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ONAN THE HISTORIAN (NOW WITH UPDATES!)
Did you know that men whose masculinity is challenged will compensate by supporting the war? It’s true:
The study shows men whose masculinity is challenged are more likely to support the Iraq war, exhibit homophobia or think about buying a four-wheel-drive car.
Guess I’ll have to sell my girly car and quit hanging out with homocons. In other masculinity news, Cretan Chris Sheil reveals that The Age commissioned a piece from him back in February. It was never published, however, possibly because the University of New South Wales history lecturer spent more than a quarter of the article raving about his gigantic, throbbing readership:
After four months, I had built up to an average of 3000 hits a day. Allowing for frequent visitors and irregulars, perhaps I had up to 1000 readers. I was delighted, but Back Pages was merely gathering pace. At six months I started averaging around 4000 daily hits. At nine months, I went over 6000.
Then, last August, John Howard called the election, and the thing went crazy. While the mainstream media was reporting on how politically disengaged the citizenry was, my average readership doubled to over 12,000 hits, shooting passed [sic] 30,000 on a good day. The number of comments from readers writing back went berserk, regularly breaking three figures.
The madness continued through September and into October, when daily hits averaged 15,000. I guess I had several thousand readers, perhaps approaching 10,000, and their own collective daily commentary was now running to tens of thousands of words.
Back Pages was no longer a mild diversion. It was a runaway underground train. The speed was exhilarating. But I had to jump off, or quit my day job.
Last November, on the anniversary of my year of blogging dangerously, I shut the place down, with two million hits to show for my effort.
Two million, eh? That works out to about 5,400 hits per day. Imagine the pressure! Then excitement! The wild, screaming madness of it all! No wonder Chris had to quit; the bitch goddess that is Popular Blogging was eating him alive! (Oddly, bloggers even more popular than Chris—there are perhaps one or two, globally—seem able to cope. Instapundit is currently averaging 114,627 visits per day, a mere 2022% up on the Cretan, and he’s kept his day job and added other work besides.) Let modest Chris explain how he came to dominate the internet:
Back Pages engaged readers, I believe, partly because the ideal of truth-seeking was always upheld …
So was the ideal of writing crap: “ … the Australian government is now being consumed by a full-blown crisis. With apologies to Hunter S Thompson, I think it’s clear that John Howard has cashed his last cheque with the Australian public.”
… so respectful was I (am I) of the search for the truth in all things …
Oh, yeah: “Apart from his wife, no-one, and I mean no-one, likes John Howard. Underneath, almost all Australians hate John Howard.”
… my experience suggests that engaging readers depends on authors being honest …
Here’s Honest Chris engaging his readers. It’s too bad that Honest Chris’s saucy comments exchange with Gianna has been deleted from this post, but Google turns up a tantalising extract: “Holding tightly to his treasure, he buried himself under the warm towels ...”
Back Pages was not neutral, never indifferent, and never ever short on passion …
At what point does a healthy self-image become a raging delusional psychosis?
If Back Pages is any guide, as the late Doctor himself might have written, the swine, greedheads, pimps, whores and pigfuckers hiding in the trenches beneath lies like ‘fair and balanced’ are doomed.
Er, yes. Except you didn’t change anything, and Howard won with an increased majority.
UPDATE. Christopher takes time out from his busy pigfucker-dooming, treasure-holding schedule to favour us with a reply. In which he spells “cretin” correctly, several times.
UPDATE II. Another reply from Chris, in which I’m accused of falsification, mendacity, stupidity, misrepresentation, dumb creepiness, wrongness, stalking, and dishonesty. For someone who describes his opponents as “swine, greedheads, pimps, whores and pigfuckers”, Chris sure is one thin-skinned unit. Update notice added in headline to calm the Great Blogmaster, He of So Many Hits.
I guess I’d be disappointed if I ever wrote anything without eliciting a snide commentary from my most dedicated publicist, Cretin Tim Blair. OK, I’ll respond once.
In other masculinity news, Cretan Chris Sheil reveals that The Age commissioned a piece from him back in February. It was never published, however, possibly because the University of New South Wales history lecturer spent more than a quarter of the article raving about his gigantic, throbbing readership:
That was the remit cretin. It wasn’t published because the section changed. This had nothing to do with my column and I have no complaints.... Last November, on the anniversary of my year of blogging dangerously, I shut the place down, with two million hits to show for my effort.
Two million, eh? That works out to about 5,400 hits per day. Imagine the pressure! Then excitement! The wild, screaming madness of it all! No wonder Chris had to quit; the bitch goddess that is Popular Blogging was eating him alive! (Oddly, bloggers even more popular than Chris—there are perhaps one or two, globally—seem able to cope. Instapundit is currently averaging 114,627 visits per day, a mere 2022% up on the Cretan, and he’s kept his day job and added other work besides.)
I said I had to stop when it got too demanding, not on the basis of a yearly average, cretin. I didn’t say it was ‘eating me alive’, only that it was too demanding for me. There was no claim to be the most popular, or anything like that. My expectations in blogging were humble ("a mild diversion"), and I was delighted when I reached around 1000 readers. Your tendentious technique is to imply something that’s not there, and then pretend to take it down. It’s all in your mind Tim. Get over me.
Let modest Chris explain how he came to dominate the internet:
Huh? Where did I say I ”came to dominate”?
So was the ideal of writing crap: “ … the Australian government is now being consumed by a full-blown crisis. With apologies to Hunter S Thompson, I think it’s clear that John Howard has cashed his last cheque with the Australian public.”And I think you write crap. Sharp comment Tim. Don’t stretch yourself.
… so respectful was I (am I) of the search for the truth in all things …
Oh, yeah: “Apart from his wife, no-one, and I mean no-one, likes John Howard. Underneath, almost all Australians hate John Howard.”That’s an opinion, cretin.
… my experience suggests that engaging readers depends on authors being honest …
Here’s honest Chris engaging his readers.
Back Pages was not neutral, never indifferent, and never ever short on passion …
At what point does a healthy self-image become a raging delusional psychosis?Go figure. I’d seek a friend if I was you.
If Back Pages is any guide, as the late Doctor himself might have written, the swine, greedheads, pimps, whores and pigfuckers hiding in the trenches beneath lies like ‘fair and balanced’ are doomed.
Er, yes. Except you didn’t change anything, and Howard won with an increased majority.New South Wales didn’t win the Super 12 either. Again, you imagine something that’s not there, and then you imagine you have taken it down. I was commissioned to write a story about attracting blog readers, which I did. I supposed that the attraction was partly because I admitted my subjective preferences, implying that this is an advantage over media outlets that smuggle their preferences under slogans like ‘fair and balanced’.
All in all, a typically very poor effort. Aren’t you supposed to be a journalist?
Hit it in one, CB. Back Passage had a certain style in projecting Cretan Chris’s delusional fantasies on to a wider canvas, I suppose. It did amuse, but it was kind of like watching a train wreck in slow motion: horrid, but you kept peeking at it anyway.
But if the sentence quoted above has any validity, it is in projection. (If Back Pages is any guide, as the late Doctor himself might have written, the swine, greedheads, pimps, whores and pigfuckers hiding in the trenches beneath lies like ‘fair and balanced’ are doomed.)
I think Cretan Chris just described his supporters, and himself.
MarkL
CanberraThis is way OT for Chris Sheil, but I finally made my way over to Instapundit, and had a bit of a squiz.
I was checking out the About me bit, and saw that Glenn has a book out called The Appearance of Impropriety. (with a long subtitle, also). I got so excited! I’ve got this book in my collection next to the bed. How cool is that?
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2005 08 15 at 06:02 AM • permalinkCS thinks his credibility can be measured by the number of ‘hits’ to his blog.
It’s cyberspace CS and the ‘hits’ do not reflect popularity, support or comprehension of your ‘prose’, they are only register an appearance by a cyber entity including spambots, trolls, CS acolytes, porn gazers and other cyborg lowlifes.
Cyberspace allows CS to wander in his own Wonderland whilst being admired by himself.
Much ado about nothing, the egocentric nonentity mantra of Back Passage.
People, please! Look at the bright side. Chris did spell “cretin” correctly in his post, each and every time. Credit where credit is due.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 08 15 at 06:28 AM • permalinkHow many of those hits came from curiosity seekers wanting to see a deranged blogger unable to distinguish someone from a certain Greek island and a person of subnormal intelligence?
Posted by Tommy Shanks on 2005 08 15 at 06:29 AM • permalinkApart from his wife, no-one, and I mean no-one, likes John Howard. Underneath, almost all Australians hate John Howard.
Chris, you say that’s only an opinion. I don’t know how to break this to you, but even opinions have to be logically consistent, and within coo-ee of reality. Lots of people like Howard, and you know that perfectly well, although I guess you just don’t meet them in the faculty lounge. Christ, they pay you to lecture in history? Are you sure you’re not just a janitor who found an unlocked office?
See, I told you so. I thought I was childish gloating, but it turns out I’m a shallow, petty little man. Go figure.
It appears that it took the Sheila just 90 minutes to have a brain spazz and resort to pithy retorts. Does he sit and watch Tim’s site daily looking for his name or did he just happen to be ‘passing by’? Egotist/onanist. Same diff.
"The study shows men whose masculinity is challenged are more likely to support the Iraq war, exhibit homophobia or think about buying a four-wheel-drive car.”
So, working class men are masculinity challenged. I don’t think so. Quite the opposite. Of course in the world of fem-speak anyone who doesn’t worship at the Shrine of Germaine is masculinity-challenged.
Posted by walterplinge on 2005 08 15 at 07:35 AM • permalinkThe Cornell press release also reveals that:
The research involved 111 Cornell undergraduates.Now there’s a representative group.
"I’m planning another follow-up to the study that involves taking testosterone samples from participants to see if testosterone levels are a mediating factor in this process,” he added.
Testosterone levels among 18-22 year old males? Like I said, a representative group.
What I found odd was this:
...women’s responses were unchanged regardless of the feedback they received.
So Cornell undergraduate women reacted no differently when being told they were ‘feminine’ or ‘unfeminine’? What has Cornell done to these women?
Posted by David Morgan on 2005 08 15 at 08:12 AM • permalinkGlances at this offering from the Allmighty Craig:
I guess I’d be disappointed if I ever wrote anything without eliciting a snide commentary from my most dedicated publicist, Cretin Tim Blair. OK, I’ll respond once.
Is it me, or does this opening remark come off as incredibly snide in itself?
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2005 08 15 at 10:08 AM • permalinkOof. Make that Allmighty Chris. Mustn’t anger him by getting the name wrong.
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2005 08 15 at 10:12 AM • permalinkOK Tim-
I’m a half French Canadian chick and your
car is too girlie for me! I drive a 4X4.And the color-red!?! That supposedly means you’re passive-aggressive…
In Canada they spell cretan/cretin-
Chretien
-this would be an ex-prime minister who’s been showing his “personalized balls” on the CBC.
Posted by madawaskan on 2005 08 15 at 10:55 AM • permalinkIf Chris is using the word “hits” the correctly then he didn’t get very many at all. My site gets 5000 hits a day during months when I don’t update at all.
Hits and visits are two different things. Most sites get multiple hits per visit, my site gets about 3 to 4 hits per visit on average. 5000 visits a day is a pretty good number, 5000 hits a day could come just from Google searches against a few dozen pages of random words linked together.
Posted by Matt Moore on 2005 08 15 at 11:26 AM • permalinkAs Tim has altered his original post, I’ll add a futher comment. To those outside his slavish fanclub, the big puzzle about Blair is whether his falsifications are due to mendacity or stupidity. Does he misrepresent knowingly, or is he just a dumb creep who can’t tell when he’s wrong? In substantively altering his post without acknowledgement well after comments have begun, I’m now more inclined to think he’s not just a stupid stalker, but the dishonest one his more trenchant critics maintain.
You’re gonna have to clue me in, Cretan Chris. How’d he change the post?
Posted by Matt Moore on 2005 08 15 at 12:41 PM • permalink… so respectful was I (am I) of the search for the truth in all things …
Oh, yeah: “Apart from his wife, no-one, and I mean no-one, likes John Howard. Underneath, almost all Australians hate John Howard.”That’s an opinion, cretin.
Considering he was re-elected handily, that’s a pretty fucking stupid opinion.
Here, let me try one:
“Apart from Tim Blair, no-one, and I mean no-one, in Australia likes cricket.”
Chris, would you have, say, a screen capture of Tim’s original post? That way, you could prove your assertion that Tim “altered the post”.
As it is, the current post, excluding the update, reads the same as the quotes in your reply, which I assume that you cut-and-pasted. Both look unchanged to me, but since I lack a photographic memory, that’s just my opinion.
BTW, just what did Tim alter in the post? When I first read it, I saw little in your favor. Re-reading, I still see little in your favor.
You see, without factual evidence, your assertion must be considered false. That’s what is called the rule of evidence.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 08 15 at 12:55 PM • permalinkTo those outside his slavish fanclub, the big puzzle about Blair is whether his falsifications are due to mendacity or stupidity.
No, the big puzzle is how he manages to write possibly the most popular blog in Australia, which is almost always on the winning side politically, without (a) crowing about number of hits, (b)droning on in a self-congratulatory manner about changing society, and (c) claiming to have done so when all evidence points to the contrary, yet his bitter little rivals on the left do all of these things without nearly his success, and brag about it.
You’re a sad little man.
cs wrote:
As Tim has altered his original post, I’ll add a futher comment. To those outside his slavish fanclub, the big puzzle about Blair is whether his falsifications are due to mendacity or stupidity.
Ah, I see. Agree with Tim on things and you’re instantly a member of his slavish fanclub.
Odd, I don’t get beaten very much by Tim or Andrea…
Oh wait, it’s just a little box you like to stuff people matching the category of “icky enough to not see things your way” into. I would guess we’re all poopyheads to you as well.
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2005 08 15 at 01:47 PM • permalinkWait, everyone! I think you all should stop taking pot shots at Sheils and try to communicate with him. Here, let me reach out to him.
Hey, Sheils! Paco heap big patient man, not sore at Sheils. Sheils like mosquito: sting, swat, forget. Paco think Sheils fifth rate bad-boy wannabe. Sheils’ head like big whoopee cushion, John Howard sit on, head make rude noise, peoples laugh and forget by ‘n by. Paco say one last thing. Sheils make big talk about friend Tim, say he lie. Paco say Sheils use magic belong head shrinker, called “projection”. Paco think Sheils take many hits, and not just on blog. Sheils be ok. Him see how often wrong, him change tune by ‘n by.
Chris Sheil readers: according to Chris, you were “engaged ... because the ideal of truth-seeking was always upheld”; the thrill of “not neutral, never indifferent” writing lured you to an author who was “honest about [his]own subjectivities”, “just as Thompson was”.
Readers of this site: according to Chris, you’re simply a member of “his slavish fanclub”.
Keep your hand on the treasure, hero.
without (a) crowing about number of hits, (b)droning on in a self-congratulatory manner about changing society
The fact that Tim’s success speaks for itself, while people like CS need to squawk like hysterical Victorian housewives in order to be noticed is what angers Chris the most, I suspect.
BTW Chris: When FOX News says “Fair and balanced”, it is meant to be ironic, and everyone except the most thick-headed lefties knows it. Yapping on and on about how they’re dastardly hiding their biases behind the slogan makes you look like a retard that just wandered in from the street. (Apologies to street-wandering retards for the comparison.)
Readers of this site: according to Chris, you’re simply a member of “his slavish fanclub”.
Well, duh.
If you read lefty sites and agree with them, you’re an intelligent, discriminating individual who knows truth and intelligence when he sees it. I might have been one of those happy, smart people if your Mind-Control Enslavement Beam hadn’t hit me one day and forced me to this site, where I remain, glued to the keyboard and drooling.
Oh. He can’t spell?
Dang, Tim, I thought you were being a classical scholar and calling him a liar.
True either way I guess
Posted by Technogypsy on 2005 08 15 at 03:52 PM • permalinkOh man, there’s some funny shit on this thread! Someone buy Chris Shiel a beer for the chuckles he’s providing!
Posted by James Waterton on 2005 08 15 at 04:24 PM • permalinkI thought you meant he was from Crete. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Posted by megapotamus on 2005 08 15 at 04:28 PM • permalink"I guess I’d be disappointed if I ever wrote anything without eliciting a snide commentary from my most dedicated publicist, Cretin Tim Blair. OK, I’ll respond once."
Couldn’t help himself. Had to come back and confirm he is a vindictive petty-minded little shit.
“As Tim has altered his original post, I’ll add a futher comment.”
The dreaded futher commentary! With added spite!
Updates make baby chris cry.Lautreamont describes the situation here :
The fly is not reasoning well just now. A man buzzes at its ears. This is enough to render it incapable of good advice. If I would have it find truth, I should chase away this animal which holds its reason in check and disquiets that intelligence which governs kingdoms.
Dear Penthouse:
I am a blogger and lecturer at a large antipodean university. I never thought any of the letters in your magazine were real until I recently had an erotic encouter with a lonely blogosphere.
It began innocently enough, with a little offhand opinion-flirting. “Did you know that the ‘fair and balanced’ media are a collection of whores and pigfuckers?”
“Mmm,tell me more, lecturer man,” it moaned, as my readership swelled to 4000 hits per day.
I slowly began banging my fingers on the keyboard, plying the sweaty internet with hot punditry about the doomed Howard government. It reached out and grabbed my now-turgid Sitemeter, which had now grown fully engorged passed 10,000 unique pageviews in a single day.
“Your hit count, it’s so… big,” said the blogosphere, its eyes ogling my erect site stats.
“Suffer, Cretan!” I shouted as I pounded it with thrust after thrust of painful misspellings. I was a runaway freight train, a piledriver of postmodern narrative deconstruction.
“Ungh… unghhh… hot link me, you doctoral degree animal!” it screamed, letting loose with wave after wave of pageview spikes.
We shared a cigarette, and it begged me for another round of hot intellectual commentary.
“Sorry baby, I’ve got to be moving on,” I said. “Maybe you can join me and the academic literature for a three-way sometime.”
Name Withheld on Request
Elizabeth Bay, NSW"The study shows men whose masculinity is challenged are more likely to support the Iraq war”
Which, of course, explains why the gay community has been so gung-ho for war.
Posted by tim maguire on 2005 08 15 at 05:53 PM • permalinkMost of the berserk passengers on CS’s runaway train were drawn from the ever diminishing numbers of the lefty mutual admiration society, perpetually moaning on and on and on and on about their overdue thesis on workers rights/global warming and the latest global outrage instigated by the evil scheming forces of BusHowBliarHitler onto the always suffering populace whilst despondently riffling thru the “situations vacant” columns in the Daily Slander before tricycling off to yet another unremarkably retro fitted blues/jazz watering hole.
The Hawk strikes again!
LOL!
</spilled drink>#42 Latino: The initials “cs” might also denote some form of tear gas.
i.e. An inflammatory agent / chemical irritant. Exposure to aerosolized particles of cs may result in tears and/or temporary blindness.
“...is often used by law enforcement when they are faced with a combative crowd."
- Effective moonbat antagonist.web stats lesson 101:
The use of hits as a measure of a popularity of a site is one of the big marketing lies of the Internet.A hit is downloading of a single element on a web page including all the images and other components as well as the HTML that ties it all together.
Thus even the most basic web page might achieve two dozen hits what with navigation buttons, photographs etc.
What really gives a true indication of popularity is unique page views, which is one per page.
In CS’s defense he may be refering to unique page views when using the word “hit” but most experienced web users will use UPV to make it crystal clear that they are not trying to artificially inflate the popularity of the site.
-- Nick
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2005 08 15 at 06:35 PM • permalinkI know you’re a big rugby playing kind of guy - no challenges to your masculinity, huh, big feller? - and have a big “treasure to hold tightly” and all, but deep down inside you’re just a little boy feeling hurt. We understand your pain. And so does Gianna, I’m sure. But please, take that Bex, have a lie down, and try to get over it. Sometimes big, tough, treasure-endowed guys with PhDs need to take time out to recuperate from all that stress of being, well, Internet dominating lefty stud muffins. I know you’ll be back more throbbing than ever as soon as you can. Until then, take care and try to breath through your tummy. It helps.
#60, Hanyu said: I know you’re a big rugby playing kind of guy - no challenges to your masculinity, huh, big feller?
Hanyu,
Hmmm, I dont think that Chris can talk,1) He likes to play a game where he sticks his head where no real men would
2) Lives in Elizabeth Bay, snicker,
3) Is a lefty lecturer.
4) Is against imported cars
In view of the above is likely to own a couple of poodles and like doing the cha-cha.
Patrick Chester—I collect pressed followers. ‘course, the muley hadda fall on ‘em to press ‘em when I shot it…
Tim—PROVE your manhood. Go ‘roo jackin’ from the bed of your Wahoomaloo V8!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 08 15 at 08:04 PM • permalinkmy year of blogging dangerously
Whoo, if that doesn’t pull those girl undergraduates down at the faculty wine-and-cheese evening, I don’t know what will. Trouble is, when I think of CS, it’s not Mel Gibson who springs to mind, but Linda Hunt.
Cuckoo—wronwright’s in charge of those. E-mail him.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 08 15 at 08:31 PM • permalinkFor a chap who’s blog became known instantly as ‘Back Passage’ becuase it the purest BS it spewed forth, CS certainly squeals like a pig when Tim figuratively lubes him up, then rags, bags and shags him.
And this fellow teaches at a university? On the basis of his maturity and ability to conduct rational argument, no doubt!
MarkL
CanberraI think not. I have a loooong list of crappy things that Karl Rove gave me responsibility for, all thankless, including planning a “terriers act in Italy” which unfortunately hasn’t gone as well as planned. The Jack Russells won’t wear jack boots and balaclavas and all they do is stand and bark at the Leaning Tower of Pisa, not scale it.
I have NO TIME for passing out decoder rings. (sniffs in a singularly haughty manner)
Posted by wronwright on 2005 08 15 at 08:55 PM • permalinkOh, by the way. If might interest you to know that I’m not Tim Blair’s flunky either. Yes, I’m Karl Roves’ loyal assistant (read unpaid idiot hoping to gain a single word of approval from his evil lordship but getting damn tired of this Dobby the House Elf shit I’ve been having to go through to become a full fledged neocon).
But not Tim’s. Well, not that I know of at least.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 08 15 at 09:02 PM • permalinkI will not encourage this mindless blather directed at me. I do not deal in night lights. Or decoder rings.
Well, not lately.
Can we all go back to making fun of Chris What-Ever-His-Name-Is?
Posted by wronwright on 2005 08 15 at 09:21 PM • permalinkTo: Christopher Sheil
From: Associate Professor Fae RancesAs your Head of School, I implore you to come inside before you get hurt. As you know, the School of History at UNSW has a long and distinguished history of hiding out of sight. Unfortunately, now everyone knows why academics rarely engage in public debate with the, er, public. Please stop commenting at Tim’s site before people start asking questions about who pays our salaries. Or, Marx forbid, how much we’re paid.
BTW: what’s this about your throbbing treasure? I’d like to come to grips with it one day, myself.
Oh. My. Goodness.
I’ve been in stitches when I should be working. I never realised that I was slavishly devoted to Tim before.
Does this mean I should break out the gimp suit and the leash?
Where is the Altar of Blogdom that I should sacrifice my firstborn on?
Iowahawk, that is one of the funniest things I’ve read. Well done.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2005 08 15 at 11:16 PM • permalinkHoly crude! You mean that comment at #3 was from Mr. Hot Linky himself?
And I scrolled past it like it was just another mediocre,redundant, bold html tag cry for attention like all the other pounding their noodle whilst typing chretien trolls out there?
Why do they always promise to respond once but then come again...? Tim must have hit his G-spot.
Gawd he’s on here twice while claiming that Tim is the stalker, and then complaining about late updates. Chretien -that’s why they are called updates...Tim doesn’t do them prematurely like you must.
Chris “Hot Linky Dinky” Sheil -take that ten dollars from Blog Ad revenues you must be rolling in naked by yourself and hire Andrew Sullivan to show you some tricks.
Heck you wouldn’t want to be a greedhead piglover? Share “the wealth”.
Posted by madawaskan on 2005 08 16 at 12:14 AM • permalinkIf ANYONE loves a war it’s the sissies of the left, sissies like David Marr, Philip Adams, Richard Neville, etc., etc., nice safe ones with Western democracies. Without a war to get all self-righteous about, these types would have nothing to say. Their identities and very existence depends on some kind of war, some kind of conflict with someone, no matter how contrived! Just look at the program schedule for SBS. If war is for those with “challenged masculinity” maybe they should re-christen the Rainbow WARrior!
Ah, great thread, Tim! LOL! Especially over Iowahawk’s post!!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 08 16 at 01:00 AM • permalink#80, speaking of Richard Neville, did any other boomers get Vol 1 No 1 of Zack in the mail as a freebie? It’s a new glossy lifestyle mag aimed at boomers, $5.50 cover price.
Problem: The lead contributors are the said Richard Neville, then George Negus and David Suzuki. This plus an article on how plastic bags are bad and green cloth enviro bags are good leads me to suspect the target market is aging hippies. I’ll be giving it a miss.
Posted by walterplinge on 2005 08 16 at 01:35 AM • permalinkDamn.......... I thought we peons here in the US was the world’s Cretan’s.
I do have a serious question. When those of us on top of the Earth, refer to you folks on the bottom, as “down under” does that refer to what Chris speaks of?
Holding tightly to his treasure, he buried himself under the warm towels ...”
If so I sure hate to be the ones doing your guys laundry
Holding tightly to his treasure, he buried himself under the warm towels ...”
T
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IPosted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 08 16 at 02:19 AM • permalinkThis thread just keeps getting better and better. Cheers to Tim and the commentariat for the laughs. And, most importantly, cheers to Chris! You’re one in a million, bro.
Posted by James Waterton on 2005 08 16 at 03:29 AM • permalinkOh my god my wife supports the war in Iraq and wants a four wheel drive. Her masculinity is threatened. Poor dear, I better make her a cup of tea.
Posted by platey mates on 2005 08 16 at 07:18 AM • permalinkOn the Infernal Blog Heck, on His Abhorrent Throne sits the Personification of Evil: Tim the Blair!
“...get quart of milk: done. Return videos: done. Punish slavish commenters...” *whaps commenters* “ow! THANK YOU!” “...done. Fufill neo-con agenda… hmm.”
Why, yes. I have watched cartoons as an adult. Is that another horrible flaw in those icky people who support the Iraq war?
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2005 08 16 at 10:25 AM • permalinkBack to the original post:
The study shows men whose masculinity is challenged are more likely to support the Iraq war, exhibit homophobia or think about buying a four-wheel-drive car.
Hmmm. I support the Iraq war, I support homosexuality (more chicks for the rest of us), and I’ve got a Scion xA (38-mpg microcar) on order. Where do I fit in?
I support homosexuality (more chicks for the rest of us),
Brilliant, I never thought about it quite that way.
Cretin Chris seems to be the only one here having a problem with masculinity. His own that is. Since he probably spends his evenings popping zits and jerking off so I think we are all safe from his chest thumping tirade.
Posted by swassociates on 2005 08 16 at 12:39 PM • permalinkWhats with everyone ripping into counterstrike?
CS thinks his credibility can be measured by the number of ‘hits’
Clearly number of hits is not an accurate method of detailing popularity.
cyber entity including spambots, trolls, CS acolytes, porn gazers and other cyborg lowlifes.
while people like CS need to squawk like hysterical Victorian housewives in order to be noticed
I’ll certainly agree that counterstrike has been infested with various low lifes using scripts, bots and various other cheats, and the number of juvinile barely-teen players (particularly those who are server admins) who scream obscenities and use porn sprays is all too common, but there are still many wonderful smaller servers who have built up a sense of community around them.
I’m sad to say that CS has passed into the realm of self-parody
People have been taking the piss out of cs and its idiosyncrasies for a while.
CS certainly squeals like a pig
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*yawn* So they’re back to the pathetic insulting of manhood attempt at a slur? Oh no... that’s just so… not very annoying.
I guess I’ll go collect wild flowers for my collection…