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Sorry you find me tedious. I just don't like to see the 'idiots' 'winning', as you so controversially have in your avatar. But surely, if you find this argument tedious - and, by proxy, me - you'd let it go?

(By the way, when you're pretending to be Dan Ashcroft, is it really a good idea to have Dan Ashcroft as you avatar? Especially when it's placed beside a quote from Dan Ashcroft? Just a thought. I felt you should be introduced to an original one)

In answer to your question, I am a journalist who works in both the printed medium and the world of radio. I'll maybe elaborate more clearly if you answer me three questions (because I have my own theories):

1. What age are you?

2. What do you do?

3. Are you the Zombie Munch of yore?

Originally Posted by KimyReizeger

But, if you think about it, this is actually what happens.

Think for a second of 'culture', quite simply, as shared beliefs, attitudes and practices within a community. You seem to be suggesting an individuality and detachment from said community, brought about by consciously 'not paying attention' to popular things which disinterest you, subsequently remaining unmoved. I think that it's impossible to detach youself from the culture that fundamentally contains you, physically and mentally - shared beliefs growing and changing together, influencing one another. So if the over-riding mental exertion of a culture that you belong to amounts to HP worship.... I depend on this culture for certain things, which means I need to participate, and thus, can't merely 'switch off' and remain unaffected by the things that don't interest me.

...more for the sake of argument than a particular gripe against Mr Potter.

That's probably a clearer way of thinking about it than I've been putting accross. What I've been getting at is that I may not like Harry Potter (which I don't), but I can be aware of the culltural impact and choose to acknowledge that for the both good and bad thing that it is, but also never bother reading a Harry Potter book (which I haven't) or having to much of a connection to it (which I don't).

It's not about disconnection, as such, it's more about dislocation from certain things.

But your way of explaining it was better.

[Stripey]

Originally Posted by Steven Dedalus

(By the way, when you're pretending to be Dan Ashcroft, is it really a good idea to have Dan Ashcroft as you avatar? Especially when it's placed beside a quote from Dan Ashcroft? Just a thought. I felt you should be introduced to an original one)

I think you're reading far more into my avatar (which I chose a long time ago and have just kept for the sake of consistency and mostly because I like the expression on the guys face) than is warranted, don't let it mislead you.

I'm not "zombie munch" and if you really must know I was born in 1980, so we're actually almost the same age.

[KimyReizeger]

It was really funny to see one of the chefs at my old work - thirty years old, convicted sex offender, vicious foul-mouthed bastard - banging on about how quickly he finished the latest Potter...

[Stripey]

Originally Posted by KimyReizeger

It was really funny to see one of the chefs at my old work - thirty years old, convicted sex offender, vicious foul-mouthed bastard - banging on about how quickly he finished the latest Potter...

bahahahaha. Hermione better watch her arse.

[Rachie]

Originally Posted by Metarie

Fuck Harry Potter (nasty mental image): this is the most entertaining thing I've read in ages. Keep it up guys!

Stripey hijacks yet another thread for his own gripes against society? Couldn't think of anything more boring, it's not like he's saying anything new. He's just being a fucking troll as usual, and ruins another thread because of it.

[lepeep]

Originally Posted by Stripey

...advocating a disengagement which reduces "culture" to something which you just passively consume, rather than participate in?

I hate to join in and give good old troll boy his much needed attention, but I just marvel at this boy's level of contradiction...

now, he's moaning that people "consume" the potter culture, but when they make an effort (creatively) and get dressed up and......ooh! have fun! Socialise! for example, they are morons....

I guess it's because he doesn't think that he'd like to do what others do...
perhaps he dressed up as darth maul one time, and got beaten up on the way home?
"Fuck this, I am going to show them....I'll be the strongest driving force on the internet, shaping and moulding the world to MY WAY OF THINKING!....MWOOOOOHA HA HA HA HA HA....I'LL BECOME A TROLL.....HA HA HA HA HA"

Troll, yer a funny one, keep writing, we all love it, so do you.

[Thomas Banacek]

Originally Posted by lepeep

MWOOOOOHA HA HA HA HA HA....I'LL BECOME A TROLL.....HA HA HA HA HA"

Troll did you say?!?



See, stripey's not that far off the Harry Potter theme after all...

[Thomas Banacek]

Originally Posted by Chris

Er... why not? I know plenty of folk who have fantastic taste in books, movies and music but also enjoy a bit of the shite as well (myself included). It's perfectly possible to have a wide range of tastes that includes the great works and also enjoy mental chewing gum like potter.

Notice how, whenever someone indicates an example which contradicts Stripey's tenuous logic, like having read supposedly "weighty" literature while still finding time to enjoy a "ripping yarn", he just ignores their post, because he obviously cannot find the counter-argument.

I'm struggling to see what's so "counter-culture" about reading Martin Amis, though, the man's an effete, self-important wanker who...

Ah, wait, suddenly it all makes sense...

In all seriousness, if Stripey is all about "teh quality" then what's his mitigation for Martin Amis being involved in this aberration?

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[lepeep]

just wait for the diatribe on wiki's next...remember, Troll boy knows everything there is WORTH knowing.