Where the Kids Come to Mouth Off

[Anne Elk]

Confirming their white trash status.....




(why, chef, why?)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I don't care how many he's slept with either, unless he's sleeping with other people in the same time period that he's sleeping with me.

So threesomes are in or out? I'm confused.

[Gattigap]

My, uh, producer firend isn't getting much of a reaction on Craigslist, so I thought I'd link to it here.

Film Producer seeks actress/model for everything... - m4w - 35

Reply to: anon-43485205@craigslist.org
Date: 2004-09-24, 10:52AM PDT


The heading is correct...Verification upon request...Looking for fun, open minded aspiring actress/model looking to launch their career...If you're gonna go to clubs and hook up with some yahoo, why not hook up with someone that can do something for your career? Photo submissions only will get a response...I guarantee, you will be pleased with my looks...This is for real...Women Only!!! Hope to hear from you soon...


this is in or around Los Angeles
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

What do you guys think? Too direct?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
So threesomes are in or out? I'm confused.

That entirely depends on who is in the threesome.

[Adder]

Originally posted by LessinSF
Chicks in Finland get upset if they don't get their action once they've accepted (or proposed) a date. Such proposals are often as simple a crotch grab at a club. Finland rocks!

I'm moving to Finland.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
What is with you people* and the long rambling posts and lack of white space today?

*I can only think of two offenders. But that qualifies as a perjorative "you people".

racist fuck?

[Adder]

Originally posted by barely_legal
Really on topic, I remember reading a book by Fay Weldon a few years ago (I think it was Trouble, but not positive) in which her main characters slept together right after meeting each other. The author opined that although many people thought that sleeping together after a first date destroyed any potential for a long-term relationship, what really happened was just that the relationship was fast-forwarded and if it would have been a successful relationship absent the early fuck, it still will be and if it wouldn't have worked out for other reasons, the early fuck will make those reasons stand out more clearly.

The moral of this post is that I read too much and don't have sex enough.

I am clearly in no position to answer on my own behalf, as I clearly don't have anywhere near enough sex (combination of being supremely unagressive, terrible at reading signals and hideously ugly), but I have a friend who regularly confides in me about her realtionships with men.

She has often advances the theory that you can't have a successful relationship if you have sex too early. Hard to tell if she is right, as she usually is saying this after it to too late to tell, but my instinct is that most relationships aren't "successful" anyway, so who really cares?

Whether you end up regretting the encounter the next day, or two months later, does it really matter?

Theoretically I see it as a fast forward thing. But again, how would I know?

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
So, out of abject boredom, I actually Googled "K'plah." What is interesting is not that I learned that it is some Klingon word. What is interesting is that my search only came up with 98 hits. Although I do not have a great depth of knowledge about Trekkies and their ways, I do know the following: 1) they are quite adept at learning the fake languages spoken by the fake alien races in the Star Trek shows in order to form a secret fake-alien-language-speaking club that helps further distinguish them from people with lives, and 2) 98% of all of their non-convention related communication is done via the internet. The fact that you have used a word that is so obscure that is has a relatively negligible cyber-presence means you are probably among the inner circle of the fake-alien-language-speaking club. You probably also can fluently translate elfen to gnome, or whatever fake middle earth languages are spoken by the Lord Of The Rings equivalent of Trekkies. Which is troubling, because you seemed like such a nice chap.

me thinks you doth protest too much. elfin to gnome indeed.*








*gnome, dwarf, whatever.**








**how's this for white space, gwinky?

[Fugee]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I would be willing to bet that women who have been raped don't count this in their numbers. I would think that when you're thinking about sexual experiences, you think about consensual experiences where you are giving something to and accepting something from someone else.

Also, I would think that the proper response would be, "Don't worry about whether including such an experience in your number is appropriate or not. Anyone who would judge you for not including it is a fucking asshole you shouldn't consider screwing anyway."

Someone mark this down on the calendar. TM said something in the realm of relationships that I not only agree with but think is sensitive and considerate. The world must be coming to an end.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Fugee
Someone mark this down on the calendar. TM said something in the realm of relationships that I not only agree with but think is sensitive and considerate. The world must be coming to an end.

Well, if TM's next sentence of the response was "So, come here, baby," would that reaffirm your sense of equilibrium?

[Ferdinand de Saussure]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Because I like you, I am trying desperately here to give you the benefit of the doubt and come up with some plausible way to explain how someone other than a person who has so immersed himself in fantasy books and movies as to be unable to distinguish the line between "real" and "fake" could actually ask that question.

Help me out here.

I am glad to help. Much of it comes to philosphical stance and worldview. You must really look at the interrelationship between UNITS, also called "surface phenomena," and RULES, which are the ways that units can be put together. Think of the units as the different pieces in a set of legos: the different sizes, colors, and, in the cool sets, the curvy pieces. The rules in lego contruction are that the pegs fit into the holes. For the purpose of our structural analysis, we should look not at what is being made, be it a spaceship, racing car, or aeroplane; rather, we should look at how it is put together. It is the structure itself that is important. The pegs go into the holes. Remember this.

These underlying structures which organize units and rules into meaningful systems are generated by the mind itself, and not by sense perception. As we are talking about Trekkies with limited social interaction, this is important! This means that the order that we perceive in the world is not inherent in the world, but is a product of our minds.

All minds in every culture at every point in history have used some sort of structuring principle to organize and understand cultural phenomena. For instance, every human culture has some sort of langauge, which has the basic structure of all language: words/phonemes are combined according to a grammar of rules to produce meaning.


Now, you may not personally find meaning in "K'plah!" But yet your mind, though not Klingon or, presumably, Trekkie, registers a psychological imprint of the sound, the impression it makes. This is its sound image. Think of the concept of, say, a dildo. A sound image for dildo may be different in different languages, and yet the concept is the same. And the sound image triggers the concept of a dildo automatically to the speaker of that language. Meanings can vary widely, but only those meanings which are agreed upon and sanctioned within a particular language will appear to name reality. And while all roosters crow pretty much the same way, that sound is transcribed in English as "cock-a-doodle-do" and in Spanish as "cocorico." This may have something to do with dildos.

Thought is a shapeless mass, which is only ordered by language. Indeed, can we have ideas without language? Sound is no more fixed than thought, though sounds can be distinguished from each other, and hence associated with ideas. Language is not a thing, a substance, but a form, a structure, a system.

Klingon, though nerdy, possessess a form, a structure, and a system. Who are you, Flower (notice how the sound image "Flower" triggers thoughts, in this context, not only flowers generally, but also of Flower, the poster?), to say that the Klingon language is somehow "fake", though it bears all essential elements of language?

Linguistist fuck.

For more, see here.

[ilikenewsocks]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
me thinks you doth protest too much. elfin to gnome indeed.

Speaking of protesting too much, it's elvish, not elfin. Kirsten Dunst? Kinda elfin. Ar avanta men raikalmar ve avantalme raikatyarolmain? Elvish.

Yours,

A Geek Who Is Not RT But Is A Tolkein Timmy*

*But even I am not geeky enough to join the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship. Egads!

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Ferdinand de Saussure
lots of heady intellectual stuff, translated by me as "you don't send me, Flower."

Sigh. I miss DebtSlave.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Korean is a language. In korean " eno enoa juang ". Which means, "this guy - this is not my kind of guy".

After several questioning PM's, I just want to note this is a Seinfeld quote. Flower is my kind of guy- except if I was gay, then he'd be shortish for me.

PS Ilikenewsocks is nfh, right? Someone needs to be the Paigow for sock ID function.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

I'm a spaz and lost an envelope I was about to mail on the way to work. Unfortunately the envelope is addressed to my insurance company and contains my SSN. Although the city is full of good people that will pick up my envelope and stick it in the mailbox, it's also full of unscrupulous characters who will open it up and use my SSN for nefarious purposes.

Is there anything I can do in the event it falls into an unscrupulous person's hands? Will a credit agency monitor my credit for suspicious activity for the next few months?

The form inside the envelope only has my SSN and address (which is soon to change) - it doesn't have any credit card info, passwords or anything like that.

Any help would be appreciated. thanks.