I find you all intellectually intimidating.

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(apologies for any spelling mistakes, I have been out for a friends birthday).
I'm trying not to be to sycophantic but I find you all very clever compared to my simple education. If I don't understand the basics of grammar,education, philosophy etc. Will you hold it against me.

― fractal (fractal), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 00:54 (twenty-three years ago)

not at all. i often feel quite inadequate at these boards - i know so little and there is so much to learn. but i've never felt unwelcome (well not at ILE anyway).

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 00:58 (twenty-three years ago)

The rule is that you have to read and memorize all existing threads before posting. ;)

― DeRayMi, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 00:59 (twenty-three years ago)

But other than that rule ;-), welcome! Don't fret, we're all groping in the dark -- just some of us have better flashlights.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 01:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I may just be a big softie. But thanks for making me feel better about posting. :-D

― fractal (fractal), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 01:02 (twenty-three years ago)

dont include me in the intimidating bit fractal i'm just some weirdo who found the site by mistake............:-)
post away, its all fascinating

― donna (donna), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 01:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I find this all intellectually intimidating too (who was guy debord other than an alcoholic?)

― isadora, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 02:29 (twenty-three years ago)

he was the main theoretician of the situationist movement, and he wrote poems too.

― mike (ro)bott, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 02:41 (twenty-three years ago)

all you need to know is that he had no time for cuntlike questions

― Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 02:54 (twenty-three years ago)

What is the vagina? Is that a cuntlike question.

― fractal (fractal), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 02:58 (twenty-three years ago)

i have made peace with the fact that everyone else around here is way smarter than me.

― ron (ron), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 03:07 (twenty-three years ago)

no. when come back, bring pie.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 03:40 (twenty-three years ago)

What is the vagina?

that's the spirit.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 04:37 (twenty-three years ago)

like pie.

― Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 05:23 (twenty-three years ago)

key lime pie

― mike (ro)bott, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 05:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Tankpus? Bangb*s? Catbus? Weebl & Bob?

Yes, you are quite right. It *is* intellectually stimulating here.

Actually fractal I felt much the same when I first lurked here. There have been some fantastic exchanges of ideas and opinions on this site, many of which have been outside my own areas of expertise. Nobody is an expert on everything! (well, except Ned maybe). I love reading all the threads - and I have learned so much. There is so much thought-provoking material here, and the people are so welcoming, too. It's a delight.

Enjoy your stay!

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 05:39 (twenty-three years ago)

we're all groping in the dark

So that's what you get up to when i'm not here, eh? geez...Dunedin to thread!

― petra jane (petra jane), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 07:55 (twenty-three years ago)

even me?!?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 07:57 (twenty-three years ago)

BURP

― me, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 08:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Guy Debord was a comedian, but no-one got his jokes.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 08:33 (twenty-three years ago)

oops wrong thread.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 08:38 (twenty-three years ago)

cabbage i find you intellectually disappointing

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 08:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not surprised

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 08:53 (twenty-three years ago)

you must remmeber not to care...

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 08:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I know my place

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 08:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Guy Debord the situationist? Darn my bookshelf is starting to fall over...

― Gordon, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 09:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone who has the guts to start their own thread saying they feel intellectually intimidated here certainly shouldn't! (me, on the other hand...)

― alex (alex), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 10:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm always intimidated on messageboards.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 10:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I know I've already been written off as an airhead, so now I can just enjoy myself.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 11:17 (twenty-three years ago)

haha, but the only person that wrote you off as an airhead nicole was...you!

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 11:52 (twenty-three years ago)

And she would have gotten away with it too.....

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:05 (twenty-three years ago)

if it wasn't for you pesky kids.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm always surprised that people are intimidated on message boards (with no offense to those who are). I am much more uncomfortable in one on one conversation with strangers, where I can immediately see their reactions to what I say. Here I can just start writing about whatever, and I may get a negative reaction, but it's somehow more impersonal, and I care a lot less.

Fear not the gate-keepers of obscurantism. (I just came across that phrase and wanted to use it as quickly as possible.)

― DeRayMi, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:20 (twenty-three years ago)

meep

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:35 (twenty-three years ago)

...and open up the gates of friendship. Me for one, is waiting here in hell for you, kid ;)

― Gordon, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:48 (twenty-three years ago)

well, except Ned maybe

Oh, debatable. And of course Nicole is no airhead, etc.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I make lots of mistakes. I am an errhead.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 14:24 (twenty-three years ago)

ARGH.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

i have Digital Love stuck on repeat in my mind, I am an Air-hea... oh never mind

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:07 (twenty-three years ago)

(oh grue, daft punk head doesn't work. um, sub Kelly Watch the Stars in there for hilarity)

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

the intimidation factor means i'm in a position to learn something, which is a good thing.

and at least here people seem to have actually engaged the ideas they talk about, as opposed to getting them for the purposes of intellectual name dropping. -see other board i could think to mention-

― mike (ro)bott, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)

On what board do we get to do "intellectual name dropping"? Sign me up.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

well the last time anyone said a bad thing about 'em here, they invaded and started a score of dumb threads.

think the devil, another word for tar, a utensil....

― mike (ro)bott, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

anyway even if you're intimidated you'll come back. we all do. so enjoy it.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going to incorporate "Daft Punk head" into my personal vocab, Alan.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't mean to terminologically nitpick, but I believe Debord used the term cuntish. I'm now dreaming of going back to school so that I can somehow work that line into a Berkeley rhetoric seminar.

Actually, if you're hanging around enjoying reading and posting to threads on this board, then I think you're an A #1 f'ing genius.

Also, remember, no wrote the entire board, it's a collection of discourse which means it's smarter than any one person.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

i always assumed he said it in french

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 21:06 (twenty-three years ago)

i wasn't there, though i could have been!!

(i wz three)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Spencer's point of the level of collective intelligence is true. We also all pick and choose our territory: someone starts a thread on ballet and I keep quiet so as not to make a fool of myself by thinking that Nijinsky is a horse rather than a dancer (that exhausts my ballet knowledge). We all join in when we have something to say, which means where there is proper debate rather than gags or waffle about our beds, it's the people who are most comfortable and most knowledgeable in that area that are often most prominent.

And there are a few extraordinarily clever people here, it's true, but it's very rare for any of these people to use their mighty brains to bully the rest of us. I was talking to Mark S about this last night: people are astonishingly polite and even kind here.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

being intellectually intimidated is good, as long as it makes you want to become less so

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

People are astoundingly kind & sweet here, which still shocks me. Unless the conversation veers into something like ergonomic keyboards, I don't really have anything useful to add, but I like reading all the debates. Feeling like you're in over your head is a good thing, though- that's what motivated me to learn how to be a programmer, and what makes me finish reading a lot of nonfiction books.

You're all way too funny, too- I can't read at my office without cracking up and making it obvious that I'm slacking off.

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

everyone here thinks i hate them, but i really want to make sweet mental love to you all.

(yes, even you.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 21:55 (twenty-three years ago)

ew don't touch me you beast

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

c'mon baby, you know you want it.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

not even mentally

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 22:05 (twenty-three years ago)

i'd like to say that comments like jess' are the reason we needed riot-grrl

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 22:05 (twenty-three years ago)

just for that, boxcubed, no ear-lube for you.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

and mark, i'm having a bad day, you could at least fake an interest!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

like you've faked everything else in our relationship.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey Mark S, I'm pretty sure he said it in London (ICA in fact) and so always assumed he was speaking English. Could anyone clear it up?

Jess, you're a mind-f*cker!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Perverts, all of you. I wash my hands of such filth.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 01:39 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah it was the ica (not then situated — hah! — where it is now)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 06:57 (twenty-three years ago)

don't worry about it. i'm pretty dumb, and i haven't been yelled at or anything (yet).

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 13:49 (twenty-three years ago)

According to Bob Black, it was in French (that agrees with my memory fo readiong about the incident). http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/242

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what a con

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

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