quote:Originally posted by Fionnula the Cooler: We all have mortgages and pensions and trust funds for our kids and all that. Except Benway. That doesn't necessarily mean Benway's the forum rapist, by the way.
I think Benway does have a mortgage these days, if that helps clear his name. I don't have one, though. And I've committed statutory rape. A lesson to us all.
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quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: Louche, you seem to expend a lot of energy of TMO complaining that people aren't entertaining you to the standard you would like.
No, I don't.
Are you recuperated enough to do stuff, Sidders? I could organise a northmeet. It might be me and thee, though. And I was nowhere near the Exciting City Fire, sadly. An email came round work about half nine detailing 'road closures due to the fire'. Instantly, everyone's screens had some form of news site up on it as everyone looked up 'Manchester/ Fire'. Piccadilly, apparently. Rumours of dead homeless abound.
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Also I banged an ex-grilfriend once when she was passed out from booze, which is a bit... yeah. Ohh - look! Is that a chaffinch outside? Look everyone - that's a chaffinch.
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i dont have a mortgage. and yet, such a large proportion of my benefits go on utility bills that i cant even afford eastern european porn, and i imagine that eastern european porn must be by some measure the cheapest. and also, i am the moral arbiter who hates on the rape jokes. maybe i would have more of a sense of humour if i could afford some porn. WHO KNOWS.
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quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: I didn't make him for you...
(Sorry, Rocky Horror moment)
Darryn! have you been on holiday or something?
Yes... well, no. But it is a holiday here today, Queens Day, frankly shit really I have to work in the morning so I can't party hearty or do much of anything..
I've not been about much thanks to the new job Tilde, something I need to right pretty soon.
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This other thing I do, in addition to claiming benefits, is apply for a new university course every year, and apply for all the free grants the government gives you, and a few of the loans. And then drop out in the first week. While the grants are totally yours, the loans have to be repaid, but the interest is, like, infinitesimal, and when you tell them you're unemployed they let you pay back £15 a month, which is nothing when you're getting £200 from the government already.
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quote:Originally posted by Fionnula the Cooler: This forum should be fucking grateful for Ringo's irresponsible handling of his personal finances. Mine too. Your lives may be boring, and you may be hurtling towards middle-age, and you may have too many responsibilities to risk running up massive debts on shit like cars, but at least you're getting to do it vicariously, through us.
There's a weird side-effect of middle age (and being 42 now I think there is no doubt at all that I'm middle aged) and that is that you see things which used to be so exciting, like drinking yourself senseless and dressing up trendy and all that shit, as incredibly dull.
I don't mean that you look down on it and sneer, huh, young people, look at them with their drunken sexual depravity, they should all be horse-whipped. I mean that it just looks rubbish. You suddenly see 'freedom' as something completely different. The dream becomes to go hiking in the Highlands for two weeks, or cycle across France with just your credit card. The sort of thing that young people would run a mile from - but the only thing that changes really, as I say, is the perception of what freedom is.
I'm sure lots of middle aged people don't feel at all like that, but I reckon quite a lot of them do.
And before you go out and top yourself at the thought of ever thinking that hiking in the Highlands might be an enjoyable thing, I would say that the change happens very slowly and feels quite nice. It's not like a living nightmare or anything. That's what having children is like.
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quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: How can you take criticism seriously from someone who watches videos of wankers eating arse-bananas?
because it's more interesting than buying a dust buster?
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quote:Originally posted by Louche: Are you recuperated enough to do stuff, Sidders? I could organise a northmeet. It might be me and thee, though.
Everything seems to be staying put for now, so I think I'm ok. Plus, once I get to the weekend, it won't be a cause for alarm if anything were to happen. I might have to make J drive me about though or maybe come up by train, as I would be highly ashamed of myself if I ruined the upholstery in your new car.
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Dang! Here's some advice, from me to you. Don't ever set up a trust fund for your children! Mine's about to come to fruition, and when my dad finds out I'm not studying Law any more, and that the money's not paying for a postgraduate degree, he's probably going to seriously regret slaving his arse away in shitty menial jobs for years just to pay for my education. I can't wait to tell him.
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Fionulla, over the years has posted quite a bit about how deprived his life is, but every now and then you get words like 'flatscreen TV', '£100 to spend on underwear' and 'Trust Fund floating to the top of his post.
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quote:Originally posted by Sidney: Everything seems to be staying put for now, so I think I'm ok. Plus, once I get to the weekend, it won't be a cause for alarm if anything were to happen. I might have to make J drive me about though or maybe come up by train, as I would be highly ashamed of myself if I ruined the upholstery in your new car.
Oh cool. I'll put a binbag down for you as well, if you like? If there's an incident to I get to drive you at high speed shouting 'lady with a baby!' or something?
Sometime on the first Bank Holiday weekend?
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Every few weeks my mum comes round to wash the car she bought me. Then I call her a cunt on the internet and for a few minutes afterwards I feel like Jean Genet. Then I go outside to say thanks, which would feel like pruning my inheritance, except if anything needs pruning my mum does it for me, so not quite.
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I've started spinning the mousewheel whenever I get to the top of a Fionnula post, scrolling myself down to the next speaker. It's like, you know there's a point in there somewhere, but mostly the post is going to just be about twittering on archly like some "writers' workshop" exercise.
Why just make a point simply in one short sentence when you can use the opportunity to practice some sort of camp rhetoric around that point for an entire paragraph like some fey twat in that early Martin Amis novel or a Belle & Sebastian lyric without any line-breaks?
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Well, you disproved my point there unfortunately. I don't even know why I was taking out all that weary venom on you. Just for the sake of it I spose.
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Your retracting that well-made point was a bit of a shame Wunderstern. At the very least you could have upped the ante just that little bit more before withering away in apology.
Every time I read one of gayboy's self-indulgent posts I want to tear out my eyes. But then I guess he wants to do the same to me.
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I don't know, SN... at least he is making the effort. It seemed a bit spiteful and mean to slag off FtC's style when I've barely posted anything worthwile all year. Once I'd said it, I just felt bad. I am a bit of a withering weed, it's true.
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Oh while you're here, if you're here SN. Remember we were talking about Star Wars and "TdW" your favourite film? I am preparing a power point thing for a special talk in Borders bookshop about Star Wars' 30th anniversary - and rather than be boring about all the obvious films it borrows from I wanted to try out my theory (voiced on the pages of TMO) about Star Wars' debt to European cinema and what it says about Lucas' fascination with the Imperial forces. Can you remind me, because I couldn't find the original thread - what image from TdW has those vertical bars of light, similar to this pic?
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The image from Star Wars above does not take a single image from TdW directly, but essentially uses style elements from two images - the first being a column of Hakenkreuzfahnen and the second being Speer's 'pillars of light'.
The images below were all taken during various NSDAP rallies, the 1934 edition of which was the subject of Riefenstahl's classic.
Nuremberg parade ground
The 'Pillars of Light'
You can also email me at go at arrowcross dot com if you want to know anything else.
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