very EXCITED! I´m finding out if I´m having a boy or girl today!!!    - That´s if they haven´t got their legs crossed!

 Did you want to kiss him in the first place

  tekrar hoş geldiniz miss_ceyda.... TurkishBeauty yani

+1! but not my philosophy professor, more like my religious studies cross between my science professor

to Si++ - you asked what shoked me, and I have to sadly admit that nothing really does any more. I´ve seen/heard about all types of tragedys these days so much so that they are not shocking at all. Whether it be floods/earthquakes etc ruining and killing thousands of people lives, whether a father/mother has set fire to their own house to kill themselves along with their children, or whether a child is kidnapped and raped before being killed, or whether it´s honor killings, or murders for no reason and so on.

Don´t get me wrong, it ALL horrifies me, but shocks me? Not one bit. There´s too much of it in today´s world to make it shocking any more. It happens so much you sadly get used to hearing it all.

 On the actual subject note: I agree the difference between arranged and forced marriages is very thin but we must not forget that that line still exists and thankfully too. Some women agree to arranged marriages - and I know one of them being very excited about the whole thing. To that note I do not disagree with arranged marriages if the participants agree to it, but if they do not, no-one should have the right to force someone to do something they do not wish to do when it will dramatically change their lives.

I also agree that all around the world people live their lives, dramatically different to what we live ours and in most (not all!) cases we should have to respect that (unless we count it as morally wrong). For example the chinese eat such different variety, some of which we would consider a health hazard in a kitchen (cockroach), or alot of (not all!) eastern countries the woman is considered to be the one to stay at home etc and the man at work, where as western countries, women show more independence. Or another example we all celebrate different days, like in India, they celebrate Holi festival and they go round covering themselves - and others! - in bright colors of powder!

I´m not saying I wish ALL the differences stuck around but like I said before these differences make our world very interesting and make learning about other cultures etc interesting too. For example, seeing everyone and yourself get splattered in different colors of powder is an experience I know that I would love because it is so different from my own (or tomato throwing in Spain! )- though I wouldn´t go as far as eating a cockroach in China 

This doesn´t actually shock me at all....

The purpose of life? To live it

 I totally agree that 5 hours infront of a TV is far too much for anyone, let alone a toddler but I also think that, for the report to say "They are considering drawing up strict guidelines which could even advise parents to ban toddlers from watching TV" is ridiculous. Every child should be entitled to watch a little TV to engage in their own childhood state of minds and watch the "little kiddies" or cartoon programmes we so loved to watch when we were children. Some actually help children learn. But even now, I can remember watching things as a child that I loved and some were absolute classics and I love the fact that now that we are adults we can indulge in a good conversation about what we used to watch as a child.

And yes we all do it! reminiscing our childhood I mean. Whether it´s the sweets we would buy by the quarter, or the old classic toys we used to play with, we still find ourselves to this day talking about it and I it can be a real nice conversation, and I don´t think we should be allowed to take that away from our children nowadays - but cut it off to a certain point which is still healthy so that they are still able to say "do you remember when we were children this - type of sweet/programme -  we used to watch".

For example, anyone ever remember toffee crumble that you could buy by the quarter? My mum lives in a small village where they still sell by the quarter sweets and that is one of them thankfully!

*wonders what site you originally were looking at before coming to this picture of whip*

 Hmmm as interesting as that is, somehow I don´t see anyone dowloading something to a disc for just 24 hours