My goodbye thread

[navkat]

Oh, now that this is Open Bar (I like Goodbye Thread much better than Open Bar BTW) I will share that my sociology class is kicking my motherfucking ass; I just wrote seven pages of summary and still have maybe two more to go and it took me four hours just to do the writing part, I haven't even started on my homework for my other two classes.

However, the good news is that the shit I'm learning is pretty much all about the things I like to discuss here, so that's cool. Also, the more I learn about corporations and government the better I understand just exactly how fucked we are. There is no longer any question at all in my mind whether this country is a plutocracy.

We are seriously fucking hosed and there is no way out that isn't going to suck monumentally worse for a period of time. Sorry guys!

I have a sneaking suspicion you're going to find yourself like I was: wanting more. asking questions but trying to surf the line between the asking and the "stick to the shit that makes that normies pass tests" dichotomy. Simultaneously making your instructors frustrated and inspired. Pissing off the students who want you to shut up so they can hear the Cliff's notes and go home.

You will find yourself, at times, tempted to storm out in incredulity at people's cerebral lethargy, only to find yourself on the smoke deck, screaming into your bookbag and hoping the pencil pouch took the brunt of the abuse because you really need for the hate-vom to not get all over your Bio notes.

Amirite?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Oh, now that this is Open Bar (I like Goodbye Thread much better than Open Bar BTW) I will share that my sociology class is kicking my motherfucking ass; I just wrote seven pages of summary and still have maybe two more to go and it took me four hours just to do the writing part, I haven't even started on my homework for my other two classes.

However, the good news is that the shit I'm learning is pretty much all about the things I like to discuss here, so that's cool. Also, the more I learn about corporations and government the better I understand just exactly how fucked we are. There is no longer any question at all in my mind whether this country is a plutocracy.

We are seriously fucking hosed and there is no way out that isn't going to suck monumentally worse for a period of time. Sorry guys!

I have a sneaking suspicion you're going to find yourself like I was: wanting more. asking questions but trying to surf the line between the asking and the "stick to the shit that makes that normies pass tests" dichotomy. Simultaneously making your instructors frustrated and inspired. Pissing off the students who want you to shut up so they can hear the Cliff's notes and go home.

You will find yourself, at times, tempted to storm out in incredulity at people's cerebral lethargy, only to find yourself on the smoke deck, screaming into your bookbag and hoping the pencil pouch took the brunt of the abuse because you really need for the hate-vom to not get all over your Bio notes.

Amirite?

So far, I haven't run into anything I didn't already know on a more superficial level, but I'm 40 and read a lot.

[Juana]

I'm trying to develop the Fresno mythology/grimy stories ('cause we got 'em, way more than I thought before) and want to make it as linky as possible because some of this shit is unbelievable, but can't find a specific article. It was published in Foreign Policy Reports in 1938, which is not exactly obscure, and was propaganda for Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia, so I *ought* to be able to find it. It's puzzling.

/vague bitching

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Oh, Fresno!

All roads lead to Fresno.

[DECI4]

This is my last post. Drink the nectar. I said DRINK THE NECTAR

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Last post? We'll see about that.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

This is my last post. Drink the nectar. I said DRINK THE NECTAR

Two words... Hotel California.

[P3nT4gR4m]

This is my last post. Drink the nectar. I said DRINK THE NECTAR

Two words... Hotel California.

FTR: Hotel California does eventually end, after a harrowing 48 hour guitar solo of soul destroying tediousness

[navkat]

I'm SORRY, DID YOU HEAR SOMEBODY SAY SOMETHING?

NIGEL WAS TALKING ABOUT SCHOOL IN THE OPEN BAR THREAD.

So rude...continue, Nigel.

[navkat]

Good luck finding justice here. In case you haven't noticed, this is a laissez faire banana republic with a Red Queen kangaroo court system. The jury is a motley crew of madmen and jackals--you are entitled to petition before a jury of your peers, after all.

[East Coast Hustle]

You know what's more annoying that DERPI4's whinging?


FUCKING OPEN BAR.

Srsly, don't make me lock this shit. There's a reason that thread is gone, and it's a damn good reason.

[Telarus]

Let's make this thread productive.

There exists social currencies in any group of individuals. Most of the value is derived from facts. Facts can be as simple as "this lolcat macro makes me giggle" or as varied as

IT'S ONLY TUESDAY.  FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, SOMEONE CALL THE HELP DESK!

*ahem*  Pay no attention to him, he's just had a really stressful day.  It's fucking awesome here.  I could retire from this job.  It's like having sex with Lady Gaga while drinking big shots of cheap bourbon and smoking Waffle Iron's lutefisk and stuffing Freeky's chemical warfare tomato soup down my throat.  I love this shit, motherfucker, I can't help it!

Any meetings of minds, taken as a system, are concerned with trading units of value among nodes.

My above playful insult was treated as currency because I'm known not to negatively harsh on people (as much as I, a monkey, can), because it draws on a shared experience (I've done it to people in the past), and because of the consistency of my other social currency.

It's as simple as finding gold for the Images/Gifs threads, lurking and commenting/editing/extrapolating from other gramamrae (written art), or finding collaborative spaces.



Unfortunately, we only have your input into this memetic space to judge the value of your ideas (note: the abstracts you present, not you as a person).

And without an attempt at producing your own value, you're not even a Diogenes, the dirtiest man wandering the market with a dog.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

My goodbye thread
I'm leaving this forum forever.

I can't afford to be linked to characters of unsavoury reputation in any way, even if I have to leave the internet forever.

Don't try to follow me, my training makes me a ghost, you will never succeed.

See ya next week.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I mean "today".

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Lookout, Roger, that's a trained internet ghost you're mocking.