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Has anyone here been to any singles events such as lock and key parties, speed dating or even supermarket singles nights? Over the past few years there has been a big increase in singles events.
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It's odd, isn't it? Maybe it really is something to do with the magnetic field of the moon, a group of people being drawn back at the same time. Or maybe everyone really has been lurking and reading and gets caught up in the comeback. Or maybe I'm just talking bollocks.
Have you continued to read the boards regularly since you last departure wonderstarr?
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I can't do the curse thing either. I'm too easy natured. Shame about Colenski. I seem to remember he was upset by some banter and never came back. Though I could be wrong.
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Anyway on-topic, Omikin was telling me tonight about a singles night where each attendee was given the name of a chemical element and they had to match themselves up with the substance that would cause a reaction. It sounded like a laugh-riot. For instance, two people meeting could be a kind of real-life enactment of double displacement or coupling substitution, in which two compounds in aqueous solution (usually ionic) exchange elements or ions to form different compounds!
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quote:Originally posted by wonderstarr: Is there any cunt who hasn't come back on TMO over the last week?
My return was pomted by really needing to do my disertation. At which point every site on the internet i've ever visited looks suddenly appealing as a distraction.
Oh well 2000 words down 8000 to go and 2 and half weeks.
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quote:Originally posted by wonderstarr: Is it on anything interesting*, Hades?
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Very posibily "Fandom and its effect on todays spin off culture"
I have been using both "Batman unmasked" and "audience studies reader" (among the dozens of other books that are amasing libary fines such as Matt hills, Henry Jenkins, Nancy Baym)
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That does sound kind of up my street Do you mind saying where you're doing it and who is supervising you? Just for my own curiosity! I am not really very up to date with fan-scholar stuff but I think Matt Hills and Cornel Sandvoss are still the major young guns in that dept, and old cannon Henry Jenkins showed he's still got it with 2 impressive books last year.
quote:Originally posted by wonderstarr: That does sound kind of up my street Do you mind saying where you're doing it and who is supervising you? Just for my own curiosity! I am not really very up to date with fan-scholar stuff but I think Matt Hills and Cornel Sandvoss are still the major young guns in that dept, and old cannon Henry Jenkins showed he's still got it with 2 impressive books last year.
Im at Lincoln university, Its a media Production degree and to be honest im much more at ease with the production practical element of the course,im terrible at essays.
But disertation is a part of it still. My tutor's name is Diane Charlsworth, i dont think shes done much herself.
I'm reading Jenkins 2006 book "convergence culture" which is proving usefull with his stuff about transmedia storytelling.
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Yeah it's such a good book I felt quite resentful about it; I had started thinking of him in my head as the old guy whose last important work was 1992, but he really brought his game back with that book. Even if you might suspect he's getting his son and his students to do a lot of the research. After reading that transmedia storytelling stuff, I had to go back and insert references to Convergence Culture all through the thing about Lost, Life on Mars, Heroes etc I'd just finished.
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quote:Originally posted by wonderstarr: Yeah it's such a good book I felt quite resentful about it; I had started thinking of him in my head as the old guy whose last important work was 1992, but he really brought his game back with that book. Even if you might suspect he's getting his son and his students to do a lot of the research. After reading that transmedia storytelling stuff, I had to go back and insert references to Convergence Culture all through the thing about Lost, Life on Mars, Heroes etc I'd just finished.
oooo, i'll be talking about lost in a chapter i hope to write early next week. (spacifically about the "lost experiance")I take it this thing isnt released yet though. Any chance of a preview?
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Hades, if you stray into action-figure territory you might like to point out that Marvel Legends always put the best (i.e. head) piece of the collectable figure in with the crappest or female character.
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Hades, if you stray into action-figure territory you might like to point out that Marvel Legends always put the best (i.e. head) piece of the collectable figure in with the crappest or female character.
You can have that for free. Seriously.
gotta love free information. Although no im not using action figure. Only spin-offs that continue the story of the fictional universe.
you can e-mail me at my uni address 043134689@lincoln.ac.uk
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Black Mask isn't talking shit though... there is some academic work (by Jonathan Gray) about the way action figures continue the official narrative.
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It sure is great when you start watching a new TV show, realise it's as good as promised and know you have 14 more episodes waiting on your DVD, plus two more series.
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It is strange how no one has answered the top posting on this thread yet, maybe tommorrow when its Monday and these baords are more busy more people will post on this thread about the thread topic.
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quote:Originally posted by Harlequin: It is strange how no one has answered the top posting on this thread yet, maybe tommorrow when its Monday and these baords are more busy more people will post on this thread about the thread topic.
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Never been to a singles or dating event, and I don't think I ever would really, not my sort of thing at all, too convoluted and unnatural seeming. I tend to stick to the tried and tested method of drinking heavily in public until I wake up with someone hott.
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quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: I can't do the curse thing either. I'm too easy natured. Shame about Colenski. I seem to remember he was upset by some banter and never came back. Though I could be wrong.
Colenski is a good mate of mine, and as for his dissapearance I could not say, but I will pass on that he was remembered today.
quote:Originally posted by Harlequin: Has anyone here been to any singles events such as lock and key parties, speed dating or even supermarket singles nights? Over the past few years there has been a big increase in singles events.
I've heard of key parties but lock and key parties sound scary.
quote:Originally posted by Boy Racer: Never been to a singles or dating event, and I don't think I ever would really, not my sort of thing at all, too convoluted and unnatural seeming.
The chemical-themed event described by Wonderbrar was overwhelmingly attended by more women (who came in groups of four or five) than men (who came singly or in pairs) so was an excellent opportunity to any single man in search of 'a bit of the other'.
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quote:Originally posted by ben: The chemical-themed event described by Wonderbrar was overwhelmingly attended by more women (who came in groups of four or five) than men (who came singly or in pairs) so was an excellent opportunity to any single man in search of 'a bit of the other'.
Yeah I can see the appeal under those circumstances. I still think the very fact of being at a singles night, of everyone there being single and (self) consciously looking for 'love' would freak me out a bit.
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I have been to speed dating once, which was actually quite hard work, in that a lot of people just desperately want to talk about their job for 3 minutes. Also, several people (usually the blokes) will have been invited at the last minute to make up the numbers, and may not even be single. I did get a date out of it, with a guy that was pleasant enough, but nothing further.
A bunch of us went to a lock & key party last year. Without sounding monstrously shallow, one brief glance made us want to leave quickly. We gave it a bit of "ice-breaking", but in the end just went up to the top bar which was open to normal, non-single people and had a band on, and had a nice evening just chatting.
I suppose there is something artificial about such events, but there's also a kind of purity about them in that you can approach someone without wondering if they're on the market and knowing that you're not being too forward.
Anyway, I'm not tempted to go again in future. By the end of this year I will be reduced to paying to join online dating agencies and sifting through the dregs that other women don't want to fuck. Hurrah!
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Do you mind saying where you're doing it and who is supervising you? Just for my own curiosity! I am not really very up to date with fan-scholar stuff but I think Matt Hills and Cornel Sandvoss are still the major young guns in that dept, and old cannon Henry Jenkins showed he's still got it with 2 impressive books last year.
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