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Celeriac Is Ugly Vegetable
17:40 / 07.04.04
Drivel is good. Fluff is good. It's excreting all the crap we have inside of us. Some of it disappears round the u-bend but sometimes it's so worthy you just have to sneak a peek.

I hope to be quite regular on this topic.
 
 
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18:20 / 07.04.04
Wow. It looks like my posting is actually winding a good few people up. I agree with some of this stuff though, namely this, which is the main reason why i make nonsense threads sometimes :

This is not to be prescriptive, but just for a different perspective... I embrace drivel and nonsense. I think it's essential to creativity. If I'm stuck on some problem, I find that it helps a great deal to spout utter nonsense. I envision this as loosening up the stuck things in my brain. Maybe two things that were never close to each other will bump against each other & make something new.

I never go into one of those threads with the intention of trying to do anything for my ego, but on more than one occasion some of you seem to get that impression...........i really can't do anything about that except say that i do it do break up any uninspiring patches i have when i'm stuck in the house and bored.

I just like messing around in here, when i post in the Temple forum and the other forums from time to time i don't do any of this nonsensical stuff because it's not needed in there among the types of things being talked about, (99% of the time) but in here i feel free to piss about and i enjoy doing it. No matter what i say though it seems that i'm being seen as a person who just likes attention and is egotistical.

I'm not that crazy in real life either, i'm a pretty quiet person, when i go out with my mates i'm quiet aswell, unless i'm pissed anyway.

Wierd, i don't know what to say, because egotistical people really annoy me and it looks like i'm being seen as one of those people by more than a few now, so i'm gonna have a good look at what i'm doing when i post and see if there's anything i can notice that's getting taken in the wrong way.

I can't believe i'm explaining why i make nonsense threads from time to time. I think it gives, more or less the same as Persephone said, different parts of the mind a rest and brings others into use, also, one of the good things it does is to connect different things up that wouldn't normally be connected maybe, i really don't know for sure and i don't even wanna get into trying explain this type of thing, it beats the whole purpose of doing it in the firstplace.

You'd be amazed at how normal a person i am if you met me, you probably wouldn't believe it was me because you'd be expecting me to go insane or crazy or whatever at any moment, really, i'm not that crazy in real life, sorry.
 
 
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18:23 / 07.04.04
I think the problem could be easily solved by not posting in the thread if you don't like it, that's what i do, and it keeps me out of arguments unless someone takes a shot at me first.
 
 
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18:31 / 07.04.04
Hey Mordant, i looked up pomposity in the dictionary and found :

1.Characterized by excessive self-esteem or exaggerated dignity; pretentious: pompous officials who enjoy giving orders.
2.Full of high-sounding phrases; bombastic: a pompous proclamation.
3.Characterized by pomp or stately display; ceremonious: a pompous occasion.

Now the first one i don't like, that's descending into the ego zone, the second one sounds a little wierd, but the third one i really like, it's fun. I guess you were thinking of the first meaning too?

Whatever anyway, i don't wanna start being specific here because i like to think that i'd be able to get on with you people if you know me a bit more.

Maybe some people just don't get on with each other no matter what, but i'm always gonna search for the opposite, it just seems like a false statement.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
18:33 / 07.04.04
 
 
Olulabelle
21:17 / 07.04.04
...and being a very unamusing poster myself I should not really throw stones...

KCC, you are amusing, actually. 'Discordian larping' is quite possibly the most excellent phrase I have ever encountered.

This therefore would suggest that the purpose of fluff is primarily so that people like you can call it discordian larping and people like me can be muchly impressed and amused at such a turn of phrase.

Secondarily it would seem that the other purpose of fluff is to enable people like Ex to post photo's of baby Platypi in order to delight us all.

It's a downer, but you just can't find that kind of cuteness in the Headshop.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
23:55 / 07.04.04
I get what you're saying now, P. I suppose a better way to describe my take on it would be

Discordian humour = student Rag Week joke zines

It's just that saying that tends to get you accused of being blinded by the Order Archons, the only solution, apparently, being to drug you and make you shoot your baby gravy inside a giant golden apple.

Not that I want to stop anybody from thinking that they're freaking the squares or sticking it to The Man. If you want to change your name to Halfred the Decentrelestablishmonger, be my guest.
 
 
Sax
18:49 / 08.04.04
I think the general rule of thumb (for me) is: If Sax is involved, it's a riotous laff, if Sax isn't involved, it's annoying inanity.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:56 / 08.04.04
You noticed that too?
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
19:02 / 08.04.04
Xoc, I'd like to take this opportunity to ask you a question. You once made a testy remark about someone without specifying who. Was it me?
 
 
Sax
19:03 / 08.04.04
Damn right it was. Fuck, everyone knows that.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
19:06 / 08.04.04
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Mourne Kransky
19:51 / 08.04.04
Is that "testy" as in testosterone-fuelled or "thinking testicularly"? Can't recall ever being peeved with you, Qalyn, and I keep very neat lists of those who have offended me, so I think you can be assured I retain only the fondest thoughts of your sweet little welding self.

Mind you, I have rarely been this drunk in my long and event-filled life and currently I looooove the world...
 
 
agvvv
19:55 / 08.04.04
I offended you once.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
19:57 / 08.04.04
Did I say "testy"? I meant "tasty". And you claimed to be drunk when you dissed anonymous as well. I begin to suspect you, sir, of dissemblage.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
20:20 / 08.04.04
Maybe 'tis so. I dissemble when drunk. If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

I could give a shit, really. Apart from Adrian, who seems a charming little Norse all told.
 
 
agvvv
20:23 / 08.04.04
Eh.. Thats right.
 
  

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