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Post by amipal on Oct 14, 2019 13:24:39 GMT
I'm reading reports about the latest developments in Syria and I'm just feeling so exhausted with worry again. I thought the misery had ended, but of course the orange idiot had to inflict more pain on this battered region.[ There should be an entrance exam on geopolitics for all applicants for the job. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Oct 14, 2019 13:24:53 GMT
I am assuming Sheeps wrote the orginal post embedded in Mlu's post that I am referring to in my post. I'd forgoteen about Knausgaard, that was two weeks of my life I'll never get back. I see he is still gracing the literary world with his genius. Dr Alimantado? |
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Post by amipal on Oct 14, 2019 13:25:43 GMT
What country should I mess up next? I could turn this into a lucrative business. Maybe the CIA will be interested. France. Definitely France. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Oct 14, 2019 13:27:57 GMT
I've not read Knausgaard. One of his books has been lent to me.
I am keeping it for a short while. Then returning it, pretending to have read it some months previously. I will describe it as pretentious waffle, but be a bit vague on details.
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Post by dakylosaurus419 on Oct 14, 2019 14:03:27 GMT
I've not read Knausgaard. One of his books has been lent to me. By the man himself or a third party? Which of his books? I hear he quite likes Ursula Kleguin. You should probably return it soon or he'll write a 1000 page microbiography about it. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Oct 14, 2019 14:04:31 GMT
A Guardian pick with a serious comment on a SERIOUS issue. What have you ever achieved?
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Post by Shenguin on Oct 14, 2019 14:06:07 GMT
I have read Knausgaard's My Struggle Book 1. It was annoying and pretentious self-satisfied self-flagellating posturing, though, annoyingly, successful in some ways. I lent it to someone who isn't intelligent enough to be able to read it.
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Post by Sheep2 on Oct 14, 2019 14:09:24 GMT
I have read Knausgaard's My Struggle Book 1. It was annoying and pretentious self-satisfied self-flagellating posturing, though, annoyingly, successful in some ways. I lent it to someone who isn't intelligent enough to be able to read it. Hiya! When you have an (unrescinded) Guardian pick you don't have to read Knausgaard. |
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Post by dakylosaurus419 on Oct 14, 2019 14:13:08 GMT
Jenkins is a right 🔔 end
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Post by foot bottom on Oct 14, 2019 14:17:08 GMT
Shen, I read the same book and agree with everything you say. Why would you lend it to someone unless they needed material to light their coal fire?
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Post by lazybones on Oct 14, 2019 14:18:53 GMT
Hello
Have you seen Joker? The Joker - the film about the Joker?
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Post by foot bottom on Oct 14, 2019 14:23:48 GMT
Lazy!
I have not. I have gone from really wanting to see the film to thinking that I do not care for it. Can you give me an enlightened opinion on The Joker?
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Post by Shenguin on Oct 14, 2019 14:36:26 GMT
Shen, I read the same book and agree with everything you say. Why would you lend it to someone unless they needed material to light their coal fire? I didn't feel the need for it to be in my collection of books, and I didn't have a problem with trying to inflict it on someone else. |
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Post by lazybones on Oct 14, 2019 14:39:56 GMT
Lazy! I have not. I have gone from really wanting to see the film to thinking that I do not care for it. Can you give me an enlightened opinion on The Joker? I liked it, I think. Much better than all recent superhero films. Bleak. But... I don't want people to think I'm a white supremacist or incel. I mean ... I can see it how it pushes those buttons. Also ... I had misgivings about some of its implications and suggestions. But maybe it is a film actually *about* white supremacism. I don't know... I mean I don't want to say too much in case I spoil the viewing experience. |
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Post by lazybones on Oct 14, 2019 14:58:05 GMT
I mean, you know ...
It's not better than Superman 2 or Spiderman 2.
I even look like an incel these days. An old fashioned one. Green parka.. glasses. I'm thinking of getting a scuffed Aldi bag for carrying about my possessions.
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Post by Faceless on Oct 14, 2019 15:35:58 GMT
I was planning on watching El Camino later, but one of my colleagues has just provided a detailed synopsis, so I don't think I'll bother.
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Post by Sheep2 on Oct 14, 2019 15:49:55 GMT
I was planning on watching El Camino later, but one of my colleagues has just provided a detailed synopsis, so I don't think I'll bother. You'll be better off watching the Joker then shooting up a local shopping mall. |
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Post by m1dnitecreeper on Oct 14, 2019 15:57:23 GMT
A Guardian pick with a serious comment on a SERIOUS issue. What have you ever achieved? What are you doing?? |
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Post by mlu035rsc on Oct 14, 2019 16:02:37 GMT
Hello Have you seen Joker? The Joker - the film about the Joker? Yes, yes I have. |
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Post by amipal on Oct 14, 2019 16:05:33 GMT
Jenkins is a right 🔔 end Very true. |
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Post by lazybones on Oct 14, 2019 16:07:29 GMT
Hello Have you seen Joker? The Joker - the film about the Joker? Yes, yes I have. Did you like it? |
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Post by tenthenemy on Oct 14, 2019 16:27:15 GMT
So Tent Hen is an international Typhoid Mary? Yes, but I'd like to think that my cooking is better. |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Oct 14, 2019 16:50:11 GMT
scamander hit us up with a link to the podcasts. I am not playing much except Apex Legends and a spot of XCom 2. I gave up on RDR2 because it was all too much and Arthur's voice annoyed me. I am quietly pumped for Outer Worlds. @book burning blog. I have not read or burned any books by that Knausgaard fellow, but i was once party to a bookburning while drunk as a student. I am not proud of it, but the 90s was a more optimistic time in which it was widely considered that everything was 'well sorted' and further enlightenment was therefore unnecessary.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Oct 14, 2019 17:11:25 GMT
but the 90s was a more optimistic time in which it was widely considered that everything was 'well sorted' and further enlightenment was therefore unnecessary. I still subscribe to this ideology and apply it to everything from dietary requirements to unborn children. |
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Post by dakylosaurus419 on Oct 14, 2019 17:23:37 GMT
I am not proud of it, but the 90s was a more optimistic time in which it was widely considered that everything was 'well sorted' and further enlightenment was therefore unnecessary. Calm down Fukuyama |
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