Certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean spirited things do occur in our interactions with other people that would allow us to take offense. However, it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.
I'm not sure about that to be honest. Although if it is true, it means that other people have less power over us, and that would be a nice thing. But can you really have so much control that you don't get offended when someone gets really personal? Is getting offended a matter of choice? I don't know.
For the benefit of the infidels who don't read [Viking]'s diary:
http://www.lol
We can has salvation, plz?
Couple of fairly cool sound things on YouTube, have a look if you're feeling like watching something. :)
http://www.you
http://www.you
Why do people feel better after talking? Like why is telling someone something "a load of your mind"? What is it really about?
And then here's something for you to click:
http://www.mar
:O A real live photograph on an elf on this site!!!
http://www.sub
Some recommended reading (yes, I get all my ideas from [Viking], and then I get them stolen by [ally]. Life is.)
http://www.net
There's also this
http://wizbang
:P
Right, thank you all very much for commenting on that Maccy problem I has. :3 I'd like to clarify that it isn't my machine (as usual), it's a uni one so I'll have to be careful about installing stuff on it (they don't like it when students do stuff like that very much, I understand).
How can you run .exe files on Macs? It says that it doesn't know which application to use to open that type of files, and suggests that I decide for myself -_- Can it be done?
I has iMac.
Is not so gret actsully. :/
68 unread in Suggestions?!?! :O :O How friggin' long was I gone?!?! :O
I apologise for this outburt. Please carry on. ^^
Elftown looks better in Firefox.
Eff off! >.<; </offended>
Developing from a Finn to a Coventry girl - A warning example
The Case Study.
The test subject was subjected to a situation where she either could not hear correctly or didn't quite catch something being said to her in a conversation.
In her first year in England, the reaction she had to the situation was to translate the response she would have in Finnish:
-What?
In her second year, Englishness had rubbed off on her from lovely native people, such as [deus-ex-machina], and she would reply with:
-Pardon?
In her third year, when she was cruelly removed from the beneficial influence of the above-mentione
-Ehh??
It sufficest to say that the individual is, indeed, sent to Coventry.
On another note, I accidentally had to pretend not to know Finnish on the airport when coming back his weekend:
I was on Stansted airport waiting for my check-in to open, and I noticed an older couple that were waiting also, and I was assured that they were Finnish too. They looked a bit like they didn't know English (it isn't uncommon for older people in Finland to not know English) When the check-in was opened, we all went to the queue. The couple was talking to themselves, and the man said "I wonder if we'll start hearing Finnish soon". I smiled and the man looked at me and said "over there?" or something like that, I kind of missed it. So I leaned towards them and asked "what", except I didn't, I said "eh?" So they thought I didn't know Finnish. And then I had to pretend to not be Finnish because it would have been too embarrassing to fix the misunderstadin
http://www.fin
Have a look at the "moving images" link, too.
I interrupt your normal lives with this important announcement.
Reason number 45 in the list of "why do I love the library":
The guy who works at the desk <3
Sorry, I'll stop being a girl now :P
Stoled from [Viking], but I must tell you all that whosoever brigheth forth those socks and layeth them as offering to me, shall have everything!
http://www.eat
Halp iippo!
Do it today. Do something impossible...
I can't remember if I told you guys about it, but the Finnish band CMX has released a new album, which is basically a theme album: it's all one big "story" like an opera or a symphony (except it's not a narrative) and it's all sci-fi-ish and gorgeous and it has this 40-page libretto in it and each CD (of the 8000 released) is individually numbered and it's so shiny and pretty and I bought it right before coming to England again and I've been listening to it a lot lately and I'm all in its mood.
So if I change my mood into "my tomb is guarded by a hundred thousand killer satellites" or something like that, don't worry :P
Quoth [Viking]:
The Fonz is cool. But she may actually equate the words Fonz and Cool, whereas the truth is that "cool" is simply a property of "The Fonz", and not his essence.
Buttons are teh confuse. I hope they are not to stay.
Back in England again, getting used to everything again (except the house being cold - I'll never get used to that -_-): English keyboards (my faceys might be freaks for a while), speaking English all the time, using uni computers, making my own dinner (le gasp).
I need to go back to Finland again very soon, as my last grandmother has just died T_T
I've noticed a lot of these diary notes again (y'know, the ones where people say some celebrity I've never heard of has died), so I'll join in:
Oh no! The rally-driver Colin McRae died! :(