Re: Naughty
You missed a meeting. 'Mobe' is kosher these days.
Mobe.
2823 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jan 2008
But Birmingham doesn't kill people. At least, not on purpose.
If you don't see the potential to be genuinely aghast that lethal weaponry is given away by any organisation* as an incentive to join, then something is amiss. Amiss!
*OK, I concede that a gun club giving away guns might be a degree less OMG-inducing. But still.
I fear you lose superiority points by not posting under your own name (not that it even is your own name, unless you are standing for the Monster Raving Comment Party).
No, of course it's not objectively worse that it's a teenage girl and not a fund manager. I seem to remember rather a lot of sympathy for the Manhattan employees of Cantor Fitzgerald. Still, you didn't address the car issue. And, well, the guy sounds like the worst kind of cyclist arsehole who gives other pedallers a bad name. That kind of we-don't-stop-for-no-one attitude is bullshit.
Regardless, all that 'distortion of victimhood' (wha?) stuff makes me suspect that I should probably turn my attention to these Danish pastries and leave you to muse upon it on your own. I mean, I know that's less fun for you, but...
Sigh. I'm a moderator, not a censor. But if the latter definition better satisfies your need for drama in this age of shrinking personal liberties, hey, fill your boots. I usually reject comments on sight that have the word 'censorship' in relation to comments, if for no other reason than that the irony fills me with glee. Because that's just the kind of guy I am.
We've now fixed the percentage issue - thanks to everyone who pointed it out. We generally don't publish comments about snafus because we prefer to just fix them and then send big kisses to the pointer-outers by email. Feel free to mail me direct if you spot anything. I mean, you can have a strop about it via the comments form if you prefer, it's just not that likely that anyone else will see it but me or my moderaminion.
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We've got a loose set of rules and I'm working on a guide to 'em, EG, but the one rule is that we reject what we want to reject, in the end. However - the c-word is a good way to get binned right away. We have to think of other people's work filters and all that. Sorry.
Not that I disagree in this instance, nor that it offends me personally, but we've got to have some standards, innit.
Well, I'm almost convinced by your heartfelt plea, but I'm afraid that you can't get around the sticking point that Moyles is objectively a horrible talentless tossbag. He is verifiably a twat. Scientific fact.*
*YES I KNOW IT'S NOT REALLY ACTUALLY A FACT, STOP TAKING EVERYTHING SO DAMN LITERALLY.
Come on - I don't think it's unreasonable to hope not to be at risk of ending up spread all over the internet because you leave the house now and then (and most embarrassing thing are accidental, no?). But even if that isn't realistic, I honestly don't get why people suddenly decide not to bother to value privacy at all just because it's harder to achieve these days, and it seems to be some kind of luxurious frippery. I don't know when it became normal to sneer at anyone who thinks privacy as a concept has intrinsic worth.
But then, people who think privacy is an outdated bit of bullshit and an unlamented casualty of tech advancement probably don't own underwear, and have one of those flippy-flappy old-person plastic-strip curtains instead of a bathroom door.
Meh.
Way to shoehorn that in there, AC. Surely if you earn upwards of £OMGCASH, you can... I don't know, bribe someone at Apple? Pay some genius to build you a bespoke iPhone that's even better than the real thing? Smack an iPhone owner in the face with a wad of notes and steal it while they are incapacitated? I mean, use your loaf, moneybags.
Although of course these things are a mighty bummer for us all. The 3G iPhone - it's the great leveller.
I love how you felt the need to explain what bipolar disorder is. WE KNOW. And so do we. Ha! Oh no, that's schizophrenia. Well, the point remains. No it doesn't. Yes it does. Shut up. You shut up.
It is an overwhelmingly male-dominated area, though. Do you not agree? Of course women go mad under the circumstances. I myself am this far from laying waste to the whole gaff with a golf club.
Oh yeah. Personally I think anyone who's ever had another career or interest should be banned from anything remotely resembling political engagement. Musicians especially are all entirely self-centred morons by definition, and should stay true to themselves by sitting at home counting their money and going "pfft, not my problem" whenever it comes to their attention that bad shit is happening in the world.
I mean, that whole 'attempting to use your influence for good' charade - what bollocks!
Mind you, an interesting aside - if being a musician automatically disqualified you from future involvement in international politics, there would have been no Tony Blair PM. Discuss. Or! Don't.
Futureboy - our American colleagues always publish articles on this site in US English, and so I'm afraid it is 'somber' after all. Keeps things interesting, no?
I mean, I know this is my job and everything but um, there are more important things oh God I can't believe I just admitted that to myself and the internet.
Yeah, yeah, everything that used to be good sucks now and everything that was never any good sucks even worse.
I blame Comic Book Guy for this prevailing attitude, personally. But by my calculations Family Guy could be 200% more smugly self-referential and cynically 'outrageous' than it is and it would still be 500% better than 97% of everything else available to look at with your eyes.
Anyway, did you know Seth McFarlane was booked onto one of the planes that hit the WTC, only he missed it? So really the entire series is all about how you manage to live your life after dodging a terrible fate. That, and dick jokes.
Erm, I'm happy you have such a lovely buxom ladypal, Anonymous Chap, but since I'm not sure she'd be pleased to have you quoting her in front of a lot of Friday-bored IT industry dribblers, I feel obliged to nix that comment.
I'll accept the usual kickback for saving your relationship. The rest of you, use your imaginati... ah, you're way ahead of me.