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*: * So* Much * Random * Talking * Here :* ~Episode III (pg. 1323)
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaw
I'm sure that seeing you're visiting sites about Tahiti brown won't convince it to do otherwise. |
funny thing was going to hotels.com ; yeah, that was in arabic....and when i clicked on "See this page in English" it translated it to Brtish (everything in euros). i think it is evident, now, that we aren't as welcome here as people like to think lol.
also, ads on my yahoo messenger are in arabic. :wtf: |
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| bas |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
i think it is evident, now, that we aren't as welcome here as people like to think lol. |
That has absolutely nothing to do with it :stongue: :stongue: |
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| Ania_xox |
| The saddest thing in the world is when an author is sitting in or outside of a bookstore for a "signing" and no one is there. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
Why? Their book was probably , or so good that the people who appreciate it hardly care about whether it's autographed or not.
We live in a time where most anyone can write a book about most anything. The era of the celebrity author is hopefully dwindling - that is not a sad thing at all.
Also, it's ing cold outside. |
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| Ania_xox |
I don't find the principle here sad.
I find the situation sad. I feel so incredibly sad for the author. Not because they haven't achieved J.K. Rowling status, but because they have dedicated a portion of their life to creating a thought-out compilation of words in the hopes of achieving beauty through writing.
I firmly believe in the beauty of the written word, especially on a didactic or fiction-based, non-reference level.
So even if the dude has just written a piece of literary and his main goal was making money, I don't doubt that, on some level, it was an intense, personal experience, similar to that of the hero in a classic bildungsroman.
Therefore, it's ing sad. Like a kid sitting alone at his table on his birthday because no one showed up. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ania_xox
I firmly believe in the beauty of the written word, especially on a didactic or fiction-based, non-reference level. |
I believe you can fail to do that. Harsh, I know, but it's like a derivative track made on FL that brings nothing new to electronic music and is just an unimaginative collage of tricks and gimmicks. Like a Brazilian author a while ago that wrote the longest book ever in the Portuguese language: as far as the rest of us is concerned, the plot is bollockful and there's no reason whatsoever why we'd spend 10 years of our lives reading it. Not everyone has an interesting story to tell. Or, maybe, it's a sign that the publishing house is doing a poor job.
Remember, Schopenhauer gave lectures to empty rooms: not because his ideas were bad, but because he couldn't make himself heard. His time eventually came in the last years of his life though. |
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| Lira |
Haha, when I'm tired I laugh at the dumbest of things.
I'm planning to go abroad next month and I decided to do some research. Turns out you need to take yellow fever shots to go to China :stongue:
(I already excluded it from my list, I ain't gonna take no shots!) |
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| Renzo |
| These bots are getting awesome at what they do. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Renzo
These bots are getting awesome at what they do. |
They're new ones! I wonder if we got all the sleepers then? |
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| Renzo |
I now have great understanding.
Not flexible enough, though. |
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| Renzo |
Here's the weird part - these bots have gotten 20x worse since Stuart became mod.
This can only mean one thing - Swamper is testing Stuart. |
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