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Cowboy Scientist

01:55 / 20.12.05

There's no new things.
The matter that makes the most new, original thing you can imagine has been there since the beggining of the universe. Only the ideas that arrange that matter are new.

Cowboy Scientist

21:52 / 25.12.05

Why do I always kill threads? I am always the one to post the last message.

18:41 / 15.02.06

For as long as random thougts pop into random heads, this thread will never die! Probably.

I don’t think I’ve ever realised before how *weird* the incest sub-plot in The Marriage Of Figaro is. What’s it there for? Everything else, all the horny teenagers and philandering aristos and sexbomb/saintly peasantgirls, it all seems, well, credible, and the sort of thing that people might do, only more hyper. But since when did anyone sign a contract to marry their mother in order to pay off a debt? Even by accident.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:30 / 27.02.06

I'm watching Dylan Moran's "Monster" at the moment- it was clearly ripped from a widescreen DVD and is no longer in widescreen, so everything's slightly elongated vertically- and by jiminy, he doesn't half look like Trent Reznor when you do that.

20:05 / 27.02.06

AS THE GREAT PAC-MAN USED TO SAY: WAGGA WAGGA WAGGA

17:01 / 28.02.06

Who would hate all women? That's a huge group to hate, not that hating smaller groups is better, but every single woman? How would you be able to avoid women alltogether? Just sounds really weirdo, is it considered a mental disorder? Off to look it up.

23:13 / 28.03.06

I wish there really was something called a wineburger. God, I could murder a wineburger right now.

06:49 / 29.03.06

A wineburger, eh? Are you thinking "burger with wine in it" or "a cross between a burger and a wine gum"? Cos I'm thinking the latter - a great big brown, chewy slab. Wine flavoured, beef gelatin.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

07:02 / 29.03.06

Wow, a burger with wine in it sounds really nice. I'll have to get some veggie mince and try that. You'd probably have to reduce the wine down in a pan first, maybe add a few herbs, dash of soy sauce...

17:33 / 29.03.06

"Leader of the Pack"; it's the tale of some suburban teenager in the 50s getting involved with a Brando-esque motorbiking rebel from the wrong side of the tracks, right?
Then how come she meets this terrifying delinquent in a candy store? It's not really the type of venue you expect to meet bikers. Pool-halls, seedy bars, even drive-ins, but a candy shop? It's just weird and has changed my whole undertanding of the song.

17:49 / 29.03.06

West Side Story -- both gangs meet in a candy store. They used to be different places than they are now, I think.

18:17 / 29.03.06

This is a prejudiced view. Are you people implying bad-ass delinquents cannot like candy? Bad you. Of course they like candy, they just don't pay for it.

18:26 / 29.03.06

That's it, I'm writing a series of short stories based in the 50s and set in a candy store. It will be full of Runyon style character pieces and Hammett-esque hardboiled prose.
The cover will be in the style of those 50s exploitation movies.

18:44 / 29.03.06

It was the fifties. Maybe the song had code words, only teenagers but not adults would understand.

Maybe "I met him at the candy store, He turned around and smiled at me" meant "I grabbed his ass, He turned around and smiled at me".

That it´s a code is indicated with the next line:
"You get the picture? (yes, we see)"
= You get the code? Yes, we do.

19:22 / 29.03.06

Is there such a thing as an anti-snark ?

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19:49 / 29.03.06

Yes, Cassandra... it has charm.

miss wonderstarr

20:05 / 29.03.06

Then how come she meets this terrifying delinquent in a candy store? It's not really the type of venue you expect to meet bikers.

In "The Wild One" (Brando) the bikers arrive at a small town and hang around in all the available spaces, however boring they might be. Not sure if there's a candy store, but the bar is a really dull family-type establishment.

As has been implied, maybe a candy store was on the level of a malt shop in terms of teen meeting places.

10:01 / 30.03.06

I should make some biscuits.

23:59 / 30.03.06

God, I want to go to an opera wearing a halloween costume. Or a rock concert wearing scuba diving gear. Anybody else feels like that from time to time?

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02:41 / 31.03.06

Well, there's no "best way" to teach people; there are different best ways for different people. In a setting like barbelith, I tend to think that modelling is pretty effective, given proper motivation all around. And it's less painful than trial and error. However, learning styles being what they are, some people are going to need to make trials and endure a certain amount of lecture about their errors.

03:18 / 31.03.06

Barbelith needs religion. Not faith. Not belief in a higher personae, but religion.

Yeah, we got a wiki, and it makes a fine Bible, but where's the behaviour? People get mad, talk about being mad, and just when things get despicably sour and ugly, people suggest that Barbelith's role is to understand, to dissect and analyze, and then to teach, to guide, to confront — but with the intent to aid in growth. It seems to be an ideal way of posting, or at least an ideal intent.

How can that intent be made into a collective behaviour? A culture? Can a group of ones build authentic huggles? Invent "charm"s? Volunteer to discourage counter-productivity for the benefit of the board as a whole? Not so random, but not really worth another thread...

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

04:27 / 31.03.06

I've decided there are two things that everyone, man, woman or sasquatch, need to learn to do at some point in their life. One is to juggle, the other is to stand on their hands.

I learned to juggle recently, and while I find it a useful skill it's just not as much fun as standing on my hands. For some reason I have a blast standing upside-down staring at the floor with my feet in the air. I'd do it all day if I could.

18:05 / 31.03.06

The really impressing thing would be to be able to juggle while standing in your hands.

Think about that.

SUPER-DNA, ACTIVATE!!!!

18:17 / 31.03.06

Enough sugar.

Alright. My father once told me this: The Lord gave us one mouth and two ears. What does this imply? That we should listen twice as much as we speak. At the rate you post, DM, you should be an authority on Feminism, Barbelith Policy, Battlestar Galactica, and the sarcasm behind every barbequote ever. I understand that you enjoy your participation on Barbelith, but your incessance is treading much too close to troll behaviour. I think everyone here would pay you a Euro to consider keeping your fingers off the keyboard until you have something entirely productive or insightful to contribute.

I also understand this is the random thoughts thread, and your post fits that criteria. I speak now on the behalf of all of the other threads on which you've "slipped" your random thoughts into. Listen. Learn. Grow. Up.

Please?

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

01:31 / 01.04.06

I also understand this is the random thoughts thread, and your post fits that criteria.

Not true, seeing as how his post was obviously inspired by my own. Technically, your own post does not fit the criteria either, nor does the post I am currently typing.

But I think we can all assume that the thread summary ("Thread, thoughts, random, for the use of") also implicitly includes "and discussion of" (at least I'm assuming that, and apparently Cassandra and DM are too).

Even so: this thread is a poor location for criticims on posting style, and the number of threads that do not contain a criticism of DM is getting smaller everyday.

Now back to random thoughts:

Jean-Claude Van Damme was originally supposed to be the dude in the Predator suit in the Guvornator movie, but was offered the starring role in Bloodsport just as filming began. He got himself fired (he said on his "E True Hollywood Story" special that he did so by falling down constantly while in the suit) so that he could do Bloodsport.

Even though that eventually led him to do other movies, and as terrible as many of these movies are, I think he made the right choice.

02:19 / 01.04.06

*crunch crunch*

Have you tried the nachos?

*crunch crunch*

*crunch*

They're delicious!

Daemon est Deus Inversus

00:32 / 03.04.06

If chicken livers are only about $1.15 a pound, and a restaurant can get $20-25 for Chicken Livers Chambertin, why don't more people prepare it at home; and drive the price up?

I've always wondered if Stalin was at least half tongue-in-cheek in his crazier moments. Not just the killings, but making close associates watch spaghetti Westerns in the early morning hours.

I think Vanna White would make a tolerable Vice-President of the United States.

11:43 / 04.04.06

There's almost certainly a gay dating website called 'Hot-male.com', isn't there?

Or is there? Would Gates allow it?

Hmmm.

14:04 / 04.04.06

velvet, remove the - and try that address again.

08:33 / 05.04.06

Hang on. Why would V say something like 'Governments should be afraid of their people'? He's an anarchist: he doesn't believe there should be governments. That's the whole point of anarchy! No governments! It doesn't make sense!

14:58 / 10.04.06

Posting on Barbelith has a common point with having sex:

The less you do it, the less you think about doing it. But, eventually, you'll get that itch, and you could run face first into a wall just to make it go away. Or simply do it, which may be a bit less painful.

22:22 / 29.04.06

Can Queer Pirates dress as ninjas?

06:36 / 30.04.06

They can but they may not. The parrot will seldom agree.

10:14 / 30.04.06

I think that a fair proportion of people who teach originally wanted to be the Robin Williams character in Dead Poets Society. (Imagine if it was called Dead Pets Society. That would be a horrible movie.)

23:41 / 11.05.06

ALL HAIL THE GODS OF ROCK'N'ROLL!!!!!

[enter Smoke on the Water intro]

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