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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on August 07, 2012, 08:40:37 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021090565
Oh my.
nadinbrzezinski (107,479 posts)
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nadinbrzezinski (107,479 posts)
6. That's not it
It reads, not that I expect it, as throwing in the towel.
I get their releases all the time, and the tone of this one is...different.
zappaman (5,693 posts)
3. "This could be significant"
Why?
And why would you even post this shit here?
nadinbrzezinski (107,479 posts)
7. Read it again
It reads a tad like throwing in the towel.
The tone is just different.
Yes, I get their releases all the time...given some of my locals I really need to pay attention to them.
^^has the zapping primitive on "iggy list;" the above's a response to another primitive.
zappaman (5,693 posts)
8. 'It reads a tad like throwing in the towel."
What part?
It certainly seems like they aren't giving up anything.
How is this significant and why post this shit here?
RevStPatrick (1,136 posts)
12. I thought that was interesting.
And I never would have seen it if it hadn't been posted here.
zappaman (5,693 posts)
14. What was interesting?
You've never seen a fundy letter before?
zappaman (5,693 posts)
11. Apparently it is "significant" and "fascinating".
Robyn66 (1,065 posts)
15. I think everyone here is clear on your feelings on the subject
The first amendment applies to topics you don't enjoy as well. Maybe there are people here who would like to discuss it without being snapped at.
zappaman (5,693 posts)
16. Maybe you could answer the question instead of snapping?
zappaman (5,693 posts)
19. Ok
As a former beautician, I get it.
nadinbrzezinski (107,479 posts)
20. Well it is different in tone from the crap I have received over a few, what decade now?
To each it's own.
zappaman (5,693 posts)
26. I guess we will never know how this letter is significant and fascinating.
And, yeah, it looks like their standard crap letter with a "join us on a march where we will ask you for money" ending...
nadinbrzezinski (107,479 posts)
22. It has that sound of trowing away the towel
don't expect the AFA to do such... they are the center of activism, but this one reads a tad different than the crap I gotten over the years.
When they have calls for action they are calls for action. This is why this struck me as interesting.
Lesson learned though, not worth sharing these things on DU.
To edit, will self delete, and goes into the list of things not worth sharing on DU... the list keeps growing
zappaman (5,693 posts)
25. What the hell?
Why not just point out what was so fascinating or significant?
Or why this letter is different from other letters from the AFA?
It doesn't make sense to post something and say it's fascinating without why you think so.
Especially when it isn't blatantly obvious like this letter, which reads like a typical fundie letter.
Damn, will it only be crunchy news from now on?
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"Trowing" away the towel? ???
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"Trowing" away the towel? ???
It's a Freudian indication of the contempt in which the oblate spheroid holds her audience.
"I don't have to present my ideas in a neat and accurate manner, because they're all dumb slobs anyway."
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Never Throw (fix'd) away your towel!
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."
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Never Throw (fix'd) away your towel!
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
Not to mention Towlie from South Park.
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Here's a link to the action alert: http://www.afa.net/Detail.aspx?id=2147525266 (http://www.afa.net/Detail.aspx?id=2147525266)
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Not to mention Towlie from South Park.
(http://www.myteespot.com/images/Images_d/DSCF0734.jpg)
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Oblate spheroid...haah. Good one.
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Oblate spheroid...haah. Good one.
I used to call nadin "the Zbigniew primitive," but became aware that might give others the idea she was some sort of expert on eastern European history and politics, much like the one-time foreign affairs adviser to Jimmy Carter during the late 1970s. And so I dropped that like a hot potato.
For the longest time, I called nadin a lot of different names, but only in my head, as the computer would probably burn up and explode if I actually wrote out the words.
I forget who it was, but someone made a reference to nadin as Walter Mitty, and I thought that would fit, and used it here.....one time. It seemed a little awkward, and apparently there's no female version of the James Thurber character.
Then I latched onto a German name, baptizing nadin "Baroness Munchausen," after the 18th-century notorious liar (the female version), but still, it didn't seem quite right. It might give others the impression nadin has some blue blood in her.
chris_ kindly provided "oblate spheroid," and that one suits. To a tee.
There's no suggestion of human-ness or humanity in that term.
It's rather suggestive of something metallic, something hard, without life, without a soul, with no ability to feel heat or cold, affection or hate, or pain or embarrassment. Just dead metal, very hard metal, impenetrable and impervious.
If nadin had a drop of humanity in her, upon looking at how she comes across to other people, she'd take a razor blade and go somewhere hidden to use it, out of shame and embarrassment and humiliation over what an ass she is.
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A basic definition of an oblate spheroid is a round object that is wider around the middle than it is tall. :-)
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A basic definition of an oblate spheroid is a round object that is wider around the middle than it is tall. :-)
(http://gge.unb.ca/News/2010/Doaktown/OblateSpheroid.jpeg)
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A basic definition of an oblate spheroid is a round object that is wider around the middle than it is tall. :-)
The Beatles wrote a song about nadin, Oblate dee, oblate dah...
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LedUjMuTR7Q[/youtube]