TheNihilistsParadoxicalWashingMachine

23675 pts ยท January 15, 2018


UK, gen x, single, dude, IT professional since stone age. I like food, movies, books, games anything creative, art and crafts and also dogs. Dogs are the best people. Dogs are awesome. Woof. Awooo.... but they will break your heart. I'm into caring people, I think we all benefit from care and support and an understanding of how hard life can be sometimes. I think being kind sometimes gets lost in our hectic pressured world, and that's a shame. I don't like the pattern the modern world seems to force people into of always struggling and having to fight for survival - I think there must be a better way in our modern clever age. I am a proponent for mental health care, I have helped many friends and people through difficult times, and have gone through a lot myself. I find this to be an extremely important area that often gets neglected and often mishandled. I have a lot of time for listening to people and their stories and just being there. A little help goes a long way.

Sudden Frenchman sounds like something I would have to look up in the urban dictionary.

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Definitely not bullshittery. I would guess you're either already running through a VPN, or, whatever you're routing through is. Or, your ip range doesn't resolve to being from the UK - you're very lucky ( someone at your ISP hasn't registered their IP range, or done it incorrectly ).

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Sure I know. But Keir and Co. have had plenty of time to either rework it or kill it. They didn't. Started by one. Finished by another. And Keir ends up being the captain in charge at time of release. Bad look.

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm apparently uhh, Swedish. My hobbies include eating surstromming and visiting Ikea.

6 months ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 0

Ha ha. Fantastic. I'm in.

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Brit here. It's wild I now have to use a VPN to use imgur. Good old Keir. He's such a treasure. Roll on ID cards. I'm sure that's going to also be an absolute triumph.

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I love this. I think we should setup a confusing dual system where some use chomps. I'd use chomps. This message is brought to you via the wonders of a VPN from behind the Bellend Firewall of Britain.

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

mmmmmmMMMMMmmmmm.

6 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Eh, to be honest, at this point, being sacrificed in the woods sounds like a mercy.

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes but wait, hold in a minute. You see one is the pain of others - which is irrelevant. And the other is personal discomfort - which is very important. Duh.

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

David Whittaker was awesome, he composed many a great piece of music on ancient hardware.

6 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Wasp Factory 2.0

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Does it bother anyone else that he's sitting in front of it for reference, but the art is from a completely different perspective. Feels more performative than useful. Cool art regardless. But still.

7 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Feels like human nature of excess vs temperance. Drink til you're hammered. Hangover recovery. Or diets. Or excercise. Or spending. For the US you get bonus points if your excess wild period includes some form of social demonising or ethnic cleansing. McCarthyism. Trumpism.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Whilst I appreciate all viewpoints, I do think that a contemporary lens can lack a good deal of self awareness with regards to its own sense of smug superiority - prevalent throughout the ages whenever a contemporary period looks backwards. Take that also with a pinch of salt. Relevancy and style changes over time and takes no prisoners. Including with any given contemporary moment which will also age out.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

One of my fave films. And. Personally. I love the bit at the start of the movie with Egg talking to the lawyer and he gives a brief magic demonstration. Fantastic ! Because it builds up to it. Pfft. Magic. Come on. Please. Bzzt. See ? That was nothing. But that's how it always starts. Small ! Cut scene cue awesome music ! I get chills with it. Awesome.
I don't have a lot of the same takes on the film as you do on it, but then, this film is my era, and I don't view it through the modern lens. 1/

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I do like how the modern era has romanticised living in ever smaller and more transient spaces. It's like a victorian era wealth gap and lack of decent living space for people got a massive dose of marketing and propaganda to make it cool. Living out of your car ? In a hovel No no no ! So out dated. Don't say that. Say you live an open and bohemian lifestyle free from such burdens as having a home, or security, or a future, or not shitting 1 foot away from your pillow. Good times.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Or the grandkids did make it that far but they only have time for survival - picking through the ruins of the old world to make it through to the next day. No netflix. No documentaries. Famine. Plague. Environmental and socioeconomic collapse. On a brighter note, there will be a lot less social media influencers.

7 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Wow. I remember this. I think I still have it somewhere lurking in a dusty drive share.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I believe you Kermit.

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Assuming by "end" you mean things equal out - this makes an enormous assumption that all such historical crises are broadly equivalent with the contemporary and will follow the same cycle. This takes no account of things like speed of transmission of an idea versus how long it can take for someone to mull it over, nor facts like psychological impact and consequence in a near instantaneous global village, nor the idea of tipping points pushing past previous equilibriums. In short. I'd say naive.

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

At that height it's less of a waterfall and more of a humidifier

8 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My boss was a narcissist who didn't deserve me !

8 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

It's because - as every ork knows - purple makes things invisible, or at least much harder to spot. Thus, your depraved 4' long mega schlong 4000 that you keep next to your sofa is safe from the judgemental regard of visiting friends and family allowing you to safely meet the gaze of your father over dinner.

8 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I don't think any of us deserve dogs, all you can do is try to be as good of a person as they think you are.

8 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Is this the alpine equivalent of carrying all the groceries in from the car in one go ?

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A pathological narcissist as grand leader, a literal lunatic running the asylum is creating a twisted horror of a country you say ? I'm shocked. Who could have predicted that letting someone with a severe mental dysfunction be in charge would result in a place people don't like living ? Maybe there should be like, some safeguards against letting crazy people run for office. Preferably before they've burnt said office to the ground. But. I'm sure it's fine. US exceptionalism and all that.

8 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You have to have the egg duo, of the egg in the bath, and the scotch egg at formula 1. And then David Mitchell having a meltdown about it all.

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0