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Final Straws

 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
10:03 / 30.05.08
The clothes, the clever repartee, the down and dirty sexiness of the girls and their endless stream of men now seems like a distant era - like Harold Wilson's Sixties Britain.

But, at last, after contractual conflict which seemed set to scupper their reunion, they're back, the whole palpitating, heaving, fornicating four of them.

Journalists sometimes ask which of them would do it for me.

The honest answer is all four of them, but it's too dangerous to admit that.

There's the sweet one - great marriage material.

The lawyerly red-head - sexy and motherly. Or the voracious man-eating vamp, ankles behind her ears.

But if I had to choose just one, it would have to be the eponymous Carrie Bradshaw.


George Galloway and Sex In The City: two problematic tastes that taste more than problematic together!

For a while I genuinely believed Galloway was more sinned against than sinning - most of that feeling evaporated during his stint on Celebrity Big Brother, but this is just too icky to be anything other than the FINAL STRAW.
 
 
Not in the Face
11:14 / 30.05.08
Dear George

Thanks for your great puff piece in the Record. Please find attached a cheque to cover the cost of removing that last piece of dignity
 
 
Jack Fear
11:20 / 30.05.08
Not only that, but he apparently doesn't know what "eponymous" means. Unless the film is actually called "Carrie Bradshaw," rather than "Sex & The City," then Carrie Bradshaw is not an eponymous anything.

People saying stupid shit in and of itself doesn't bother me as much as people saying stupid shit and trying to make it sound clever via (mis)application of highfalutin words.
 
 
Anna de Logardiere
11:20 / 30.05.08
What. The. Fuck.
 
 
Ex
12:01 / 30.05.08
Journalists sometimes ask which of them would do it for me.

I'm not sure I believe that.
Maybe it's safer than asking him about political controveries, but still: 'George, in Celebrity Big Brother you showed your psychosexual landscape to the nation! While it probably wasn't more outlandish than most people's, the mockery's dogged you ever since. Maybe you'd like to yank that door open again and let the gurning public feast on your inner treasures by telling me which hott character from SATS does it for you?'
 
 
_pin
12:16 / 30.05.08
I think the sentence should be read "I sometimes ask journalists to ask me which of them would do it for me."
 
 
All Acting Regiment
13:00 / 30.05.08
Horribubble.
 
 
Mug Chum
13:04 / 30.05.08
Is that like a parody site like The Onion? Or is it actually Galloway?
 
 
_pin
13:42 / 30.05.08
Such hope! But no.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
13:51 / 30.05.08
But why is it wrong to appreciate women?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
13:52 / 30.05.08
What, if you will, is wrong with being sexy? Or, indeed, the cat?
 
 
Anna de Logardiere
18:11 / 30.05.08
Look, George would pick Carrie, a whining journalist with commitment issues and a fetish for shoes. Any sane person would choose Samantha or Miranda, that's always been obvious and that's all we really need to know about Galloway.
 
 
Eek! A Freek!
19:36 / 30.05.08
Although I voted against him, I thought that my current PM may turn out OK... He actually stood up against Bush a handful of times and that seemed to outweigh some of his shortcomings such as not believing in a transparent government and being against gay marriage.
HARPER FIRES SCIENCE ADVISOR
This was his fatal flaw in my eyes...Now I'm pretty sure he may just be the result Reagan and or Mulroney's unholy coupling with Thatcher.
(Feel free to jump all over me now, Mordant, for defending a scientist...)
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
19:56 / 30.05.08
I'd be careful there, freek. Don't go running out of straws...
 
 
All Acting Regiment
20:50 / 31.05.08
We like scientists here, we're one of the few places that likes talking about occult things and also science things.
 
 
Proinsias
21:18 / 31.05.08
apart from evil scientists
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:31 / 31.05.08
Erm, I'm not seeing how freektemple's losing any straws by sticking up for science.

Equally I'm not sure why freektemple would assume Mordant would think that was a bad idea. I'm pretty sure Mordant doesn't hate science.

Mind you, my entire world these days seems to be defined by booze, moving house and $cientology (which means it has two elements more than usual, so that's progress, right?) so perhaps I'm not one to say.

Apologies for weeing in muddied waters. I like booze. And I like both Mordant and SCIENCE!!! I may have misunderstood things. It happens.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
21:44 / 31.05.08
Erm, I'm not seeing how freektemple's losing any straws by sticking up for science.

Not the science, just the needless jab at Mordant.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:48 / 31.05.08
...which I'm pretty sure I addressed in my post as well...

(sorry- edited to add- I agree with you. I'm kind of drunk and might not be making much sense. I might get some sort of macro to add that disclaimer to all my posts. From "I'm kind of drunk..." onwards).
 
 
Baroness von Lenska
21:56 / 31.05.08
I think it's an acquired defensiveness one picks up from an interwebs which mostly views, as AAR suggests, sciencey things and spirity things as being locked in an eternal Epic Battle that began before the dawn of time and will end just as soon as Ah Puch craps an atom bomb on the moon, rather than two separate, non conflicting and equally valid models for understanding and interacting with the world. Too much time away from Barbelith and too much exposure to web Scientistics vs. Occultonautz hooliganism can make the transition back a little rough; sometimes, after spending too much time on other boards, I'm surprised/impressed with the Temple's status as one of (if not the) most rational and well reasoned subfora.

Also just for clarification we love evil scientists.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
22:30 / 31.05.08
Well, no, it isn't. It's a specific reference to another thread. Good theory, though.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
02:45 / 01.06.08
(Feel free to jump all over me now, Mordant, for defending a scientist...)

What? That doesn't even make any sense.
 
 
Mug Chum
02:59 / 01.06.08
I believe that might have been what the youngsters call 'wooing'.

They defend scientists and a)expect reward or b)wait for fight with strawfolk in strawthread.

Quite the strange ritual, really.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
08:15 / 01.06.08
Well I wasn't aware that I had ever "jumped all over" freektemple, a poster I've consistantly tried very hard to engage with despite a string of pretty reactionary posts since he joined the board. I'm also not very happy with the accusation that I'm anti-science, especially in the light of this exchange.
 
 
My Mom Thinks I'm Cool
13:19 / 01.06.08
Mordant's totally a scientist! Just ask Supersister.
 
 
Eek! A Freek!
20:34 / 01.06.08
Sorry Mordant, I was making a joke: In another thread I was quoting some dodgy science and you were picking my assumptions apart (and rightfully so...). You were bringing up the opinions of respectable scientists from respectable sources, while I was talking about my perceptions of the Bullshit scientists used as experts in places like Fox news... The fact that I was being anti-science in the other thread, and then I post here about Harper firing the Canadian Science Advisor seems contradictory... Which is why I joked that you'd jump on me... for contradicting myself. I was being snippy.

You have been very engaging (and patient) and very thought provoking... I respect your posts immensly... There are lots of times I'll throw out shit Ideas because I've never really had any sounding boards, and I've never seen any flip-sides. Sometimes it stings to be rebutted or being called out for bullshit, but that's the only way I'll learn to shift my paradigms and re-wire my thinking... I have tonnes of preconceived ideas which I still believe because I don't know any better, or because no-ones questioned them or made me think.

I'm afraid I'm using all of you to become a better, more intelligent person.

Mordant, I was being a smart ass, but I didn't mean to offend. I very humbly apologise and beg you (all of you) to continue to call me out when I'm being lazy and/or stupid.
 
  
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