Non-sequiturs and Pre-sequiturs: yet another random thread

[DCDave]

Link please to getting banned. kthx

[diesel_powered]

Corey Doctorow will not be mocked!

[elpollodiablo]

It's still there, though without the vowels. Basically there was a post alerting people to the fact that Honda's 'Power of Dreams' ad campaign is sponsoring a special Bb section on like safety and safety tech and things, and a bunch of people got up on their high horses about branding and ads and the effect on content when it's branded, etc. And I said they were all being pretty ridiculous, this is the internet and it's a popular blog, of course there are gonna be fucking ads. But a lot of people were making really good points about it nonetheless. Then their resident moderator came in and censored every single post that was even the slightest bit ambivalent about branded content, and I said she was being childish and hysterical. She censored that post, and then I called her a domineering cunt. Not my proudest moment.

[diesel_powered]

But you know, fuck that all the same. Aren't they supposed to be an enclave for cyberpunk internets free speech?

[elpollodiablo]

Yeah, exactly. They love all that adbusting stuff and culture jamming, but the moment someone points that rhetoric back at them, they pitch a bitch. I don't get it. And I'm going to stop trying.


Oh yeah she also emailed me to tell me that she was entirely unaffected by my slur and that I am a giant loser. Fair enough.

[El_Josharino]

It was pretty bad for a few minutes, I admit.  There was much sniffling and nose-blowing and the like.  It didn't last too long though.  I think it's mostly out of there now.  I have a nasty tickle in my throat though and can't get rid of it, I keep coughing.  I just coughed while taking a drink and sent a water chaser up there after the habanero sauce. 

Dude, you're supposed to use milk.

[jebreject]

Man, I am the Man with the Never-Ending Nose Bleed

[Doctor Bob]

She censored that post, and then I called her a domineering cunt. My proudest moment.

Fixed.

I'm loaded

Oh, we are going to have such fun

Em...  Sorry to say, that was the one out of three that was a lie.  I'm honestly crap at poker, I'm honestly a terrible bluffer - and 100% of nothing is always nothing.  Still, it's the taking part that counts, eh?

[Wally]

Apparently if poor people just worked harder there would be no poor people. I suppose I learn something new everyday. Today it was don't make jokes about hitting people with crowbars and then forget to take a crowbar to class.

[andronicus]

Man, I am the Man with the Never-Ending Nose Bleed

There's something kind of sacral about getting nosebleeds, if you get them enough. 

[diesel_powered]

They're like stigmata for your nose!

[hannah]

Doctor Bob, this Oliver Sacks piece might be of interest.

[YojimboMonkey]

This is the myspace of a guy I went to junior high and high school with.  Back in junior high he told everybody he was cousins with Simon Le Bon which of course he was not.  He was that kind of guy.  We were briefly in a band together.  For a little while after high school I worked for his family's pizza place.  It's fair to say that for a while I knew him fairly well.  So I am not surprised at all to see that his current hobby is apparently stalking celebrities and taking photographs of himself with them.

fuckin' Mark. 

[Doctor Bob]

Doctor Bob, this Oliver Sacks piece might be of interest.

Oh wow.  Thanks.  (I presume this is Random rather than related to my lack of poker money/skills, right?)

[hannah]

Yes, it is random, I suppose. I just thought of you because of the talk of geometric patterns!

[Doctor Bob]

Random- yet highly specific!

You're a doll.

[Andrew_TSKS]

i too found that oliver sacks piece interesting, since i've dealt with migraines since i was a teenager. i feel lucky now that i've read it--obviously my migraines could have been a lot worse.

also, jim, your friend mark has a picture of himself with kristen bell. that makes me vaguely jealous.

[jebreject]

Man, I am the Man with the Never-Ending Nose Bleed

There's something kind of sacral about getting nosebleeds, if you get them enough. 

Fuck off, I just wanna stop getting nosebleeds.

[ellaguru]

Aaiight, so I'm going to a masquerade party tomorrow and need a costume. Any ideas that require almost no materials or effort?

[Maaik]

Beret + cigarettes + drawn-on pencil moustache + maybe a turtleneck or a hankerchief tied around your neck + aloof, pissy attitude.

[On Reflection]

Beret + cigarettes + drawn-on pencil moustache + maybe a turtleneck or a hankerchief tied around your neck + aloof, pissy attitude.

N...Nickosaurus?

[Maaik]

Yes!  Go to the party as Nickosaurus.

[coldforge]

YHES

[El_Josharino]

Aaiight, so I'm going to a masquerade party tomorrow and need a costume. Any ideas that require almost no materials or effort?

You could be a sandwich. Supplies: 2 pieces of posterboard, scissors, brown marker/crayon. Time: about 5 minutes.


Or you could be an oscillating fan. Supplies: Plain t-shirt, piece of foam, scissors, sharpie. Time: about 10 minutes. (the foam can be tricky to cut)


That's all I got.

[ellaguru]

The oscillating fan is pretty funny.