marvel's biggest bone-liner

[RobClock]

Small red clock face was used to indicate psychopathy long before botclock was a taco in weenie roast’s eye

[Slurpee]

Anyone ever hear of/read the book War with the Newts by the Czech writer Karel Capek? I picked it up in a used bookstore, mainly because of the title and the cover (a close-up of salamander spawn) and it's a great read. It's sort of proto-Vonnegut (my version even has a blurb from Vonny). It was first published in 1936 and it's darkly satiric and funny and weird and prophetic (vis-à-vis Nazi Germany). Long story short: a race of large newts is discovered in the sea off of some island and mankind finds a way to breed and exploit them. I'm only halfway through, but I imagine there's gonna be a war at some point. I looked it up and it's widely regarded as one of the best works of science fiction etc. and yet I had never heard of it. Now I imagine I haven't heard about a lot of things, but in this case it seemed kind of odd. Howbouchu?

also never heard of it, and I feel like I've heard of a lot of things

[GreyClock]

Karel Capek is also the guy who came up with the word robot, as in meaning automaton, actually he credited his brother he just used it in some play he wrote. He himself came up with labori, instead of roboti. So instead of BotClock it could have been BorClock. Probably not though.

[RobClock]

Anyone ever hear of/read the book War with the Newts by the Czech writer Karel Capek? I picked it up in a used bookstore, mainly because of the title and the cover (a close-up of salamander spawn) and it's a great read. It's sort of proto-Vonnegut (my version even has a blurb from Vonny). It was first published in 1936 and it's darkly satiric and funny and weird and prophetic (vis-à-vis Nazi Germany). Long story short: a race of large newts is discovered in the sea off of some island and mankind finds a way to breed and exploit them. I'm only halfway through, but I imagine there's gonna be a war at some point. I looked it up and it's widely regarded as one of the best works of science fiction etc. and yet I had never heard of it. Now I imagine I haven't heard about a lot of things, but in this case it seemed kind of odd. Howbouchu?

I hadn’t read this earlier because I was just skimming the new posts while on an elevator, but I must say it sounds like a very intriguing premise. Maybe I’ll take my annual voyage to the library and see if they have a copy.

[RobClock]

HALT!

Before you continue, this post requires your attention.

Bumped for the new page

EIGHT DAYS

[GreyClock]

We are ze labors bip bip beep boop

Just doesn't have the same ring to it.

[PhantomCatClock]

rock


la bor rock

[GreyClock]

Dear Diary, I have this friend who, when we hang out, always does something to me. She will run her hand through my hair, she will feed me stuff, she's continuously kicking me under the table by "accident". Like I'm not imagining this, you can set your fucking clock to it. She can't maintain eye contact with me. She always says awkward, conversation stopping shit about me à propos of nothing "he's such a cool guy" / "you're such a wonderful person" / "you're so cute I just want to scream". She has four kids and is married to an older guy who is kind of a douchebag and who never hangs out with us. She's a lovely shining beacon of everything that's good in this disaster we call a world and I've been madly in love with her literally since the moment we met, a few days before she not only announced she had a boyfriend, but that she was getting married like tomorrow. It's absolutely soul-shattering. It's both a treat and torture to be around her. I would never do anything that would fuck up her children's lives. If I know anything about her, she wouldn't either. You could say something like "she can't be that great when she's married and constantly flirting with you" but one look at her and I guarantee you would forgive her. There isn't a malicious bone in her body and all this stuff, even though it can be awkward, is just weirdly natural in some way. I can't be around her and I can't stay away. It's a complete motherfuck of a situation.

Fuck you. (The reader judging me, on the basis of this faggy little post.)

[RobClock]

Grey, I feel you to the very core of my soul. It actually gives me slight reprieve from my, similar, situation to know someone older who I have respected a long time finds themself in the same turmoil.
I’ve made intentional efforts to distance myself from said woman in my life, but she manages to creep her way into my thoughts daily regardless.


The moral of the story is to never fall in love

[PhantomCatClock]

all I had to do to distance myself was be myself


now she's a lesbian who lives in seattle and hates men

[VCRClock]

all I had to do to distance myself was be myself


now she's a lesbian who lives in seattle and hates men

g.o.a.t. advice

all I got is that these things don't have to be forever (although they might be if you're charles schulz)

in a similar situation, I was taking an emotional beating for a while, but I sort of started seeing clearly when I realized what wasn't sustainable about the situation; i.e. the part of it that meant pain for me as long as the relationship continued to exist

silver lining for greyclock stage: relationships are mutable and, I think, they're all reactions trying to reach equilibrium. above I'm talking about an unrequited love relationship that I terminated / am over, but another time, I had a crush on someone, they turned out not to be single, and it ultimately became a friendly but fairly shallow platonic relationship. the shallowness corresponds to how much we actually have in common.

at the robclock stage: it's easier to put something in the past if there's a reason Why Not that makes sense to you, but when I was getting sad about my non-relationship on a daily basis, I eventually got to a point where I recognized that the only thing "thinking about it" was doing for me was making me sad, etc., because there was nothing else to "figure out," and thinking about it wasn't going to change any of the facts. so when I'd catch myself thinking about it, I'd deliberately choose not to pursue whatever line of thinking it was, because (a) I didn't need to be sad at that moment, and (b) just because it's Sad didn't mean I had to, like, put in Sad Hours to prove it. it is, like, a Day At A Time thing though

sorry if I'm talking down, stating the obvious, or acting like my specific situation is applicable to yours but this has been a subject of Particular Interest to me over the past couple of years

currently existing in a world without access to attractive people, apparently; send babes

[Slurpee]

relationships are mutable and, I think, they're all reactions trying to reach equilibrium.

currently existing in a world without access to attractive people, apparently; send babes

[Slurpee]

gay best friend in movies: perfect advice, understands you better than you understand yourself
your gay best friend slurpee: here's a shitpost with so e webcomics I fodun

[Slurpee]

hey real talk though, real talk?
I always thought this was the real story in Me & Mrs Jones
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people think this song is about cheating but it's not, it's about finding somebody and both of you knowing there's something there but neither of you being able to do anything about it
'cause sheeee's got her own obligations
and so
and soooo do Iiiiii
MEEE AND MRS

it's also basically the story of Bill & Annie from one of the Nightvale weathers
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commiserate with these somgs
that bittersweet longing is a quintessential part of the human experience

[Slurpee]

I also was going to post some Mika in response to this part

I eventually got to a point where I recognized that the only thing "thinking about it" was doing for me was making me sad, etc., because there was nothing else to "figure out," and thinking about it wasn't going to change any of the facts.

but it wasn't really directly related, it's more of a break-up song
it just covers similar ground of not dwelling so I thought better of it




ah what the heck
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the things we left unsaid
are only taking space up in our heads

.,.

the first two weeks turn into ten
I hold my breath and wonder when it'll happen
does it really matter?

if half of what you said is true
and half of what I didn't do
could be different
would it make it better?

if we forget the things we know
would we have somewhere to go?
the only way is down
I can see that now

[Slurpee]

ok we learned nothing about this

the answer is obviously c, but that's just pure common sense, it has absolutely no correlation to anything I was taught in my 13 (officially 2.5) years of fancy schoolin'

also that typo jesus christ. these people are TEACHERS

[PhantomCatClock]

uh no the answer is obviously try to move the cursor one to the left unless it cannot, then play the OS's error beep sound (if you aren't in input mode)


if you are in input mode, still make the beep because backspace doesn't do anything in input mode you dummy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you uSE 'd' and type a number then hit an arrow key in command mode really basic stuff

[PhantomCatClock]

update holy shit backspace works in vi





ok c

[GreyClock]

Thanks for the comments. I just had to get it off my chest. Distancing myself physically isn't really an option, or I'd have to tear apart my core group of friends. Most of the time I can distance myself emotionally and just sort of admire her and appreciate her presence and leave it at that. Even when she tickles my neck ever so slightly in passing at a party or some shit. It's funny that VCR seems to be under the impression that this is some recent thing, I've actually known her for years now. (If I'm reading that part of your post right.) Yesterday was just a bad one. I was also pretty drunk, so that can sort of heighten it. (Hence the melodramatic nature of my post.) Feelings can creep back up, as Rob said. Not necessarily on a daily basis. I don't think it's strictly a linear progression with stages, ideally it would be, but it's more of an ebb and flow. Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in. I agree that there's nothing to figure out though, I just have to accept the situation as is and move on. I've gotten good at it.

[PhantomCatClock]

pantie-vax