Nothing to do here but drink. —Fuck this, I’m outta here
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NS is so boring
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hurry up, get, no time for bitching, just leave. i bet everyone that knows you here are happy your leaving. i feel sorry for the people in the province you go to next. you seem like a crappy human.
OB you are forgetting about fight and fuck. See, there’s lots to do here!
I have something for you to drink and you can fuck it too. See, the possibilities are endless here in NS.
WHAT IS BOREDOM?
The title of this bitch indicates the level of the intelligence of the bitcher. How does it do this? The reason for the bitcher’s boredom is externalized onto the object of his boredom, in this case NS. But this is incoherent. NS itself is neither boring nor not boring. Rather, it is the perception of NS which is boring and the perception, of course, is in the bitcher’s mind. Let me develop this.
On this site one frequently reads, in response to some comments, “TLDR” meaning “Too Long Didn’t Read.” But this is incoherent. In itself a comment is neither too long nor not too long. In other words, the length of a comment is irrelevant to its boredom. Rather, it is the perception of the commenter who claims that it is too long and this perception, of course, is in the commenter’s mind. So how does this relate to intelligence?
The relationship is direct. In the case of TLDR the further letters “BITSTUI” should be added, resulting in “Too Long Didn’t Read Because I’m Too Stupid To Understand It.” In other words, the commenter is simply proclaiming the feeble quality of his mind. His mind is unable to engage the extended, structured reasoning involved but – and this is important – he doesn’t realize it. Not realizing that one is stupid – Nature is kind after all – is what it MEANS to be stupid.
It is the same in the case of NS. In claiming that NS is boring the bitcher doesn’t realize that he isn’t saying anything about NS but rather about the enfeebled quality of his mind. But, of course, he doesn’t realize it – Nature is kind – and not realizing it is what it MEANS to be stupid. Put briefly, there is a relationship of identity between boredom and stupidity.
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A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
I like endless possibilities!
Or is it filled with people who lack the imagination to live interesting lives regardless of where they are?
Drinking is too easy. It’s the last thing on my “fun things to do” list. It becomes a trap for too many people around here, and we just toss it up to the “maritime” culture, which is a load of crap (and I’m from here)
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Or maybe N.S. is boring.
Not much of a drinker, I take it?
Then yes, it’s boring as snot.
Photobucket WTF? Alert: S.S. Leibstandarte Teddy Bear. – Okay, On a whim I went looking for toy figures of the S.S. Leibstandarte, which began as Adolf Hitler’s bodyguard and ceremonial troops during the rise of Nazi Germany before being elevated to Waffen S.S. divisional status in W.W. 2. But this? Even I find this a little unnerving. I suppose, if your toddler shows an interest in annexing the Sudetenland…….
http://www.cafepress.ca/+1_sspanzerdivisio…
I’m bored = I have so little of a brain, I can’t do anything but saturate it with alcohol.
I wrote this bitch douchettes. I make 80k a year and theres nowhere to spend it but on booze. Im bored as fuck here. No ones getting laid in my apartment building so nothing to masturbate to besides fake ass porn. Imma leave and fuck some alberta chicks and climb the rockies.
mm, fuck off with your incoherent blithering post. No one gives a shit about you or your cereal box farewell.
Thanks for confirming what a Neanderthal you are, Braydong. I’m sure the women of Alberta will be ‘thrilled’ by your one-eyed brain. Lucky them – bahawhawhawhaw – when all you’re looking for is a cum dumpster – does Alberta have a monopoly on that now?
Think of the money you save! Eighty thousand doesn’t go as far in TO as it does here…
Personally, I make my riches here and “vay-cay” elsewhere; but not Alberta (Alberta? WT?!) ’cause I don’t like girls and Alberta seems dull-ass.
boredom comes from within
Brawdove’s probably only leaving because he’s already fucked all the women in NS who would let him.
Nothing to do here ?!?
Are you kidding me, the problem is there’s too much to do, family commitments , then there’s my work, I fly RC planes & helicopters, & rebuild them when i screw up ~;D
, make wine & beer, cooking , winter sports , smelt fishing, walking the dog, visiting friends …the real problem is there’s not enough hours in a week to fit it all in ! As for drinking ….unless you call the occasional glass of wine or beer drinking. I can’t remember the last time I had to worry that I have had too much to drive.
You sound like my brother (although you can’t be him, he makes a lot more than you do) & he doesn’t want to come to the Caribbean , because he feels all people do on all inclusive resorts is drink
Which is what some people do …not me & my honey , there’s too many other things to do than waste time loaded on a resort.
OB the problem is you not Nova Scotia & you’ll find when you get to Alberta with your attitude, all there is to do is drink !
THE INCOHERENT BLITHERING POST
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: The Shit-Eating Cretin (03,11, 12:51PM)
“mm, fuck off with your incoherent blithering post.”
Read my post “What Is Boredom?” (03/11, 8:50AM) over again. Now, do you see it? You have externalized the source of your confusion. My post was neither “incoherent” nor “blithering.” Rather, it was only your enfeebled mind which made it appear so to you. But, as I also pointed out, “Nature is kind”. The truly stupid, like you, are never aware of their own stupidity. That is what makes them stupid. Now go away.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Oh, yessssss…everyone is ‘stupid’ compared to the vast intellect of our resident philosopher. You are a true revolutionary, MM, literally unmatched by any human being that has ever graced the universe with their presence! Well, except for all those people who had those original thoughts and theories you tout around like little Boy Scout badges of achievement. Do you ever tire of plugging different subjects into standard philosophical formulae, you unoriginal motherfucker?
How does it feel to be the smartest guy on an internet forum, based in a city where you don’t even live? Do your witty rejoinders make your wife’s panties drop when she reads them? Let’s hope so, I’d hate to think someone of your stature isn’t propping his ego up by slumming it with no means to an end!
correction alert!
IS propping…
The Taint,
Don’t bother with MM. He lacks to ability to express thoughts using concise and efficient writing. Although sometimes he probably has a good point to make, it is never communicated without efficiently.
Apparently, all his superior schooling failed to teach him a fundamental concept of design and communication (whether it’s writing, architecture, advertising, engineering);
restraint.
Who says Cheerio anyways?
I’m half jesting here…
RSVPS
: The Taint (03/11, 7:44PM)
“Do you ever tire of plugging different subjects into standard philosophical formulae, you unoriginal motherfucker?”
I detect serious conceptual confusion here. While initially claiming that I tout around the original thoughts and theories of others – I wear them like “little Boy Scout badges of achievement” – we now learn that they are not original at all but rather just “standard philosophical formulae.” The question is just how those thoughts and theories of others can, simultaneously, be both “original” and yet just “standard philosophical formulae.” You do see that, don’t you?
But the real question, of course, is just what those thoughts, theories and formulae might be. What do they look like? In the absence of some substantive account of the content of those thoughts, theories and formulae, your comment, as expected, descends into complete, utter and total incoherence.
Finally, realizing that intelligence is not confined to any particular place, I can report that it feels pretty good being the smartest guy in an internet forum based in a city where I don’t even live. Yes, pretty good. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
: jhey (10:50PM)
“Don’t bother with MM. He lacks to (sic) ability to express thought using concise and efficient writing.”
As with my previous response, I detect serious conceptual confusion here. To be concise, the category of “efficiency” in respect to writing anything other than weather reports has no application. You see, unlike philosophy where the relevant category is “substantive” – i.e., what one actually says – “efficiency” is a functional category which does not just have no bearing on philosophy but which, in that context, is completely without meaning. To be even more concise, the phrase “an efficient philosophy” is an oxymoron. But I know that you will never understand that.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Mm,
The conceptual confusion you are detecting is your own.
You are a perfect example of the failure of our Universities.
RSVP
: jhey (03/12, 9:33AM)
Oh dear, I can see that I’m talking to a board. As I have continually pointed out on this site, reasons must be given for all one’s assertions if they – the assertions – are to aspire to coherency. In the present case, no reasons in support were given to your two assertions which are therefore incoherent and so empty of all meaning. But I know that you will never understand that.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
When you are buying groceries, and the cashier asks you if you want a bag, do you ask what is the meaning of a “bag”?
I think you should. Perhaps even engage in a philosophical discourse – not only the meaning of a “bag”, but also the meaning of “meaning”.
And on, and on, and on…
You have obviously never tried surfing here Brawdove–absolutely NOT boring….and Meaty, i am told by a reliable source that most cities Alberta are filled with horny boys–i never thought of Alberta as a great vacay spot either, but maybe we should both be rethinking that attitude–lol.
THE NATURE OF MEANING
You have made two breath-taking elementary difficulties here which are often made by philosophical novices such as yourself. Let’s look briefly at each.
1. Do I ask, “What is the meaning of a bag?”
Of course not. Why not? Because the bag has no “meaning.” Why doesn’t the bag have meaning? It has no meaning because it is an inanimate object and inanimate objects, by definition, possess no meaning. Why not? Because bags lack concepts in terms of which meaning is necessarily inscribed. But what is a concept? A concept is that which structures experience. In fact, experience IS experience by virtue of its conceptual structure which bestows meaning on the raw data of sensory inputs. The unconceived bag, the bag “as such,” is simply the raw data as given in visual inputs. One sees the bag, but it has no meaning unless, of course, one proceeds to ascribe meaning of some sort to it – it’s a beautiful bag, and so on. But the bag as such has no meaning. I know you will not understand this.
2. Do I engage in philosophical discourse about “the meaning of meaning?”
Of course not. While no doubt you are not aware of it, in philosophy this is called “the problem of infinite regress.” But infinite regress is a rational dead end. It presupposes that the explanatory chain goes on forever but even common sense shows that this is not true. Words, including “meaning”, have a denotative reference. Meaning necessarily means something and to suggest that it does not is self-contradictory: One cannot say, “Meaning has no meaning” since that assertion itself is a claim to meaning. But I know that you will not understand that.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
ah, but you missed my point; NOBODY CARES ABOUT PHILOSOPHY ON LTWWB.
But it must be WE who do not understand.
RSVP
: jhey (3:39PM)
To assert that “nobody cares about philosophy on LTWWB” is self-contradictory since – are you waiting for it? – the assertion is itself philosophical. One can never, even unknowingly, not care about philosophy. Whether one realizes it or not, one is condemned to philosophize. But I know that you will never understand that.
Your second sentence is just empirically false. It is obviously true in respect to YOU but not in respect to the “WE” on behalf of whom you illegitimately purport to speak. But I know that you will never understand that.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
I honestly have to thank you for all your rambling. It reasserts my thesis that university is completely useless for most people.
Without effective communication skills, all degrees are useless.
I know. I know. I just don’t understand.
i will throw more than popcorn at you, jhey, if you try to speak on my behalf again.
i do so care.
Sucks to be you then.
; )
I think MM could be a bit more succint, but otherwise I have no problem with his schtick. At least he’s consistent. I have both a background in humanities and in communications and recognize that the study of philosophy usually dictates more detailed writing than writing in professional disciplines such as PR, comms, business, journalism.
He keeps Uncle Vanya and Klyde the Fantastic amused, so what the heck. We can always scroll past the posters’ posts that we don’t like. *shrug*
Actually, I also care…but it has its place.
My dad had me reading Rawls and Rousseau when I was 16, and have kept up sporadic explorations throughout the years and of course my undergrad.
But then again, even the great thinkers know how to write with clarity – Rawls being a good example (Kant not so much, but my German is “intermediate” at best so I can’t really comment, and I read Rousseau in French which was a bit overwhelming even though I’m french).
Architecture taught me about editing, restraint, and the power of simplicity. Reducing something to its essence gives it more value. Writing included.
J
Also: are you a PhD, MM? I can’t recall reading anything as to your credentials. Just curious.
Monster,
Oh he listed his degrees in another post. Blahhhhhh.
But I agree, I’m glad he is posting. Takes all kinds.
J
I have a big drinking problem too….. non alcoholic Timmie’s finest. Thanks PK.
His credentials are the same as mine, some guy that posts on an internet forum. None of that shit makes any difference here!!!
Very few posters here are impressed by anothers intellectual penis and certainly don’t hold it in as high regard as members of the self proclaimed ‘intellectual community’. It’s just a long running joke that one of us takes himself so seriously but, what do you expect from a narcissist.
I wonder if he links his comments here to his professional accounts, allowing his intellectual peers a glimpse into the truly low-brow nature of his existence. Anyone in such an elevated position in intellectual society (I almost spit coffee out my nose writing that shite) should be embarrassed by the name calling and buffoonery exhibited by our resident assclown. Not MM, he wears that shit like a sheriffs badge, proud as punch of his ‘accomplishments’. All that supposed wisdom and nothing to do with it but mingle with the underclass and feed his ego ‘junkfood’. What a joke!!!!
oh for cripes sake, here it comes again… another “LTWWB can’t be this, and can’t be that”.
so you think philosophy has no place being discussed, used, abused, flung about willy-nilly on LTWWB jhey?
you know it’s one of the original water fountain topics.
and hey jhey, not everything is better boiled down to its essence, the journey also has value. i like yeats as he left it,
things fall apart
the centre cannot hold
mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
the blood dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere
the ceremony of innocence is drowned
the best lack all conviction, while the worst
are full of passionate intensity
…
a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun
is moving its slow thighs while all about it
reel shadows of indignant desert birds
the darkness drops again but now i know
that twenty centuries of stony sleep
were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle
and what rough beast, its hour come round at last
slouches towards bethlehem to be born.
now pared down, using restraint, getting to the essence a la jhey
yeats ‘my bad knee is acting up – war is coming’
and don’t lets go to where boiling down the essence of a fine apple/cheddar stuffed pork tenderloin roast, braised, roasted, drizzled with au jus should be blenderized to soup. toss in the veg, salad, apple pie and chocolate cake while we are at it.
so presentation has no beauty? adornment no cachet?
balance! personal taste! if you like stripped down architectural bones, good on ya. but that’s you. your taste. a bit of a puritan eh? please don’t run for office.
RSVPS
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: jhey (03/12, 4:33PM)
“It reasserts my thesis that university is completely useless for most people.”
I agree but that was never my claim. Two points: (a) One must not equate philosophy with university since the former, whether it is realized or not, is practiced by everyone while the latter, as you maintain, is not for most people. You are comparing the proverbial apples and oranges. They are not the same things. Philosophy is not to be restricted to some university subject. (b) I suspect your concept of “use” is too narrow. Philosophy has great value but not in the narrow, pragmatic and utilitarian sense which you give it.
: Pretty ‘Monstercock 5000’ Kitty (10:39PM)
“I think MM could be a bit more succinct, but otherwise I have no problem with his schtick.”
Three points: (a) As I previously said in respect to jhey’s adoration of “efficiency” as the paramount criterion of communication, I think the same might be said about your genuflecting to the “succinct”. But doing philosophy is not the same as writing a weather report. (b) To reduce doing philosophy to the level of a “schtick” implies that it is marginal to human existence. That is wrong. It has much more relevance than the usual illusory markers of meaning to which, I suspect, you subscribe. (c) To “shrug” about philosophy is tantamount to “shrugging” about the search for meaning and truth.
: jhey (10:39PM)
“But again, even the great writers know how to write with clarity …”
Three points: (a) “Efficiency.” “Succinct.” “Clarity.” Does anyone see a resemblance? That’s right, they’re all procedural virtues but the criteria of philosophy – can you grasp it? – are not procedural. They’re substantive. Got it now? (b) Like the editors of the journals shown in my avatar, I find my writing adequately clear. Not lyrical, perhaps, but clear. (c) I salute your reading Rawls and Kant but I prefer to DO rather than just read philosophy. There is a difference, you know. In fact, I’m “doing” philosophy right now. Maybe you should start.
: Pretty ‘Monstercock 5000’ Kitty (10:42PM)
Yes.
: Stephen Harper (03/13, 8:08AM)
“I wonder if he lists his comments here to his professional accounts, allowing his intellectual peers a glimpse into the truly low-brow nature of his existence.”
Three points: (a) Now’s there’s a thought. (b) I think you wanted to say “the truly low-brow nature of my existence.” As you well know, many things can be said about the nature of my existence, but “low-brow” is not one of them. (c) As is usually the case, the rest of your attack is just “ad hominem” – “assclown,” “narcissism” and all the rest – and deserves no response from me. But I know that you will never understand that (and that’s not “ad hominem,” but an accurate observation based on objective reality).
Well chaps, I think we’ve done it. A nice little morning work-out.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
RSVP
: Good dog Molly (03/13, 8:44AM)
Marvellous, Good dog. William Butler Yeats on LTWWB! Unbelievable! Things are looking up!
But you must remember that jhey with his pedestrian mind will never understand it.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
yes yes. my pedestrian mind. Let me mingle with my blebes.
GDM,
Simplicty. I never said simplistic. Simplicity is the essence of all good design, and requires a rather rigorous path, or journey. It is not a reductive approach, but can be rather selective (editing). To reduce a form to its essentials is not the same thing as its bare minimum. On the contrary, it is expressing its full potential.
Now I’m going to make myself vomit. It took me years to shake off the academic plague!
This applies to writing as well.
And for the record;
Anyone who says “you can’t understand this” or any variation of such a sentence, is essentially putting on display his lack of intelligence.
But I probably don’t understand it, being all pedestrian and all.
jhey, are you buddhas BF?
Not that I know. But I will get back to you.
I think all rigor leads to simplicity. Just the way it goes. Or I just like simple things.
Without getting too philosophical, and all that shit.
RSVP
: jhey (03/13, 10:07AM)
For the record.
There is no cause-effect relationship between someone saying “you can’t understand this” and “displaying his lack of intelligence”. The assertion is either objectively true or it is not. If the person saying it has given reasons for saying it then, to the extent that those reasons are rationally compelling, he is intelligent. (Of course, if he has given no reasons, then he is not intelligent.) In the present case, he gave his reasons. I know that you will not understand this.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
I met a traveler from an antique land…
Intelligent people have more intelligence to ever use “I know that you will not understand this”
And that’s a fact, Sir.
i feel a limerick building, like a pepper sneeze, behind my septum.
and that is a fact, dear sir
my pronouncements yes, do cause a stir
in the circles i haunt
my opinions i flaunt
as univers’ly held truths, hurr durr!
GDM,
Yeah, but you wouldn’t understand that.
I remember someone telling me that since I did not enjoy Eyes Wide Shut, it was because I didn’t understand it.
Yeah they were wrong.
Academics have mastered the ability to convince themselves that they are better than others. I even tried this myself at some point in my studies. It is quite the feat considering the amount of denial and self-delusion that is involved.
The smartest person I know installs pipes, and the dumbest person I know has a PhD. Go figure.
heck no, that movie sucked! kidman sucks!
why would give a tinker’s damn what anyone on an internet forum thinks of you, your ideas, your shoe size or your favourite recipe. (or your really weird obsession about drunk waitresses getting laid by bearded hipsters)
if you insist on displaying the tempting string of anal beads coyly peeking out from betwixt your pink buttocks, someone here is bound to give them a yank. it’s what many of us DO.
(i won’t say ALL because there are odd ducks who get quite excited by the glory and fame of LTWWB (gasp choke snaergle) and because using the words ALL EVERY EVERYONE NOBODY FOREVER ALWAYS usually gives me hives.
“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
♥ SheSang♥
On the mark, as always, Ivan SonofOzzy …” the lone and level sands stretch far away” 😉
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: jhey (03/13, 3:11PM)
“Intelligent people have more intelligence to ever use ‘I know that you will never understand this’. And that’s a fact, Sir.”
But why is this so? Why is it a “fact”? You must give grounds for your claim. You cannot simply assert it. Carefully read my post (03/13, 2:41PM) over again. (Try not to move your lips.) I maintained that there was no cause-effect relationship between, on the one hand, someone saying, “I know that you will not understand this” and, on the other, that this indicated a lack of intelligence. Clearly, the issue comes down to what is to be understood by “intelligence.”
So, in your view, what is to be understood by “intelligence”? Write back soon.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
No, no “ad hominem” attacks here, just astute observations based on objective reality. I also meant to say exactly what I said, especially about you being lowbrow, so keep on “thinking”.
Well, it looks like soon enough we’ll be conversing from separate countries. Better sell your house before your property value drops and there’s a mass exodus of federal government, military, health care, RCMP, or any other employees dependant on Canadian tax dollars. Wait a minute, don’t you work in an institution that receives federal transfer payments through the province of Quebec? You’re pretty chipper for someone whose job, pension, and investments are being voted on by a bunch of idiots being led down the garden path by the queen of all idiots. My-o-my, better get that resume updated!!!
RSVP
: Stephen Harper (0313, 8:12PM)
Oh dear, here’s the one trick pony again, doing his usual sneer & smear number. God, it get’s so tedious.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
GDM,
What the hell? lol. I don’t even hang out in bars!
Besides, I think everyone, even MM, has something to offer. Woah!
You’ve got me all wrong!
I’m going to go listen to some Tony Rice right about now, and you can’t stop me, because I got me some church street blues.
NOW WE’RE GETTING SOMEWHERE!
RSVP
: jhey (03, 13, 8:32PM)
“Besides, I think everyone, even MM, has something to offer. Woah!”
Why thank you Jhey, but could you be more precise? Perhaps give a few examples? I am ready to receive your applause but I must say that I found the “Woah!” somewhat ambiguous. Could you clarify?
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!