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Quantum

14:09 / 15.08.05

I would *very much* love to hear a transcript of that conversation when I go to heaven. I miss crazy Rage. Like the bastard daughter of Spider Jerusalem and Tank Girl.

ONLY NICE THINGS

14:14 / 15.08.05

Overcommercialised and aiming at a concept of rebellion shared primarily by comic book readers?

Yeppers.

Char Aina

14:33 / 15.08.05

do comic book readers mostly rebel by kicking you in the balls?
however do you manage to browse in forbidden planet?

ONLY NICE THINGS

14:43 / 15.08.05

That's _why_ I browse in Forbidden Planet, dude.

I don't think wanting to kick me in the balls (and frankly the operative term here is _want_ - between the platforms and the hair extensions I doubt Rage can balance well on _two_ feet) is rebellion - it's just the impotent frustration of somebody who was regularly exposed as not as bright, as talented or as interesting as she wants to believe. I was thinking more about the worldview where having kerazy hair and swearing in front of your parents is somehow the cutting edge of iconoclasm.

Char Aina

14:56 / 15.08.05

well, quite.
as any idiot could tell you the mark of a true rebel is in the width of hir pinstripe on a bespoke suit of worsted fibres.
that and a copy of the FT, naturally.

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:11 / 15.08.05

Those are the only two possible options, certainly. Although worsted isn't a fibre, it's a yarn. You make it out of fibres.

mondo a-go-go

16:11 / 15.08.05

So: I made a list. 119 people. Beat that, Boboss!

And Xoc, in case you were wondering, it's not so much going home and writing it all down on the day, so much as having photos of people, a half-decent memory, and repeat sightings...

Quantum

16:23 / 15.08.05

How many?! Nina, you are Barbelith's favourite meat after Ham I think. That's some list...

the worldview where having kerazy hair and swearing in front of your parents is somehow the cutting edge of iconoclasm. Haus

That's Reality Tunnel to you, you're so out of touch with the kidz. Swearing in front of your parents *is* the new idolospasm dood.

mondo a-go-go

16:42 / 15.08.05

Once again, someone has confused Anna with Nina.... :]

Tryphena Absent

17:03 / 15.08.05

I think my count is about 71 and I doubt that all of them remember me.

Spaniel

17:22 / 15.08.05

Anna, you are teh winner!

Quantum

17:24 / 15.08.05

I don't remember you, I remember *Anna* as you, you as her and yourself, Boboss as an American woman and Flyboy as that de Logardiere person. Memebuggerer has become Goodness Gracious Meme (complete with ethnicity- and sex-change) and Bengali in Platforms is now just some guy. Pappuce is Expressionless who used to be Runce but is now Seth (who is the brother of Jack the Bodiless or Boboss or you, I forget which) and Haus used to be Leap, right?

This is all a lot easier in Meatspace where we have faces.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:34 / 15.08.05

I count about 58 on Anna's list, plus about another five or six... I'm somewhere in the low sixties.
So I'm comprehensively beaten. Although I can add that IU've managed to get ALMOST every 'lither I've ever met to buy me a drink on at least one (in many cases several) occasion(s). Had it all been on the same night, I'd probably be dead now.

Mourne Kransky

22:38 / 15.08.05

You whupped my ass good too, Stoatie. Only met 42 from Anna's list. And that includes people I've just sat near to in a pub and smiled at.

Triplets

22:58 / 15.08.05

I think what Quantum is saying is that he wants animated avatars. Lots of them.

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:28 / 16.08.05

This is all a lot easier in Meatspace where we have faces.

You are so fucking insensitive sometimes.

Sax

08:42 / 16.08.05

Yeah. What about the secret faces?

Quantum

08:49 / 16.08.05

animated avatars.

w00t! That's a great idea, and can we have signatures? Animated signatures that write themselves? And pithy quotes from country songs appended to each post? And a little paragraph about how groovy we are? And links to our blogs and LJs? And AUTOMATIC emoticons that come up at the end of every sentence?

And sometimes :! mid-sentence? :?

sorry for my callous disregard Haus I of course meant no offence to the faceless community, it's a typo- should read 'Where we have faeces'.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:07 / 16.08.05

Quantum- I've been constipated since the eighteenth century, you know, and I think you should REALLY think about what you're posting before you post it.

Quantum

09:19 / 16.08.05

Shit. Sorry, I mean, um, bugger, oh crap...*ties self in knot from shame*

SO ANYWAY, I'm giving away free near-perfect Bloody Mary cocktails* on Saturday to Meat Barbers in Brighton, I will get brownie points and be popular yes? These are real drinks, not like the imaginary cookies promised by other, less scrupulous posters.

*Apologies to those named Mary, menstruating, with a cock or a tail etc.

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09:43 / 16.08.05

This is all a lot easier in Meatspace where we have faces.
Have you been looking in my fridge again?

Not Here Still

12:36 / 16.08.05

Tell you what, I did once go to the Jorene Celeste specifically as it was mentioned on Barbelith, a long time ago, so we may have met after all...

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