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LALALALA I CANT HEAR YOU FROM OUTSIDE MY BOX

It seemed like a good idea at the time.  Why'd you feel it necessary to quote my entire post for a one-line reply, then rip off've P3nT4gR4m's insults?  Surely you've got a few of your own.

That's not your entire post, Brain Trust.

And why would you think I read Pent's posts? Fuck that guy.  

... For Realness.

I started this page, but I really have no idea what I'm doing. Anyone want to help flesh it out?

http://discordia.wikia.com/wiki/Really_Real_Discordians

"Fnord" is used by the authors of the Principia Discordia elsewhere to mean words, terminology, and conventions that are designed to interrupt someone's ability to objectively analyze a situation.  We see this shit all the time in the media.  I mean, headlines are built for it.  Take the headline of a local paper from not to long ago: "SWINE FLU SUSPECTED IN COUNTY."  You read the article and discover that there is (at least) one person in the county who was tested at a hospital for swine flu.  There are no results back yet.

Does that mean people ought to be worried about swine flu?  Hell fucking no.  But what is the effect -- arguably the intended effect -- of printing a headline like that?

One of the things we've got going for us as Discordians is the ability to see these "fnords."  (They're not quite what Wikipedia calls 'weasel words', necessarily, so I'm just going to keep calling them fnords.)  We can read that headline and laugh about it, or phone the editor, or whatever.  But one of the things very rarely done in the original body of Discordian works was to use fnords as a tactic against other people, or at least people we're trying to sort-of-actively convert.

Dare I say... fucking DUH. Why are you explaining, and overexplaining, the buttfuckingly obvious?

You've claimed to be 16 on these boards.  Is this accurate?

If you're comfortable with it, I'm also curious what gender you consider yourself.  (Your posts indicate androgyny; is this an accurate gender assessment?)  I am not concerned with your sex.

I'm asking because your post content is not significant enough for me to build a profile, and my initial post is clearly insufficient to communicate with you.  I'm not interested in talking over or around you.  My next query, regardless of the answers to the previous two, will be how much of the 'background' Discordian material you're familiar with (The writings of RAW, Leary's works, Taoism, the contents of either the original or refurbished POEE.org, etc.  Semiotics and experimental linguistics would be on the list, but your post content does touch on those subjects).  If there's something else you think would be more relevant instead, please share that.

I'm so glad you've come to show us what a Really Real Discordian is like!

The BIP isn't exactly a Discordian work.

Hey, I'm sorry.  

I dunno what for yet, but I think I'm going to get told soon.  

I might be sorry that I didn't pick a side, but I'm selling a case anyway.  That's kinda disingenuous.  Or I might be sorry that I'm criticizing the BIP, because I've definitely never put up my own Discordian works on a site, and I do think that's a pretty noble goal.  Or, I dunno.  Maybe I'm sorry that I'm going to opine that there are things that really fnordaren't Discordian, which runs counter to the spirit of the movement.

The BIP isn't exactly Discordian because it's selling us something.  Specifically, it's selling us fnord.

Here's what the first page of the BIP says, but I'm going to help you see the fnords.  Some of them.

You think you just woke up here one day, right? FNORD Think again. It was your whole life that brought you to this. Fact is, you were born to be here. Go ahead, look around. I'll be here when you get back.

Looks smaller than it is, don't it? Sometimes, it doesn't even feel all that bad. But stillÉ You look through those FNORD bars, and you see all that you're FNORD missing. Hopes. Dreams. What could-have-been. Here, put your palms up to the Black Iron, grab the FNORD bars, let me show you something.

FNORD Feel that? That's all the books you've read. And that entire FNORD wall over there is your adolescence. Look FNORD up: It's your CD collection. The FNORD floor you woke up on? Your parents. Like I said, you were born to be here. It's your life, it's the FNORD cold FNORD trap of your own existence. You painted yourself into a FNORD corner.

So, now you're wondering why you feel FNORD trapped here, in your own life. Why now, why today, can you see the FNORD bars of a Black Iron FNORD Prison that you made for yourself? Because you stopped reacting, and took a couple of steps forward. You thought you could do what you wanted, you tried to be self reliant, and FNORD bang. You smacked your head against the FNORD wall.

What's that? Yeah. That's when the FNORD claustrophobia sets in. When you didn't know you were FNORD trapped, everything was fine. But now that you know, you can see your entire, FNORD tired, FNORD monotonous life stretch out before you, FNORD trapped in these 4 walls, these 6 sides. Breathe, kid. It's just abject FNORD FNORD panic that you're feeling right now. Some even say that this is what FNORD death feels like: An unchanging life, immune and FNORD unfeeling to what you FNORD really want.

Look around you. Look at these cold, FNORD black bars. The FNORD colorless ceiling. The FNORD hard ground. FNORD That's your universe. That's the world you're going to be living in for the FNORD rest of your life here in FNORD Prison. You're going to live out your life in FNORD quiet FNORD desperation. Or, not so quiet if you decide to take the rife/bell tower route. Either way, FNORD long or FNORD short, it'll feel the same. FNORD Dead, unchanging.

So, if you're interested, I'd like to invite you to a jailbreak... (DRONF!) Just turn around.

It's bad juju, man.  We know the fnords are out there, but using them offensively?  This is our left-foot path.

But here's the deal: That doesn't quite make it not-Discordian.  This was written by someone who knows there are fnords out there.  The thing is, I'm not sold they can really see them.  This is black magic written by Good Charlotte.  You've got the candles and you've a candance and I hope to somebody's God you remembered the salt, but I'd still bet against you on demons showing up.

Until you know what you want, you can only get things you don't.  Do you want to chase them out of the darkness with the slavering jaws of FNORDs?  Then you're going to need to be a lot more ruthless.  Do you want to play the kindly woodsman like Omar and Mal?  Then drop the wolfman mask.

Hail Eris.  But hot or cold, man, or she's gonna spit it out.

http://discordia.wikia.com/wiki/Pinealist

WTF did they pull that for? That's stupid!

[Nigel's Spaggoty Sauce]

Nigel's Spaggoty Sauce

Start this shit early 'cause it's gonna simmer alllll day.

Most of the key ingredients.


Sautee a minced onion and a stick of celery in a bit of olive oil.


Dice an eggplant.


Add the diced eggplant and sautee until it starts to turn translucent.


Dump in some red wine. I don't know, maybe a quarter of a bottle.


Grate two carrots and a potato.


Add them to the pot.


Dump in a bunch of sauce and crushed tomatoes. Maybe some diced ones too. Fresh tomatoes are better.


Stir that shit up!


Slice a fuckload of mushrooms.


Mince up some herbs and a bunch of garlic! DO IT! I used thyme, oregano, rosemary and sage from my garden, and dried basil.


Add the mushrooms and herbs to the sauce.


Add a half cup or so of heavy cream.


Serve over pasta with parmesan and bread and perhaps a meatball or two NOM NOM NOM.

This was yesterday's breakfast:



Sear bison very lightly... it should still be raw and cold inside, you just want to kill any germs on the surface

Mince parsley and green onions

Drizzle with a mixture of soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, sesame oil and black pepper

Nom nom nom!

So, Mrs LMNO and I were talking about this last night.

Mrs LMNO: "I don't know... I think that he might have been involved in something even worse, and was killed... this whole thing seems like a cover up to hide it."

Me:  "Wait... Something worse than going to Thailand and choking yourself to death while jerking off?  So you're stacking an even more implausible story on top of the one we already have.  Where the hell did Mrs Conspiracy Theorist come from?"

Mrs LMNO: "I learned it by watching you."

A Horny and Virile Rain God:










Link fixed

Nigel Poppins

That's disturbing!

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A friend of mine who used to work with me and I called him about the bugs and also told him the manager never does anything. He texted my manager as soon as he got off the phone with us and told him exactly what we said and told him who it was that had called him.

I  think you mean "ex-friend".

read the entire paragraph again, I think she meant that the DM did the informing, not the friend with which Laughtrack called the DM to talk about the bugs.

Fix'd.
Also, Zero is correct. The friend and I (she's also a she) called the DM, and the DM texted the manager, naming names and complaints.

Ohhhh that makes more sense.

That was really good, and heartbreaking.

A friend of mine who used to work with me and I called him about the bugs and also told him the manager never does anything. He texted my manager as soon as he got off the phone with us and told him exactly what we said and told him who it was that had called him.

I  think you mean "ex-friend".