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c2w wrote:Frankly, although I don't really expect you to appreciate it, you're very lucky you're getting called on your bullshit by me. Because at least I'll be gentle with you. Relatively speaking. Anyway. Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a boring and predictable thread.

Jeff wrote:

c2w wrote:Frankly, although I don't really expect you to appreciate it, you're very lucky you're getting called on your bullshit by me. Because at least I'll be gentle with you. Relatively speaking. Anyway. Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a boring and predictable thread.

RI "Bad" Guys: UR DOIN IT WRONG
http://rigorousintuition.ca/board2/view ... =8&t=26718

compared2what? wrote:In fact, if I set out for the corner store tomorrow and ended up being bundled into a van by men in suits with earpieces who illegally renditioned me to some godforsaken rocky Mediterranean island prison complex where they chained me to a rusty ceiling pipe in an icy-cold brightly lit cell while jackbooted mercenaries held a power drill to my head while shouting at me to name a single point on which there was near-unanimous agreement among RI forum members or prepare to die horribly, I might even feel a brief, delusional moment of relief when I remembered that while it's definitely true that one poster's most profoundly held beliefs are almost inevitably the very definition of propagandistic mindfuckery to a number of others, at least we do pretty much all take the general proposition that we're being bombarded with media disinfo from just about every direction 24/7 as a fact that's far too well-established to bother trying to make disputing it on a prima facie basis any part of the vicious bickering that then ensues as usual.

compared2what? wrote:SHORTER VERSION:

Not so fast, buster.

Thu Nov 29, 2007, compared2what? wrote:I love the meme of the living dead. I was in my formative years when the first Romero foray into this terrain came out, which was when there were wolves in Wales, and it was still merely thrilling (as opposed to also frankly terrifying) to see a subversive allegorical meaning where others didn't. Oh, well. If I had been able then to conceive that I would some day grow as doddering and sentimental as I am being right now, I'm sure I would have been glad that at least it was about zombies. And that (at least with respect to that particular movie, owing to the sequels), by now you'd pretty much have to be double-plus undead NOT to see the allegorical content.

Which doesn't make it any less subversive and barely any less thrilling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP6nYs9Il7c

Brain-eaters! They're bigger than Jesus.

Allegro wrote:Perhaps her first post?

Thu Nov 29, 2007, compared2what? wrote:I love the meme of the living dead. I was in my formative years when the first Romero foray into this terrain came out, which was when there were wolves in Wales, and it was still merely thrilling (as opposed to also frankly terrifying) to see a subversive allegorical meaning where others didn't. Oh, well. If I had been able then to conceive that I would some day grow as doddering and sentimental as I am being right now, I'm sure I would have been glad that at least it was about zombies. And that (at least with respect to that particular movie, owing to the sequels), by now you'd pretty much have to be double-plus undead NOT to see the allegorical content.

Which doesn't make it any less subversive and barely any less thrilling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP6nYs9Il7c

Brain-eaters! They're bigger than Jesus.

compared2what? wrote:
There's nothing like the smell of crushed individual liberty in the morning.

Your enjoyment of it is pretty pungent, too, though. I would say that it mells a little like Good German. But it's so much more subtle and so much less of a practical choice that it's not really a fair comparison.

Whatever the case, it's always worth remembering that a light touch goes a long way when it comes to personal scent. In case your mother never taught you that.

compared2what? wrote:
Crassness can be hot in a private context, or an effective way to make a forceful point in a public context, or simply the only emotionally honest response possible in any number of contexts. And at its most uncalled for, it can't be any worse than offensive.

Dumbfuck stupidity, on the other hand, is something to be pitied but also something to be feared. Because it's a potentially serious danger both to the stupid dumbfuck and to others.

Same goes double for taking pleasure in the pain of others on a recreational basis. That's a sport exclusively played by the very weak, who are even more to be pitied and exponentially more to be feared than stupid dumbfucks are.

JackRiddler wrote:I know why she left, because I suffer from the same syndrome.

compared2what? wrote:Laodicean, thanks for expanding the world of pleasant things known to me. Because I didn't even know Percy Sledge even recorded "Dark End of the Street," which is one of my very, very favorite songs....

compared2what? wrote:And incidentally, take it from me: When you love a woman, you do not have to sleep out in the rain if that's the way she says it ought to be.