Comments on: Stormy is Listening http://www.stinque.com/2009/05/01/stormy-is-listening/ If it smells, we're on it. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:27:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pedonator http://www.stinque.com/2009/05/01/stormy-is-listening/#comment-33520 Pedonator Sat, 02 May 2009 04:50:30 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=7964#comment-33520 @<a href="#comment-33514" rel="nofollow">Promnight</a>: I think my long years whoring myself out to technology for a paycheck have made me a Luddite. I do have cautious admiration for what man hath wrought, but I've been bitten too many times by calls at 3am when the server is down to have an unbiased appreciation for fine engineering. @Promnight: I think my long years whoring myself out to technology for a paycheck have made me a Luddite. I do have cautious admiration for what man hath wrought, but I’ve been bitten too many times by calls at 3am when the server is down to have an unbiased appreciation for fine engineering.

]]> By: FlyingChainSaw http://www.stinque.com/2009/05/01/stormy-is-listening/#comment-33517 FlyingChainSaw Sat, 02 May 2009 04:44:05 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=7964#comment-33517 @<a href="#comment-33482" rel="nofollow">Dodgerblue</a>: This is why Vanishing Point is the greatest movie ever produced. Nearly flawless. If only Kowalski had pestorked the hippie on the roof of the Challenger like a regular guy. . . no other movie would ever have needed to be produced. @Dodgerblue: This is why Vanishing Point is the greatest movie ever produced. Nearly flawless. If only Kowalski had pestorked the hippie on the roof of the Challenger like a regular guy. . . no other movie would ever have needed to be produced.

]]> By: Pedonator http://www.stinque.com/2009/05/01/stormy-is-listening/#comment-33516 Pedonator Sat, 02 May 2009 04:42:33 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=7964#comment-33516 @<a href="#comment-33515" rel="nofollow">Promnight</a>: And don't forget <strike>Poland</strike> the Internet! @Promnight: And don’t forget Poland the Internet!

]]> By: Promnight http://www.stinque.com/2009/05/01/stormy-is-listening/#comment-33515 Promnight Sat, 02 May 2009 04:40:50 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=7964#comment-33515 Cars and TV; thousands of years from now sociologists will still be marvelling at the incredible changes these two things made in the way human beings live as social creatures. Cars and TV; thousands of years from now sociologists will still be marvelling at the incredible changes these two things made in the way human beings live as social creatures.

]]> By: Promnight http://www.stinque.com/2009/05/01/stormy-is-listening/#comment-33514 Promnight Sat, 02 May 2009 04:39:26 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=7964#comment-33514 @<a href="#comment-33513" rel="nofollow">Pedonator</a>: Oh, I hate what cars have done to society. They created suburban sprawl, and the attendant waste of resources, the impossibility of mass transit (cars let homes spread everywhere, its just impossible to get mass transit everywhere, before cars, development spread along mass transit lines). They are 75% of the reason this society consumes so much more of the world's resources, per capita, than any other, they are convenient to each individual, but the way in which they allow us to spread out and sprawl destroys so many efficiencies associated with urban living. So many costs far far beyond the gas they consume. But you can be conscious of all this, and still love craftmanship and engineering and a tool that performs its functions so well, ya know? Its like the Zen of Motorcycle Maintenance, ya know? Should that be a book club assignment? @Pedonator: Oh, I hate what cars have done to society. They created suburban sprawl, and the attendant waste of resources, the impossibility of mass transit (cars let homes spread everywhere, its just impossible to get mass transit everywhere, before cars, development spread along mass transit lines). They are 75% of the reason this society consumes so much more of the world’s resources, per capita, than any other, they are convenient to each individual, but the way in which they allow us to spread out and sprawl destroys so many efficiencies associated with urban living. So many costs far far beyond the gas they consume.

But you can be conscious of all this, and still love craftmanship and engineering and a tool that performs its functions so well, ya know? Its like the Zen of Motorcycle Maintenance, ya know? Should that be a book club assignment?

]]> By: Pedonator http://www.stinque.com/2009/05/01/stormy-is-listening/#comment-33513 Pedonator Sat, 02 May 2009 04:27:27 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=7964#comment-33513 @<a href="#comment-33497" rel="nofollow">Promnight</a>: When I see a car I see everything that's just <i>wrong</i>. Even when I see my own cute little car that makes me feel like a go-kart driver on the way to work, and has lots of cool gadgets that I've never used (except the button that releases the smoke-bomb canisters behind me when I'm running from the bad guys, ok, that gadget I've used quite often), at least just the moment before I climb into my little metal womb of destruction every morning to convey myself from home to work I shudder a little bit inside and think, <i>why have we arranged our lives around this machine? and will I once again survive to tell the harrowing tale of my commute?</i> It's much easier to understand the fascination with boobies, even though I am teh ghey. @Promnight: When I see a car I see everything that’s just wrong. Even when I see my own cute little car that makes me feel like a go-kart driver on the way to work, and has lots of cool gadgets that I’ve never used (except the button that releases the smoke-bomb canisters behind me when I’m running from the bad guys, ok, that gadget I’ve used quite often), at least just the moment before I climb into my little metal womb of destruction every morning to convey myself from home to work I shudder a little bit inside and think, why have we arranged our lives around this machine? and will I once again survive to tell the harrowing tale of my commute?

It’s much easier to understand the fascination with boobies, even though I am teh ghey.

]]> By: Promnight http://www.stinque.com/2009/05/01/stormy-is-listening/#comment-33499 Promnight Sat, 02 May 2009 02:22:57 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=7964#comment-33499 @<a href="#comment-33488" rel="nofollow">Original Andrew</a>: Many men are taught from boyhood that emotions are sissy, that being a man means being callous. Thats not a natural thing, even for men, so they have to distract themselves from emotion. Car chases, explosions, and tittehs are good distractions for those who suffer from the conflict between the ideal of manhood forced on them by our kulture, and their natural feelings. @Original Andrew: Many men are taught from boyhood that emotions are sissy, that being a man means being callous. Thats not a natural thing, even for men, so they have to distract themselves from emotion. Car chases, explosions, and tittehs are good distractions for those who suffer from the conflict between the ideal of manhood forced on them by our kulture, and their natural feelings.

]]> By: Promnight http://www.stinque.com/2009/05/01/stormy-is-listening/#comment-33498 Promnight Sat, 02 May 2009 02:20:12 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=7964#comment-33498 Noone else got the ad for Satanic jewelry? Is it me? Noone else got the ad for Satanic jewelry? Is it me?

]]> By: Promnight http://www.stinque.com/2009/05/01/stormy-is-listening/#comment-33497 Promnight Sat, 02 May 2009 02:18:39 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=7964#comment-33497 @<a href="#comment-33477" rel="nofollow">SanFranLefty</a>: Cars are like high art to men. We feel, when contemplating a piece of complicated machinery, the awe we are supposed to feel when contemplating the Mona Lisa, or the ceiling of the sistine chapel. Its true even among many men who also fall into abject awe at art and poetry, though. Thats not so bad, is it? Boobehs are just wonderful, the feeling we feel towards them is not even always sexual, its just pure childlike delight, beautiful, in a way, an innocent natural reaction to the beauty of the female form, and its not all about big ones, either. @SanFranLefty: Cars are like high art to men. We feel, when contemplating a piece of complicated machinery, the awe we are supposed to feel when contemplating the Mona Lisa, or the ceiling of the sistine chapel. Its true even among many men who also fall into abject awe at art and poetry, though. Thats not so bad, is it?

Boobehs are just wonderful, the feeling we feel towards them is not even always sexual, its just pure childlike delight, beautiful, in a way, an innocent natural reaction to the beauty of the female form, and its not all about big ones, either.

]]> By: Original Andrew http://www.stinque.com/2009/05/01/stormy-is-listening/#comment-33488 Original Andrew Sat, 02 May 2009 00:53:09 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=7964#comment-33488 @<a href="#comment-33483" rel="nofollow">SanFranLefty</a>: Most of the public only understands tits, guns and explosions; it's our kulcharal hereetage. @SanFranLefty:

Most of the public only understands tits, guns and explosions; it’s our kulcharal hereetage.

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