Re: a comment on Nesting Instinct of Women by Dovina	18-May-05/10:47 AM
In what way is it a "possibility"? Give details of your modal semantics.
Re: a comment on Mid Years by Dovina	16-May-05/5:36 AM
No, I haven't seen that old man. BECAUSE YOU'VE JUST MADE HIM UP. One's emotional state is clearly a significant part of one's overall health. Nobody has denied that. But if women are so in touch with their emotions, why are all women emotional trainwrecks? Why don't you have any idea how to control them? You've all become so obsessed with the word "emotions" that you worship it as a god. You allow your life to be totally controlled by the slightest feeling, because "it's important to recognise your emotions." You devote huge amounts of time to sentimental nonsense like making scrapbooks and quilts, attempting to nail down an emotion so you can have it over and over again, as if it were a kind of rare mystical experience. You think of crying as a beautiful religious ceremony, because when you cry, you're in complete submission to an emotion. Complete submission isn't beautiful. It's disgusting. It's spineless. It shows you have no control over your self, and what's worse, that you're glad to have no control. You relish the opportunity to be washed away in a sea of feelings, because it means you don't have to think, you don't have to try, you just have to weep like the jellied-eel you are. And you encourage each other to do this, because it feels better to be weak when everyone around you is also weak. Your relation to emotions is exactly the same as the relation of a hypochondriac to diseases. There is an enormous difference between recognising the role of emotions, and devoting your existence to floundering among them. You, my dear, have chosen the latter.
Re: a comment on Mid Years by Dovina	15-May-05/10:07 AM
Women don't see it that way. They think being in a relationship is some kind of emotional mind-meld, where they are "totally accepted" by the other person. They like this idea because their emotional spines are too floppy to support them, having been repeatedly weakened over the years by such habits as: * Watching Sex & The City * Thinking crying is beautiful * Making scrapbooks * Taking pictures of their friends in staged-to-look-spontaneous poses, and then putting them in Purple Ronnie frames * Consuming all forms of Purple Ronnie merchandise * Writing on scented paper with scented "gel pens" * Believing they are special
Re: a comment on Mid Years by Dovina	15-May-05/9:58 AM
You like to imagine you have a monopoly on emotions. In fact, you have a monopoly on floppiness.
Re: a comment on a 9,000.00$ Philippine script treatment by Shardik	13-May-05/4:41 PM
I haven't changed at all in two years. I just read this poeme again, thinking it was new, and thought, "I hate Spanish-sounding names."
Re: Iterated Fuck by nentwined	28-Apr-05/2:39 PM
I just want to reiterate my total, total horror at this poeme. I've seen so many unbelievably sick things on the internet that I don't understand how I can feel so morally violated by what is, when you get down to it, a description of ordinary, unkinky, consensual sex between consenting adults. I think it's because I keep imagining Rockmage peeping out from a closet to watch, his beard all a-quiver. -10-
Re: a comment on Middle-Aged White Woman by Dovina	25-Apr-05/3:55 AM
Only if you're a Negro.
Re: a comment on Middle-Aged White Woman by Dovina	23-Apr-05/7:48 PM
If I may offer my enormous sagging tuppence: As you may know, I am the primary patron of the Reading Room at Wiltsbury. Therefore, as well as because of my degenerative condition, I am entitled to a certain... shall we say "leeway" in my behaviour. It does not shame me to say that I push this privelege as far as possible at all times. One morning I wheeled into the Belkin foyer, covered in jellied-eels and bellowing. Another time I flopped out of my chair and squirmed upon the carpet pitifully. When Mrs. Hedges hurried to the rescue, I beckoned her down to my buttocks, and parped on her handbag. On Christmas Eve of 19--, I suspended myself from the domed ceiling of the Chetwoad Room, using a horrifying system of hoists and reverse buckle-squats. I had instructed my manservant to dress me as "Mephistopheles, were he caked in faeces." It was a glorious, glorious moment when I descended, shrieking, onto the Nativity play below. A child was crushed in several places. There was a short-lived attempt to lynch me, which I countered by lifting the crushed child and rubbing it on myself. Or perhaps I only imagined that later, when I had been sedated. What has this to do with the matter at hand? Quite.
Re: a comment on Middle-Aged White Woman by Dovina	22-Apr-05/5:17 PM
If I was a Negro, I wouldn't want White people tiptoeing around me because they were terrified of inadvertantly saying something racist. Imagine trying to be friends with someone who was subconsciously opposed to you, and was only capable of a pseudo-objective analysis of your behaviour, implemented via a complex feedback mechanism of ropes, pulleys, and two-way mirrors. I agree that the vast majority of people who are aware of their racial biases try to compensate somehow, but it's nigh impossible to calculate how much you should compensate. Most people overcompensate, and become patronising. They go up to a Black and for no reason just say something like "Denzel Washington... what a fantastic actor. He's not my favorite actor though. That would have to be Mr Sidney Poitier." (a snippet from The Office) Incidentally, the test is based on the times taken to respond to each question, not on how many errors you make. Of course if you make too many errors, there won't be enough data to draw statistically significant conclusions. The survey bit is optional, and does not affect the test (it is included so they can use your data to make exciting new discoveries in the field of Advanced Negro Engineering.)
Re: a comment on Middle-Aged White Woman by Dovina	22-Apr-05/5:40 AM
Do you think that's a fair result? I'm grotesquely ashamed to admit it, but I definitely found it easier to associate Good with White. One may not be racist on an intellectual level, but when such associations are operating subconsciously, they're bound to pollute our objectivity glands :( Of course the truth is that Blacks genuinely ARE slightly worse than Whites, so my slight preference is not so much a racist preference as an accurate one.
Re: a comment on Middle-Aged White Woman by Dovina	22-Apr-05/5:32 AM
It will save you time in the long run. If you don't take this opportunity to have an independent, objective assessment of your Racism Quotient, the speculations will continue. Here's one for starters: I think you DID take the test, but your data suggested a strong preference for Whites relative to Blacks. Not wanting to share this white-hooded dumpling with the rest of the group, but still too spineless to tell an outright lie, you opted for the flaccid "it didn't work" compromise. Which is still an outright lie, by the way, but one that is subtle enough to wriggle through your unbelievably porous integrity membrane. Quite frankly I'm appalled.
Re: Middle-Aged White Woman by Dovina	21-Apr-05/3:44 AM
Dovina and zodiac: -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. has discovered a wonderful online test, developed by Negro Experts at Harvard, which calculates how racist you are. I suggest you both take it, and present the results to the rest of the group. "[My] data suggest a slight automatic preference for White People relative to Black People" https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/uk/selectatest.html Click on "take the race IAT". Work quickly, and for the love of Christ be honest when you present the results.
Re: a comment on Reincarnation by Dovina	20-Apr-05/9:27 AM
I think the cardinals chose an elderly to give themselves a better chance of being elected pope. Many of them will still be around when Ratzinger goes tits up.
Re: a comment on Reincarnation by Dovina	20-Apr-05/7:51 AM
It's hardly surprising they elected a fundamentalist. Whenever there's the slightest hint that people are better off following more liberal doctrines, the church recoils in on itself, doing everything in its power to hinder what can only be described by Sensibles as "moral progress." Eventually, when enough people have died of the AIDS, and enough ethnics get parped to the max by over-population, the church's stance on issues such as contraception will become so blatantly harmful, and so blatantly ridiculous, that further resistance becomes counter-productive, and then some radical new Pope Dave will come along and say "Hey guys! You can wear rubber johnnies!" and we'd be like "Yeah we already do, you prick. The ones who didn't are all dead."
Re: Reincarnation by Dovina	19-Apr-05/10:13 AM
BREAKING NEWS: Complete twat elected pope. God be praised!
Re: a comment on Trying to get signed? by Damien	17-Apr-05/3:50 PM
Your mo*nface is huge, white and round. Q: What do you mean you can "be more flexible without it"? A: You're cr*p at grammar, so you've invented a reason why it's ok to be cr*p. You can only be "more flexible" without grammar if you ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT THE F*CK YOU ARE DOING. If you were to take up fishing, you'd feel you could be "more flexible without the pole". Ironically the pole is the most flexible thing in fishing, aside from your limp cock which hasn't been fully deployed since Grandma bit a chunk off during a rather rowdy episode of "Countdown."
Re: a comment on Middle-Aged White Woman by Dovina	15-Apr-05/5:51 AM
No. It's how my gurning facial expression became a permanent fixture.
Re: a comment on Middle-Aged White Woman by Dovina	14-Apr-05/4:24 PM
http://www.craneaccidents.com/images/btdt.jpg
Re: a comment on Utensils of creation by Damien	14-Apr-05/8:37 AM
If you genuinely wanted to master grammar, you wouldn't be so indignant when people tried to correct you on it. Either you're too thick to master grammar, or you're just too much of a freestyling maverick. Yes, that must be it.
Re: a comment on Middle-Aged White Woman by Dovina	13-Apr-05/5:04 PM
Would you consider "being forced to eat from a dog bowl on all fours" an instance of subjugation that exceeds the Official Subjugation Threshold beyond which whinging is acceptable? I daresay you would. But do you even stop for a second to think that it might be in the subject's best interest to scoff their food in such a way? When Negroes first decided to come over to the United States all those years ago, they just pitched up on our shores with no education, no transferrable skills, no appreciation of how one should behave at a dinner table, and worst of all no underpants. We then trained and clothed them, and taught them the value of shoehorning. We introduced them to the fundamental building blocks of civilisation: religion, community, faith, family, and trousers. And when at last they had mastered the dog bowl, and could masticate without making an unseemly mess, we said to them "Rise up, and dine with us. You are no longer aminals. You shall feast at the table as men." I'll never forget the twinkle that flashed in their eyes as they grasped cutlery for the first time. It was a twinkle of defiance, of independence, and ultimately, of betrayal. From dog bowls, to cutlery, to top hats. We gave them an inch, and they took their own shoehorn factory.