How are you making the world a better place?
#1
Posted 15 November 2009 - 05:02 PM
With the festive season fast approaching, thoughts inevitably turn to the needy and the disillusioned. I feel we should all try and help them in whatever way we can.
For example, today I met a very unfortunate fellow. He was labouring under illusions about truths and facts that were simply not true. The poor man came into the shop and asked to buy a copy of Tairy's Confessor, because it had been recommended by a friend. I know, I can actually see the shocked sympathy spring to life in your eyes. What sort of man is this who has friends that actively try and make him buy such drivel? Clearly he is a man with no real friends at all!
To help this poor beleaguered soul, I persuaded him instead to buy Gardens of the Moon and Neal Asher's The Skinner, in the hope that having read such vastly superior novels, he would find the will and the strength to find himself some new friends of an equally superior calibre.
What is your good deed?
For example, today I met a very unfortunate fellow. He was labouring under illusions about truths and facts that were simply not true. The poor man came into the shop and asked to buy a copy of Tairy's Confessor, because it had been recommended by a friend. I know, I can actually see the shocked sympathy spring to life in your eyes. What sort of man is this who has friends that actively try and make him buy such drivel? Clearly he is a man with no real friends at all!
To help this poor beleaguered soul, I persuaded him instead to buy Gardens of the Moon and Neal Asher's The Skinner, in the hope that having read such vastly superior novels, he would find the will and the strength to find himself some new friends of an equally superior calibre.
What is your good deed?
O xein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti têde; keimetha tois keinon rhémasi peithomenoi.
#2
Posted 15 November 2009 - 05:32 PM
I make the world better looking, if I wasn't here then the mean hotness of the world would be less.
I live to give.
I live to give.
I AM A TWAT
#3
Posted 15 November 2009 - 06:10 PM
i helped my aunt move her father into a care home on saturday.
not on par with halting a gross assault on a poor persons literary sensibilities, but i like to think it was appreciated.
not on par with halting a gross assault on a poor persons literary sensibilities, but i like to think it was appreciated.
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant
- Oscar Levant
#4
Posted 15 November 2009 - 08:10 PM
I have to this point refrained from reproducing.
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#5
Posted 15 November 2009 - 08:18 PM
I exist. No need to thank me.
Hello, soldiers, look at your mage, now back to me, now back at your mage, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped being an unascended mortal and switched to Sole Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in a warren with the High Mage your cadre mage could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an acorn with two gates to that realm you love. Look again, the acorn is now otataral. Anything is possible when your mage smells like Sole Spice and not a Bole brother. I’m on a quorl.
#6
Posted 15 November 2009 - 08:19 PM
I'm spreading the awesome that is me to Great Britain come Tuesday. Awesome everywhere!
#7
Posted 15 November 2009 - 08:24 PM
Cougar, on 15 November 2009 - 05:32 PM, said:
I make the world better looking, if I wasn't here then the mean hotness of the world would be less.
I live to give.
I live to give.
You know you waaaant it.,
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#8
Posted 15 November 2009 - 09:13 PM
I am systematically deteriorating my girlfriends love for Twilight.
Its a slow and arduous process, but worthwhile.
Its a slow and arduous process, but worthwhile.

I've always been crazy but its kept me from going insane.
#9
Posted 15 November 2009 - 09:14 PM
I vote green.
What, you didn't think this thread could be made political?
What, you didn't think this thread could be made political?
This post has been edited by Cold Iron: 15 November 2009 - 09:14 PM
#10
Posted 15 November 2009 - 10:03 PM
I don't talk much.
People don't realise it's a gift until I start blabbering.
People don't realise it's a gift until I start blabbering.
Kif: Sir, remember your course correction?
Captain Zapp: No.
Kif: Well, it's proving somewhat more suicidal than we'd initially hoped.
Captain Zapp: No.
Kif: Well, it's proving somewhat more suicidal than we'd initially hoped.
#11
Posted 15 November 2009 - 10:04 PM
I am single handedly reducing teen alcohol abuse by imbibing so much the supply has dwindled.
Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....
#12
Posted 15 November 2009 - 10:17 PM
On the morning commuter train my outrageous flirting with school girls in short skirts keeps said girls from being accosted by suited salarymen.
You’ve never heard of the Silanda? … It’s the ship that made the Warren of Telas run in less than 12 parsecs.
#13
Posted 15 November 2009 - 10:18 PM
Rough job there, Shinny. But somebody's gotta look after their best interests.
Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....
#14
Posted 15 November 2009 - 10:21 PM
Shinrei, on 15 November 2009 - 10:17 PM, said:
On the morning commuter train my outrageous flirting with school girls in short skirts keeps said girls from being accosted by suited salarymen.
I always secretly suspected that was the reason you live in Japan!
I make the world a better place by being scathingly judgemental about other peoples attempts to make the world a better place. Got to keep everybody on their toes, it's for their own good.
Burn rubber =/= warp speed
#15
Posted 15 November 2009 - 11:29 PM
Mezla PigDog, on 15 November 2009 - 10:21 PM, said:
Shinrei, on 15 November 2009 - 10:17 PM, said:
On the morning commuter train my outrageous flirting with school girls in short skirts keeps said girls from being accosted by suited salarymen.
I always secretly suspected that was the reason you live in Japan!
I make the world a better place by being scathingly judgemental about other peoples attempts to make the world a better place. Got to keep everybody on their toes, it's for their own good.
it was a secret?
Take good care to keep relations civil
It's decent in the first of gentlemen
To speak friendly, Even to the devil
It's decent in the first of gentlemen
To speak friendly, Even to the devil
#16
Posted 16 November 2009 - 12:04 AM
I educate people in what a real taste in music actually is and scoff intellectually on others' poor attempts as to why they like their music. ("It's catchy!" Yeah, so is syphilis...)
A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
#17
Posted 16 November 2009 - 09:00 AM
Cougar, on 15 November 2009 - 05:32 PM, said:
I make the world better looking ...
... by standing next to it.

"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes
"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
#19
Posted 16 November 2009 - 10:04 AM
I have thus far refrained from using my diabolical wits and devilish charm to build a criminal syndicate with which to take over the world. You may thank Malazan Mafia for that

Everyone is entitled to his own wrong opinion. - Lizrad
#20
Posted 16 November 2009 - 10:48 AM
Cows are a big source of methane and this causes a hole in the ozone layer. I eat lots of steak, thus reducing the cow population and helping the environment.
A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.