quote:Originally posted by Modge: b) Ben, do you really care all that much? Or have you sunk a bottle of wine and become bored and grumpy?
Yeah, well spotted. The next door neighbour brought round a bottle of cheap red as a thankyou for me helping him get his van going after it got stuck in the boggy piece of ground outside our house.
Also: could someone inform Bamba that, having gone from merely skimming his posts to just receiving the potted gist by email from other forites, I'm now not even going to do that. I'll just send the email back with some forged stuff about "the recipient could not be found" in the header and body text. He's just not worth it, man, you know - the hassle of responding to him? Fuck that. He's just totally immature and not worth bothering with. Fuck him. I just don't fucking care, yeah? I just can't be arsed - it's just a waste of my time and everyone's bandwidth. Bollocks to it. I can't be arsed.
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quote:Originally posted by ben: Also: could someone inform Bamba that, having gone from merely skimming his posts to just receiving the potted gist by email from other forites, I'm now not even going to do that. I'll just send the email back with some forged stuff about "the recipient could not be found" in the header and body text. He's just not worth it, man, you know - the hassle of responding to him? Fuck that. He's just totally immature and not worth bothering with. Fuck him. I just don't fucking care, yeah? I just can't be arsed - it's just a waste of my time and everyone's bandwidth. Bollocks to it. I can't be arsed.
Likewise, if someone could inform Ben that taking it out on me just because he got his arse spanked by the entire forum for being a grumpy, cowardly, self-righteous fuck-knuckle just makes him look like a bigger twat than before that would be appreciated.
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Courtesy of BoingBoing, here's an interesting map of the USA with states coloured in shades between blue and red, depending on the margins of victory:
quote:Originally posted by Bamba: Likewise, if someone could inform Ben that taking it out on me just because he got his arse spanked by the entire forum for being a grumpy, cowardly, self-righteous fuck-knuckle just makes him look like a bigger twat than before that would be appreciated.
"Taking it out" on you? Christ. I was taking the piss out of your superlame post/withdraw/claim-"can't-be-arsed" schtick. If you think that's you getting it with both barrels you really must have been posting on a different board from me all this while.
Also: a rib-tickling by Damo and NWOD = "spanked by the entire forum"?
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Shut the hell up bitching at each other and look at the pretty map I found. It's mostly purple as you can see. Unless you're using Ghostzilla of course, in which case it would be grey. But I assume you're not.
Maybe you've seen too much red today. Maybe that's what all this is about...
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That is a worrying map. The good people of the Internet must not be as numerous as you might think. Though they did come up with this suggestion...
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Here's what Star Trek's Wil Wheaton posted on his blog this morning:
quote:I'm stunned, and at a total loss for words this morning, so I'm going to borrow some words from Oliver Willis:
quote:The amazing thing to me about this race was that Bush could be as divisive as he wanted to be, but it never penalized him. The most important things in the world were responded to with infantile answers or complete ignorance. Where he stood was clear. Simplicity wins.
Apparently, my country holds a fundamentally different set of values than I thought we did, and that scares the shit out of me. I still believe that Bush is bad for America, and though I'm virtually certain that the next four years will be an absolute disaster. Not just because we have gotten four more years of the Bush agenda, but because this election has been an enthusiastic endorsement of that agenda.
I hoped I would wake up this morning to the good news that our long national nightmare was over.
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The headlines make for pretty depressing reading today as well. I just nipped to the shop for some milk and ended up brushing a tear away when faced with The Guardian, Independent and Times with the headline "Four More Years".
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"Taking it out" on you? Christ. I was taking the piss out of your superlame post/withdraw/claim-"can't-be-arsed" schtick. If you think that's you getting it with both barrels you really must have been posting on a different board from me all this while.
Also: a rib-tickling by Damo and NWOD = "spanked by the entire forum"? [/QB][/QUOTE] feel my power, i can walk across this board and do what i want. i am the intellectual superior of all i see. feel my brain. see my words. fear me. i'm fucking great.
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are you seriously telling me space was taken up on this topic by Thorns fuk-patterns? I thought he did everyone. everyone. and i am not even privy to offline gossip. being non-british, non in-crowd[i/] and everything. gawd, this place is sometimes worse than the backwoods, redneck, inbred southern [i]republicanarea i grew up in. why am i even lowering myself to complain? got fecking me. i'm bored.
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quote:Originally posted by My Name Is Joe: Maybe it's just me, but I find myself regarding Thorn's post with some degree of suspicion, like this is part of some elaborate wind-up...
I know I'm late but it's true. I heard it on the egrapevine early last week. Hope that clarifies things!
quote:Originally posted by damo: do you know i'm the only blue county for miles gri? go davidson....
i know damo. i really do. where you are - that was my playing ground as a kid. you are surrounded by counties of simple country folk. salt of the earth right? work hard, go to church, feed their kids... they vote red cuz their daddy's did. and their grandpappys did. hell, jack is made in a dry county. you are in the blue cuz Nashv'lle is rogressive. i know i can come across as a anti-southern carpetbaggin yank - (hell turnin down Vanderbilt caused my father to curse for a coon's age) but.... hell, don't give in to the negativity. renew your visa. don't deny mrs. damo the chance to experience the south. the blues. the jazz. the smiles. things will change. and....uhmmmm...mart and i are gonna be there in 5 weeks to shoot the shite with ya. damn, speaking of jazz...gotta go. swanky jazz 'do' tonight. get to purty this mug up and see my spouse in a tie.
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hey gree have fun at the jazz *does jazz hands* I gotta get myself ready for the secret lcd soundsystem thingummy tonight *does ROCK salute to sister*
quote:Originally posted by Uber Trick: hey gree have fun at the jazz *does jazz hands* I gotta get myself ready for the secret lcd soundsystem thingummy tonight *does ROCK salute to sister*
its not that secret, thorn had tickets...
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wiggle,wiggle,turn, salute ohhhhh have a doopersuperscoobydoofun time! as for ourselves, m will be zoning to the jazz, i will be stumblin around, drink in hand, sayin 'sorry darlin' can you say that in American?' (but lookin the part dammit) and fun will be had by all!
eta: feck, i pulled a feckin thorn/octavia. who the hell cares where i am going tonight. shite. sorry people.
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I do have to admit that I found it rather funny to see old Bennyboy start moaning and snapping at the non-entities on this board now that the obvious target isn't around much. Maybe it's you who should get a life, m8.
To get back on topic somewhat, I agree with Sabian that Bush is the the right man domestically but not at all internationally. But then there is little real difference between the two main parties anyway as far as the rest of the world is concerned.
I heard that Al Gore grew a beard after being beaten in 2000 - I'd suggest that John Kerry doesn't do the same, just in case some people this side of the pond confuse him with Jimmy Hill.
I guess the only problem with Bush winning is that we will have to put up with four more years of Michael Moron trapsing around him home town (lol!) of Flint, Mi moaning about how things are so bad. When in reality the fat fuck is raking it in by producing badly-made home-movies.
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quote:Originally posted by Samuelnorton: To get back on topic somewhat, I agree with Sabian that Bush is the the right man domestically...
Um, HOW!?! And please elucidate your familiarity with the issues that would make someone the right man domestically. Support of constitutional amendment to make certain people less than? Denying women the right to choose? Billions of dollars on abstinence education and other referendums that shove moral right down the throats of the public? The complete inability to form a sentence?
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mister s, even i agree with you on the democracy thang... maybe american does need to have another revolution.
but really. i am disappointed that even you gave into the mister moore b.s. just give us some more zzingers and drop the tubby tarantino doppelganger insults.
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quote:Originally posted by rooster: And please elucidate your familiarity with the issues that would make someone the right man domestically. Support of constitutional amendment to make certain people less than? Denying women the right to choose? Billions of dollars on abstinence education and other referendums that shove moral right down the throats of the public? The complete inability to form a sentence?
I say Bush is the right man domestically in that if I were American I would have seen him - inability to form a sentence notwithstanding - as the candidate with a better sense of direction and purpose.
I got the impression that while Bush was pretty consistent with regard to his objectives while Kerry simply flip-flopped in a futile attempt to snare floating voters. The fact that the result was not as close as last time or as predicted by the media pundits is telling.
But then I guess if I were American I would be a Republican anyway.
Grianagh - yes, perhaps the US does need another revolution. And as for the anti-MM remarks, well - the man is painfully annoying. More so than Ben, even.
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