yeah, it’s okay, but look at how everybody is saying that those words ain’t no words. pfff. to bad p11 is not around anymore, it would’ve been so total fun to piss him off again. lol.
yeah, the conversations generally kiss ass or just suck ass. a lot of the old crowd don’t comment as much or are gone. there are good reasons for that. your good trouble, they just can’t handle your shit. i’m getting some free time this quarter, i might drop a few comments.
seen the o’reilly thing and took a quick look at the comments.
i was wondering.
there’s extremely negative comments as well as extremely positive. you know, those suck-up horse rider comments.
tried to somehow get an objective kind of view on things. kinda like this:
|’negative’|———-| ‘normal’ |———-|’positive’|
you know, some sort of spectrum or whatever. negative comments are as far away from “normal comments” as positive comments.
so, it’s a question about extremes, i guess. is one better than the other?
ahem, just so you know… Marina hasn’t fixed it (oops!) so you can’t be seen on the Recent Posts list, like it was before.
… just sayin’ – in case you don’t want everyone to see you and Buzzword behaving like closet queens – heh heh! Life of Illusion?
@ buzzword – crying to Marina like you did, didn’t work out so well, huh? Yes, I know what you did…
I’ve had my eyes on this since the very beginning – and so have many others.
from a general, ethical, humane point of view this is just sad.
however, objectively, from a linguistic point of view this should be interesting. she’s five years old. usually, the linguistic development is finished at the age of six, given of course that there was “normal” language input. there was this case, i don’t know when it happened, that a 13 year old girl was found in a basement, she had had no input language-wise, she never really learned to talk. they said the … well, threshold of being able to learn language is at about 12, 13 years of age. that being said — i wonder if she’ll learn to use language as other people are able to use it. hopefully so.
in the news they said that she’s on a mental level of a 2-year-old. i wonder if that is really the case, or if they link intelligence and language in a casual, simplified or even inappropriate way.
any thoughts on that?
I am so fucking pissed off with the fuckiing stupid people that I ccan’t even type straight nor spell correctllly!!!! It’s so bloody embarrassing to be associated with the species. Now I know what the meaning of the words of “Ignorance is bliss”.
Im so tired of carrying the weight of non-thankful idiots. Why do I bother? What is it worth? Why should I put my life on the line for these ungrateful souls that are only in for them selfs, as they feed upon materialism.
If I continue to hang around idiots, will I become one? I feel my mental thoughts degrading over time.
whiff.. Im going to bed now… try to sleep on it… Damn I should have purchased a beer so I could sleep better.
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uh. what’s with the edit function? who the hell needs that? i mean, you’d think that people think about what they’re going to write, so why change it afterwards. pfffffff.
that’s probably some give-and-take thing from that russian chick running this site. finally a forum, but edit comes back.
nothing does change, nothing. i thought the forums might be interesting but everybody just wants to play word games. which just bores the fuck out of me. tried starting up a discussion about language and culture but for the most part nobody gives a shit.
christmas was good. we keep it simple. it is challenging raising kids in such a consumer driven culture, advertisers start targeting kids still in the uterus. catching shit from people because we tell our kids that santa isn’t real.
visiting my in-laws wasn’t bad, the whole family is basically the exact opposite of me politically, religiously, etc. i keep my mouth shut, their not interested in having an informed discussion anyway. they either think he’s the antichrist, a terrorist, or socialist. or all three.
i’m not doing much work for the museum anymore. i’m starting to tutor people at school though. schedule is more convenient and helps me keep what i’ve studied fresh. next quarter i’m taking abnormal psychology, woo hoo! got damn good grades last quarter, me and this other guy compete, makes it more fun, it pisses some off. the medical classes are really interesting, but i really wish i was back in anthropology. gotta pay the bills though.
well, i’m sitting pretty much naked on that rock, so it’s kinda hard.
i’m not much of a people person, let alone a family guy. kinda like the exact opposite of my mom. she gets along with everybody and everybody gets along with her. might be different for me b/c i don’t feel the need to get along with every living creature on earth. but, christmas time means family time. it’s always cool when my uncle is there, he’s fucking funny. even my cousin was there this year, hadn’t seen him in a long time, last three years he had to work. he’s a cook, so i asked him about his work, i was curious because i read “kitchen confidential” by that bourdain dude. it’s more or less as he described it. 12 hours of work per day, six days a week. hard job. i mean, shit, imagine 300 people per day eating there, and there’s maybe four groups of 15 persons each — and everyone wants something different, perhaps even w/ appetizers and shit. he said, you got to learn to not take anything personal in there. yeah, that was interesting.
like every year, i had to eat a lot. goddamnit. my mom always cooks like she expects 50 persons to show up or something.
i guess santa claus is part of our culture(s), huh? i guess people expect other people to do the santa thing till the kids reach a certain age.
cool to hear about the job you’re gonna do. abnormal psychology. hm. that should be interesting. my favorite book by foucault is, “abnormal.” that’s not quite what your class is gonna be about, i guess, but it reminded me of that. he wrote a lot of things around the subject. “mental illness and psychology”, “madness and civilization”, “the birth of the clinic”, “psychiatric power”, and a lot of other stuff. don’t know if that is of any interest to you.
ah, the forums. i’m kinda glad they’re there. imagine people would play those word games in the lessons. which they did before. that was fucking annoying, man. i do think that, in time, people will start discussions on more serious subjects.
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naked on a rock. not a good place to be, especially if the light is waning.
bourdain, yeah. i’ve seen his show, “no reservations” and have read his blog. he’s cool and damn funny. i’d like a job like that.
hmm foucalt, i should read up on him before the class starts. the stuff you mentioned does sound interesting. i have a love hate relationship with psychology. looking forward to the class, but i hear the instructor can be an ass pain. oddly appropriate for a class in abnormal psychology.
the forums, my language and culture discussion has a couple people that comment, which i appreciate. i try and keep it related to… language and culture. you know, like how instructors try to guide the class discussion. i try and bring up questions and subjects that might stimulate conversation. see where it goes. your welcome to add some shit.
don’t exactly know what to do with the moderator status. if i attempt to do anything i don’t want marina or a t.a. slapping my wrist and making me look like a fuckwit. but the forums do need some organization to it. i’ve been watching just to see what patterns emerge and then may recommend some form of order. there ought to be a forum called, “wordplay” or something to manage all the games people play. anyway…
what the hell are the details of your current state? are you resting your nakedness upon a cold pokey rock? i mean aside from knowing that you were a student in linguistics you could be a gutter whore, living in a box, in a puddle, of piss, next to right wing political headquarters. hmm, naked on a rock would be preferable.
asking some potentially personal questions, if you prefer, email me dude.
thanks for the link you sent me. “the wrestler” is a song for a movie (”the wrestler”, duh), mickey rourke and jet li are gonna be in it. damn! i’m fucking excited and curious!
i’v decided to lay low for awhile, too much bullshit and chatter going on in the comments. ought to change in a few months or so. anyone need to connect with me try my other accounts. peaceful days.
i don’t know for sure but i probably won’t be posting on here much anymore, if at all. at least for the time being or something.
so, yeah, get back to me via email, or maybe there’s another public place / forum.
i used the phrase, “not to mention” and realized it’s seemingly contradictory meaning. it is an example of paralipsis, or declaring what will not be referred to and thereby referring to it. i realized its a type of phrase that really annoys me, “it is pointless for me to mention what an ass alex is.” since this seems to be an ancient method of arguing i wondered if it is used in either of your native languages as well?
yeah, we got expressions like that, too. umm. one of them translates to “[in order to] not say …”, or “[in order] not to say” or something. i guess there’s some english equivalent to that, probably “even”, as in: “that was cool, even great!” it’s used like: “that was cool, [in order] not to say great!” dude, that’s really hard to explain / translate.
that was one thing. “not to mention” is translated as “geschweige”, “ganz zu schweigen von”, or “geschweige denn”. now, in all three translations there’s some form of “schweigen”. as a verb, it means, “to remain/be/keep silent”, as a noun, “silence”. i think “geschweige denn” could also be translated as “let alone.” “ganz zu schweigen von” i’d translate as, “to remain entirely silent of …”
uh, yeah. hope that makes any sense to you.
as for russian, uh, i’ll take a look into my dictionary, it’s … around here … somewhere. maybe i can come up w/ something.
yeah, thats what i was talking about. i wondered if this type of phrase was common across languages. so, german speakers use it to create some distance between them and a subject. as in, the speaker anticipates the response of the audience and sides with them, disassociating themselves from the statement they make. and then the speaker states it. as in, “what i’m about to say is rude and unnecessary, obama is part nigger” yeah that annoys me, i shouldn’t admit it but i probably say shit like that.
alright, so i finally found my old russian-german dictionary. yes, they have something like that, too:
“не говоря уже.” i kinda kicked myself because that wasn’t too hard. anyway:
не — ‘not’;
говоря, from either говор (noun) — ’speech’, ‘talk’, etc. or, more likely, говоритъ (verb) — ’speak’, ‘talk’.
уже — ‘already’, ‘yet’.
though somehow i felt like there should be a preposition, that kinda confuses me. the preposition for “about” in “talk about” is “o”. (говoритъ o …).
yeah, well. so you got a negative in conjunction with “talk” in there.
alex, ya know something bothers me about rosiecheeks. 1. her youtube page hasn’t been signed into in about a year. 2. when i check her comments in dashboard, her language drifts away from the slang she originally began posting in. 3. she seems to have a very good rapport with everyone, something that usually takes more time than two days.
she/he may be someone else that has been here before. even though her posts don’t include any other nicknames. anyways, just thought i’d inform you of my suspicion.
yeah, i don’t know what to make of it. first, they’re all giving her shit for her word request, “hate speech” and all, then they’re friendly as hell. hm.
what’s with the homophobia around here?
i like that kungfu chick.
and why is it that people don’t answer simple yes or no questions? ah, fuck it.
what are you gay!? just kidding. can’t find the kungfu chick. checked dashboard for kungfu, kungfu86, and kungfu 86 can’t find her i’ll look on the pages.
this rosiecheeks is one of us i think, her rapport is a giveaway i think. there are clues, she has switched genders a couple times, has used french with competency. i’ve been using multiple dashboards to compare users and their posting patterns. i kinda like the challenge.
james and foxbow switched identities, think with the help of captain jack. rrr not to long ago posted a comment searching for responses and got none. don’t think its mij, he’s busy with his videos and aggravating you. rosiecheeks ended a comment with the name “bob” and a green toothy smiley. but i think she mistaking che for bob. che is immediately became suspicious. i thought it could have been melikadothechacha, don’t know really. kinda pisses me off, don’t like this kind of manipulation.
i wonder if marina has noticed rosiecheeks peculiar behavior.
ah, as for your music question below (i somehow missed that, noticed yesterday cause i was scrolling down the page.), i guess a lot of the stuff i’ve been listening to was introduced to me by friends, acquaintances, and tv music stations such as mtv, viva, or vh1. i’m not sure about springsteen. i think the first time i heard / saw him was on mtv. “human touch.” i know that that was the first album i bought. probably around 91/92? also, there was this dude in my class, frank. he’d been playing guitar, he and his dad were both springsteen fans (springsteen played in east berlin in 88 or something, they were there). so, i had an ally, if you want to put it that way. yeah, you’re right, he wasn’t popular among people around my age, most of them didn’t know him anyway. our class made this school trip to the czech republic, uh, in … don’t know, must’ve been around 91 or 92, too. me and frank bought springsteen’s mtv unplugged album there. yeah.
i think the first time i heard about tom waits was on mtv, too. probably “hold on.” hm.
which reminds me! do you know domino? with mickey rourke, keira knightley, lucy liu, christopher walken … — and tom wait’s got a little part in it, too.
no, i have not seen the movie, “domino”. maybe get it this weekend. the wardrobe thing. well they mccain/palin have been identifying themselves with the working class and she’s always going on about being a hockey mom and all that bullshit, they criticize the liberals for being elitist. and so here is palin walking around in $150,000 worth of clothing. kinda distances herself from the rest of the working class she is trying to identify with. frankly the wardrobe thing is the least of the numerous things that aggravate me about mccain/palin. you should check out her interview with katie couric, she makes a comment that when “putin rears his head its in alaska air space” laughed my ass off. i have the image of a giant putin head peering over the horizon at alaska and then laughing at palin. she is bush with boobs.
well … if i recall correctly, it hasn’t always been that way on here that many people link to a lot of youtube stuff, right? and, somehow, gradually, that has changed. and a lot of people have youtube accounts, or _use_ them respectively. i didn’t do much on youtube till a while ago, i eventually registered to be able to view every video, those that were flagged, too. that’s all. that’s why i registered there. i didn’t have any friend invites, i didn’t comment on videos, i didn’t comment on channels etc.
now, most regulars on here have a youtube account and they use them. to send each other private messages or things like that.
so, all of a sudden, people started talking both on here and on youtube to each other. take a look at my friends list over there, or at buzzword’s, or mijj’s, or foxbow’s. we all have people in there who’re on this site. so … there is some sort of youtube network with all those people from here.
busy with school work, family, keeping up with news and oh yeah that job i have that i ignore. i’m trying to stay in the top 5% of the class to compete for early slots into the program. i’ve gotten one “b” so far. i post short comments here and there, i must be missing you. this palin chick is like bush with boobs, fucking joke.
snicker… how can the public even take this guy seriously? i would think this would damage is reputation as a serious politician. and what is with the ukraine casting a gay guys as putin and yanukovych?
u96 yeah have heard of them, haven’t listened much though. listening now. so much music. its always interesting to know how and when someone is introduced to music genres. like the way one meets people. sometimes it is through other people and sometimes its just accident. i gave up using music to judge people or argue what is “good” music. when i was fresh out of high school i was listening to lots of americana stuff, jazz, world beat, rock but then ran into this goth prince and then through him a punk/goth/rivet head who introduced me to a lot of stuff and then a whole fucking fucked up universe sucked me in. the goth prince is now a muslim, married to a somali, popping out lots of little ones in… toronto i think. he wears a turban and robes. i smile cause i can still recall the goth tribal tattoos he still has underneath. oh memories. so like how has some of your music been introduced to you? a lot of the kids i knew would never listen or admit to listening to certain types of music. no one would’ve admitted to listening to sprinsteen, but they would tolerate tom waits.
front page of the local newspaper. big picture of these guys celebrating and cheering along a busy road. they have cardboard signs and their yelling. the one dude, front and center has taken off his shirt and has written the word “honk” on his chest. except its written upside down and backward. the dude has looked down and written it on his chest so he could read it.
Naughty hotforwords. Surely she should know how to pronounce the word “often”. It has a ‘t’ in it and as a result it should be pronounced. Surely a Philologist should understand linguistics. I ought to spank you for that.
notice what details marina does not mention about her character and opinions. and then how one so eagerly fill in these blanks with their own traits and opinions. i’ve done it. her position on grammar surprised me. take sir frued the psychologist knight, i’ve never seen a charge led with such pompous arrogance. kinda reminded me of that professor dude from way back. looking at who comes on so strong, how they change, who remain, what norms are being established, what descent is tolerated, valued. cool stuff. sir frued i expect needed to attack some dragons to prove his honer and skill. he ought to reread his psychology texts.
an internet forum is in a few ways different from “real life”, i guess. maybe some people are used to step into a room and automatically dominate others, just by their presence. much like a scholar, i guess, or some executive in a company. that’s way different in here. people are sort of equal, they don’t know how things are around a particular forum, or who the participants are. so they’ll have to try to dominate others with what they’re saying, mentioning who they are, what they’re doing, what they achieved, whatever.
or am i too far off?
dude. being 30 sucks. for real. kinda glad i’m back home now from my mom’s. some family there, some acquaintances, lots of food. yeah. never celebrated any birthdays. what’s the point, anyway? why would someone congratulate me for something that i didn’t do? they ought to congratulate my parents or something.
no not too far off at all. i agree with you. birthdays too. it seems to me that these celebrations that are supposedly all about you are actually just a reason for everyone else to have fun. your just an excuse. i find myself responsible for making everyone else comfortable. although home cooking is greatly appreciated.
alx, i may just be paranoid. but if one was really sadistic, into switching identities, manipulating people and seeking attention… it would be clever to assume a role that opposed the others. such as the female ex of an existing antagonistic role. this new role would interest men, provoke their sympathies, and provide a plot for the puppet master for further manipulative entertainment. imagine the joy given to a sick shit, conducting the drama between two fictional roles and watching everyone here flock to defend the victim, when the victim is the perp. but i’ve been fucked with before so it might just be me being overly cautious.
no, i had the same thoughts. this is weird anyway. why would some ex-wife who hates her husband follow him on whatever sites he’s on. doesn’t make any sense to me. i think it’s just someone trolling around, not worth paying attention to. imagine, though, it was real. that’d be weirder than someone just pretending things, wouldn’t it?
ha, i’ve watched that anthony guy cook on television. he’s fucking funny. i remember one when he was in iceland or someplace, complaining that he was freezing his nuts off.
nothing really bad out where i live. but i was at the hospital today and half of columbus still has power out. the rumor is that all the crews have left to go to texas to rebuild their grid. i think six have died due to trees falling on them. one was inside their house which sucks, but the dudes that are outside standing under a tree in 60 mph winds… stoopid.
the hospital thing… yeah. i used to hate hospitals, the one i’m doing rounds is located in an area of columbus known as the bottoms, cause it used to always flood. of course it is a poor neighborhood with all the associated problems. i was on the elevator and over heard this, “man, shot… and by someone on his own crew, thats not cool!”
last quarter rounds i met several people dying, old dude with lung cancer, young guy with aids/hiv… today met a woman diagnosed with a brain tumor, just removed, she wants to live to see her daughter graduate in june. young woman recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis fell and is hoping like hell to feel her legs and maybe walk. many more.
most of the stuff i do is fucking boring. i mean i’m an academic, i like the scholarly shit. and i am an asshole, selfish, arrogant, etc… so why in fuck am i here? money, now ain’t that shitty.
but in the midst of this experience i feel like i’m surrendering, fears, self, preconceptions, all that. today i was work with the young girl with m.s., she ain’t pretty, nasty gray teeth, needs a bath. there was six of us holding her up, i’m holding her up in front, a few in back are squeezing her ass to see if she is moving any muscles at all, others are holding her knees in place, she’s saying, “nothing, nothing, can’t feel anything.” and a therapist says, “i think your moving a little!” and the girl says “really!” and that means everything, i’m looking into her eyes and she’s beautiful.
in those moments i’ve forgotten my name, my identity, my arrogance.
the woman with the brain tumor. she wants this type of cancer therapy that costs a lot. someone rich could afford it, but it’s so expensive that the insurance doesn’t want to cover it. and she tells her husband, she doesn’t care, go in debt, loose the house car whatever, they can’t take her kids away or her husband. and i think what is wrong with this fucking country. and i want to change things, i want to give this woman and her family a day in june.
so i’m in this place that i hate, dealing with shit that makes me uncomfortable, disease, death, the sick, but the responsibility i have negates all that shit, demands some humanity. and i become more human.
Thanks for rattling my cage. Yeah, my major is all done and I’m set to graduate in January, but I”m so swamped with finishing out my electives (read: unfamiliar subjects I barely care about) that I haven’t tried opening a single HFW lesson in weeks. Plus, I was really getting tired of a couple members who posted way too much to actually have a mortal existence and who also seemed unclear on the concept of live and let live, if you know what I mean and I think that you probably do. Since I could spend my entire life wading through the raw sewage of ridiculous comments while only enjoying a couple people’s replies, it suddenly became clear that it was time I gave it a rest for awhile.
I hope I didn’t miss anything, like being named teacher’s pet or something. Not that Marina has a shortage of eligible students, lol. Yeah, I miss the interaction, but it’s refreshing to deal with playground bullies in the flesh for a change. No quarter asked or given…
At least I get some recognition as an “advanced student” in my T’ai Chi Gung class. The instructor makes me lead the class sometimes. Go figure. Must’ve been the 7 semesters of Judo I took back in the autumn of my youth, which reminds me: has aLx suffered maximum zenith overcrossing yet? He gets all pissed off at me whenever I try to wish him a happy Bday, like time passage was my invention or something.
School is such a burn. I’m way behind on my reading; it puts me to sleep immediately. I always thought that was what it was for in the first place, but what the hell…. Back to the quest for knowledge
on the last stretch then, congratulations. i got all my electives out of the way first. actually i didn’t know what i wanted so i had to get several majors out of the way first as well.
no, you haven’t missed anything. at least i don’t think so, i don’t have time either. read my above comment for further detail. i just look for avatars that i recognize, make that avatars i care to keep up with, keep in touch.
the martial arts thing, thats cool. interests me a little, i need a discipline, temper my hostility. body needs a practice to keep in shape.
i forgot about aLx’s day of reckoning. hey aLx you old yet?!
lots of reading, hard to get around that. get a good nights sleep, select a time when your mind is fully fueled and take breaks, stay fresh, walk with the idea and do some deep thinking. connect what you read to other concepts and integrate it into a larger construct. best way to retain info. takes longer though.
i’ve a got a problem with short term memory, so everything i study has to be done this way or i forget.
i’m going to think of way for you to get my email without posting it anywhere… i know, if i provide a link to a youtube video with a current comment of mine you would recognize, you can follow it back to my youtube page and then leave a message there and i’ll send you back my email or you can just contact me there. sound complicated enough?
Maybe I should consider myself lucky my birthday is the 24th, third day of the cusp. That makes me a crosseyed Virgo-Libra halfbreed. Shit. Goddamn Libras! Can’t make a decision to save our own necks! The world’s just too fucking little, aLx. Seconds are ticking away….. Fuel up the ambulance! Check the tire pressure and charge the defibrillator!
Okay, that sounds complicated enough, just like all the release forms and petition to graduate crap already on my plate. But what the hell. All I have to do now is get your link, then remember to check yet another site for messages (throw it onto the stack of campus email, assignments, group projects, admin stuff, yahoo mail from the fambly, student loan contract, etc, & hope it floats to the top again after I get some sleep). But it just might work. No use mentioning it unless you’re ready to give it a go I guess. Godspeed, Buzz. Talk to you soon. Thanks for replying.
yeah, penn has lived around this pennsylvania area and i’m guessing he’s out in the cali area now. this road trip however is from pittsburgh pa. to california pa. a much shorter trip than to california state.
this stokesjrj1 is a pain in the ass. i don’t understand his random attempts to provoke responses and his alternating nicks. dude must be lonely and aggravated.
yeah. i’ve never paid much attention to him, though you unfortunately can’t ignore his posts when he’s posting the same thing a hundred times.
what i also noticed … people sometimes state what they’re doing or have been doing. nothing wrong with that per se but it looks weird when posted without any reason, without any connection to anything. like, yeah, i just brushed my teeth and now i’m gonna go to bed … i just got up and had this dream about my dead guinea pig. this stuff comes out of the blue, and i find myself reading this and thinking: … and?
marina,
sorry for posting fourth level replies. i just got to get used to it, uh, yeah, got to answer on the lesson page i guess, not on the dashboard. damn.
something funny today.
the russian ambassador in germany called a press conference to explain the russian point of view and how they see things and all. he complained that all you can see in the press are russian tanks.
and then he said something like, “… that the [american] tactics /policy / poltics of ‘he’s a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch’ won’t work out even anymore.”
lol. he really said that.
yeah, georgia, some very uncool shit going on over here.
georgia as part of the west and nato and all gets support from its “allies”, first and foremost, the u.s.
i don’t really know what position exactly germany takes. it’s part of nato and everything. nato said that the recognition of abkhasia and south ossetia by russia as independent states is not right, it violates international law, it violates u.n. resolutions. this is kinda funny. the u.s. didn’t give a shit about the u.n. and its resolutions (iraq).
so, that’s what’s upsetting them right now. russia, on the other hand, asks why recognizing s.o. and abkhasia as independent states is wrong, but having recognized kosovo as an independent state is right. and this is a very good question. they got a point.
i just hope that germany will try to remain more or less in the middle, trying to negotiate or whatever. leaning too far towards the u.s. is not good. germany needs russia. they probably need the u.s., too, but in my opinion it’s more important to establish and maintain good relations with russia.
ah, a good source of what’s going on is russia today. they got an interview with pat buchanan as well.
humm. this is not good, man. anyway, i strongly recommend russiatoday. check it out.
by the way, i was browsing through their videos, went a few months back. and then i was like, wtf?! they did an interview with m. lol. now that’s funny right there! you subscribe to a news channel and get hfw. i was like, what the hell, that’s a bit disturbing, ain’t it.
thanks for the info, will check them out. one reason hitman checked in was because i was asking him some questions about the situation on his youtube page. i read a lot of news but it really helps to have contacts abroad. people over here seem to be taking the simplest approach, “russia bad” people can be so fucking ignorant. i wish i could discuss it more on the other pages but it would just turn ugly.
so although no official word, the u.s. flew into pakistan dropped some special forces, killed 20 or so people and then flew out again. i’ve checked the global guide to diplomatic decorum and it states that any russian citizen can now bitch slap any u.s. representative that opens his or her mouth.
oh, yeah. i see what you mean. dumb story, made no sense. he went from soft core porn to epic poem. i really wish these guys would keep their marina fantasies private. unfortunately these fantasies serve as their muse for poetry… bad results. the other thing that annoys me is that because we’re not dancing around in leotards playing lutes and serenading marina… we get shit. because we speak honestly which means not going along with everyone or contradicting marina at times… we get shit. well, actually you get a lot more shit than me.
then again, this forum is a public dialogue in which all the participants have an interest in directing to match expectations. groups of common expectations form, then they maintain dialogues that satisfy there mutual interests and values. when an individual or group interferes with their influence upon the forums progress then they take defensive posturing. when i comment, “thats fucking stupid!” i am trying to make corrections and impose my own expectations for participant performance. if i get everyone behaving the way i want i feel more secure and satisfied. it becomes my forum. thing is its marina’s forum. so, i guess i’ll go on doing what i’m doing and if marina wants to correct the progress then she can kick me in the ass and say “what the fuck!?”. and i won’t flip out like some kind of insulted lover. i’d say, “what the fuck?, what the fuck!?” anyway… dumb ass poem.
anyway…. what is with this cold war all over again bullshit? people over here are fucking nuts. i can’t believe all this political posturing is happening just because of the georgia conflict, i mean someone has to slow this whole process down. people have to cool off, fuck i’m just annoyed personally and globally.
i couldn’t take the whole love note thing seriously, so i thought i’d have some fun. i submitted a love note to prospero811, simply stating, “prospero811 i fucking love you man, buzzword” dude, that doesn’t mean i’m gay does it?
by the way, i love roadthingie’s reply. do people really think of me as being full of bitterness, cynicism, nihilism, or whatever? should i be worried? however, it made me grin.
roadrunrnch
Just write her a really nice hate letter. It could be a turn on ?
Women love men that treat them like crap. You just never know?
You could win, she said it is arbitrary who wins.
Spin a long drawn out venomous diatribe of hate of which there is no equal.
Make Her sleep with the light on. You could you it.
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i don’t get it. you get so much shit. i think it has a lot to do with the personalities doing the shoveling. they don’t like your independence and the recognition you get. you stated it well, you aren’t part of “we” some, most i’d say appreciate it, others think its a threat. i’m telling great opportunities to observe male behavior patterns.
ah, the links. yeah, checked them out. you were right — i was very amused.
checked the trailer to that movie, too. i’m not really a comic freak. i seen a lot of movies based on comics, though. probably even movies of which i didn’t know they’re based on a comic. i liked x-men, hellboy, aeon flux, batman … not sure though if aeon flux or hellboy are comic characters? hm. what about sin city? of course, batman, spiderman … uh … yeah. ah! beavis and butthead! still got some beavis and butthead comics somewhere that i bought in 95/96 in kentucky! uh, that is, i hope i still have them.
yeah, all comic books except aeon flux. that one started out on mtv, they had a late night animation show. sin city, spawn, yep. spawn? the popularity of comic books is kind of unique to the u.s. although the most celebrated writer is british, alan moore he also did v for vendetta. hell boy, check out mike mignola’s artwork . and the work of frank miller. oh, better stop going to go all out fanboy on you.
roadrunrnch replied on August 21st, 2008 6:28 pm:
Is it just me but ever see buzzword and Marina at the same party.
I just saying, only one person can post inside a 2nd reply.
god, i love that dashboard and the search function.
ha! he’s thinks there’s a conspiracy. check out his reply on my high top fade post on pigtails. “who is this really? buzzy marina koba??? dude, lovin’ this.
yeah, which brings me back to the koba question. dude, this is really fucked up. wikipedia says, well, some island or the stalin thing. we can rule out stalin, i guess, as well as the fucking island. search for “коба” in google. do an image search. you’ll see that this word actually exists. you’ll see mountains, and caves, and cats, and dogs, all kinds of shit. but there is nothing that connects these things. this is really getting on my nerves. i hate things like that. “коба” is not in the dictionary. i found a german — polish dictionary online, well, needless to say, no koba. a lot of words starting with “kobacie-” though which have all to do with female-. wrote an email to a woman i know, she’s from poland. i doubt that she’ll be able to tell me something. damn, how i hate things like that.
yeah, marina is being a tease. she never said she would provide the answer. but i kinda assumed, she would explain. but i won’t satisfy her shallow attempt to acquire more attention, i’m ignoring her.
damnit marina, you ass pain, what the fuck does koba mean!
chomsky and putin discussing politics, yeah, that’d be nice. i picked putin because i think he’s one of the most intelligent people around. his career, development, is really impressive. so is chomsky’s, and his work, respectively. chomsky’s facts and points and arguments vs. putins point of view and rhetoric … yeah … they might even find some things they agree on.
umm, did you put comments with a certain amount of links on moderation due to the spam thing a few days ago? b/c one of my comments is awaiting moderation …
no. my dream weekend is one involving julia bond, christina ricci, noam chomsky, and vladimir putin. now, don’t ask me how all this goes together, but that’d be one hell of a weekend. it’s all in there: pr0n, art, linguistics, and politics
hm. kinda awkward that he’s dragging marina into this. what’s he trying to do? establishing some weird “sides” and trying to make her take one of them or something? what’s this “for the love of mike” stuff anyway? i don’t really get it.
yeah, he’s a little pipe bomb ain’t he. he must just read our comments and let the aggression build up until “poo!” i just posted a response that should placate him, harhar.
also, while i’m on the subject of smiley faces and comic books. marina mentioned the rorschach test. there is a comic book character called rorschach, he’s pretty fucked up. the comic book is the watchmen a book by alan moore. alan moore is fucking cool all by himself. the book was pretty significant in comic book circles, pretty cool story line. kinda asks, are these people walking around in costumes fucked up, or is it the world. i think you’d like it. the smiley face is a reoccurring symbol during the story line. they’ve made a movie here are some links. the movie link may take some time to load.
ah, don’t remind me of university and studying better not talk about it.
well, i don’t know. young men are most often attracted to older women. i read once that a man’s sexual peak or whatever is when he’s around 20 and a woman’s when she’s around 30. never researched stuff like that, though. just read it years ago in some newspaper or something.
yeah, as you get older you may be attracted to younger women. maybe because everyone is attracted to youthfulness or something, to skin without wrinkles. to natural things like no boob job (cause you’re not really like, “whoa! tits! yeah! i want em big, as big as possible!” anymore [plus, you do see it, compare her pic in that nickname lesson to now ... nothing wrong with that but she didn't look worse before]) , not to mastoptosis (ha! i just looked that up! medical term), and all that.
as for now, i’m not interested in dating anyone. don’t know. don’t wanna go through all that getting to know shit and “what are we gonna do today besides screwing around”, you know, nah. what i noticed, and that’s not really a great surprise, is that the tolerance range gets bigger. they don’t have to weigh 120 lbs at the most or something. age range, well, it gets bigger, too. +/- 7 years or so. wasn’t that big when i was younger.
yeah, nin, if you like “the slip”, they got another album available for free download: “ghost I”.
I just spent the whole night last night and this morning removing my contact email addresses from this website… someone thought it was cute to sign up one of my email addresses to this website yesterday morning which resulted in my email box getting 1,000 messages in about 5 minutes! They added my email address to this website: Sp am Za (dot) com (remove the spaces) and change the dot com…
I will remove this link shortly… as I don’t want to promote them…. but a really “dicky” (is that a word?) move.
“Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access / on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at AppStuff Port 80″
maybe it was a crawler / robot that picked up your address? you could’ve written it as nospam [at] mysite [dot] com. a lot of people do that for those reasons, you know, to not land in any of these spam databases. one of my email addresses that i mostly use for signups at various sites is noreply.noanswer@gmail.com … now, i don’t check this account very often. maybe like once every two months. i don’t care if there are like 2000 spam mails. never got any, though.
It looks like they just killed the site.. it was a site that you put an email address in and it signs that address up to literally a 1000 newsletters on the web immediately.
My email address was not farmed… my server actually hides my email addresses behind code that is not visible to crawlers.
So this was literally a person choosing that one email address as a joke to mess with me.
Oh well.. I was able to use email as a form of communication up until now… now it’s forms moving forward… not as convenient… but oh well.
Regarding email addresses… I do something a little different.. I actually have email addresses that are created on the fly when I sign up to websites.. that way I know when someone has sold an email address of mine to spammers. And once one of the throwaway addresses gets sold.. I can kill it.
I heard of high tech sweat shops that have people just visiting sites to get email addresses. Mostly its in some cities in China. I have heard of a few in Chile, South America. It might not be someone playing a joke. I’ve been hit twice. Im surprised you just got notice.
Also I notice a few of the blogs you visit seem suspicious to me. The call them spam blogs or something,
actually, i get a lot of spam crap on my website, only as comments to the wordpress stuff, thank god. it’s annoying though (”awaiting moderation, please visit the control panel …”. do you know if there’s something i can do about it? because your entire site is made w/ wp.
no, not the blogspot thing. that’d be cool if we owned blogspot. this one. but it’s not that important, just a little spam is all. like i said, we don’t have many visitors. we need to get this fucking shop going. that is, start getting some stuff to put into it. hmm.
You two have been here so long and contribute so much.. I thought it’d be cool for you.. plus you can search through all the comments.. PLUS you can nested reply ad infinitum (so be sparing with that!)
the email situation, that sucks, such a waste of your time. um… dicky. i’d use “prick”. thanks for the increased access and the trust. the trust part is damn cool.
Marina, Just do what I do. I made an message form page that sends the message to whatever’at’captainjack.ws and forwards to my private email account. I still get weird message from time to time but I can see its a robot or some spammer. Photo verifications can be read by computers, so forms are not 100% fool proof, but they do stop the majority. Second thing is get a Google Mail account. It has a mazing spam protection. I sometimes get about 100 spam message a day. Gmail filtered it all out just fine and only twice has it misfiled an email in the past year or two. I gave up on my dotmac account. I use yahoo for sites that I think might spam me. Yahoo really sucks.
i put the link to the free download of nine inch nails’ “the slip” album on the cash lesson. anyway, just in case you didn’t notice that comment, i put it here. they require an e-mail address where they send you a link to. if you don’t want to do that, let me know, i can e-mail you the tracks if you want. i think it’s a cool album. some of it is slow, instrumental, other stuff on it is not.
got it. will listen later, let you know what i think. like trent. getting ready for finals in the next few weeks. studying. your degree, how far along are you? how far are you going?
huh. your comment about the homework and ugly bastards, in combination with “intelligence is sexy” kinda made me think.
there’s this prof. took a few of her courses. i once went to see her during office hours, just had a tiny, little, not highly intellectual question. i said, you know, sorry for asking this, since it was a question related to a philosophy of language class, not one of hers. she was like, no, don’t worry, i’m always happy when someone comes asking because they actually want to know something, not out of pressure because of a presentation or a seminar paper they have to turn in. so, yeah, she was kinda cool. i went there a lot, asking her tons of questions, she’d even let me borrow books off her and all. and, well, i thought she was kinda sexy, not in a physical kind of way. does that sound weird? she was like in her mid-fourties. really one of the smartest persons i’ve ever met. once, i don’t remember why, i was bitching about economists and lawyers. and she’d listen, and when i was done, she was like, my husband is a lawyer. and i thought, okay, ummm, this is awkward … then she gave a grin and said something like, but i’m a linguist, and i think i have a good influence on him. whoa. dude …
all different sorts of attraction that encourage relationships. she sounds nice and smart, not just academically. it would be good to keep in touch with her. do you usually date women older or younger, doesn’t matter? what do you think women in different life stages offer? i could argue that men tend to be attracted to younger women who could produce offspring. but it also depends on the man’s stage of psychological development and personal achievement.
most of my professors were really guarded and competitive. always pissed me off. lots of grad. students competing for their attention. seems like your university or at least department faculty are more approachable. one or two were nice. one odd women, reminded me of a fat margaret thatcher invited me to go hot tubbing with her and her husband… ew.
that reminds me of a study i just heard about. it seems women on birth control don’t respond to men’s pheromones as usual. women on birth control are attracted to men who share more similarities. whereas it is natural for women to be attracted to men who are genetically more unlike them. to provide diversity to compliment their genes. interesting implications. i was wondering if it also affected other natural hormone based behaviors that influence the way women select and maintain relationships with men. also, what happens if a women quits birth control, does that change her attraction to the man?
hahaha. oh, well.
but i like her picture in the vid. hair looks nice a little darker and the rest is so … natural.
so. as for your homework! what nicknames you got? hehe.
one place i worked for some years, the guys called me medicine man. i was really into wade davis. i had really long hair, piercings with feathers carved in whale bone i got in alaska, primitive rings, bracelets and shit. went native for a while. into some peculiar shit.
after that, asshole. no kidding, my best friends first impressions of me, asshole. i think it had to do with me not putting up with their shit, not intimidated by the goth, industrial, gangsta hardcore stuff they were menacing the locals with.
so much of it is performance art, which is fine, interesting, lots of fun. but i’d call it what it is and people would get pissed. there was this guy who called himself, “satan” he often wore a long black cloak in the middle of august, he made of fun of christians. he hated me. anthropologists can be assholes. so yeah, asshole would be the most common nick for me. i kinda like it better than medicine man.
that was great!
when he pulls it out, it reminded me of two things.
one, a movie.
two, a dialoque, written by heiner müller. roughly translated it goes like that:
one: may i lay my heart at your feet?
two: if you don’t soil my floor.
one: my heart is pure.
two: we will see about that.
one: i can’t get it out.
two: do you want me to help you.
one: if you don’t mind.
two: it would be a pleasure. i can’t get it out, either.
one cries
two: i will operate it out of you. what do i have a pocket knife for. just a second. work, and don’t despair. there we go. but this is a brick. your heart is a brick.
i got a question regarding foreign words in russian. buzzword linked to a great site below, here’s a picture from that site. now, it says “джекпот” there, i was wondering for how long words like have been around in russia. it’s kinda hard to tell if they’ve been around a long time or if they got into russian after, say, 1990. also “бизнес” and the like (not sure about the spelling).
uh, so my question is if they started to just put foreign words into cyrillic just recently. those terms seem to center on business-related or technical things, which would explain it i guess. most anglicisms we got over here are from that field, of course.
i was looking through those photos of moscow as well and was trying to translate the signage. interesting question aLx, the article references the social and economic changes occurring in moscow and i wonder what type of effect it is having on language. if you only knew a russian philologist who could answer your inquiry. but what are the odds?
lol. p11. i had the same thought yesterday that you wrote in one of your comments: what do we agree on?
seems like he disagrees with everything i think about language and all.
well … yeah … this is why i was wondering why she’d ask for “fuck”. usually, women, well-educated women, wouldn’t ask for words that have to do with “profanity”. something else that confused me is her “cheers!” at the end of her comment. so, i don’t know … some russian-speaking person should talk to her in russian, see if she speaks it.
interpretty on August 14th, 2008 6:44 am
F..k, please!
Marina, do you agree it comes from the ancient or is it primitive or traditional England where a person could not have sex unless he or she had consent of the king in those days (unless that person was in the Royal Family). It is said that when anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard they hung on their door while they were having sex. The pacard had F.U.C.K (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it.
Would you agree with this version?
(You and I have much in common – Russian, philologist, 27 year-old, blonde, love words and wordplay. It’s a great idea to create such a website – accept my compliments. Cheers!)
i even looked up how much a flight is. about 300 euro which is … about 450 dollars. well, that’s okay for a flight to moscow i guess. but the rest … damn …
i’ve always been fascinated by the contrasts that exist among night lifers. poor, homeless, junkies, thugs, emergency rooms, night clubbing, celebrity, performance, romance, excitement. threshold between pleasure and pain. the extremes get tiresome after a while. here’s another related song featuring iggy. you got to love iggy.
“after the norman conquest, the normans outlawed the entire saxon language.
In obstinate revolt we’ve been left with all the old german four-letter words like “shit” (to eliminate) and “fuck” (to sow seeds).”
EVIDENTLY CHICKEN TOWN – John Cooper Clarke
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the fucking cops are fucking keen
to fucking keep it fucking clean
the fucking chief’s a fucking swine
who fucking draws a fucking line
at fucking fun and fucking games
the fucking kids he fucking blames
are nowhere to be fucking found
anywhere in chicken town
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the fucking scene is fucking sad
the fucking news is fucking bad
the fucking weed is fucking turf
the fucking speed is fucking surf
the fucking folks are fucking daft
don’t make me fucking laugh
it fucking hurts to look around
everywhere in chicken town
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the fucking train is fucking late
you fucking wait you fucking wait
you’re fucking lost and fucking found
stuck in fucking chicken town
the fucking view is fucking vile
for fucking miles and fucking miles
the fucking babies fucking cry
the fucking flowers fucking die
the fucking food is fucking muck
the fucking drains are fucking fucked
the colour scheme is fucking brown
everywhere in chicken town
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the fucking pubs are fucking dull
the fucking clubs are fucking full
of fucking girls and fucking guys
with fucking murder in their eyes
a fucking bloke is fucking stabbed
waiting for a fucking cab
you fucking stay at fucking home
the fucking neighbors fucking moan
keep the fucking racket down
this is fucking chicken town
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the fucking train is fucking late
you fucking wait you fucking wait
you’re fucking lost and fucking found
stuck in fucking chicken town
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the fucking pies are fucking old
the fucking chips are fucking cold
the fucking beer is fucking flat
the fucking flats have fucking rats
the fucking clocks are fucking wrong
the fucking days are fucking long
it fucking gets you fucking down
evidently chicken town
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I took it off for two reasons… 1: it exposed your place here… 2: I noticed that most searches were for word origins.. so it made it hard for people to find those word origins. Perhaps I can find a search plugin that allows me to prioritize the results.. let me look now..
more like jesus, she’s good. yeah, hopes she sticks around.
whenever i run into women that i think could be cool to hang out with, i end up talking about my wife. i guess its to let them know that i’m in a committed relationship and convey that i’m not interested in hooking up. just so everyone knows from the get go. in the past when a women realizes i’m married i can tell they become suspicious of my intent. so if i put it out there, seems to make em’ feel more comfortable. i’ve watched guys who are married start talking to a girl their obviously attracted to, and when the women brings up his status, the guy admits to it like he’s ashamed to be married. funny thing is i think women on some level find a happily married guy more attractive because he is capable of a healthy relationship. women have a larger portion of their brain committed to human relationships whereas men have a larger portion of their brain committed to sex. no surprise there. there is a whole evolutionary theory explaining that.
hey, i assumed you weren’t religious, too cynical. are you, were you, a faith based organism?
i think i’m an agnostic tending to atheist views, though i find myself defending religious views at times. this is because many non-believers are just stupid and uneducated concerning religion, or being polemic, or trying to put down people who believe. i don’t like that.
i once read that book … it was about the genesis. the author explained every paragraph, you know, history and all. and i thought, man, this really IS complicated and very complex.
i think a major factor is how you got raised, brought up. i think that if you, as a child, go to church, attend sunday school, bible studies … if you do that you’re more likely to adopt religious views.
i didn’t get raised like that. i think my mom kinda believes in … something, not really sure what, my dad does not.
me not really believing is probably to do with growing up in east germany, too.
at the end of the day, no-one knows. nobody can verify or falsify his own or other people’s views, which is not necessary anyway. even the attempt to do that is stupid. it requires that there is an entity of which everyone has the same picture in mind, the same access. like a car. somebody could say, i don’t believe that it has wheels on the other side, the side we can’t see. i could say, i don’t believe that, it just looks like that because it is parked on the side of a little bank. then both of us could go around the car and falsify at least one of those statements.
so, if you say something like, i believe in god, what about you? what could my answer possibly be? i should then say something like, maybe, could be, it’s possible, i don’t know — because i just don’t know what picture, notion, you have in mind when you say “god”, and you will never be able to exactly tell me what your picture looks like. and i will never be capable of seeing the exact picture that you have in mind. and that’s that.
the man is just fucking peculiar. marina ought to make these frames mean something, like, “fucking odd” for some and “cynical” for others. i wish there was a, “stay the fuck out of my frame” button. man, all this hostility is getting in the way of my naturally eloquent and serene state of mind, fucking pisses me off. you ever been described as hostile?
there’s a lot of adjectives and phrases people used to describe me. needless to say, it always depends on who it came from and all. people that don’t know me well may misunderstand my words / actions.
so, yeah, hostile was one of them. hostile, unsocial, ironic, sarcastic, cynical, defeatist, mean, nice, honest, too direct, undiplomatic, like an ice block, somewhat extreme, apathetic, choleric, chaotic, minimalist, complicated, complex, different, dainty, pedantic, analytical, emotional, not emotional, like a robot, unrealistic, a dreamer, an idiot, good, bad, destructive, “he doesn’t really mean it”, naive, indecisive, weird, a loner, helpful, cooperative, incommunicative, reserved, quiet … and on and on … most it is contradictory. i don’t know. and it’s not something i think about a lot.
what’s with all the drummer jokes? makes no fucking sense. this is exactly what i meant. he has nothing to say so he gets a joke book and just randomly posts drummer jokes. pathetic, and he complained about us?
that’s what i was thinking. asking him wouldn’t make any sense i guess. maybe he just wants some sort of reaction, regardless of what that reaction may be like.
friend of mine is a drummer. went to england a few years ago to attend university over there. got two degrees, working on his ph.d. now.
best friend is a drummer in a band out in colorado. musicians get shit, well musicians in certain genres get shit for being stupid. such bullshit. i would like to learn to play something, piano. the whole process, environments and social setting are really attractive to me. probably why i’ve spent so much time hanging out with musicians and bands.
ah, forgot to mention that. no, he’s got philosophy degrees. we always have great discussions about all sorts of things. that is, when he’s over here which doesn’t happen very often. he seems to like philosophers i don’t like so that makes for long and funny discussions. also constantly arguing about literature and the world and whatever.
yeah, sometimes i think i should’ve tried to become a rock star or something. someone playing the guitar. they always get the girls. hehe.
those types of differences among friends really adds to the dynamic of the relationship and conversations. nice to have disagreements that are constructive and beneficial. i enjoy disagreeing with friends, comfortable conflicts.
dude, what the hell. i need to be kept entertained? what is this? fucking pre-school? what’s this place turning into? i don’t need anyone getting suddenly all schoolmasterly and patronizing on my ass.
you talking about the captain providing entertainment for the kids with short attention spans? his explanation was rather condescending but don’t take it personally. besides if it satisfies some people it could be beneficial. so many start bitching about where the hell marina is or just waste time making peculiar comments while waiting for some attention.
alx. I wasn’t referring that you needing to be entertained. It was an idea I had to help keep the kids entertained/distracted until the next video gets put up. Marina can’t take a day off without the natives getting restless and bitchy.
BW, Kids with short attention spans is right on the money! I see a pattern right after the new lesson is posted. They all make comments on the new vid then some do the homework. After that it becomes a free for all. After about 400 comments or so they start flinging poo at each other. The biggest problem is the tolls here watch this go on and like to stir up the flames until there is a big bon fire. They get everyone worked up on senseless bullshit. I think they get their rocks off on building fires. Me personally, I’m getting sick of the drama.
All Im trying to accomplish is finding ways to keep the kiddies from mudding up the classroom and try to reduce some of Marina’s work load. If you guys have any ideas, my door is open.
i don’t know any games and it has not to do w/ distraction and all but …
aLx on April 3rd, 2008 8:46 am
marina,
since some people know about certain linguistic termini, but a lot of others don’t — maybe you would consider doing a glossary? like, what is a morpheme and the like. I think that’d help some people to understand what other people are talking about and then even engage in conversations? like, some time ago I was involved in a conversation about morphemes, I think. some guy asked what morphemes are, I tried to explain it and then he understood the whole thing, or he got an idea of what other people were talking about.
just an idea.
yeah i think that would be constructive. a basic glossary of terms and summary of the methodology could encourage some interesting discussions. i also thought that marina could do a couple videos explaining some basic linguistic concepts. it would get attention, imagine the title, “marina, morpheme addict”.
I tried the free rice. That was great.. I like it.. I had just to quit the game because I was getting addicted to it. The glossary sound great also. I would love to learn more about linguistics and how all this works.
I found a few little flash player games that interest me and I think would interest the above average students. I will see how to incorporate these ideas into her blog and I hope they don’t crash or bog down the system. That last game I posted was just a link so there was not conflict with the server. It was a short lived game only lasting 5 minutes and your done. But it proved to me that some people where interested in word games.
I like both of your ideas because they addressed the more intelligent students in the class. Now that hard part is finding something for the (short attention span/I just learned how to spell my name) type students. I might have to find some of the stupidest games out there and see which ones they like.
This glossary idea, you know of any website that are already doing something like this. I want to not have to waste time reinventing the wheel and if Im lucky find a tool that would make it easy for students to contribute. Having Marina do videos would increase her work load but I don’t see that would need very many videos to get weeks upon weeks of discussions. I think Marina would love to discuss many of her concepts she learned over the years.
If any other ideas pop into your head or you come across any while surfing let me know. You can email me too if you want, ta at captain jack dot (ws). Sorry to get all cryptic but Marina doesn’t have an email shroud plugin installed yet. The spambots are getting smarter now.
actually this is some of the most coherent writing he has done. i’m kinda of proud that we’ve inspired him. unfortunately, i have no idea what a effitist is or what is meant by pseudo head games. head games means deceptive manipulation right? so are we fake deceptive manipulators? unless he means our discussions are superficially intellectual. okay so he isn’t that coherent. i was a little surprised that i, you have irritated him to such a degree. i never really gave him much attention, he never has anything to say that interests me, lots of puns and useless links. most of the time he doesn’t make any sense, ranting or rambling.
she has to make an appearance or they get agitated and start acting out their frustrations. this site provides some damn good psychological observations of male behavior patterns.
yeah, i know. this is why i said it would all be forgotten as soon as the next lesson is up.
male behavior patterns. dude, if we’re really that fucked up … there’s not much hope, huh.
would it be different if it was like the other way round? a guy doing videos and the audience consisting mainly of females? what would that look like?
as for chacha, i was surprised, too. thought something like, what is he talking about. what did i do to upset him. oh well, didn’t really care. though “head games” doesn’t sound too bad. better than child play or something. didn’t he call me cynical? i can live with that all right.
got no clue. i was reviewing the sequence of his comments and he seems to have just switched personalities.
some of these guys start commenting to each other and i can’t make sense out of it. it gets annoying cause they frequently seem to understand each other. like do they share the same mental illness or something?
are you being serious or am i missing the humor again?
dude. 16 year old kids. damn. i was sixteen once, i know what 16-year-olds are like. i know what i was like. always had a problem w/ authority. still do. there were teachers i liked and teachers i didn’t like, and vice versa. we had this astronomy teacher. dumb as fuck. i always corrected her grammar when she wrote something on the blackboard. probably mainly because i really sucked in astro b/c i really wasn’t interested. shit, if a _teacher_ says something like, “there is no semicolon in german” … what are you gonna do? especially when you’re 16 years old? i mean, damn, she graduated from university at some point in her life, didn’t she read any books? didn’t those books have semicolons in them? what the hell?
anyway. i don’t know if i had the patience to teach anyone.
you’re pretty busy these days, ain’t you? or are you more like a reader momentarily?
no, just joking about teaching. i have the same problems with authority. i am now attending a smaller college and a lot of the instructors suck. my psych. instructor was illustrating a process of the brain and providing an example. a student asked about some detail, “how is that possible?” and he says, “oh, i don’t know much about the brain.” my head dropped to my desk, i swear i lost consciousness. i used to challenge him, but i just don’t care anymore.
i’ve already aggravated him, he took two points off an answer of mine. a portion of a question asked to provide two examples of abstract thought, and he said my two examples were too abstract. ha fuck. is there a word for being amused and pissed off? this is a portion of my insufficient answer, “… placing oneself in another person’s role or situation and contemplating that individual’s perspective.” this is the example he provided during class, “thinking about thinking.” what the fuck!
well, time passes by and then i scan all the comments and by the time i think about going back and commenting i look at the time and like, shit, time, got to go.
the “off” thing what the hell was that about, see what i mean no time, missing shit. inform me please.
by the way, our discussion about capitalization, i was typing up notes when i realized how much efficient it was to skip capitalizing, so i gave up on that some time ago. hmm… should have given me more time to comment. maybe i should give up punctuation, all those periods, think of all the time i’d save.
oh yeah, well… i have heard about the origin going back to wwII. i always thought it referred to pissing on somebody and making them retreat. i’ve seen kids while pissing, pissing on each other’s feet in game play, to move them off or away. of course if one gets pissed on while retreating or off they are generally angry or pissed off, because they have been pissed off instead pushed or knocked off. pissed off is a state of anger in response to insulting, dirty or unfair tactics. and thus the fight is about to get down and dirty. anyway, my opinion is that its a preposition, for the above stated reasons. now piss off.
i’m a little rusty at this. if you said “i’m pissing off” “off” would be an adverb because there is no object. right? “i”m pissing off p11″ is a prepositional phrase because there is an object to complete its meaning and the whole sentence is an adverb phrase. right? subordinate conjunctions always confused me. no wonder i don’t speak good english.
post apocalyptic future, the natural environment would have to cope with all those nuclear reactors melting down.
asian american stereotypes, the term “asian american” does include a wide variety of cultures of which some do not excel in math and sciences. that characteristic is a result of educational expectations and cultural values of specific asian cultures. i would say that if you apply that characteristic to all asians or asian americans it is a stereotype, however if you use it as a description of japanese students in general to describe a statistical pattern, it would be appropriate. however the issue becomes complicated, these statistics are dependent on the generation of the asian american. as generations are distanced from japanese cultural values the more defining american values may affect math and science scores. this only emphasizes the cultural origins of success in the math and sciences.
i use, “down with that” to note agreement, understanding or appreciation. i use, “up for that” to convey a commitment with enthusiasm or motivation. for instance, “are you down with rock climbing?” response: “yeah, i’m down with rock climbing.” “so, you want to go now?” response: “no, ain’t up for that.”
I agree with you buzzword… “down with that” seems like you are OK with something.. whereas “I’m up for that” might be used where you are more excited about doing it. Both basically mean the same thing.. one just has a little more enthusiasm attached to it.
personality disorders … uh … i know what borderline can look like, three of my ex-girlfriends were borderliners (three in a row, that was weird), one of them exhibited signs of schizophrenia. another one was kinda hysterical, yet another one had depressions and/or something else i couldn’t quite figure out. occasionally, she’d go some place and didn’t remember how she got there and what she was doing in the last half hour or so. scared the crap out of her.
and, it’s a little bit how nietzsche put it: when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
so, i got the disorder thing covered, i think …
damn… must have been really hard on you as well. what do you think compels your interest toward people with these shared characteristics? do they represent a large portion of the social scene you function in?
i ask because, well, best friend was bipolar, lots of other friends were suffering as well from various disorders. i thought i was really fucked up as well. still do, frankly, just not as much, slightly neurotic perhaps. but i think a lot of it was the scene with its values and motives that i shared. many of us were definitely not healthy for each other.
i recall too many shitty situations, taking pregnant girl to hospital because of suicide attempt with pills and having to go back and tell her father, who assumed i was her boyfriend. at one point he was crying with me and saying how lucky she was to have a boyfriend like me. i’m think to myself, man, your daughter is alone in a shit hole with a bunch of guys too stoned to take her to the hospital. she’s not making it, she was just lucky i was there.
anyway, thats my bit. thats why i care about your experiences, seems disturbingly familiar. tough place to be, even if you have the disorder thing figured out. its like saying, i’m not lost, i’m looking into the abyss, i know exactly where i am. so here’s to the abyss and all the pills it takes to fill it.
after the third borderline girlfriend i talked to a … well back then she was a friend … she was about to get her degree in psychology, she’s a therapist now, i think. anyway, i told her about that and she’s like, “what do you think — coincidence or pattern?” yeah, i thought about that a lot. didn’t really come to a conclusion, i mean i talked to a lot of people and they were what’s considered “normal”. thing is, you don’t really know about this stuff when you meet someone, you just can’t tell. the third one, well, she showed this “weird” behavior, kinda extreme, and at some point, i was like, look, you’re not gonna like this but you do show signs of borderline, i think you should get some help. that was a hard thing to do. sure enough she got upset (”what the fuck? i’m not crazy!”), eventually, she’d give in, and, there you go, borderline, suspected schizophrenia. tried to kill herself w/ pills, i dialed 911 … yeah, well. i ran into her about two years later, she said that she’d been in treatment and thanked me saving her life, which i think she didn’t really have to do, if someone really wants to kill themselves, they’ll do it, no matter what.
as for now, yeah, i know people being in psychological treatment or having gotten (?) borderline/ bipolar diagnosis. this world is depressed i guess. maybe it’s mainly people from my generation, generation x. funny thing is, “x” in mathematics is an unknown variable. in order to solve for x, you have to rearrange the equation. plus, x is unknown at first. i think this is a great analogy. generation x — you never know what you’re gonna get.
being w/ someone suffering from mental disorders can be exhausting. you’ll need a break once in a while. which is kinda counterproductive (”you don’t love me anymore, i hate you, don’t leave me.”) stuff like that. weird thing is, you kinda get used to it.
and there’s a lot of crap out there that makes you angry, you know. like, switching on the tv, it’s a perfect world in there. but someone has to take care of this mess, someone has to take care of those left behind, those who are struggling … if you don’t belong to them, you’re lucky. but i guess luck is like money or love — unequally distributed. one of the biggest lies of the past and present century is that you can get and become what you want if you just want it bad enough, or something to that effect.
everyone is trying to save their sorry ass. and that’s what it all comes down to. that’s it, that’s all.
Test or is a test of a test. lol
Is there a differ(ea)nce between the ‘web’ and the ‘net’?…origin rhymes with virgin…interneting spiders and the flys unite…
[spice] and nice like HOTFORWORDS
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white pirates using the “LAZY” word for scan for scaming 
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marina,
can anyone set their display name to “alex” now that i changed it?
this is so fucked up. every goddamn pic got its own fucking page. people commenting all over the place.
jesus, what a clusterfuck*.
*that’s a movie quote.
putin gives lessons in russian.
damn, there’s a lot of bitch ass whiners being all pusillanimous in the comments. the nerd word bit is okay, i’d have called buzzword though. lol
MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
John Lennon – John Sinclair 
yeah, it’s okay, but look at how everybody is saying that those words ain’t no words. pfff. to bad p11 is not around anymore, it would’ve been so total fun to piss him off again. lol.
it’s that time again. i guess i be gone. this is just annoying.
yeah, the conversations generally kiss ass or just suck ass. a lot of the old crowd don’t comment as much or are gone. there are good reasons for that. your good trouble, they just can’t handle your shit. i’m getting some free time this quarter, i might drop a few comments.
seen the o’reilly thing and took a quick look at the comments.
i was wondering.
there’s extremely negative comments as well as extremely positive. you know, those suck-up horse rider comments.
tried to somehow get an objective kind of view on things. kinda like this:
|’negative’|———-| ‘normal’ |———-|’positive’|
you know, some sort of spectrum or whatever. negative comments are as far away from “normal comments” as positive comments.
so, it’s a question about extremes, i guess. is one better than the other?
dude. i somehow don’t seem to get your twitter thingies. they don’t show up or something. is that how it’s supposed to be?
ahem, just so you know… Marina hasn’t fixed it (oops!) so you can’t be seen on the Recent Posts list, like it was before.
… just sayin’ – in case you don’t want everyone to see you and Buzzword behaving like closet queens – heh heh!
Life of Illusion?
@ buzzword – crying to Marina like you did, didn’t work out so well, huh? Yes, I know what you did…
I’ve had my eyes on this since the very beginning – and so have many others.
BS…drop-ping may cause break-age…[music of dancing brEaks]
dude, check it out.
from a general, ethical, humane point of view this is just sad.
however, objectively, from a linguistic point of view this should be interesting. she’s five years old. usually, the linguistic development is finished at the age of six, given of course that there was “normal” language input. there was this case, i don’t know when it happened, that a 13 year old girl was found in a basement, she had had no input language-wise, she never really learned to talk. they said the … well, threshold of being able to learn language is at about 12, 13 years of age. that being said — i wonder if she’ll learn to use language as other people are able to use it. hopefully so.
in the news they said that she’s on a mental level of a 2-year-old. i wonder if that is really the case, or if they link intelligence and language in a casual, simplified or even inappropriate way.
any thoughts on that?
love gives you wings it makes you to fly
i found this an interesting article.
yeah, you’re right, dude. no real need to look in here. hehe. e-mails and stuff …
have some comments been deleted in here?
marina deletes any comments deemed unintelligent and/or unsexy. all of our comments are still here.
damn. so 95% of all comments will get deleted soon? not bad.
CENTrAL fIngErIng; gniregnif lartnec…does this fucking pass for bitchassness comments
ok 
read those 
bitchassynesses comments???
I am so fucking pissed off with the fuckiing stupid people that I ccan’t even type straight nor spell correctllly!!!!
It’s so bloody embarrassing to be associated with the species. Now I know what the meaning of the words of “Ignorance is bliss”.
Im so tired of carrying the weight of non-thankful idiots. Why do I bother? What is it worth? Why should I put my life on the line for these ungrateful souls that are only in for them selfs, as they feed upon materialism.
If I continue to hang around idiots, will I become one? I feel my mental thoughts degrading over time.
whiff.. Im going to bed now… try to sleep on it… Damn I should have purchased a beer so I could sleep better.
signed
Me…….
At HFW, we consider the origin of words. This video New Web scams, old tricks discusses the origin of web-scams. (If the link is non-functional at the time you are reading this, googling for “New Web scams, old tricks” might help locate it.)
marina,
what the hell happened to the url attached to my name. it’s gone, why?
test.
well damn, i’m no longer a mod in the forums. not even a heads up, marina thats just cold.
Hey buzz, what happened? Or do you even know?
(click my name, it leads to my YouTube account and you can leave me an email there.)
Sorry about that. I informed the TA’s but didn’t think to mention to you and Alex. My bad.
my random lesson—it helped
good word, thanks. it was in the newspapers recently, since Spam is a cheap substitute for meat
pulchritudinous is you said “Spam is a cheap substitute for meat” how can it be a substitue when it is made from meat itself
hey, marina. thought this article might interest you.
Great article! So funny and probably true!
uh. what’s with the edit function? who the hell needs that? i mean, you’d think that people think about what they’re going to write, so why change it afterwards. pfffffff.
that’s probably some give-and-take thing from that russian chick running this site. finally a forum, but edit comes back.
some dude wanted the time to edit to last 10 minutes. ten fucking minutes!
yeah, well. why would anything change.
anyway. how was christmas?
nothing does change, nothing. i thought the forums might be interesting but everybody just wants to play word games. which just bores the fuck out of me. tried starting up a discussion about language and culture but for the most part nobody gives a shit.
christmas was good. we keep it simple. it is challenging raising kids in such a consumer driven culture, advertisers start targeting kids still in the uterus. catching shit from people because we tell our kids that santa isn’t real.
visiting my in-laws wasn’t bad, the whole family is basically the exact opposite of me politically, religiously, etc. i keep my mouth shut, their not interested in having an informed discussion anyway. they either think he’s the antichrist, a terrorist, or socialist. or all three.
i’m not doing much work for the museum anymore. i’m starting to tutor people at school though. schedule is more convenient and helps me keep what i’ve studied fresh. next quarter i’m taking abnormal psychology, woo hoo! got damn good grades last quarter, me and this other guy compete, makes it more fun, it pisses some off. the medical classes are really interesting, but i really wish i was back in anthropology. gotta pay the bills though.
how’s life on your side of the rock?
well, i’m sitting pretty much naked on that rock, so it’s kinda hard.
i’m not much of a people person, let alone a family guy. kinda like the exact opposite of my mom. she gets along with everybody and everybody gets along with her. might be different for me b/c i don’t feel the need to get along with every living creature on earth. but, christmas time means family time. it’s always cool when my uncle is there, he’s fucking funny. even my cousin was there this year, hadn’t seen him in a long time, last three years he had to work. he’s a cook, so i asked him about his work, i was curious because i read “kitchen confidential” by that bourdain dude. it’s more or less as he described it. 12 hours of work per day, six days a week. hard job. i mean, shit, imagine 300 people per day eating there, and there’s maybe four groups of 15 persons each — and everyone wants something different, perhaps even w/ appetizers and shit. he said, you got to learn to not take anything personal in there. yeah, that was interesting.
like every year, i had to eat a lot. goddamnit. my mom always cooks like she expects 50 persons to show up or something.
i guess santa claus is part of our culture(s), huh? i guess people expect other people to do the santa thing till the kids reach a certain age.
cool to hear about the job you’re gonna do. abnormal psychology. hm. that should be interesting. my favorite book by foucault is, “abnormal.” that’s not quite what your class is gonna be about, i guess, but it reminded me of that. he wrote a lot of things around the subject. “mental illness and psychology”, “madness and civilization”, “the birth of the clinic”, “psychiatric power”, and a lot of other stuff. don’t know if that is of any interest to you.
ah, the forums. i’m kinda glad they’re there. imagine people would play those word games in the lessons. which they did before. that was fucking annoying, man. i do think that, in time, people will start discussions on more serious subjects.
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“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” – Albert Einstein 1879-1955…happy New years
naked on a rock. not a good place to be, especially if the light is waning.
bourdain, yeah. i’ve seen his show, “no reservations” and have read his blog. he’s cool and damn funny. i’d like a job like that.
hmm foucalt, i should read up on him before the class starts. the stuff you mentioned does sound interesting. i have a love hate relationship with psychology. looking forward to the class, but i hear the instructor can be an ass pain. oddly appropriate for a class in abnormal psychology.
the forums, my language and culture discussion has a couple people that comment, which i appreciate. i try and keep it related to… language and culture. you know, like how instructors try to guide the class discussion. i try and bring up questions and subjects that might stimulate conversation. see where it goes. your welcome to add some shit.
don’t exactly know what to do with the moderator status. if i attempt to do anything i don’t want marina or a t.a. slapping my wrist and making me look like a fuckwit. but the forums do need some organization to it. i’ve been watching just to see what patterns emerge and then may recommend some form of order. there ought to be a forum called, “wordplay” or something to manage all the games people play. anyway…
what the hell are the details of your current state? are you resting your nakedness upon a cold pokey rock? i mean aside from knowing that you were a student in linguistics you could be a gutter whore, living in a box, in a puddle, of piss, next to right wing political headquarters. hmm, naked on a rock would be preferable.
asking some potentially personal questions, if you prefer, email me dude.
dude!
thanks for the link you sent me. “the wrestler” is a song for a movie (”the wrestler”, duh), mickey rourke and jet li are gonna be in it. damn! i’m fucking excited and curious!
i’v decided to lay low for awhile, too much bullshit and chatter going on in the comments. ought to change in a few months or so. anyone need to connect with me try my other accounts. peaceful days.
buzzword,
i don’t know for sure but i probably won’t be posting on here much anymore, if at all. at least for the time being or something.
so, yeah, get back to me via email, or maybe there’s another public place / forum.
rock the fuck on.
\m/ ò.Ó \m/
alex,
end of the line, thats cool. i’m fucking glad i met you here. i’ll keep in touch. rock on.
marina, alex
i used the phrase, “not to mention” and realized it’s seemingly contradictory meaning. it is an example of paralipsis, or declaring what will not be referred to and thereby referring to it. i realized its a type of phrase that really annoys me, “it is pointless for me to mention what an ass alex is.” since this seems to be an ancient method of arguing i wondered if it is used in either of your native languages as well?
yeah, we got expressions like that, too. umm. one of them translates to “[in order to] not say …”, or “[in order] not to say” or something. i guess there’s some english equivalent to that, probably “even”, as in: “that was cool, even great!” it’s used like: “that was cool, [in order] not to say great!” dude, that’s really hard to explain / translate.
that was one thing. “not to mention” is translated as “geschweige”, “ganz zu schweigen von”, or “geschweige denn”. now, in all three translations there’s some form of “schweigen”. as a verb, it means, “to remain/be/keep silent”, as a noun, “silence”. i think “geschweige denn” could also be translated as “let alone.” “ganz zu schweigen von” i’d translate as, “to remain entirely silent of …”
uh, yeah. hope that makes any sense to you.
as for russian, uh, i’ll take a look into my dictionary, it’s … around here … somewhere. maybe i can come up w/ something.
yeah, thats what i was talking about. i wondered if this type of phrase was common across languages. so, german speakers use it to create some distance between them and a subject. as in, the speaker anticipates the response of the audience and sides with them, disassociating themselves from the statement they make. and then the speaker states it. as in, “what i’m about to say is rude and unnecessary, obama is part nigger” yeah that annoys me, i shouldn’t admit it but i probably say shit like that.
alright, so i finally found my old russian-german dictionary. yes, they have something like that, too:
“не говоря уже.” i kinda kicked myself because that wasn’t too hard. anyway:
не — ‘not’;
говоря, from either говор (noun) — ’speech’, ‘talk’, etc. or, more likely, говоритъ (verb) — ’speak’, ‘talk’.
уже — ‘already’, ‘yet’.
though somehow i felt like there should be a preposition, that kinda confuses me. the preposition for “about” in “talk about” is “o”. (говoритъ o …).
yeah, well. so you got a negative in conjunction with “talk” in there.
what the hell?
marina, who the hell is this rosiecheeks?
alex, ya know something bothers me about rosiecheeks. 1. her youtube page hasn’t been signed into in about a year. 2. when i check her comments in dashboard, her language drifts away from the slang she originally began posting in. 3. she seems to have a very good rapport with everyone, something that usually takes more time than two days.
she/he may be someone else that has been here before. even though her posts don’t include any other nicknames. anyways, just thought i’d inform you of my suspicion.
yeah, i don’t know what to make of it. first, they’re all giving her shit for her word request, “hate speech” and all, then they’re friendly as hell. hm.
what’s with the homophobia around here?
i like that kungfu chick.
and why is it that people don’t answer simple yes or no questions? ah, fuck it.
what are you gay!? just kidding. can’t find the kungfu chick. checked dashboard for kungfu, kungfu86, and kungfu 86 can’t find her i’ll look on the pages.
this rosiecheeks is one of us i think, her rapport is a giveaway i think. there are clues, she has switched genders a couple times, has used french with competency. i’ve been using multiple dashboards to compare users and their posting patterns. i kinda like the challenge.
james and foxbow switched identities, think with the help of captain jack. rrr not to long ago posted a comment searching for responses and got none. don’t think its mij, he’s busy with his videos and aggravating you. rosiecheeks ended a comment with the name “bob” and a green toothy smiley. but i think she mistaking che for bob. che is immediately became suspicious. i thought it could have been melikadothechacha, don’t know really. kinda pisses me off, don’t like this kind of manipulation.
i wonder if marina has noticed rosiecheeks peculiar behavior.
oh yeah, found her kungfu 86, video request.
what in the fuck is this?
“WordPress 2.6.3 is available! Please notify the site administrator.”
*notify*
hey, i still wanna know about my email. :/
umm.
“odessadarlings.com — experience russian dating” … does anybody else get this ad on here or is it just me again? because of the porn war link?
possibly, i get ads to hook up with sexy young gay republicans.
ah, as for your music question below (i somehow missed that, noticed yesterday cause i was scrolling down the page.), i guess a lot of the stuff i’ve been listening to was introduced to me by friends, acquaintances, and tv music stations such as mtv, viva, or vh1. i’m not sure about springsteen. i think the first time i heard / saw him was on mtv. “human touch.” i know that that was the first album i bought. probably around 91/92? also, there was this dude in my class, frank. he’d been playing guitar, he and his dad were both springsteen fans (springsteen played in east berlin in 88 or something, they were there). so, i had an ally, if you want to put it that way. yeah, you’re right, he wasn’t popular among people around my age, most of them didn’t know him anyway. our class made this school trip to the czech republic, uh, in … don’t know, must’ve been around 91 or 92, too. me and frank bought springsteen’s mtv unplugged album there. yeah.
i think the first time i heard about tom waits was on mtv, too. probably “hold on.” hm.
which reminds me! do you know domino? with mickey rourke, keira knightley, lucy liu, christopher walken … — and tom wait’s got a little part in it, too.
what’s with the wardrobe thing? why is this important?
no, i have not seen the movie, “domino”. maybe get it this weekend. the wardrobe thing. well they mccain/palin have been identifying themselves with the working class and she’s always going on about being a hockey mom and all that bullshit, they criticize the liberals for being elitist. and so here is palin walking around in $150,000 worth of clothing. kinda distances herself from the rest of the working class she is trying to identify with. frankly the wardrobe thing is the least of the numerous things that aggravate me about mccain/palin. you should check out her interview with katie couric, she makes a comment that when “putin rears his head its in alaska air space” laughed my ass off. i have the image of a giant putin head peering over the horizon at alaska and then laughing at palin. she is bush with boobs.
i think it’s kinda funny how all those hfw contacts get transferred to youtube, with all those friend invites and all.
How is that alex? What do you mean?
well … if i recall correctly, it hasn’t always been that way on here that many people link to a lot of youtube stuff, right? and, somehow, gradually, that has changed. and a lot of people have youtube accounts, or _use_ them respectively. i didn’t do much on youtube till a while ago, i eventually registered to be able to view every video, those that were flagged, too. that’s all. that’s why i registered there. i didn’t have any friend invites, i didn’t comment on videos, i didn’t comment on channels etc.
now, most regulars on here have a youtube account and they use them. to send each other private messages or things like that.
so, all of a sudden, people started talking both on here and on youtube to each other. take a look at my friends list over there, or at buzzword’s, or mijj’s, or foxbow’s. we all have people in there who’re on this site. so … there is some sort of youtube network with all those people from here.
know what i mean?
yo, marina, let me know if you got my email. since you deleted that post again.
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oh, and what font is this? looks like tahoma or verdana?
politics for the masses? georgia and russia in another war.
(this is an old post, though.)
busy with school work, family, keeping up with news and oh yeah that job i have that i ignore. i’m trying to stay in the top 5% of the class to compete for early slots into the program. i’ve gotten one “b” so far. i post short comments here and there, i must be missing you. this palin chick is like bush with boobs, fucking joke.
snicker… how can the public even take this guy seriously? i would think this would damage is reputation as a serious politician. and what is with the ukraine casting a gay guys as putin and yanukovych?
dude, where you at, man? haven’t read a lot from you lately.
aLx, that was so fucking cool! really cool cool cool. got to watch that again.
yes. epic win. hehe.
big bold flashing epic win.
u96 yeah have heard of them, haven’t listened much though. listening now. so much music. its always interesting to know how and when someone is introduced to music genres. like the way one meets people. sometimes it is through other people and sometimes its just accident. i gave up using music to judge people or argue what is “good” music. when i was fresh out of high school i was listening to lots of americana stuff, jazz, world beat, rock but then ran into this goth prince and then through him a punk/goth/rivet head who introduced me to a lot of stuff and then a whole fucking fucked up universe sucked me in. the goth prince is now a muslim, married to a somali, popping out lots of little ones in… toronto i think. he wears a turban and robes. i smile cause i can still recall the goth tribal tattoos he still has underneath. oh memories. so like how has some of your music been introduced to you? a lot of the kids i knew would never listen or admit to listening to certain types of music. no one would’ve admitted to listening to sprinsteen, but they would tolerate tom waits.
just in case you’re not familiar with (epic) win / fail / epic fail, see failblog.
alright, that was a link fail. again: failblog.
front page of the local newspaper. big picture of these guys celebrating and cheering along a busy road. they have cardboard signs and their yelling. the one dude, front and center has taken off his shirt and has written the word “honk” on his chest. except its written upside down and backward. the dude has looked down and written it on his chest so he could read it.
Naughty hotforwords. Surely she should know how to pronounce the word “often”. It has a ‘t’ in it and as a result it should be pronounced. Surely a Philologist should understand linguistics. I ought to spank you for that.
notice what details marina does not mention about her character and opinions. and then how one so eagerly fill in these blanks with their own traits and opinions. i’ve done it. her position on grammar surprised me. take sir frued the psychologist knight, i’ve never seen a charge led with such pompous arrogance. kinda reminded me of that professor dude from way back. looking at who comes on so strong, how they change, who remain, what norms are being established, what descent is tolerated, valued. cool stuff. sir frued i expect needed to attack some dragons to prove his honer and skill. he ought to reread his psychology texts.
an internet forum is in a few ways different from “real life”, i guess. maybe some people are used to step into a room and automatically dominate others, just by their presence. much like a scholar, i guess, or some executive in a company. that’s way different in here. people are sort of equal, they don’t know how things are around a particular forum, or who the participants are. so they’ll have to try to dominate others with what they’re saying, mentioning who they are, what they’re doing, what they achieved, whatever.
or am i too far off?
dude. being 30 sucks. for real. kinda glad i’m back home now from my mom’s. some family there, some acquaintances, lots of food. yeah. never celebrated any birthdays. what’s the point, anyway? why would someone congratulate me for something that i didn’t do? they ought to congratulate my parents or something.
no not too far off at all. i agree with you. birthdays too. it seems to me that these celebrations that are supposedly all about you are actually just a reason for everyone else to have fun. your just an excuse. i find myself responsible for making everyone else comfortable. although home cooking is greatly appreciated.
have you ever watched lewis black, fucking hilarious. i think you would like his other stuff as well.
is this the beginning of something really bad?
really unethical. there are still a lot of unknowns involving this science.
alx, i may just be paranoid. but if one was really sadistic, into switching identities, manipulating people and seeking attention… it would be clever to assume a role that opposed the others. such as the female ex of an existing antagonistic role. this new role would interest men, provoke their sympathies, and provide a plot for the puppet master for further manipulative entertainment. imagine the joy given to a sick shit, conducting the drama between two fictional roles and watching everyone here flock to defend the victim, when the victim is the perp. but i’ve been fucked with before so it might just be me being overly cautious.
no, i had the same thoughts. this is weird anyway. why would some ex-wife who hates her husband follow him on whatever sites he’s on. doesn’t make any sense to me. i think it’s just someone trolling around, not worth paying attention to. imagine, though, it was real. that’d be weirder than someone just pretending things, wouldn’t it?
yeah, when selecting the most likely explanation for a human behavior, “fucked up” is the best theory to choose.
ha, i’ve watched that anthony guy cook on television. he’s fucking funny. i remember one when he was in iceland or someplace, complaining that he was freezing his nuts off.
aLx, billyb gave me this link, thought it was pretty cool. check out the directors other stuff at this link
my finals were a pain in the ass. now i’m scheduled to do hospital rounds again. fuckityfuggly! by the way, what is your state of education?
hospital, dude, i couldn’t do that. for real. , illness, disease, death … nah …
yeah, cool link, thanks.
hey, i subscribed to this newschannel, wlky 32, louisville, ky. they covered the damage. so, how bad is it?
nothing really bad out where i live. but i was at the hospital today and half of columbus still has power out. the rumor is that all the crews have left to go to texas to rebuild their grid. i think six have died due to trees falling on them. one was inside their house which sucks, but the dudes that are outside standing under a tree in 60 mph winds… stoopid.
the hospital thing… yeah. i used to hate hospitals, the one i’m doing rounds is located in an area of columbus known as the bottoms, cause it used to always flood. of course it is a poor neighborhood with all the associated problems. i was on the elevator and over heard this, “man, shot… and by someone on his own crew, thats not cool!”
last quarter rounds i met several people dying, old dude with lung cancer, young guy with aids/hiv… today met a woman diagnosed with a brain tumor, just removed, she wants to live to see her daughter graduate in june. young woman recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis fell and is hoping like hell to feel her legs and maybe walk. many more.
most of the stuff i do is fucking boring. i mean i’m an academic, i like the scholarly shit. and i am an asshole, selfish, arrogant, etc… so why in fuck am i here? money, now ain’t that shitty.
but in the midst of this experience i feel like i’m surrendering, fears, self, preconceptions, all that. today i was work with the young girl with m.s., she ain’t pretty, nasty gray teeth, needs a bath. there was six of us holding her up, i’m holding her up in front, a few in back are squeezing her ass to see if she is moving any muscles at all, others are holding her knees in place, she’s saying, “nothing, nothing, can’t feel anything.” and a therapist says, “i think your moving a little!” and the girl says “really!” and that means everything, i’m looking into her eyes and she’s beautiful.
in those moments i’ve forgotten my name, my identity, my arrogance.
the woman with the brain tumor. she wants this type of cancer therapy that costs a lot. someone rich could afford it, but it’s so expensive that the insurance doesn’t want to cover it. and she tells her husband, she doesn’t care, go in debt, loose the house car whatever, they can’t take her kids away or her husband. and i think what is wrong with this fucking country. and i want to change things, i want to give this woman and her family a day in june.
so i’m in this place that i hate, dealing with shit that makes me uncomfortable, disease, death, the sick, but the responsibility i have negates all that shit, demands some humanity. and i become more human.
Hi Buzz,
Thanks for rattling my cage. Yeah, my major is all done and I’m set to graduate in January, but I”m so swamped with finishing out my electives (read: unfamiliar subjects I barely care about) that I haven’t tried opening a single HFW lesson in weeks. Plus, I was really getting tired of a couple members who posted way too much to actually have a mortal existence and who also seemed unclear on the concept of live and let live, if you know what I mean and I think that you probably do. Since I could spend my entire life wading through the raw sewage of ridiculous comments while only enjoying a couple people’s replies, it suddenly became clear that it was time I gave it a rest for awhile.
I hope I didn’t miss anything, like being named teacher’s pet or something. Not that Marina has a shortage of eligible students, lol. Yeah, I miss the interaction, but it’s refreshing to deal with playground bullies in the flesh for a change. No quarter asked or given…
At least I get some recognition as an “advanced student” in my T’ai Chi Gung class. The instructor makes me lead the class sometimes. Go figure. Must’ve been the 7 semesters of Judo I took back in the autumn of my youth, which reminds me: has aLx suffered maximum zenith overcrossing yet? He gets all pissed off at me whenever I try to wish him a happy Bday, like time passage was my invention or something.
School is such a burn. I’m way behind on my reading; it puts me to sleep immediately. I always thought that was what it was for in the first place, but what the hell…. Back to the quest for knowledge
Peace, bro.
on the last stretch then, congratulations. i got all my electives out of the way first. actually i didn’t know what i wanted so i had to get several majors out of the way first as well.
no, you haven’t missed anything. at least i don’t think so, i don’t have time either. read my above comment for further detail. i just look for avatars that i recognize, make that avatars i care to keep up with, keep in touch.
the martial arts thing, thats cool. interests me a little, i need a discipline, temper my hostility. body needs a practice to keep in shape.
i forgot about aLx’s day of reckoning. hey aLx you old yet?!
lots of reading, hard to get around that. get a good nights sleep, select a time when your mind is fully fueled and take breaks, stay fresh, walk with the idea and do some deep thinking. connect what you read to other concepts and integrate it into a larger construct. best way to retain info. takes longer though.
i’ve a got a problem with short term memory, so everything i study has to be done this way or i forget.
i’m going to think of way for you to get my email without posting it anywhere… i know, if i provide a link to a youtube video with a current comment of mine you would recognize, you can follow it back to my youtube page and then leave a message there and i’ll send you back my email or you can just contact me there. sound complicated enough?
i be 30 on 9/28.
tell pt9 that he can ask me directly.
Maybe I should consider myself lucky my birthday is the 24th, third day of the cusp. That makes me a crosseyed Virgo-Libra halfbreed. Shit. Goddamn Libras! Can’t make a decision to save our own necks! The world’s just too fucking little, aLx. Seconds are ticking away….. Fuel up the ambulance! Check the tire pressure and charge the defibrillator!
Okay, that sounds complicated enough, just like all the release forms and petition to graduate crap already on my plate. But what the hell. All I have to do now is get your link, then remember to check yet another site for messages (throw it onto the stack of campus email, assignments, group projects, admin stuff, yahoo mail from the fambly, student loan contract, etc, & hope it floats to the top again after I get some sleep). But it just might work. No use mentioning it unless you’re ready to give it a go I guess. Godspeed, Buzz. Talk to you soon. Thanks for replying.
shortest way to get from pittsburgh to california
umm. is there something funny in the vid and i missed it?
yeah, penn has lived around this pennsylvania area and i’m guessing he’s out in the cali area now. this road trip however is from pittsburgh pa. to california pa. a much shorter trip than to california state.
aLx, since your a fan of basketball and hiphop thought you might enjoy this afrika bambaataa was one of the defining figures in early hiphop.
dude, that’s fucking great, thanks for the link. never heard that name before. weird. but then again, i’m just european.
right now i’m trying to find out how pakistanian-russian relations work and what they’re like.
this stokesjrj1 is a pain in the ass. i don’t understand his random attempts to provoke responses and his alternating nicks. dude must be lonely and aggravated.
yeah. i’ve never paid much attention to him, though you unfortunately can’t ignore his posts when he’s posting the same thing a hundred times.
what i also noticed … people sometimes state what they’re doing or have been doing. nothing wrong with that per se but it looks weird when posted without any reason, without any connection to anything. like, yeah, i just brushed my teeth and now i’m gonna go to bed … i just got up and had this dream about my dead guinea pig. this stuff comes out of the blue, and i find myself reading this and thinking: … and?
ah, crap.
marina,
sorry for posting fourth level replies. i just got to get used to it, uh, yeah, got to answer on the lesson page i guess, not on the dashboard. damn.
something funny today.
the russian ambassador in germany called a press conference to explain the russian point of view and how they see things and all. he complained that all you can see in the press are russian tanks.
and then he said something like, “… that the [american] tactics /policy / poltics of ‘he’s a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch’ won’t work out even anymore.”
lol. he really said that.
yeah, georgia, some very uncool shit going on over here.
georgia as part of the west and nato and all gets support from its “allies”, first and foremost, the u.s.
i don’t really know what position exactly germany takes. it’s part of nato and everything. nato said that the recognition of abkhasia and south ossetia by russia as independent states is not right, it violates international law, it violates u.n. resolutions. this is kinda funny. the u.s. didn’t give a shit about the u.n. and its resolutions (iraq).
so, that’s what’s upsetting them right now. russia, on the other hand, asks why recognizing s.o. and abkhasia as independent states is wrong, but having recognized kosovo as an independent state is right. and this is a very good question. they got a point.
i just hope that germany will try to remain more or less in the middle, trying to negotiate or whatever. leaning too far towards the u.s. is not good. germany needs russia. they probably need the u.s., too, but in my opinion it’s more important to establish and maintain good relations with russia.
ah, a good source of what’s going on is russia today. they got an interview with pat buchanan as well.
humm. this is not good, man. anyway, i strongly recommend russiatoday. check it out.
by the way, i was browsing through their videos, went a few months back. and then i was like, wtf?! they did an interview with m. lol. now that’s funny right there! you subscribe to a news channel and get hfw. i was like, what the hell, that’s a bit disturbing, ain’t it.
thanks for the info, will check them out. one reason hitman checked in was because i was asking him some questions about the situation on his youtube page. i read a lot of news but it really helps to have contacts abroad. people over here seem to be taking the simplest approach, “russia bad” people can be so fucking ignorant. i wish i could discuss it more on the other pages but it would just turn ugly.
dude, ask him about koba.
so although no official word, the u.s. flew into pakistan dropped some special forces, killed 20 or so people and then flew out again. i’ve checked the global guide to diplomatic decorum and it states that any russian citizen can now bitch slap any u.s. representative that opens his or her mouth.
This random lesson has sooooo many comments
this is so fucked up. what the hell is it with thìs dude?
once again, in the dark. which dude do you speak of?
bob. i mean his stupid little story and if i were saying m. was stupid. uh. yeah.
oh, yeah. i see what you mean. dumb story, made no sense. he went from soft core porn to epic poem. i really wish these guys would keep their marina fantasies private. unfortunately these fantasies serve as their muse for poetry… bad results. the other thing that annoys me is that because we’re not dancing around in leotards playing lutes and serenading marina… we get shit. because we speak honestly which means not going along with everyone or contradicting marina at times… we get shit. well, actually you get a lot more shit than me.
then again, this forum is a public dialogue in which all the participants have an interest in directing to match expectations. groups of common expectations form, then they maintain dialogues that satisfy there mutual interests and values. when an individual or group interferes with their influence upon the forums progress then they take defensive posturing. when i comment, “thats fucking stupid!” i am trying to make corrections and impose my own expectations for participant performance. if i get everyone behaving the way i want i feel more secure and satisfied. it becomes my forum. thing is its marina’s forum. so, i guess i’ll go on doing what i’m doing and if marina wants to correct the progress then she can kick me in the ass and say “what the fuck!?”. and i won’t flip out like some kind of insulted lover. i’d say, “what the fuck?, what the fuck!?” anyway… dumb ass poem.
anyway…. what is with this cold war all over again bullshit? people over here are fucking nuts. i can’t believe all this political posturing is happening just because of the georgia conflict, i mean someone has to slow this whole process down. people have to cool off, fuck i’m just annoyed personally and globally.
marina!
did you instruct hitman not to say anything? if so: damn you! no fair! :/
I don’t know what you are talking about.. just editing videos here.
okay, i guess i’ll have to work on my joking skills or something … *sigh*
damn, fell into an argument with rrr. bottom of the burrito.
looks like he’s not that persistent, huh?
argh. i did it again. damn. gotta try to remember the reply level or reply on the actual lesson’s page.
it is a great power that has been bestowed upon you, you must use it wisely.
and you must never use for evil.
or just fuck around with it.
gotcha.
i sent a love letter to prospero811 haha.
say what?
i couldn’t take the whole love note thing seriously, so i thought i’d have some fun. i submitted a love note to prospero811, simply stating, “prospero811 i fucking love you man, buzzword” dude, that doesn’t mean i’m gay does it?
by the way, i love roadthingie’s reply. do people really think of me as being full of bitterness, cynicism, nihilism, or whatever? should i be worried? however, it made me grin.
missed roadmunch’s comment, searching, searching…
roadrunrnch
Just write her a really nice hate letter. It could be a turn on ?
Women love men that treat them like crap. You just never know?
You could win, she said it is arbitrary who wins.
Spin a long drawn out venomous diatribe of hate of which there is no equal.
Make Her sleep with the light on. You could you it.
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From 100 Million Video Views!, 2008/08/23 at 8:16 PM
i don’t get it. you get so much shit. i think it has a lot to do with the personalities doing the shoveling. they don’t like your independence and the recognition you get. you stated it well, you aren’t part of “we” some, most i’d say appreciate it, others think its a threat. i’m telling great opportunities to observe male behavior patterns.
uh, no, not gay. bi. i mean, you got proof that you are and have been involved with women, so, umm, yeah.
just having fun… i won’t leave my wife.
duh!
fuck, i don’t want to win the damn thing!
marina, its a joke, ignore the love note. my love for prospero is untrue, my heart belongs to another!
hehe, i wanna see all those married dudes getting a letter from m. explaining their wives how they got the damn thing.
aLx james on best weekend ever, is spazing out over your ability to reply. i provided him some background so that he would understand. hahar!
yeah, that was more or less an accident b/c i replied right from the dashboard.
i did the same thing. but nobody noticed. your much more unpopular so your comments are more popular.
lol. just read your reply. that was funny!
hey, did you get my links to the origin of your avatar? i doubt if anyone would recognize it, relatively obscure. i think it suits your rather well.
ah, the links. yeah, checked them out. you were right — i was very amused.
checked the trailer to that movie, too. i’m not really a comic freak. i seen a lot of movies based on comics, though. probably even movies of which i didn’t know they’re based on a comic. i liked x-men, hellboy, aeon flux, batman … not sure though if aeon flux or hellboy are comic characters? hm. what about sin city? of course, batman, spiderman … uh … yeah. ah! beavis and butthead! still got some beavis and butthead comics somewhere that i bought in 95/96 in kentucky! uh, that is, i hope i still have them.
yeah, all comic books except aeon flux. that one started out on mtv, they had a late night animation show. sin city, spawn, yep. spawn? the popularity of comic books is kind of unique to the u.s. although the most celebrated writer is british, alan moore he also did v for vendetta. hell boy, check out mike mignola’s artwork . and the work of frank miller. oh, better stop going to go all out fanboy on you.
hey, look what i found!
roadrunrnch replied on August 21st, 2008 6:28 pm:
Is it just me but ever see buzzword and Marina at the same party.
I just saying, only one person can post inside a 2nd reply.
god, i love that dashboard and the search function.
ha! he’s thinks there’s a conspiracy. check out his reply on my high top fade post on pigtails. “who is this really? buzzy marina koba??? dude, lovin’ this.
yeah, which brings me back to the koba question. dude, this is really fucked up. wikipedia says, well, some island or the stalin thing. we can rule out stalin, i guess, as well as the fucking island. search for “коба” in google. do an image search. you’ll see that this word actually exists. you’ll see mountains, and caves, and cats, and dogs, all kinds of shit. but there is nothing that connects these things. this is really getting on my nerves. i hate things like that. “коба” is not in the dictionary. i found a german — polish dictionary online, well, needless to say, no koba. a lot of words starting with “kobacie-” though which have all to do with female-. wrote an email to a woman i know, she’s from poland. i doubt that she’ll be able to tell me something. damn, how i hate things like that.
yeah, marina is being a tease. she never said she would provide the answer. but i kinda assumed, she would explain. but i won’t satisfy her shallow attempt to acquire more attention, i’m ignoring her.
damnit marina, you ass pain, what the fuck does koba mean!
chomsky and putin discussing politics, yeah, that’d be nice. i picked putin because i think he’s one of the most intelligent people around. his career, development, is really impressive. so is chomsky’s, and his work, respectively. chomsky’s facts and points and arguments vs. putins point of view and rhetoric … yeah … they might even find some things they agree on.
umm, did you put comments with a certain amount of links on moderation due to the spam thing a few days ago? b/c one of my comments is awaiting moderation …
k … let’s try this w/o links …
no. my dream weekend is one involving julia bond, christina ricci, noam chomsky, and vladimir putin. now, don’t ask me how all this goes together, but that’d be one hell of a weekend. it’s all in there: pr0n, art, linguistics, and politics
i’d like to see chomsky and putin discussing politics.
marina,
just in case it gets lost in the latest lesson, i’ll just post this twice.
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bbPress — code is poetry.
“a shit-storm of criticisms”. i kinda like it. hahaha.
yeah, its like he’s giving us positive feed back.
yeah, its like he’s giving us positive feed back. by the way nice gravatar. it’s a comic book character.
it is? what comic?
hm. kinda awkward that he’s dragging marina into this. what’s he trying to do? establishing some weird “sides” and trying to make her take one of them or something? what’s this “for the love of mike” stuff anyway? i don’t really get it.
yeah, he’s a little pipe bomb ain’t he. he must just read our comments and let the aggression build up until “poo!” i just posted a response that should placate him, harhar.
yeah your avatar. you’ll be amused by this, it is a button worn by a character called evil ernie here are some links…
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/e/evilern.htm
http://members.tripod.com/~LadyDeath_EvilErnie/index.html
http://www.comicmonsters.com/modules.php?name=WS_Comics&ws=article&id=511
also, while i’m on the subject of smiley faces and comic books. marina mentioned the rorschach test. there is a comic book character called rorschach, he’s pretty fucked up. the comic book is the watchmen a book by alan moore. alan moore is fucking cool all by himself. the book was pretty significant in comic book circles, pretty cool story line. kinda asks, are these people walking around in costumes fucked up, or is it the world. i think you’d like it. the smiley face is a reoccurring symbol during the story line. they’ve made a movie here are some links. the movie link may take some time to load.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_(comics)
http://watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com/
uh, that’s odd. we just talked about spam and there it is. all over the place.
spamnit!
ah, don’t remind me of university and studying better not talk about it.
well, i don’t know. young men are most often attracted to older women. i read once that a man’s sexual peak or whatever is when he’s around 20 and a woman’s when she’s around 30. never researched stuff like that, though. just read it years ago in some newspaper or something.
yeah, as you get older you may be attracted to younger women. maybe because everyone is attracted to youthfulness or something, to skin without wrinkles. to natural things like no boob job (cause you’re not really like, “whoa! tits! yeah! i want em big, as big as possible!” anymore [plus, you do see it, compare her pic in that nickname lesson to now ... nothing wrong with that but she didn't look worse before]) , not to mastoptosis (ha! i just looked that up! medical term), and all that.
as for now, i’m not interested in dating anyone. don’t know. don’t wanna go through all that getting to know shit and “what are we gonna do today besides screwing around”, you know, nah. what i noticed, and that’s not really a great surprise, is that the tolerance range gets bigger. they don’t have to weigh 120 lbs at the most or something. age range, well, it gets bigger, too. +/- 7 years or so. wasn’t that big when i was younger.
yeah, nin, if you like “the slip”, they got another album available for free download: “ghost I”.
I just spent the whole night last night and this morning removing my contact email addresses from this website… someone thought it was cute to sign up one of my email addresses to this website yesterday morning which resulted in my email box getting 1,000 messages in about 5 minutes! They added my email address to this website: Sp am Za (dot) com (remove the spaces) and change the dot com…
I will remove this link shortly… as I don’t want to promote them…. but a really “dicky” (is that a word?) move.
hm.
“Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access / on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at AppStuff Port 80″
maybe it was a crawler / robot that picked up your address? you could’ve written it as nospam [at] mysite [dot] com. a lot of people do that for those reasons, you know, to not land in any of these spam databases. one of my email addresses that i mostly use for signups at various sites is noreply.noanswer@gmail.com … now, i don’t check this account very often. maybe like once every two months. i don’t care if there are like 2000 spam mails. never got any, though.
“dicky” is a noun.
It looks like they just killed the site.. it was a site that you put an email address in and it signs that address up to literally a 1000 newsletters on the web immediately.
My email address was not farmed… my server actually hides my email addresses behind code that is not visible to crawlers.
So this was literally a person choosing that one email address as a joke to mess with me.
Oh well.. I was able to use email as a form of communication up until now… now it’s forms moving forward… not as convenient… but oh well.
Regarding email addresses… I do something a little different.. I actually have email addresses that are created on the fly when I sign up to websites.. that way I know when someone has sold an email address of mine to spammers. And once one of the throwaway addresses gets sold.. I can kill it.
I heard of high tech sweat shops that have people just visiting sites to get email addresses. Mostly its in some cities in China. I have heard of a few in Chile, South America. It might not be someone playing a joke. I’ve been hit twice. Im surprised you just got notice.
Also I notice a few of the blogs you visit seem suspicious to me. The call them spam blogs or something,
actually, i get a lot of spam crap on my website, only as comments to the wordpress stuff, thank god. it’s annoying though (”awaiting moderation, please visit the control panel …”. do you know if there’s something i can do about it? because your entire site is made w/ wp.
I solved that by requiring people to register in order to post comments. Do you require people to register?
uh, no, that site is not really well-known anyway. not yet. har! but i do put all comments on moderation.
What is the website? Not the blogspot site you have as your link? Also.. log into the dashboard… you and buzzword have been promoted
whoa, cool.
no, not the blogspot thing. that’d be cool if we owned blogspot. this one. but it’s not that important, just a little spam is all. like i said, we don’t have many visitors. we need to get this fucking shop going. that is, start getting some stuff to put into it. hmm.
so, how did we get the honor to get promoted?
You two have been here so long and contribute so much.. I thought it’d be cool for you.. plus you can search through all the comments.. PLUS you can nested reply ad infinitum (so be sparing with that!)
swell. thanks.
the email situation, that sucks, such a waste of your time. um… dicky. i’d use “prick”. thanks for the increased access and the trust. the trust part is damn cool.
Marina, Just do what I do. I made an message form page that sends the message to whatever’at’captainjack.ws and forwards to my private email account. I still get weird message from time to time but I can see its a robot or some spammer. Photo verifications can be read by computers, so forms are not 100% fool proof, but they do stop the majority. Second thing is get a Google Mail account. It has a mazing spam protection. I sometimes get about 100 spam message a day. Gmail filtered it all out just fine and only twice has it misfiled an email in the past year or two. I gave up on my dotmac account. I use yahoo for sites that I think might spam me. Yahoo really sucks.
jack,
here are three glossaries.
# 1.
# 2.
# 3.
marina, weren’t you going to remove this link shortly?
buzzword,
i put the link to the free download of nine inch nails’ “the slip” album on the cash lesson. anyway, just in case you didn’t notice that comment, i put it here. they require an e-mail address where they send you a link to. if you don’t want to do that, let me know, i can e-mail you the tracks if you want. i think it’s a cool album. some of it is slow, instrumental, other stuff on it is not.
got it. will listen later, let you know what i think. like trent. getting ready for finals in the next few weeks. studying. your degree, how far along are you? how far are you going?
huh. your comment about the homework and ugly bastards, in combination with “intelligence is sexy” kinda made me think.
there’s this prof. took a few of her courses. i once went to see her during office hours, just had a tiny, little, not highly intellectual question. i said, you know, sorry for asking this, since it was a question related to a philosophy of language class, not one of hers. she was like, no, don’t worry, i’m always happy when someone comes asking because they actually want to know something, not out of pressure because of a presentation or a seminar paper they have to turn in. so, yeah, she was kinda cool. i went there a lot, asking her tons of questions, she’d even let me borrow books off her and all. and, well, i thought she was kinda sexy, not in a physical kind of way. does that sound weird? she was like in her mid-fourties. really one of the smartest persons i’ve ever met. once, i don’t remember why, i was bitching about economists and lawyers. and she’d listen, and when i was done, she was like, my husband is a lawyer. and i thought, okay, ummm, this is awkward … then she gave a grin and said something like, but i’m a linguist, and i think i have a good influence on him. whoa. dude …
all different sorts of attraction that encourage relationships. she sounds nice and smart, not just academically. it would be good to keep in touch with her. do you usually date women older or younger, doesn’t matter? what do you think women in different life stages offer? i could argue that men tend to be attracted to younger women who could produce offspring. but it also depends on the man’s stage of psychological development and personal achievement.
most of my professors were really guarded and competitive. always pissed me off. lots of grad. students competing for their attention. seems like your university or at least department faculty are more approachable. one or two were nice. one odd women, reminded me of a fat margaret thatcher invited me to go hot tubbing with her and her husband… ew.
that reminds me of a study i just heard about. it seems women on birth control don’t respond to men’s pheromones as usual. women on birth control are attracted to men who share more similarities. whereas it is natural for women to be attracted to men who are genetically more unlike them. to provide diversity to compliment their genes. interesting implications. i was wondering if it also affected other natural hormone based behaviors that influence the way women select and maintain relationships with men. also, what happens if a women quits birth control, does that change her attraction to the man?
i’m looking for the study now.
that’d be interesting to know how they found out.
ah, crap, this anna chick isn’t answering either. damnit.
ain’t it typical.
question is: is it typical for girls in general, or russian girls in particular?
aLx, dig this historical documentary.
haha. you’d you come across that? were you looking for evil communists?
downloading communists, oh great now my peripherals are breaking away.
dig the battle of the homework all stars.
hahaha. oh, well.
but i like her picture in the vid. hair looks nice a little darker and the rest is so … natural.
so. as for your homework! what nicknames you got? hehe.
one place i worked for some years, the guys called me medicine man. i was really into wade davis. i had really long hair, piercings with feathers carved in whale bone i got in alaska, primitive rings, bracelets and shit. went native for a while. into some peculiar shit.
after that, asshole. no kidding, my best friends first impressions of me, asshole. i think it had to do with me not putting up with their shit, not intimidated by the goth, industrial, gangsta hardcore stuff they were menacing the locals with.
so much of it is performance art, which is fine, interesting, lots of fun. but i’d call it what it is and people would get pissed. there was this guy who called himself, “satan” he often wore a long black cloak in the middle of august, he made of fun of christians. he hated me. anthropologists can be assholes. so yeah, asshole would be the most common nick for me. i kinda like it better than medicine man.
aLx, marina
both of you seem to have an appreciation of the macabre, check out this video from gnarls barkley portraying a girl breaking up with a guy.
that was great!
when he pulls it out, it reminded me of two things.
one, a movie.
two, a dialoque, written by heiner müller. roughly translated it goes like that:
one: may i lay my heart at your feet?
two: if you don’t soil my floor.
one: my heart is pure.
two: we will see about that.
one: i can’t get it out.
two: do you want me to help you.
one: if you don’t mind.
two: it would be a pleasure. i can’t get it out, either.
one cries
two: i will operate it out of you. what do i have a pocket knife for. just a second. work, and don’t despair. there we go. but this is a brick. your heart is a brick.
one: but it beats for you only.
marina,
i got a question regarding foreign words in russian. buzzword linked to a great site below, here’s a picture from that site. now, it says “джекпот” there, i was wondering for how long words like have been around in russia. it’s kinda hard to tell if they’ve been around a long time or if they got into russian after, say, 1990. also “бизнес” and the like (not sure about the spelling).
uh, so my question is if they started to just put foreign words into cyrillic just recently. those terms seem to center on business-related or technical things, which would explain it i guess. most anglicisms we got over here are from that field, of course.
i was looking through those photos of moscow as well and was trying to translate the signage. interesting question aLx, the article references the social and economic changes occurring in moscow and i wonder what type of effect it is having on language. if you only knew a russian philologist who could answer your inquiry. but what are the odds?
i guess your going to have to get interpretty to answer your question.
yeah, well, too bad she posted only once. and i’m not convinced that this is really her. uh. i’ll give it a try, though.
lol. p11. i had the same thought yesterday that you wrote in one of your comments: what do we agree on?
seems like he disagrees with everything i think about language and all.
yeah, he’s smart and argues well. but disagrees with me. i mean shouldn’t he be right, like me?
since he disagrees with me, he can’t be that smart, can he?
can’t argue with that logic.
hmm. what’s this new plugin on the frontpage?
have you clicked on interpretty’s name? damn. i wonder if this is really her.
Wow! She is really pretty and SMART!
well … yeah … this is why i was wondering why she’d ask for “fuck”. usually, women, well-educated women, wouldn’t ask for words that have to do with “profanity”. something else that confused me is her “cheers!” at the end of her comment. so, i don’t know … some russian-speaking person should talk to her in russian, see if she speaks it.
can’t locater her. i can’t believe i missed a request for the word “fuck”
on the life of riley lesson:
interpretty on August 14th, 2008 6:44 am
F..k, please!
Marina, do you agree it comes from the ancient or is it primitive or traditional England where a person could not have sex unless he or she had consent of the king in those days (unless that person was in the Royal Family). It is said that when anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard they hung on their door while they were having sex. The pacard had F.U.C.K (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it.
Would you agree with this version?
(You and I have much in common – Russian, philologist, 27 year-old, blonde, love words and wordplay. It’s a great idea to create such a website – accept my compliments. Cheers!)
–> her site.
thinking of visiting moscow? i do believe they have a bit of a night life culture.
i said that months ago. that i’d love to see moscow. but it’s expensive. most expensive city in the world.
i even looked up how much a flight is. about 300 euro which is … about 450 dollars. well, that’s okay for a flight to moscow i guess. but the rest … damn …
moscow never sleeps check out the photo gallery.
check this out: moscow doesn’t believe in tears.
nightclubbing
i’ve always been fascinated by the contrasts that exist among night lifers. poor, homeless, junkies, thugs, emergency rooms, night clubbing, celebrity, performance, romance, excitement. threshold between pleasure and pain. the extremes get tiresome after a while. here’s another related song featuring iggy. you got to love iggy.
true. the first one was even with vanessa paradis! ha! very cool.
with regards to “fuck” ….
This is a cartoon panel from an old underground comic (Zap):
http://www.mijj.info/misc/profanity/2_bodily_functions.gif
ok … this thread is abandoned … so it’s safe to add a poem that noone will see (.. continuing the current theme) …
[YouTube: Evidently Chicken Town - John Cooper Clarke]
This is just between you ‘n me, thread! … … shhhhhh!
EVIDENTLY CHICKEN TOWN – John Cooper Clarke
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the fucking cops are fucking keen
to fucking keep it fucking clean
the fucking chief’s a fucking swine
who fucking draws a fucking line
at fucking fun and fucking games
the fucking kids he fucking blames
are nowhere to be fucking found
anywhere in chicken town
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the fucking scene is fucking sad
the fucking news is fucking bad
the fucking weed is fucking turf
the fucking speed is fucking surf
the fucking folks are fucking daft
don’t make me fucking laugh
it fucking hurts to look around
everywhere in chicken town
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the fucking train is fucking late
you fucking wait you fucking wait
you’re fucking lost and fucking found
stuck in fucking chicken town
the fucking view is fucking vile
for fucking miles and fucking miles
the fucking babies fucking cry
the fucking flowers fucking die
the fucking food is fucking muck
the fucking drains are fucking fucked
the colour scheme is fucking brown
everywhere in chicken town
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…
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the fucking pubs are fucking dull
the fucking clubs are fucking full
of fucking girls and fucking guys
with fucking murder in their eyes
a fucking bloke is fucking stabbed
waiting for a fucking cab
you fucking stay at fucking home
the fucking neighbors fucking moan
keep the fucking racket down
this is fucking chicken town
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the fucking train is fucking late
you fucking wait you fucking wait
you’re fucking lost and fucking found
stuck in fucking chicken town
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the fucking pies are fucking old
the fucking chips are fucking cold
the fucking beer is fucking flat
the fucking flats have fucking rats
the fucking clocks are fucking wrong
the fucking days are fucking long
it fucking gets you fucking down
evidently chicken town
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which reminds me, that search function was handy. why did she take it off?
don’t know. but you can always do a google search. you just have to include “site:hotforwords.com” in your search.
yeah, just being lazy. i have so many windows open and tabs going on it looks like a collage.
I took it off for two reasons… 1: it exposed your place here… 2: I noticed that most searches were for word origins.. so it made it hard for people to find those word origins. Perhaps I can find a search plugin that allows me to prioritize the results.. let me look now..
marina, don’t bother. i’m doing a google search like aLx recommended.
Marina, You forgot one other thing. You need to turn off cocomments RSS feed when you post here also.
damn. she’s good.
more like jesus, she’s good. yeah, hopes she sticks around.
whenever i run into women that i think could be cool to hang out with, i end up talking about my wife. i guess its to let them know that i’m in a committed relationship and convey that i’m not interested in hooking up. just so everyone knows from the get go. in the past when a women realizes i’m married i can tell they become suspicious of my intent. so if i put it out there, seems to make em’ feel more comfortable. i’ve watched guys who are married start talking to a girl their obviously attracted to, and when the women brings up his status, the guy admits to it like he’s ashamed to be married. funny thing is i think women on some level find a happily married guy more attractive because he is capable of a healthy relationship. women have a larger portion of their brain committed to human relationships whereas men have a larger portion of their brain committed to sex. no surprise there. there is a whole evolutionary theory explaining that.
hey, i assumed you weren’t religious, too cynical. are you, were you, a faith based organism?
i think i’m an agnostic tending to atheist views, though i find myself defending religious views at times. this is because many non-believers are just stupid and uneducated concerning religion, or being polemic, or trying to put down people who believe. i don’t like that.
i once read that book … it was about the genesis. the author explained every paragraph, you know, history and all. and i thought, man, this really IS complicated and very complex.
i think a major factor is how you got raised, brought up. i think that if you, as a child, go to church, attend sunday school, bible studies … if you do that you’re more likely to adopt religious views.
i didn’t get raised like that. i think my mom kinda believes in … something, not really sure what, my dad does not.
me not really believing is probably to do with growing up in east germany, too.
at the end of the day, no-one knows. nobody can verify or falsify his own or other people’s views, which is not necessary anyway. even the attempt to do that is stupid. it requires that there is an entity of which everyone has the same picture in mind, the same access. like a car. somebody could say, i don’t believe that it has wheels on the other side, the side we can’t see. i could say, i don’t believe that, it just looks like that because it is parked on the side of a little bank. then both of us could go around the car and falsify at least one of those statements.
so, if you say something like, i believe in god, what about you? what could my answer possibly be? i should then say something like, maybe, could be, it’s possible, i don’t know — because i just don’t know what picture, notion, you have in mind when you say “god”, and you will never be able to exactly tell me what your picture looks like. and i will never be capable of seeing the exact picture that you have in mind. and that’s that.
Hi Marina, here is another meaning for dirty vikings; “viking on the quest for mud:
Jocular name for a sodomite . See sodomite for synonyms.” http://www.sex-lexis.com/Sex-Dictionary/viking+on+the+quest+for+mud
what the hell is it with this dude?
the man is just fucking peculiar. marina ought to make these frames mean something, like, “fucking odd” for some and “cynical” for others. i wish there was a, “stay the fuck out of my frame” button. man, all this hostility is getting in the way of my naturally eloquent and serene state of mind, fucking pisses me off. you ever been described as hostile?
there’s a lot of adjectives and phrases people used to describe me. needless to say, it always depends on who it came from and all. people that don’t know me well may misunderstand my words / actions.
so, yeah, hostile was one of them. hostile, unsocial, ironic, sarcastic, cynical, defeatist, mean, nice, honest, too direct, undiplomatic, like an ice block, somewhat extreme, apathetic, choleric, chaotic, minimalist, complicated, complex, different, dainty, pedantic, analytical, emotional, not emotional, like a robot, unrealistic, a dreamer, an idiot, good, bad, destructive, “he doesn’t really mean it”, naive, indecisive, weird, a loner, helpful, cooperative, incommunicative, reserved, quiet … and on and on … most it is contradictory. i don’t know. and it’s not something i think about a lot.
Can you email me aLx.. is there someone I need to talk to?
k., just sent an email to your word-love…address.
what’s with all the drummer jokes? makes no fucking sense. this is exactly what i meant. he has nothing to say so he gets a joke book and just randomly posts drummer jokes. pathetic, and he complained about us?
that’s what i was thinking. asking him wouldn’t make any sense i guess. maybe he just wants some sort of reaction, regardless of what that reaction may be like.
friend of mine is a drummer. went to england a few years ago to attend university over there. got two degrees, working on his ph.d. now.
no, not going to ask either.
best friend is a drummer in a band out in colorado. musicians get shit, well musicians in certain genres get shit for being stupid. such bullshit. i would like to learn to play something, piano. the whole process, environments and social setting are really attractive to me. probably why i’ve spent so much time hanging out with musicians and bands.
are your friend’s degrees music related?
ah, forgot to mention that. no, he’s got philosophy degrees. we always have great discussions about all sorts of things. that is, when he’s over here which doesn’t happen very often. he seems to like philosophers i don’t like so that makes for long and funny discussions. also constantly arguing about literature and the world and whatever.
yeah, sometimes i think i should’ve tried to become a rock star or something. someone playing the guitar. they always get the girls. hehe.
those types of differences among friends really adds to the dynamic of the relationship and conversations. nice to have disagreements that are constructive and beneficial. i enjoy disagreeing with friends, comfortable conflicts.
dude, what the hell. i need to be kept entertained? what is this? fucking pre-school? what’s this place turning into? i don’t need anyone getting suddenly all schoolmasterly and patronizing on my ass.
screw this.
you talking about the captain providing entertainment for the kids with short attention spans? his explanation was rather condescending but don’t take it personally. besides if it satisfies some people it could be beneficial. so many start bitching about where the hell marina is or just waste time making peculiar comments while waiting for some attention.
alx. I wasn’t referring that you needing to be entertained. It was an idea I had to help keep the kids entertained/distracted until the next video gets put up. Marina can’t take a day off without the natives getting restless and bitchy.
BW, Kids with short attention spans is right on the money! I see a pattern right after the new lesson is posted. They all make comments on the new vid then some do the homework. After that it becomes a free for all. After about 400 comments or so they start flinging poo at each other. The biggest problem is the tolls here watch this go on and like to stir up the flames until there is a big bon fire. They get everyone worked up on senseless bullshit. I think they get their rocks off on building fires. Me personally, I’m getting sick of the drama.
All Im trying to accomplish is finding ways to keep the kiddies from mudding up the classroom and try to reduce some of Marina’s work load. If you guys have any ideas, my door is open.
free rice, don’t know how you’d work it in. but its a good cause and is word related.
i don’t know any games and it has not to do w/ distraction and all but …
aLx on April 3rd, 2008 8:46 am
marina,
since some people know about certain linguistic termini, but a lot of others don’t — maybe you would consider doing a glossary? like, what is a morpheme and the like. I think that’d help some people to understand what other people are talking about and then even engage in conversations? like, some time ago I was involved in a conversation about morphemes, I think. some guy asked what morphemes are, I tried to explain it and then he understood the whole thing, or he got an idea of what other people were talking about.
just an idea.
yeah i think that would be constructive. a basic glossary of terms and summary of the methodology could encourage some interesting discussions. i also thought that marina could do a couple videos explaining some basic linguistic concepts. it would get attention, imagine the title, “marina, morpheme addict”.
I tried the free rice. That was great..
I like it.. I had just to quit the game because I was getting addicted to it. The glossary sound great also. I would love to learn more about linguistics and how all this works. 
I found a few little flash player games that interest me and I think would interest the above average students. I will see how to incorporate these ideas into her blog and I hope they don’t crash or bog down the system. That last game I posted was just a link so there was not conflict with the server. It was a short lived game only lasting 5 minutes and your done. But it proved to me that some people where interested in word games.
I like both of your ideas because they addressed the more intelligent students in the class. Now that hard part is finding something for the (short attention span/I just learned how to spell my name) type students. I might have to find some of the stupidest games out there and see which ones they like.
This glossary idea, you know of any website that are already doing something like this. I want to not have to waste time reinventing the wheel and if Im lucky find a tool that would make it easy for students to contribute. Having Marina do videos would increase her work load but I don’t see that would need very many videos to get weeks upon weeks of discussions. I think Marina would love to discuss many of her concepts she learned over the years.
If any other ideas pop into your head or you come across any while surfing let me know. You can email me too if you want, ta at captain jack dot (ws). Sorry to get all cryptic but Marina doesn’t have an email shroud plugin installed yet. The spambots are getting smarter now.
lol. what the fuck is going on?
yawn, the drama continues.
that chacha dude … damn … that really got to me. *rolleyes*
actually this is some of the most coherent writing he has done. i’m kinda of proud that we’ve inspired him. unfortunately, i have no idea what a effitist is or what is meant by pseudo head games. head games means deceptive manipulation right? so are we fake deceptive manipulators? unless he means our discussions are superficially intellectual. okay so he isn’t that coherent. i was a little surprised that i, you have irritated him to such a degree. i never really gave him much attention, he never has anything to say that interests me, lots of puns and useless links. most of the time he doesn’t make any sense, ranting or rambling.
I guess I learned that I cannot go more than a day without a new lesson otherwise all hell breaks loose!!!
yeah, i’m blaming you for the russia/georgia conflict too. now there’s something to be upset about.
*rolleyes*
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she has to make an appearance or they get agitated and start acting out their frustrations. this site provides some damn good psychological observations of male behavior patterns.
yeah, i know. this is why i said it would all be forgotten as soon as the next lesson is up.
male behavior patterns. dude, if we’re really that fucked up … there’s not much hope, huh.
would it be different if it was like the other way round? a guy doing videos and the audience consisting mainly of females? what would that look like?
can’t imagine, maybe you should give it a try?
as for chacha, i was surprised, too. thought something like, what is he talking about. what did i do to upset him. oh well, didn’t really care. though “head games” doesn’t sound too bad. better than child play or something. didn’t he call me cynical? i can live with that all right.
wtf is this stokesguy up to?
got no clue. i was reviewing the sequence of his comments and he seems to have just switched personalities.
some of these guys start commenting to each other and i can’t make sense out of it. it gets annoying cause they frequently seem to understand each other. like do they share the same mental illness or something?
now he’s just posting odd video links to comments in various lessons. lots of odd behavior.
damn, capman went nucking futs.
will soon be forgotten as the next lesson is up. misunderstanding i guess, is all.
hey and new lesson, forget about what?
i don’t remember.
something strange is afoot at the circle k. hmm… capman’s comments have been removed.
yeah, uh, wtf? not just his.
umm. they’re coming back. uh. not threaded though.
*rolleyes*
the correct spelling conversation was entertaining. you ever consider teaching sixteen year old kids?
are you being serious or am i missing the humor again?
dude. 16 year old kids. damn. i was sixteen once, i know what 16-year-olds are like. i know what i was like. always had a problem w/ authority. still do. there were teachers i liked and teachers i didn’t like, and vice versa. we had this astronomy teacher. dumb as fuck. i always corrected her grammar when she wrote something on the blackboard. probably mainly because i really sucked in astro b/c i really wasn’t interested. shit, if a _teacher_ says something like, “there is no semicolon in german” … what are you gonna do? especially when you’re 16 years old? i mean, damn, she graduated from university at some point in her life, didn’t she read any books? didn’t those books have semicolons in them? what the hell?
anyway. i don’t know if i had the patience to teach anyone.
you’re pretty busy these days, ain’t you? or are you more like a reader momentarily?
ah, i forget.
i meant to ask you if you got an opinion on the “off” thing, being an american and all. you know, that (probably unfinished) discussion w/ p11.
no, just joking about teaching. i have the same problems with authority. i am now attending a smaller college and a lot of the instructors suck. my psych. instructor was illustrating a process of the brain and providing an example. a student asked about some detail, “how is that possible?” and he says, “oh, i don’t know much about the brain.” my head dropped to my desk, i swear i lost consciousness. i used to challenge him, but i just don’t care anymore.
i’ve already aggravated him, he took two points off an answer of mine. a portion of a question asked to provide two examples of abstract thought, and he said my two examples were too abstract. ha fuck. is there a word for being amused and pissed off? this is a portion of my insufficient answer, “… placing oneself in another person’s role or situation and contemplating that individual’s perspective.” this is the example he provided during class, “thinking about thinking.” what the fuck!
well, time passes by and then i scan all the comments and by the time i think about going back and commenting i look at the time and like, shit, time, got to go.
the “off” thing what the hell was that about, see what i mean no time, missing shit. inform me please.
by the way, our discussion about capitalization, i was typing up notes when i realized how much efficient it was to skip capitalizing, so i gave up on that some time ago. hmm… should have given me more time to comment. maybe i should give up punctuation, all those periods, think of all the time i’d save.
yeah, the question came up what “off” in “pissed off” is. and he’s like, probably an adverb. with which i disagreed.
oh yeah, well… i have heard about the origin going back to wwII. i always thought it referred to pissing on somebody and making them retreat. i’ve seen kids while pissing, pissing on each other’s feet in game play, to move them off or away. of course if one gets pissed on while retreating or off they are generally angry or pissed off, because they have been pissed off instead pushed or knocked off. pissed off is a state of anger in response to insulting, dirty or unfair tactics. and thus the fight is about to get down and dirty. anyway, my opinion is that its a preposition, for the above stated reasons. now piss off.
(a.1) i’m pissing [off the building]. –> prep.
(a.2) # i’m pissing off [the building]. –> ?
(b.1) i’m pissing off [p11]. –> ?
(b.2) # i’m pissing [off p11]. –> prep.
i’m a little rusty at this. if you said “i’m pissing off” “off” would be an adverb because there is no object. right? “i”m pissing off p11″ is a prepositional phrase because there is an object to complete its meaning and the whole sentence is an adverb phrase. right? subordinate conjunctions always confused me. no wonder i don’t speak good english.
marina, checking out some of your comments.
post apocalyptic future, the natural environment would have to cope with all those nuclear reactors melting down.
asian american stereotypes, the term “asian american” does include a wide variety of cultures of which some do not excel in math and sciences. that characteristic is a result of educational expectations and cultural values of specific asian cultures. i would say that if you apply that characteristic to all asians or asian americans it is a stereotype, however if you use it as a description of japanese students in general to describe a statistical pattern, it would be appropriate. however the issue becomes complicated, these statistics are dependent on the generation of the asian american. as generations are distanced from japanese cultural values the more defining american values may affect math and science scores. this only emphasizes the cultural origins of success in the math and sciences.
does “i’m down for that” mean the same as “i’m up for that”?
i use, “down with that” to note agreement, understanding or appreciation. i use, “up for that” to convey a commitment with enthusiasm or motivation. for instance, “are you down with rock climbing?” response: “yeah, i’m down with rock climbing.” “so, you want to go now?” response: “no, ain’t up for that.”
I agree with you buzzword… “down with that” seems like you are OK with something.. whereas “I’m up for that” might be used where you are more excited about doing it. Both basically mean the same thing.. one just has a little more enthusiasm attached to it.
personality disorders … uh … i know what borderline can look like, three of my ex-girlfriends were borderliners (three in a row, that was weird), one of them exhibited signs of schizophrenia. another one was kinda hysterical, yet another one had depressions and/or something else i couldn’t quite figure out. occasionally, she’d go some place and didn’t remember how she got there and what she was doing in the last half hour or so. scared the crap out of her.
and, it’s a little bit how nietzsche put it: when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
so, i got the disorder thing covered, i think …
damn… must have been really hard on you as well. what do you think compels your interest toward people with these shared characteristics? do they represent a large portion of the social scene you function in?
i ask because, well, best friend was bipolar, lots of other friends were suffering as well from various disorders. i thought i was really fucked up as well. still do, frankly, just not as much, slightly neurotic perhaps. but i think a lot of it was the scene with its values and motives that i shared. many of us were definitely not healthy for each other.
i recall too many shitty situations, taking pregnant girl to hospital because of suicide attempt with pills and having to go back and tell her father, who assumed i was her boyfriend. at one point he was crying with me and saying how lucky she was to have a boyfriend like me. i’m think to myself, man, your daughter is alone in a shit hole with a bunch of guys too stoned to take her to the hospital. she’s not making it, she was just lucky i was there.
anyway, thats my bit. thats why i care about your experiences, seems disturbingly familiar. tough place to be, even if you have the disorder thing figured out. its like saying, i’m not lost, i’m looking into the abyss, i know exactly where i am. so here’s to the abyss and all the pills it takes to fill it.
after the third borderline girlfriend i talked to a … well back then she was a friend … she was about to get her degree in psychology, she’s a therapist now, i think. anyway, i told her about that and she’s like, “what do you think — coincidence or pattern?” yeah, i thought about that a lot. didn’t really come to a conclusion, i mean i talked to a lot of people and they were what’s considered “normal”. thing is, you don’t really know about this stuff when you meet someone, you just can’t tell. the third one, well, she showed this “weird” behavior, kinda extreme, and at some point, i was like, look, you’re not gonna like this but you do show signs of borderline, i think you should get some help. that was a hard thing to do. sure enough she got upset (”what the fuck? i’m not crazy!”), eventually, she’d give in, and, there you go, borderline, suspected schizophrenia. tried to kill herself w/ pills, i dialed 911 … yeah, well. i ran into her about two years later, she said that she’d been in treatment and thanked me saving her life, which i think she didn’t really have to do, if someone really wants to kill themselves, they’ll do it, no matter what.
as for now, yeah, i know people being in psychological treatment or having gotten (?) borderline/ bipolar diagnosis. this world is depressed i guess. maybe it’s mainly people from my generation, generation x. funny thing is, “x” in mathematics is an unknown variable. in order to solve for x, you have to rearrange the equation. plus, x is unknown at first. i think this is a great analogy. generation x — you never know what you’re gonna get.
being w/ someone suffering from mental disorders can be exhausting. you’ll need a break once in a while. which is kinda counterproductive (”you don’t love me anymore, i hate you, don’t leave me.”) stuff like that. weird thing is, you kinda get used to it.
and there’s a lot of crap out there that makes you angry, you know. like, switching on the tv, it’s a perfect world in there. but someone has to take care of this mess, someone has to take care of those left behind, those who are struggling … if you don’t belong to them, you’re lucky. but i guess luck is like money or love — unequally distributed. one of the biggest lies of the past and present century is that you can get and become what you want if you just want it bad enough, or something to that effect.
everyone is trying to save their sorry ass. and that’s what it all comes down to. that’s it, that’s all.
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