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chairdriver

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  1. The Music Thread

    I think the guitar is dying, as a thing.
  2. Tumblr

    bladinkat told me a story about how her boyfriend deletes his tweets so he never has more than 100 tweets at one time, and this has somehow manifested itself in my attitude to Tumblr; I found myself thinking "Fuck I have to delete some old ones I hate because I'm terrified to go about 50 posts." It feels like everything's now under constant scrutiny, and it has to live up to expectations, or else... / I'm a psycho / no one cares.
  3. General Movie Thread

    War Horse. Hideous. Junk. I'm so upset at Emily Watson for having been a part of this. 3/10
  4. Tumblr

    I feel with tumblr you have to be relatively conservative with the reblog button. Only use it for complete gems.
  5. Forum User Photos

    I don't understand chequed shirts in general.
  6. What Have You Bought?

    How do people not know about Zara men's? I assumed it was a famous thing. It's one of my favourite shops because it feels like you can actually look at the clothes without shite being in your eyes.
  7. What Have You Bought?

    Probably the most interesting aspect of Superman is his timelessness, the fact that he as a thing will outlive and will be bigger than any of his writers, his history and impact will always be greater than the sum of all his appearances in comics or films. To comment on "currentness" of Superman seems irrelevant or near-sighted, especially when its clear his current form is a temporary kooky deviance from what we actually expect and want. / read Grant Morrison.
  8. What Have You Bought?

    Superman t-shirt (Zara £20) I was stunned. Feels so official/interesting, feels like it references the phantom zone or something. 2 pairs of trousers (£20 each) and a Christmas jumper at £10.
  9. good stuff thread.

    The middle judge is everything to me.
  10. Sherlock

    I enjoyed / wasn't as good as previous episodes. I'm not sure why they made Russell Tovey do an accent he obviously wasn't comfortable doing. It just felt awkward and off.
  11. Inspiring Speeches

    I watched this video and was so done in that I felt the need to share it with people. I couldn't pick out a single bit to quote to draw people in, because that would emphasise a singular part, when really, the whole thing should be experienced at once. While it starts out relatively specific to LGBTQ politics, I think it's really important for everyone to hear (one of the comments is "from a straight male, that was pretty awesome"). The very last sentence is such a critical hit.
  12. I always pick Princess Peach

    I don't see why there can't be three changing rooms: male, female and gender neutral. You use whichever you feel most comfortable using. Would certainly help people of trans identity, couples who share bags, fathers with young girls, men who find the atmosphere in the male changing room aggressively off-putting (quite a few guys I know won't go to the uni swim pool because of the changing room situation, which is kind of lolwut), hetero couples who want to fuck &c &c. An easy solution to solve many people's problems.
  13. I always pick Princess Peach

    I think you're conflating sexuality and gender. You can be ultra-masculine and gay. It's transphobia more than anything else -- being scared to break outside of rigid gender binary. --- At least with Batman it's actually part of the story that he's built and of peak physique. It's not part of the story that Catwoman is a supermodel with "perfectly" shaped breasts/ass -- it's almost assumed that that's what women look like.
  14. A friend asked me: "Who are you attracted to?". I sensed he was meaning in broad terms rather than me naming specific friends (we don't have THAT many mutual friends), so I was like, well... and I thought, nothing jumping to my mind immediately. He prompted me to think of celebrities, himself giving the example of Audrey Tautou, and I saw what he was getting at, given he's seen Amelie millions of times, and has a picture of her on the ceiling above his bed. He explained that it wasn't just that she "is hot" or whatever, there's a proper pulling force and he's a enamoured by everything about her. I didn't give him an answer because I was indecisive/ I was bored / we were interrupted, but I've been thinking about it since. There are very few people in life I'm fiercely attracted to. There are people I think are hot, or are cute, there are models/porn stars I think are sexy, but gems are few and far between. I was fiercely attracted to the first guy I loved, at 17. It felt like he redefined some aspect of my outlook on life or something. Like everything was different and new. I couldn't stop looking at him, I couldn't stop marvelling at every single one of his movements and mannerisms. Like there was something more than "he's fit". There was aspects of his personality on anyone else I'd hate, but I managed to overlook them, or convince myself I liked them. Everyone else was nothing. That's kinda faded now / I'm over it, mostly because it wasn't going to go anywhere so I kinda tore myself away and forgot. ANYWAY, I saw Heartbeats last week, and I'm now infatuated with one of the actors (he's also the director) Xavier Dolan.
  15. I always pick Princess Peach

    I used to be much more likely to pick a female character in video games. Sometimes because I thought they were just cooler. I always had Cloud, Tifa and Yuffie as my main team, because I preferred them to any of the other characters. Sometimes because their move sets were preferable: often gender stereotyped such that they were swifter and more lithe in close combat. For example I always picked Ayame in Tenchu, because Rikimaru feels really slow and shite. I was always the woman in Pandemonium, because she could double jump, therefore was far greater. Saying that, I think it had some bit to do with my personality. I think I always felt "different", in the sense I knew I was a massive queer before it actually happened; I chose the woman because she was the next-best thing to the (near-always) non-existent [/insert term for a guy with a non-stereotypical brand of masculinity] {there's no concise word for what I mean}. The female character was often the person/gender/gender performance I felt closest to. In fact, I remember Zell from Final Fantasy VIII being the first male character I actively thought was cool / wanted to be. I can't specifically work out why in retrospect (he's kinda annoying), perhaps it was because he was bullied and a bit of an underdog, perhaps I just sensed that he was a bit like me? / shut up. Now it's more complex. I'm more-and-more leaning into a more masculine gender; having built muscle I feel a lot more physically empowered, and I feel perhaps this manifests itself into my personality. For example, now I'm far more likely to play as Cyclops or Iceman in X-Men Legends than I am Jean Grey. I'm more and more exploring different aspects of sex[uality], I'm developing relationships and learning more about how people work, and how being a human being works. I've had time to think more about feminist/trans politics etc. Also you feel sometimes female characters are just written in so guys can wank over them. There's a point in Dynasty Warriors playing as/against Xiao Qiao that you kinda think "No, this is just vapid objectification. She's wearing hotpants, speaks with the vocal intonation of a Japanese schoolgirl and she has no story nor reason to be here." --- Gendered toys can die. I really liked how my 8 year old sister got the following presents for Christmas: Harry Potter Lego A stylophone Tracksuit bottoms A bazooka that fires missiles 25 feet A (plastic) axe NOW Disney Hits CD Harry Hill's TV Burp DVDs Chocolate and a few other random shit things. Only the weapons are actively gendered, everything else she got was gender neutral, which is gr8 because it wasn't planned or co-ordinated, it just happened (and she's not even a tom-boy really or anything). Not a pink / "girl" thing in sight. I think blue for boys, pink for girls is a really reductive, stupid thing. Gender isn't that simple, and why would you aspire to have your kids be constrained by such an arbitrary thing?
  16. good stuff thread.

    Hot. (doubly so if by jocks you mean jockstrap, which I'm guessing not and its just Irish slang, because realistically who wears such things round their house?) --- Played 7 hours of Uncharted 3 today. I'm on the cruise ship. I feel a bit dead inside, but loving life tew.
  17. General Movie Thread

    Watched Heartbeats (twice, I'm so stunned. The second time less so, but I noticed stunning things and can now fully appreciate the interview scenes / Francis is absolutely,completely,wholly everything to me.) 9 Watchmen The second time I've seen it. I kind of hate. The first time in the cinema felt good/fine, because it was big and loud and bold. This time, once you're over it, and realise you want to kill Zack Snyder, and are ready to fully analyse the story, you're just kinda like "..." It feels like it should have just been left as a book. 5
  18. Christmas Presents

    From Santa - Selection box of Nestle chocolates - Coca Cola lip balm - Sylvia Plath Collected Poems (a joke thing. Second hand too, adding 2 the mystique) - A Rebel Without A Cause DVD (feels so appropriate / I never expressed the fact I wanted to see it) - FCUK socks. In a stunning box. Yes. - Calvin Klein briefs - Calvin Klein pyjamas - Thermal long sleeved shirt thing - People Who Changed The World (book) (I'm kinda over it already. Feels like a book you'd find in Bookworld / Bargain Books. I read the article on Malcolm X and I'm already like "...") - Chemical Hand Warmers (I famously have bad circulation, so sew useful). - iPhone cover From under the tree - Thermal socks - Superman mug - Born This Way (CD) (Yes. Had it digitally, but never physically. It's such a one to put on your CD player.) - Destiny's Child Number #1's. (Yes. Stand Up For Love.) - A snood - Rihanna t-shirt (mmmyes) - £10 WHSmith voucher - A PS3 w/ Battlefield 3, Uncharted 3. Uncharted 3 is the most stunning thing I've done with my life. The bit where you have to flee the museum -- too much. Genuinely exhilarating. I felt like Spider-man, but on his 5th click. Abnormally Attracted to Nate when he was young too. Going to buy Final Fantasy XIII tomorrow, and probably Arkham Asylum and Valkyria Chronicles. In the mood 4 love.
  19. THE NHS!

    Sadly it's now being dismantled and sold away to the highest bidder
  20. Is religion taught in your schools?

    lol. I think schools should teach Philosophy/Theology much more, as a thing.
  21. Except it can be annoying to have an age gap. I was seeing a guy this year (it's kinda fizzled out) who's 26. Ended up with him always talking about his interesting experiences in Japan/USA/wherever (not out of him boasting / turning the conversation around onto himself, just that's the way the cookie crumbles) and I, not having had time in my life to do anything like that, couldn't really add anything as interesting. It often turned into what I called "story time" where he'd talk about accelerating particles in Japan for an hour and I'd sit dreamy eye'd. But yeah, that's possible more to do with the fact he was really interesting, and I'm not...
  22. What song(s) are you really into at the moment?!

    I can't stop listening to live performances of Sugar by Tori Amos. Choose your pick. The first is a better performance, but worse quality. The second she looks more stunning, more like a high priestess. When it gets to the following part, it's so good. Sweet boy, when they find you out, tell me what you think they'll do? When they find out you've got a little little kid, tell me what you think they'll do? When they find you out, when they find you out When they find out YOU'RE JUST A PUSSY Yes.
  23. Funny Stuff Thread

    It's a pretty easy maze aswell, the path is really direct, no need to go back on yourself or anything.
  24. good stuff thread.

    First date sex is an important discriminant. Why waste time with someone who's rubbish in bed or polar opposite to you sexually? Sex is important in a relationship, and if you don't gell sexually, you're doomed from the start.
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