Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

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Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis

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You approach Satan's wretched city where you behold a wide plain surrounded by iron walls. Before you are fields full of distress and torment terrible. Burning tombs are littered about the landscape. Inside these flaming sepulchers suffer the heretics, failing to believe in God and the afterlife, who make themselves audible by doleful sighs. You will join the wicked that lie here, and will be offered no respite. The three infernal Furies stained with blood, with limbs of women and hair of serpents, dwell in this circle of Hell.


Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level Who are sent there? Score
Purgatory Repenting Believers Very Low
Level 1 Limbo Virtuous Non-Believers Moderate
Level 2 Lustful High
Level 3 Gluttonous High
Level 4 Prodigal and Avaricious Very Low
Level 5 Wrathful and Gloomy High
Level 6 - The City of Dis Heretics Very High
Level 7 Violent High
Level 8- the Malebolge Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers High
Level 9 - Cocytus Treacherous Moderate


At least I get to be in a city. I need to practice my doleful sighing.

[bilmore]

Damn. Seventh Level. If nothing else, I guess being religious must help you do better on tests like this. (Not enough. I will remain ungodded.)

At least I get to drop hot burning rocks over the edge onto Slave's head during free time.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
The three infernal Furies stained with blood, with limbs of women and hair of serpents, dwell in this circle of Hell.

Is part of this curse having my period all the time?

I'm noting that some levels have celebrities like Cleopatra and Judas -- but not my level. Cleopatra must have been a heretic, why isn't she down here?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by LessinSF
I know DS has already mentioned it, but, as I have explained ad nauseum, I agree and disagree.

"Slut" is a term of endearment, a compliment, and a short-hand term for the type of women men should reward with their presence, interest and praise, while non-sluts should be shunned. ostracized and reviled. As men, we can best change female behavior by encouraging the behavior we like (i.e., putting out sooner, with fewer Rules, for less time and money invested and without "love" or similar crap) and discouraging the behavior we don't (i.e. prudish, prim, chaste, celibate, modest, good girl, etc.)

98% of these behaviors are not biologic or genetic, but cultural and learned. As such, they can be changed. For example, next time you are in a conversation with a girl (at a party, bar, wherever) who says something like "I've been dating him for three months and we haven't had sex," respond with "You frigid, manipulative bitch" or "That's bullshit." If you are uncomfortable with that level of confrontation, just walk away with an aside like "I don't want to continue to talk to someone who holds your beliefs" or whatever you would feel comfortable saying to, say, Pat Buchanan if you found out you were talking to him at a party.

Less (I would have linked to my prior missives on the subject, but Infirmation has been down for about 36 hours now) inSF

Less,

A better reply might be "He's clearly gay" or "That's awful - how goddamn selfish of him!"

S(I find your points intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter)D

PS: That was pretty goddamn funny. I know it was uninentional, but you just eerily channeled the early 80s voice of PJ O'Rourke, a la "Modern Manners".

[purse junkie]

Wait a minute, I demand a recount. If I'm both lustful and wrathful, why am I stuck at crappy level 5? Level 2 at least promises that "sinners are blown around endlessly by the unforgiving winds of unquenchable desire as punishment for their transgressions", which actually sounds kind of hot (for, y'know, an eternity of condemned misery).

Level 5, by contrast, is a total drag:
"The river Styx runs through this level of Hell, and in it are punished the wrathful and the gloomy. The former are forever lashing out at each other in anger, furious and naked, tearing each other piecemeal with their teeth. The latter are gurgling in the black mud, slothful and sullen, withdrawn from the world. Their lamentations bubble to the surface as they try to repeat a doleful hymn, though with unbroken words they cannot say it. Because you lived a cruel, vindictive and hateful life, you meet your fate in the Styx."

Damn. I'd better start being nicer and just stick with the lust and heresy instead.

We introduced dog #2 while dog #1 was in his middle-age years. Ritzspouse stops home at lunchtime to let both outside and we have not encountered any problems.

One note - we are at the point where dog #1 is starting to decline in health and this is going to be a problem because whenever dog #1 is absent (vet appointments, etc.), dog #2 mopes around and refuses to eat. I believe that we are going to have to introduce dog #3 so that dog #2 will have a companion once dog #1 passes. If puppy gets very attached to Displaced Dog, you may be in the same situation in 5 or 6 years because puppy will never have gotten used to being an only dog.

[ABBAKiss]

ABBA joins the majority of FBers in the second level of hell.

I bet I could pull a few strings to move up a few notches into Paradiso.

[AngryMulletMan]

I am highly lustful and somewhat gluttonous, according to this test. But I am such a goody-two-shoes in other areas that I have only managed to land myself in the second level of hell, which doesn't sound like an entirely terrible place.

Hanging out for eternity with the lustful -- sounds an awful lot like the FB.

Second Level of Hell

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You have come to a place mute of all light, where the wind bellows as the sea does in a tempest. This is the realm where the lustful spend eternity. Here, sinners are blown around endlessly by the unforgiving winds of unquenchable desire as punishment for their transgressions. The infernal hurricane that never rests hurtles the spirits onward in its rapine, whirling them round, and smiting, it molests them. You have betrayed reason at the behest of your appetite for pleasure, and so here you are doomed to remain. Cleopatra and Helen of Troy are two that share in your fate.

[Atticus Grinch]

Eigth Level of Hell - the Malebolge

Surprising. Apparently, "malebolge" is Renaissance Italian for "bad spellers."

I think I wound up at Level 8 because I'm an unrepentant liar and flatterer. The test tries to match you up with the damned of similar proclivities, so don't be too upset that you're "only" at Level 2. It's not about the level; it's about the company you'll be keeping.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
You mean like rim job?

Sure. I've seen pics of his wife. I'd rim her.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Is part of this curse having my period all the time?

Actually, the curse comes when your period stops.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Is part of this curse having my period all the time?

I'm noting that some levels have celebrities like Cleopatra and Judas -- but not my level. Cleopatra must have been a heretic, why isn't she down here?

She's in the lust section with me. I was looking back, and I got "very high" on four of the levels. 2, 5, 6, 8, and 9. I probably answered one more question for two than the others, so that's why I got in there. It's nice to know that I'd be welcome all over hell though.

[c2ed]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The Dante's Inferno Test ....

Wooohoo! Somehow, I am saved - purgatory!!

You have escaped damnation and made it to Purgatory, a place where the dew of repentance washes off the stain of sin and girds the spirit with humility. Through contrition, confession, and satisfaction by works of righteousness, you must make your way up the mountain. As the sins are cleansed from your soul, you will be illuminated by the Sun of Divine Grace, and you will join other souls, smiling and happy, upon the summit of this mountain. Before long you will know the joys of Paradise as you ascend to the ethereal realm of Heaven.


C(grandma will be so relieved)deuced

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan

Has anyone gotten a puppy while working full time, with no spouse / live in / roommates? And if so, do you have pointers?

Yay, puppy! I got my pup while in law school and started working full time when the dog was about a year old, so I didn't have to juggle housetraining and work. But a single colleague just got a puppy and he has found the time demands to be a little stressful but not unmanageable. He hired a dogwalker to help when the daily lunchtime runs became too much of a strain.

One thing that may raise a problem is crating or blocking off the puppy while the Displaced Dog roams free. We keep both our dogs gated in one large room in our house; if one were in and one were out the gated dog would be quite restless. If this is consistently the puppy's situation from the beginning, however, it will probably work out fine. I don't imagine the Displaced Dog would take to well to being gated in the kitchen with the upstart.

You might also want to think about your plan to transition from crate to bathroom to kitchen to full house access. Perhaps that will be too much change for the pup? What about crated-in-kitchen, gated-in-kitchen (with crate available), run of house?

FWIW, I don't think breed matters at all with respect to how the Displaced Dog will react. As you suggest it's about the temperament/dominance. My two dogs are very different breeds and sizes, one considers itself the alpha and the other is happy to be beta, gamma, omega, whatever, depending on how many other dogs are around. They make a very happy, if odd looking, pair.

r(puppies are good!)p

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Sure. I've seen pics of his wife. I'd rim her.

I thought you meant you would do things behind YOUR wife's back. Like rim HER. NTTAWWT.