Wednesday, 21st March 2001
From: "Jaymis Loveday"
To:
Subject: Feedback
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 16:55:36 +1000
Hey. Here is feedback.
I got to your site from the MP3Alt. Which I have been going to for like a year and is awesome and gets two enthusiastic thumbs up.
Feedback = my first impression from site - several "great thinkers" lined up with some spectacled guy.
Thought:
If the spectacled guy is the site designer, then he is a wanker :)
That may not be true, it's just my first impression. But you know what they say about first impressions
Peace
Out
Jaymis
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
I want to earnestly thank Mister/Missus Loveday for his/her email.... even if they did maybe miss the point of my picture beside some great thinkers. No one else has ever asked me about that, but since u do Jaymis, i will explain. Its intended as a joke. I figured it was so incredibly pretentious to put my picture up besides the likes of Lenin, Einstein, Marx, Descartes and Gallileo, that everyone would instantly recognise it as a joke. Maybe not. Pity. I laughed like fuck as i was doing it.
Me: "hhahahah. im putting my picture up with all these smart guys. How fucking funny am i."
The title picture does have another meaning. I AM VERY PRETENTIOUS.
What i want to know from Mr Loveday (i assume Jaymis is a guys name. I doubt a girl would finish an email with "Peace, out") is, what made him so sure the bespectacled individual wasn't some major scientific, political, philisophical minds of the last century?
Thats a rhetorical question. I'm a pritty dopey looking wanker aren't i :)))
Have u ever noticed that all the worlds really funny stuff happens in either Russia or Japan? Its uncanny. If theres something stupid, something fucked up, something weird, happening in the world, then its happening in Japan or Russia.
Maybe i should do a section on how shit Japan is?
Nahhh. I'll wait till i get sick of pulling the piss out of Russia and then i might start on Japan.
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Sunday, 18th March 2001
I went in to "the Nike Factory" in Subiaco the other day to buy myself some new shoes. I really don't know why they call it "the Nike Factory" at all. Aren't Nike Factories, supposed to be full of Indonesian women hunched over sewing machines whilst menacing Americans with big sticks walk back and forth? And there was no where near enough sweat in this shop, for it to be concidered a legitimate sweat shop. In fact there weren't very many Indonesians working there at all (or not that i could see) and the few that were there didn't look like they were being raped: they looked like they were buying shoes. I spose we all compromise our values when there is consumption involved. I tell myself the only reason i stil buy so much MacDonalds is because they've got a monopoly and i don't have any choice.
"But MacDonalds are the only fast food chain that sell fast food packaged in paper with golden arches on it! Theres no alternative. I have to buy MacDonalds"and...
"Oh but coca cola are the only beverage manufacturers that sell cola in a red can with a dynamic ribbon device on the side.... they have a monopoly on that... I HAVE to buy the real thing"As i was browsing around for new basketball boots for that nights big game, i started to feel really stupid. Strangely, I had never felt anywhere near as stupid in primary school, doing exactly the same thing: pondering the merits of dual cushioning systems over lift enhancing soles. Or tossing up the merits of a pair of "Incredible Power" or a pair of "Extended Flight". What element of my games needs the most work? That was the relevant question. Did i need to work on my power game in the key, or should I be developing my leap for graceful jump shots and leaps through the key way?
In the end i pretty much closed my eyes spun around a few times and grabbed what ever was in front of me.
I ended up playing the big game in golf shoes.
Well i didn't really, but im sure i wouldnt have played much worse if i had.
AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John Howard, speaking toaday at a press confrence, announced a package to protect the Aussie dollar and the teetering Australian economy from a vicious downward spiral. "Were going to speculate lots" said Mr Howard. "Excuse me Mr Howard, are you going to talk up the performace of the woefully under performing dollar as if that were..." asked the reporter for angstythink.com. "We'll have none of that woefully underperforming, talk. Its bad for the dollars self esteem. The Aussie dollar is the tops'est little dollar there is, and its doing just fine thank you", Interjected, Mr Howard before our man at the press confrence could finish his question.
Peter Costello said later that day on ABC-RADIO "Gee that Aussie dollar sure is tops isn't it? I think i might go out and sell some American dollars." Mr Costello was later reported to have gone out and dumped A$100,000 onto the market to pick up 100 bucks worth of greenbacks.
Mr Howard went on, to explain how the current economic woes for Australia: spiraling fuel prices, GDP shrinkage, ominous unemployment indictors, and a plummeting currency, were the fault of everything in the universe, thats not the Liberal/National Coalition and especially thats not John Howard. He claimed that the doubtfull looking aussie dollar and the pale looking aussie economy, were entirely the result of non-GST issues.
Mr Howard also blamed opposition leader Kim Beasly for saying that the economy was going crap which he added was akin to telling it to go crap. Mr Beasly responded in a press confrence from his constituency in Perth, by turning to the aussie dollar, seated near by, throwing his hands in the air, and yelling "BOOOOO" in a somewhat threatening manner. Shortly after the dollar dropped another 5 cents.
Mr Howard went on to explain how he blamed international currency traders and then in a shock announcement, he attributed a good portion of the current fall in the Aussie dollar, to the impending decent of Russian space station: MIR. A long paues ensued. "Ahhh, could u explain the economic reasoning behind that Mr Howard?" tentatively asked one reporter. "Well you know... its a big Russian thingo thats about to crash into the earth. I should think the economic logic stands for itself." Much laughter ensued in stockmarkets around the world as currency sharks dumped their aussie dollars, and legitimate long term traders sold their aussie stocks out of genuine lack of confidence in the PM.
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Tuesday, 13th March 2001
U know what sux most about doing a site like this?
The lack of feedback.
I want someone to tell me i suck. To tell me im the lowest of the lowest, try hard, pretentious, pseudo intelectuals, pronoid enough to think that punters might actually want to know what dribbles from my mind on a daily basis.
I want someone to tell me how much i rock. To tell me they can't go so much as an hour without checking back to c if i have updated Angstythink.
I want someone to tell me they don't care. To tell me that my site is one of the most humdrum, ordinary, trite, piece of writing they have ever come across on the internet.
I dont need the aproval of others to feel validated in doing this site. I do however need opinions. I have to know what u ppl think, good bad or otherwise.
Actually no i dont. Angstythink will continue forever in roughly the same direction, irespective of whether i get a readership or feedback for my efforts. Traffic and feedback would be nice, but they are not conditions on the continuation of this site. Angstythink will push on regardless.
Send me an email.
Basically im offering an opportunity for webmasters to get some free linkage and a bit of truly meaningful, structured feedback. Even though it would be appreciated, u dont have to link back to me. Reviewing EN sites is just something i have decided would be fun to do, so picking shit out of the work of others will be its own reward. Hopefully if will be alot like the old Robotskull.com used to be.
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Sunday, 4th March 2001
w0000t!! Angstythink now has comments. Get in there and say something. Tell me how much shit i talk. Tell me how funny i am. Tell me how tepid and trite my rants are. I dont care what... just tell me something.
Hower, as is life, one webmasters fortune is anothers misfortune. It is therefore on a somewhat sadder note, that i point out what many of u may already have realised: shootthestupid.com, will no longer be with us. Consequently, as a site that no longer exists, i took Crush down from her once lofty position amoungst the Angstythink button links. It seems Crush's misfortune was Samn's lucky break. Or maybe neither of them give a shit.
Think of the email list as Angsty's little security blanket. I know that if u guys are on the mailing list, i can always contact u quickly if some bad shit is going down. U ppl do want me to feel secure don't u?
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Friday, 2nd March 2001
Shit i hate old people on the road. Their not afraid to die. They should all be given big bold "O" plates. "O" for "Old". Or possibly a "NATD" plate for "Not Afraid To Die" might be more appropriate, and give fellow drivers more of a chance to fully comprehend the implications of sharing the road with old people. I know truckies that aren't hardcore enough to do what i saw an old man do this afternoon. I don't know any "P" platers stupid enough to do what i saw an old man do this afternoon
I was driving to work this afternoon mere inches more then a cars length behind the car in front of me when an old boy, that would surely have been pushing 120 (years), decide without indication, he was going to fit into that "car length + 2 inches" gap.
Old Man: Hmmm i need to turn right in 100 kilometers time.... id better get in the right lane. I wonder if there's anyone in my blind spot? Bah who cares: ive been through triple bypass surgery and 4 world wars... Im 120 years old MoFo's.... here i come!
Me: HOLLY FUCK HE'S GOING TO HIT ME!. HONK!! HONK!! FUCKING HHOOOOOOOONNNK!!!!
Old Man: I think my hearing aid is playing up again Edna. Its making those honking sounds again.
Old Woman: No dear i think its the young man in the car behind you.
Old Man: Damn kids these days! No respect at all for the elderly. They'd try to put us all in homes if they got the chance.
Me: Jezzus Christ, the old Codger has a death wish! He's like one of those euthanasia campaigners ive seen on "A Current Affair". The mangy old bugger will kill me if he gets a chance. <*ExistAngst Follows Ma & Pa Kettle at a more cautions, safe distance>
In all honesty i dont c the big deal about the petrol price and the portion of it that goes to the Government. Australians drive, big gas guzzling V8 Holdens, and then we wonder why it costs so much to keep petrol in our cars. In fact Australia has one of the smallest fuel taxes in the world. Tax makes up about 75% of the cost of fuel in Britain. Im not sure how much tax we pay for petrol in Australia.... but its tiny compared to other countries. Petrol tax should be higher (although it should be lower in remote regions). Maybe then we might start doing somthing about the efficency of our transport.
Johnny "Hard as fucking nails" Howard, has backflipped. He NEVER backflips. He's broken one of the golden rules of modern Australian politics: John Howard never backflips but he will lie like fuck. If he were going to backflip on anything in the wake of 2 state election losses for the coalition, i would have much rather'd he backflip the "apologising the the aboriginals" thing. Everyone knows the Aboriginals deserve an apology more then the punters deserve a few cents off petrol in their big, polluting, gas guzzling cars.