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Evil Scientist
11:45 / 13.04.07
Honestly though I'm kind of glad that ol'Shinybonce doesn't post on here.

I'd like to read issue 3 of The Authority some time this year.
 
 
Feverfew
16:14 / 13.04.07
Well *I'm* not Grant Morrison.

They're getting closer to finding out my secret. Oh yes they are...
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
16:48 / 13.04.07
Y'know I think BattleGarden Galactalith would be a perfect name for anything. Mind you I've just finished watching all the legally available BSG and I think it might have sent my brain temporarily a bit odd.
 
 
Feverfew
18:56 / 13.04.07
I got that feeling also when I watched the entire first season; I dread to think what the second season does to the frontal lobes.
 
 
Ticker
19:30 / 13.04.07
The second season makes you want to kick people in the bits and say 'frak' a lot.
Much like the first.

I'm waiting to see it the 3rd has a new impact on me. WANTS IT NOW!!

I think I'm mostly annoyed that I can't seem to contribute anything today and my brane is hurty.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
23:38 / 13.04.07
BOLLOCKS.

My new username breaks the frame.

Shit. I'm sorry.
 
 
Triplets
00:11 / 14.04.07
Oh, Stoatie
Why do you hate Barbelith?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:27 / 14.04.07
You are SO dining in hell tonight.
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
03:25 / 14.04.07
Yeah I want more BSG so bad it hurts. I've found myself seriously thinking about signing up to pay money I can't afford to get the highest speed possible broadband just so I can download it. Then asking around all the people I know who might be able to score a dodgy copy of series 3. And when hat failed I watched the deleted scenes, which has to be equivalent to licking the edge of the credit card.

And to neatly bring this back on topic the mere existence of series 3 threads is barbannoying me - must.......resist........spoilers.....
 
 
Alex's Grandma
11:44 / 15.04.07
Yeah I want more BSG so bad it hurts.

No, you don't.

You might think that's what you want, possibly for what may seem like very good reasons, at the moment, but the nature of human desire is that it can become ... subject, I suppose, to morbid and perverse ideas.

After a while, it becomes ... only a matter of time.

You're better off without any more BSG, trust me.
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
11:56 / 15.04.07
Last night in the pre-dawn grey, I met a chap outside a pub, who said he could get me some. Said it would be no problem. I gave him fifty quid and he said he'd be right back with it. I waited and I waited, as the night began to end, and the sickeningly healthy early morning dog-walkers, who just don't understand BSG at all began to take over the streets, but he never came back. Still I gave him my mobile number, surely he'll call, surely this is just some terrible mix-up? Perhaps if I go back to that place tonight he'll be there and we can get all of this sorted out..........
 
 
Mistoffelees
12:18 / 15.04.07
You see, what happened is, just as I wanted to get that fresh BSG to you I walked into the CAG and ze caught me redhanded. So now I need another fifty quid to bribe hir. See you tonight?
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
13:10 / 15.04.07
*digs out another fifty, money earmarked to pay for food and stuff, and prepares to hand it over, knowing that BSG is extremely unlikely to be forthcoming, but prepared to take the risk for the infinitesimally small chance it's going to result in acquiring more BSG*
 
 
Spaniel
13:13 / 15.04.07
Why don't you torrent it? Are you condemned to dial-up hell?
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
13:21 / 15.04.07
Indeed I am. I've checked and downloading the series would probably take a minimum of fortnight on my connection. I did consider signing up to broadband, so I could download it, but I really only use the internet at home for reading, research and messageboards, so exagerated metaphores aside signing up for broadband just to get one more series of a show that will come out on DVD eventually doesn't really seem worth it.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
04:23 / 17.04.07
Little barbannoyed that I've been irritable lately and hope that isn't sinking into my posts too much.
 
 
Quantum
13:17 / 17.04.07
signing up for broadband just to get one more series of a show that will come out on DVD eventually doesn't really seem worth it.

So fracking wrong. Are you sure you can't just download it in bits? They have a lot of them split into three sections on sites like alluc.org, and it really is a great series.

Think of the theme music while you decide *plink, plink-plink*
the series has evolved *plink, plink-plink*
...and it has a PLAN *plink, plink-plink, plink, plink-plink PLINK!*
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
15:42 / 17.04.07


YR MESSIAH COMMANDS YOU TO DO IT!
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
15:50 / 17.04.07
Seriously, when was the last time James Callis washed his hair?
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
16:19 / 17.04.07
Damn it I was starting to get the stuff out of my system! Now the 15 or so seconds I managed to get to stream of the first episode before it conked out has my palms sweating and jiggling my left leg again! Thanks for the suggestion in any case - but I can't see a split version of the first episode, and it looks like at my princely dial-up download rate it would still take about 28 hours to download one episode.........
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
18:20 / 17.04.07
Oh and Gaius is not a messiah, he's a very naughty boy. Doesn't I mean I don't have, y'know, feelings for him though......
 
 
Quantum
18:34 / 17.04.07
*plink, plink-plink, plink, plink-plink PLINK!*

It must be done. Find a way. (Now you say "BY YOUR COMMAND")
Maybe you should offer to bribe board members to rip it on DVD and post it to you. That's what you'd do if you really loved me, shiny things, that's what you'd do if you had faith in God's plan for you. *plink, plink-plink, plink, plink-plink PLINK!*
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
18:54 / 17.04.07
God's plan! What and absurd notion! God is the refuge of the intellectually inferior, and the simple minded! How anyone of any intellect could believe in such a thing is beyond me!

And using my intellectual prowess, after 25 minutes of streaming, I've just managed to get through the titles and the what has gone before of the first episode and get to some new material! No dialogue yet, but still, shows what application of intellect, and patience can achieve.....

On the other hand perhaps this process shows there is too much to be said for self reliance, and that perhaps I might be better off accepting God into my heart? But perhaps it’s just something that’s been put in my head telling me so?
 
 
Olulabelle
19:33 / 17.04.07
This is now a thread about downloading and not about annoying Barbelith things. DO YOU KNOW HOW ANNOYING THAT IS?*




The answer is not very, but I'm being good and trying to keep the thread on track.
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
20:04 / 17.04.07
Ulp. Terrible sorry. Or slightly sorry, or whatever degree of contrition is most appropriate for being annoying but not very so.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
20:44 / 17.04.07
Did part of this thread just magically disappear? Has some of it just budded off to form a Battlestar thread or something?
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
20:51 / 17.04.07
Ah. I thought I saw Six, telling me to continue the threadrot, with some in character Gaius stuff that would have seemed awfully rude and dismissive to anyone who wasn't in on the joke. I told myself it was a bad idea, and that she was just in my head, and that she should go away, and stop trying to trick me into humiliating myself - but you could see her to? I don't understand!
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
20:53 / 17.04.07
Possibly some mods felt it neccesary to dump for whatever reason. No, I definitely saw it. Wondered if it got moved or something.
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
21:31 / 17.04.07
More Threatrot follows - Very sorry.

Being about to acknowledge defeat in my streaming, as I'm only about halfway throught the first episode, and I need to get up and go to work tomorrow, if anyone would actually like to be bribed to burn and post DVDs of Battlestar, then please PM me.....

Threadrot Ends
 
 
Olulabelle
07:24 / 18.04.07
Is there really a part of this thread missing or are you just widly joking for reasons known only to yourselves?
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
08:36 / 18.04.07
Yes. Someone posted a picture of Six from BSG, directly after you're post. I don't quite remember who, but I'd assumed that whoever posted it decided on reflection it would be naughty to continue rotting the thread with BSG pictures after you'd asked for people not to and asked for it to be deleted.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
08:58 / 18.04.07
Not just Barbelith, but boardsters are guilty too of

referring to their boyfriends, girlfriends or spouses by twee, cutesy little titlesAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!

Just tell me their name (or nickname, or pseudonym, or initial) and explain their relationship to you. Because I am an adult, with a functioning brain, I will then remember when you refer to that person that they are your S.O. (about the only permissible euphemism in my prescriptive little book).

I don't need to hear or see coy references to the Adorable One, the GF, the Hugglemeister, the Associate (sorry Triplets), the Lovely Man (sorry whoever that was), the Beloved, FunBunny and least of all to the fucking Boyfy - what a horrible word. I just don't.

Bah and, indeed, humbug.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
09:10 / 18.04.07
What about "The Flybettes"?
 
 
Ex
11:19 / 18.04.07
That made me think more than I thought it would make me think.

I like the way that the different terms people use express something more about their relationships, otherwise it obscures the fact that they're all different kinds of relationship. There's a lot of variety in terms of longevity, frequency, arrangements, what kind of feelings you have for each other, how you sort all that out. I'm not saying 'we're special snowflakes', I'm more thinking that using one, or three, accepted terms creates a false sense of homogeneity. (Of course, ideally it wouldn't, and we'd all be able to cope with a bit of variation within a category without our heads blowing up, but I do think that language is a big influence.)

I hope that using different terms prevents an overly rigid application of a single model ('She says she's his girlfriend! Girlfriends don't do that kind of thing!') or premature analogising ('His boyfriend is doing X! I wouldn't put up with my boyfriend doing that! I'd better tell him that he's fucked up and his boyfriend sucks, pronto!').

I'm not arguing the sporadic tweeness. I have roamed the Net with my face in a half-perpetual squint to avoid some terminology. (I won't even mention the jargon I've seen from some of the sexual subcultures I hang around - when there aren't any established terms for what you're doing, people have an absolute field-day inventing their own, and it can be creative and bracing OR it can be like being trampled by an elven band and their pack of winged puppies.) But I'd put up with a significant dose of twee in order to get a bit of variety and specificity in there.
 
 
Princess
11:23 / 18.04.07
See, that trampling option just sounds fun.
 
  

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