Lucmeister
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i guess im not so average after all
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Post by Lucmeister on Jan 16, 2003 12:46:38 GMT -5
have any of you guys read a good book lately (excluding Kurt Cobain's diary). i have just started the farseer trilogy by Robyn Hobb and it is fantastico.
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Post by criminally vulgar on Jan 16, 2003 18:32:48 GMT -5
kill yourself.
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Post by TLCM on Jan 16, 2003 18:39:57 GMT -5
I had to read Emma for English during the Holidays. Now I'm reading 'The Fatal Shore' by Robert Hughes for History Extension. It's heavy and you never get any where, you can read for an hour and discover you haven't got anywhere. But you know a shitload more about the history and landings of discoverers as well as the symptoms of scurvy in sailors which in the end has nothing to do with what I'm supposed to be studying, convict women.
I'm also reading, studying a book called 1788, which is basically a summary of everyone on the 1st fleet. One person got 7 years' transportation because he picked up an egg off the road which he found however a neighbour saw him and reported it stolen. His wife then committed a similar crime to go with him but when she got there he had either gone somewhere else or died.
It was also a capitol offence to ;
- run from rape
- arson (burning a house or hut, a rick of corn, an insignificant pile of straw)
- sodomy
- picking pockets
- stealing over the value of 40s from a dwelling or house
- being found begging off a soldier or sailor.
- poaching a rabbit
- breaking down the head or mound off a fish pond
- cutting down an ornamental shrub
- appearing on a highroad with a sooty face.
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Post by criminally vulgar on Jan 16, 2003 18:46:24 GMT -5
run FROM rape? what the fuck??
so if a man was trying to rape a woman, the woman would be punished for trying to get away?
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Post by TLCM on Jan 16, 2003 20:02:11 GMT -5
That's what it said in the book, unless the book got it wrong. I didn't exactly understand that rule either. But I also didn't consider it impossible, if they are going to hang someone for cutting down a bush why wouldn't they hang them for running from rape.
There is anouther stupid law;
- It is a capital offence to pose as an Egyptian (impersonate a gypsie).
No wonder all their gaols filled up, you couldn't do anything with out being sentenced to death or 7 years transportation.
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Post by TLCM on Jan 16, 2003 20:04:50 GMT -5
oh and property was valued more than life.
It was a capital offence to kidnap an heiress. Not because of the rape but because she is the possession of her family.
Also attempted murder was only considered a misdemenor. Those times were truley fucked.
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Post by slushpup on Jan 16, 2003 21:32:29 GMT -5
"we demand.....a shrubbery!!" (Ok, so i watched monty python the other day...sue me.)
what if you got drunk and thought it was fun to decapiatate an ornamental shrub. and what exactly classifies a shrub as ornamental? what would happen if you cut down a REGULAR shrub?
i want answers.
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Lucmeister
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Post by Lucmeister on Jan 16, 2003 23:24:49 GMT -5
what if the rapist was trying to sodomise the woman. could she run, or did she just have to walk slowly.
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Lucmeister
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Post by Lucmeister on Jan 16, 2003 23:25:59 GMT -5
i think you've been reading too much of mick foley's book. i've heard that it's true it's true by kurt angle is good.
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Post by everlong on Jan 16, 2003 23:35:57 GMT -5
"we demand.....a shrubbery!!" (Ok, so i watched monty python the other day...sue me.) what if you got drunk and thought it was fun to decapiatate an ornamental shrub. and what exactly classifies a shrub as ornamental? what would happen if you cut down a REGULAR shrub? i want answers. I would sue you for defacing shrubbery  Leave the shrubs alone, Dani ;D |
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Post by michael on Jan 16, 2003 23:38:09 GMT -5
i think you've been reading too much of mick foley's book i've read Mick Foley's book and it's actually quite a good read. It's interesting to see how a wrestler talks about the business out of character and destroys many of the myths surrounding the business. He's certainly got some great stories to tell, specially at the start about how he lost his ear in a match in germany. For someone who's suffered so many blows to the head, it's amazing he can write an 800-odd page book that's actually kinda well written. </mark> |
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Post by everlong on Jan 16, 2003 23:44:28 GMT -5
I read it too, of course. In a way, he did kinda 'prostitute' his body, taking all those falls and blows, which evidently shortened his career, but he really did bring something to wrestling that was previously never before seen. Fuck, the guy took two leaps off an 18 ft (?) cage. He really got to the top the hard way. [/mark as well]
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Post by slushpup on Jan 17, 2003 1:43:26 GMT -5
Leave the shrubs alone, Dani ;D NEVER!!  |
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Post by josha on Jan 17, 2003 2:10:15 GMT -5
have any of you guys read a good book lately (excluding Kurt Cobain's diary). i have just started the farseer trilogy by Robyn Hobb and it is fantastico. why excluding kurt cobains diary dickcheese, is that not a book? fucking geek  |
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Post by Enis on Jan 17, 2003 3:54:45 GMT -5
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