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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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That is so fucked up. How his skin is perfectly normal and then NOT. I wonder if he has pain receptors in the tumorous area.
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There was an old episode of Grey's Anatomy where someone had this same disease. And they were cutting off the tree parts in the hospital. At one point they cut into a large, protruding piece, and a family of black spiders came crawling out and I thought my wife was going to pass out.
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So they’re warts from a susceptibility to HPV skin infections. So gross.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Wife, dinner party, thank you kindly.
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tragabigzanda wrote:Say Anything

EXT: A nice suburban home, sizable yard with good landscaping. LLOYD DOBLER exits his BLUE CHEVY MALIBU. He walks with purpose into the yard, pressing play on a large boombox stereo before raising it over his head. Phil Collins's "In Your Eyes" is projected from the stereo, while LLOYD directs the sound towards the house of his romantic pursuit, DURDENCOMMATYLER.

INT: The bedroom of DURDENCOMMATYLER. Posters for popular bands and theatrical plays adorn his walls; on his desk, trinkets and mementos typical of a white suburban teenager.

DURDENCOMMATYLER hears the song projected from LLOYD DOBLER'S boombox, and walks cautiously towards his bedroom window. He opens the window to better hear the music.


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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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It was a link to the profile of RM user Lloyd Dobler
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:thanks Ruddo
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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