Society is all about body image and how we should accept people for how they are. I accept this girl was fat and I accept that her outfit did absolutely nothing for her.

What is it about some fat chicks where they don't see that they're fat and dress accordingly. I don't know what's more scary. The fact that this girl obviously didn't look in a mirror before she walked out the door, or the possibility that she might have, and had not seen what I could see.

How can a woman look in the mirror and see her flesh spilling over the top of her jeans like icecream melting down a cone and think "damn I look good"? How can she look in the mirror and see the bottom of her boobs peeking from under the edge of her top and a bulging stomach precariously quivering over a band of denim and think that she's the epitome of all that is sexy.

YUK!!!

Dress to suit your body shape: you can be covered up and look attractive. Dressing like Christina Aguilera does not make you look sexy if what you're wearing is 6 sizes too small for you. If you think that dressing like a pop whore is what sexy is, then at least lose a few dozen pounds so your body somewhat resembles what you're striving to dress like.

"Sexy" is a particular mind set, it's not a fashion trend.

And hey, stop scaring me like that...

I'm all for a revamp in an old series same as the next person. With new technologies in cinematography one can't help but wonder how some of the cheesey series from the 70's and 80's might look with a face lift, but jesus do they have to mess with the basic formula?

For a start, lets take a look at the characters. Lt. Starbuck, formally a cigar chomping, gambling, happy go lucky man is now suddenly a cigar chomping, gambling, premenstrual, slightly crazy female and can I just quickly say "ugh" to any woman chewing on a cigar the way she does. Yeah I know all about the sexual innuendo involved with women and cigars, but thousands (I will not credit them with millions of viewers) of men must cringe and look nervous when they see her shifty eyed character chewing on her stogie like it's a piece of beef jerky.

Lets move onto Colonel Tigh. A respectable, level headed black man has been replaced by an alcoholic, slightly going-off-the-rails white man. He's supposed to be Commander Adama's right hand man and most of the time you don't know whether you should trust him or not. There's none of the blind faith that the old Adama seemed to have with the old Tigh and it just doesn't 'feel' right anymore. And perhaps the most shocking betrayal of character changes yet.... Lt. Boomer, formerly a funky, upbeat black guy is now played by a Korean woman and she's a Cylon! She's one of the freaken enemy! If I was Herb Jefferson Jr, I would be one very pissed off Boomer.

Certain important characters aren't even in the new series and some of the new key characters aren't even worth the pieces of paper their lines were written on. For a start they can fuck off the female president. Who cares about the damn president when there's fuck all left to preside over? Congratulations lady: you're in charge of a rag tag fleet of ships bound for Earth and we already have our world leaders. Go back to being the teacher or whatever the hell it was that you were before you got your new "job".

Number Six is a fucking joke. How many of her did they make? All she does is kill, maim and fornicate and yeah she was fun to watch in the pilot but ho hum kinda boring now. The storyline of her headwanking Baltar while keeping him all sexed up in his own imagination is ludicrous and embarrassing. Quite frankly James Callis (Baltar) portrayed more credibility playing Bridget Jones's gay pal than he does playing the affected humility of the truly arrogant.

One would think that former Battlestar Galactica viewers would have been one of the target audiences that the makers of this new piece of shit would have taken into consideration but apparently they didn't. If they had, they could have made the whole new series into a second generation type scenario with Richard Hatch (the original Apollo and from what I can gather, more than likely desperate for ANY role let alone the one he is famous for) at the helm of the Galactica and all these "new" people would have been more readily acceptable.

They've taken a great show from the late 70's, given every character problems or issues to give them more depth and they've thrown a whole heap of sex, cgi cylons and special effects into it and it hasn't worked. Their one saving grace are the new Cylons, but two minutes of them per hour hasn't pacified me in the least.

This series sucks daggit balls.

How many times do I have to endure that pop-up banner with the sparkling lights telling me I'm the 500,000th person to get that particular "lucky" pop-up? How many times does the number 500,000 enter into 'the counting game up to 1,000,000' anyway? Up until a few months ago, I thought it was only once!

The worst thing is that it takes almost no effort for these bastards to do it! They hire someone to write up a snappy little program (or do it themselves) and bam you're suddenly an unwary recipient of junk mail.

At least back in the old days (pre computers, moron) shit mail had to be carried to your doorstep or shoved in your letterbox and the dumb fuck wanting his goods looked at had to pay someone to bring it to your attention. Now there's some effort.

Now, any asshole with one of those oh so helpful "3 million E-mail addresses!" CDs, a phone line and an internet connection can become an instant entreprenurial Donald Trump for a day. Neato!!

The alarming thing is that you could exterminate every spammer and a billion more would pop up. The real problem is demand: nobody would be doing this if they did not get a real, albeit teeny tiny percentage of responses from their annoying advertising techniques.

This means that somewhere out there, there's some fat lazy fuck sitting in his parent's basement surrounded by pizza boxes, hamburger wrappers and soda cans who is actually clicking this shit and buying something, thusly encouraging this behaviour.

He must be found.

And killed.

After watching your daughter’s performance in The Simple Life and seeing her porn tape, there were a few things I wanted to say to you so I thought I’d write you a letter and share my thoughts with you.

I saw the way she sucked a dick and if I’d been her ugly boyfriend, I would have shown the world how fucking bad she was too. If she wasn’t being an utter bitch strutting about in her next to nothing lingerie, teasing her paedophilic boyfriend with her boy like figure, she was performing (dare I say it…) badly. Not bad like, three or four thrusts and she's screaming "Oh my God! OH MY GODDDDDD!" while he’s spanking her ass. Bad like checking out where the camera was all the time and fumbling all over each other until she’s getting fucked in the bellybutton or her folded leg instead of her vagina because they’re both dangerously clumsy, and stupid too. Some actress..

Hey rich dad, if your daughter’s only real viable abilities are whining for money, being annoying and being a promiscuous skank, that's not your fucking call to put her on TV. There's whole shows of fat singer chicks like the one from Wilson Philips who are getting their guts stapled up from cramming too many lard sandwiches down their throats that are easily more watchable, and will turn a guy on faster than having to see your daughter’s spoiled, anorexic self on a TV screen. If anything, she turned me off sex faster than thinking about my grandparents doing it.

A word of parental advice to you: I always thought women didn't like being thought of as vapid sluts that would fuck any guy if he was rich enough. The shame is she stands to inherit one of the largest hotel franchises in the world without doing a damn thing except breathe on her own. It is apparent that your daughter is not smart enough to lace up her shoes without help or a series of colourful and educational programs and you think it's a good idea to leave her an entire global corporation? How long do you think the Hilton Hotel empire is going to last when it's future CEO has the mental capacity of an 18 week old buffalo foetus?

I know that as humans we're wired to slow down at car wrecks and look for blood or stare in awe at horrible disasters. It's why people will constantly look at photos of the Tsunami destruction, collapse of the World Trade Center or listen to a Metallica album, but how long can we look at pictures and videos of your daughter before we’re screaming “enough is enough”?

Basically, your daughter is the cumstain on the fabric of society. She doesn't do anything for anyone; she stinks the joint up and Paris Hilton "fans" are basically just staring at the waste product that came out of the end of your dick.

Hope this letter finds you well.

I recently moved house and I took my phone service with me because I had to. It's costing me $140 to stay with this bunch of assholes. It took them 6 working days to flip a switch to put my broadband back on and I'm paying $90 for that privilege and a further $50 for them to flip another switch for the new house. One hundred and forty freaken dollars to press 2 flippin' buttons. Oh yeah, and to make sure my telephone exchange supported broadband. They're in charge of setting me up with the telephone exchange in the first place, how come they don't already know!. $140 on top of the $85 that it costs me every month anywho for the privilege of having broadband and a house phone.

Crooks! Highway men! Money-grabbing tight-fisted scroooooooooooooge!

I should have gone to another telephone company. It would have cost me freaken nothing apart from set up fees and everyone is so hungry for your business these days that I probably would have got off with paying a quarter of that.

Sure I'm in a fixed contract but hell the phone isn't even in my name. I didn't have to join up with them. I could have disappeared off the face of the earth and they would never have found me. We all know you can't charge who you can't find.

Bah humbug!!!

So I'm standing at the only operating checkout with people in front of me that have bought enough stuff to feed a post production Survivor party and the girl at the checkout isn't going very fast and I want my onion rings and they don't taste any good all soggy, they need to be crisp and I'm feeling fragile damnit! I grit my teeth and think of kicking her to make her go faster. I start reading the covers of the magazines.

A man who's two people in front of me asks about other checkouts and we're told that a couple of girls called in sick. I know one of the girls because my oldest daughter has already told me about this girl at school who got sprung drinking Canadian Club and cola on school premises and has been put in detention. Sick my ass.

To add insult to injury there are two women in front of me and fat blonde is telling skinny blonde (loudly) about how much her boyfriend is a bastard because she cheated and he found out and how he was being unreasonable in not wanting to sort things out with her because it was an "accident". Skinny blonde is nodding her head and agreeing with fat blonde, people are starting to look at them sideways to hear the conversation better and the checkout chick has slowed down even more as she gets caught up in the conversation. I take a few steps back so it doesn't look like I know them.

Women are stupid. Why is skinny blonde even agreeing with her slutty, loud-mouthed, retarded associate? How the fuck do you have an affair by "accident"? Did she fall on the guy's penis? Did she then suddenly suffer an epileptic fit for several minutes while joined to this man in what must be a fairly common way until she miraculously stopped and holy shit before she knows it they've "accidentally" had sex?

Several times?

By now fat blonde and skinny blonde are really digging the verbal boots in on this poor bastard who took it upon himself to date the epileptic klutzy chick in the first place and I start to lose it.

I've had a shitty day, I'm fucken starving, I have ONE freaken item for gods sake can't they open another damn checkout and put the butcher behind the till? What about my freaken onion rings?

I start laughing. I walk up to the guy at the head of the line, pass him a one dollar coin and ask the girl to blip thru my tin of cat food because I need to get home urgently and they all look at me like I'm the rude person.

I fucken hate shopping.

I'm waiting for J Lo or Eminem to actually rap out their shopping list to a funky beat and see how long it takes to make it to the number 1 position, because it would you know. All it takes today is a total of 100,000 albums to sell to reach the all top gold position that 20 years ago was a position you had to work for.

Qutie frankly you NEED to download music before you buy it these days because you never know if you're gonna be buying shit or not and it's always been a case of buyer beware. Downloading music is simply someone looking out for their best interests and their bottom dollar. It's obvious that the people who bought the 50 cent cd are not downloaders.

Artists release albums with maybe 3 good songs on the cd, that they produce to be for radio consumption, the rest of the cd is full of shit and remakes from older artists. How many cd's are in your collection that you can genuinley say you love every song on the album? one, two maybe? and that's probably from your parents collection that you stole to look cool with the kids that knew their music in high school.

We aren't stupid though, no siree bob....we know how the record industry does things, there is a reason for their actions. They produce a shit cd every year with three good songs on it and the rest is shit so you get your kids that buy cd after cd after cd and then 4 or 5 years down the track, you can buy The Best of 50 Cent, or 50 Cent Greatest Hits and he didn't even do anything!

Another thing that pisses me off, the fluctuation of artists releasing greatest hits cd's, who have been on the music scene for maybe two or three years. They should have a music law where you have to be at least 30 before you can have a greatest hits or best of collection, or have been around for at least 10 years. Fleetwood Mac can do a greatest hits, so can U2, Elvis, Rolling Stones etc, the likes of Britney Spears and Nikki Webster can't.

The real reason why RIAA doesn't want people downloading music is not because downloading music impedes music sales because downloaders are getting the music, it's so that people DON'T know what they're getting before they buy the music. If the music industry signed on new, better acts, then maybe people wouldn't have to go underground to get music that is actually worth listening to.

So once again tell me, who exactly is ripping of who?

Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule, from doing whatever it is that you do, to keep tabs on us. It has provided us with hours of amusement and it makes our hearts sing knowing that not only do you keep a real close eye on us in this forum, but you also invade our personal journals too.

While it came as some surprise to us that you found all of our mundane lives so interesting, it wasn't until we started looking more closely at you that we realised that your life really did suck, not to mention the fact your current "stalker" techniques are making you look like a pathetic loser and that you were suffering from a Pinnochio complex (I wanna be a REAL boy) that we started to pity you instead.

Because we pretend to care for you and want to help you hone your skills as a proper stalker we've come up with some ideas on how you can do this.

First of all, we've noticed that anything from Naples, Florida is you. If you could find some way of actually MASKING your IP instead of TALKING about it, this would greatly improve your chances of successful stalking. We also suggest a more relaxed method of searching our forums rather than just picking on one person and reading everything she has to say.

Secondly, just pick one name. We know that just picking one name sort of blasts the whole stalking exercise out of the water but really, you're not very good at this anywho. We have never stopped you from just being yourself (you remember who YOU are. Right "Nick"?) so just pick ONE name. All those other ID's you've made and really "Nick"... how many has it been? Five? Ten? Caste them from your mind as we have caste them from our Member's list. All those passwords that you have to remember must be starting to get to you. We have noticed that you are blocking yourself from the forum as you can never remember which password goes with which ID and really we're only looking out for you as you have looked out for us.

Hope this letter finds you well and healthy in Naples Florida Italy and please, don't despair about your shoddy stalking practises. Everyone learns from their mistakes and word has it that even Glenn Close needed a little help and direction.

Kind regards

Are Al Qaida that desperate?

"That was the first (time) I'd ever heard the phrase 'al-Qaida,'" Crowe said. "It was about — and here's another little touch of irony — taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as sort of a cultural destabilization plot," he added.

I'm sorry, but is it just me that wouldn't cry over Russell Crowe being "taken out"? If Al Qaida wish to spend money on destabilizing New Zealand born actors, then more power to them. Means we won't ever have to be forced with a Gladiator sequal, or more of that dodgy singing.

The only Disney movies that differ from this formula are The Lion King where Mufasa dies (and how dramatic was that huh? I know I cried) and the fact that Sleeping Beauty and Mulan had both parents. Hell, lets drag in Toy Story too and there you have it, a single mother with no dad, but at least it's still different.

Then lets add insult to injury and make the new mommies that come in (ie. Cinderella and Snow White's stepmothers) total bitches. Disney gives off the impression that the only women capable of giving unconditional love to a child is a natural mother and any woman entering a family with a girl child in it immediately sees that girl as a threat that has to be disposed of and/or treated like crud and that's just ridiculous!

There are people out there that would argue that if it hadn't been for the deaths of these parents that the main character would not have turned out the way they did. Would Simba have thought himself worthy of kingship had his father not died? How would Bambi have turned out had his mother lived? How can we not admire how wonderfully kind and benevolent Cinderella and Snow White turned out after being tortured and tormented by their nasty wicked stepmothers? Would we still have admired Nemo's testicular fortitude if his mother and siblings hadn't been eaten by the barracuda? I say yes we could have. Mulan went off to fight for the honour of her family, leaving BOTH her parents AND a grandmother behind while she did it. I admired her gumption. I still thought parts of the movie funny and sad. All without the death of a loved one.

Now it could be that the plight of a 'motherless child' is a good storyline lead-in as it engages our sympathy for the main character, but I personally think it's something more sinister.

For the bitter women of the world comes the new Voodoo knife holder.

Unfortunatley it only comes in the color red, but every girl should have one.

Weddings and marriage seem to be a theme for me for the rest of the week. Anywho, I digress....

Charles to marry Camilla…. Who really cares? Public opinion seems more inclined to be not caring. The media and the Royal family, however, are another story. Women's magazines are all atwitter with what Camilla may or may not be wearing. Psychics give their predictions on the new royal "couple". Speculation over what Princes Will and Harry think of it.

Seriously, no one gives a shit anymore. Why doesn't everyone leave them to it and let them get married in peace and just leave them the fuck alone?

Charles is never going to sit on the throne, he lost all credibility with the break down of his marriage to his wife, Princess Diana, and when he professed his desire to become a tampon. He's a slightly perverted old man who wants to live out the rest of his useless days with the woman he loves.

As for Camilla, what the hell did she do wrong anyway? She's always loved him, even well before he ever married Diana and really if there is any blame to be dealt out in all of this, it's the Royal family as a whole for not letting him marry the woman he loved and then forcing him to marry someone he didn't want and it's Charles's fault for not putting his foot down and telling the Royal family to get bent.

If anything, Camilla is a victim in all of this and maybe people should just put their noses back in their own business and let Charles and Camilla get on with it. Who cares if she’s not beautiful the way Diana was? He loves her and she has always stood by him. If you get yourself over all the hype and bullshit that's coming with this story, what people would see is, in fact, a love story that has endured decades and really that's something you just don't see a lot of these days.

My mum and dad married when they were 17 and 21, respectively, and they're still married.

It's not "today's youth" that are doing it, it's been ongoing for decades. Yes there are more opportunities out there for young people, both male and female, but the urge to be part of a couple, get married and settle down with 2.4 kids is stronger than their urge for material gain or for a career.

It's not the age of the person in question, it's the morality of society that you should be looking at. Maybe marriages aren't working now BECAUSE there is so much to choose from now.

I’m all for equal rights and there are women out there that are going to hate me for this, but lets really take a step back and take a real good look at what it used to be like, and how it is today.

Back before the 60's and the dawn of women's liberation, you left school, you got married, as the woman you stayed home, looked after your kids, knew where your kids were at any given time, did as you was asked by your husband and dedicated your life to making your husband comfortable and raising your children.

Men provided for his wife and children, made sure his family was comfortable and treated his wife with respect.

Children were well mannered, expected an ear boxing if they stepped out of line, knew to respect their parents and those older than them and knew that a child was seen but not heard.

Most of these children then grew up knowing the right way to treat their spouse and how to raise their kids who in turn would then become moral upstanding citizens, etc.

Now you have women that can have careers. They can be anything they want to be. They can even be men..... They can go to a fertility clinic at the age of 60 and have a baby if they feel they missed out because they got to have a career. Doesn't matter that they'll more than likely be dead before their kid graduates but who gives a shit? It's her right.

A woman in the 21st century doesn't have to pander to her husband. Isn't allowed to discipline her children, probably doesn't even know where the little bastid is anywho and calls take-out.

A man doesn't have to work if he doesn't want to, the wife can earn a living now so why the hell doesn't SHE do it and he can stay home and look after the kids. Right after he's tinkered with the car, slept in, scratched his ass.....

Kids roam the streets in packs, get into all kinds of shit because even if they DO get caught all they'll get is a severe talking to. Can't spank our children because then it's "assault". Locking them in their room is "imprisonment" and hey if they keep doing it, the PARENTS go to jail. Fucken sweet deal.

What's missing is responsibility, accountability, honour and morals: Something our society lacks as a whole these days.

So really, there's nothing wrong with today's youth. It’s not their fault they’re not compelled to stick at the marriage and work through the hard times.

There's just everything wrong with the way we've let this world become.

There is too much carnage and death among our young people on the roads and with these new laws coming out, one can only hope that the road death tolls will be greatly diminished now that these laws allow us to suspend our children's driving licence and yes, while I know this is a common practice in some US States, it's still new over here.

To obtain a provisional licence here, learners must be at least 17 and pass the Provisional Licence Test. Upon passing they are subject to a probationary period of two years (this law only being passed February 2001. It used to be only one year).

The unfortunate thing here is that while our children are on this probationary period, after less than a year they're suddenly legally allowed to drink as well. Most of them don't wait till then though.

Young, inexperienced drivers and alcohol don't mix and I think it's great that parents will soon have the ability to exercise a right they should have had in the first place.

With the introduction of this new law, one can only hope that a Passenger law is passed where probationary drivers can only carry up to two people in their car and maybe even bring in laws forbidding these drivers from driving anything more powerful than a 4 cylinder until the probationary period is over.

Throw in a curfew and raise the drinking age requirement to 21 and with any luck we'll be cultivating a new breed of driver that knows to do the right, responsible thing behind the wheel of a car from day one and the death toll will lessen, not only now but in the future.

I would rather have my child's "rights" violated than get a call in the middle of the night finding out I no longer had that child. Quite frankly, until you're 18, unless you're being beaten or abused, you don't have any rights.

A driver's licence is not a right, it is a privilege. Every time you get behind the wheel, you have the capacity to kill someone or be killed yourself, and this is not something that should be looked at lightly.

A friend of mine pm'd me and sent me a link to a site that was.... vile.

It was all to do with people and their fetish with excrement. Now, excuse me for being a bit of a prude... in fact, no. I can be as kinky as the next person but someone please tell me the fascination and sexual pleasure that someone would get from eating or playing with shit. I saw a few pictures and I had to get outta the site because watching people eat and play with shit was making me kind of ill. What sexual gratification is there in looking at women smeared in poo?

I remember when kink was a pair of handcuffs, stiletto's, rubber outfit and a riding crop. Now we have all kinds of things to tickle your fancy (feather or the whole chicken) and probably the most bizarre that I have encountered are the plushophiliacs. Now yeah sure I could link that, but really the only thing you'll find are the diaries and journals of a few freaky people and it didn't seem right to do that to them. However, you DO have a search engine.....

To each their own and all that but come on... stuffed toys???

One person has even gone so far as to describe his relationship with a toy lamb that he found in a dumpster.

Normal sexual practise? I think not.

I had a defacto relationship with a guy that had three kids and we were sure one of his sons was going to end up being a homosexual and we were bracing ourselves for it. Judge all you like. I'm bi myself so I know the implications of not being straight but I'm a female and lets face it, the girls get it easier so yes we feared for his son but jesus now as parents we have to question what our children may be doing with their teddy bears when the lights go out.

That is no longer a problem for me since the dissolution of said defacto relationship, errr the homosexuality, not the possibility of teddy rape. But it certainly makes you stop and think when shopping in Toys 'R' Us.