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Started by Camerus, October 18, 2012, 07:15:37 AM

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Camerus

October 18, 2012, 07:15:37 AM
How do *you* combat it?   :sleep:

Brazen

#1
October 18, 2012, 07:20:08 AM
Wait for middle age when every day brings the stench of death closer and gives you something to really worry about. 

garbon

#2
October 18, 2012, 07:21:34 AM
I'd not live in China.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Razgovory

#3
October 18, 2012, 07:27:38 AM
I thought this was a Lettow thread.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Camerus

#4
October 18, 2012, 07:30:24 AM
Quote from: garbon on October 18, 2012, 07:21:34 AM
I'd not live in China.

Fair, but since the age of 14 or so I never found life in North America terribly stimulating, either. 

So, what's left?  All I can think of are:  (1) increasing drifts into hedonism (2) an embrace of Family Values and the concomitant channeling of personal boredoms into family life (3) throwing personal energies into the creation of a Magnum Opus - one's very own agony and ecstasy, if you will.

Am I missing something?   :huh:

Darth Wagtaros

#5
October 18, 2012, 07:33:39 AM
garbon speaks truly.
PDH!

Camerus

#6
October 18, 2012, 07:34:23 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 18, 2012, 07:27:38 AM
I thought this was a Lettow thread.

I think I'm drunk enough that I could be there by now.

PDH

#7
October 18, 2012, 07:37:49 AM
Realize that grallonesque ennui is insipid and stop acting like a teenager.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Grey Fox

#8
October 18, 2012, 07:46:41 AM
Kids.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Pedrito

#9
October 18, 2012, 08:06:12 AM
b / h = h / b+h


27 Zoupa Points, redeemable at the nearest liquor store! :woot:

PDH

#10
October 18, 2012, 08:41:42 AM
Quote from: Pedrito on October 18, 2012, 08:06:12 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on October 18, 2012, 07:46:41 AM
Kids, these days  :rolleyes:
FYP

L.

Damn straight.  Look at my generation, we had walkmans with TAPES for godssake.  You didn't hear us all "boo hoo my place in the larger scheme of existence is simple analogous to that of a subatomic particle forever moving without purpose in a pre-determined path doing no good even if another particle comes close enough to knock us off our shell so we become a free-flying photon."

Nope, we had it rough and we liked it.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

-------
"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

garbon

#11
October 18, 2012, 08:45:20 AM
Quote from: PDH on October 18, 2012, 08:41:42 AM
Damn straight.  Look at my generation, we had walkmans with TAPES for godssake.  You didn't hear us all "boo hoo my place in the larger scheme of existence is simple analogous to that of a subatomic particle forever moving without purpose in a pre-determined path doing no good even if another particle comes close enough to knock us off our shell so we become a free-flying photon."

Nope, we had it rough and we liked it.

What does that prove? I had a walkman with tapes and I believe PP is older than me.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

CountDeMoney

#12
October 18, 2012, 08:50:03 AM
In junior high, I had to sneak in a friend's copy of Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil cassette because my Mom would've shit kittens.  Duped it on an unlabeled BASF.

Razgovory

#13
October 18, 2012, 09:04:19 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 18, 2012, 08:50:03 AM
In junior high, I had to sneak in a friend's copy of Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil cassette because my Mom would've shit kittens.  Duped it on an unlabeled BASF.

Huh.  So your interest in cats derives from your mother.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

garbon

#14
October 18, 2012, 09:06:49 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 18, 2012, 08:50:03 AM
In junior high, I had to sneak in a friend's copy of Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil cassette because my Mom would've shit kittens.  Duped it on an unlabeled BASF.

I found one of my mixtapes last year at Christmas. I vowed that I'll listen to its awfulness this year when I go back. :D
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
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