06-08-2005 20:21									#1
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This is one of those topics I'd mentally filed under "dull geekery" and studiously avoided investigating. Now, with the sort of compulsion normally associated with picking at a scab, I feel compelled to discover more about them.

So what are they? More pressingly, what's the point of them? Explanations, personal experiences, amusing anecdotes- all are invited. I promise I won't laugh.

	06-08-2005 20:23									#2
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Do you mean, like, really tiny countries?

	06-08-2005 20:29									#3
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I suspect not. I think it's something far more terrifying.

	06-08-2005 20:30									#4
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Something quite "aspie" if you ask me.

	06-08-2005 20:43									#5
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Aspies are going to be cutting edge pretty soon. All it'll take is for a few celebs with big shite-eating grins to out themselves and suddenly they'll all be too cool for school.

People will want to hire them as pets, to bring a dose of eccentric right-braininess into their households. Glamour models will choose to mate with them in a bid to boost the conversational skills of their offspring. They're the new ubermenschen.

I think there are a few closet cases in Hollywood. Scarlet Johansen, for one. From a certain angle she even looks a bit retarded.

	06-08-2005 21:15									#6
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quote: From a certain angle she even looks a bit retarded.

Does this angle involve slipping her a length? Because if not, I'll still be a happy athejew.

	06-08-2005 21:16									#7
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I feel.. confused..?

	06-08-2005 21:24									#8
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Borderline Downs Syndrome, at a guess.

Edit- the bastard saved as a bitmap

	06-08-2005 21:27									#9
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See?

"Duuuuuuuhhhh! Shiny coin!!!! Pretty!!"

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	06-08-2005 21:31									#10
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Not an aspie.

	06-08-2005 21:37									#11
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can i say litle mongol or will q cube attack me?
oh down syndrome is in fact another name for that. am i not the ****er.

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	06-08-2005 22:36									#12
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Talking about aspies, Bill3k has been jumping around here.

	06-08-2005 22:56									#13
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A resident sage on another site described an Asperger's afflictee he met as being "like a genius on acid". That's a brilliant depiction. Asperger's is where it's at for 2006- you heard it here first.

	06-08-2005 23:01									#14
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Robin Cook, on the other hand, did not have Aspergers. But he has just died, which is a similarly debilitating social dysfunction.



He was also ginger. That's quite sad too. Ginger and dead.

	06-08-2005 23:03									#15
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Anyway......Micronations. Explain them or die.

	06-08-2005 23:04									#16
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Micronations - just another elaborate tax dodge

	06-08-2005 23:04									#17
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quote: Originally posted by Boris Godunov Do you mean, like, really tiny countries?

I believe he means the whole concept of getting together with other individuals and creating virtual countries, whose "public forum" *ahem* is an internet forum. These people form 'countries' or become citizens of these 'countries' and get assigned positions in the 'government' in which they deal with other 'countries'.

The only physical basis of micronations are the servers the webpages are on and the location of the people... if they actually do exist.

	06-08-2005 23:08									#18
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That's the bunnies.

Baffling, isn't it?

	06-08-2005 23:24									#19
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Did poly have a micronation at one point?

And where is Micronesia?

	07-08-2005 00:33									#20
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Micronesia is very real and spread across a couple of thousand square miles of the Pacific. It is noted for its lack of internet geeks, and its proliferation of busty Polynesian lasses.

	07-08-2005 00:36									#21
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I keep scrolling down the page to see Scarlet Johansson and Robin Cook. Imagine if they'd bred......

They could have launched a little army of little ginger retarded-looking goblins.

	07-08-2005 02:53									#22
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dude, he just died... have you no heart?

	07-08-2005 03:25									#23
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What baffles me about micronations it that I'm never quite sure how much of it is relatively harmless though quite, quite geeky fun-having and how much of it is complete, utter insanity. Which makes it akin to a lot of activities in the Internet, really.

	07-08-2005 03:48									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp A resident sage on another site described an Asperger's afflictee he met as being "like a genius on acid". That's a brilliant depiction. Asperger's is where it's at for 2006- you heard it here first.

<------------genius on acid

	07-08-2005 04:02									#25
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The nation of Sealand rings a bell...

	07-08-2005 07:43									#26
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quote: Originally posted by Az dude, he just died... have you no heart?

He's the incarnation of EC's entry on cynic.

In other news, Laz is probably quite Aspy himself.

	07-08-2005 09:00									#27
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Aspie's have difficulty expressing emotions and forming attachments, but they're not as screwed up as Autistic kids. They have relatively normal intelligence, speech, and impulse control.

	07-08-2005 09:31									#28
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Th impulse control thing pretty much rules out Laz

	07-08-2005 12:21									#29
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As does the difficulty expressing emotions. Ever read one of my "seriously pissed off" threads?

	07-08-2005 12:27									#30
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Any.....Micronations.

Sealand isn't the sort of thing I'm after, though it is amusingly barmy. It's the ones that get spontaneously created on the interweb by a bunch of kids who immediately become "Duke of Flatularia" or "Grand Commander of Faveringhaughmingtonshire".

It strikes me as being role-play for people too scared by the limitless powers of their own imaginations. People who'd rather play in the sandpit with a comforting backdrop of petty bureaucracy to cosset them. What do these people get out of the experience?