Dismalissima Open Thread

For Donkey, my * largest * fan (0.00 / 0)

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by: Laura @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 01:26:25 AM CST

Jesus Christ (0.00 / 0)

I should edit, now that I realize I'm really just Gilroy-ing, without the requisite dramaqueen spacing.

Sorry. This is the only drink(s) I've had all month and it went to mah head.

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by: Laura @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 01:45:33 AM CST

Wink wink nudge nudge you old fogies (0.00 / 0)

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by: Laura @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 02:25:55 AM CST

You definitely are a dried up prune (3.00 / 1)

You're one of of the most shallow, idiotic, Kos Kopper like, convenient show upper, opportunistic, groupthink byatchas that ever entered the soapblox world. You're not fooling me. You've always been a nasty asshole, a more subtle representation of Lauren S. You spin it off as that's how you roll. Bullshit. You're just one more meanie who talks a lot without doing any research, backing up your ideas, or debating fairly. You're a sadisic, full of shit, ad hominem thrower. You can't fake soul, and you have none. So take your excuses of no time and shove them where the moon don't shine, Alice.

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by: socrates @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 06:54:04 AM CST

socrates as the wife abuse threatening (3.33 / 3)

but never coming through Ralph Cramden.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. -- A-Hep

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by: fairleft @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 11:05:12 AM CST

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Too fat and slow to kitch 'er (2.00 / 1)

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by: Laura @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 13:37:27 PM CST

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WAKE UP EVERBODY!!!!!! (3.00 / 1)

I've got raisin bagels with cream cheese toasted just right, some dark coffee with half and half and sugar in the raw. There's a bit of snow on the ground and the Patriots' game will be on. Thanks Laura for front paging my Hal Turner piece. It was actually a decent effort from myself. Not too wordy. Pertinent. All sourced. Some original stuff. Listen, it's not cool how you get nasty. You should get some counseling for that.  

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by: socrates @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 07:06:10 AM CST

Recommended!!!! Too bad there's no rec button (0.00 / 0)

Wow. Actual content about something that has meaning. You.

More, please....

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by: donkeytale @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 10:31:13 AM CST

I can't be a _____ either. (4.00 / 1)

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. -- A-Hep

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by: fairleft @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 11:14:20 AM CST

I wish someone would say what that meant (0.00 / 0)

so I don't have to ask and look less than 100% with it.  At any rate if I follow your meaning it's not something I ever cared for either.

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it", Helen Keller, communist.

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by: DavidByron @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 11:44:46 AM CST

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I commented that just cuz I didn't wanna seem like a doddering fool who (3.00 / 1)

doesn't know what ____ obviously means.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. -- A-Hep

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by: fairleft @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 13:42:10 PM CST

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go ahead and ask already... (0.00 / 0)

so's I don't have to ;o I can't be an...ignorissama...  :o)

"May we live long and die out"

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by: supersoling @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 13:47:03 PM CST

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Oh come on everyone knows what a __-____ is. Don't they? (0.00 / 0)

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by: Laura @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 14:13:36 PM CST

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Uh..., sure (0.00 / 0)

well I do but just for the rest of your readers why don't you go ahead and say?

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it", Helen Keller, communist.

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by: DavidByron @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 16:09:48 PM CST

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wait (0.00 / 0)

I had a handle on a ___ but what is a hyphenated __-__ ?

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it", Helen Keller, communist.

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by: DavidByron @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 16:10:37 PM CST

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That story reminds me of my sister (3.00 / 3)

in some respects although not that many come to think of it.   At any rate if you're such a cutie doesn't that mean you've been holding out on me?  :(

And how poor are we talking about here?  I don't generally like poor people.  They tend to be hopeless and/or assholes.  I have met a few cool poor people though, and on-line of course it's probably hard to tell, but generally poor people seem to be less good at faking it if they happen to be very uninteresting and/or nasty.

I was thinking about this a bit although it's a bit meta for me, when reading something about liberal 'elite' attitudes to the 'working class' (whatever that means -- I would say if you're working then you are working class these days but the term means something else mostly) and how apparently liberals tend to pretend they have working class sympathy.

Someone was saying Obama was working class but I think he went to Harvard or Princeton or something.  I went to Cambridge University (yes, socrates, the one in England) but I would guess it is a lot easier for peasants to get in there since you can easily get a 100% free place as I did (in fact I made some money on it), although depending on what school you went to the staff were often a lot more or less geared up to trying to push you into those best universities.

As for the writing I am told that handwriting is now a dying art.  I was thinking about this and thinking whether I write anything these days.  As it turns out I do write quite a bit in terms of short notes.

Laurissima -- I suppose it could have two meanings and I choose to think of it as "Very Laura"

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it", Helen Keller, communist.

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by: DavidByron @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 11:43:02 AM CST

Poor... (4.50 / 2)

as in no 'sponsor'. Poor, as in only vaguely aware of any other way of being, and only then because of a branch of my family who weren't.

I'm only talking about my childhood here. I'm...um middle class I guess, now. Of course if I had a kid or got sick or something I'd be back right where I started. In the areas I grew up, only a few were destined for college. The city official's children, the doctor's children, etc. I remember my mom saying on more than one occasion that I would do very well being a secretary or something and that I should learn to type. This was after years of gifted placement and high test scores, myriad other natural talents. That's just how backwards most parts of this country are. That, and my mother went to private schools and was pampered by her parents until they died so she really couldn't figure out what to do with me, with no money.

But it really is ridiculous to talk in terms of caste, the country's too large and money means so many different things depending on circumstance. Though there are definite 'black holes' of no-future, and they seem to be multiplying. From what I see of this country, most small and midsized towns were created by one or two families in industrial boom times and have literally coasted to a dead stop. You can really see each town's history in its architecture and they're mostly the same aside from the big cities and the southern slave capitals. To me, 'working class' means no college, maybe no hs diploma. So no 'desk jobs'. Of course now you can make more money without a lowly degree than with one if you have the stomach for it. So this reference to an undefined 'working class' is really just another way to allow the pwoggieherd a charitable twinge to a caste they've created in their heads.

(And I love to write by hand. I make excuses to write little lists and notes all the time. I taught myself to write as a child because I'd switched schools before it was taught and the new school had already learned it the previous year. I guess I've always preferred it in personal expression)

Yeah, very Laura. Something like that.

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by: Laura @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 14:12:41 PM CST

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writing (4.50 / 2)

writing by hand is definitely a dying art. I rarely write anything anymore and even my little shopping notes are logged on my cell now instead of scraps of paper. It's something that bothers me but in the big picture of my concerns it's a bottom dweller so, though I feel somewhat nostalgic about/for it and occasionally pledge to begin it again, I never do.

I was actually reprimanded and punished in 1st grade for writing in cursive before the teacher had decided to actually teach it to us. Odd motherfuggerz that consciously scold for self excelling.

Here's a news flash..in case any of youz higher educated snobs hadn't noticed by my somewhat limited vocabulary, I'm working class, never went to college and even flunked out of high school, but until recently hadn't struggled financially in any real, fear inducing way. I not only had the stomach for the work, I had the six pack abs for that shit. I couldn't imagine going about it any other way. It furnishes me with pride, the first compensation for the work and the lifestyle, and it's the last thing I'll have when the rest is all gone.

"May we live long and die out"

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by: supersoling @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 19:02:25 PM CST

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"in case any of youz higher educated snobs hadn't noticed" (2.00 / 1)

I hadn't.
But I think you have said this before about yourself.

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it", Helen Keller, communist.

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by: DavidByron @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 19:52:03 PM CST

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brittany murphy's husband (0.00 / 0)

has an interesting appearance(!) i always thought the "ugly fat dude + hot chick" theme of recent sitcoms was based on fantasy but here is actual real life evidence.
http://www.tmz.com/2009/12/20/...

The defectors have started an underground railroad to smuggle other rebels out of hostile territory

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by: doberman pinche @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 19:33:14 PM CST

he did it (5.00 / 1)

Brittany Murphy's husband, Simon Monjack, told hospital staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center he did not want an autopsy performed on his deceased wife, multiple sources tell TMZ.

The defectors have started an underground railroad to smuggle other rebels out of hostile territory

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by: doberman pinche @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 19:50:12 PM CST

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Well if wishes were evidence (4.00 / 1)

she probably died of a heart attack performing especially physically demanding lesbian sex with a very hot chick.

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it", Helen Keller, communist.

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by: DavidByron @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 19:57:15 PM CST

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Remind me to slim down quickly (0.00 / 0)

if we ever get married and then you die ;-)

Although I don't know what fat is on guys.  Is that American fat or just fat?  He looks big but he's tall too.  I was, to quote Tom Holt expecting someone fatter when I looked at the thread.

Is the guy standing next to him also fat?


"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it", Helen Keller, communist.

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by: DavidByron @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 19:50:50 PM CST

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he's british (0.00 / 0)

and the fat could be coke bloat, not regular fat.

The defectors have started an underground railroad to smuggle other rebels out of hostile territory

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by: doberman pinche @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 20:01:37 PM CST

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Please link to some posts you've made on British politics (0.00 / 0)

It's beyond bizarre that all you talk about is American politics. You are clearly an American.

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by: socrates @ Sun Dec 20, 2009 at 21:14:29 PM CST

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