I’m guessing wildly around 800-1200 kilometres (no idea what that is in miles).
I just checked, and United Van Lines: Canadian Distance Guide says it’s 1,470 miles or 2,366 kilometres!!
Well, I have a dream. A dream of a place where people can run thru threads nekkid without being stared at, a place where nekkid people frolic amongst the threads racing each other. You shall be their icon, their avatar. You are their champion… Rise above and show them, you can be nekkid, and run, run like any clothed person.
Hmm. I believe that Surrey is in the range of about 1200-1500 or so miles/km/kilojawattaometres.
Bisexual teen: where the hell is my transistor radio for coming out? I tell all my friends (well, the ones I trust), but all I get is a stupid decoder ring!
Dammit, I want my transistor radio!
Yes, we are, and I don’t support that… but given that we, in the big picture, mean virtually nothing, it’s not something I lose sleep over anymore.
Hey, Aslan – do you get the chance to get together with others in your school, at breaks and such, to just have discussions about all sorts of stuff? Say like, the future of the planet, politics, science queries, that kind of thing?
I remember having great times in school, at your age, getting involved in debates as to why, for example, we can “see” a ruler. What it is about light that means we can see the wood, the numbers etc. (yeah, I come from th’ days of wooden rulers. Heh.)
Dude… What do you think the decoder ring is for? Start using it on your cereal. Soon you’ll be seeing maps and clues as to where the radio is. Believe me, it’s well worth hunting thru the tropical forrests of South America, the volume goes to eleven!
Not really. Most of the debates around my circle of friends are geeky things like comic books. I’m interested in some of the things you mention, such as the future of the planet and perhaps politics. I think their might have been a debate club, but I didn’t really look.
I would sign up if we do. Debates can be great fun.
Obviously this isn’t rl, but I’d be more than welcome to discuss/debate things. I’m not too well aware of the Canadian political system, however, perhaps you could explain Canadian politics to a Yank like myself? Not associated or related to being bi, really, but given this is your current thread…
Sure. I’ll try to best explain.
In Canada, we have a prime minister instead of the president. Majority vote rules. Areas are divided into ridings, with a member of whatever party representing that area. For example, their might be a green party member, a liberal party member, or a NDP party member for Surrey. Whoever gets the most votes in the election for that area gets the riding. Last time the liberals won the ridings, 76 out of 80 or so, with the NDP getting only 4 ridings.
Since the NDP only had 4 ridings or so, of which each person of the ridings getting to vote on passing things, they can’t do much. If the Liberals were to put an idea of “No skateboarding” as a law, they’d have to reach a complete consensus amongst the liberal members in the ridings to get a law legislated. If the NDP were to want to have a law passed, the liberals would need to want it for it to happen. The goverment in BC is predominantly Liberal.
I think it’s the same throughout Canada.
I’m proud of you, Aslan!
Coming to terms with the real you is a major milestone in life. Some people never get that far.
[raising my glass to you]
Ah I see… Interesting. I’ve become very interested in the way other country’s governments work, all the sudden. So I’ll probably have more questions on that as soon as I can think of them.
What’s with the name change, if you don’t mind me asking?
Well, I thought that Aslan2 was pretty boring and undistinct. I wanted this name, but without having to add numbers or words to it.
Well, thanks NoClueBoy.
Ah I see. I’m not sure if I can think of anything else… what’s your favourite colour?
I want to say black, but that’s more the absence of color. I’ll go with blue.
Okay. So if you were trapped on a liferaft, adrift on the Pacific ocean, and had just enough food for two days for three people, but there were four of you, and you were five days from land, and you had one pistol and two bullets, and a jug of water that contained two gallons, but you weren’t sure what was in it, and then one of the other guys on the raft starts losing it, and yelling something about the wrath of the Old Ones, and then, about a mile away from the boat, the water starts churning, and frothing, and a huge tentacle emerges from the depths, and it has an eye on the end of it, and it swivels around to look directly at you with a terrible otherworldly glare, and the other guys in the boat start chanting in some terrifying language, what would you do?
Wouldn’t anyone start shouting “Ia, Cthulhu F’taghn!” and shooting people at random for the greater glory of the Old Ones? Such an easy question.
Well, hmm… I’d use my razor sharp claws that I developed living amongst the tree people, and slash that monster into little bits. Then, I’d take out my batter fryer, chop up the monster and make us some ancient one calamari. Since I spent about 25 years or so living amongst the fishes along a coral reef, I would psychically contact some of my fish family to move us to shore at a much quicker rate. Unfortunately, the only islands near us were deserted. However, using my knowledge of space time and coconuts, I would construct a time machine out of coconut shells and bamboo. Travelling back into the past, I would warn the past me that the present me would end up on a raft and then on a deserted island and then present future me would travel back into John Connor’s present past and stop the terminator from sinking the ship. Then the captain would turn the boat around and we would head to Hawaii to have a luau.
If someone were to come along and say to you: “Bah! You’re just a young’un. You don’t KNOW that you’re {straight | gay | bisexual } yet! You have to actually have sex of some sort before you know!” what would your response be?
That is a hard question. I would tell them “You had desires for (whichever) sex before you had sex, how did you know those feelings were right? I just know it. I feel it. And I shouldn’t be having to prove it to you.”