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00:29 / 25.10.05

Chad in the Paty Cockrum thread:

Humor founded on casual racism and stereotypes are best left to paid comedians. In the hand of anyone else, it's undignified.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

01:17 / 25.10.05

A parenthetical Deva in the Serenity Thread, butchering a Firefly quote and making it better:

(Not from the film this time, which is sadly fading into a shiny epiphenomenon as I continue watching Firefly and continue being mostly-bored-but-occasionally-outraged by it, but an example from Our Mrs Reynolds: "Wife or no, you ain't nobody's property. Sit down here and read my battered space-captain's copy of The Feminine Mystique, little lady" etc etc.)

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

01:20 / 25.10.05

John Octave, on Batman:

But Batman is WAY more Republican than Superman. Batman is a billionaire living in a mansion, he's paranoid and spies on other superheroes "just to be safe", and doesn't work well with the Justice League because his own localized agenda (saving Gotham City) sometimes conflicts with their broader one (saving the world and/or universe). Also, I bet the Batmobile is a gas-guzzler. Look at that huge-ass flame coming out the back...

18:44 / 26.10.05

...it's not written anywhere that that forum has to have higher standard of discussion than the (now best nuked from space) Comics forum

M'sieur Shaftoe, Je t'aime.

14:44 / 27.10.05

'Twee' is a moveable feast.

Jack the Bodiless, with a lovely sentence and a cringeworthy image (inhabiting the imaginal No Man's Land between Hey-diddle-diddle and Be Our Guest).

Less searchable M0rd4nt

17:30 / 27.10.05

We'll i'm from Wales and what i think about the British is...Not much really! When i moved here from Cardiff it took fucking ages to get a Visa sorted, the journey on that bridge across the border was horrific, i can't understand what anyones saying, i still don't get the money system (how many welsh Davids to a Pound again?) the British Underground system is fucked,...i could go on but whats the point. I'm here now so i'd better get used to the place.

--ghadis.

19:54 / 27.10.05

Stoatie's gem about Anne Rice's new novel about Jesus completely made my day.

On the bright side, at least she's shut up about the fucking vampires.

20:15 / 29.10.05

From matt - man, mystery, meatball in his own thread about Preteens and the sexualising of children:

It's our Western culture that's influencing children to be sexual beings at a stage in their development where they cannot make mature decisions about the consequences of their actions, in terms of sexuality. They can barely make responsible decisions about whether or not to jump off the roof of the shed, or not to touch that dog, etc

I also like:

We're living in some obsese times

Mysterious Transfer Student

06:28 / 30.10.05

... my entire experience of hip-hop consists of (a) that bit in La Haine where someone mixes that song that goes whoop, whoop, that's the sound of the police (actually, is that even hip-hop?) and (b) occasionally listening to my friend rant about how good that Public Enemy song that Tricky covered is. Oh, and I read the first half of a slash story about Eminem and Krycek out of the X-Files.

Deva demonstrates a killer grasp of comic timing in zir 'beginner's guide to invective in hip-hop' thread in Music & Radio.

Also, and this is in no way intended either to be or to appear to be a homophobic reaction... ewww.

09:01 / 01.11.05

The advantages of mute, obliging and physically strong partners ought to be highlighted here.

Xoc is in fact talking about taking out the bins here believe it or not.

All Acting Regiment

12:22 / 01.11.05

Can they toss a mighty log on any disbeleivers? And follow up with a rather impressive man sized maul?

16:46 / 01.11.05

Xoc was tossing mighty logs, but there's more roughage in his diet now.

19:16 / 01.11.05

Ganesh is disgusting and will be soundly thrashed for it.

All Acting Regiment

21:45 / 01.11.05

Bard, fantasy, proper:

The evil sorcerer will always turn into a snake for the final fight. It doesn't matter if the hero is named Anti-Snake the Serpent Slayer, with his Viper-Slaying Broadsword of Snake-Murder, or if he previously, at some point, found an acid that ONLY works on giant snakes. The evil wizard will be a giant snake for the last 5 minutes of his life.

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06:34 / 02.11.05

From RPG's Making People Crazy: What?

fridgemagnet
I got into a lot of trouble because of my interest in biting ducks, but in the end, by biting ducks all the time I was just avoiding dealing with reality.

Stoatie- NOW WITH TROUSERPRESS
Look on the bright side... the ducks were left in no doubt as to what was real.

12:52 / 02.11.05

I tried really hard not to get one, but now you need it even for a bus pass. I registered it under the name Luther Blisset, though.

I realise two Stoatie quotes in a row might be overdoing it but this one from the Oystercard thread made me chuckle.

19:34 / 03.11.05

Ganesh on Blunkett:
I guess now he can look forward to spending more time with other people's families.

I'm stealing that one.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:40 / 03.11.05

You're not the only one, cube. Consider youself ransacked, Ganesh.

07:34 / 05.11.05

I think it's a juvenile Siberian Dwarf Hamster.

id entity in the Lovely Pictures for Haus thread.

It sound so cool, it could be an inspiration for a band name, like Id Entity and the Juvenile Siberian Dwarf Hamsters.

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15:02 / 06.11.05

You're dragging this thread into the mud of mediocrity, Mist, but it's hardly a new phenomenon. Oh, well; who am I to complain? I got barbequoted. Yeah!

21:24 / 08.11.05

Mordant Carnival
18:22 / 08.11.05
I am going to find some of those threads that started out with a harmless, even promising opening few posts, and then degenerated into bitter infighting. The fifteen-page ones. The ones with all the big gaps where people deleted their text in disgust. The ones that left a taste in the mouth as nasty as rancid aerosol cream. At least a dozen or so.

*bump*

Nina Skryty
18:26 / 08.11.05
Well they're definitely the most fun to read...

Tuna Ghost
23:11 / 08.11.05
Hell, they're fun to make. It's like a group of people got together, each adding something ugly or sinful, and created a tumorous, evil thing that pulsates pure wickedness and regret, scarring all who gaze upon it's horrid countenance. Lots o' laughs, I tell ya.

'Lithers Speak STRONG TRUTH in the Bump Thread.

11:31 / 09.11.05

toksik (in the Bump Thread, again):

i'd just like to add that, although i have nothing to add, my contribution is as valid as anyone else's.

17:17 / 11.11.05

Stoatie in the Worst . . . Writing . . . Ever comic book thread

Why does Claremont... ah.

let me rephrase that.

Why is Claremont?

02:18 / 12.11.05

fridgemagnet over in the MMORPG thread over in Games and Gameplay:

I'm getting a bit sick of trying to find a decent hat and always feeling like I'm intruding into someone else's fetish.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

19:21 / 17.11.05

Harrison Ford Prince Charles Wins Easter Egg Hunt

over in the Caption Contest thread. Thah Winnah!

ONLY NICE THINGS

13:45 / 18.11.05

I once had an idea for a Metal Gear Solid style stealth-based Playstation game called "The more you ignore me, the closer I get". It involved you guiding espionage agent Morrissey around a secret military installation, and when you got stuck you could use your communications device to call on Alan Bennett who would guide you through the levels in a series of talking head monologues.

Gypsy Lantern should be designing games.

Goodness Gracious Meme

13:56 / 18.11.05

Harrison's gift for the truly horrible image gives us:

It'll be Prince next, he'll probably marry Sam from Eastenders & invite Jimmy Carr to be in his new video

I hope you *were* sick, H.

11:07 / 20.11.05

the true horror is revealed as beasts walk the land and a young boy has lost his way

Legba Rex's hangover, evocatively conjured, in the Great Hangovers Thread.

13:55 / 20.11.05

Oh, dear, I read that as "breasts walk the land". Which would possibly be more scary. Or not.

16:46 / 20.11.05

Well imagined in Woody Allen's Sleeper, where Salvador Dali came to life, like a gay boy's bad dream.

20:38 / 21.11.05

uncle retrospective:
Duncan, just pray you never know why there is the horror that is "Home & Away".

Lovecraft went mad when They explaned the plan to him.

The Return Of Rothkoid:
I always knew Alf was one of the Old Ones.

Es-Orr was an hairy man:
Suddenly the episode where he dies on the operating table and Ailsa shows him all the potential lives those around him might have if he doesn't return makes sense. I thought it was just a weak 'It's a Wonderful Life' rip-off, but now I see that he was, in fact warping through various realities and parallel dimensions guided by the avatar or imprinted ficsuit memory of his dead wife. It's all about the conscious choice being the most powerful determinator of reality. Ailsa is the manifestation of his hyper-aware race-memory contacting his conscious mind at the moment it disassociates from his physical body only for the revalation to force it back into a mundane four-dimensional existence. Alf's lizard-brain cannot cope with the vision and he slips back into his previous incarnation within the construct of Sunny-bay.

Maybe.

Various in the "Did Grant Morrison Invent Eastenders?" Thread.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

09:12 / 23.11.05

Teh Haus in Teh Did Star Trek: the Next Generation fail as science fiction? teh thread,

Teh: I wanted Sinclair to be punched very hard in the balls a lot. I can pretend to myself that every time Sinclair walks out of a scene a man with a lead glove is standing behind the door preparing to use him jimmy sack as a speedball, and likewise that every time a scene cuts, the same man walks into the room with a big smile on his face. Maybe StraJimski has claimed in a magazine that Babylon 5 was originally to be titled "Jeffrey Sinclair's Nutsack Torment", but I have only my reading of a text in which, given how little time Sinclair spends complaining about his lead-lined mansatchel nemesis, and thus have to conclude with regret that no such reading is open.

09:19 / 23.11.05

Shame was strangely unreal to me in my youth.

Smoothly Weaving, in the Bad Student thread. Oddly poignant.

13:31 / 23.11.05

the idea that you set up the infrastructure of a university, with libraries and lecturers and classrooms and so forth just so that middle class 18-21 year olds can hang out with other middle class 18-21 year olds does seem to me a teeny bit of a waste and a missed opportunity.

I heart Lurid Archive.

13:51 / 23.11.05

It's sad to realize that not only are you no longer one of the cool kids, you're not one of the kids full fucking stop.

from Jack Fear in the "What's Wrong with Barbelith" thread.
I like this because it really sums up my parents' thoughts on aging. They're both young (in their forties) and have a desire to be cool, but as Jack Fear has so perfectly said, they are not kids anymore.

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