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| | Rules of Mayhem _ Can chaos have rules???? | | | Thursday, November 12, 2009 (2:47 AM)
(I'm feeling aggravated) | | 1. If you cannot say it on cam, to the person you hate on (and what the fuck is the point of hating anyway). Then why bother.
2. If you have to create a million and one soc accounts to hide behind, then you have no valid point to make anyway.
3. If you have to create a mimic of anothers account to create mayhem then you are simply a coward and cannot have any common decency.
4. If any of the above apply to you, do you act like this in real life? Do you really live a lie? Do you really hate your neighbours.? (ok well not all of them surely)?.
5. LMAO if you look at the last few weeks blogs, it is akin to a kindergarten, bickering, threats veiled - unveiled, who is who and who does what?
6. GET A LIFE! - WHO GIVES A RATS BUTT- CHEEK, THIS IS THE NET. NOT SOME SOAP OPERA.
7. It seems that a week cannot go by, without someone getting it in the neck from some dipshit.
8. I have been guilty of it myself, hell no-one is perfect, but I do my best to let it go. asap.
9.I am sick and tired of people bleating and hating - The Rogue has only to sneeze and he is up to something, that guy has done a lot more good than bad on LV, SHIFTERS? Hell I dont know and dont really understand them, IQ150 well I have my suspicions as to the author but WTF who cares???????
10. When you dont like something in real life, you have the option to ignore it - try that here.
11. In real life if you screw up, then you have an option to apologise.....try it, it suprises people.
12. Rules of engagement??? FUCK ME! THIS IS A BLOG PLATFORM NOT A WARZONE.
I apologise for swearing, I apologise for taking up valuable hater space, I just needed to say this.
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| | Imagine | | | Saturday, November 7, 2009 (3:11 AM)
(I'm feeling contemplative) | | Imagine a day when you come to LV and no-one is bitching on the blogs......
Imagine a day when the blogs have positive and helpful comments...
Imagine walking down a street smiling at strangers and wishing them a good day...
The amount of effort put in by those who complain and hate would be better off served in a more positive light, turn your anger, despair, hate or even loathing of others in to something more useful.
Acknowledge we are not all the same, take a deep breath and move on down the street, smile at another stranger wish tham a good day.
That one second of warmth and compassion could change your life forever, make it so.
LV like any other social network is just like that - a street full of strangers, have you ever thought that a smile and a little courtesy goes a long long way....IF YOU CAN DO IT IN LIFE - DO IT HERE.
Smile and bid I you all ""HAVE A GOOD DAY"..
I wonder how many people will post a blog saying just that..........."Have a good day"?
Try it.....it only takes a second or two of effort....much less than a rant.
"Have a good day".
Pax.
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| | Dorset and the Rebels....This one is for Madesicc | | | Friday, November 6, 2009 (3:52 AM)
(I'm feeling awake) | | A little bit of local history.....
Rebels are old school here.
The Dorset Rebellion
James Scott, Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch, was born on April 9th 1649, the illegitimate son of Charles II. He married Anne Scott, countess of Buccleuch, whose name he adopted, and was created a duke in 1663. Monmouth became captain-general of the armed forces in 1678.
The first Dorset connection in our story is Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, whose home was at Wimborne St. Giles. Shaftesbury was determined to prevent the succession of the King's Roman Catholic brother, the Duke of York, and pressed Charles to divorce his barren wife and remarry, or to legitimize the Duke of Monmouth.
It was claimed that King Charles had married Monmouth's mother, Lucy Walter***, and that Monmouth was therefore legitimate. Charles himself denied this, however, and sent both Monmouth and James abroad in 1679. In 1681 his legislative attempts to exclude the Duke of York from the succession were defeated, and he then turned to conspiracy. Shaftesbury was tried for treason in 1682, but was acquitted. He fled to Holland, where he was to die.
**** (this would have broken the bloodline).
Monmouth soon returned, but was again forced to take refuge, (1684), in Europe after exposure of the Rye House Plot to murder both Charles and James.
In February 1685 Charles II died and his brother, The Duke of York, was proclaimed James II, King of England. And thus were sown the seeds for the rebellion.
On June 11th, 1685, four months after King Charles's death, Monmouth landed his forces on the Beach near the Cobb at Lyme Regis. Marching inland his army was swelled by many local recruits including Robert Fawn of Corscombe, Azariah Pinney of Broadwindsor and James Daniel of Beaminster, all of whom we shall hear more of later.
The Kings forces were led by John Churchill, (later 1st duke of Marlborough), the son of Winston Churchill, squire of Minterne Magna. Included in the force were many Dorset men including George Penne of Corscombe, later to become a Brigadier General. Thomas Chafin of Chettle who commanded a troop of Dorset Horse. And Peter Mews, the Cavalier Bishop, from Purse Caudle, who although 67 years old, and Bishop of Winchester went back to war. He was later to plead for clemency for the 'misguided' Monmouth.
After several preliminary skirmishes, including being turned back at Bridport, the two forces finally met on July 6th at Sedgemoor in Somerset. In what was to be known as the last English battle to be fought with pitchforks, the rebels were soundly defeated.
Monmouth fled from the battlefield in the company of Lord Grey hoping to get to the coast at Poole, and a ship to the continent. On reaching the Inn at Woodyates they decided to split up, leaving their horses they proceeded across country singly and in disguise. Monmouth dressed in the clothes of a shepherd was soon discovered shivering in a ditch, under a hedge at Horton. He might have got away with it except for one small fact. In his pocket he was carrying the badge of the Order of the Garter. He was promptly taken to London and seven days later executed for treason on Tower Hill, and so ended the Rebellion.
Following the execution of Monmouth, James II dispatched the Lord Chief Justice, George Jeffreys, Baron Jeffreys of Wem to Dorset to punish the Rebels. Based in Dorchester he orchestrated one of the darkest hours in Dorset's history.
In the trials, known as The Bloody Assizes, nearly 200 people were condemned to death and about 800 transported to the New World. Especially infamous was Jeffreys's insistence on a verdict of guilty for Alice Lisle, who was accused of harboring rebels. Jeffery's is also known to have extorted money from many of the defendants.
Take the case of Azariah Pinney of Broadwindsor, son of John Pinney the local minister. He was sentenced to be deported for his part in the fighting, but because of his family's prominent 'position' as landowners and lace makers he was given preferential treatment and transported to the West Indies as a free emigrant. Once there he extended the business acting as his fathers agent in the lace making business and other ventures. He made a fortune for himself, whilst his fellows on the boat The Happy Return, which sailed out of Poole spent their lives in poverty and degradation.
In many Dorset villages, neighbour had fought neighbour, causing much resentment for years after. Consider the small West Dorset village of Corscombe, where Robert Fawn was hanged with twelve others, their bodies dismembered, then boiled in pitch and publicly exhibited. Whilst George Penne who owned Weston Manor and Oak Farm was given 100 prisoners as part payment for helping to put down the rebellion. He sold most of them to planters in America and the West Indies.
Not everyone faced the Bloody Assizes. James Daniel, a lawyer, had fled back to his home in Beaminster after the defeat at Sedgemoor where he hid in a secret chamber. Hearing that soldiers were coming to find him, he fled from the house an headed west. At Knowle farm he found a barn where he hid himself under some straw. He had only just concealed himself when his pursuers burst into the barn. The soldiers started to stab their bayonets into the straw time and time again but somehow always just missing Daniel. They eventually abandoned the search and Daniel was able to make his escape. Four years later in better times, Daniel purchased the barn and built a private burial ground, where he was interred some 60 years later on his death at the age of 100. The neat little graveyard known as Daniel's Knowle survives to this day.
Although the Monmouth Rebellion had failed it was only three years later in December 1688 that the Catholic King James was forced to flee the country to be replaced by William and Mary. George Jeffreys was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London where he later died . The hangmans noose has a knot known as the "Bridport dagger"...Bridport our home town was famous for it's ropemaking...its a shame that Jeffreys never got to taste the sting of the dagger or a taste of his own medicine.
Small bridges over rivers in and around the towns and villages mentioned here still bear a monument to these rebellious days...plaques erected by elite landowners stating that anyone damaging their property may be executed or sent to the penal colonies for life......If these laws still stand (hanging and executions are abolished in the UK) it could be a easy trip to the US. or Australia......hmmmm where did I put my explosives....lol
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| | Dave Struve.....We need a history Channel lol. Lassie Come Home! | | | Friday, November 6, 2009 (2:58 AM)
(I'm feeling awake) | | Whats in a name?
LASSIE.
HMS Formidable was a battleship on exercise with the 5th Naval Squadron. It was torpedoed in Lyme Bay Dorset (English Channel) on New Year's Day, 1915, by a German submarine, the U-24. Two lifeboats were launched from the stricken ship and a Royal Navy cruiser picked up some survivors from the freezing water.
Sailors from one of the boats were rescued by fishermen, but fifty men in the other boat remained at sea for fifteen hours. They used their boots to bale out the sea water to prevent their boat from sinking. When they were finally washed up on Monmouth beach (Lyme Regis), the men were suffering from exposure and nine of them later died.
The survivors - 199 out of the original crew of 780 - were looked after by the towns people of Lyme Regis. When able seaman John Cowan was taken to the Pilot Boat Inn (pub still there today), he was thought to be dead of exposure, but the landlord's rough-haired collie, Lassie, kept licking his face for a night and he recovered. Lassie became a local celebrity. The original photograph of Lassie and Cowan is believed to have been used as a popular postcard which people could buy (to this day). The story eventually reached Hollywood and "Lassie", the canine star, was born.
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| | Lest we forget...A history Blog inspired by Dave Struve's blog on Nov.5th. | | | Wednesday, November 4, 2009 (6:14 AM)
(I'm feeling quixotic) | | Between 1770 and 1830, The Enclosure Act changed the English rural landscape forever.
The Elite enclosed their land denying common land to the poor.
Landowners annexed vast acreages of countryside, producing even greater wealth from the now familiar pattern of small hedged fields.
Peasants (anyone not rich) no longer had plots to grow vegetables nor open commons for grazing their single cow or sheep and pigs.
Diet was basic - tea, bread and potatoes. As a result, the people were badly nourished and reaching old age was highly unlikely, infant mortality was rife.
A whole family had to work 6 days a week to be able to live a poor life, at semi starvation level.
Low wages, appalling conditions and unemployment, bad winters and poor harvests in 1829 and 1830 fuelled a great explosion of anger, resulting in riots led by the mythical "Captain Swing" in November 1830.
Throughout England 600 rioters were imprisoned; 500 sentenced to transportation; and 19 executed.
In a small village in Dorset (UK) now the home of the Trade Union movement six men decided to attempt the impossible and go against the rich elite.
They became known as Martyrs.....The Tollpuddle Martyrs.
The six Tolpuddle Martyrs were all farm labourers, paid 9 shillings a week and lived in dreadful poverty.
Their leader George Loveless, decided to set up a Union in Tolpuddle to give the labourers bargaining strength.
The landowners, led by James Frampton and supported by the government, were determined to squash unions and to control increasing outbreaks of dissent.
James Frampton framed the Martyrs on a trumped up charge of administering an unlawful oath, using a law applicable to the Navy not workers' rights.
He feared trade unionism threatened the power base and wealth of the landed upper classes.
Having witnessed the French Revolution, he was determined to suppress any sign of rebellion or opposition whatever the cause - the poor could not be allowed any hope, salvation or voice.
The Grand Jury's foreman was William Ponsonby, MP brother-in-law to the Home Secretary Lord Melbourne.other members of the Jury included James Frampton (himself the accuser), his son Henry, his step-brother Charles Wollaston and several of the magistrates who had signed the original arrest warrant.
The trial was presided over by Judge Baron Williams whose closed mind was evident as he opened the case with these words...
"The object of all legal punishment is not altogether with the view of operating on the offenders themselves, it is also for the sake of offering an example and a warning to all others of acts of treason and malice".
They were all found guilty.
Five Martyrs were shipped in appalling conditions to New South Wales, where they were assigned as convict labour to landowners. George Loveless, delayed by illness after the trial, later went in chains to Tasmania.
After many months which rolled in to years public pressure resulted in the men being pardoned by the King. Months passed before instructions to free the men reached the Australian authorities.
George Loveless was the first to arrive home, on June 13, 1837. He was greeted by members of the London Dorchester Committee. There was no fanfare: the King was dying. George slipped back into obscurity in Tolpuddle.
The London Dorchester Committee raised funds with public support to buy leases on farms in Essex for the returning Martyrs., but this was short lived as the landowners of Essex simply put pressure on them there, making life intolerable as five were still campaigned for working men's rights by supporting the Chartist movement.
Continuing pressure from landowners forced the other five eventually to seek new lives in Canada, where they found contentment as farmers in London, Ontario.
These men started the first real Trade Union, crossed the elite's line, were judged and punished wrongly by their peers and the majority had to leave the country in fear of their lives.
Less than 200 hundred years ago this took place... Britain had penal colonies, forced labour camps and the only people to benefit were the elite and the banks.....commoners suffered.
History has a strange way of repeating its self.....Nothing new really, except getting in to Australia is a lot more difficult now.
Pax.
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| | On a final note..... | | | Friday, October 30, 2009 (10:30 AM)
(I'm feeling optimistic) | | Just to try and set the record straight.
1. I am not and never have been spamassasin or PhiliStine, I have a good idea who they are.lol but they are not me or any other kaans.
2. I never spam...simply because I disagree with it.
3. Whilst therogue and I occasionaly converse (rare) we have never "ganged up" collectively on anyone on LV or anywhere else.
It is neither his style nor mine, he certainly does not need my help to deal with the likes of Harmless or others.
He was attacked verbally as I was and we (independantly) retaliated in the same way.
Sadly this stirred the opposition in to a feeding frenzy of lies, which has clogged up the Blog board.
4. I have gained friends from this encounter and I can only assume that Darko/Harmless has lost some.
5. To anyone who has been truly upset, rather than angry or amused by this relentless tirade from said "Darko" I can only apologise if you think I or any other kaan has been "out of order" in what any kaan said, here on the Blogs.
6. For the record.....The "blogwar" brought one thing to my attention.... I had therogue barred from my channel/account, this I have removed. I had not realised it was there...lol so much for us working together.
7. Always a good number to finish on.....Pax to one and all.
Icediva2.0 (my other half! as we say in the U.K.) therogue, the spamassassin,philistine,rosiegirl,Its wes, stargazer1976, mike, bearnuts and all of the others who decided enough was enough. TY.
You all helped make this LV community a tighter and happier one. if I have missed anyone I apologise.....
to be honest I could not bring myself to go back through all the pages of the last few days, so I suspect I missed a few.
Happy Halloween and have a great weekend to all LV'ites.
kaanofkan.
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| | Once more in to the breach dear friends..... | | | Wednesday, October 28, 2009 (1:40 PM)
(I'm feeling quixotic) | | Darko if you were a pilot you would be a kamikazee, probably the only one to fly 21 succesful missions.
The people you are ranting at are laughing themselves silly.
ROTFLMAO was obviously designed with you in mind. (or out of).
You are without a doubt the most spineless, sick and twisted little mother I have evet met in my entire existence.
Look in a mirror and tell me what you see.........
I bet its not very nice.....
Hmm a shallow man with no hopes, no aspirations and no friends a loser who gains friends and discards them as they dont follow your train of thought.
Battles?
Wars?
Haters?
Links?
Proof?
Truth? (this word is out of your concept).
The only thing you appear to have proven is that you have taken bergetta's crown and become the all time "Queen of haters" on LV..
With each nonsensical blog you spew forth you prove your own unworthiness to be here on LV.
Consider the bushido code......sadly you would probably need 21 attempts to get that right.
You are a man with no honour, no life and no friends...
For that I pity you and that is all you deserve from anyone pity.
Nothing more nothing less.
Harmless Individual?
You are indeed exactly that.......you named yourself well.
Go play Harmless....
Post more! post thousands...........it is more amusing than sesame street.
I said I wouldn't post anymore......but if its good enough for therogue.....lol.
Darko......there never was a fight with anyone, no war nothing...its all in that tiny little cell of yours.....your brain which appears to be connected to a badly bruised ego.
Pax.
kaanofkaan.
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| | How?, Why? Oh Me? Oh My! Darko Rules OK? | | | Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (2:09 PM)
(I'm feeling Harmless) | | Hello Harmless, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
You have lost the plot..
Cannot see the woods for the trees...
Are one sad individual.....
You claim to love one and all on another profile on the net, claim Buddhism as a religion and yet are so intolerant of others opinions that all you can manage is to pout, pontificate and strut in the blogs.
You come in to rooms, whinging and whining because the host will not mod you and then write vitriolic diatribes about them in the form of blogs, which you then hastily edit or remove. Congratulations Donnie/Harmless you have managed to reduce me to your level now and here I am responding to your (yet again) sadly researched rhetoric. Get a grip please?
I once thought you to be an intelligent guy...sadly I was wrong in my judgement...
Hey ho it happens....
Oh and the claimed proffession as a scientist?????
LMAO.
I would suggest a halt to this blog war if I thought anyone would listen to me...but all I can say is I will not lower myself to respond to anymore of your paranoid delusional rants and I sincerely hope that others will follow suit.
Other good people deserve this space more than you or I.
kaanofkaan.
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| | LV.....Grr...This is not a blog......this is just a rant...so I can feel better! | | | Monday, October 26, 2009 (8:49 AM)
(I'm feeling frustrated) | | Doom gloom despondency darkness......boy do I need to get out more.
Here we sit...the LV'ites wondering when Brad Greenspan will actually pull a finger out and pay a bill or something.
Sheesh can I remember a social life before LV?
Hmmm...ok no. pass on that one.
One good thing has come of the LV blackout, I have been reading blogs and posting comments (all good).
Hell even some of the people I dont particularly care for have written some good stuff.
Or copied it...lol.
I wonder what the future holds for LV?
Does LV have a future?
All I know is that for some strange reason I keep coming back, like some old lab-rat who should know better.
Took me a long time to work out why though.
Despite its pitfalls, lousy programming and crap codes LV is full of good people...love em, hate em, admire em, despise em.....You can ignore the haters and if 18+ floats your boat then so be it.
But at the end of the day....LV as a social network has worked.
NOT BY BRAD GREENSPAN'S EFFORTS OR LACK THEREOF.
But by the regulars who have made it what it is....a social network.
So to you my fellow lab-rats one and all, I take my hat off to you!
Take a bow (or a bowl), and lets enjoy LV whilst we can, if we can.....when we can.....(given the opportunity).
It may not last forever.
But then not much does.
So to all my friends on LV...TY for being here.
To all those who hate me....TY for taking the time to do so.
As for those that border twixt the two camps.....I can always mail you a bribe.
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| | Soulmates.... | | | Tuesday, March 31, 2009 (8:52 AM)
(I'm feeling accomplished) | | I THOUGHT THIS WAS LOST....BUT AN OLD FRIEND HAD SAVED IT FROM THE DAYS OF ANDY8LEGS HERE ON LV.........STRANGE HOW THINGS COME BACK TO YOU.
THESE ARE NOT MY WRITINGS BUT THEY HOLD ME LONG ENOUGH......
"It is most sublime when the coming together of soul-mates is the outcome of
spiritual development, and they are of higher consciousness. Let go of your desire
for, and attachment to woman or man right now, and concentrate on finding the
God-within-You first. First and foremost be your own Soul-mate, your own Helpmate...
totally in love with and devoted to Yourself - Your Spirit - the God within you that
you are... Then, and only then, after you have become attached to that God-The
Universal One that you are, and found inner and outer harmony and become "in love
with" and devoted to Yourself- not as a separate identity, but connected to and at
One with the Universal Spirit, will those who should be with you in Oneness of
Spirit, be with you in the universal harmony that you are imagining."
Borrowed from "The Children of the Law of One and the Lost Teachings of Atlantis"
One aspect and thought line.............certainly not mine....
Then there is this....
Soulmate
by Jayzee
I wade through a life
with no meaning,
with no desire
or aspiration,
every day redundant
of the one past.
One day the sun breaks through the cloud
that is my life,
and fills my days with
a blinding light.
You.
And everything becomes
precious and sacred,
you become my passion,
my frenzy,
my fantasy,
my ecstasy.
You are my every moment,
my every breath.
My soulmate.
However there is always this...which hit the spot for me..
Eternal Soulmates
by Lisa Teller
You are the one,
with whom I'm destined to be,
across space and time,
you are drawn to me,
One love, one life, we are destined to be,
soulmates forever throughout eternity,
In past lives I have loved you,
In this life I love you too,
And I know if I shall live again,
I am destined to love you,
across space and time, you are drawn to me,
One love, one life, we are destined to be,
Soulmates forever throughout eternity,
I know I'll always find you where ever you are,
No matter the consequence,
No matter how far,
Even in death I shall love you more,
to fuel my search to find you,
so we shall love once more,
across space and time, you are drawn to me
One love, one life, we are destined to be,
Soulmates forever throughout eternity.
Whichever way you look at a Soulmate.....if you have found yours then you are one of
the happiest people on the planet.....and if you have not.....then keep hunting...it
is worth it believe me.
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