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Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of

Posted: Fri March 01, 2024 10:43 pm
by spike
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Jorge wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:It really bothers me that books aren't all the same size. I can't stand looking at our bookshelves sometimes and seeing books that are too long, too high, etc. I would like one standard size for all books, please.
Wow, that sounds kind of boring to me. I like how my bookshelves look all jagged and uneven and in a bunch of different colors
Yeah, I think there is something wrong with me
You must love encyclopedia collections.

Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of

Posted: Fri March 01, 2024 10:49 pm
by wease
spike wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Jorge wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:It really bothers me that books aren't all the same size. I can't stand looking at our bookshelves sometimes and seeing books that are too long, too high, etc. I would like one standard size for all books, please.
Wow, that sounds kind of boring to me. I like how my bookshelves look all jagged and uneven and in a bunch of different colors
Yeah, I think there is something wrong with me
You must love encyclopedia collections.
I don’t mind the different sizes but I do have three books that are way bigger than all my others and are too tall for even my tallest shelf. It saddens me that they can’t join my other tomes on the shelf.

Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of

Posted: Fri March 01, 2024 11:03 pm
by spike
wease wrote:
spike wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Jorge wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:It really bothers me that books aren't all the same size. I can't stand looking at our bookshelves sometimes and seeing books that are too long, too high, etc. I would like one standard size for all books, please.
Wow, that sounds kind of boring to me. I like how my bookshelves look all jagged and uneven and in a bunch of different colors
Yeah, I think there is something wrong with me
You must love encyclopedia collections.
I don’t mind the different sizes but I do have three books that are way bigger than all my others and are too tall for even my tallest shelf. It saddens me that they can’t join my other tomes on the shelf.
Lay them on their side, stacked.

Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of

Posted: Fri March 01, 2024 11:04 pm
by Bammer
Different sizes, colors, etc make a bookshelf charming.

It’s a metaphor for life, player.

Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of

Posted: Fri March 01, 2024 11:13 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
spike wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Jorge wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:It really bothers me that books aren't all the same size. I can't stand looking at our bookshelves sometimes and seeing books that are too long, too high, etc. I would like one standard size for all books, please.
Wow, that sounds kind of boring to me. I like how my bookshelves look all jagged and uneven and in a bunch of different colors
Yeah, I think there is something wrong with me
You must love encyclopedia collections.
I do!

Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of

Posted: Fri March 01, 2024 11:25 pm
by Ello Sailor
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Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of

Posted: Fri March 01, 2024 11:29 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of

Posted: Fri March 01, 2024 11:42 pm
by coptheriotact
its just the aspect ratio

Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of

Posted: Fri March 01, 2024 11:46 pm
by Ello Sailor
I think it's Tarantino's aspie ratio.

Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of

Posted: Sat March 02, 2024 1:31 am
by spike
Feet are closer to rectangular than square.

Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of

Posted: Sat March 02, 2024 1:34 am
by Ello Sailor
Unless you're a Chinese woman in the 10th century.

Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of

Posted: Sat March 02, 2024 1:34 am
by Jorge
Which I am

Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of

Posted: Sat March 02, 2024 1:35 am
by Ello Sailor
:shock:

Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of

Posted: Sat March 02, 2024 2:06 am
by spike
That tracks

Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of

Posted: Sat March 02, 2024 2:06 am
by spike
Ello Sailor wrote:Unless you're a Chinese woman in the 10th century.
Got my ass

Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of

Posted: Sat March 02, 2024 2:54 am
by wease
spike wrote:
wease wrote:
spike wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Jorge wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:It really bothers me that books aren't all the same size. I can't stand looking at our bookshelves sometimes and seeing books that are too long, too high, etc. I would like one standard size for all books, please.
Wow, that sounds kind of boring to me. I like how my bookshelves look all jagged and uneven and in a bunch of different colors
Yeah, I think there is something wrong with me
You must love encyclopedia collections.
I don’t mind the different sizes but I do have three books that are way bigger than all my others and are too tall for even my tallest shelf. It saddens me that they can’t join my other tomes on the shelf.
Lay them on their side, stacked.
That’s MY bookshelf pet peeve.

Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of

Posted: Sat March 02, 2024 3:15 am
by Strat
wow, ruddo really is a psychopath.

Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of

Posted: Sat March 02, 2024 1:38 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
coptheriotact wrote:its just the aspect ratio
This was a good post

Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of

Posted: Sat March 02, 2024 1:40 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Strat wrote:wow, ruddo really is a psychopath.
Imagine if your record collection was all random sizes, not one the same

Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of

Posted: Sat March 02, 2024 2:07 pm
by Bammer
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Strat wrote:wow, ruddo really is a psychopath.
Imagine if your record collection was all random sizes, not one the same
Yeah or the tires on your car