Comments on: Con on http://www.thelaundry.biz/blog/2007/09/con-on Missives from the Wallington Tower Fantasy Collective Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:04:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: learn to draw http://www.thelaundry.biz/blog/2007/09/con-on#comment-41987 learn to draw Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:38:49 +0000 http://www.thelaundry.biz/blog/2007/09/con-on#comment-41987 biggest scam i have fallen for, bought a credit repair kit to fix my credit, they continued to charge my card 4 times after i told them to stop, i disputed the fees with Visa, won, and then they reported it as a delinquent account on my credit report, lol. biggest scam i have fallen for, bought a credit repair kit to fix my credit, they continued to charge my card 4 times after i told them to stop, i disputed the fees with Visa, won, and then they reported it as a delinquent account on my credit report, lol.

]]> By: Tom Tom http://www.thelaundry.biz/blog/2007/09/con-on#comment-26163 Tom Tom Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:58:39 +0000 http://www.thelaundry.biz/blog/2007/09/con-on#comment-26163 I've always been a sucker for bad philosophy jokes, e.g. "How many Marxists does it take to change a lightbulb? None. The lightbulb contains the seeds of its own revolution." Or the particularly awful: Descartes walks into a café and sits down ready to order. A waiter comes up to him and asks, "Do you need a menu?" Descartes replies, "I think not," and he disappears. And in a similar ven: "Did you hear that George Berkeley died? His girlfriend stopped seeing him." I’ve always been a sucker for bad philosophy jokes, e.g. “How many Marxists does it take to change a lightbulb?
None. The lightbulb contains the seeds of its own revolution.”

Or the particularly awful: Descartes walks into a café and sits down ready to order. A waiter comes up to him and asks, “Do you need a menu?” Descartes replies, “I think not,” and he disappears.

And in a similar ven: “Did you hear that George Berkeley died? His girlfriend stopped seeing him.”

]]> By: Ben http://www.thelaundry.biz/blog/2007/09/con-on#comment-26160 Ben Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:56:40 +0000 http://www.thelaundry.biz/blog/2007/09/con-on#comment-26160 ‘There is no purpose in existence; it is in the sense that life has no meaning derived from outside humanity, but only the meaning that we ourselves give it’ there you go – sort of the essence of existentialism. A more grown up quote to put above your clock in your grown up house! I sometimes have day dreams in which I wish I had lived in Paris in the 1950’s…but there would not have been the Laundry – which is a shame…on the plus side I could have hung out with Picasso. Oh well. ‘There is no purpose in existence; it is in the sense that life has no meaning derived from outside humanity, but only the meaning that we ourselves give it’ there you go – sort of the essence of existentialism. A more grown up quote to put above your clock in your grown up house! I sometimes have day dreams in which I wish I had lived in Paris in the 1950’s…but there would not have been the Laundry – which is a shame…on the plus side I could have hung out with Picasso. Oh well.

]]> By: Andy http://www.thelaundry.biz/blog/2007/09/con-on#comment-26159 Andy Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:51:45 +0000 http://www.thelaundry.biz/blog/2007/09/con-on#comment-26159 oh and if you're looking for quotes to sound pretentious and clever, how about "to exist is to be perceived". suitably vain. oh and if you’re looking for quotes to sound pretentious and clever, how about “to exist is to be perceived”. suitably vain.

]]> By: Andy http://www.thelaundry.biz/blog/2007/09/con-on#comment-26158 Andy Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:33:12 +0000 http://www.thelaundry.biz/blog/2007/09/con-on#comment-26158 Unlucky Rachel. Never trust philosophers, we only ever come in 2 sorts. Those who try and convert you to some bizarre cause, and those who use it to sleep with women by confusing them. We’re all dangerous. Unlucky Rachel. Never trust philosophers, we only ever come in 2 sorts. Those who try and convert you to some bizarre cause, and those who use it to sleep with women by confusing them. We’re all dangerous.

]]> By: Rachel at the Laundry http://www.thelaundry.biz/blog/2007/09/con-on#comment-26152 Rachel at the Laundry Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:00:33 +0000 http://www.thelaundry.biz/blog/2007/09/con-on#comment-26152 OH I LOVE THAT ONE - i put it on a post it note above our clock in our student house. It's just so true! I think I thought it was Oscar Wilde though, wrong again. OH I LOVE THAT ONE - i put it on a post it note above our clock in our student house. It’s just so true! I think I thought it was Oscar Wilde though, wrong again.

]]> By: Ben http://www.thelaundry.biz/blog/2007/09/con-on#comment-26151 Ben Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:59:49 +0000 http://www.thelaundry.biz/blog/2007/09/con-on#comment-26151 ‘Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.’ Not his best quote but when you work in an office everyday – very true. ‘Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.’ Not his best quote but when you work in an office everyday – very true.

]]> By: Rachel from the Laundry http://www.thelaundry.biz/blog/2007/09/con-on#comment-26150 Rachel from the Laundry Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:59:09 +0000 http://www.thelaundry.biz/blog/2007/09/con-on#comment-26150 Ok - give me a quote so I can cheat and look impressive Ok - give me a quote so I can cheat and look impressive

]]> By: Ben http://www.thelaundry.biz/blog/2007/09/con-on#comment-26149 Ben Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:54:21 +0000 http://www.thelaundry.biz/blog/2007/09/con-on#comment-26149 My friends at university did Philosophy (I stuck to history of art) and they hated it when people quoted Nietzsche, also he is really annoying so instead I would recommend quoting Sartre – much more impressive (by that I mean pretentious) and everyone likes a bit of existentialism. Ben My friends at university did Philosophy (I stuck to history of art) and they hated it when people quoted Nietzsche, also he is really annoying so instead I would recommend quoting Sartre – much more impressive (by that I mean pretentious) and everyone likes a bit of existentialism.

Ben

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