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Loser is one of the limpest insults in the English language. Instead of actually having something to criticise, a criticism which can then be answered, all you do is make a random and largely meaningless statement in the slightly desperate attempt to assert superior social status. Fucking pathetic. If you're going to have a dig at someone, at least make it about something for fuck's sake.

would it make more sense if i told you this conversation was with a teenager?

Hmm, makes more sense in that context. Kids today, eh? Sloppy thinking and poor articulation. Surely they could have come up with something more imaginative to say about me... ;-p

Being a teenager is no excuse for being a twat. That's reverse discrimination, that is! You oppressor of the young, Marcy.

It was you, Fil? Oh good, because for awhile there I thought it was me. But then I went back and had a good look at all my profile pics and thought "Wow, how noble! How heroic looking", so that put my mind to rest about that. ;-)

Matthew is of course right about the lameness of "loser". I'm rather surprised that a haggis-huffing pinko shoegazer like him could come up with such a clever observation (ha, it's a joke Matthew, j/k, don't mean a word of it).

But it does entirely make sense that it came from a teenager. Like you, whenever my teenager says such things I always challenge him. What EXACTLY is it that makes so-and-so a loser? The inevitable ums and uhs and lame, vague answers are great object lessons.

fil--it wasn't you, it was mentok, but don't tell him!

matthew--i'm a nondiscriminatory oppressor, i oppress all ages! oppress is a really weird word if you look at it long enough.

lyle--it wasn't you, it was fil, but don't tell him!

Fuck off Mentok. Haggis is about the only worthwhile thing to come from these pseudo-Scandinavian shores since men in skirts. Wait a moment, that just doesn't work does it...? Erm, buy the Frightened Rabbit album, and the Twilight Sad one and forget I ever dug this hole.

Incidentally, my missus who is a dyed-in-the-wool Capitalist reckons that I am no Socialist at all. I am all for the reward of free ent.. whoops, that turned into a lecture didn't it. I agree with a great many Capitalist principles, I just think that there is a time and a place in which they don't apply. Socialism is no more The Answer than Capitalism. A healthy push and pull between the two has always struck me as the best answer.

But then, I'm just an inebriated indie snob, so what do I know?

i think the real question is, if you were a haggis, which haggis would you be? you simply must check out this web page and let me know: http://www.scottishhaggis.co.uk/acatalog/. i predict "the chieftain," aka "the haggis of all haggis." mmmmm, yummy!

Oh no, I haven't dug this hole again, have I? I remember once I called one of my best friends a cack-suckin git-faced bastard and for some reason he took offence to it, even though I said it with a wink. Of course, I was talking to him on the phone so he may not have fully perceived the wink.

Sorry, Toad. Really, I didn't mean any of those things, so no need to defend.

(...although I can't help but notice that you didn't even try to defend the "shoegazer" part ;-)

Mentok, you are a kitten-stamping, baby-fondling, freedom-eating monkey scrotum.

And wait for it...

Here it comes...

;-)

Big winky face so now it's all okay and we can all laugh it off and pretend it was all fine. I lurve teh internets and their odd language. It takes some getting used to, but I'll get there eventually.

wow, "him" should be informed of the wonderful conversation he has created.