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Right, I'm off.

 
  

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Glenn Close But No Cigar
12:53 / 27.08.07
DM, you say that a small group of like-minded individuals is suffocating this community. Would you mind naming names? Not necessarily here (that doesn't seem to be the purpose of the thread, so perhaps starting a new thread in Policy would be better?), but I suspect I'm not the only one who's curious as to who you think the stranglers are - apart, that is, from a punk rock band from Guildford.
 
 
HCE
12:53 / 27.08.07
Strangely, I am now finding myself sort of more interested in posting?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
13:01 / 27.08.07
Perhaps we could do it in verse? Might liven things up a bit...
 
 
Glenn Close But No Cigar
13:31 / 27.08.07
I guess DM could do it in verse, but I understand that you asked him to make extensive and worthwhile substantiation of his claims, so that might make it a bit difficult for him to get the metre right, especially when he wouldn't be writing in his mother tongue.

Hang on! Footnotes! He could use footnotes! A bit like David Foster-Wallace.

Or Terry Pratchett.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
13:34 / 27.08.07
Or he could write in Portuguese - I mean, my Portuguese isn't _great_, but I'm sure we can get the gist, and there's something a bit unfair about asking him to do all this stuff in what is, as you say, not his mother tongue.

What we need is somebody fluent in multiple languages, who can appreciate the poetry of anger. What we need is Billy Corgan.
 
 
Dead Megatron
13:44 / 27.08.07
How about Latin?

"Quod Erat Demonstrandum"

I'll be off of a couple of hour now. Bye!
 
 
Mug Chum
14:03 / 27.08.07
I'd translate his portuguese into spanish, if somebody else would translate my spanish into french, from french to italian, italian to greek, greek to arabic and only then to english.

(then we could do really goofy verses that could be read phonetically in several different meanings in several different languages at the same time -- 7 languages, 7 meanings at least for each language, each following verse having to be coherent to each of the seven previous meanings)
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
14:08 / 27.08.07
Could there be ribald, tangential subplots, backstabbing, and could we rename the board CanteburyTales.com?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
14:19 / 27.08.07
Oh, and you understand incorrectly, by the way, Beef. I did not ask Deadsy to do anything. I merely expresed my confidence that he would offer extensive and worthwhile substantiation of his claims, because of the faith I have in him.

Perhaps he could do it in this thread, here. It's an interesting thread, if only as it shows just how much time and attention we were prepared to spend on interpersonal arguments a year ago, and it contains, quite early on, some useful and relevant statements. From the departed Ganesh:

The word "bullying" is, I think, already too emotive and charged with assumption to frame constructive discussion. Also, the discussion itself would seem to cover old ground; the concepts of bullying/dogpiling/tag-teaming are regularly picked over in Policy, and I'm unsure whether there's anything new to be brought to discussion.

And from Zippid:

I also think that DM does a certain manipulative thing where when things are relatively quiet, he mentions people he's had disagreements with, as if to goad them to respond— maybe he's looking for approval for "doing right" now, or maybe he wants to provoke them. Either way, that's not a very useful practice either.

This appears to provide quite an accurate description of what just happened.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:59 / 27.08.07
DM, I know I'm usually one of those who defends you in situations like this, but in polite circles "I'm honestly tempted to..." shouldn't really be followed by the thing you've just implied you're not going to do. At that point you're no longer tempted, you're actually doing it.

Either do it, or fucking don't. Have the courage of your convictions, even though they may well be ill-founded. They're not convictions otherwise.

And yes, do it in a different thread.
 
 
iamus
15:04 / 27.08.07
I'm off.


Seriously. I've not had a shower in, like, two days.
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
15:20 / 27.08.07
Yes, we know.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
15:55 / 27.08.07
It'd be kind of nice if we could spend what may be the last days of Barbelith doing something other than fighting.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
15:58 / 27.08.07
(And that includes me jumping into another Haus/DM fight which I wasn't involved in).
 
 
Saint Keggers
16:04 / 27.08.07
Haus! DM! Stop fighting! Into your separate corners. NOW!
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
16:16 / 27.08.07
Maybe it's inevitable. Maybe it's like Ragnarok.
 
 
Glenn Close But No Cigar
16:16 / 27.08.07
Would that they could, Venger, would that they could. Experience has shown, however, that like this Petty chap below, at least one of them 'Won't Back Down'.

 
 
Sibelian 2.0
16:20 / 27.08.07
Maybe we should just sell tickets. Might as well make a bob or two, eh?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
16:30 / 27.08.07
Actually, you chaps are trying to turn this into a drama, not very usefully. I have already covered my position on this - Dead Megatron is doing what he has often done before, following behaviour which was identified by Zippid, broadly, a year ago, and would be better off doing it in the Policy, if he thought he would be able to produce any sort of coherent or convincing case. Matthew and Megsy have failed to understand the purpose of this thread. I think that's about where we are, now.
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
17:47 / 27.08.07
Spoilsport.

I'd have cut you in.

Aaaaand back to the subject (cough).
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
18:13 / 27.08.07
I'M LEAVING!

...in about twenty minutes.

...to go for lunch.

...because I need to eat.

But I still love you, Barbemonkeys.
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
18:31 / 27.08.07
I'm leaving too, to see feurzabruta at 10ish near the big black tent near Ocean Terminal.

Do you wish to be amused with stories of men performing strange feats on conveyor belts, my dears?
 
 
Saint Keggers
18:33 / 27.08.07
Im confused. Are both of you leaving to see that show? Are you clones? Cause, that's cool.
 
 
grant
18:39 / 27.08.07
Yes, please, Daddy Badger!
 
 
This Sunday
18:48 / 27.08.07
Oh, no! The joke is off. What are conveyor belts without clones? Badger, you must tell us! I may have to leave and not come back until you do.
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
19:01 / 27.08.07
That's particularly Zen now that the original dupe's been smooshed.

AND ANYWAY, I won't be allowed to take photographs but...
I give you THIS...

www.fuerzabruta.eu

And later, if you're all good, and Barbelith still exists when I get back, I shall tell you what it was like.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
19:07 / 27.08.07
Phew! You'll all be happy to know that I'm back, and lunch was smashing.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
19:56 / 27.08.07
I feel really bad now, because I went out to the pub and forgot to tell anyone.
 
 
Saint Keggers
20:00 / 27.08.07
as long as you brought me back a pint, all is forgiven.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:12 / 27.08.07
There's a fridge full of beer now. Each of which is dedicated to you, kegmeister.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
21:37 / 27.08.07
I feel really bad now, because I went out to the pub and forgot to tell anyone.

Well, it's not like we need to know where you are, but, *sob* a little consideration...*sob*
 
 
This Sunday
21:57 / 27.08.07
It's Stoatie. I always assume he'll return, better than clockworks or Jesus, constant as the northern star and twice as reliable as the JC who didn't say that, as well. In the meantime, we must keep the fires stoked and, um, wait...
 
 
Saint Keggers
23:15 / 27.08.07
I'd would love to appear on Staoties door right now.. "So this fridge...where's me beer?"
Just to see the confused/worried look on his face.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:15 / 28.08.07
Oh, there'd be beer. If you could explain to me the ending of the movie I just watched, now then I'd break out the spirits.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
01:01 / 28.08.07
It was his sled. Now pass me a pineapple schnapps.
 
  

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