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Random Plushie said:
Meh, Ryko ish distracting me much. D:
Join the club Plushie. ^-^ Seriously though, those every char in that RP except Yikari have anti-social tendencies or what? He's like the only character who's talked to another RPer's character yet. xD
On the subject of Americans...there are some good, intelligent, wonderfull people (Like Melissa and Plushie here), then there are those who are okay, and then there's the horde of the clueless, moronic, fanatical and trigger happy (E.g. George Bush the dumber) which can unfortunately be found in every society. ?? It's like this one Swedish writer dude said;
Smart Swedish writer dude said:
"It's not a surprise that every deomcracy in this world is run by idiots. After all, idiots constitute the majority of this world's population."
And yeah, I have no doubt that Iams is evil. But it's downright scary to think about all the cruel corporations in this world. As an example we have everyone's favourite MNC Nestl? (Also the owner of a variety of other larger companies in various bussinesses such as L'Oreal), which, among other things, not only sold powder milk to the third world as baby food (Even though tests indicated that it was potentially lethal to substitute real mother's milk with that stuff), resulting in millions of babies dying because they didn't recieve the antibodies that mother's milk contained and ended up defenceless against diseases, but they actually started a campaign promoting their product as healthier for the babies while at the same time portraying breastfeeding as being hazardrous, handing out free samples of the milk to new mothers and dressing up their sales personell as nurses to give them proffessional credibility. Plus, 80-something percent of the cocoa they use to produce their chocolate is bought from plantations in Africa which still use slave (Mostly child) labour. We had to do research on this stuff in Economics today, and the way they blow their own horn on the company website is just detestable...?? And on the animal cruelty front, we also have L'Oreal's (As mentioned, a subordinate of Nestl?) lovely animal tests. Dang, I wish they'd have picked me for the debate about wether Multi-National-Companies (MNCs) are good or bad. People like that should be hanged by their genitals. <_< Oh, and Charon, it's no good just boycotting the Iams brand as it's most likely just a puppet company for an MNC (Most likely either Nestl? or Craft (Which is incidentally run by the same people as one of the world's largest tobacco companies) as they more or less dominate the food retailing industry together).
Oh, and we've got the usual political correctness stuff here. "Musta" (Black) is forbidden, as is "Kinkki" (Offending form of "Kiinalainen" which means chinese), "Viirusilm?" (Mocking reference to asians, specifically their eyes being narrower than scandinavian ones), "Neekeri" (The real mean word for 'black people') is of course completely out of the question, as is "Manne" (Mocking term for Gypsieish people) and "Ryss?" (Old term meaning russian which is now usually used either in insulting context about said people or as a term for any given object that is unreliable and prone to snapping/malfunctioning with little or no notice, as well as a faulty good being sold at the price of a proper one.). Can't remember what the official substitutes are, though.
Anyhow, ranting aside...
IC:
"Yeah, kind of like that..." Amelia concured with Maxie's comment, relieved that neither the girl nor Zachary seemed intent on prying into the exact nature of her relationship with Sanada, as that was a slightly fuzzy area even for the trainee herself and she was embarassingly prone to blushing when she tried to work through it. She knew that she didn't like him like
that, well, at least she had never felt like she did...that she knew of anyway, but-oh, why was she even analyzing any of this? She did know that being with Sanada had certainly never felt like she had just felt a moment ago, and that was what mattered.
The trainee looked up at Zachary as the boy mentioned any battle involving ghosts being creepy, could he maybe be even more freaked out by ghost pok?mon than she was? It felt unpolite for her to ask though, and who knows? Maybe she wasn't as bothered simply because she had spent so much time with ghost types that she had grown used to them, yes, that was probably it "I agree with you on that." Amelia said, so as to avoid the boy thinking that she thought he was a coward or anything, "Particularly when it's two ghost pok?mon fighting each other. It's just eerie to watch both slip in and out of view and throw all kinds of peculiar attacks at each other. That and the battles between ghosts tend to be the most drawn out because both have a type advantage against each other so that they're really careful with their defences."
At Maxie's words, the trainee finally realized just how far their little group had gotten, remaining silent for a while as they reunited with the others.
"It sure has." Amelia replied at Kayley's comment, giving the girl with the trumpet case a smile, "And Rai?" she added, turning to the boy, "I'm sorry about the way I shouted at you...it's just that I was-"
"Furious." the boy finished, giving the trainee a polite smile, "Don't worry about it, I think I understand what happened."
"Right." Amelia said, heaving a small sigh of relief and giving him a nod, "Well, I'll have to go inside and get some bussiness sorted out, I'll see you guys later, allright?" she adressed the last statement to the whole group, "Are you still going to challenge the gym today?"
"Well, that's the plan." Rai replied, casting a glance in the direction of the sun. It was getting rather late in the day and the sky was already beginning to redden, but they were pretty far into the Showgan spring and he knew that there was still a good couple of hours of proper day left. It seemed like a waste not to use them.
"I see." Amelia said, nodding, "Well, good luck to you all. I'll stay here for the night at least so come tell me how you did, allright? Bye!" with that and a last wave to the assembled trainers, the girl walked over to the pok?mon center door, pulling it open and dissapearing inside with Kuro still firmly in her arms.
Just then, Kaika had decided to stirr in his sleep, his brown eyes slowly opening and a small yawn escaping his mouth as the Vulpix peered around his surroundings in confusion, {Wha-what has been happenings here?} he inquired curiously, {Dids something important happen while Kaika was nappings?}
