who are you a stan of?

B.S. Johnson
The Telescopes

And James Joyce, yeah. Or at least Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.

If we're including the criterion of at least partially discredited, then I still think Joyce counts as I totally stan for him against the charge of literary decadence. I'm such a Johnson stan I got really pissed off reading the mostly-positive Coe biography as it wasn't stating on every page how much he is the best writer in the world ever.

stanimal collective

Murakami
modernist houses
flickr
Betjeman
Hal Hartley
caravans

Scott Walker
Libraries

Kanye, inc. 808s, crazy fashion choices

http://www.vibe.com/vibeverses/

martin amis

alasdair roberts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R46Aue8R_Fc&feature=related
if you listen to this in the dark and it doesn't scare you, even a little bit, you are not my people

this should be "whom are you a stan of"

or maybe "of whom are you a stan"

technically, yes
(that one)

i am not generally in favor of the dont-end-sentences-with-prepositions rule but i am generally in favor of making a distinction between who and whom

rolling stan '11

sometimes I purposely don't use whom cause I don't want to seem like a dick

its wel on its way to being antiquated for sue

grammar rules i stan for

who/whom
less/fewer

i dont know if this counts but i stan for correct use of the phrase "begging the question"

for whom the stan posts

'spare a question kind sir'

least favorite thread title grammar mistake: 'people that YELP are scumbags.'

haha i annoy my friends with less/fewer too

people who get all upset re grammar are m/l loudly advertising their middling intellect to the world, they dont seem to get that, maybe cause theyre not that smart idk

i am a grammar teacher, and i like to explain the situation as a fluid one, but one they have to live in for a while longer.

ultimately, its because who and whom are different words, and the other thing is a style rule made up by -- iirc -- strunk and white.
who is subjective relative pronoun: The teacher who stole my boyfriend left through that door. OR The teacher, who stole my boyfriend, left through that door. (restrictive clause, nonrestrictive clause)

whom on the other hand is an objective pronoun

For whom is that package? (following a preposition as obj of the prep: Sally had a long relationship with Jeff, with whom she shared a house and three children.

whom -- relative pronoun in the object position
who -- subjective position

anyway can we talk about the excellence of alasdair roberts?
please?

one of my friends who lives in my building was telling me how a few days ago he started jacking off to porn for the first time in like a year and then he heard a voice from outside his window shout "we can see everything chief" and he stopped and got really sad, but that story aside I stan for the word chief

i still use thee/thou

people who get all upset re grammar are m/l loudly advertising their middling intellect to the world, they dont seem to get that, maybe cause theyre not that smart idk

there are also people who think that there really is some higher level of rightness w/ proper grammar, like it's almost a moral thing

yeah and none of them ever seem interested in studying linguistics which is sort of strange

idk its like some desperate attempt to signify intelligence

David Lynch
Guns N' Roses/Axl Rose
Bobby Chacon (professional boxer)
Roger Federer

Michelle Marsh
Sophie Howard
Lucy Pinder
Keeley Hazel
Marc Loi

― '92 ron fan (gnarly sceptre), Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:07 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

underrated post here

or maybe "of whom are you a stan"

you are correct max!

<3 grammar nazis. except in cases when the correct grammar sounds ugly, in which case i think it is fine to get it wrong. also i hate it when you ask how someone's doing and they respond "i'm well." i've only begun to notice it in the past few years. it sounds funny to me. contrived.

there are no rules, im sorry you had to find out this way

like it's almost a moral thing

i went to catholic school. to the nuns, i think it was.

guys we will all be happier when we realize ice cr?m is smarter than all of us, plz let's work on this in the coming days

anyway i had an long thought this morning abt like what it means to stan for things and basically i think im done w/it, its contrived and confused to stan and doesnt really represent any sort of honest approach to appreciation

guess we know with whom hoos has a beef

i thought the preferred phraseology was 'a hoos'

with whom a hoos has beef

lol, sounds better, tru

guys we will all be happier when we realize ice cr?m is smarter than all of us, plz let's work on this in the coming days

― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, March 30, 2011 12:52 AM (31 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

well if you think there are rules to grammar that people need you to point out to then im prob smarter than you, thats just a general pattern ive noticed, although im totally willing to allow that smart people could indulge in stupid shit like this due having back childhoods or w/e

dude

what im just sayin

anyway can we talk about the excellence of alasdair roberts?
please?

you've just inspired me to give No Earthly Man a 6am play! Should work well as the sun starts to rise.

i mean grammer pedants can sit there all day like actually - yet im not allowed to call them stupid - the world is unfair!

with whom a hoos beefs

i don't actually care except when i have to copy edit stuff at work.. ok and when people send me emails at work that are so grammatically messed up, i can't understand what they are saying and i wonder how they even have a job.

<3 grammar nazis btw, if I could internalise it all well enough to be a grammar robot I would. Instead I settle for being Mr Free and Easy. Even though I'm not entirely down with the not-ending-sentences-with-a-preposition rule, I do like forcing its application when the resulting structure is tortured beyond belief.

(that's not geeky at all.)

grammar pedants irl have a certain adorable fustiness but on the internets it's just a miserable ploy

adorable fustiness maybe if they're like, a 60 year old english teacher. but most people I know who do it irl are just dicks.

well if you think there are rules to grammar that people need you to point out to then im prob smarter than you, thats just a general pattern ive noticed, although im totally willing to allow that smart people could indulge in stupid shit like this due having back childhoods or w/e

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, March 30, 2011 4:57 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

wait u mean the rulez of language don't MEEN ANYTHING and pointing them out is just 1-upping yrself and sggstv of intellectual insecurity oh shi--like of course that's the case man and a person who runs around correcting people's essentially insubstantial misunderstandingz has some growing up to oh hmm hmm

I feel like the hoos/cr?m beef has serious potential