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Matrixian
15:39 / 28.07.06
I'm new here (after a fashion), and am curious as to the kinds of people that post on these boards. Are most people here from the US or UK? Male or female? What age group dominates here (if any)? Are most people here politically on the Left, Right, or are such categorizations irrelevant? What kinds of subcultures are represented here? I'm interested in learning more about non-mainstream and alternative books, lifestyles, cultures, people, etc., but since I'm not sure where to begin, I thought I'd solicit information directly...
 
 
sleazenation
15:43 / 28.07.06
But let's talk about you first - what's your opinion of The Matrix Warrior?
 
 
Matrixian
15:45 / 28.07.06
Assuming that you're referring to the book by Horsley: I was generally unimpressed by it.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
15:56 / 28.07.06
DO NOT BLASPHEME! DO NOT BLASPHEME!
 
 
Matrixian
15:58 / 28.07.06
My apologies, but is that book a sacred cow here?
 
 
Jack Fear
16:04 / 28.07.06


That would be telling.
 
 
Chiropteran
16:11 / 28.07.06
I was generally unimpressed by it.

*exhales*

Then Welcome To Barbelith!
 
 
■
16:23 / 28.07.06
Number Six dashes into the room, does a bit of chop-socky on the guard dressed as an old lady, whispers "Don't swallow that pill" and vaults over the railing pursued by Haus wearing a big white balloon.
 
 
Matrixian
16:24 / 28.07.06
*exhales*

Then Welcome To Barbelith!

Thank you.
 
 
Matrixian
16:36 / 28.07.06
Thank you for the link. Most interesting. I guess that I would have to agree with much of the anti-Horsley sentiment, though I doubt that the book is totally bereft of any interesting and original ideas. Unfortunately, it's been some time since I read it, so I don't recall all of the specifics.
 
 
Quantum
16:50 / 28.07.06
Welcome, the people who post here are mostly hard to categorise and resist definition. Don't get drawn in to a discussion of the matrix warrior.
 
 
Triplets
17:25 / 28.07.06
No, no, I want to know what ideas he liked in the Matrix Warrior. Don't let him censor you, Matrixian!
 
 
Olulabelle
18:01 / 28.07.06
Stoppiting nowest.
 
 
lekvar
18:34 / 28.07.06
Most of us are carbon-based and bilaterally symmetrical, but it's best not to make any assumptions.
 
 
redtara
19:02 / 28.07.06
Not everyone's as much fun as me, though
 
 
Shrug
20:04 / 28.07.06
Most of us are carbon-based and bilaterally symmetrical, but it's best not to make any assumptions.

!!!

I'm a form of gelatinous mould that achieved sentience through irradiation and symbiosis with an extraterrestrial life form. Having never been to a Barbemeet I assumed everyone else was too.

 
 
Mirror
20:31 / 28.07.06
Not people like me, that's for sure. Or, that's the idea at least.



Not posting is and artform that I, unfortunately, have yet to master.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
20:53 / 28.07.06
We're all bright young things who wander through urban areas looking a little beaten up. Except for that Quantum, he's always in a made to measure three piece suit. The swine.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:24 / 28.07.06
And Haus, of course, is a brain in a jar.
 
 
sleazenation
21:35 / 28.07.06
But a brain in a jar with a pneumatic robot body and top hat...
 
 
bacon
21:39 / 28.07.06
does he ever wear the tophat?
 
 
Mistoffelees
21:44 / 28.07.06
That´s probably preferable to being a brain in a jar jar?
 
 
Ender
21:48 / 28.07.06
If Goerge Bush (jr) were to log onto the Barb I would imagine that he would post something like this:

-"I'm new here (after a fashion), and am curious as to the kinds of people that post on these boards. Are most people here from the US or UK? Male or female? What age group dominates here (if any)? Are most people here politically on the Left, Right, or are such categorizations irrelevant? What kinds of subcultures are represented here? I'm interested in learning more about non-mainstream and alternative books, lifestyles, cultures, people, etc., but since I'm not sure where to begin, I thought I'd solicit information directly... -"
 
 
sleazenation
21:48 / 28.07.06
Jar Jar had a brain? I thought he was just a poorly thought-out character in a successful film sci-fi franchise...
 
 
Ender
21:56 / 28.07.06
Goerge bush,
wearing a pair of shades and tevo's, making an attempt to be cool (while fulfilling his personal dream of being an intelligence gathering secret agent) says:

"Hey man, you seem like a cool cat, whats your subculture? which do you represent?"

he raises his shades to wink,

"read any good non-mainstream books lately?"

he winks again.
 
 
bacon
22:14 / 28.07.06
because i've been looking to borrow an unused tophat
 
 
■
22:16 / 28.07.06
Yeah, the kids love Jar-Jar. The little bastards.
 
 
Triplets
22:24 / 28.07.06
Hawk the Slayer was, also, shit.

"Hey man, you seem like a cool cat, whats your subculture? which do you represent?"

So he'd actually be played by Bringin' Down The House-era Steve Martin.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
22:25 / 28.07.06
We're talking Lily Tomlin's brain in a jar here? Steve Martin's would have little currency nowadays.

As for answers to the threadhead question, I dunno. They're awkward fuckers here and defy easy categorisation. I am, myself, a Somerset Maugham type figure, watching all the young people cavort and disport themselves as I sip a dry martini on my verandah. Ender and I are meeting later to plan the imminent overthrow of the many headed hydra that is Cheney-Bush and I can smell the amuse-bouches baking now in the kitchen below, as the staff cater.
 
 
bacon
22:46 / 28.07.06
it's not as if i have lice or something, i wouldn't harm the hat
 
 
Lama glama
22:52 / 28.07.06
[rot]I feel like I'm missing out on something by not having finished Matrix Warrior. I got about half-way through and then lost it somewhere. I think I left it in a hotel room, so I can only hope that my copy of the book transformed some unwitting teenager's life (for two to three months). [/rot]

Enjoy Christmas Matrixian and welcome to Barbelith.
 
 
Triplets
23:08 / 28.07.06
I'm sure some gnomic youth lived those 3 months in glorious Mum's-borrowed-car time.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
23:23 / 28.07.06
Shrug I'm a form of gelatinous mould that achieved sentience through irradiation and symbiosis with an extraterrestrial life form. Having never been to a Barbemeet I assumed everyone else was too.

That's only usually by the end of the proceedings - or midway through a Barbemeet in some notable cases.

As far as I can tell, everyone here is a stream of photons being controlled on a screen of liquid plasma held in suspension by electronickery and pure science. That and a bunch of barbarians who like to sit around the campfire and share strong ancient truths before nipping off to the Armoury to grease up fairly hefty candles and nibble on French Fancies.

If they're not, I wonder if I haven't logged into the wrong message board.
 
 
Mistoffelees
23:39 / 28.07.06
Mutton, if you really want to, you can get the MW book on amazon.co.uk for one pennny. Which means, you have to pay 30x as much for the book to be sent to your doorstep.
 
 
sTe
23:53 / 28.07.06
I post here sometimes
I am sTe (obviously)
sometimes I don't
I can be drunk (often at this place)
I can also be angry or concerned about stuff
I like a bit of a larf
Mostly when I look at the world through my own perceptions, I am glad That this place is here

Best way i think to learn about the folk here is to look at what everyone says... and make your own mind up as no-one is really what they think they are, not me not you however much we may want it to be so (or not)

That's what I reckon (ps am drunk and philosophizing(*)or so says spell check, and may change my mind later about the whole thing )
 
  

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