n00b question:
if there were no grayfaces, cabbages, no machine(tm) or any of that bullshit what would anyone be talking about or doing on a day to day basis?
I havent yet thought of a good enough answer to this question... !PLEH
we'd be complaining about the weather and jerking off in our socks, of course.
Sleeping in.
I'm fairly certain Rule 34 would have the same dominance it currently enjoys.
So, everyone walking around, blissfully aware and enlightened?
Society would grind to a halt, and a gentle "fapping" noise would be heard from coast to coast.
I want that!
I'm guessing even if there were some sort of Discordian utopia we'd still be pranking people and arguing about what's wrong with it.
I mean, to most people, there are no grayfaces, cabbages, MachineTM, etc. What are they talking about?
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on January 15, 2008, 03:12:26 PM
I mean, to most people, there are no grayfaces, cabbages, MachineTM, etc. What are they talking about?
OOOOOOOOOooooooh!
Someone give Cram an Intertruck!
So in other words, we need something to dislike to unify and define us?
that's not news.
Quote from: Felix on January 15, 2008, 08:46:41 PM
So in other words, we need something to dislike to unify and define us?
No, in the absence of anything to dislike, we would just pick on each other, which is what we already do.
but what if we actually DO dislike each other?
or, more to the point, what if I actually DO dislike most of you?
even better, then.
Quote from: Felix on January 15, 2008, 08:46:41 PM
So in other words, we need something to dislike to unify and define us?
Everyone does. Remember that hilarious period after the end of the Cold War, when everyone was trying to make Japan the next Great Enemy? Neither do I, because I was watching Sesame Street at the time, but it still happened, was still hilarious, and suggests everyone needs an enemy. The only reason they dropped Japan is because there was Somalia, and Bosnia and Kosovo and Afghanstan etc
So with that in mind, how do we use this phenomenon?
Paranoid breakdown. Convince someone everyone is their enemy, and the quietly walk away when the fight starts...
I meant, jeez that's sinister, I like it. I meant to unify us more effectively, for better projects.
Quote from: poo3poo3 on January 15, 2008, 02:44:21 PM
n00b question:
if there were no grayfaces, cabbages, no machine(tm) or any of that bullshit what would anyone be talking about or doing on a day to day basis?
I havent yet thought of a good enough answer to this question... !PLEH
Get fuckered up and watch the ATHF movie.
I can carry out false flag ops and pretend to be one of the enemy while attacking this place?
CAIN DID WTC!
Anything to pick up the pace of the group I say. What about more clearly defining our opposition and building our movements on that?
A good idea. Nebulous foes are no fun.
Exactly so. And a large part of the group we have is ideological nebulosity, making it hard to color within the lines on our unifying antithesis.
Authoritarian pricks piss most of us off. Go find one, and we can rally around our new enemy.
The US Military Industrial Complex?
The police officers forum? (just kidding Rog)
Quote from: Felix on January 16, 2008, 06:59:03 PM
The US Military Industrial Complex?
why, out of all the possibilities, would you pick the one that has all the big guns?
ECH, point.
We could form a group to crack down on DIRTY cops, though?
How about Alan Keyes?
Is he really a threat to anything we value?
No, but he assosciates with such people. Plus he'd be relatively easy to do over.
He threatens the LULZ!
I'm down with a straw man for warmups.
Should we perhaps start a list of Greyfaced Hunchbrains and groups that are part of Podge-Industrial Complex?
And then pick them off, one by one?
Oh wait, wrong forum.
Quote from: Cain on January 18, 2008, 05:37:46 PM
And then pick them off, one by one?
Oh wait, wrong forum.
\Well, it would surely give us a list that we could propagate for potential GASMS.
After the revolution and they were all gone everything fell apart. 23 in morse code. Death. We just became addicts to our vices and lived in squalor because all the gray faces were dead. We had no electricity because that was their invention and to kill the machine was to kill the presents that its mechanical santa claus brought us. How foolish we were to challenge this oil genie and its cause. we medicated our selves with booze and drugs. To forget all the creature comforts that we once had and faded after the revolution. We realized we were part of a system. They needed us as much as we needed them to exist. To eliminate one would mean the destruction of the other from the following loss of self. It was horrible. Just horrible. I mean, I didn't see it coming. I thought we would all be happy. But instead it was our RUIN! RUIN! RUIN!
My god, I blew it up. I blew them all up. I have murdered us... all!! I AM A BASTARD!!
*cries at the base of a shattered statue of liberty*
*Pops pills*
I am going to be fine.
Isn't that the climax of "Planet of the Apes"?
Correctamundo.
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on January 16, 2008, 05:36:56 AM
but what if we actually DO dislike each other?
or, more to the point, what if I actually DO dislike most of you?
I've been taking that for granted.
discordians are gay!
- girl scouts of the u.s.a xoxox
:lulz: Hey!
AND11121!
Quote from: nostalgicBadger on February 07, 2008, 10:11:52 AM
discordians are gay!
- girl scouts of the u.s.a xoxox
Badger!?
Quote from: nostalgicBadger on February 07, 2008, 10:11:52 AM
discordians are gay!
- girl scouts of the u.s.a xoxox
GOOD GAWD! RBG!?
Do you guys ever look at profiles?
I'm certain RBG will come back, if only to verbally pwn you all for mistaking her for a guy.
I don't. I can't be bothered.
I don't. I prefer to look at them head on.
I do, however, like to monitor what threads people are looking at.
BVH
-nosey
So I take it newcomers don't happen very often then?
Not ones with Badger in their names...
Ah. Why is having badger in one's name strange?
Because its uncommon?
At a guess, the only name on here I've found really strange was the one written all in alternating caps, jUsT lIkE tHiS aNd wAs fUcKiNg aNnOyInG tO rEaD. You get the idea.
Quote from: nostalgicBadger on February 07, 2008, 09:11:35 PM
Ah. Why is having badger in one's name strange?
Because we used to have a poster named Rabid Badger of God.
Ah, that makes sense then. I thought it was a bit strange that a bunch of discordians would think that nostalgicBadger is weird, but if there used to be another badger, that makes sense.
Yeah, not usually. You just bamboozled us . . . but hi and welcome.
Quote from: Hoopla on February 07, 2008, 10:43:22 PM
Yeah, not usually. You just bamboozled us . . . but hi and welcome.
can I just say that every time I see you're the latest poster in this thread, I see "poopla"
My buddy uses that word all the time. "Poopla"
You can have it if you want.
I can't think of any reason I would want to use the word 'poopla'.
Why does your friend doubt me so??
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on February 08, 2008, 12:09:02 AMQuote from: Hoopla on February 07, 2008, 10:43:22 PM
Yeah, not usually. You just bamboozled us . . . but hi and welcome.
can I just say that every time I see you're the latest poster in this thread, I see "poopla"
My buddy uses that word all the time. "Poopla"
You can have it if you want.
just mentioning that "Popla" is a brand of toilet paper over here.
I hate you all.
awesome.
Quote from: Hoopla on February 08, 2008, 12:13:01 AM
I can't think of any reason I would want to use the word 'poopla'.
Isn't that the National Sport of Salazar?
Even so . . . I don't play sports with Salazorians.
...anymore.
I find poopla funny.
But then I suck that way.
:argh!:
Sorry, Hoop. I'm genetically wired to laugh when I hear or see the following words:
poo(p)
butt
fart
It's uncontrollable. My children have the same genetic disease.
:argh!:
:lol: Hee hee. Poopla.
Is good.
Hee hee. I know.
I think it sounds awesome if you let your voice go a little falsetto for the first syllable.
POOP-la!
Almost like "Oops!"
P00p-la!
:lol:
Holy shit I'm a dork.
Would it be too redundant to point out how ridiculous this is?
Sure.
After all, Everybody Poops.
Quote from: Jenne on February 13, 2008, 03:41:50 AM
Sure.
After all, Everybody Poops.
"You're a Naughty, Naughty Boy, and That's Concentrated Evil Coming Out the Back of You"
Quote from: Jenne on February 13, 2008, 01:36:41 AMHee hee. I know.
I think it sounds awesome if you let your voice go a little falsetto for the first syllable.
POOP-la!
Almost like "Oops!"
P00p-la!
:lol:
Holy shit I'm a dork.
there's an awesome themepark in the south of the netherlands called the "Efteling" where some fairy or whatnot thing says "HOOP-la" just like that, a lot.
I had a dog that didn't poop. It died from constipation.
:lulz: Ouch.
Quote from: triple zero on February 13, 2008, 11:40:31 PM
Quote from: Jenne on February 13, 2008, 01:36:41 AMHee hee. I know.
I think it sounds awesome if you let your voice go a little falsetto for the first syllable.
POOP-la!
Almost like "Oops!"
P00p-la!
:lol:
Holy shit I'm a dork.
there's an awesome themepark in the south of the netherlands called the "Efteling" where some fairy or whatnot thing says "HOOP-la" just like that, a lot.
What does "Efteling" mean?
And Richter, where is that quote from?
Yeah, my kids were arguing over whether or not bees poop today.
What can I say? Our disease is confirmed and progresses quickly after birth.
Fecalomania.
Yeah...then they moved on to the fact that plants fart. They fart oxygen.
Sigh.
*giggle*
Yes, I'm pathetic.
All I know is that Stanley Kubrick's outlook is highly relevant here.
Quote from: alt.tastelessBut tastes differ even within the tasteless kingdom. Some like a story
of a little boy sitting on the throne shouting "Me go plop-plop! Me go
plop-plop!" Others favour the weeping spastic on the toilet, desperately
struggling not to miss the bowl screaming, "Me go plop-plop! Me go
plop-plop!"
:lol:
Quote from: Dr. Felix Mackay on February 14, 2008, 01:52:10 AM
All I know is that Stanley Kubrick's outlook is highly relevant here.
um... my naivety is catching up with me, Ive seen most of Kubrick's films. and Fucking love them.
which outlook of Kubrick's is it that you're referring to Dr. Mackay?
Oh, I read an interview wth Kubrick about his outlook on humanity. He was of the opinion that everything is shit, and tried to convey that perspective in his movies.
Quote from: Dr. Felix Mackay on February 14, 2008, 06:57:11 AM
Oh, I read an interview wth Kubrick about his outlook on humanity. He was of the opinion that everything is shit, and tried to convey that perspective in his movies.
dont suppose that interview was online was it? im a big Kubrick fan.
It was in The Stranger, you might be able to find it on their wobsite.
baramunk - so you're the other one
Quote from: nostalgicBadger on February 14, 2008, 11:07:37 AM
baramunk - so you're the other one
ke? "the other one" shit... wtf does that mean :D so far as i knew i was the same one, not the other one.
I meant, who likes Kubrick.
Everyone either looks at me like I'm crazy or the antiChrist when I say that I like Kubrick's work.
Quote from: Jenne on February 14, 2008, 01:16:46 AM
What does "Efteling" mean?
no clue. doesn't mean anything, afaik.
check out the website, if you click around randomly you'll find out how fairy and magical and :hosrie: and :rpger: it is.
actually i went there last year and it was awesome.
the forecast was rain for that day but it didn't rain at all so the entire park was fairly quiet, and we went into the rollercoaster like a zillion times which was great (because i'm afraid of heights and i didn't think i would like the rollercoaster, but then i figured, well it only lasts 45 seconds anyway, how bad can it be, right? and it was in fact awesome)
also this rollercoaster was named "Python", and i told everybody that they use Python at the astronomy faculty of our university for doing space simulations, and everybody was like "whoa really?" and i said, yeah ask anybody if they use Python for simulations (because it was true because Python is a programming language they use).
Quote from: triple zero on February 15, 2008, 01:06:33 AM
Quote from: Jenne on February 14, 2008, 01:16:46 AM
What does "Efteling" mean?
no clue. doesn't mean anything, afaik.
check out the website, if you click around randomly you'll find out how fairy and magical and :hosrie: and :rpger: it is.
actually i went there last year and it was awesome.
the forecast was rain for that day but it didn't rain at all so the entire park was fairly quiet, and we went into the rollercoaster like a zillion times which was great (because i'm afraid of heights and i didn't think i would like the rollercoaster, but then i figured, well it only lasts 45 seconds anyway, how bad can it be, right? and it was in fact awesome)
also this rollercoaster was named "Python", and i told everybody that they use Python at the astronomy faculty of our university for doing space simulations, and everybody was like "whoa really?" and i said, yeah ask anybody if they use Python for simulations (because it was true because Python is a programming language they use).
Well no fucking fair you describe it so nicely and here I won't be able to go there probably evar and visit it.
Will go to the website, though.
Damn. It's like Disneyland. Even started about the same time--'52 for Efteling, '55 for Dland. Wow.
Also, Dland is awesome when it rains. The whole fucking park empties. Grab a parka and just WALK on the rides.
Sigh.
but disneyland doesn't have puppets that go HOOP-la!
Which, really, if only they understood what a grievous oversight that is...
All too true.
Damn you, Trip...will have to include a visit to that place in the "must-before-I-die" itinerary...
I should make a list of things to do "after I die".
K. Won't be as effective, though.
That's what YUO think!
Felix,
WENT TO KILL SELF
PLAN TO RETURN FROM THE GRAVE TUESDAY
FEED THE CAT
If there was none of that shit people would be doing whatever the hell they want to do.
point.
but what if making a to-do list is what you want to do?
Dr. Strangelove is the best thing since apple pie and picket fences.
Quote from: Dr. Felix Mackay on February 22, 2008, 11:20:55 PM
That's what YUO think!
Felix,
WENT TO KILL SELF
PLAN TO RETURN FROM THE GRAVE TUESDAY
FEED THE CAT
*notes that Felix isn't around as much after he made this post*
Coinkeedeenk? /adding to the "so-and-so is dead conspiracies*
If there were no grayfaces, cabbages, no machine(tm) or any of that bullshit I'd be too busy making them to talk to anyone :evil: