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turkishpirate

SIX (6) : is an akward number on which to start a countdown.

Sep 07, 2005 23:46

what's with all this goddamn soft news coverage of the hurricane? i can't believe some of You People sit around and watch this shit all day. there's no new information, just one cheesy-ass human interest story after another, and yet people like my mom and undoubtedly thousands more across the country will sit down and watch this garbage for hours ( Read more... )

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atrayitic September 8 2005, 03:59:46 UTC

You must like making friends.
I dont have tv. I haven't watched a single thing on it.

turkishpirate September 8 2005, 04:06:46 UTC

making friends? i don't follow.

and i commend you. if i didn't have one, i wouldn't miss it. when i am living at school i don't have one, but when i'm at home it's always on 18/7 with someone watching some asinine show or another. i think i could tolerate my house much more if people would just shut the fuck up a few hours a day and let me sit on the nice leather couch in the fancy room and read. but it's right next to the TV room and there's no door so no cigar.

turkishpirate September 8 2005, 04:08:46 UTC

and i mean i'm really bad at focusing on reading with outside stimuli, especially so when i have to listen to asinine shit like Oprah After The Show and the 8,302nd rerun of I Love The 90's.

atrayitic September 8 2005, 04:12:29 UTC

I mean making friends in a way as that other people will probably give you shit for making such a bold statement as contained in this post. I'm not one of them.
I can't read with outside stimuli either unless it's classical music or music without words.
Although I do stare at my fish tank for an insane amount of time every day. Who needs tv when you have fish tank?

Thread 6

bate September 8 2005, 04:59:59 UTC

I don't usually watch TV, but I check the news once a day or so because I heard that there's the potential that another storm might hit, and each time I turn on the tube, I see the same guy with long hair, floating on a tire, and falling off when he reaches for a bottle of water. He's like the dead wheelchair grandma of this week.

lanouvelle September 8 2005, 05:22:45 UTC

People did it for 9/11, so it people are doing it for this, I'm truly not surprised. We Americans have an obsession with fear, big or small, you see it everywhere. And because of this, we get distracted by headlines and fear and choas. I think we like it, and that German term should be taken into our language. Makes me think of Sociopaths, though. I know that's not right, but ... I don't know.

turkishpirate September 8 2005, 21:37:32 UTC

well, Schadenfreude is one of those non-english words which has become english vernacular, though it's not as popular as some others. You know what i mean -- words like Deja Vu, Uber-, Savoir Faire, etc [there are many more but i'm bad at trying to recall things like this on cue] are all not english words, but they frequently appear in english without question. this one is a bit more obscure, but you still see it around from time to time.

no new information? bloria September 8 2005, 05:32:14 UTC

The image of the hurricane above with its eye already ashore at 12:32 PM Monday, August 29 looks like a fetus (unborn human baby) facing to the left (west) in the womb, in the early weeks of gestation (approx. 6 weeks). Even the orange color of the image is reminiscent of a commonly used pro-life picture of early prenatal development. In this picture, and in another picture in today's on-line edition of USA Today*, this hurricane looks like an unborn human child.
Louisiana has 10 child-murder-by-abortion centers - FIVE are in New Orleans

Re: no new information? lanouvelle September 8 2005, 20:02:20 UTC

A fetus... This information ... is interesting.

Where'd you get this picture? Is it on the internet?

I sound like I'm harassing you. I apologize.

Re: no new information? bloria September 9 2005, 03:00:30 UTC

I read about it in Time magazine, but there's a bunch of stuff making fun of it online.

http://www.pandagon.net/archives/2005/08/sinners_in_the.html

Re: no new information? turkishpirate September 8 2005, 22:28:38 UTC

the best part about that is how without the last sentence, it's totally unclear what side of the abortion debate that entire article is even trying to support. are too many babies the agent of our societies' destruction, or are they reaching beyond the grave to punish us via absurdly symbolic weather?

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gracias turkishpirate September 10 2005, 15:59:33 UTC

no problem lady.

in fact this journal seems to be recovering from a long dearth of any interaction from anyone at all so i'll take what i can get. nice to see people jumping back out of the woodworks.