/lit/ - Literature

>accidentally say Harry Potter wont be remembered in 100 years
>get laughed at
>stutter Blooms meme argument by they just argue over it without saying anything
>almost cry

>Mum is confused when I mention Macbeth and asks what part
>quote whole multitudinous seas part to her
>she is surprised but semi patrician so used to be able to do most of Hamlet and Macbeth herself

>get blackout drunk steal friends phone and ranted about Jude the Obscure and Bataille to a load of his friends in a chat they had

>>8442689
this is just pure autism

I don't know what this means. What's a power level?

>>8442977
Hello my new friend welcome to 4chan
Power level has to do with knowing a lot more than the average person about a topic and being way into it
I don't really see a lot of it happening with /lit/stuff unless you're autistic, but I see it happen a lot with /co/ and /v/vp/stuff

>>8442984
I've been on 4chan for 6 years now, I've seen the term used a lot before but never bothered to check what it means. So thanks.

I once talked to a barkeeper about Albert Camus and James Joyce after realizing we were both interested in literature. I don't remember how it came up in the first place though.

>>8442984
It's also about unnecessarily sharing personal information on message boards and forums for attention.

>>8442977
I'm a 4chan level otaku.

I don’t talk with you chumps in anime club.
I don’t read your «anime magazine» with new releases I saw two years ago.
I don’t need to go to a club full of fat smelly people to watch Full Metal Alchemist all over again.
I’ve got fuckin' live feed torrents of the newest animes you haven’t even heard of, and figures from said anime being shipped to my house so I can masturbate on them.
Go read your «yowie» on fanfiction.net, I’m downloading loli dojinshi and reading the fucking raws.
You keep wearing your Naruto headbands and shit, socializing with your weeaboo friends. I’ll be walking by, anonymous. You’ll never know that the master of anime had passed you by. Because I suppress my power level.

>>8442689
>have mom read the trial
>"so what was he guilty of?"
>call her a pleb

>>8442675
I was once getting along well with this girl at a bar who was like the hot girl there that everyone wanted, until somehow the conversation turned to the Ukraine crisis(this was in 2014), and within a few minutes I was yelling about geo-political propaganda networks and the entire patio including the girl were literally laughing at me. I realized entirely that what I was doing was autistic but the smug self-assurance of these fucking people with their spoonfed opinions that they regurgitate from the headlines of the three newspapers they read overwhelmed any desire I had to try to get the girl or really display any social graces whatsoever.

At one point I decided to treat people like they weren't worth talking to seriously and my social life got a lot better

>>8442675
every time I bring a woman home

>>8442996
You're a total newfag.

>reading book
>girl I like asks what I'm reading
>I tell her
>"oh, sounds cool"
It was brutal man.

That one time I masturbated. It was a strange encounter I had with the man in the public restroom. My recreation and what we did to each other was unlike anything I've ever heard of. I don't think this has ever happened to anyone else. But I promised my father to keep it a secret to the grave.

>You get every lolita related question on Jeopardy right

>>8444788
>Reading in the barber shop waiting room
>QT barber lady asks me what I was reading
>Try in vain to explain Book of the New Sun without seeming like a mega sperg

>>8443022
>loli doujins
pedo fag

> reading Selected Poems of WS Merwin
> girl asks me what I'm reading
> I explain and say why I love poetry so much and kinda get a bit carried away and start losing my train of thought
> realized I embarsed myself but she asks to read a poem
> she gives me her number and a huge at the end of class

Either I was advanced upon or made a token gay friend. Probably the latter which is fine because I am unironically a fag. The former would've flattered me though at the time when I was dealing with such self esteem problems.

>>8444829

*hug, not huge

Anyways she looked okay to me, but what do I know. She wasn't repulsive for sure.

>ITT times you were a faggot

>>8444896

Isn't that p much the point of the thread

>>8442689
Holy fucking shit

>>8443043
yeah it's really hard to cope with this fucking insane world sometimes. just regurgitating bullshit according to social norms, which i guess makes sense from an evolutionary perspective, but really, if your going to live like that, why live at all? and they say i'm the crazy one

>>8442675
I suggested Tarkovsky to my family for a movie and they agreed. Watching Stalker with a group of people who only watch superhero movies was really annoying.

>>8444907

I did that and got my dad to watch Welles' The Trial. We had to watch it in 2 sittings but afterwards he said after thinking about it he thought it was actually kinda interesting.

Then we watched ghostbusters after and had fun because The Trial is a real mood killer.

> It's true. This man has no dick.

>>8444900
oh maybe, I thought the power level meme was a term of endearment on 4chins. my bad i guess

>>8444909
your dad just said that to you so that you would shut the fuck up and stop being such an embarrassing offspring

>>8444915

I mean it sounds it in my post, but he kept asking questions about it after and seemed moderately impressed. I know he was somewhat interested because very often when I was younger I would act pretentious or overly passionate about something of little importance and would make it clear he thought I was doing so. This was the rare time he bought it

>>8442698
This whole board seems to be autism. Now I'm going back to /pol/

>>8444923

>from the frying pan to the fire

>>8444815
Hit me up when you figure out how to, I've been in the same trouble myself.

I went off on a Russian kid with a handlebar mustache when he said his favorite book was on the road and identified Gertrude Stein as some lady who helped Hemingway, ranting about the brilliance of her writing and how Hemingway was a derivative hack.

Only guy who was a decent reader in my high school tried talking to me about literature after I've been leveling up in uni and he's studying business, and I was just rattling off modernists and acclaimed contemporary books I had recently read and he couldn't follow at all.

My two trigger movies are Shawshank Redemption and Dark Knight Rises, there was a time where if anyone professed love for those films I would launch into an eviscerating tirade about why they're overrated garbage.

My father is scarred from seeing the Paul Giamatti arthouse film Cold Souls with me, though truth be told it was not very good.

My mother is scarred from seeing The Kids Aren't Alright with me, particularly due to the scene where the lesbian couple watches male gay porn.

>>8444829
>>a huge
Was it Orson Welles? I think it was just crossdressing Orson Welles, given your description.

Faganon, you may not have been disappointed. Welles was QUITE the man. And a lot of one, two. [swoons]

>>8445155
You're a real piece of shit, you know that? You and your fuckbuddy Hemingway can penetrate each other eternally in your Hell of Vapidness.

>>8445155
Shawshank's great so you must be a doucher.

>be me
>aged 21
>maintain funny and nihilistic aesthetic and lifestyle
>hang out with artist and musician types all over my area
>read, not for pleasure or for spite, but to enlighten my own intelligence
>nephew picks up harry potter
>degenerate genretrash
>take the cover off and put it on a copy of Infinite Jest, a masterpiece of sincere post-irony and engaged reflection
>feel proud of myself for enlightening this young man who was led astray

>>8445179
I was pro-Stein, anti-Hemingway, see how the syntax I used is unclear though.

>>8445187
It's not as terrible as I make it out to be, but it is definitely not great. That film is like peak Morgan Freeman, and the Brooks scene is excellent, but Tim Robbins is shit and the entire aesthetic is basically Disney Channel prison film.

>>8445210
Thinking there are any "great" films in the first place, not to mention actually wasting your time watching movies, makes you a pleb. The sense of superiority you seem to derive from poisoning yourself with different Jewish mind-control waves than your peers is amusing.

>>8442984
>>8442977

This was the wrong way to reply. Do not give away answers. Never answer anything but "lurk moar" because there is no other correct answer on 4chan.

Giving information away freely makes people think they belong here, when they actually don't.

In west Philadelphia born and raised

>>8442996
Check it out guys this guy has been here six years. Any words of wisdom for us? Or as we cool guys say on four chan (an imageboard based on Japanese originals) image macros?

I accidentally wore my trench coat to school and then me and my friend shot 13 people to death after our propane bombs in the cafeteria failed to detonate lol awkward moment

>>8442689
>get laughed at
Appropriate response tbph. Harry Potter will be remembered. Not as great literature, of course, but then nobody thinks that now.

As much as I find that the notion of "power levels" makes you lot feel good about yourself more than is good for you, I will indulge:

I usually read philosophy, it's very awkward when someone asks me what a book is about (if you don't get me, imagine you're reading Wittgenstein, how do you answer that question WITHOUT coming off as a pretentious turd?).

I've gotten quite talented at completely brushing it off though, saying "it's by x" or "oh I found this at y" completely changing the topic, you get what I mean.

But this one time:
>in class
>reading Kripke
>got pretty into it
>someone (very impolitely) stuck their nose in >what it's about?
>didn't bother to beat around the bush
>told them exactly what Naming and Necessity is about
>didn't realize how much everyone around me was judging me
>Continue reading, never get asked that question again

It's not that people judge you negatively as such, it's more that they inadvertently develop this sort of inferiority complex along the lines of "oh you're smart I don't want to discuss my opinions with you out of fear of sounding like a pleb" to which the only good reply is "DON'T BE A WEAK FUCKING RETARD YOU SPINELESS RAT, JUST SPEAK YOUR MIND, HAVE SOME BLOODY BACKBONE".

/cruisecontrol

>>8445297
>tfw

i thought i was the only one

>>8445436
>they inadvertently develop this sort of inferiority complex along the lines of "oh you're smart I don't want to discuss my opinions with you out of fear of sounding like a pleb"

uh lol

more like 'who cares about that imma leave this autist be'

t. autist

>>8445442
Eric?

>>8444820
This pasta is like 10 years old

>>8442675
>mentioned /lit/
/thread

>reading Japanese lit in public (it's an LN about high school girls)
>girl comes up and asks me language the book is in
>I tell her
>she acts impressed
>"but I heard Japanese is really hard!"
>In a dead serious tone of voice I say: "not if you approach it in a scientific way" and then start an autistic rant about how terrible North America JFL pedagogy is and basically regurgitating Steven Krashen at her
>she's obviously taken aback, she asks me what my book is about
>I stutter something about "O-oh i-it's just a t-typical Japanese novel, hehe"
>At that very moment I turn the page and there's an illustration of a bunch of blushing girls in school uniforms
>start sweating
>she ends the conversation

>>8443043
>these fucking people with their spoonfed opinions that they regurgitate from the headlines of the three newspapers they read
Unlike your own that you get from the headlines of the three websites you visit

>>8445485
kek

>>8445485
Post the outer cover of the book. I have never read a lewd light novel that doesn't have a lewd cover. Sex sells.

>>8445499
It was one of the marimite books, I think the second one. Not actually a lewd novel, and I removed the dust jacket obviously.

>>8445517
I know of them. Its yuribait right?

>>8445526
Pretty much, yeah.

>riding a train with my family
>pleb sister asks what is my book about
>it's The Magic Mountain
>uh, it's about a guy who goes to the sanatorium to visit his cousin
>ah, ok

actually I hid my power level, but it was as awkward as revealing it

>reading IJ on the subway
>Guy laughs smugly and throws a tomato in my face

>>8444909
Why did you show him Welles' The Trial? It's trash.

>>8445155
>I went off on a Russian kid with a handlebar mustache when he said his favorite book was on the road and identified Gertrude Stein as some lady who helped Hemingway, ranting about the brilliance of her writing and how Hemingway was a derivative hack.
>gets into tirades because of mainstream flicks

What a try-hard pseud, lel. Have you considered to stop being a parrot, me man? You're embarrassing people who have a genuine affection for the arts and do not abuse to bolster their ego

My issue is that I'm actually really good at hiding my power level. Too good:

>Dating some 7/10 girl, just want to get into her pants
>Stereotypical 'nerd' girl who likes Marvel/GoT/etc, and also a pretty shitty Xbox 'gamer'
>Lie about everything on our 1st date: Claim I like GoT, even though I never got past the 2nd book as it bored me to death and have never watched more than Series 1. Claim I like Marvel, even though I prefer DC for Man of Steel and a couple of Batman movies. Claim I like gaming, even though I only fuck around on WoW nowadays (ruining RP/etc)
>We go back to her place and fuck
>She actually seems into me, texts me daily
>Realize I'm being pursued by someone with whom I don't have anything in common, but can't stop lying about my interests for sex
>We end up dating, just because the sex is good
>This is still happening

And that, kids, is why a large part of my life is now devoted to the fucking Avengers/etc. In my spare time, or rather, reality, I actually read Plato/Nietzsche/Schopenhauer/Hegel/etc, alongside Goethe/Ibsen and others, but I never bring this up because modern plebeians don't know who these people are and would probably be triggered if they did (or knew what some of them wrote).

I should just cut it off.

Why do people hide their powerlevel?

>2nd Date with girl
>"Shall i show you the roof?" (living in a metropolis)
>"Sure xd"
>On the roof i start talking about philosophy, especially critical theory and so on
>her eyes sparkling with desire
>we sit there for 1 hour exchanging our views, incorporate her more banal thoughts into philosophical perspectives as to illuminate them
>she falls in love with me

Never had a problem with my "powerlevel". I think one only needs to do it in a way that is doesn't alienate others and if one talks about serious ideas do it in a playful way, as to integrate the other into the process of coming to a conclusion.

>>8445612
Some people think the end goal of philosophy isn't to make stupid girls feel smart.

>>8445617
It isn't the end goal of philosophy for me either, but it fascinates me and so we talked about it. All i'm saying is that one can communicate these ideas, discuss them, without alienating others who don't know them - thus eliminating the need to hide one's power level.

>>8445623
Maybe. It will alienate most people though.

>>8445473
Hey guys, what if a galaxy far far away...

>>8445447
this.

>>8444807
It is still a secret if you share it on an anonymous gay cock sucking board.

>>8445173

I agree, some people think young Orson was a bit too pig faced to be handsome but that was bullshit. He was really really quite handsome

>>8444829
yeah, she was hitting on you. Too bad you are a fag. Does she know that you are a faggot. If so then she wasn't hitting on you. If she didn't know you should tell her because its a nice thing to do.

>>8445485
Fucking hell

>>8445436
What exactly is Naming and Necessity about?

>>8445485
This can't be real.

>>8445485
kekkkkkkk

>>8445612
she fell in love with you way before that. Otherwise she wouldn't wait 1 hour for you to fuck her.

>>8445934

>she fell in love with you way before that
>love

You mean lust.

>>8445922
She exemplifies the ideal female form

>>8445967
Cringed hard.

>>8445937
Lust is when you fuck her on the first date.

>>8445982

Lust is when you fuck her on any of the first three dates.

>>8445980
Yea, we know the ideal female form is lolis

>>8445984
When I said first date, I meant the first thirty minutes of the first date.

>>8445980
Why? That girl in the gif seems pretty amazing to me

>>8445984
Lust is when you fuck

>>8445998
Is it lust when I fap?

>>8444906
>an evolutionary perspective

fabrication

>>8446002
I guess.

>>8445603
>Man of Steel
You two plebs are perfect for eachother

>>8442675
>in class
>teacher wants to know the learning style of kids
>says it wont be graded
>the questionnaire is like 20 questions which you use to place yourself on a graph, like the political compass
>i just draw a giant pic of max stirners face on the graph and hand it in

The best part is i look like a generic chad, im 6'3, ripped, and i wear effay clothes, which means when i quote continental philosophers or any philosopher in general it surprises the fuck out of people. I dont get laughed at even if i go full autism because people want my approval so they just nod like it makes sense to them. Sometimes i just start bsing to see if they blindly agree, and sure enough they lap it up, even the teachers that are supposed to know this shit.

>>8446038

Genuinely good movie desu.

>>8442996
>Oh man 6 years seems like a long time
>Wait, that was 2010
>I was calling people newfags in 2010
I have been on this site too long.

>>8446049
>Sometimes i just start bsing to see if they blindly agree, and sure enough they lap it up, even the teachers that are supposed to know this shit.

>>8444923
>Now I'm going back to /pol/
Thank god take the rest of the creatures with you.

>>8442675

>big boss comes down to visit us at work
>she's talking about her trip to the baltimore aquarium
>"I couldn't believe the octopi!"
>interrupt her
>"ACtually just so you know the plural is octopodes, it's a consonant stem" with, I'm sure, this stupid fucking smug look on my face

It just slipped out, everyone looked at me and I turned red.

Then after that slight awkward pause boss-lady goes

>no anon nouns that end in -us for a plural in -i, like alumnus alumni

Turn even redder because there's an internal battle whether I should correct her again or just let it go. Luckily I'm not completely autistic and I did just let it go.

>>8446088
Best part is you were wrong, octopuses, octopi, and octopodes are all correct

>>8445447
>>8445670

Oh right, should clarify.

Yeah, a lot of them who hear this probably think that, I don't mind that though, the people who usually ask me what I'm reading are the kind who have that sort of "patriche-plebian" bullshit mentality though, the kind that floats around a lot on this board.

>>8445486
Underrated post

>>8446049
but you have an ugly face, so you're not a chad.

>>8445583
How Kafkaesque!

>>8446104
Nice resentment, nu-male.

>>8445967
2nd

>>8445623
Fucking continentals with their easily accessible bullshit.

Is there no way to get laid if I'm into the people 21st century philosophers take seriously?

Now that I think about it, I could always just spew elementary bee ess from that "genre" too, that would be quite boring for me though, it wouldn't be "exchanging views" either.

Also, girls such as the one you described aren't really "into" what you're "into", it's that sort of shallow cultural capital bullshit going on there.

I wouldn't find a girl starring at me with sparkling eyes as lovable as a bitch that punches my teeth in for thinking a correspondence theory of truth is valid.

>>8442689
>get blackout drunk steal friends phone and ranted about Jude the Obscure and Bataille to a load of his friends in a chat they had

That's actually hilarious

>>8446088
Fellow MD-fag?

>>8446118
>Is there no way to get laid if I'm into the people 21st century philosophers take seriously?
>associating philosophy with seduction

>be me
>work in a used book store
>I'm at the cash register, old lady who owns the store is cleaning up just behind me
>fat sweaty redhead guy comes in
>comes straight up to the counter
>"do you have any pokemon books?"
>I tell him no, we don't
>Owner laughs, says "it's the next big thing, huh"
>Guy ignores her
>Him: "Okay, well, do you have a section for Japanese literature?"
>Me: "No, sorry, not just for Japanese literature, but what authors are you looking for?"
>He leaves without saying anything
does this count?

>>8446109
just saying dawg.

you're only a chad if you're handsome.

>>8446096

It depends on what you mean by correct. If you mean "in use" then yes they are all in use.

Octopuses is perfectly correct, just like the plural of fetus is fetuses, not "fetus" with a long u, as it'd be in Latin, that would sound retarded.

But if you want to refer to the Greek, the plural is octopodes, for the same reason that the plural of genus is not geni but genera. The s is not an inflectional ending, it's part of the stem.

Octopi is as wrong as feti or geni for fetuses and genera, even if plebs do use it.

>>8445603
>I should just cut it off.
or you shouldnt be a fucking retard
if you dislike avangers that much then fucking tell her, if you just wanna do something else too, show her the philo shit you like, present it well and what not

>>8446153
How would that count

>>8445897

Tbh I should've but I think she lost interest after a week anyways

>last year
>have pleb gf try to read Oscar Wilde's short stories
>End up having to read the whole of Star Child to her aloud

>be in high school
>algebra teacher asks what my book is about
>try to explain Lolita in front of whole class

>>8446300
AHAHAHAHA I thought mine was bad

>>8446154
Why do you think i have an ugly face?

>>8445001
>It's fantasy

i once without thinking greentexted on FB

kill me now

>>8444750
>>8445275
You guys are absolute asshats. There was no tone of pretentiousness in my post.

i think this counts

>four years ago
>very interested in american civil war
>decided to read jefferson davis' "rise and fall of the confederate government"
>teacher sees book cover, says "i'll bet you wish the south had won" or something to that effect
>in a room full of minorities

stopped reading that book then and there, never picked it back up again
on the other hand from what i've heard it's just him ranting about how abraham lincoln was mean for not letting them rebel so maybe teacher did a good thing


also once in middle school i was reading the grapes of wrath and a substitute english teacher told me to get homeschooled if i wanted to read something like that

>>8446802
America is fucked up. I can read anything I want, without people condemning me.

>>8446749
I once sperged out about BotNS, was sitting in a bus next to this qt and she said wow you are so smart and gave me her number and facebook and told me to call her.
I did, but since she had a bf I never fugged her, she was living with the bf and I'm pretty sure she decided having a place to sleep is better than a guy talking about literature.

>>8446829
Try reading Mein Kampf in public, see how that works out.
That said, I've read the Communist Manifesto in public and people just laugh and ask why I'm reading that.

>>8442675
>tfw bullied girls for liking John Green all throughout high school

>English Reading professor asks my group what we read recently
>Everybody mentions popular books from movies
>I mention Blood Meridian and The Plague
>Professor doesn't even know Blood Meridian and asks if Camus was the French author

I wouldn't have felt so pretentious if the teacher wasn't such a pleb.

>>8443022
Kek. But dear god that is a depressing imagining of a much worse reality. Fucking degenerates.

>>8444788
Them feels.

>drinking at bar with classmates after test
>making smalltalk etc.
>someone brings up local used bookshop
>I mention, without thinking, how I had my eye on a nice copy of the Malleus Maleficarum there and some fucker bought it before me
>conversation stops and another person asks, with raised eyebrow and incredulous voice, what sort of book that was
>I reply that it's a medieval guide on how to find, interrogate and execute witches and that it looked like a pretty entertaining read
>everyone thought I was a pseud or a genuine autist

I'm never revealing my power level again

>>8445998
Fust is when you luck

>>8445603
Are you me? Except the other day my girl, who is still in high school, told me that she was interested in writing. I was pretty excited about this, maybe I could lead her away from her comics and make her patrician. That's what I thought anyway. She knows I'm a big reader and am working on a novel, so she asked me to read something she has written. I agree wholeheartedly.

>It's fanfiction

I actually act interested and go on about how "Ah that's an excellent way to begin your writing career, it's just writing but the characters are already made, who has time to create characters anyway haha!"

God I'm pathetic, but she is qt

>>8446946

You must be hanging around absolute plebs for them not to think that sounded interesting.

>>8445307
It'll be remembered as garbage and the infantile plebgots who popularized it will be mocked.

>>8446971
>lunch time back in high school
>see girl typing something out on her phone
>ask her what she's doing
>says she's writing a book
>ask her what it's about
>she gives me an extremely vague answer
>check out the url a week later
>it's some weird fantasy rp with anthropomorphic animal women

>>8446971

The things we do for pussy. Shameful desu.

I'm prepared to sacrifice almost any principle to sleep with a girl who shows me any interest. With the girl in question (I'm >>8445603), I even lied and said I didn't vote Brexit when I wholeheartedly did.

>>8446980
You'd be surprised how low some people's power levels are. These are the hyper normies, with interests and lives almost unfathomable to people like us.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LWB8B614jac

>>8446742
post if if you don't.


go ahead, I'm waiting.

>>8442675
One time at work I read Zizek. Does that count?

>was into this girl
>talk on facebook
>she says she didn't visit local school but another one further away because it was "better" because of the english teacher which was allegedly better and she claimed that's why she was so good at it
>where I live all schools are basically the same, and almost everyone who isn't a total snob goes to the local school
>doesn't know teachers don't have much to do with knowledge, it's mostly students' credit
>i try to hide my power level and be polite and say we had a shitty teacher at my school but everyone was speaking english fluently as we were smart kids
>she goes on about the benefits
>"don't you feel like you missed out on spare time with local friends"
>i can't keep the power level hidden, really politely ask what if everyone was enrolling like that that'd cause major problems in the urban social enviroment
>try to disconnect her from the debate I'm trying to have
>forgot it's impossible to have a debate like that on the internet with a woman without her taking it personally
>she just keeps claiming her shit while I just try to get her to see my point from a broader view
>"Your relationship with lady just detoriated from 60 to 40"
Now I just keep opinions to myself and am in a similar situation like this guy >>8445603

>>8446980
Unfortunately a large number of people are unable to understand the idea that it's possible to read something without necessarily agreeing with it or believing in it.

>>8447011
>lied and said I didn't vote Brexit when I wholeheartedly did.
Top fucking kek anon.
I couldn't do that, I sperg out on what I consider shit, especially when I drink and contact with females is interesting only then desu

>>8447034
Do you find pointless sex that important?
I assume you aren't retarded enough to have a long term relationship with one of those sluts.

>>8446994
People write stuff on their phones? Isn't that painfully slow?

>>8446049

I know a guy like you, and he "reads" philosophical works the same way one would read a self-help book bought in an airport. His only aim in reading them is to affect an air of cleverness. He's read the likes of Nietzche and Sartre and feigns an understanding of them, yet he couldn't even finish his copy of 'The Last days of Socrates' (Apology, Crito, Phaedo) much less poperly grasp any of the concepts therein. True, plebs eat up his references and mis-readings, but us patricians catch one anothers eyes and smirk whenever he opens his mouth. We often assume an air of stupidity and ask him to explain passages of Nietszche only to poke holes in his hilarious interpretations with innocent questions. He thinks he's hot shit, all the while we laugh at him.

>speak german and russian
>sometimes in a conversation when the other person is angry I start rambling in german or russian about random shit
>we giggle and everyone thinks that's badass

Where I live most people don't think you're an autist if you got way too much knowledge on something. I think that's just an american problem

>>8446802
>stopped reading that book then and there, never picked it back up again
You absolute faggot. You coward. You pseud. You let a teacher take advantage of your insecurities about race and bully you out of knowledge. You were too weak and timid to stand up not for that interpretation of history, but for the very idea of reading an interpretation of history that could challenge modern dogma. Go fuck yourself

>>8447062

>yet he couldn't even finish his copy of 'The Last days of Socrates' (Apology, Crito, Phaedo) much less poperly grasp any of the concepts therein.

In fairness, Plato is really boring.

>>8447011
I don't get it. Why do you lie about such unimportant stuff. No girl chooses her man, based on what he voted. So there is no point to lie about it. You should be looking for something else to change about yourself in order to get pussy.

>play charades or w/e
>try and enact Oppenheimer (niggah dont ask me how)
>LOL ANON WHO THE FUCK IS OPPENHEIMER

so much for trying to make charades a little more difficult than trying to enact Kim Kardashian

>>8444815
>>8444788
>Reading in public in instances where you have limited time to get into the book regardless
>Hence obviously doing it to be noticed
>Complain about how they just won't stop bothering you/giving you attention

Literal fucking girls. Go back to mu

>>8446106
somehow I lolled

>>8445603
>watched and read GoT
>enjoys superhero movies

mate, you have no power level

>>8447099

>2016
>Not actually reading what you dismiss outright

If you don't actually see for yourself how bad GoT/etc really are, then you can't truly dismiss them.

>enjoys superhero movies

Everyone has one.

>>8446890
>they all secretly think you're a pleb for not going straight to Capital/The German Ideology

>>8445603
>start dating a girl because I think shes smart because she has Heidegger on her shelf and a picture of Nietzsche on her closet
>later on realize she is fucking stupid and all she reads is LITERALLY Harry Potter and shit like Lightness of Being.
>never have a meaningful conversation with her because she doesn't understand any existential, political or philosophical topic I put forth
>somehow still bang her for a whole year before I decide that I am not in love with this chick

serious famalan's where can I find good women. I am sick of these modern women who do little more than update their instagram feed with new pictures of self-congratulatory vapidness.

>>8447073

>In fairnes, some of the most profound and influential thought in the history of humanity is really boring.

if you're a complete and utter pleb maybe

>>8447089
>if somebody does something vaguely intelligent, they're just pretending to be smart to impress me
It's weird how many dumb people think this.

>>8447052
No. It's not as bad as the story of the guy I mentioned. We kind of connect and she's pretty smart, but still have to ignore the motivational posters on her pink walls. I think it's more about the stability and warmth that I need when I fade into a weak picture of a man because of my frustrations. Even if she was kind of a slut and I was a virgin.

>>8447106
I still need to start Capital, maybe some day...
Until then I'll keep reading Lenin and Kropotkin.

>>8447107

>serious famalan's where can I find good women.

University, unironically. That is where you'll find intelligent women, albeit misguided.

You have to take the time to deprogram them, then reprogram them.

>>8447118
who has time to deprogram 18 years of systematic marxist "educational" brainwashing? You're better off moving to a country where at least a small portion of the women hold conservative values

>>8446946
Wtf, even plebs think that sounds fucking interesting. How would they not be intrigued by an entire episode of western history that was devoted to killing innocent old ladies that

>>8447107
Have you actually read lightness of being and still thinks it's garbage, or are you only repeating /lit/'s prejudices?
Even our lord Bloom put that on his canon, that ought say something.

>>8447131
you didn't finish your

>>8447131
That reminds me of when I was reading western history that was devoted to killing innocent old ladies that and then

>>8447128
Catholic here, the meetings of young religious people aren't much better as far as brains in women go. There are exceptions, but those are always taken.
But at least you can always talk about religious fiction, like Greene, O'Connor, Endo, Wolfe, etc. and they will listen to you.

>>8447118
All I do is surround myself with women who go to university but I know only one of them with which I can have a meaningful conversation and she is a hardline feminist.

>>8442675
>in Psychology 101
>female "professor" is an obnoxious Hispanic-American tryhard
>early in class so I see her going through some materials she prepared for the class
>one of the videos was of the Stanford prison experiment
>I've read The Lucifer Effect by Zimbardo so I know all about this subject
>started a conversation with her regarding the book and if whether she liked it as much as I did
>professor is surprised that I'm in class after I skipped 4 sessions
>she tells me I have a lot to explain
>she then gets up to go to the dean about my absence
>as she makes her way out, I told her I only wanted to talk about Zimbardo's book
>later in class I brought up the book again when she got to the details of the Stanford prison experiment
>she quickly says that she hasn't read it and moved on to the next PowerPoint slide
>my friend has been secretly recording the dumb shit people say in class as well as the lecture
>my friend caught this on her recording
>we laugh at my "professor" ever since then and play the recording at parties numerous times

>>8447137
No Iam just repeating lit memes. Is it worth a try? Maybe I still have her number

>>8447152
how come she's a feminist? be a total macho then. Opposites attract.

>>8447158
I'm not saying you should get back with her, what I'm saying is read that novel. Is a quality light read.

>>8447156
Filtered

>>8447158
It isn't a meme, it is pretty bad. It's 300 pages of going in circles pointlessly with annoying pseudo philosophy.
Seriously, it's shit, I have read it this year, you can read sparknotes if she was hot enough, but no point in torturing yourself.

>>8445436
Saved. Thanks, anon.

>>8447034
Yeah it never works, never will work. You like X she likes Y. You shouldn't go on and explain to her why X is better. You should ask her why she likes Y. If there is something playful or pervy you can respond with then you can stick to it. If whatever she says is complete bullshite or just weird, you have to laugh it off and change the subject.

Hate to brake it to you, /lit/, but no girl is looking for a patrician, its not a quality on the list. The thing is you, cis white males, aren't looking for a patrician girl yourselves. Girls are for fucking and your body knows that. You are made for fucking girls, you don't talk about books with them. This is why, whenever you leave your house, hot women catch your attention and not patrician ones. You want to show your power level? Do it here, on /lit/. No point in doing it in front of the illiterate and please, for your own sake, do NOT do it in front of girls you want to bed.

>>8447170
>implying I wanna bang a m8's girlfriend who's ugly to boot

Being 6'4 225lbs helps in the macho department though

>ppl think you're a meathead and then you go ranting off on Plato, Freud and Hegel
>tfw no one to have meaningful conversations with

feelsbadandpretentious.jpeg

>>8447170
>girl goes to university
>wonder why she's a feminist

Are you even enrolled in a university? It's a breeding ground for feminists

>>8447189
I have never been able defend my opinions on how Freud is not shit. Any advice?

>>8447196
No, because in the end, Freud is wrong. But you can rant on about how influential he and his nephew Bernays were for the 20th century and look cool to boot since the topics deal with geopolitics, capitalism, mass media etc etc.

>>8447195
yeah i am, i know how it be what it is what it look like, but i'm more interested how the most interesting girl is a feminist

>attending history class titled 'Central Europe 1867-1918'
>professor is an insecure woman who insists we call her 'professor (surname)'
>In one lecture she discusses the main political ideologies at play in the German Empire
>at one stage she claims that ideologies in general no longer function today and implies that no one in the lecture hall adhered to an ideology
>I raise my hand to ask a question and she acknowledges me
>I ask why she doesn't consider that the position that ideology no longer functions is not itself an ideology
>she ignores my question
>I walk up to her after class and repeat my question, but she seemngly doesnt understand
>I then ask her if she can recommend me any books or papers about the decline/disappearance of ideology, as this was surely one of the most important developments in human history
>she gets defensive and refuses to answer that question either
>I thank her for her time and leave

A few days later I was in the history department turning in assignment for another class and I passed her in the hall. Before I could say hi she stammered "I haven't got time for questions" and hurried away

>>8447196

Stick to the psychoanalytic side of things. Mention fashionable/reputable kinda-psychoanalysts such as Žižek.

Stay away from his theories on drugs, which were hilarious.

>>8447195
i guess the irony of this is that becoming a "feminist" is one of the most menial accomplishments one can make and has no reflection of intelligence whatsoever. Also it is nigh impossible to profit in any way from the study, unless you count being an even whinier cunt profiting. Men and women are different. Instead of trying to make things equal that will never be equal, try to accept each other for our differences

>>8447186
I want both.

>>8447208

You should have told her to stop eating from the trashcan of ideology.

>>8447204
Because she is the only one who has an informed opinion on anything interesting and can debate an argument. None of the other girls I know can, they either elaborate or spout some >feels non sequitur to make themselfs feel morally superior and gloat over their progressive attitude

>>8447196
You can't, especially not after how under fire Freud has been in Psych 101 classes taught by hysterical female professors. It won't come up without someone interjecting about Freud's penis envy theory and his theory on the phallic psychosexual developmental stage

I was a-lickin' and a-suckin' the cleft of a voluptuous Deutsche undergrad and durin' the course me's lips mumbled a simple inquiry on Proustian rigamorale and the shrew had a bloody freakin' clam at me. Fuckin' simian IQs lackin' temperance for anythang minute, and they 'ave no patience fer nuttin'.

>>8447208

>>8447107

What is a "picture of self-congratulatory vapidness"?

It sounds really abstract and weird.

>>8447105

>If you don't actually see for yourself how bad GoT/etc really are, then you can't truly dismiss them.

>Everyone has one.

hello reddìt

>>8447212
It doesn't have any reflection of intelligence but it does say something about one's involvement and interest in issues in society at large. Thus would probably have read more than just: PATRIARCHY. I've also met many feminists who are, basically, retarded but in this particular instance she just happens to be a hardline feminist.

>>8447156
>Psychology 101
filtered

>>8447268
Maybe a video will help you understand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KP62TE1prs

>>8447156

Share the video please

>>8447298
It's part of GE requirements, are you going to hate me for being over 18?

>>8447314
It's a voice recording, I can ask my friend for the recording and put it on SoundCloud later if you want. Not sure if this will get me in trouble because I know that it s illegal in California to record someone without their explicit consent

>>8446049
>I just starting BSing and they lap it up

It's because your teachers assume that you're sharing your honest thoughts in good faith and they want to respect your opinion, you fucking asshole.

t. teaches undergrads

>>8447386

>it is illegal in California to record someone without their explicit consent

Just do it. I mean judging by the story how on earth would she ever find out that a soundclip made by one of her many students founds its way on an obscure Otaku board?

>>8447208

>mfw

>>8447268
You take something terribly inane and congratulate yourself for posessing it or, or just congratulating yourself for being "you". "Love yourself" and other , to use the word, "vapid" statements.

Mostly feelgood qoutes that everyone ought know is bullshit.

>>8447406
It's actually a small class of about 20 people or so. I go to this gay ass, small business school (read: scam school). Hopefully I'll be able to transfer and get into the UC system

>>8446890
The communist manifesto is like a couple hour read, it's like a pamflett what are you taking it with you in public for

>>8447548
>pamflett

>>8446935
What kind of school do ya go to?

>>8446935
Aren't those two just about as popular as literary fiction gets? Camus is even one of the most loved authors of hipster pseuds.

>>8447548
I like to re-read things

>>8444829
>being a fag

>>8447612
A pretty bad community college, but she says she's taught at UC's.

>>8447620
Yeah I thought she would know them.

>>8447638
wew, dodged that bullet didn't you

>>8445583
nice one

>>8444733
so never

>>8445196
kek

>>8445196
stop trying to be funny

>>8446049
Robert?

>be at small shitty community college for cheap GE requirements
>interested in a variety of languages, took a few years of various up til now
>decide to take japanese
>one half japanese chick in the class, non-autist, 7/10
>"anon, you should join our quiz bowl team."
>her topics of specialty include art
>discuss renaissance era up to modern day graffiti artists
>go on date with her to a coffee shop
>she seems smart so decide to talk philosophy
>passionately trying to coax her views before realizing I've been basically solo ranting for an hour and noticing she is just blankly staring at me with nothing to say

I later dropped Japanese because the prof was literally only teaching Japanese because he married an English speaking woman and had to move here. He was a sports chad in his homeland, had no clue how to teach, and the class was unbearably drenched in weeb.

>>8445307
Probably not.

Can you remember the best selling children's book of the 1970's?

Perhaps students of publishing history might take note of it, but time and indifference will render it's very existence an obscure fact.

Just like everything else we think is so important or memorable.

>>8447070
it was really poorly written and had like a 50 page rant on the northwest ordinance
i still had like 300 pages to go before he even mentioned anything about the war itself
i probably wasn't going to actually finish it anyway

>>8446907
That's an ugly ass trap and if it's actually a female weeb, it has reached bottom zero

>>8447196
You can't say that Freud is shit, but like >>8447203 said, however, you can say how influential he was.

Hell, even if most of what he said is complete bullshit, you can't completely deny that he was complete or partially right about defense mechanisms and inconsciousness.

>>8446890
Ah, to be thirteen again...

>>8447305
Is Elliot Roger the voice of a generation?

>>8446235
He's just looking down at some one.

>>8445173
Damn this is an OG meme. I've wasted too much time on this board.

>>8442675
>go into metaphysics
>we start talking about the meaning of life.
>start sperging out about aesthetics and narrative construction.
>can't stop myself
> have no friends and all the philosophical work i've done in my head comes spilling out
> end up talking for literally 20 minutes
>go home and have a manic state from the anxiety and can barely sleep for three days.

Fml senpai.

>>8449254
unironically yes

https://longingfordeath.wordpress.com/

>>8449301
No shame in expressing your thoughts and ideas anon

>>8449360
>https://longingfordeath.wordpress.com/

And people still deny the pernicious effects of miscegenation?

>>8449301
>>8449362

The best class discussions I've had have been in classes where:

1. There are older/graduate students
2. There are not a handful of students who dominate the conversation
3. The professor is stimulating and capable of reigning in talkative/ranty students (rare... ultra fucking rare)
4. The class on the whole does the reading (even more rare).
5. Students refer to each other rather than taking turns addressing the instructor

I can't stand students who hog the floor or spend longer than 1 minute talking at a time. If that's you, cut it out.

>>8449383

oh yeah, and also

6. students keep the discussion on track by not referring to things (especially biographical) outside the reading

>>8449383
1min is a pretty short amount of time though

>>8445986
Kuro, I prefer Miyu though. :3

>>8445173
top kek

>>8446118
Have Analytic philosophers ever proven anything?

>>8447128
>People actually believe this

>>8445173
thank you for this sir

>>8449383
I want to know this feel

I recently did an overlong Žižek impression in front of my some people who had no clue what I was on about, but that's about it.

>>8445603
You are the perfect entertainer for women.

>>8447083
just like there are parents who despise seeing their daughter with BBC, there are whores who despise wannabee providers who disclose they vote contrary to the whores.

>>8450784

What did he mean by this? Was it a compliment?

>girl asks me what I'm reading
>"City of God by St. Augustine, of course"
>"of course"
>why the fuck did I say "of course"
>who the fuck would say, "oh duh, he's reading City of God"
>she says, "oh, okay"
>walks away

Acting like a pompous jackass by mistake cost me yet another decent interaction with another human being

>>8450868
The answer doesn't sound too autistic desu, I can only imagine it as an honest answer.
It's her problem she didn't follow up my dude.

>>8450916
sometimes I just want to know what someone is reading but can't successfully read the cover from far-off, and I want to go up and ask but not actually have a conversation after that

maybe that's what the girl did

>>8450916

Just remembering it makes me think that maybe I put a weird inflection in my voice, but I can't really remember. She was a qt3.14 with a bit of a donk, so it was my loss, really

>>8450952
Most probably.
>>8450968
It's her loss she didn't recognize st. Augustine and say man I love him and started a conversation on how Russel had such a shit tier opinion on him.

>>8442675
>be me
>attending highschool creative writing class
>filled to the brim with "uh muh depression gonna go cut myself tonight" faggots
>actually have depression, so i hate literally every one of them
>one day class having an argument over some stupid bullshit
>think it was anthem
>literally like monkeys throwing shit at eachother and nobody gives a fuck
>read anthem like five times already so don't really think it's all that important
>suddenly kid next to me leans over
>smells like pizza crust and mountain dew
>plebdetected.jpg
>"hey anon, can you help me out with something?"
>not in a terrible mood so i say sure, why the fuck not
>hands me this paper, like a page long of messily scribbled shit
>his 'masterpiece'
> literally sanic the hedgehog level tier writing ability
>basically screaming about 'muh oppression'
>pleasefuckingkillme.jpg
>decide ive had enough
>go full on autism mode
>start editing the shit out of his paper
>basically not even the same thing anymore, literally turning shit into gold
>finally finish
>"here, this should be much better"
>takes one look at it and leans back over
>"uh, what does this word mean?
>word is attainment
>fucking attainment
>FUCKING ATTAINMENT
>"it's says you're a fucking retard"
>get up and walk out in the middle of class
>no one stops me
>never sit by that kid again

>>8451010

>literally turning shit into gold

I did something like that in my 1000- and 2000-level courses for some of the people in my classes. I called it "literary alchemy".

>>8447107
>serious famalan's where can I find good women.
Do you even have any women friends? My male and female friends are plebs and patricians in more or less equal proportions. That said, my male friends range from genius to clueless, whereas my female friends stay around the middle. That could say something inherent about women, but i suspect it's just because most of my friends are men. I only have 3 or 4 close female friends and like 12 acquaintances who I know well enough to know their "power level" I know many more men well enough.

>>8447107

>where can I find good women

>good

>women

>schopenhauerdisapproves.jpg.exe.gif.tiff.bat

>>8451019
I know what you mean, trust me; I basically run a little service out of my dorm for helping fix papers, and make a pretty penny doing it. Some of the shit that I gotten though... my god, I've never known the meaning of torture until then. The stuff of nightmares, I tell you.

>>8451010
Ha you're so smart and cool XD

>>8447212
>i guess the irony of this is that becoming a "feminist" is one of the most menial accomplishments one can make and has no reflection of intelligence whatsoever.
sure, there are smart feminists and dunces.

>Also it is nigh impossible to profit in any way from the study, unless you count being an even whinier cunt profiting. Men and women are different. Instead of trying to make things equal that will never be equal, try to accept each other for our differences
You're arguing against a specific caricature of feminism. There are many reasons why one would call themselves a feminist.

>>8451043

I don't know if I could deal with the amount of garbage that people write. I've seen sentences so choppy that I'm not sure if the writer means to write so poorly or if they're attempting to be artsy by writing like crap

>>8444820

"It reads like a fantasy book but it's set in the future. Basically everybody gets assigned different professions and the main character is chosen as a torturer. He gets exiled when he shows compassion for one of the people he's supposed to torture"

Not that hard man.

>>8451082
That's such a bad blurb of what it actually is.
And if you say fantasy you risk a "Do you like GRRUM and Brandon Sanderson?"

>>8445436
>imagine you're reading Wittgenstein, how do you answer that question WITHOUT coming off as a pretentious turd?).
or like a complete idiot

I study philosophy, and I believe most people would laugh if answer, in once sentence as it is expected by the person who ask, what is the book really about.

What once sentence summaries can one give without looking like an idiot?
>Berkeley
Oh, this book is about the rejection of external matter.
>Kant
It explains why we can know things and how.
>Wittgenstein
It describes why language has meaning.

I don't think I could give better answer, without falling in a long explanation of the book. I think most people would think I am stupid, specially stem-people, for reading a book about apparently obvious matters.

>>8451097
It's easy, just say it's philosophy. That will satisfy most people.

>>8447128

>I believe education is Marxist and not neoliberal slave morality

Back to /pol/, bluepill.

>>8451137
>education
>society
back to /b/ retard

>>8447065
Where do you live anon?

>>8451010

>unsheathes katana
>see ya later kid

>>8447107

In church

>>8451049
>>8451231
>implying that you wouldn't do the same
Please, anons, we're all autistic here.

>>8442675
>>8442689
Cockadoodee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv7LwFPp3SY

>get into grammar school
>oh boy oh boy oh boy I sure can't wait to join all these patricians
>we play pictionary as an icebreaker
>Trying to figure out who the hell to draw, I eventually settle on something people are sure to get (so I don't look like a pseud)
>I draw a haggard knight on a haggard horse
>no one gets it
>I draw a windmill
>no one gets it
>"Anon, I don't think any of us are getting it, who is it?"
>D-don Quixote
>"Who's that?"
>mfw everyone was staring at me
>mfw my delusions were crushed
>mfw I had no friends for the next two years

>>8451337
>cuckadoodee

>>8451137
It's hilarious how all the mildly liberal things right-wingers chimp out about for being Marxist are despised by actual Marxists

>>8447061
In Asia there's an entire market for 'cell-phone novels' that were written and meant to be read on phones. Each chapter is ~100 words.

>>8447065
Americunts are notoriously anti-intellectual despite having some of the world's best universities.

>>8451021
Men's intelligence has a wider range (more geniuses, but also more retards) while women tend to stay in the middle intellectually (collectively less retarded, but less prone to exceptionalism).

>>8444788
this one is always tough

Usually don't talk about /lit/ with random people, but sometimes with my friends (who don't read nearly as much as I do, if at all). Luckily, I have good friends who accept me so it's okay for me to "be myself" or whatever around them. They do occasionally tease me for being pretentious, though.

Worst thing I do is introduce conversation topics that trigger people (like feminism, for example) and watch the shitstorm unfold, while occasionally chiming in by advancing extremely leftist arguments (I read lots of critical theory). I generally do this in a detached, ironic way though and let other people do most of the talking.

>>8444788

Yeah this happened to me on a plane recently (I was reading The Magic Mountain).

>>8444909

Welles' Trial is awful (in my opinion). I love his other films though.

>>8447208
>at one stage she claims that ideologies in general no longer function today and implies that no one in the lecture hall adhered to an ideology
How can someone be this retarded?

>>8448035
>the best selling children's book of the 70s
Not a specific one, but in America that list includes Dr Seuss books, Little House on the Prairie, Judy Blume books, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and Madame L'Engle's A Wrinkle In Time series, most of which continue to sell well even now, but they're still not the cultural firestorm that Harry Potter was. There was not endless waves of licensed goods or multiple multimillion dollar movies and games produced about them. They were not worldwide sensations that charted on best-seller lists in god knows how many languages. They did not have fangroups who went to midnight releases dressed as characters and they didn't have social media to constantly regurgitate an idiotic acceptance of never moving past children's literature because Harry Potter is the only book series anyone ever needs to read (except for perhaps the YA soup du jour). I don't think you had many braindead undergrads going into English 101 in the 80s-90s saying that their favorite book of all time was Little House on the Prairie.

Out of the titles listed from the 70s, Dr Seuss is the only one with remotely anywhere near that staying power and a large part of that is due to the mostly timeless, universal nature of his work. (But I doubt many adults are purchasing and reading Seuss unless they have small children, unlike HP.) Fervor will subside over time, of course, but I think you're severely underestimating the cultural impact the series had. Harry Potter, like it or not, is one of the best selling franchises of all time and will continue to be a mainstay in libraries and at elementary schools long after most of us are dead. I can walk up to just about any person in any part of this country and ask them if they know what Harry Potter is and 95% of them will say yes. If I mentioned a popular children's series published at roughly the same time period like A Series of Unfortunate Events, that number will be 15% at best. It'll take a hell of a long time for it to subside to a footnote in publishing history.

I'm not an HP fan, but I'm not so retarded as to not acknowledge the vast impact it's had.

>>8445155
Reading this post followed by the replies was a surreal experience, as though you are all characters of a JD Salinger book. 7.3/10

>Reading Principles of Maritime Strategy
>Girl comes up to me, asks what I'm reading about
>Start sperging about how the perception of military strategy has changed over time and how that impacts decisions made by command
>blankstare.jpg
>She gives me a piece of paper and tells me it's a good book
>Google it when I get home
>It's some shitty conspiracy theory book
She could've at least shilled me some pseudointellectual shit.

>>8451056
After I peer-reviewed papers for an introductory English course, it made me feel bad for English professors. Why would they willingly subject themselves to this garbage?

>>8451345
kek

>>8447062
Relevant passage from Livy which you may enjoy:
>“Arrogance is resented by the hasty tempered; but sensible men laugh at it, if it is shown by an inferior towards his betters.”

>>8450868
To be fair, when you read stuff like that, most people have nothing to say about it anyway, no matter how you explain it. I've been reading a lot of greek tragedy and most people who ask what I'm reading sarcastically say "oh yeah I loove reading tragedy just because."

And when people ask if I read for school, I can't even say "no, for fun" because everyone says "ha, who reads that for fun??" Well fuck you too then.

Called my uncle a Malthusian doofus when talking about the famine in Eritrea

>>8445155
Those are my trigger movies too <3

>>8453718
Let me guess. your favourite films are all arthouse and I wouldn't get them, right?

>>8442675
>mock later middle aged cousin for reading the hunger games
>informed that the consumption of literature for pleasure is a personal, subjective experience and get told to fuck off

>every single time I get drunk I relate every situation to a book

>just last weekend introduced to a new highschool teacher in town whilst drunk
>mock the curriculum

>>8447107
There is nothing wrong with Unbearable Lightness of Being

>>8443043
>I was yelling about geo-political propaganda network
The French and British media did have a decent coverage of the parliamentary putsch; they covered the snipers story; the neonazi thugs with guns bussed from Lviv; the constitutional issues; that yanukovich was still leading in the polls and many other factoids which went starkly against the nato narrative of a popular upstanding disposing of a tyrant. You instead chose to parrot some stock phrasing of your own which makes, by contrast, Alex Jones sound like an academic philosopher.
Ha
Haha
Bwahahahahaha

>>8451337
Is this from Stephan King's youtube channel?

>>8445612

This is ripped nearly directly from Annie Hall.

>>8453480
What is a hasty tempered? Someone impatient?

>tfw have patrish friends who I can talk about this stuff with
>tfw also have small town normie friends who I can get drunk and have a good time
>Have gf with the same upper class education/lower class upbringing I do
>Enjoy fun stuff while also enjoying serious patrish stuff
>Easy to hide power level because I'm an actual human being with more than one thing I'm interested in
>gf is better informed than me on almost every topic we discuss, short of my degree specialty

My life was great until I finished college and ended up unemployed lads

>>8447889
The butthurt is strong with this one.

>>8442675
Went into a free will vs determinism rant while drunk in order to piss off some guy I didn't like after picking up he was a Sam Harris fan trough casual blather. Served its purpose, he went away.

>>8454064
>a free will vs determinism rant
hic rhodos. hic salta.

>>8453520
The responses I generally get fall along the lines of:
>Implying you can read for fun
>Have you read [insert latest poplit phenomenon]?
>Why would you want to read that?
>Oh, I love reading too, my favorites are [insert list of beach readers, YA, and cheap romance novels]

A question about reading I had at my old job:
>Wow, Anon, you sure read a lot. Are you a vegetarian?
>Tell him no, I'm not
>Spend the rest of the day wondering how the fuck those two correlate in any way

I assume it was reading = intellectual hobby, intellectual = vegetarian. (Though to be fair, it's often cheaper to eat delicious vegetarian food than it is to eat steak and chicken everyday if you're cooking on a budget.) It wasn't as if I never brought in meat for lunch though.

>>8453892
>upper class education/lower class upbringing
lollllllll

>>8454229

My family are new money scum senpai. My da hit it big and paid my way into a good uni

>>8450629
Reddit

>>8454235
the money matter explains a lot about the elitism on lit. most americans cannot afford to buy the latest harvard memes so their kids have to pretend that they know them. in europe we don't give a shit. being an academic just means you're a homeless person in waiting. thus no pretentious drivel: who would like to pretend he's a bum?

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