CUTTINGS
I'm
scared of your site. It's all technology-ish!
Mrs
Miggins, Hull
Every
morning I walk towards the edge
Bjork
(Aargh!
- Ed)
Can
I just tell you about my amazing dancing dog?
Mad
Eric, Boston
(No
- Ed)
Visit
seldo.com!
Seldo,
yesterday
Hur
hur hur - in this photo it looks like you're pregnant!
Danny
"Rake" Beusch, Hrghlhrgl
But
I liked the yellow. Bring the yellow back!
Alice
Goalby's hair
Hur
hur hur - look, Matt looks like he's got no neck!
Danny
"Giraffe" Beusch, Hrghlhrgl
Visit
wabson.org.uk
Will,
earlier
Mwng
ping weep diddly pweep
Dane
Bowers
Some
of the links are broke
Dan
Smith, tech support
Ping!
ICQ
launcher
Oh
and, in this one, Matt looks really like a monkey!
Danny
"Human" Beusch, Hrghlhrgl
Beep
beep
Phone
Resurrected
running joke!
Wayne
Grise, Thornbury
Well,
I like it. I think all the colours are prettier, and some of the
links actually work and stuff now. And stuff. Did I say that already?
Matthew
James Alpen, lost
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What
you said
Site Greeted With Mixture Of Disdain And Disdain
"Singularly
unimpressed"
I
am singularly unimpressed at my post at the start of your website,
especially as it doesn't appear to make much sense. I was worried
that people who don't know me might get the wrong idea and think
that I was a bit weird.
Andy
Burley, his computer
"Make it good"
Make
it a good and humorous update tomorrow.
Dan
Park, with a baseball bat
"Update
of the"
Talking
of tomorrow, there'll also be the first full-scale update of the
new site since it went online.
Matt
Elton, three days ago
"I
am getting worried"
Your
website is great and I am getting worried that I am getting slightly
addicted. I seem to be checking it 3 times a day or so, and it
always makes me chuckle.
Andy
Burley, an institution
"STRESS
STRESS STRESS!!!"
STRESS
STRESS STRESS!!!
Becky
Hutton, stressed
Yeh, it's still going on the right. It's v. funny, though. Really,
read it.
"I cannot think"
Anyway,
speaking of updating the site, i was going to write something
for it, but i cannot think of anything to write about at all.
Ian.
Could well've been Matt, though
Write
to the Editor at
His
House, A Very Nice Street In Somewhere Fashionable Like Bath Or
Near The Dock In Bristol, England.
Or
Contact Matt at
e-mail:
mattelton@hotmail.com
ICQ:
126880762
Credits
Words
Boris
Karloff
Pictures
The
Daily Mirror
Words
And Pictures Is
still good
Tea
and biscuits Mrs
Brown, much older this time around
Painter
River
Phoenix
Turner
Prize Carol
Vorderman
Rollmop
Herrings Bob
Carolgees
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What
they
said
To
whom it may concern,
For those who know me, they know it is a rare occurrence for me
to be rendered speechless. But when I heard that the Gnus page
wants to pervert
human instincts by suppressing natural feral constraints and encouraging
abnormal patterns of behavior, I must say that speechless I was.
And that's why I feel compelled to say something about impolitic
slaves to fashion.
And for those bloody-minded devotees of conspiracy theories who
want to hide behind the argument that the Gnus page's apple-polishers
are not ignorant loudmouths, but rather, inimical chiselers, my
question is simply this: What's the difference? Even by the Gnus
page's own account, I'll tell you what we need to do about all
the craziness it is mongering. We need to search for solutions
that are more creative and constructive than the typically impertinent
ones championed by disdainful, intemperate dolts. I could accept,
perhaps, theories backed by the forces of logic and powerful reasoning.
Expostulations marked with hypocrisy and contradiction, however,
merit none of my respect.
There is no place in this country where we are safe from the Gnus
page's emissaries, no place where we are not targeted for hatred
and attack. The Gnus page uses the very intellectual tools it
criticizes, namely consequentialist arguments rather than arguments
about truth or falsity. It
is becoming increasingly obvious to many people that stuck-up,
tasteless Pyrrhonism is now and has long been a mainstay of the
Gnus page's obiter dicta. (Actually, discrediting ideas by labeling
them as crude is an old tradition among the Gnus page's dupes,
but that's not important now.) I find that I am embarrassed. Embarrassed
that some people just don't realize that the Gnus page believes
that violence and prejudice are funny. Sorry, but I have to call
foul on that one.
Given the uncompromising political rhetoric of our times, I correctly
predicted that the Gnus page would turn a deaf ear to need and
suffering.
Alas, I didn't think it'd do that so effectively -- or so soon.
Clearly, if the Gnus page can one day sidetrack us, so we can't
fight tooth and nail
against the Gnus page, then the long descent into night is sure
to follow.
The Gnus page supports a wide variety of epigrams. Some are pea-brained;
others are noxious. A few openly support alcoholism.
Should someone think that I am saying too much, I am not saying
too much, but much too little. For one does not have to emphasize
the negative in our lives instead of accentuating the positive
in order to embrace the cause of self-determination and recognize
the leading role and clearer understanding of those people for
whom the quintessential struggle is an encompassing
liberation movement against the totality of metagrobolism. It
is a prudish person who believes otherwise. Who is behind the
decline of our
civilization? The culprit responsible is not the Illuminati, not
the Insiders, not the Humanists, not even the Communists. No,
the decline of our
civilization is attributable primarily to the Gnus page.
The Gnus page's prank phone calls are based on a technique I'm
sure you've heard of. It's called "lying". The next
time the Gnus page decides to fill
the air with recrimination and rancor, it should think to itself,
cui bono? -- who benefits? The Gnus page is not interested in
what is true and what is false or in what is good and what is
evil. In fact, those distinctions have no meaning to it whatsoever.
The only thing that has any meaning to the Gnus page is oligarchism.
Why? On the surface, it would seem to have something to do with
the way that the few foolish bums who deny this are not only wrong,
they are willfully sadistic. But upon further investigation, one
will find that I and the Gnus page part company when it comes
to the issue of neopaganism. It feels that it's okay for it to
indulge its every whim and lust without regard for anyone else
or for society as a whole, while I think that its ventures represent
a backward step of hundreds of years, a backward
step into a chasm with no bottom save the endless darkness of
death.
The Gnus page's grievances serve merely to illustrate that hatred,
prejudice, and ignorance are still prevalent in our culture. That's
something you won't find in your local newspaper, because it's
the news that just doesn't fit. As I gaze into my crystal ball,
I see that the Gnus page's shills will hold annual private conferences
in which birdbrained paper-pushers are invited to present their
"research" by the next full moon.
There are some truths that are so obvious that for this very reason
they are not seen, or at least not recognized, by ordinary people.
One noteworthy
example is the truism that we can divide the Gnus page's newsgroup
postings into three categories: directionless, hypocritical, and
combative. To add
another dimension to this argument, let me mention that the Gnus
page's offhand remarks are a mere cavil, a mere scarecrow, one
of the last shifts of a desperate and dying cause. It is as if
we were safely on the bank of a raging river, enjoying a picnic
with our friends and family, when a bunch of domineering heavy
metal fans came along and threw us into the river. Not only must
we must struggle to avoid drowning in the raging torrent of the
Gnus page-sponsored sectarianism, but we must crawl out of the
river before we can improve the living conditions of the most
vulnerable in our society -- the sick, the old, the disabled,
the unemployed, and our youth -- all of
whose lives are made miserable by the Gnus page.
The solecism "debate" is not a debate. It is a harangue,
a politically motivated, brilliantly publicized, gloomy attack
on progressive ideas. If
the Gnus page wants to reduce social and cultural awareness to
a dictated set of guidelines to follow, let it wear the opprobrium
of that decision. We were put on this planet to be active, to
struggle, and to draw an accurate portrait of the Gnus page's
ideological alignment. We were not put here to cashier anyone
who tries to burn away social illness, exploitation, and human
suffering, as the Gnus page might contend.
The Gnus page's remonstrations are geared toward the continuation
of social stratification under the rubric of "tradition."
Funny, that was the same
term that its bootlickers once used to waste hours and hours in
fruitless conferences and meetings. I have a problem with the
Gnus page's use of the
phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, it
doesn't need to prove its claim that an open party with unlimited
access to alcohol can't possibly
outgrow the host's ability to manage the crowd; it merely accepts
it as fact. To put it another way, this is not the first time
I've wanted to
condemn its hypocrisy. But it is the first time I realized that
it must have known that its anecdotes would cause high levels
of outrage and would generate many letters in response (like this
one). I don't think anyone questions that. But did you know that
I could go on in this same vein for
hours? The only way out of the Gnus page's rat maze is to tell
it how wrong it is. It's that simple.
Yours
sincerely,
Sir
Graeme Wise, A transatlantic jet, somewhere above the Pacific.
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