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  1. fairy

    Time to bath the rats

    As requested on chat, some photos of mine and chnt's rats. The first one is after a bath Make sure you click on them to see their full view awesomeness.
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    Time to bath the rats

    Nah it's just a bag like one of those coles bag thingies, with some ripped up tshirt inside. They like having somewhere cosy to hide when they're out of their cage
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    Time to bath the rats

    Just had to share a couple of my latest photos of the beautiful ratties
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    anxiety

    I've suffered from anxiety disorder for many years, so I really feel for you. I've never really had any luck with and natural remedies or medications. A lot of people seem to be saying 'find the source of your anxiety', but that doesn't necessarily always help. You can know the source, know exactly why you're anxious, logic and rationalise and CBT it to death, and still be just as anxious. Yeah, it is obviously important to have an idea of why, so you can work on changing it, accepting it, etc... but I've never found it to be that simple. I think the more important point is learning to manage the anxiety, cope with it, regardless of the source. We all suffer from anxiety at some point in our lives, it's how we deal with it that's important, whether we let it control us or we stay in control of it. I would definitely say that things like body scan meditations, general meditation (especially guided because it's just way easier), mindfullness techniques and yoga are really good places to start. At the moment I'm using a body scan meditation by Jon Kabat Zinn, you can just download it online. Or try youtube videos like chnt said. Diaphragmatic breathing has also been proven to be really important/helpful when it comes to managing anxiety, it's such a simple thing but it's worth trying. Body scan meditations are really good I think, they really guide you through the process of relaxing your whole body and being mindful, they're not as challenging as other types of meditation and if you find one that resonates with you it can definitely help if you keep practising. An important thing to remember though is that there isn't really any 'quick fix' with anxiety (except for benzos which I think should only be used in absolute emergencies, not long term or regularly), so whatever you do will take time and effort to actually have an impact, which does make it hard to stay motivated but it's so important with these things to actually maintain them/build a routine. You can always start small, like 10 minutes a day, just doing part of a meditation or part of a yoga routine. All the best with it, hopefully you can find something that works for you and starts to help soon.
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    Post awesome gifs here

    http://mrdiv.tumblr.com/
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    T.W.A.T

    norvin, the great white man eating shark
  7. fairy

    Katie & Tom split

    jesus fucking christ icognito, you're a hard guy to like.
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    u colour blind? lol

    Yeah if your screen isn't calibrated to the correct colour standards you're probably going to get a shit score. And even though the screen's colours might look good to you it's more than likely they are incorrect and your eyes have just adjusted to them. I'm generally really good with colour and right now I'm using someone else's laptop where the screen isn't calibrated, and I could hardly even do the test. Will have to try it when I have my laptop back.
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    Post awesome gifs here

    I'm going to bed
  13. Hahaha what an original story + strategy
  14. I think that there are too many healthier alternatives (that also taste way better) for people to use the excuse that it tastes so good, and it's okay to have it sometimes - 'everything in moderation', etc. If you can't be bothered making your own, healthier burgers are all over the place now (grill'd is awesome), same with chips and stuff. I do understand that it's convenient and cheap, but I think people have become so abusive of their bodies and health on a global scale, the excuse of "it's cheap and it tastes good" has just gone way too far. Everyone is capable of budgeting and making an allowance to actually put worthwhile shit in their bodies. Amazingly enough what we feed ourselves is vital to our overall existence as a human, and I personally wouldn't want to taint my body with shit like maccas. I haven't eaten that kind of fast food (kfc/maccas/hj's etc.) since I was a kid, and even then I rarely ever had it, it was a "special treat" my mum would buy me. I haven't missed it. The smell and thought makes me sick. Maccas isn't even close to the worst of it though, there are so many aditives in our food today that are so incredibly harmful, and most people are completely uneducated about it, don't know any better, and feed it to their kids, not just themselves. At least Mcdonalds doesn't really disguise its poison as being healthy, plenty of supermarket food does. Sorry if I sound all high and mighty or anything, I just really despise the fast food industry, and the general way in which food/nutrition has totally gone to shit in the past few decades. So much of today's common food is truly so harmful to the body and mind, and it's so difficult to find healthy alternatives that are readily available and don't cost a fortune. But an obvious change I think everyone can make to benefit their nutrition and health is to stop eating fast food like Mcdonalds.
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    The dumbing down and degradation of art

    Yeah, agreed. I get fucking sad sometimes when I hear a beautiful voice or a potentially beautiful melody, singing total pop shit. It's such a waste.
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    The dumbing down and degradation of art

    One thing that bothers me about the way the people value art is that it often seems to be based on its longevity. I don't think something has to be timeless or recognisable to be beautiful, meaningful or worthwhile. I'll use the Lady Gaga example that people have mentioned... Yes gaga will probably be remembered for a long time, she's done an incredible job marketing herself and creating an image that people will not soon forget, but I don't feel this makes her any more valuable/important/successful as an artist than some obscure guy who makes music on his laptop that I've come across on SoundCloud. I see gaga as someone who is successful as a businesswoman, entrepreneur and fashion icon, and I see a lot of today's popular art as being similar, in the sense that it is commercially brilliant, not artistically. However different forms of art serve different functions for different people, and nobody can ever argue that something is not art and win, because everything and anything can be art. Which I find sometimes makes the concept of art quite confusing. People so often forget that what is popular isn't necessarily what is best (often quite the opposite). I follow a lot of "unknown" musicians and photographers, and I ache for all the incredible artists out there that don't get the recognition and support they deserve, but at the same time, maybe that lack of fame keeps them humble and keeps their work beautiful. It's a crazy world. art/ärt/ Noun: The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture,...: "the art of the Renaissance" Works produced by such skill and imagination.
  17. Interesting vid. I love how they've taken advantage of people's interest in seeing "behind the scenes" type footage in combination with the public joke that is fast food advertising and spun it so it makes them look like honest, customer-focused caring guys. Pretty hilarious. The whole 'food-styling' thing is insane. I'm a photographer and I interviewed at a commercial studio a couple of years ago that did this kind of thing, a lot of food photography and and photo-manipulation for advertising campaigns like 'don't drive tired', with a big smashed car on the poster that they would've spent hours working on. A lot of the stuff that goes on for these things is artistically really fascinating, people don't realise how much work goes into them! It's so sad that for creative people who want to work in the Visual Art industry the only way of making a decent living is to go commercial. I agree with IndianDreaming on a lot of points. We are bombarded by advertising sending us various messages constantly, in multiple formats, even without us always being aware of it. It messes with people's heads in so many subtle ways. Marketing/advertising can be such a disgusting industry, just like so many other things in today's world it's entirely money-driven and completely unsustainable. It's really sad how totally acceptable fast food is, it's not just unhealthy cause it's "fatty", there's so much more to it. For one thing the meat industry is completely fucked, and all the genetically modified shit in this food - I mean you can hardly call it food, it's certainly not nourishing in any way, it really is like poison. Blah, just really sad.
  18. fairy

    What weird things do you collect

    I collect jars of hearts, chnt's cum, and my dogs fur (on my carpet & clothes.) But seriously, I've collected some weird stuff. Like I used to collect all my chewing gum wrappers, and then I glued them all to the outside of a little cardboard box, and then I filled the box with All Natural Confectionery fruit chew wrappers which I organised by colour and I folded in a specific way... I stopped doing that. I also used to collect a lot of stupid little ornaments when I was a kid, like dragons, fairys etc. Still have a few. Looking around my room I think the only things I physically collect these days are candles. I'm also a photographer so I have a pretty hefty collection of photographs. And I contribute to chnt's tea/tea paraphernalia collection and greatly enjoy it. On the computer I collect tonnes of images of things I like, and organise them in specific files and on various websites like pinterest/tumblr. I have no life.
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    Post awesome gifs here

    These are all from the blogs http://headlikeanorange.tumblr.com/ & http://black-and-white-gifs.tumblr.com/ So much gif awesomeness. Heaps of really amazing nature stuff ^_^
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    T.W.A.T

    camera
  21. fairy

    Who Do You Work For?

    I'm a cat, meow.
  22. fairy

    Triple j one night stand

    No offence guys but Stonefield just sounds like another indie chick band to me, there's nothing unique there, just like most of the shit jjj plays (not trying to slam your music taste or anything - each to their own, but that's just the impression I get.) I agree with chnt, jjj is just another form of pop, a bit better than the extremely commercialised stations but still the same in so many ways. jjj culture is so cringe-worthy at times, despite it's immense popularity people still seem to think they're so alternative and cool for being jjj fans. I find it really sad when you ask someone what kind of music they're into and they respond, 'oh you know, stuff triple j plays.' I mean how can anyone define their music taste as a radio station? It pretty much proves chnt's/my point, jjj is just another part of today's culture that stops people from thinking for themselves and encourages us all to fit into a nice little labelled box
  23. Came across this amazing art work recently which I thought might be appreciated here. Combination of nature photography and illustrated patterns. Article/full series of images: http://www.mymodernm...khova-biosphere
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    animal testing on performance artist

    And the worst part is they don't even need to animal test, it's 100% unnecessary - and companies like Lush and The Body Shop have proven that by having successful cosmetic lines that are completely free of animal testing. This happens with pharmaceuticals as well, and it is often equally unnecessary. It's ridiculous. If you're interested please sign the petition here: http://www.fightinganimaltesting.com/sign-the-petition/
  25. fairy

    happy birthday fairy

    Thanks a lot guys, as chnt has been sitting here typing for ages, it was an amazing day.
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