Blue Saturday

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Just when I'm thinking that LOLtherapy has stopped working and isn't doing any good, I find myself able to step back and say "I do not have to fight this fight" and RMDE and not jump in. And it feels like a weird exercise of masculinity to be aware that I could win that fight, but still choose not get in the fight.

There's a part of me that wants to protest it's not ~FAIR!!!~ and other people don't have to hold their tongues. But I guess I never really know how much other people do?

Feeling really rather manic is still feeling good at the moment, even though it is like walking around with all emotions set on FULL. Music has such an amazing emotional resonance when I'm like this, it feels like every song is aimed directly at me. Morrison's, bizarrely, was playing I Feel Love when I walked in, and floating round the vegetable aisles feeling ecstatic. Then they played some fantastic 80s ska (they really are ramping up the nostalgia) - one of you would probably know what it was, early 80s, 2-Tone, boy-girl vocals... But it was just like: This! Is the Greatest! Thing! and now I want to bounce around the flat to ska all afternoon just feeding off the energy because fast music is like rocket fuel for me right now. But Spotify no work on my decrepit laptop.

i spent the morning with my eyes shut being guided around outside in the sunshine and it was pretty nice tbh

The fuck did ye find some sunshine

England is stealing all the sunshine away from teh Celts again. Deal with it. :-P

it's a pretty nice day here - getting cloudier, but nice dramatic clouds and blustery not freezing wind and lots of intermittent sunshine

I got hailed on this morning yis shites

Why does it always hail on you. Is it because you lied when you were 17?

Hail hail the celts are here, surely

If you're Irish come into the parlour (because it's hailing outside)

Yeah well it serves you right for blowing "Gaels" (best misspelling ever) at Cornwall and Wales last week.

Blue-ears batteredday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZy7Nw5IDoQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qFXdgqCcq8

although the practice of Empire is continually bathed in blood, the concept of Empire is always dedicated to peace - a perpetual and universal peace outside of history.

in the dead heart of the pax Romana, 2014 AD

thank fukk there's no pills x x

I can lend you a Boring Machine if you'd like.

k that was not a great place :/

3:41 am seldom is, baeb

they're only red from all the things i could've done instead

I fear the Boring Machine is turning me into a giant ball of sexual frustration.

i am kinda equal parts sexual frustration and loss of all sense of myself as a sexual being most days

can deal with it when i'm not makeing bad booze decisions tho, and the weather is lovely today

is a Boring Machine like Professor Challenger's Pain Machine?

No, it just bores. It's making a sinkhole in my street, right outside my bedroom window. So watch it bore, all day long. They whack it with great rhythmic metal clanging and it goes all Neubauten. Then they pull it out and rub it all over with slurry or something. It's pretty... mesmerising. And not really boring at all.

no that sounds good. it could be a Pain Machine tho if it bores down deep enough. assuming the Earth is a big old sea urchin.

Now I am thinking of Duran Duran's machine from Barbarella and I need to go and listen to some Interpol or something.

lol like there isn't an hour of the day where that last bit doesn't hold true

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I haven't listened to Interpol in three whole days! It was driving me literally, like, Barneywaves crazy. I needed to prove I could quit any time, and so I did. I'm in control of this crush, OK. I'm on top of it.

(OK, I caved, I slipped in a naughty little Our Love To Admire just now. If I know it's so bad for me, why does it feel so good to do it? Can one get addicted to the feeling of naughtiness and doing something one knows one shouldn't?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5782PQO5is

a language that likes to use a Teutonic word for the actual thing, and a Romance word for its reflexion

I am stupid and you are going to have to explain me "reflexion" in that usage.

Forgot to check my work/headhunter email for a week, and the headhunter I thought had forgotten me because she didn't ring, emailed me over a week ago. Guess that job has gone by now. I'm not filled with confidence because the idea of going back to work in finance makes me want to slit my wrists. But, still, it makes me feel like a complete nubbin because I didn't check my email for a week. Basically chucked my entire life aside for a month, for a project I now think was a complete waste of time and oh, now all the panic and the bleurgh has come back.

i think "reflexion" was just a vagary of that translation tbh

i'm terrible at checking my emails, keeping in touch with people, being in the work world etc

in fact this morning i was gonna write some kind of "i need to stay off ILX and stop recycling my maundering thoughts because altho i thought this wd help me stay sane it doesn't really go anywhere and i am never going to come to terms with who i am in the world" most of which was true as true but i wd add a caveat to say not going to come to terms with the world itself, and the world doesn't care whether any of us do that

but today i found out about this

BiTrektual is the ninth album by Cuban American dark cabaret/dark wave singer Voltaire. It was released on September 2, 2012, opening pre-orders from July 30, 2012 on his website, Voltaire.net, until the official release. It is filled with Voltaire's Star Wars and Star Trek parody songs, including "Docking Bay 94", "Yoda (a monologue)", the songs on the album Banned on Vulcan from 2001, and the main track, "BiTrektual". It is available on iTunes and CDbaby.

Actors Garrett Wang (Ensign Kim), Tim Russ (Tuvok), and Robert Picardo (the holographic doctor from Voyager) contributed vocals to tracks on the album.[1]

The cover features Voltaire dressed as Obi-Wan Kenobi kissing Sulu.

and tho i don't know what to make of it i feel like it makes the world better

I was wondering if it was an archaic spelling or if it meant something technical.

it's a footnote from Capital so i think it's either an archaic or American spelling for "reflection" - have seen the same observation with regards to words like "pig" and "pork" or "cow" and "beef"

I've seen lots of things in e.g. Jane Austen with "connexion" instead of "connection" so I think it's probably just archaic.

£60,000 a year for a Senior SAP BO BI. I don't even understand what some of these job descriptions mean. That sounds like something off Teletubbies.

What does "really going anywhere" actually mean, like what activities are actually ~worth it~, anyway? What would you be doing in its place? What is the point of doing anything? Because you get paid for it, because it makes you happy, because it brings you closer to the people you care about? Because it makes other people's lives a millimetre better?

Or recording Star Trek parody songs. That's got to make some people very very happy.

But I am currently having lighthouse envy.

I mean, the whole Romance = posh / Germanic = common thing, it's like... yeah, see my screen name. There's a whole history of language and oppression you're just ignoring there.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/engineer-outlines-dangers-of-throwing-items-at-lingerie-parties-1.1711230

sorry it's not as good, but i thought you might want kept updated with the case

xp

absolutely as far as the Anglo-Saxons being a colonial power themselves, that Romance/Germanic thing only holds true if at all within English as it exists today

i guess "not going anywhere" meant "tired of watching myself chase my own tail" - tho i know there are knots i have unraveled, a little, over the last couple of years

"Hunks of Desire". *dies*

Where would we go if we didn't chase our tails? Where is there to go?

yeah it's true. gazing out our navels is less frenetic maybe

chasing our tails is at least a box ticked on a daily activities log, give us that

Barry Tennyson, an engineer who gave technical evidence on Ms Deehan’s behalf, said it was dangerous for a prize to be thrown among a group of adults in a circulation area at a venue where alcohol is served.

That demon drink! And certainly naught to do with the cockrings.

An engineer has told the High Court a “proper risk assessment” should be carried out in advance of throwing items in the air at Ann Summers lingerie parties where alcohol is being served. He was not saying such parties should be banned, Barry Tennyson said.

oh god thank you thank you content delivered

Who The Celts Really Are: killing each other over cockrings subsection, "proper risk assessment".