Re: Mind's Eye Re: Delusions

Me thinks you sided the death warrant  for ME.

تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
Évitez; assassiner, le viol et l'esclavage des autres
Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others

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From: archytas <nwterry@gmail.com>
To: minds-eye@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Delusions

There's a legacy list of nearly 2,500 banned members.  Gabbs could start her new democratic venture of telling people what to do with that.

On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 6:44:35 PM UTC, archytas wrote:

You get the patent then Chris.  We'll go to one of those bars with a two gallon minimum and a fruit based cocktail selection for the lady.  Gabby can play the role of the jilted female inventor, forgotten in hisstory, slipping vodka into her prune juice, as we fight off international investors to keep the authenticity of the product intact.  At least until she goes to the powder room and we run off the the bags of cash.

On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 5:17:03 PM UTC, Chris Jenkins wrote:

If we score the patent, drinks are on me!

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:12 PM, gabbydott <gabbydott@gmail.com> wrote:

Does that mean you accept our foolproof methodology to read the details carefully and not only follow the sweet sound before you marry? Chris, I'm sure you always need money too, let's go and have this patented! Chacka-chacka!!

Am 12.02.2015 18:04 schrieb "archytas" <nwterry@gmail.com>:

How utterly super to see the children play.  Reminds me of being taught how to use the police national computer in 1976 and playing trains with another bored terminal operator.

On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 3:38:36 PM UTC, Gabby wrote:

Oh how romantic, you two. Glad you found your room with Mary Moll. :)

2015-02-12 15:55 GMT+01:00 archytas <nwterry@gmail.com>:

There's an extra aye in there Moll.

If you think of some of the external processes I investigate and the internal ones you have explicated (not that either of us is restricted to either), there is a lot of common ground.   Bifurcation is often a 'false split'.

On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 1:00:45 PM UTC, Molly wrote:

Aye, aye, aye

On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 7:29:51 AM UTC-5, archytas wrote:

Merrie Monk is still brewed by Marstons.  Technically a mild, 4.5 abv but seems to hit harder.  Craft beers from micro breweries don't appeal to me much - we have one round the corner (Banks) with about 7 different beers that all taste the same.  Mostly badge engineering over here, by Interbrew - even they are now ab-inbev co the world's largest brewer.  Boddies is now part of that chain.  I swear they have even screwed Stella Artois and have been advertising it as 'reassuringly expensive'.

They make Bud too.  Back in the day, I met the CEO of Stella Artois - he was tea total.  Kind enough to stock my hotel fridge with product though.

I'm waiting for the time African beer gets marketed here with small print 'warning: contains crocodile bile and battery acid' under the Mumbojawless brand.  Beer, apart from a few small brewers, tends to taste better and cleaner abroad.  Nordic friends now get ratted on Lithuanian hooch before meeting at Ziggy's to sip expensive beer before piling back to the barbecue at Sven and Olga's to finish off on Estonian imports.

I see our new information manager is settling in nicely, already in a room of her own talking to the walls.  The gibberish she has to come up with is difficult to learn but she has language skills to refine it to total misinformation with that paranoid edge that keeps people on their toes lest they slack into actual conversation.  I doubt we could have appointed a better one trick pony.  One visit to her room by the information commissioners and we will never see them again.

Molly has done nearly all the work.  The plan, of course, was always to lure Gabby to this room and let her exhaust her poisons until no one else is left, with the last one out pulling the door tightly shut.

On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 12:42:29 AM UTC, Chris Jenkins wrote:

Oh man, Merry Monk is one of my favorites. I'm a sucker for Tripels...more so for Quadrupels.

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:40 PM, archytas <nwterry@gmail.com> wrote:

Boddingtons' was the favourite bitter back in cop/army days.  It was weak abv, amber, creamy and nectar.  Since then big brewers took over, closed the old brewery and ruined the flavour.darkened the colour and the flavour went malty.  Brings a tear to my eye to drink the much now.  Holt's bitter was the classic though.  Smelled like an old kangaroo's jock-strap or something Gabby throws in her cauldron.  You had to get the first pint down holding your breath,  By about the fourth, it was all cream nectar and you just had to make it eight.  It was all live beer in 36 gallon barrels back then, manipulated into cellars by gangs of muscular dwarfs, watched over for days by a loving but grisly landlord who sank the first edible pint himself just to let us know who was in charge.  Then came pasteurised beer and lager - and shameful sights like me and Railway Frank arm-wrestling for the last pint of Merry Monk.  I won, but had to let him have the beer to make up for that.

On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 11:42:45 PM UTC, Chris Jenkins wrote:

I'm enjoying a Boddie's now; it's no Younger's 2, but it's got a nice creamy head. I can't find enough of the bitters here though; IPA's are the frat boy craft beer of choice. 

My good mates live on a 42' single mast now; the children are gone, and land held no attraction. I've still got another eight years or so before that becomes a possibility. 

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 6:34 PM, archytas <nwterry@gmail.com> wrote:

Just right for a transportation sentence then.  Used to sail.  My balance is crap now.  Flying a desk just ain't it.  When I was more actively engaged, some of the best parts involved solitude.  I miss that.  Loneliness is not the same thing.  Bolton pubs have an air of desperation now, so I don't bother.  The ale is usually cack too.  That old fuggy muggy behind the sanctity of the pub door has faded to disinfectant and stale food smells.  And I used to smoke when drinking.  Not the same without.  Plus 'young punk' violence is much worse now.

I still get out to sea a couple of times a year on a mate's fishing smack.  His quota days have just increased from 4 to 5 days a month.  There's no living in it any more.  Due out with him at the end of the month and will probably resume normal beer service then.  Theakston's Old Peculiar and another black beer, Younger's No 2 are a treat when properly creamy.  You'd still be sucking the stuff in from that facial appendage the following day.

On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 11:02:09 PM UTC, Chris Jenkins wrote:

My pony tail and beard are built for the sea, but I skipper a desk chair, more to my chagrin. 

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:52 PM, archytas <nwterry@gmail.com> wrote:

Who are you calling an old pirate, Blackbeard?  And what kind of nancy-boy pubs where they let woman in other than to be barmaids 'ave ye been drinkin' in?

On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 10:28:39 PM UTC, Chris Jenkins wrote:

Only to an old pirate. 

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:26 PM, archytas <nwterry@gmail.com> wrote:

Has anyone else noticed that a colon and a right parenthesis look like a symbol for a cut-throat razor? :)

On Wednesday, 11 February 2015 22:19:52 UTC, Chris Jenkins wrote:

No justifications, dear Gabs. Just a correction. :)

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 4:58 PM, gabbydott <gabbydott@gmail.com> wrote:

Oh yes, What, who, whose questions are being ommitted is quite telling. There is a geometry in that too, of course. I explicitly said no blaming, and you come up with justifications?! For what? Yes, we were close to my wish come true, but then Facil appeared and it all started again. There is nothing I can do about it from where I sit. ;)

Am Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2015 schrieb Chris Jenkins :

Oh, how quickly time muddles the recollection...perhaps you should go back and review some of those posts before I left. It was for the same reason Craig did, and had nothing to do with the legacy nature of an email list. I was overloaded between job and family, and simply couldn't keep up with the volume of communication (a strike against your assertion I left because I knew it was an outdated format). There were hundreds of posts, some of them quite combative (*ahem*), and any action taken by mods to keep the list adhering to its original intent was met with a hearty round of "fuck you matey". It was draining. 

My goodbye: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/minds-eye/by$20chris/minds-eye/ZQB5vLJ2rSI/0GbRK-9nz-AJ

Note that I put it to the group to decide, specifically because there was no other way to effectively determine any sort of self governance, and I didn't feel I had the right to make an arbitrary decision without input. 

You promptly attacked every facet of my decision (and I expected no less). There was a long and robust conversation with a ton of familiar faces (most missing now). Your first vote was for a natural death. Have you gotten your wish?

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:37 PM, gabbydott <gabbydott@gmail.com> wrote:

 Over a thousand members, 5 actually post?

 

This question coming from you? YOU! Oh come on, Chrissy baby! This is an outdated format here that doesn't generate much traffic anymore. You know that, that`s your job to know that, that`s why you quit the mod job here! No one is blaming you for that but don´t play the innocent here! You introduced no transparent polling as to who should become your successor, but lay down your crown to the one who threw his hat in the ring, a method acceptable for the queen also. Nice try, dear.

2015-02-11 17:34 GMT+01:00 Chris Jenkins <digitalprecipice@gmail.com>:

Yep, he passed the bar some time ago, which is a big part of why he no longer had time for these conversations. 

He's not alone in that, apparently. Over a thousand members, 5 actually post?

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:32 AM, archytas <nwterry@gmail.com> wrote:

Such charm as ever Gabby.  The term paedophile is not well taken here and may really insult Allan and make him sad.

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