{look upon my works, ye mighty}

You know those lists about "You know you're a Redneck when [items]"? I found one for Sri Lankans on Facebook and for my own amusement, I copy/pasted it over here and bolded every one that does apply to me along with a little explanation underneath, but italicized them if they don't apply. It's amusing. I dare you to do the same with a list for your own ethnicity.

You Know You Are Sri Lankan when....

1. You use banana leaves instead of plates, to eat rice and curry.

In Sri Lanka, you wrap rice and curry in banana leaves and heat it in the oven. It's delicious that way, the flavor soaks through. I love it so much that my parents and I even buy banana leaves from the Indian store in Vienna so we can keep eating it like that.

2. Your parents mark any special occasion by boiling milk until it spills all over your stove.

New Year's, when you move into a new house, start of exams, birthdays... Superstitiously, I like drinking the boiled milk for luck, even though that's not part of the tradition.

3. You get it on to baila music.

Asexual. I don't 'get it on' at all.

( 94 markers. How many do I have to bold to count? )

I bolded 54 out of 94. 54/94 x 100 = 57.44ish.

Therefore, I fit roughly 57% of Sri Lankan stereotypes. XD

The following is basically a snippet from a gchat conversation where I'm trying to explain rugby to Savior.

me: Basically, in rugby, what happens is that it's a bit like soccer and American football together. If you get a touchdown by hitting the ball to the ground, you get points.
And after the touchdown, you can kick the ball and get more points.
And you can score field goals and drop goals but I don't remember what those are.
And you can only pass backwards.

Cumulative: !
You can only pass backwards?

me: Yes. XD I remember that pissed me off SO MUCH when I played during gym.
Oh!
And if you get tackled, you have to let go of the ball.
You can't hold on to it.
It's like being tagged.

Cumulative: ...Really?

me: If you're tagged, you MUST drop the ball.

Cumulative: Man, I thought they just lacked determination.

Those poor, maligned rugby players. XDDDD

Link of the Day: PWNED!

Short version of the story is that a guy found out someone had hotlinked to an image on his site, and replaced with a series of photos depicting self-castration. But that's not the cool part. The cool part is that all the positive responses like 'I'd hit that' and 'I just came' remained in place which is fucking hilarious when contrasted with the new photo.

Click the links the guy provides only if you have a strong stomach and don't mind NSFW material. XD

...And if you have no interest in seeing people be PWNED, click the link to take a look at the castration process; use it as a litmus test to see how badly the Internet has damaged your cringe-reflex.

Do not clean pierced ears with mint dental floss.

I realize that might sound obvious to some of you, but if you're a college student who recently got her ears pierced, thinks one of them is too swollen to use cotton swabs on and really wants to make sure it's clean, you might have the brainwave of using dental floss to try to clean behind the earring.

Take it from me, it's a bad idea. Your ear won't drop off, but it will sting like crazy. Though maybe cotton thread would work if you soak it in disinfectant first.

Aren't you glad I'm here to find out stuff the hard way so that you won't have to?

Britney's bald, blah blah blah. Not the important bit. I was reading Go Fug Yourself, the site that's basically devoted to mocking famous fashion mishaps, and they had this article on Britney's new hairdo.

The part that makes it worth posting about? The first link in their article goes to an entry in ohnotheydidnt.

I am amazed.

"The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
the other possibility and the French were, quite naturally, ignored.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that
English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year
phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of
"k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.


There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be
expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are
possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing
"th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords
kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl
riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi
tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be besikli speking German like zey vunted
in ze forst plas."

--Snagged from dot_bdsm_snark, which Fandom Wank linked me to.

As someone who grew up in Austria, that was just too funny to not pass on. XD

My sides hurt from laughing at this.

Basically, it's Sars talking to her vet about her fat cat's bad breath. I was laughing out loud, uncontrollably, until my sides hurt and I stopped being able to breath.

Click it and have your day brightened up. XD

Link to Part One.

Yes, I have absolutely no mercy. Don't you feel sorry for him?

( And it just keeps on going... )

Neko asked me why would Bakura be in shock after the dark Ritual.

I replied: "Bakura? Marik's going to knock him out and tie him up. He's going to wake up to see Marik and Ryuuji facing off most likely, and be all "O_O WHAT HAPPENED?! I WAS EATING DINNER A FEW MINUTES AGO!""

( And from that, the following insane one-girl RP was spawned... )

I'll post the ones I did with EKYO for Ryuuji/Malik later. XD