shit_droppers daxle Ok. So I'm sure I'll be berated for saying this... but could we stop the anonymous shit talking? Whoever is going around the blathers here and making criticisms... you know, everyone has their right to an opinion, to say whatever they want. But it seems pretty feckin lame to not even stand behind your words, to remain without a name. Are you scared that those people will have something to say back to you if you admit who you are? You give a bad name to shit rakers and you look like a cowardly little pisser. So take that and shove it up your pipe! 020612 ... blown cherry being silly May I be the first to congratulate you on becoming the first official bereted blatherskite! *hands daxle dark red beret with indigo band* In honour of your noble deeds, not being ashamed of who you are, and being able to sense which is the best direction to aim the shit at, I award you the Blather Beret! 020613 ... If I am sniggering here anonymous? I'm sorry, am I understanding this correctly? Are you really berating people for being anonymous on the internet? oh please... Here you can be as anonymous as you like. It's part of the beauty. Comes part and parcle with the territory I'm afraid my darling. Even if I used my blather name for this blathe, which I'm not going to for simply no reason but to prove my point, you still know nothing about me. A screen name is still me being anonymous. The screen name i usually use is still me being anonymous. An email address is still anonymous. Are you starting to get the picture? I'm sure you will understand. 020613 ... daxle The pieces of what you reveal combined with the name you attach them to form a personae. Words are mosaic tiles and your name is cement. Now are YOU starting to get the picture? Your senseless negativity gets no one anywhere. Maybe if it was more helpful and thoughtful someone would actually consider what you say, which I believe is most likely relatively intelligent, but overly arrogant. [adjusts beret] 020613 ... lulie I step in it all day, don't wanna step in it here. 020613 ... someone different again sometimes bouncing from name to name allows for no stepping stones for someone to follow to a persona, be it a real or an online type, and sometimes, that is something beautiful to revel in. some days i dont want you to know that the person that is thinking this is me, even if the only things you know of me is what i have thought here before. somedays the things i think would explode the myth of who you think i am, and some days i am not ready to take that step, even with complete strangers such as yourselves. some days i dont want to pop my bubble. some days i dont want to pop your bubble. some days i feel responsible for not shattering your pre-conceived conceptions of me. some days i find that odd, that i will protect complete strangers from me. some days i just feel old. who will keep up this pretence if i throw it nochalantly to the winds? 020613 ... blown cherry An odd grammatical style does brand your writing however. Whoever you learnt it from either didn't have any background in classical literature, or was too nice to point out your oddity. I'm not saying it's bad, just odd, and has a certain point-the-finger effect when one is attempting to be anonymous. But I'm just as sure that my own writing style is visible much of the time when I decide to go all multiple_personality_disorder-y and skip on the usual singular_personality_disorder. And also, don't forget that sometimes it's not as completely anonymous out here as we sometimes might like. So, while I may never have met you, perhaps I know someone who has. Though I could yet be wrong - I am compelled to point out my faults before any one else can (particularly anyone who is willing to criticize me so blindly) It's a funny world out there. And I'll admit that a bit of blue/antagonising adds a little spice to it (and not just a little fun). Who knows, we may even have shagged the same person. Stranger things have happened. 020614 ... anonimity gets weird after a while identify who you are speaking too. then idenitfy who you are speaking too. 020614 ... raze i have become one of these in the literal sense — a dropper of shit. an unclutcher of things clutched. i'll be holding onto something. my brain will go somewhere else for a split second. the thing will drop, and the sound of it hitting the floor will startle me back to the here and now. more and more, i'm dropping my shit. a few days ago it was a carton of milk. today it was a bottle cap. tomorrow it might be cutlery. it isn't cause for concern. just a thing that happens. but it's kind of amusing. there's nothing like dropping a milk carton at four in the morning to wake yourself up. 130709 ... gabbie ha! we are human after all..., check out 'galloning' on youtube. this managed to make me laugh my ass off on a day when even a slight smile couldn't previously be coaxed. 130709 what's it to you? who go blather from