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Modern life is Rubbish, suggested Damian Allbran of Pulp
He might have had a point. What was better about the good old days, or conversely do you believe the modern world to be the zenith of civilisation?

(, Fri 17 Jul 2015, 10:46)
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what the fuck is a nose snorting dweeb?

(, Tue 21 Jul 2015, 16:32, 2 replies)
The kind of person who finds twee collective nouns "glorious".

(, Tue 21 Jul 2015, 16:36, closed)
Not a fan of poetry then, either
Or literature?
(, Tue 21 Jul 2015, 16:43, closed)
Yerr. Dweebish collective nouns are the same as poetry.

(, Tue 21 Jul 2015, 16:55, closed)
racheldweeb will appreciate this as a book wanker
I found an almost complete set of 1970s penguin "Complete Works" paperbacks in oxfam. Barely touched. They smell strongly of old lady but otherwise splendid.
(, Tue 21 Jul 2015, 17:03, closed)
wantwantwant

(, Tue 21 Jul 2015, 17:04, closed)
You snooze you lose.
Mmmm. Lilacs and pot pourri.
(, Tue 21 Jul 2015, 17:07, closed)
that's not dust
that's dried flakes of old lady skin
(, Tue 21 Jul 2015, 17:19, closed)
It tastes like cold cream and regret.

(, Tue 21 Jul 2015, 17:20, closed)
^ lol shops in oxfam

(, Tue 21 Jul 2015, 17:50, closed)
Yes.
Fortunately I live in a university city and not a stockbroker commuter hole so the local oxfam has an excellent turnover of books. Yours probably has tweed suits and Jilly Cooper.
(, Tue 21 Jul 2015, 18:06, closed)
^ lol works behind the counter in Oxfam.

(, Wed 22 Jul 2015, 13:52, closed)
did you see his ridiculous rant about french with blaireau 69?
that's your answer
(, Tue 21 Jul 2015, 17:04, closed)
Link now dammit.

(, Wed 22 Jul 2015, 6:04, closed)

b3ta.com/questions/conversationkillers/post1205599
(, Wed 22 Jul 2015, 8:54, closed)
Dunno, man.
I mean ... it's a bit weird that she remembers a post from years ago where some twit got upset that you speak French. She must have meant something else.
(, Wed 22 Jul 2015, 8:56, closed)
it was fairly memorable
my friend speaks French. well, my mrs IS French.

it was like watching two joeys having a dribbling contest.
(, Wed 22 Jul 2015, 10:48, closed)
b69 was a treat, wasn't he?
I kind of miss his drunken rants
(, Wed 22 Jul 2015, 8:57, closed)
I got dozens of genuinely mental fury-gazzes from him on my Shambles account.
He wasn't a well man.
(, Wed 22 Jul 2015, 9:07, closed)
Yeah he used to try to reason with Rory via gaz, the big silly.

(, Wed 22 Jul 2015, 9:09, closed)
Here we go, turns out he needed Rory's shoulder to cry on after this upsetting argument with you:
but just so that know (am i feeling charitable tonight or what?) in spite of the potential malice my paranoia keeps insisting on pointing out "shut up paranoia, there's only room for so many voices in here", this is pretty much how i feel about the last few weeks or whatever here on /qotw.
shambo took a dislike to me yonks ago voicing my displeasure at him being all trolly.
I was probably being a boring, medicated, drunken toss-pot.
He was doing his thread-deleting and editing/re-posting trick and I called him out on it is all. He then spent time and effort stalking me and raking up whatever personal info he could find about me and gazzed it to me (clearly trying to impotently menace me).
I politely (obviously in hindsight a mistake on my part) gazzed him back asking for a change of tack but all he could manage as a response was to post highly edited versions of my gazzes (i think pm means private or personal message?) on /talk.
Which is probably bad forum form?
And then one thing led to another.
I commented to another poster, in a later thread that the french phrase they had posted lacked, to my knowledge, a definite article and shambo disagreed strongly. considering his recent form, I responded in the manner I saw fit and he got utterly wanky with me. apparently his mrs is french and he has access to t'internet and is "fluent" in french himself and has a few french dictionaries in the house so obviously he (and only he) can be right. yeah, whatever. i've got hand-me down french dictionaries, novels, technical manuals and all other sorts of stuff too, from my sister (st andrews' 2:1hons french) however he tangented (is that even a word?) rather splendidly and, ignoring the fact that my source (not my sister in this case cos my sister barely uses her french these days, but a good pal: French father, Vietnamese mother, 54yoa (55?) professional translator for 30-odd years, very dear friend, never shagged her or got bumhole pictures. She never paid my mortgage either but I must owe her about a thousand jars of rillettes by now) had merely commented that in her freelance professional world (some academic, a little eu, but mainly publishing and industrial stuff) that the form without the definite article was generally perceived as an indication of yokelness. She did not (nor I) ever suggest that it was not an acceptable form, merely that it was a bit yokelish.
He backed up his rant with google stats (but what exactly were the search criteria?) whereas my point was based on discussion with an individual who knew intimately the texts from whence the phrase originated.
and that was about that until i got naughty stepped for waging a war on shambo. fuck it, i was in the mood for a rumble, i guess that's what happens when you knock the meds on the head!
but he's still at it. i guess it pays to be buddies with jonti and cr3?
incidentally there never were any bumhole pictures, not with her nor wbm/rts either :(

and there you have it, i guess.
thanks for listening and goodnight,
Al
( blaireau69 is the yardstick you measure cunts by., Thu 26 May 2011, 02:24, ignore, delete, archive, reply)

(, Wed 22 Jul 2015, 9:13, closed)
jesus

(, Wed 22 Jul 2015, 9:15, closed)
I think "lol" is an apt response to this.

(, Wed 22 Jul 2015, 12:10, closed)
Jesus christ, that was 4 fucking years ago

(, Wed 22 Jul 2015, 13:46, closed)

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