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Swearing may not be the way, Runce, but it sure is fun.
Oh, and reflect - I think I must be king, because despite being so slaughtered as to turn into Sergeant Vandal and his Howling Second Circuit last night, I have absolutely no hangover. How cool is that?
In all seriousness - I think I was a bit quick to criticise you as stupid last night, Runce, because from the tone of your subsequent posts you clearly aren't a native English speaker. Being slightly dulled last night I wasn't keen enough to notice this the first time. Also, the tone of your first post - which wobbled between incoherence and insult - sort of pushed my buttons. Some terms I'd like you to unpack:
real life: what is it? Is my 'real life' the same as your 'real life'? Do either of us have the same 'real life' as a Catholic nun, a Muslim zealot, or a Haitian voudounista? Do any of us even have the same 'real life' as the guy next door?
On a related topic, as I say, what makes you qualified to judge what is 'real life' and what isn't? To make such a judgement with any degree of accuracy I'd say you'd need a good solid grounding in physics, linguistics, philosophy, sociology, perceptual psychology - and those are just the disciplines I can think of off the top of my beautiful head. Are you qualified in all those disciplines, Runcible? Or are you just another paid-up member of the dreary 'common sense' brigade?
Grown-ups/kids: at exactly what age, Runce, does one gain the maturity to incontrovertibly know this 'real life' of which you speak? 16? 18? 24? 30? Are you assuming that we all suddenly agree on exactly what constitutes 'real life' when we reach the age of majority? How about the fact that that age is different in other countries? In America, I couldn't legally buy a beer until I was 21 - but in the UK, I could participate in that heady Dionysiac privilege from the age of 18 (not that this stopped me sneaking bottles of vodka into the pub when I was younger than that, like...). If we can't, as people, agree on what age you're 'grown-up' enough to buy a beer, how can we agree how old you have to be to understand 'real life'?
There are cultures that have very strong, ritual traditions of initiation, after which their children are considered old enough to know what's going down in the tribe's reality-tunnel - but these initiatory cultures are often explicitly magickal - so I don't think you'd like that, now would you?
Oh, and as for your picture of Lassie - yes, some magicians would consider their dog a familiar and might use it in some ways for their magickal purposes - though probably not, one hopes, through having sex with the poor thing. But myself, all I see in that picture is a rather confused-looking border collie. Let it go, Runce. It belongs with its family. Let Lassie come home.
On the plus side, I am going to rip off that 'sixth-form is for kids' line wholesale, though.
Oh, and fraelyboy - you're an idiot, you're not impressing anyone, and you're anally raping your own argument to death because mate, I've met nine year olds who are more articulate and insightful than you (apologies if you turn out to be, y'know, seven, like. Hate to think I was raggin' on a child.).
Oh, and check it out - an entire post with no swearing in. Suck on that, ya cunts. |
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But I'm not down with Disney either, man...they're one of my boss' clients, and the fuckers never pay their bills on time...