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ha, interesting coincidence - the character is a long-time recurring feature in the comedy magazine Viz*, but that one strip is so similar to the short story that one could totally imagine Wolff reading it and deciding to riff it on a type of pedant (or specific critic) that he personally loathed.

* based on the brother of founder/publisher and cartoonists Chris Donald and Simon Donald, diagnosed as aspie decades later, but compared to Mr Spock when they were growing up

Absolutely!

I'm not a big fan of Wolff's writing, generally speaking, but I've taught that story a few times, and I've grown quite fond of it. Students love it, too.

I also enjoyed it, thanks.

Good to see science teaching is in good hands.

nothing says I’m fine and enjoying thisposting calmly as I normally do quite like five increasingly wild posts in a row

well i am kinda mad, the good news is i'm arguing abt something real and important that i care abt instead of, i dunno, some dumb childish bs feud about pronouns with branwell

y'all are some real petty and childish bitches btw

https://rachwriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/chaplin-funhousejpg.jpg

That thread is outwith my pay grade.

https://media.giphy.com/media/xT9GEDhzERbjDD15O8/giphy.gif

Lower left corner: EOY/AOTY poll season
The rest of the gif: ILX gearing up for EOY/AOTY poll season

Speaking of which, I've got too much stuff to nom before I can start whittling down my list, so I think I'll have to sit this one out.

well i am kinda mad, the good news is i'm arguing abt something real and important that i care abt instead of, i dunno, some dumb childish bs feud about pronouns with branwell

― the late great, Thursday, December 17, 2020 10:50 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

y'all are some real petty and childish bitches btw

― the late great, Thursday, December 17, 2020 10:51 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

are / were you mad at me about something?

xp Sit out the entire poll season?

Metal poll aside, yeah. Just too much of a mental hassle.

Your list is always one of my most anticipated, but yeah, I hear you

aw but how are we going to avoid taytay's relentless insincere march to glory ;)

Thanks, LBI! I'll probably just post a bigger unranked list to another thread at some point in January.

xp the time has come for a new generation of specific users to carry that vindictive torch.

Post your unranked best #100 and I'll lap it up ;)

xp I regret to inform you the new generation is on the tay-tay train.

the biggest problem I have with taytay is that she isn't even bad; she's even quite good sometimes, which makes it incredibly hard for me to just spew invective

by that i mean to say that in my subjective judgement her music is often relatively pleasant, if not often truly exciting, hence going off on one about her would have to involve me ignoring my actual opinions

thus we reach taytay impasse, where i essentially have to stop worrying and love the bomb

lots of cheap 'spirit drink' in my coffee today

Same. There's a harmlessness about taytay's music that pre-disarms a lot of criticism; or rather, does not invite to go off on. There's some really good songs on both albums from this year, some mediocre and meh-songs, too. There aren't any real stakes, not like before it seems.

yeah. basically i won't go cray-cray about taytay unless both her albums hit the top ten, at which point i'll have some serious questions

so you'll ixnay the cray-cray for tay-tay?

in essence

there are a few 2020-popular artists (not fiona apple) i might be prepared to get a little more classic-ljish about tho

Would hate to see it any other way.

I saw Vindictive Torch open for the Dinosaur Surfers back in '91

She seems to have a vindictive torch-a

Did you see the course on dis one

B-

dere's more to ILX dan discourse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dis_(Divine_Comedy)

I cannot imagine being this concerned about what other people think.

all these technical fusion guitarists are power bottoms

actually .... I could look into that for you

t/s: hanging out with people who listen to Eve 6 vs. hanging out with people who listen to the Magnetic Fields

when we could be hanging out with you

Was just listening to Dokken in the car at max volume, surprised it wouldn’t go any louder. my ears are now ringing :-(

i keep seeing this thread title and thinking "oh nice, rains ending the california drought, finally some good weather news"

no but i'm the reason you broke up with your ex

Wrong thread imo.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71jTKpBXQ8L._SS500_.jpg

Really coming down at the moment

your ex?

So did you vote for some republicans too

oh it isn't a thread about racism

nope but im sure you both fine anyhow

Quality galaxy brain shit.

the pepto bismo jingle with the guy soulfully crooning “diarheaaaa”... somebody needs to sample this.