Ask another raffer anything.

[timbicile]

Not that they have to answer.

I start with: Mo the Drine, I have been here Forever and used to post more. You have been here months and have about half my amount of posts.
Is it 5 hour energy drinks?
(gots lots of questions if anyone plays)

[Vandervecken]

Originally Posted by timbicile

I start with: Mo the Drine

I gots a question for you...who the fuck is Mo the Drine?

[mothedrine]

Ah, this is a free for all thread. Hmm. Neat idea. I can't make any promises, but I'm generally a pretty open person.

The answer is really simple. I don't have a life. I sort of retired around 10 years ago I guess. It's really a lot more complicated than that though but we'll just leave it at "retired."

My primary diagnosis is dysthymia, which is form of depression. Basically I look and act like someone who is clinically depressed and feel the same loss of interest, desire, etc. The main difference is the intensity and the fact that I don't want to kill myself. But there are other issues as well, foremost among them, an evil bitch of a case of OCD worthy of a supporting role in a Stephen King novel.

As a result, I spend a lot of time at home either at my desk where there are 2 computers or in my TV room where there just happens to be another computer.

edit: The OCD isn't anywhere near as bad as it was when I was growing up or even 15-20 years ago. It can flare up, but is really more of an annoyance these days, so that little rant was way over the top for describing my present situation.

[Vandervecken]

Originally Posted by Vandervecken

I gots a question for you...who the fuck is Mo the Drine?

_nevermind

[Jaledin]

Hey. Sucks to be you, mothedrine!

You fucking know your shit, man -- crazoid or noncrazoid.

I always wanted to know -- why mothedrine as a handle? It bugs me out (eh -- that was unintentional) because I don't like moths and there's a dead one stuck to the wall over my lamp in my office at my condo and I had A BAD EXPERIENCE with a giant moth in a window where I lived once and am still scared of them but you seem and -- more to the fact, are -- totally chill. So what's the story, man?

[mothedrine]

It's a very private joke about one of my all time favorite songs - Lucretia my Reflection by Sisters of Mercy. Here are the lyrics.

I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Hot metal and methedrine I hear empire down I hear empire down I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Love lost, fire at will Dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill, I hear Dive, bombers, and Empire down Empire down I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed Get down, get undressed Get pretty but you and me, We got the kingdom, we got the key We got the empire, now as then, We don't doubt, we don't take direction, Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me We look hard We look through We look hard to see for real Such things I hear, they don't make sense I don't see much evidence I don't feel. I don't feel. I don't Feel A long train held up by page on page A hard reign held up by rage Once a railroad Now it's done... I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Hot metal and methedrine I hear empire down... We got the empire, now as then, We don't doubt, we don't take reflection, Lucretia, my direction, dance the ghost with me...

Other than the fact that the two words are only one letter apart, thats all I've got. Otherwise, it makes absolutely no sense. Initially I liked that, but there are times when it offends my sense of balance, symmetry and generally half-assed notions of aesthetics.

[Khampelf]

FWIW, I always knew it was a take on Methadrine. I always pictured an amped up, tweaking moth when I saw your name.

My question: Is fully assed better than half-assed?

[BJMoose]

It is for sitting.


Question for anyone: if eleanorigby got a job as an oil field roustabout, could we say that Rigs rigs rigs?

[Jaledin]

Yeah, I got the meth thing, obviously. It's funny -- one cat who saw me in Buffalo wearing my shades about probably a dozen years ago called me "Sisters of Mercy, Right?" probably the same time I was berating my real friend drunkenly for burning the ground chuck on her porch.

Hey where the fuck is that drunken beerslob Chucky, anyway? Fucking ozzies brag how much beer they drink but nothing to show for it. Fags!

Oh just saw that. I'm torn about snarking on that old hag -- even though she did me wrong. I'd like to fuck her, and I'm a prime piece of man meat so that means [strikethrough]dick[/strikethrough] a lot. She seems pretty smart, and all the stuff is ripe.

Wait. What? More kater later mat5er sk*ter skaters er can't stop masturbaters while popstyingabaters.

[mothedrine]

Originally Posted by Khampelf

My question: Is fully assed better than half-assed?

It all depends on how you come down on the issue of conservation of ass. If you believe that ass can never truly be created or destroyed, but only change shape and be redistributed, then it's 2 of 1 and . . . well, just one of the other.

I'm a very highly accomplished half-asser. Some people think if you slap a little duct tape on something, that makes it half-assed. Au contraire mon ami. Duct tape doesn't even count as quarter-assing. I'll give you an example.

A couple of years after I got my 1992 Civic Si, I ran a stop sign and hit the rear quarter panel of a Toyta pickup. The woman driving claimed it was a pickup but I'm pretty sure I saw tank tracks under the chassis, because my front bumper was pushed in more than a foot and I couldn't find even a scratch on her so-called "truck."

Anyway, I tried to fix it myself and that was a very, very long story, but at the final stage, it turned out that I had to tape the plastic bumper shell to the car. Now I could have gone with duct tape, but like any good half-asser, I had plenty of 'just-in-case' shit on hand and one of those items happened to be aviation patch tape that was supposed to be good up to 200mph.

And indeed it was. I slapped that olive drab shit up and down the side of the car until I ran out of body panels. Drove around for over a year with it like that too. Now THAT is how you do half-assed.

edit: btw, the stop sign wasn't really my fault. There was a tree branch that blocked it so I was screwed no matter what. I was just lucky I wasn't tebowed.

[Scuba Ben]

Originally Posted by BJMoose

Question for anyone: if eleanorigby got a job as an oil field roustabout, could we say that Rigs rigs rigs?

Depends on whether or not the gambling table games she runs cheat in her favor. Then we could say Rigs rigs rigs' rigs.

ETAQ: Is this joke getting too silly?

[BJMoose]

That is the first time anyone has asked that question here.

[Jaledin]

Guck figs

. That's what I'm talking bout. [/jesse from breaking bad]

[Clockwork Jackal]

What if she drove trucks cross country part time? Rigs rigs rigs' rigs rigs?

[timbicile]

Too drunk to post.

[Flying Saucerian]

If the band Was (Not Was) got back together again for coffee or something, would they be Was Was (Not Was)?

[Salambo]

What if nobody did any of that. Ever.

[Jaledin]

STFU and that's a fucking complement. cos(-1) (who loves ya baby). Feed your head!

[dogbutler]

Originally Posted by mothedrine

But there are other issues as well, foremost among them, an evil bitch of a case of OCD worthy of a supporting role in a Stephen King novel.

As a result, I spend a lot of time at home either at my desk where there are 2 computers or in my TV room where there just happens to be another computer.

edit: The OCD isn't anywhere near as bad as it was when I was growing up or even 15-20 years ago. It can flare up, but is really more of an annoyance these days, so that little rant was way over the top for describing my present situation.

Do you alphabetize your spices? I do.


-dogbutler, mildly OCD

[mothedrine]

When I was pre-adolescent, my OCD had a pretty severe organizational aspect to it. It was also a lot more ritualistic, such as having to move certain objects in certain ways a certain number of times. I can still get what I call 'cleaning frenzies' from time to time, but my home always looks like a miniature F3 tornado just passed through.

[Jaledin]

Organize this j=you jive mothah:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCgeVWSsBlg

[mothedrine]

Originally Posted by Jaledin

Organize this j=you jive mothah:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCgeVWSsBlg

You know, I wasn't going to listen, but I started and was like, you know, it doesn't really sound like Chopin, but if you don't really think about it, in spots, it sorta does.

[Jaglavak]

Don't ask me, you drunk fucks.

[Jaledin]

Why wouldn't you listen, man? I always have good shit. No, it isn't Chopin, but it's one of those where it can be "read with one hand" like this guy Rousseau used to say about porno books and that woman on the island Danielle.

For real, I think I scared the shit out of my parents' cat accidentally trying to "conduct" with its favorite scritching brush. He's fraidy cat.

So what exactly were you saying bout Pollacks? I hope something good about my man Ingarden and his *magnum opus* *O Spor [...shit can't remember his own Gmn trans Der Streit um die Existenz der Welt? I think that's it. try getting ILL to loan it long enough in a piece of shit dinky non-book town like PDX to photocopy the whole motherfucker and thenb add -2 and you feel where i BE coming from).

[Jaledin]

Originally Posted by Jaglavak

Don't ask me, you drunk fucks.

You got a pretty mouth. Like a girl mouth. You got a girl mouth.

[mothedrine]

Jaledin: I found a couple of torrents that might scratch that Husserl itch. I know you be jonesin' bad and imma get you a little bump if I can man. Peace out brother.

[Jaledin]

That's nice, man. I think I've found those, though. FTR I keep them seeded when I'm online. There used to be a good one with the German LU of I and II and the Ding und Raum and stuff, and maybe that little Ricoeur thing on Ideen I, plus some of the Michael Dummett stuff. I already have all those.

Last I was in the game it was about getting the great Guido Ku:ng stuff and the Josef Seifert on intentional objects. I haven't checked lately, but Barry Smith's Manchester dissertation was available from his site, in addition to his co-authored papers with Kevin Mulligan and Peter Simons. I'm getting confused now.

That's my last hope transitioning into EE/CS -- that I can find a way to describe or relate the formal ontology of what are supposedly robust (but actually slack) formal systems to the more developed, civilized world of ontology.

That's what Smith is up to in Leipzig and Buffalo -- they didn't give him 10^6 USD for nothing. He actually did something with it. Tallest Finnish spy indeed -- they're all from Manchester. Along with the rest of us who believe the 30 or so pages of Husserl's third Logical Investigation is the most important piece of foundational literature written, along with Ingarden's *Der Streit*. Smith said in lecture once he learned German by reading those thousand or so pages of Ingarden, and, while I knew enough to pass exams, it wasn't until I slogged through the great book that I felt I learned anything. And there's an Austrian connection to Kafka and Musil.

[Jaledin]

Oh, and what *is* "dysthymia"? My greek is small, man. It's, like, not-something. Actually, fuck, that's like my man Marchal about Mallarme' wished he wrote about under his chapter "Or [gold, I guess]," kind of like a place or a step in Gk. Related to thesis. Le pas au-dela. Blanchot -- a little old goat man in a good raincoat. Fuck it. ETA just looked it up on some bullshit online dictionary (books aren't dead! nothing good online). Thumos -- like a good thing. So dysthymia, not having a good thing. Permanently bummed out.

Fuck, you're a downer, man! You smoke bud, or what? You might be a good candidate for some medicinal. Frankly, with all those brain cells extra you got rolling around, maybe it's good to salt the soil and get some free air america in there. Not advice -- you're way more up and attem than me, just trying to have a good word at you, man.

[Khampelf]

Originally Posted by Scuba Ben

Depends on whether or not the gambling table games she runs cheat in her favor. Then we could say Rigs rigs rigs' rigs.

ETAQ: Is this joke getting too silly?

Well, I took a look at it and considered joining, but didn't. So it's still up to you to decide.

[Scuba Ben]

Originally Posted by dogbutler

Do you alphabetize your spices? I do.

How else are you supposed to locate spices in a big rack?

With a cabinet, I keep sweet spices on one side and savory spices on the other.

[BJMoose]

Shouldn't put spices in your rack to begin with.

[Jaglavak]

Damn right! The proper way is to throw them all into a cardboard box on top of the fridge. Then once or twice a year when you need them, pull down the box and rummage through.

[Jaledin]

That's one for the win, BJMoose. Spices in a rack aren't the way. I've seen those things -- how supposed to know what's what and what's fresh when they all look just the same.

For the other win, though, Penzey's does sell some very nice little glass jars. The plastic lids crack pretty easy when they're dropped, though. Oh, fuck, I think I still have some black cardamom in a big jar back at my place. What is that, like ten years old? Oh well, can't deep clean my kitchen now! Neener neener nanu! Hah!

Oh, fuck, there's a Penzey's out this way. Next trip out here I'm going to finally plunk down for some pulverized Habanero. And some bouillon for the pantry. Or is it panty. No, pantry. Hey, that movie with Jimmy Stewart the Preminger flick, "Anatomy of a Murder," in the courtroom. And Duke Ellington is in that.

[mothedrine]

Spices are too . . . I don't know, spicy.

[Jaledin]

Hey it's like me'lange or something.

[Jaledin]

Originally Posted by Jaglavak

\The proper way is to throw them all into a cardboard box on top of the fridge. Then once or twice a year when you need them, pull down the box and rummage through.

No it isn't. And no one ever said that. Not it isn't. But some people did, which means it wasn't like how you said. Tum cum isn't.

[timbicile]

Why did the tard decide to shit in my thread?
Stupid, poopy tard.

[BJMoose]

It's nothing personal. He's everywhere today.

[Dragonlady]

You know what Giraffe said - if he shits up threads, report the posts and the mods will take care of it.

That's what he said!

[Rebo]

I have spices on lazy susans. Two in my spice cabinet.

I havs pics, if necessary.

[eleanorigby]

Originally Posted by BJMoose

It is for sitting.


Question for anyone: if eleanorigby got a job as an oil field roustabout, could we say that Rigs rigs rigs?

Yes! And I've been planning that career change with no other thought in mind...


ETA: I posted before I read of my exciting life gambling etc. Surely we could work my being sent to the brig in there?



General question for any Raffer: what draws you to this place?

[Khampelf]

Tolerance of non-offensive personality abnormalities.

[Dragonlady]

Originally Posted by eleanorigby

General question for any Raffer: what draws you to this place?

Humor and the amazing variety in the way peoples minds work here.

[Harry]

I can call people names without having to explain what the big words mean. Or I can just call 'em cunts, depending on my mood.

[Clockwork Jackal]

The prehensile tongue.

[Jaledin]

Hey I remember you were the one upthread said I was threadshitting. In *this* thread. You're on my list.

DEEP (Get me high and go long). Aside: what the hell happened to Danny? DEEP was an inspiration and miraculation.

[Wolf Larsen]

Originally Posted by eleanorigby

General question for any Raffer: what draws you to this place?

Fart jokes.

[HongKongFooey]

Originally Posted by eleanorigby

General question for any Raffer: what draws you to this place?

I'm an introvert who found a bunch of people I like.

[Salambo]

I here for taco

[Peeking Duck]

Originally Posted by HongKongFooey

I'm an introvert who found a bunch of people I like.

Yeah, this!

And I've never read the Dope. I used to post on Salon's Table Talk (please don't judge), until I got really good and fed up with the place, and I spent quite a long while sporadically looking for a new online group of good people (of all sorts) that I could join, and I couldn't be happier that I found you all.