Less Than a Duck

[SailorPtah]

but even though a cat screaming its brains out sounds better, they still watch it because of the cute kids who preforms it.

In this country, if a kids' show included any sort of kid singing about a same-sex couple, the episode would be dropped, a campaign would be held to cancel the show, the creators (and the kid) would get hate mail, and there would be at least one death threat.

I love my country, but it has far too many crazy people. The existence of that song demonstrates that your country has less. That's why it's in my favorites.

[Xuanwu]

Ah, so Yumiko came first, with Yumie a later creation. And Yumie existed before Lillian. Interesting. I'm curious who Yumiko's souer was, but I have an idea.

[Reaver225]

Hmm, that's not necessarily the case... just that Yumiko's souer didn't know about any alt-personality... (Or did she? Dun dun dun!)

[ManyWorlds]

Ah, so Yumiko came first, with Yumie a later creation.

*shrug* That's always what I'd sort of assumed anyway - mostly because Yumiko seems to be the default personality. Though I suppose you could argue that that's because everyone around her prefers to deal with Yumiko rather than Yumie...
Also, I suppose, because it's easy to imagine someone like Yumiko suppressing every thought/emotion/whatever that was even remotely objectionable, to the point that it became Yumie. (Easier than imagining Yumie doing the same in reverse, anyway.)

[FelinaofL2]

Hehe... Timothy reminds me of myself when I went to Japan. I hardly slept on the flight, I was that excited, especially upon glimpsing ice-capped mountains while flying over Alaska.

[Tommygunner70]

In this country, if a kids' show included any sort of kid singing about a same-sex couple, the episode would be dropped, a campaign would be held to cancel the show, the creators (and the kid) would get hate mail, and there would be at least one death threat.

I love my country, but it has far too many crazy people. The existence of that song demonstrates that your country has less. That's why it's in my favorites.

I guess i can understand that... i saw some of it with jena jackson and justin timberlake a while back. when one of Jena's breasts got exsposed. as i heard from the news; America was like "OMG a celebrities boobie on TV!"

here in holland how ever we just shrugged at it with the comment: "Is that so wierd or strange to them? we see that kind of stuff on normal TV all the time... OMG one exposed boobie! big deal.."

Well it might be the culture differance but i just cant figure it out at times...


BTW: I just love that Remark of Heinkel, thats the best way to keep someone from bothering you

[Atticus_blackwolf]

In this country, if a kids' show included any sort of kid singing about a same-sex couple, the episode would be dropped, a campaign would be held to cancel the show, the creators (and the kid) would get hate mail, and there would be at least one death threat.

I love my country, but it has far too many crazy people. The existence of that song demonstrates that your country has less. That's why it's in my favorites.

I guess i can understand that... i saw some of it with jena jackson and justin timberlake a while back. when one of Jena's breasts got exsposed. as i heard from the news; America was like "OMG a celebrities boobie on TV!"

here in holland how ever we just shrugged at it with the comment: "Is that so wierd or strange to them? we see that kind of stuff on normal TV all the time... OMG one exposed boobie! big deal.."

Well it might be the culture differance but i just cant figure it out at times...


BTW: I just love that Remark of Heinkel, thats the best way to keep someone from bothering you

It was kinda big and over blown over here in Cananda too. I remember seeing it on the Tv and saying...meh don't care change the channel.

Then i think it was on for a least a couple more weeks. I felt like saying ...ENOUGH!!! I DON"T CARE!!! Mom wouldn't change the channel.

[Horselover_Frost]

Anyway, Dr. von Helsing mentions the alchemy several times when talking about Vlad's achievements; I don't have my copies of Dracula with me and don't feel like hunting for an English copy in this country, so I can't be much more specific than that.

Just ran a quick search through my P.G. ebook of Dracula, and found this passage:

"I have studied, over and over again since they came into my hands,
all the papers relating to this monster, and the more I have studied,
the greater seems the necessity to utterly stamp him out. All through
there are signs of his advance. Not only of his power, but of his
knowledge of it. As I learned from the researches of my friend
Arminius of Buda-Pesth, he was in life a most wonderful man. Soldier,
statesman, and alchemist--which latter was the highest development of
the science knowledge of his time. He had a mighty brain, a learning
beyond compare, and a heart that knew no fear and no remorse. He
dared even to attend the Scholomance, and there was no branch of
knowledge of his time that he did not essay.

"Well, in him the brain powers survived the physical death. Though it
would seem that memory was not all complete. In some faculties of
mind he has been, and is, only a child. But he is growing, and some
things that were childish at the first are now of man's stature. He
is experimenting, and doing it well. And if it had not been that we
have crossed his path he would be yet, he may be yet if we fail, the
father or furtherer of a new order of beings, whose road must lead
through Death, not Life."

[Tommygunner70]

It was kinda big and over blown over here in Cananda too. I remember seeing it on the Tv and saying...meh don't care change the channel.

Then i think it was on for a least a couple more weeks. I felt like saying ...ENOUGH!!! I DON"T CARE!!! Mom wouldn't change the channel.

thats exactly what i mean.

as they say, great minds *Cough* think alike.

[Atticus_blackwolf]

Anyway, Dr. von Helsing mentions the alchemy several times when talking about Vlad's achievements; I don't have my copies of Dracula with me and don't feel like hunting for an English copy in this country, so I can't be much more specific than that.

Just ran a quick search through my P.G. ebook of Dracula, and found this passage:

"I have studied, over and over again since they came into my hands,
all the papers relating to this monster, and the more I have studied,
the greater seems the necessity to utterly stamp him out. All through
there are signs of his advance. Not only of his power, but of his
knowledge of it. As I learned from the researches of my friend
Arminius of Buda-Pesth, he was in life a most wonderful man. Soldier,
statesman, and alchemist--which latter was the highest development of
the science knowledge of his time. He had a mighty brain, a learning
beyond compare, and a heart that knew no fear and no remorse. He
dared even to attend the Scholomance, and there was no branch of
knowledge of his time that he did not essay.

"Well, in him the brain powers survived the physical death. Though it
would seem that memory was not all complete. In some faculties of
mind he has been, and is, only a child. But he is growing, and some
things that were childish at the first are now of man's stature. He
is experimenting, and doing it well. And if it had not been that we
have crossed his path he would be yet, he may be yet if we fail, the
father or furtherer of a new order of beings, whose road must lead
through Death, not Life."

That's sooo cool Squeeeee

[Xuanwu]

You know what this means, don't you?

Alucard was a Mary Sue even in the original text! Wow.

[Athos]

Drac is embued with great personal qualities and mental faculties, yes, but he does not possess two major qualities of Mary Sues:

1) He is physically repulsive, especially in his starved state. Apparently, his face is supposed to be stereotypically Jewish (Eastern with a giant nose...I don't know enough about stereotypes of that era to comment) and he has hairy palms (insert joke here). Oh, and he has really bad breath.

2) Everyone hates him.

Aside from that, the strength of twenty men, (limited) shapeshifting, control of the weather and lesser beasts...yeah, he's pretty close to a Gary Stu in some ways.

[ManyWorlds]

Of course Drac was a Sue. He had to be, to stand a fair chance against vanHelsing.

[SailorPtah]

Aside from that, the strength of twenty men, (limited) shapeshifting, control of the weather and lesser beasts...yeah, he's pretty close to a Gary Stu in some ways.

I don't think so. Having a fantastic array of powers doesn't automatically make you a Mary Sue. You can still be a flawed, interesting, well-rounded character.

If he were gratuitously powerful, handsome, loved by all, lusted after by all, and ended up the victor with at least one hot woman in his bed, then I would call him a Stu.

Alternatively, the antihero-Stu is powerful, handsome, tragically hated by all characters except the hot women who can't help themselves, but the audience is supposed to like him, identify with him, and cheer when he subverts the system.

Dracula is neither. He's powerful in only the ways that he needs to be for the sake of the plot. And he's not meant to be a sex symbol, but a (sexually threatening) monster.

Of course, that's in the original book. There's a modern pop-culture idea of Dracula as the ultimate unattainable-but-sexy bad boy with bonus superpowers. That's a recipe for Stu.

[Tommygunner70]

why do i get the feeling that the lady bidding our three some welcome into the country recognized Yumiko?

[Xuanwu]

Japanese airports are nice. Unlike the US, where we tend to hire people who enjoy making you miserable, Japan still adheres to the old standard of hiring people who know how to be pleasant, even if it's fake. They don't hold a candle to Taiwan or China, though, where airport personnel are so good they don't even appear fake.

[Vixichi]

Naw, if you go to the same airport enough, you find lots of nice people working there. My dad used go to a major airport almost every couple weeks to fly for work; when we went for a trip to my grandparents earlier this year, the staff knew him by name and he knew them. They were so pleasant and nice. XD


I <3 Timothy...he's so cute. His banter with Heinkel is so funny. =D

[Atticus_blackwolf]

Naw, if you go to the same airport enough, you find lots of nice people working there. My dad used go to a major airport almost every couple weeks to fly for work; when we went for a trip to my grandparents earlier this year, the staff knew him by name and he knew them. They were so pleasant and nice.


I <3 Timothy...he's so cute. His banter with Heinkel is so funny. =D

my dad also travels alot on business, but for us it's with hotels. We get lots of nice hotel staff. ( My dad usually drives to where he's going) and there was one retired man who drove an airport limo . My entire family knew him by name. There some fun memories.

Timmy your so funny

[Tommygunner70]

Japanese airports are nice. Unlike the US, where we tend to hire people who enjoy making you miserable, Japan still adheres to the old standard of hiring people who know how to be pleasant, even if it's fake. They don't hold a candle to Taiwan or China, though, where airport personnel are so good they don't even appear fake.

You have a point there, but i would not know about Taiwan or China though.

I have been to Tokyo, japan a few times now. Visiting my GF's home town and her family. The people working at Tokyo's Narita Airport do come off as being friendly, however they are only being friendly as part of the job.

It takes an empath to really notice, but then again they do lighten up a bit if you respectfully reply to them.
It makes there job seem more usefull then just being a drone who says the same thing all the time with a fake smile.

Naw, if you go to the same airport enough, you find lots of nice people working there. My dad used go to a major airport almost every couple weeks to fly for work; when we went for a trip to my grandparents earlier this year, the staff knew him by name and he knew them. They were so pleasant and nice.

That is true, though someone takes offence when another woman greets me a little to cheerfully at the check in desk :p

[Mrrout]

you've been in japan!
this is a country i really would like to visit! but there is the language barrier.
do a lot of japanese speak english?

i've been in Italia, and few people speak english or french, and i don't speak italian at all.
but when you're french it's easy to understand italian.not like japanese