oh, I see.Pretentious twaddle.
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Moon Girl Technologies I make computers, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:17,
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the website isn't taking pains to emphasise that point.(
Moon Girl Technologies I make computers, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:19,
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Moon GT in "judging things as pretentious before she knows all the facts" shocker.(
spangolin, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:22,
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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."
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Moon Girl Technologies I make computers, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:24,
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welcome to advertising.the paper is genuinely nice, though. Thick and smooth. And folds out flat.
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spangolin, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:25,
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do you think there are too many violins in the second movement?(
GrandmaOfShoes invariably egotistical., Tue 13 May 2008, 12:25,
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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.
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icklepeach is wearing stretchy waist-banded trousers on, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:29,
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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.
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spangolin, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:35,
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which is fineif 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!
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icklepeach is wearing stretchy waist-banded trousers on, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:46,
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I just assumed it was pretentious when rnuk linked it(
Gilgamesh wants a rock to wind a piece of string around, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:24,
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ThisRnuk in 'trying to be Robin Johnson' shocker
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Mykeyboy A Quantum-State Holistic Standing Wavefront, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:27,
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I cant say i do.But i think you fancy yourself a bit too much.
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Mykeyboy A Quantum-State Holistic Standing Wavefront, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:29,
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The difference is, Rnuk is a londoner, he's allowed to be.Stands back and watches the fireworks.
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\m/ (o0) \m/ ----- Ninety En Zed Zero I think I installed a virus =/, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:33,
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Correct.I have a journal for work. It means I look after it too.
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mr_wicksy is called as such on the PS3 Network too, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:24,
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How in beans county can a notebook, an inanimate objectbe pretentious?
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I don't know,but they seem to have managed it.
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Moon Girl Technologies I make computers, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:19,
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no, they're lovelyjust well-made from pleasant materials.
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Flapjack - FANTASTIIIIIIIIIIC!, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:19,
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I bet you use a really pretentious pencil to write in them, don't you,you bourgeois monster
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Fountain pen,I'm afraid. And a refillable, not one of your cartridge monstrosities.
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Flapjack - FANTASTIIIIIIIIIIC!, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:24,
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Not pretentious. And how can a notebook be pretentious?I love mine. Good quality, handy size, brilliant. I always use them.
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LimeyTreat - if she wasn't real you'd make her up, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:22,
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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.
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Moon Girl Technologies I make computers, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:26,
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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.
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spangolin, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:27,
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trainers and bags serve proper purposes too!anything can become a fashion item for showing off. Mobile phones, cars, watches, anything.
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Moon Girl Technologies I make computers, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:30,
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I've never, ever seen anyone poncing about displaying a moleskine notebooksaying '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.
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Wicca'd Witch won't shut up about going to see Mark Steel, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:29,
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Thats pretty much what rnuk is saying by bringing it up though isnt it?(
Mykeyboy A Quantum-State Holistic Standing Wavefront, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:32,
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Not really.He was actually referring to the Chap Olympiad.
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Wicca'd Witch won't shut up about going to see Mark Steel, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:40,
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why did he mention moleskine journals particularly though?(
icklepeach is wearing stretchy waist-banded trousers on, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:43,
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He may well have mentioned dapper hats, pipes and well maintained facial hair.(
Wicca'd Witch won't shut up about going to see Mark Steel, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:46,
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Its almost like he was being pretentious!(
Mykeyboy A Quantum-State Holistic Standing Wavefront, Tue 13 May 2008, 12:47,
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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.
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