Emo-Corner Forum - The Hangout

Pitbulls Are Actually A Really Kind, Nice Dog.

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:33:53 +0000

It is so very sad that pitbulls get a bad name, because there actually a really nice friendly dog, i bathed a pitbull about a week ago as part of my job, he was a really nice dog , unfortunitly the media will grab any story it can about pitbulls to put them in a negative light, and idiot people train certain dogs for dog fights and so that dog goes on to attack because of peoples actions. and a whole breed gets blamed for this stuff, fuck the media! fuck people who mistreat animals! I will let people know the truth!

Lava Kayaking

Thu, 09 May 2013 20:33:30 +0000

Kayaking is an adventure sport we often associate with cool waters, raving rapids and waterfalls. Some have even taken to using the basic kayak as a way to Big Game fish, which may or may not end in a shark following your kayak. These Adrenalists, however, dared to try something we’ve never seen before: lava kayaking.

Kayakers Pedro Oliva, Ben Stookesberry and Chris Korbulic, recently featured in our waterfalls dives list, ventured into harsh lava-infused waters on the skirts of the Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano. Kilauea, an active and volatile volcano on the Southeast slope of Mauna Loa Hawaii, was the stage for their adventure, which was featured on the Brazilian television program, Kaiak. The Kilauea volcano has been active since 1983, and over the last ten years, it’s formed about a square mile of newly created earth from calcified volcanic emissions. Though the group ventured into the steaming waters of 1,300-2000 degrees Fahrenheit without abandon, this is not something we advise amateurs to try. Pedro Oliva’s oar actually caught on fire during the adventure.

The group shattered all previous beliefs about what kayak can withstand, and proved to us that lava kayaking deserves a spot on our list of extreme volcano sports.

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Post Your Desktop May Edition

Thu, 09 May 2013 20:23:36 +0000

Here is mine. Now post yours. GO GO GO

Tim Lambesis Arrested

Wed, 08 May 2013 01:23:54 +0000

Supposedly, Tim Lambesis (vocalist and founding member of As I Lay Dying) was taken into custody today for looking to hire someone to kill his wife. I'm not sure if this is legit or not, as it was posted on a site I'm not familiar with.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Tim Lambesis, lead singer for the heavy metal band As I Lay Dying, has been arrested over accusations he sought the help of an undercover detective to have his estranged wife killed, police said.

Lambesis was taken into custody on Tuesday in Oceanside, California, after he solicited help from the detective, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department said in a statement. Police had previously learned Lambesis was seeking someone who could commit the slaying, the department said.

A representative for the As I Lay Dying's record label could not immediately be reached for comment, and it was unclear if Lambesis had an attorney.

The band's 2007 album "An Ocean Between Us" debuted at number 8 on the Billboard 200 list, and ranks as one of their top-selling releases. Last year, As I Lay Dying put out its sixth album, "Awakened." Lambesis is a founding member of the band, which was formed in San Diego.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/05/08/usa-singer-tim-lambesis-arrest-idINDEE94700A20130508

Gate To Hell In Turkey

Tue, 07 May 2013 22:41:54 +0000

Missing for centuries, a storied gate to hell was recently uncovered, where poisonous air still breathes out of a cavern where priests once worshiped the gods of the underworld.

Known as Pluto's Gate, or Ploutonion in Greek, the entry to the land of the dead was discovered in southwestern Turkey by a group of Italian archeologists. Its excavation was announced earlier this month, with remains of its temple, pool, and steps leading down to the ceremonial cave all matching historical stories about the infamous "gate to hell." Priests in trippy trances from the fumes would stand on these steps and carry out rituals, and sometimes dramatically lead sacrificial bulls inside, only to pull their lifeless bodies out soon after.

Pluto's Gate was a popular site for ancient tourists, and the temple supported itself by selling birds and other tiny animals so that they could test the lethal properties of the gases that wafted from the underworld portal.

As the Greek geographer, philosopher, and prolific traveler Strabo, who lived from 64/63 BC to 24 AD), so enticingly described it: 'This space is full of a vapor so misty and dense that one can scarcely see the ground. Any animal that passes inside meets instant death. I threw in sparrows and they immediately breathed their last and fell.'

The archeologists found the site after tracing the route of a thermal spring, and discovered that the air is just as venomous now as it was in ancient times. Francesco D'Andria, the archeologist who led the excavation, is quoted in Discovery News: 'We could see the cave's lethal properties during the excavation. Several birds died as they tried to get close to the warm opening, instantly killed by the carbon dioxide fumes.'

The temple was lost when it was destroyed by Christians in the 6th century and then further damaged during an earthquake, which presumably took it down to the underworld it so revered. Yet now the portal is back, and if the ancient texts on its toxic fumes turned out to be true, who knows if hell itself isn't accessible somewhere in its noxious air?

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The Chew

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:16:08 +0000

I am currently watching The Chew and listening to Bob Marley, does anyone like watching The Chew?

Let Your Green Thumbs Shine!

Sat, 04 May 2013 20:40:57 +0000

Hello one and all. It has been a long time sense I posted a new topic on here, and what better time than the spring?

I am quite sure some of us here enjoy gardening, I know that I sure do. Ever sense I was a little kid I have helped my mother in the garden, so it is no surprise that I developed a green thumb. Sadly, I moved from my 32 acre farm when I was ten and lost so many flower beds. But after years of trying and creating gardens at my new home I finally have a decent garden.

I am also studying under a Shaman I found in my town last year. Right now I am focusing on my horticultural studies because I am in no way ready to journey into the world of Shamanism, I do not wish to end up hurting myself because of my lack of knowledge on the subject.

So being the spring I decided to take a few pictures of my babies to show off to everyone how pretty they all are. Some of them are just now beginning to grow, but we have had a cold week here on the east coast of America and everything has slowed down its spring growth. Later on I hope to post more pictures of my flowering garden for all to see.

So join me fellow green thumbers! Tell me about your gardens, post pictures, give me stories behind the plants!

These are just a few of my Morning glories. Just now coming up!

these are from the Ipomoea genus and produce blue flowers

http://s977.photobucket.com/user/Hometon1/media/P5040364.jpg.html

This is a mammoth sunflower sprout I planted for my Bees, only about 10 have come up thus far.

http://s977.photobucket.com/user/Hometon1/media/P5040365.jpg.html

Ornamental herbs, several lily's, and various plants I cannot remember the names of. I know that there is lavender in there.

http://s977.photobucket.com/user/Hometon1/media/P5040366.jpg.html

I believe this is my lavender, I planted it so long ago I do not remember the genus.

http://s977.photobucket.com/user/Hometon1/media/P5040367.jpg.html

These are my Iris plants, I have a white one but the flowers have already finished blooming. These came from a farm in West Virginia and they have been alive for some 100 years or so I believe.

http://s977.photobucket.com/user/Hometon1/media/P5040368.jpg.html

http://s977.photobucket.com/user/Hometon1/media/P5040369.jpg.html

My Virginia white grapes that I have discovered growing wild all over my property, this year is the first year that some of them will fruit. Only a few years ago I swear I had never seen grapes on my land and then they were everywhere!

http://s977.photobucket.com/user/Hometon1/media/P5040370.jpg.html

A wild flower that came up next to my roses this year. It was so pretty i had to let it grow.

http://s977.photobucket.com/user/Hometon1/media/P5040371.jpg.html

And again I forget their name, but here are some more pretty flowers.

http://s977.photobucket.com/user/Hometon1/media/P5040372.jpg.html

http://s977.photobucket.com/user/Hometon1/media/P5040373.jpg.html

My orange lily's I got for a steal a few years back, the voles have really tore them up and I only have a few left.

http://s977.photobucket.com/user/Hometon1/media/P5040374.jpg.html

My Prickly pear cacti and other plants growing around it, these are very good to eat. Opuntia.

http://s977.photobucket.com/user/Hometon1/media/P5040376.jpg.html?sort=3&o=2

http://s977.photobucket.com/user/Hometon1/media/P5040375.jpg.html

A flower off of one of my azalea bushes.

http://s977.photobucket.com/user/Hometon1/media/P5040377.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1

My Hens and chicks of the Crassulaceae genus

http://s977.photobucket.com/user/Hometon1/media/P5040378.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0

Weird Dreams

Fri, 03 May 2013 09:28:35 +0000

Ok so I've been having weird dreams, one was about a giant cat fighting Godzilla, others are of my dying, some are of me getting killed by friends and most are about places and people getting set on fire. I want to know what weird dreams have you had?

The Sexual Life Of Savages

Wed, 01 May 2013 20:46:41 +0000

The Sexual Life of Savages

In the early 1900s, anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski did his field work in the Trobriand Islands of the Western Pacific. After getting himself ashore, he dropped himself into their culture and begun having to learn their language and understand their customs. The result were a series of groundbreaking books in the field of anthropology, much of which is still entertaining to read today.

In The Sexual Life of Savages (savages, Malinowski assures us, is a technical term and not meant to cause offense) he describes the customs of Trobriand’s intimate life, which is fascinating both for how it is different and how it is the same.

To a certain degree, it seems like the culture of the islanders presages our own. Back when Malinowski was doing his field work, he was amazed that islanders could freely have premarital sex and yet still found it desirable to get married. The same question would prove no puzzle to any American today.

And, indeed, the islanders seem like a case study in the ultimate consequences of the sexual revolution: girls want sex just as much as guys, kids start having sex at a very young age — 6-8 for the girls and 10-12 for the guys — with no social stigma, there are few customs about dating to inhibit “hooking up”, and, of course, revealing clothing has been taken to its limit, with girls actually going topless.

Of course, much of the story of a Trobriand’s intimate life is the same: initial attractions budding into lasting relationships, etc. And then, out of nowhere, Malinowski drops in something totally bizarre. The islanders don’t kiss, he explains. Instead, they scratch. The girls scratch the guys so hard that they draw blood and, if the guys can withstand the pain, then they move forward to having sex. The ethnographer (as Malinowski calls himself) verified this by noting that just about everyone on the island had noticeable scratches. And while everybody is having sex whenever they want, premarital meal-sharing is a big no-no. You’re not supposed to go out for dinner together until after you get married.

But the most fascinating and strange part about the islanders are their beliefs on the subject of pregnancy, also described in Malinowski’s classic article “Baloma: The Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands”. When people die, you see, their spirit takes a canoe to the island of Tuma, which works very much like the normal island except everybody is a spirit of the dead. When the spirit gets old and wrinkled it shrugs off its skin and turns back into an embryo, which a spirit then takes back to the island and inserts into a woman. This, you see, is how women get pregnant.

That’s right. The islanders do not believe that sex causes pregnancy. They don’t believe in physiological fatherhood. Malinowski was incredibly skeptical about this, so he tried all sorts of ways to see if this was simply a story they told, while they actually the real deal. But no, they assured him that it was really true, that all the white people who insisted otherwise were being silly, that the spirits caused pregnancy, not sex.

They argued the case quite logically. After all, they noted, one fellow went on an expedition for a year or two and when he came back, he had a new son. He obviously wasn’t having sex with her while he was away, so where did the kid come from? (Cough.) And, they note, there are some really hideous people on the island who nobody would dare have sex with, yet they manage to become pregnant. (Malinowski spies some kids looking sheepish when this subject is raised.)

They also argue the other way: people on the island are having sex all the time from a very early age and yet they very rarely get pregnant. (Naturally, the islanders don’t practice any form of contraception; the very idea doesn’t make sense when sex doesn’t cause pregnancy.) The white man’s argument just doesn’t make sense. Indeed, recent visitors report, the islanders still believe that sex doesn’t cause pregnancy, despite the best efforts of health workers.

It is speculated that the yams that form the basis of the island diet have a contraceptive agent in them (The Pill was originally made by looking at chemicals in wild yams), which conveniently explains quite a bit, including the low birthrate despite the high level of sexual activity. Indeed, the whole idea lends quite a bit of support to the idea that material factors shape culture — after all, our own sexual revolution didn’t happen until we got the yam’s chemicals in pill form in 1960.

The notion has some other interesting consequences. For example, the society is necessarily matrilineal, since fathers have no technical lineage. Yet sociological fathers (the mother’s husband), Malinowski notes, show more love and care for their children than most he’s seen in Europe.

Furthermore, they believe the same rules apply to the rest of the animal kingdom. This is what clinches it for Malinowski — despite all the effort they go to to raise pigs, they insist that pigs also reproduce asexually. They never attempt to breed pigs; indeed, they castrate all the male pigs they have. (To them this is further proof — we castrated all the pigs and yet they keep having children! Malinowski notes that the domestic pigs often sneak off to canoodle with those in the wild.)

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Guy Splits His Face Open (Nsfw)

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:39:44 +0000

If you are a squeamish person, don't watch this. Or at least be sitting down when you do, so that when you faint, you won't split your own head open.

For the record, I have no idea if he survived or not and can't find documentation on it.

http://www.viduu.com/video/guy-splits-face-open-in-diving-accident/