Painting the Horizon

I've finally gotten around to watching Avatar. I love it. I was already spoiled all to Hell before I even started, but that doesn't seem to be lessening my enjoyment.

Also, One Piece's new opening:



Yeah I'm probably the only person on Earth who even noticed. Or cares.

I don't much like the We Are! remix, though I don't exactly hate it, either. And really I don't like how they didn't acknowledge Brook as a crew member. And I would have liked some Bonney Rayleigh Shabondy action, but I guess they're planning on a filler arc or something. The animation was nice, though. When there was any. It's pretty meh, overall.

ETA: lol I keep checking the picture just in case he's like... hiding behind Kureha or something because I'm paranoid about being wrong.

Okay, so apparently my old Vocational School is under a threat of some kind. They found a message in the boys' bathroom that said something was going to happen on October 1st. That's tomorrow. No one I've talked to knows the details of the message, but from what I've heard, it seems that the word "bloodbath" was mentioned. Since the University of Applied Sciences that I attend is in the same campus, I'm naturally considering staying home tomorrow.

On one hand, the threat is explicitly on the Vocational, and on the other, the only cafeteria is in the main building of the Vocational School, so I can't really avoid going there.

Then again, the more I hear of this, the more it's beginning to sound like some first-year moron's* idea of a good laugh. And yet... how can you really be sure? The school's got balls, though, as they've decided not to evacuate. There will be police present, of course, and whoever wrote the message is in deep shit, whether s/he intends to follow through or not.

*most first-years in the Vocational are sixteen. Not an age group noted for thinking their actions all the way through. That's why it sounds like a first-year to me.


For those of you who don't know, there was a school shooting in Finland last week and the hysteria hasn't died down yet. That's why these kinds of messages are being taken extremely seriously right now, and why pulling these sort of pranks, if it indeed is a prank, is an exceptionally stupid thing to do. Unfortunately, it's also why some geniuses get the bright idea to make these threats in jest.

There's a fly in my room and I swear the fucker has mastered the art of teleportation.

I can't manage to swat it and it refuses to go outside. Someone call the Terminator. D:

I love you all.

No, I'm not drunk. Or high. Or anything else. Experiencing bizarre mood swings in the middle of the night, perhaps, but I swear that's all.

Drawingss!

Uh, One Piece, Good Omens, World of Warcraft, original.

( I would've expected a bigger post after this long )

Okay, so, I remembered an old riddle I once heard and was never told the answer to. It occurred to me that maybe my friendslist could help.
varoitusmerkki, I know you've heard this, too. If I'm misremembering a detail or you have the answer now, do tell.

So. Anyway.

A man enters a town. On the balcony of one of the houses he passes, there's a woman hanging laundry. The man pulls out a gun and shoots her. The police do nothing.

Why?

Now, if memory serves, the answer is not that the authorities never find out. They're aware of what happened, but the they take no action against the man who shot the woman.

It's more than likely that this riddle exists in a variety of forms with the exact same answer. If you know the answer to a similar riddle, it just might be the answer to this one, too.

Something I've been wanting to rant about for a while:

So, one or two years ago, there was an ad campaign in the finnish women's magazine MeNaiset (the name can be translated as WeWomen or UsWomen) to raise awareness of breast cancer. The ad features a picture of a shirtless woman dressed in pirate garb and wearing a large "eyepatch" over one missing breast.

Now, when I first saw it, I thought it was creative and powerful and would make people stop and think. But get this, apparently there were people who just plain missed the point and complained about the other breast, which was bare. I saw some discussion about it on the 'net some months ago and all I could think was: "We're FINNS, for God's sake! The average woman reading this magazine is between 25 and 60 years of age and must've seen thousands of boobs belonging to other women she's never even spoken with, thanks to public saunas and whatnot. Bare nipples in women's magazines are not unheard of, and the ad was not a sexual one, so I fail to see the problem.

I'm including the picture here for those of you who are interested:

( As much as I want to not cut it, I realize that not every country would consider it worksafe, especially taken out of context )