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Their culture goes to eleven
His last was comically wrong from halftitle page to colophon so this one should be at least as amusing as an old Andy Capp collection.
"You suck." "No, you suck."
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 9:24 AM on August 28, 2008
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science and futurism overlap
every sweaty Livejournal-using fanboy who has self-diagnosed themselves with "Asperger's Syndrome" after reading the Wikipedia entry for it once, and likes to talk at length about their "disorder" and how unique and special it makes them.
Yer sweaty fanboys are mistaken. They have Assburgers, not Asperger's.
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 5:37 AM on August 19, 2008
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Asian socities drive like this...
Remember those people in high school, a little above average in intelligence and socially clumsy but outgoing anyway? ... Well, David Brooks has always struck me as one of those guys.
After class I'm shoving Brooks in a locker. Pass it around.
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 12:05 PM on August 14, 2008
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Here we go again!
You don't have to be a McCain supporter to be an Obama non-supporter.
posted by Faze
Faze, like Mikey, has traditionally hated everything, so take that remark for what it's worth. Swine like Corsi should be treated like a rabid beast and this post should have been written more neutrally.
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 5:59 AM on August 13, 2008
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Buzz is forever?
Unless you have read all of the great books of the past and seen all of the great movies several times and heard all of the great recordings, you don't have to choose something from the current bestseller lists.
How many old books or movies must I read before I can read a new one? How old must they be and how new is the "new" allowed to be?
David Brooks should join Adbusters; he'd be right at home.
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 9:06 AM on August 8, 2008
how do I beat the poseurs?
Hickory stick for the poseurs, birch branch for the anti-poseur poseurs, baseball bat for David Brooks.
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 9:51 AM on August 8, 2008
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Black Confederates
Every morning Aunt Jemima made pancakes for the Confederate Army and every night Uncle Ben served them rice. Every Friday they went to Sambo's.
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 8:11 PM on August 7, 2008
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Back Dat Ass Up
Right, I'll go off and, I don't know, read some Keats.
Keats and Byron were sort of the Kardashian/Hilton pair of 19th century British romantic poets, you know.
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 11:27 AM on August 7, 2008
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Hipster - The End of Wester Civilization
The modern iteration of hipsterism
There isn't any "modern iteration of hipsterism." There's just a collection of styles, fashions, and trends that some people have decided to call "hipsterism" either because they want the cultural capital--the plaisir, shall we say--that they believe is associated with those styles or because they want the cultural capital they believe is associated with distancing themselves... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 9:00 AM on August 1, 2008
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Malwebolence.
I think it's a shame that early, unwanted, buttsecks turned Jason Fortuny into social pariah. Also, that picture is hilarious: when you look into the void, a sweaty nerd looks back into you.
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 6:03 AM on August 1, 2008
People's moral judgments represent their desire to control, and nothing more.
Don't worry, Steve. Things will be a lot better when you get to college.
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 6:08 AM on August 1, 2008
"Yeah, he just said he didn't care, but I'm sure my zinger will make him feel the error of his ways!"
Made you reply, didn't I?
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 7:26 AM on August 1, 2008
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Speaker for Himself
you go, orson!
That's "you go, Your Immensity!"
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 6:11 AM on July 30, 2008
Folk of the fringe is only one of Card's books I've ever read and I've never had the urge to read any more of them, but it wasn't bad if you like (Mormon) apocalyptic fiction. And as a bonus, there's a hot, kinda S&M-y scene near the end where an older mestizo woman has wild, bestial, sex with a young, self-loathing, puritanical, American Mormon guy (in order to conceive a child who will grow up to save Norteamérica after the cracker-ass Whiteys screw everything up).... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 6:28 AM on July 30, 2008
Judges taking minority views and turning them into laws that the majority does not want is a threat to democracy. NOT Gays are a threat to democracy. Personally I agree with this statement. This is pretty much saying one man can make a law that everyone has to live with regardless of how they feel or voted. There is a form of government that does just this.... communism.
A fellow of most excellent wit and fancy!
don't... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 7:46 AM on July 30, 2008
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"This is why I carry, even in church."
Couldn't find work, was on food stamps but about to lose them....and hates libruls.
I'm only surprised he didn't have his own TV show.
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 11:26 AM on July 28, 2008
I have gone beyond apathy though.
Not far enough. True apathy would be the absence of any voice or thought at all. Total Beckettian silence. Try it out.
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 12:33 PM on July 28, 2008
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Some Guy's 78 Collection
I wish "We're gonna have to slap the dirty little Jap" was active. I'd pair it with my copy of "Stalin Wasn't Stallin'."
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 8:34 PM on July 24, 2008
OK, the politically incorrect Were Gonna Have to Slap... is loaded.
Domo!
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 5:36 AM on July 25, 2008
CDBPDX, you magnificent bastard, your collection of Japanese and Arabic records are even more awesome!
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 6:10 AM on July 25, 2008
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he could bear to wait no longer
In context, the train driver's name, "Vaughan," is perversely à propos.
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 5:29 AM on July 21, 2008
Because objectively speaking, Thomas did kill Alexandersson.
Among those of us who actually socialize with other humans and are sensitive to the connotations as well as the denotations of English words, we might say, at most, "Thomas was indirectly responsible for Alexandersson's death."
(We also don't write "cuz" for "because" once we're past the age of 12 or so.)
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 6:33 AM on July 21, 2008
Forgive me, applemeat, for not LUVING B1FF.
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 9:09 AM on July 21, 2008
Why can't you?
As most of the people in this thread have already pointed out to you, the English language distinguishes in definition, theory, and law between someone who "kills" intentionally or negligently and who therefore deserves to be held accountable for the results of those actions and someone who's actions accidentally or indirectly result in a death which they are neither morally or legally culpable for. Grown-ups don't really find... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 6:08 PM on July 21, 2008
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The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show
I remember this show was actually really scandalous when it came out.
The Taco Bell Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show was one of--maybe the--greatest gag ever played on TV execs. During the first show I and a friend looked at each other at the same time and said "There's no way this will ever last a season."
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 9:59 PM on July 19, 2008
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just a fun loving (and surprisingly buff) nerd!!!
I've seen this exact ad posted in SF craigslist, so if you're posting this from Tulsa, I figured it might be spam.
Except as some kind of weird, pointless, performance art, why would anyone spend the time faking something like this? (Note: I'm not disputing that it's a fake. I just don't know why.)
He should be raining down a torrent of nerd-hate on the evil Lucas who stole his... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 6:01 AM on July 18, 2008
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Freedom Flies
Metafilter probably has the dubious honor of being the most widely-read left-wing crackpot conspiracy blog.
And obviously you can't live without it.
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 4:19 PM on July 12, 2008
Do you imagine that you're a brave warrior for truth battling the left-wing hordes, Steve? Or are you content to be a garden-variety shit-stirrer? The former is delusional, but not without a kind of crazy dignity; the latter, given your effort, would be just pathetic.
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 4:45 PM on July 12, 2008
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Tony Snow, 1955-2008
Before he died, Lee Atwater had the grace to (at least pretend to) be sorry for the shitty things he did. If members of the current administration continue to insist on dying, then they should take a lesson from Mr. Atwater.
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 3:53 PM on July 12, 2008
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Words like mother-blank!
Sorry, I don't equate one board prohibiting one teacher from teaching ONE book an atrocity.
I'm outraged over the outrage over the outrage.
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 9:37 AM on July 9, 2008
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Sir John Templeton, 1912-2008, RIP and thank you for the investing lessons.
"Money is as fleeting as human life. What lasts is the spiritual."
Ha ha ha ha ha. How very droll!
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 5:36 AM on July 9, 2008
I would argue that runaway spending on wars, garrisons, and ponzi schemes and the inability of the U.S. Congress to balance a budget are what's shafting the American taxpayer.
Silly bugmuncher, you can have both!
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 5:54 AM on July 9, 2008
If I could opt out of Social Security, I would. But I wouldn't move to Bahamas to get out of it.
If I were wealthy enough to move to the Bahamas and ditch Social Security, oh, I'd do it in a heartbeat. And then I WOULD GRIND YOU ALL BENEATH MY HEELS.
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise
at 9:28 AM on July 9, 2008
