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Let's Reclaim This Word
From the Slope of Hope: Time for a mini-rant because, like the late, great George Carlin, I don't have pet peeves: I have a zoo of major fucking psychoses.
I'd like us, as a people, to reclaim the noun "conversation". To my old-fashioned way of thinking, a "conversation" is an exchange of ideas between two interested and engaged parties. I love a good conversation. They don't happen often enough. I want to hear what you have to say, and if I have something meaningful to say in reply, I'd like to share it with you. Hurray, conversation.
However, in our increasingly pathetic and politically-correct world, this poor noun has been mutated into something more along these lines:
(Note: I'm not going to get distracted by the article's reference to "the beauty", as I'd like to stay on point here).
I've seen "conversation" used like this far too often. It's kind of like the word "community". Community used to be synonymous with neighborhood. Now, whenever I hear someone utter the word community, I know they are referring to some urban shithole where a murder has taken place recently and they're trying to pretend the unfortunates who live there have some kind of mutually-beneficial cohesion.
Anyway, back to the conversation: what irks me about the aforementioned usage is the misplaced assumption that I (and anyone else) is an interested counterparty. I, frankly, don't give a shit what happened to Bruce Jenner's dick, who he/she is contemplating having sexual congress with, and what his/her ballroom gown looks like. I honestly. Don't. Care.
My apathy extends all the way to complete non-interference in the rights of such a person. Bruce Jenner has his life to lead, and I have mine. The difference is, if I decide to get both my nipples pierced, have a third leg surgically attached to my buttocks, and legally change my name to Aloicious Pisswhistle, I'm not going to expect you to have a "conversation" with me. You can think what you want ("wow, Tim Knight is pretty messed up") but no one should compel you to chit chat with me about my deeply personal problems.
How refreshing it would be to instead read "Caitlyn" say something closer to this: "Hey, everybody. Look, I sort of fell out of the public eye once people stopped eating Wheaties, and I'm glad to have a second career as a reality show freak. My show on the E! network has been picked up for another season, so I'm hoping to keep milking my relevance for as long as I possibly can. Thanks for paying attention to me, and drop me an email if you get any ideas for other weird shit I can pull to capture the public's curiosity."
Now that would be an interesting conversation.
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Trivial article. Conversation, shmonversation.
Ask why do shows like this exist?
Because People watch them.
Why do they watch them?
Because their lives are so pathetic that they need someone who is a larger loser than they are.
Whats next?
When will people want to see a show about people that try and do good in the world?
....Rant off, please disregard. Go back to wondering what happened to his dick?
Hey fuck face, Timmy Knight.
Caitlin Jenner won Olympic gold medals. She was arguably the finest athlete in the world.
What have you done?
I've seen your pic. Have a look in the mirror before you deride a truly beautiful woman.
Have a look at some other 65 yo women.
I doubt you'll look as good...
Roxi
Never heard him/her/it before the dick dock. Can't have been that great. Qa
Murph hues, now that's an athlete.
Same here.
There used to be athletes, back in the 60s and before.
Now there are greedy fucks who corrupt sports for money and will use any technique they think they can get away with.
The name Lance (some dude wtth strong arms or something) is flying around in my head for some reason.
That doesn't look like sport or real athleticicsm to me.
Yeah! take that!
(----Ru Paul).
something about digitizing your life view
removes something, what did they use to call it?
soul.
How do you have a conversation that isn't negative in some way, without referencing some crazy happening in your local ghetto or world dystopia?
All news is BAD. Even, hearing about some couple getting married, who gives a fuck? I'm worth a few million dollars, so what? I have a nice car, bitchy girlfriend, mortgage debt, borin job .. who cares? It's the same shit over and over again, and it is interspersed with random ultra violent attacks that seem normal.
I look at old photographs of my grandparents, and think that was a nice time. Simple and sweet. We can't even look back at photographs the same way because everything is digitised, so we can't sit down and share prints of times gone by. We need a fucking tablet, or mobile phone to enjoy the memories.
People are boring. Life is boring, the 'conversation' is painful, listening to christian freaks, meterosexuals discussing their image, brain dead women referencing quotes from OK magazine or some shitty magazine of the like.
Personally, if I had an open conversation with anybody in my area they are too dumb to understand, or think I'm some right wing neo-nut case. You either follow the script according to Joe christian do gooder, or you become the target of their societal psycopathy destroy your credibility and free speech.
Fuck them, fuck them all.
You need to get out into the woods a lot more.
Go for a hike - make a fire and cook some food over it.
Doesn't get much better than that.
An afternoon of deer hunting will cure a lot of angst and put things in perspective.
Plus, the first guy in our club who uses PC talk gets a broom on the ass.
I think it happened once, four or three years ago.
I'm fortunate enough to have woods and a creek close to me. Plenty of deer and wild turkeys about, but I've never bothered getting government approval to hunt, so I don't. I love archery - all aspects. i make bows, arrows, and all the other bits and pieces required and love to shoot 'em, but I stick to a target. I practice stalking deer and I know that, should I ever be desperatately in need, I'd be able to eat meat.
I'm often out with my son (He's out more than I am) and on occasion, my daughter (who's not a bad shot with a long bow)
Keeps me sane(ish)
In my youth I used to go on safari treks around southern africa with my parents, they were innocent times. Fun.
Last week I went for a walk with a friend of mine after work, dropped his wife off at his place and we took his dog for a walk around farm land, above the city. It certainly was good, refreshing. The walk back down the hill wasn't so nice, as we were walking back into the city. The problem .. I can't live in the woods, can't afford to.
But your point is taken, walking out of town is good. It's the lack of people, and news feeds that does it. Haven't eaten food over a fire for a while :)
my girlfriend's name is Aloicious Pisswhistle
My girlfriend's name is Betty Swollocks.
I am starting to really like the biasic concepts of an open source society. We would be better off without all the monopolies controling most everything.
3d printed cars are coming whats next?
You'll know when you Really don't give a shit is when something links you to The Mail and you don't know a single person in the "celebrity" sidebar.
Who are these people?
Forget it. I don't want to know.
Heck, I don't know any of them now unless they were known in the 60s-70s.
Looks like I don't give a shit!
You could start a conversation with them!
Not only has "conversation" been abused to death, so has the word "friend" long been tortured and rendered meaningless by faceboob and similar cancers of society.