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The "I r confuzed" thread
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Ok, there is a thread about feeling miserable. I am not miserable most of the time. But I am confuse most of the time so here I have created a threat in which you can say why you are confuse and maybe get some funny answers :P
I am confuse because I do not know what does it means when a girl tells you that you are cute but in a manly way
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Uhh I think that woman wants your blood , or some other part of your body perhaps ?
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CONFUSED?
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[quote="karaokeninja"]CONFUSED?
You won't be after this weeks episode of SOAP! -
Huh?
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Why I am confused:
HEGEL
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Hegel is bizarre. I read an essay he wrote on literature and spent most of the time rubbing my eyes.
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Frequency domain mathematics
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Cormac McCarthy. I just finished No Country for Old Men, and I'm torn between being furious or being merely enraged. To think that I wasted my precious time on a book that began as a suspenseful page-turner, only to implode under its own weight and transform in the final hundred pages into into "interminable, artistic meditation on the nature of evil and the duality of man blah blah blah".
I fucking hate literature. From now on I'm going to stick to novels that have covers that look like this:
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[quote="Gokiburi_Chachacha"]Cormac McCarthy. I just finished No Country for Old Men, and I'm torn between being furious or being merely enraged. To think that I wasted my precious time on a book that began as a suspenseful page-turner, only to implode under its own weight and transform in the final hundred pages into into "interminable, artistic meditation on the nature of evil and the duality of man blah blah blah".
That's a shame. I just got the book due to me being all excited about the new Coen Brothers movie. I guess I'll figure out if I like it or not when I read it, which probably won't be for a while now, as I have a lot more books with higher priority on my shelf (i.e. the most recent Dexter novel). -
[quote="Gokiburi_Chachacha"]To think that I wasted my precious time on a book that began as a suspenseful page-turner, only to implode under its own weight and transform in the final hundred pages into into "interminable, artistic meditation on the nature of evil and the duality of man blah blah blah".Anna Karenina. Here's Tolstoy gibbering on for page after page about the Russian peasant's spiritual relationship to yackity yackity yak, and me going "Leo. WHY DID SHE FUCK THAT GUY?"
Oh, you mean sort of like Baen's SF catalog.From now on I'm going to stick to novels that have covers that look like this:
Seriously:
http://www.clan-lmssm.org/battlepope/SFF/cally.jpg
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Boobs are nice, but John Ringo doesn't really provide enough lizardmen carrying laser rifles to meet my new requirements in reading material.
Also, the first Dexter novel was interesting up untilSpoiler:Dexter started having prophetic dreams linking him to his heretofore unknown serial killer "twin" brother. If there's anything more hackneyed than the "multiple personality" cliche at this point, it's that old chestnut, the "evil twin".
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Kaz Hirai just approved a new PS3 model:
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[quote="chronocross_xp"]Ok, there is a thread about feeling miserable. I am not miserable most of the time. But I am confuse most of the time so here I have created a threat in which you can say why you are confuse and maybe get some funny answers :P
I am confuse because I do not know what does it means when a girl tells you that you are cute but in a manly way
That means you;ve listened to the right amount of my podcast (which is all of it) and shecan sense the manliness off of you. -
Goddamn please edit the title of this thread so it says "confused" already. This is super annoying.
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I think it should read: "I r confuzed."
And it should somehow involve a lolcat. -
Or possibly Monty Python. Confuse-A-Cat!
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Thanks Goki for the awesome title. Now we only need the lolcat :P
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I've never been more confused than when I tried reading William S. Burroughs' "science fiction" novel The Soft Machine. I liked the parts about possessing people through magic buttsex and transmitting scorpions through radio waves, but I couldn't find anything resembling a coherent narrative.
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[quote="Twitch"]...but I couldn't find anything resembling a coherent narrative.Sounds like you've just read my "Magical Realism" story about M.D. Geist!
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In my experience, Burroughs is more about exploring heroin addiction and homosexuality than what we would normally associate with science fiction. Looking for a coherent narrative is futile; a lot of those psychedelic novels are more concerned with their readers "experiencing the now" than telling a story.
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Burroughs' contribution to literature is taking something he wrote, literally chopping the pages apart and randomly reassembling them. So his rambling narrative about how he does a lot of heorin and is ashamed of being gay becomes even more obtuse and incoherent. Not a fan.
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[quote="Gokiburi_Chachacha"]In my experience, Burroughs is more about exploring heroin addiction and homosexuality than what we would normally associate with science fiction. Looking for a coherent narrative is futile; a lot of those psychedelic novels are more concerned with their readers "experiencing the now" than telling a story.
He sounds like a hack. -
Not really. He was doing it before it was cool.
I liked "Naked Lunch". But that's all the Burroughs I've read to date. -
I remember I tried to read Naked Lunch because I was super into Hunter S Thompson at the time (still kinda am) but never finished it. That's a problem with me honestly. At any given time, I'll start reading 2-3 books, and only finish one of them.
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Naked Lunch is like impossible to finish if you are reading and intending to actually follow it. If you let it wash over you like getting hit by a particularly smelly ocean wave full of heroin and gay shame, you can probably come out of the other side without drowning.
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Pretty much the only book you need to read from back then isn't even an actual book; just read Hunter Thompson's "The Great Shark Hunt" and you'll have about 90% of the best writing to come out of the Sixties.
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I really like Bukowski and Philip K. Dick and they were both writing things in a similar vein that are far superior to Burroughs and Thompson, IMO.
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[quote="karaokeninja"]Naked Lunch is like impossible to finish if you are reading and intending to actually follow it. If you let it wash over you like getting hit by a particularly smelly ocean wave full of heroin and gay shame, you can probably come out of the other side without drowning.
seriously, he sounds like a hack, a gay heroin addicted hack. -
Give it a try?
I liked Naked Lunch, what I could take of it. Eventually I put it down and said, well, that's enough phallus and heroin and baboons. -
Burroughs shot his wife in the head in a drug inspired reenactment of william tell gone awry
the only guy from that era i can stand is Ginsburg. Not that im a huge fan...but burroughs and kerouac get on my nerves. -
I'm going to step up and say that I enjoyed the hell out of Burroughs. Kerouac, on the other hand, bored me to tears. An old high school teacher actually let me do a book review of Naked Lunch when I was there, which I found highly amusing.
"And on this page, the Mugwump secretes a kind of addictive ejaculate, which represents..."
I read Naked Lunch, The Fermata, Vurt, and Briefing for a Descent into Hell in the same year, as I recall. I can't wait to read things I actually want to again. -
I am confused why somebody high-up at my work thought it was a great idea to email everyone in the company a harlequin fetus in a halloween message.
Cartoon pumpkins and ghosts = great
Dead diseased babies = there goes my appetitite, thanks
edit: i went and explained what it was to her, apparently she just did an image search for "monster" or something and it came up... but seriously, wouldn't you think a picture that gross is probably not appropriate for a company memo regardless of where it came from? -
[quote="karaokeninja"]I really like Bukowski and Philip K. Dick and they were both writing things in a similar vein that are far superior to Burroughs and Thompson, IMO.Crap, I forgot that Dick was writing then.
And I don't mean all of Thompson; just the "Great Shark Hunt" compilation. -
Burroughs shot his wife in the head in a drug inspired reenactment of william tell gone awry
the only guy from that era i can stand is Ginsburg. Not that im a huge fan...but burroughs and kerouac get on my nerves.
I'm with you grumps. I'm sick of people flying the banner of a revolution that happened a half century ago. The books might be good, but I'm tired of all their trappings. -
Burroughs stills sounds like a bad writer, but a bad writer with repressed homosexuality and drug abuse, I think I can write better stuff, without having to put gay and drugs in things I'd write.
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tissuekins, trying actually reading him before you call him a bad writer. He's not a bad writer. He just has a style that some people don't care for. It's like one of my English professors said: "If you don't like Shakespeare, that's not Shakespeare's problem. It's yours." Opinion is one thing, but you can't go around casting criticism from a position of ignorance.
I'm with you grumps. I'm sick of people flying the banner of a revolution that happened a half century ago. The books might be good, but I'm tired of all their trappings.
I don't see where you're going with this, Joel. Shouldn't you be able to separate a work of art from its creator? After all, I don't think Roman Polanski is a good human being, but I must admit that he directed some good movies. -
I liked Exploding Ticket all right.
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[quote="RobotBastard"][quote="karaokeninja"]I really like Bukowski and Philip K. Dick and they were both writing things in a similar vein that are far superior to Burroughs and Thompson, IMO.Crap, I forgot that Dick was writing then.
And I don't mean all of Thompson; just the "Great Shark Hunt" compilation.
I think he wrote a lot of other great stuff besides just GSH, but if you just mean the sixties, then yeah, read that.
[quote="tissuekins"]Burroughs stills sounds like a bad writer, but a bad writer with repressed homosexuality and drug abuse, I think I can write better stuff, without having to put gay and drugs in things I'd write.
I don't get it Why does having homosexuality and drug abuse in a story make it bad? -
The problem is not that homosexuality and drug use are bad in writing, the problem is there is NOTHING ELSE to it. It's just rambling and incoherent, with no discernable point or narrative, it's just a random collection of words with the occasional phrase that you can interpret to be about butt sex and/or murder, and how much he likes heroin.
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Oh, and BOOBS: BOOK III: THE BOOBENING.
"There's only one thing you can call it: mind rape." -
[quote="tissuekins"]Burroughs stills sounds like a bad writer, but a bad writer with repressed homosexuality and drug abuse, I think I can write better stuff, without having to put gay and drugs in things I'd write.
Oh, there's nothing repressed about the homosexuality in his writing. And Naked Lunch is packed full of the candiru. Including, if I remember correctly, a dude dumping candiru into a crowded swimming pool.
Also, Burroughs was a huge inspiration to Grant Morrison. -
Also, Burroughs was a huge inspiration to Grant Morrison.
Is that really something to brag about? -
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Also, Burroughs was a huge inspiration to Grant Morrison.
Is that really something to brag about?
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That's how I roll, baby.
Continuing with the theme of being confused and literature, why does Henry James's The Turn of the Screw get touted as "the greatest ghost story ever written"? I remember when I read it I was left with the reaction of: "Well...that's it? That's all there is?" -
I just watched the movie version of that from the 50's? on Halloween and it was boooooooooring and not scary. "OMG LADY WATCHES CHILDREN ALL DAY! Also, there may be a ghost at some point. Maybe."
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The girl that I like think that i think that she is annoying
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The solution involves torn pants.
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[quote="nmmMmM"][quote="chronocross_xp"]The girl that I like think that i think that she is annoying
I have a similar problem. I think that the girl that I used to like, but now I think is annoying, likes me. Your problem could probably be fixed without any hubbub though.
Plz tell me what can I do.
