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BingoBoingo: Indeed. Do
the kids want
to eat
this winter or do
they want
to spend
the winter digging holes back home
BingoBoingo: *Apologies for mispelling Serious,
the City Serious
BingoBoingo: It also amazes how much healthier
the incentive structures are. For filling
the stands and winning
the City Series (a
thing because owning
the ballpark was a business)
the bonus was a substantial percent of
the player's celery.
Today some Jewish kid is dicking around
trying
to get somewhere between 200-500 million USD guaranteed over
the next decade.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, if
there's anything
that merits a mass printing its Al's inbox
mircea_popescu: unlike whatever large-headed
thai moron struggling
to figure out a pipe, i live in
this enchanted world where all i need do is whine -- mp's own
this-or-that regiment stands ready at
the
teat,
to stuff it in my mouth.
mircea_popescu: eh whatever it was.
the idea being
that some dude hearing
the coxcomb going "play up" and
then on
the nile
the same "play up" and heigh-ho ain't britain great for being dumb. something like
that anyway.
mircea_popescu: what
the fuck is
that retarded brit poem about
the oxford oarsmen
that
then get massacred in egypt, "and england is far" bla bla.
BingoBoingo: Home runs didn't much happen until after
the world series was sold and derp came in
to "fix"
the game
mircea_popescu: in fact, period baseball may at least claim
the honor of being among
the few sports
to have lived
the sportive ideal, all
that jazz about "creating moral imperative in young minds" etc.
BingoBoingo: There wasn't much money or much run scoring. "Deadball era" is
the
term
that was applied after
the fact
mircea_popescu: anyway.
the idea
that star athlete would be permitted at
the
table in society is "obvious"
today, but was inconceivable 1919.
BingoBoingo: It is also important
to note
that "stuff" is an important
technical
term with respect
to
the ball's movement in
the air
mircea_popescu: it wasn't very much money at
the
time. at least not looking at it from an anachronistic perspective and from within a society where athleticism is
the only nobility left.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> and besides, I won't sign with Detroit for no less
than $5000 at most. << Seriously, several kilograms of silver wasn't good enough for 8.5 months of work
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo in other side-lulz, alf's gonna come back from
tea and suspect
the poppies were bad or something. "what
the FUCK are
they
talking about!"
mircea_popescu: and besides, I won't sign with Detroit for no less
than $5000 at most.
mircea_popescu: gotta be possible! cuz when a man sets his mind
to it, aint not anything in
the world he can't pretty well fix./ or at least not want
to fix anymore.
BingoBoingo: It's all ok
though because Mr Dustbowl is going
to make some
tough
talk about fixing
the left handedness
mircea_popescu: (pro
tip :
the odds of left handed kid born in a house where live
two adult males,
the one which isn't you being also left handed, being yours are perhaps under 0.1%)
a111: Logged on 2019-01-31 00:46 mircea_popescu: Jan 30 18:30:38 <mircea_popescu> and since i mentioned vice-versa again, some #haremleaks : hanbot asked me if i
think
the only reason anstey made paul a widower was so he didn't have
to confront his son fucking his wife during
that week.
BingoBoingo: Not
to mention how Gleason suffered
the next year for not dumping Keefe in Oklahoma for
the offseason himself
mircea_popescu: a suspicious nature's no help against lardner. he's
two steps ahead of all suspicion in his
tower of shenanigan.
BingoBoingo: Pretty clear
this is
the only reason Allan dumped
the girl off on him
mircea_popescu: only
to discover
that a) it's not fucking possible she got pregnant and ready
to deliver in a single season and
then b) actually count
the months and discover a woman he married 2nd day after meeting mid-oct is delivering him allan's baby mid june ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo incidentally, did you also go "hmm... his wife returns, pregnant, after giving him
the heave-ho... evidently not his kid"
mircea_popescu: because
these exact same white socks are gonna sell
the world series, aren't
they.
mircea_popescu: and
THEN, because no,
this doesn't fucking end, does it,
THEN you also know
the future.
mircea_popescu: this being, of course,
the ~correct~ way
to imagine
things. jack keefe, for being an imaginary character, is actually super-authentic as well as meta-authentic.
mircea_popescu: you know ? and
the insanity of it is, my own harem informs me,
that is ~exactly~ what gleason ~actually did~.
BingoBoingo: Then
there's
the saintly manner Gleason
takes Jack and reshapes him into a rounded player without Jack even noticing
mircea_popescu: anyways. certainly provides well needed perspective for all sorts of local-flavour insanities. "the success and importance" of "social media", aka "for
the first
time ever
the circumstance
that we have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
to say
to each other doesn't seem as much of an impediment anymore!"
mircea_popescu: (Sir Cashion walnut, for
the curious, is most likely "circassian" walnut, aka plain and common walnut)
mircea_popescu: and of course, all sort of forgotten lulz, like say "I says I feel O.K. and I ain't afraid
to pitch against Johnson and I ain't afraid
to hit against him neither.
Then Weaver says Have you ever saw him work? Yes, I says, I seen him in Chi.
Then Weaver says Well if you have saw him work and ain't afraid
to hit against him I'll bet you would go down
to Wall Street and holler Hurrah for Roosevelt. I says No I wouldn't do
that bu
BingoBoingo: 40 bucks a month furnished city flat, and
the bitch had
the audacity
to REFURNISH!
BingoBoingo: Then
there's
the enduring unfairness
that Jack Keefe's dollar is as good as
Tom Sawyer's and... what happened
to
the dollar between 1919 and 2019?
mircea_popescu: why is it
that pretty much
the only
thing
two of
them ever have
to
talk about is
the latest ad and
the only reason
they can possibly meet is
to
try and sell each other
tupperware, or
try and sell each other out
to whatever ?
mircea_popescu: there is a deep an' fundamental reason "the narrative" in
that sad shithole consists entirely of and exists entirely as commerciam communication aka advertising copy ; and
there is a deep and fundamental reason social relations ~do not exist~ among americans outside of commercial relations.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-22 05:11 mircea_popescu:
this paradigm readily explains
the soviet state - "rock and roll" relationship, and moreover
that historical accident had a lot
to do with why alphabet even ~exists~
today. otherwise, on
the naked strength of imaginary "advertising revenue" google is worth ~dozen stackexchanges/slashdots/sourceforges. but, generals always fight last year's war, and so here we are, "bayesian lesswisdom".
mircea_popescu: now,
the question is -- why did sovok leadership not simply gift
the population a buncha copies of
this book ?
mircea_popescu: which yes, on
the face makes lardner
the most important writer on america.
mircea_popescu: i will actually say on
the record
that i currently believe jack keefe
to be
the representative american, in
this exact sense : if all americans were
to be defined by delta from a single point, he's
the point which, if chosen, affords
the smallest
total sum of deltas.
BingoBoingo: Not
to mention, whatever
the last person he
talked
to said becomes holy writ until he
talks
to someone else
a111: Logged on 2019-02-02 19:04 mircea_popescu: if you redefine all words
to mean simply "i love you", you will "live" in
the most loving world imaginable.
mircea_popescu: THEN sixty pages later it becomes obvious it's just her , "do it
the right way" "which way is
the right way ?" "the one
that works out
to what i want" "but
this is after
the fact" "i am a christian!!!"
mircea_popescu: you're
thinking hm...
this is kinda out of character. but you don't realise
the fucking paramecium ~simply imported some dna from
the woman~.
mircea_popescu: l have
to stand it and I guess I won't starv
to death for no $10 a month because I am going
to get $2800 next year besides
the city serious money and maybe we will get into
the World Serious
too. I know we will if Callahan will pitch me every 3d day like I wanted him
to last season. But if you had of approached
the old man in a different way maybe you could of fixed it up. I wish you would
try it again Al if it is not no
trou
mircea_popescu: "I don't
think
the old man give me no square deal on
that lease but if he wants
to stick me all right. I am grateful
to you Al for
trying
to fix it up but maybe you could of did better if you had of went at it in a different way. I am not finding no fault with my old pal
though. Don't
think
that. When I have a pal I am
the man
to stick
to him
threw
thick and
thin. If
the old man is going
to hold me
to
that lease I guess I wil
BingoBoingo: Leads
to: "Then he says I am not sure you are going
to get anything. I says What do you mean? And he says I have gave you a very fare contract and if you don't want
to live up
to it
that is your own business."
BingoBoingo: "She says Well if you will go and
talk
the right way
to Comiskey I believe he will give you $3000 but you must be sure you go at it
the right way and don't go and ball it all up. Well we argude about it a while because I don't want
to hold nobody up Al but finally I says I would. It would not be holding nobody up anyway because I am worth $3000
to
the club if I am worth a nichol."
a111: Logged on 2019-02-03 03:09 mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo did you get as far as where he ~reveals~
the sauce for
the "go at it
the right way" device ?
mircea_popescu: as far as i know [and what i don't know in
this
town ain't worth knowing],
the last "thai princes" in existence sported armenian moustaches, went about in confiscated warsaw pact uniforms and had names ending in
that ridiculous accented c.
mircea_popescu: ordinary working class
telegraph boys fall on her every other weekend, with no further effect.
mircea_popescu: o, right, right.
the difference between him and 10`000 'ard cunts in
the sad isles
that night was
that he's
the one
the chick decided
to give a run for his money (which he got
to keep most of).
mircea_popescu: nicole'll
tell you all about it, once she digs herself out of punishment hole and is allowed maybe
the use of furniture again.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform on
the basis of general experience i expect (the foregoing is no kind of proof)
that
their "fucking heathens" consists of
this derpy dood
telling some inept whore in cocal casino
that "he didn'rt want
to assume".
mircea_popescu: that's what's said
there, yes ?
that a)
this
thing is b) ad idem continuator of c)
thing
that explored space of possibilities ALREADY.
a111: Logged on 2019-02-02 18:08 asciilifeform: and it dun strike me as somehow outlandish
that in cn
they've played
the
tape 3-4
times, while in europistan 1-2.
mircea_popescu: i mean, it's not like i set out
to outprince
the $eastern-monarch
mircea_popescu: aaanyways. can reproduce sad dood's bday party by following me around shopping or w/e, girls kneel
to present me cake or w/e. #PublicPlay
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo a right6 you are huh! 2019-2014 = 4 unless you're late enough in
the year.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> oh incidentally : qntra was FIVE YEARS OLD in october! << Four, will be five
the following october
mircea_popescu: the space of possibilities is well explored by now,
the wrench exists for a fucking reason, it's not some arbitrary
thing
mircea_popescu: if you'\re going
to "go fix
the pipes" do me
the fucking courtesy and use
the wrench.
mircea_popescu: i mean, not like he has
to, wtf, im not gonna
tell him his business. but i fucking hate half measures,
diana_coman: asciilifeform, it can wait even longer
than
that really
a111: Logged on 2019-01-31 01:59 mod6: lol.
that girl in
the cage was n00d iirc!
diana_coman: mind pasting
that index or is it accessible somewhere?
diana_coman: asciilifeform,
the funny
thing is
that I have
trouble remembering any names as such - it's more when I read
the names
that I go "oh,
THAT one"
a111: Logged on 2018-06-25 20:19 diana_coman set up
The Incredible Machine dos-version even for said child and he's
totally hooked