Have You Seen This Rain God??

[Lies]

Psh.

You guys are the worst internet detectives EVER.  I wouldn't even trust you enough to pay you to spy on my Second Life partner to find out if they were having an affair.

But seriously, yo, the last I know of TGGR was the 24th.  Only 3 days ago.

Have you seen what those guys look like? I was remarking that whoever these people are, they must be grade-a losers... and then my friend found a picture of  what they actually look like....

[Cain]

Yeah, I heard about the story from Have I Got News For You, and they did a compare and contrast between their avatars and their IRL selves.

And I lol'd.

[navkat]

^^^I'll bet more than a few of us here will look that ugly in a few wretched, aged years.  

I'm fairly certain that human beings as a species were never intended to mate for life in one-on-one monogamous relationships but rather, travel in packs and share partners. That one-woman-one-man bullshit is a consequence of greed and agriculture--man trying to take ownership of a piece of land for himself needs a family and a piece of ass to help him work that land too.

All the modern-day Jerry Springer and "wanna cyber?" pop-culture is a symptom of our seriously repressed human nature. We're pack-animals, not fucking tweetie-birds.

[Cain]

Actually at my current rate, I'm going to look like those people rescued from Dachau in a few years.  I was accurately described as "wiry" yesterday.  And to think I was ever so slightly overweight in June...

I am convinced there is no-one out there so stupid that someone else will not make money from them.  Such as real life e-detectives, spying on people for having cyber-romances.

[navkat]

Get out of metaspace and spend some time in meatspace.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

^^^I'll bet more than a few of us here will look that ugly in a few wretched, aged years.  

I'm fairly certain that human beings as a species were never intended to mate for life in one-on-one monogamous relationships but rather, travel in packs and share partners. That one-woman-one-man bullshit is a consequence of greed and agriculture--man trying to take ownership of a piece of land for himself needs a family and a piece of ass to help him work that land too.

All the modern-day Jerry Springer and "wanna cyber?" pop-culture is a symptom of our seriously repressed human nature. We're pack-animals, not fucking tweetie-birds.

People seem to have a natural tendency to partner up, actually, although it's rarely for life, and not always monogamously. That's why we fall in love.

Humans also seem to have a tendency to live in family groups, not necessarily "packs". Eventually the family groups become large enough to be "tribes". People also seem to have a natural tendency to want to mate with people who are not related to them, therefore seeking out mates from other tribes.

In many early agrarian cultures, land was passed on matrilinearly. Marriage, in terms of two people falling in love and pairing up in a partnership, seems to have been just as prevalent in cultures where the husband had no "ownership" of land, wife, or children, including non-agrarian cultures.

I think the "marriage is slavery" new-age approach is mostly wishful thinking, and the "humans are meant to live in packs, sharing partners at will" myth is every bit as sexist and oppressive as the "humans are meant to be monogamous" myth.

Some people want to be monogamous, and some people mate for life. I WANT a lover and a partner to share my life with and meet me halfway until I die all old and shrivelly. I don't necessarily want to be restricted by monogamy, but that is a subject aside from love, marriage, and partnership.

Telling people how they're "naturally meant to be" is just another authoritarian trap. I think that people can figure out for themselves how they're naturally meant to be, and it may be different from how you're naturally meant to be.

On the other subject, I kind of doubt many of us will turn that pastily corpulent later in life. For instance, several of us are already later in life, and it hasn't happened to us despite decades of geekery. My Portland circle of friends consists of a bunch of total internet nerds who met on dialup boards about sixteen years ago, and although some of us have lost hair and most of us have gained weight, we're all still some pretty fine-looking people in terms of being healthy and active and not looking like big squishy sweaty bags of sloth.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Get out of metaspace and spend some time in meatspace.

[Cain]

I think the "marriage is slavery" new-age approach is mostly wishful thinking, and the "humans are meant to live in packs, sharing partners at will" myth is every bit as sexist and oppressive as the "humans are meant to be monogamous" myth.

This is the correct "people should do wtf they want without reference to dubious human nature style arguments" bicycle.

[Reginald Ret]

TITC"PSDWTFTWWRTDHNSA"B?

[Cain]

 

[Triple Zero]

Get out of metaspace and spend some time in meatspace.

this image has been both my desktop for months and is currently also the header image for the leather/LIMBO PARTY theme for this board (a theme left over from the discordian cyberspace masquerade, that I copied to PD some time, cause it looks kinda cool except I think the fontsize in the quote-boxes is too small but I haven't gotten around to fixing that)

[Suu]

Get out of metaspace and spend some time in meatspace.

FRAMINGHAM IS THAT YUO?!

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/11/21/mystery_meat_has_framingham_all_abuzz/

[Richter]

Sounds like a similar plan to the Braintree.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

"But then it kept appearing week after week," she said. "You know when people make turkeys on Thanksgiving and you take the giblets out? That's what it looked like. And then it was more meaty and steak-looking, with bones, and it kept getting more meaty. It was gross."

"it kept getting more meaty" 

[navkat]

big squishy sweaty bags of sloth.

This.