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Jul 24, 2013 07:43AM
I'm joking! I am just tired of every YA dystopian book discussion having multiple threads on the topic of "what is your dystopian name" and showing a fundamental misunderstanding of what a dystopia even is--while also missing the fact that most dystopian novels feature ordinary names! But if one tries pointing these things out to the thread participants, the message is ignored and everyone continues to jump in and share that their "dystopian name" would be Sneaker or Awesomesauce or 404NotFound. 0_o
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Mirkat wrote: "I'm joking! I am just tired of every YA dystopian book discussion having multiple threads on the topic of "what is your dystopian name" and showing a fundamental misunderstanding of what a dystopi..."And have you visited the Hunger Games forum lately? They've got thread after thread devoted to nonsense that has nothing to do with the books. Seriously, "last one to post is the winner"? Of what? The Redundancy Award?!
Oh no, are we going down that path ourselves here? Quick, say something about Thomas More!
Matthew wrote: "And have you visited the Hunger Games forum lately? They've got thread after thread devoted to nonsense that has nothing to do with the books. Seriously, "last one to post is the winner"? Of what? The Redundancy Award?!"I haven't been in the HG forum, but I've seen the same "last one to post is the winner" game in another forum that I follow.
Oh no, are we going down that path ourselves here? Quick, say something about Thomas More!
Heh. I will quote Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder III:
Well, it is so often the way, sir, too late one thinks of what one *should* have said. Sir Thomas More, for instance -- burned alive for refusing to recant his Catholicism -- must have been kicking himself, as the flames licked higher, that it never occurred to him to say, "I recant my Catholicism.
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The name I would call myself in a Utopia or the Utopia itself. Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Liberty would probably be the name of the state. I would probably want my name associated with a freedom fighter, like Joan or Rose.
Mirkat wrote: "Matthew wrote: "And have you visited the Hunger Games forum lately? They've got thread after thread devoted to nonsense that has nothing to do with the books. Seriously, "last one to post is the wi..."Hilarious show! And this other forum, which books was it for? I do believe the YA books are responsible for attracting this sort of "what would your ____ name be?" and other such games.
Lizy1357 wrote: "Mirkat wrote: "Matthew wrote: "And have you visited the Hunger Games forum lately? They've got thread after thread devoted to nonsense that has nothing to do with the books. Seriously, "last one to..."I believe you're missing the point there, Lizzy. Although, this thread is (technically) about the man, so I suppose the true nature of his death is relevant. And yes, that was how he died, and it was considered the merciful option next to being hanged, drawn, and quartered.
More recanted after they burned him, but before they beheaded him. Which according to some accounts, was too late.
Brad wrote: "More recanted after they burned him, but before they beheaded him. Which according to some accounts, was too late."Where did you hear that? More was never burned, nor did he recant before he was beheaded. In fact, it was his continued refusal to recognize the King of England as the head of the church that led to him making enemies and being accused of treason. The penalty for this was hanging, drawing and quartering, but King Henry commuted that in favor of beheading in order to be merciful (after a fashion).
And being burned is not something that was done half-way or could be lived through. So how could he have recanted after being set ablaze?
Seriously. This thread is gibberish. Behold the internet, a much more efficient manner of education.
Wow, another thread declared gibberish by the great Felix. Ironic you would mock the internet. How else would you disseminate your arrogant and unwanted presence? And speaking of irony, perhaps you didn't notice that it was created ironically, to mock the very practice of people making names derived from ridiculous fiction? You really don't look too closely before putting on the pretentious attitude do you?
Oh please. Stifle yourself, n00b. Your notion of what 'irony' consists of here--plus, presuming to tell me what I might or might not've noticed--? Infantile jabber, at best.I wish I could say that your childish pique makes you compelling enough for me to try to remember your name for the next time we meet. But frankly you're not even worth that much effort on my part.
There's no 'pretension' between you and I, sad sack. You're simply my inferior. I sincerely wish you were some kind of opponent worth conversing with.
Please! No one is your inferior, Felix. You just think that because you're so terribly self-absorbed and immature that you honestly believe calling others inferior makes it so. Or perhaps you're so desperate for attention that you'll say anything to offend. After all, it's symptomatic of a weak, anti-social personality that they don't care what kind of reaction they get, so long as they get one.But we already know all this about you. After all, what kind of person adopts the persona of a war criminal and mocks all discussions with the same haughty air of contempt and feigned indifference? Everyone who's heard from you in your many trollish tours throughout this site thinks you're a joke. And you just prove it definitively with this last, entirely in-character post ;)
Hey, I'm available anytime you want to take me on "mano a' mano". This is my standing offer to disgruntled misfits like yourself. What fairer offer can I extend? I put my money where my mouth is. Every time. And I've never been sent packing. So either 'step up' or 'step off', emo-kid....slink away like the cowardly cur you are.
Cowardly cur? Says the man who pops in to drop asshole remarks and then runs away constantly. Don't think because you've chosen to break your own rule and stay behind for two additional posts changes anything. Not once have you ever stepped up. The only thing you've ever done is epitomized the term internet troll, and with shameless abandon.And this challenge is as transparent as you are, issued from the comfort of what can only surmise is your parents basement where you dwell given your obvious antisocial nature. If you had any courage or the ability to back up what you say, you wouldn't be attacking people through this medium and hypocritically calling others cowards.
So please, take your own advice and slink away. You are as superfluous as you are unliked, you petty little boy. And btw, no one's impressed with your war criminal persona either. It, like you, is a bad joke.
Lizy1357 wrote: "I was sure that Thomas More was beheaded. "Beheading isn't as funny as burning (according to Blackadder comedy standards, anywhoo)! ha! :D
Leslie wrote: "Lizy1357 wrote: "I was sure that Thomas More was beheaded. "Beheading isn't as funny as burning (according to Blackadder comedy standards, anywhoo)! ha! :D"
You are a strange woman, Leslie! But of course, Blackadder did have a lot of fun with the executions, torture and general mayhem that was Elizabethan England.
Matthew wrote: "You are a strange woman, Leslie!"That's the nicest thing anyone has said to me in a long time...
Feliks wrote: "Seriously. This thread is gibberish. Behold the internet, a much more efficient manner of education."As perplexing as the volume of gibberish can be, I do wonder why the preponderance of your posts are simply to point it out, thus completing the circle?
Leslie wrote: "Feliks wrote: "Seriously. This thread is gibberish. Behold the internet, a much more efficient manner of education."As perplexing as the volume of gibberish can be, I do wonder why the prepondera..."
Good question, Leslie, though I fear your words are now falling on deaf ears. He does this everywhere he goes, pops in to deliver a statement of intellectual condemnation and then promptly leaves. I'm amazed he stuck around long enough to really get his prick routine on. Normally he's a one-hit wonder.
