Posts by Josh Addison
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I ended up presenting my Camus essay at one of the Philosophy Department MA student meetings. My talk was entitled "A Cow Camus, Can You?"
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I'm intrigued - how do you work The Watchmen into French Philosophy?
The essay was on Camus' notion of the Absurd - the sequence where Rorshach's psychiatrist contemplates his own inkblot test and comes to the realisation that it's just a blob of ink with no meaning other than what we give it is a textbook example of someone confronting the Absurd. Made for a great example.
For a snake-worshipping, bearded madman, Mr. Moore certainly knows his shit.
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I also got an A+ for my 20th Century French Philosophy essay that extensively referenced Alan Moore's "Watchmen". Now "Watchmen" - there's literature.
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Yeah, I managed to get a Simpsons quote into most of my essays. Not that that's much of a feat -- like the Bible, there's a Simpsons quote for everything.
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who's a kind of crossover, mildly Christian, shittily average band?
Evanesence? Peter Dunne as Amy Lee - there's an image.
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I thought one of the signs of alcoholism is that you occasionally give up drinking for a while, just to prove that you can...
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Oh, and re: calling people "tiger", don't forget to spice it up with a bit of variety, just to keep people guessing:
"Hey there, tiger!"
"Hey there, sport!"
"Hey there, champ!"
"Hey there, Hitler!"
No, wait - not that last one.
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__So now I have many conversations like this:
Person: Hi, Robyn!
Me: Hi.__Oh god, me too
Me three. Originally it was a covering mechanism, but these days I just find calling someone by their first name weird for some reason. Unless I actually need to call someone by their name (usually to get their attention), I don't -- it feels kind of patronising or overly familiar to me.
I'm assuming that I've just conditioned myself to find using someone's first name abnormal, but when I see someone write "Well, Josh, what I think is that..." online, my initial reaction is that they're being condescending, even though on a forum like this you often have to make it explicit who your comments are directed at.
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I was told about someone who had "1." tattooed on one hand, and then "1. hand" on his foot. Because, right, because it's a foot note.
After being told of this, we then sat around thinking up similarly themed additions, like getting "ibid" on the other foot...
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Yeah, another hand up for "Crap With Names" Syndrome, although I'm fine with faces. When I was in tutorials at University, I always found it interesting that while I'd be lucky if I could remember two or three names of the people in a tutorial, I'd always be able to remember exactly where everyone had been sitting.