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Stephen Morgan wrote:You may not. Back when I was young I was coerced by the powers that be into be therapised. Didn't like it at all. A few years ago, when I was sent on the government's New Deal scheme for the young and unemployed I overheard a rather vulgar conversation in which someone else who had also been therapised by the same psycho-logist was talking about how he had got himself kicked out of her therapising facility. I just didn't go back. One for the non-violent resistance, me.
Everyone knows yetis, which is an imperialist and colonialist and racially offensive name for the almasty people, are libertarians. Besides, they hibernate, don't they? They're as nesh as you.
It's probably indicative of some major psychological defect.
It's just meant to construe my long-suffering exasperation. It only seems to have come into effect since I started posting on this board, judging by a cursory examination of the previous decade's Usenet postings.
And what does petite mean? In this context?
Otherwise I generally post as I speak, but having excised the dialect terms and with quite a lot of letters which would be dropped were I to type phonetically. Very thick regional accent normally, me.
I'm telling you, it doesn't
Luckily I don't generally whore myself for cash. The love of money being the root of all evil and that.
Montag wrote:Hmmm... Looks like Stephen, Barra and me, are the only ones willing to divulge our libraries.
Elfismiles gave us his, but it's sort of not fair, as I believe he works in a library or something. And I understand the reticence of others to join in the fray - I don't begrudge the better part of their tawdry valor. Besides, almost no one ever comes down here to the outlying territories of the Subject Forums. You've gotta be hard core.
Montag wrote:The Culture of Terrorism, Noam Chomsky
Profit Over People, Noam Chomsky
Steal This Book, Abbie Hoffman
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Globalization and Its Discontents, Sakia Sassen
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
Forbidden Archeology, Michael Cremo
barracuda wrote:I wouldn't advise anyone to get "therapised", unless they happen to be a Theropod. Even then, I'd probably just recommend some off-time at a local spa.
The word "almasty" means "wild man", so if you are thinking that this is an eponym accepted by the cryptid hominids of the Caucasus Mountains, you'd be mistaken. Don't ever say that in front of them. And while I'll admit that the term "yeti" isn't much better, I'd assert that the name refers to a related but entirely different cryptid population of indeterminate political persuasion beyond "isolationist".
It's probably indicative of some major psychological defect.
It's not unique in that regard.
It's just meant to construe my long-suffering exasperation. It only seems to have come into effect since I started posting on this board, judging by a cursory examination of the previous decade's Usenet postings.
Well, as a fellow board member, I think it's nothing less than my duty to let you know that it makes you sound like a girl. A small one, with ribbons in her pigtails.
Just cappin on you. Actually it sounds a bit matronly.
And what does petite mean? In this context?
Dainty, like gramma's doilies.
It does shine through in your prose. I do not post as I speak, really. I tend to curse, fear to say. I happen to speak the colloquial No-Californese of Santa Cruz surf-tongue and Silicon Valley/spanglish vernacular, but since every major character in every tee vee and movie show speaks essentially the same dialect as I, I have come to consider my local lingo as the earth's universal language of love and psyops. But I do miss the days when Transatlantic was the predominant preferred pigdin of the entertainment business. I used to have a little handbook primer around here of the proper pronunciations, "Teach Yourself Transatlantic" or something like that, but it seems lost to the darkness of the past.
I'm telling you, it doesn't
Does too.
I know what you mean. I've been unemployed myself. This too will pass, unfortunately.
Strange But True Baseball Stories, Furman Bisher
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
The basement is the next destination on my journey of dust jackets and discovery.
Stephen Morgan wrote:I actually own a pair of hair cutting scissors. Which I use to cut my nails. Occasionally sellotape or the packaging of bacon.
annie aronburg wrote:Stephen Morgan wrote:I actually own a pair of hair cutting scissors. Which I use to cut my nails. Occasionally sellotape or the packaging of bacon.
Stephen, you may use this forum to air your peculiar opinions about women, Jews and vegetables but I will not stand by silently while you brag about your abominable misuse, nay, abuse of scissors.
Treat yourself to some nail clippers and kitchen shears.
No more washing your face in a frying pan or combing your hair with a wagon wheel, either.
Stephen Morgan wrote:There is one of those south of Newark. Big country house place, I go past it sometimes. I don't think I'd like that sort of therapeution either. Manicures and that. Maybe those little fishes that eat your dead skin cells. Bits of cucumber on your eye lids. Thrice no.
I think all the overly hairy fellahs are the same, whether yeti or almasty or orang pendek or manimal or sasquatch or bigfoots or yowie. Probably from some realm parallel to our own, rather than living in trees. I don't see how else one could turn up on the Shropshire Union Canal.
Of course I'd rather be of a deviant psychological nature given the sadistic nature of the standard mindset of modern society.
That's not too bad. I was going for a Stephen Fry sort of thing, but that's near enough.
You funny talking foreigners with your funny little ways.
I'm not in the same league as the rural types who, when on the local news, need to be subtitles so we townsfolk can know what they're jibbering about. I still often find myself needing to speak slowly and clearly for the local poshies, though.
I'm telling you, it doesn't
Does too.
Not.
I find my unemployment somewhat baffling. Just the other day some girl I know was saying that she'd had an interview with Argos for the temp work at Christmas, whereas I'd also applied and never heard a thing about it. Bunch of bastards. And she's functionally illiterate and innumerate, and obviously has never lasted long in any of her previous jobs. I certainly wouldn't hire her. I'd hire me, though. The application form wasn't even one of those with pages of idiot questions like "Why do you want to work for us" or "give an example of how you've succeeded in team work". That sort of bullshit. As you might expect I don't tend to hear back from jobs where I've filled in those.
I'd hire me
barracuda wrote:I hasten to agree with you. I never was one for the laying of vegetables upon my eyelids, if a cucumber really is a vegetable at all, something I am most suspicious of in the first place. But a manicure mightn't hurt you, if you're really trimming your nails with hair-cutting scissors.
I must say, I'm getting a far better impression of your library than of your habits concerning personal hygiene. I would strongly encourage you to bathe regularly and with soap, and to brush your sensitive incisors after each meal of boiled potatoes.
Ah, a subscriber to the parallel dimension theory. Not me. I live quite near the northwestern Pacific rainforest, and I suppose it might be possible for a large mammal that had any good sense to avoid people quite easily, at least around here.
That's not too bad. I was going for a Stephen Fry sort of thing, but that's near enough.
Wasn't he the guy that played Oscar Wilde in some film version of the poor fellow's life?
You funny talking foreigners with your funny little ways.
And this whole time I'd been visualizing you as the foreigner. Just goes to show how wrong a guy can be.
I love to hear the way you Englanders talk. Can't quite get what you're up to most of the time, but it never fails to amaze me that you're actually speaking basically the same kind of words we do, by and large, even though they sort of come out all bubbled together and muddy.
I'm telling you, it doesn't
Does too.
Not.
So.
Damn, that is baffling. You'd think they'd have recognized all your fine qualities right away, and handed you a Santa's elf costume, an apron, an ID card, and the keys to the register before such a catch could have a chance of escape.
I'd hire me
Now that would look fine on your resume. Good references can make a big difference, you know.
The Ingoldsby Legends, Thomas Ingoldsby
Stephen Morgan wrote:It's most unwise to use nail clippers upon one's nails, especially the toe-nails. It is the leading cause of in-grown nails.
Heard and ignored.
Well I'm glad to correct you on this matter, I'm not at all foreign whatsoever.
I'm telling you, it doesn't
Does too.
Not.
So.
SO not.
You're the second person in a week to suggest that I wear a Santa suit, which is a bit odd.
Overlap. Wasn't actually by a Thomas Ingoldsby, you know.
barracuda wrote:Overlap. Wasn't actually by a Thomas Ingoldsby, you know.
My fine edition from 1866 (which is a reprint from the 10th English edition), cites Ingoldsby as the author, with a paranthetical acknowledgement that this is a DBA of The Rev. Richard Harris Barham.
". . . reading is not a substitute for life, because it is indivisible from life. Indeed, it is a reflection of the spirit of the reader, and I am truly convinced that we who are committed readers may appear to choose our books, but in an equally true sense our books choose us. By an agency that is not coincidence, but something much more powerful that Jungians call synchronicity, we find, and are found by, the books we need to enlarge and complete us. Reading is not escape, something done at random; it is directed unerringly toward the inner target. It is truly a turning inward. It is exploration, extension, and reflection of one’s innermost self. If I have been a rake at reading, the caprice has been to the outward eye alone. The inward spirit, I am convinced, knew very well what it was doing."
--Robertson Davies
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