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Lame Shift I--kickin' it with the Fimbles

 
  

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Papess
12:07 / 30.09.03
Is this argument over institutionalizing marraige, or the choice to have a partner/companion for many years or perhaps for life, regardless of church or state?

As an interesting note, I believe only 3% of the animal kingdom are monogamous and mate for life. Once again though, that is merely a physiological bond represented. Although, I have seen a Canadian goose after it's mate had been killed, and it stood there for days, waiting for her/him to awake. It is rather eerie.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
12:35 / 30.09.03
it's asbout institutionalising marriage for me- I have no problem with the idea of life partnership at all- but I don't think it should be linked to the state or the religion that dominates a country. I don't believe 'marriage' should be a moral or political tool.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
12:49 / 30.09.03
I know it's not late and I know I am interrupting a serious discussion about marriage (for the record, agree with Anna de L on this front, and am not even especially interested in flouncy dresses and posh parties) BUT I AM BORED STIFF.

I have two and a quarter hours to go. I have done my work, done a couple of tarot readings online, read the first chapter of The Golden Bough, looked at some sites about ornithopters and written down 100 items from the RHS bibliographies site. The only thing I really need to do (proofreading) would be too obvious to take out at my desk.

Grrrnting frrrrsssing grraaahh...

Anyone for conkers?
 
 
Tryphena Absent
12:59 / 30.09.03
Tell me where I can do tarot readings and then rant about marriage. Go on, let it all out!
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
13:20 / 30.09.03
Here...

Marriage: I think sometimes it functions as a rite that attempts to bind something that isn't susceptible to bondage. Especially now that it has (in theory and with massive qualifications of course) shed many of its other aspects (those to do with property, with dynastic concerns, with propriety, etc.)

Not saying that I would never do it - I might change my mind - but certainly it seems like an unnecessarily exclusive and expensive form of rite to me at the moment.
 
 
gingerbop
23:36 / 30.09.03
Good Evening.
Does the beginning of the headshop thread state the end of the marriage-convo here? Because the four people arguing over it in my head hurts.

Today/yesterday, I was about to get in the shower, when the phone rang. I gave a big "tut" and ran, betowelled, to get it. It was my old english teacher, saying the SQA upheld my appeal, changing it to an A. This caused the towel to drop, and naked 'hurrah!' dancing to commence.

How have all your days been? Who's up? And hurrah for 50 posts per day
 
 
Mazarine
23:54 / 30.09.03
I'm here, getting ready to write the dramaturgical notes for a play. I've never done so before, so I'm trying to sort out what to put in.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
00:06 / 01.10.03
here, having been feeling blue, i'm cheering myself up reading Sirius/Snape slash

Why does it *always* work? *g*
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:34 / 01.10.03
I'm awake, but not for long. I've been keeping the flu at bay with alcohol and sleep, and wrapping up REAL fucking warm, and it's actually been quite nice making myself that cosy.
Just been over to lilly and mono's and watched "The Happiness Of The Katakuris"... fuck, is that like the best film ever or fucking WHAT? It has murder, Sumo, claymation, zombies, a really cute dog... and it's a fucking MUSICAL!!! And a feelgood musical at that. Damn, I can't recommend that movie highly enough. It's by the guy who did "Audition", but it's its total opposite on every level. Except the "really fucked" level.
Now I'm having a nightcap and debating whether to go buy some food before I sleep, or whether to just play Jedi Academy until I pass out. (The dog's on holiday, y'see... I don't have to get up early to walk round the park or anything.)

AND my phone (which had been cut off due to lack of payment- big surprise) has been reconnected. I'm a happy stoat. I'm already looking forward to breakfast.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
00:39 / 01.10.03
wow, it's a bloody marvellous film, i only know of a few people who've seen it.

glad the cosiness is helping, stoatie, there *is* something cool about wrapping up when yr ill...

mmm. breakfast. thinking i might treat myself to good veggie fry-up stuff...
 
 
Saint Keggers
00:48 / 01.10.03
Are you people back here again?? Dont you ever go home?
Hi all!
I just got back from seeing The Rundown with The Rock and that guy who played Stifler. Loved it.
 
 
Persephone
00:50 / 01.10.03
Oh yeah, that movie is insane. Plus the little girl was so cute, I could have screamed. I probably did scream.
 
 
Mazarine
00:57 / 01.10.03
Aww, happy Stoat!
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
01:00 / 01.10.03
how're the notes coming?
 
 
Mazarine
01:06 / 01.10.03
"The scenes in this play are set in the early parts of World War II."

Yep. That's about as far as I've gotten.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
01:17 / 01.10.03
oops.

you could always try that student standard:

write the concluding pars first, and then everything leads up nicely to it...

(got me through a degree full of things i didn't know, that.)
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
01:19 / 01.10.03
Goodnight, everyone. I'm gonna go downstairs, buy myself some chips, and lie in bed reading trashy horror novels. And then sleep in. Or not. As the fancy takes me.

Sorry, I'm kind of drunk. 'bye! seeyaz all soon.
 
 
Mazarine
01:20 / 01.10.03
It won't be so bad, I just have to find a way to consisely summarize the relevant historical context. Which, while tricky, is still fairly possible.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
01:26 / 01.10.03
'nnight stoat.

what's the context?
 
 
Mazarine
01:32 / 01.10.03
Germany, '33 - '35, various towns and cities. I have two pages of the program to do it in, so I'm just trying to figure out what to include. The play was written in '35, when pretty much everyone who would've seen it knew what the situation was.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
01:42 / 01.10.03
ooh, sounds interesting. what's the play(so i can nod knowingly and pretend to have heard of it...). is it a german piece?

selecting for limited space *is* tricky isn't it?

My entirely unscientific/artistic way of dealing with it(have been doing a writing visual thing for a mag. recently) is to quickly/without too much thought write down all the stuff *I* think is important, discover it's 3x as long as it should be and edit viciously...
 
 
Mazarine
02:25 / 01.10.03
Brecht, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, or, as the person who adapted it into English called it, Private Life of the Master Race.

Off to do that. Good night all, BiP, thanks for the interest.

Huggles!
 
 
Papess
07:36 / 01.10.03
Stoatie is adorable when drunk...n'est ce pas?

(please pardon all bad french, i am drunk too)
 
 
Papess
07:44 / 01.10.03
Damn...we should rename this thread "The Drunk Canadians and their Drunk Insomniac British Friends."

It is 4:40am here.

I mean really...what am I doing living?
 
 
gingerbop
23:06 / 01.10.03
YES!
I have at last reached Fame. I've been written about in local publications. My picture has been shown in a world-wide publication. But now I've been written about for the whole of Britain (well.. perhaps a select sector of Britons) to see. It relates to myself, and the lovely Pedro and was in this month's British Gymnastics mag:

After the closing ceremony we were chuffed that we were still injury free but forgot that cupid strikes at any time. On the train home from the closing ceremony our "wackiest" lady gymnast fell in love with a Portugese gentleman gymnast in all of 15 minutes. Off the train at Belem, over the bridge and down the steps but so pre-occupied was our wacky lady that she missed the last one "did her ankle in" and hobbled back to Inverness.

I feel most proud that my ex-coach described me as the wackiest. She claims she thought it would never get published, but I have my suspicions.

And today, my higher English appeal came thru, and im offically a clever bumpkin now. Hurrah. I got an A, despite only ever passing 5 things in the whole year, out of at least 30.

My day has been most pleasurable. How has yours been?
 
 
Saint Keggers
23:25 / 01.10.03
Congrats on being part of the 'people that people you dont know about know about' group.
Ana on the A
I remember the last time I got an A in school. It was red and made out of foam rubber. It was part of a set. I didnt really get it. I just took it.
Its mounted on my wall besides all my other hunting throphies... The grade one fish, the highschool chalkboard and Miss Phleps the chem teacher.
 
 
gingerbop
23:35 / 01.10.03
EEeks. Am I the only person here not to own big scary guns? Only big animal iv sorta killed is when it ran into the car. But i dont know if it died.

When I got the you-got-an-A call, I had a shower, and danced in it, much like Rani of Bombay Dreams, when she's in the middle of all the fountains. But you canadians are deprived of such treats. *sigh* its a shame.
 
 
Saint Keggers
23:40 / 01.10.03
Yes I must admit us canadians are deprived of you dancing in the shower

I dont own a gun and the only thing I've shot are bottles and cans and skeets. Although I can shoot a quarter resting on the woodpile from the gallery.
 
 
Mazarine
23:50 / 01.10.03
"The Drunk Canadians and their Drunk Insomniac British Friends."

Don't forget pseudocanadians! I'm not drunk, but I'm reading Chekov, so that's something. Congratulations on your A's Ginger!
 
 
Mazarine
23:52 / 01.10.03
I don't own a gun either. I have a field hockey stick.
 
 
gingerbop
23:55 / 01.10.03
Oh. When you said hunting trophies....

No, canadas not missing much on my dancing in the shower (altho i thought u were looking for a flat for two- *sighs*) but alas, Bombay Dreams if fabulous. If my friend Craig and me get simoultaniously bored (quite frequently) we burst into song and dance ala Shakalaka Baby, and argue over who is Rani.

When we went to see it, there were 6 of us, sharing a teeny tiny hostel-room. Us 2 girlies hated being left out, so we moved into their room, which had 2 bunkbeds. In this confined space, tensions ran high with Robert and Mike. Mike had been dumped by Ruth 2 months previously, and it had been a very messy "i love her soooo much, my life is so shit, Im gonna jump off the Kessock bridge"-type affair. Robert began seeing Ruth 3 weeks before our London trip, and Mike had only found out about 3 days previously.

Robs phone beeps. Mike: "WHY DONT YOU QUIT TEXTING AND JUST GO FUCK HER, YOU BIG FUCKING FUCKETY ARSEHOLE" etc etc, big argument commences, very awkward etc.

Next day, we go to see bombay dreams. Theres a HUGE poster as part of the set in one scene, for a film starring Rani. It's called Truth and Lies. We had seats near the sides, thus, the "T" was hidden from view. Those of us who noticed could barely contain ourselves.

They still dont speak. And robert and ruth are much together. *aaww*
And that, children, was tonight's story. Wasnt it dull? Most probably.
 
 
Saint Keggers
23:57 / 01.10.03
I dont have a field hockey stick but I have a machete, 2 swords (which I got for 5$ at a garage sale!!!) a diving knife and numerous shurikens. I was quite the amusing child.
 
 
Saint Keggers
00:00 / 02.10.03
No, it was a cute story. One of those 'ah, good times..good times...' type stories.

(altho i thought u were looking for a flat for two- *sighs*)
must find job first.
 
 
Baz Auckland
00:05 / 02.10.03
Hi all. I'm late for the pub, but I'll check back in 5 hours and hopefully someone will still be around for drunken conversation?

I always wanted shurikens as a kid....
 
 
Saint Keggers
00:07 / 02.10.03
Have fun Baz... Ill checkin in 5 if im around.
 
  

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