Fuck, I hate working nights. I need to find a real job soon
greatearthbeard:
Only a little wrong, and a lot of Right 
Had an open day at Northampton University yesterday. Had a nice long chat with the admissions tutor for the History department who said he'll give me a hand with UCAS. I have a good feeling about this 
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glassmachine:
Well, at least finally you've come up with a better post than what you have previously. About time. If you'd have originally posted something like this on Saturday, I probably would have agreed with you. But you didn't.
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Once again, you've shown you're quite happy to show contempt to a large part of our society (that would be the too fucking old to know what's acceptable...). Which once again makes me doubt the sincerity about why you're arguing this. I mean, you're happy to defend one group of people, while showing ignorance and contempt to another. To me, that makes you more than a bit hypocritical and sanctimonious, to say the least, and why I don't particularly care what you might think of me.
"Sorry squire, but intractable blanket statements without reasons like that piss me off, and I consider them just as wilfully divisive and dangerous to society as racism itself. Too often the people who use them haven't really thought about the subject in hand. They also don't take into account that the world is not black and white, and work on the assumption that you're right regardless of what the facts might be. "
What you said was stupid, ignorant, racist and showed ignorance and contempt to a whole culture of people.
Refute that somehow. Without any laughable strawmen. Do it now.
The fact that the guy who a couple of posts ago was trying desperately not to look like a dick when defending his use of the term raghead is trying to give me a condescending lecture on racism and blanket statements is turning this into a classic. Be careful who you try to lecture on certain things, if you're not careful you could end up looking like a reaaal twat.
Again, you're making a load of rhetorical noises that you think sound good, but where's the beef? I'm not fooled. You've already conceded what you said was unnecessary and offensive to use" so why are you continuing to shame yourself further. .... Squire (?)
And P.S. Yeah I'm ignorant and insensitive towards a whole culture of old people who still say Paki - I know they're a dwindling minority but I promise to respect their rights to expression via extremely offensive 'descriptive' terms too from now on. Okay? (You're still not old enough to qualify for this exception)
glassmachine:
You know what? If we're going to go all last words and ignoring each other now I'll just go with this:
An offensive and racist comment is what it is. You made one and got called out. It's not comparable to cunt for reasons I have explained, it's just offensive. There might be exceptional circumstances where using such words doesn't signify racist intent but they don't cover your comment, so they're irrelevant. I know you wanted to argue with me about wether a racist word is always racist, but it was a strawman from the start. You know it, I know it. You're out of legs to stand on. Deal with it. Next time think.
An offensive and racist comment is what it is. You made one and got called out. It's not comparable to cunt for reasons I have explained, it's just offensive. There might be exceptional circumstances where using such words doesn't signify racist intent but they don't cover your comment, so they're irrelevant. I know you wanted to argue with me about wether a racist word is always racist, but it was a strawman from the start. You know it, I know it. You're out of legs to stand on. Deal with it. Next time think.
OK, bit of a shitstorm yesterday because of my blog and use of a racial derogatory comment to describe a terrorist. It was unnecessary and offensive to use, but, to be honest, I quite enjoyed the arguments that followed. So I wasn't all bad.
Now, one of these arguments was that it was irresponsible to use due to the recent protests by far-right groups in...
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glassmachine:
Mate, you're not a semantician - you're confused.
You can't admit you were wrong and defend your actions to the hilt at the same time. Just come clean and move on.
Advice: Words to avoid in future posts if someone annoys you - Paki, Kyke, Nigger, Coon, Chink. No amount of faux post-textual analysis is going to save you from the zot if you try this shit with those, I reckon.
You can't admit you were wrong and defend your actions to the hilt at the same time. Just come clean and move on.
Advice: Words to avoid in future posts if someone annoys you - Paki, Kyke, Nigger, Coon, Chink. No amount of faux post-textual analysis is going to save you from the zot if you try this shit with those, I reckon.
glassmachine:
"Would you be quick to denounce my grandmother when she used to ask me to go down the Paki shop, even though she was using it as a descriptive term, rather than a derogatory one?"
W-what the fuck? YES. YES, for Jesus Christ's sake! PAKI is not a descriptive term! CORNER SHOP is a descriptive term. Are you out there saying paki shop and thinking it's descriptive? Stop it!
"OK, you may have a point. But interestingly, an acquaintance in work once said something similar to me, and he was noticeable a man of colour. Would you say he was a racist? What about Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle?"
You are unreal. This is barely even a paragraph. Are you asking me if I think Chris Rock hates black people because he uses the N word? Is that what you're asking me?
"Squire, if all you can say at this point is I'm confused, then it might be the point to respectfully agree to disagree. Your opinion is not going to change my mind on anything. I need facts or a better argument than you're providing"
...All I can say? I think I gave you a lot more than that. Most of what I said wasn't even opinion, just a frank explanation of exactly why what you said is unacceptable and how false the equivalents you were trying to draw to distract from it were.
You've admitted how stupid a thing it was to say, but continue making all of the noises of someone with an argument to defend. But it's all completely hollow because you apparently have no point to make, just some really weird shit to say.
" I'd already added a note saying that what I said was racist and a cheap shot, and denouncing racism as ignorant and lazy, I have to question why you still felt the need to call me out on it. Just as a further note, I'd also apologised to someone who said they were offended by it. So, exactly what do you hope to achieve at this point? "
For you to SUCK IT UP, BE A MAN AND DO IT PROPERLY. You're saying you've apologized, but what's the point if you're still arguing with me and trying legitimize what you said? You're telling me you've accepted what you said was wrong and then trying to explain why it was right!
You obviously don't get why what you said was offensive or why people reacted the way they did, because you're still flailing around to defend it, so why bother with the false humility?
"Yeah yeah, it was unnecessary and offensive. I shouldn't have used the term."
And then "Your opinion wont change anything, I need facts"
What facts? What kind of facts? What facts do you need? I'm genuinely curious to know what you were getting at here. You want some kind of empirical data that proves mathematically how it makes sense that that kind of language will get you in trouble? You want a pie chart?
Doesn't that conflict slighly with your grudge against the word 'cunt'?
Fucking mindblowing. How long are you going to keep digging? Just. Say. Sorry. And. Move. On.
Christ. All this time messaging you about this. I'll never get these minutes back.
W-what the fuck? YES. YES, for Jesus Christ's sake! PAKI is not a descriptive term! CORNER SHOP is a descriptive term. Are you out there saying paki shop and thinking it's descriptive? Stop it!
"OK, you may have a point. But interestingly, an acquaintance in work once said something similar to me, and he was noticeable a man of colour. Would you say he was a racist? What about Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle?"
You are unreal. This is barely even a paragraph. Are you asking me if I think Chris Rock hates black people because he uses the N word? Is that what you're asking me?
"Squire, if all you can say at this point is I'm confused, then it might be the point to respectfully agree to disagree. Your opinion is not going to change my mind on anything. I need facts or a better argument than you're providing"
...All I can say? I think I gave you a lot more than that. Most of what I said wasn't even opinion, just a frank explanation of exactly why what you said is unacceptable and how false the equivalents you were trying to draw to distract from it were.
You've admitted how stupid a thing it was to say, but continue making all of the noises of someone with an argument to defend. But it's all completely hollow because you apparently have no point to make, just some really weird shit to say.
" I'd already added a note saying that what I said was racist and a cheap shot, and denouncing racism as ignorant and lazy, I have to question why you still felt the need to call me out on it. Just as a further note, I'd also apologised to someone who said they were offended by it. So, exactly what do you hope to achieve at this point? "
For you to SUCK IT UP, BE A MAN AND DO IT PROPERLY. You're saying you've apologized, but what's the point if you're still arguing with me and trying legitimize what you said? You're telling me you've accepted what you said was wrong and then trying to explain why it was right!
You obviously don't get why what you said was offensive or why people reacted the way they did, because you're still flailing around to defend it, so why bother with the false humility?
"Yeah yeah, it was unnecessary and offensive. I shouldn't have used the term."
And then "Your opinion wont change anything, I need facts"
What facts? What kind of facts? What facts do you need? I'm genuinely curious to know what you were getting at here. You want some kind of empirical data that proves mathematically how it makes sense that that kind of language will get you in trouble? You want a pie chart?
Doesn't that conflict slighly with your grudge against the word 'cunt'?
Fucking mindblowing. How long are you going to keep digging? Just. Say. Sorry. And. Move. On.
Christ. All this time messaging you about this. I'll never get these minutes back.
Today is 11/9. Or 9/11 as our American friends like to call it. 8 years ago, some fucking rag-head* (and I don't apologizes for that, not when they have murder on their hands) ordered an attack,which ultimately resulted in the deaths of 3017 people and more than 6000 people injured.
What do I remember...those many years ago? I remember coming back from my lunch break...
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glassmachine:
Callling him a cunt would've been a fantastic idea. You're not just insulting some murdering prick when you say 'raghead' you're showing ignorance and contempt towards a whole culture of people. Which is dickish.
glassmachine:
Sorry buddy, no dice. I'm not letting you have that one at all.
Cunt isn't a derogatory term for a woman, it's a vulgar slang for vagina. While it might be subjectively offensive to some, that's obviously based more on the vulgarity of the word itself than any anti-female connotations some might read into it.
Cunt is a complicated and multi-faceted word that has a close relationship with the intellectual discourse of gender politics and is not universally read as negative, even by the most hardline of feminist writers. In fact as far as I understand it, many women (especially those intellectually concerned with questions of modern womenhood) are quite fond of the word. You might find a few of those women on here, actually.
If you really wanted to make the argument that Cunt is universally offensive and degrading to all women and as bad as a word like 'raghead' or 'sand nigger' or alike you'd have to give me some clear indication that it's widely become a popular shorthand for a negative or contemptuous portrayal of women in all contexts. Which we both know it hasn't.
Words like prick are fairly unproblematic and it's slightly patronizing to suggest that all women need to cotton-wool swaddled when it comes to language and their cunts.
The term Raghead however, and the sincerity with which you used it, can only be interpreted one way and that's as a term of severe contempt and willful ignorance towards muslims of the middle east. That's deliberately offensive to entire culture of people, which is something I'm not personally a fan of.
The fact you chose the word Raghead over Cunt is also significant because regardless of the character of the person you're insulting, it indicates less how you feel about them and more about the whole culture that you perceive them to have come from. Conversely, calling him a cunt would carry none of these frankly racist connotations and unless the person you're referring to was a) a woman or b) a feminist of the particular view that the word Cunt is distasteful (doubtful, hm?) would've made you look like less of a racist.
Get it?
Cunt isn't a derogatory term for a woman, it's a vulgar slang for vagina. While it might be subjectively offensive to some, that's obviously based more on the vulgarity of the word itself than any anti-female connotations some might read into it.
Cunt is a complicated and multi-faceted word that has a close relationship with the intellectual discourse of gender politics and is not universally read as negative, even by the most hardline of feminist writers. In fact as far as I understand it, many women (especially those intellectually concerned with questions of modern womenhood) are quite fond of the word. You might find a few of those women on here, actually.
If you really wanted to make the argument that Cunt is universally offensive and degrading to all women and as bad as a word like 'raghead' or 'sand nigger' or alike you'd have to give me some clear indication that it's widely become a popular shorthand for a negative or contemptuous portrayal of women in all contexts. Which we both know it hasn't.
Words like prick are fairly unproblematic and it's slightly patronizing to suggest that all women need to cotton-wool swaddled when it comes to language and their cunts.
The term Raghead however, and the sincerity with which you used it, can only be interpreted one way and that's as a term of severe contempt and willful ignorance towards muslims of the middle east. That's deliberately offensive to entire culture of people, which is something I'm not personally a fan of.
The fact you chose the word Raghead over Cunt is also significant because regardless of the character of the person you're insulting, it indicates less how you feel about them and more about the whole culture that you perceive them to have come from. Conversely, calling him a cunt would carry none of these frankly racist connotations and unless the person you're referring to was a) a woman or b) a feminist of the particular view that the word Cunt is distasteful (doubtful, hm?) would've made you look like less of a racist.
Get it?
I have to work myself up to going to a job fair tomorrow.
Hanging around a hot sweaty building, surrounded either by smarter, younger people who look happy and vacant, or smelly trolls in vests and bluebird tattoos on their neck. Bugger. I'd rather felate a water bufferlo than go to this thing tomorrow.
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Hanging around a hot sweaty building, surrounded either by smarter, younger people who look happy and vacant, or smelly trolls in vests and bluebird tattoos on their neck. Bugger. I'd rather felate a water bufferlo than go to this thing tomorrow.
Recieved my Dear John letter in the post this morning as...
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givememedicine:
lol <3 ya
For you pleasure, music while you read
OK, haven't been on much recently, and with all the decadence and depression of the last blog, looking at the past, now is the time for the future.
Today I build a wall. Last night, some spasey(?) chav knocked done my front wall, so I had to rebuild it, esp since I'm currently trying to sell my house....
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OK, haven't been on much recently, and with all the decadence and depression of the last blog, looking at the past, now is the time for the future.
Today I build a wall. Last night, some spasey(?) chav knocked done my front wall, so I had to rebuild it, esp since I'm currently trying to sell my house....
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givememedicine:
Sweet! Now I'm jealous that you're doing all that hiking. lol
Good luck on your job interview, love! <3
Good luck on your job interview, love! <3
greatearthbeard:
What kind of a wall?
Good luck on the interview good sir.
Good luck on the interview good sir.
I'm four or five, and I'm watching my great grandfather make ice-cream. He's smoking a cigar and drinking home-made whinberry wine, and telling me he and his father went down the docks at four in the morning to get ice from the ships every day. They then dragged it to their store in the market and made and sold ice-cream. In the house, he wears...
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lil_em:
I can't tell you how happy it makes me to know that you're doing well
Keep up the good work my dear and keep in touch
xx
Keep up the good work my dear and keep in touch
xx
The term cyborg was first created in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline. The idea of a cybernetic organism, something that is both man and machine, is both an attractive and terrifying concept, and consequently, it has featured prominently in Science Fiction. From the Six Million Dollar Man to Robocop, Darth Vader to The Terminator, and the Cybermen to the Cylons, the idea of...
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killa_:
are you being sarcastic about the leopard print?? 
dryad:
Your dream is a little more disturbing.
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geekgoddess:
wat?
killa_:
he didn't invent it - I think he got the idea from some other guy before him. But he was an astronomer - and got put on house arrsest for saying that we reolved around the sun, and not the other way around - until the catholic church forgave him in 1990!!! Obvioulsy he died long long before then.
But according to the patent adverts - the hoover was invented by a cleaning person with a fan and a pillow case! The first one to market it properly, and it's yours!
That video was awesome - you can see jupiter spinning!!! I loved it - thank you.
But according to the patent adverts - the hoover was invented by a cleaning person with a fan and a pillow case! The first one to market it properly, and it's yours!
That video was awesome - you can see jupiter spinning!!! I loved it - thank you.
You just know bad things are happening in the bathroom...
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geekgoddess:
hehe. thanks. My son is feeling a bit better today. so thats good.
givememedicine:
haha bad things always happen in the bathroom
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geekgoddess:
ya my son is the best thing that has ever happened to me. He is a blast!! looks like you have also cheered up a wee bit
geekgoddess:
unleash the beast!!!!
or erm...i guess geek in my case
or erm...i guess geek in my case
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lembow:
I wish I was as good at DIY as you obviously are.Nice work there.Tiling can be a frustrating & tricky job when attempting for the first time.Buying mould free silicon for bathrooms but the mould still attacks & impregnates the silicon.This often puzzles me!
You've captured some nice views there.I probably should know where sugar loaf mountain is!
I visited North Wales about 2 years ago.I got to visit Offa's Dyke National Trail.Some really spectacular views when you eventually slog your way up.VIZ tips for the day-take a warm coat with you even in the summer.It's fucking freezing up there!
You've captured some nice views there.I probably should know where sugar loaf mountain is!
I visited North Wales about 2 years ago.I got to visit Offa's Dyke National Trail.Some really spectacular views when you eventually slog your way up.VIZ tips for the day-take a warm coat with you even in the summer.It's fucking freezing up there!
You were correct about that Blade Runner film quote.One of my fav films.
I need to watch Withnail and I again soon.Brilliant clip!
greatearthbeard:
I like the pics, I'm buying a house/flat soonish, want to do some work on it
Is the seaweed net finished yet?
Is the seaweed net finished yet?