Occasionally readers ask me why I don't allow reader comments on user's journals. It has been under discussion for a long time, as most other journal sites allow for commenting. My feelings are that your journal is your special place and doesn't need to be commented upon by anonymous others.

It's not like readers don't have options to contact the author or write a response online. They simply can email them using the form based email system, or go ahead and start a journal and inlink to the entry.

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Here is an example of what I never want someone to have to experience on their journal. Check out the comments on this site where people have uploaded pictures from the tsunami disaster. You would think that tsunami pics would be a place where people woulld not act that way.

Check this out

Here is the excerpt in case the link goes down

From: Jizsaw (Mon Dec 27 00:53:50 2004)
Hope many Israelis were drowed and killed horribly.


From: riddaren 78 (Mon Dec 27 10:46:42 2004)
And I hope Arafat is being fucked in heaven by israelis

From: Right Brain (Mon Dec 27 12:52:55 2004)
Uh Jizsaw thats "drowned" not "drowed" you illiterate skunk.

From: pacer (Mon Dec 27 15:30:17 2004)
Yeah, piece of shit, fucking goats while you should have been at school?

From: tim (Mon Dec 27 18:41:02 2004)
even at tthis horrific time, there are muppets flaming at each other! fuck war you fuckers! be peaceful, is there any excuse not to be peaceful?! religion? fuck off, which religion promotes hostility and bigotry!?!?!? die fuckers! :P ironic? yer

From: unknown (Mon Dec 27 19:41:57 2004)
It's called compassion. If this hit you, how would you feel?

From: Duap (Tue Dec 28 02:37:30 2004)
To think I once thought of visiting Phuket this week.

From: horny (Tue Dec 28 04:39:54 2004)
by the way guys, did u all miss the nice thai chick in the picture, i wonther if she was one of the hores i fuck last summer i thiland?

From: US Ranger (Tue Dec 28 13:44:18 2004)
jizsaw your momma just swallowed my load. then i cut the bitches head off and fucked her skull!

From: Disgusted (Tue Dec 28 16:13:36 2004)
You children all need to grow up and clean up your filthy language. Would you talk like this in front of your parents? I think not. Pathetic, ignorant, classless, childish, and disgusting.

From: me (Tue Dec 28 18:26:23 2004)
wud u all talk like this when u had such a tsunami on the face?

From: FR-Dabest (Tue Dec 28 19:48:21 2004)
Loads of pricks, you deserve to be among the deads over there.

From: right mind (Wed Dec 29 22:29:12 2004)
anyone who can wish death on another human being is not worthy enough to be called a human but a terrorist and should be locked away


From: clear conscience (Thu Dec 30 00:32:17 2004)
Oh my God! In all this tragedy,some people can still be worse than animals. Ashamed to even have to write this

From: baghdadforayear (Thu Dec 30 05:46:46 2004)
I thought this was for the world to see what mother nature can really do, and to pray for the people that were lost..not to make asshole comments about shit that doesn't matter.

From: yamm�´finnish (Thu Dec 30 19:05:50 2004)
how stupid to talk like that. that is something i cannot understand. Finnish nor Scandinavians would never behave like that. i am so upset because of the first few comments. is this how English-speakers are? i am glad i am a scandinavian one with heart and head.

From: CAROL B (Sat Jan 1 10:22:19 2005)
THESE POSTERS sending nasty comments WANT A REAC
TION - DON'T GIVE THEM THE SATISFACTION . They gloat on it. May they gloat on their on vomit !

From: (Aussie131049) (Sat Jan 1 21:01:52 2005)
No yamm'finnish, not all english speaking people are like these brainless self centered idiots who have nothing nice to say. I really wonder what sort of an upbringing they had and are their paren ts proud of what they have produced. The world would certainly be a much better place without them.

From: (Aussie131049) (Mon Jan 3 00:51:21 2005)
I FEEL THAT ALL THIS HATRED IS ORIGINATING FORM ILLITERATE USA IDIOTS ARABS AND JEWS

All of our house guests have come and gone. Well, (e:twisted) is left. I am so freakin' excited. The mansion is now ready for her visit.

Here are some pics I never got to post from our night at the american falls with alex, (e:terry) 's sister.

So after being secure about asking if there would be cats in the new apartment, I was assured by the realator that no cats or dogs were allowed in the building period. I said, "great because I am deathly allergic to them to the point of hospitalization. So then we sign the lease and move in. The people in the front of the house moved in on Dec 15th. We moved in on the first and the neighbors are really nice. I actually love the apartment but I then think I saw a cat in the window and this is really going to be a problem unless the living room door and the door upstairs are hermetically sealed. I was curious as we werer all starting to get allergies.

But most importantly what is up with Delores from Holcberg on elwmood. I specifically asked her about the cats and she specifically said there would be none. So either Delores didn't really check or the tenants in front are hiding their cat. I mean I don't want to start out on a bad note when they find out I am so alergic to cats, but someone is at fault here and I want to know who. It isn't like I didn't look into it or rushed into something this time. I was very specific about it and asked directly.

So now what? Luckily, we have radiator hear. I am going to speak with Delores on Monday and see what happend. According to the neighbors in front, Holcberg also told them the backyard grass where we park was mixed with gravel. Well, it isn't either and now it is a mudpit where no one can park. My car got stuck yesterday!

What is the point of using a realator if the information isn't accurate, might as well just go with advertisements in the paper.

We have four hours till new years dinner. Everything left is (e:matthew) 's. He really has a lot of stuff. When I was in college I moved six times and during that time, I learned to par down what I owned. Now I just have some clothes, computer stuff and a couple dishes.

He still owns lots of things like decorative books. I guess to each his own but I am sick of moving at this point and can't even pack stuff anymore cause I don't know what he wants with it. Compared to (e:mike) however, (e:matthew) has barely anything. Mike has a collection of keychains that is alone enough for a uhaul and he owns a cahregister collection. Why do people have so much stuff.

The fishtanks are a nightmare to transport. I hope they survive. I wonder what basra is thinking now that everything is missing.

I'll add comments later.

We have finally moved to the new apartment. We still haves some stuff to pick up and we have to go get a rug today, but otherwise we are moved in. Th eonly weirdness is that some dude is living in the attic for a month, but I guess he doubles as a fixit man, so mayb eit will work out just fine.

I am sure (e:matthew) and I will post a million pics later today or tonight. I have to say I was quite impressed by Adelphia's service. The had us up and running by 10am today and we just moved in yesterday night.

Somethings just didn't make the cut for the move. The dog, pig, mouse that (e:lilho) made was one of them. I think it was supposed to have a head, but the eyes got glued on the neck by mistake.

Wow, I sent so much stuff to amvets and it still seems to never end. I even throw out everything that could be considered decorative.

I wish I could just have a truck right now.

I have found so much stuff when packing to move. I decided it was time to go through everything and backup before the move. While doing that I found all the banners I made for products I sold on ebay. I used to make so much money selling working computer parts that I salvaged from broken computers. If only I had time like that now.

LWP::Simple/5.65 is annoying and eating up bandwidth . If you have a site and are having similar problems here is some PHP code that will at least block it from getting to content.

if(substr_count("LWP::Simple", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) != "0" ) {
exit;
}