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Random Thoughts thread.

 
  

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Saint Keggers
00:05 / 13.10.07
Edelweiss FTW!
 
 
*
04:14 / 13.10.07
I want a font where the lowercase letters are small caps and the capitals are small caps turned upside-down.
 
 
*
21:00 / 15.10.07
Empowerment movements generally need to be accompanied by embetterment movements, I think.
 
 
h1ppychick
21:42 / 16.10.07
I wish my fingernail would just decide, once and for all, if it is broken or not broken? 0/1. It's digital, baby.
 
 
Shrug
22:48 / 16.10.07
Should I resist the urge to turn my life into an easily consumable narrative? Or should I be content dabbling with genre-conventions? What genre could I ostensibly be said to occupy, some kind of dimly aware, falteringly unperceptive Bildungsroman?

(still I'm being, perhaps, very silly)

Future Me: *Scoff*
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
22:39 / 19.10.07
Watch me wrestle manfully with the temptation to lolcat the Eddas.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
22:41 / 19.10.07
Lolkasenna

Aegir: I has a servint!

Loki: I'm in yr feest, killin yr dood.

Fimafeng: *IZ DED*

Aegir: Nooo they be killin my servint!

Aesir + Elves: WE HAZ A SPEERZ!

Loki: brb.


Manfully. But also very briefly.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:31 / 23.10.07
The issue, Mister Kelly, is not that you are a flirt. it is that you are a meanie.
 
 
This Sunday
10:45 / 23.10.07
Reading LOLcatted Eddas with a mouthful of bourbon is a bad idea. Now I have to clean my screen and I've wasted perfectly good alcohol.

It was Loki that did it for me. It would be.
 
 
Dead Megatron
11:29 / 26.10.07
A friendly reminder for all my Barbelith comrades who find themselves in dire straits of any kind: good things will come to those who persevere and maintain a pure heart*.





* some would say "pure hearts" also include hearts that are "pure evil" (Prince Vegeta, actually), but, Gods, I don't reccoment it.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
11:38 / 26.10.07
That's nice, pickle. What does it actually mean? In the context of a real-world situation, sort of thing.

I ask merely because you've just offered this as advice or consolation or something to another poster in the context of intimate partner abuse.
 
 
Dead Megatron
11:54 / 26.10.07
Isn't this the random thoughts thread? oh well...

It means, basically, "hang in there, things shall get better", and/or "don't let despair get the best out of you".
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:27 / 26.10.07
I'm finding it very hard not to let despair get the better of me right now, DM. And it's all. Your. Fault.
 
 
HCE
12:31 / 26.10.07
So my friend died of brain cancer because his heart was not pure enough? Or were the repeated surgeries a good thing? How exactly does it work? Is bleaching of the heart required? Or reverse osmosis? How about jamming a Britta filter into the chest?

Hopefully shrug will find your comment a cheering expression of goodwill.
 
 
Dead Megatron
12:50 / 26.10.07
I should clarify that "keeping a pure heart" is not meant to signify "stay clear of sin" or "get tyour act together" or any moralizing tenet like that. It is more of the kind "do not loose self-confidence" and "trust yourself" and "do not falter in what you believe". I do not mean that one is to blame for one's predicaments for not having a "pure heart" at all.

Strange thing, though, that such words of encouragement are seen to be an admonishing, guilty-ridden, victim-blaming statement. Nothing of that kind on my end, I assure all.
 
 
Dead Megatron
12:50 / 26.10.07
And cancer does suck!
 
 
HCE
16:21 / 26.10.07
Well, statements often have implications, just as actions have consequences. For example, saying that wealth is the result of hard work carries the implication that if you're not wealthy, it's because you're not working hard enough, and certainly if you're working very hard and still struggling financially, such statements, perhaps meant to be encouraging, can chafe.
 
 
Dead Megatron
17:08 / 26.10.07
Granted. Thus, I apologise for any distress I may have caused.
 
 
Dutch
02:49 / 27.10.07
...

beware the all-gnawing

...
 
 
The Ghost of Tom Winter
03:11 / 27.10.07
Everything in life is an accident and religion turns that accident into order. Or am I just drunk? "Who are you?" Sorry I don't come here enough to interject my random thoughts.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
23:21 / 29.10.07
Ah, Blooms - the ancient bric-a-brac and household good shop run by a sweet old couple for as long as there has been a London to sell nail brushes, random mugs, drain filters, lightbulbs, useful things and kitsch stuff to - has finally gone. There are lights on through the windows which have been grimed up for a decade or three; the shelves are finally visible, and starkly clear.

But there's a new music shop, or something which has acoustic guitars in the front anyway, opened up afresh a little further along on Blackstock Road; and a gleaming bright comics shop has manifested itself just metres from the entrance to where I work.

What has happened to Finsbury Park in the week I've been away?
 
 
Tsuga
00:45 / 30.10.07



BRUCKHEIMER!
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
01:29 / 30.10.07
Gesundheit!
 
 
This Sunday
01:45 / 30.10.07
Vatican III should involve replacing the Eucharist with CHuCHu Rocket. Tonight.
 
 
astrojax69
08:43 / 30.10.07
chopped vegetables tend towards the floor. never to the back of the board, oh no, only floor-wards.

and commas, people.


and while i'm here, i just thought of cicadas.
 
 
Sekhmet
14:53 / 13.11.07
I wonder what cheese made from human milk would taste like. Or butter, for that matter.
 
 
grant
15:54 / 13.11.07
Not random, but it wouldn't be *that* hard to make human butter....

You are not alone.
 
 
Essential Dazzler
22:41 / 13.11.07
One day, Bono will die.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
07:17 / 14.11.07
You are not alone.

No, you're not.
 
 
My Mom Thinks I'm Cool
19:46 / 14.11.07
I have really got to learn to stop making jokes about people being pregnant. it keeps turning out to be true, and not usually in a funny way.

maybe if I just limit it to jokes about men being pregnant...
 
 
Olulabelle
20:17 / 14.11.07
What do you mean when you say 'true in a not funny way'? What is a funny way of being pregnant?
 
 
*
21:02 / 14.11.07
You never know, King. I know a few men who've carried babies to term. Some of them were living as women at the time, some not.
 
 
iamus
21:20 / 14.11.07
It also happened to Arnold Schwarzenegger.

And not in a funny way.
 
 
This Sunday
01:37 / 15.11.07
Suddenly struck with the notion that the anti-homosexual moments in ye old Chalet School books weren't all half-hearted, at best. And, of course, there doesn't seem to be any online, presumably because the copyrights haven't expired (and there isn't enough interest to pirate), and so I may actually have to go down to a library and research this as if it were really that important. Otherwise, it'll bother me unduly and absurdly.

Maybe I can get a paper out of it, so as to pretend like there's some hint of scholarly seriousness involved.
 
 
Ex
08:20 / 15.11.07
If you can get hold of it, you can also try:

Rosemary Auchmuty, "You're a Dyke, Angela! Elsie J. Oxenham and the rise and fall of the schoolgirl story" in Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840-1985, Lesbian History Group, The Women's Press, London, 1989, p140.

 
  

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