I notice noone answered the alt
so I suspect the answer is 'self criticism' which stands to reason
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:30, 3 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

OK i'll answer
I'm crap at answering Alt's

PS evening Cavy
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:31, Reply)

evening
wassaaaaaaaaaaaap?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:35, Reply)

Up things mainly, have you been hanging around here all day?
If so what have I missed?
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:36, Reply)

nah, I'm just here in the evenings
so I miss all the exciting things I imagine happen in the day. There was some mad shit earlier with Quentin trying to categorise us by how many parents we had, but that just got complicated as he'd not thought it through
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:38, Reply)

Wow that must have confused him if anyone from Norfolk answed

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:39, Reply)

Right - I'm done and you now have my full attention.
It's a non-sequiter. How can you have a skill if you're no good at it?
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:33, Reply)

I am saying that people may be bad at self criticism
by the fact that they haven't self criticised
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:34, Reply)

wait, now I understand
no: the thing can be a skill, but you don't have that skill, or have tried and suck at it
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:35, Reply)

So you're saying - effectivelty - what are you shit at?
Computers and plumbing.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:37, Reply)

I added the word skill to avoid self pity
I won't ask you to fix the waterwheel driven computer then
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:38, Reply)

Say what you mean - mean what you say.
Waterwheel is mechanical and therefore logical.

It's the pressure bits of plumbing that are a dark art to me.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:41, Reply)

you're problem there is that there
is always slippage between signifier and signified. Words and meaning are only loosely associated and dependent on many other things.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 21:04, Reply)

"The only uncertain area of study is semantics"
HL Mencken, 1934
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 21:08, Reply)

I once thought I was a structuralist
but now I'm not Saussure.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 21:09, Reply)

Chicken Saussuare? That is good. I had it cooked on a native's corrugated-iron roof.
That's structuralist
(Phudbree oh man, the Doric Yorick, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 21:14, Reply)

Then afterwards you all got clean in the Barthes

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 21:18, Reply)

Is that the chap that named the Bartholin cyst?
(Phudbree oh man, the Doric Yorick, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 21:23, Reply)

I can't think of a Derrida pun.
Soz.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 21:23, Reply)

Derrida Sun the day? Utter shite, as always.
(Phudbree oh man, the Doric Yorick, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 21:27, Reply)

i had one about puns in text being able to fool da-reader/derrida
but I had to go to the pub.

I had a backup about lacan, too
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 22:46, Reply)

Errrrm Tommy cooper and magic?

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:34, Reply)

Perfect counter-arguement.

( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:35, Reply)

So bad yet SSSsssssoooooooo good

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:36, Reply)

The worktop position, I believe.
(Phudbree oh man, the Doric Yorick, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:43, Reply)

Butcher's blocklols

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:44, Reply)

Na, I' m particularly hopeless at DIY (unless that includes, you know). Also hopeless at cooking, conversation, speaking on the phone, sympathy for anybody that reads the Mail and the pathetic fools that pass for sports journalists in Scotland.
(Phudbree oh man, the Doric Yorick, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:36, Reply)

You forgot the English

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:37, Reply)

Don't mind most English. The Nick Griffen mob can fuck right off.
(Phudbree oh man, the Doric Yorick, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:39, Reply)

Lefties and righties can get to fucked in my books

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:40, Reply)