Various things and certain other stuff
If you're interested in that kind of thing.
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I dislike everyone on the internet today (i.e. just FACEBOOK, you tumblrers are off the hook for now).
People are scum, they are sycophantic, they are SO transparent.
I feel like either I’m in an emperor’s new clothes scenario* or everyone really is so self-obsessed they are really clueless**.
ARG FACEBOOK. You see your friends sucking up to people they don’t even like, planning their holidays (regulated break from wage-slavery: part-ay indeed) on their walls for everyone to see, moaning about how shit their life is one minute and then the next boasting about how their life is SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOURS. Changing the way they talk to get closer with some alpha male they wanna arse-lick, ignoring some people’s comments to pretend they are too busy to reply and then replying to someone else one minute later, providing FREE ADVERTISING for companies, like that’s not a boring status: ‘I’m totally drinking B*******r beer and loving it!’ SLOW CLAP well done you are boring.
I just end up joking about on facebook, what reason would I have to post some inane detail of my life unless it was either interesting for people to know, funny or I wanted to actually boast. If I wanna do these things I will openly do these things, but it seems like people on facebook are all pretending they are just diahorreac autobiographers and have to write about everything they are doing, except they DON’T because they only write about the stuff they think is gonna impress us*** and saddest of all is some of this stuff is actually just ordinary stuff - as if they are still stuck in that high-school game of trying to prove they aren’t weeeeird. Look at me I’m normal.
OR - ew! - coupley posts, posts about a ‘romantic day’ they spent with their loved one can be sweet but mostly seems really repressed and EVEN WORSE ‘stuff my girlfriend said’ posts, yes I’m sure you and your girlfriend are always bantering back and forth like a proper sit-com couple, I’m sure she loves your sexist jokes and you have sooo much fun together, that’s why you feel the need to tell everyone on facebook about the time your girlfriend once said something funny about star wars har har har - oh no wait, what, she broke up with you and now she’s a fuckingbitchwhoruinedyourlife? oh noes.
* everyone knows how obnoxious and obvious and fake they and each other are being but as long as no one mentions it it’s not awkward
**or they are so obsessed with how everyone else is JUDGING THEIR LIFE THROUGH THEIR FACEBOOK that they don’t realise that everyone is obsessed with being judged also.
***they don’t actually write about their shits.
My favourites are the ones where they say stuff like “Has had the WORST day” or “Does not believe what happened to me today!!!”, which actually means ASK ME! ASK ME ABOUT MY DAY! IT’S INCREDIBLY INTERESTING AND I WANT YOU TO ASK ME ABOUT IT!
I like to think that people just forget it’s a public domain, but I guess that’s probably not true. I really want to change stuff on my profile, but am terrified of doing so because then it announces to everyone that you’ve changed something. “Oh, Tim’s removed that thing he previously liked, he must hate it now”, “Ooh! Tim’s removed his Single status, he must be in a relationship now!”, “OOH! Tim’s removed Women from his preferences, he must have finally come out of the closet”.
Of course that really speaks to the size of my ego that I think people might give a shit about my life.
TIP: change loads of things in your profile at once, less likely to tell everyone about just one.
Also yeah, I didn’t put I was in a relationship with Sam until we’d been together for 3 years because I didnt want it to ANNOUNCE it or rub it in anyone’s face.
hahaha I think everything else on your profile it doesn’t announce separately if you change multiple things but relationship status it always announces.Good tip! Maybe I can change so many things at once that it will just flood everyone’s news feed and they’ll just ignore it all. I don’t know why, but it just really creeps me out that my profile says I’m Single, and Interested in Women. It’s like I’m saying Heeey, I’m on Facebook for all the ladeeez!
Hahaha! inorite?! It’s like HEY EVERYONE! I’m happy and loved, unlike YOU! FUCK Y’ALL! Also I find it a bit creepy as well, it’s not something you can do at the beginning of a relationship, because is that too presumptuous? It really does feel like you’re announcing it to everyone, many of whom you probably just met once in your life. Or maybe people think if they put it on Facebook it’s fact, and the other person has no choice but to go with it. No backing out now! It’s on Facebook!
I think 3 years is a good time to go with. Everyone knew about it the normal way by then, so it was just Oh hey just updating some deets guys.
yeah but what I mean is when you update loads of stuff at once it just says ‘Tim updated his interests and activities and his About Me’, it doesn’t tell them specifics. Anyway, you got some newwwws or something you want to tell us Tim?
My profile never said ‘single’ on it and I never said who I was ‘interested in’ anyway cos why do people need to know that stuff? (also, keeps people guessing am i rite lol?)
That’s exactly it! If there WAS any news or something, I don’t want anyone knowing about it!
Well yeh, I filled it out because when you start an account it seems to be something you have to do. So I did a few things, got bored and just quit it, but that makes it look worse because the page is empty except for my interests.
This is my life’s current secret shame.
I really wanna get into Fringe but I hate that whacky-mad-scientist-father and sarcastic-irreverent-son duo, THEY SORT OF SUCK.
Especially when the ‘mad’ scientist always invents things that could never exist in the place of actual plot points and mystery.
Oh man, Walter, and…
I love Astrid, I’m following her on tumblr… (the actress…)
Ooh she has a tumblr, any good?
I really wanna get into Fringe but I hate that whacky-mad-scientist-father and sarcastic-irreverent-son duo, THEY SORT OF SUCK.
Especially when the ‘mad’ scientist always invents things that could never exist in the place of actual plot points and mystery.
Oh man, Walter, and Astrid, are totally the best characters in it! Olivia and Peter aren’t as awesome as a lot of people are making out though, but they do get a lot better I think. In the first season, listen out for how many times they tell people “We’re with the FBI”
I dunno, I think you just have to get to a point where you’re comfortable with the idea that they deal in Fringe science. So their world is one where hypothetical crazy stuff can become reality. I don’t think it replaces plot or mystery, it’s very much a part of the show.
I do really dig Fringe though.
hmm..
seems to me that when we bring up the supposed failings of feminism, they are eerily similar to the pitfalls of the patriarchy.
I mean, the criticism that feminism comes under from its own side (i.e. not the nonsense spat out by sexists) is usually centred around how individuals who call themselves feminists have either failed to be feminist enough or failed to adhere properly to other positive parallel movements. I have heard of people who call themselves feminist being transphobic, homophobic, racist… time and time again this nasty fault is linked to them also identifying as feminist.
I believe, as many of us do, that we live in a rather unfair world which encourages the alienation and oppression of certain groups of people; there is no reason to think that prejudices that lead to institutionalised oppression and alienation will not leak into positive movements. I take issue with many people’s point that this is an inherent failing of the movement. A movement for women’s rights is always going to be for women’s rights, nobody, not even Sarah Palin, can change that, no matter how much she might call herself a feminist. It can’t be more than that, and it will never be less than that. I call myself a feminist but it’s not the only thing I am. I’m an activist in many fields, I’m an ally to many causes. There are some people who are feminist but also free-market capitalists. I don’t think this changes what feminism is, I think it’s a cause, and you can be part of it or not.I’m a big fan of anarchist ideals. I am also aware that almost all anarchist gatherings and groups are populated and dominated by men. These men could be utter bastards (let’s face it they probably are), this doesn’t change what anarchism means. Anarchist groups may have patriarchal leanings, may have sexist members but this isn’t because of some flaw in anarchist doctrines, this is because we still exist in a patriarchal world and anarchist groups unfortunately do not exist in a vacuum.
So maybe next time we talk about how someone who identifies as feminist fucks up, we shouldn’t say ‘that’s the problem with feminism’ or ‘some feminists are like that’ because it isn’t accurate or constructive to do so, oppressive behaviour is much much much more likely to be a product of the status quo than of a positive civil rights cause.
Oh man, I actually have exact problem, which is a bit terrible of me. I’ve begun to really hate associating and labelling myself as part of a specific group because of the few arseholes in there. This is to the extent that I’m actually reluctant to call myself an Atheist, purely because of all the fuckers who seem to be using atheism to just be horrifically mean and cruel to anyone who has religious beliefs; who I imagine only do that in an attempt to satisfy their own insecure beliefs.
So is that what being an Atheist means then? That I have to now actively deride other peoples beliefs?
I guess that’s one of the problems with being part of a group like that. People will attack individuals but attribute their actions to the group as a whole. Maybe that’s the sacrifice you have to make? Even though some truly horrible people associate themselves with your cause, I suppose you just have to accept them, because at least they’re pushing the movement forward.
…Even Sarah Palin…
hmm, well if we use Sarah Palin as an example. She does not do feminist things, not really. My point about feminism is that by being sexist you are not taking away from feminism or changing feminism, you just not being a feminist. So Sarah Palin basically hates women as much as any other republican does, that is her actively NOT being a feminist, it doesn’t matter how much she calls herself a feminist, if she isn’t ‘pushing the movement forward’ then she isn’t being a feminist so feminism is unaffected. There is an argument to be made that some young people may be confused about what feminism is because of this, but this could not possibly last long because Palin doesn’t do many things that could be confused with feminism. I don’t believe anyone can truly hurt the cause from the inside, feminism is always going to be about gender equality and people are going to move towards this together no matter who they are if they push feminist concerns. I might agree that are institutions are too entrenched in patriarchal tradition and this bleeds into feminist groups and forums but it is not an inherent problem to feminism itself is what I’m saying, and we are infighting and every day I see someone who refuses to call themselves a feminist because they’ve seen the status quo leak through and thought it was a new poison invented by feminists but it’s just not true.
I don’t actually know that much about Sarah Palin other than that she wrestled a bear or something. So does SHE say that she is a feminist, or do other people say that she is a feminist? If it’s other people, then I guess they’re just wrong in assumed that a women in a suit with a gun is a feminist. But if she says it then it’s quite interesting.
Okay right here in this paragraph I was writing stuff and then realised that I everything I was writing was basically what you’d answered above, so yeh. I had a really nice conversation with myself.
But yeh, basically I think you answered the question I had which was whether it could be damaging for feminists to reject someone who says their a feminist, but like you say, no matter what she calls herself, he actions are what shows people who or what she is; so that situation is kind of moot.
I’m really proud of Bristol right now, they all came out in force against the police last night. They all hate Tesco and didn’t want it to be built. Bristolians you are my heroes.
That is an amazing photograph!
I dislike everyone on the internet today (i.e. just FACEBOOK, you tumblrers are off the hook for now).
People are scum, they are sycophantic, they are SO transparent.
I feel like either I’m in an emperor’s new clothes scenario* or everyone really is so self-obsessed they are really clueless**.
ARG FACEBOOK. You see your friends sucking up to people they don’t even like, planning their holidays (regulated break from wage-slavery: part-ay indeed) on their walls for everyone to see, moaning about how shit their life is one minute and then the next boasting about how their life is SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOURS. Changing the way they talk to get closer with some alpha male they wanna arse-lick, ignoring some people’s comments to pretend they are too busy to reply and then replying to someone else one minute later, providing FREE ADVERTISING for companies, like that’s not a boring status: ‘I’m totally drinking B*******r beer and loving it!’ SLOW CLAP well done you are boring.
I just end up joking about on facebook, what reason would I have to post some inane detail of my life unless it was either interesting for people to know, funny or I wanted to actually boast. If I wanna do these things I will openly do these things, but it seems like people on facebook are all pretending they are just diahorreac autobiographers and have to write about everything they are doing, except they DON’T because they only write about the stuff they think is gonna impress us*** and saddest of all is some of this stuff is actually just ordinary stuff - as if they are still stuck in that high-school game of trying to prove they aren’t weeeeird. Look at me I’m normal.
OR - ew! - coupley posts, posts about a ‘romantic day’ they spent with their loved one can be sweet but mostly seems really repressed and EVEN WORSE ‘stuff my girlfriend said’ posts, yes I’m sure you and your girlfriend are always bantering back and forth like a proper sit-com couple, I’m sure she loves your sexist jokes and you have sooo much fun together, that’s why you feel the need to tell everyone on facebook about the time your girlfriend once said something funny about star wars har har har - oh no wait, what, she broke up with you and now she’s a fuckingbitchwhoruinedyourlife? oh noes.
* everyone knows how obnoxious and obvious and fake they and each other are being but as long as no one mentions it it’s not awkward
**or they are so obsessed with how everyone else is JUDGING THEIR LIFE THROUGH THEIR FACEBOOK that they don’t realise that everyone is obsessed with being judged also.
***they don’t actually write about their shits.
My favourites are the ones where they say stuff like “Has had the WORST day” or “Does not believe what happened to me today!!!”, which actually means ASK ME! ASK ME ABOUT MY DAY! IT’S INCREDIBLY INTERESTING AND I WANT YOU TO ASK ME ABOUT IT!
I like to think that people just forget it’s a public domain, but I guess that’s probably not true. I really want to change stuff on my profile, but am terrified of doing so because then it announces to everyone that you’ve changed something. “Oh, Tim’s removed that thing he previously liked, he must hate it now”, “Ooh! Tim’s removed his Single status, he must be in a relationship now!”, “OOH! Tim’s removed Women from his preferences, he must have finally come out of the closet”.
Of course that really speaks to the size of my ego that I think people might give a shit about my life.
TIP: change loads of things in your profile at once, less likely to tell everyone about just one.
Also yeah, I didn’t put I was in a relationship with Sam until we’d been together for 3 years because I didnt want it to ANNOUNCE it or rub it in anyone’s face.
hahaha I think everything else on your profile it doesn’t announce separately if you change multiple things but relationship status it always announces.
Good tip! Maybe I can change so many things at once that it will just flood everyone’s news feed and they’ll just ignore it all. I don’t know why, but it just really creeps me out that my profile says I’m Single, and Interested in Women. It’s like I’m saying Heeey, I’m on Facebook for all the ladeeez!
Hahaha! inorite?! It’s like HEY EVERYONE! I’m happy and loved, unlike YOU! FUCK Y’ALL! Also I find it a bit creepy as well, it’s not something you can do at the beginning of a relationship, because is that too presumptuous? It really does feel like you’re announcing it to everyone, many of whom you probably just met once in your life. Or maybe people think if they put it on Facebook it’s fact, and the other person has no choice but to go with it. No backing out now! It’s on Facebook!
I think 3 years is a good time to go with. Everyone knew about it the normal way by then, so it was just Oh hey just updating some deets guys.
hmm..
seems to me that when we bring up the supposed failings of feminism, they are eerily similar to the pitfalls of the patriarchy.
I mean, the criticism that feminism comes under from its own side (i.e. not the nonsense spat out by sexists) is usually centred around how individuals who call themselves feminists have either failed to be feminist enough or failed to adhere properly to other positive parallel movements. I have heard of people who call themselves feminist being transphobic, homophobic, racist… time and time again this nasty fault is linked to them also identifying as feminist.
I believe, as many of us do, that we live in a rather unfair world which encourages the alienation and oppression of certain groups of people; there is no reason to think that prejudices that lead to institutionalised oppression and alienation will not leak into positive movements. I take issue with many people’s point that this is an inherent failing of the movement. A movement for women’s rights is always going to be for women’s rights, nobody, not even Sarah Palin, can change that, no matter how much she might call herself a feminist. It can’t be more than that, and it will never be less than that. I call myself a feminist but it’s not the only thing I am. I’m an activist in many fields, I’m an ally to many causes. There are some people who are feminist but also free-market capitalists. I don’t think this changes what feminism is, I think it’s a cause, and you can be part of it or not.I’m a big fan of anarchist ideals. I am also aware that almost all anarchist gatherings and groups are populated and dominated by men. These men could be utter bastards (let’s face it they probably are), this doesn’t change what anarchism means. Anarchist groups may have patriarchal leanings, may have sexist members but this isn’t because of some flaw in anarchist doctrines, this is because we still exist in a patriarchal world and anarchist groups unfortunately do not exist in a vacuum.
So maybe next time we talk about how someone who identifies as feminist fucks up, we shouldn’t say ‘that’s the problem with feminism’ or ‘some feminists are like that’ because it isn’t accurate or constructive to do so, oppressive behaviour is much much much more likely to be a product of the status quo than of a positive civil rights cause.
Oh man, I actually have exact problem, which is a bit terrible of me. I’ve begun to really hate associating and labelling myself as part of a specific group because of the few arseholes in there. This is to the extent that I’m actually reluctant to call myself an Atheist, purely because of all the fuckers who seem to be using atheism to just be horrifically mean and cruel to anyone who has religious beliefs; who I imagine only do that in an attempt to satisfy their own insecure beliefs.
So is that what being an Atheist means then? That I have to now actively deride other peoples beliefs?
I guess that’s one of the problems with being part of a group like that. People will attack individuals but attribute their actions to the group as a whole. Maybe that’s the sacrifice you have to make? Even though some truly horrible people associate themselves with your cause, I suppose you just have to accept them, because at least they’re pushing the movement forward.
…Even Sarah Palin…
I dislike everyone on the internet today (i.e. just FACEBOOK, you tumblrers are off the hook for now).
People are scum, they are sycophantic, they are SO transparent.
I feel like either I’m in an emperor’s new clothes scenario* or everyone really is so self-obsessed they are really clueless**.
ARG FACEBOOK. You see your friends sucking up to people they don’t even like, planning their holidays (regulated break from wage-slavery: part-ay indeed) on their walls for everyone to see, moaning about how shit their life is one minute and then the next boasting about how their life is SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOURS. Changing the way they talk to get closer with some alpha male they wanna arse-lick, ignoring some people’s comments to pretend they are too busy to reply and then replying to someone else one minute later, providing FREE ADVERTISING for companies, like that’s not a boring status: ‘I’m totally drinking B*******r beer and loving it!’ SLOW CLAP well done you are boring.
I just end up joking about on facebook, what reason would I have to post some inane detail of my life unless it was either interesting for people to know, funny or I wanted to actually boast. If I wanna do these things I will openly do these things, but it seems like people on facebook are all pretending they are just diahorreac autobiographers and have to write about everything they are doing, except they DON’T because they only write about the stuff they think is gonna impress us*** and saddest of all is some of this stuff is actually just ordinary stuff - as if they are still stuck in that high-school game of trying to prove they aren’t weeeeird. Look at me I’m normal.
OR - ew! - coupley posts, posts about a ‘romantic day’ they spent with their loved one can be sweet but mostly seems really repressed and EVEN WORSE ‘stuff my girlfriend said’ posts, yes I’m sure you and your girlfriend are always bantering back and forth like a proper sit-com couple, I’m sure she loves your sexist jokes and you have sooo much fun together, that’s why you feel the need to tell everyone on facebook about the time your girlfriend once said something funny about star wars har har har - oh no wait, what, she broke up with you and now she’s a fuckingbitchwhoruinedyourlife? oh noes.
* everyone knows how obnoxious and obvious and fake they and each other are being but as long as no one mentions it it’s not awkward
**or they are so obsessed with how everyone else is JUDGING THEIR LIFE THROUGH THEIR FACEBOOK that they don’t realise that everyone is obsessed with being judged also.
***they don’t actually write about their shits.
My favourites are the ones where they say stuff like “Has had the WORST day” or “Does not believe what happened to me today!!!”, which actually means ASK ME! ASK ME ABOUT MY DAY! IT’S INCREDIBLY INTERESTING AND I WANT YOU TO ASK ME ABOUT IT!
I like to think that people just forget it’s a public domain, but I guess that’s probably not true. I really want to change stuff on my profile, but am terrified of doing so because then it announces to everyone that you’ve changed something. “Oh, Tim’s removed that thing he previously liked, he must hate it now”, “Ooh! Tim’s removed his Single status, he must be in a relationship now!”, “OOH! Tim’s removed Women from his preferences, he must have finally come out of the closet”.
Of course that really speaks to the size of my ego that I think people might give a shit about my life.
malarchi replied to your post: Are you still writing that essay on white guilt in film? Because I just watched this and it raises some brilliant points that are a bit of a stretch but are pretty interesting and also funny. http://www.cracked.com/video_18203_why-back-to-future-secretly-horrifying.html
Hahah yeh I did, that was really good too. 99% strippers. Well, books are cool too, I GUESS! Hope it goes well anyways.Hey I used some Chuck Palahniuk to explain the American obsession with imagining their own destruction. He wrote about it a bit in his non-fiction essay ‘monkey think, monkey do’. Like he had a theory that Stephen King invented school shootings by simply imagining them into existence and giving kids the idea. And apparently the government hired loads of filmmakers to thinktank all the ways terrorists could hurt America. I can’t tell where the line is between fact and urban myth with Palahniuk’s work.
Oh cool I haven’t heard of that one, it sounds good I’ll try to find it. Need to get the latest book as well still. Heh yeh I think that’s one of the things I like the most about his work. In Non-Fiction he talks about a little book he has where he writes down all these ideas he gets from seeing real stuff, and then he incorporates all that into his stories. I still love hearing about journalists who ring him up asking him to get them into fight club.
