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Well, if I'm Avon, then I distrust all deeply-felt political beliefs...
Incidentally, has everyone been checking the "Barbinterview Week 4" thread? Your vote counts....and it's quite funny to see dear old Solarisone Else, who now has people joining a three-month waiting list just to call him a twat, still apparently convinced that he's the rebel alliance. Those Superman pyjamas may be stained with sweat and piss, but they are still Superman pyjamas. He wears the SHIELD, darn it....
Not sure exactly where your politics are. What do you think of anrchists and anti-capitalist/anti-globalisation movement?
I think they're useful. I don't believe that any of the many anti-Capitalist, anti-Globalisation or Anarchist ideologies currently being espoused by different groups is going to replace the current systems of power (or, more precisely, replace the curent primary operators of the system of power in which they are all implicated), but then that isn't really the point, as Blake never quite worked out. In concert with any number of other groups, factors and beliefs they have the potential to retard, alter and jam the processes through which power currently operates. They'll fail, of course, but that's no reason not to do it.
Fictionsuit.
How much disparity do you feel there is between your fictionsuit and you real self? To put it another way, do you accept the description of *real life Haus* as fluffy and cuddly while that of Haus as prickly and aloof? To what extent can a long term facade really be said to be "not real"?
I think that's pretty much been covered, I think - except maybe the last part. And personally I'd suspect the characterisation of Haus is more "solid", and thus perhaps more real, than "signified-by-me", who is by comparison wildly inconsistent and diverse.
What things really wind you up about other's posts on Barbelith?(Again, don't want to start any fights so feel free to ignore if you feel it would be politic.) What things do you love?
Things that wind me up - hmmm. Threadrot, I guess, particularly in the Revolution. Which probably spins off into lots of other areas. People deciding that talking about themselves is more important than talking about the topic. Conversations about last night's tapioca across serious threads - they're called Private Messages, children, and they are easier to use than your medical alert button. Earcocking, which is primarily annoying for being threadrotty but also just.....terribly, terribly depressing, as it tends to support the thesis that people on Bulletin Boards flirt with the finesse and style of a man in boxing gloves masturbating.
In fact, I'm going to expatiate on this a little, because I can. I have at times been criticised for a) not joining in the harmless fun of flirting and b) being down on heterosexuals. I believe it was Special Boy Potus who argued that I have never once complained that a thread was being derailed by queer flirting. He was less than successful in finding any thread that had been, of course, and maybe there's a Jerry's Final Thought in that for all of us. Besides, the worst earcockers tend to be no respecters of gender. As for a)...what people seem to struggle to realise is that I am generally flirting monstrously and shamelessly with all sorts of posters, tail and no-tail, all the time. It just takes a little skill to notice. Because if you are flirting with somebody with the intention of trying to make them either flirt back or open their hot, willing ears to your Giant-Sized Man-Thing, you're missing the point.
A variant of this on occasion practised with more success by certain of our no-tail contingent is to pop up at the mention of a particular noun or concept and use it as a launchpad for a comment on how perky their nippples seem to be, or how much they enjoy having sex with another woman while an invited audience looks on. As near as I can tell, this is trolling, or perhaps more accurately trawling, and should be treated with amused tolerance in the Conversation and swift excision elsewhere.
Otherwise - dogmatism, or more precisely the holding of an opinion so firmly that the very idea of dissent is not credible; faced with any criticism of the belief they have advanced, the subject will simply retender it unchanged, on the assumption that the dissent must be the result of a failure by hir interlocutor to understand it, and that once it is taken on board any misguided criticism shall fade away.
A subspecies of this is the person who through lack of specific knowledge or general dimness is incapable either of addressing a subject or comprehending their failure. A recently-returned poster distinguished hirself on this by failing utterly to comprehend how hir contention that too great a variance from hir own body type was undesirable could possibly be seen as offensive or open to criticism. That's not "the normal body type", loaded and incoherent concept though that may be. That is, very specifically, the body type of somebody in their late twenties who has gone to seed a bit. Yes.
Oh, and posters jumping into threads with a post beginning "Haven't had a chance to read this thread yet, but....". You're sitting at a computer. You have time to venture an opinion. Take some of that time to check that said opinion was not mentioned, discussed and rejected three posts in. And look up "ataraxy" while you're about it.
Oh, and feuds. They seem increasingly pointless as I get older and crustier, and probably create threadrots and ulcers in approximately equal measure. If you are carrying grievances from one thread to another, then you are probably going to end up doing the new thread a disservice.
As for what I love - everything else, I guess, except for the benign but tired ninjas and pirates schtick. The ideas, the generally high level of discussion, the opportunity to share thoughts with people from a very much more varied and broad monoculture than I am used to, the endless huggles...Barbelith is, for all its faults, an exceptionally cool place, full of exceptionally lovely people. The Head Shop, Lab and Switchboard in particular I find fascinating sources for stories and ideas, and the potential for hanging out and being silly in the Conversation leavens that rather effectively. It's a new and very involving way to interact with public and private space, and ideen with public and private people.
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