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Erm...this may seem a naive question, but what's wrong with eating Vegemite?

RF

Well I guess it's fine for you, freddy. (what's vegimite?)

It's Australian for Marmite, in much the same way that 'Hellboundforjoy' is Esperanto for 'Mucus' (and, if it's not, it should be)

Vegimite is for vegetarians...good grief don't you peeps know anything, the name practially tells you...thickos!

(well that makes perfect sense......what's Marmite?)

That's t-h-i-c-k-o-e-s, MV.

I use my imagination to spell Hellie

Which being as you lack imagination, you couldn't possibly understand.

There, there, there. it will be ok, dear!

Marmite is english for vegemite

*SIGH*

marmite is NOT vegemite!

Isn't it? I always thought they were pretty similar though?
*Remembers he's supposed to be insulting*
...you worm!

They are similar, but one is for vegetarians the other uses meat products in it..(stock etc) and its not the marmite one.

Trin, I'm so sorry, I assumed that you were a girl...

Oh, I don't mind!

hey don't get embarressed, this is the insult thread you mmmmm....numbskull

Your supposed to comeback and tell me I can't read, being as it quite clearly states on your ps....etc...do I have to tell you how to insult me?

All right - you can't read!
(That doesn't seem very strong though, does it?)
*Gears up*

Right, you pack of snivelling curs, why don't you crawl back into whatever cesspit you oozed out of and raise the tone just by leaving?

(There, that seems more a la mode)

Great, another good thread ruined by people who are too lazy to follow the original post but have just enough energy to create another inane, vapid chat thread.

"I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up."
Tom Lehrer

"I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up."

Well, shut up then Zoomer. As for the rest of you slugs - Oh bloody... you lot aren't even worth insulting.

"I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up."
Tom Lehrer

Which presupposes that mere speech between people is not enough and that some mythical 'communication' exists to which only the privileged have access (and all the rest is mere babble, I suppose). The difficulty is, in part, with who exactly gets to decide what is and what is not 'communication': the assumption that 'everyone knows what this is' is very rarely correct. To say nothing of the fact that this seems to me to derive from an oddly exclusive (not to say naive) understanding of language - which is innately 'troublesome': anyone who is trying to communicate is almost certainly doing so, albeit in unforeseen ways, whereas anyone who merely assumes that he or she is communicating generally isn't (other than with him or herself).

"Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings." Salman Rushdie

Right - where were we?

You lot make baboons look good, you know that?

Sits,
munching on a piece of toast and marmite......


I always thought we were more bonobo?

I was gona say something to Trin, but the posting was so...

Anyone notice that it suddenly got a lot less...well, irritaing in here?
Ah, MV's asleep - that explains it. My word - is that snoring???