Re: a comment on Equality by sarah	26-Apr-04/1:23 AM
Actually, they do. -0-
Re: The True Irony by thepinkbunnyofdoom	26-Apr-04/12:34 AM
You're not supposed to put your own poems in your favourites list. Well you can, but it makes you a tool.
Re: death by xunitedx	26-Apr-04/12:31 AM
But what happens after death? It's all a bit of a mystery, isn't it?
Re: Equality by sarah	26-Apr-04/12:29 AM
You know what's worse than th insincere rhetoric of equality? This poeme. [_] AABB rhyming scheme [_] About romantic love [_] About poetry-writing [_] About suicide or self-mutilation [_] Arbitrary indentation [_] Arbitrary line breaks [_] Autobiographical but in the third person [X] Clerical errors [X] Cliched imagery (staring out of window, pits of despair) [_] Cliched rhymes (love/above etc.) [X] Devoid of alliteration or any such linguistic embellishments [X] Devoid of rhyme [_] Devoid of simile, reification or any such literary devices [_] Devoid of wond'rous or fantastical imagery [_] Drug references [_] Elves, unicorns, etc. [_] Exclamation points used to mark 'the funny bits' [_] Insipidly whimsical or zany [_] Leaving rant [X] Lower case only [X] Melodramatic [_] Naively religious or superstitious [X] Obsessed with femininity [_] Overabundance of ellipses [_] Overuse of 'depression' words (putrid, wretched, darkness, etc) [_] Pointedly unanswered questions [_] Protagonist has a smug name [X] Rage against the machine [_] References to the author's 'social life' [_] Repetition of a single word or phrase to the point of nausea [X] Sanctimoniously moral [_] Sentimental [_] Self-pity [_] Thesaurophilia [_] Use of internet shorthand or emoticons [_] Vicarious wish fulfilment Bonus comment: Kittens do not knead their mothers. -9-
Re: a comment on To Be Happy by embersandenvelopes	25-Apr-04/3:55 PM
You haven't explained anything. The part of the sentence that doesn't make any sense is how a memory could "reside" at someone's distate. Even writing those words makes me feel soiled.
Re: Words that the Earth has to say… by nothingtoanyone	24-Apr-04/5:06 AM
I bet you wish you were an elf. Yeah, that would be so cool, wouldn't it, to be an elf? But what if everyone else was an elf too? No, that wouldn't be as good. God, you're pathetic.
Re: a comment on Radiation Reflections by sarah	24-Apr-04/12:51 AM
bow'ls
Re: a comment on The Negro by Everyone	24-Apr-04/12:50 AM
Obviously you have never seen Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Your opinions on all matters are therefore void.
Re: a comment on Dear M Foucault, or, How I knew our relationship was doomed by zodiac	23-Apr-04/2:52 PM
:-(
Re: a comment on Radiation Reflections by sarah	23-Apr-04/1:55 PM
Don't feel too despondent; radiation is a tricky subject to write about because so many people find it funny. I know this is an emotional piece for you, and I respect that, but you might consider using abortion as a metaphor for chemotherapy in future. Good poeme, though -7-
Re: a comment on Dear M Foucault, or, How I knew our relationship was doomed by zodiac	23-Apr-04/12:35 PM
GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS "The truth of a proposition is inversely proportional to the number of idiots who believe it" = nil TOTAL: nil Once again you fail.
Re: a comment on Dear M Foucault, or, How I knew our relationship was doomed by zodiac	23-Apr-04/12:27 PM
The truth of a proposition is inversely proportional to the number of idiots who believe it.
Re: a comment on Blinking by zodiac	23-Apr-04/8:19 AM
Do you know someone called Peter Allen? (I think he went to Guffborough Grammar)
Re: a comment on Dear M Foucault, or, How I knew our relationship was doomed by zodiac	23-Apr-04/7:26 AM
"Life is just a game" is the world's stupidest platitude. Life is not a game. Life is a thing in which games take place. It's not even an understandable confusion; the features of 'games' are almost entirely distinct from the features of 'life'. Also, what is this speech about wouldn't it be ace to be a philosopher? I never said there was anything wrong with professional philosophers. Indeede, I implied that it was OK to feel proud about studing Wittgenstein if you were being paid for it. Nice one!!
Re: a comment on Dear M Foucault, or, How I knew our relationship was doomed by zodiac	23-Apr-04/6:33 AM
First, Hume would win Wittgenstein any day of the week. Second, for you to go around trumping out miniature gushing guffs of adulation for Wittgenstein is as bulgingly ignorant as it is appallingly pretentious. Wittgenstein was a crazed loner whose only achievement, which was realising that nearly all questions in philosophy are steaming cornucopiae of bow'ls, was continually nullified by his inexplicable continuing engagement in philosophy. Furthermore, to think about Wittgenstein's work is to expend hideous amounts of mental effort on a completely useless task. Anyone who is somehow proud of having tried to understand Wittgenstein is either being paid for it, or is so acutely aware of the total waste of time their life has been that they have to tell themselves it was incredibly fulfilling. Studying him as a requirement for a class is no excuse whatsoever.
Re: Radiation Reflections by sarah	23-Apr-04/5:19 AM
I can accept closure. But not indecent exposure.
Re: a comment on The Negro by Everyone	23-Apr-04/5:07 AM
It's the result of a year-long collaboration between a raging, bulging, crushing desire to write an offensive poeme called "The Negro", and my conscience.
Re: a comment on The Negro by Everyone	23-Apr-04/5:00 AM
By "He soils" do you mean "he soils himself", or "he tends to the soil"?
Re: a comment on Dear M Foucault, or, How I knew our relationship was doomed by zodiac	23-Apr-04/2:15 AM
There are a number of philosophers who have never made any decent arguments and are famous only because their theories were so ridiculous and obviously wrong that everyone after them had a jolly good time explaining why. Here are the top three: 1. John R. Searle 2. Michel Foucault 3. Bishop Berkeley
Re: a comment on Dear M Foucault, or, How I knew our relationship was doomed by zodiac	23-Apr-04/2:07 AM
He also says somewhere else that people didn't exist until the concept was invented after the end of serfdom. He seems unable to perceive the difference between the concept of people existing, and people (the things we currently denote with the term "people") existing. He is a prime bollock.