{"id":8482,"date":"2001-05-03T20:02:15","date_gmt":"2001-05-03T10:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=8482"},"modified":"2012-10-21T20:02:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T10:02:35","slug":"theyre-all-gonna-laugh-at-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=8482","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re all gonna laugh at you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">It&#8217;s not so much that I don&#8217;t understand why people find Adam Sandler funny, that I could understand (if you follow), its the fact that I don&#8217;t understand why I find him funny. Me, Roderick I. Nicol (I never tell people my middle name so they&#8217;ll think the &#8216;I&#8217; stands for &#8216;the First&#8217;, as in William I, Henry I, Charles I, etc.). Me, who can remember quotes by famous people to justify everything from smoking to zoophilia. Me, who successfully petition to have CM Cipolla&#8217;s book struck from the 101-level history course reading list due to an error I noticed, involving an incorrectly quoted source due to a confusion in the Wade-Giles\/ standard pinyin syllabary allocation rendering the source completely useless. Me, for whom that last sentence actually makes sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Anyway, I find Adam Sandler funny. I own all his albums. I watched all his films. I&#8217;m watching one now, in fact. Big Daddy. Not exactly the best film I ever saw, still, it makes me think. This kid&#8217;s had it bad. Parents abandoned him, all he can do is wet the bed and freak out. He&#8217;ll probably grow up to be a serial killer, like Joel Rifkin. Did you ever see that Seinfeld episode about Joel Rifkin? That was weird. I tried to get Justin to talk to me about Seinfeld by quoting a line or two from it, but clueless lover boy (a la Sophie, who by the way is updating on Livie&#8217;s site which no one told me, as per usual). But then I realised, he said not too long ago he&#8217;d never seen it, on his site, if I recall. Oh, and by the way, I don&#8217;t sound gay on ICQ. I sound cool. But please please please please don&#8217;t put me on your contact list. I&#8217;ve already had a Croatian anarcho-capitalist and a Japanese guy who spoke NO english add me to their lists. What were they thinking? That I&#8217;d be the Robspierre of Zagreb, or that I could make sense of the line &#8220;I SpeAking english because from childhood it shone like a stone magick&#8221;? Silly bastards. Well, in all fairness I could have just told them straight off that I can&#8217;t hold a conversation with more than one person at once, that&#8217;s why I ditched all those beautiful personalities on MSN, which you may have read about on FUBAR&#8230; anyways, I digress. As I lie here in the pool of my own depravity (I&#8217;m writing this on a laptop, on the floor, the keyboard is covered with cigarette ash and I&#8217;m high as hell- high, there&#8217;s irony, i&#8217;ve never felt low-er), the gentle melody of beer-empties as they roll against each other remind me of the wind-chimes my parents used to have in our old house in our old country in our old life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Would you believe me if I told you I&#8217;m on the guest list for the biggest Garage\/Drums-n-Bass event this year? The VIP list in fact. I visited a clubbing site, ages ago, when I came here, to learn more about it. Gradually, through cautious emailing and finger-on-the-pulse socialising, I have secured a place for my name on the VIP list. How cool is that? Cooler than the &#8216;Welcome to the Industry&#8217; thing? Certainly less cheesy, anyhow. Well, it turns out the fucking thing is on the 12th, the day before my first exam, a major exam, which I HAVE to pass to continue to sophomore year. It&#8217;s weird that Americans came up with the term sophomore, considering they have 4 year degrees, it makes no sense. I mean, freshman, sophomore, final&#8230; makes sense when you&#8217;re in a three year degree, as I am in London. Anyway, I could discuss the stupidity of Americans for longer than George Dubya Bush could hold up a presidency. Did you know that they&#8217;ve already made a gay porn movie about the Florida controversy? I read about it in &#8220;Bizarre&#8221; magazine, it even has a character called &#8216;Pat Bigcannon.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Hey, how come I don&#8217;t get listed as having an &#8220;attractive girlfriend&#8221; in the recent feature? Surely shome mishtake? Or, is there something no one&#8217;s telling me? In any case, I have nothing to say except that Coffee Republic got smashed up by anarchists and I missed it. Oh well, maybe next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">BTW, pleased to see Mike on FWUK (sorry, I&#8217;m slow).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not so much that I don&#8217;t understand why people find Adam Sandler funny, that I could understand (if you follow), its the fact that I don&#8217;t understand why I find him funny. Me, Roderick I. 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