A frolic in Cambodia

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Or is that one a tranny?

Here's a more complete picture of the new fringey:

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
you don't get my post, I take it. ask Coltrane to explain it on Monday.

He's long gone. Ask rp.

I'll get someone to explain it earlier. I'm guessing that you were not, in fact, insulting me.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
But it is this repetitive and highly self-referential language and these repetitive and highly self-referential posting devices that make the FB so familiar and warm and comforting to us. It is a vast, confusing, cold, and often spiritually empty internet out there. Is it so wrong to want to have one tiny little corner of the world wide web where we can log on at any time of day or night, write the words "That's so hot!", and know that will not only be accepted but also appreciated?

My wife's main prof at college was an immigrant from mainland China. He came here at 19 to study engineering. When he was in China he had been studying to become a painter. One night at dinner he told me about it.

In traditional Chinese painting one learns to paint one base image- and you must learn and follow all the rules within a tight construct. One might paint bamboo, fog mountains, herons, flowers, etc. But one would only paint one of those throughout one's career.

He was tapped to paint chrysanthemums. Every painting had to be basically the same as the last, but the trick was to include subtle variations. Each painting was beautiful on it's own, and only faded when looked at next to another. Still, by the time he was 19 he decided it would be too limiting a life and left for America.

My point is, that just because the one guy found the artform limiting, doesn't mean that the posters here who basically regurgitate the same joke over and over should feel sheepish. To the contrary, you have precedent from an important field of art. People have been doing the same "painting " for 3000 years for goodness sakes. Carry on!

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
My wife's main prof at college was an immigrant from mainland China. He came here at 19 to study engineering. When he was in China he had been studying to become a painter. One night at dinner he told me about it.

In traditional Chinese painting one learns to paint one base image- and you must learn and follow all the rules within a tight construct. One might paint bamboo, fog mountains, herons, flowers, etc. But one would only paint one of those throughout one's career.

He was tapped to paint chrysanthemums. Every painting had to be basically the same as the last, but the trick was to include subtle variations. Each painting was beautiful on it's own, and only faded when looked at next to another. Still, by the time he was 19 he decided it would be too limiting a life and left for America.

My point is, that just because the one guy found the artform limiting, doesn't mean that the posters here who basically regurgitate the same joke over and over should feel sheepish. To the contrary, you have precedent from an important field of art. People have been doing the same "painting " for 3000 years for goodness sakes. Carry on!

You know, Hank speaks the truth. When I was exploring Lascaux, I happened upon a very detailed painting depicting a couple of hunters just back from the hunt, and one of them was peeing on the other's sister. Some things are just universal, I guess. Kudos, Hank.

[Jean Socteau]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
My wife's main prof at college was an immigrant from mainland China. He came here at 19 to study engineering. When he was in China he had been studying to become a painter. One night at dinner he told me about it.

In traditional Chinese painting one learns to paint one base image- and you must learn and follow all the rules within a tight construct. One might paint bamboo, fog mountains, herons, flowers, etc. But one would only paint one of those throughout one's career.

He was tapped to paint chrysanthemums. Every painting had to be basically the same as the last, but the trick was to include subtle variations. Each painting was beautiful on it's own, and only faded when looked at next to another. Still, by the time he was 19 he decided it would be too limiting a life and left for America.

My point is, that just because the one guy found the artform limiting, doesn't mean that the posters here who basically regurgitate the same joke over and over should feel sheepish. To the contrary, you have precedent from an important field of art. People have been doing the same "painting " for 3000 years for goodness sakes. Carry on!

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up

-- Jean Socteau

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
And peace be with you also.

Originally posted by NotFromHere
In the couple of times that I've been dragged kicking and screaming to a Catholic church, this is the part that freaked me out the most.

You found "peace be with you" to be more squicky than:

• The Lord be with you.
  R: And also with you.
  Lift up your hearts.
  R: We lift them up to the Lord.
  Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
  R: It is right to give him thanks and praise.

That's some pretty fascist shit right there, especially when you hear 600 people say it in unison. I think your priorities are fucked up if you think "peace be with you" is worse than that shit.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
You found "peace be with you" to be more squicky than:

• The Lord be with you.
  R: And also with you.
  Lift up your hearts.
  R: We lift them up to the Lord.
  Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
  R: It is right to give him thanks and praise.

That's some pretty fascist shit right there, especially when you hear 600 people say it in unison. I think your priorities are fucked up if you think "peace be with you" is worse than that shit.

Listen, being able to parrot shit back is part of the whole experience. It's like singing the damn hymns that no one knows the words to. But having to shake hands with a stranger and say peace be with you - dude are you that immune? That's just weird. That's worse than eating crackers and drinking wine that hundreds of other people have spit in.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by ltl/fb

ETA maybe I'm a horny cow.

This discussion is SO FUCKING OFFENSIVE TO HINDUS!!! What a bunch of bigots you fucking fucktards are. Hindus have family members that are reincarnated as cows and you dare to make fun of cows? That is evil prejudice and fucking offensive and wrong and you are disgusting and foul.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by taxwonk
I was told that it was more like a wicked little shiver from your neck to the base of your spine.

No, no. That's me, not Fringey.

I'm the one who shivers.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
You found "peace be with you" to be more squicky than:

• The Lord be with you.
  R: And also with you.
  Lift up your hearts.
  R: We lift them up to the Lord.
  Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
  R: It is right to give him thanks and praise.

That's some pretty fascist shit right there, especially when you hear 600 people say it in unison. I think your priorities are fucked up if you think "peace be with you" is worse than that shit.

Wait. Go back.
Associates at your firm got speaker phones?

[Adder]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I thought "that is sound parenting advice". And then I watched SpongeBob (again, just because I am newly single (hi RP!*) and can).


*Hi SD!

What's with the chaos in the world of FB relationships?

[Fugee]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
But having to shake hands with a stranger and say peace be with you - dude are you that immune? That's just weird. That's worse than eating crackers and drinking wine that hundreds of other people have spit in.

It would be prudent to drop the hand-shaking part during flu season. I may stop taking communion until Spring because people take the bread from a communal plate and dip it in a communal glass of "wine." I am particularly susceptible to upper respiratory illnesses and will be more so without a flu shot.

Speaking of communion, I noticed last time that my church offers a gluten-free option.

[Adder]

Originally posted by Fugee
It would be prudent to drop the hand-shaking part during flu season. I may stop taking communion until Spring because people take the bread from a communal plate and dip it in a communal glass of "wine." I am particularly susceptible to upper respiratory illnesses and will be more so without a flu shot.

Speaking of communion, I noticed last time that my church offers a gluten-free option.

Ya know, I haven't quite figured out why everyone thinks they need a flu shot these days.

If you are extra sensitive, that makes sense, but I thought that they shots were not recommended for healthy adults.

[SlaveNoMore]

R.I.P.

O.D.B.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Adder
What's with the chaos in the world of FB relationships?

"Mister Order, he runs at a very good pace
But old Mother Chaos is winning the race."

-- Lord Omar Khayaam Ravenhurst, K.S.C.,
"The Book of Advice," The Honest Book of Truth