Stuff I Found Out While Not Doing the Last 20 Questions of Embalming Homework

[harp]

George de Mestral invented velcro and it was patented in 1955.

That must mean I know at least one person older than velcro. Woah, does that mean that John Mccain is older than Velcro? Must look that up.

*While looking it up* "Make Sarah Palin take the INS test"? Do they have the questions online? Kinda makes America look like a club. Answer these questions to pass! Other countries do that? Wonder how many people in the US could pass.

Ha-ha-ha-Waaaaowwwww are they really asking that? You could really come up with some really snarky/smartmouth answers for these. Babby Pissed-off-about-Bush Harp would have loved to answer some of these. So would Northland-True-Blue-Kerry-Stanning-Air-America-Radio-directly-Injected-Into-Veins Harp. But even today's Grown=up-and-No-Longer-a-Screaming-Activist-Just-Gonna-Keep-Trolling-and-LOLing Harp sees some lulz opportunities in there.

Troll Self Test If you can read through these questions without thinking of one single smartass/snarky/cheeky answer, you are a golden soul with no trolling in your heart. If you do think of something less than srs, you have to write it in the comments C:


9. What is the 4th of July?

10. What is the date of Independence Day?

11. Independence from whom? Our mom lulz no just kidding -(Troll)

16. Who elects the President of the United States?

17. Who becomes President of the United States if the President should die?

18. For how long do we elect the President?

20. Can the Constitution be changed? yes but only to discriminate against gays, Laaawl j/k j/k no but for real doe

21. What do we call a change to the Constitution?

26. Who makes the laws in the United States? Microsoft

27. What is the Congress?

28. What are the duties of Congress?

29. Who elects the Congress?

44. Can you name thirteen original states?

45. Who said, "Give me liberty or give me death."?

47. What are the 49th and 50th states of the Union?

49. Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?

50. Who is the head of your local government? my wife ha-ha no i tease with love obvs

78. What kind of government does the United States have?

Comments

[seventhbard]

America is just obsessed with taxes. I may still love you, place I was born, but that doesn't mean I don't also hate your stupid guts sometimes too. Not that that doesn't fuck with my sense of identity endlessly mind you but since when have I ever had a strong, stable foundation of identity? I guess in the end, USAland is so tied for me with my family and past it just makes it hard to find solace in the soil of anywhere. Roots can anchor but they can choke, too.

When is Bush going to choke to death on his own ignorance and smallness? It's a nasty little thing to say but ugh, I'm so sick of him. I wonder if he ever did a kind thing in his life.

Yeah I don't remember if it was Congress but that was what I thought it was... there was a big hullabaloo because one of the senators or whoever got banned from speaking further because she used the word vagina in regards to some proposed law about rape or abortion or rapebortion or something. I blocked most of it out tbh mostly I just remember wanting to ragepuke.

And I find that a lot of people will use admiration for King as a shield to prove they're soooo not racist after whatever casually racist thing they just said. :P

Writing up my responses was just a little TOO fun today... I seem to be feeling a bit bitter. XD

[harp]

Bitter towards anything in particular (the country, a behavior, a bunch of people with groupthink)? 'Cause I've always got a supply of things that I save and want to ask certain friends for reviews/opinions about. Guardian up there, she snarked on the Sexual Privilege Checklist (it's up on my LJ, I think you saw it?) and you know about the monster party alarmist post I made and reviewed "The Duff" for me.

Tl;Dr Extra Re: that book- I for real still get really wistful daydreaming about if Bianca lived in your apartment complex and she always visits you and looks up to you and you gave her advice but also set her right in her nonsense. It'd be fun to read about her POV after you said "I know you want me to sit here and tell you that you were right and justify your actions, but I'm not going to." and she knows you're right and is just sulking and making faces like she wants to say something but can't. 'Cause she'd probably try argue first out loud, then try to justify it (whatever she just said/did) in her head a few times to come up with a good argument, but would get caught. But always ending with her hugging you and being glad she can talk to you.

[seventhbard]

I think I'm just a bit bitter in general right now, I'm feeling pretty brittle because I'm having kind of a brainsplosion-and-therapy-epiphanies time at the moment. Things in my head are just... shifting around in prep of the next big changes in my life. Mostly I just sort of still feel... unwanted, for lack of a better word (which feels insecure and unsafe). Trying simply to find a place to be and a way to feel about it isn't as straightforward as I used to think!

And thanks, that still makes me feel really good. *hugs* :)