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Dr. Sleepless
3/18/2010 5:04pm,
Dude, this would have been awesome if you didn't get bitch slapped by a chunner. A fucking chunner.

Now it's just fucking weird.

So gripping and edgy.

battlefields
3/18/2010 5:08pm,
You're right. Many articles on cracked.com, even ones with a distinct purpose, seem to have no conclusion by either trailing into obscurity, or stopping abruptly. Doesn't make it any harder to read, mind you.

Although your point in the above story is obscured by your ire soaked opinion, you do make it.

Conde Koma
3/18/2010 5:09pm,
i think you could benefit from a rhetoric class. there's too many asides and detours until you get your point. i love essays, but even i was getting bored halfway through.

Keep It Organized, Keep It Simple.

Nefron
3/18/2010 5:10pm,
I'm usually playing you like a lute.

Translated into my language this would mean "I'm usually sucking your cock". Ghey indeed.

Lampa
3/18/2010 5:11pm,
Man, you can hire me and I'll work for free just for the exposure.

I can take on sub-contracting writers for Mid-Atlantic Combat Sports at any time. I'm trying to ease the burden of material on myself so I have time to hunt down interviews that will get more loyal readers, anyway.

Fair warning, I do all kinds of crazy **** with language in my non-news writing. I have quite the collection of lad-lit and combat sports themed fiction I imagine you'd have a lot more respect for than what I do at MATCS. But, that site is for straight news. So, if you break away from structure too much over there for the sake of cleverness I'll be clipping a lot in the editing process.

PM me if you're really interested. Our beat is pretty far away from where you live but if you want to do it just to write we can probably figure out something.

Dr. Sleepless
3/18/2010 5:19pm,
i think you could benefit from a rhetoric class. there's too many asides and detours until you get your point. i love essays, but even i was getting bored halfway through.

Keep It Organized, Keep It Simple.

I've taken one. I thought it was kind of bullshit.


You're right. Many articles on cracked.com, even ones with a distinct purpose, seem to have no conclusion by either trailing into obscurity, or stopping abruptly. Doesn't make it any harder to read, mind you.

Although your point in the above story is obscured by your ire soaked opinion, you do make it.

95% of Cracked articles trail off into "radndomness" because they know that all those wacky, quirky, totally off-the-wall, college students who desire so badly to be a zany ************, love being "random."

Here's a secret I'm gonna let on about this article. I have been sitting on like 3 or 4 articles right now that I wasn't sure I wanted to post, I sat down and wrote this one at 3:00pm PST. My biggest issue I know of is that I usually do one draft writeups and never edit them. I wrote this one once through and then hit post, I'm sure there's some mistakes in there, I just didn't bother to go back and read it.

Self-editing isn't checking spelling, self-editing is checking to make sure you're not putting out **** content, this time I only half-failed myself.


I can take on sub-contracting writers for Mid-Atlantic Combat Sports at any time. I'm trying to ease the burden of material on myself so I have time to hunt down interviews that will get more loyal readers, anyway.

Fair warning, I do all kinds of crazy **** with language in my non-news writing. I have quite the collection of lad-lit and combat sports themed fiction I imagine you'd have a lot more respect for than what I do at MATCS. But, that site is for straight news. So, if you break away from structure too much over there for the sake of cleverness I'll be clipping a lot in the editing process.

PM me if you're really interested. Our beat is pretty far away from where you live but if you want to do it just to write we can probably figure out something.

News can be fun too! Look at Jeremy Clarkson, that n1gger can write news and make it interesting and fun to read!

I am really interested and I already PM'd you. I'm far away, but **** happens oever here too. And California is the mecca of mainstream MMA.

battheo
3/18/2010 5:27pm,
Nice rant dude. But, since you love language, two points.

First, an apologist is not someone who apologises to you, as you state whilst using your example of the ex karate-ka. The character in question there was defending HIMSELF by insinuating karate was teh ghey, and apologising for studying karate in the first place. You cannot be an apologist for yourself, you can only apologise for yourself. An apologist is someone who speaks or writes in defence of something else.

Second, whilst I enjoyed that, no one who writes the way you just did has any right to criticize Joyce, or any other 'stream of consciousness' writer.

Not meant as insults, just freindly criticism.

Dr. Sleepless
3/18/2010 5:33pm,
Nice rant dude. But, since you love language, two points.

First, an apologist is not someone who apologises to you, as you state whilst using your example of the ex karate-ka. The character in question there was defending HIMSELF by insinuating karate was teh ghey, and apologising for studying karate in the first place. You cannot be an apologist for yourself, you can only apologise for yourself. An apologist is someone who speaks or writes in defence of something else.

Second, whilst I enjoyed that, no one who writes the way you just did has any right to criticize Joyce, or any other 'stream of consciousness' writer.

Not meant as insults, just freindly criticism.

I don't mind Joyce. I just think that Ayn Rand nut huggers are the cancer that is killing our loving country.

Also, I know what an apologist is, I'm trying to coin the term in another metaphorical meaning for a ***** ****** who has not integrity.

I thank you for the criticism, though.

kenikim
3/18/2010 5:38pm,
A few weeks ago,.............................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................


damn,
after reading your post, i really have to reconsider how i write my posts from now on. you make some really good points, but damn it is fucking long and takes for-fucking-ever by internet standards to get to your point. now i know why jnp hates my rants.

bombom
3/18/2010 5:39pm,
Sirc, you are one of the most frustratingly interesting people I have never met. Your threads are like mangled car wrecks of intelligence and ire.

That is all.

bombom

t3h d3adly
3/18/2010 5:44pm,
Seanbaby never really tries to make a point, he's out to just shout at things to be funny and radical.

I have to say, that it's really easy to write funny **** if you have a sense of humor and control of the language and are able to forge it together to form a penis shaped hammer to stamp your ha ha anvil with.

It's really hard to write funny and make a point at the same time. It's like trying to use your English teacher's name as an anagram for the paper you're writing in his class about the cognitive disregard of rapist's emotions while forever ruining someone's life. Sure it's clever, but in the end you're gonna get fucked if you do it wrong.

What do you think of Maddox? hes pretty funny and his **** isnt totally without a point.

Edit: grammar sucks, but im aboutz to chauz Ho-oh so i dunt care

Lampa
3/18/2010 5:44pm,
Without going into the PM conversation going on right now, Sirc reminds me of the way I used to be before I started to get more practical toward the end of college.

Except I'm still not a fan of personal essays. Once an editorial starts to be a certain amount of "far out" you might as well just write some fiction.

Dr. Sleepless
3/18/2010 5:54pm,
What do you think of Maddox? hes pretty funny and his **** isnt totally without a point.

He's a personal hero of mine.

What's funnny is, neither of us started with English as a first language, and yet here we are honing our boners with a language that was gifted to us like pox riddled blankets from the white man.

I've used him in a lot of essays for school. Now that he's a New York Time's Best Seller, it's totally valid to suck his cock in Academia.


Without going into the PM conversation going on right now, Sirc reminds me of the way I used to be before I started to get more practical toward the end of college.

Except I'm still not a fan of personal essays. Once an editorial starts to be a certain amount of "far out" you might as well just write some fiction.

Or you can sell out and write for shitty online magazines like cracked and pump out an article or two every 6 months that's worth looking at.

JohnnyCache
3/18/2010 5:58pm,
I'm a little confused. You think Rand was a closet marxist? And she was over-reacting? Like a closeted gay that acts homophobic?

I don't know if I see that.

Dr. Sleepless
3/18/2010 6:01pm,
Sirc, you are one of the most frustratingly interesting people I have never met. Your threads are like mangled car wrecks of intelligence and ire.

That is all.

bombom

You know, that's kind of what I go for.

So I'm on the right track, I guess.

Dr. Sleepless
3/18/2010 6:03pm,
I'm a little confused. You think Rand was a closet marxist? And she was over-reacting? Like a closeted gay that acts homophobic?

I don't know if I see that.

Why not? She came from a shitty soviet russia, absolutely hateful of the communist system to america.

She went overboard with how capitalist she was. She's like a steroided Glenn Beck.