Profile for Talent in a Previous Life
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| Member number | 3098 |
| Title | This Side Towards Enemy |
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| Registered | Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, December 11 2003 12:53
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Very nearly as funny as that time I woke up and you were trying to give me a colostomy with a dead cat, TGM. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
| What music (if any) are you listening to... in General | |
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written Thursday, December 11 2003 12:51
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'Communication Breakdown' by Zep. Absolutely brilliant track, and not even the best on the album. 50 Million Year Trip (Downside Up) by Kyuss has just followed it. RHCP has done some good stuff and I'd rank Easily amongst my top ten songs ever, most likely, butthey're notas good as their press would have you believe. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, December 11 2003 12:40
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There are worse anti-Christmas diatribes than LF's one. There's the 'pagan' argument that Christmas is where Saturnalia used to be, and that they want the festival back. I'm all in favour of religious tolerance, but nobody should be allowed to call themselves a pagan until they've sacrificed at the very least a goat. Otherwise, you're just a neo-pagan, an atheist, an anti-Christian moron with no logic to your aguments or possibly a Wiccan. Note here that I know nothing about Wiccans, so any flames on that issue might well be on a sound basis. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
| The Revenge Of The Melon Sex Topic in General | |
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written Wednesday, December 10 2003 10:24
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As a connoiseur and (if the bruises left by my slightly more morally conservative friends are any guide) creator of wrong on an industrial scale, I'd say Morgan doesn't rate that high. He doesn't rate much more than one dead baby with no sexual innuendo joke a week (1dbns/w) on the wrong scale. Alorael, half a fundie is like one of your jokes. Dire. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, December 10 2003 10:18
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David, if you wanted to understand you'd have to understand the Arena and its very long backhistory. Just stay confused. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, December 10 2003 10:15
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Sk8er boi annoyed me, but that's mostly because I'm one step from being an indie rock snob as well as a grammar pedant. But the one thing that makes it so unbelievably irritating is the way the video and the lyrics are projecting exactly opposite viewpoints. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
| Sun Tzu, The Art of War in General | |
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written Wednesday, December 10 2003 10:09
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Not entirely sure, but I personally wouldn't bother. My understanding is that it's made up of vague platitudes and is mostly considered to be such a work of genius because it was written in China around 2000BC. It's a great guide in the same way that horoscopes are. Whether this is deliberate or purely because Chinese court poetry wouldn't pick the point out of a lineup if it was 20ft tall, fluorescent orange and wearing a nametag. Sun Tzu may have more relevance today than Vegetius, Maurice of Nassau, Clausewitz and pretty much any other military thinker prior to Guderian, but that's because he's much less objective. Great commanders are great commanders because they're brilliant logisticians or fantastic at using terrain or inspirational motivators or just because they've spent their whole lives learning the ropes. Any knowledge of Sun Tzu is only useful in projecting a 'cultured' facade. I realise you didn't want an exposition of my views on authors of military strategy. What you really want is Google. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, December 9 2003 13:46
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I wouldn't call it erratic moderation. Erratic moderation would have been letting those topics live. However, in their defence the topics do perform three useful functions: 1) They provive a stage to remember the hirsute or moustached figures of earlier times. 2) They are fairly good history lessons underneath the incoherency. 3) Anything that distracts Alec from selling his body on the streets has to be a good thing. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, December 9 2003 11:36
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There's no need for Misc. All one really needs to do is to remove Alorael's modship powers for Galactic Core or alternatively set up a Lost Souls/Ocean Bound/Homeland board with the same basic criteria. Of course, this is also a very good reason not to have a Misc forum at all. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
| The Revenge Of The Melon Sex Topic in General | |
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written Tuesday, December 9 2003 08:13
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Nah. He's religious. There's a difference. So far as I know, Dave's not a creationist, which is pretty much a pre-requisite. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, December 8 2003 14:23
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Alorael is deserving of being stabbed in the eyes. Then again, we all have our faults. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, December 8 2003 12:28
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How are your ideas like the Dark Ages? Compulsory military service sounds a lot like a peasant levy to me. Alternatively, in the unlikely event you're not using your soldiers to start wars and put down any uprisings brutally, there going to put to work on building projects, I'd guess. I'm not saying this is a bad thing, but if you've ever heard of Hjalmar Schacht and the reason Germany has autobahns, you'd see a correlation with fascism. Then there's the public executions. It may not include trial by ordeal, but it's getting towards it. Although I'm sure your strict sense of morality would mean the tying of skirts on female executees and the like to prevent onlookers being scandalised. Also, the reason female children are killed is that it's hard to bring up children on limited resources and the male children will grow up to help run the smallholding, whereas the female children just go and get married. As I understand it, it's more of a problem in China, but it's not abortion anyway, it's infanticide. I am curious as to why you're allowed to think like Herr Shickelgruber but we're not allowed to compare you to him. EDIT: Forgot to add my idea. One man alone could not do the task. Essentially there's a choice between trying to muddle on as we are, so things won't get to an ideal state but hopefully won't get worse and in the third world might reach tolerable levels with more far-sighted policies. Or there's the alternative, which might happen anyway if there's a major energy crisis, generally scheduled around 2020-2040 in most estimates, which involves going back to if not a pre-industrial state then a resource starved one, from which we might build some kind of more efficient 'perfect' syndicalist society. The problem with that is that I don't believe syndicalism could spread worldwide without a single overseer, which is a) kind of missing the point and b) impossible in this situation. [ Monday, December 08, 2003 12:32: Message edited by: Distantly Bemused ] -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, December 8 2003 10:57
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Sure there is. A non-twisted fundamentalist, for starters. Then again, that might just be me and my morbid fear of sincerity. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, December 8 2003 09:43
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The first guess, certainly. Possibly also the second. I've made a point of not finding out. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, December 8 2003 09:35
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Sure. Why not? -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
| In this topic, Deacon the First displays his patriotism in General | |
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written Friday, December 5 2003 08:46
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In the general scheme of things, there aren't that many things lower than Alec. And since TM did not create Aixoan, I suggest that your choices have been narrowed down considerably. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
| On the Reading of Books in General | |
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written Friday, December 5 2003 08:41
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I will read anything, although I read rather less fantasy than I used to because 90% of it is twaddle. I include the really popular stuff in that category. Tolkien could write a decent tale when he didn't swamp you in invented history and there are some good exponents of of comic fantsay (they seem to be brighter than writers of normal fantasy) but there are few other good mainstream authors and Anne Macaffrey should be forbidden from writing, as should whoever wrote Dragonlance. Also Robert Jordan is on his way to the 9th circle. CLassic literature is a mixed bag. You cannot shove the combined works of a millenium, more if you include Greek and Roman authors, into one category. You can say that Shakespeare was merely a hack playwright of middling talent and Dickens seeems to be inspiring me to ignore my social conscience, if not to an English teacher. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, December 5 2003 08:22
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Red Eyes and Tears, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, September 10 2003 10:56
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America wins so many medals because a) it has a large population and b) it is the world's most prosperous country. Somebody once worked out from the 2000 medal the nations which did best taking population and economic might into consideration. I think Ethiopia came top, followed by Lithuania. Of course, I gleaned this information from one paragraph in the sports section of a newspaper I wasn't reading properly, so I may have the countries wrong. I can't stand many sports, whether played in America or the rest of the world. My hand eye coordination is poor, so cricket, baseball, rounders and tennis are right off the list. I didn't spend 5 hours a day in my first 10 years kicking a ball around, so I'm terrible at football. The only sport I really enjoy is rugby, because what I lack in strength I make up for in exceptionally pointy elbows and a vice like grip (although I still can't catch or run) and my best friends make up hte first two rows of the pack, so I can hang around in the back row and there's less of a chance of being flattened. I also rather enjoy basketball, but only when there's no referee and the ingenuity of the cheating is more important than the score. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, August 31 2003 06:32
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As a general rule, I read everything I can get my hands on and even if I don't enjoy it, it's quite possible I'll reread it (this especially applies to Anne McCaffrey, because the plots are so forgettable I can can read it a hundred times and if it weren't so predictable, I wouldn't be able to guess the ending.) I'm not going to try to remember all the books I've read recently, but I did particularly enjoy The Bear went over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle, Where was Rebecca Shot? by John Sutherland, a trio of Iain Banks books (never mind which ones, they're almost all good) and Cancer Ward by Solzenhitsyn. I also made an attempt at reading some of the works of Albert Camus. Terrible writer. So boring I couldn't even begin to decide whether or not he was right. His best act was probably playing goalie for Morocco's premier soccer team, and this if from someone with no fondness for football. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, August 29 2003 13:04
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Tell me, why is 'getting stuff done' a good thing? Anybody with even a cursory knowledge of history knows that some of the greatest achievements of authoritarian governments have been their worst. Besides, your implication that democracy has never achieved anything is ludicrous. I live in a country with gender equality, free education, universal suffrage, unemployment benefit, socialised healthcare, everpresent electricity and protection for the elderly. This is in no small part due to a long tradition of democracy. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, August 29 2003 12:56
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Most of Nostradamus' predictions are, in fact, not worth the paper they're written on. And I have to wonder why exactly the Mayans know more than we do. Over enthusiastic ritual sacrifice may teach you some valuablke things about practical anatomy, but anybody who thinks that groups of people were wise just because they were massacred by other people even more determinedly vicious and innovatingly nasty than they deserves to be sucker punched in the street. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, August 29 2003 12:49
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Unfortunately, prices on ebay for most things are too high. I tried to buy furbies en masse of ebay to make a furby skin coat out of, but I couldn't get any appreciable quantity for a halfway reasonable price. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, August 29 2003 12:38
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Baseball is rarely played outside America and Cuba. And if you think America wants Cuba (or rather its government) on this world, you are sorely mistaken. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, August 26 2003 11:07
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Yes, I can see how banning wouldn't be that bad if it wasn't for that. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |