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Laugh
He was awesome. My equal secong favourite teacher at that school.

"Want evidence of how deeply we've allowed the media to define our beauty? Look in the mirror. How many of you honestly believe in your own essential beauty? Isn't it wrong that we have let the bastards define human beauty for us, instead of encouraging us to look within each other for it?"
01-15-2007 05:00 PM
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lmao, mad but awesome nice mix

I don't suffer from insanity I enjoy every minute of it.
01-16-2007 12:43 AM
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I think I heard a shot. Aarrghhhhhhh, it's skipping!!

And that's the only way to describe him without using a language that isn't mine to speak

"Want evidence of how deeply we've allowed the media to define our beauty? Look in the mirror. How many of you honestly believe in your own essential beauty? Isn't it wrong that we have let the bastards define human beauty for us, instead of encouraging us to look within each other for it?"
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Love Metal.

Black, Doom, Folk, A little bit of death and Heavy Metal.
Favourite bands are Burzum, Haggard, Otyg, Agalloch, diSEMBOWELMENT and Senthil. -_-

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04-03-2007 08:58 AM
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Wow.

I've never heard of any of those bands before.

There's WORK to be done!!

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04-03-2007 03:08 PM
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Rofl Razz

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Dark Soul X Wrote:Yeah, I like it too. I'm probably the only Black person in the world who does.

Not true. I'm black and I listen to metal. I listen to glam, thrash, death, traditional, alternative metal, and NWOBHM. However, I'm always around a bunch of racists when I'm listening to it. I get remarks like "What type of black man listens to metal?"
06-11-2007 07:18 AM
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He never said that that particular remark was racist or that he was basing his views off of remarks like that.
06-11-2007 12:25 PM
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BigWolf Wrote:I wouldn't call that racist.

I would call that stereotyping.

I just call it stupid.
06-11-2007 01:04 PM
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Metal

I don't even know where to begin with its awesomeness, so I will let it be as a reverence to it.

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