1. Which orger over the last 7 years has been your least favorite?

2. You must have a guilty pleasure when it comes to books--I mean, everybody loves at least ONE Anne Rice book. What's yours?

3. What was your favorite orger meetup?


4. Which orgers that you've met struck you as being very different from their online persona? Which ones had you scratching your head wondering who the hell they even were?

5. What's your favorite board game?


6. How the hell do you put up with the weather in Scottland?

7. If you were forced to live in an American city for a year, which one would it be?

TheVoid said:

Christ, I really think it's too soon for this. It can only lead to disappointment, however...

1. Aiberman probably. I know a lot of folk liked him, but that grotesque flashing of cash and his need to profess an opulent indulgent lifestyle really pulled my plonker. I just got a bad vibe from him through his posts, but I'm probably completely wrong and would get along with him in real life. I doubt it though, we're polar opposites.

2. I really liked Tale Of The Bodythief, actually. It would have made a better movie than that piece of shit Damned. beyond Anne Rice, I have/had a soft spot for Michael Chrichton, especially the Jurassic Park novel. Fantastical ripping yarn stuff and he does it very well. He knows it doesn't have to be Finnegan's Wake to make cultural shockwaves. Most people are pretty dumb, you need to be pretty clever to water down your genius just the right amount for maximum impact.

3. One of the edinburgh ones probably, but hte one in San francisco that just kind of happened last minute was great too. Sosgemini, natsume, insatiable, fantastically weird and surreal for a pasty Scottish guy trying to act normal in a deeply strange and skewed place. Laughed my arse off, I remember. I also remember how white sosgemini's teeth were. You just don't get knashers like that where I come from. I had to stop myself from touching them like some obsessed Gollum.

4. Ian the old moderator is a really nice guy, although quite a few here had a problem with him. Most folk have been pretty much a diluted, shyer version of what they are in here. It's hard to get to know someone very well though whe you're pished and shouting in their ear to be heard. Muirdo's the guy I've had the most conversation with in a normal atmosphere and he's sweeter than cupcakes.

5. A thing called Atmosphere (it came with a really weird 'real-time' video, google it) and Crossbows and Catapults, even though that's not really a board game. That's all I played when I was eight. I was more into computer games, my family never really had board games. I only ever saw them on the last day of term at school and stuff. I only played Trivial Pursuit for the first time last month - and even that was on the Wii. It was shit.

6. I really don't know. It makes monsters. It's so grim the Romans couldn't be arsed conquering us. Of course, we made up stories about beating them. Aye, we held off 6,000,000 heavily armoured Roman soldiers with sticks, stones and bare arses.


7. San Francisco. I felt someone had switched on a button in my head. I didn't feel I was going to be stabbed in every bar. You could talk to strangers. I would have been a very different person if I was born there. I'd almost certainly be sucking someone's cock just now rather than typing this to you.

^^^




next question:

1. "We all do, Darling." --- I mean, that has to make even you chuckle.


2. What did you think of the American beer while in San Fran?


3. Tale of the Body Theif was a good pop fiction book as was Jurasic Park (a much better book than movie, IMO). Have you ever watched a movie that you thought was as good as the book or even better?


4. What is the worst movie you've ever seen?


5. Have you ever been in a social situation that required you to behave one way but you reacted differently---like say, ,a sad situation but you busted out laughing?


6. What keeps you coming back to this bloody mess?

To Number 23:
Don´t get me wrong man, but you have such a way with words and you always hit the nail on its head. I love the way you write!
I really, really enjoy reading your posts, though I don´t necessarily agree with everything you say but your style is always a pleasure to read.

I even like your description of Abierman even though I have no problem with him, I even think I could have some interesting conversations with him..it´s just the blunt and direct attitude of yours that I like and how you capture the essence of orgers with a few words...and I´m not just thinking of Abierman in particular here but also other orgers,even though I know that you normally never talk much about other orgers or how you feel about them.

In a weird way, some of the things you write remind me of Jonathan Higgins sometimes....you know, that British dude from Magnum P.I but it´s probably just me. And a bit of Oscar Wilde, for some strange reason.
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I love how he doesn't appreciate these threads but he plays along out of boredom anyways.

TheVoid said:

1) Dan, it was 'Aren't we all, darling' in response to him boastig about being a boxer, or a 'fighter' as he put it. And aye, for something that was just a tossed off putdown to a moron it does makes me smile. What was funnier though was that he didn't get it.

2)A pilot (or so he said) introduced me to a great beer, something like 'sierra nevade' or something in a horrible touristy fake Irish bar at Fisherman's Wharf. You could really taste the barrel off it, oaky and honeyish. I was amazed at how many Americans blindly drank Bud or Miller when it really is distilled rat abortion. None of that foreign muck, eh?

3)It's obvious, but The Godfather's one. Not many others though, a book is always such an intimate and personal experience, no-one else vision could match something that you carried with you for weeks.

4)Meet The Spartas was pretty shocking, but it was;t exactly aspiring to be great art. The worst film I've watched which had true pretentions to grandeur has to be Alexander The Great. or as one fantastic critic dubbed it 'Alexander the Fabulous'. Awful, awful waste of millions of dollars. Someone really should be jailed. You should have to earn a licence to spend over $1 million on something as unltimately meaningless as a movie. It's fucking disgusting.

5)Just yesterday. I visited my gran (who died last month and whom I lived with for 10 years) and grandfather's grave with my mum and sister and burst out laughing at the absolute horror of it all. They hadn't put any grass over the grave since the funeral, just thick sludgy grey sediment which looked like a slab of cement. apparently you have to wait until think sinks a little until they put grass over the top. Completely ridiculous these wonderful people were rotting underneath my feet. Beyond belief, really.

Dude, two "Ask Number 23" threads so far this year?

If you want him to be your boo, just ask. I won't get jealous.

6) Because, at the end of the day, in the face of all argument and evidence to the contary, I still think Prince is a very special human being and I enjoy keeping up with his comings and goings. I don't think anyone here is fit enough to lick his heels. Their criticism both amuses and feeds me.

Number23 said:

Don't you think that

"Deedle-eedle eet deet DEE!
Deedle-eedle eet deet DEE!
Deedle-eedle eet deet DEE!"

is an INCREDIBLE written representation of the hook in "Take Me With U"?

RodeoSchro said:

Reads like happy slave's cornfield mantra. I'd say it was more like:
'Dee-dee dee dee
Dee-dee dee
Dee-dee-dee-dee
Do-do do do doo doooo'

Number23 said:

Hmmmm, I can see where "Do-do do do doo doooo" would work, although I think "Deedle-eedle eet deet DEE!" captures the string feel better.

Kudos for transcribing the whole section, though.

Do you wear socks to bed ?

1 pillow or 2 ?

Do you hunt or fish ?

Mach said:

No.
One.
No, I just couldn;t. I can't even swat a fly. If it was the size of a football, would you bludgeon a fly with a hammer until it was dead? How about ten? Everytime I sit down I think about the millions of bacterial and paracitical families I'm crushing. I wouldn't be good at blasting away at a fluffy bunny wunny for no good reason other than my own insecurity and egowank.

how did the universe start?


Is there a God?


You write brilliantly, stringing together words to form thoughts like "budweiser tasting like rat vomit"...but sometimes to me, in the context of writing what you've "spoken", you seem...pissed off at the world. Are you?


Who is/was your favorite Beatle?



S A T U R DAY NITE! ever meet a former bay city roller?

Number23 said:

If you feel like getting some practice in , just head south.

BlackAdder7 said:

You haven't met many scots, have you?

vivid said:

He's more of a Welsh lover.

BlackAdder7 said:

1)Gas yawned.

2) It doesn't matter. Either there is or there isn't. Both prospects are equally terrifying to me.

3)No, I'm more stable and less prone to hysteria and unjustified outbursts than anyone I know. I just have a personal dislike of delusion and those who push delusion upon others. There's so little true happiness and joy in this existence, so I'm certainly not going to add yet more misery to that gruesome flesh wall without reasonable justification. I'm here to laugh at the utter meaningless and absurdity of it all.

4) Ringo, he truly doesn't give a fuck.

5)You asked me this before. No.

1. What's the worst you've ever done a girl?


2. What's the worst a girl has ever done you?


3. What's the totally gayest thing you've ever done -- answer it in the context you find most amusing.


4. Why don't AMericans like International Football?


5. What do you think of the English?


6. Are there any forms of social etiquette (hand shakes, not belching, etc.) as defined by your own culture that you find honestly excessive?

If you could live anywhere in the world right now, where would it be?

and why?

MrsMdiver said:

San Francisco.

Because if he weren't in Scottland right now he'd be in the bay area with a dick in his mouth. I might be misquoting him a bit though. i'm terribly that way.

What is the element of life you value most?

Have you ever considered your preceptions about things in general might be wrong.... and when/if considering that, what good or solid quality did you find in the alternate concept therein? ( sorts of things that entertain my mind in blank moments of time )

TheVoid said:

Dude, you asked him about the US, NOT the world. America is not the world.

MrsMdiver said:

YES WE ARE

Number23 said:

Plus, that waste of available oxygen liked RHCP.

TheVoid said:

1) That's worded weirdly. Do you mean sexually or general treatment? I wouldn't tell either on the internet, there are folk I know who browse this site to see what shite I'm spinning. I don't want to embarass anyone except myself.

2)Same as above.

3)Every haircut. Bringing in pictures of early 80s synthpop stars to hairdressers to show haircuts. Cutting my own hair in the style of early 80s synthpop stars because no hairdresser would or could.

4)I don't like it either. I dislike all sport except boxing. Boxing's poetry. I think it's perfectly justifed in throwing Molatov cocktails into sports bars, I'm with Muslim extremists on that one. Those boorish pie-bellied retards add nothing to the collective universal subconcious.

5. I think you've asked this before. A country is a line on a map drawn by a cunt.

6) I'm an awkward bastard generally. I'm terrible at small talk and don't really pick up on the subtleties of human interaction. People don;t excite me and I don;t trust anyone who says they love 'meeting new people'. I loathe it, the fight, the mind lock-on, to prove your intellect and physical appearance to a complete stranger. Why should I? I suppose I'm generally a bastard to compensate for any insecurities. I'm not shy, I'm just a bit of a cunt. Most of the fluff people let out of their mouths bores me rigor mortis. Not that the shite I talk is any better. I certainly don't hold myself up as a beacon of example. thats why i also hate parents. Accidental births are fine, but fuckheads who actually want children? All I have to say to those conceited fucks is ha ha ha. Good luck with your little you. They'll happily hold the spade that buries you.

Muse2NoPharaoh said:

1) Electricity, how we've named it, defined it and tamed it. It's made lethargic facsimile amateur boffins out of us all and killed the Judeo-Christian God, but it's also given us Grand Theft Auto.

2)I'm pretty sure I'm wrong about everything. But that would make me right about everything too. I'm most convinced by Robert Anton Wilson's Maybe Logic theory. Nothing is real outside how we define it as humans with our hilariously limited perception - so why make definitions about anything? I believe nothing. I don;t even think I'm typing this just now. Thoughts are the ghosts of electricity in the brain. There is no free will, shocking new research is proving this as we speak. You're a drone for a supercomputer. Every notion and action an illusion of choice. A computer game with no purpose, no point and no player.

MrsMdiver said:

It would still be SF, but I'm happy anywhere I can plug in a TV.

Number23 said:

Thanks.....i think

muirdo said:

You'd be even sweeter if you could sort me out with some live DVDs. I'm only a few miles away in West kilbride, we need to meet for a pint.