That's great, but just way too much effort to copy.
Come on, the poetry? Gotta be Natilo.
Whatever else you might say about the prankster, dude gets shit done. So, not one of us.
By reflect well on his output I assume he means he doesn't comment enough.
4 is the correctest thing ever written here.
I agree with 9 but not 10, because of the problems with inductive reasoning.
11 is the correctest thing ever written here.
Hmm... Come to think of it, you probably are.
The title of the post says AH Harvey, but the article says AD Harvey. Layers upon layers.
I'm where I should be all the time. And when I'm not I'm with some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend.
Anyway, clearly it's emdash, but he's so fiendishly clever he hired someone to play the role of his fictional biography and show up at meetups and whatnot to keep us in the dark.
Aren't all of you, except me, an elaborate hoax?
19: Isn't that the philosophical foundation of Halfordismo?
I thought crocodiles are the physical foundation of Halfordismo. You will rule from your all-seeing vantage point atop a tower of crocodiles.
And the tower of crocodiles is, at its base, also crocodiles?
I'm assuming something about 22 will show up on the news later today.
"And in California, three entertainment attorneys were devoured by crocodiles. Authorities are trying to determine the source of the crocodiles and suspect either foul play or a paleo-diet breakfast gone completely overboard."
Thales: all is water.
Anaximenes: all is air.
Heraclitus: all is flux.
Halfordísmo: all is CROCODILE.
The philosophical foundation of Halfordismo is that there is no philosophical foundation, just pure will. Crocodiles!!
So is it spelled officially with just a regular i, and not í?
Google seems to think regular i, but I don't know. (Also, Googling "Krokodil" produces scary pictures of gangrenous drug users.)
Fuck. I shouldn't have said so much, there is no explanation in this regime. Where the fuck are my crocodiles?? Fix those bra/ninja star holsters, Teela and Angel. Fly the imperial quadcopter towards the obelisk of culture.
Google seems to think regular i, but I don't know.
I meant "Halfordísmo".
í is a litter in Halfordismodeutsch.
the Latvian poet Janis Blodnieks ("I search but cannot find the key/ Which will unlock the glowing door/ To the life which runs parallel/ To the world in which I am trapped") ... "I'm not an independent scholar," he says, "I'm a scholar who couldn't get a job, a rejected scholar.
Wow. If I hadn't met so many of you in person, I think I'd really be having a panic attack right now, gripped with a horrified certainty that I'd spent so many years of my life having conversations with this guy's legion of sockpuppets here at The Mineshaft. Eerie!
Crocodiles don't eat people with gout. True story.
If so, maybe people about to wade in crocodile-infested waters should cover their legs in uric acid.
Peeing on yourself is the other thread, Moby.
Oh, maybe you did too.
Yeah, let's go with that. (I was confused about when German ever uses í.)
Although I think in Spanish Halfordísmo would look weird since the accent would automatically be on that syllable.
(The rule being-- at least approximately --that if the word ends in a vowel, 'n', or 's', the stress goes on the second-to-last syllable, otherwise the last, unless there is an accent mark telling you otherwise.)
"I'm not an independent scholar," he says, "I'm a scholar who couldn't get a job,
There's a lot of that going around.
"I'm not a journalist. I'm not an academic. I'm not a professional writer. I'm not a professional editor. What I am is otherwise unemployed. Superfluous. That's what I am."
Pummeled to death by plastic shoes.
I actually hadn't finished reading the piece when I posted 35. But there's even more great stuff there! We should all aspire to Harvey's equanimity:
"How does the life we live relate to the lives we might have lived or ought to have lived?" he asks rhetorically. "If I'd had the life I ought to have lived, I would have had a junior research fellowship, a fellowship, marriage, marital breakdown, boredom, frustration, might have gone into politics, might have risen to minister of state, then more boredom and frustration. The pattern wouldn't have been that much different in my view."
In other words: whether Minister of Culture or Master of Sockpuppets, it's still cry, cry, masturbate, cry.
Actual Mitch McConnell tweet: Do you think that #Sharknado could take on the Obamacare Red Tape Tower? pic.twitter.com/0LRU6uczYc
...might have gone into politics, might have risen to minister of state...
The indulgence of thinking we're geniuses because we're lazy.