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Hello, thank you for the welcome!

Could it be a dustbunny egg? Hopefully dustbunnies aren't related to plotbunnies...

So with you on that, I don't think there is a single romance book in my shelves!

Hello and welcome!
Please accept this dust ball, it was found near my computer so I'm positive it has been around long enough to gain intelligence and won't like sues...

We coat them with varnish made of lolwut pears.

Yup, it is published by wizards of the coast, and there is an associated series of novels. It's responsible for Drizzit and therefore all dark\night elves who fight with two scimitars, of which there are entirely too many.

Setting is actually pretty nice, from what I've heard.

You could cut huge cakes. After all, it's designed to cut through tank armor. I got a hold of the schematics after my Spartans infiltrated an admin's universe :D

Wow, I could cut a big cake with a knife that long!

Hi. Have an M4 folding knife.
12 inch blades encased in energy fields are good for Sue killing and cutting cakes.
Use it wisely.

"There's never going to be any funding if victims don't come forward. And victims are probably not going to come forward if there isn't a place for them to go."

That's exactly the problem. But no-one gives a toss to open, say, one a county and give it enough money to keep it up and running long enough to find out how many they actually need.

"Some of these women are so traumatised that they do see every man as a potential abuser"

Yeah, you'll find I have zero sympathy with that viewpoint. Same if a man thought all women were whores from the actions of a few (slightly faulty analogy, but whatever).

"shelters are supposed to be a temporary situation"

I think I read that a few people have stayed in the local shelter for at least two years.

By my understanding, Craig Charles lost his job for about a year. That's about a year too long in my view, especially since the lying cretin didn't get her name revealed. Suspects should never have their name revealed, whether they are guilty or not until they are actually found to be guilty.

"(in the Netherlands only first name and last initial are given to identify them, unless the suspect wavers the anonymity)."

That's smart. What do they do about teenage suspects (in Britian, they always seem to have anonyminity, which is, again, wrong in my view as the law says that, barring mental illness, people are capable of distinguishing right from wrong by the age of ten).

Hi, thank you!
*Is running out of ways to say hi, thank you*

There is violence against men as well, but men don't come forward about it as often. They are embarrassed about being victims. There's never going to be any funding if victims don't come forward. And victims are probably not going to come forward if there isn't a place for them to go.

Bashing women only shelters is not going to rectify that situation. Some of these women are so traumatised that they do see every man as a potential abuser, and it is not going to help them any if they are forced to share a shelter with men (even abused men). I don't know how it works with male children reaching puberty in such shelters, but since shelters are supposed to be a temporary situation, I doubt it poses much of a problem.

Your comments about Craig Charles seem to make false implications. Wikipedia says he was remanded on a rape charge in 1994. Wikipedia also says he appeared in Red Dwarf from 1988 tot 1999 and several other BBC shows since 1994. If he was fired at the BBC for the rape charge, he was rehired shortly after, and the false charge did not cause as much reputation damage as you seem to allege.

Also, you confuse two issues here: that women are more often seen as victims of rape has nothing to do with the fact that in Britain there's the habit of putting the full name of suspects (of rape) in the paper. That latter one has nothing to do with feminism overshooting its mark. I'm pretty sure that female suspects are named relatively as often as male suspects. (I say relatively, because for crimes such as rape and murder men are more often listed as suspects). The practice is that victims get anonymity and suspects don't. Which I think is a wrong practice; suspects should get anonymity too (in the Netherlands only first name and last initial are given to identify them, unless the suspect wavers the anonymity).

As well as a Siberian Tiger.

*bows back* Thank you madam!

Cookies are always appreciated, in any continuity.

*thwoo* *thwoo* And I love the sound of a wiffle bat in the morning!

*takes a bow* May I present you with a plate of Halloween sugar cookies and a plastic wiffle bat?

Thank you! It's nice to meet you too!

Mmmm...strawberry Twizzlers flavor cake...

I think I've heard of it...they're novels published by Wizards of the Coast, right? I haven't read any, though.

Useful for cleaning up Sue-blood for the DMS. *hint, hint*

Also, here's some Convenient Cake.

Always nice to meet new people. :)

have a block of C4. use it how you will. and have you heard of the Forgotten Realms fantasy... saga? series? dunno. any way, have you heard of it?

Good, yes; the spambots shall cower before me!

Hello, and thank you!
I'll probably need some of that bleepka later...

Wow, your house sounds fun!

I gift you with...an egg whisk! It's shiny, gold-plated, and whisks not only eggs but author wraiths and those pesky spambots, too. Use it for good and not much evil.

Welcome to the insanity! Enjoy the ride.

Welcome to the PPC! Here's a bottle of bleepka, (to start you off, just in case you run into a badfic soon), and a glaive from the Raven Armory.

I suddenly feel like testing that.

Of course, my house probably holds more books than my local bookstore has in the fiction sections.

Anyway, have a battletech elemental gyrojet pistol.