the rustling of garbage is all we can hear
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link
good tweet in reply to that:
MY CHILDHOOD HAS BEEN PUNCHED IN THE FACE, BECAUSE CURRENT HAPPENINGS AND CHANGES SOMEHOW AFFECT MY FOND PERSONAL MEMORIES.
― Cuombas (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:31 (eight years ago) link
there was a time when we didn't throw the new york times in the garbage, though i nobody can remember it.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 22:35 (eight years ago) link
Wall st journals lay folded and unread on the street
― calstars, Friday, 18 March 2016 23:36 (eight years ago) link
papers or diapers. you tell me.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Saturday, 19 March 2016 01:48 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/censusAmericans
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:46 (eight years ago) link
I am hard of hearing. I was widowed. I moved last year. I got married in 1977. I have never served in the military.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:49 (eight years ago) link
I work in newspaper publishers. I got married in 1996. I have a bachelor's degree. I studied accounting. I am married. I drive by myself.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:52 (eight years ago) link
I take the bus to work. I get to work around 11:00am. I got married in 1981. I had less than 2 weeks off last year. I am married.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:53 (eight years ago) link
Wouldn't happen today.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:54 (eight years ago) link
i think that twitter account would be useful for novelists and screenwriters
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 22:47 (eight years ago) link
love the idea of turning forms into voices
― map, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 22:50 (eight years ago) link
Reads a bit like Alan Burns tbh.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 22:56 (eight years ago) link
might help folks generate characters beyond "20something urbanite who works in the culture industries"
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 22:58 (eight years ago) link
Would that something could stop life generating em eh
― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 23:07 (eight years ago) link
I love that census Americans account, though I haven't followed it. I actually think I prefer to read it as a long list in one spell, rather than one at a time, periodically. the repetitive effect combined with the great number of individuals really gives you a feeling of the paltry insignificance of a person
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 23:15 (eight years ago) link
Sociology is on the twitter
― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 23:18 (eight years ago) link
i also enjoy that when presented that way it seems discursive and confessional rather than what it is, which is purely quantitative data
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 23:25 (eight years ago) link
definitely. this is part of the reason i love it.
this is the other reason. i was tweeting about this last night so apologies to repeat myself to some of you, but i get a weird feeling from these kind of information abysses. like, there's such a sense of depth to them, it feels like standing on a height, almost dizzying. so while it does make me think of human irrelevance, it also kind of wows me at the collective force of that irrelevance, or the quantity of it, the number of us.
the other two things like this, that i can think of.
1. the wikipedia random button. actually terrifying to just bounce through everything that has ever been deemed to have existed. like simultaneously humbling and sort of ridiculous.
2. at work, there's a big tv screen which has a live ticker of every search that people are doing on gov.uk (basically a site where people look up how to apply for a passport or take their dog on holiday or whatever million other things covered by british law) - everytime i walk past i can't help but crane my head towards it for as long as possible, then again on the way back. it's just like boggling - "holiday safety", "visa for chinese student", "form 210k", "how to set up limited company" etc etc etc. the other day i was walking past and "when a child dies" appeared and just flew by in a hail of other search results, some in caps, some badly spelled, some long, some short, some definitely done by people without a lot of computer skill who think they're googling.
it's
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 06:36 (eight years ago) link
oops, meant to say, it's really interesting. if anyone has any more stuff like this then please pass it on.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 06:37 (eight years ago) link
http://gizmodo.com/this-nsfw-live-scroll-shows-global-porn-search-terms-in-1530061824
― Kevin Ageusia Smith (wins), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 10:02 (eight years ago) link
lol ty
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 11:15 (eight years ago) link
Its like an Oulipo writing exercise.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 12:28 (eight years ago) link
was just learning about oulipo recently, pretty interesting.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 12:44 (eight years ago) link
I quite fancy doing a really pointlessly difficult oulipo exercise just to see how shit my writing will be. like writing a story with no Es or something.
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 18:13 (eight years ago) link
i did one where the words had to to ascend and descend in syllables from 1-5. they are pretty cool, i can imagine writing a story based on the outcome of one. they stop you thinking too much and correcting yourself as you go along. a blank page is much more scary than an oulipo exercise.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 18:15 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cfwz4OZWIAAqrOe.jpg:large
― reader, if you love him so much why don't you marry him? (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 13:13 (eight years ago) link
makin u think
― a defense for Euro-Blackface (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 13:19 (eight years ago) link
i have mostly good will towards howard marks but that seems a bold claim
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 14:07 (eight years ago) link
these people are right to say that society is in the gutter. the problem is, they use the past as a benchmark, when really society was if anything deeper in the gutter back then. society only comes up short when we measure it against human potential.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 14:22 (eight years ago) link
so what you're saying is: the gutter is actually in society???
― Neil S, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 14:26 (eight years ago) link
these days it's hard to tell which is society and which is the gutter. and of course we're not allowed to speculate.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 14:51 (eight years ago) link
we're the gutter. society is the sewage.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 15:17 (eight years ago) link
or vice versa.
either way, the metaphor works.
https://undergroundherald.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/human-brain-facts.jpg?w=350&h=200&crop=1http://www.pjfarmer.com/bimages/blown.jpg
― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link
http://cdn.zmescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Power-of-metaphors.jpg
― Treeship, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 15:25 (eight years ago) link
;-)
A sharp blow to the head is worth 1000 metaphors.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 15:40 (eight years ago) link
TS: figurative language vs. the cleansing power of violence
― Treeship, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 15:48 (eight years ago) link
These talking machines are going to ruin the artistic development of music in this country. When I was a boy...in front of every house in the summer evenings, you would find young people together singing the songs of the day or old songs. Today you hear these infernal machines going night and day. We will not have a vocal cord left. The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Philip_Sousa#Hostility_to_recording
― сверх (nakhchivan), Monday, 25 April 2016 20:48 (eight years ago) link
https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13096112_10156771991695702_4916796237005775438_n.jpg?oh=59de1a05407f66dd3659a7ef9802ab13&oe=579E212B
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 03:37 (eight years ago) link
the fast food metaphor is a lynchpin in "society is in the gutter" rhetoric.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 07:36 (eight years ago) link
some nice condescension to women in that one
― ghosts that don't exist (Neil S), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 08:35 (eight years ago) link
tbf if a guy is hitting on u while ur in the voting booth, that's grounds enough to kick him to the kerb
― a defense for Euro-Blackface (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 09:22 (eight years ago) link
recently moved to a new place and there are flies when i open the window. like 4/5 different ones flew in today. big fat house flies. bold as brass. in my old place i barely saw a fly. what attracts them? nearby water or parks?
i was actually going to post this in a thread called "flies" but nobody has read that thread for a long time, seems the rest of you have no need for a thread about flies.
how to kill them humanely? everything humane today of course.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
most humane way to kill a fly is to swat it, as opposed to pulling off its wings and legs then dropping it on a hot griddle or anything of that nature
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 17:53 (eight years ago) link
yeah i suppose i don't actually want to kill them.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
Just escort them off the premises.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link
give them a bit of a beatin'
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 17:57 (eight years ago) link
I am mates with my house spiders because they're mint and they deal with the flies
― The Brexit Club (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link