What is this thread all about?
Just a place for general discussion. A place to unload whats on your mind and talk about anything - personal, health, help needed, achievements, daily highs and daily lows, theories, predictions and what have you.
Does not need to be Q related.
It was a bold, yet unpretentious morning as the sun burst forth, rising in her natural full glow somewhat alike the radiance of a small, deliberate yet compassionate nuclear test conducted in the desert or possibly on a small, turtle-shaped atoll in the south pacific ocean, when all of a sudden, yet not unexpectedly (for this has always been the case) the lilac, unpretentious birds in the trees and also in the unashamed, unpretentious bushes that lay beneath the trees in a somewhat entangled yet intimate arrangement, arose in fright, obviously sensing (somehow, but I do not know how; can anyone really ever know how, and if they could, would they tell?) the dire and dangerous predicament that soon all would learn about and come to know as intimately as those bushes beneath the trees were truly a home to those now disturbed birds, including pigeons, on the frosty morning that greeted us while the sun was rising and bursting forth, and the days news arrived with those dreaded yet unpretentious words we knew could mean only one thing, namely that life as we knew it, while we knew it, for we had known it, had irreversibly changed and that there would never be a going back to normal, for now the days of the dreaded pandemic had arrived, and we knew that our society included such foolish, ignorant and deluded individuals that would flaunt all the scientific data and, with certainty, refuse the only possible escape that destiny had afforded to all humanity: mass mRNA vaccination.
~ From the novel "A journey into the darkness", a thrilling, dramatic and unpretentious story of how a one group of sane individuals battled against an uprising of insane conspiracy theorists and debunked physicians in order to save the public health and block out the fake, fact-checked assertions of racists, bigots and science haters.
" Somehow, the plot of 'A journey into darkness' finally set me free to reject the conspiracy theories!" ~ J. Bolartino, New York Times contributor and former Qanon influencer
"I loved every minute of it! I read it twice in one week!" ~ Mark Z, wealthy entrepreneur.
"Finally, a literary masterpiece that answers the bigots and puts them in their place" ~ S. Smothers, dean of a prestigious West-coast college and graduate of the UN program for the underprivileged west-coast academics
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"including pigeons"
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discussion:
I thought it an interesting challenge. What sort of criteria would one use when evaluating the worst possible (NORMIE/NPC/SOY) novels"?
The assumption I made is that we are looking at truly terrible story writing. What makes a piece of story crap? Is it primarily contorted grammatical structures? Hackneyed use of pet expressions? Overly self-absorbed construction? Or is it lame content? Dumb plots, insipid characters, immature conceptualization?
For decades, my personal signature line for non-business, non-activist emails has been "form, content, message".
From the viewpoint of linguistics, one can see three broad elemental areas formulating language: you have the form in which the ideas are expressed(e.g. phonology, phonetics, morphology, etc), you have the content - the ideas and information itself (e.g. semantics) - and you have that which combines and fuses the two together (e.g. grammar).
The fusion of the form and the content, the external visible (audible) expression plus the internal, invisible (inaudible) information = the message, the meaning.
True crapolistic excellence would naturally require a necessary devolution (!) of quality in each of these areas, brought together in an uninspired concoction of moronic pathos and intellectually lame ideas.
Ah, one can only dream..... Some day!
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Long story. The short version: It's no coincidence that the Gospel of John starts: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
Language is a funny and mysterious thing, a human thing, a heavenly thing and a divine thing.
Now, to other matters.
Yesterday, as the daytime temperature hit 23 degrees (fahr 73) for the first time this spring (first time in about 8 months, since April), and the iceberg lettuces are flowing again (we had a shortage a while back, where they cost 3x normal), I whipped up a packet mince taco meat dish, and we ate tacos (australian style?), with hard shells (corn based) and soft wraps (tortillas, flour based). Meat, tasty cheese, small diced tomato and shredded iceberg lettuce. Salsa sauce for sauce.
A perennial favorite here that requires summery warm weather.
Gonna be 25 today, then thunder storms probably in the evening with a drop in temperature to follow.
Melbourne is famous (for melbournites and other Aussies who know) for having unpredictable and erratic weather. "Four seasons in one day" is not an uncommon turn of phrase around here.
But sometimes the summer is really nutso. We might have a hot wave for 3 or 4 days where it is 95 (fahr) then a thunderstorm where the next day the daytime high is 62 fahr for a bunch of days.
A few summers back, it was rinse and repeat every two weeks about 5 times over the summer. Really hot to rather chilly in 24 hours.
In case you were wondering....
keks