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there's few things in the world more annoying than a person who gets all snooty about their interests when talking to people who share the same interests.
like "oh, you read sci-fi? That's wonderful. Oh... oh you read Star Wars novels? I... I see. Well, no I mean I read Harlan Ellison and William Gibson. You know, literature"
Sometimes, with an ex's snooty, overeducated friends, I would make up authors, complete with a partial oeuvre, and see if anyone would bite, a la Emperor's New Clothes.
I was hoping it would work more often than it did, but it DID work on occasion.
Sometimes, with an ex's snooty, overeducated friends, I would make up authors, complete with a partial oeuvre, and see if anyone would bite, a la Emperor's New Clothes.
I was hoping it would work more often than it did, but it DID work on occasion.
I tried doing that in one of the music threads where people are posting these wierd ass bands.
Sometimes, with an ex's snooty, overeducated friends, I would make up authors, complete with a partial oeuvre, and see if anyone would bite, a la Emperor's New Clothes.
I was hoping it would work more often than it did, but it DID work on occasion.
oh man
i've never done this, but i've seen someone fall for it, anime-style, at a convention.
buddy of mine who's a pretty caustic mean feller
did something like this with made up mecha anime
dude totally bit on it, and when confronted on it was like "no, i was, uh, i was confusing it for something else..."
shaddup
you were trying to join in on a conversation with a snooty dick and you wanted to be a snooty dick too, so you made shit up
I'd like to pretend otherwise, but I pretty much did it because they were all dual MD/PhD people, and I felt like they looked down on me. It wasn't a lack of confidence, exactly...more a sort of credential-induced paranoia.
I'd like to pretend otherwise, but I pretty much did it because they were all dual MD/PhD people, and I felt like they looked down on me. It wasn't a lack of confidence, exactly...more a sort of credential-induced paranoia.
You felt like making them look stupid because they were way more educated than you and you felt they were looking down on you?
I'd like to pretend otherwise, but I pretty much did it because they were all dual MD/PhD people, and I felt like they looked down on me. It wasn't a lack of confidence, exactly...more a sort of credential-induced paranoia.
You felt like making them look stupid because they were way more educated than you and you felt they were looking down on you?
I'd like to pretend otherwise, but I pretty much did it because they were all dual MD/PhD people, and I felt like they looked down on me. It wasn't a lack of confidence, exactly...more a sort of credential-induced paranoia.
You felt like making them look stupid because they were way more educated than you and you felt they were looking down on you?
You make it sound so petty. And no, I didn't really do it to make anyone feel stupid. I never came out and said, for example, "Hey...this guy you've been talking about for the last ten minutes? Yeah, I totally just made him up! Sucker!" And when I say paranoia, I am more or less serious; it was an irrational, mostly unfounded response. I feel like my level of education was on par with their own, excepting of course their particular areas of research and medicine, but whereas they had all this parchment, I had but one meager piece.
I'd like to pretend otherwise, but I pretty much did it because they were all dual MD/PhD people, and I felt like they looked down on me. It wasn't a lack of confidence, exactly...more a sort of credential-induced paranoia.
You felt like making them look stupid because they were way more educated than you and you felt they were looking down on you?
You make it sound so petty. And no, I didn't really do it to make anyone feel stupid. I never came out and said, for example, "Hey...this guy you've been talking about for the last ten minutes? Yeah, I totally just made him up! Sucker!" And when I say paranoia, I am more or less serious; it was an irrational, mostly unfounded response. I feel like my level of education was on par with their own, excepting of course their particular areas of research and medicine, but whereas they had all this parchment, I had but one meager piece.
But yeah, it WAS petty.
so basically you faked it so you would fit in because you felt insecure about your lack of a Ph.D
I'd like to pretend otherwise, but I pretty much did it because they were all dual MD/PhD people, and I felt like they looked down on me. It wasn't a lack of confidence, exactly...more a sort of credential-induced paranoia.
You felt like making them look stupid because they were way more educated than you and you felt they were looking down on you?
You make it sound so petty. And no, I didn't really do it to make anyone feel stupid. I never came out and said, for example, "Hey...this guy you've been talking about for the last ten minutes? Yeah, I totally just made him up! Sucker!" And when I say paranoia, I am more or less serious; it was an irrational, mostly unfounded response. I feel like my level of education was on par with their own, excepting of course their particular areas of research and medicine, but whereas they had all this parchment, I had but one meager piece.
But yeah, it WAS petty.
so basically you faked it so you would fit in because you felt insecure about your lack of a Ph.D
that's understandable. petty, but understandable.
No. It wasn't a matter of faking it. I didn't need to fake it, at least so far as literature went.
What I DID need to do was prove to myself that I wasn't the only insecure one. As it turns out, I wasn't.
Rereading "John Dies at the End" because it keeps me awake in my classes. Keeps me awake with fits of barking laughter, and sometimes from crying at the shame of what I'm laughing at. If I did drugs (the trippy kind) I would SO attempt this book while I was blasted, since it already rapes my mind.
Rereading "John Dies at the End" because it keeps me awake in my classes. Keeps me awake with fits of barking laughter, and sometimes from crying at the shame of what I'm laughing at. If I did drugs (the trippy kind) I would SO attempt this book while I was blasted, since it already rapes my mind.
I'm reading Good-bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton. Good so far, but I expected that after the glory that was Random Harvest.
After that... I'm thinking of rereading Flowers For Algernon, because I was explaining the story to a cute girl at work today and suddenly desire to re-experience it.
Has anyone read the new Dave Eggers book, What Is the What? I loved all his other books, but I'm not sure I could get into this one, what with the subject matter.
And just so I'm not totally off topic, I liked Catcher in the Rye, but I haven't read it since high school. Don't know if I would still enjoy it as much.
I just started reading A Farewell to Arms, since I got a big collection of Hemingway a while ago and I've only read For Whom the Bell Tolls and a short story collection so far. I like the way he writes, but reading too much of him at a time messes me up, especially when I'm trying to write something.
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Oh, I thought not.
like "oh, you read sci-fi? That's wonderful. Oh... oh you read Star Wars novels? I... I see. Well, no I mean I read Harlan Ellison and William Gibson. You know, literature"
Shut up, you read sci-fi novels you uppity ponce.
I was hoping it would work more often than it did, but it DID work on occasion.
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I'm going to give this to my son for his 12th birthday instead of Catcher in the Rye.
Fucking ruin him.
No one bought.
Names like
The Septuplets
Or
Winter in autumn.
Blue sunrise.
oh man
i've never done this, but i've seen someone fall for it, anime-style, at a convention.
buddy of mine who's a pretty caustic mean feller
did something like this with made up mecha anime
dude totally bit on it, and when confronted on it was like "no, i was, uh, i was confusing it for something else..."
shaddup
you were trying to join in on a conversation with a snooty dick and you wanted to be a snooty dick too, so you made shit up
shaddup.
No one likes the music. It's just an eleborate bluff. People only think they enjoy it.
Mars Volta, I am looking in your general direction.
i actually believe this is the case in many different forms of entertainment medium.
movies, bands, tv shows etc. that nobody actually really enjoys but pretends they do because it's the in thing.
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Though with me and Mars Volta, it's hardly a prediction. It's more of an inevitibility.
I also finished I Am Legend and The Book of Lists since Christmas. I'm pretty proud of myself.
You felt like making them look stupid because they were way more educated than you and you felt they were looking down on you?
aka
You think you're better than me? (redneck voice)
You have to do it in a drunk voice.
Redneck optional.
But yeah, it WAS petty.
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so basically you faked it so you would fit in because you felt insecure about your lack of a Ph.D
that's understandable. petty, but understandable.
What I DID need to do was prove to myself that I wasn't the only insecure one. As it turns out, I wasn't.
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I feel like such a tool, having actually said this thing shortly after a fight at the local roller rink.
There's not much to do in Cheyenne, see...
Drugs, alcohol and being pregnant seem to be popular.
i met JD Salinger once
old guy
bradbury is more awesome than salinger
i'd love to meet bradbury
Didn't he write some Resident Evil adaptations?
Fuck I remember that book... I should reread it.
After that... I'm thinking of rereading Flowers For Algernon, because I was explaining the story to a cute girl at work today and suddenly desire to re-experience it.
And just so I'm not totally off topic, I liked Catcher in the Rye, but I haven't read it since high school. Don't know if I would still enjoy it as much.
Next I'm reading Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
or maybe A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
Both should arrive in my mailbox next week, I'm not sure what order I'll read them in.
(Ha, Firefox auto-spellcheck tells me I spelled "bukkake" properly)
It's "A Separate Peace" and is also the worst book ever written.
I believe my head just exploded.
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You are correct, sir. I am a worse person for having read that book.
Which head?
Precisely my feeling. What a god-awful travesty.
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