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Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
19:52 / 14.04.07
Janean Pictures in the Worst Books thread:

But yeah. Most of his books contained some seriously weird sex shit. Between them, Xanth and the partly-hidden fetishism of Claremont's X-Men it's no wonder we're the slash fiction generation.
 
 
Triplets
12:50 / 16.04.07
Seth knows how to greet people

If you're aiming to fly into Southampton Airport then I'll happily come and collect you, just let me know your flight's arrival time and I'll make up some kind of sign that says *Dodgy Internet Mate*
 
 
iamus
13:41 / 16.04.07
Reminds me of the second time I met cube and Blake Head through in Edinburgh, pishing it down during the Festival.

They were sitting underneath a parasol with a simple flash-card reading "Geeks" and little arrows pointing towards them.
 
 
Ticker
16:44 / 16.04.07
Decrescent Daytripper is on a roll for making me laugh/grin today.

One person's porn is another person's nameless cosmic vagicentric deathgod.

I think I may have to look into getting a nameless cosmic vagicentric deathgod. Oh wait I might already have one in the closet...
 
 
Blake Head
00:51 / 17.04.07
iamus, that’s a shocking untruth - it wasn’t a flash-card it was a flash PDA with scrolling GEEK text.

And anyway, it was Cube’s: he’s the Senior Geek around these parts…
 
 
Saturn's nod
09:33 / 19.04.07
@Z deScathach:

It's my opnion that condemning the practice of calling all members of a group evil is not going PAST write and wrong, but moving from a blunt instrument to a more sharp one. Generalizations are easy to make, as they require less critical thnking. The problem with demonizing a group is that it then becomes easy to make a decision to eradicate them. We all know, I presume, what happens then.

My point is that hatred of groups IS the problem that needs to be overcome, if we are to have a peaceful world


...in the Ultraculture thread.
 
 
Janean Patience
13:04 / 19.04.07
Okay, so I idly clicked on this and saw my name and was pleased. And I was vain and bored enough to go through the pages of this thread contemporaneous with my time on the board, to see if I got quoted before.

Oh god I wish I hadn't. I wish I could turn back time, send a warning to myself.

I got quoted. I got quoted by Haus.

I feel like an obscure Marxist theorist in 1937 mentioned by Stalin at conference, knowing that while I bask in approval now I have been noticed. Noticed, and noted, and now I can't sleep for the knock on the door, the black car, the torture, the confession, the show trial and transportation to the Siberian Gulag...
 
 
Glenn Close But No Cigar
13:20 / 19.04.07
May one quote posts posted in barbequotes, or does that signal some sort of world snake eating its own tail type apocalypse? Sod it, I love this from Janean Pictures, especially the way ze gets all Martin Amis towards the end...

I got quoted. I got quoted by Haus.

I feel like an obscure Marxist theorist in 1937 mentioned by Stalin at conference, knowing that while I bask in approval now I have been noticed. Noticed, and noted, and now I can't sleep for the knock on the door, the black car, the torture, the confession, the show trial and transportation to the Siberian Gulag...
 
 
Papess
15:03 / 19.04.07
I hope this is okay to do, because this makes me smile:

Acid didn't seem to _change_ me. It made me feel special
for a few hours, then it was gone, like a male escort.
- Mordant over at Ultraculture.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
14:23 / 20.04.07
I'm holding out for Hieronymous-Bosch-Land or the Isle of Arthur Rimbaud.

Papers!
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:43 / 22.04.07
From Saturn's Nod, on the subject of assessing one's hnmadjjykcl practice:

Are the hungry getting fed?
Are the hearts of the brokenhearted being bound up?
Are tears being wiped away?
Are the wounded getting proper treatment?
Are those who are worst off getting the best possible help?
Is the number of people who are able to help themselves and co-operate with each other increasing?
Are conflicts being handled in a way which allows a constructive outcome?


Beautiful.
 
 
Triplets
18:11 / 22.04.07
Alex's Gran and Mordant, last year

Well it's not about looks, is it? It's about personality. Sitting here on-line in the twlight home for the utterly demented, Brighton and Hove branch, that my grandson was happy enough to pay for before he went into rehab, I'm looking at all these slabs of male meat that are disporting themselves on the beach with a jaundiced eye. Because who have they killed, really? Probably no one. Back in my day, we all liked a man to have blood on his hands before he had any ideas about getting into our petticoats. Alex's grandfather's attentions in the marital bed were, in all honesty, a bit hard to deal with - I remember the time wen he approached me, seething, dressed like Superman, when he jumped off the wardrobe and hurt his leg, but, all credit to the man, he didn't do anything to me that he wouldn't have done to a German spy.

I admired his conviction, in other words, even if he looked terrible, and there's your answer, young lady.



I know this is supposed to be low snark but shut up Granny or I'll confiscate your gin.



Not the gin, surely?

Not the gin.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
09:45 / 23.04.07
(I'm going to have to incidentally quote myself here, but only as a feed line for Princess, so I hope you'll all forgive me).

This is grant and Princess S. from the fruit-fly section of the Q&A thread. Papers has just found a foolproof way to get rid of the flies, but the flies (speaking through grant) are having none of it. Now read on:

grant:
WE WILL STILL FIND YOU PAPERS
WE LOVE LOVE YOU PAPERS
AM PAPERS
LOVE THE FLIES


Whisky Priestess
I believe grant is taking on the role of Lord of the Flies here ...
Perhaps some sort of banana sacrifice will appease our new fruitfly overlords?

Princess Swashbuckling
I WOULD LIKE A BANNAANA!

What is it about people speaking in capitals that I find so funny? And the poor flies - it's kind of poignant - they don't just love Papers, they LOVE LOVE him. And he thought they were just after his fruit.
 
 
Ticker
00:40 / 24.04.07
Hey! My shiny asswords will enlighten you puny humans!

Quants is an international Barbelith treasure.
 
 
This Sunday
10:20 / 24.04.07
'I should not have thought, "I wonder what a Tijuana Bible is" at work and then Googled it.' from Elijah in the comics forum gets me every time I pass it by.

Following it with 'Good thing I am the network admin.' makes it it's own little morality play of sorts. Educational.
 
 
Triplets
01:35 / 25.04.07
Nothing in particular but people referring to Kirk in the gun control thread over in The Policy.

Well. I'm a bigger ex-Trek nerd than I thought.
 
 
Pingle!Pop
06:27 / 25.04.07
Ex's lovely post on the relevancy of feminism (in, unsurprisingly, the feminist thread) manages to hit the spot twice.

One, for the giggles:

Simone De Beauvoir, if memory serves, (ah, what the heck, I'll get the book. Mine has a sexy lady on the cover)

Two, for the Word (the very concise Word):

[G]ender is a huge, multi-faceted but massively-supported series of social systems which are fucking people up. Feminism is a coherent tradition of questioning that fucking up.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
10:25 / 25.04.07
Gender is a huge, multi-faceted but massively-supported series of social systems which are fucking people up

Or, arguably, holding them together.

Bollocks, I'm going to have to read that thread now, aren't I?
 
 
Quantum
11:26 / 25.04.07
I just did, to discover another Ex gem- I try not to stand on the shoulders of giants just to wee on them. Full of fabulosity is the wonderful Ex!
 
 
penitentvandal
09:03 / 26.04.07
Phex, on the subject of Fundy Christians supporting Israelis because it will usher in TEH END TIMEZ:

bulldozing the Dome and building a Temple in order to destroy the universe may be frowned upon

It's the reductio ad absurdam - that the purpose of rebuilding the temple is basically to destroy the universe - that I find delicious about this.
 
 
Triplets
10:54 / 27.04.07
Granny's description of the psychosexual Timelord lurking just, just beneath the surface.

In one of the possible episodes after next, in terms of where the writers could go with the storyline, couldn't the Doctor, having averted the latest Dalek crisis, turn to his lovely assistant, look her in the eye, explain that he is the last of the Timelords, and then move slowly, but with purpose, towards her, as the credits roll?

And couldn't the Doctor to be chuckling at this point, possibly waving around a bottle of champagne and his sonic screwdriver - he could mutter something about the nature of romance, and how it's essentially a human conceit. The subsequent, and no doubt final, episode of this well-loved family show would ... well it would be remembered, I suppose.

In a parallel universe, one very similar, but also subtly different to ours, this may well be what's about to happen.


I'm not sure what's funnier: someone trapped with a leering Mad Dave as he rants about human nookie, or him waving his tool around. For the kids.
 
 
Quantum
16:22 / 27.04.07
phil manzanera really does seem to worry a lot about his hair. if you look at this archive clip of him being interviewed by gaz 'gaz top' top, he seems to be forever gently sweeping it out of his eyes, as if terrified lest it should tangle in his beard.

come on! give me your bloody money!


Gumbitch fundraises with terminal intensity using devastating non-sequiteurs in the Bryan Ferry thread.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
13:40 / 30.04.07
On Wolfmother:

VIKINGS?

Do you see any plaited beards on Wolfmother?

Do you see any guitars in the shape of medieval weaponry?

Dost thou bear witness to any furred swaddling boots?

Or hear them blowing horns made of walrus tusk?

The answer to all these questions is NAY!

Thus I say: These are not VIKINGS!

THESE ARE SQUIRRELS!
 
 
jentacular dreams
16:25 / 30.04.07
Off board - princess' post on the 'bring back political incorrectness' facebook site discussed here.

[On the alleged banning of 'baa baa black sheep']Of course, if someone has *proof* that a school has banned that song then I'd be happy to agree it's stupid. But as it is, it just looks like a common myth that a lot of people are buying into so that they can subtly say "those naughty black people, now we can't call them nig-nogs anymore. Bastards. I'm not a racist!" whilst pretending that the real issue is an attack on Britishness or childhood or somthin.
 
 
Princess
16:30 / 30.04.07
Thanks
Goodness, you're on the ball today. I've only just posted that.

If any other Liths are also on Facestab, maybe they could join and argue or else just report every instance of nastiness with me?
 
 
Quantum
16:41 / 30.04.07
That wolfmother quote above from the rocktastic Lord Nuneaton Savage of course.
 
 
penitentvandal
08:01 / 01.05.07
Lost in Translation: two people in the top point-oh-one percentage bracket of human demography as relates to wealth, privilege and life opportunities get to go to a beautiful, endlessly fascinating foreign country for free, where they fail to learn a single thing from their new environment, mock the indigenous population for daring not to speak English perfectly for their benefit, condescend to their fellow expatriates for expressing enthusiasm for anything or having a direction in life, treat their spouses contemptibly and can't even get it together to have miserably unfulfilling sex for the audience's entertainment.

I guess I'm falling on the "got it, just didn't bloody well care" side of the fence.


Oh Mysterious Transfer Student, TESTIFY!
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
09:39 / 01.05.07
My first ever Barbequote! Don't worry, I'm labouring night and day to make sure the rest of my opinions on this boards are as bland as possible.

Embarrassingly, I had a mental block (possibly caused by filmic exposure to shiny wonderworld of Japan!! and Scarlett's alleged hottness - long before it became evident that she can't really act) that caused me to think that LiT was a good, worthwhile film on first and even second viewing. Thank God for the combined opinions of both my GF and the estimable Christopher Doyle (rakish adjutant to Wong Kar-wai, a far greater pioneer of the shallows) both of whom hated it so much they succeeded in turning me around.

It should be noted that Nina's comment in the same thread is way pithier, a hundred times less pompous and even evinces compassion for the existential poverty endured by Sofia Coppola.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
14:49 / 01.05.07
Barbegush!

It's not an Oscar you know, dear.
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
14:59 / 01.05.07
Err. Yes. Believe it or not, I immediately wrote a post after that one on how maybe I shouldn't have written that post but... it disappeared. Because the internet wants to sabotage my attempts not to make myself look like a ninny.
 
 
Quantum
15:03 / 01.05.07
VIKINGS?
Do you see any plaited beards on Wolfmother?
Do you see any guitars in the shape of medieval weaponry?
Dost thou bear witness to any furred swaddling boots?
Or hear them blowing horns made of walrus tusk?
The answer to all these questions is NAY!
Thus I say: These are not VIKINGS!
THESE ARE SQUIRRELS!


Blimey, I only just noticed that Lord Nuneaton Savage is Paul Morley- I claim my five pounds!
 
 
Quantum
13:47 / 02.05.07
Intentional injury, like the idiots who put breath-mint strips on their eyeball and then go to the hospital? Or who grab a bottle and them punch a wall to show how badass they are? Or, I dunno, carve a reproduction of a Monkeys album cover into another person's back and then tell them they can't clean it out or touch it, so it goes septic... there's the people ire should be directed at. And possibly extra your-an-idiot taxes.

Decrescent Daytripper rearranges the taxation structure to my liking.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
14:51 / 02.05.07
Daytripper again, this time from the BDSM Questions thread:

Getting a bit too into the moment and somebody catching a bit of brick overhang and getting more injured than is expected while being tossed about in some roleplaying scenario is no different than hitting your head while being tossed about for calm, passionless doing-the-job lie-back-and-think-of-kittens sex, or just hitting your head.

I think it was the kittens that did me in.
 
 
This Sunday
18:23 / 02.05.07
It's not an Oscar you know, dear. is a bit of evidence why I'd love Whisky Priestess even if I didn't just like saying it.

But, we should. We should have some gushing room. Quotable is good, and I mean, I've got two from one post and I had to go look up the post to see when I wrote it (yesterday, apparently).

I deserve the right to thank my manager and my cabalist tantra fishygod mentor. As do we all.
 
 
Seth
11:03 / 03.05.07
Apophenia's Apophenia logged in as KKC. Sorry. Now I'm going to read all her PMs made me laugh out loud.
 
  

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