February 13, 2007 at 4:50pm
Mood: accomplished
Music: Gundam SEED Destiny - EMOTION
Subject:

Tutorial for how to add people as friends goes here! Warning~ image heavy to the max. (15 .png's ranging from 30KB to 200KB. I'm sorry.)

Edit: WOE IZ ME 'cos cut tags don't work on Bzoink journals. Blargh.

Son of Edit: Thaaank you Andy~

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Note that unlike on MySpace, adding someone as a friend does not automatically add you as a friend on their list. You may not be added back-- not everyone is up for random friending. You might want to send them a private message first. If you don't know how to do that, I will totally edit this later and make a post dedicated to it.

Just not now. My finger hurts from screenshotting.

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December 31, 2006 at 1:40pm
Mood: cheerful
Music: Death Note - Special Kira Investigation Team
Subject:

>NOTICE OF REVOCATION OF INDEPENDENCE
>
>
>To the citizens of the United States of America, in the light of your
>failure to produce proper cars and elect a competent President of the USA
>and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of
>your independence, effective today.
>
>Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties
>over all states, commonwealths and other territories. Except Utah, which
>she does not fancy. Your new prime minister (The Right Honourable Tony
>Blair, MP for the 97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that there
>is a world outside your borders) will appoint a minister for America
>without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be
>disbanded. A questionnaire will be circulated next year to determine
>whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown
>Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
>
>1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then
>look up "aluminium". Check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at
>just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. The letter 'U' will be
>reinstated in words such as 'favour' and 'neighbour', skipping the letter
>'U' is nothing more than laziness on your part. Likewise, you will learn to
>spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters. You will end your love
>affair with the letter 'Z' (pronounced 'zed' not 'zee') and the suffix
>"ize" will be replaced by the suffix "ise". You will learn that the suffix
>'burgh is pronounced 'burra' e.g. Edinburgh. You are welcome to respell
>Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you can't cope with correct pronunciation.
>Generally, you should raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. Look up
>"vocabulary".
>
>Using the same twenty seven words interspersed with filler noises such as
>"like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of
>communication. Look up "interspersed". There will be no more 'bleeps' in
>the Jerry Springer show. If you're not old enough to cope with bad language
>then you shouldn't have chat shows. When you learn to develop your
>vocabulary then you won't have to use bad language as often.
>
>2. There is no such thing as "US English". We will let Microsoft know on
>your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account
>of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of "-ize".
>
>3. You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents. It
>really isn't that hard. English accents are not limited to cockney,
>upper-class twit or Mancunian (Daphne in Frasier). You will also have to
>learn how to understand regional accents - Scottish dramas such as
>"Taggart" will no longer be broadcast with subtitles. While we're talking
>about regions, you must learn that there is no such place as Devonshire in
>England. The name of the county is "Devon". If you persist in calling it
>Devonshire, all American States will become "shires" e.g. Texasshire,
>Floridashire, Louisianashire.
>
>4. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as the
>good guys. Hollywood will be required to cast English actors to play
>English characters. British sit-coms such as "Men Behaving Badly" or "Red
>Dwarf" will not be re-cast and watered down for a wishy-washy American
>audience who can't cope with the humour of occasional political
>incorrectness.
>
>5. You should relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen",
>but only after fully carrying out task 1. We would not want you to get
>confused and give up half way through.
>
>6. You should stop playing American "football". There is only one kind of
>football. What you refer to as American "football" is not a very good game.
>The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your borders
>may have noticed that no one else plays "American" football. You will no
>longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play proper football.
>Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls. It is a difficult
>game. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby
>(which is similar to American "football", but does not involve stopping for
>a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full Kevlar body armour like
>nancies). We are hoping to get together at least a US rugby sevens side by
>2005. You should stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an
>event called the 'World Series' for a game which is not played outside of
>America. Since only 2.15% of you are aware that there is a world beyond
>your borders, your error is understandable. Instead of baseball, you will
>be allowed to play a girls' game called "rounders" which is baseball
>without fancy team strip, oversized gloves, collector cards or hotdogs.
>
>7. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry guns. You will no longer
>be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous in public than a
>vegetable peeler. Because we don't believe you are sensible enough to
>handle potentially dangerous items, you will require a permit if you wish
>to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
>
>8. July 4th is no longer a public holiday. November 2nd will be a new
>national holiday, but only in England. It will be called "Indecisive Day".
>
>9. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and it is for your
>own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean.
>All road intersections will be replaced with roundabouts. You will start
>driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go
>metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables.
>Roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of
>humour.
>
>10. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you cal French fries
>are not real chips. Fries aren't even French; they are Belgian; though
>97.85% of you (including the guy who discovered fries while in Europe) are
>not aware of a country called Belgium. Those things you insist on calling
>potato chips are properly called "crisps". Real chips are thick cut and
>fried in animal fat. The traditional accompaniment to chips is beer which
>should be served warm and flat. Waitresses will be trained to be more
>aggressive with customers.
>
>11. As a sign of penance 5 grams of sea salt per cup will be added to all
>tea made within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, this quantity to be
>doubled for tea made within the city of Boston itself.
>
>12. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually
>beer at all, it is lager. From November 1st only proper British Bitter will
>be referred to as "beer", and European brews of known and accepted
>provenance will be referred to as "Lager". The substances formerly known as
>"American Beer" will henceforth be referred to as "Near-Frozen Gnat's
>Urine", with the exception of the product of the American Budweiser company
>whose product will be referred to as "Weak Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine". This
>will allow true Budweiser (as manufactured for the last 1000 years in
>Pilsen, Czech Republic) to be sold without risk of confusion.
>
>13. From November 10th the UK will harmonise petrol (or "Gasoline" as you
>will be permitted to keep calling it until April 1st 2005) prices with the
>former USA. The UK will harmonise its prices to those of the former USA and
>the Former USA will, in return, adopt UK petrol prices (roughly $6/US
>gallon - get used to it).
>
>14. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers
>or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows
>that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled
>by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing
>someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to
>handle a gun.
>
>15. Please tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us crazy.
>
>Tax collectors from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to
>ensure the acquisition of all revenues due (backdated to 1776).
>
>Thank you for your co-operation.

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May 16, 2006 at 5:02am
Mood: peaceful
Music: FFAC, obviously.
Subject:

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is the best thing since caffeinated soda.

That is all.

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May 7, 2006 at 3:06am
Mood: accomplished
Music: None.
Subject:

First came the Do's and Don'ts of the Bzoink chat. As the chat is about as popular as the forums, I didn't really feel the need to pump this out, but recently I've been prodded and poked and propelled towards actually typing it up, so here you have it-- the Do's and Don'ts of the Bzoink forums.

Updated as of April 4th, 2007!

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Bzoink. I am, however, a forum mod and a chat op, which means I have more say than you do. Of course, you don't have to listen to anything I say, but at least this way you'll know your post was edited/deleted, mm? So while these aren't "official" rules, I probably will enforce them.

DO NOT:

- Post content in the forums that's above PG13, or a labelled R. Bzoink is, by and by, PG rated (though we'd like it to stay G rated, if we had any say in it, but we realize this is somewhat impossible), and we don't want to randomly see explicit violence, or sex, or a page full of cursing on our screen. If you do post anything you think might be pushing it, label it as such before you post in case people don't want to see it, or better yet, send me a PM before hand to clarify if it's appropiate for the forums. Yes, I will respond, it just might take me a day or so.

- Spam the forums. The definition of 'spam', for the forums, is rather, well, shaky, but we're going to say it as this-- posting complete gibberish (asjahdjakdha, for example), posting the same line of text over and over again, or repeatedly posting completely off topic posts in threads. It's been noted that the Bzoink forum threads usually drift very, very off topic after awhile, but they do this gradually. If we're discussing soda bottles, and you start talking about birds without any clear association of how you got from soda bottles to birds, it's probably spam. However, if we're discussing soda bottles in the thread titled 'Nail Polish Opinions', and you post your opinion on nail polish without reading what we're talking about in page 213 of the thread, that's not spam, because it's the original topic.

- Post a bunch of links to your own forum. Advertise it in your sig, if you must, but don't aggressively post links in random topics to your site/forum/whatever. We'll count it as spam. It will be deleted as such.

- Insult, harrass, or generally irritate us on purpose. We're people. Harrassing us on the forums, in the chat, by PM, or by getting our e-mails and contacts of our profiles will just make us angry, but it's very simple to block you, and delete you. Better that you don't even waste your time.

- Make threads titled something along the lines of, "~*~*~*~^^^&&&HI!!!&&&^^^~*~*~*~". It pisses off the forums. Also, it looks irritating. We understand that you want to be sparkly. That's great. But it's also very, very irritating, and you don't NEED to be sparkly.

- Be intimidated by the fact that the most active posters are on here a lot, sort of dominate the forums, and have very high post counts-- and all seem to know each other. The forums have been around a long time, and most of us have been there since the very beginning, and as such, know each other. Furthermore, some of us were friends BEFORE Bzoink, which means we know even more about each other. Do remember that we all started with 0 posts, looking at a big forum and being kinda scared, but we all posted and now we're addicted. We'd love to talk to you, too.

- Necro topics. This means no posting in a topic that hasn't been updated in over a month. Start a new one.

DO:

- Remember that we are all people, and randomly insulting us on the forums will just piss us off, and for no good reason. On the other hand, living in fear of the oldbies who have post counts so high they make your eyes pop out of your head and roll across the floor won't do, either. (Please don't fear me because I'm a mod. I'm hard to piss off, generally speaking.)

- Post often. We like people who post often, and are disappointed by people who post once and never come back. Don't you love us, guys? If you want to talk about something and there's not a topic for it... Post a topic for it, in the appropiate board. You'll probably get Karora, Askme and I in there, if no one else.

- Type properly, please. Yes, yes, I realize that at this point "ain't" is recognized by the dictionary, and tYpInG lYk DiS iS vRrRy CoMmOn, but most of us are sort of ... Nazi-like when it comes to grammar and typing. If you type in all caps, alternating caps, or in textspeak so heavy we have no idea what you're saying, we're going to count it as spam, and delete it, or make fun of it.

- Know the basics about forums and the internet. For example, a forum is a message board. It is NOT a chatroom, and posting something and clicking refresh repeatedly waiting for a response is stupid, because this is the Bzoink forum, not NeoPets or Gaia Online, and responses take time.

- Realize that some of us are still using dialup, and we don't want to load your totally awesome 679KB signature pic. Furthermore, some of us have those tiny little monitors that're 800x600resolution or less, and signatures that take up two pages just make us irritated. If it stretches the page, its too big. The limit on signatures, I'm putting tentatively at 400x200-- 400 pixels wide, 200 pixels high, and no more than 100KB. Even that is pushing it, but hey.




Suggestions and additions are welcome. I should go do homework now.

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February 13, 2006 at 10:58pm
Mood: bitchy
Music: Xena: Warrior Princess [1-4; Cradle of Hope]
Subject:

So. There I was, browsing the Bzoink forums, when I see that Andy's posted.. and has said that I need to get back on mIRC, which I so totally forgot to get on. Regardless, now that I'm back on the chat, forums, and lookee here: I'm back with a journal update! Niftyness, si?

I may be an op of the chat, and I may be the #1 poster on the bzoink forums, but I even acknowledge that I am not that active on the site itself. My creativity doesn't use making surveys, quizlets, and polls as an outlet, generally speaking, and for some reason, answering questions on surveys ends up with me being even more sarcastic and pessimistic than normal.

As for journaling-- well, Woohu was my first and only journal I've kept up with properly. It's friends only, aside from fanfiction related entries, so it's not like the lot of you can read it anyway.

"The lot of you"? There's few, if any people reading this; I know. Which is probably another reason why I prefer my Woohu journal.. people I know read it, and I know people read it. Pretend that sentence makes sense.

Enh, I'm going to go browse surveys. XP

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