BARBELITH underground
 

Subcultural engagement for the 21st Century...
Barbelith is a new kind of community (find out more)...
You can login or register.


barbequotes

 
  

Page: 1 ... 4142434445(46)4748495051... 81

 
 
Mourne Kransky
02:46 / 19.02.06
Moi, je suis ivre pas du tout. Je fais mes excuses pour avoir décomposé le fil de barbequotes.
 
 
The Falcon
11:12 / 19.02.06
And the ?

???

anyway, I like this exchange:

Boboss: The squatters in question are fucking arseholes. You can be assured of that.

Dreams In The Stoat House: Do they not like beans on toast? Cunts.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
12:40 / 22.02.06
i've always wanted a camera implanted directly into my eyeball. i imagine it would be controlled by a microswitch implanted into the roof of my mouth.

i also wish i could fix the capslock on my keyboard.


c0nceptual sums up the posthuman condition.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
15:12 / 22.02.06
probably off-topic, but can i say i'm a bit intrigued/tickled by the terry pratchett "reminding". not least because he's one of the keenest observers of humanity writing today.

Saltation explains it all.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
15:27 / 22.02.06
I think a refusal to engage with objections or claims of offense makes it hard to argue that the poster is worth keeping on the board. I'd prefer to see people given a decent chance to defend or amend their comments, but if they are clearly unwilling to do so, then we have to be pragmatic and considerate of the membership as a whole.

I increasingly feel that members either approach the board as a community, or they approach it simply as a venue for self-expression. A willingness to consider and react to other members tends to indicate the former, not to do so the latter. And if you're in the second camp, being driven off Barbelith probably isn't as big a deal as if you belong to the first. It's a utilitarian judgement in the end, and I tend to judge that users switched to broadcast and not receive aren't really suffering much by losing this particular channel.


And, to finish off the tryptich, Smoothly Weaving gives us words to live by.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
21:56 / 22.02.06
And now it's Haus' turn. Superlative Milton pastiche in the Balberith thread:

Nor those mysterious parts were then concealed;
Then was not guilty shame, dishonest shame.
No, Adam had his nob out, and his balls,
Which bounced like two great orbs of equal size,
as VENUS doubled in a velvet sack,
which th'astronomie calls THE MORNING STAR.
Yay, so were Adam's balls, and his fair wife -
But let us now to SATAN here return,
And linger not upon that beldame's parts,
For that would be too much like a good time.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
12:24 / 23.02.06
Feels a bit peculiar to be doing this but Undulating spine's

Help i am falling into misanthropy and nihilism, help, help! Save me with a branded cookie that looks both dark and edgy, with a hint of minty rebellion.

did make me giggle.
 
 
Spaniel
14:10 / 23.02.06
From this thread.

Gumbitch responds thusly to the thread's other inhabitants (Shadowsax and Saltation).

over here! they're over here!
 
 
Dead Megatron
16:55 / 23.02.06
Weevil Scientist, on the Barbarian love thread:

IS IT NOT SAID THAT THE SLAYING OF DRAGONS AND THE LOVING OF WOMEN ARE MUCH THE SAME?

Which would explain why there are so few dragons left...
 
 
Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown
17:26 / 23.02.06
Spyder, Chrononaut of Tomorrow, presents us with this memorable ode to a gastronomic delight. I sigh in misery, for I am without one for my lunch today.

To the tune of whatever:

"I sing the sweet song of the chili dog
Oh, what glorious taste it brings
It’s rich flavor brings me such joy
As no other taste can create


"I sing unto the inventor of the chili dog
Be they woman or man
For they have brought to me
Such sweet, sweet splendor

"I sing finally to my chili dog
Which ordered out for lunch
As its superb brilliance is finally gobbled
In my eagerly awaiting mouth"
 
 
*
17:31 / 23.02.06
without which? an ode? a gastronomic delight? a chili dog? all of these?
 
 
Saltation
20:40 / 23.02.06
As is crying "logic errors" and "gaming" whenever you don't get your nob polished, which I suspect on current form will be often.

Haus demonstrating for us the phrase "shoot yourself in the foot".
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
20:47 / 23.02.06
It was a glorious victory, wasn't it?

The White Knight.
 
 
Ganesh
20:47 / 23.02.06
Erm, not really. It is quite a funny quote, though. Possibly even nob-polishingly so.
 
 
Dead Megatron
20:58 / 23.02.06
Haus, in funny names thread:

We're all the heroes of our own narratives.

Which doesn't mean we win every time.
 
 
Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown
21:44 / 23.02.06
without which? an ode? a gastronomic delight? a chili dog? all of these?

Chili dogs and odes. The soup I had was a gastronomic delight (perhaps less with the gas than a chili dog), but I was, alas, without an ode.
 
 
electric monk
23:10 / 23.02.06
Alex's Grandma, in "Is There Something Wrong with Barbelith?":

I like to read Barbelith while I'm having my evening cocoa, but lately I've been sitting there, weeping tears of blood.

The poor dear. Will someone drop by later to see if she's okay?
 
 
Jack Denfeld
03:34 / 24.02.06
Nina makes Barbelith sound scary in the policy.
 
 
Mistoffelees
07:46 / 24.02.06
That looks like Steven Tyler pooing Spaghetti.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
10:11 / 24.02.06
I feel that we should ban Haus quotes from this thread purely because almost everything he says is quoteworthy, but his put down in the funny names thread needs special notice:

I'd like to look at that phrase "passive-aggressive". It doesn't seem to be being used in quite the traditional way. In traditional discourse, it means something like this:

Of, relating to, or having a personality disorder characterized by habitual passive resistance to demands for adequate performance in occupational or social situations, as by procrastination, stubbornness, sullenness, and inefficiency.

When used recently by the aggrieved of Barbelith, it seems to mean "cheating by using words made of letters".
 
 
Lama glama
10:49 / 24.02.06
Xoc, on Legba's inquiry into how new members are finding the board:

I thought the Cheddar was mousetrap, frankly, but the White Stilton was tasty and the Stinking Bishop was satisfactorily pungent and runny. Thanks for asking.

Zing, as they say in the vernacular.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
10:52 / 24.02.06
Yes, yes, very good.
 
 
The Falcon
20:24 / 24.02.06
Triplets elegant invitation makes it because of the 'also', I think:

Bill, John. Would you like to come to my house for tea and also sex?
 
 
Dead Megatron
20:56 / 24.02.06
Haus acknowledges my eeevil powers:

Galvatron is the living embodiment of the dark power of Cybertron's Dark Opposite
 
 
Whisky Priestess
22:28 / 25.02.06
Why I heart Barbelith:

Clever nice people saying silly funny things.

(At least in this thread.)
 
 
All Acting Regiment
14:55 / 26.02.06
Matt:

Only Petey Shaftoe gets more than two cents, and he beats you with them. Literally. He tossed a penny in my eye and shattered my coccyx.
 
 
Quantum
17:49 / 28.02.06
I went off half cocked there (to use an in no way phallogocentric turn of phrase) and that I was in all probability merely attacking a straw woman, or a straw school full of straw women, invented by wicked Patriarchs to discredit Feminists.
Billious Bogg

I hate straw women but heart BB
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
17:50 / 28.02.06
Quantum, in the wonderfully flypaper-like Feminism 101 thread, in response to "no we men are the oppressed minority!" bleating:

I watch the board like a hawk for misandry and man-hate and burn any offenders at the stake. It's not exactly a busy job.

Me, I would have put a paragraph break between the two sentences, but I'm just quibbling, I can't fault that. I kiss you, Quantum!
 
 
matthew.
22:08 / 28.02.06
If I could quote every instance of a 'lither exposing a newbie to the light I would. I huggle all of you.
 
 
Olulabelle
00:01 / 01.03.06
Id entity on the wonderful Feminism 101 thread which was birthed to the tune of 93 pages in the space of about an hour:

I would love to have taken part in this thread, but at this point it's a bit like saying I'd really have liked to have had a dance with that avalanche before it went by.
 
 
diz
07:03 / 01.03.06
The wonderful GGM hits the nail on the head:

"Or as I've said elsewhere, I'm a feminist because feminist thought and action taught/enabled me to express my conviction/experiences that gender assumptions are a cage, under patriarchy, the cage for 'men' is just bigger and more comfortable than that for 'women'. The cage for other-gendered people is underground, out of sight and over crowded to suffocation levels."

Word.
 
 
Triplets
07:10 / 01.03.06
Boboss isn't a job, he's an adventure:

I put it too you that Steven Seagal movies, especially On Deadly Ground are a)bad, b)uncool, c)AMAZING, and d)just a cook.
 
 
Spyder Todd 2008
16:20 / 01.03.06
Haus, making a point early on in the Feminism 101 thread:

Don't get me wrong. I hate women. I just hate sloppy research much more.

I laughed. Such sweet, sweet laughter.
 
 
iconoplast
18:10 / 01.03.06
id entity, in the post which ended


...
"No offense is intended to persons made of cake."


provided one of the wittiest and wisest attempts to defuse a case of wrongheadedness I've ever seen.
 
 
Bubblegum Death
01:07 / 02.03.06
"I mean, we were talking about misogyny and feminism, but we realize you need somewhere to talk about the heretofore unrealised megaton destruction force of your own winkies."

Haus referring to posts in Feminism 101
 
  

Page: 1 ... 4142434445(46)4748495051... 81

 
  
Add Your Reply