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<body> <div id="header"> <span class="left"> <span class="back"><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT"><span class="image mobile_back" title="Back"></span></a></span> <span class="image mobile_logo" title="Beehive Forum Logo"></span> </span> <ul> <li> <a class="reply_all" href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=39777.0&return_msg=39777.285"> <span class="image mobile_reply_all"></span><span class="text">Reply to All</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="navigation" href="#"> <span class="image mobile_navigation"></span><span class="text">Show messages</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="main" href="#"><span class="image mobile_menu" title="Menu"></span> </a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu main"> <ul> <li><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Messages</a></li> <li><a href="lpm.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Inbox</a></li> <li><a href="lsearch.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Search</a></li> <li><a href="llogon.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Login</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu navigation"><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=39777.1">1–10</a>…<a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=39777.261">261–270</a><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=39777.271">271–280</a><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=39777.281">281–290</a><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=39777.291">291–300</a>…<a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=39777.391">391–392</a></div> <div id="page_content"> <h3 class="thread_title"><a href="index.php?webtag=DEFAULT&amp;msg=39777.285">Alan's Psychadelic Earthquake Breakfast</a> </h3> <div id="messages" data-navigation="39777_285_392_10"> <a name="a39777_285"></a><div class="message" id="message_39777_285"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Manthorp<span class="message_time"> 9 Sep 2012 19:42</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Al JunioR (53NORTH) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 9 Sep 2012 19:48"></span></span> <span class="message_count">285 of 392</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=39777.285">39777.285</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=39777.280">39777.280</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Presumably, in terms of your personal psychology, you blather on like this as a tactic to win the attention that you fail to receive in offline life.<br /> <br /> It is not irrelevant, I suspect, that the focus of your delusion is in your own alleged prediction and 'their' alleged control of vast global forces - weather, tectonic plate movement, volcanoes - thus ascribing to yourself an understanding (and implicit control) beyond that of the rest of humankind.<br /> <br /> I would recommend reading Nietzsche's <i>On the Genealogy of Morals</i>, followed in short order by Dostoevsky's <i>Crime and Punishment</i>, in the faint hope that it might give you a sense of perspective on your place in the order of things. Like me and like the other members of Teh Possie, you will probably be a happier turtle if you can accept that you are just waggling your tail in the mud along with the rest of us.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=39777.285&return_msg=39777.285" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="39777.285"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><div class="message"> Message 39777.286 was deleted</div> <div class="message"> Message 39777.287 was deleted</div> <a name="a39777_288"></a><div class="message" id="message_39777_288"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: ANT_THOMAS<span class="message_time"> 9 Sep 2012 20:15</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Al JunioR (53NORTH) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 10 Sep 2012 06:54"></span></span> <span class="message_count">288 of 392</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=39777.288">39777.288</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=39777.285#a39777_287" target="_self">39777.287</a></div> <div class="message_body"> That's not an answer to my questions.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=39777.288&return_msg=39777.285" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="39777.288"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a39777_289"></a><div class="message" id="message_39777_289"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: patch<span class="message_time"> 9 Sep 2012 20:42</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Al JunioR (53NORTH) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 10 Sep 2012 06:54"></span></span> <span class="message_count">289 of 392</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=39777.289">39777.289</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=39777.285#a39777_286" target="_self">39777.286</a></div> <div class="message_body"> I'm not sure it's the thread that's annoying people; I thinks it's just you.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=39777.289&return_msg=39777.285" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="39777.289"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a39777_290"></a><div class="message" id="message_39777_290"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time"> 9 Sep 2012 20:43</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Al JunioR (53NORTH) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 10 Sep 2012 06:54"></span></span> <span class="message_count">290 of 392</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=39777.290">39777.290</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=39777.285#a39777_286" target="_self">39777.286</a></div> <div class="message_body"> <div class="quotetext" id="quote"><b>quote: </b></div><div class="quote">Put the thread on ignore if it's getting on your tits.</div><br /> <br /> No one's said it's getting on their tits. Myself, I'm enjoying reading it. There's nothing inherently annoying or objectionable here, it's just your seeming inability to engage in human discourse that frustrates people.<br /> <br /> <div class="quotetext" id="quote"><b>quote: </b></div><div class="quote">There's maybe 4,000 Floyd googlers who disagree though.</div><br /> <br /> Literally no fucking clue what that means. But in the context of the internet 4000 people is like saying 3 people in China agree with me. <br /> <br /> <div class="quotetext" id="quote"><b>quote: </b></div><div class="quote">Isn't the fact I've singled out Iceland in the last few posts enough.</div><br /> <br /> No, you fucking ridiculous loon. Iceland is a volcanic island. Any moron can say "at some point in the future there will be a significant tectonic/volcanic event in Iceland". That's not a prediction by any stretch of anyone's imagination. <br /> <br /> <div class="quotetext" id="quote"><b>quote: </b></div><div class="quote">*women's institute</div><br /> <br /> How about you stop failing to be funny and tell us who you actually think 'they' are?</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=39777.290&return_msg=39777.285" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="39777.290"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a39777_291"></a><div class="message" id="message_39777_291"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Manthorp<span class="message_time"> 9 Sep 2012 21:02</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Al JunioR (53NORTH) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 10 Sep 2012 06:54"></span></span> <span class="message_count">291 of 392</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=39777.291">39777.291</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=39777.285#a39777_286" target="_self">39777.286</a></div> <div class="message_body"> <p>I may well put you on ignore again, but only if and when I choose to do so. For the moment I am interested in confronting you with the gulf between your delusions and any semblance of reality. Of course I do this with the caveat you might still be a troll - there are no clear demarcations between delusion and trollery, just a sliding scale - but I'm inclined to think not.</p> <p> </p> <p>Mud on the windscreen, the first bolt-hole of the seer; 'predicting it isn't as easy as it was...' What a pity! Because we're all pretty good at postdicting, to be honest. Why, even I can tell you what happened last week, at least on the days I wasn't drunk.</p> <p> </p> <p>So, Iceland, then, old bean: what's going to happen in Iceland, and when?</p> <p> </p> <p>Oh, and if you are unable to furnish a clear prediction of an extraordinary event, then I think you need to accept that you are to all intents and purposes indistinguishable from a fraud or at best, a self-deceiver. Think of it as an inverted Turing test.</p> <p> </p> <p><edit> In the interests of fair play, I will offer you my own hostage to fortune on what I believe to to be a similar scale of (im)probability: I predict that Grant Shapps, newly appointed Tory party Chairman, will be forced to resign his office in the next two months.</edit></p> <p> </p> <p> </p><div class="edit_text">EDITED: 10 Sep 2012 07:30 by MANTHORP</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=39777.291&return_msg=39777.285" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="39777.291"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a39777_292"></a><div class="message" id="message_39777_292"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)<span class="message_time"> 9 Sep 2012 21:43</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ALL<span class="message_count">292 of 392</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=39777.292">39777.292</a></div> <div class="message_body"> I love you all, you're just <i>so</i> gay!<br /> <br /> But I don't love you <i>because</i> you're gay. Your gayness makes me laugh.<br /> <br /> Keep making me laugh gaypeeps!</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=39777.292&return_msg=39777.285" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="39777.292"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><div class="message"> Message 39777.293 was deleted</div> <a name="a39777_294"></a><div class="message" id="message_39777_294"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: JonCooper<span class="message_time">10 Sep 2012 07:38</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ALL<span class="message_count">294 of 392</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=39777.294">39777.294</a></div> <div class="message_body"> just chucking in a prediction here ~<br /> <br /> The Greek island of Santorini, volcanic eruption sometime soon, possibly within months</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=39777.294&return_msg=39777.285" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="39777.294"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="message_page_footer"> <ul> <li class="right_col"><form accept-charset="utf-8" method="get" action="lmessages.php" target="_self"><input type="hidden" name="webtag" id="webtag" class="bhinputtext" value="DEFAULT" dir="ltr" /><input type="hidden" name="msg" id="msg" class="bhinputtext" value="39777.295" dir="ltr" /><input type="submit" name="submit" id="keep_reading" value="Keep reading…" class="button" /></form></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body>