The Onion
Me: dude... what's with the...radish?
QB: hahaha
QB: long story
QB: my fren has set up this bizarre "rutabaga" club
QB: where all of them have the same pic of a rutabaga
Me: O_o
QB: which represents the "collective consciousness of souls lost to the tragedy of schoolwork"
QB: so my onion is in protest
Me: hahaa..... firstly... erm... what on earth in a rutabaga in the first place?
QB: it's like some plant
QB: like turnip?
Me: cult of turnip lovers... life doesnt get more random than this
QB: nono
QB: they don't just LOVE the plant
QB: the plant represents some kinda ideal
QB: and supposed to remind you of "sunny days" and "fields of green"
QB: it's really really queer
Me: ya don't say....
Me: haha... so since the onion is in protest
Me: what does YOUR vegetable symbolise?
QB: it doesn't mean anything
QB: it's to protest such contrived symbolism
QB: it's just ...The Floating Onion
QB: so...it's kind of a paradox
QB: it's an anti-symbol symbol
Me: so.... to protest their contrived symbolism... you had to make up a symbol yourself? isn't that kind of hypocritical?
QB: no la
QB: maybe you cannot view it as a symbol
QB: because a symbol has to represent something other than itself right?
QB: my floating onion is just a floating onion. nothing else. no hidden agenda
Me: but the fact that it's an onion... it's like trying to tell you to look deeper
QB: ah!
QB: but that's where people's faults lie
Me: to uncover the hidden layers
QB: u don't have to see anything at all! but you choose to go and unpeel layers with your mind. you're being tempted by symbolism!
Me: see! so your choice of an onion reflects that entire thought process and you're investing deeper meaning into the onion already
QB: nope
QB: see! you're luring me into the depths!
QB: i've never thought of anything except an onion
QB: oh no...
QB: i'm being defiled
Me: it was all subconcious, i bet
QB: lol
QB: maybe
Me: mwahaha
QB: okokok
QB: i deny everything
QB: this is an ONION
QB: nothing but an ONION
Me: but without meaning behind the onion
Me: your protest loses meaning
QB: no!
Me: and thus effectiveness
QB: so maybe it's not a protest but an artistic response
Me: ... okay, can't argue with that.
QB: ok i feel like changing my pic now
Me: sorry for ruining it :D
QB: it's a bald cactus
Me: oh dear. field day for symbolism.
QB: hahaha
QB: well i'm not going to talk about symbolism or protest against it
QB: over here i'm talking about the issue of identity
QB: is a cactus a cactus because of its cactus-ness?
Me: what's in a name?
QB: names give some semblance of identity
QB: and to some extent
Me: that which you would call a cactus would be a cactus by any other name