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blamebramptonI have been ill. And overworked. But mostly ill.
A short time before Mr Brammers gave me his virus, he decided we should switch ISPs. In theory this was a good idea, in actuality, it was weeks of me having no internet. While dying. I tried to read a book. It was Wolf Hall. It fell on my face every time I every time I felt faint. Alas, I felt faint quite a bit. That is one big bloody book. I took to reading Agatha Christie paperbacks instead. Lovely and thin.
I have an enormously long post on Australian politics coming up in the near future. I do not have one on the current fandom brouhaha, though I do think satire is the appropriate response to both. I have a dream in which rationality is commonplace, but in the words of the Ruddbot, that's:
A short time before Mr Brammers gave me his virus, he decided we should switch ISPs. In theory this was a good idea, in actuality, it was weeks of me having no internet. While dying. I tried to read a book. It was Wolf Hall. It fell on my face every time I every time I felt faint. Alas, I felt faint quite a bit. That is one big bloody book. I took to reading Agatha Christie paperbacks instead. Lovely and thin.
I have an enormously long post on Australian politics coming up in the near future. I do not have one on the current fandom brouhaha, though I do think satire is the appropriate response to both. I have a dream in which rationality is commonplace, but in the words of the Ruddbot, that's:
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Date: 2013-08-21 01:38 pm (UTC)It's high emotions and straw man arguments for the most part, with one reasonable thesis on each side, which is rarely the thesis being actually argued.
The logical inconsistencies of these things shit me to tears, as well as the rampant escalations, because the origins are *always* one person's opinion which is easily engaged with quietly, or ignored or shrugged off in the vein of 'Yeah, OK, some people like Vegemite, it takes all types …' But someone else gets offended, and they email someone else, and then someone posts something more unreasonable than the original unreasonableness in their journal, and offends yet more people, and suddenly it's a 'thing', and more people are upset about the existence of the thing than were ever likely to be upset about the origins of the thing or any of the actual debate within the thing. And I could almost cope if people were rational in their arguments, but the logical inconsistencies do my head in and I end up swearing like the Australian Prime Minister*.
*Current model as of 21/8/13.
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Date: 2013-08-21 02:27 pm (UTC)I am, I have to admit, much more au fait with your political situation than I am with any fandom kerfuffle, primarily because when I m awake at night I listen to the BBC World Service...
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Date: 2013-08-22 08:03 am (UTC)Hee, but no, not oppressed but certainly annoyed.
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Date: 2013-08-21 04:37 pm (UTC)I am over people. Really - bring on the pandemic plague. I'm ready to go, and will be happy to take 98% of the world's population with me.
:D
(I am eagerly awaiting your political recap - I need a good laugh. I was lectured by a friend when in Aus for not keeping my Aus electoral roll position, but as I calmly pointed out - I don't live there any more and long term voting from a foreign country is awkward. But mostly, it's because I live and vote here now; I don't feel I have a right to a voice there when it is not my home. And honestly? I'm kind of grateful right now I don't have to.)
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Date: 2013-08-21 04:51 pm (UTC)(A brouhaha? Fandom? One?)
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Date: 2013-08-21 11:16 pm (UTC)Heh .One. You're totally right :)
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Date: 2013-08-21 11:12 pm (UTC)The lack of internet was a challenge. I tried doing things on my phone. Young people have my enormous respect for being able to manage that! It's super hard!
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Date: 2013-08-21 09:50 pm (UTC)Wonderful clip. That could address so very many things :-)
Feel better soon!
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Date: 2013-08-21 11:14 pm (UTC)Christie was good: familiar, funny, light …
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Date: 2013-08-21 10:56 pm (UTC)As far as the fan brouhaha goes, I missed that one, but then if I was any farther outside of fandom, I'd be in a parallel universe. Though I was thinking that things had been awful quiet lately (at least in Potterland; I've seen a couple of teen wolf posts that made me groan).
Looking forward to the political satire.
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Date: 2013-08-22 08:29 am (UTC)i do hope you feel better, soon. there are some really nasty viruses going around.
xo
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Date: 2013-08-22 06:53 pm (UTC)I have things set up somewhat reasonably on my phone; the most important thing for me was an easy way to save links for later so I could look at them properly. Otherwise it's just endless Twitter, the occasional Dreamwidth post, attempting to deal with the scrolling background on my Dreamwidth reading page, and swearing at whatever bastard designed the LJ app because OH MY GOD NO.
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Date: 2013-08-23 06:53 am (UTC)Very much looking forward to your political post. I don't know much about Australian politics, but you make it very entertaining.
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