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01:15 / 07.01.03

Duncan- It was 2 years ago. I forgot who they were playing. St. Andrews? St. Mirnees? Something like that. Hell, I don't know. I was just enjoying myself at the match. Scotland was a blast, by far my favorite semester in college.

And someone in this thread mentioned cowboys. I have to agree. Fuck the pirates and fuck the ninjas. GIve me a pair of boots, a six-shooter and a trusty steed and I'd be a happy man.

07:01 / 07.01.03

Good Morning,

right now I'm in Passau in Southern Germany drinking coffee to get myself in shape for university. I'm 20 years old and feel pretty much like 50 right now. I study poltical sciences, philosophy and English literature. I came here not to long ago after succesfully avoiding military or civil service and be assured: if you haven't heard of Passau till now, you are lucky person. It consists merely of the university and and an old Nazi concrete block, the Nibelungenhalle. I don't recall how I exactly found Barbelith but it was definitely connected with reading/researching Invisibles. Nice place really, I like it, though I'm totally ignorant of most discussions topics and the whole ninja/pirate issue. Pirates are cooler anyway, cheers.

10:35 / 07.01.03

St. Mirren, I'd warrant.

Although possibly St. Johnstone.

Both are officially worse.

18:37 / 07.01.03

good evening,
I've been skulking around for a few weeks, making irrelevant posts and wasting time. I found this place while I was attempting to do some research on the Invisibles, though I tended to get sidetracked from important stuff about Postmodernism and phase boundary theory and the nexus was one excellent way to sidetrack myself. I am jealous of all the people here who seem to know each other really well, but not in a bad evil way; I'd just like to make little in jokes about pirates and ninjas too. But sadly I can't, it's like being back in school.

I've lived in Aberdeen myself but didn't support a bad football team. Sorry. Lived in San Francisco too and a couple of other places and generally feel like I am a bit of a wanderer. I'm currently fairly stationary in Ireland while finishing a degree. I am also clawing myself back to the land of the living/realms of sanity after one of those years that feels like you're on a roller coaster that just won't stop, ever. I'm in an empathetic place right now if anyone needs an ear to pour their shit into. Feel free to talk to me, I like talking. I'll stop now.

19:29 / 07.01.03

3 people who've lived in Aberdeen???

19:43 / 07.01.03

Hello, Qalyn and Jub, I too am a newbie.

I am into electronics and gear manufacturing. But I dunno anything about them. I must confess I still haven't finiah exploring here. I tend to miss a lot of things though I try not to.

13:42 / 08.01.03

I've been lurking here for the past year and decided to finally join a few months ago. I've never read the Invisibles and don't know if I'll be able to until I get enough cash to buy all the collections. Anyways, I live in New York and stuff. I am ninja pirate/pirate ninja. You can only detect me by the smell of rum on my breath. I have an army of monkeys behind me. Look out behind you.

14:01 / 08.01.03

Ah but have you ever lived in Aberdeen?

I used to go to Aberdeen during the holidays if that counts Slim (from Elgin)

00:14 / 10.01.03

well, Slim, I must confess that I lived in Aberdeen as a small child unit so I have only the confused and nearly hallucinogenic sense-impressions of a 7 year old self to go on. It snowed and I rode a bicycle, not necessarily at the same time. I went back there when I was about 14 - it was a lot smaller than I remembered.
BTW, I like your name, Lionheart. Both a CareBear reference and a strong symbol. Nice one.

Constitution Hill

00:59 / 10.01.03

I've lived in Aberystwyth , does that count?

I'm also a lurker, lured into the light by Chairman Maominstat. I'm 25 and finally joining what those around me call 'the real world' by attempting to get a job & live in London. Before this fateful decision i lived & studied Americans in Aberystwyth for 7 years. I spent 4 months in Utica, upstate NY, and it snowed for almost every damned day, so the recent whiteness has been bringing back foul memories for me.

I'm currently listening to Har Mar Superstar and recalling the days when Prince still had enough of his marbles to make good music. I had to give up drinking 12 months ago, and tonight an old friend offered me some particularly fine absinthe and refusing nearly broke my heart. My ideal job would be bed-tester, but somehow i don't think that'll pay London rents.

According to a 'which lord of the rings character are you' i'm Bilbo Baggins, most of my uni friends found me slightly strange, but four of them are getting married so i still think i'm on the right side of sane. I've been called camp but in a masculine way, and apparently I have the physique of a dancer. I'm also all out of marmalade.

I have no opinion on the ninja/pirate issue other than i get seasick and can be internminably clumsy. If you lot ever go to war i'll sit in a tree and hum.

my cockroach Gonzalez

17:53 / 10.01.03

hello

back in the good old days i was a lurker but now i'm just a goddamn newbie.

born in scotland just outsida glasgow, i've been steadily moving south and I'm now wowed by the joys of london bogies. very clingy.

hopefully in another few years i'll be in antartica where I can do no-one any harm with my terrible habit of not using capitals.

by day i'm a hired geek for the defence industry, by night i'm writing a terrible book about being a hired geek for the defence industry.

my boss probably doesn't suspect this.

the last best thing i did was drive north on christmas day in a battered 80's BMW stoned out of my gourd. i'd recommend trying it. it's like sex.

is that enough?

10:47 / 11.01.03

Hey! An intro thread..... I guess I had better introduce myself then.

I am a 27 year old gal in Australia. I heard about this place from Ganesh after we met on a Christian BBS (where he managed to offend just about everybody before being banned).

I have browsed the board a little and am trying to control my desire to preach fire and brimstone to those considering Masonary. LOL. j/k

Good to meet you all.

11:35 / 13.01.03

-hopefully in another few years i'll be in antartica where I can do no-one any harm with my terrible habit of not using capitals.

aha - we've caught you randomly capitalizing now. Shocking. And what is with the Scottish contingent? Are they're lots of us who had close brushes with that particular country or what?

Shit, I've just realised that if anyone is rotting this INTRODUCTION thread it's me - ok, hello again, please allow me to reintroduce myself, I'm a person of wealth and taste (let's all play guess the gender!). The reason why I'm currently so manic is cos I was half the night doing an essay about the effects of forums like this and MUDs and what have you on identity. I'm shit with computers but I'm VERY interested in their implications on the human mind, which reminds me: I was going to start a thread asking you guys your opinion on that kind of thing. I will do so now, so be my guest with any stories or advice, opinion, theory, whatever.

Cheers

Hattie's Kitchen

14:01 / 13.01.03

Greetings to one and all,

I too was introduced to Barbelith by the esteemed Chairman Maominstoat - I have been a lurker for the past year or so, and finally joined about three months ago. I've been in London for three years now, originally from Liverpool, and my job is to read the newspapers for a living. But I'm not a media twat.

My stance on the pirate/ninja debate is most definitely ninja, having been trained in martial arts, although I am partial to hauling keel and drinking grog when the mood takes me.

My Wu-Tang Clan name is "International Cow".

trouser the trouserian

14:36 / 13.01.03

Hi

Thought I'd better take this opportunity to introduce myself. I found out about the 'lith from the illustrious Mr. Illmatic. I live in London, spend my day fiddling with computers and the occasional evening invoking 'orrible things.

17:20 / 22.11.03

Howdy.

Word up & whiskey down to all the lovely cyborgs out there. I've been lurking about and watching the lot of you (some more closely than others) and eventually thought "what the hell?"

So here I am. Talia iacta est.

I'm an undergrad senior attending NYU, and graduating in about a month. My concentration of study has been politics and theatre -- specifically as integrated performative social systems, if that means anything at all.

I'm living in Manhattan but I'm no goddamn New Yorker, so I'm high-tailing off this island when I get my diploma and returning to the cradle of American antinomianism and my beloved home, Providence, Rhode Island.

My interests include: Alan Turing, word games, cryptogeography, alternate history, glossolalia, kittens, blunts, Judith Butler, de-evolution, and hot bass-players. I like my drinks strong and my sex gay.

Pleased to've metcha.

Burn one!
Elmo

17:24 / 22.11.03

Hello elmo

17:27 / 22.11.03

oh, and anyone who recognizes where my username comes from will immediately qualify to be my new friend.

No star here laces

04:09 / 23.11.03

Soderbergh's "Schizopolis"

But its google that's your friend, not me.

12:56 / 28.11.03

bump.

(so i need not post on another introduction thread and because we recently have lots of new members)

unheimlich manoeuvre

03:00 / 19.10.04

*cough*

12:21 / 19.10.04

Hi, I'm Sir Real. I live about 1.5 miles from the room where I was born. It's not because I'm not willing of able to move, I just think I happened to be born in the right town. Here's a little snippet from the local free alternative weekly (my gf works there and it's two blocks from our house):

Catalytix, the statistics firm of Rise of the Creative Class author Richard Florida, rates Durham no. 1 among 274 U.S. counties as a creative center, but ranks the city 227th for "freedom from violent crime."

Sigh, I love my hometown...

That's the Durham in North Carolina, U.S.A., btw.

12:25 / 19.10.04

I officially disavow this thread.

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