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I hate this world

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19:20 / 03.04.02

Cherry always brings the love.

And the Champale.

19:25 / 03.04.02

umm, ok. what the fuck. somebody pooped in his diaper.

19:37 / 03.04.02

attacks coming this way? Bah, they won't stand against my private milit...errr..I mean group of gun-toting concerned citizens that I have gathered.

This world isn't so bad. Sure, we don't have spiffy flying cars or jetpacks, which kind of disappoints me, but its not all bad.

19:56 / 03.04.02

Oh. See you, RRM. It's been educational, albeit not in the way that you were probably hoping for. The suit, BTW, is buried. A random hammering on the keyboard while hovering over the password box has seen to that. RIP.

Back to the topic in hand.

On occasion, I quite like this world. Going to see my friends. Seeing their kids laugh. Listening to an amazing tune I've never heard before, or one that I know well, and getting the goosebumps. Reading. Watching old movies. Burning my bald patch in the sun. Dreaming. Seeing where it all takes me.

20:05 / 03.04.02

(Suit death to avoid a repeat of the manking malarkey)

20:24 / 03.04.02

[.... but seriously folks, somedays i also get down on the world--meaning what people are doing to one another, meaning that as I type this a coal-burning power plant in the great state of ohio is keeping my computer on as it pollutes the atmosphere . . meaning that the way I and most of the people i love have been trained to exist is so damaging to this planet that it and we may not be able to exist much longer. we're substance abusers! and we're abusing this lovely lovely lovely planet, with it's fragile atmosphere, amazing oceans, fabulous sunrises, D.E.V.O.'s New Traditionalists albums, rocks, sycamore trees, my daughters' wonderful beings, Dorothy Sayers mysteries, and tiny patches of delicate moss . . . meanwhile when I assign readings to my glassy-eyed, well-fed middle class students, so many of whom have never lived in a world that wasn't geared for their pleasure, articles by people who think our lifestyle may devastate our planet, who believe, shock, that racism still exists, the students get pissed off: "that's a lie."

and that illusion is so powerful, so reinforced by the 3,600 advertisements they see everyday, by the fact that you can't drive 2 miles without passing a McDonalds in this country, while children are dying of starvation and poor medical care within a few blocks of where I'm sitting and billions are being poured into national defense and nuclear death machines which is like living in a country, a world controlled by people flirting with suicide, a kind of russian roulette . . . i hate that world.

i hate that world because i love this world.]

00:34 / 04.04.02

i hate that world because i love this world

This is actually the only acceptable reason to hate the world.

In many ways I agree with you, alas. Especially when the cover of U.S.A. fucking Today has a big article on fucking drive-thrus featuring a quote by a woman who visits the In -N- Out Burger Drive-Thru window everyday: "I don't like to get out of my car. Who does?" (AEEEEEAAAAAIIIIGGGHH!!!!) Or when my parents' hometown paper puts the latest news on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on page seven, that is to say the last page before the back page, because, you know, it's OBVIOUSLY that unimportant of a news story.

But maybe I should stop reading so much media.

The point is get mad about what's going on in the world and feel free to hate it even somtimes, but don't ever really stop loving it, because we need that hope. "Won't somebody think of the children..."

I realize how gaggy I sound. But I do actually mean it.

And yes Ierne I always have some love and a magnum of Champale at the ready...

02:09 / 04.04.02

" Instant coffee is not just a hanging offence. That's hung, drawn, quartered and fed to the dogs and the vomit of the dogs used to incapacitate other instant coffee drinkers. "

I gotta agree. Instant coffee is like regular coffee thats already been drunk and then dehydrated for your pleasure. I cant drink that stuff. It does weird nasty things to my stomach...pain..the horror...but regular coffee is just fine. I got a christmas gift yesterday (yes, its late) and its a coffee maker of the gods. A black and decker..coffee steamming hot in 15.7 seconds...I was soooo damn amazed.

02:19 / 04.04.02

i love punctuation but hate the fact that i put one in "it's" above, when I shouldn't have.

arrgh! the horror!

The Natural Way

07:10 / 04.04.02

I'll tell you what ruins the world. Tea! Tea in the morning! Now, I need someone to explain this to me.... Tea in the morning makes me feel absolutely, disgustingly ill. Nausea! Urrgh! It's not the caffeine - coffee's fine. It's not the taste - I love tea. What's going on?!? Really, you want hell on earth? Give me tea in the morning and watch me try and keep everything down....

You love it.

07:30 / 04.04.02

Runce: I too get horrible nausea with tea in the morning occasionally but only if I haven't eaten something with it. I find the nausea is cured by eating a big chunk of bread, or a couple of bits of toast. Have you tried that?

The Natural Way

07:35 / 04.04.02

Y'know, I do believe yr right....food DOES alleviate it! Thanks. But what causes it? That's what I wanna know....

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:51 / 04.04.02

Someone told me once that it's the tannin in tea that can cause nausea. Don't know whether they were an expert or anything though.

But yeah, back to the (other) point- if you can't bring yourself to love the world, how the fuck are you ever gonna motivate yourself to save it?

Feel a New Model Army song coming on... I think I'll have a little lie down.

08:51 / 04.04.02

Dunno. I've just tried searching on google using keywords 'tea' 'nausea' and 'morning' but all I got was a load of stuff extolling the virtues of various teas as CURES for nausea and morning sickness. Bah.

The only other place I've ever seen the phenomena mentioned was in that film where Arnie plays an undercover agent working in an infant school or playgroup or summat. Near the start of the film, his colleague complains that she gets sick if she doesn't eat every X number of hours (and I'm sure she's not talking about diabetes, she starts dry puking in his car at one point). I'm sure she gave the condition a name...

The Natural Way

09:01 / 04.04.02

I've heard all that tannin jazz before. Bloody New Agers - you can never verify anything they say (whoops! Is that a secret, hidden prejudice rearing its ugly head?!).

And they all read 'The Celestine Prophecy'.

09:55 / 04.04.02

Adieu, RRM...

12:42 / 04.04.02

Except you know he'll be back.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

13:27 / 04.04.02

I love this world. I hate all the same shit that we all hate, of course, but the reason I hate it is because it fucks up the things I love. So let me tell you, in no particular order, why I am not yet ready to wheel out the Doomsday Ray just yet.

First there's the toys (yes, I know the toys bring their own problems, but let's just consider them for themselves for the moment): minidisc players, glowsticks, super-bright LEDs that you can fit on a credit-card, computers that just get better and better, the internet- the internet! Whoo! I love the net.

Then there's people. Yeah, people are a significant part of the problem, but if you think about the people you hate, you often hate them because of what they do to other people. Lay aside, for the moment, the worst that the species can do and think instead of the finest it can be. Think of generousity, altruism, compassion, love. I personally would put up with fifty arseholes just to find one friend.

Then there's the real world, the living planet that we are screwing up faster than we can understand it. Deepsea angler fish with lights on their heads and mouths like cages, Komodo Dragons, wierd little frogs that live in the desert and spawn in tiny puddles that are only there for a few days every year; Pengiuns that live in Australia and invade discos, flowers one meter across, little sea-anemone-worm things that live in complete darkness, thriving in the incredible heat of undersea volcanic vents where the water gets to 300 degrees, Kakopos (how can you not love Kakopos?), nematode worms that learn by eating things and retaining their knowledge, redwoods you could drive a horse-and-cart through, bromeliads full of frogs, caeleocanths, horseshoe crabs, living fossils that have somehow hung around. And I've hardly scratched the surface....

I fucking love it here.

13:30 / 04.04.02

Quote "nematode worms that learn by eating things and retaining their knowledge"

Is that for real? you sure that wasn't an episode of Smallville? - what if I ate a nematode worm??

14:01 / 04.04.02

I fear Komodo dragons. No, really. They scare the bejesus out of me. And the bevishnu and the bebuddha. But the world has cats, big cats and small. And gorillas, and, of course, many, many brands of monkeys, so I still love it.

Girls are pretty damn neat too...heh.

14:05 / 04.04.02

PS Bear - cannibalistic learning? yes, sort of. My da actually did lab techie stuff on a CL test using nematodes at the University of Manitoba...the nematodes who were T-maze smart were ground up and fed to the T-maze dumb ones...and the latter began to get better at the T-Maze post-feeding. I'm not sure if it ever got published, or even if the protocols made it a viable experiment in the eyes of the rest of academia.

14:29 / 04.04.02

Reasons to be cheerful - one, two, three... (well, ten)
Just for today:

*text messaging
*two friends just got the new jobs they went for
*my new specs (with which I can see everything in sharp detail

and there's more:

*Spring's here
*red wine, especially Rioja, most especially Oddbin's offer on Campo Viejo Reserva
*Douwe Egbert's instant coffee (grrrrrrr, beverage snobs! But if it's beans you want, it has to be Choice Mysore)
*lodger's in London for four days, so I can run around naked all night and do exactly what I feel like in my own house
*Ganesh's new schedule means we can have three-night-weekends when he's home
*Buffy's on cable tonight
and
*the Kakapo! Triumphantly defying overwhelming evolutionary forces, with a bit of help...

14:44 / 04.04.02

I *heart* the Tardigrade - natures most indestructible creature - a.k.a. water bears, or MOSS PIGLETS.

"The tiny tardigrade, whose size is no larger than the head of a pin, has proved to be one of nature's toughest survivors. Laboratory experimenters have immersed it in liquid helium down to a savage -272 degrees Celsius. They have left it at -192 degrees Celsius for 20 months, and cooked it for a week at 92 degrees Celsius in ether, alcohol and other noxious chemicals. Restored to normal temperature and given water, the tardigrade strolls away. Some specimens were brought back to life after 120 years in a dry and dusty museum."

http://www.tdrinc.com/natarch.html

I love the combination of harmless, humble and TOTALLY INDESTRUCTIBLE. Looks cute for a bug, too.

See here for further links:

http://www.q7.com/~vvv/tardigrade/

14:51 / 04.04.02

Monkey the Greatest Sage said:
I fear Komodo dragons. No, really. They scare the bejesus out of me. And the bevishnu and the bebuddha.

I agree. That's why I think they're the most awesome beings. All monitor lizards can give you that feeling to different degrees if they start looking at you with that hungry gleam.

I was in a Vivarium one time, looking at all the cages, not realizing that the next section of the wall was a huge monitor lizard enclosure. I turned my head and looked right in the eye of an 8 foot long monitor lizard hanging out on a section of tree sunning itself. Since it was so unexpected, for a few seconds I was right back to being prey, it was gonna eat me and I couldn't move or do a damned thing.

Then, the moment passed, I remembered that there was a glass wall separating us, and I laughed nervously at my fear.

It's experiences like that that make me love this world.
(I'm not helping with your fear though am I

)

As for instant coffe... the only thing worse is 'recaff': when you re-use old coffee grounds because you're out of coffee.

Bleck-O.

15:26 / 04.04.02

Lothar - awesome beings that I wish to stay well the fuck away from. Reptiles seem to have no point of negotiation with humans - too far removed as kin. And they do not care that we're the dominant species. Also, I don't trust any creature that has poisonous saliva because of poor oral hygene, and bites calf muscles to bring down prey.

I actually love big cats because I seem to get along with them well. I spent two hours sitting next to a lion cage, with only a plate of glass and about three inches between me and two lionesses. It was great, because everyone else was shitting themselves at how close they were, and I just sat and traded lazy looks with them.

Morlock - groupie for hire

16:04 / 04.04.02

the world's a canvas. Learn to paint."

Good idea. I'll go find my friend who's dying of cancer, and who's mother has just committed suicide, and tell him that. I'm sure he'll appreciate it.

Yes, alright, it was a glib remark, made because RMR was pissing me off. Sometimes your canvas is nowhere near large enough for what you hope to paint, and a lot of people only get black and that horrible browny colour to paint with. Apologies if I caused offence, but what are you suggesting, that they go away and sulk? Christ, you'd think you were in the Headshop.

Off to think happy thoughts for a bit. See ya later.

pointless and uncalled for

16:06 / 04.04.02

Would I be wrong in saying that even given his situation that the words are no less valid?

16:19 / 04.04.02

Two quick points:

Ta Ta, RMR, Bendt, THOTH, @God, and all the other personalities.

Just to let you know, since you predicted that 'death was all around' me, I've been to a country where civil war has raged for almost 20 years, on a long-haul flight during these 'terrifying times' and escaped unscathed. In fact, I had a lovely time, and I didn't even see one person raise their voice in anger.

However, I predict you'll be back. And Laila's never left...

19:41 / 04.04.02

Monkey - I think our thread rot could actually become an interesting thread regarding totems and animal affinities over in the Magick. Whaddaya think?

19:57 / 04.04.02

...red wine, especially Rioja... – ZoCher

Aw Yeah.

I love that stuff too.

Lothar/Monkey – that thread sounds like a fabulous idea!

23:05 / 04.04.02

Lothar - I'm game if you'll get the ball rolling. Afraid I'm a little preoccupied right now.

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