Arun ([info]louiswu) wrote,
@ 2006-03-12 18:01:00
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Can't stop laughing
From [info]fox2mike's blog -- http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~jenf/writing/rant04.html. 'Tis a riot. A tad optimistic for my tastes, but well worth a read.

[Update: Surprisingly enough, the author of this is of a female persuasion. And seemingly very cool.]


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[info]popcorn09
2006-03-12 01:34 pm UTC (link)
What's amusing about this? :)

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[info]louiswu
2006-03-12 05:49 pm UTC (link)
It's hard to explain. You'd have to identify with some of those things to get it. Rueful, self-deprecatory, then amused smiles will then ensue.

Strangely enough, there are at least two people I know who said, "that's me!" (and it was true, too) -- I wonder how many guys truly believe that they're nice guys.

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[info]popcorn09
2006-03-13 03:34 am UTC (link)
I wonder how many guys truly believe that they're nice guys.

Well, I made one believe it. I am sure there are others who can, too. :)

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[info]louiswu
2006-03-13 05:32 am UTC (link)
Well, I made one believe it. I am sure there are others who can, too. :)

Good, god! Why would you do that to *anyone*?

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[info]popcorn09
2006-03-13 05:33 am UTC (link)
Because he IS truly a nice guy. Bleh.

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[info]louiswu
2006-03-13 07:55 am UTC (link)
Poor chap.

bash-2.05b$ ping www.livejournal.com
PING www.livejournal.com (204.9.177.18) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.livejournal.com (204.9.177.18): icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=30.306 ms
64 bytes from www.livejournal.com (204.9.177.18): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=30.030 ms

--- www.livejournal.com ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 100% humour loss, time 1010ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 30.030/30.168/30.306/0.276 ms, pipe 2
bash-2.05b$

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[info]popcorn09
2006-03-13 03:02 pm UTC (link)
Yeah great humour too!

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[info]t3rmin4t0r
2006-03-13 12:21 pm UTC (link)
Brainwashing starts at home (heard while watching a *family* drama):-

"Oh, you wouldn't do that to me ... you're such a nice guy."

Somewhere in the lines of gentlemen don't wage war on women or million other things which is called Chivalry (in other words, be what you not are). Forced to conform or be part of evolution's overflow from the gene pool (*ahe*).



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[info]popcorn09
2006-03-13 02:59 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, so you see there are so many men suffering out there and women rule the world. Bleh.

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[info]t3rmin4t0r
2006-03-13 03:32 pm UTC (link)
/me points to 100% humour loss

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A History ...
[info]louiswu
2006-03-13 03:51 pm UTC (link)
Hey [info]popcorn09, don't take all this too seriously. This wasn't intended to be a rant against women. Humans are humans, gender notwithstanding.

But your comment did trigger a memory from a story I particularly like:

The obvious thing to do was to give the running of the world over to women. There was Thatcher in the Falklands and Indira Gandhi in Bangladesh, it was true; but still it would be worth trying, it could hardly get worse! And given the maternal instinct, it would probably be better. Give every first lady her husband's job. Perhaps every woman her man's job. Let the men care for the children, for five thousand years or fifty thousand, one for every year of murderous patriarchy.

Frankly, my dear, I don't think it'd change a thing (and no, I can't pull the Casablanca look, in my dreams, even - *smiles*).

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Re: A History ...
[info]louiswu
2006-03-13 03:56 pm UTC (link)
This wasn't intended to be a rant against women.

I speak of my intention in posting this.

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[info]t3rmin4t0r
2006-03-13 12:14 pm UTC (link)
Because nice guy is a euphemism for loser these days.

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[info]popcorn09
2006-03-13 03:00 pm UTC (link)
Yeah and not-so-nice guys like you would think so!

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[info]popcorn09
2006-03-13 03:00 pm UTC (link)
I think it's pretty obvious who is the loser. Sour grapes, eh?

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[info]t3rmin4t0r
2006-03-13 03:48 pm UTC (link)
Read that rant more closely and read the penultimate paragraph :)

And these grapes are delicious - forbidden fruit often is sweeter ...

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[info]code_martial
2006-03-12 05:27 pm UTC (link)
Someone like this might help him.

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[info]louiswu
2006-03-12 05:42 pm UTC (link)
And me! ;)

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[info]fox2mike
2006-03-12 06:46 pm UTC (link)
You're not a nice guy are you? :D

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[info]louiswu
2006-03-13 07:56 am UTC (link)
No, but I certainly qualify for nerd status. ;)

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[info]fox2mike
2006-03-13 10:15 am UTC (link)
Yeah, that you do :p

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[info]al_lude
2006-03-13 04:31 am UTC (link)
nice guys don't finish last. they merely sleep at the office.

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[info]louiswu
2006-03-13 05:31 am UTC (link)
That would make me a nice guy. *Yawn*

Naah, nice guys work at office and don't read LJ. :D

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[info]al_lude
2006-03-13 10:05 am UTC (link)
chooth,
stop patting me on the back

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[info]louiswu
2006-03-13 11:33 am UTC (link)
I have to. I might be joining that Honour's course all over again. Muahahaha.

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[info]t3rmin4t0r
2006-03-13 12:11 pm UTC (link)
Wasn't this from somewhere near new years or something ?

Sort of makes sense - after you have a season of joy, something has to compensate.

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[info]louiswu
2006-03-13 04:28 pm UTC (link)
You're in good spirits! :)

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(Anonymous)
2006-03-13 04:31 pm UTC (link)
My guess is MOST guys would classify themselves within.. simply coz you'd *like* to think so. Exceptions would include guys who have found the *converted* girl.:)

At least they recognize the fact. Not that they do too much about it.

SEV

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