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President Bill Clinton did it after having heart trouble. "The Biggest Loser" trainer Bob Harper and actress Olivia Wilde do it, and they were named sexiest at it. Actor Tobey Maguire managed to keep doing it and still bulk up to play Spider-Man.
President Bill Clinton did it after having heart trouble. "The Biggest Loser" trainer Bob Harper and actress Olivia Wilde do it, and they were named sexiest at it. Actor Tobey Maguire managed to keep doing it and still bulk up to play Spider-Man.
All are famous vegans, forgoing not only meat but any food produced by an animal, which means no eggs or dairy. Vegans are part of the big vegetarian family, but they are the strictest of the group.
Veganism is a simpler way of life in an urban environment. In major cities or college towns, there are restaurants devoted to vegan and vegetarian lifestyles. But how does one manage it in a smaller town?
"If you cook for yourself, it's easy," said Charles Hershey a vegan and president of the Springfield (Ill.) Vegetarian Association. "If you're eating out, it is more challenging."
Hershey, who adopted veganism in 1978, said that Chipotle, Noodles & Company, a Taste of Thai and Gateway to India also make it easy to be vegan.
"In general, ethnic restaurants are the way to go," he said.
Veganism, according to numerous vegan-advocacy websites, is as much a state of mind or philosophy of life as it is a diet plan. Most vegans also strive to eliminate animal products from their clothes and homes as well as their diet.
Meat and dairy are prime sources of protein and calcium in many peoples' diets, so those substances must be replaced on a vegan diet.
Here is how vegans go about doing just that:
Protein:Legumes, grains and nuts are also prime sources of protein, as is tofu. Maguire, when he bulked up to play Spider-Man, supposedly consumed quite a bit of tofu. (He was named the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals sexiest male vegetarian in 2002, along with Natalie Portman.)
Calcium:Soy or rice milk is the primary dairy substitute, and it can be fortified with calcium. Green, leafy vegetables such as broccoli, collards, kale, mustard greens and okra also have calcium, as does the magical tofu.
B12:This vitamin helps the nervous system, and insufficient amounts may lead to heart disease, which would tend to counterbalance the lowered cholesterol and fatty foods. Some breakfast cereals are fortified with B12, but several vegan-advocacy websites suggest taking a B12 supplement, claiming B12 as the only nutrient not easily obtained on a vegan diet.
The vegan-advocacy websites suggest that you consult with a doctor or a nutritionist before embarking on a vegan diet. And although some sites say it is possible to raise a child on a vegetarian or vegan diet, it is recommended that you consult the child's physician first to ensure they are getting the proper nutrients.
But say your child decides of his or her own volition to go vegan. How exactly do you, say, make them a birthday cake?
According to the website vegetarianvegan.com, here is how you substitute the ingredients of a typical cake:
Replace the eggs with something called "Ener-G Egg Replacers," which can be found at grocery stores.
Replace the milk with soy or rice milk.
Instead of white sugar, which is often bleached with animal bone char, use unbleached sugar or cane sugar.
Use margarine instead of butter.
Use non-dairy frosting.
Hershey said vegans should be careful in some restaurants that purport to offer vegan dishes even though they use meat stock or oyster or fish in the sauces.
Hershey lauded Noodles & Company as an example of a restaurant that understands its vegetarian/vegan population.
"They have information available," he said. "They define what they mean by vegetarian or vegan, and you know what you have to order and how to order it to meet each of those criteria.
"That kind of thing is becoming more common. Many people, probably most food servers, have heard the term vegan and have a sense of what it means."
Different types
Vegetarian: The common term for someone who doesn't eat meat, but the proper term is actually Lacto-Ovo-Vegetarian, meaning they also consume eggs and milk.
Lacto-vegetarian: No eggs, but milk is OK.
Ovo-vegetarian: No milk, but eggs are OK.
Pesco-vegetarian: A vegetarian when it comes to land animals, but fish are fair game. Also usually consumes milk and eggs. President Clinton, according to a CNN interview, actually has a bit of fish with his diet.
Vegan: No animals or animal by-products. No eggs or dairy for sure, and depending on the dedication of a person, no yeast or honey as well.
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Could this be the year that Amazon.com opens brick-and-mortar retail stores? Well, if the Seattle online retailer were to buck tradition and give that a shot, something that The New York Times recently speculated about, here's the perfect location for them: the former Barnes & Noble at the University Village shopping mall.
Barnes & Noble shut down the Seattle store in December, leaving a big hole smack dab in the middle of the popular outdoor shopping center.
Now, we've heard nothing about whether Amazon actually plans to open any physical stores this year or in the future, let alone one at U Village. (The company is typically close-lipped about any sort of plans like this). UPDATE: Good-e-Reader reported this past weekend, citing sources close to the situation, that Amazon was kicking around a smaller-scale, boutique-style retail store in Seattle where it could sell Kindles as well as book titles from its own publishing line.
Nonetheless, if Amazon were investigating a brick-and-mortar retail strategy of any size, U Village would make a heck of a lot of sense.
Consider this:
–Amazon already collects sales tax on purchases made in Washington state, so a physical retail presence in Seattle would be easier for Jeff Bezos and crew to stomach.
–Amazon has shown a tendency to test new concepts in its hometown, from the Amazon Fresh grocery delivery service to the recently-launched Amazon Locker service.
–Taking over (a portion) of the retail space of a rival in Barnes & Noble could have a certain allure, especially as Amazon looks to tout its own line of tablets and e-readers. (See comment below).
–David Streitfeld at The New York Times notes that the diversity of products sold via Amazon.com would mean that any store would have to be big, and the former Barnes & Noble space does not disappoint coming in at 46,000 square feet, with about half of that currently available.
–Apple, Microsoft and Sony all have retail stores in the shopping center, and Amazon could make a big statement by planting its flag near them.
–As Amazon.com adds more of its own products — including publishing books — the company could use a retail presence as a flagship store to market items in new ways.
I am not a betting man, but I'd wager a guess that a least a few folks in the halls of Amazon.com are kicking around these ideas. University Village general manager Susie Plummer told the Seattle P-I in December that they would love to have a book store at the shopping center.
Might Amazon be the one?
We will just have to wait and see what happens on that front.
I know of at least one person who is patiently waiting. Ten years ago, I wrote a column for the Seattle P-I in which I asked venture capitalists to offer bold predictions for the coming year. Tom Simpson of Northwest Venture Associates had this to say: "Amazon.com will open 250 retail stores in 2002."
As we all know, that didn't happen. But good things come to those who wait, right?
UPDATE: A spokeswoman at University Village tells us that they are not in active discussions with Amazon.com about retail space, but she said they are still very much interested in having book store at the shopping center. Room & Board plans to open in the fall, taking over the second floor space. The street-level shops will be announced in the coming months, the spokeswoman said.
Follow-up: Another big brick-and-mortar bookseller says it won't carry titles from Amazon.com


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Staffers at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort have organized an inaugural Eco Night on Thursday, featuring a screening of the acclaimed documentary Chasing Ice.
Chasing Ice is photographer Jim Balog's attempt to chronicle the rapidly changing Arctic landscape. Balog placed cameras in some of the harshest environments on Earth and shot time-lapse images of glaciers for three years. He found mountains of ice disappearing.
Also at the intersection of skiing and climate change, writer Porter Fox will be in Jackson on Saturday night promoting his book Deep, which ponders diminishing snow and the sport's uncertain future. Fox will sign copies of the book during a party at Q Roadhouse, and Lazy Eyes will perform.
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Well... The three definitions I got for reflexive, symmetric, and transitive relations are:
R is said to be reflexive on A if $\forall x\in A : xRx$.
R is symmetric if $\forall x,y\in A : xRy \rightarrow yRx$.
R is transitive if $\forall x,y,z\in A : (xRy \wedge yRz) \rightarrow xRz$
So, if I understand it correctly, the empty relation {} is symmetric and transitive because the xRy will always be false, and so the implication is true. It's also not reflexive over A unless A is the null set.
What I'm wondering is: if I had a relation, say $R=\{(x,y)\in \mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R} | x>0 \wedge x<10 \wedge x=y \}$, it's obviously not reflexive over $\mathbb{R}$, but would it be called "reflexive" in general?
I'm asking this because I have a homework problem that says R is a relationship over A, and R is reflexive. I'm not sure if that means R is reflexive over all of A, or in other words, if A is necessarily a subset (or equal to) the domain and range of R.


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|"The Lord of the Eagles" by Darrell Sweet
|General Information
|Created by Ilúvatar after being sung by Manwë and Yavanna
Eagle's Eyrie
|At least Valarin, Quenya, Sindarin, Westron
|Thorondor, Great Eagle, Gwaihir, Landroval, Meneldor
|Physical Description
|Unknown, but obviously very longeval[1][note 1]
|Images of Eagles
The Eagles were birds that served as messengers of Manwë. Among those were the Great Eagles, immense birds who were sentient and capable of speech, and often helped Men, Elves and Wizards in the quests to defeat evil. They were "devised" by Manwë Súlimo, King of the Valar, and were often called the Eagles of Manwë.
They were sent from Valinor to Middle-earth to keep an eye on the exiled Ñoldor, and on their foe the evil Vala Morgoth.
The Great Eagles were messengers of Manwë, the ruler of the sky and Lord of the Valar, being perhaps "spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles" that brought news from Middle-earth to his halls upon Taniquetil.[2]
First Age
At a command of Manwë, for a time the Lord of the Eagles, Thorondor kept his eyries at the top of Thangorodrim, the volcano above Angband itself[3][4]. While they lived there, Thorondor helped Fingon rescue Maedhros. Many years later, three of the Great Eagles came to the aid of Beren and Lúthien, bearing them away from Thangorodrim after both had drained their strength in the Quest for the Silmaril.[5] Thorondor's folk later removed their eyries to the Crissaegrim, part of the Echoriad about Gondolin. There they were friends of Turgon, keeping spies off the mountains, bringing him news and keeping spies off the borders. Because of their guardianship, the Orcs were unable to approach either the nearby mountains,[6] or the important ford of Brithiach to the south;[7] their watch had been redoubled after the coming of Tuor,[8] enabling Gondolin to remain undiscovered the longest of all Elven realms. When the city fell at last, the eagles of Thorondor protected the fugitives, driving away the orcs that ambushed them at Cirith Thoronath, the Eagles' Cleft north of Gondolin.[6]
Thorondor wounded Morgoth in the face after Morgoth's battle with Fingolfin, and he carried Fingolfin's body to the Echoriath, where he was buried by Fingon.
The Eagles fought alongside the army of the Valar, Elves and Edain during the War of Wrath at the end of the First Age. After the appearance of winged dragons, all the great birds gathered under Thorondor to Eärendil, and destroyed the majority of the dragons.[9]
In the Second Age, a pair of Eagles had an eyrie in the King's House in Armenelos, the capital of Númenor until the time of Tar-Ancalimon, when the Kings of Númenor became hostile to the Valar.
The Númenóreans believed that three eagles, "the Witnesses of Manwë", were sent by Manwë to guard the summit of Meneltarma; these appeared whenever one approached the hallow and staying in the sky during the Three Prayers.
Many eagles lived upon the hills around Sorontil in the north of the island.[10]
Eagle-shaped storm clouds, called the "Eagles of the Lords of the West", were sent by Manwë when he tried to reason or threaten them.[11]
Third Age
- "- Farewell! wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!
- May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks."
- ― Polite way to exchange good-bye with an Eagle
By the end of the Third Age, a colony under the Great Eagle lived in the northern parts of the Misty Mountains who mostly nested upon the eastward slopes not far from the High Pass leading from Rivendell, and thus in the direct vicinity of the Goblin-town beneath; they often afflicted the goblins and disrupted their plans.
These Eagles helped the Elves of Rivendell and Radagast in watching the land and in gathering news about the Orcs.[12][13]. As a result of feeding on the sheep of the local Woodmen of Mirkwood, their relationship was not good and the Eagles were afraid of their bows.
Those rescued Thorin's company from a band of Goblins and Wargs and carried them to the Carrock[14] and some days later they espied the mustering of goblins all over the Mountains, to be gathered under the Great Eagle in the Battle of Five Armies near Erebor. It was only with their help that the Dwarves, Men and Elves managed to defeat the goblins.[15] The Great Eagle became King of All Birds.
The Eagles appeared in great numbers at the Battle of the Morannon, helping the Host of the West against the Nazgûl. Several of them rescued Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee from Mount Doom after the One Ring had been destroyed.[16]
In Gnomish, one of Tolkien's early conceptions of an Elven language, a word for "eagle" is ioroth (poetic form ior). A cognate of the same meaning in Qenya is the poetic ea(r) or earen. Another Gnomish word for "an eagle" is thorn.[17]
In the later languages, the Quenya word for eagle is soron and in Noldorin/Sindarin thoron/thorn[18]
The Thornhoth was the name for the eagle-folk in the earliest legends.[19]
Tolkien's painting of an eagle on a crag appears in some editions of The Hobbit. According to Christopher Tolkien, the author based this picture on a painting by Archibald Thorburn of an immature Golden Eagle, which Christopher found for him in The Birds of the British Isles by T.A. Coward. However, Tolkien's use of this model does not necessarily mean that his birds were ordinary Golden Eagles.
Other versions of the legendarium
In the earliest version of the fall of Gondolin, the king of the eagles, Thorndor (later Thorondor), had no love for Melko (later Melkor) because he had caught many eagles and tortured them for the magic words that would enable him to fly (in order to challenge Manwë for command of the air). When the eagles refused to reveal the magic words Melko cut off their wings in order to fashion a pair for himself, "but it availed not".[19]
For some time Tolkien considered the Eagles as bird-shaped Maiar,[20] as he felt it unlikely Ilúvatar would grant fëar to animals. However, the notion of a "Maia" like Thorondor having descendants contradicted later concepts and Tolkien later decided that the Great Eagles (like Roäc and the Thrush of The Hobbit) were common animals that had been "taught language by the Valar, and raised to a higher level — but without fëar."[21] In later texts, eagles were first envisioned by Manwë during the Music of the Ainur, and appeared shortly before the awakening of the Elves. Their origin is thus similar to that of ents.[22][23]
Flying the Ring to Mount Doom
- "The Eagles are a dangerous 'machine'. I have used them sparingly, and that is the absolute limit of their credibility or usefulness. "
- ― Letter 210, J.R.R. Tolkien
Many skeptical readers have wondered why the Eagles simply didn't carry Frodo and the One Ring into Mordor and drop the Ring in Mount Doom, or at least aid the Fellowship at some part of the journey, such as helping them avoiding the Redhorn Gate and Moria.
At first glance this seems incredibly easy compared to what actually happened (and it would have made a boring book).
The party of Tolkienists that accepts this as a plot hole usually respond that in any book there are usually plot holes. In a larger, far more detailed and realistic book we expect fewer (if any) plot holes, when in reality there is a far greater chance.
Considering the Eagles
Strangely, the possibility of using the Eagles has not been mentioned at all during the Council of Elrond. Although many flawed proposals are made during it (destroy the Ring, guard it, send it to the West, give it to Tom Bombadil), none of the participants thought to propose this seemingly obvious solution, especially after Gandalf described his escape with Gwaihir; even if the Eagle plan was to be countered or dismissed implausible later for some reason (like the ones above), it would be only logical to be mentioned.
On the other hand, the Council was seen deciding the fate of the Ring, not the manner; this was left to the discretion of the Fellowship. Indeed, during its existence, the Fellowship had not even decided whether they should go directly to Mordor or to seek aid from Gondor, let alone the manner to do so, before decisively been broken at Amon Hen. If Gandalf ever considered requesting the help of the Eagles after some point (eg. after passing the Misty Mountains) it's not mentioned in the narrative.[24]
Official explanation to the problem
It seems that nobody noticed this alleged plot-hole during Tolkien's lifetime, as there is no surviving letter where Tolkien is inquired so. It is unknown whether Tolkien ever was aware of the issue while writing the book or later.
Tolkien's only relevant mention is concerning a possible adaptation of the Lord of the Rings into a movie, where he simply mentions that the Eagles should be used carefully as a plot device and was self-aware whenever he used them.[25]
Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh joke around the issue on the writer-director DVD commentary track; writing partner Philippa Boyens then bursts out and angrily declares one of the common explanations: "Why does everyone always say that?! The flying Nazgûl on their Fell Beasts would have stopped them! How more obvious does that need to be?! Mordor has flying creatures too!"
The topic is also brought up in the video game The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, where the heroes (who have experience working with the Great Eagles) suggest having one fly Frodo and the Ring to Mount Doom. Gandalf, however, explains that Sauron would anticipate such an intrusion and how dangerous the attempt would be.
Other explanations
As Tolkien's writings on the Eagles do not allow for an explanation, several speculative theories have been proposed by critics, although they are not definitive and can be countered.[26][27][28]
- The Eagles coming from the air would have been fairly obvious and defenseless to Sauron; the Fell beasts and/or archers would most likely have stopped the attempt. The Eagles expressed fear in The Hobbit about going into the Lands of Men because of their bows. After the Ring is destroyed (along with all of Sauron's forces), the Eagles met no resistance from evil forces; thus, they were able to rescue Frodo and Sam.
- This often cited argument could possibly have been countered with a parallel divertive battle plan, more or less like the Battle of the Morannon begun to help Frodo.
- The Eagles could have possibly become corrupted by the power of the Ring and would have most likely attempted to prevent the destruction. Gandalf himself not only knew that anyone might and would refuse to throw in the Ring, but he was also afraid of it; the Eagles, as Maiar, could have been corruptive and dangerous.
- As emissaries of the Valar, the Eagles may had been somehow limited in how they intervened to great events, which the Valar perhaps considered matters between the Elves and Sauron;[29] for example, they had sent the Wizards, who were prohibited to directly fight Sauron by physical or supernatural force, and the Eagles did aid the free peoples and even participated in battles. But otherwise, the Eagles would had been either afraid, unwilling, incapable, or (like the Wizards) forbidden to take any greater part.
- The Eagles's availability and power must have been limited. Gwaihir only arrives at Isengard because he is sent by Radagast. Once he rescues Gandalf, the Wizard asks him how far he can bear him, to which the Eagle replies "...not to the ends of the earth. I was sent to bear tidings not burdens." He took Gandalf just to Edoras, so he could find a horse to ride, and then departed.
- With the War of the Ring expanding to all the western realms of Middle-earth, the Eagles would need to protect their own lands in the event that Sauron's forces invade, and thus would be unable to spare any resources to assist the Fellowship.
Portrayal in adaptations
2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring:
- The Eagles are associated with a moth; while Gandalf is trapped on the summit of Orthanc, he whispers to a moth and lets it go. Later, when confronted by Saruman, the moth reappears; an Eagle (supposedly Gwaihir) arrives and Gandalf escapes on its back.
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King:
- Right before the Battle of the Morannon, Gandalf notices a moth flies near him. Then the Eagles appear and fly against the fell beasts. They pick up Frodo and Sam from the slopes of Orodruin.
2012: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey:
- As Thorin and Company are trapped in a falling tree by the band of Azog and their Wargs, Gandalf uses a moth to summon them to his aid. They grasp the wargs and drop them onto the rocks or in the fire, pick up an unconscious Thorin, and save the protagonists from falling. Unlike in the book, they drop the characters on the Carrock and leave; the Eagles don't appear sentient and there is no dialogue between them and the characters.
External links
- Tolkien FAQ question and possible answer
- Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor? a discussion investigating a possible battle plan that would help the eagles.
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part One. The Grey Annals" p. 68
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Beginning of Days"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Noldor in Beleriand"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of Beren and Lúthien"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Ruin of Doriath"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "A Description of the Island of Númenor"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Akallabêth: The Downfall of Númenor"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Council of Elrond"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Ring Goes South"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Queer Lodgings"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "The Return Journey"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "The Field of Cormallen"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "I-Lam na-Ngoldathon: The Grammar and Lexicon of the Gnomish Tongue", in Parma Eldalamberon XI (edited by Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, and Patrick H. Wynne), pp. 51, 73
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, "Part Three: The Etymologies"
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, "The Fall of Gondolin", p. 103
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Morgoth's Ring, "Part Two. The Annals of Aman" p. 138
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Morgoth's Ring, "Part Five. Myths Transformed" pp. 409-11
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of Aulë and Yavanna"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Three. The Wanderings of Húrin and Other Writings not forming part of the Quenta Silmarillion: IV. Of the Ents and the Eagles"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book II
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 210, (undated, written June 1958)
- ↑ Tolkien FAQ
- ↑ Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor?
- ↑ Michael Martinez, "Is There An In-story Explanation For Why the Eagles Rarely Participate in Great Events?", Xenite.org (accessed 20 February 2020)
- ↑ Cf. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Council of Elrond", Elrond: "for good or ill [the Ring] belongs to Middle-earth; it is for us who still dwell here to deal with it".


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The woman raped by footballer Ched Evans has been given a new identity and relocated after the "traumatic experience" of the attack and her subsequent naming on social networks.
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Last week Evans's cousin, Gemma Thomas, 18 – one of the nine people convicted of naming the victim – refused to apologise to her.
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Evans was found guilty of raping a 19-year-old woman in a Rhyl hotel room.
Evans admitted having sex with her, but the woman told the jury she had no memory of the incident – and the prosecution said she was too drunk to consent to sexual intercourse.
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Uncyclopedia:Village Dump/archive14
- 1 Best. Reskin. Ever.
- 2 Whining
- 3 Uncategorised template problem
- 4 Wilde gone Wild
- 5 So who here likes pancakes?
- 6 Template categorization
- 7 Change of skin name
- 8 Uncyclopedia Talk:Babel
- 9 Technical Question
- 10 Dur, I know how to use headers
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- 16 Unused images
- 17 You're all going to jail
- 18 NRV and CVP patrol
- 19 everybody hates me
Best. Reskin. Ever.
Where will the current front page reskin go when man uncyclopedia is finished as a feature? - David Gerard 12:25, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
- I meant the css pointer in MediaWiki:Uncyclopedia.js that creates the page-wide black background and green text. It is slightly obtrusive javascript, and we're pondering disabling it for things like Aa: EBay: and Tx: when not needed. Tx: the page can stay forever as far as I care ^_^.
I miss the counters we used to have on the bottom of the page, and I don't like how the TOC look now. ...wah -- neoEva88 MUN [email protected] PS CM NS (talk.to-do)
- Counters are off because of a caching system running on the server now (i.e. off for a good but irreversable reason), and you can probably modify the TOC in your uncyclopedia.css if you really wanted. --Sir Volte KUN Talk (+S NS CM Bur. VFP VFH) 22:43, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
- I need the counters!!!!! BRING THEY BACK!!!!!!!! -- http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/8/88/Tinymooose.gif » Sir Savethemooses Grand Commanding Officer ... holla atcha boy» 22:44, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
- I BEG YOU! t o m p k i n s blah. ﺞوﻦ וףה ՃՄ ண்ஸ ފއހ วอฏม +տ trade websites 22:48, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
- IRREVERSIBLE?!?!!? WTFF!!!!!!!! WHO I KILL FOR THTIS?!? -- http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/8/88/Tinymooose.gif » Sir Savethemooses Grand Commanding Officer ... holla atcha boy» 23:25, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
- WHY LIVE ANYMORE?? --KATIE!! 23:55, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
- I SPEAK INGLIS --Nytrospawn 01:23, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
- WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! t o m p k i n s blah. ﺞوﻦ וףה ՃՄ ண்ஸ ފއހ วอฏม +տ trade websites 02:35, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
- I SPEAK INGLIS --Nytrospawn 01:23, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
- WHY LIVE ANYMORE?? --KATIE!! 23:55, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
I want the wikistats back. WaAaaaAAaAaaaaHhHHhHhHhhHhhh (etc). Seriously. I think I'm going snakey. I'm a postage stamp away from becoming a card-carrying member of the lip-twiddlers club. --T. (talk) 16:30, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Uncategorised template problem
Hymie's attempts at adding all uncategorised templates into this category appears to have had the effect of causing all the LangName babel templates to display incorrectly, showing the full language name instead of the abbreviation in the babel box. I've rolled the edits back for now, but maybe this is something that requires further investigation? I'm not an expert on how the babel boxes were put together. -- Sir Codeine K·H·P·B·M·N·C·U·Bu. · (Harangue) 16:35, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
- Is it just the language names that were reverted? If so, may be best to leave them reverted until the time comes to put them into Category:Babel templates or wherever they go. Another thing to check is whether any of these categorisations have added any blank lines at the end of the template? --Carlb 23:05, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
- In that case, I shall deal with him when I get home. --Carlb 23:58, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
- MPEG! DIVX! - David Gerard 16:26, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Wilde gone Wild
Due to this edit by gwax to {{Wilde}}, I think we no longer need: {{Wilde2}}, {{NWilde}}, {{NWilde2}}. All these can be simulated using {{Wilde}}. Eg:
{{wilde2|Blah blah blah|Your mom}} -> {{wilde|Blah blah blah|the [[Your mom]]}} {{Nwilde|Blah blah blah|Mom|Your mom}} -> {{wilde|Blah blah blah|[[Mom|Your mom]]}} {{Nwilde2|Blah blah blah|Mom|Your mom}} -> {{wilde|Blah blah blah|the [[Mom|Your mom]]}}
I fully support this. I hate fixing redirects made back to pages, by people trying to be clever in making a wilde quote, but not knowing how to get the link to link back directly (not knowing about Nwilde or Wilde2). Carlb: If agreed upon, can hymie change all the links for us? --Splaka
PS: On further thought, {{Wilde}} could be meta-ized using {{Q}} (which was de-linked before). Algo? What do you think? Would it work in the same way, yet letting the third parameter be optionally blank (without duplicating the code)? Would it be breakable?
{{q|{{{1}}}|Oscar Wilde|{{{2}}}}} ? --Splaka 00:53, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm not, algo, but I can answer. Wilde could be altered to perform different things based on how many non-blank parameters are entered, but in that case you wouldstill have to have blank parameters on most uses. The same as how you need to type {{Q|blah blah|Author|}} instead of just {{Q|blah blah|Author}} when you want to leave off the "on Subject" part when using template Q. ---Rev. Isra (talk) 01:08, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
- From [email protected] (paraphrased) "All we need to do is change the contents of those 3 quotes to adapt them to Wilde, then I can run Hymie to subst: them all in, after we can huff the templates, much simpler. Also I like pancakes. Hymie, on the other hand, prefers 10W40."
- Should be correct? --Splaka 01:55, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Also: the damn quote marks
If we merge these 5 templates into 2, they will all need the same quote mark code. Currently they use 3 or 4 different ones:
Which ones are the least obtrusive? Some break on some browsers. --Splaka 01:28, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
- the non defualt (") ones suck on the web, i like the good old typewriter quotes. sorry but they just look so weird, on MSWord the ones they use are ok, but here they look like 2 little slanted ticks not quotes. --Maj Sir Insertwackynamehere CUN VFH VFP Bur. CMInsertwackynamehere | Talk | Rate 03:47, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
- Once {{Wilde}} has been subst'ed for the others, just edit the one template and they'll all change together. Try one, if you don't like it, revert. --Carlb 02:56, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
So who here likes pancakes?
There's too much technical stuff on this page, most of which I don't understand (check that, I'm too lazy to try to understand), so I thought a nice conversation about pancakes would be a good change of pace... -- http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/8/88/Tinymooose.gif » Sir Savethemooses Grand Commanding Officer ... holla atcha boy» 04:24, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
- Pancakes are nice, but in every way inferior to french toast. --Monthenor 06:28, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
- Except in the area of taste. --—rc (t) 06:30, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
- Has anyone here ever tried Snoqualmie Falls pancake mix? I can't get it in the store anymore, and I have this horrible sinking feeling that they've stopped distributing it. I used to make 'em every Sunday... It was the highlight of my week! --Some user 06:32, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
- Waffles are king. French Toast is Queen, Pancakes are just the knave. ---Rev. Isra (talk) 06:33, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
- Waffles are just pancakes with syrup traps that get all soggy. --Sir Volte KUN Talk (+S NS CM Bur. VFP VFH) 06:37, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry Volte, but I agree with Isra on this one. I've never seen any pancakes by that name, Some user. What made them different? Who forgot the crepes? I like crepes over french toast, but it's a toss-up between them and waffles. http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/c/c5/Dawg.gif » Brig Sir Dawg | t | v | c » 07:09, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
- I wish I knew what made them different! The perfect ratio of sugar to flour, maybe? I bought 'em on impulse because I'd been there once (on a Twin Peaks pilgrimage, natch), but they were fantastic. I used to prefer waffles too, but they actually changed my (admittedly diseased) mind. I should stop before I'm accused of spamming, though. Eventually I'll just have to order the stuff online... --Some user 07:29, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
- Crepes are #1. After that, French toast. For some strange reason, I only find European breakfast foods tolerable. Does that make me anti-American?--Bradaphraser 19:36, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
- I wish I knew what made them different! The perfect ratio of sugar to flour, maybe? I bought 'em on impulse because I'd been there once (on a Twin Peaks pilgrimage, natch), but they were fantastic. I used to prefer waffles too, but they actually changed my (admittedly diseased) mind. I should stop before I'm accused of spamming, though. Eventually I'll just have to order the stuff online... --Some user 07:29, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry Volte, but I agree with Isra on this one. I've never seen any pancakes by that name, Some user. What made them different? Who forgot the crepes? I like crepes over french toast, but it's a toss-up between them and waffles. http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/c/c5/Dawg.gif » Brig Sir Dawg | t | v | c » 07:09, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
- Waffles are just pancakes with syrup traps that get all soggy. --Sir Volte KUN Talk (+S NS CM Bur. VFP VFH) 06:37, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
- Except in the area of taste. --—rc (t) 06:30, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
- Has anyone ported Linux to a pancake? I understand it works on toasters and coffee cups now - David Gerard 12:39, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
- So Pancake theme for shove tuesday anyone? (I think the logo will work well as jif lemon bottle)--The Right Honourable Maj Sir Elvis UmP KUN FIC MDA VFH Bur. CM and bars UGM [email protected] (Petition) 15:23, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
One of the awesomest pancake/waffle/French toast/etc. things I've ever had was a "The Big One" pancake (recipe at the back of the computer game Fallout 2's manual). The things taste about halfway from pancakes to French toast and are about 6 inches thick. Anyone else know what I'm talking about or tried them? --Sir gwax (talk) http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/thumb/b/b0/Sucrose_b.gif/30px-Sucrose_b.gif 18:19, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
- Kansas is flatter than a pancake. Seriously. Check it out.--Jordanus 21:09, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
My pancake matrix is misaligned. I checked all of the parameters, but the flux capacitor still gets nulls for the prime checksum! And, as if this weren't bad enough, the OS on my frying pan keeps having kernel panic when the boolean input rate is greater than the root of it's initialized butter driver settings. AAAHHH! --S P I N N I E 01:19, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
- When I was stationed in Kuwait, the chow hall had french toast, that when drenched in syrup and melted butter, was possibly better than sex. Then there was a war and I never had that toast again. Pancakes have never inspired the same love in me, so I must side with the French-Toast-is-better crowd. — — 2nd Lt. Sir David, the Weasel of Wild KUN VFH FP Fire! 15:39, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Template categorization
One of the extraordinary new features that came with the upgrade is the addition of the <noinclude> and <includeonly> tags, which allows content to be placed on template pages without it being included when the template is referenced. Because of this, templates can now be placed in their own categories. I've begun the work at Category:Templates, but I'm going to need quite a bit of help sorting through everything. Please help! --Algorithm (talk) 10:32, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
- Any possibility that any of this could be automated? For instance, a 'bot could take every page listed on Uncyclopedia:Templates/Deletion_process and toss them into <noinclude>[[Category: Deletion_process templates]]</noinclude>? --Carlb 21:01, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
- Perhaps the 'bot could throw them initially into the categories listed (where applicable, based on Uncyclopedia:Templates, the list of awards or the list of Babel boxes) and toss the rest into the oxymoronic (as opposed to just plain moronic) Category:Uncategorized templates? At that point, the ones in need of manual recategorisation would be much easier to spot. --Carlb 22:29, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps we could have a bot automatically go through and delete all the templates. All of them. It would save us tons of time and effort. Then if we only allowed, say, Admins to create templates, we wouldn't have so many useless effin templates. Just a thought. I'd go through and delete all of them by hand if I had more time. Perhaps when I retire or something. 23:37, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Change of skin name
I've changed the defult skin name on this wiki from "Monobook" to "Uncyclopedia". In MediaWiki, skin names are closely related to the filenames which are used to generate the skin, and so using the Monobook name required patching the Monobook skin files. This causes problems every time we want to upgrade MediaWiki, since we need to migrate the patches. Many wikis hosted by wikicities have these kinds of patches, and they are poorly documented, which is why so many things broke in the upgrade. Breaking the uncyclopedia skin out to a separate file in the common skin directory will allow for a much easier upgrade in the future.
I've changed the default skin, and all users who were using monobook have had the skin switched to Uncyclopedia in their user preferences. You can change it back to Monobook if you prefer, to get the default Wikicities skin.
User CSS and JS will have to be moved from Monobook.(css|js) to Uncyclopedia.(css|js). I'll move them all automatically if there are no further objections (Splarka complained for a while on IRC). -- Tim Starling 06:45, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
- And I will continue to complain sir! Anyhow. I've lost, move at will. *cries*. Anywho, post comments/questions here about it. --Splaka 06:52, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
- Script pages moved, skin moved, MediaWiki: moved. Report problems here. --Splaka 08:31, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
- Pretty minor, but your "Note: Uncyclopedia's skin has been merged with wikicities, this may affect your scripts. See the Village Dump for help/comments." message messes up Sdrawkcab's {{title-right|sdrawkcaB}} title. --Keithhackworth MUN 14:39, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
- Hahaha, I am so so sorry that using MediaWiki:Sitenotice, an integral and useful part of the MediaWiki wiki design (commonly on Wikicities, and on Wikipedia) which displays site-wide important news, broke a silly css hack (which only works on a few browsers perfectly, and badly or not at all on others) used on exactly one page. --Splaka 00:42, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
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Mormon :)
|This user is Mormon and believes all articles will be featured, but there will be 3 levels of VFH. He/she has a book that could change your life.
|This user is Catholic and believes articles become featured through good works, not faith.
|This user is Buddhist, and believes that an article can only stop being edited once it has reached Nirvana
|This user is Amish, and probably shouldn't be using Uncyclopedia.
|This user is Muslim. He/She believes all articles may become featured through submission to the will of Allah.
|This user is a Pluralist. Because to them, religion is like a buffet, a chance to pick and choose.
Web Browsers
|This user believes the Mozilla Firefox could easily defeat Godzilla.
Internet Explorer
|This user just uses "that e browser" that came with his/her computer.
Opera User
|This user uses Opera, but is above petty musicals.
Not bad, but the color scheme on most of them hurst my eyes. Paulgb 21:18, 15 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- Are you refering to the religion ones or the browser ones? The browser boxes ones I tried to make match the logos of the corresponding browser. The religion ones I was thinking of messing with the colors a bit anyways. Thanks for the feedback. -- neoEva88 MUN [email protected] PS CM NS (talk.to-do)
- I'd agree with Paul. With the Firefox one, I probably would have loaded the logo into a graphic editor, eyedropper-sampled the lightest blue, used that as the background color, and stayed with black text. It's hard for me to read the small white text on a harsh blue background (though I'm still using the template on my page). -- T. (talk) 14:48, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- How about something for Avant? It kicks ass. --188.8.131.52 15:02, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- Well, just so you guys know, I don't feel especially territorial about these Templates (well, maybe the Momon one, but that's it), so if you guys want to improve on them in anyway, feel free too. I think Todd's suggestion for the Firefox one is excellent, but someone else would have to do it, I'm no good at image stuff. -- neoEva88 MUN [email protected] PS CM NS (talk.to-do)
- What about Orthodox Christians and atheists? - Guest 16:02, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- Well, just so you guys know, I don't feel especially territorial about these Templates (well, maybe the Momon one, but that's it), so if you guys want to improve on them in anyway, feel free too. I think Todd's suggestion for the Firefox one is excellent, but someone else would have to do it, I'm no good at image stuff. -- neoEva88 MUN [email protected] PS CM NS (talk.to-do)
- For that matter, any reason why "I can walk into the chemists' shop anytime I like and say 'John, I would like you to sell me a condom for I am a Protestant'" didn't even make this list? --Carlb 16:04, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
Ok, I had big goddamn thing type up, but my fucking computer lost it for me, so I'm gonna just write a half-assed version of what I wrote before. Another guy has already designed an atheist template and a few others, which was the reason I didn't make an atheist one. For convenience I'll post the raw script below (he hasn't put them into actual templates).
|This user is a Creationist.
...who believes that all decent articles are created by one, and only one user.
|This user is a Evolutionist.
...who believes that all decent articles evolve over time, through various users.
Inteligent design
|This user was taught Intelligent design.
...and believes that all decent articles are too complex to have evolved.
|This user is an Atheist.
...who couldn't care less where the decent articles came from, as long as they are funny.
theRealSheep (the creator) suggests that we find a better picture for the atheist and creationist templates, I agree. I also think the satire on the atheist template is off and should be moved to a nontheist template. The atheist template should probably be more like, "This user is an atheist who doesn't believe that there are admins who manage Uncyclopedia." Or something like that. As a matter of personal opinion, I prefer the "classic" Babel boxes to the ones that look like the nationality boxes. -- neoEva88 MUN [email protected] PS CM NS (talk.to-do)
But how many people will actually add those religious ones to their pages? --Nerd42eMailTalkUnMetaWPediah2g2 05:05, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Did these monkeys ever learn that creationism and intelligent design theories are the same thing?
Technical Question
Is it possible to configure the server to allow sound files other than ogg to be uploaded? ---Rev. Isra (talk) 03:15, 12 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- I believe so. According to this Wikimedia document (see also this section), LocalSettings.php needs to be edited. I would be interested in expanding the allowed formats to include MIDI. I believe there may be some problems with MP3's (licensing issues). I am responsible for various ogg files around Uncyclopedia. --Sir KP GUN 07:10, 12 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- I certainly hope you're not planning to start putting music on pages; I hate it when some page I'm looking at starts playing music and I have to stop it or my own music. --Sir gwax (talk) http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/thumb/b/b0/Sucrose_b.gif/30px-Sucrose_b.gif 19:28, 12 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah, if anything they ought to be linked to. Of course, I could imagine sound files being linked to for pronunciation, that audio-wiki thing that WP's got, etc. If they have to be embedded, the only place I could reasonably see it happening is Vandalism. --220.127.116.11 15:46, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- I certainly hope you're not planning to start putting music on pages; I hate it when some page I'm looking at starts playing music and I have to stop it or my own music. --Sir gwax (talk) http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/thumb/b/b0/Sucrose_b.gif/30px-Sucrose_b.gif 19:28, 12 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- I would prefer not. Mostly if the person uploading does own copyrights to the file, they can probably convert it to ogg. --Chronarion 00:34, 13 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- The licensing issues have nothing to do with who owns the copyrights. The problem is the MP3 encoding. Apparently, there are some patents used in order to do MP3 encoding and decoding—this is anathema to an open-source wiki. Music and sound are fairly unobtrusive. Some music and sound I've tucked away on Uncyclopedia can be found on Poetry, I Dream of Having, Requiem, and nearly any article containing the word blue. MIDI would be very convenient for some music articles. I would like to do an article on cadences. Storing the examples as MIDI instead of OGG would be sensible. --Sir KP GUN 01:53, 13 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- I know what Isra is saying, it takes a bit of effort get ogg codecs for windows players, while every single one has mp3. I actually converted an ogg off uncyclopedia to mp3 for a certain admin that shall remain anonymous that didn't want to download an ogg codec to listen to something.
- What's the story on mp3? I know it has a stigma regarding copyrighted works, and I know ogg is a better format (smaller at the same bitrate, conversion seems faster, too), but it is very common, everyone has a codec for it... I never heard about a patent issue with it (granted I don't follow these things). Could anyone enlighten me? http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/c/c5/Dawg.gif » Brig Sir Dawg | t | v | c » 18:38, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Dur, I know how to use headers
Geke Amosa: not funny, admittedly, but not a Vanity Page per se. Possible reinstatement? -Dur I know how to sign and timestamp.
- As the admin who deleted your article (and explained why on your talk page), I'd be happy to answer your question. No. It's not coming back. At least, not until you 1) explain why its funny (it may have something to do with Nigerian scammers, judging from your picture), and 2) learn how to use headers, sign and timestamp, and all those other niceties that I'd have thought you already knew. I mean, come on. The (deleted) article had a pretty fair amount of complex Wiki formatting. Surely you can figure out how to apply your zk1llz here, 2? --
SirBobBobBob ! S? [rox!|sux!] http://uncyclopedia.org/images/e/ef/Prince%21.gif 15:04, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Title alignment templates
I created {{tl|title-right}} and {{tl|title-center}} based on an 0ld [email protected] created by Splaka for Nihilism. They accept one argument: the text shown as the title. Please test it and report bugs. Title-right is used in Sdrawkcab and title-center is (currently) used in Uncyclopedia:Sandbox. - Sir Sikon [formerly known as Guest] 16:19, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
- Those are really horribly broken in the Classic skin. Have you tried them against all the skins? - David Gerard 21:00, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
- Obviously, they are intended for Monobook, and only for Monobook. - Sir Sikon [formerly known as Guest] 04:50, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
- Uh, well, yeah. Point being the funny is sorta lost and they need fixing - David Gerard 12:46, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
- In fact, a pile of things appear to be broken in Classic now ... where do we report 1.5 upgrade bugs? - David Gerard 21:03, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Use wikicities:Talk:MediaWiki_1.5 to report problems. --Carlb 02:51, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
New section
Hey, Im new, my pen names guesttimate Jones, and after looking through the help section many times, i could not find where i should put my first article "Flan, that Devilish Dessert", For the Moment it is in my User talk section, but if that is wrong plz tell me.
ty, Guesstimate Jones.
- Try here: New Article, notice the form of the URL. --http://uncyclopedia.org/images/b/bc/Gay2.gifIMBJRhttp://uncyclopedia.org/images/b/bc/Gay2.gif 18:07, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
The random page function sucks. We have over 18,000 articles and yet I've had Anne Widdecombe pop up 3 times in the last 30 minutes. Same with Japanazis, Dungeons and Dragons, Joysticks and Descartes. This is new since the software upgrade. What gives? --T. (talk) 14:44, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
- It's weighted, Todd. The more recently a page has been created or modified, the more likely it'll come up with Special:Random. It has always worked this way. http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/c/c5/Dawg.gif » Brig Sir Dawg | t | v | c » 18:17, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
- I guess a lot of people are scanning the changelogs and reading what I'm editing then, because a few clicks on an article shouldn't create significant weight against a pool of 18K. In any event, it's annoying. :P --T. (talk) 18:42, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
- Now I do appreciate you trying to be helpful, but you've dimissed my observation completely without checking the facts. :) Why? I've been hammering the randompage for 3 months now, so if I notice that something is working differently, it is.
- If you'll check the history for the handful of documents I've mentioned you'll notice that they were not modified or created recently. Anne Widdecombe 8 Nov 2005, Japanazis 8 Nov 2005, Dungeons and Dragons 14 Jan 2006, Joysticks 23 October 2005, and Descartes 25 October 2005. MediaWiki's tweaked something poorly somewhere, or their weighting priority has changed. --T. (talk) 11:58, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
I've seen a lot of deletion logs and whatnot that mention slander, but I can't find slander anywhere in the rules BGBU or anything. As far as I'm aware slander refers to something that you say that is false and damaging to someone's reputation. Since everything here is false, it seems like quite a bit of the things written about people would be slander. Would anyone care to explain what isn't allowed as far as slander goes?
- What's usually meant when a page is deleted for slander reasons is that it's either unfunny slander or slander of a non-notable person (vanity slander). I often use the term slandanity when deleting slander of non-notable people and either slander, crap or something similar when deleting unfunny slander. So, to answer your question, slander is fine as long as it's good slander (see George W. Bush). --Sir gwax (talk) http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/thumb/b/b0/Sucrose_b.gif/30px-Sucrose_b.gif 21:37, 17 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- So, if I write a MY sISTER iS a p00PYHEAD! article, you aren't willing to vote it the featured article? Darn! --Carlb 21:10, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
== banning ticket ==
so anyways ima working on it 2 look like this. Basicly A banning ticket. with offences and ticking boxes and what not. thoughts anyone, ima starting 2 lose interest so if anyone feels like taking on some responsibility.(probaby since i cant use it)feel welcome --Da, Y?YY?YYY?:-:CUN3 NotM BLK |_LG8+::: 14:15, 17 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- I like the idea and I wonder if we could get someone to make a template/image combination that would allow us to use it dynamically *cough*Splaka*cough*. Also, you speeled Uncyclopeida rong and it looks a little grainy zoomed in. --Sir gwax (talk) http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/thumb/b/b0/Sucrose_b.gif/30px-Sucrose_b.gif 21:45, 17 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- It needs a lot of cleaning, but it's a good start. Unify it, clean it, and we'll see what we can do. http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/c/c5/Dawg.gif » Brig Sir Dawg | t | v | c » 22:40, 17 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- User:Whywhywhy/banning_ticket heres what i started. I got sick of dreamweaver so if anyone knows a better program 2 make complex tables then i might finish it myself --Da, Y?YY?YYY?:-:CUN3 NotM BLK |_LG8+::: 04:37, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Sophia on the Other Side
I found myself browsing the Other Side (you know, the so-called experts) and came across something bizarre. Wikipedia:WikiProject Philosophy/sophia awards the Star of Sophia to those deemed worthy. However, I think the whole thing is bogus, because I don't see one single potato in the image. I'm sure someone can make the neccessary adjustments, though. --
Sir BobBobBob ! S ? [rox!|sux!] http://uncyclopedia.org/images/e/ef/Prince%21.gif 00:37, 17 Jan 2006 (UTC)
Unused images
Looks like there are now at least several hundred unused images: Uncyclopedia:Pages_for_deletion/unusedimages, Uncyclopedia:Pages_for_deletion/unusedimages2
If any are duplicates (or near-duplicates) of other existing images, or are useless, please mark them for deletion. --Carlb 03:12, 17 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- I've been keeping away from that ever-increasing pile of pixels on the grounds that ppl can browse it for imagery to use instead of me pouncing on something unused and huffing the livin' blu jebus outa it. --http://uncyclopedia.org/images/b/bc/Gay2.gifIMBJRhttp://uncyclopedia.org/images/b/bc/Gay2.gif 23:53, 17 Jan 2006 (UTC)
That does leave the problem that sometimes an author will upload a picture, make some minor change, then upload it again under a slightly different name (instead of reusing the same name) and neglect to tag the old one on QVFD so that it may be deleted. There are quite a few near-duplicates which could well be removed from that ever-increasing pile of pixels, but it takes effort to find which ones are near-duplicates of other Uncyc images or are copies of images available elsewhere online (such as in the main Wikipaedia). --Carlb 21:08, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
You're all going to jail
That's right. There are rules against your sort of mischief, and the law won't rest until the lot of you are behind bars. --S P I N N I E 04:47, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- They'll never catch me, I have already absconded to Canada. --Carlb 05:04, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- I need to get a few gun-toting friends to join me up there. We'll capture the place and make it our own to avoid governmental persecution in the US. http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/c/c5/Dawg.gif » Brig Sir Dawg | t | v | c » 05:10, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- I'm already living near Canadia, in a state where it's legal to drive around with a loaded handgun on your dash, saftey off. Granted that's not safe, but it's legal. All we really need is just to re-draw the border, and I'll be pretty damn Canadian. That or follow through with my plan to move to Iceland. Good broadband penetration there. ;) 14:31, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- I need to get a few gun-toting friends to join me up there. We'll capture the place and make it our own to avoid governmental persecution in the US. http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/c/c5/Dawg.gif » Brig Sir Dawg | t | v | c » 05:10, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- Just read the article. Carl and I are exempt (unless he loses points for only using an initial). -- T. (talk) 14:54, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- Does this apply in the UK? If it doesn't, then "YOU ALL SUCK". If it does, then "YOU ALL SUCK" --officer designate Lugiatm MUN NS CM ZM WH 17:50, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- It applies everywhere in the American Empire. That includes you. http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/c/c5/Dawg.gif » Brig Sir Dawg | t | v | c » 18:16, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- Mmmmm-hm. I feel another chapter of the George Bush: chronicle of greatness series coming on. (Feels king of like the onset of diarrhea or exploding-kidney disease.) Hey, ARLEN SPECTER! You, sirrah, are a fat, smelly, drunken hippopotomus of a Republican, and I intend to annoy your sorry ass into Hell and beyond. Let's see if he tracks me down and persecutes me fer being an Internet Annoyer.----OEJ 19:30, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- It applies everywhere in the American Empire. That includes you. http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/c/c5/Dawg.gif » Brig Sir Dawg | t | v | c » 18:16, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- The term "You all suck" does not classify as annoyance since it fails to meet the standards of American English (the correct annoying term is "y'all," according to Webster's).--Bradaphraser 19:37, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- I read in a grammar book somewhere something about y'all being the informal second person, and you being the formal. Y'all = tu, you = vous. Then again, I've read a lot of silly things in grammar books. Actually I think it was a russian grammar book, comparing y'all and Ты, which pretty much discredits the whole thing and doesn't make any sense whatsoever. I'll just go an pack for prison now. --S P I N N I E 20:37, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- Bradaphraser: It's acceptable American, since American encompasses a wide range of English variants used on this continent within the US. We can be annoyed at anything we want, too, by jingo. http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/c/c5/Dawg.gif » Brig Sir Dawg | t | v | c » 20:53, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- Well, surely there's SOME kind of specifics on what, exactly, constitutes annoying speech, right? I mean, it's can't be COMPLETELY arbitrary, right? If it was, then we could sue the government for passing covert laws that we have to read over the internet, and that'd be silly.--Bradaphraser 23:04, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- Of course it's not arbitrary! It is well-defined as "whatever we define as annoying" where "we" is what used to be quaintly referred to as "the Establishment". So you see there is no arbitrariosity involved at all. I wonder how this will play when applied to sites like Landover Baptist and Whitehouse.org, whose primary function is to annoy certain people as much as possible? ----OEJ 23:10, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
NRV and CVP patrol
Not in the sense of looking for stuff to huff, but stuff to work on. NRV is particularly good for this — a while ago I recovered Kerry Packer (which is very funny to Australians, but not anyone else) and am just having a go at Cult of SushiDog (which was crap, but I want to run with it). If you're bored and sick of huffing crappy articles, look to Category:Worthless Articles and CVP for inspiration - David Gerard 10:41, 15 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- Spoilsport. You're taking the fish right out of my shootin' barrel! --
SirBobBobBob ! S? [rox!|sux!] http://uncyclopedia.org/images/e/ef/Prince%21.gif 16:40, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
everybody hates me
why is this? sure, i screw up sometimes. but really, people hate me. i even got an award for it. -- Nerd42 chat talk h²g² pedia news 22:01, 5 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- Becuase you do stupid things like post that people hate you... and then they wonder why... and then they find out.--Sir Flammable KUN http://uncyclopedia.org/images/e/ef/Prince%21.gif (Na Naaaaa...) 22:05, 5 Jan 2006 (UTC)
It's because you vote against everyone's VFP and VFH entries. At least that's why I hate you. - Nonymous 00:01, 6 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- Oh, nevermind. It was a certain more different user I was thinking of. - Nonymous 00:30, 6 Jan 2006 (UTC)
Excessive templating, crappy quotes, articles consisting soley of lists. Bitching and whining. But primarily lack of useful contributions, and by that I mean ARTICLES - pages of stuff with pictures and paragraphs and things. And running a 12 year old avatar on this site. Shit, I forgot calling for votes then actively going against the majority of voters because the vote results weren't what you wanted, and making blatently biased, unfunny edits to articles. Oh, and spamming really, really big templates on pages. If I missed anything, I'm sure someone will point it out. 00:33, 6 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- Unapologetic sig thievery.--Sir Flammable KUN http://uncyclopedia.org/images/e/ef/Prince%21.gif (Na Naaaaa...) 00:39, 6 Jan 2006 (UTC)
I do not hate anybody. However, I think that you've inadvertently pissed people off. Honestly I don't think you're intending to do anything wrong so as much as not posessing enough empathy to see what's going on. Let's take Dawg's sig for example... you blatantly jacked it despite that he said he did infact mind. There are other, smaller examples. I don't think you're a bad guy, I just think that people need to spell out their issues to you. --Chronarion 00:41, 6 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- I don't hate you either; you just manage to annoy me a whole lot. So far as I figure, you've got good intentions but your implementation is fairly well off. That having been said, pay more attention to the complaints people lodge against you, slow down, think before making an edit and stop whining about it. --Sir gwax (talk) http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/thumb/b/b0/Sucrose_b.gif/30px-Sucrose_b.gif 04:53, 6 Jan 2006 (UTC)
I don't hate you at all. Heck, I think you're awesome! I just treat you like a human punchline, because that's what you are with all that's happened up to this point. If it makes you feel any better, before I teased you, I treated myself as a punchline first, with the bitterness page. Then admins had fun at my expense (making it hilarious in the process). That's how you should handle people teasing you, find what's funny about your situation, and laugh at it with everybody else. Don't whine about it (at least, not on a JOKE SITE! It'll only get worse that way. Seriously, dude, there are people that will eat you alive for that, not just tease you like me.)--Bradaphraser 05:34, 6 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- God damn...are you still here, even after that abuse by the admins? Man, you either need to be banned or awarded something. Frankly, I'm too drunk to award you something, so you're banned. Bastard. 01:04, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- OMG! It's so unfair! I'm SO blogging about this! Or maybe I'll go on IRC and bug the admins about how I think the world is out to get me! Dear God, why have you forsaken me!?!? What will I do? There are only 1,000,000 other websites for me to visit! ::slits wrists::--Bradaphraser 03:49, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- 12 hrs, some water, and some coffee have passed, so I'm now fit to give you an award (see bottom). Thanks for having a good sense of humor and not being a whiny bitch like someone we know. 16:21, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)
I've written lotsa articles consisting solely of lists? Oh wait ... you mean the making up quotes pages? Look ... I've screwed up quite a few times I'll admit. When I first came onto this site I had never really done anything Wiki-related before so it's been kind of a learning experience. I have compiled a list of all the articles I take credit for starting or mostly purging and re-writing. If you think they're crappy, put them on VFD or edit them. :) --Nerd42eMailTalkUnMetaWPediah2g2 22:04, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- Wow, looking at the block log for my username, I've been blocked something like, five more times than I even knew about.
- If people aren't supposed to jack WikiML code for things (like signatures) then is that in site policy anywhere? If not, should it be? And uh ... I gotta change my signature so as to not be the stealing of Dawg's anymore ... --Nerd42eMailTalkUnMetaWPediah2g2 22:11, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)
Ah, so. Confucius say, "Man who worry about being hated on Wiki site never had live electric eels in his intestines...now that something to worry about." And Confucius would know. ----OEJ 22:40, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)
Electric eels? Back in my day, all we had were propane eels, but tell the kids that these days and they just won't believe ya. --Carlb 20:14, 11 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- Yas, Carlb, them were the days. I do recall before the silent movin' pitchers came out Mammy and Pap and me used to sit for hours listening to the silent radio...
There is no hate here. I only feel love. Love oozes all around on Uncyclopedia. It flows from every article, every image, and every electron flowing through the Internet. Nerd42 is like a wonderful niece or nephew. We love having him around, but we are glad to be able to return him to his parents at the end of the day. --Sir KP GUN 18:16, 13 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- I don't hate you, Nerd. The jacking of the sig I worked so hard on less than a day after I made it was highly annoying, though, especially since it's something to identify yourself. If everyone's started like that, I wouldn't mind, but it was uncool to take it like that. At least give an attribution or something. Oh well, I'm happy with my current one (until someone blatantly steals it, too). http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/c/c5/Dawg.gif » Brig Sir Dawg | t | v | c » 02:54, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)
- OK I'm really sry about that OK? I thought since it was just HTML/WikiML code it wouldn't matter if I copied it, and that someone was bound to eventually anyway. I thought it would be good to have something to link all my wiki pages together (because I added that same sig to like, five different wikis on like the first day) in a format I could read quickly (color-coded) even if I couldn't read the small print. (because some wikis have rules that your sig can only be so large) --Nerd42eMailTalkUnMetaWPediah2g2 05:02, 23 January 2006 (UTC)


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Welcome winter antidote as Spring Training begins
In a winter like this one, I almost feel guilty about going to Spring Training this week.
But I think the crucial word in that sentence is "almost."
This winter, in much of the continental United States, the climate has been variable. It has varied all the way from Siberian to Arctic. The phrase "polar vortex" has been introduced into the national conversation. That turned out to be at least as bad as it sounds.
This is why I regret, sort of, leaving the rest of the family in the snow and the ice and the sub-zero temperatures. In a typical Spring Training, when I call home and inquire about the weather, my wife tells me that there was a blizzard followed by sub-zero temperatures. There is a certain humorous effect in this, as well as a guilt-trip quality for the spouse who has left the cold because, oh man, his job demands that he goes to Florida in February and/or Arizona in March.
But this year, when she says that sort of blizzard/sub-zero thing, I can assume that it might even be true.
Forget the ice, the snow and the heating bills. Forget even the polar vortex. We are entering into one of the best parts of the calendar: the annual rebirth of the grand old game.
You do not need to show up in Florida or Arizona to understand this, although sunshine and temperatures above freezing do have a tendency to validate the experience.
The meaning of Spring Training is both real and symbolic. It isn't anything like spring in much of the United States, and it won't be for another five-plus weeks, based on dramatically lowered meteorological expectations, and the groundhog seeing his shadow.
But that's a technicality. Spring Training is the annual sign that better days are within range. Baseball beats the first robin of spring every year. The days will eventually be warmer. And they will be days accompanied by baseball.
Already the Dodgers and the D-backs are at work in Arizona, getting the necessary early start as they prepare to open the season in Australia on March 22. The internationalization of the game continues. And why not pick a place where it is now summer? It was, in fact, too hot at the recent Australian Open. How many of us would happily settle now for a day that could be described as "too hot?"
By the end of the week, pitchers and catchers for all 30 Major League teams will be in camp, from Florida's Atlantic Coast all the way to Arizona's Valley of the Sun; all the way from Jupiter to Surprise.
It is a special time of the baseball year. The game starts anew. Hope springs eternal.
Optimism is not only an acceptable reaction, it is a completely reasonable response. Winter has been brutal and it isn't close to being over. But the baseball players are about to begin the rituals of a game in places where the temperatures, with any luck, will be high enough to make the "spring" part of Spring Training an accurate assessment.
Those of us who are able to see some of this process firsthand understand how fortunate we are. There is nothing like not needing a parka for the first time in 10 weeks.
But it is bigger than that. Everybody who understands the game of baseball and what it means is a beneficiary when Spring Training starts. Being there is terrific. But you don't have to be there to be part of the experience.
Look outside at the snow drifts. Step outside and feel the cold of a truly deep winter. But Spring Training is about to begin. So these are about to become the good times.


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A long while ago I did a lesson on a canine character from a video game that was pretty popular at the time. Okami was the video game that the character came from, and the main protagonist I drew from it was Amaterasu. Today, I will be showing you "how to draw Chibiterasu", step by step. This wolf puppy is in the newly released video game "Okamiden: Chisaki Taiyo or just Okamiden. The game was released on March 15th of this year which was exactly ten days ago. The game takes place nine months after everything that happened in Okami. The whole purpose of Chibiterasu is to go out on a quest in hopes to save the people of Nippon. Chibiterasu looks exactly like Amaterasu, but in a puppy or chibi form. The small puppy was the result after Sakuya and Issun summoned for Amaterasu. Instead of getting the Sun God, they where given the celestial pup Chibiterasu. It is speculated that the reason why Chibiterasu looks so much like Amaterasu, is because she is Chibiterasu's mother. Anyways, I have never played the game yet, and I don't know if I ever will. I do know that it's going to be extremely fun learning "how to draw Chibiterasu" because it is an incredibly cute wolf that is becoming a popular plush toy. I hope you like this lesson, I will be back shortly with more drawing fun. Peace out people and don't forget to tell me how your drawing came out once you are done.
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Shadow Of The Damned
EA shows off Shadows of the Damned at TGS showcase – first trailer and screens inside
Following its reveal in Famitsu this morning, EA's finally formally unveiled Shadows of the Damned, the long anticipated horror collaboration from EA Partners, Goichi Suda's Grasshopper Manufacture and Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami. Get the trailer shown at EA's Tokyo Showcase below as well as the first screenshots.
Shadow Of The Damned headlines
TGS: EA press conference livestream is GO, video here [Update]
Update: It's over. Original: And off we go. TGS is now in full news mode, with several press conferences being planned for the show. More on that here. EA is the first to go, and is live right now. Watch it after the break.
EA, Mikami-Grasshopper horror called Shadow of the DAMNED
Famitsu's dished the first information on the new EA Partners-led horror title from Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami and Suda 51's Grasshoper Manufacture – it's known as Shadow of the DAMNED.


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I have been HIV positive since 2010, but only began meds last month. I take one Stribild [elvitegravir/cobicistat/FTC/tenofovir] daily. The only other med I take is 20 mg of Celexa [citalopram] daily for depression. I have taken it daily for over 10 years.
[After starting Stribild,] I immediately began feeling dizzy, and I am still dizzy every day; it's like being on a boat at sea. My nausea only began after 10 days and I have to be very careful not to eat heavy foods. If I feel the need to go to the bathroom, I have to go immediately or the urge becomes uncontrollable. Trust me, if you feel the need to go, do not wait!
I just feel very drugged out and like a bit of a zombie -- like I can't quite fully wake up. It bothers me and sometimes I get anxious because I feel like I will be stuck like this forever.
My body is very sensitive to all medications. I only take 20 mg of Celexa even though 40 mg is the prescribed dose; even 30 mg makes me feel drugged out and dazed. I have a feeling I would be able to take about half a Stribild every day and it would work fine and I would feel better, but there is no way to test this safely unless my doctor approved it. How can this dose be the same for everyone?
Anyway, I am going to keep on Stribild a few more weeks and see if these side effects go away as promised, but if I still feel dizzy, nauseous and anxious from being so drugged out -- if the side effects continue like this, I am going to try Truvada [tenofovir/FTC] and Tivicay [dolutegravir], which is a protease that was recently approved and is a very small molecule. This regimen was suggested to me by someone of great expertise in the field of HIV meds. I hope it will give me relief.
My doctor doesn't know much of anything -- he even told me it was impossible that Stribild is giving me vivid dreams, but that specific side effect is listed on the website for Stribild and two pharmacists mentioned it to me as a chief side effect of the medicine. It makes me nervous when my own doctor doesn't seem to understand the medication!
Update: I have since switched to Truvada plus Tivicay and it's much, much better. My brain fog is gone. I think Stribild is too strong for me.
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