Comments | hirez: Measure twice, perform Burroughsian cut-up once.

hirez

Measure twice, perform Burroughsian cut-up once.

May 08, 2006 22:15

My brain's not working properly and my lungs are still hesitating over the idea of converting back to running on oxygen, but at least now I've an objective measure of how stupid I am (About capable of watching the wrong IP address scroll off the top of a rebooting machine's xterm) and how weak I am (About capable of hefting a 21" CRT, but I need a ( Read more... )

pier, goodbye street-cred, safety chicken

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mr_flay May 8 2006, 21:31:23 UTC

I keep trying to formulate a sensible answer to this blokey's problem, but I always wind up tying myself in knots. Ah, well. I shall satisfy myself instead with saying that I've recently met Dave Bradshaw, who said to say hello, and with whom I'll be spending a week in the desert this year. :D

hirez May 8 2006, 21:39:42 UTC

Well, indeed. It's more a Usenet sort of a problem, largely because I don't think I'm hand-wringy enough anymore.

Disco Dave. Yes. Good chap. Make sure he never gives you a lift in anything quicker than a bicycle.

malcygoff May 8 2006, 22:19:28 UTC

Usenet sort of a problem

I think that AG is still busy with the last moral maze. Well, two members of it are at least...!

Anyway, it's a nice change from the WIG quesion that WGW seems to encourage. err. If you'll pardon the acronyms.

aoakley May 8 2006, 22:37:30 UTC

I keep trying to formulate a sensible answer to this blokey's problem, but I always wind up tying myself in knots

How about:

They were goths because they were suicidal. They were not suicidal because they were goths.

ie. they were already suicidal and picked a subculture which they believed (wrongly) fitted their state. So the goth thing wasn't really relevent to the suicides, and the chap was looking for answers in the wrong place.

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not to joke but... zenmonkeykstop May 8 2006, 22:00:38 UTC

They both were air-breathers too I'll bet. He should go to the Oxygen Conference next. Then it's off to BipedCon '06.

Re: not to joke but... hirez May 8 2006, 23:19:57 UTC

Absolutely.

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operon May 9 2006, 07:35:00 UTC

Said neighbour (and John's original protagonist) ought to read this.

Andrew.

hirez May 9 2006, 09:01:19 UTC

Mark did try to point him at it. Don't know if it stuck.

markeris May 9 2006, 15:52:59 UTC

I doubt it. I was written off as being "very very drunk" as I recall. Which, fair enough, wasn`t entirely a slanderous notion.

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kissmeforlonger May 8 2006, 22:51:21 UTC

Perhaps I'm overly optimistic in thinking that if someone wants to talk, they'll talk to anyone available who looks sympathetic and will empathise without patronising them.

hirez May 8 2006, 23:10:18 UTC

Well, ye-es but...

... It seems to me that you get into that terminal state through not having the opportunity to talk about it. Or indeed not having the (self) knowledge to realise that your head-state can be defused by talking it out.

See, I've almost been there, but it was a long time ago and I've forgotten who I was then.

markeris May 9 2006, 07:33:40 UTC

In chapter 2 he turns up to sexy sunday, stil in the same outfit but having acquired eyeliner and black lipstick from somewhere at which point it turns out that he went to Uni with CJ or something (there was much OMFGing anyway).

hirez May 9 2006, 09:00:43 UTC

Good Lord. Good.

Everyone really does know everyone else.