Man Sought In Thanksgiving Day Rampage

But if we let you keep the good stuff, we'd risk spoiling you.

Lapin wrote:

I don't know. Spanner is one of the most useful tools in the world. And you gave us Ikea, the magical furniture store of fun. (No really, I go to Ikea just to get a bun and look at the pretty rooms)

Ikea is kind of fun, as longas you keep away from the holiday rushes - I like to dig around in their photography/framing section, since they sell some pretty black and white prints, and there's some nifty frames out there. And Ikea in Stockholm sell really tasty hot dogs for only 70 cents. Seriously.

And agreed on the spanner - if nothing else, it will help you put that Ikea furniture together when the instructions fail you. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]


Also, Somath - to clear up the confusion; I'm not American - I'm Swedish - so don't address your rebuttals to me as if I were.

Re: space tech wrote:

Yes cause you've done so much with it since getting up there.

What is being done with it now does not invalidate its value as an invention when it was first made.

Re: Authors wrote:

Give me some names, I'll see if I've actually heard of em.

... Norman Mailer won the Pulitzer, but never the Nobel Prize, though he was in the running several times. This is just one example of many, and I don't have the sort of energy to search out and quote all the others I can think of. And my original comment was more of a sock towards Horace Engdahl, who is a bit of a twit - though thankfully a recently replaced twit.

Re: chemotherapy wrote:

Yeah, originally intended to be used as a weapon, aka Mustard Gas.

Original intention does not invalidate the end-result. The fact that it is currently used to treat cancer and not kill people sort of redeems it from its origins, don't you think?

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Spoiler:

Why did you put this part in spoiler tags? It's not as if it's particularly spoiler-worthy.


Also, can we get back to the tragedy of the shooting now? Because that's what I thought we were talking about.

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Give me some names, I'll see if I've actually heard of em.

Uhh... Frank Herbert, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Frost? Heinlein? Hemingway? Burroughs? Edgar Allen Poe, for chrissakes?

Ah - thanks, Sloth - your list made me thing of another; Joyce Carol Oats, the Perpetual Loser of the Nobel Prize. She's nominated practically every year, but never wins.

I can't personally attest to the quality of her writing, but I've heard it's good.

Harper Lee
H.P. Lovecraft
Mark Twain

Are we seriously having a nation dick wagging contest.

Sloth wrote:

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Give me some names, I'll see if I've actually heard of em.

Uhh... Frank Herbert, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Frost? Heinlein? Hemingway? Burroughs? F. Scott Fitzgerald? Edgar Allen Poe, for chrissakes?

You mentioned F. Scott Fitzgerald twice.

theweirdkind wrote:

Sloth wrote:

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Give me some names, I'll see if I've actually heard of em.

Uhh... Frank Herbert, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Frost? Heinlein? Hemingway? Burroughs? F. Scott Fitzgerald? Edgar Allen Poe, for chrissakes?

You mentioned F. Scott Fitzgerald twice.

You have AIDS.

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Mafiosa wrote:

Harper Lee
H.P. Lovecraft
Mark Twain

Are we seriously having a nation dick wagging contest.

Emily Dickinson
Helen Hunt Jackson
Theodore Dreiser
Harriet Beecher Stowe
John Updike
Richard Yates

Mafiosa wrote:

Are we seriously having a nation dick wagging contest.

I'm personally saying that America has done more harm than good globally, deal with it.

Somath Cegem wrote:

Mafiosa wrote:

Are we seriously having a nation dick wagging contest.

I'm personally saying that America has done more harm than good globally, deal with it.

Where did the fucking authors come in.

Mafiosa wrote:

Somath Cegem wrote:

Mafiosa wrote:

Are we seriously having a nation dick wagging contest.

I'm personally saying that America has done more harm than good globally, deal with it.

Where did the fucking authors come in.

Not too sure.

... I'm not going to bring up what England has done in the past, because this is getting ridiculous. I'm almost starting to miss the Harley-wank that could have been.


So - man shooting his entire family. It's tragic, and I'd like to know if they've found the perpetrator, because that would be good.

Does anyone have any updates on the situation?

frostflowers wrote:

... I'm not going to bring up what England has done in the past, because this is getting ridiculous. I'm almost starting to miss the Harley-wank that could have been.


So - man shooting his entire family. It's tragic, and I'd like to know if they've found the perpetrator, because that would be good.

Does anyone have any updates on the situation?

I almost shot my entire family this Thanksgiving.

Sloth wrote:

frostflowers wrote:

... I'm not going to bring up what England has done in the past, because this is getting ridiculous. I'm almost starting to miss the Harley-wank that could have been.


So - man shooting his entire family. It's tragic, and I'd like to know if they've found the perpetrator, because that would be good.

Does anyone have any updates on the situation?

I almost shot my entire family this Thanksgiving.

I almost shot my beta reader thanks to Thanksgiving.

Not American but Somath is being an idiot, (and continuing his bullshit on Skype) so...

Herman Melville
Isaac Asimov
Hunter S. Thompson
William Gibson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kurt Vonnegut
Truman Capote
Ken Kesey
Orson Scott Card
Philip K. Dick
Jack Kerouac
Jack London
Vladimir Nabokov

:bang:

Dr. Professor Science wrote:

Not American but Somath is being an idiot, (and continuing his bullshit on Skype) so...

Herman Melville
Isaac Asimov
Hunter S. Thompson
William Gibson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kurt Vonnegut
Truman Capote
Ken Kesey
Orson Scott Card
Philip K. Dick
Jack Kerouac
Jack London
Vladimir Nabokov

:bang:

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We've moved on dear, besides, never the point.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

I thought we were talking about good writers.

Mafiosa wrote:

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

I thought we were talking about good writers.

I'll be honest: I've only read one of his short stories. I just have a friend who likes him a lot and the story I read wasn't bad.

Somath Cegem wrote:

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We've moved on dear, besides, never the point.

Translation: I lost, stop rubbing my nose in it

Nihilist wrote:

Somath Cegem wrote:

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We've moved on dear, besides, never the point.

Translation: I lost, stop rubbing my nose in it

Lost what? Mid conversation people started quoting names at me a load of them I've never even heard of. Somehow we shifted from "America has shat on the world alot lately" to "America has too got good writers" though how that happened is beyond me.

Somath Cegem wrote:

frostflowers wrote:

Several very good writers (and the Horace Engdahl can do screw himself for that remark about America not having any authors worthy of the Nobel Prize)

Give me some names, I'll see if I've actually heard of em.

hurr

Mafiosa wrote:

Somath Cegem wrote:

frostflowers wrote:

Several very good writers (and the Horace Engdahl can do screw himself for that remark about America not having any authors worthy of the Nobel Prize)

Give me some names, I'll see if I've actually heard of em.

hurr

I also said you guys make inferior biscuits, that you invented chemo by accident while making weaponry and that no you did not invent the marker pen it was a world wide thing.
Though apparently only frost decided to reply to me entire post and not a minor comment I made cause guess what, I know shit all about american litrature.
The only books I own by am american writer are the song of ice and fire books. I'm ever so sorry my knowledge lies in a different area than the rest of you.
Never become teachers, you would all be very shit at it.

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I'm ever so sorry my knowledge lies in a different area than the rest of you.

Basic cultural literacy plz.

Wow, Somath, you're being weirdly defensive.

Sloth wrote:

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I'm ever so sorry my knowledge lies in a different area than the rest of you.

Basic cultural literacy plz.

I'm English I don't need to know shit about American books, just like I
wouldn't expect any of you guys to know the ins and outs of British
literature or Biology do I?

InkWeaver wrote:

Wow, Somath, you're being weirdly defensive.

I've had a very bad week and don't like people thinking I'm an idiot cause I don't know much in a certain area