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Originally posted by lithos:
Most things sony. It's like Apple for the more otaku types out there. Overpriced, mostly useless and bought only cause they're flashy and japanese.

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Yeah, but they offer the X505 laptop that has a carbon fibre
casing. Let's face it, carbon fibre is the most desirable material
on the planet. For a laptop case, it's only beat out by a
wood/brass/glass combination or jaguar skin.

...or possibly nanoformed diamond.

You seem to have a bit of a hangup on the anime there lithos. You got a problem with things Japanese?

You got some kind of problem with plastic manikins, charma?

I don't think that one is as creepy as the girl ones with white plastic hair and molded erect nipples.

I know I should now go search for a picture, but I just can't bring myself to do it.

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Originally posted by colin:
You seem to have a bit of a hangup on the anime there lithos. You got a problem with things Japanese?

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Nah, not the Japanese. Just sony and anime. They made cool katanas and gave us yakitori. Anime freaks me out. I'm letting the whole nearly-killed-my-grandfather-when-he-was-only-fifteen thing slide.

Carbon fibre is cool, but I wouldn't be caught dead with a Sony laptop. I'd stick with a generic magalloy one. Conducts heat better.

Oh, and Charma? Don't. Ever. Post. Something. Like. That. Again. Please. I now need to go scrub my eyes with bleach.

Hey lithos, I know it's a Drizabone! But Drizabones are examples of a stockman's coat or drover's coat.

And if you check out the Drizabone website, you'll see they call it a "riding coat". (Which to me at least suggests jodhpurs, knee-high black boots and a spot of fox-huntin'.)

Anyway, it doesn't matter what you choose to call it. Even if people wear 'em for misguided reasons, they're still well-designed. I really must get one.

OK, so clearly desirability is all about context - if you own a Drizabone and think of it as your cyberpunk coat, then it's undesirable, but for it's original purposes, or for cowboy fantasies, it's very desirable indeed.

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Originally posted by lithos:
A forum where everyone talks in crude l33t."liek hey how r u ppls. i luv wiliem gibson lol ^_^ hes kewl. does u cyba-punks no n e 1 els taht rites liek him." The normally have names full of punctuation: [phAntom::man:P

JK Rowling. It's great for the kids, but when you see a thirty year old reading them, it's just sad.

Anime. Yes, again. Whenever I'm at uni and see a bunch of nerds watching it, it's fun to walk up to them and say, "So, you guys hanging for the tentacles?"

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People who don't realize that others might enjoy something they don't like. Thats just sad.

Dead

Sofa Pillows

Ever been to one of those homes, where you can't sit on the sofa because of all of the pillows in the way?

Imagine if they were these pillows.



Shudder.

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Originally posted by lithos:
A forum where everyone talks in crude l33t."liek hey how r u ppls. i luv wiliem gibson lol ^_^ hes kewl. does u cyba-punks no n e 1 els taht rites liek him." The normally have names full of punctuation: [phAntom::man:P

JK Rowling. It's great for the kids, but when you see a thirty year old reading them, it's just sad.

Anime. Yes, again. Whenever I'm at uni and see a bunch of nerds watching it, it's fun to walk up to them and say, "So, you guys hanging for the tentacles?"

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People who don't realize that others might enjoy something they don't like. Thats just sad.

Dead

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People who can't take an opinion, especially in forum threads specifically dedicated to them.

Hope you're gonna post this reply to everyone else on this thread, because, y'know, you might come across all hipocritical.

That's just sad.

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Sofa Pillows

Ever been to one of those homes, where you can't sit on the sofa because of all of the pillows in the way?

Imagine if they were these pillows.

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well at least they are arranged by color...

HP's got a point, that arrangement is quite pleasant to look at. The same way I find colour charts and paint colour cards pleasant...

Those ones look fairly scratchy, though.

Since when was JK Rowling an Object? Since When is Anime an Object?


This is an Object (undesireable too).

i have absolutely no desire for a mobile phone, any game playing machine (the truth comes out) well actually the vast majority of modern consumer items.

and fat-reduced, fat-free, low salt, diet, lite, whatever food/beverage i will very actively refuse. in fact i think i'm even pheneketylneurotic. or however you spell the darn thing.

and fp: not only are the cushions using up too much couchspace, they also seem to cost way too much. it's a sick joke, i tell ya.

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pheneketylneurotic

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I'm just going to admit it right now. I love misty.

Rock on!

BTW: will you post that in the "Your personal made-up words" thread...killer.

cool.

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pheneketylneurotic

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I must be this as well; nice word! I have a weird heart condition that has some unpredictable symptoms. One of which is that phenylketoneurics, phenylalanine especially, knock me on my ass. First time I found out: I was deep deep in the heart of a very large ship; many ladders away from solid ground, and someone gave me a Listerine breath freshening strip. About 2 minutes after it dissolved in my mouth, it literally knocked me off my feet. I waited an hour before I climbed out, and the world was still spinning. Not a good time.

Breath mint products are the worst for this. They dose most of them up with phenylketoneurics like there's no tomorrow.

{pedantic chemistry guy with pretensions to pharmacology}Artificial sweetners contain substances such as aspartame that, for some people, break down into phenyl ketones, which are generally bad news chemicals. For those people, traces of phenyl ketones end up in their urine, where they are detected. Such people are therefore described as 'phenylketonurics'.{/pcgwptp}

Edit (post-Google): Phenylalanine is the nasty, and forms about 50% of aspartame. Phenylalanine hydroxylase is the missing enzyme that means phenylketonurics can't break down phenylalanine.

a mere wiff of artificially sweetened gum, drink, whatever gives me a really weird feeling and an unusual headache. i've got a dicky ticker too, splitcoil so maybe there's a connection.

(now i'm convinced the very cheap and almost as nasty soup i'm eating right now is making me feel the same way. hope i don't chuck a wobbler!)