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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Nah, I'm gonna have to go with Mike here, those are pretty hilarious.

Then again, I have managed to just about completely verify that my Venn diagram of taste probably doesn't even bump edges, let alone overlap, with either Sergei's or Dracko's.

seryogin · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:38 pm Post subject:

Well, that's not completely true. We both like Hunter S. Thompson as an example (for different reasons perhaps).

And, mike, this is for, courtesy of one Justin Raimondo. Not something that I expected from him and I thought I'd never see myself agreeing more than halfway with anything he ever wrote. This calls for some soul-searching and reappraisals on my part.

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j022301.html
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Americans are always easily amused by British accents, no matter what shit comes out of those mouths.

Yahtzee needs to suck less goats.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 1:51 pm Post subject:

i ain't gonna lie, i find justin largely unreadable. it's mostly the design over there. and partially his need to include headers for everything.

i appreciate that he annoys a lot of people who deserve it, however. i just do so from a distance.

i like thompson because he's a paranoid dick who was funny.

Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Trust me, I've had plenty of exposure to unfunny English humor (of which there is quite a bit).

This guy just manages to hit the zone of stupid-funny, which is helped by being so rapid-fire. I'd compare it to Family Guy and Airplane! in terms of style, although the content is wildly different.

I'm struggling to come up with a better description of HST as a "hilariously paranoid dick", so yeah.

dhex · Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:30 am Post subject:

more simple humor

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39313
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

dhex, I dedicate this song to you!
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dhex · Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:44 am Post subject:

"tupac shakur rest in peace"

what?

i like how he looks like a date rapist too. veddy gud.
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dhex · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject:

http://gordonunleashed.com/blog/2007/11/12/to-protect-and-to-tase/
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seryogin · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 6:10 am Post subject:

Man, mike, I'm editing this German manuscript by some hack 19th century novelist (a freelance assignment) and I've just come to the point where the narrative turns especially creepy. I had known that this section was coming up, since the Russian hack who wrote the Protocols of the Elders of Zion essentially ripped it straight out of this novel.

First, I'm surprised that people believe and still believe this stuff, since the leaders of the twelve tribes of Israel literally rise from the dead in a cemetery in Prague, where they meet with their descendents to plan for how to continue to control the world. Second, I'm surprised that people could see Jews in this way, since they really don't seem to look as sinister as they're painted. Thirdly, man, the way the author draws these Jews so well that even I'm afraid of them now. I'm serious about this. Maybe it's just because I haven't slept in a long time, but I'm starting to think that Jews are everywhere and they're out to get ME! A quick look outside my window confirms this as there's a bagle store, a Kosher market, Kosher Chinese restaurant, and a Kosher pizzeria, as well as a orthodox Jewish school.

Now, this is scary, because I don't like the idea of any kind of latent anti-semitism in my person. Not because I have a problem with racism, but because it's just bad taste. 95% of the white people I've known have been anti-semites and, well, it doesn't that of those 95% 9 in 10 have been total idiots and reprensible human beings (for reasons apart from the Jew hating). I'm not joining their club.

So what do I do?

Try as I may, I can't get enthusiastic about anything Jewish. Bagels? They're okay. Israel? It was pretty cool in the wayback, not so much now. Jewish comedy? not my thing. Woody Allen? No. Robin Williams? He was fucking Mork from Ork! Harlan Ellison! Good writer, highly overrated, will not be remembered, met him and found him pleasant.

Man, I think I just need to get some sleep done.
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dhex · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 1:25 pm Post subject:

hmmm well yeah you're kind of on your own there, as i tend to like bagels.

both new york and montreal style, of course.

zee jews are made out of zee magik, you zee. hence why they can rise from graves and control money and all that. the modern strain is that they either caused 9/11 or they caused the iraq invasion because if the jews went away all the scary muslims would open up falafel carts and...uh...man i got nothing. i know it works in their heads but i'll be damned if i can translate it.

unrelated: i was able to work the Maoist International Movement's video game reviews page into my mock brief on the fairness doctrine and why it's lame.

see also:
http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/faq/subjectivismI.html

puff puff pass my proletarizzles.
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dhex · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 1:31 pm Post subject:

http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bookstore/music/metal/zep4.html

seryogin · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 3:49 pm Post subject:

Yeah, that's ok. I got some sleep and I don't care as much anymore. I might add that editing the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is, like, every Russian nationalist intellectual's dream.

There's a difference between styles of bagel now?
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Yeah, I'm not even going to bring up the West Coast "bagel".

dhex · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject:

bag-el.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:29 am Post subject:

because of no other reason than it came up recently and i like reposting this, i present the park slope hat spat.

(the extra haw haws only come from having been in and around park slope for a while now, initially discounting tales of how it was rebirthed when a bunch of people heard "california uber alles" and decided it was actually a blueprint for a model society." i was wrong.)
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dhex · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:01 am Post subject:

seryogin · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:14 pm Post subject:

I've been to Park Slope only once and after an hour, I felt like I needed to get the hell out. There was just something very wrong with the atmosphere there, like there were a lot of people that thought that by just existing they're doing the planet a lot of good. They couldn't be more wrong was my thinking.

Everybody in the stores was also unbelievably snotty.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:39 pm Post subject:

such is the nature of community. (i.e. evil)
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Isfet · . Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 107 Location: A New York

Park Slope is a lot of decent ideas taken to their logical and irritating conclusions.

seryogin · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:59 am Post subject:

http://www.reason.com/news/show/33300.html
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

dhex let me onto your forums >:|
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dhex · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:58 am Post subject:

so what did you do to get banned at sb?
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dhex · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:04 am Post subject:

man not only did my large format printer decide to tell me to go fuck myself, but tonight i have to go to the opera.

i don't know what's worse.

one of our neighbors works for the classical station in the city and so i get dragged to all sorts of shit i don't like (namely theatre and the arts, culture, etc) and that we can't sell despite how much i would like to make 400 bucks off of something we got for free.

fark.

in lighter news:

dhex · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:09 am Post subject:

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

dhex · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:28 am Post subject:

fair enough.

oh man this does not bode well with a scotus packed to the brim with statists.

it says far too much when clarence thomas is your go-to guy for liberty. weep weep weep.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:39 am Post subject:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2213843,00.html
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seryogin · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:23 pm Post subject:

Man, SB has been going fag planet for the longest time now.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 2:30 pm Post subject:

they smoke too much?
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Or not enough.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 2:49 pm Post subject:

or perhaps somewhere in between!

see also:

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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

"The essence of balance is detachment. To embrace a cause, to grow fond or spiteful, is to lose one's balance, after which, no action can be trusted. Our burden is not for the dependent of spirit."

As to the poster: You realise that this is likely someone's fetish?
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dhex · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 3:21 pm Post subject:

as to the poster: you realize this was actually produced?

though no doubt that the whole giantess thing needs a crushy/tiny chick thing going on just for universal balance.

that guy's site, btw, is awesome:

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dhex · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 3:36 pm Post subject:

not to get all pedantic, but if she can talk he's clearly not doing a very good job.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Yeah, that's what's best about propaganda.

P.S.

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dhex · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 3:31 pm Post subject:

wow. that's all sorts of excited.

of course the first thing one thinks is "i wonder if she's any good in the sack?"
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

dhex · Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 9:13 am Post subject:

dhex · Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:56 am Post subject:

http://forums.introversion.co.uk/introversion/viewtopic.php?t=1046

edit: the only part i quibble with is the idea that copyright infringement (what we'd call piracy) isn't theft. ok so "theft" leaves a bad taste in peoples mouths because gub'mint types use it while flapping their arms about like angry baby birds. so let's call it an "injury" instead, or something else along those lines, but the proper response to apoplectic flack-tards whining about how game or music piracy create opium isn't to crawl into the "well i wasn't going to buy it anyway" routine.

i've never had this conversation in person with anyone but if i do i'm going to start stealing their shoes and see if the response "well i wasn't going to buy your shoes but i would like to take them anyway" works out. yes yes i know stealing your shoes takes away your ability to walk OH NO IT DOES IT JUST MAKES IT MORE PAINFUL A LOT LIKE HAVING YOUR SALES FUCKED OVER BY

i used to be a lot less all over this until i read an interview with mike paradinas where the highest selling venetian snares album offa planet mu sold 7k copies. i know a lot more than 7k people listen to venetian snares, and i know planet mu is suffering largely because people are unethical douchefucks. they are an awesome label and the people who don't support them are lame.

can't afford it? get a fucking job you lazy pieces of shit or just go without.

why is going without something so fucking unthinkable these days?

that's the most interesting question, i think.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:39 pm Post subject:

http://reason.com/news/show/123632.html

spread this far and wide.
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extrabastardformula · . Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295

How does dumpstering fit into your perpective?
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

dhex, this is why you should check out the works of Jonathan Hickman.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:54 pm Post subject:

re: los freegans

so long as the trash is on the sidewalk, sure why not? not making a mess is probably an ok thing to shoot for as well. if i owned a business and had my commercial dumpsters rifled on the regular i might get a bit more pissy - because they're big and unweildy and can make a hell of a mess - but that's a case for commercial dumpster locks, really.

speaking of commercial dumpsters i once walked home from the bridge at about 5 am and saw a fucking army of rats moving up court street by a bunch of dumpsters. they split like a furry little red sea as i approached.

that was kinda weird.
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dhex · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 12:01 pm Post subject:

man my wife is crapping herself in delight over the kindle.
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dhex · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 12:23 pm Post subject:

slapping idiots to delay the apocalypse.

i'm playing a game of punch the adbuster tard over at rockpapershotgun (i hope they forgive me for shitting up their comments) and we've gotten to the "why shouldn't i do without" phase of the game.

of course he's an artist; all the fuckups are. and frankly, i'm beginning to think that the fuckup to human ratio is getting too far past the necessary 100:1 ratio that will keep us from slipping back into some kinda city-state existence. that would be good for me as i am well-suited for a life of slave trading, internecine warfare and mass rape, but i don't think my weaker brethren would enjoy it as much as i would once i adjusted to the deaths of all my family and loved ones and fully hardened my heart.

yo ho ho the warlord's life for me...
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<i>Why not do without? Because I wish to be entertained, to enjoy experiences, as I have little else to enjoy, and while that might be a minority stand on the issue, it’s still a worth while justification. </i>

well, if i ever meet you, i promise to steal your shoes. both for the sake of principle and because i've always really wanted to!

i.e. i mean, i've had this conversation in variation with a number of people online, but never in person and i've always wondered what someone would do if i started taking their shoes. i have no idea if you have nice shoes or not but it's art, philosophy and shoe-stealing all in one giant swoop.

a win-win situation (win-win because there'd be two shoes)

i don't know everyone would appreciate the artistic statement in stealing someone's shoes off of their feet while they're trying to have a conversation about how other peoples' hard work being transmuted from thought into actual existence isn't really real because it's not physical, but it's the sort of thing artists have to deal with every day. especially someone like me, who just wants to steal shoes to make a point about discipline. as someone who lives on the upper tier of the body size and weight distribution, i can easily take someone's shoes presuming i don't really give them any warning and i think it makes an interesting statement about both the supreme importance of private property (he'll never think about his shoes the same way i betcha) and the failing of "i do because i can" as a justification for human behavior.
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dhex · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 1:24 pm Post subject:

for dracko

(warning: annoying)[/url]
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

I love you too, dhex.

Did you check out the interview I linked to?
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