Have you seen this?

Aegon the Unworthy said:
Is your lack of response to my PMs your own way of saying...."Its April Fools Bizzle!!!"
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It just showed up and I immediately responded... sheesh.

Yes, there is a world on Boaz Standard Time... this is much like Hawai'i Time... everything happens or does not happen whenever I feel like it.

But there is also a Boaz Triangle. In this world, messages sent to me and from me just disappear into the ether. Sometimes they show up late... a week late. Case in point... Back in October, I switched to AT&T, much cheaper than Verizon... but once a month, for some unknown reason, I'll receive a voicemail at least a week old. I admit that I'm old compared to most of you guys (I'm 42), but I've been using mobile phones for fifteen years now... I think I know how to access my messages properly. It's just sometimes a voicemail will float in the netherworld for a week and then appear on my phone. Weird.

For the record, I've never, never, never called anyone (except female drivers or female npc's in computer games) a B****. Okay, I confess that I've said it to the TV when I see Juliet from Lost. And I've said it when reading Cersei and Catelyn POV's... but that's it, I swear.

*** Warning... There is a Boaz Soapbox Rant below... read at your own peril. ***

I just don't get Dave Chapelle or The Simpsons or South Park or Beavis and Butthead. They claim their humor is making fun of the idiocy of American life, but they cater to the morons that mimic them. If Chapelle was serious about pointing out the stupidity of contemporary culture to the unwashed masses, then he should assign 'death squads' equipped with paintball guns to follow his audience home and shoot them when they engage in the lunacy that he claims to mock.

A friend showed me a SNL video with T-Pain last night. She claims it mocks the empty and frivolous nature of pop music. But I saw her friends mimicing the video... not out of an urge to drive home the point of it's sheer inanity, no... they were aping it to be cool. The creators of The Simpsons, South Park, and Beavis and Butthead may have tried to mock the stupidity of contemporary culture, but all they've done is perpetuate it.

Yesterday, as I struggled with a bite of my turkey sandwich going down the wrong way did my co-worker say, "What's wrong? Can I help?" No. As I started to turn blue in the face, he shouted, "It's April Fool's B****!"

I cry for the future of America.
 
Just hang on in there until ... er ... September(-ish), Boaz.
 
Juliet?

I'd be happy to never have a Kate episode of LOST again.

Needs.More.Hurley.

And I now picture you running around with a Zack from Saved By The Bell phone.

I'm 36, so I get to make that reference.
 
The look on Hurley's face when he finally stumped Miles last night was memorable. I thought Hurley might say, "It's April Fool's, B****!"

Okay, I also said it when I saw Michael's ex-wife. At least I have standards, I only use it towards women.
 
It doesn't, of course. Maybe I should have used the "rolling eyes" smiley.

If there was a smiley with a gun to his head, I'd have used it.
 
Boaz said:
It just showed up and I immediately responded... sheesh.
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And the message I sent you 3 days ago?

Now as for your rant......

Boazie....Im gonna tell you what I tell my 6 year old. You need to man up. Seriously, life is unfair, and you cant spend your life standing on your lawn shaking your fist at people shouting "get off my lawn". I tell you this because I love ya and Im not as much younger than you as you might think.

I dont get most rap music, Beavis and Butthead, and a host of other things....I dont care. I feel there are so many perfectly good reasons to hate people that worrying about the things they like and hating em for it seems redundant

This has been a public service announcement from Aegon the Unworthy and I advise you to get off my lawn.
 
What message?!?! I responded to the only message in my inbox asap.

Oh, I get it. This is the delayed April Fool's prank on me. Just keep hounding Boaz about nothing and watch him chase his tail forever. Very funny.

the smiling weirwood said:
Hey Boaz, if you say something else your post count will match the year you joined in.
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If only that meant that I have 2,005 quality posts.

My apologies to the OP.
 
I think worrying about how people get their jollies is much less important than the real problems we have. Like a global economy is crisis. Which I might point out, has absolutely nothing to do with Beavis and Butthead.

Well, Beavis and Butthead was kind of before my time, so maybe I'm not the best person to make calls on its cultural impact. I was like five years old when it was airing, so I have no real comparison for life before Beavis and Butthead. I have watched the entirety of I Love the 80's, all three series, but I wonder about the impartiality of that show sometimes.

I bet you feel old now.
 
Fear not Boaz. Unless we get people idealizing and wanting to be "just like Homer", or Beavis, or (insert name here), I don't think there is too much to worry about there. In fact, I think a good mockery is part of self awareness and, perhaps, change. Most people have situational control of coarseness! (or do they say MFer in front of Grandma?)

Yah, thanks TSM, I feel really really old! :). I had a rotary dial phone Yah, I think your right on about the global economy (shudder) And the failures of the 5th estate, checks and balances, and lack of compassion, critical thinking and social responsibility, but hey.

Boaz, I didn't learn this in Sunday school, but my Daddy told me when faced with a a$$, to make sure you get them back. That is the perfect use for mockery. Also, you can make someone feel like a jerk, by doing something ostentatiously nice for them. (Here I have so many pencils, I didn't know you needed one!) What would Tyrion do?! Okay that is probably fatal advice. You can tell that I work at home.

GRRM getting a cowriter. That is more of a Hallowe'en story! Oh horrors!
 
I've got thoughts on the insidiousness of 'systemic evil' in our society, individualism, greed, selfishness... how we need to fight the function and not the form... but I'm gonna let that go, because I've already vented and brought despair upon you all. I'm sorry for ranting, thanks for putting up with me.

No, I need to apologize to Egg. He did send me a PM. Even more notorious than Boaz Time or the Boaz Triangle is the Boaz Memory. My memory is shot to pieces... like the pieces of paint I ate as a child.
 
Youngsters! *shakes head*


I was born when there was no STD in the UK. :eek:




(For those of you who've sprayed their coffee over their desk, or think I'm many centuries old, I ought to mention that STD stands for Subscriber Trunk Dialling, the ability to make long distance calls without the need for an operator.)
 
Uh, well... I thought you meant...

the Southampton Train Depot.

Soho Taxi Drivers.

Self-tickling Devices.

Sequined Transvestite Dresses.
 
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Samwell's Targaryen Destiny. Yes, he's another of Aery's bastards... it is known.
 
I want to learn more about the Velaryons of Driftmark.
 
They were Valyrian compatriots and vassals of the Targaryens. When they conquered Westeros they awarded the Velaryons a seat of their own. In later history they provided brides for Targaryen princes three times.
 
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