Tick... Tock... Tick... Tock

Hello again readers, it's been a while hasn't it? D:

Today I'm going to talk about time... Or at least I would if I had enough of it! So sorry! So for now just enjoy this picture and I'll see you during some future Time Plane, see you! xD

Tick tock... Tick tock, don't worry, time's not running out for you... But it's running out for the bomb i'm holding ;)

Wah! Get That Away From Me!

Welcome to another installment of the Lexicon Negimalevolentarium! :) Any idea what I'll be talking about today, just from looking at the title? No? Well lemme put you out of your misery, today, I'm going to talk about fear.


We can talk about people as being fearless all the time, especially characters from films, but lets focus on reality here: Nobody is truly fearless, some people have a lot of fears, others have few, and some people think they're fearless but just haven't been in a situation where they've been afraid yet, they're a lot like allergies come to think of it, I mean, my Nan has 27 of those... Oh, but that's a family in joke and now I can never show Nan my blog, not like I was ever going to anyway, I mean, if she saw this I can just imagine her saying "Oh, you shouldn't be using language like that, I remember back in my day we... (continues for 50 minutes, repeats)" Now there's something to be afraid of >_< ANYWAY! I'm loosing the track here so let's carry on. :P

The word 'phobia' stands for 'irrational fear', so the most common phobia everyone knows - Arachnophobia - is the 'Irrational fear of spiders'. So here's another definition for you, 'irrational' means 'Not logical', so Arachnophobia actually translates to 'Illogical fear of spiders' but quite frankly, I don't agree with that. If you asked me, I'd say it's perfectly logical for some people to be afraid of spiders, those things can KILL you! D: Oh and by the way, I have 'Apiphobia', the fear of bees as I mentioned in my post about insects.

Here's an arcade game I'm fond of dropping a couple of pounds into: 'Let's go Jungle! Lost on the Island of Spice', and this is the first boss, a giant tarantula. Oh and it's tough and flippin' terrifying! D:

People have different reactions to their fears, some people just do there best to avoid them, like people with 'acrophobia' (the fear of heights) will try and stay away from tall buildings because the thought of being up them makes them feel sick. Speaking of, nausea, or sickness, is another common symptom of encountering a fear, but I think the most common reaction is my reaction to my fears... I get the f*** out of there as fast as I bloody well can! D: Run Awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa *breathes* aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy D:

Didn't i tell you there is a great view up here? *shoves*

Still, I guess the one thing I can't get over is just how they name these fears, I mean, sure most just come from taking the Greek and Latin words meaning whatever the fear is, and sticking the word 'phobia' on the end - but surely, some people are just having a laugh with these things. Let's take an example, the fear of long words is 'Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia', now that's just being cruel, but at least this time, putting phobia on the end is reasonable. Every time I think of someone with the fear of long words, all I can think of is how unfortunate they must be, being unable to watch 'Mary Poppins'

The film Mary Poppins introduced us to the word 'Supercalifragalisticexpialidocious', I just feel sorry for anyone with the fear of long words that went to see it at the cinema xD

So from Irrational fears to stupid and irrational fears, I'd just like to talk about some of the more pointless fears that people have had. For starters, we have papaphobia or 'fear of the pope', now i have no idea who would be afraid of a crazy old guy that either sits down all day or stands up preaching in front of a bunch of Italians and tourists - though I must admit I feel sorry for any Catholics with that fear. There's also 'triskaidekaphobia' for all the superstitious people out there, and that' fear of the number 13, and while I'm at it, the fear of the number '666' is 'Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia'. And one last one, just to mention, 'Parthenophobia' is the fear of virgins or young girls. Now before you say anything, the reason I mentioned that last one is to tell you about my plan to harness the energy of 'Parthenophobia' and bottle it into a perfume which I will claim makes the wearer more sexually attractive to small children, and then sell it to pedophiles, but in reality, it will make them ridiculously afraid of small children and there will never be another child rape again!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH *Ahem* :) *innocent smile*

Inter-dimensional hotels with floating floors - the place to stay if you don't like the number 13, we screwed the 13th floor over, so you don't have to ;)

So I guess it's time for me to bring this installment to a close (>>SAY: 'AWW'<<), but I might as well tell you all the things I'm afraid of, all of my 'phobias', I'm sure you'll get a good kick out of it, heck maybe you'll be able to sympathize with me a bit :) Who knows, maybe I have the same fears as you? Well let's take a look:
Apiphobia - Fear of bees
Anuptaphobia - Fear of remaining single
Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed
Cynophobia - Fear of dogs
Dentophobia - Fear of dentists
Odontophobia - Fear of dental surgery
Odynophobia - Fear of pain
Polyphobia - Fear of many things


... Whoa... Didn't realize the list was that big D: Well anyway, now it's time to wrap it up, so just remember, next time you come across a fear, and think 'Holy shit! I'm outta here!' just remember this image:

So now it's time for my 'What if' of the day:

WHAT IF: Everyone in the world had phobophobia (Fear of phobias)?

Until next time, my scared little kitties :)

~Negi~

The Powers That Be...

So it's time for another entry in the Lexicon Negimalevolentarium, but firstly I'd like to apologies for taking so long to write this post, I've been very busy studying (Pfft, no, not really :D). And next, I'd like to update on my last entry, I was walking to the end of the road this morning... No, actually I was running because, to be honest, if I want to go a short distance I'll want to get there as soon as possible to get whatever I have to do over with, but that's besides the point, on my way I was attacked by 3 bugs, each of them hitting my face, and I swear at least one of them was a bee! D: Most terrifying 5 minute journey of my life.

Alright so it's time for today's blog entry, and I've decided that today I'll focus on the ideas of 'fate', fortune telling and all that bullshit (Although I do have a pretty strong interest in the stuff I still think it's a load of rubbish, how's that for irony?)

Fate, as we call it, is the belief that everything that happens was always going to happen, feels pretty religious actually, but when you really think about it, I guess it gets pretty complicated. You'd probably think you could defy fate on your own, but of course you'd be wrong, let's say, for example, that I wanted to defy fate so i take the glass off the coaster next to me, take a drink of more than I would usually and down the glass in one, hover the glass over the coaster, but instead of putting it down, I take it and throw it out the window. Have I defied fate? Of course not, fate, is a lot smarter than that, it knew all along that I was going to try and defy it, so it was written - it was fate- that i would down my drink in one then throw the glass out of the window, even if it was a stupid thing to do without killing a cat in the process.

Fate, or at least, what you get when you type it in google images, though I don't mind, this is a PC game I played once and loved, but now the free trial is over I can't play any more ;-;

So if everything is destined to happen, can we tell the future? Well I suppose some recently dismissed mental asylum attendees.... No, better not say that, it's offensive to the mental people... some whackos who obviously got spanked so hard when they were a child that their arse came out where their face was, seem to believe they can, each with their own area of expertise, but the with same level of shit spewing from each of their mouths, oh and quite frankly, I'd get less of the shit from a cow with chronic diarrhea. Anyway, so you've got the astrologist fortune tellers, they're the ones that make stuff up based on where the little white dots in the sky are; There's palm readers, who you pay to stroke your hand (and fulfill their fetishes) and then make stuff up; and the tarot readers, the card nerds of the fortune telling world who put some cards on the table then use a script to tell you what will happen based on what cards they draw. Oh and there's spirit mediums too, but don't get me started on those idiots, they can talk to the dead? Yeah, I'll believe that when Final Destination comes true.

Fortune telling, a concept that can only really come true in games and fictional stories, where many convenient things  just happen out of sheer coincidence

Sure, I think it's nice to have the idea that 'the accident was always going to happen, so it's not my fault' but God all this fortune telling is a load of bollocks, the horoscopes in today's paper for example: For Aries, one part says 'Single? A Gemini who finishes your sentences offers romance', and for Cancer one part says 'Still looking? Your perfect partner waits where singers perform' (I'm a Capricorn but today that was a bad example), now, maybe i'm just a loner or don't understand socializing, but I have never ever met someone who finishes my sentences for me, and how desperate do you have to be to go looking for one!? But the sad thing is that I'm sure there are people out there who will just go out on the streets, asking people when they were born until they find a gemini and then when they find one, and then start a conversation with them... full of unfinished but obvious sentences like 'That's a nice....' or something (now that I've written that I just can't think of any examples), in the hopes that they can grab that person's number and strike up some relationship with them another day... WHEN THEIR HOROSCOPE WOULD HAVE CHANGED AGAIN!! D: it's the same with the where singers perform thing, how many desperate people would go out of their way to find some sort of concert or bar with a performer in the hopes that the rubbish written in The Sun was true, and now that I think about it, how many desperate people would read other horoscopes like the singers one, and then head out there in the hopes that they find someone who look at the same horoscope and had the same idea? D: it's a conspiracy!

The star signs, we each have our own, based on what day we were born

I don't know anything much about the fake logic behind palm readings, so I'll go onto tarot cards and use an analogy here. So, I've got my homemade tarot cards (based on those from the persona games - the only reason I have an interest in tarot readings) here so here comes an example, I'm going to ask the tarot cards about... My love life, that's a pretty common question in the loners who degrade themselves to using fortune tellers, they ask about their love life. So let's ask the cards, what will my love life be like in he near future? Well i did a 2 card draw and got the upright Magician (I) and upright Priestess (II), so according to the tarot guide, I will recognize my own potential and be influenced by women, so the problem there is that I already recognize my own potential and there are very few women around to influence me, let alone me let them do it :o

Persona tarot cards, I can only wish mine were the same quality

The moral of all this is that, if you got an A or an E on your test, you were meant to, as you will be for the next tests you do, so don't bother revising, it won't change anything >:)

So there you have it, my thoughts on the strange world of fate and fortune telling, I wrote a lot today so for those of you who couldn't be bothered to read all my waffle, here is today's blog, in summary:

Now actually read the damn thing, I put a lot of work into it!

Anyway, let me just fade into the stars with my 'what if' of the day:

WHAT IF 'fate' is actually some fat guy sitting in a secret room in the government building, controlling our every move... D:

Until the stars say I shall write again, my readers :)
~Negi~

Buzzing Mad

Hello and welcome to another installment within my blog, the Lexicon Negimalevolentarium. :)

You can really tell that winter has come to an end in this country, the insects are appearing all over the place, so the irritating little buggers (bad pun intended) have become the topic of today's installment, and I've not chose them because the word insect sounds a lot like 'incest'. >:( Now wash your dirty mind!

Bugs, when its not winter the blasted creatures are all over the place, but you can't help but wonder if there's something mysterious about them, I mean, look at the facts here, the tiny little sneaks seem to show up just about anywhere, just last week I found a tiny little beetle camping out on one of the upstairs walls, a silverfish on the carpet in one of the upstairs bedrooms, and a WOODLOUSE in the UPSTAIRS BATHROOM! How the hell can they possibly get to these places, sure enough that beetle could climb, but a silver fish (a young one at that, it looked more like a tadpole than any insect I've ever seen) and a woodlouse? They can't even climb so how the hell did they end up there!? I really can't help but wonder if insects have some kind of  magical teleportation technology that we haven't yet discovered, either that or their like secret agents :o

^How'd you get upstairs you crafty bastards?^

But aside from the fact that they show up practically anywhere where the environment won't kill them, what are insects really good for anyway? Let's look at it this way, what do we get from insects? Well they kill pests... oh wait a second, if there were no insects, there wouldn't be any pests for the insects to kill because the pests are also insects! Without insects we wouldn't need any pesticide or any of that crap. So, another thing be get from insects? Well, we get honey from insects, but what is that really good for? Quite frankly, the only differences that would come from a lack of the existence of honey would be more people buying golden syrup, and a strangely named cartoon bear would have to find an new snack to keep his BMI over 35.

^Well, at least he's not biting the hand that feeds him^

Oh, let's not forget death. We get a whole lotta death from insects, sure not in this country (Britain, for those of you who haven't already guessed), but certainly in the more... exotic... locations. And I'm not just looking at the venomous insects either, I'm mainly thinking about one of my biggest fears - Bees and Wasps. I suppose I've got some kind of paranoia here, but I guess I can justify that. Having never been stung by a bee or wasp before, I can't help but try and steer clear of them, the last thing I want is to discover I'm allergic to their stings, enter into a severe case of anaphylactic shock and consequently die. Bee and wasp stings resulting in anaphylactic shock cause about 40 deaths a year in USA, so with a little bit of math, it works out that each year, 1 in every 783,080.1 people will die because of it. Sure, it doesn't look like the odds of me getting killed by a bee are very high at all, but I'm still not comfortable, being honest.

So this brings me onto my last point which is on wasps, they truly are useless. Wasps have two purposes in the world, number 1, to eat other insects, so yeah, pointless in that respect, I'm sure anyone would rather have a couple more annoying but completely harmless flies in their house each year than a potentially deadly wasp or two. oh and number two, is to get eaten by slightly bigger animals like frogs and badgers, all I have to say to that is... Good riddance you little bastards! I hope you get digested slowly! VERY SLOWLY. The only other thing I can say to that though, is just why the hell would you want to eat one of those things? Isn't it possible to stab your tongue with the stinger? Speaking of stingers, they're barbed at the end, so they won't come out of your skin easily at all... Ugh... *shudders*

^*shudders* Ugh... Just look at that... thing.... Yellow and black, the colours of danger.... But here... THEY ARE THE COLOURS OF EVIL!^

So now it's time for the 'what if' of the day:
WHAT IF: The Bee Movie was actually a true story?

Until next time, valued readers... Now BUZZ OFF! :D
~Negi~

Nothing But Scribbles

Hello there!
Welcome to my first ever blog about anything I feel like talking about, oh and if you don't like it the STFU! >:D
So while I was making this blog I struggled to really think of a decent sounding/appropriate name, and in the end I decided on... Well if you're here you should know it :P

Anyway, after thinking up that bizarre title, I've decided to make my very first blog post on language. Speaking of the title, I'll just point out before anyone else chooses to that it's become a cross between Greek and Latin. The word 'lexicon' comes from the Greek word 'Lexis' meaning... Uh... Actually I don't know what it means, someone get back to me on that! oh, and the 'Negimalevolentarium' thing is simply because when I think of Latin, I think of a word and stick a suffix like '-arium' or '-us' on anyold normal word.

How many languages would you say there are? Think you can name them all? Have a go if you want, bet you £100 you can't get it right without using the internet! Well, there's English, Franch, Itallian, Spanish, German, Japanese, Chinese, Latin, Pig Latin, Hindi, blah ,blah, blah... Well believe it or now, you probably couldn't name or count every language in the world, for starters, in 1997 the bible had already been translated into over 2,000 languages, and learning one is hard enough!

^The Greek Alphabet, various letters have made cameos in the video game world, with Beta through Zeta in 'Sonic Adventure', Lambda, Mu and Nu appearing in 'Blazblue' and Sigma, appearing in 'Lux-Pain'^

The thing that makes languages so interesting, is how they're nothing but scribbles to people who don't know them, take a look at this:

私はあなたを愛して
Any idea what that is? Well if you don't see it as a bunch of squares like I do (btw my computer's old and shit) that would be the Japanese for 'I love you'. Actually, while I'm on this topic let me delve into the whole 'Japanese = Chinese' thing more deeply, THEY ARE NOT THE SAME!

The japanese language (when I'm not counting Kanji, because I don't understand that shit) is made up of symbols representing either any consonant and a vowel together (i.e: Ka, Ki, Ku, Ke Ko), a lone vowel, or the exception, the letter 'n' on its own. On the other hand, the Chinese language is made up of 30,000 or so different symbols, ow which 3,000 are expected to be learnt by the end of Primary School (Year 2 to us English people). Just imagine learning 3,000 letters of the alphabet at that age! They might as well just throw a couple of dictionaries in our faces and tell us to 'learn it boyyyyyyyy, or your parents won't be coming home tonight', and even then it'd be a miracle if we got results. This just proves... Chinese people... MUST BE INHUMAN! (Not intended to be racist, I'm simply trying to make this blog funny... but badly because I'm really not that good at humour, I apologize to any Chinese people who were offended at my implication that 30,000 characters is too many, but seriously, I can just picture their computer keyboards now...)

^The city of Tokyo, how many signs can you read? Just the one that says 'BOOKS'? I thought so :)^
я тебя люблю
Consequently, this would be the Russian for 'I love you', don't ask why I'm choosing that phrase, probably because I'm a lonely pile of poo, but that's besides the point, just look at this stuff! How can it possibly mean anything!?

^Arabic Scrabble, as if word games weren't already confusing enough^

Well I think I've gone on long enough for now so I'll just leave you with my 'What if' of the day:

WHAT IF: The government actually gets high off our misfortune?

તમે આગામી સપ્તાહમાં જુઓ! (અથવા પહેલાં, જો હું તેથી ઇચ્છા)
(Gujarati, meaning: 'See you next week! (Or earlier, if I so desire)')

Omake (Japanese for 'Bonus')
What have we learnt about me so far?
-I'm not too good at being funny
-I like games (maybe a bit too much xD)
-When I get caught up in writing about random shit I can't stop myself