Zimmydoom, Zimmydoom
Flew away in a balloon
Had sex with polar bears
While sitting in a reclining chair
Now there are Zim-Bear hybrids
Running around and clawing eyelids
Watch out, a Zim-Bear is about to have sex with yooooooou!
aww thanks you guys you make me feel better when the batshit insane mormons bite
Are you and The Boy going to have a Mormon wedding, Eddy?
here is where I am staying this weekend
my boyfriend's house in Graham, the house that belongs to his mormon mom and mormon step father. They know I'm here and that we'll be sleeping together. HIs mom is super nice to me whenever we interact and has described me to strangers as 'really nice'
I am not allowed to sleep over at his staunch atheist dad's at all, not even on the couch.
I don't really get it.
oh and he says he appreciates the capitalization.
Tell him I said "hi."
Hi there!
full disclosure: Eddy is sitting next to me and I am reading over his shoulder.
Eddy told me that you think I'm cute.
I just wanted you to know that I'm rubbing my nipples thinking about your unkempt hair right now.
Mmmm yeah what do my eyes look like you don't even know you can't even tell. There's hair in front of them.
Oh yeah, during field day on Wednesday, this one JO who is cool climbed back in the outboard with us and helped us "clean" but mostly we were just BSing, but because there was an officer with us all the other khakis passed by assuming we were "supervised" and therefore hard at work. And this JO is really, really cute and in super great shape (he's a diver) and he kept stretching out and bending over this one pipe to reach things and it presented the nicest view of his ass. It really was the most enjoyable field day in memory.
at first I thought you were saying he was a jack off
regardless that sounds great. My favorite part of intro swimming class was the guys in skimpy outfits and of course the football that got naked in front of me while talking about what we were doing in class that day. I think I nodded and went 'uh huh' and 'yeah' a couple of times
JO = Junior Officer
And when I say he's a diver, I don't mean the ones who go off boards, I mean the Navy divers in the little brown shorts who do all the cool shit underwater (and are world-renowned for being in amazing shape).
And furthermore, this particular guy is like some sort of dreamy superhero. When he was in dive school there was a nuke enlisted guy who couldn't for the life of him make the swim time, so this officer puts an arm around him and swims the last 6 laps dragging him along and they both passed. Needless to say, he was class honorman and even the notoriously harsh dive instructors loved him.
Oh yeah, during field day on Wednesday, this one JO who is cool climbed back in the outboard with us and helped us "clean" but mostly we were just BSing, but because there was an officer with us all the other khakis passed by assuming we were "supervised" and therefore hard at work. And this JO is really, really cute and in super great shape (he's a diver) and he kept stretching out and bending over this one pipe to reach things and it presented the nicest view of his ass. It really was the most enjoyable field day in memory.
at first I thought you were saying he was a jack off
regardless that sounds great. My favorite part of intro swimming class was the guys in skimpy outfits and of course the football that got naked in front of me while talking about what we were doing in class that day. I think I nodded and went 'uh huh' and 'yeah' a couple of times
JO = Junior Officer
And when I say he's a diver, I don't mean the ones who go off boards, I mean the Navy divers in the little brown shorts who do all the cool shit underwater (and are world-renowned for being in amazing shape).
And furthermore, this particular guy is like some sort of dreamy superhero. When he was in dive school there was a nuke enlisted guy who couldn't for the life of him make the swim time, so this officer puts an arm around him and swims the last 6 laps dragging him along and they both passed. Needless to say, he was class honorman and even the notoriously harsh dive instructors loved him.
Shit man, I'm developing a crush on him by the way you describe him. Guy sounds like a stand up dude.
I'm sorry, Zen. I don't mean to be a dick. I think you're a good guy. But I get a little exasperated sometimes when every time I'm here and you're here you post something dismissive. And it's more annoying when I'm actually trying to communicate something. I mean it was cute for awhile, but I've been unjailed for a couple of months now, so the joke's growing stale, okay? Just please try not to respond to everything I say with "olol why aren't you jailed?" eh? Please? Thanks.
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Zen VulgarityWhat a lovely day for teaSecret British ThreadRegistered Userregular
edited August 2008
You realize that I'm just posting something inane and putting your name at the end of it most of the time, right?
And the other times is my personal greeting to you. Why aren't you jailed yet translates to hello.
Like whenever I see rentilius, I ask why he's not eating a sandwich.
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edited August 2008
I can't understand people who don't know how to swim. Like, I know there are lots of people who never got the opportunity to learn, but I started taking lessons when I was like two, and we've had a pool my whole life. I can stay afloat comfortably for like 20 minutes without moving my legs, and even though I look skinny my "shape" could best be described as "amorphous." And yet I know people who've been "swimming" since they were little and can't pass the test to be allowed in the deep end at the Y.
Seriously people, WTF? Move your arms! Kick your legs! IT IS NOT SO HARD!
Zimmydoom, Zimmydoom
Flew away in a balloon
Had sex with polar bears
While sitting in a reclining chair
Now there are Zim-Bear hybrids
Running around and clawing eyelids
Watch out, a Zim-Bear is about to have sex with yooooooou!
I can't understand people who don't know how to swim. Like, I know there are lots of people who never got the opportunity to learn, but I started taking lessons when I was like two, and we've had a pool my whole life. I can stay afloat comfortably for like 20 minutes without moving my legs, and even though I look skinny my "shape" could best be described as "amorphous." And yet I know people who've been "swimming" since they were little and can't pass the test to be allowed in the deep end at the Y.
Seriously people, WTF? Move your arms! Kick your legs! IT IS NOT SO HARD!
The thing is this: If you never knew anything about Card, Ender's Game would just be a book that you would enjoy or not enjoy based on your experience with the book. The fact that you know shit about Card is what changes your opinion of the book. But Card never changed. And the book itself hasn't changed. Card was Card before you knew anything about him. And Ender's Game was Ender's Game before you knew anything about Card. So really, nothing in this equation changed but you.
I certainly don't disparage you for disliking the guy. I sure don't like him. He may have written one of my favorite books, but I wouldn't want to hang out with him at a bar or anything. But ultimately I don't see what that has to do with the book which exists now of its own accord.
The thing is that you can't discount some life experiences when reading a book versus others. The reader almost always brings the most to the table in the reading of a book (errr, restricted to just casual reading I suppose). If you learn about Card before reading the book it could possibly open up new interpretive avenues that you would not have seen otherwise just as someone who experienced some form of racism first hand might have a different take on Invisible Man than someone who has not. Someone who has read Kafka a lot might have a completely different reading of The Erasers than someone who preferred Tolkien.
I don't know The Invisible Man, but let's take uhhh Harry Potter. Obviously, if you're a real-life wizard, you're going to have a different interpretation of Harry Potter than someone who isn't. However, knowing about JK Rowlings shouldn't affect your interpretation of the book because while who they are might inform their writing, it doesn't necessarily inform it significantly or at all. And ultimately it doesn't matter, either. If it's a good book, it doesn't matter if the author is a douche. The book is still good. I don't see any value in hero worship, or the opposite, so I don't see any value in liking a piece of art or disliking a piece of art based on its producer.
My arguments aren't really about what informs the author's writings or what intentions the author had... it's about what the reader is going to put into the text and take away from it. My stance then, I suppose, is that knowledge about the author ruining the book for you is no different than any other type of knowledge that you may have ruining a book for you. Perhaps a particularly awful description of a familiar sound or smell completely turns you off to the book but to someone who has never heard or smelled that particular thing wouldn't mind the description at all; indeed, their lack of familiarity may allow the piece to flow even better than an accurate description would have due to word choice/whatever.
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ZimmydoomAccept no substitutesRegistered Userregular
I can't understand people who don't know how to swim. Like, I know there are lots of people who never got the opportunity to learn, but I started taking lessons when I was like two, and we've had a pool my whole life. I can stay afloat comfortably for like 20 minutes without moving my legs, and even though I look skinny my "shape" could best be described as "amorphous." And yet I know people who've been "swimming" since they were little and can't pass the test to be allowed in the deep end at the Y.
Seriously people, WTF? Move your arms! Kick your legs! IT IS NOT SO HARD!
It can be pretty darn hard.
Maybe I'm just part fish and don't know it. Because seriously I am like the least athletic person on Earth and for some reason I can swim circles around people who actually, you know, work out.
Zimmydoom, Zimmydoom
Flew away in a balloon
Had sex with polar bears
While sitting in a reclining chair
Now there are Zim-Bear hybrids
Running around and clawing eyelids
Watch out, a Zim-Bear is about to have sex with yooooooou!
I loved Ender's Game and still do, despite knowing that OSC is a Mormon with some crazy beliefs. His books have some great philosophical questions in them, including human responsibility, and understanding the motives behind choices we make.
I can't understand people who don't know how to swim. Like, I know there are lots of people who never got the opportunity to learn, but I started taking lessons when I was like two, and we've had a pool my whole life. I can stay afloat comfortably for like 20 minutes without moving my legs, and even though I look skinny my "shape" could best be described as "amorphous." And yet I know people who've been "swimming" since they were little and can't pass the test to be allowed in the deep end at the Y.
Seriously people, WTF? Move your arms! Kick your legs! IT IS NOT SO HARD!
It can be pretty darn hard.
Maybe I'm just part fish and don't know it. Because seriously I am like the least athletic person on Earth and for some reason I can swim circles around people who actually, you know, work out.
I can move in a manner that approximates swimming, and I can move while doing it, but I’m not very good.
Also, when I was a boy scout we went to a camp somewhere and we had to swim a lap as a test (despite never entering the water afterwards). I managed to make it, but I jumped in wrong and ended up doing the whole thing vertically.
I can't understand people who don't know how to swim. Like, I know there are lots of people who never got the opportunity to learn, but I started taking lessons when I was like two, and we've had a pool my whole life. I can stay afloat comfortably for like 20 minutes without moving my legs, and even though I look skinny my "shape" could best be described as "amorphous." And yet I know people who've been "swimming" since they were little and can't pass the test to be allowed in the deep end at the Y.
Seriously people, WTF? Move your arms! Kick your legs! IT IS NOT SO HARD!
I have perfect form but I sink like a rock. I can't swim laps, I can't arch my back to float on top of the water. My gym teacher felt really sorry for me since after 2 or 3 laps I was about ready to collapse (this was during my 5th year of football and 3rd year of wrestling, I was in good shape cardio wise). I just can't swim.
Yeah, and I can’t float, either. In swimming class (which I somehow passed) I sort of managed to float by not sinking, but I couldn’t last more than about thirty seconds at best.
I can't understand people who don't know how to swim. Like, I know there are lots of people who never got the opportunity to learn, but I started taking lessons when I was like two, and we've had a pool my whole life. I can stay afloat comfortably for like 20 minutes without moving my legs, and even though I look skinny my "shape" could best be described as "amorphous." And yet I know people who've been "swimming" since they were little and can't pass the test to be allowed in the deep end at the Y.
Seriously people, WTF? Move your arms! Kick your legs! IT IS NOT SO HARD!
Er, if you're referring to the guy I posted about, he wasn't a poor swimmer, he just couldn't make the time for the 20 lap swim in Navy dive school, which is hardly easy, and certainly nothing that a normal swimmer would be able to do.
Yeah, and I can’t float, either. In swimming class (which I somehow passed) I sort of managed to float by not sinking, but I couldn’t last more than about thirty seconds at best.
Yeah, if I ever have to tread water I will die.
No joke.
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Describing how experienced you are at swimming tends to undermine your "swimming is totally easy" point
I'm not sure why you would include that
Staying afloat is totally easy. I'm not really expecting everybody to be Michael Phelps the moment they jump in a pool, it just that I'm amazed by people who have no instinct for it and sink like a rock. I can't remember ever not knowing how to swim, so it's legitimately baffling to me.
Although I do realize how I put it might be taken as me being a bit dickish.
Zimmydoom, Zimmydoom
Flew away in a balloon
Had sex with polar bears
While sitting in a reclining chair
Now there are Zim-Bear hybrids
Running around and clawing eyelids
Watch out, a Zim-Bear is about to have sex with yooooooou!
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So I have toasted buns with butter and crushed garlic covering the bottom, salmon patties, freshly sliced pickles, and lettuce accompanied with fries covered in what appears to be a coating made mostly of garlic and cilantro and a bottle of Black Hart.
Describing how experienced you are at swimming tends to undermine your "swimming is totally easy" point
I'm not sure why you would include that
Staying afloat is totally easy. I'm not really expecting everybody to be Michael Phelps the moment they jump in a pool, it just that I'm amazed by people who have no instinct for it and sink like a rock. I can't remember ever not knowing how to swim, so it's legitimately baffling to me.
Although I do realize how I put it might be taken as me being a bit dickish.
Floating is easy for you, and maybe even for most people.
Describing how experienced you are at swimming tends to undermine your "swimming is totally easy" point
I'm not sure why you would include that
Staying afloat is totally easy. I'm not really expecting everybody to be Michael Phelps the moment they jump in a pool, it just that I'm amazed by people who have no instinct for it and sink like a rock. I can't remember ever not knowing how to swim, so it's legitimately baffling to me.
Although I do realize how I put it might be taken as me being a bit dickish.
Zimmydoom, Zimmydoom
Flew away in a balloon
Had sex with polar bears
While sitting in a reclining chair
Now there are Zim-Bear hybrids
Running around and clawing eyelids
Watch out, a Zim-Bear is about to have sex with yooooooou!
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Whoa.
all before removing his shoes and cardigan sweater
Mmmm yeah what do my eyes look like you don't even know you can't even tell. There's hair in front of them.
JO = Junior Officer
And when I say he's a diver, I don't mean the ones who go off boards, I mean the Navy divers in the little brown shorts who do all the cool shit underwater (and are world-renowned for being in amazing shape).
And furthermore, this particular guy is like some sort of dreamy superhero. When he was in dive school there was a nuke enlisted guy who couldn't for the life of him make the swim time, so this officer puts an arm around him and swims the last 6 laps dragging him along and they both passed. Needless to say, he was class honorman and even the notoriously harsh dive instructors loved him.
And the other times is my personal greeting to you. Why aren't you jailed yet translates to hello.
Like whenever I see rentilius, I ask why he's not eating a sandwich.
Unsurprising, he's exactly the sort of man that a hetero dude would develop a mancrush for.
Seriously people, WTF? Move your arms! Kick your legs! IT IS NOT SO HARD!
Maybe I'm just part fish and don't know it. Because seriously I am like the least athletic person on Earth and for some reason I can swim circles around people who actually, you know, work out.
I'm not sure why you would include that
Also, when I was a boy scout we went to a camp somewhere and we had to swim a lap as a test (despite never entering the water afterwards). I managed to make it, but I jumped in wrong and ended up doing the whole thing vertically.
That was unpleasant.
I have perfect form but I sink like a rock. I can't swim laps, I can't arch my back to float on top of the water. My gym teacher felt really sorry for me since after 2 or 3 laps I was about ready to collapse (this was during my 5th year of football and 3rd year of wrestling, I was in good shape cardio wise). I just can't swim.
I take it dudes are all "Man I would have taken that dude out with my flying jump kick if that was me" in that thread
Please don't make me read it
Er, if you're referring to the guy I posted about, he wasn't a poor swimmer, he just couldn't make the time for the 20 lap swim in Navy dive school, which is hardly easy, and certainly nothing that a normal swimmer would be able to do.
pretty much yeah
Yeah, if I ever have to tread water I will die.
No joke.
Staying afloat is totally easy. I'm not really expecting everybody to be Michael Phelps the moment they jump in a pool, it just that I'm amazed by people who have no instinct for it and sink like a rock. I can't remember ever not knowing how to swim, so it's legitimately baffling to me.
Although I do realize how I put it might be taken as me being a bit dickish.
Suck it all of you eating ramen tonight.
Greyhound/decapitation thread
Edit: at least i wasn't beaten 3 times. Like earlier.
Just from a persuasive point of view
It doesn't help at all
You can when you never encountered a situation with people who couldn't swim until after your formative years.
I kinda liken it to being 15 and seeing your first black person. "Dude, your skin's so dirty it's all brown! Use some soap, it's not that hard!"