Sinister: The whole "boxers or briefs" debate is madness. How can you wear tight jeans with boxers?

[The Boy G]

Last night, I dreamt I was snogging a listee. No, I'm not going to tell you
who. It was not Mark Casarotto.

Spaced series two in less than twenty hours, this is good, this is very
good. The trailers look amazing. Samantha Mumba can't dance and mimes on her
records, and she isn't even pretty, so why isn't it me singing "Always come
back to your love" on 'Steps 2 The Stars' and being a pop-miniceleb? No
fair.

Are you expecting funniness from this, this list message by Greg? Don't get
too hopeful. It's two in the morning. Here are some amusing things, to make
up for the lack of amusing things in the e-mail to come. Oh, there will be a
few, perhaps even several, in the long and rambling text, but these things,
these things immediately below, they are created by other people. These
other people, who created these things, they are funny. Funny people. Funny
little man, ahahaha! I stamp on your head! Squish! Now you funny little man
with mushed up head, ahahaha! *Ahem*

I) What do you get if you cross a reluctant agnostic, an insomniac and a
dyslectic? Someone who stays up all night tossing and turning, worrying
about whether there's a dog.

II) Yesterday, police arrested two youths. One had been drinking battery
acid, the other had been eating fireworks. They charged one and let the
other off.

III) This site features German men having sex with melons:
http://www.einsames-vergnuegen.at/melone/index.htm

I told Ken's "What's red and runs at mirrors? Red Bull" joke to someone, and
they nearly fell over laughing. Respect, Ken.

Two people mailed sini to say that the Final Fantasy games were not shit. By
my calculations, over one thousand people did not mail this list to say that
the Final Fantasy games were not shit. Guys, you're lovely and no doubt
well-coiffured, but you know, I could probably find more than one in five
hundred people who thought Toploader were not shit. What does this say about
the Final Fantasy games? Yes, it says that they are worse than Toploader.

Actually, since I've seen the webpages of obssessional FF fans, and they
fill me with fear and terror, and because I'm easily tracable from 192.com
and thus correspondingly You Know Where I Live, I'm going to drop this
debate now. You can carry it on if you really really want to.

In fact, it's been quite the Thursday for replying to Gregcomments.

Steven Kado claimed he types things like "elements of a mass culture
based on a set of aesthetics not a set of immutable values" after seventeen
'Swiss Cottage Sudberries' (6 parts vodka, one part Schweppes, two parts Red
Bull, one part cucumbers). I believe his exact phrase was "hamfisted drunken
rants". When I am drunk, I type things like "I am durnk", "No, actally I
thikn I am sobe nw" and "Hum, Ishoulfd prbolably sleep".  Conclusions -
Monsigneur Kado is clever, Monsigneur Kado is especially clever when it
comes to critiques of No Logo, Monsigneur Kado can hold his booze and also,
Monsigneur Kado is modest. However, he is not as modest as Christiaaaaan,
who daintily declined to directly praise his genetalia with: "Hopefully
Puffy won't be around this time. He's always trying to grab my weiner. It's
so annoying. I mean, he has his own! What's he need mine for?". His,
Christiaaaaaan, are simply not as prettily shaped as yours. Why'd you think
think Ms. 'Lo dumped him? And does anyone else reckon that J.Lo might well
be the sister/wife/daughter/mother of a certain S.Lo, Skee to his friends. A
classic one-hit wonder, of course, but "Holding On" by his Lo-ity is
surprisingly tolerable.

Two possibly overlapping people also mentioned Robot Wars, in a disparaging
way. I can't really work up the energy to praise Robot Wars in the same way
that I become suddenly energized to slam Final Fantasy games (especially
those unavoidable, random, frequently-plot-incompatible, tiring,
why-can't-I-see-them-approaching-on-the-fucking-screen, pointless,
oh-did-I-mention-the-terrible-combat-system, boring,
infight-background-graphics-not-normally-connected-by-anything-more-than-the
-most tenous-thread-to-the-current-game-situation-type fights that are
practically the only way to get to a half-tolerable experience level in FF7
and indeed virtually every other one of that terrible series. I really hate
those. Other RPGs use little clever subquests for the same purpose, but I
guess that takes game design effort...) so, I'll just say: Robot Wars is not
for everyone. It is for silly little immature boys. I am a silly little
immature boy. Thank you.

(Listen to Iron Maiden bay-bee, with me...)

'Cor, this is getting a bit Isobel Lark, no? Frenzied defensiveness,
non-existant insults... Next thing I'll be claiming you lot always wanted to
kick me off the list, 'cos you knew Honey fancied me and were jealous or
something....

Why is 'Fight Song' by Marilyn Manson at No.19 in the charts when Limp
Bizkit goes to number one? It even features in that genuinely fab Mary Anne
Hobbes Radio One Show ad....when are Radio One DJs going to walk through MY
educational compound giving out free records? As long as its not bloody Jo
Whiley. Is it Wiley or Whiley?

Sudden adolescent-Sini-boy-type thought: If I ever get to meet a pwetty and
suitably aged girl with a greater propensity to evil than myself, I'm like
90% sure I'll end up developing a desperate crush on her, which would in
fact be the first desperate-type of my entire life, thus far, which isn't
very impressive, come to think of it. This is probably a bad thing. I know
I'd be very, very hesitant to go out with me, let alone someone with even
less accord for others... That was originally relevant to the Ruvi debate,
but was edited to remove all the lies, and hence lost aforementioned
relevance. Just so you know...

Rinaldo called Infinite Jest the only 1500 page book you'll want to read
three times. Rinaldo is correct. He is not exagerrating, either.
Sinisperines, please, read Infinite Jest. Rin (or others), is that line
about "the only's child fascination with sibling incest" from I.J. or not?
It's been stuck in my head all day, and I can't remember.

Listening to Leonard Cohen makes me feel somehow dirty... I really shouldn't
be liking things from The Past. It's childhood nostalgia, being seven and
unambigously happy, watching WWF wrestling on mute while "Everybody Knows"
or something by Joan Baez or The Doors sort of glided through the hi-fi, and
in the background the grown-ups played advanced Dungeons and Dragons. They
taught me to play it too, which is why I really do get terribly offended
when someone says something like "crawl back to the computer engineering
building in yr semen stained track suit dreaming of your next chance to
listen to music about trolls and gobblins and shit with your other
dandruff-y friends". Not at the slagging off of role-players, because if
you've never been a serious D&D-er, you can't even /imagine/ how pathetic it
can get, and anyway, I saw the light and stopped years ago. But it's quite a
harmful stereotype, and one that it does no good to perpetuate. Perhaps it's
no worse than me calling Stereophonics fans stupid or badly dressed, but
outside of the confines of M.I.T/Milan fashion academies, no-one was ever
beaten up on suspicion they were stupid or badly-dressed. Mainly, though, I
just don't like the implication I have dandruff :P

Y'know in #Sinister when people play ACRO? That's the best game ever, I'm
thinking. There was a running acro joke about Ken fucking rabbits on
Wednesday - that's Entertainment, kids.

Why is this a long post? This was meant to be a short post. Oh baby, I just
can't control mah fingers.

Wu Tang is a sea that I've travelled in....
    Greg


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