of pineapples, love, and neglect

[hyena]

well, rahvin, you shouldn't really take after your friends, but if i may grace you with a prime item from my pack o' plans, you should send Lina's boyfriend a one-way business class ticket to Australia for his birthday. i was going to say Boston, but it would still be too close to home for the plot to work. then put her on a diet so she will become shorter.

if this works, though, i'm going to have to shoot you.

 

[rahvin]

@ben: well, my wife. so never neglected, no. i have standards. and pineapples.

 

[rahvin]

well, rahvin, you shouldn't really take after your friends, but if i may grace you with a prime item from my pack o' plans, you should send Lina's boyfriend a one-way business class ticket to Australia for his birthday. i was going to say Boston, but it would still be too close to home for the plot to work. then put her on a diet so she will become shorter.

if this works, though, i'm going to have to shoot you.

nah, lina's happy with her bf, and i seriously respect that even though i might feel bloody jealous under alcoholic circumstances.

 

[Dark_Jester]

@claudia and michele: Honestly people, with talks of plans, and respect, and honour even while intoxicated, you aren't exactly destroying my suspicions of ties with the Sicillian families...

Oh, and Michele is Demandred

 

[hyena]

@dj: we used to be called la cupola. don't mess with us. just don't. and sicily is one of the most beautiful places on earth.

@rahve: you fluffy spoilsport.

 

[Lina]

My, oh my!

 

[Malaclypse]

i just ate pineapples and arch mentioned in another thread that my cum probably now tastes like that, but i don't really want to try out. but i heard the same about bananas.

 

[Steve]

Pineapples are not meant to be peeled whole. they are meant to be cut in half, then quartered, then cut more until they are bite size, then the pieces with skin shall have the skin cut off. this process requires a sharp knife, or else it becomes quite dangerous.

 

[Misanthrope]

in this thread you're free to discuss 3 of the most important issues mankind ever had to face:

- are pineapples, love, and neglect forever?
- why do people stop caring about us, loving us, and feeding us pineapples, sending us straight into oblivion?
- how come it is so hard to properly peel a pineapple or unreciprocated love?

please debate at length.

- Yes yes and yes
- People stop caring about us and loving us because either they never cared or loved us in the first place and we deluted ourselves to think so ( the ever so hard realization that we've been used ) or simply because we do not take care of that love so it doesnt withers and dies like the leaves on autum.
- The only way to properly peel unreciprocated love is to just close your eyes, bite your tongue and go through it, hoping the wounds on your soul are not fatal that time around, but infact those wounds might never fully heal.

 

[PoS]

wow, nice introduction to a forum. and this coming from a moderator no less!

- how come it is so hard to properly peel a pineapple or unreciprocated love?

please debate at length.

possibly because, like love, to peel a pineapple by hand is to leave yourself open to all the hurts/scratches/abrasions and sticky pointy bits so that you can achieve the ultimate goal, being the sweet, tasty nectar that is love inside the pineapple. How can one experience love without first opening themselves to the posssibility that is might be unreciprocated? one must give oneself wholly over to the venture in expectation to achive that ultimate goal, otherwise one cannot say that said love was unreciprocated due to anyones fault but their own. just as one cannot expect to savour the taste of an unpeeled pineapple without running the risk of injury to their person in the first place. the important question as I see it though, and my question to you, is that is the taste of a pre-peeled pineapple quite as sweet and juicy as that of one you have had to peel yourself, either being injured to acquire it or simply going out on a limb and running the risk that you could be injured in the process?

 

[hyena]

@PoS: welcome among us, please take a seat and stay.
Also, your post might have pushed me to do rash stuff, like actually trying something to obtain reciprocation. You'll be held responsible.

 

[Dark_Jester]

PoS: Opeth Off-topic refugee under a new name I believe

 

[rahvin]

- People stop caring about us and loving us because either they never cared or loved us in the first place and we deluted ourselves to think so ( the ever so hard realization that we've been used ) or simply because we do not take care of that love so it doesnt withers and dies like the leaves on autum.
- The only way to properly peel unreciprocated love is to just close your eyes, bite your tongue and go through it, hoping the wounds on your soul are not fatal that time around, but infact those wounds might never fully heal.

ah, that was good.
more wishful thinking: now if only misanthrope was single and a girl, i'd be a very happy man moving to mexico.

i tend to trust the fact that people stop the caring and loving because they never were there in the first place. it's amazing how skilled we can be at deluding ourselves into thinking we are receiving purposefully aimed love and care, while in the end we are simply reacting emotionally to outside stimuli meant to say something completely different, or possibly nothing at all. if the delusion never ceased, we could probably live the lie until the end. i still find it horrible, even without a catch: it's nauseous to nurture something based on untruths and at some level i like opening up my eyes on some sad reality much better.

 

[rahvin]

wow, nice introduction to a forum. and this coming from a moderator no less!

welcome, pos! maybe you haven't checked the thread where my astonishing ability to kiss people of either gender and then forget about it is actively discussed, otherwise you'd find this sort of messages quite normal when it comes to this moderator.

possibly because, like love, to peel a pineapple by hand is to leave yourself open to all the hurts/scratches/abrasions and sticky pointy bits so that you can achieve the ultimate goal, being the sweet, tasty nectar that is love inside the pineapple. How can one experience love without first opening themselves to the posssibility that is might be unreciprocated? one must give oneself wholly over to the venture in expectation to achive that ultimate goal, otherwise one cannot say that said love was unreciprocated due to anyones fault but their own. just as one cannot expect to savour the taste of an unpeeled pineapple without running the risk of injury to their person in the first place. the important question as I see it though, and my question to you, is that is the taste of a pre-peeled pineapple quite as sweet and juicy as that of one you have had to peel yourself, either being injured to acquire it or simply going out on a limb and running the risk that you could be injured in the process?

and my answer is: certainly not. i'd take the pineapple i had to peel myself over any pre-peeled, or canned pineapple anytime. the problem is that pineapple are much better than love (yes they are ), because if you take the risk you're pretty much sure that inside you'll find the juicy sweet nectar that makes the world go round. on the other hand, tinkering with love inside other people just means you peel and peel and peel until you get to the harsh cold truth that - lo and behold - there was no love nor pineapple inside! you're full of scars, and it was all for nothing.
a pineapple is also much more reasonable than any individual we might want love from, as there is a definite pattern in its rotating movement of cutting thorns (or spikes, or whatever they are), while most rejection lines from unreciprocating people include refusing to give love because they're broke, or they have a cold, or they've been living as hermits, or they hate the smell of roasted turtles, or they need some time alone to invent a new alphabet, or they think you sound weird when you say the word "accretion". in short, preposterous excuses that spell the death of logic.

i raise my pineapples as a symbol of logic.

 

[fireangel]

I have to say that I don´t understand the major part of this thread. probably because it reminds me of british/american authors which I got to hate in school?

Until we're ready to accept the people who actually want to take care of us as partners, we're going to be neglected, barring the very lucky case of reciprocation (once in ages); and if we don't change our ways, that's because the pain of neglect after all is more bearable than being cared for by someone we don't want. Good old axiom of revealed preferences. Never fails to deliver.

well, that post I understood

 

[rahvin]

I have to say that I don´t understand the major part of this thread. probably because it reminds me of british/american authors which I got to hate in school?

or you've always had your pineapples peeled, your lovers loving, and your neglect marginal, lucky you!

but what's the part you don't get, exactly?

 

[Dark_Jester]

Someone gave me bad rep on this thread with 'weren't you leaving?' written on it. I am shocked, hurt, amused, and convinced it was Mr Spangleman.

Mr Spangleman, wherever you are, I intend to burn you to death with a pair of water balloons. You have been warned. Ass-midget.

 

[rahvin]

that mr. spangleman! will he ever learn, or will he continue to make kids laugh with his antics?

 

[Dark_Jester]

Not after I pump him full of happy gas so his face explodes and he is reduced to the disgusting shell of ultimate evil he embodies. May his jaded antisocial antics of political fear and abrasion be spat on with alien acid spit, and his eyes feasted upon by angry black crows. Angry black crows OF DHOOM!

 

[fireangel]

or you've always had your pineapples peeled, your lovers loving, and your neglect marginal, lucky you!

no, not that I would know..

but what's the part you don't get, exactly?

the whole style in writing, the absurdity (not the main theme itself, but how it´s handled) and the connection of topics It strongly reminds me of John Updike and his fellas and this literature is something I don´t want to have any contact to anymore