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Outside the simian flock

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18:51 / 07.04.03

Does anyon want to start a hippy comune where the only rule should be that you have to be different.

its got to the point where the little but constant presure that society puts you under to conform has got to heavy to continue shruging off.

There is the power trip though, that feeling of superiority when wittnessing the heard like behavior, but doe anyone else feel that this is wrong and shamefull?

19:01 / 07.04.03

Yes, it is shameful. It's narcissistic, adolescent solipsism at its most hateful.

Those boring drone hive-mind herd-animals that you so love to hate? Every single one of them is a human being And every single one of them has at least one great story to tell, a story that would curl your hair and drop your jaw.

My advice: stop condemning the members of the "herd" en masse and get to know a few as individuals.

10:52 / 08.04.03

Jack Fear is Jesus and I claim my eternal salvation.

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:59 / 08.04.03

He just makes a new "idel masses" suit up now every couple of months so he can do this, you know.

11:05 / 08.04.03

Or maybe Loki is just a young kid a bit nervous about posting for the first time and went a little bit over the top?

11:06 / 08.04.03

'Rage' is my favourite FearSuit; Jack deserves an Oscar for that one...

11:08 / 08.04.03

(Do simians ever "flock"?)

11:25 / 08.04.03

A shrewdness of apes and a mission or tribe of monkeys according to wikipedia. Lots more collective fun here.

Moo.

11:40 / 08.04.03

Flying monkeys probably flock.

11:51 / 08.04.03

Please tell me that list is fake Lurid. A sloth of bears? How can you use one animal for the collective noun for another? And some of the others. Obstinacy? Clowder? And my favourite - a singular of boars. How can the collective noun be "singular"?

There should be some kind of committee that can veto any dodgy naming by excited scientists. "There's no name for a group of worms - I'll call it a fuck knuckle of worms!" No you won't buddy. You can fuck right off. Do not pass go. Do not collect two hundred dollars.

12:03 / 08.04.03

I thought the idea was to get as silly a name as possible. Besides give those scientists a break, they need whatever humour they can get. Being stuck in a lab coat with no chance of sex and spending your life examining an ant's anus is pretty grim, I think you'll agree.

I can't believe that flying monkeys flock, though. They are just too cool to flock.

Mind you, Nesh was asking whether simians flock, and I replied with collective nouns rather than the verbs. Are the two related? Do apes shrewd into a shrewdness?

12:10 / 08.04.03

Jack Fear is Jesus and I claim my eternal salvation.

HA! You wish.

Let's see, though, which deity could I be...? Hmmm. Big guy, kinda gruff, red beard, bombastic, good-hearted but not too bright... it's gotta be...

(Yeah, I know: you're tho thor you can hardly pith. Ha bleedin' ha.)

Back on topic...

Loki: I hope I didn't come off as overly harsh and I hope I didn't scare you off. I'm certainly not angry at you, and I don't think you're stupid: you just want something better than this world that you see around you. So do I. So do we all. But withdrawing—into a hippie commune, into narcissism or bitterness, or into the exclusive company of "cool" people—isn't the way to make a finer world: engagment and connection, man.

So please—stick around. Engage. Connect. And don't let me (or anyone else here) scare you—I just yell because I care: Thor used to beat down Loki a lot, but they were brothers, after all.

Now gizza hug, yeh wee trickster, yeh.

12:20 / 08.04.03

Yeah, Loki, don't get Thor.

12:27 / 08.04.03

Flying monkeys aren't cool! Even leaving aside the question of whether they're good or evil, they're still not cool.

12:28 / 08.04.03

You have got to be shitting me.

12:33 / 08.04.03

Flying monkeys are controlled by whoever wears their winged cap! This is a serious flaw in their coolness!

12:43 / 08.04.03

What? I didn't even know you got a winged cap as well! This just gets cooler and cooler!

13:02 / 08.04.03

Ahem.

TO ME, MY MONKEYS!

13:16 / 08.04.03

Aw, Frigg! Apologies for replicating the "Thor" gag - Jack's pic of Thor was covering over his post and my browser wouldn't display it all. I feel stupid now.

Let's not make too much fuss about it. Keep it kinda Loki.

The Return Of Rothkoid

13:22 / 08.04.03

Jack, that's what happens when Asterix gets into metal.

Flying monkeys aren't cool!
Wash your mouth out. Now! Don't make me fly over there!

13:29 / 08.04.03

Please tell me that isn't a real Thor helmet you can buy to wear in the comfort of your own Midgard.

13:42 / 08.04.03

No, that's a 3D computer rendering.

This, however, is real:

...although, sadly, no longer available.

Rothkoid: An excellent notion.

Hm... Big guy, kinda gruff, red beard, bombastic, good-hearted but not too bright...

maybe I'm not Thor after all. Maybe I'm Obelix!

Got a lot of gall? Buddy, I am a lot of Gaul!

(This is my favorite thread ever, now.)

Crimes_Of_Fashion

13:43 / 08.04.03

Reality check. All the 'different' people all ready have communes they’re called psychiatric hospitals.

Non conformists however is a stranger breed... I mean isn't conforming to non conformity and all it's indy rock glory still..erm...conforming.

There are more 'non conformists' then there are conformists anyway.

Think back to the halcyon days of school, crazy religious cultists, hippy guys, skater girls, the weighty and anemic goths, the nerds, the gangstas...etc etc

Really, we need a commune of people that bathe regularly.

It's fine and dandy to stand on a far away hill shaking your fist at the machination of the system...

But true change, real change, comes via subterfuge from within the system.

Where the controls are all at arms length.

13:43 / 08.04.03

(But while Googling for that image above, I also came across—eek—a lovingly-rendered painting of Obelix naked and looking at a porno magazine. DAMN YOU, INTERNET! DAMN YOU TO HELL!)

The Return Of Rothkoid

14:11 / 08.04.03

Stupid, sexy Flanders!

19:46 / 08.04.03

Those boring drone hive-mind herd-animals that you so love to hate? Every single one of them is a human being And every single one of them has at least one great story to tell, a story that would curl your hair and drop your jaw.

That's all true, with the exception of the people in my office who actually are cruel denizens of the Outer Church with ticking rasping insects lodged in their clacking flickering dirty back brains making them function.

busy licking richard nixon

21:20 / 08.04.03

I agree with Crimes of Fashion. He told me say that, I must be his gimp (although he lets me wear shiny shoes and stuff). These are strange days and as I sit here with the sunrise crashing around my eyes and this quart of Wild Turkey running low, it feels like an apt response to the various insanities, situationist hoo-hahs and general hand wringing that accompanies modern life. Aye, as your attorney I advise that you ignore all of this, spend your time doing something other than reading this shite. After all, the details are sketchy and often escape me (let alone your good self). Dealing in absolutes is very much a twentieth century occupation anyway: in this bright, shiny synthetic future I very much get the impression that nothing it what it seems. I vividly remember standing at the coastline just by the Santa Monica pier. At the time it was about as far west as I could go. It was late spring: the Pacific looked calm and inviting so I smoked a cigarette and thought about things; it was one of those rare moments in dealing with those pesky absolutes.

21:30 / 08.04.03

Ah, Dr Thompson I presume?

busy licking richard nixon

22:00 / 08.04.03

(laughs)

can't a dood sit nude on his porch and fire his weapons without getting recognized by every runaway yee-hah anymore?

22:10 / 08.04.03

It was a dead giveaway. I know you drink Chivas Regal really. And nude At Your Age, R U sure that's wise?

busy licking richard nixon

22:22 / 08.04.03

It's peacock mating season, and at this altitude they need all the stimuli they can get..

Besides, I always preferred Daley Thompson anyway. His hair was funkier and his tracksuits always shined like freshly sheened dentures.

22:37 / 08.04.03

Yes, but would stimuli to a peacock actually be the "last chicken in the shop"? What were the curious properties of Daley Thompson in that respect

But perhaps we should try and get back to the thread. Should one see a herd of normality roaming free, what weapon would be reasonably employed to diminish it on sight to manageable numbers? I'd favour a Pulse Gun myself.

busy licking richard nixon

22:41 / 08.04.03

There's a South Sea Island where the inhabitants worship the Duke of Edinburgh as some kind of deity...I'm sure it's the same with Daley Thompson and peacocks...

But I digress. Normality doesn't herd, it swarms. Without the 3rd Infantry - or at the very least the armed wing of Federal Express, I fear we're all doomed. Chicken McNuggets all round I suggest.

22:48 / 08.04.03

I think the 99th UPS Airbourne...all that banishment of facial hair and jogging on the spot while waiting for paperwork to be signed has to count for something in this day and age after all. But we don't want to Go Postal on normality do we?

I query the reference to McNuggets. Surely you're not suggesting popularising peacock meat...?

busy licking richard nixon

22:51 / 08.04.03

I know of a dodgy food wholesaler in Pittsburgh. If we can deliver tonight he'll take all of the slaughtered normality we can provide. He'll repackage, label as "suitable for human consumption" and sell the stuff to Wal-Mart at 30cents a kilo...or, to put it another way: there's a degree of pointlessness in heckling zoo-caged apes simply because renegade elements of their genus evolved into humans, but I do it all the same.

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