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(I helped save b3ta! rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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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?
(I helped save b3ta! The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:33, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)
I am saying that people may be bad at self criticism
by the fact that they haven't self criticised
(I helped save b3ta! 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
(I helped save b3ta! 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.
(I helped save b3ta! 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
(I helped save b3ta! 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.
(I helped save b3ta! 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.
(I helped save b3ta! 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
(I helped save b3ta! 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.
(I helped save b3ta! 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

(I helped save b3ta! 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
(I helped save b3ta! Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 22:46, Reply)
Errrrm Tommy cooper and magic?

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:34, Reply)
Perfect counter-arguement.

(I helped save b3ta! The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:35, Reply)
So bad yet SSSsssssoooooooo good

(I helped save b3ta! 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

(I helped save b3ta! hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:44, Reply)

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