Loafer's Nook - 23 skidoo and more fooding.
POSTED BY: Jadehand
UPDATED: Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:32
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Ah, such genteel English behaviour.
We did give the world the Sex Pistols too you know.
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Originally posted by seryn:
earl grey
What cozen shares with Cap'n Picard is a taste for: Earl Grey, black, hot.
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There, I have given of myself. Is this what maturity is like?
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Having no idea why I'm posting this, other than it kinda resonates with me, somehow.
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...has our society become too mercantile and consumerist?
A: I think it has. Let me give you an example. A while ago, I had a cold. When you have a cold you don't want to mess around. You want to go to the drug store, get your medicine, then stumble home and fall into a half sleep where you keep dreaming about going to the drug store to get cold medicine....
Anyway, there I stood in the store, along with all the other sick people, looking at the cold remedies. And there were a hundred different kinds, in a million different sizes, with dozens of active ingredients -- all sporting made-up corporate names that sounded like they might possibly be enemies of Superman.
When faced with such a bewilderingly wide selection of choices, how can you make a decision? Especially when you're sick?
Now, in a less consumerist system, you wouldn't have so many unnecessary choices. You'd probably just head down to the medicine woman at the edge of town for a holistic cure. She'd tie some garlic around your neck and hit you over the head with a log and then you'd stumble home and fall into a half sleep where you'd dream about heading down to the medicine woman at the edge of town for a holistic cure....
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So this person (who was it by the way?) would rather have no choice and the wrong treatment than have to make a decision for themselves? That's a little weird.
I refuse to take anything for colds other than tissues. So far, I've recovered from every one.
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Oddly enough, I tend to agree with you. My preference is to avoid the meds, which I feel may well mask the symptoms, but at the same time extend the recovery. Better to suffer and blow, such that the illness passes quicker.
But then a certain someone introduced me to Night Nurse, and the resultant sleep that ensued on account of that drug. What, I wonder, was her motivation?
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*wishes he were a fly on the wall at the breakfast table, yep*
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Quote:It sounds terribly like a strawman argument against anything other than capitalism to me.
Originally posted by SimonWho:
So this person (who was it by the way?) would rather have no choice and the wrong treatment than have to make a decision for themselves? That's a little weird.
I refuse to take anything for colds other than tissues. So far, I've recovered from every one.
Sort of: "Look either it's Capitalism or be hit on the head with a log" kind of thing.
Besides everyone knows when you're ill you just buy the most expensive one. None of them actually work but the placebo effect is stronger because it must work better because it's more expensive, see.
Cozen did of course leave off the very best bit:
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Anyway, my point is this: I've become so upset about the rampant greed and consumerism destroying our society that I've decided to write a book about it and sell a million copies.
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Q: Paul, did you have sex with Monica Lewinsky?
A: I think it's important to differentiate between actually having sex with a person and just being a performer with them in a live sex show.
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
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Originally posted by cozen:
*wishes he were a fly on the wall at the breakfast table, yep*
Me: May I have the pepper?
Guy sitting across from me: *hands me pepper*
*crickets chirping*
Serenity,
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
http://callmeserenity.livejournal.com/
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Originally posted by citizen:
I think it's important to differentiate between actually having sex with a person and just being a performer with them in a live sex show.
I've seen a live sex show. In Nyawlinz, before the flood. I've come to the conclusion that the personal experience is the happier experience. intentional pun
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Being for the benefit of CallMeSerenity: New. Orleans.
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Originally posted by citizen:
It sounds terribly like a strawman argument against anything other than capitalism to me.
Sort of: "Look either it's Capitalism or be hit on the head with a log" kind of thing.
But he seemed to be on the side of anything other than capitalism!
As far as painkillers go, I'm a great believer in Aspirin which is cheap, natural and plentiful.
And Cozen, fancy falling for that old trick with the Night Nurse... tsk, tsk. I hope she at least had the appropriate uniform.
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