posted
That's what is quite worrying though. It is incredibly believable isn't it? You imagine him, sat in a Smart car, with tinted windows. Hand on engorged meat, the other holding binoculars, spitting white flecks of rage from his mouth as he scans the taut faces on TMO-ers at his funeral.
"Come on you fuckers! I don't see your tears!"
*Mash! Nead! Mash!*
[ 27.09.2004, 09:00: Message edited by: New Way Of Decay ]
Ringo is stood in rollerblades that had all sorts of high powered jet modifications on them. He is wearing nothing else except from his leather thong that he famously posed in on the 'piccurs' thread and an aquatic blue helmet with an aerodynamic fin on the top. He is holding Abby on a leash and she is kicking me to death as I am strapped to a hard wooden chair.
I am sat on my wheely chair and I am rocking backwards and forwards with a thin, tightly pinched smile creeping across my face. it quivers slightly like a singular gill, drawing in air.
posted
NWOD, I think London's broken you already. You shouldn't be having RingoFants for at least another four months.
-------------------- What I object to is the colour of some of these wheelie bins and where they are left, in some areas outside all week in the front garden. Posts: 4941
| IP: Logged
There was a pretty girl on the train smiling at me and I was stunned. So stunned was I that I looked back as I was walking away from the carriage and face-planted one of the pillars with such force that it shattered my glasses and I fell around it and straight onto the floor. As I looked up through cracked frames she had just enough time to laugh at my misfortune and bloody face.
This may have shaken me up a little.
[ 27.09.2004, 09:58: Message edited by: New Way Of Decay ]
posted
I haven't ruled out the possibility that pretty girls will smile at random young men out of the blue and for no other reason than to cause the sort of chaos you describe. They're such pranksters.
-------------------- Give 'em .0139 fathoms and they'll take 80 chains. Posts: 3201
| IP: Logged
If she got a better haircut and got rid of the "19 year old on the razz" lipstick, I reckon she would be a handsome older woman.
Posts: 13758
| IP: Logged
i dont think anything would make brigitte bardot attractive now that it is clear she is an animal fanatic and national front supporter. even if she had a portrait in the attic she'd still ming as far as i was concerned.
-------------------- EXETER- movement of Jah people. Posts: 2841
| IP: Logged
posted
Confused as to. People who are avowed feminists allowing Dang´s astounding ageist and sexist commentary go unreprimanded. Know that Dang is frequently amusing poster, plus rides bike, flies kites and dreams of living on houseboat. Nonetheless. His joke that ageing is a ´prank` played on men by pretty girls = comment displaying surprising amount of unsophistication for man such as he. Idea that Discodamage would let this one pass in favour of political idealism even more shocking. Though BNP and animal whatnot of course deeply henious etc, thought avowed feminazi - or rather, woman fighing on female side (and yes, sometimes, though not always c.f. Thorn Davis´ comment, this is a war) - Disco might have nonetheless called Dang up on his ´joke´. Can only assume off-day. Happens to us all. Or. I am wrong in finding Dang´s comment offensive. No doubt. Am out of practice after all. And drunk. But still.
quote:Originally posted by London: Confused as to. People who are avowed feminists allowing Dang´s astounding ageist and sexist commentary go unreprimanded. Know that Dang is frequently amusing poster, plus rides bike, flies kites and dreams of living on houseboat. Nonetheless. His joke that ageing is a ´prank` played on men by pretty girls = comment displaying surprising amount of unsophistication for man such as he. Idea that Discodamage would let this one pass in favour of political idealism even more shocking. Though BNP and animal whatnot of course deeply henious etc, thought avowed feminazi - or rather, woman fighing on female side (and yes, sometimes, though not always c.f. Thorn Davis´ comment, this is a war) - Disco might have nonetheless called Dang up on his ´joke´. Can only assume off-day. Happens to us all. Or. I am wrong in finding Dang´s comment offensive. No doubt. Am out of practice after all. And drunk. But still.
Nah it is offensive. I mean, how dare she look her age? At her age? Crazy!
But couldn't be bothered to comment on this because wasn't posting today. And, also, yeah, cuz:
(a) she's a peta nutter (b) and nf bigot (c) good liberals wear burkhas (d) and washed up ugly old harridan that betrayed the world in the sixties by not killing herself unlike that modern day joan of arc, marilyn monroe (e) and she was defined by her sexuality and body and stuff, so she's asking for it really (f) or at the very latest the seventies, the rude bitch. c'mon! if male wank fantasies can't be preserved pristine for all eternity, then what is the point of anything
posted
Vikram = (c) washed up ugly harridan that really out to have killed herself in the sixties like that joan of arc, monroe (d) or at the very latest the seventies. women getting old is just rude
posted
no more edits. i will leave it's shitness for all to see tomorrow. don't know why i added.
i am very very very very very bored. am trying to decide between the good girl (jennifer aniston and that weirdo twat. ennui. good) and robocop (awesome. seen way too many times) and bed.
Posts: 5190
| IP: Logged
posted
things have come to a pretty pass when someone who cant even be arsed to post any more has a go at me for not having a go at dang for being sexist. dude, you completely fuck off, and then shout at me for not feeling able to carry your share of the wimmins eternal burden on top of my own. bollocks to that. its not 2002 any more, no chicks are fucking posting, i cant rely on anyone having my back if i stick my neck out. least of all you, bitch.
posted
I think - no, wait, I know - that when I started posting in the year 856BC there were no other decent women posting then either, but that didn´t stop me back in the day, did it? Do we have to believe that only when other wimminz have got our back do we dare to open our mouths? Do two female moutbs equal one male one? Are there really no females posting now? What of, um. Louche. Flidomel? Que mas hay? Hippychick? Louise? Helen Back? Bailey? Are you really implying that none of them would rise to counter Dang´s sexist challange? That you and I - I, who, as you point out, am unable to post at present, for my new boyfriend allows me but minimal access to the computer - are the only people here, apart from Thorn Davis, who might fly the flag for the anti-ageist-argument? I find that a shocking, nay, frightening thought. Have things really come to this?
Posts: 6175
| IP: Logged
posted
it was a quiet day. its been a quiet quarter-year. no, i dont think phlegmel and helen back are gonna fly the flag, youre just being silly now. if gail, hippy, louche or astro were gonna they would have done. they didnt. i had to go to work. youre in spain. ill be a shouty feminist when i feel like it. dont feel like it. fuck off. start posting again.
posted
London, I'm afraid your posts here sound either parodic or unhinged.
quote:Originally posted by London: allowing Dang´s astounding ageist and sexist commentary go unreprimanded. His joke that ageing is a ´prank` played on men by pretty girls = comment displaying surprising amount of unsophistication for man such as he.
Firstly, you have misunderstood Dang's comment. He wasn't saying ageing is a prank played on men by pretty girls.
He was presenting the idea that pretty girls prank men, by looking appealing when they're young and transforming into unattractive age (presumably when they've hooked the man.)
By selecting images of Bardot from youth and age, Dang was depicting this change, which of course in real life is gradual, as a kind of supernatural horror-shift, as in the scene with the escaping spirits from Raiders of the Lost Ark, from enticing nymph to witch. Actually I expect this theme crops up in a number of folk stories.
(Perhaps the stories themselves are "sexist", based around the idea of women trapping a man through sexual wiles and keeping him in marriage. But perhaps that's by the by because I don't think Dang was making that point.)
Choosing Bardot, I think, played up the quaint, dated association behind "pretty girls" -- something with a naive, 60s ring about it. Would the joke have worked with a man? Yes, it would. Perhaps Herbs could have said a "pretty boy" smiled at her on a train and threw her into confusion.
Sidney: Oh, those pretty boys, they're such pranksters.
Dang: [posts picture of the young Robert Redford] caption -- Come to me Herbs, I want you honey. [followed by an unflattering picture of Redford now.] caption -- Yaaargh.
The point would still be the same, making the contrast between a sex symbol in his/her heyday and their surprising decline. When put together, the images shock and amuse. That's really the main purpose of his post as I see it.
So I don't think this is a sexist joke. Is it ageist? Well, that older people have more leathery skin and wrinkles than younger people is hard to deny. That they're less immediately, conventionally appealing than they were forty years ago is something most people would agree on. It does depend on arbitrary standards of "beauty" in a way, but then it's also plain, medical fact that people's bodies work less well when they age. Wrinkles, lack of elasticity in the skin, changes in hair condition and quantity; these are signs of actual, objective decline. We might not like it but our bodies do, in general, hold up worse over time. That our culture, like most cultures, fetishises youth as the point when human beings are usually functioning at their physical peak is not so surprising.
quote: woman fighing on female side (and yes, sometimes, though not always c.f. Thorn Davis´ comment, this is a war)
This just comes across as a very sad approach and I really don't know if it's meant to be a joke.
Females, according to your scheme, are obliged to fight for a feminist aim. All contributors with vaginas are therefore expected to be on a certain side, and to hold certain attitudes, live up to certain responsibilities. This notion of all-encompassing sisterhood doesn't stop you from referring to "Flidomel" (and Discodamage to "Phlegmel") or haranguing other women for not living up to what you think they should be doing -- ie. aspiring to be like some heroic, mythic version of you from "history". If they don't do that, they're not "decent women". This is a pretty insulting and divisive attitude.
Thorn, by the by, wasn't really flying in the face of ageism and sexism at all. By suggesting that Bardot would look "handsome" if she tidied herself up, surely he was subscribing to the idea that women have a duty to keep themselves appropriately groomed (which includes not trying to look younger), and that attractive women of a certain age can qualify only under certain terms, ie. as handsome rather than beautiful.
Really, if more women on this board were posting like you, it'd read like a convention of bag ladies.
posted
By "bag ladies" I didn't mean that London looked like an old bag or a homeless woman, but that she seems to have wandered on here spouting semi-coherent, self-righteous, misdirected complaints.
quote:Originally posted by dang65: I notice that my use of a French person has been allowed to pass without comment. You racist bastards.
Oi - it's not yet been decided whether you were right or wrong. You need to keep your mouth shut until the board decides what to do with you.
Posts: 13758
| IP: Logged
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Oi - it's not yet been decided whether you were right or wrong. You need to keep your mouth shut until the board decides what to do with you.
I also used a stereotypical blonde as my victim.
I only ask that all these offences be taken into consideration in your summing up, Your Honour.
Posts: 8467
| IP: Logged
quote:Originally posted by London: my new boyfriend allows me but minimal access to the computer
Isn't that, like, masculine oppression or something?
-------------------- What I object to is the colour of some of these wheelie bins and where they are left, in some areas outside all week in the front garden. Posts: 4941
| IP: Logged
![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Printer-friendly view of this topic