Why would you need to scrub them if you're peeling them?

Because I don't necessarily scrub the same things that I peel. For example I scrub potatoes but I peel ginger.



Not true at all. That comment wasn't about discussing writing with you, it was about you reading some actually good book on writing and drunkenly misinterpreting it to support your idiotic beliefs that it proves you're a good writer if anything in there agrees with your unchangeable preconceptions. Also it was hyperbole; I wouldn't actually kill myself of course.

Oh, good point, Koobie. Ableism is pretty ****ing awesome, right?

No. It's not. Shut up.

It was a hyperbole. I didn't know Dormouse was actually retarded.

I suggest a new subforum, called SPECIAL MASSASSI. You can be the moderator. OH MY GOD I REALLY SHOULD JUST STOP POSTING NOW BUT YOU GUYS MAKE IT SO EASY.

Koobie, look. You're the kind of person who thinks it's okay to use slang terms for disabled persons as slurs. Don't tell the rest of us that we make it easy for you to do that; it's obvious that you're quite comfortable with treating disabled persons as less valuable than non-disabled persons on your own, and that you don't need our help with it.

You should have gone ahead and not posted for two weeks.

I try to treat everyone equally ... but if somebody interacts with me, then I would usually treat them in accordance to how they treat me. I'm comfortable with using any word I damn choose, and if I offend your sensibilities, it is not my problem; it is yours.
I didn't know Dormouse was mentally handicapped. It all makes sense now.
Good night.
PS. STOP MAKING EVERY THREAD ABOUT ME.
PPS. AND START BEING POSITIVE.

No, seriously, look, you ****ing idiot. There are people in this world living with developmental disabilities who don't need their lives made harder by having their conditions turned into punchlines. Dormouse is not one of those people, and you damn well know it, and you're using their conditions as a cheap joke at her supposed expense. If you'd called Dormouse a ******, gotten called on it, and then said "I'm sorry, I didn't realize he (sic) was actually black," would you think that was acceptable behavior on your part?

Yes. Of course you would. Because that's who you are. You've done this when talking about the disabled, you've done it when talking about transgendered persons, and you've done it when talking about the Romani. Don't even pretend this makes you a "straight shooter" who courageously "says what he thinks even if it's not popular." There's no courage involved in punching down. It makes you a bigot and a coward.

If you'd lived in America in the 1850s, you'd undoubtedly have been in favor of slavery. If you'd lived in America in the 1950s, you'd undoubtedly have been in favor of segregation. Because that's who you are.

You are the kind of person whom we all need to die so we can all, finally, have nice things.

Good night, and get ****ed.

You might want to spend some time considering the difference between someone being offended, and what you say being offensive. Because it does become your problem once people around you, your friends, hookups, potential few readers, realize that you don't consider the impact or merit of the words you choose to use. Calling someone retarded or a transvestite or whatever else matters because words have meanings bother literal and acquired. You as a writer should understand that more than anyone.

When you choose to use one word over a different word, it is a choice that you are making. When you resort to choosing to call someone retarded as the only possible reason they might disagree with your opinions, it doesn't just offend one specific person, but it is offensive to anyone with differently-abled person. It is othering, it is dismissive, it is reducing and grouping an entire extremely diverse group of humans based upon a single shared arbitrary characteristic into one category: People I am better than, people who I am more intelligent than, people who don't get it as well as I do.

That is why words are slurs, not because they hurt somebody's feelings (although that is often true as well), but because they demean an entire group of individuals.

My partner has multiple sclerosis, I'm autistic. The last thing anyone needs is some ****head like you puking your ableistic drivel all over the place.

This isn't about political correctness or freedom of expression or anything else. It's about realizing which words you choose to use make a difference.

(And chris****ingsake, how have you made it this far in these threads and not actually picked up that I'm not a dude.)

That'd be an awful thing for a writer to do.

[quote=Michael MacFarlane]You are the kind of person whom we all need to KILL so we can all, finally, have nice things.[/quote]

Fixed.



Words are words and meanings are meanings.

One word can have multiple meanings, depending on both the context of the conversation and the culture and upbringing of those involved in it; the word n*gger has one set of connotations when used by a black dude from Brooklyn, when used by me, when used by a White Power Extremist, and a totally different set of connotations in a Samuel Clemens novel.



I find no other explanation for the things some of you people type other than stupidity to the point of retardation. It is my subjective view. Deal with it.



Life is hard. Deal with it.



You looked like a dude on your pics; I always thought you were a transgender dude / crossdresser / INSERT PC TERM TO MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER, but basically I thought you had a dick. I don't really care either way, because the color of your skin or the set of your genitals or how you choose to call yourself doesn't really change how I see you as a person.

What you do and what you say changes that.

The correct way to "deal with it" re: your ****ty, subhuman opinions is to permanently ban you from posting everywhere.

The thing you cannot seem to accept is: you don't get to dictate which meaning of your words people will interpret them as.
When you intentionally use words which in most circumstances will be considered by most people to be offensive, you don't get to tell them not to be offended because they didn't choose the least likely and most benign connotation to hear.

It isn't a matter of "Life is hard. Deal with it." It is a matter of you intentionally going out of your way to make it harder than it has to be for everyone else.

If you think you fixed anything, it's no wonder you can't write worth a damn. I've no interest in killing you; I'd just like you to die, and anyone with a firm grasp of the language would recognize the way I expressed that preference as grammatical.

Life is hard. I know this because I am a white man who has never faced any discrimination or hardship, mostly thanks to a lifetime of slouching away from personal responsibility. It's your fault for being offended by my horrific, sloppily-expressed opinions. Deal with it.

>you've done it when talking about the Romani.

The Romani LOL.
Dude, I've talked to more gypsies than you've seen on TV.
Easter Europe style, rememba?

"I don't hate blacks, I talk to ******s all the time."

My point was that you wished death upon another human being whom you consider inferior to yourself, which basically makes you an evil son of a *****.



That's okay Joncey, you may face some challenges in your life that might make a man out of you yet.

Koobie is probably one of the россиянин out lynching gay people. Well, at least during his infrequent and increasingly blurred fits of sobriety.

Ma *****, now we're talkin.

Also Jon'C, if you think using Google Translate is impressive, think again.

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an Angel! in apprehension how like a god!


I'm not really sure what you'd know about being a man, but I guess the world looks a little bit different after you've abandoned your family to live a life of hedonism bridled only by the fact that you're too ugly, abrasive, and untalented to attract another woman.

Did you really think that you were the only person on the forum who spoke more languages than English? It's not some special unique snowflake gift of yours.

**** IT, I REFUSE TO STOOP DOWN TO YOUR LEVEL, JON'C & FRIENDS.
Have a good night.
Enjoy Massassi.

It's "stoop", cockbreath. Learn English, stop pretending you can write in it, or both.

Oh, for those curious, Koobie's original post above ^ was advising me to reconsider my marriage.

Because misery enjoys company, I guess?

Eh, well, agree to disagree.

It's Like, I don't care about nothin man,
roll another blunt, Yea (ohh ohh ohh),


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I messed up my entire life because I got high
I lost my kids and wife because I got high
now I'm sleeping on the sidewalk and I know why (why man?) yea heyy,
- cause I got high
- cause I got high
- cause I got high

I'm very happily divorced. But this is none of your business. You know nothing about my life, I know nothing about yours; you and your friends throw around your presumptions to try to look big and smart, but all you do is appear like teenagers who weren't raised right.

Perhaps you appear different to others, I don't know. Everyone who's posting certainly seems to agree with you, so I guess that makes you right.

"You wished death upon Hitler, which basically makes you an evil son of a *****."

Look at this *******.

Kak ty znaetsy'a Jon`C ne govarit po-russki? ****head.

Dumb. Band. Matty or Joncy or someone else can let him back in if you want.

Not as happy as your ex-wife, I bet. Heard she didn't have much of a problem finding a new husband. Meanwhile you're still pining over girls you've met once, and getting yourself drunk so you have the courage to ask someone out. What a big grown man you are.

I only know what you've posted; i.e. entirely too much, certainly more than any other living person on this planet cares to know.

Well that was overdue

Anachronox for $1.49 off GOG.com

(Yes, I already own the boxed version)

(wrt. this page, viva la yectiwan!)

A stick of gum!

But I eated it :C

Ok since I've not been reguarly posting for some time.

Was Koobie always a gigantic gob****e or is that recent?

Well in 2005,

Reid, I picked up The Crying of Lot 49 and V. based in part on your recommendation of Pynchon in that otherwise useless thread. Decided to start with V., which I'm really enjoying so far.

The Crying of Lot 49 is one of the most curious and singular books I've ever read. Definitely enjoyable. I started trying to read through Gravity's Rainbow a few times though but it's very very slow going for me.

I hope you enjoy the whole book. Pynchon is a great author.

I'm going to read it soon I think. I read a few reviews of it and it sounds great.