"losers" with "no life" on Saturday night - Page 2

Flint · 08-07-2006, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by MaggieL

"progressive"

You know, using ^^^that word^^^ means you've been compromised by the insidious conspiracy of the Liberal Media.
Real Americans call 'em what they are: freedom-hating commies!

MaggieL · 08-07-2006, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Flint

You know, using that word means you've been compromised by the insidious conspiracy...

It would if I hadn't put it in ironic, mocking quotes.

The Bolsheviks weren't the majority party either. Until they got control, anyway...

Flint · 08-07-2006, 03:22 PM

@Pangloss: I'm sorry to hear about all the loss you've experienced. It tends to make on philisophical about things, doesn't it, staring in the face of our inevitable mortality? (See my "Fear of Loss" thread.) But you're doing okay, I think, because you've got a good head on your shoulders. You're a thinker. You aren't buying into the simple solutions being pushed on you, whether it be religious or commercial. You're setting your own course, and along the way, confronting some hard reality. But, you aren't giving in, you aren't surrendering to the fairy tales.

I need people like you. The internet brings us together. After it removes all of our superficial aspects, the things that seperate us, we are forced to interact as disembodied intellects. People wonder, is this "real" - talking to people on a computer screen? I think it can be more "real" than most of what goes on in our society. We can play games, and hide behind walls of make-believe, but how is that any different than what people do every day? Here, at least, there is no concrete agenda.

Anyways...don't make sad faces, dude. I hate that.

EDIT: You sound alot like a character in a Herman Hesse novel.

Pangloss62 · 08-10-2006, 07:46 AM

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...don't make sad faces, dude. I hate that.

Is neutral OK?

Thanks, Flintrock.

lumberpoet · 08-07-2006, 05:43 PM

what a dick thread this is.
dickish in intent
dickish in delivery
dickish in spirit

dickish dickish dick

Flint · 08-07-2006, 05:47 PM

I know...I'm a "bad person" . . . If only I could lighten up and quit being so serious all the time.

lumberjim · 08-07-2006, 06:17 PM

serious or kidding, it's still a dick thread.

people don't want to have to defend themselves. even if you were old pals and just joking......which maggie's presence on the list refutes..... it would be dickish.

besides......you forgot to name yourself on the list......to observe them, you must have been doing the same thing, but had less to offer, neh?

lumberjim · 08-07-2006, 06:19 PM

oops.

man, my reading comprehension used to be my strong suit. gotta cut back on the rum and get more sleep.

dick away, flint.

Flint · 08-07-2006, 10:32 PM

Kind of like the ironic quotes I put in the thread title? :::lightbulb:::

In the commerce of jest, nothing bankrupts quicker than a clarification of the obvious.

MaggieL · 08-08-2006, 06:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Flint

In the commerce of jest, nothing bankrupts quicker than a clarification of the obvious.

Other than aspiring to being witty and only getting halfway there.

Pangloss62 · 08-08-2006, 07:54 AM

I don't think the quotation marks leant any sense of irony. They seemed to me to cast the word (and those who apply it to themselves) in a condescending light. This is made all the more obvious by quoting my mention of the "stolen election" and then saying that progressives "...end up beliveing their propaganda." If you were really being ironic, I missed it and I apologize.

Theorists of propaganda will have no bigger font of material from which to study their topic than the rhetoric that has come from the present administration. Up is down, black is white, and turned corners bring you back to where you began. It is appropriate here to quote one of the better theorists of propaganda:

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."J.G.

Ironic indeed.

MaggieL · 08-08-2006, 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Pangloss62

I don't think the quotation marks leant any sense of irony.

The irony being that I don't agree that "progressives" want to move in a direction that is in fact progress.

Thus your Goebbels quote is appropos.

Undertoad · 08-08-2006, 08:09 AM

Wait, what? W. voters are getting vaginal rejuvenation?

MaggieL · 08-08-2006, 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Wait, what? W. voters are getting vaginal rejuvenation?

Ahem. At least one. :-)

Pangloss62 · 08-08-2006, 08:36 AM

I first saw the term in one of those "alternative" weeklies here in Hotlanta. Next to L.A., Our city has more plastic surgery outfits than I've ever seen. Vaginal Rejuvination does indeed tighten the vagina; in this sense it seems geared toward pleasing the male partner more than the female, though clitoral stimulation may be enhanced; I just don't know.

08-07-2006, 03:22 PM	#3
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	@Pangloss: I'm sorry to hear about all the loss you've experienced. It tends to make on philisophical about things, doesn't it, staring in the face of our inevitable mortality? (See my "Fear of Loss" thread.) But you're doing okay, I think, because you've got a good head on your shoulders. You're a thinker. You aren't buying into the simple solutions being pushed on you, whether it be religious or commercial. You're setting your own course, and along the way, confronting some hard reality. But, you aren't giving in, you aren't surrendering to the fairy tales. I need people like you. The internet brings us together. After it removes all of our superficial aspects, the things that seperate us, we are forced to interact as disembodied intellects. People wonder, is this "real" - talking to people on a computer screen? I think it can be more "real" than most of what goes on in our society. We can play games, and hide behind walls of make-believe, but how is that any different than what people do every day? Here, at least, there is no concrete agenda. Anyways...don't make sad faces, dude. I hate that. EDIT: You sound alot like a character in a Herman Hesse novel. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio** Last edited by Flint; 08-07-2006 at 03:27 PM.

08-07-2006, 05:43 PM	#5
lumberpoet forsooth Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 37	what a dick thread this is. dickish in intent dickish in delivery dickish in spirit dickish dickish dick __________________ "Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest, lend less than thou owest". -William Shakespeare

08-07-2006, 05:47 PM	#6
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	I know...I'm a "bad person" . . . If only I could lighten up and quit being so serious all the time. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

08-07-2006, 06:17 PM	#7
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	serious or kidding, it's still a dick thread. people don't want to have to defend themselves. even if you were old pals and just joking......which maggie's presence on the list refutes..... it would be dickish. besides......you forgot to name yourself on the list......to observe them, you must have been doing the same thing, but had less to offer, neh? __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

08-07-2006, 06:19 PM	#8
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	oops. man, my reading comprehension used to be my strong suit. gotta cut back on the rum and get more sleep. dick away, flint. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

08-07-2006, 10:32 PM	#9
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Kind of like the ironic quotes I put in the thread title? :::lightbulb::: In the commerce of jest, nothing bankrupts quicker than a clarification of the obvious. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

08-08-2006, 07:54 AM	#11
Pangloss62 Lecturer Join Date: May 2006 Location: Atlanta Posts: 768	Progressive? I don't think the quotation marks leant any sense of irony. They seemed to me to cast the word (and those who apply it to themselves) in a condescending light. This is made all the more obvious by quoting my mention of the "stolen election" and then saying that progressives "...end up beliveing their propaganda." If you were really being ironic, I missed it and I apologize. Theorists of propaganda will have no bigger font of material from which to study their topic than the rhetoric that has come from the present administration. Up is down, black is white, and turned corners bring you back to where you began. It is appropriate here to quote one of the better theorists of propaganda: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."J.G. Ironic indeed. __________________ Things are never as good, or bad, as they seem.

08-08-2006, 08:09 AM	#13
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Wait, what? W. voters are getting vaginal rejuvenation?

08-08-2006, 08:36 AM	#15
Pangloss62 Lecturer Join Date: May 2006 Location: Atlanta Posts: 768	Vaginal Rejuvination I first saw the term in one of those "alternative" weeklies here in Hotlanta. Next to L.A., Our city has more plastic surgery outfits than I've ever seen. Vaginal Rejuvination does indeed tighten the vagina; in this sense it seems geared toward pleasing the male partner more than the female, though clitoral stimulation may be enhanced; I just don't know. __________________ Things are never as good, or bad, as they seem.

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