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Money is object, but point is I'd prefer to spend £5 on being stunned than not.

. RIHANNA MASSIF .

It will add many times more worth to my life than £16. And the fact of the matter is it's a far greater experience buying it from HMV, excitedly walking home -- rather than waking up in the morning and it being there.

Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) ~ Rihanna £16 50 Words For Snow ~ Kate Bush £10

Gay subculture dress has existed far longer than Borat

COMEONCOME. The Naight! The Naiaiaght! I love how it was blatantly all inspired by Hound too. Everything I do in life is with memory of Hound's Broken Home.

Exactly, this was my line of thought. Had I won, what would they have been awarding me the prize for? It wasn't a costume, more me channeling the vibe of the theme in what I was wearing. Really, given it was a queer party, that type of clothing should have been the norm -- it was just no one else bothered to dress queerly, so everyone was into it. Anyway, it wasn't strictly "best costume", it was more a drag queen had surveyed and noted, and then later on in the night had demanded her fave people go up onto the stage.

£3 off eBay.

So last night was QueerBop -- a massive party celebrating queerness. The theme was metamorphosis; I decided to go under a personal metamorphosis, into the person I imagine would be singing Lady GaGa's Marry The Night. I got shortlisted for best costume, but lost to a pair of guys dressed in carboard-made Transformers costumes which, incredibly, actually transformed (I was stunned).

People who apply to do something they aren't interested in should die.

I was thinking about running a Femmes Fatales mafia, which would feature various female pop/rock stars. Would people be interested?

While I think raising fees is an attack on the working class and social mobility, in that it immediately dissuades people who can't imagine ever having that much money, my primary concern for being at the protests was about funding cuts, and the marketisation of education. My ideal outcome would be to morph the way we approach economics and the way we structure ourselves socially -- I'm very much a Marxist. It's difficult to tangibly present a battle plan, mostly because I'm not a Marxist theorist -- all I know is that the marketisation of education is a really really bad idea. [And putting on my capitalist hat, funding cuts to universities will actually just make us worse off in the future, because we won't be able to compete with academic development of other countries and our researchers will move abroad where there are better facilities] My first instinct -- other than revolution -- is to divert some of the billions and billions of £ that's fed into the defence budget into education, such that everyone in this country can attain the standard of education that they deserve. Education leads people out of oppression.

I think, while superficially ineffective, they've had far-reaching results: Lots more people have become politicised. Lots more people have realised that this stuff is important. Politics is a lot BIGGER than Labour vs Tory and parliamentary debate -- politics affects us all. For many these protests were people's first experience of extraparliamentary politics, and for many that was a very valuable thing. Many of the people at these protests have now experienced the way they are policed, and have begun to think about the role of the Police, and the how power, protest and policing work together. Why should a policeman have any power to pepper-spray an 84 year old woman in the face who was legally within her rights to protest?

Peaceful protest on this scale does little. Superficially it makes it seem democracy is happening, where actually, power rests in the hands of a very small number of people most of which have no obligation to listen to protestors. Don't pretend our political system is a perfect debating chamber where all arguments are weighed up equally and the best choice of action is made. It's not. People with more money, more contacts, more influence, more oil have more say. Of course, you should be going to protests -- everyone who cares should, because having no protest is worse than an ineffectual protest -- but you have to realise that peaceful protest rarely achieves anything.

Watchmen Heroclix £11 - I was in the mood. While I'm indifferent to the movie, I love the comic, so I feel I need these in my life.

Can't go wrong with average tbf.

Paj! , ReZ anD I (band name?) all play Heroclix. (Not all together, since I've never actually met ReZ (this needs to be rectified)). It's a really great game, been playing almost 6 years! And they're releasing a Lord Of The Rings set early next year which is going to be completely compatible with the existing Marvel / DC figures. I'm surprisingly into it.

Should I choose the smoothest curve Steady as the beating drum? Should I marry Kocoum? Is all my dreaming at an end? Or do you still wait for me, Dream Giver Just around the riverbend? .

Sometimes you have to take the knock to the teeth and realise that in a relationship the extent to which one person likes the other will not be equal on both sides of the equation. From what you've said (sorry if I interpret this wrong!) it sounds like your more invested in the relationship than he is. This happens relatively often, I find. I get excited that I've found a potential significant person in my life, and then it fizzles out and he never texts back. You've got to roll with the disappointment. Things R what they R. Rather than lament the loss and plague him with texts, my instinct would be to just be your hair and look for someone new. And something I think is important, in the dating world: make an effort to make yourself more attractive/alluring! Go to the gym, take a flattering picture, try to write your profile so that you only give a certain amount of information away (mystique is more alluring than reading someone's life story, and their arbitrary borderline fascist opinions). If you feel that your profile is *good* and is a flattering representation of yourself, you're more likely to be confident and confidence is hot [applicable both to real life and online]. Basically, reach for your potential, I believe in u.

/ that's an extreme view/example. One of my friends is a sex worker, he works 1 night every month, gets paid £500-700 a time, then continues on with his life. (That said, I guess gay sex work is slightly different, in that there's no(/less) sexism and sexist violence.)

I'm going to an event called HalloQueen, where everyone cross-dresses, so I need to think of a female scary outfit (I hate dressing up for Halloween when it's not scary/occult-y). Might go as my interpretation of the Pagan Mother Goddess.

I'm supportive of sex workers, and any avenue which allows struggling people to rip-off rich old men. £300 for a date? Easy money.

I love how it feels like Beyoncé's at a point where she can just do things because she in't'it. Like, that Love On Top video was blatantly filmed one afternoon when she was bored. And the Countdown video has so many little bits which is her just having fun in her life.

I love how you have to assume that scene happens when Claire and Leo are away off trying to be great in a golf buggy. Not properly dwelt upon.