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[bubosquared]

My Hot Topic package has arrived. I now have:

• Blood capsules -- which I've wanted to own since I was nine, yo!
• Fangs.
• Black fur kitty ears -- guess who's gonna be a vampire cat this Carnaval?
• Armwarmers.
• White foundation and power, and black lipstick.
• Spikes -- Which I shall carefully apply to my bag, coat and um. Brother, heh.
• "My Sexual Preference Is Not You" T-shirt.
• "I'm lost, please take me with you?" T-shirt.
• Black vinyl cami.
• "Sorry, I prefer Girls" tank top -- Which isn't included in the invoice, oddly.
• Buttons:
  • Can't Sleep, clown'll eat me
  • Anarchy handcuff
  • Monster kitty
  • I'm a Mess
  • Made in the 80s
  • It's not that I'm antisocial, I just don't like you
  • Plaid Punk
  • Simon Says You Suck

And for once, it was here on time, did not cost me anything in taxes (wow!), nothing was on backorder, the two T-shirts that were out of stock I didn't want badly anyway, and I managed to pick the right size for everything.

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Re: I appreciate it

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Actually, there are at least three or four books out about "forgotten victims of the Holocaust"; a friend of mine did a presentation about Jehova's Witnesses and holebi's (Homo, Lesbian and Bisexual people) in the camps, back in high school.

The thing is there seems to be a big difference between the conception of the WWs in America and in Europe. Most Americans seem to see it as v. good vs evil, whereas especially in Belgium, people are more aware of things like the collaboration, which is still a sore point with a whole lot of people.

Of course, then there's the attitude of "We saved your asses and therefore you must be eternally grateful and always agree with what the USA does," which thankfully v. little people seem to have anymore. This really pisses me of in reference to WW1, because the USAians may have "freed" the country, but "us" Belgians kept a small corner of the country free throughout the whole war, and at terrible cost.

So, yeah. I'm a history geek, and the wars are two of my pet periods. ^_^