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what's a moleskine diary?

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies I make computers, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:14, archived)
I believe its what Chaps have

(I helped save b3ta! Blue Star I'll blow you a kiss, it should reach you tomorrow, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:15, archived)
And drunk artists
www.moleskine.co.uk/
(rnuk - http://www.laonei.com/photos/info.php?infoid=313&u, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:16, archived)
oh, I see.
Pretentious twaddle.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies I make computers, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:17, archived)
no, good paper.

(I helped save b3ta! spangolin, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:17, archived)
the website isn't taking pains to emphasise that point.

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies I make computers, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:19, archived)
Moon GT in "judging things as pretentious before she knows all the facts" shocker.

(I helped save b3ta! spangolin, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:22, archived)
It's a damn pretentious website,
they've only got themselves to blame.

"the legendary notebook of Van Gogh, Chatwin, Hemingway, Matisse and Céline"
"Life is a journey, carry your Moleskine with you every step of the way."
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies I make computers, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:24, archived)
welcome to advertising.
the paper is genuinely nice, though. Thick and smooth. And folds out flat.
(I helped save b3ta! spangolin, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:25, archived)
It's marketing.
Every company does it.
(rnuk - http://www.laonei.com/photos/info.php?infoid=313&u, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:25, archived)
do you think there are too many violins in the second movement?

(I helped save b3ta! GrandmaOfShoes invariably egotistical., Tue 13 May 2008, 12:25, archived)
I'm afraid, I'm with you on this one.
It's a notebook.

I use pukka pads by preference, because I often take notes that need to be filed / moved, clipped to things, ripped out etc, so perforated and hole punched are pretty important.

It's not even the original moleskine, it's a new company trading on the old one's reputation.
(I helped save b3ta! icklepeach is wearing stretchy waist-banded trousers on, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:29, archived)
I use mine as a sketchbook.
I don't know if I'd bother buying one just to take notes in, but it's a great format for a mini-book full of drawings.
(I helped save b3ta! spangolin, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:35, archived)
which is fine
if you're using it as keepsake art drawings stuff.

but since 99% of the population doesn't, it's a brand that seems to revel in it's OWN pretentiousness!
(I helped save b3ta! icklepeach is wearing stretchy waist-banded trousers on, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:46, archived)
I just assumed it was pretentious when rnuk linked it

(I helped save b3ta! Gilgamesh wants a rock to wind a piece of string around, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:24, archived)
This
Rnuk in 'trying to be Robin Johnson' shocker
(I helped save b3ta! Mykeyboy A Quantum-State Holistic Standing Wavefront, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:27, archived)
You fancy me SO much.

(rnuk - http://www.laonei.com/photos/info.php?infoid=313&u, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:28, archived)
I cant say i do.
But i think you fancy yourself a bit too much.
(I helped save b3ta! Mykeyboy A Quantum-State Holistic Standing Wavefront, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:29, archived)
I'm pretty amazing, I'll agree.

(rnuk - http://www.laonei.com/photos/info.php?infoid=313&u, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:30, archived)
The difference is, Rnuk is a londoner, he's allowed to be.
Stands back and watches the fireworks.
(I helped save b3ta! \m/ (o0) \m/ ----- Ninety En Zed Zero I think I installed a virus =/, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:33, archived)
Correct.
I have a journal for work. It means I look after it too.
(I helped save b3ta! mr_wicksy is called as such on the PS3 Network too, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:24, archived)
How in beans county can a notebook, an inanimate object
be pretentious?
(rnuk - http://www.laonei.com/photos/info.php?infoid=313&u, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:18, archived)
I don't know,
but they seem to have managed it.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies I make computers, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:19, archived)
no, they're lovely
just well-made from pleasant materials.
(I helped save b3ta! Flapjack - FANTASTIIIIIIIIIIC!, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:19, archived)
I bet you use a really pretentious pencil to write in them, don't you,
you bourgeois monster
(rnuk - http://www.laonei.com/photos/info.php?infoid=313&u, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:21, archived)
Fountain pen,
I'm afraid. And a refillable, not one of your cartridge monstrosities.
(I helped save b3ta! Flapjack - FANTASTIIIIIIIIIIC!, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:24, archived)
Not pretentious. And how can a notebook be pretentious?
I love mine. Good quality, handy size, brilliant. I always use them.
(I helped save b3ta! LimeyTreat - if she wasn't real you'd make her up, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:22, archived)
Ponce, toff, etc.

(rnuk - http://www.laonei.com/photos/info.php?infoid=313&u, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:22, archived)
anything can become pretentious,
when people buy it in order to be seen having the brand.
This very much appears to be a "branded" product.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies I make computers, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:26, archived)
a notebook only becomes popular if it's got a reason to be.
it's not a trainer or a bag, it serves a proper purpose.
(I helped save b3ta! spangolin, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:27, archived)
trainers and bags serve proper purposes too!
anything can become a fashion item for showing off. Mobile phones, cars, watches, anything.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies I make computers, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:30, archived)
I've never, ever seen anyone poncing about displaying a moleskine notebook
saying 'LOOK AT ME I HAVE A MOLESKINE NOTEBOOK'.

In the grand scheme of 'pretentious things people do to look really intelligent, wealthy and better than everyone else', it probably doesn't even blip my register.
(I helped save b3ta! Wicca'd Witch won't shut up about going to see Mark Steel, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:29, archived)
Thats pretty much what rnuk is saying by bringing it up though isnt it?

(I helped save b3ta! Mykeyboy A Quantum-State Holistic Standing Wavefront, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:32, archived)
You can't have me.
YOU CAN'T HAVE ME!
(rnuk - http://www.laonei.com/photos/info.php?infoid=313&u, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:33, archived)
This

(I helped save b3ta! icklepeach is wearing stretchy waist-banded trousers on, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:34, archived)
Not really.
He was actually referring to the Chap Olympiad.
(I helped save b3ta! Wicca'd Witch won't shut up about going to see Mark Steel, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:40, archived)
why did he mention moleskine journals particularly though?

(I helped save b3ta! icklepeach is wearing stretchy waist-banded trousers on, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:43, archived)
He may well have mentioned dapper hats, pipes and well maintained facial hair.

(I helped save b3ta! Wicca'd Witch won't shut up about going to see Mark Steel, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:46, archived)
Its almost like he was being pretentious!

(I helped save b3ta! Mykeyboy A Quantum-State Holistic Standing Wavefront, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:47, archived)
Hahaha, I find myself agreeing with you.
Or do I ? I don't know.

On the one hand, it's a fucking notebook, WH Smiths do them for a quid or two.

On the other hand, they look eligent and proffesional, and if I had a proffesion where I needed to take notes infront of stylish clients, it would be a subtaly good touch, adding to illusions of grander.
(I helped save b3ta! \m/ (o0) \m/ ----- Ninety En Zed Zero I think I installed a virus =/, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:30, archived)
A diary bound with moleskine.
It's not actually mole skin, but whatever it is it's bloody expensive.
(I helped save b3ta! Bob Todd, Groincrusher General jobby jobby plop plop, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:16, archived)
Oilcloth covered cardboard.
Moleskine's the brand name
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moleskine
(rnuk - http://www.laonei.com/photos/info.php?infoid=313&u, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:18, archived)
a lovely and wonderful note/sketchbook

(I helped save b3ta! spangolin, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:16, archived)