bulbous salutation my dudes
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Bogus!
Most non-non-heinous.
It's like he wrote an already weird sex scene description, then right clicked every word and chose the last synonym on the list.
Someone should start a community for that.
There was a literary movement called Oulipo that did things like that. What comment-OP described would be a variant of a technique called "n+7": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo#Constraints
Being a big ou(x)po fan, they at least were good at their work. Highly recommended starting with Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics or If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
Calvino is absolutely amazing! I devoured Cosmicomics and T Zero when I was in college. The Castleof Crossed Destinies is another one.
I admit, I had a bit of trouble getting through If On A Winter's Night a Traveler. I'm guessing it lost a lot in translation.
His book of Italian Folktales is also very good.
Edit: I just learned about, and ordered, this... a complete collection of the Qfwfq stories, including some never before translated into English- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Cosmicomics
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He’s said publicly that he hates sex, so I don’t know what anyone was expecting.
He probably hates sex because it requires him to show up and actually perform.
Holy shit, that's a good burn.
Probably not the best person to write a sex scene in that case.
I'd hate it too if i thought sex was whatever the fuck this is
Wtf did I just read…
Poetry.
HORNY LEVELS APPROACHING 60 PERCENTAGE POINTSI recall there was a dramatic reading of this text many years ago...
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One can imagine him struggling to imagine the scene well enough to write it, then going to a toy shop, buying a Barbie and a Ken and spending the next half hour mashing them against each other in an attempt to visualise it.
Had young Morrissey known how pathetic old Morrissey would end up, he would no doubt have written an incredible soul searching song about it.
"Sixty, racist and dumb", or something.
I bought it on account of hearing how bad it was. I wasn't disappointed. It's like The Room in book form, but with unnecessarily flowery language. Brilliantly shite.
That's the worst writing I've ever seen. This guy writes for a living? Do people enjoy his works?
Edit: no, and no.
Falls completely flat without Johnny Marr's guitar work.
"hello, fellow sex havers"
If you read that in Morrissey's voice with "How Soon Is Now" as an earworm, it is slightly titillating.
ymmv
I don't want to kink shame.
All I know is I don't want anyone's breasts doing a barrel-roll across my howling mouth.
I assumed that it was like motor-boating except with 360 degrees rotation, which is definitely a normal and not at all weird thing
All I know is I don't want anyone's breasts doing a barrel-roll across my howling mouth.
Damn. There goes a potential match!
Have you considered providing the chesticles in such a scenario?
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I've neen dying at "wacked and smaked" for 10 minutes
He's hackin', wackin' and smackin'!
That’s a sentence
Can someone feed that quote into the new, anything goes image generator? I wanna see what a bulbous salutation looks like
I am going to guess he's just borrowing from something from his past but has trouble translating it into something people would more traditionally get. But ultimately, I don't know too much about Morrissey - other than at one point he was liked culturally (by those who listened to him) and then there was a sharp turn in which he is now greatly disliked. I enjoy The Smiths, although I'm not gunna lie and be absolutely honest in that I found them as an adult. But all things aside I am wondering if it's because he is quite vocal about his opinions and they are quite unfavorable. And once you are seen as an "enemy of the status quo" you are open for ridicule as a whole.
But also he gave things a go. Eh.
But I do know he spoke out against meat and the tories. So eh. But someone else is probably way more tuned in on this as a whole over <<< moi.
He's kinda a shithead. And by all accounts enjoys being seen in that light. IMO he claims more than his share for the success of The Smiths. Just listen to any Johnny Marr solo songs and it's clear where their sound came from.
I literally started reading this and I just don't care enough to have this information floating around my head. I don't like celebrity worship. But I also hate bullying. And I consider sitting around laughing at people that. So that's why I figured I'd state something. Not so much because I want to defend Morrissey. More so because he did a thing, let sleeping dogs lay. Who gives a crap? And people can believe in whatever they want, as long as they're not plowing in to others. I do agree that celebrities should be more responsible with their beliefs. But I also think people are entitled to their opinions even if they're absolutely drenched in shit. I've got nothing else. You want him to fade? Don't bring him up. But bullying is for chumps regardless of how it's done.
Sorry... you think by posting a thread about Morrissey's shitty book on Lemmy, I'm bullying him?
Because if Morrissey is on Lemmy and he's that easily bullied, let me say this to him: Get fucked Morrissey, you racist piece of shit. Your book is awful and you're worse.
I think in general people gawking at one another is not only training us to react to things that challenge us with bullying (mockery) but equally it doesn't help us grow as a people. I hate racist, I don't benefit a damn thing from hanging with racists. But I will also say that racism is there. I am not going to pretend it's not. And I will also say that by thinking/talking/etc. feeding the media machine and filling it with someone's name you basically increase the chatter about them. Which I suppose you can see right now.
But that all together I would love the face of the internet to change because I think we're too prone to low-level jeering. And I think we can do better as a people. Which I would say is why I have never been on 4Chan and was very happy to leave Reddit. Because people who communicate like that in real life a fucking assholes. And I don't really want to be a part of that. Putting someone down, to pick myself up.
You are welcome to not be a part of people taking the piss out of a right-wing racist antivaxxer piece of shit. No one else seems to have a problem with it.
I am absolutely happy to show what an untalented hack he has become.
But ultimately it doesn't matter? And I just wanted to say that basically. That we're not gaining anything by sitting around pointing and laughing at someone. I mean we really aren't. And that was the stance that I wanted to take. That I think we could all use some more balance to our internet expression.
Which is a leap and a bound for myself, as I am a real fuck-face of expression. But ultimately I just don't think it's cool everyone sits around pointing and laughing at anyone in front of me or online I suppose.
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