Woohoo, official off-topic thread!

I wish I was in IT. 🙁

One day. One day!

Cyner, come to San Francisco. I was just listening to a guy who works on one of the floors in my building bitching about how they need a consultant.

I'll put in a good word for you. For a price. 😖hifty:

*looks at Blax's sig*

Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
I wish I was in IT. 🙁

One day. One day!

Cyner, come to San Francisco. I was just listening to a guy who works on one of the floors in my building bitching about how they need a consultant.

I'll put in a good word for you. For a price. 😖hifty:

don't work in IT, it's garbage and trash. Get a business degree while at the same time learning a trade, which I guess could be in IT...

YouTube video This made it onto my ipod, thought you should all know.

Makes me lulz.

Anyone wanna come round here? Maybe you'll get a 1.2$/hour job if you're lucky. Good begging skills are pretty much mandatory if you want to eat though.

So you know how Stephanie Meyer described Edward as the perfect guy, to the point where it seemed like she herself really wanted to make out with her own fictional character?

Well, Joseph Conrad has this characteristic. One of the things that makes Heart of Darkness hard to read is my thinking that Conrad truly wants to blow Mr. Kurtz like crazy due to the latter's informed awesome.

But how does that make you feel?

Bored. I hate this book.

It looks boring. Is it written in that horrible late 1800's-early 1900's english, too? That's especially droll.

Yes. I can summarize the whole plot easily. The guy goes up a river, meets a crazy person, and then leaves the river.

It's a 77 paged book and yet it's apparently a classic. F*ck, I miss Wuthering Heights. That book was old but still fun to read.

In my experience, most "classics" are usually really overrated, boring pieces of shit. Like Frankenstein, War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. All shite.

But that's American considered classics, anyway. I imagine the type of books that Russia would find to be classic are super badass.

I wouldn't call them that. I would say they haven't aged well.

I would agree with you. I remember watching the Tom Cruise WotW remake and then reading the book, and going "man wtf is this shit?"

lol. I think there was too much olde british humor in it.

At least WotW had more action and some moments of worth. This book just bores me to tears.

I actually loved War of the Worlds... but yeah Heart of Darkness is boring as ****, unless you need more of a reason to dislike black people... lol

Going to assume that that was worded intentionally, and lol

Originally posted by Cyner
I actually loved War of the Worlds... but yeah Heart of Darkness is boring as ****, unless you need more of a reason to dislike black/British people... lol

Fixed. The black characters aren't really bad compared to the others. 😛

Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
Going to assume that that was worded intentionally, and lol

It was worded that way for you!

As far as older books, everything by CS Lewis is great annnd... 1984 is great.

Oh my god Brannon Braga made a show that doesn't suck!

Anyone ever watched Threshold?

Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
In my experience, most "classics" are usually really overrated, boring pieces of shit. Like Frankenstein, War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. All shite.

But that's American considered classics, anyway. I imagine the type of books that Russia would find to be classic are super badass.

Jesus Christ I hated that book so much.

**** that "didn't age well" bullshit, that book was such trite garbage I can't even begin to fathom how such a flowery, purple-prosed piece of shit became even halfway famous.

Dracula on the other hand was pretty enjoyable. estahuh

With his manly ass mustache.