Comments on: Why would anyone want…

By: Dominic

Dominic — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:16:11 +0000

Not that I’ve heard (I haven’t even heard it from the Australians I work with in London). In this country we value effort! Especially futile, misdirected, absurdly strenuous effort that produces the opposite effect to that intended…

By: Wesley

Wesley — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:28:21 +0000

I live in Australia, where children commonly use the playground epithet ‘try-hard’, as in ‘he’s not funny at all, he’s just a try-hard.’

I like that this epithet expresses the necessity of seduction, rather than force, in games of wit. Do people use that in England?

By: Wesley

Wesley — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:22:08 +0000

Yeah, I’ve never had much sympathy for Marge, though I guess that sympathy isn’t relevant to ‘The Simpsons.’

By: Dominic

Dominic — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:55:54 +0000

Marge: Well, Lisa, most women will tell you you’re a fool to think you can change a man…but those women are quitters!

By: Dominic

Dominic — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:12:46 +0000

People who say that aren’t trying hard enough.

By: Wesley

Wesley — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:36:54 +0000

Isn’t the point with love that no one can be made to do it?

By: Dominic

Dominic — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:11:08 +0000

They have the ethics of Deleuzians.

By: Anthony Paul Smith

Anthony Paul Smith — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:23:11 +0000

Those are the lamest punk rock kids I have ever seen.

By: Chris Smith

Chris Smith — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:29:50 +0000

I was two years in a job that really tightened the jaw.
I’m not sure if Helmet’s “Aftertaste” release was part of the problem or not, but the only solution was to endure, and some of that angst helped.