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Boboss
22:30 / 19.04.06
I say leave it alone. Any more shit, however...
 
 
DRR... DRR... DRR...
23:16 / 19.04.06
Woah, that's crass. Has ze been pointed back here yet via PM or should I do it? (I take your point, Boboss, but I don't really want to wait around for 'anymore shit' when we seem to have rather a superabundance of same from so many other sources.)
 
 
Bots'wana Beast
02:12 / 20.04.06
If you don't especially want to do it I'll take valet duty again, if you like, Mordant. Tomorrow, though, for Bedfordshire beckons.
 
 
Boboss
11:00 / 20.04.06
Right, well if Nursey's going to be directed here I'd like to inform hir that ze is being watched and that any more offensive behaviour will very likely lead to disciplinary action.

Tru fax.
 
 
Quantum - killed by hadrons
(prev. Quantum)
13:50 / 20.04.06
Well spotted Haus. I swear I would never, ever make the connection between old offenders and new names unless it was flagged by people with sharper brains.
 
 
DRR... DRR... DRR...
14:43 / 20.04.06
Have now PMed Nurse/gravity with a link to the thread.
 
 
DRR... DRR... DRR...
14:04 / 22.04.06
Ah, upon investigation we discover this, from the same poster. Hope springs eternal, however.
 
 
Stoat-ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH
(prev. Stoatie. Stoatie? STOATIE.)
14:10 / 22.04.06
Ah. That kind of puts a different light on things, vis-a-vis whether someone's actually done the legendary thing of coming back having learned something about themselves...
 
 
tituba
12:24 / 26.04.06
Right, well if Nursey's going to be directed here I'd like to inform hir that ze is being watched and that any more offensive behaviour will very likely lead to disciplinary action.

Then I better watch my step.

Well spotted Haus. I swear I would never, ever make the connection between old offenders and new names unless it was flagged by people with sharper brains.

Yes, always with the eagle-eyes.

Ah. That kind of puts a different light on things, vis-a-vis whether someone's actually done the legendary thing of coming back having learned something about themselves...

Yes my good brothers, I have been reformed with the aid of what the chassos are calling the ludovico technique. Now I'm back to face the outside world.
 
 
A Haus of Minions
17:10 / 26.04.06
A shiny dollar for whoever pulls the bones out of that one. Paint fumes?
 
 
DRR... DRR... DRR...
17:44 / 26.04.06
ya got me. "Challenging someone on hir gypsies-smell-like-cabbage 'jokes' in a text based environment is tantamount to psychological torture and brainwashing" perhaps?
 
 
Fly Beezy (War Minister)
(prev. Y SO ALT?)
17:49 / 26.04.06
Ludovico technique = as seen in A Clockwork Orange. Interesting to follow the implied analogy to its conclusion.
 
 
Stoat-ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH
(prev. Stoatie. Stoatie? STOATIE.)
17:53 / 26.04.06
Ah, but which conclusion, book or film? I always preferred the book, myself... after freeing himself and returning to his crasting, tolchocking ways, Alex eventually, well, grows up and grows out of it, I guess.
 
 
Fly Beezy (War Minister)
(prev. Y SO ALT?)
17:55 / 26.04.06
Oh, I meant logical conclusion rather than narrative - no doubt tituba thinks of hirself as a daring rebel, a dangerous iconoclastic embodiment of chaos - when in fact, ze might well just be a fucking dickhead.
 
 
Stoat-ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH
(prev. Stoatie. Stoatie? STOATIE.)
20:22 / 26.04.06
I still prefer the book ending.
 
 
Life Critic
23:20 / 26.04.06
Now I'm back to face the outside world.

ah.
ahah.
ahahahahahahahahahahaha!
heh.
 
 
Ganesh
23:32 / 26.04.06
Indeed. Real live tigers are swimming for their lives.
 
 
Stoat-ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH
(prev. Stoatie. Stoatie? STOATIE.)
00:15 / 27.04.06
I still prefer the book ending.
 
 
Spyder Todd 2008
04:34 / 27.04.06
You know, Stoatie, its weird. I perfer the book to have it's original ending, rather than to cut off after Chapter 20 like it did orignally in the US prints. But for the movie, I think I like Kubrick's cut. Does that make sense?
 
 
matthew.
15:50 / 27.04.06
Oy. Off to the Books thread with ye, for a little bit of the ol' ultra-violence.
 
 
Quantum - killed by hadrons
(prev. Quantum)
15:58 / 27.04.06
Yes, always with the eagle-eyes.

Haus is Action Man and I claim my five pounds.
 
 
sleazenation
15:58 / 27.04.06
Before we go there, are we talking the book ending from the UK edition or the US edition? There is an extra chapter in one of them...
 
 
Cat Chant
16:22 / 27.04.06
Look up, sleazenation!

(Spookily, I just went to a presentation about A Clockwork Orange. I can tell you anything you like about its temporality.)
 
 
Quantum - killed by hadrons
(prev. Quantum)
16:48 / 27.04.06
Also spookily, I just looked up a pic of Gnarls Barkley and they happened to be in Clockwork Orange costumes.
I think that cryptic post upthread should have %s around it maybe.
 
 
Quantum - killed by hadrons
(prev. Quantum)
17:04 / 27.04.06
..and I also just read the Strip (free comic) which has a page of Avenger pastiche with Alex-as-the-Anti-Steed.
 
 
tituba
08:55 / 02.05.06
You know, Stoatie, its weird. I perfer the book to have it's original ending, rather than to cut off after Chapter 20 like it did orignally in the US prints. But for the movie, I think I like Kubrick's cut. Does that make sense?

There were originally 21 chapters. 21 is also the age Anthony Burgess' son would have been had his pregnant wife not got kicked in the guts by strapping Americans.
 
 
Bots'wana Beast
16:01 / 02.05.06
I'm sorry, but what is the word 'strapping' doing there? The description reads a bit too... gleeful for my taste.
 
 
ibis the being
17:21 / 02.05.06
See, I kind of have a problem with the "Americans" part. Unless that's relevant and I'm missing something.
 
 
DRR... DRR... DRR...
17:28 / 02.05.06
Not sure; Burgess' wife was in London at the time, so I guess the nationality of her attackers is not totally immaterial. If this had happened in America and the attackers were British, that might also bear comment. Possibly. Arguably other details might be more relevent, such as the fact that that they were GI deserters.

I don't find the phrase massively offensive myself. Still, have to admit that there's a slighty gleeful feel to 'strapping' which did squick me a bit.
 
 
Bots'wana Beast
20:50 / 02.05.06
'Squick' is about right. I mean, I know it's a matter of historical fact what happened, but it does just feel like taking advantage another opportunity to be unpleasant having been corralled for the first time. Which is, you know, obviously radical awesome (!!1!11!) but I could probably live without.
 
 
Bots'wana Beast
20:58 / 02.05.06
The book was partly inspired by an event in 1943, when Burgess' pregnant wife Lynne was robbed and beaten by four U.S. GI deserters in a London street, suffering a miscarriage which further resulted in chronic gynaecological problems. Factually correct, though.
 
 
DRR... DRR... DRR...
22:36 / 13.05.06
Okay, we have another problem Temple poster: Anth, member number 5203.

Makes strings of disjointed off-topic posts, one-liners and song lyrics having little to do with the thread; becomes rude when challenged. Makes dramatic claims of magical ability, being the Antichrist, crossing the Abyss, ect ect.

See here, here, and here for examples.
 
 
Tarnished
(prev. Shiny)
23:13 / 13.05.06
Just as an aside, he's also present in Switchboard, "trying to initiate a discussion and stirring up controversy".
 
 
Bots'wana Beast
23:31 / 13.05.06
But he's an i-piss-imus.
 
 
Ganesh
00:10 / 14.05.06
He's the i-piss-artist formerly known as Modzero, y'mean....
 
  

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