28 Aug 2008, 3:43pm
When I get defensive...
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I have never been one for quoting others - well, quoting famous people anyway with the exception of Douglas Adams. I have never been one for reverance especially when most people on this planet are only slightly more intelligent than jelly fish, no offence to jelly fish. I have never been one for modesty, what with vanity being my favourite indulgence. I have never been one for glossing over the monstrosities of our shallow existence - euphemism is the reason we are all in the mess that we are.
Of course, the readers of this blog should know all that by now had they been remotely exercising that one organ that differentiates us from other primates - the brain. That is not such a bad thing, really. Why else could I keep making posts about the same insipid things if people understood what I wanted to say?
Why am I getting defensive? Has my desire to be read by more people made me weigh quantity over quality? No, I am not talking of my posts. I am talking of the readers who read my posts. Do I really want to make posts that are non-ambiguous enough for the E. Coli bacteria to understand? More than that, should I even bother commenting on posts that are not even worthy of the E. Coli bacteria's attention?
I have in all my blogging life of almost five years not made more than a handful of comments, other than those made on Aran's blog or mine. Of that handful, the few that were meant to be offensive were never taken offense at. Those that were subliminally subtle were deemed offensive. Perhaps that tells a story. SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) should focus all their telescopes on the earth - let us be convinced that there is such a thing as intelligent life.
Current Music: Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You
Of course, the readers of this blog should know all that by now had they been remotely exercising that one organ that differentiates us from other primates - the brain. That is not such a bad thing, really. Why else could I keep making posts about the same insipid things if people understood what I wanted to say?
Why am I getting defensive? Has my desire to be read by more people made me weigh quantity over quality? No, I am not talking of my posts. I am talking of the readers who read my posts. Do I really want to make posts that are non-ambiguous enough for the E. Coli bacteria to understand? More than that, should I even bother commenting on posts that are not even worthy of the E. Coli bacteria's attention?
I have in all my blogging life of almost five years not made more than a handful of comments, other than those made on Aran's blog or mine. Of that handful, the few that were meant to be offensive were never taken offense at. Those that were subliminally subtle were deemed offensive. Perhaps that tells a story. SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) should focus all their telescopes on the earth - let us be convinced that there is such a thing as intelligent life.
Current Music: Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You
28 Aug 2008, 7:26pm
I was linked! Yay.
You did not use the word 'ardent' in this post. After all, only the ardent readers know... stuff.
28 Aug 2008, 7:26pm
well, whatever be the point of this post,you are an entertaining writer..i've just stumbled upon this blog, and am enjoying your, er, past:)
and that google block seems to be spoiling your template.you should report that to the site admins?
28 Aug 2008, 9:27pm
Ah Aran, yes. But 'ardent' seems to make people feel like RD, the magazine.
Greekumari, thank you. In all fairness to the admins, the google block spoiling my template is not their doing. That block is a remnant of the times when this place was not facebookised. Sucker that I am for nostalgia, I think I am going to leave it be.
28 Aug 2008, 9:33pm
Ardent doesn't. Ardy's the culprit. Ardent is more like, says, Pepsodent.
28 Aug 2008, 9:42pm
I have never liked toothpaste, Aran. I prefer the Neem twig. You would not want to be a substitute person, would you?
28 Aug 2008, 9:43pm
I am not a substitute anything. I'm just saying specific words remind me of other words. That's all.
So. Do you use a neem twig?
28 Aug 2008, 9:49pm
I don't. I substitute it with toothpaste.
28 Aug 2008, 9:51pm
Oh, sadness. I haven't found a toothpaste I like here yet.
28 Aug 2008, 9:58pm
Switch to Neem twigs. I am sure you will find a tree around somewhere there.
Or you could use that concoction they used in Brainiac.
28 Aug 2008, 9:58pm
No. I think I'll stick to toothpaste. Not literally, of course.
28 Aug 2008, 10:08pm
Toothpaste does make for a very good substance to stick posters on hostel room walls. They stick on great. Even better, when the time comes to remove them they come off without leaving a stain on the wall.
28 Aug 2008, 10:11pm
I suppose you're talking of white toothpastes and white walls.
28 Aug 2008, 10:16pm
Very white walls indeed. White-washed each year in the summer, these walls could whiten the blackest of your clothes if you chose to brush past them.