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I don't know what I did... But this actually happened. And I can scroll down and type in my quick post at the bottom of the BZP trapped in my quickpost box. Figure that one out. OH MY GOODNESS I CAN NAVIGATE THROUGH THE SITE USING IT! This tab is never getting closed. Aw... It's gone... Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLXTDirrQ5w TN

… their hands do fit together really well.

YOU SHOULD'VE REPLIED Can you imagine? All of BZPower would've funneled and looped infinitely through your post, within 27 seconds the server would've caught fire and ultimately imploded, going all Nuvok-Kal and turning into a tiny black hole for a fraction of a second before blinking out of existence.

By george

So what you're saying is you ship it

There is a very big difference between "old-fashioned" and "outdated and bigoted", and for some reason people who are the latter like to claim they are the former. I'm here to point out the difference between the two that I thought was very clear, but for some reason people like to muddy. I'm going to give you some examples of worldviews, and then explain whether it's old-fashioned, or just straight-up bigoted. Let's start easy. People of different races are fundamentally different in ways that makes one or the other superior. Got an answer? Well, I hope it was "that's racist" because that is exactly correct. If you hold the above opinion, you are not old-fashioned, just racist. Let's try another one. I prefer the way people dressed in the '20s. That one's a bit trickier, but I believe that's simply old-fashioned. Preferring a dated method of dress doesn't perpetuate harmful myths. It's just a taste in fashion. Women are not fit for combat. This is the one I wanted to get to, because I have seen someone on this very site say it and defend it as being old-fashioned, and I am here to tell you it's not. It's just sexist. There are many, many women who serve in the military or who can defend themselves or wield a weapon or do any of the things men do in combat situations. Women are not more delicate, more in need of protection, or weaker than men. That is a stereotype perpetuated by society to make men seem superior to women. I'd love to go on, but this entry was really just to hit that last point, and to push anyone who defends their beliefs as simply being old-fashioned to look at what they believe, and ask themselves, "Is this really just old fashioned, or is this belief actively hurtful to other people?" I'm leaving this entry open in hopes there will be some good discussion. Be cool, y'all.

Once upon a time, women might have been less well-suited for certain tasks than men due to biological differences like having less upper body strength on average. Military combat is one of those. Today, most of those disadvantages are next to irrelevant. Most modern careers, including the military, don't require anyone to forcefully throw a spear or other heavy object, no matter what their sex. And since the differences in physical strength and other qualities between people of the same sex can be every bit as broad as the differences in physical strength between people of different sex, it makes no sense to treat sex as a qualifying factor in any non-sex-related job or position. Militaries and other organizations should just set the qualifications according to the actual requirements of the task in question, like how many pounds a person should be expected to lift on a regular basis. There's no point in disqualifying a candidate just because "on average" a person of their sex would have a harder time than a person of the opposite sex. With that said, a disclaimer: that also means employers shouldn't include secondary qualifications with the goal of eliminating a certain group of candidates (like setting strength requirements that few women can meet, regardless of whether those requirements are pertinent to the job in question). That's the same sort of slimy maneuvering as laws in the old South that required all voters to pass a literacy test. The people putting those laws into practice knew that they would disqualify more black voters than white voters (since at the time, black people were less educated on average, some of the literacy tests were intentionally be made to be preposterously difficult, and white voters would sometimes be arbitrarily exempted from the tests by local election officials). And no higher-level reading ability was actually necessary to vote in elections, since the burden of ensuring the voters know and understand either candidate's platform is supposed to be on the backs of those candidates, not the voters. So while these laws did not exclude either race at face value, they were still racist and discriminatory. The equivalent is true of rules that seek to discourage female candidates from a position in a business or the military. Seems like my disclaimer ended up being longer than the body of my post. My apologies.

Too much wordplay I can't keep up with it all

You know I've always tried to be an honest person. And while I'm certainly not perfect at it I'd like to think I've done an okay job. Except with one person, myself. I've denied the truth about myself, subconsciously or otherwise. Thinking back I realise I've been doing this for years, probably since 9th grade. I'd tell myself day by day that was completely comfortable with who I was, what I believed, and that I didn't care what others thought of me. That I always acted like me even if it got me weird looks or if I got called a 'freak' or a 'goofball' or whatever the ###### they came up with. I could roll with the punches, laugh at almost everything said about me, and tell everyone I didn't care what people thought of me. That I wasn't going to conform to make other people around me happy. Well, as a certain Tyler so elegantly put it once, I'm a moron. I cared what people thought of me, I still care what people think of me. I can tell myself all day long that I don't but that's just not true. I do. I want to be liked and loved just like any other human being. What people say about me does affect how I act, what I say, and probably even what I think. Sure, I've always kept up the facade that I couldn't care less what people would say, and maybe sometimes I really didn't, but the truth of the matter that every insult, compliment, or criticism affects me in some way or another. I may laugh it off or just act indifferent but inside it still hurts. I love getting attention, especially the center of it and I'd probably say any stupid thing to get it. I've always been the cheerful, generally optimistic, carefree person that I've expected myself to be. That's okay, it's part of who I am, it's not something I can just change, or would ever want to. I've done a pretty good job of maintaining that over the years, but on the inside I feel things that I rarely, if ever speak of, even to myself. I hate yelling, no I'm not talking about your everyday yell of alarm or trying to get someone's attention. I'm talking about that deep, loud, terrifying blood curdling scream that only the grouchiest, meanest of people can summon from their throats. Well, hello to my late grandfather, who I lived with till I was about 13. Now I loved my grandfather, but the man had anger issues like no one I've ever met since. And naturally who was the person who was on the receiving end of this howling? Well if he and my dad weren't busy screaming at each other it was me. I probably don't need to say it sucked. Kind of makes you feel like fleeing in terror and hiding where no one can find you. I don't even know why I'm talking about this, maybe I just need too. I tend to act like I'm not afraid of anything, truth is I feel absolutely terrified on some level. It might not come out every day, or even every week, but it's there somewhere. I'm afraid that people won't like me, hate me, think the things I enjoy are stupid, and I'm pretty sure I could cry if the right person decided to start screaming at me. It used to happen all the time. For a guy who's pretty much declared war against conformity, I'm pretty guilty of it. I've conformed for friends, strangers, my parents, pretty much everyone. So to really start changing all that I'm just going to flat out admit something. I'm genderfluid. Since around my early teens I've been obsessed with the idea of being a woman, I don't think a single day has gone by since then that I haven't at least thought about it once. For a long time I've kept that mostly to myself, sometimes I've wondered if something's wrong with me, or if I need help. I don't even want to think about how my parents would react if they knew how I felt. Well, I'm pretty much sick and tired of hiding it. So I've decided to just outright admit it. I'm genderfluid, might even be a transsexual I don't know. All I know is I've needed to admit it for long time. It's taken me years to get the guts to do this, and you guys were a large part of it, especially my peeps on Skype. <3 So there, my darkest secret is out, yay. God...I'm actually posting this.

It's Finals Week, and I have soooo much work to do and studying to dive into, so I'm unplugging and getting right to it. I'll probably be back on Friday the 2nd, so, uh, hold on until then? Stay strong? Nobody is really gonna miss me, I'm only going for like a handful of days anyways See ya then, folks! Wish me luck.

COFFEE EGGS BACON! Whoops, looks like I accidentally made breakfast all over whatever that blog entry was supposed to be. (Almost all of my blog is unimportant stuff. I am a boring person. =P. Homestar's still funny, though.) GET OFF MY LAWN! ~Tekulo <3

I have no idea what any of that means... =/ My knowledge ended with the movies.

I know there is tons of shipping material here, but all I can think of is daaaaang, Lewa looks good in lime green. (But then that's nothing new. Lewa/Lime is totally canon)

You're just now shipping it?

THIS HORSE IS GETTIN SMALLER SMALL HORSE now the horse is very small and you need to get really close to hear it neigh too far away and you might squish it DONT SQUISH THE IMMEASURABLY TINY HORSE

I want to do a dissertation on BZPception now.

As far as I can tell. I already registered myself so things better not fall through. :T

Oh, bother.

I sent a PM. It sent. Nothing special I don't think.

This is the greatest thing ever in the history of ever. *is crying*

TOAVAKAMAJAI - THE PROPHECY I'akua, taka-kui rayaku. Amaja lhikai-na rokha: Toa Mata Nui haya. Ivaha, nga roraga-rhui. Still, all hope was not lost. Legends tell of six mighty heroes, the Toa, Who would arrive to save Mata Nui. Time would reveal that these were not simply myths... -- Toa imahra voya, kouya, Ceura, aku-rhui. Mata Nui'ai Matoroi Ikraaka hau takaya. For the Toa would appear on the shores of the island, it was said. They would arrive with no memory, no knowledge of one another – But they would pledge to defend Mata Nui And its people against the darkness. -- Tahuwaha, Onuwaha, Galuwaha, Lewaha, Puahatau, Kuahapaka, Wahata ika'a-nui, inaka voya. Tahu, Toa of Fire. Onua, Toa of Earth. Gali, Toa of Water. Lewa, Toa of Air. Pohatu, Toa of Stone. And Kopaka, Toa of Ice. Great warriors with great power, drawn from the very elements themselves. -- Ikaita'a, maita-na Ivaita-nga: Makuta zya, Mata Nui haya. Nga ro amaja. Together, they were six heroes with one destiny: To defeat Makuta, And save Mata Nui. This is their story. -- Na suvaha Bionicle. This is the way Of the Bionicle.

This makes me want to go back over all these entries and actually learn this as a second language. Takuma Nuva

I read this in movie Vakama's voice.

Hmm...I'm going to say...you're the book, and he's the fountain.

HATPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILE

HATPIIIIIIIIIIIIILE

blorp

now you've done it

TRY AND STOP ME

This is...the best blog entry out there.

Minuscule? On the contrary: you have almost as many posts as me, and I've been on this site for ten flipping years. Congrats, and here's to you having double my post count in another few years.

Amethyst? In all seriousness, congratulations Rez. You're in about the top 3% of all members in BZP as far as post count goes.

... Gravity rats?! Where?! AAAAAAAAAAAAAA (Congrats on the stone btw. I prefer amethyst myself, but to each their own)

Yo, Reznas. - Claiming women aren't fit for the battlefield is an example of a bigoted old-fashioned standpoint. (One you defended in the thread it occurred in). I have no idea where you're going with "But some are good!" when the specific instance where this occurred on site was not that case in the least, and this defense is used like... all the time before someone says something that is sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic and so forth. - Those viewpoints are actually harmful because they lead into stereotypes, societal expectations and reinforce meaningless gender roles that only serve to blockade individuals from what they may want to pursue or do. - I don't even know why you're claiming your freedom of speech is being curbed, when technically none of us have that on BZPower because BZPower is not a public forum owned by the government and is a private forum owned by individuals. Or, do you just not have valid responses to why old fashioned values are by and large bigoted and harmful in some manner, as seen on this very website?

i like how the non-bigotted old-fashioned example is literally old fashion

This post... CALLS FOR THE HIGHEST OF FIVES <3 u

Okay so you know the LEGO scorpions? Ok, so you take two of those, and you put an eyelet screw in each scorpion's stud hole. Then, through the eyelet screw, you hook an earring hook thingy. Ta-da! scorpion earrings. just a little idea i had because i've been ordering a bunch of scorpions off Bricklink on impulse. I haven't actually done it yet, though.