Quotes of the Moment II

[Juana]

Garbo: I am *deeply* annoyed. JFC.
The Last Paladin: If I didn't know you better, I would swear that all that resentment you garner would give you ulcers. But knowing you, it'll probably build and build until you develop super powers. And then every one of those morons will rue the day they were born...
Garbo:

[Cain]

This is why I rarely talk to noobs

(18:06:58)<Cain>Writing yesterday's post on Romney and revanchism caused me to wonder why it is that hawkish Republicans often like to describe other states in obviously inaccurate ways. There is a propaganda value in doing so, and perhaps that's the only reason, but there is a danger that obviously inaccurate statements could invite ridicule and undermine the hawk's larger argument. There may be another important reason. There
(18:06:58)<Cain> is a hawkish desire to compare current international conditions with those in the past, so modern states that the hawks dislike are identified in terms that allows them to be more easily likened to hostile states from previous eras.
(18:07:06)<Cain><3 Daniel Larison
(18:07:30)<Cain>This may help to account for descriptions of Iran as an "expansionist" power, even though it hasn't pursued a genuinely expansionist foreign policy in decades. The historical comparison is explicit in the Traub article I linked: he likens the Iranian regime to the French revolutionary regime of the Directory. The only problem with the comparison is that the Directory was actively exporting revolution, creating
(18:07:30)<Cain> puppet regimes in occupied territories, and waging conventional wars beyond its borders, and Iran hasn't really been doing any of that.
(18:14:54)<Cram>sharp
(18:16:53)<Harkat>pew pew I'm an airplane
(18:17:16)<Cram>a TYPING airplane!
(18:17:30)<Harkat>oh god
(18:17:37)<Harkat>and replying Cram
(18:18:22)<Harkat>That was a lot of words that i read
(18:18:30)<Harkat>and i didn't understand any part of it
(18:18:34)<Cram>which was?
(18:18:52)<Harkat>that which Cain was talking about
(18:18:56)<Spah>x3
(18:19:53)<Harkat>no comprendo signore?
(18:20:45)<Cram>I'm confused, do you have a more specific question?
(18:20:54)<Harkat>no
(18:21:04)<Harkat>i'm spouting rubbish
(18:21:13)<Harkat>and am confused at your confusion
(18:21:44)<Cram>oh
(18:22:21)<Harkat>i saw a wall of text from Cain about 'hawks' and 'republicans', so i told you i didn't understand it (after telling you i'm an airplane)
(18:23:00)<Cram>thanks for the recap
(18:23:30)<Harkat>no problemo
(18:23:37)<Cain>Forget it, Harkat, you're out of your element
(18:23:52)<Harkat>about the hawks and republicans?
(18:24:31)<Harkat>i don't wish to understand it, not that i care
(18:24:38)<Harkat>because
(18:24:39)<Cain>No, Harkat, these men are nihilists, there's nothing to be afraid of.
(18:25:19)<Harkat>ok ^^
(18:25:25)<Spah>Hawk=Predatory. They lie to make their point and paint other nations in colorful stereotypes to avoid cause and effect and just say 'we good, dey bad. Buy war bounds.'
(18:26:07)<Harkat>aah
(18:26:59)<Harkat>you speak of governments in general?
(18:27:18)<Cain>You have got to buck up, man. You cannot drag this negative energy in to the chat room!
(18:27:35)<Harkat>woah
(18:27:45)<Harkat>i thought i dragged the 'awesome' energy into the room
(18:28:06)<Spah>Buck up? Like Buck Buck bakaw?
(18:28:26)<Harkat>Buck Rogers!
(18:28:38)<Spah>Bidi bidi bidi.
(18:28:48)<Harkat>lol
(18:28:59)<Harkat>I haven't seen Buck for a while now =\
(18:29:03)<Spah>I preferd Buckaroo Bonzai.
(18:29:16)<Cassowaries>so you admit to stealing the awesome energy from its rightful owners
(18:29:19)<Spah>If you're in the states check Hulu.
(18:29:28)<Spah>I think they still have the whole series.
(18:29:58)<Harkat>TBH, Cassowaries, I thought I was creating the 'awesome' energy and dispersing it into this chat room
(18:30:17)<Harkat>I'm watching Being Erica currently ^^
(18:30:18)<Cassowaries>CREATING energy
(18:30:23)<Cassowaries>do you not know SCIENCE boy
(18:30:37)<Harkat>fuck science?
(18:30:51)<Cain>Well, there isn't a literal connection, Harkat.
(18:30:58)<Cram>lousy pagans. IN THIS CHAT ROOM WE FOLLOW THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS.
(18:31:07)<Cassowaries>^^^^^
(18:31:20)<Harkat>I believe in nothing!
(18:31:29)<Harkat>I think
(18:31:48)<Harkat>but ok, thermodynamics
(18:31:53)<Cain>So you have no frame of reference here, Harkat. You're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know...
(18:32:11)<Harkat>Yes
(18:32:52)<Harkat>Why anyone wants only one frame of reference is ... intriguing
(18:33:17)<Cain>Harkat, this is not 'Nam. This is SCIENCE. There are rules.
(18:33:42)<Harkat>ok
(18:33:52)<Harkat>I need to brush up on science
(18:34:00)<Spah>Here, have a science bible https://sites.google.com/site/scienceandmathguide/
(18:34:42)<Harkat>All I can think of is energy transformation, flowing from one form to another
(18:36:16)<Cain>Is this your homework, Harkat? Is this your homework?
(18:36:24)<Harkat>It is now
(18:36:42)<Harkat>I have too many tabs now =\
(18:37:43)<Harkat>anything in particular i should look at?
(18:38:09)<Cram>yeah, check out Walter from The Big Lebowski

[Nephew Twiddleton]

What the...

[Don Coyote]

HOW ZANY OF THEM

[LMNO]

I posit that posting something interesting and thoughtful in IRC is an excercise in existential dispair.

[Cain]

He still doesn't seem to realise I was quoting Walter Sobchak the entire time.

He's now telling me about how Sumerians are responsible for America.

[Freeky]

[Nephew Twiddleton]

He still doesn't seem to realise I was quoting Walter Sobchak the entire time.

He's now telling me about how Sumerians are responsible for America.

Well yeah. It's the United States of Sumerica. Where everyone can get sum.

[Bu🤠ns]

He still doesn't seem to realise I was quoting Walter Sobchak the entire time.

He's now telling me about how Sumerians are responsible for America.

Well yeah. It's the United States of Sumerica. Where everyone can get sum.

[Cain]

(22:43:30)<Froggypance>What the hell?
(22:43:44)<Froggypance>Who'd want a phial Reagan's blood?
(22:47:13)<lgs>>:]
(22:47:15)<Froggypance>Is someone trying to clone Reagan... like in that film?
(22:47:23)<lgs>we can only hope
(22:47:30)<Froggypance>What was that film...
(22:47:41)<Froggypance>Oh yes. 'The Boys from Brazil'...
(22:48:06)<Froggypance>(Did I go too far? Bit too much?)
(22:49:34)- Queen_Gogira quit (Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client)
(22:51:11)<lgs>never
(22:51:47)<Cain>I want ALL the phials of Reagan's blood
(22:52:37)<Froggypance>CAIN YOU CAN BLOODY... er... SODDING WELL USE INK LIKE THE REST OF US
(22:53:12)<Cain>then again, I also want to clone Reagan, have him birthed in Kenya, then have him raised by Communist parents and have a life of Marxist indoctrination
(22:53:20)<Cain>and then bring him to America
(22:53:43)<Cain>best
(22:53:45)<Cain>troll
(22:53:48)<Cain>EVER
(22:54:02)<lgs>

[Don Coyote]

I would support that.

[Telarus]

 

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

Me to Payne last night- "this heat is dildoes, nah, its WORSE than dildoes, dildoes can be FUN"

[Doktor Howl]

Me to Payne last night- "this heat is dildoes, nah, its WORSE than dildoes, dildoes can be FUN"

Next time, just tell him:

"Behind every great man is a woman with an enormous strap on."

Guys love hearing shit like that.

[Bu🤠ns]