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Bought the mum a Nook HD. Only person left to do shopping for is father and a friend.

should have gotten those newport 100s

Macbeth wrote:

should have gotten those newport 100s

Tbh those are probably my least favorite cig lol. Too chemically and fake tasting which seems to be the case for most menthols.

I bought a meat pie. Yum.

I bought a fountain pen recently. Makes all the hipsters jealous

13urnzz wrote:

i bought some razors (have you seen the price on these fuckers lately?), a growler of beer, a notepad, and two pens.

I know right, like they are made of platinum

penis. pink one.

Dilbert_X wrote:

aynrandroolz wrote:

Jay wrote:

I bought a fountain pen recently. Makes all the hipsters jealous

hipsters use fountain pens? it's funny cause you keep referencing on here very contrived 'image'/'status' products that you buy, then try to divert attention away from your own aching insecurity with boring hipster jokes. fountain pens aren't 'fashionable' or 'cool'. they're not 'retro' accessories. you just bought one because you're a conceited twat and you think it'll make you come across as more literary or sophisticated or idk what. you joke about it "making hipsters jealous" because you are obviously insecure.

I discovered your secret
http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

that website is about 4 years old. also, i'm not a pomo scholar. and that website makes fun of a very specific tendency in pomo (or more specifically post-structuralist) theory: to be very abstruse and incredibly self-involved. not that it doesn't make sense (though of course that word generative grammar based experiment doesn't make any sense). the 'joke' is that pomo theory is so esoteric that it only makes sense to other philosophy/literary types. i.e. it's not really a 'joke' at all, but more just something devised by computer science geeks and science nerds to laugh at the indecipherable theory of another discipline (the assumption-slash-fallacy being that, just because it's in the english language, and is ostensibly about english, all humanities research should be understandable by others). it's the equivalent of a humanities major making a 'science gobble-de-gook generator' and pasting random mathematical symbols and nomenclature in long, nonsensical equations. i.e. it's not funny and it's not clever. c.f. the sokal affair, which was genuinely funny and did have a point. no doubt back in the 70's, at the height of post-structuralist fashion, there were plenty of third-rate professors in bottom-league american colleges pumping out fashionable dirge. show me a profession that doesn't have a bottom-end of the bell-curve producing shite and blagging their way through.

tl;dr: CONGRATS DILBERT YOU'RE SO SPECIAL!

in light of modern scientific research, it is also highly ironic, because if any field or discipline needs simplicity of thought and clarity of expression to be of any use to anyone else, it's the current & contemporary fringes of modern science. postmodernism's theoretical hey-day died out back in the 1980's. that style of writing is an in-joke within humanities departments now... though, crucially, they DO still understand the material. hence it being an 'in-joke'. you laughing at it is basically the same schtick as jay: another chance to load other people with your intellectual insecurities.

Last edited by aynrandroolz (2012-12-28 09:05:07)

it's a nonsense-generator, basically. it has an index of 'postmodern' technical words, sorted by their word-class and grammar-type, and then spits them out in 'sentences'. sentences which, on a mechanical-linguistic level, are perfectly formed (i.e. grammar and syntax form whole sentences, with verb/object, adjective/noun, etc), but on the semantic level - i.e. signified meaning - it is total gobbledegook. as i said, it's like a humanities student taking a bunch of mathematical symbols from various advanced areas of quantum physics or rocket science, and then spitting them out in a random order. the 'satire' lasts for about 0.3 seconds. and the punchline is basically "lol xD we don't understand what the fuck you're talking about ;P". you have to question who is laughing and who is being laughed at.

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Are you painting minifigs or something?

Jay wrote:

Are you painting minifigs or something?

Reading minifigs made me picture mini fig newtons. I actually use if for soldering repairs on my guitars/basses and I'm ordering a pedal kit too. Kinda like paint by number for assembling bass or guitar effect pedals.

aynrandroolz wrote:

it is also highly ironic, because if any field or discipline needs simplicity of thought and clarity of expression to be of any use to anyone else, it's the current & contemporary fringes of modern science

At least it is useful.

i'm not a pomo scholar.

Yeah you are.

Jay wrote:

My dad used to spend hours painting these when I was a kid, detailed down to the buttons on the shirt.

I spent fucken hours painting Citadel miniatures, I still have them in fact.

Back on topic:

One of these, to scan in my bazillion negatives and slides, and so I can finally ditch my film and print processing gear.


And one of these, as the rearsight on my Toz sucks bottom.



I'll have to find the time to machine up an adaptor.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2012-12-28 22:48:54)