(Rapitinuiget in the cage and I'll give you a treat,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 2:24,
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CENTIPEDES? IN MY CAPSLOCK?
(postbearhas metal knees,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 2:28,
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HE FUCKING SAID IT, DIDN'T HE
POLISHED TURD, I'M NOT SURE HOW LONG THIS FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST WITH THAT KIND OF TALK.
(gronkpan@vomitinglarry.bsky.social,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 2:30,
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what?
(polished turd404 pixels wide,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 2:32,
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SHIFT KEY IS THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE TOOL.
CAPSLOCKS IS A MINIVAN TO A RACECAR.
(Tahkcalbω∞ for sigs,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 2:36,
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i know
i forgot to un-press it after gimpimng with it. and couldn't be arsed to go back and re-write it. so instead i will waste all these keypresses to explain my laziness. suck my minivan.
(polished turd404 pixels wide,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 2:38,
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I CAN'T BELIEVE ITS NOT BUTTER!
(BargeArseMaker of fine Trouser Trumpets since 1863,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 2:31,
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welcome to vimod's lab
(polished turd404 pixels wide,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:09,
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(We are the lemonirked your craw on,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 2:26,
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recognizing the announcement of a meme as a meme is now a meme
(PedroHinCome along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 2:29,
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You didn't mention the £5 coins
maybe they're not a meme.
(_Felix's school of dance and occult sciences,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 2:32,
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I sometimes get confused by the definition of "meme".
From what I've read it's supposed to be a unit of measurement but I've never heard something described as "2.5 memes".
EVERYONE STOP SAYING IT PLEASE
(gronkpan@vomitinglarry.bsky.social,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 2:40,
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IT
(polished turd404 pixels wide,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 2:42,
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The word unit appears 128 times in The Selfish Gene, but the word measurement zero times.
There are lots of occurrences of "genetic unit", "sub-unit", "basic unit", "working unit", and so on. I think it's mostly used to identify things that don't consist of smaller parts that compete among themselves. (Or, maybe they could do, but are unlikely to, because variations make the thing break. Or something. I'm just making this up.) Meme: "a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation."
Nobody's sure where a gene starts and ends, anyway, it's arbitrary.
"So far I have talked of memes as though it was obvious what a single unit-meme consisted of. But of course it is far from obvious. I have said a tune is one meme, but what about a symphony: how many memes is that? Is each movement one meme, each recognizable phrase of melody, each bar, each chord, or what? I appeal to the same verbal trick as I used in Chapter 3. There I divided the 'gene complex' into large and small genetic units, and units within units. The 'gene' was defined, not in a rigid all-or-none way, but as a unit of convenience, a length of chromosome with just sufficient copying fidelity to serve as a viable unit of natural selection."
(_Felix's school of dance and occult sciences,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 2:59,
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The part I have trouble getting my head around is that by this definition a cd or a movie or even a dance could be called a meme
none of these things are described as such, yet "SO I HERD YOU LIEK MUDKIPS" is.
(gronkpan@vomitinglarry.bsky.social,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:18,
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And your small-text has appeared now
I can see where he's coming from but I'd rather the word 'gene' get quantified instead of applying the same ambiguities to a new word.
(gronkpan@vomitinglarry.bsky.social,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:27,
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Not likely, most of his argument(s) falls to shit if you do.
He's a pseudo scientific fraud. Not to say his critics are any better.
(Tahkcalbω∞ for sigs,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:32,
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Genes have a semi-existence, depending on the extent of their success in an unmodified state.
Identifying their limits means predicting what form they will survive in, which is a thing best established by waiting (forever) to find out. Besides, they'll mostly only be stable for a while, and then be superseded. So it's a necessary word for a thing that definitely exists as a (semi-)coherent entity but can't be precisely delineated.
(_Felix's school of dance and occult sciences,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:34,
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Semi-existence? FUCK ME!
*urge to kill grows*
It's(genes) a convention for discussion and has no basis in reality, FFS. Semi my ass.
(Tahkcalbω∞ for sigs,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:39,
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These are my annoying words, BTW, not Dawkins'.
(_Felix's school of dance and occult sciences,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:42,
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ARRRRGH!! He's got your mind bent.
PLSFIXKTHX! Sorry, but that is silly talk.
Hit the biochemistry books. You'll hurt yourself thinking like that. Timecubes hoooo!
(Tahkcalbω∞ for sigs,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:46,
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I do actually regret saying "semi-existence"
it's not very objective of me. Some things are briefly stable - windspeeds, orbits - and it's a subjective judgment whether or not a particular one is stable enough to be declared to exist. I suppose the thing to do with a gene or a meme is to declare some arbitrary context, the same way that you might say windspeed as measured over the course of a minute, which would be different from the speed measured over an hour. Either could be used when talking about the speed "now". Stable states definitely exist in an objective way, but they exist as part of a continuum. The pockets of stability aren't just in our imaginations, but the limits of the pockets are. Come to think of it, most things are like this a bit. Objects, for instance. We just have a lot of very customary conventions for assuming where edges go.
(_Felix's school of dance and occult sciences,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:51,
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Noted.
Don't take my over the top reactions as more than that. Sloppy language of that sort can get me ranting for hours. [/;-D
on edit: Much better and more useful. That's more like tool making, not assigning the screwdriver as hammer and nail.
(Tahkcalbω∞ for sigs,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:54,
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That's alright.
I apologise for doing all my writing in the form of edits, it's a compulsion.
(_Felix's school of dance and occult sciences,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 4:00,
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As is mine to jump at false premisses.
My apologies if I upset you in any way.
(Tahkcalbω∞ for sigs,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 4:24,
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genes are just strings of amino acids
at what length of string a noticeable characteristic occurs should be pretty measurable, even if some are much longer than others.
As long as you've got a point of reference (for example, how the celsius scale has 0 degrees as the freezing point of water) then I can't see why it would be difficult.
I was working in a forensic lab when the human genome got released and sat around with my boss (who located the gene that causes alzheimers when he was younger) and we got pissed and read out pages to each other "G, C, T, G, G, A, G" etc. Yes, we're funny funny guys. Anyway, surely some number of amino acids could be used as a standard form of measurement?
(gronkpan@vomitinglarry.bsky.social,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:46,
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If you wish to weigh potatoes perhaps.
You used that "gene that causes alzheimers" bit just to watch my head explode didn't you? ARGH FUCK KILL!!!!!
(Tahkcalbω∞ for sigs,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:51,
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FINE
"Locus that highlights a predisposition to alzheimer's disease"
What the fuck would I know anyway? I was the admin manager and I was only a year or two out of high school.
(gronkpan@vomitinglarry.bsky.social,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 4:00,
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Exactly why you were told it the first way. (a guess, but from long experience)
Won't beat up on your second revision, even though it is still in error.
I AM NOT A CUNT, REALLY, THEY ARE MAKING ME THIS WAY!!!
(Tahkcalbω∞ for sigs,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 4:05,
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I think it's a part of that whole "remaining conversational" thing.
You know, like not saying meme.
(gronkpan@vomitinglarry.bsky.social,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 4:15,
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I have not used it this eve... yet.
I might not, as I also find it a rather meaningless term.
(Tahkcalbω∞ for sigs,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 4:16,
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Fair point.
Our internet text memes and image memes and link memes are trivial little things that breed rampantly. They're a new type of joke. We spread them semi-deliberately, as well. Spreading them is part of the fun. The ones that it seems like the greatest exploit to spread will be very successful, although that's tempered by part the challenge being to popularise things that really ought to be unpopular, e.g. Rick Astley.
(_Felix's school of dance and occult sciences,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:29,
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He says it quite a lot
in the Blind Watchmaker as well. I heartily agree with this neologism and condone its use in and out of context.
(Fitznicelyinto a thimble,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:18,
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He says it quite a lot
IS NOW A MEME
(Rapitinuiget in the cage and I'll give you a treat,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:28,
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Quote : "...sufficient copying fidelity to serve as a viable unit of natural selection."
Translation: "I am talking out my ass."
Unit of natural selection, my fuck that boy is such shit.
(Tahkcalbω∞ for sigs,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:36,
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MEM = WATER = DEATH
(Rapitinuiget in the cage and I'll give you a treat,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:42,
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DON'T GO SWIMEM AT 3AM
(gronkpan@vomitinglarry.bsky.social,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:49,
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IT WAS ALREADY A MEME
NOW YOU JUST LOOK LIKE A CLUELESS JERK
(hankemurphy, I'm a mess,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 3:32,
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(Puromycinis still licking windows,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:58,
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it's okay.
it's only just changed.
I currently hate my dad.. I was all asleep and everythign then he came in and told me something.. so I assuemed it was proper morning morning and got out of bed and dressed ready for work.. and it was 1am. Bah and Humbug!
To unpack that one is rather long chain of layers.
Colour is used with a purpose and ref. The origin is Gyo, the panel accompanies the part that is used for "get in the car" and other (word that gronkpan has b&) pics. It is a shark (with legs), I use a shark as alternate icon to hat, generally in a anti-anti chain. Which a silly pair use(d) in a web comic and was aped into a another. Add the local idiomatic CDC and several other refs too long to list here.
(Tahkcalbω∞ for sigs,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 5:11,
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HMMMM. OHSHITIFORGOTTHEBANANA
(We are the lemonirked your craw on,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:37,
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CLANSOUL?!
(Rapitinuiget in the cage and I'll give you a treat,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:38,
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Always,
(We are the lemonirked your craw on,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:40,
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(postbearhas metal knees,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 2:03,
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WOAH
I don't even know if that's rude or not
(Rapitinuiget in the cage and I'll give you a treat,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:44,
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HAY RAPITNUI
I HAVE BEEN WATCHING FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. I LIKE IT, RAPITINUI.
(KillerkittiLike my coffee black, just like my metal,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:47,
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heheheh
I can't take any credit for it whatsoever but I do agree they are very very good. What sucks is they had to go overseas to get any support (outside of the live comedy scene, which is understandably small) and now everyone is so proud.
(Rapitinuiget in the cage and I'll give you a treat,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:50,
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Aw man
you shoulda taken some credit. I probably would have believed you. XD Why does it suck that everyone is proud? I'm always proud when a band from NJ makes it big... :]
(KillerkittiLike my coffee black, just like my metal,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:53,
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oh no, quite right to celebrate them as local heroes
what sucks is they couldn't get funding here to make a TV show but they got it from HBO. Like John Clarke before them, hugely underappreciated in their own country.
(Rapitinuiget in the cage and I'll give you a treat,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 2:06,
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they did do the lovely doc type thing on the sxsw festival
(MonocromaticoLady Godiva's horse,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:46,
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Ah
I see. Sorry.
(Tony Macaronihello,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:49,
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no worries, you're new. it's good to learn.
toap has been explained - vimod is a meme here lately, some memes persist, many are very temporary. vimod is gronkpan's uncle, he owns a business selling bundles of cloth used to mop up faeces.
(postbearhas metal knees,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 2:01,
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new threads without pics kill kittens
(PedroHinCome along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:47,
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you just pushed someone's pic off the bottom of the page
bad form. 2 minutes in the penalty box.
(Foxglove-- it all ends in tears anyway...,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:48,
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there's a hotline you can call, it explains everything.
(postbearhas metal knees,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:43,
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UNderhill 7-5309?
(PedroHinCome along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:46,
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that was sold on ebay a while ago, wasn't it?
(postbearhas metal knees,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 2:13,
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text on a picture
simply putting text on an other unshopped picture is usually considered poor form because there's no real skill or thought behind it except for slapping some text on a picture. Consider how long it took for the person below you to create what they posted -- and you're going to push them down because some cat wants his fucking cheesburger? LOLTHATSTHEFUNNY.
(Foxglove-- it all ends in tears anyway...,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:45,
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OK THIS THREAD IS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT YOU GOTS BANANAS.
DO YOU GOTS BANANAS? POST IN THIS THREAD.
(gronkpan@vomitinglarry.bsky.social,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:23,
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(BargeArseMaker of fine Trouser Trumpets since 1863,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:25,
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THIS BEAUTIFUL LADY GOTS BANANAS TOO
(gronkpan@vomitinglarry.bsky.social,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:26,
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(Rapitinuiget in the cage and I'll give you a treat,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:43,
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I MADE THESE ROTTEN BANANAS INTO A DELICIOUS CAKE AND GAVE IT TO MY FAMILY AND WE ATE IT ON THE BEACH AND WE ALL AGREED IT WAS VERY DELICIOUS
(Rapitinuiget in the cage and I'll give you a treat,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:38,
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WE ATE SOME AFTER WE WATCHED MY GRANDMOTHERS REMAINS SWIRLING AWAY ON THE OUTGOING TIDE AND THE REST WE HAD LATER ALTHOUGH THERE WAS A BIT OVER SO I LET THEM KEEP IT FOR LATER.
AND WE ALL AGREED IT WAS VERY DELICIOUS.
(Rapitinuiget in the cage and I'll give you a treat,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:46,
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THIS SOUNDS LIKE A PRECURSOR FOR MORE BANANACAKE
(gronkpan@vomitinglarry.bsky.social,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:54,
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YOUR BANANS, I HAZ KILLED AND EATED THEMS.
(postbearhas metal knees,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:41,
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If you insist
(CapitanLast night a BJ choked my wife,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 1:51,
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