I över 6 år förgyllde du vår tillvaro. Nu jagar du med Hulda i dom sälla jaktmarkerna. Hoppas ni har det bra.
Tack för att du valde oss.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Pokemon Diamond And Pearl Raw
Good night sweet prince
I över 6 år förgyllde du vår tillvaro. Nu jagar du med Hulda i dom sälla jaktmarkerna. Hoppas ni har det bra.
Tack för att du valde oss.
I över 6 år förgyllde du vår tillvaro. Nu jagar du med Hulda i dom sälla jaktmarkerna. Hoppas ni har det bra.
Tack för att du valde oss.
Is Reglazing A Tub A Good Idea
Monster Madness 2010
Happy Halloween, folks!
So I'm off to my parents to have some cheese fondue (yeah, I'm back in Sweden over the weekend). So this post's a quickie. I thought in honor of the day I'd tip you off on Monster Madness 2010 the beautiful series of horror movie reviews that James Rolfe, perhaps better known as the Angry Video Game Nerd, has been doing over the course of October leading up to Halloween on his website - http://www.cinemassacre.com . It is, I think, the third time he's done it. Earlier years have been about classics - this year was about camp. So lots and lots of humour. Today it was finished with a review of what seems like a great parody of 50s b-movies made in 2001 - The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra .
Anyway, they're worth checking out. And almost every review is quite short, so it's not a horrible time stealer. Just be prepared for a bit of gore in some of the films. In particular, avoid the review of the sasquatch film "Night of the Demon" if you are at all sensitive to graphic stuff - because that one is pretty nasty.
'Til I have some more time to write,
cheerio.
Happy Halloween, folks!
So I'm off to my parents to have some cheese fondue (yeah, I'm back in Sweden over the weekend). So this post's a quickie. I thought in honor of the day I'd tip you off on Monster Madness 2010 the beautiful series of horror movie reviews that James Rolfe, perhaps better known as the Angry Video Game Nerd, has been doing over the course of October leading up to Halloween on his website - http://www.cinemassacre.com . It is, I think, the third time he's done it. Earlier years have been about classics - this year was about camp. So lots and lots of humour. Today it was finished with a review of what seems like a great parody of 50s b-movies made in 2001 - The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra .
Anyway, they're worth checking out. And almost every review is quite short, so it's not a horrible time stealer. Just be prepared for a bit of gore in some of the films. In particular, avoid the review of the sasquatch film "Night of the Demon" if you are at all sensitive to graphic stuff - because that one is pretty nasty.
'Til I have some more time to write,
cheerio.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Replacement Wire Cheese
Swedish tweets
Alla svenskspråkiga, publika inlägg på Twitter från @ MartinHOlsson from the registration of the account 9 aug 2009 to October 17, 2010 around 14:20 Swedish time, minus (with occasional exceptions) uncommented "RT: s" (further promotions of others' contributions) and "@ replies" (deposits ; gg marked as targeted to a different user, begin with its user including the "@")
Note: Links to twittrats "through" another side, as youtube or reach ; gon blog, does not work here. Effective links:
Forum Topic on rollspel.nu "Is the SD-fascists?": http://www.rollspel.nu/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/699412/1.html
Express "political scientists: the King takes up the SD in his speech ": http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/1.2161962/statsvetarna-kungen-tar-upp-sd-i-sitt-tal
Youtube" Karl Gerhard - The infamous Quarter in the terrible Marseille (1937) ": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZxCoT5Hpro
Youtube" Even the Losers (Tom Petty): http://www.youtube. com / watch? v = GenHpuyiDug
August 16, 2009: spreading the word performance artist Henrik Heding. Read more at http://martinho.livejournal.com/27920.html
August 27, 2009: "It is written commitments." Heh.
August 30, 2009: change your street against P1 in web radio.
September 13, 2009: May contain 'language! link to Two Swedish language blogs and other funny: http://martinho.livejournal.com/28998.html (Galenskaparna!)
September 15, 2009: finally time for götebosskan! http://bit.ly/jUCgE (sorry, I must work - new job:) - too).
September 19, 2009: An old note: "Majornas third rotation is a good band and it is not mentioned. Violin. Alcohol is interesting (sensory loss, sober partition). "
October 7, 2009: do something sensible? http://martinho.livejournal.com/30127.html
November 8, 2009: love your dreams, indeed: http://martinho.livejournal.com/31019.html
December 6, 2009: old poem is old: http://martinho.livejournal.com/32008.html
December 21, 2009: has the moment not headache, is thus: http://martinho.livejournal.com/32710.html
December 21, 2009: ... the headaches are
January 3, 2009: Martin once wrote a poem is not really about working at the opera, read this: http://martinho.livejournal.com/33242.html
January 17 10: Poop! - An ancient etymological attempts: http://martinho.livejournal.com/33791.html
January 31 10: short poem @ http://martinho.livejournal.com/34224.html
February 14 10: have blogged a bit about Swedish Wiktionary: http://martinho.livejournal.com/34728.html
February 27 10: JOOO!
February 27 10: this or that? # Curling
February 27 10: GUUUUUUUULLD! # OS # # curling Sweden
March 21 10: # minimalism.
(well, it could be Swedish - strictly speaking, that was enough, as soon as English, with about the same possible meanings.)
March 29 10: old poem again @ http://martinho.livejournal.com/36212 . html
April 12 10: Website: saved! see also http://martinho.livejournal.com/36669.html, http://hem.passagen.se/rawanimal/
April 25 10: weird old poem about wildebeest on http://martinho.livejournal. com/37148.html # Gnu!
May 9 10: blogged a bit about every kind of http://martinho.livejournal.com/37805.html
June 21 10: is back.
July 21 10: Phantom 7 1959, "good" charac biserie: Aft between-takes 30 third class cabins for colored passengers.
July 21 10: Phantom 7 1959, "good" charac biserie: Look at the cute Chinese kids! (Answer: Um, but a little further away, I see two shady types ...)
July 21 10: fantomen7/59 biserie: ... and goes to attack the poor Hindu policemen.
July 21 10: Phantom 7 1959, piracy in biserie: Talks ungrammatical though it logically should be native Chinese.
July 21 10: Phantom 7 1959, "good" charac biserie: Agreed --- We wait until we're out of sight of the other yellow monkeys!
August 27 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL1tA9NP7f8&feature=related
(That's Wolf song from Ronja, though I missed that mention it in the tweet.)
August 27 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9KZW3rMMzM&feature=related Luffarvisan
August 27 10: http://www.youtube. com / watch? v = ZWzbIEcrKk4 & feature = related Lille Katt
August 27 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap10T00_sOE&feature=related Hujedamej like children, he was
August 27 10 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYIYA56mBxk&feature=related You dear little snickarbo
August 27 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFcM1DiWbro & ; feature = related Ida's summer song
August 27 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RTPTEYWH4I&feature=related Oppochnervisan
August 27 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0GDqF9KxWA&feature=related A little song about HOW life is short ("Love came and came")
28 Aug 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mAOMf_K9cg&p=9E3AC1064C30555E&playnext=1&index=21 Pig Song
Take the following even if I tagged them " ; music ":
August 28 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vTMovUQHhY&feature=related Bom-Sick-Boom # Astrid # music # Georg Riedel # # music youtube
August 28 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJCVKOKLNYU&feature=related Pilutta-song # Astrid # music # Georg Riedel # music # youtube # Mardie
August 28 10: http://www .youtube.com / watch? v = 8o7M4WbIM3I & feature = related The best Astrid Lindgren Karlsson # # # music Georg Riedel # # music youtube
August 28 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v = 1Rpq3xbQp78 & feature = related Just a little dog # Astrid # music # music # youtube # KarlssonPåTaket
August 28 10: Come http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFUp0mFCVo8&feature=related than depended pirates / Here will Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren # # # music youtube
August 28 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zynoW43WnVk&feature=related When Mom was a kid # Astrid # music # youtube # EmilILö ; nneberga # Swedish28 Aug 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtHGoD5rb38&feature=related Why and why # Astrid # music # youtube # # EmilILönneberga Swedish
August 28 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c57RfNtlOzg I am poor farmhand # Astrid # music # youtube # EmilILönneberga # Swedish # Georg Riedel
August 28 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66fKlkkDqkQ&feature=related One to which I EmilILönneberga # # youtube # Astrid # music # Georg Riedel?
August 28 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5sCPe0SS08&feature=related Donald Theodore # Astrid # music # Pippi Longstocking Swedish # # youtube
At last, something else ä ; n Astrid Lindgren låtspam ...
September 4 10: Hey, an "unknown" Ajvide Linqvist-text. Gorgeous! Not so bad. Man # Port # John Ajvide
September 4 10: Okay, but what the hell forgot the link http://www.johnajvide.se/Extramaterial.aspx # man port # John Ajvide
September 22 10: time to move on fikamö ; tea. Before that I ever worked, sat and done proofreading (if Pippi, which I also wrote about)
September 22 10: Do ngn what can be done by the end of the following sentence so that to sound good ...
September 22 10: cont. Pippi is liberating, wondrous and delightful on a time and all these characteristics ...
September 22 10: ... makes her a caring figure sword / one character to care. (In Dutch: the tea Koester)
September 22 10: I feel that "a character to care" is the right direction, but not completely raw tt ... "To cherish and not forget"?
September 24 10: To go home
September 24 10: home
September 28 10: Listen to Radio Science Language for the first time in years. Missing the http://sverigesradio.se/sida/default.aspx?programid=411
September 29 10: pull my stand to the stack to Adam Lambert to remain on the RIX leaderboard. :)
September 30 10: yes, sooner l later sku good toughness come tebax. lecture about one hour e ok, but what I want to do before then, I would not do: (
September 30 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v = Ar6Cb87znlk Laleh - He chews crackers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XOXCLwVvjQ Major and minor - Nils Ferlin read to Röyksopp
September 30 10: @ Jonas_Gardell: "SD is part of the power." How true. It's that simple. How tragic. : (Http://www.jonasgardell.se/doc/diary.jsp # section = k7
(Would ec. Discarded here as "directed" to Jonathan, but obviously I've rather intended to direct me to [the Swedish-speaking] world. ")
October 1 10: Are SD fascists? - Rollspel.nu rollspel.nu / forums / ubbthrea ... via @ rollspelnu
October 2 10: http://pratbubblor.blogspot.com/ nice language blog, thank Science radio language in fb for the tip
October 2 10: http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/ nyheter/sanslos-kamp_5386521.svd If it were possible, this tweet be in comic sans.
October 3 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKW45akikvE&NR=1 Martin Ljung "55an Olga" RIP
(Well, RIP is an abbreviation understand ;'s but ...)
October 3 10: The word obedience training always makes me think on BDSM. Can be strange dog folks facebook updates, among other things. Obedience oxå good
October 3 10: Or "Obedience Championships 2010", which google suggests. Though where I think almost more some strange animal show variation for young children.
October 4 10: Poor, poor Christina Raise Larsen (v): (http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/valet2010/article7895617.ab ... did not settle, but still.
October 4 10: It works! Wonderful pictures! # fulsött RT @ peterdalle Snacka on nischad blogg. Can integrum sluta skratta. : D "Hungover Owls" http://bit.ly/dhqjqS
5 October 10: Statsvetarna: Kung tar upp SD in his speech expressen.se/nyheter/1.2161 ... via @ Expressen
5 October 10: ; ok now fattar vad jag it is to do with more and talk about SD uttåg. Heder åt Eva brown!
(För Kontext:
5 October 10: Wut? RT @ torehammar It wasn't the anal sex att caused the orgasms. IT var det att orgasms caused the anal sex. Amerikansksexundersökning
# 5 October 10 : RT @ @ torehammar MartinHOlsson new sexundersökning VISAR that anal sex give 96% in g orgasm. but it should be construed as attbuttsextjer have better partners.
)
October 5 10: rt: s Tore's response to others who wondered with me (especially those who heard about it all through my first initial RT)
October 6 10: ; @ sr_ekot tweet to "Bill Power to review the immigration of family members". Well, maybe a good idea to remove any limitations? # Do not want to know
(Here I address again apparently to "world" also if a user happened to end up first.)
October 10 10: Watch this video - Karl Gerhard - in the notorious district of the terrible Marseille (1937) youtube. com / watch? v = qZxCoT ... via @ youtube
October 10 10: Watch this video - Even the Losers youtube.com / watch? v = GenHpu ... via @ youtube
Balloons: Språkmä ; ssa in London October 15 to 17 pratbubblor.blogspot.com/2010/10/sprakm ...
October 10 10: http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid
(Let's keep the mystery surrounding the link, "surrounding" tweets give no clues as to what it is about the program.)
October 11 10: Amai Amai. voj voj. huga. woe is me.
(A little language mix there, but "huga" would be somewhat of Swedish.)
October 11 10: tweets about the class reunion from @ Jonas_Gardell Oh how my thoughts go ; rt A comedian uppväxt.Grejen here is that two girls blitt housewives
October 11 10:? qrtin hqtqr belgiskq tqngentbord1
October 12, 1910: Tank svåra frågor out now! Skjutjärnsjournalistik: on! RT @ sr_ekot Chatta with Anders Borg on budgeten http://bit.ly/9kWlAi
October 12, 1910: http://www.folkbladet.se/opinion/ledare/artikel.aspx?articleid=5384431 Inlägget of Metta Fjelkner about lärares o students facebookvänskap intr.
October 12, 1910: metaråd alltså RT @ sr_ekot National Board ger advice hälsoråd http://bit.ly/dbjyzT
October 13, 1910: Reinfeld "The dormant people ", summary and link to full text http://tinyurl.com/at7eh5 # policy
October 13 10: Direct link to the book on Slideshare: Fredrik Reinfeldt The Sleeping People http://slidesha.re/ 8hgVBK
October 13 10: Fine travel journalism and philosophy from my friend Anna Mattisson on http://vindla.wordpress.com/
October 13 10: What was the song that just played in P1 Kulturradion? I heard just the end, sounded very good.
October 13 10: Now (completed) chat about the budget with Anders Borg read on http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=83&artikel=4093237
October 13 10: We like 'We like different. " Indeed.
October 13 10: "We like the variety" bullies were just in P1 for various reasons ... indulgences ... well, but there is value in showing that not everything is racism o idiocy.
October 13 10: And grammar, hello, language, joy and creativity. "We like different" is an object, the adverb is used noun-proprietary.
October 13 10: "Different" - An unpretentious little "diversity". Is it so damn funny?
October 14 10: So, "he told her to remove her skirt" _är_ actually not strictly unambiguous. # # Gender correct language book reflexivpronomen # # clothes # language
October 14 10: ok then, they recognize, "but our knowledge of the commonly used tie each skirt gives us a fairly obvious interpretation is normal. "
October 15 10: Morgonpasset (at Finnish-Swedish): "Lemurs are extremely biased animals." Heh.
October 16 10: "The minutes" of P1 right now, always worth listening to http://sverigesradio.se/sida/default.aspx?programid=1307
October 16 10: "insurgents"? Is there a word you expected from @ sr_ekot, Swedish-speaking peoples twitter?
October 17 10: Now in P1: Radio Theatre "Radiosex" - not available later via sr.se! "My stuff" av Bengt Ohlsson.
17 okt 10: Tar tillbaka vad jag sa om att det inte fanns så många svenska tweets.
Alla svenskspråkiga, publika inlägg på Twitter från @ MartinHOlsson from the registration of the account 9 aug 2009 to October 17, 2010 around 14:20 Swedish time, minus (with occasional exceptions) uncommented "RT: s" (further promotions of others' contributions) and "@ replies" (deposits ; gg marked as targeted to a different user, begin with its user including the "@")
Note: Links to twittrats "through" another side, as youtube or reach ; gon blog, does not work here. Effective links:
Forum Topic on rollspel.nu "Is the SD-fascists?": http://www.rollspel.nu/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/699412/1.html
Express "political scientists: the King takes up the SD in his speech ": http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/1.2161962/statsvetarna-kungen-tar-upp-sd-i-sitt-tal
Youtube" Karl Gerhard - The infamous Quarter in the terrible Marseille (1937) ": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZxCoT5Hpro
Youtube" Even the Losers (Tom Petty): http://www.youtube. com / watch? v = GenHpuyiDug
August 16, 2009: spreading the word performance artist Henrik Heding. Read more at http://martinho.livejournal.com/27920.html
August 27, 2009: "It is written commitments." Heh.
August 30, 2009: change your street against P1 in web radio.
September 13, 2009: May contain 'language! link to Two Swedish language blogs and other funny: http://martinho.livejournal.com/28998.html (Galenskaparna!)
September 15, 2009: finally time for götebosskan! http://bit.ly/jUCgE (sorry, I must work - new job:) - too).
September 19, 2009: An old note: "Majornas third rotation is a good band and it is not mentioned. Violin. Alcohol is interesting (sensory loss, sober partition). "
October 7, 2009: do something sensible? http://martinho.livejournal.com/30127.html
November 8, 2009: love your dreams, indeed: http://martinho.livejournal.com/31019.html
December 6, 2009: old poem is old: http://martinho.livejournal.com/32008.html
December 21, 2009: has the moment not headache, is thus: http://martinho.livejournal.com/32710.html
December 21, 2009: ... the headaches are
January 3, 2009: Martin once wrote a poem is not really about working at the opera, read this: http://martinho.livejournal.com/33242.html
January 17 10: Poop! - An ancient etymological attempts: http://martinho.livejournal.com/33791.html
January 31 10: short poem @ http://martinho.livejournal.com/34224.html
February 14 10: have blogged a bit about Swedish Wiktionary: http://martinho.livejournal.com/34728.html
February 27 10: JOOO!
February 27 10: this or that? # Curling
February 27 10: GUUUUUUUULLD! # OS # # curling Sweden
March 21 10: # minimalism.
(well, it could be Swedish - strictly speaking, that was enough, as soon as English, with about the same possible meanings.)
March 29 10: old poem again @ http://martinho.livejournal.com/36212 . html
April 12 10: Website: saved! see also http://martinho.livejournal.com/36669.html, http://hem.passagen.se/rawanimal/
April 25 10: weird old poem about wildebeest on http://martinho.livejournal. com/37148.html # Gnu!
May 9 10: blogged a bit about every kind of http://martinho.livejournal.com/37805.html
June 21 10: is back.
July 21 10: Phantom 7 1959, "good" charac biserie: Aft between-takes 30 third class cabins for colored passengers.
July 21 10: Phantom 7 1959, "good" charac biserie: Look at the cute Chinese kids! (Answer: Um, but a little further away, I see two shady types ...)
July 21 10: fantomen7/59 biserie: ... and goes to attack the poor Hindu policemen.
July 21 10: Phantom 7 1959, piracy in biserie: Talks ungrammatical though it logically should be native Chinese.
July 21 10: Phantom 7 1959, "good" charac biserie: Agreed --- We wait until we're out of sight of the other yellow monkeys!
August 27 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL1tA9NP7f8&feature=related
(That's Wolf song from Ronja, though I missed that mention it in the tweet.)
August 27 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9KZW3rMMzM&feature=related Luffarvisan
August 27 10: http://www.youtube. com / watch? v = ZWzbIEcrKk4 & feature = related Lille Katt
August 27 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap10T00_sOE&feature=related Hujedamej like children, he was
August 27 10 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYIYA56mBxk&feature=related You dear little snickarbo
August 27 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFcM1DiWbro & ; feature = related Ida's summer song
August 27 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RTPTEYWH4I&feature=related Oppochnervisan
August 27 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0GDqF9KxWA&feature=related A little song about HOW life is short ("Love came and came")
28 Aug 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mAOMf_K9cg&p=9E3AC1064C30555E&playnext=1&index=21 Pig Song
Take the following even if I tagged them " ; music ":
August 28 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vTMovUQHhY&feature=related Bom-Sick-Boom # Astrid # music # Georg Riedel # # music youtube
August 28 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJCVKOKLNYU&feature=related Pilutta-song # Astrid # music # Georg Riedel # music # youtube # Mardie
August 28 10: http://www .youtube.com / watch? v = 8o7M4WbIM3I & feature = related The best Astrid Lindgren Karlsson # # # music Georg Riedel # # music youtube
August 28 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v = 1Rpq3xbQp78 & feature = related Just a little dog # Astrid # music # music # youtube # KarlssonPåTaket
August 28 10: Come http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFUp0mFCVo8&feature=related than depended pirates / Here will Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren # # # music youtube
August 28 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zynoW43WnVk&feature=related When Mom was a kid # Astrid # music # youtube # EmilILö ; nneberga # Swedish28 Aug 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtHGoD5rb38&feature=related Why and why # Astrid # music # youtube # # EmilILönneberga Swedish
August 28 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c57RfNtlOzg I am poor farmhand # Astrid # music # youtube # EmilILönneberga # Swedish # Georg Riedel
August 28 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66fKlkkDqkQ&feature=related One to which I EmilILönneberga # # youtube # Astrid # music # Georg Riedel?
August 28 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5sCPe0SS08&feature=related Donald Theodore # Astrid # music # Pippi Longstocking Swedish # # youtube
At last, something else ä ; n Astrid Lindgren låtspam ...
September 4 10: Hey, an "unknown" Ajvide Linqvist-text. Gorgeous! Not so bad. Man # Port # John Ajvide
September 4 10: Okay, but what the hell forgot the link http://www.johnajvide.se/Extramaterial.aspx # man port # John Ajvide
September 22 10: time to move on fikamö ; tea. Before that I ever worked, sat and done proofreading (if Pippi, which I also wrote about)
September 22 10: Do ngn what can be done by the end of the following sentence so that to sound good ...
September 22 10: cont. Pippi is liberating, wondrous and delightful on a time and all these characteristics ...
September 22 10: ... makes her a caring figure sword / one character to care. (In Dutch: the tea Koester)
September 22 10: I feel that "a character to care" is the right direction, but not completely raw tt ... "To cherish and not forget"?
September 24 10: To go home
September 24 10: home
September 28 10: Listen to Radio Science Language for the first time in years. Missing the http://sverigesradio.se/sida/default.aspx?programid=411
September 29 10: pull my stand to the stack to Adam Lambert to remain on the RIX leaderboard. :)
September 30 10: yes, sooner l later sku good toughness come tebax. lecture about one hour e ok, but what I want to do before then, I would not do: (
September 30 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v = Ar6Cb87znlk Laleh - He chews crackers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XOXCLwVvjQ Major and minor - Nils Ferlin read to Röyksopp
September 30 10: @ Jonas_Gardell: "SD is part of the power." How true. It's that simple. How tragic. : (Http://www.jonasgardell.se/doc/diary.jsp # section = k7
(Would ec. Discarded here as "directed" to Jonathan, but obviously I've rather intended to direct me to [the Swedish-speaking] world. ")
October 1 10: Are SD fascists? - Rollspel.nu rollspel.nu / forums / ubbthrea ... via @ rollspelnu
October 2 10: http://pratbubblor.blogspot.com/ nice language blog, thank Science radio language in fb for the tip
October 2 10: http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/ nyheter/sanslos-kamp_5386521.svd If it were possible, this tweet be in comic sans.
October 3 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKW45akikvE&NR=1 Martin Ljung "55an Olga" RIP
(Well, RIP is an abbreviation understand ;'s but ...)
October 3 10: The word obedience training always makes me think on BDSM. Can be strange dog folks facebook updates, among other things. Obedience oxå good
October 3 10: Or "Obedience Championships 2010", which google suggests. Though where I think almost more some strange animal show variation for young children.
October 4 10: Poor, poor Christina Raise Larsen (v): (http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/valet2010/article7895617.ab ... did not settle, but still.
October 4 10: It works! Wonderful pictures! # fulsött RT @ peterdalle Snacka on nischad blogg. Can integrum sluta skratta. : D "Hungover Owls" http://bit.ly/dhqjqS
5 October 10: Statsvetarna: Kung tar upp SD in his speech expressen.se/nyheter/1.2161 ... via @ Expressen
5 October 10: ; ok now fattar vad jag it is to do with more and talk about SD uttåg. Heder åt Eva brown!
(För Kontext:
5 October 10: Wut? RT @ torehammar It wasn't the anal sex att caused the orgasms. IT var det att orgasms caused the anal sex. Amerikansksexundersökning
# 5 October 10 : RT @ @ torehammar MartinHOlsson new sexundersökning VISAR that anal sex give 96% in g orgasm. but it should be construed as attbuttsextjer have better partners.
)
October 5 10: rt: s Tore's response to others who wondered with me (especially those who heard about it all through my first initial RT)
October 6 10: ; @ sr_ekot tweet to "Bill Power to review the immigration of family members". Well, maybe a good idea to remove any limitations? # Do not want to know
(Here I address again apparently to "world" also if a user happened to end up first.)
October 10 10: Watch this video - Karl Gerhard - in the notorious district of the terrible Marseille (1937) youtube. com / watch? v = qZxCoT ... via @ youtube
October 10 10: Watch this video - Even the Losers youtube.com / watch? v = GenHpu ... via @ youtube
Balloons: Språkmä ; ssa in London October 15 to 17 pratbubblor.blogspot.com/2010/10/sprakm ...
October 10 10: http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid
(Let's keep the mystery surrounding the link, "surrounding" tweets give no clues as to what it is about the program.)
October 11 10: Amai Amai. voj voj. huga. woe is me.
(A little language mix there, but "huga" would be somewhat of Swedish.)
October 11 10: tweets about the class reunion from @ Jonas_Gardell Oh how my thoughts go ; rt A comedian uppväxt.Grejen here is that two girls blitt housewives
October 11 10:? qrtin hqtqr belgiskq tqngentbord1
October 12, 1910: Tank svåra frågor out now! Skjutjärnsjournalistik: on! RT @ sr_ekot Chatta with Anders Borg on budgeten http://bit.ly/9kWlAi
October 12, 1910: http://www.folkbladet.se/opinion/ledare/artikel.aspx?articleid=5384431 Inlägget of Metta Fjelkner about lärares o students facebookvänskap intr.
October 12, 1910: metaråd alltså RT @ sr_ekot National Board ger advice hälsoråd http://bit.ly/dbjyzT
October 13, 1910: Reinfeld "The dormant people ", summary and link to full text http://tinyurl.com/at7eh5 # policy
October 13 10: Direct link to the book on Slideshare: Fredrik Reinfeldt The Sleeping People http://slidesha.re/ 8hgVBK
October 13 10: Fine travel journalism and philosophy from my friend Anna Mattisson on http://vindla.wordpress.com/
October 13 10: What was the song that just played in P1 Kulturradion? I heard just the end, sounded very good.
October 13 10: Now (completed) chat about the budget with Anders Borg read on http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=83&artikel=4093237
October 13 10: We like 'We like different. " Indeed.
October 13 10: "We like the variety" bullies were just in P1 for various reasons ... indulgences ... well, but there is value in showing that not everything is racism o idiocy.
October 13 10: And grammar, hello, language, joy and creativity. "We like different" is an object, the adverb is used noun-proprietary.
October 13 10: "Different" - An unpretentious little "diversity". Is it so damn funny?
October 14 10: So, "he told her to remove her skirt" _är_ actually not strictly unambiguous. # # Gender correct language book reflexivpronomen # # clothes # language
October 14 10: ok then, they recognize, "but our knowledge of the commonly used tie each skirt gives us a fairly obvious interpretation is normal. "
October 15 10: Morgonpasset (at Finnish-Swedish): "Lemurs are extremely biased animals." Heh.
October 16 10: "The minutes" of P1 right now, always worth listening to http://sverigesradio.se/sida/default.aspx?programid=1307
October 16 10: "insurgents"? Is there a word you expected from @ sr_ekot, Swedish-speaking peoples twitter?
October 17 10: Now in P1: Radio Theatre "Radiosex" - not available later via sr.se! "My stuff" av Bengt Ohlsson.
17 okt 10: Tar tillbaka vad jag sa om att det inte fanns så många svenska tweets.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
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So far, so I feel pretty good. On the other hand I have not been there very much.
first week
Monday: Be there all day and worked on. A little nervous because it was the first day.
Tuesday-Friday: Home sick. Hooray gg!
Other weeks
Monday-Wednesday: Be there and worked on. It went well, the kids seem to like me.
Thursday: Migraine. Superb.
Friday: Went to school with a headache. Well, it went well anyway.
Yay, after two weeks, I have not been there more than one, ill remaining days. And today I got sick myself again because of cold. Everything has to really happen at the same time>. \u0026lt;.
So far, so I feel pretty good. On the other hand I have not been there very much.
first week
Monday: Be there all day and worked on. A little nervous because it was the first day.
Tuesday-Friday: Home sick. Hooray gg!
Other weeks
Monday-Wednesday: Be there and worked on. It went well, the kids seem to like me.
Thursday: Migraine. Superb.
Friday: Went to school with a headache. Well, it went well anyway.
Yay, after two weeks, I have not been there more than one, ill remaining days. And today I got sick myself again because of cold. Everything has to really happen at the same time>. \u0026lt;.
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So rhubarb Means no, We Know That much. A Politics / Philosophy mail.
From http://twitlonger.com (edited/proofread 2010-10-13)
http://www.newsmill.se/inlagg/2010/07/27/bara-hora-lite @VickiQvarnstrom #blogs in #Swedish on #prostitution, also getting into #bdsm. Some bits I strongly agree with (like most prostitution is ugly stuff, with the prostitutes being on the losing end and certainly not people we should be judging), some I might want to put up reservations for, but the interesting parts are those that really get me thinking. With prostitution I think there is a situation that I guess (with great emphasis on guess) comes up almost but not quite never in our culture, and which could be and perhaps has been more common if the stigma was lesser or non-existant, where someone (man or woman) would really not be damaged in any way by being a prostitute, but rather actually thrive on it (not only in a monetary sense). But yeah, I really believe that is a very marginal kind of case in our society. So: To what extent should legalization take this kind of marginal case into account? Same kind of reasoning could go on legislation on recreational #drugs, though I believe the relative amount of people who come out more or less "on top", or at least relatively undamaged, is hugely greater there; it may even be a majority, if you include everyone who's tried marijuana once or twice, but I would not go so far as actually saying that it is. Including drugs that happen to be legal in Sweden maybe doesn't change so much in the case of alcohol. With tobacco included the I wonder if the numbers don't actually get worse, as cigarettes... from what I've heard of them, not a user myself..., today the definitely most common form of tobacco, damage you so badly for so little actual payoff. Caffeine? Common painkillers? Sugar...? I really don't know. The debate gets into another field there, and though the connections are there and perhaps it is one place where this debate should be (whether for seriously discussing some kind of [further] restrictions on these things or for getting another perspective on currently illegal drugs) I feel it gets a bit different and in some sense harder... but maybe that's just because I am a caffeinist with a serious sweet tooth.
A rather strong believer in consequence ethics and some manner of hedonistic utilitarianism, I think that the answer should lie in pragmaticism, in deciding that whatever we do it really shouldn't be based on anything as idiotic as pure principle alone... if nothing else, we must use that principle because we believe we have it for a reason. And, yeah, if you can parse the phrase "hedonistic utilitarianism", you understand that to be acceptable - or, well, understandable (I certainly accept that anyone can and should bring anything they feel is relevant to a democratic deliberation, though I won't necessarily agree that it's relevant) - to me, that reason needs to somehow connect to reducing harm (or "pain" if you will, or "negative emotions") or, well, "maximizing pleasure", though I might prefer in this context to say something like "allowing people to seek pleasure". (Oh, and in the case of prostitution, I really don't think the buyers' pleasure should come into the discussion much - or it should come in very late, when most conclusions are drawn anyway. Stating this categorically may make me a bad utilitarianist, but... screw that. Though, in fact, I'm pretty sure there are good utilitarian arguments to be made for this position. I'm just not sure it's very useful to get technical about this matter... though it may certainly serve as a sort of interesting real world case of the sadist-baby-boiling oil example.)
To be clear, the not-on-principle-alone thing really goes both ways. This is very much not ok (this is hypothetical reasoning to illustrate a point, not my evaluation of any legislation on prostitution or a serious attempt to reconstruct the reasoning behind it): "Ok, it seems pretty clear now that these laws hurt the conditions of sex workers in more cases than not - while they're still not getting fewer. Also, new research strongly indicates that there actually is a sizable group of prostitutes who like their work, and clients who are very serious about only seeking out exactly those and treating them with great respect - and this research also shows we're giving them great trouble. And the existence of the law doesn't seem to be changing anyone's ideas about prostitution either way. But we just really don't _like_ prostitution, so let's keep the laws anyway...". This is equally not ok: "Well, seen from outside the results of relieving the sale and use of all drugs of any kind of restrictions might look bad. Use of heavy drugs has exploded, and many of the users might not look very happy to you, though of course, you do not actually see the inside of their minds... And it's true the 'less crime with legal drugs' thing didn't turn out to fully match up with reality, so you don't really want to go out these days without private security, but, well, people choose whether to get that security... That's the thing, people choose, including the users. Yes, there were those 'joy of crack' ads with celebrities and some less serious medical doctors they found, but that's the thing - people choose what to believe what to follow from the great marketplace of ideas..."
I should also say I think you can let prostitution and drugs switch places in my example above. Though there are certainly differences, connected among other things to who in a transaction we would see as a victim (that's a problematic word, but let's use it for now - if you wish with some emphasis on "see as"), that doesn't really change my belief that you can come to some very bad decisions if you're maximally liberal on principle with prostitution or maximally paternal and restrictive with drugs on principle. So please, let's not do that either.
But, while I believe that we can get rid of some bullshit by stating that what we want is to reduce harm while allowing people to seek pleasure and generally end up with the universe being just that little bit happier a place than if we'd have acted otherwise... that's really all we've done. (And to be honest, we've probably introduced some new ways for bullshit to be introduced, possibly in a more insidious form.) We'll still have the same debates between the same sides, though for what it's worth we'll have set up some ground rules for how they can phrase their arguments. (And here, of course, is another sweet little problem. Some people may have trouble to accommodate to those rules even though they have valid arguments. How to accommodate for them? I don't know, except at the very least they must still be allowed to take part in the discussion.) That, and perhaps also to have introduced the idea that at least in some sense there are facts to take into account, facts that it is imperative that we make a very serious attempt to look at as extensively as possible (while not waiting until we've found all facts to take any kind of action) and with as open a mind as possible. But the thing is, we won't realistically ever have all the facts, or be able to look at them without prejudice. And there will be some facts that are so abstract and hard to get a hold of, that some people might prefer to call them values... So where do we draw our lines? I don't necessarily know.
I guess somewhere here I'd put democracy into the equation. I kind of like democracy. Or... well. Say what you will about http://en.wikipedia.org/Winston_Churchill , but if he actually did say something on the lines of "it's a really bad system, but all alternatives are worse", I'd say he was onto something. And as you may guess when I quote Churchill, for me this really isn't _only_ about some utopian "true" democracy; I really do have a fondness for representative, "bourgeois" democracy in the form that it actually exists and works (especially with proportional representation, first-past-the-post and all that I do find kind of fishy, but that's another story...) And I think that's what we in the end have to use to decide about those lines. What that will give us is the risk of the tyranny of the 51% (who may then not be evil, but just ill-informed), but also a bit of protection from the tyranny of the 49%, or the 5% for that matter... And we can hope that our society is heterogenous enough, and the power spread-out enough, to have (enough) people get somewhat more inclined to be considerate of minorities because they would tend to belong to at least one themselves (and thus both become both more understanding and more wary of having that 51% tyranny turned against themselves).
That, and another sense of democracy... The idea of deliberation, of many voices being heard and allowed to influence the final outcome. And this is valuable because people has to get to speak for their own interests, but also because noone has the whole story, but if everyone gets to speak we will have so much more of it.
In some sense it is a cop-out in a discussion of "issues" to say that the decision of the people must be what gets to decide (though one that has to be allowed in a democratic society, for example if you don't really feel you have any meaningful input to give), at least if you then refuse to comment on what you as a member of the community would try to bring into the decision-making process, or what you as an outsider would (humbly or less so) advice. So: I very much do not have all the answers, and do not _know_ exactly where we should draw those lines. I also don't think anyone does (though many surely know more than me), and however cliché it may sound I would say you should distrust anyone who claims to (though you should also listen to them as they may well have valuable insights). I really think that what I really want to bring to this debate are the things I've said here. Let's try to at least cut out any "pure principle" bullshit, as these things are too important. Let's accept that there are different valid arguments, or if you don't really feel that to be the case, at least try to still hear other people out. Let's try to hear a lot of people out, including those science people (of the "soft" and "hard" sciences alike)... and see where we can agree to end up, hopefully after having agreed that the end goal is making the Universe a little less Hell and a little more Paradise (though if for some reason we have trouble agreeing on that, for example because of getting hung-up on some philosophic technicality, we should probably cut past that and discuss more practical issues). Let's accept that it will be about finding a balance, and that striking that balance right will be hard and that we will surely not get it perfect anytime soon, but that there are things to try to build a rational decision on and that we really have to try, to keep seeking the answers and adjust our policy as we find them. And through all this, perhaps most importantly, let's treat everyone with respect. (Which I would say you can do even while having an opinion on what they should do, and even while trying to force them to act or not act in a certain way - which certainly does not mean it is always right or even at all acceptable to do that.)
Do you still want to know what I would do with Swedish laws on drugs and prostitution if I could dictate them autocratically right now, but was not allowed to talk to a single person, not read a single Wikipedia stub or weird angelfire advocacy page as research, or for that matter read the laws as they are now - which I don't really know that deeply? Well, it would be rather strange if I could do that, wouldn't it? So I guess for that reason alone I would leave it as it is, not really understanding how my changes could have legitimacy and not trusting myself to actually know how to make things better. Also, for disclosure I guess, I don't necessarily feel the current laws are that bad (I think I'll get back to this in a moment). There are some things I might do outside of actual legislation. I would try to make sure a lot of people, with different backgrounds and viewpoints, are working out what those actual facts I was talking about are. And though I believe it would be very much as it should be that some of these people have some clear ideas of what the facts will look like and what they should tell us, I would want to make sure here that there is some people involved who are interested in looking at these things as open questions to investigate, prepared to be surprised (or even certain not to be surprised because of total lack of pre-conceptions) - and structures for them to be doing this. This, and I would cut a check to medical treatment of various kinds for addicts (heroin detox in Gothenburg I think is pretty high on the list).
But the laws... Yeah, I actually quite like the idea of the Sex Purchase Act. It rather clearly says that we will not pretend that prostitution as it exists in Sweden today is nice and unproblematic; rather, it is quite ugly and damaging to the prostitutes, and a person who buys sex is contributing a bit of that damage and is thereby committing a crime; still, rather than criminalizing the victims we accept the paradox that for this criminal act it is not actually a crime under certain circumstances to encourage someone to commit it or even to help them commit it and gain financially from it. That sums it up, I guess, and I think it's rather clever and rhymes well with how I look at, well, the ethics of "real" prostitution. Of course, whether I find it "clever" or not is not what we're interested in; it should be subject to the same pragmaticism I've been discussing all this time. I do know that there are rather a lot of people who argue that the facts then lead to it being pretty clear that we should scrap the law. I don't recall all the arguments, but I have read some of this from time to time and don't think they have ever managed to fully convince me - so I wouldn't use my autocratic power to immediately remove the law. With drugs, well, my general understanding is that they tend to end up as primarily BadStuff, both on the societal and the individual level. This certainly includes alcohol and tobacco, which is why society in various ways tries to control and limit their use (well, there may be less noble reasons as well, I guess...) - only they are so ingrained into European society that a ban is not the most effective or humane way to accomplish that, and also is not likely to be something we agree to make a law in the near future anyway given the amount of smokers and drinkers around. (Oh, more disclosure... I've mentioned I don't smoke. I do drink, more or less in moderation.) It is quite possible that new drugs could enter this position, just as I actually have some hope of seeing the day when we say goodbye to cigarettes. Then, there is the very real value of allowing adults to live in a society where their choices are respected... that certainly must weigh in. But the choices will in some cases be very far from being informed; they will not always be made by adults; they will strongly and negatively affect people who were not involved in making them... Also, I might be prepared to upgrade to VeryBadStuff, especially if it comes to introduction on a large scale of a new drug to a society that has no tradition in place on how to actually handle the use of that drug. In the end, pragmaticism seems to tell me that banning is the least bad solution... But all this is just my two cents. My bigger message, my quarter if you will, is that we all need to talk, and investigate with an open mind to try and find the best answer, and with everyone giving their two cents and quarters... perhaps in the end we'll have a whole dollar! :) (And suddenly we're in the US, but I'm pretty sure people outside Sweden can take something out of what I'm saying here as well, so it's kind of ok...)
In the blog post, there is a story of a "girl who had a Master", a #bdsm story of sorts. It kind of stands out, it doesn't really come out as part of the general argument... but in fact it is, in the sense that Qvarnström uses it as an example (while, as it seems, herself searching for the right way to think about prostitution) of how sexual abuse does not have to be connected to material rewards (in fact, she ponders if such could lessen the abusive factor). For in any case, this is very much a story about abuse. We don't know that this was the whole story, but I don't really see too much reason to doubt Qvarnström on it having been at least a big part of it. And in any case, that's not really the point here, because there would be other cases where it were... if only because that is the case in all to many relationships in general. So... though Qvarnström acknowledges that "in BDSM (WP-link here) circles there are also clear rules, like taking care of one's submissive. Especially mentally, where the big challenge takes place. Noone becomes dominant without the consent of a submissive, that is the rule. Thus the fundamental power is with the submissive, who gains some kind of personal kick and satisfaction from the game, which is altogether serious", it is possible to read her here as dismissing and vilifying all BDSM, which I would then not agree with... But then, what do we make of it? And actually, let's split up that "we" a bit. What should the BDSM community (which is not actually "we for me" at the moment, and what details may come up in the little narrative I make here is conjecture or hearsay) do with it?... so, you're very much safe, sane and consensual and you feel pretty sure the friends you know well and have talked about this extensively (even those you haven't actually played with) are... But is every dominant you've come into contact with, in the privacy of their dungeon, certain to have the best interests of the submissive in mind? Is every submissive strong enough to resist if someone tries to push them past their most definite no:s? Well, a very quick and easy google search (abuse in the bdsm community) shows us, hardly surprisingly, that this is not an issue that has been totally missed in all "internal" BDSM discussions. If you want some insight into such internal discussion, or just a much much more useful discussion of the issue than I could hope to achieve, read what Clarisse Thorn writes at http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2010/09/28/the-alt-sex-anti-abuse-dream-team/ . So if you actually read that (or for that matter, when I look through it after already having pasted the link here...), you see a discussion (in the sense of "treatment"... there may be comments but I haven't seen them yet NOTE: There are, and they're worth looking at.) of this issue inside the BDSM community - stating that there are some serious problems with how this is discussed within the BDSM community. So yeah... And then, how should outsiders trying to figure out how to think about BDSM take this? And, getting back to what was the focus in what I wrote earlier about prostitution and drugs, what about courts and lawmakers? Because regardless of what you think of any laws in existence or the courts' handling of cases involving BDSM, we probably agree that there are potential situations where it is quite right that the machinery of the law continues to come into play... So when and how? What kinds of answers should they be giving to what questions? Well, I guess it's the same thing again. Talk, look for answers, show respect... and bloody well remember that rhubarb means no.
From http://twitlonger.com (edited/proofread 2010-10-13)
http://www.newsmill.se/inlagg/2010/07/27/bara-hora-lite @VickiQvarnstrom #blogs in #Swedish on #prostitution, also getting into #bdsm. Some bits I strongly agree with (like most prostitution is ugly stuff, with the prostitutes being on the losing end and certainly not people we should be judging), some I might want to put up reservations for, but the interesting parts are those that really get me thinking. With prostitution I think there is a situation that I guess (with great emphasis on guess) comes up almost but not quite never in our culture, and which could be and perhaps has been more common if the stigma was lesser or non-existant, where someone (man or woman) would really not be damaged in any way by being a prostitute, but rather actually thrive on it (not only in a monetary sense). But yeah, I really believe that is a very marginal kind of case in our society. So: To what extent should legalization take this kind of marginal case into account? Same kind of reasoning could go on legislation on recreational #drugs, though I believe the relative amount of people who come out more or less "on top", or at least relatively undamaged, is hugely greater there; it may even be a majority, if you include everyone who's tried marijuana once or twice, but I would not go so far as actually saying that it is. Including drugs that happen to be legal in Sweden maybe doesn't change so much in the case of alcohol. With tobacco included the I wonder if the numbers don't actually get worse, as cigarettes... from what I've heard of them, not a user myself..., today the definitely most common form of tobacco, damage you so badly for so little actual payoff. Caffeine? Common painkillers? Sugar...? I really don't know. The debate gets into another field there, and though the connections are there and perhaps it is one place where this debate should be (whether for seriously discussing some kind of [further] restrictions on these things or for getting another perspective on currently illegal drugs) I feel it gets a bit different and in some sense harder... but maybe that's just because I am a caffeinist with a serious sweet tooth.
A rather strong believer in consequence ethics and some manner of hedonistic utilitarianism, I think that the answer should lie in pragmaticism, in deciding that whatever we do it really shouldn't be based on anything as idiotic as pure principle alone... if nothing else, we must use that principle because we believe we have it for a reason. And, yeah, if you can parse the phrase "hedonistic utilitarianism", you understand that to be acceptable - or, well, understandable (I certainly accept that anyone can and should bring anything they feel is relevant to a democratic deliberation, though I won't necessarily agree that it's relevant) - to me, that reason needs to somehow connect to reducing harm (or "pain" if you will, or "negative emotions") or, well, "maximizing pleasure", though I might prefer in this context to say something like "allowing people to seek pleasure". (Oh, and in the case of prostitution, I really don't think the buyers' pleasure should come into the discussion much - or it should come in very late, when most conclusions are drawn anyway. Stating this categorically may make me a bad utilitarianist, but... screw that. Though, in fact, I'm pretty sure there are good utilitarian arguments to be made for this position. I'm just not sure it's very useful to get technical about this matter... though it may certainly serve as a sort of interesting real world case of the sadist-baby-boiling oil example.)
To be clear, the not-on-principle-alone thing really goes both ways. This is very much not ok (this is hypothetical reasoning to illustrate a point, not my evaluation of any legislation on prostitution or a serious attempt to reconstruct the reasoning behind it): "Ok, it seems pretty clear now that these laws hurt the conditions of sex workers in more cases than not - while they're still not getting fewer. Also, new research strongly indicates that there actually is a sizable group of prostitutes who like their work, and clients who are very serious about only seeking out exactly those and treating them with great respect - and this research also shows we're giving them great trouble. And the existence of the law doesn't seem to be changing anyone's ideas about prostitution either way. But we just really don't _like_ prostitution, so let's keep the laws anyway...". This is equally not ok: "Well, seen from outside the results of relieving the sale and use of all drugs of any kind of restrictions might look bad. Use of heavy drugs has exploded, and many of the users might not look very happy to you, though of course, you do not actually see the inside of their minds... And it's true the 'less crime with legal drugs' thing didn't turn out to fully match up with reality, so you don't really want to go out these days without private security, but, well, people choose whether to get that security... That's the thing, people choose, including the users. Yes, there were those 'joy of crack' ads with celebrities and some less serious medical doctors they found, but that's the thing - people choose what to believe what to follow from the great marketplace of ideas..."
I should also say I think you can let prostitution and drugs switch places in my example above. Though there are certainly differences, connected among other things to who in a transaction we would see as a victim (that's a problematic word, but let's use it for now - if you wish with some emphasis on "see as"), that doesn't really change my belief that you can come to some very bad decisions if you're maximally liberal on principle with prostitution or maximally paternal and restrictive with drugs on principle. So please, let's not do that either.
But, while I believe that we can get rid of some bullshit by stating that what we want is to reduce harm while allowing people to seek pleasure and generally end up with the universe being just that little bit happier a place than if we'd have acted otherwise... that's really all we've done. (And to be honest, we've probably introduced some new ways for bullshit to be introduced, possibly in a more insidious form.) We'll still have the same debates between the same sides, though for what it's worth we'll have set up some ground rules for how they can phrase their arguments. (And here, of course, is another sweet little problem. Some people may have trouble to accommodate to those rules even though they have valid arguments. How to accommodate for them? I don't know, except at the very least they must still be allowed to take part in the discussion.) That, and perhaps also to have introduced the idea that at least in some sense there are facts to take into account, facts that it is imperative that we make a very serious attempt to look at as extensively as possible (while not waiting until we've found all facts to take any kind of action) and with as open a mind as possible. But the thing is, we won't realistically ever have all the facts, or be able to look at them without prejudice. And there will be some facts that are so abstract and hard to get a hold of, that some people might prefer to call them values... So where do we draw our lines? I don't necessarily know.
I guess somewhere here I'd put democracy into the equation. I kind of like democracy. Or... well. Say what you will about http://en.wikipedia.org/Winston_Churchill , but if he actually did say something on the lines of "it's a really bad system, but all alternatives are worse", I'd say he was onto something. And as you may guess when I quote Churchill, for me this really isn't _only_ about some utopian "true" democracy; I really do have a fondness for representative, "bourgeois" democracy in the form that it actually exists and works (especially with proportional representation, first-past-the-post and all that I do find kind of fishy, but that's another story...) And I think that's what we in the end have to use to decide about those lines. What that will give us is the risk of the tyranny of the 51% (who may then not be evil, but just ill-informed), but also a bit of protection from the tyranny of the 49%, or the 5% for that matter... And we can hope that our society is heterogenous enough, and the power spread-out enough, to have (enough) people get somewhat more inclined to be considerate of minorities because they would tend to belong to at least one themselves (and thus both become both more understanding and more wary of having that 51% tyranny turned against themselves).
That, and another sense of democracy... The idea of deliberation, of many voices being heard and allowed to influence the final outcome. And this is valuable because people has to get to speak for their own interests, but also because noone has the whole story, but if everyone gets to speak we will have so much more of it.
In some sense it is a cop-out in a discussion of "issues" to say that the decision of the people must be what gets to decide (though one that has to be allowed in a democratic society, for example if you don't really feel you have any meaningful input to give), at least if you then refuse to comment on what you as a member of the community would try to bring into the decision-making process, or what you as an outsider would (humbly or less so) advice. So: I very much do not have all the answers, and do not _know_ exactly where we should draw those lines. I also don't think anyone does (though many surely know more than me), and however cliché it may sound I would say you should distrust anyone who claims to (though you should also listen to them as they may well have valuable insights). I really think that what I really want to bring to this debate are the things I've said here. Let's try to at least cut out any "pure principle" bullshit, as these things are too important. Let's accept that there are different valid arguments, or if you don't really feel that to be the case, at least try to still hear other people out. Let's try to hear a lot of people out, including those science people (of the "soft" and "hard" sciences alike)... and see where we can agree to end up, hopefully after having agreed that the end goal is making the Universe a little less Hell and a little more Paradise (though if for some reason we have trouble agreeing on that, for example because of getting hung-up on some philosophic technicality, we should probably cut past that and discuss more practical issues). Let's accept that it will be about finding a balance, and that striking that balance right will be hard and that we will surely not get it perfect anytime soon, but that there are things to try to build a rational decision on and that we really have to try, to keep seeking the answers and adjust our policy as we find them. And through all this, perhaps most importantly, let's treat everyone with respect. (Which I would say you can do even while having an opinion on what they should do, and even while trying to force them to act or not act in a certain way - which certainly does not mean it is always right or even at all acceptable to do that.)
Do you still want to know what I would do with Swedish laws on drugs and prostitution if I could dictate them autocratically right now, but was not allowed to talk to a single person, not read a single Wikipedia stub or weird angelfire advocacy page as research, or for that matter read the laws as they are now - which I don't really know that deeply? Well, it would be rather strange if I could do that, wouldn't it? So I guess for that reason alone I would leave it as it is, not really understanding how my changes could have legitimacy and not trusting myself to actually know how to make things better. Also, for disclosure I guess, I don't necessarily feel the current laws are that bad (I think I'll get back to this in a moment). There are some things I might do outside of actual legislation. I would try to make sure a lot of people, with different backgrounds and viewpoints, are working out what those actual facts I was talking about are. And though I believe it would be very much as it should be that some of these people have some clear ideas of what the facts will look like and what they should tell us, I would want to make sure here that there is some people involved who are interested in looking at these things as open questions to investigate, prepared to be surprised (or even certain not to be surprised because of total lack of pre-conceptions) - and structures for them to be doing this. This, and I would cut a check to medical treatment of various kinds for addicts (heroin detox in Gothenburg I think is pretty high on the list).
But the laws... Yeah, I actually quite like the idea of the Sex Purchase Act. It rather clearly says that we will not pretend that prostitution as it exists in Sweden today is nice and unproblematic; rather, it is quite ugly and damaging to the prostitutes, and a person who buys sex is contributing a bit of that damage and is thereby committing a crime; still, rather than criminalizing the victims we accept the paradox that for this criminal act it is not actually a crime under certain circumstances to encourage someone to commit it or even to help them commit it and gain financially from it. That sums it up, I guess, and I think it's rather clever and rhymes well with how I look at, well, the ethics of "real" prostitution. Of course, whether I find it "clever" or not is not what we're interested in; it should be subject to the same pragmaticism I've been discussing all this time. I do know that there are rather a lot of people who argue that the facts then lead to it being pretty clear that we should scrap the law. I don't recall all the arguments, but I have read some of this from time to time and don't think they have ever managed to fully convince me - so I wouldn't use my autocratic power to immediately remove the law. With drugs, well, my general understanding is that they tend to end up as primarily BadStuff, both on the societal and the individual level. This certainly includes alcohol and tobacco, which is why society in various ways tries to control and limit their use (well, there may be less noble reasons as well, I guess...) - only they are so ingrained into European society that a ban is not the most effective or humane way to accomplish that, and also is not likely to be something we agree to make a law in the near future anyway given the amount of smokers and drinkers around. (Oh, more disclosure... I've mentioned I don't smoke. I do drink, more or less in moderation.) It is quite possible that new drugs could enter this position, just as I actually have some hope of seeing the day when we say goodbye to cigarettes. Then, there is the very real value of allowing adults to live in a society where their choices are respected... that certainly must weigh in. But the choices will in some cases be very far from being informed; they will not always be made by adults; they will strongly and negatively affect people who were not involved in making them... Also, I might be prepared to upgrade to VeryBadStuff, especially if it comes to introduction on a large scale of a new drug to a society that has no tradition in place on how to actually handle the use of that drug. In the end, pragmaticism seems to tell me that banning is the least bad solution... But all this is just my two cents. My bigger message, my quarter if you will, is that we all need to talk, and investigate with an open mind to try and find the best answer, and with everyone giving their two cents and quarters... perhaps in the end we'll have a whole dollar! :) (And suddenly we're in the US, but I'm pretty sure people outside Sweden can take something out of what I'm saying here as well, so it's kind of ok...)
In the blog post, there is a story of a "girl who had a Master", a #bdsm story of sorts. It kind of stands out, it doesn't really come out as part of the general argument... but in fact it is, in the sense that Qvarnström uses it as an example (while, as it seems, herself searching for the right way to think about prostitution) of how sexual abuse does not have to be connected to material rewards (in fact, she ponders if such could lessen the abusive factor). For in any case, this is very much a story about abuse. We don't know that this was the whole story, but I don't really see too much reason to doubt Qvarnström on it having been at least a big part of it. And in any case, that's not really the point here, because there would be other cases where it were... if only because that is the case in all to many relationships in general. So... though Qvarnström acknowledges that "in BDSM (WP-link here) circles there are also clear rules, like taking care of one's submissive. Especially mentally, where the big challenge takes place. Noone becomes dominant without the consent of a submissive, that is the rule. Thus the fundamental power is with the submissive, who gains some kind of personal kick and satisfaction from the game, which is altogether serious", it is possible to read her here as dismissing and vilifying all BDSM, which I would then not agree with... But then, what do we make of it? And actually, let's split up that "we" a bit. What should the BDSM community (which is not actually "we for me" at the moment, and what details may come up in the little narrative I make here is conjecture or hearsay) do with it?... so, you're very much safe, sane and consensual and you feel pretty sure the friends you know well and have talked about this extensively (even those you haven't actually played with) are... But is every dominant you've come into contact with, in the privacy of their dungeon, certain to have the best interests of the submissive in mind? Is every submissive strong enough to resist if someone tries to push them past their most definite no:s? Well, a very quick and easy google search (abuse in the bdsm community) shows us, hardly surprisingly, that this is not an issue that has been totally missed in all "internal" BDSM discussions. If you want some insight into such internal discussion, or just a much much more useful discussion of the issue than I could hope to achieve, read what Clarisse Thorn writes at http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2010/09/28/the-alt-sex-anti-abuse-dream-team/ . So if you actually read that (or for that matter, when I look through it after already having pasted the link here...), you see a discussion (in the sense of "treatment"... there may be comments but I haven't seen them yet NOTE: There are, and they're worth looking at.) of this issue inside the BDSM community - stating that there are some serious problems with how this is discussed within the BDSM community. So yeah... And then, how should outsiders trying to figure out how to think about BDSM take this? And, getting back to what was the focus in what I wrote earlier about prostitution and drugs, what about courts and lawmakers? Because regardless of what you think of any laws in existence or the courts' handling of cases involving BDSM, we probably agree that there are potential situations where it is quite right that the machinery of the law continues to come into play... So when and how? What kinds of answers should they be giving to what questions? Well, I guess it's the same thing again. Talk, look for answers, show respect... and bloody well remember that rhubarb means no.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Tawnee Stone What Happen
You are a stranger here And we won't be idle as you interfere
On November 3, placing the fourth studio album by Machinae Supremacy. I have pre-booked, have you? ;)
On November 3, placing the fourth studio album by Machinae Supremacy. I have pre-booked, have you? ;)
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