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Gibberings CXVIII: We used to score using phone boxes

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Doesn't it just 8o

Of course the problem with giving us advance warning that you're considering a name change does mean you've just heaped a whole heap o' pressure to come up with a good 'un on your head now =D

In need of some inspiration? Perhaps the Why did you choose your Bluelight user name? thread will help to ease such peer-pressure. Alternatively, you can just snigger at the unfortunate monikers others lumped 'emselves with and feel so much better towards your current name you decide to stick with it :D
 
yeah buddies! Just got my first gig offer for djing. February 15th i'm gonna be dropping some fat electro house tunes along with a bit of house and dubstep. Anyone got any suggestions? I'm thinking stuff by feed me, zedd, porter robinson, alesso, a tad of avicii, maybe some kaskade, possibly some knife party... Definitley going to drop alesso - calling (loose my mind).

Praying i can afford my new controller by then.. Rocking a numark mixtrack pro..
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m'erica
 
I remember 2p phone calls.

1970 me, so somewhere between apf, and Shambles.

I like getting older. Everything gets better.
 
Now "the big" four-oh is beginning to loom I am also coming round to the opinion that youth is overrated and gerontics is where it's at. Am eyeing up a nice lil midlife crisis at the moment but am unsure if it'll work due to a distinct lack of practical interest in buying a Harley-Davidson or a Porsche 911. Also am unlikely to start up an affair with me 19yo secretary for at least one good reason. Hmm... not thought this midlife crisis bizniz through properly at all have I :(
 
Shambles said:
If you really are considering changing your account you may as well while the postcount is low. I fukkin loathed my original username - the fact that mods can change their username was probably the deciding factor in me applying for the modstick a few years back. Suspect it's a fairly common irritant for many BLers - you sign up to ask a question one day with some throwaway handle only to find yourself cursing the fact you've still got said username a few years down the line and cos everybody has known you by that name for ages you don't feel up to killing off the account just to change it 8)
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Abso-fucking-lutely.

I can barely remember why I chose this name (a Danzig obsession that coincided with a heavy exercise regime and other strange behaviour) and yet, were I to change it, because of the nature of the name, people would still use 'Sam'. Which is a trap I didn't see coming - I thought it'd be 'SG' at best, and anyway I always thought I'd be relatively low-profile, or at best a semi-troll in-joke.

I wasn't to know I'd become a fairly active member at the same time as they were scraping the very dregs of the barrel for staff. The rest is the kind of history you'd only read about if you were bored or in solitary confinement.

Anyway, most of the alternative names have been 'inspired' by drugs and are even crappier or more unnecessarily allusive / pretentious / silly than this one.
 
*cough* Recreational Hugs *cough*

lulz

Ultimate proof that the EADD collective must approve of any radical moniker changes
 
I'm now seriously considering re-applying for a staff position just so I can assume the work of pure genius that is: Recreational Hugs <3

Trivial "Fun" Fact of the Day: I almost wasn't allowed my first choice of name-change as there was an existing account with the username "Shambles" (albeit one that had only ever made about three posts circa 2001). Fortunately, I'd had the foresight to make sure I gave Feel Licks the best damn reacharound he'd ever had when applying so he nobbled the other account and thus "entheogenius" died the death deserving of such irksome nomenclature making way for the shambolic rebirth of "Shambles". A most pleasing "reclamation" of what was originally a mildy insulting term of abuse aimed at me by the local kiddies that they thought I was unaware of. Like a one man gay rights lobby reclaiming the term "queer" only with slightly fewer feather boas and leather chaps - not to mention a near-complete absence of handlebar moustaches.
 
Marmalade said:
*cough* Recreational Hugs *cough*

lulz

Ultimate proof that the EADD collective must approve of any radical moniker changes
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It's true! I can't change my avatar because Felix gets upset ;) That and it'd be weird now
 
Some folks' name, avatar and overall perceived reality construct are so intertwined that they should be morally - if not legally - bound to never change any aspect of it. I think I might actually need sectioning as a gibbering wreck of a man should I ever see my posts associated with some other lesser avatar. I noticed that at some point during one of me lil BL breaks an EADDer tried to replicate me avatar (albeit in somewhat shonkier form :p) and I damn near reported him and demanded a permaban on principle at seeing words and thoughts other than my own being associated with me beloved pictogram of joy 8(
 
That was Inso wasn't it? What does your avatar say anyway?

I'd forgotten about Recreational Hugs. Ha ha ha, that lasted an afternoon didn't it?
 
jancrow said:
What does your avatar say anyway?
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It's actually quite interesting. Genuinely so. I think so anyway...

It says "cannabis" ("ma") which is - in and of itself - not overly exciting. What is at least quite interesting (if not quite managing to be classified as "exciting") is that it's the earliest known written word for "cannabis" found anywhere in the world to date. Was found on some uberancient Chinese medical text. According to the Erowid article I was reading immediately prior to choosing me avatar anyway.

The reality may be somewhat less clear-cut due to varying dialects and so forth, mind. Short article on the historical evolution of the word "cannabis" in ancient Chinese texts (for the truly nerdgasmic out there ;))

EDIT: Yes, I do realise there are two words invovled in me avatar but am buggered if I can recall what the first one says at the moment. Answers on a postcard...
 
pontifex01 said:
Shambles I did notice when I PM'd you there was a "Shambles."...
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Indeed, Ponti. I do believe it was Oor Felix who added the "." to the Shambles Who Is (not)Me so I could claim the prize. You snooze you lose, Shambles wivva "." :p

Also, I've not forgotten I owe you a PM and will get on it in a bit. Til then, I hope the tram-avoidance is going as well as can be expected. I woke up today with pounding brainzaps but 60mg of oxy seemed to do the trick so am still officially tram-free at the moment. Gonna have to sort out a more planned regime imminently though cos there's no point getting twatted on decent opi's to the point that I need to pop a coupla trams to save me from opi w/d ickiness. Is such a cunt that us folk with "form" when it comes to poppy-product tend to develop this weird, frustrating and deeply annoying trait of semi-permanent tolerance combined with more or less guaranteed w/d after even the teensiest of weensiest opi-binges :\
 
Shambles said:
The reality may be somewhat less clear-cut due to varying dialects and so forth, mind. Short article on the historical evolution of the word "cannabis" in ancient Chinese texts (for the truly nerdgasmic out there ;))
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First one might be 'plant' or supporting the second so the whole reads something like 'the cannabis plant' but that's wild and only slightly educated guesswork.

That's a v interesting link but there's quite a lot of opinion / grey area / leaping of the faith in there. I'll read it again but that's my first take.
 
JC: Ya. That article is interesting but hardly a work of truly stellar scholarship. To be honest, I only posted it cos I couldn't find the linky to the Erowid article that actually did originally inspire me beloved avatar.

As for your mini-theory, although my opinions are so far below being educated they actually temporarily lower the IQ of anybody reading them, I'll have a crack... I think you are probably somewhere along the right lines. One of the characters is "ma" meaning "hemp" but the addition of second character seems to allow for all sorts of modifications. The one that looks most like me avatar is...

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... meaning "numb" (ie "the pain was numbed with medicinal cannabis"). My avatar isn't quite the same characters though but I'd guess it's summat vaguely similar: a phrase that describes a specific effect cannabis has. Best guess? "That last dose of medicinal cannabis meant I need an urgent dose of medicinal munch." Perhaps.
 
You might be in the right ballpark.... I think the one on the right there is 'wood', isn't it? And seeing that these pictograms CAN BE quite literal ('Ink' for example, is something like a combination of 'water' 'hearth' and 'clay' because the ingredients of ink are water, soot and clay) I have a theory that the central vertical line represents the trunk of a tree. So maybe that character without the central stem means the non-woody parts of the plant, which in this case, let's face it, are the most interesting bits. But it's just a theory.
 
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