Hangin’ at the 4-5-C-P conference with Glen. Will deliver a longer post when the madness is over. But in the meantime- I’m realising that most of the people here are pretty ugly. I’m not super good looking,* but I’m a total catch here, and I’m sure these people go to conferences for procreation as well as give papers. >:) But yeah - ugly, ugly people.
And lesbians.
That accounts for most of them.
[EDIT: what is this crap? I’m not even drunk. There’s no excuse.]
* jk - I so am.
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My mother had a great phrase for the kind of people you’re talking about. “They’re as ugly as a hatful or arseholes”. I love that phrase so much.
Comment by James — Saturday June 18 2005 @ 3:30 pm
It was room full of radio-faces, huh? I had a friend who went to a neighbouring boy’s school, he had a head like a smacked arse AS WELL AS a head like a sucked mango. Go figure.
Yeah, that Glen Fuller, he’s not a bad-looking bloke. :)
Psst! Got my tatt last night.
Comment by BourbonBird — Saturday June 18 2005 @ 5:00 pm
Dude, Glen Fuller’s taken.
>>>Holy crap, that’s some tatoo 0_o
Comment by Mark — Saturday June 18 2005 @ 7:01 pm
Mark: Dude, I am about as off the meat-market as one could possibly be. LOL, I was just saying, sheesh. And no, I don’t do these tattoo pain-type things in halves.
Comment by BourbonBird — Saturday June 18 2005 @ 8:44 pm
:: wink ::
Thanks BB. :p I’ll take the double negative form of expression as denoting a state of affairs that is in fact positive. Lucky for me that I am a bad structural linguist. ;)
Mark, hmm, no that is over. It has been over before, seemingly every couple of days (it was that sort of relationship), but now I feel the situation is without recourse. Perhaps I can tell you a story through analogy.
I certainly *was* taken. But taken in such a way that the relationship felt like a social cheeseburger. That is, ‘taken’ as in take away. The relationship seemed to organised itself according to the principles of take away: fast, cheap, generic with superficial variation and something you would not admit to indulging yourself with on a regular basis. After the initial excitement of consuming the spectacle has worn off — a spectacle, like the photos of the burgers in ads, that is admittedly sexy, seductive and good looking — all you have to worry about is disposing of the rubbish in a thoughtful manner. Plus it leaves you with the disgusting taste of meaninglessness in your mouth.
If Wheatbix is the breakfast of champions, then a cheesburger is the breakfast of nihilists.
Comment by Glen — Saturday June 18 2005 @ 10:06 pm
oh!
…and BB, you are a hottie.
:D
rofl!
Comment by Glen — Saturday June 18 2005 @ 10:11 pm
Argh! No double-negative anything! Glen Fuller is a good looking bloke, an honest opinion made by a bird (me) who’s taken. Every word I type is going to be picked apart by Mr PHD Fuller, so I am going to shush before he starts mooing at me, a la Spleenie on GBII night.
Men.
Comment by BourbonBird — Saturday June 18 2005 @ 11:16 pm
I would suggest that you’re in the wrong discipline.
Comment by Mel — Monday June 20 2005 @ 12:07 pm
Hiya there!
No, I don’t think so… maybe just the wrong icecream-and-pizza bar.
Comment by Mark — Monday June 20 2005 @ 4:58 pm
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