Comments on: the end is nigher http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2008/08/the-end-is-nigher-2/ "bringing you all the news that's fit to mistrust" Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:18:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: kimba http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2008/08/the-end-is-nigher-2/comment-page-1/#comment-36064 kimba Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:30:50 +0000 http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2008/08/14/the-end-is-nigher-2/#comment-36064 I love "late capitalist resource sinks." H and I wandered around a local obnoxiously upscale mall yesterday and when I came out of a store I found her trying to disentangle herself from a saleswoman who was scrubbing her arm with some substance which apparently contains gold. After working with the people I work with everyday, that kind of thing (the mall, the scrub, the expensive SUVs in the parking lot) can cause culture shock. • <em>Culture-shocked late-capitalist editor</em>: You rescued her! Now I must look at your statement of purpose, heroic one.... I love “late capitalist resource sinks.” H and I wandered around a local obnoxiously upscale mall yesterday and when I came out of a store I found her trying to disentangle herself from a saleswoman who was scrubbing her arm with some substance which apparently contains gold. After working with the people I work with everyday, that kind of thing (the mall, the scrub, the expensive SUVs in the parking lot) can cause culture shock.

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Culture-shocked late-capitalist editor: You rescued her! Now I must look at your statement of purpose, heroic one….

]]> By: votergirl http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2008/08/the-end-is-nigher-2/comment-page-1/#comment-36027 votergirl Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:35:53 +0000 http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2008/08/14/the-end-is-nigher-2/#comment-36027 Why why why? For the love of God why? • <em>Potential stem-cell donor, if they pay me</em>: $¢€¥£? But I think your cry is more existential than that, and thus I can only answer: OH GOD I DON'T KNOW EITHER! Why why why? For the love of God why?

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Potential stem-cell donor, if they pay me: $¢€¥£?

But I think your cry is more existential than that, and thus I can only answer: OH GOD I DON’T KNOW EITHER!

]]> By: oleoptene http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2008/08/the-end-is-nigher-2/comment-page-1/#comment-36021 oleoptene Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:21:38 +0000 http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2008/08/14/the-end-is-nigher-2/#comment-36021 How sad that the freakier it gets, the more I shake my head and mutter about it having been inevitable? But now I feel like I ought to burst, à la Monty Python, into "Every ovum is sacred." And I could see "monthly miracle" gaining some traction around here, never having been one to bear "Aunt Flo" or any of the other charming and cute ways of referring to it. • <em>Monthly miracle-making editor</em>: True, it is possibly even better than "menstrual faeries," though I've always liked the faintly malicious edge of that Mandarin-derived epithet. How sad that the freakier it gets, the more I shake my head and mutter about it having been inevitable? But now I feel like I ought to burst, à la Monty Python, into “Every ovum is sacred.” And I could see “monthly miracle” gaining some traction around here, never having been one to bear “Aunt Flo” or any of the other charming and cute ways of referring to it.

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Monthly miracle-making editor: True, it is possibly even better than “menstrual faeries,” though I’ve always liked the faintly malicious edge of that Mandarin-derived epithet.

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