The Ginger Ribosome

2007 Roundup

2008-01-03T04:46:00.000-08:00

Here's jus a round-up of the best bits of the stuff I posted over in LJ throughout 2007. It's been uite fun looking back, actually. I'd forgotten about half of it.

January 3rd

A "Joke"

2007-10-08T09:15:00.000-07:00

A guy told me a joke today:

Q: What's the skin around a vagina called?
A: A woman.

Needless to say, I was not impressed.

Shooting

2007-10-08T09:08:00.000-07:00

In films or on TV, whenever there's a shootout, no-one ever pretends to be shot. That's what I'd do. As soon as people start shooting one another, I'd fall to the ground, as if I'd been shot, and then that way you could probably get away alive.

Isn't it obvious?

2007-10-07T02:44:00.000-07:00

How come we judge people by their hair colour? Why is it such an important point of someones identity?

And why are there preconceptions because of hair colour. Like blondes are stupid, etc.

I wish everyone had the same hair colour. It would make life so much easier for those of us who are stuck with a colour that has the mickey taken out of it.

2007-09-30T07:14:00.000-07:00

Isn't it strange, how, if a woman is all for women's rights, she's a feminist; whereas, if a man is all for men's rights, he's a sexist?

I am a woman by the way, before anyone says anything.

Another Little Thing That Made Me Smile

2007-09-13T11:12:00.000-07:00

"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."

Okay, okay. No more American-bashing for today...

Friendly Fire

2007-09-13T11:09:00.001-07:00

There's a saying that people used to use during the second world war in Britain, and I thought it was relevent to today as well:

When the Germans drop their bombs, the British duck. When the British drop their bombs, the Germans duck. When the Americans drop their bombs, everybody ducks.

It just made me smile.

Winter Daydream

2007-09-13T10:53:00.001-07:00

Snap me out of this daydream when winter sweeps her coat over the land. Encompassing me with the air's icy breath and bestowing the trees with frozen limbs to match my bitter-cold heart in that frosty wonderland. When the cold can disguise the tears in my eyes with her wintry veil that makes everything beautiful and still.

My first piece of writing I've posted on here. It's not great, but please let me know what you think.

Feeling Nothing With Snowflakes In The Sky

2007-09-13T10:40:00.000-07:00

Everything is made out of atoms. But if that's true, then it shouldn't be possible for thoughts and feelings to exist. Unless they're a kind of energy. Because it's not as if molecules in your brain can have the ability to create all those things. There must be something we haven't discovered yet, because surely atoms can't make you think and feel things. And, besides, how can something be alive if all it is is a bunch of atoms, and how do you know if something's alive or not? Just because something can't reproduce, breathe, or eat, or any opf that stuff doesn't necessarily mean it's not alive.

When people talk about nothing, they always visualise something, whether it be a vast blackness or something else. But that''s still something, right? Even an empty space with no atoms/molecules in is still something. So doesn't that mean nothing can't exist? But if nothing can't exist, doesn't that mean everything can exist? Or is that just a double meaning of the phrase 'nothing can't exist'?

How do they know every snowflake is unique? You usually can't see them that well anyway. There's so many snowflakes that surely all of them can't be different.

How do we know that the sky is blue? How do we know that anything is a certain colour? It could be that what people call the colour blue is actually what someone else calls pink. But I guess if that is the case, we'd never know, because there's no way of seeing what different people see, and you can't describe a colour, not really.

Fire and the Universe

2007-09-09T12:21:00.001-07:00

Fire's strange. What actually is fire? It's energy, yes, but what exactly is energy? What's the point of fire? But I guess fire gives light and heat, which are important to most living creatures. And the sun is a massive fireball as well, I suppose. So if there was no fire, the sun wouldn't exist. No stars would exist. Nothing would be living. And there wouldn't be any seas either, because the water would be frozen. I'm not sure if there would even be an Earth, because if there was no Sun, then we couldn't orbit round it, and so the Earth may have crashed into something, like a meteorite, and it would've been blown into a million pieces.

The position of Earth is strange as well, because we don't actually know that the North Pole is facing upwards. Earth could actually be 'upside down' in space. And it's pretty impossible to be sure which way up we are, because we don't know the dimensions of the universe.

Like I said, I think way too much about things that really don't matter.

Dreams

2007-09-09T12:15:00.001-07:00

I think a lot about things that probably don't bother anyone else. In fact, I think about them a little too much. Like dreams, for example.

Your dreams come from you. You make them- your own brain makes the things that can excite, amaze, confuse and scare you. Why?

They say it's a way of your brain sorting out the information it received when you're awake, but if that's the case, then why is it that often your dreams have nothing to do with what happened to you during the day? And besides, why does your brain create nightmares, which often scare you so much that you wake up, which means you are interrupting your brain whilst it is doing a load of important stuff? It's stupid really.

My First Post

2007-09-09T11:59:00.000-07:00

This is my first post, and I'd like to welcome you all to my blog!

Here, I'll be posting lots of different things. If I've found something I want to share with everyone, like a poem, phrase, lyrics, or joke, then here is where I'll post it.

Sometimes I write my own poems or passages, and I'll post them on here; hopefully you can give me your comments on how to improve my writing.

Also, I write lots of music reviews, and I'll be giving you my thoughts on artists, songs and albums.

You may be wondering about my name... It's a long story. I'll explain if someone asks, but it really isn't that interesting.