ALTER EGO

Found on Geeforce's Blog

I can assure you that we're not quite as bad here in Bavaria!!

Did you know that Monty Python did a whole Flying Circus episode in German? It was a translation of an original English version, and very good too! The Woodchuck song was in it - in German!

Let me slowly unbutton my blouse and reveal all to you ...

Yeah - the guys among you wish!!

So, here's the cold harsh truth:

a.) When you look closely at the second photo of The Captain's Challenge, you will notice the thread (do you call it that?) of a spiderweb in the gap of the seed's filaments. You can also see it very faintly at the top left corner, starting in the dark area. So the dandelion seed wasn't caught in mid-flight - that would have been extremely difficult to focus, think of how fast the wind blows them.
I still think the photographer was a genius to have spotted it!

b.) I still remember it very well: it was either after my first or second operation for Crohn's disease (so around 18 / 19 years ago). I was off sick and because of lax lifestyle and cortisone, I couldn't sleep at night. At the time I was lucky to be able to eat just anything, so I was having cold pizza in the middle of the night, it was past midnight. I was zapping through the TV channels and got caught by what I saw on Austrian TV: I saw a pair of gloved hands with one of those round bone saws (similar to those they use for casts), cutting through bone. Was I watching a really bad splatter movie?? I saw raw meat but couldn't quite make out what it was. A butcher? Were they showing something about mistreated animals?

Then it hit me: the scalp of a human had been pulled from the back over his face, and someone was cutting open his skull!!

I was hooked. Fascinated.

Austrian TV was showing a complete autopsy from a Moscow hospital, no commentary, just the occasional Russian utter from the doctors. All details as you would expect: weighing of the various organs, rummaging through the intestines (and yes, they did RUMMAGE through them), until they looked at his heart in detail - he had died of a heart attack. The autopsy stopped then.

So yes, statement #2 is true, I have seen a real autopsy albeit not live. Since then I so want to see one live, but only on a person who's deceased very recently. None of those liquefied bodies or decayed from heat, not sure if I could stand the smell. But a "clean" body, only one day old ... YES!

c.) When I was 18 and had just graduated from school, my parents invited me to a vacation with them in the States. On my flight back to Europe, I noticed a black guy with a saxophone case waiting for the same flight as I. And as it happens, we sat next to each other - it was indeed JT Taylor from Kool & the Gang! He had already left the band at the time and was flying back to Germany to start a new career (which failed). And yes, he was flying Economy!

d.) That of course means that #1 was a lie - I have never had sex with two men at the same time but am curious as to what that would be like

Congrats to all who have seen through my lie, and sorry to all of those who are disappointed now!! You didn't really think I would do anything like that, do you??

xx

You've probably seen this on many people's blogs already: below are three statements. Two of them are true, one is a lie. Can you spot the lie?

1. Many years ago, I was having sex with two men at the same time.

2. I once saw a real autopsy.

3. I once spent a whole overseas flight sitting next to JT Taylor from Kool and the Gang.

Details see here.

I found it really REALLY difficult to select only one photo as there are so many stunningly beautiful photos on the web.

Neither photo was taken by me but were found on the web and are two of my favourites.

I love the colours in this photo, the composition, everything.

Oh, and can I post another one?

Ok, so I just did.
Edit at 10:03: I've just changed the second photo because I find this "new" one even more fascinating!

Love this second photo because it's simply ingenious! Can you find out how it was done? Obviously, the photographer couldn't capture it in flight ...

Oh, and I have about 100 more that I really love, but these two will have to do for now

Apologies for the bad quality of this photo, as always I was too lazy to pull out my tripod and mount the camera - the photo was taken holding it in my shaky hands

With the highest possible ISO, therefore it's also very grainy

But I still love the redness of the setting half-moon. Wonderful colour!

This is a rant about those lying German politicians who think they can take their voters for a ride. It won't pertain to you if you don't live in Germany so feel free to not read this post, I only have to vent.

We'll be having an election later on this year, and yesterday the reigning CDU party with Chancellor Merkel have introduced their program to the public.

Would you believe they PROMISE that they a.) will NOT increase taxes, and b.) will indeed CUT taxes.

To fully understand this, you have to know that the German state plans on borrowing 21 BILLION Euros (~ 18 billion GBP) this year alone (link not in English). But with all the financial support provided to greedy banks and failing companies, many critics think it'll be closer to 50 billion Euros (~ 42 billion GBP).

So how in the world are they going to finance the promised tax cuts? It is not possible, everyone with a bit of brains states so. But the CDU claims that with the increase of individuals' spending power due to the tax cuts, the economy will grow again and push money back into the state's account.

Bullshit!

The economy growth figure stated by the CDU is taken out of the blue, and the German psyche is that of a collector: they will not spend all the tax return money but instead try to save it one way or another. The economy will benefit very little from it.

Even one of the most prominent finance ministers we've ever had, Mr. Waigel from the CSU (a sister party of the CDU), criticizes Ms. Merkel's plans as "un-financeable".

But she holds on to it fast. "There will not be a tax increase with me in the next legislative period", she states.

Very smart, actually. No tax raise in her next term, and a big black hole afterwards. Because eventually, someone has to pay for all the expenses. And who do you think it will be?

And just to show you how smart they are: they did not state a deadline for the tax cuts. So they promise us a reduction in taxes but do not tell us by when we can expect that.

"100 years later, the promised tax cuts will be put in place!"

And why do they make these promises? Because their co-reigning party, the SPD - who really is their opponent - were a tiny bit more honest and said that taxes will need to be increased to finance all the support packages for the economy.

But the CDU now can say: well WE won't raise taxes so vote for us.

Fucking liars!! I so hope that the public can see through those damn lies! But knowing how stupid a large part of the German public really is, I have little hope.

The CDU will be elected, they won't increase taxes in the following 6 years, and we will have unimaginable problems after that.

Gawd, I so hate politicians sometimes. Instead of doing what's best for the country and its citizens, they only do what's best for them AND what keeps them in power. "Machtgeil" is what we call that.

*GRRRRRRRR*

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• 08:22 Annoying: the more spiders I kill in my flat, the more seem to re-appear. Ghosts??? :))
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• 08:40 The excessive coverage of MJ's death on @skynews is getting on my nerves. There's no 'news' about it anymore. Have stopped watching them.
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Yesterday, a girl started to follow me on Twitter, and as she seemed OK I followed her back (which means she can read my tweets, I can read hers).

Her first tweet today wasn't bad: "An average American child watches approximately 28 hours of television in one week. lol.. =bad eyesight, overweight, unsmart".
She's got a good point there.

Her second tweet: "There are 10 million bacteria at the place where you rest your hands at a desk. Wow.. those must be super duper small!"
Erm ... yes, they are.

Her next tweet: "Awwwwwww.. thats cute!! i wanna touch one! The quills of a porcupine are soft when they are born".
Riiiiight.

Would you believe that her profile pic shows her as a blonde?

But of course there's no telling if she really is blond. She sure tweets like the cliché, though!

I may have to unfollow her again. Soon.

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• 14:46 Off to watch 'Dead Like Me' now, hopefully new episodes. Laters!
• 14:50 I'm back, they were re-running old episodes. Feckers!
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