate.
- Savings accounts. The annual percentage yield on high-rate savings accounts may increase as the fed rate increases — and vice versa.
Bottom line
If you already have a personal loan, the fed rate might not have any impact on how much you pay in interest. However, if you're thinking of getting a new loan or have a variable-rate loan, trends in the fed rate could be worth paying attention to.
Find out more about how it all works by reading our guide to personal loans.
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text: Held in Charlotte's Center City, an international field of the world's top men and women's professional cyclists will take to the streets of uptown Charlotte and will compete for over $50,000 in prize money in the Novant Health Invitational Criterium (formerly known as the Presbyterian Hospital Invitational). Returning for its 12th year, the races take place on a mile long spectator friendly course starting at the intersection of Trade and Tryon Streets, where spectators are up close to the racing action. Over 350,000 people have lined Charlotte's streets since its first year to cheer on these elite riders, as cyclists take the sharp corners of the downtown streets shoulder to shoulder at high rates of speeds, competing for the country's largest single day prize purse in bicycle criterium racing. Over the course of the race's 11 year history, winners have come from 7 different countries and over $1 million in cash prizes have been awarded. The Novant Health Invitational Criterium is held to raise money and awareness for the Brain Tumor Fund for the Carolinas (BTFC). The BTFC is dedicated to supporting Charlotte area brain cancer patients by assisting them in their navigation of the healthcare system and encouraging vital research that advances effective and collaborative solutions for cancer treatment. Over the past 11 years, the Novant Health Invitational Criterium has raised approximately $5 million for the BTFC.


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£4,995 | Vauxhall Astra 2.0 i 16v VXR Sport Hatch 3drPRISTINE CONDITION FULL MOT
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**FREE 3 MONTHS WARRANTY** 12 MONTHS MOT**SUPERB EXAMPLE OF A BEAUTIFUL LOOKING VXR SERVICE HISTORY INCLUDING TIMING BELT AND WATER PUMP CHANGE LOW WARRANTED MILEAGE VERY WELL LOOKED AFTER VEHICLE SOLD WITH 12 MONTHS MOT INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR IS IN PRISTINE CONDITION YOU WILL STRUGGLE TO FIND MANY ASTRA VXR'S IN SUCH CONDITION LOOKS AND DRIVES LIKE NEW RECENTLY SERVICED FIRST TO SEE AND DRIVE WILL BUY LATE AND OUT OF HOURS APPOINTMENT AVAILABLE. ALL MAJOR CARDS ACCEPTED. CALL 07957646715 ANY TIME FOR MORE INFO***0% DEPOSIT FINANCE AVAILABLE COMPETITIVE RATES*** FREE DELIVERY WITHIN 20 MILE RADIUS, SAME DAY NATIONWIDE DELIVERY AVAILABLE EXTENDED WARRANTIES- UP TO 15 MONTHS AVAILABLE. LATE AND OUT OF HOURS APPOINTMENT **PART EXCHANGE WELCOME** WARRANTY AT SCREEN PRICE , 12 months MOT, Service history, Excellent bodywork, Interior - Excellent Condition, Tyre condition Excellent, Red, £4,995
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Air-Conditioning, Alarm, Computer (Driver Information System), In Car Entertainment (Radio/CD/MP3), Alloy Wheels 18in
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- £4,995
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- 67,000
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|Body style
|Engine size
|1998 cc
|Fuel type
|Number of doors
|Number of seats
|Gearbox type
|CO2 emissions
|221 g/km
|Insurance group
|Standard manufacturer's warranty (miles)
|60000 miles
|Standard manufacturer's warranty (years)
|3 years
|Standard paintwork guarantee
|No details available
Performance & economy
|Fuel consumption (urban)
|21.7 mpg
|Fuel consumption (extra urban)
|40.4 mpg
|Fuel consumption (combined)
|30.7 mpg
|0 - 60 mph
|6.2 seconds
|Top speed
|152 mph
|Engine power
|237 bhp
|Engine torque
|236.00 lbs/ft
|1415 mm
|Height inclusive of roof rails
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|4288 mm
|2614 mm
|2033 mm
|Width including mirrors
|No details available
|Fuel tank capacity
|52 litres
|Minimum kerb weight
|1425 kg
|Interior features
|Exterior features
|Adjustable Steering Column/Wheel
|Mirrors External
|Side Protection Mouldings
|Computer (Driver Information System)
|Spare Wheel
|In Car Entertainment (Radio/CD/MP3)
|Alloy Wheels 18in
|Power Socket
|Body Coloured Bumpers
|Seat Lumbar Support
|Steering Wheel Mounted Controls (Audio)
|Upholstery Cloth
|Recaro Sports Front Seats
|Air Bag Driver
|Air Bag Passenger
|Air Bag Side
|Anti-Lock Brakes
|Central Door Locking
|Centre Rear Seat Belt
|Electronic Stability Programme
|Front Fog Lights
|Head Restraints
|Power-Assisted Steering
|Seat - ISOFIX Anchorage Point (Two Seats - Rear)
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Otto Beisheim
Otto Beisheim
|January 3, 1924
|February 18, 2013 (aged 89)
Otto Beisheim (3 January 1924 – 18 February 2013[1]) was a German businessman and founder of Metro AG. In 2010, his net worth was estimated at US $3.6 billion.[2]
During World War II Beisheim served in the SS Division Leibstandarte.[3] Beisheim was a SS-Sturmmann (corresponds private) in an artillery regiment of the Leibstandarte.[4]
After the war, Beisheim went into business. The first Metro Market, opened in November 1963 in Essen-Altenessen. On 10 January 2004, Beisheim Center was officially opened on the northwest side of Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, built for 463 million euros, and including the Ritz-Carlton and Marriott chains.
In 2009, he sold 5.2% of the shares of Metro AG to various national and international investors; a further 3.1% could be sold.[5] The WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management, in Koblenz is named after him.[6][7][8]
- ^ Julie Cruz (18 February 2013). "Metro's Billionaire Founder Otto Beisheim Dies, Aged 89". Bloomberg.
- ^ "#249 Otto Beisheim". Forbes. 10 March 2010.
- ^ Metro Gründer:Otto BEisheim ist tot Der Spiegel
- ^ taz: Beisheim darf Schulnamen doch kaufen, 16. November 2005
- ^ http://www.marketwatch.com/story/otto-beisheim-sells-52-stake-in-metro-ag-2009-10-07
- ^ http://www.whu.edu/cms/index.php?id=433
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 November 2010. Retrieved 19 March 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/kelloggwhu-otto-beisheim-school
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You can request this rental directly at your host and will get a response within a short amount of time.
Visit us in the beautiful middel Moselle in our holiday apartment. Whether terrace or wifi connection, there's nothing to be desired for up to 3 guests. Great towel service! Numerous 5 star reviews (on another portal, we'll gladly send them to you)
Enjoy quiet hours in our Japanese garden with loungers and grill, all for you alone.
The covered outdoor seating area with open fire is perfect for breakfast and lunch al fresco.
Lockable bicycle shed on site. Your parking space is located right next to your apartment.
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Drawing courses and knife forging with the host. Great trails for cyclists and bikers. We know the most beautiful tours and will gladly advise you. The side valleys of the Moselle towards Hunsrück and the Eifel are fantastic for motorcyclists. Hiking in the valley and the Moselle heights right from the house. Multiple climbing areas nearaby!
Endless options for hiking, cycling and motorcycles along either side of the Moselle and rides through the romantic side valleys high to the Hunsrück or to the Eifel. We'd be glad to help you plan your tour. The longest suspension bridge and many of the touristy Moselle cities such as Trier, Luxembourg, Cochem, Traben-Trarbach and particularly hour home town of Bernkastel-Kues are easy to reach by bus or by car. Interesting river trips with the Moselle ships.
via the Hunsrück: B50 to Bernkastel-Kues, from there 2 km down the Moselle to the village of Wehlen.
from the Eifel via the A48/A1 to Wittlich, then federal road to the Moselle, at the Zeltlingen roundabout, 1st exit right towards Wehlen.
We won't charge you yet
Please note that usage-based cost can occur additionally. If you have any questions please get in touch with the owner directly.
We recommend that our guests always take out travel cancellation insurance. For this reason, we provide a form for an insurance certificate of the ERV with the booking confirmation.
The city of Bernkastel is considering charging a tourist tax for tourists from the 2018 season.
The amount has not been set, it is probably 1.50 EUR per person per night
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NOW that the elections are over, it is time for both the People's Action Party (PAP) and opposition parties to put aside their differences, and work together for the betterment of Singapore's future.
After all, like in the aftermath of a debate in the same school, we are all on the same side, even though in the heated debate and contest of the elections, we seemed to be at bitter odds against one another.
The 'us against them' mentality prevalent in our political history should stop.
More Singaporeans have played a more active role in these elections – not just as supporters of the various parties, but as ordinary Singaporeans helping to analyse policy issues and making suggestions.
Even the PAP has acknowledged that some of the opposition candidates' proposals were worth looking into.
This is a good sign and a step forward, which is unprecedented in Singapore's electoral history. Foreign Minister George Yeo put it succinctly when he said last Thursday that 'we need a transformed PAP – whatever the outcome, there will be a lot of soul searching', and then added on Saturday night, after the unprecedented defeat of three ministers in Aljunied GRC, that 'a new chapter has opened in Singapore's history'.
The fact that the PAP's share of valid votes has dropped from the last general election's 66.6 per cent to 60.1 per cent may also be an indication that the people of Singapore want change too.
For starters, the PAP should lift the party whip so that PAP members can vote against the party line in Parliament.
Whether this moment in our history will be remembered as the beginning of a golden era of democratic and political development may depend on the humility and magnanimity of the victors and the graciousness of the defeated, to work together as one family.
In this connection, Ambassador Ong Keng Yong's response before the United Nations Human Rights Council to calls for Singapore to sign up to other human rights treaties (such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) – saying that it is something the Singapore government is considering – is yet another step forward for Singapore.
Perhaps we could also take a leaf from the book of the US political system, in which defeated politicians like Hillary Clinton (who was appointed secretary of state), as well as others from both the Democratic and Republican parties were given the opportunity to serve their country. This is in contrast to Singapore's historical 'winner takes all' political culture.
Political reform is perhaps the buzz today, and it is not confined to just Singapore. Even Britain – one of the oldest democracies in the world, from which Singapore inherited the beginnings of its current political system – had a referendum last Thursday on whether to change the voting system from the current first-past-the-post system.
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