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14:45 / 16.01.08

The acknowledgment that someone has been told is itself affirmation and approval; the same actions, seen through the lens of disapproval, are mere rudeness and not "telling." Therefore the criterion is built into the question, "Did someone get told?"

Also I'm waiting for the Psychology Manga thread to sink in convo a little, but when it does I'm barbequoting it.

Oh wait, I've just done that haven't I.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

11:42 / 17.01.08

Grandma's Worm on the boringness of Tosh in Torchwood:

'Just tell us we have to blow up/defuse, dear?!'

(sighs) 'All right. Have I ever told everyone I've sometimes had fantasies about me and other women?'

'Now that, you see, is interesting.'

ONLY NICE THINGS

05:05 / 22.01.08

Everybody needs to chill the hell out. There's going to be a fairly mild recession in the US. It's not that big a deal. Civilization as we know it is not likely to collapse anytime in the near future (i.e. within our lifetimes), and thank whatever deity you'd like to thank for it, because the "solutions" offered by the likes of H vs L are basically a bunch of romantic twaddle. Isolated agricultural societies with no technological progress are miserable hellholes, and if that were what we had to look forward to, I'd throw myself off the nearest bridge.

Dizfactor once again forgets that global capitalism is not actually his wife, and gets extremely upset at a perceived slight against her - sorry, its - honour.

08:20 / 23.01.08

I used to say I'd never wish my condition on anyone. These days I've started wishing it on everyone, just temporarily, like for the odd fortnight. We hear a lot about the "Worried Well" but increasingly it's the Smug Sane who honk me off.

TTS tells it like it is in topic 28155.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

08:29 / 23.01.08

I should say though that I had a PM from the poster I was responding to which clarified things a little. I don't think he meant to give offence.

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03:12 / 24.01.08

Gypsy Lantern, keepin' it real:

For only in the purgative fires of this grade can one aspire to comprehend the true and ancient power of "critical reading" - an abominable craft imparted to our brethren by psycho-sexual transmission from our amphibious masters who reside on the plateau of cock.

14:54 / 25.01.08

That whole post is hilarious. Ashtray!

08:58 / 26.01.08

I feel sick. Really, I'm disgusted with myself.

uncle retrospective, on enjoying Torchwood.

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:49 / 27.01.08

We also could imagine Predators as hermaprodytes who impregnate each other in some very complicated, and somewhat kinky, sexual encounter. The hermaprodyte part pending further confirmation

We really couldn't.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

16:24 / 27.01.08

Ah. Now, how did I know who that was going to be?

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

20:28 / 27.01.08

Hermaphrodite being one of my favourite words, that is a rather -- and this is petty, certainly, but stands out in my mind due to the word's repetition -- is one most gloriously kewl butcherings of a word's spelling I have ever happened upon; truly it conjures up certain fevered imaginings, vis-a-vis Jim Lee and Image Comics from the mid-Nineties.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

19:47 / 28.01.08

That whole post... I mean, why would you... yeah, sure, everyone's head does odd stuff from time to time but to sit there and write it all down like that... and then to post it... just

beh

guh

what

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

20:25 / 28.01.08

I think what you mean to say is:

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

20:25 / 28.01.08

You just need to reread the All-Star Superman thread, which is wonderful but at times reminds one of staring naked into Jung's Collective Unconscious. Then you can laugh off things like that.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:30 / 28.01.08

No, I meant guh. There is really no lol to be had from reading about one man's obsession with alienheadsex.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

20:49 / 28.01.08

I think you've just disproved Barbelith's very existence!

23:25 / 28.01.08

Why do you people point out scabs I haven't yet picked at. Why.

07:01 / 29.01.08

They hunger for Labmeats.

Soylent Sauce is making me worry for my Labmeats.

ONLY NICE THINGS

10:19 / 29.01.08

I love the AvP thread so much right now:

The idea is that you can perform and imitate realistic violence, since knives, guns and bats are more or less available. But you can´t burst out of someone´s chest, spit metal eating acid at them or blow yourself up with a nuke you carry as a wristwatch.

is just beautiful deadpan by Mistoffeles. And Gypsy Lantern's:

If I could write the screenplay, I'd set the action in Rio de Janeiro's slums.

That would be ace. Sort of like "City of Predators", with a Tropicalia/bossa nova soundtrack, coked-up aliens, and a spattering of Candomble. I would also like to see "Predator 3: The harder they predator" set in Kingston, Jamaica and starring Jimmy Cliff as an intergalactic rudebwoy predator trying to make it in the cutthroat music business, cornering his prey in the ghetto while singing "You can get it if you really want", and leading inevitably to a big aliens versus predators soundclash at the end of the film.

Is maybe my favourite Barbelith post this year.

15:39 / 31.01.08

We had press passes that, in the end, cost me nothing AND magically transformed themselves into Sunday passes (the press office seemed to really dig the girl I went w/). Anyway, had absolutely no trouble getting floor space on Sat (even if there were about 6 of us virtually on top of each other) and, even more dinner!, by Sunday night I was fixed up w/ a chalet in the VIP section, and actually experienced COMFORT. Would like to talk about something other than my incredible jamminess, but I'm on a work-break and must drink coffee with my fellow fundraisers.....

hahahahaha just noticed this from Pigs in ATP in the music forum, shortly followed by a "you are Nathan Barley" comment. Ultimate Classic!

23:17 / 01.02.08

Thank you.

One from Paralis in the I AM LEGEND thread.

It's flimsy, but it allows one to pretend that the last 30 minutes of the film are delusion, and makes for a better viewing experience on the whole. The bacon is safe.

It's "the bacon is safe" that does it for me. Incredibly stealable.

14:22 / 05.02.08

Talks to Strangers in the Otherkin thread in Temple:

Some vampires claim to be able to be just fine with "prana from the sun" . . .

Oh boy. That person must have to really wanted to call hirself a vampire if ze's getting hir energy from the sun. By that logic a bowl of petunias is a vampire.

Beautiful.

01:50 / 07.02.08

Haus (in that goddamn thread I can't make myself look away) speaking strong truth.

crying "semantics" (which here, as so often on the Interweb, is being used to mean "you are cheating by using words")

miss wonderstarr

16:51 / 08.02.08

The Ashes to Ashes thread is really taking off after a slow start.

Actually I have it on good authority the next series is a prequel to Life On Mars set in 1967. Here's a snippet of the script.

EXT.HIGH STREET.NIGHT
STEVEN, still somewhat disoriented, is walking down the high street. He hears footsteps behind him. He turns to see a LITTLE OLD MAN in scarlet and grey.

LITTLE OLD MAN
-Chuckles-

20:52 / 19.02.08

Jack Fear:

"Hating your handwriting, to me, is like hating the way your hammer looks. If it pounds the nails, who fucking cares? It's a waste of perfectly good hate."

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

17:26 / 02.03.08

Janean Picture, on Dave Sim:

When people - adolescent males, often - talk about artists and writers and musicians touched by madness with reverence and awe, what they fail to realise is that madness is often deeply, deeply boring.

Whisky Priestess

23:12 / 02.03.08

Not to the mad, surely?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

23:37 / 02.03.08

Speaking as a madperson: It depends on the kind of mad, but oh yeah. Trust me on this.

11:28 / 03.03.08

Yes, my own bouts of madness were deeply tedious

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

17:58 / 03.03.08

Also, anyone who has spent time in a psych ward will tell you that time crawls by sooooo sssllloooooowwwwwly that dying of boredrom becomes a real concern.

17:59 / 03.03.08

That kind of thing could drive one insane.

00:25 / 07.03.08

Things were clearly started in motion already when as a child of nought but 5 years old, I chose to wear the costume of the Pierot to a children’s fancy dress party, rather than the Transformers and Ghostbusters of my peers.

Lea-side, on the Random Thoughts. Transformers-kid as I am, I find this profoundly poetic. Like a gigantic haiku.

15:28 / 07.03.08

All majyk systems had to get made up sometime, right? So how come my Warhammer system is any worse than this Wicca or whatever shit you guys are into?

If Mordant's post in the possible future thread is anything to go by, it looks like I'll not be welcome on the new board anytime soon. Ah fuck...

Anna de Logardiere

16:23 / 07.03.08

Has anyone considered that over the last 6 years this has become a thread in which long standing members of the board vicariously wank each other off?

This is a genuine question, not a flaming opportunity and I'm not taking it to Policy because it is not a serious problem. Wanking also quite a good activity, though I think doing it to yourself is preferable. I have never been partial to the hand job.

16:31 / 07.03.08

(it looks like I'll not be welcome on the new board anytime soon.

You won't know unless you try... once it's going.)

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