The Official ZBB Quote Thread

[Nesescosac]

HP: So is the distinction allophonic, or real?
D: It's allophonic, my dear boy, but whyever should that mean it's not real?

Harry Potter and the Linguist's Dilemma, out in bookstores this January

[Ser]

My Słowianie

[Aurora Rossa]

Is that some kind of white supremacist music group?

[Drydic]

no

[patiku]

Eddy, do you really believe that CUM Quesa would watch something like that, and, if he did, would suddenly be turned into an anti-Semite? Do you believe that white supremacism is that persuasive?

[Anguipes]

We all know Eddy's life is a constant struggle to resist his white supremacist urges, as it is for every Scots-Irish oh god I can't even finish this idiocy.

[Aurora Rossa]

Eddy, do you really believe that CUM Quesa would watch something like that, and, if he did, would suddenly be turned into an anti-Semite? Do you believe that white supremacism is that persuasive?

Not everyone shares my inhibitions toward watching right wing media, and the ZBB (and the world more generally) does have a lot of right wingers on it. Sure, I imagined that CUM was joking, but it would not have surprised me at all if he were watching a fascist music video. Nor would it surprise me to hear about yet another far right band.

[Drydic]

Eddy, do you really believe that CUM Quesa would watch something like that, and, if he did, would suddenly be turned into an anti-Semite? Do you believe that white supremacism is that persuasive?

Not everyone shares my inhibitions toward watching right wing media, and the ZBB (and the world more generally) does have a lot of right wingers on it. Sure, I imagined that CUM was joking, but it would not have surprised me at all if he were watching a fascist music video. Nor would it surprise me to hear about yet another far right band.

Here's a thought: bands/singers who don't have a political persuasion.

[Aili Meilani]

Here's a thought: bands/singers who don't have a political persuasion.

Seriously, name five.

[Thry]

[composers too]

Wagner

counts as five

[patiku]

the ZBB [...] does have a lot of right wingers on it.

Name five who have posted in the last three months.

[Torco]

the ZBB [...] does have a lot of right wingers on it.

Name five who have posted in the last three months.

... rusanov, pthug and you come to mind?
okay, pthug hasn't shown any rightwing sentiment, just quite a bit of anti-left sentiment... same for you, methinks...
I dunno, the whole "right" vs "left" thing is just... it basically means if you're a socialdemocrat proglib or a conservative who hates commies. and that's a terrible dychoromy to use to describe the politics of people.

[Ser]

pthag is very much in the right-wing (remember the ZBB three-dimensional political compasses you analyzed?), but I don't think it extends to more than pthag, Nort, rusanov and äreo (and äreo doesn't even talk politics here, but gets channeled through Nort on the IRC). I'm not sure patiku is that much of a political person at all. (This doesn't rule out, of course, that four right wingers are too many for Eddy, even in a sea of otherwise liberals and socialists.)

[Rhetorica]

con_quesa, upon seeing Donatan-Cleo's My Słowianie

<CUM_quesa> Man the holocaust was great.
<CUM_quesa> Only wish hitler had killed even *more* jews.
<CUM_quesa> I am now a slavic nationalist.

...I feel I have to point out that this is deliberately taken out of context, lest a misunderstanding of consequence occur in the distant future:

8:06:46 PM - CUM_quesa: I've never seen an anti-semite be all
8:06:51 PM - CUM_quesa: man the holocaust was great
8:06:59 PM - CUM_quesa: only wish hitler had killed even *more* jews
8:07:04 PM - CUM_quesa: they always deny it

[giant snip]

8:35:21 PM - CUM_quesa: man
8:36:12 PM - CUM_quesa: Nessari
8:36:22 PM - CUM_quesa: I have been watching that My Słowanie video over and over again
8:36:28 PM - CUM_quesa: I am now a slavic nationalist

[patiku]

So basically you've just posted the same quote twice.

[ObsequiousNewt]

Did this result from my attempt at being racist?

[Drydic]

Via a quite torturous route, but yes, in the beginning.

[Zontas]

pthag is very much in the right-wing (remember the ZBB three-dimensional political compasses you analyzed?), but I don't think it extends to more than pthag, Nort, rusanov and äreo (and äreo doesn't even talk politics here, but gets channeled through Nort on the IRC). I'm not sure patiku is that much of a political person at all. (This doesn't rule out, of course, that four right wingers are too many for Eddy, even in a sea of otherwise liberals and socialists.)

Nort is more centrist IMO, in his place I'd put Bristel. Saturday, Patiku, and maybe Chagen could also fit (all defy categorization, however).

[Drydic]

what drugs did they have to put you on to make you think Nort is centrist?

[Pthagnar]

Destroy everything that exists
-- the moderate position of compromise

[Rhetorica]

Finally, an answer:

3:06:46 AM - pthagnar: I'M A SUB-MARXIST ANTI-DEMOCRATIC PSEUDOLOGIST

[Rhetorica]

and at the same time:

3:05:24 AM - H13: anyway i was saying if humans were like bees it would be a good thing
3:05:25 AM - H13: sadly
3:05:29 AM - H13: humans are not like bees
3:05:39 AM - Rhetorica-L: no, it's a good thing humans are not like bees
3:05:44 AM - Rhetorica-L: bee colonies are like humans
3:05:59 AM - pharazon: then why am i producing honey
3:06:17 AM - Rhetorica-L: um
3:06:27 AM - Radius: because you are ill, dear.
3:06:27 AM - pharazon: hm
3:06:29 AM - Rhetorica-L: consult your family doctor
3:06:46 AM - H13: well i can see why rad would be with pharazon
3:07:00 AM - H13: i think even i would go for a man you can suck honey out of the nipples of

[dhok]

pthag is very much in the right-wing (remember the ZBB three-dimensional political compasses you analyzed?), but I don't think it extends to more than pthag, Nort, rusanov and äreo (and äreo doesn't even talk politics here, but gets channeled through Nort on the IRC). I'm not sure patiku is that much of a political person at all. (This doesn't rule out, of course, that four right wingers are too many for Eddy, even in a sea of otherwise liberals and socialists.)

I don't think I've ever heard about this three-dimensional compass...elaborate?

[ObsequiousNewt]

I've never seen a conlanger cry. The worst they do is make ocular liquids

[patiku]

There should be a limit on how many quotes an individual can post per month.