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It's official - I am a sad, lonely geek

 
  

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40%
21:13 / 01.03.04
Or rather, with.
 
 
40%
21:15 / 01.03.04
Well I've learnt lots of new words here - prurience, infelicitous, troll...
 
 
Sugarimp
21:16 / 01.03.04
"Pay no mind, 40%. They're just over on a day trip from fadetoblack. Terrifyingly, Barbelith is seen as a bit of a tower of Academe over there."

Academe? I thought it was hot air!
 
 
whothehell@where?
21:20 / 01.03.04
i think he's using the word "academe" as a synonym for steaming pile of self obsessed crap
 
 
Sugarimp
21:22 / 01.03.04
"i think he's using the word "academe" as a synonym for steaming pile of self obsessed crap"

I'd be more impressed if you said that in an appropriately academic manner, honey-pie.
 
 
whothehell@where?
21:23 / 01.03.04
which wouldn't really work, i guess

"Terrifyingly, Barbelith is seen as a bit of a tower of (steaming pile of self obsessed crap) over there"

hmm, maybe

"Terrifyingly, Barbelith is seen as a bit of a tower of (steaming, self obsessed crap) over there"

there, that's better

Academe = steaming, self obsessed crap
 
 
the garden gnome
21:24 / 01.03.04
quote:
steaming pile of self-obsessed crap


isn't that what the "'lith" is all about?

wait, is that how the cool kids refer to it...."the 'lith"?
 
 
Sugarimp
21:24 / 01.03.04
"My favourite example of that is "It's Not Unusual" by Tom Jones, where he sings "I wanna die" without the utmost glee."

Mine is "Gimme Gimme"- as in "gimme gimme a man after midnight" or "money money money".
 
 
Sugarimp
21:29 / 01.03.04
"Terrifyingly, Barbelith is seen as a bit of a tower of (steaming, self obsessed crap) over there"

That would be a tower of steaming self-obsessed "fecal matter" or "feces", honey-pie.
 
 
Bed Head
21:38 / 01.03.04
There might even be a song in that. It could either be a funny song where you poke fun at yourself, or an emo song where you wallow a little in sad, lonely geekhood.

I like the way whothehell’s completely missed that that same joke was made halfway up the thread and *days* ago. For a refugee from a comedy forum, his timing appears a little off. Unless he has noticed and is in fact Fadetoblack’s very own Dennis Leary.

Either way, it was funnier the first time.
 
 
whothehell@where?
21:40 / 01.03.04
that was aus you quoted, you pie-packer
 
 
Bed Head
21:42 / 01.03.04
Doh! Aus, I mean. Gah. That’s why I’m not on comedy forums. Feeble attempt at put-down withdrawn, I’m a disgrace to Barbelith, etc.

Point stands. It was funnier the first time.
 
 
40%
22:01 / 01.03.04
Erm, I can't quite see how Gimme Gimme Gimme or Money Money Money quite fit with the 'happy sounding songs with depressing lyrics' theme. I think they've got another theme going there though. That's right, they're both Abba songs.

whothehell - You may or may not know this, but the pie factory where Bed Hed worked has laid off a number of staff recently, and he was unlucky enough to be one of them. Perhaps you should try focusing on a less sensitive issue...
 
 
aus
03:16 / 02.03.04
I like the way whothehell’s completely missed that that same joke was made halfway up the thread and *days* ago. For a refugee from a comedy forum, his timing appears a little off. Unless he has noticed and is in fact Fadetoblack’s very own Dennis Leary.

Either way, it was funnier the first time.


No, I didn't miss it. If you go back and read my post (and I'm surprised you're quoting from something you haven't read), you'll see that I quoted it directly. The difference was that I wasn't joking. I saw the joke and thought to myself, "you know, self, there might really, seriously be an idea for a song in this." So that's how I replied.

Furthermore, I wasn't talking to you.
 
 
aus
03:22 / 02.03.04
The quote was direct from the initial post, from the letter written by Nicola. And you were almost right, Bed Head - whothehell@where also quoted it, though in a more sardonic context.
 
 
Sugarimp
06:51 / 02.03.04
"Half past twelve
And I'm watching the late show in my flat all alone
How I hate to spend the evening on my own
Autumn winds
Blowing outside the window as I look around the room
And it makes me so depressed to see the gloom
There's not a soul out there
No one to hear my prayer

....


Movie stars
Find the end of the rainbow, with that fortune to win
It's so different from the world I'm living in
Tired of T.V.
I open the window and I gaze into the night
But there's nothing there to see, no one in sight
There's not a soul out there
No one to hear my prayer"

Those are the lyrics of a manic depressive, if you ask me...
 
 
whothehell@where?
12:37 / 02.03.04
and who asked you?

aus, why am i looking up "sardonic" at this time of morning?
 
 
40%
13:14 / 02.03.04
Surely not every post has to offer a fresh new insight. Isn't there a place in discussion for affirming previous statements?

To criticise someone so strongly for nothing more than being unoriginal just seems mean.
 
 
aus
13:46 / 02.03.04
Exactly. Thank you, 40%.

You're mean, Bed Head. And now I'm sad.
 
 
whothehell@where?
14:05 / 02.03.04
cheer up, at least your not zeeke!
 
 
40%
14:07 / 02.03.04
Who's zeeke?
 
 
gridley
14:09 / 02.03.04
He's just this guy, you know?
 
 
the garden gnome
14:48 / 02.03.04
zeeke is the person whothe fears the most.

invoke him and you will see whothe's dick shrivel in a nanosecond.
 
 
gridley
17:12 / 02.03.04
Zeeke! Zeeke! Zeeke!
I invoke thee!

*watches and waits
 
 
aus
17:19 / 02.03.04
40%, do you intend to write the song based on this experience? If you aren't, I'd like the idea for myself. I'm loathe to start writing a song, and perhaps workshopping lyrics in the Creation, when it's your story. If you are writing the song or intend to write it, I'll do something else.
 
 
whothehell@where?
17:20 / 02.03.04
*within nanoseconds my penis shrivels up into my body*

damnit, the antidote!

gridley gridley gridleys sweet ass!

*massive throbbing purpleheaded moisture missile protrudes*

all better
 
 
40%
18:08 / 02.03.04
Just walk me through this Aus, what are you wanting to write about exactly? The experience of being a sad lonely geek? My experience with this girl Nicola? I'm not really clear where you're coming from.
 
 
gridley
18:20 / 02.03.04
Perhaps a song about the "The massive throbbing purpleheaded moisture missile."
 
 
gridley
18:23 / 02.03.04
*wipes brow*
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
18:43 / 02.03.04
aus, why am i looking up "sardonic" at this time of morning?

Because you were too busy being taught how to make ashtrays by Mister T during your statutory-minimum-length flirtation with the education system to learn it then?

Just guessing.
 
 
whothehell@where?
18:55 / 02.03.04
you may have something there

*admires his clay ashtray from third grade*

i have no regrets
 
 
40%
18:59 / 02.03.04
Hooray! My first century break!
 
 
aus
19:02 / 02.03.04
40%, I'm imagining a song that describes the experience of being a sad and lonely geek, partially in terms of an experience with someone called Nicola. Something along the lines of:
Nicola cannot supply
The affirmation that I seek;
Perhaps there's truth in her reply,
"You're just a sad and lonely geek."


Or something like that.
 
 
40%
19:45 / 02.03.04
I'm sure your song will give new meaning to the word 'pain'...

Mate, it's only out of morbid curiosity that I give my blessing to this project, but sure, knock yourself out.
 
 
pomegranate
20:00 / 02.03.04
yes, barbelith *is* dying. can i take some money i was gonna give here, and send it to someone so they can start up fade to black again?

...just to contribute, to, you know, the original point of this thread...40%, yr prob'ly not a loser. you just wrote a loserish e-mail. people do that sort of thing all the time, just as i am not stupid, but have been known to write stupid posts. like alex is not a drunk. necessarily.

it would have been oh so much better had you just avoided the word "relationship." that word freaks people out. it's like in the movie rushmore (paraphrasing slightly):
max: "the fact is, neither one of us knows where this relationship is going."
miss cross: "we're not IN a relationship."
max: "we're friends, aren't we?"
miss cross: "yes, but--"
max: "that's all i meant by relationship. want me to get a dictionary?"
 
  

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