Comments on: Rantledon: hit some zingers, but don’t curdle the cream http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/ Blogging politics, culture, sociology and life from Brisvegas Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:22:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Ambigulous http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-482778 Ambigulous Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:13:11 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-482778 Nabs, didn't youse write a WHOLE BOOK that sounded like a hymn to youthful illegal flesh, a poem to blundering lust visited upon a nymphette whose beauty would make a hairy nosed wombat weep but said ogre should keep his bloody mitts off and definitely not drown her awful mother just so he could eat roots and leaves, you disgusting old horrid old scheming and deranged pediatrician you. Which book youse wrote was a RANT of the first water, a textbook showing other beetle browed ugly hairy revolts how to deflower the pristine young ladies, unless of course some teenage Lothario had already achieved said notch on his perilously over-notched belt, you swine you coward you PREVERT. And then you got your dirty little RANT published as a BOOK and made into a FILLUM. Twice, you drongo. How did youse do it? the green elf of jealousy is about. Nabs, didn’t youse write a WHOLE BOOK that sounded like a hymn to youthful illegal flesh, a poem to blundering lust visited upon a nymphette whose beauty would make a hairy nosed wombat weep but said ogre should keep his bloody mitts off and definitely not drown her awful mother just so he could eat roots and leaves, you disgusting old horrid old scheming and deranged pediatrician you.

Which book youse wrote was a RANT of the first water, a textbook showing other beetle browed ugly hairy revolts how to deflower the pristine young ladies, unless of course some teenage Lothario had already achieved said notch on his perilously over-notched belt, you swine you coward you PREVERT.

And then you got your dirty little RANT published as a BOOK and made into a FILLUM. Twice, you drongo. How did youse do it? the green elf of jealousy is about.

]]> By: Nabakov http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-482756 Nabakov Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:42:06 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-482756 With all due respect tigtog, I feel what you have proposed here is unnecessary and more to be likely to be inciteful than insightful. The blogosphere will never run short of rants. And the best, bitter and most heartfelt ones will always trump the kind of bloodless pastiche that this particular exercise will generate. Because REAL RANTS are driven by people who just can’t express themselves any other way. In fact I think it’s downright patronising of you to ask those that should know better to parody those that know no other way of MAKING THEIR POINT. The raison d’etre of the blogosphere is it should contain a multiplicity of voices. Mocking the few original ones that arise like Botticelli’s Venus from the foam suddenly sporting big black army boots and red clown nose is pretty much tantamount to admitting you’re a son of JOACHIM OF FIORE, after all. Or at least a wet luuvie undermining civilisation as we know it. It’s a RED RAG to a bull to subtly but clearly tempt the likes of me to take pot shots at the many blog RANTOSAURUSES that loudly but harmlessly blunder about the intertubes, we should both know better here, especially me as I’m PRETTY MUCH JACK of these hamfisted attempts to BAIT PEOPLE into losing their cool YOU LYING COMMIE! and then enjoying THE SPECTACLE of them WIGGING OUT in public THE BELLS! THE BELLS! which will ACHIEVE NOTHING that’ll make us proud to be human THE HORROR! THE With all due respect tigtog, I feel what you have proposed here is unnecessary and more to be likely to be inciteful than insightful. The blogosphere will never run short of rants. And the best, bitter and most heartfelt ones will always trump the kind of bloodless pastiche that this particular exercise will generate. Because REAL RANTS are driven by people who just can’t express themselves any other way. In fact I think it’s downright patronising of you to ask those that should know better to parody those that know no other way of MAKING THEIR POINT. The raison d’etre of the blogosphere is it should contain a multiplicity of voices. Mocking the few original ones that arise like Botticelli’s Venus from the foam suddenly sporting big black army boots and red clown nose is pretty much tantamount to admitting you’re a son of JOACHIM OF FIORE, after all. Or at least a wet luuvie undermining civilisation as we know it. It’s a RED RAG to a bull to subtly but clearly tempt the likes of me to take pot shots at the many blog RANTOSAURUSES that loudly but harmlessly blunder about the intertubes, we should both know better here, especially me as I’m PRETTY MUCH JACK of these hamfisted attempts to BAIT PEOPLE into losing their cool YOU LYING COMMIE! and then enjoying THE SPECTACLE of them WIGGING OUT in public THE BELLS! THE BELLS! which will ACHIEVE NOTHING that’ll make us proud to be human THE HORROR! THE

]]> By: Leinad LaRouche http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-482688 Leinad LaRouche Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:28:40 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-482688 tigtog: I think the case has legs, there's always been the stink of Necromancy around the Whitechapel murders. tigtog: I think the case has legs, there’s always been the stink of Necromancy around the Whitechapel murders.

]]> By: Ambigulous http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-482681 Ambigulous Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:59:50 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-482681 Plaudits to Mercurius, Prof Rat and David Rubie. We were the previous owner of a car; we did NOT wind the clock back, "Abdul" who bought it for cash did. But the prospective buyer saw our name on the rego papers and tracked us down and phoned, thereby learning the clock had been wound back. Lost all interest immediately. For once a "previous owner" did someone a favour. But only cos she sought us out. Professor Rat, if Karl was a lousy husband and non-provider, what part of his Major Rant against Capital can be attributed to his Hatred of Success and Wealth? Any? None? Plaudits to Mercurius, Prof Rat and David Rubie.

We were the previous owner of a car; we did NOT wind the clock back, “Abdul” who bought it for cash did. But the prospective buyer saw our name on the rego papers and tracked us down and phoned, thereby learning the clock had been wound back. Lost all interest immediately. For once a “previous owner” did someone a favour. But only cos she sought us out.

Professor Rat, if Karl was a lousy husband and non-provider, what part of his Major Rant against Capital can be attributed to his Hatred of Success and Wealth? Any? None?

]]> By: David Rubie http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-482015 David Rubie Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:01:35 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-482015 You out there. You, you mongrel, are the "previous owner". What does this mean? At some point in time, you said "good enough" and stopped spending money, stopped doing the job properly and covered it up. Bastard previous owner acts are the lowest form social behaviour on the planet. Sure, you've got to sell what you don't need, but at least make it safe, or leave it obviously broken. What sort of low, gutter crawling shenanigans am I referring to? You know exactly what I'm talking about. Remember the rotted laundry floor joists that were simply covered over with plywood? I had to fix that. Remember the broken sewage pipe that didn't quite reach the laundry drain? Not even capped! How you stood the stench whenever it rained I'll never know (actually I do - you left about 6 months after doing it). That dodgy wiring job to fix where car had caught fire, and threatened to do so again? That was me, left staring at the tangled and unravelled wiring harness and wondering why the headlight was connected to the ignition, which was why the car only ran with the headlights on. One day, I'll catch you in the act of bodging, papering over, covering up, hammering or gooping. It will not be pretty. You out there. You, you mongrel, are the “previous owner”.

What does this mean? At some point in time, you said “good enough” and stopped spending money, stopped doing the job properly and covered it up.

Bastard previous owner acts are the lowest form social behaviour on the planet. Sure, you’ve got to sell what you don’t need, but at least make it safe, or leave it obviously broken.

What sort of low, gutter crawling shenanigans am I referring to? You know exactly what I’m talking about. Remember the rotted laundry floor joists that were simply covered over with plywood? I had to fix that. Remember the broken sewage pipe that didn’t quite reach the laundry drain? Not even capped! How you stood the stench whenever it rained I’ll never know (actually I do - you left about 6 months after doing it). That dodgy wiring job to fix where car had caught fire, and threatened to do so again? That was me, left staring at the tangled and unravelled wiring harness and wondering why the headlight was connected to the ignition, which was why the car only ran with the headlights on.

One day, I’ll catch you in the act of bodging, papering over, covering up, hammering or gooping. It will not be pretty.

]]> By: tigtog http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-482005 tigtog Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:35:42 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-482005 One has to give Professor Rat credit for persisting until he finally abides by the 250 word limit, but as his premise has already been soundly refuted by the Inconvenient Truth that Marx died several years before the Whitechapel murders, what's the point? Marx may not have been the most admirable human being in terms of how he regarded his interpersonal relationships with women. That doesn't mean that every single ethical/philosophical insight that the man had is worthless. One has to give Professor Rat credit for persisting until he finally abides by the 250 word limit, but as his premise has already been soundly refuted by the Inconvenient Truth that Marx died several years before the Whitechapel murders, what’s the point?

Marx may not have been the most admirable human being in terms of how he regarded his interpersonal relationships with women. That doesn’t mean that every single ethical/philosophical insight that the man had is worthless.

]]> By: professor rat http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-482000 professor rat Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:17:12 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-482000 The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. Why was Karl Marx eliminated as a suspect in the Whitechapel murders? In Marx’s personal life, violence was never far from the surface. He was verbally abusive, and arguments were common within his family. According to an Encyclopedia Britannica account on Marx, his father even expressed fears that Jenny von Westphalen was “destined to become a sacrifice to the demon that possessed his son.” The misogynist Marx To Engels,1862: “Every day my wife says she wishes she and the children were safely in their graves, and I really cannot blame her, for the humiliations, torments and alarums that one has to go through in such a situation are indeed indescribable…’ Misogynist Marx to Antoinette Philips, 1861: “This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.” Marx to Engels: “If a negotiation I have initiated with Lassalle succeeds, and he lends me £30, and you lend me the remainder, I would at last be independent again and reorganise all my domestic arrangements, whereas at present I have to pay out 25 per cent to the pawnshop alone, and in general am never able to get things in order because of arrears. As has once again been demonstrated in Trier, nothing will be achieved with my old lady until I can go and personally sit on her throat”. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.
Why was Karl Marx eliminated as a suspect in the Whitechapel murders?
In Marx’s personal life, violence was never far from the surface. He was verbally abusive, and arguments were common within his family. According to an Encyclopedia Britannica account on Marx, his father even expressed fears that Jenny von Westphalen was “destined to become a sacrifice to the demon that possessed his son.”
The misogynist Marx To Engels,1862: “Every day my wife says she wishes she and the children were safely in their graves, and I really cannot blame her, for the humiliations, torments and alarums that one has to go through in such a situation are indeed indescribable…’
Misogynist Marx to Antoinette Philips, 1861: “This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.”
Marx to Engels: “If a negotiation I have initiated with Lassalle succeeds, and he lends me £30, and you lend me the remainder, I would at last be independent again and reorganise all my domestic arrangements, whereas at present I have to pay out 25 per cent to the pawnshop alone, and in general am never able to get things in order because of arrears. As has once again been demonstrated in Trier, nothing will be achieved with my old lady until I can go and personally sit on her throat”.

]]> By: tigtog http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481850 tigtog Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:45:37 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481850 Typos. Don't get me started on typos. *mutter* Typos. Don’t get me started on typos.

*mutter*

]]> By: Pavlov's Cat http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481843 Pavlov's Cat Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:22:00 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481843 <i> ...one</i> opportunity *rolls eyes* …one opportunity

*rolls eyes*

]]> By: Pavlov's Cat http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481842 Pavlov's Cat Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:21:02 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481842 Professor Rat, you disappoint me. If you were only ever going to have on opportunity in life to sign yourself Professor Rant, surely this was it. Mercurius: awesome. Professor Rat, you disappoint me. If you were only ever going to have on opportunity in life to sign yourself Professor Rant, surely this was it.

Mercurius: awesome.

]]> By: myriad http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481793 myriad Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:10:28 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481793 sure, I'll post more. see you in the salon thread. thanks for the interest. sure, I’ll post more. see you in the salon thread. thanks for the interest.

]]> By: Mercurius http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481776 Mercurius Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:13:17 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481776 The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrasal_verb" rel="nofollow">phrasal verb</a> Is most absurd - To come through on a promise Is to stand by your word. If you stand someone up You've let them down, If you lead them on They’ll follow you round. And when your tall tales Wear a bit thin, If they catch you out They'll do you in. If you go under You have to start over, They'll sell you down 'Til they wind you up. If you brush them off They’ll stick to your tail, If you start up a fight You'll end up in gaol. So you have to look up What you once wrote down; To stay in the game You must get out of town. If you work too hard For not enough pay, When you come to your senses You'll soon go away. When the boss hands out trouble Don’t get pushed around: To stand up to someone You first sit them down. When they face the facts They'll soon back away, So knock down the resistance To build up your pay. Stay low to the ground 'Til you're flying high, Live each day like your last And never say die. While all around Might snort and scoff, If you carry on You might just bring it off. If you don’t play right You’ll be left on the shelf So hang on to your dreams And wake up to yourself! The phrasal verb
Is most absurd -
To come through on a promise
Is to stand by your word.

If you stand someone up
You’ve let them down,
If you lead them on
They’ll follow you round.

And when your tall tales
Wear a bit thin,
If they catch you out
They’ll do you in.

If you go under
You have to start over,
They’ll sell you down
‘Til they wind you up.

If you brush them off
They’ll stick to your tail,
If you start up a fight
You’ll end up in gaol.

So you have to look up
What you once wrote down;
To stay in the game
You must get out of town.

If you work too hard
For not enough pay,
When you come to your senses
You’ll soon go away.

When the boss hands out trouble
Don’t get pushed around:
To stand up to someone
You first sit them down.

When they face the facts
They’ll soon back away,
So knock down the resistance
To build up your pay.

Stay low to the ground
‘Til you’re flying high,
Live each day like your last
And never say die.

While all around
Might snort and scoff,
If you carry on
You might just bring it off.

If you don’t play right
You’ll be left on the shelf
So hang on to your dreams
And wake up to yourself!

]]> By: Ambigulous http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481650 Ambigulous Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:53:55 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481650 P's C 10/10 huzzahs P’s C 10/10
huzzahs

]]> By: Down and Out of Sài Gòn http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481632 Down and Out of Sài Gòn Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:33:00 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481632 <i>Why was Karl Marx eliminated as a suspect in the Whitechapel murders?</i> Karl Marx died in 1883, while the murders occurred after 1888. But a good theory none the less. Why was Karl Marx eliminated as a suspect in the Whitechapel murders?

Karl Marx died in 1883, while the murders occurred after 1888. But a good theory none the less.

]]> By: professor rat http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481628 professor rat Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:17:08 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481628 The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. Why was Karl Marx eliminated as a suspect in the Whitechapel murders? <strong> [rest of rant deleted as came to 254 words - the above only left in place to give context to subsequent comments ~tigtog]</strong> The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.
Why was Karl Marx eliminated as a suspect in the Whitechapel murders?

[rest of rant deleted as came to 254 words - the above only left in place to give context to subsequent comments ~tigtog]

]]> By: tigtog http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481622 tigtog Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:55:38 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481622 It is indeed a fine rant full of provoking points. I don't really want to rescind the limit for this particular thread, but I too would like to know more. Myriad could perhaps expand a little more substantively on the Saturday Salon thread? It's a good idea not to make comments too long there either, but leeway can be given for information on a substantive matter. It is indeed a fine rant full of provoking points. I don’t really want to rescind the limit for this particular thread, but I too would like to know more. Myriad could perhaps expand a little more substantively on the Saturday Salon thread? It’s a good idea not to make comments too long there either, but leeway can be given for information on a substantive matter.

]]> By: JM http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481609 JM Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:03:45 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481609 Tigtog, I think myriad (#28) might be deserving of a more expansive post (or at least release from the 250 word limit) I for one, would like to know more. Tigtog, I think myriad (#28) might be deserving of a more expansive post (or at least release from the 250 word limit)

I for one, would like to know more.

]]> By: myriad http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481602 myriad Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:01:48 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481602 I am utterly sick to death of fatuous morons who think that because Peter Garrett was a rock star who purported to care about the environment, he would obviously make a fabulous environment minister, despite growing mounds of evidence to the glaring contrary. Apparently the more he approves insanely destructive and economically unviable projects like the Gunns pulp mill and the dredging of port phillip, the more it shows <i>he knows how to make the system work</i>. I am gobsmacked by the earth-shattering silence as Garrett proceeds to completely destroy the prospects of us ever seeing a $2 billion+ investment in the environment ever again, as he makes <i>Caring for our Country</i> the single biggest retrograde step in national environmental policy since -I don't know what to even compare it to. He has removed every aspect of strategic landscape planning and implementation that he can get his hands on as quickly as possible, putting in place a series of open scattershot grants that fragment both the on-ground and administrative approach to environmental management. He has released money without even giving his department time to specify the particular outcomes sought. It stinks of the worst pandering to particular interest groups. It appalls me that I, a Green, must point out that the Howard Government's Natural Heritage Trust was vastly superior environmental policy to Mr ex-ACF's arrogant and shallow understanding of how to invest to protect, restore and prepare this country's incredible natural heritage, and now in the face of climate change. I am utterly sick to death of fatuous morons who think that because Peter Garrett was a rock star who purported to care about the environment, he would obviously make a fabulous environment minister, despite growing mounds of evidence to the glaring contrary. Apparently the more he approves insanely destructive and economically unviable projects like the Gunns pulp mill and the dredging of port phillip, the more it shows he knows how to make the system work.
I am gobsmacked by the earth-shattering silence as Garrett proceeds to completely destroy the prospects of us ever seeing a $2 billion+ investment in the environment ever again, as he makes Caring for our Country the single biggest retrograde step in national environmental policy since -I don’t know what to even compare it to. He has removed every aspect of strategic landscape planning and implementation that he can get his hands on as quickly as possible, putting in place a series of open scattershot grants that fragment both the on-ground and administrative approach to environmental management. He has released money without even giving his department time to specify the particular outcomes sought. It stinks of the worst pandering to particular interest groups.
It appalls me that I, a Green, must point out that the Howard Government’s Natural Heritage Trust was vastly superior environmental policy to Mr ex-ACF’s arrogant and shallow understanding of how to invest to protect, restore and prepare this country’s incredible natural heritage, and now in the face of climate change.

]]> By: paul walter http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481601 paul walter Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:00:03 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481601 Re#19, even sillier me. Along the lines of Helen's protest at the Port Phillip Bay command economy idiocy, thoughtful Tig Tog presents an elegantly crafted little cameo, at the "Dorrigo doctors" thread, that eventuates as paradigmatic at microcosm of all that is wrong our society; a society that increasingly masquerades as an oafish drunk with two left feet. What Kafkaesque bureaucracy exhausts itself in the dreaming up of endless Byzantine excuses for inactivity when lives are at stake, when a simple stroke of a pen from the top could have things set to rights such a veritable eon ago? Re#19, even sillier me. Along the lines of Helen’s protest at the Port Phillip Bay command economy idiocy, thoughtful Tig Tog presents an elegantly crafted little cameo, at the “Dorrigo doctors” thread, that eventuates as paradigmatic at microcosm of all that is wrong our society; a society that increasingly masquerades as an oafish drunk with two left feet.
What Kafkaesque bureaucracy exhausts itself in the dreaming up of endless Byzantine excuses for inactivity when lives are at stake, when a simple stroke of a pen from the top could have things set to rights such a veritable eon ago?

]]> By: Katz http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481574 Katz Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:10:43 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/06/27/rantledon-hit-some-zingers-but-dont-curdle-the-cream/#comment-481574 <blockquote>No, the rant does not live on this thread. The rant lives where it wants to live; not in the box marked “rant” but in the endless horizons of the universe that is born of the rant itself. Free the rant! Break free from the chains of this restrictive thread.</blockquote> Bull crap. You can rant in a box. You can rant in a sealed bag. You can rant while nailed to a cross. You can also rant while confined in a padded cell. Indeed, some of the most sustained and voluble rants happen in padded cells. The ranter rants regardless of setting or of circumstance. The rant is the favoured mode of communication of the powerless, of the impotent, of the self-conscious victim. It could be argued that the rant requires powerlessness. Powerlessness energises the rant. Who ever heard of a ranting pope, a ranting emperor, at least while they continued to exercise authority? Look at King Lear. When did he start ranting? When he was a practising king? While he was losing his kingliness? Of course not, stupid! If you really want to rant, lose a life!

No, the rant does not live on this thread. The rant lives where it wants to live; not in the box marked “rant” but in the endless horizons of the universe that is born of the rant itself.

Free the rant! Break free from the chains of this restrictive thread.

Bull crap.

You can rant in a box. You can rant in a sealed bag. You can rant while nailed to a cross. You can also rant while confined in a padded cell. Indeed, some of the most sustained and voluble rants happen in padded cells.

The ranter rants regardless of setting or of circumstance. The rant is the favoured mode of communication of the powerless, of the impotent, of the self-conscious victim.

It could be argued that the rant requires powerlessness. Powerlessness energises the rant.

Who ever heard of a ranting pope, a ranting emperor, at least while they continued to exercise authority? Look at King Lear. When did he start ranting? When he was a practising king? While he was losing his kingliness? Of course not, stupid!

If you really want to rant, lose a life!

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