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    naporeonnaporeon Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Nap did you date JK Rowling
    You'd better watch yourself, Bale.

    I broke up with Harold Bloom for less than that.

    naporeon on
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    ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    naporeon wrote: »
    I dated a pretty successful author, once.

    She wrote YA shit.

    It was about the worst crap I'd ever read, and basically destroyed our relationship.

    I am laughing pretty fucking hard at this post.

    Butters on
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    naporeonnaporeon Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Butters wrote: »
    naporeon wrote: »
    I dated a pretty successful author, once.

    She wrote YA shit.

    It was about the worst crap I'd ever read, and basically destroyed our relationship.

    I am laughing pretty fucking hard at this post.
    For some reason, I'm not surprised, although I am curious as to why.

    naporeon on
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    SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Me Too! wrote: »
    Snowbeat wrote: »
    Me Too! wrote: »
    I read the back and was like
    Come the fuck on
    This sounds like it was written for a teenage girl
    what a clever observation, wiggin!
    it was written for teenage girls, you dumbass

    I didn't know this at all
    I don't usually pay attention to books written for teenage girls
    Dumbass

    let's see

    it's a book about a teenage girl
    falling in love
    with a vampire

    it's pretty goddamn obvious

    Snowbeat on
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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    naporeon wrote: »
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Nap did you date JK Rowling
    You'd better watch yourself, Bale.

    I broke up with Harold Bloom for less than that.

    You broke up with her because Dumbledore was gay didnt you

    Balefuego on
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    ShankusuShankusu __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    i'm only doing school reading right now, but so far it's

    Plato's Republic, and soon Machiavelli
    America, Russia and the Cold War - dry, but informative as fuck
    Mad in America - a history of psychopathological treatment in America - interesting as shit

    seriously it is well-written and kinda disturbing when you find out how really, really into eugenics America was in the early 1900's

    Shankusu on
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    sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    The only problem with Eugenics is that it takes elitism to the "most extreme" and tramples all over human rights.


    Just that.

    sarukun on
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    Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    Snowbeat wrote: »
    Me Too! wrote: »
    Snowbeat wrote: »
    Me Too! wrote: »
    I read the back and was like
    Come the fuck on
    This sounds like it was written for a teenage girl
    what a clever observation, wiggin!
    it was written for teenage girls, you dumbass

    I didn't know this at all
    I don't usually pay attention to books written for teenage girls
    Dumbass

    let's see

    it's a book about a teenage girl
    falling in love
    with a vampire

    it's pretty goddamn obvious

    Strange
    That sounds suspiciously like my line of thought when I read the back of the book
    Which was the first I had heard of it
    Fuck yourself

    Me Too! on
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    SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Me Too! wrote: »
    Snowbeat wrote: »
    Me Too! wrote: »
    Snowbeat wrote: »
    Me Too! wrote: »
    I read the back and was like
    Come the fuck on
    This sounds like it was written for a teenage girl
    what a clever observation, wiggin!
    it was written for teenage girls, you dumbass

    I didn't know this at all
    I don't usually pay attention to books written for teenage girls
    Dumbass

    let's see

    it's a book about a teenage girl
    falling in love
    with a vampire

    it's pretty goddamn obvious

    Strange
    That sounds suspiciously like my line of thought when I read the back of the book
    Which was the first I had heard of it
    Fuck yourself

    so this:
    Me Too! wrote: »
    My aunt read those twilight books
    We have one of them around here
    I want to read it just so I can hate it with a fiery passion that rivals the intensity of the sun

    was your informed opinion

    christ you're a douche

    Snowbeat on
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    Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    Because I had read the back
    And it sounded like the kind of thing I would hate
    And listening to you people it seems like something I would hate
    Christ you have the brains of a fucking grapefruit

    Me Too! on
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    vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I found the Night Watch series by Lukyanenko to be pretty enjoyable, as long as you approached it as pulp literature. It wasn't anything earth-shattering but it was entertaining enough that I'm looking forward to the last of the quadrilogy.

    vsove on
    WATCH THIS SPACE.
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    Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    All four are out aren't they? Or has the fourth one not been translated yet

    Me Too! on
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    vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Me Too! wrote: »
    All four are out aren't they? Or has the fourth one not been translated yet

    The Last Watch won't be published in English until the end of November.

    vsove on
    WATCH THIS SPACE.
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    ShankusuShankusu __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    regardless of how you feel about eugenics, I was shocked to learn that America actually practiced it on a large scale

    Shankusu on
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    Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    vsove wrote: »
    Me Too! wrote: »
    All four are out aren't they? Or has the fourth one not been translated yet

    The Last Watch won't be published in English until the end of November.

    Ah
    I only read Night Watch but it was good
    Gave me something to read for a shift

    Me Too! on
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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    it makes me really happy that Pride & Prejudice is #1 on that list

    I had to read it for high school English and couldn't fucking stand it, though so many of my female friends just love it and are all over Mr. Darcy's dick for some reason

    Grey Ghost on
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    SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I just googled "american eugenics"

    man

    that is just plain wrong

    Snowbeat on
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    naporeonnaporeon Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Jesus, Wiggin. I would have thought that by now, you'd have learned that when you get defensive, all flailing about madly, trying to justify whatever shit has dribbled out of your mouth, you become markedly less intelligent. Apparently, you haven't learned that at all.

    You ought to, though. You don't exactly have a surfeit of brains in the first place; playing fast-and-loose with what you do have is profoundly ill-advised.

    naporeon on
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    ShankusuShankusu __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    naporeon wrote: »
    Jesus, Wiggin. I would have thought that by now, you'd have learned that when you get defensive, all flailing about madly, trying to justify whatever shit has dribbled out of your mouth, you become markedly less intelligent. Apparently, you haven't learned that at all.

    You ought to, though. You don't exactly have a surfeit of brains in the first place; playing fast-and-loose with what you do have is profoundly ill-advised.

    make love to me darling

    Shankusu on
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    KilljoyKilljoy __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
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    Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    I didn't think I was being defensive
    I didn't think I had said anything that wrong anyway
    But seriously do you have something constructive to say or are you just going to say "ur dum" in many more words

    Me Too! on
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    Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    I mean I made an observation
    And someone went up my ass faster than that guy that the escort service placed me with last night
    But no this is all on me right

    Me Too! on
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    SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    it's an exercise in futility to argue with wiggin

    he just talks in circles and says "fuck yourself" a lot

    Snowbeat on
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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    reading dark tower 7 because I can't just not finish the series

    Weaver on
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    ShankusuShankusu __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    Me Too! wrote: »
    I mean I made an observation
    And someone went up my ass faster than that guy that the escort service placed me with last night
    But no this is all on me right

    what the fuck is wrong with you

    oh yes, everything, i forgot

    Shankusu on
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    Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    Dude you went up my ass because I made an observation about the first time I saw the book
    Or heard anything about it other than "it exists"
    So I mean yeah I'm going to tell you to fuck yourself

    Me Too! on
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    naporeonnaporeon Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Me Too! wrote: »
    I didn't think I was being defensive
    I didn't think I had said anything that wrong anyway
    But seriously do you have something constructive to say or are you just going to say "ur dum" in many more words
    Yes, Wiggin. I know from repeated demonstration that you struggle with reading comprehension, so I figured you'd need to read and reread a few times, before the "something constructive" I had to say actually percolated sufficiently. Just in case, though, here it is, in caps, so that even you can't miss it:

    YOU ONLY LOOK DUMBER WHEN YOU GET RILED WHILE "DEFENDING" YOURSELF
    DON'T DO THAT
    UNLESS YOUR GOAL IS TO LOOK DUMBER
    IN WHICH CASE CARRY ON

    naporeon on
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    KilljoyKilljoy __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    Go Shank! Teach that motherfucker some manners.

    You too Nap don't let up!

    Killjoy on
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    Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    naporeon wrote: »
    Me Too! wrote: »
    I didn't think I was being defensive
    I didn't think I had said anything that wrong anyway
    But seriously do you have something constructive to say or are you just going to say "ur dum" in many more words
    Yes, Wiggin. I know from repeated demonstration that you struggle with reading comprehension, so I figured you'd need to read and reread a few times, before the "something constructive" I had to say actually percolated sufficiently. Just in case, though, here it is, in caps, so that even you can't miss it:

    YOU ONLY LOOK DUMBER WHEN YOU GET RILED WHILE "DEFENDING" YOURSELF
    DON'T DO THAT
    UNLESS YOUR GOAL IS TO LOOK DUMBER
    IN WHICH CASE CARRY ON

    Ok so to clarify you're still being fancy about calling me an idiot

    Me Too! on
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    naporeonnaporeon Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Killjoy wrote: »
    Go Shank! Teach that motherfucker some manners.
    Waaaaaaaaaaaait.

    Are you being ironic?

    naporeon on
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    SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    you made an entirely stupid observation (er, yes, as you can see, it was written for teenage girls)

    then you got all defensive when I called you on it

    and now you're doing this

    Snowbeat on
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    ShankusuShankusu __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    was it on here that someone was talking about he book kavalier and clay

    because i saw it and almost picked it up because someone told me it was good but i can't remember if i read that here or not

    Shankusu on
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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Weaver wrote: »
    reading dark tower 7 because I can't just not finish the series

    It's a trip, I'll tell you that

    I enjoyed it though

    Grey Ghost on
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    naporeonnaporeon Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Me Too! wrote: »
    naporeon wrote: »
    Me Too! wrote: »
    I didn't think I was being defensive
    I didn't think I had said anything that wrong anyway
    But seriously do you have something constructive to say or are you just going to say "ur dum" in many more words
    Yes, Wiggin. I know from repeated demonstration that you struggle with reading comprehension, so I figured you'd need to read and reread a few times, before the "something constructive" I had to say actually percolated sufficiently. Just in case, though, here it is, in caps, so that even you can't miss it:

    YOU ONLY LOOK DUMBER WHEN YOU GET RILED WHILE "DEFENDING" YOURSELF
    DON'T DO THAT
    UNLESS YOUR GOAL IS TO LOOK DUMBER
    IN WHICH CASE CARRY ON

    Ok so to clarify you're still being fancy about calling me an idiot
    Since using simple words (only one had more than two syllables!) in plain speech is apparently "fancy" for someone of your caliber, I suppose that yes, yes I am still being "fancy".

    But mainly, I'm not calling you an idiot: I'm just hoping you'll learn to stop the sad, pathetic flailing. At least in time. It's embarrassing to watch, and I really do root for you to get past it...although every passing day seems to speak to how futile that hope is.

    naporeon on
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    Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    Oh alright my bad
    You have to admit
    You have called me an idiot before, the idea was not totally incomprehensible

    Me Too! on
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    KilljoyKilljoy __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    Shankusu wrote: »
    was it on here that someone was talking about he book kavalier and clay

    because i saw it and almost picked it up because someone told me it was good but i can't remember if i read that here or not

    I've seen it talked about here a couple of times. It's worth reading, but don't be surprised if, like me, halfway through the book you realize nothing's happened yet.

    Killjoy on
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    ShankusuShankusu __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    naporean i dont get all them fancy words

    i'm 'onna git a tracter, plow some land.

    Shankusu on
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    KilljoyKilljoy __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    Naporeon's fancy words clash with the tone of this place something fierce.

    Killjoy on
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    naporeonnaporeon Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Me Too! wrote: »
    Oh alright my bad
    You have to admit
    You have called me an idiot before, the idea was not totally incomprehensible
    I think it was mainly that first day that I called you an idiot, at least directly.

    And you have to admit, "I PVP IRL, bitch!" was pretty dumb.

    naporeon on
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    Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    Extremely

    Me Too! on
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