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What connects the substance of this image…
…to the substance of this image?
We see in both what is true arising from its opposite, what is false. In the first, the facade is the building (meaning, the fake is not faking); in the second, the deceit results in an honest statement. Truths can grow in any climate—good or bad.
Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory... More by Charles Mudede
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At first I was confused about why everyone seems to be a jerk to Charles when they comment on his posts. Now that I’ve been reading Slog for awhile, I finally get it: Charles’ posts read like some first-year philosophy major’s little black notebook that he writes in as he hides in the corner, avoiding making friends and having fun. Because he’s just, you know, way too deep for that. The only thing missing is a joint and a discussion about how “man invented time. don’t you get it??”
Good Afternoon Charles,
I must have missed something from your pictures/comments association partner? What I see is a traffic light from an east Asian country and a message written on a sheet of paper with the letterhead of a rent-a-car agency presumably from Perth, Western Australia. Nope. I don’t understand. Except that the last sentence of your comments sounds dangerously close to moral relativism.
Time is also a deceit that results in a truth. Good point.
It’s so nice to be able to read a Mudede thread without having to see all the haters. Plonk! Bye.
Anyway, doesn’t this make you think of anti-affordances where you engineer things to work poorly for a particular purpose? The better designed and made an anti-accordance is, the harder it is to use for the thing it opposes.
You could just put up a fence or screen around things, to keep out the skaters or the pigeons or whatever out, it’s like telling a simple lie. But when you leave it open while making it anti-useful, it’s like telling a lie that reveals a truth.
That note is so win.
The contradictions are mindblowing. Wow.
Again.
You missed another point of reflection in the first picture, Charles:
Under the black awning is a Ramen shop. They make and sell delicious noodle soups there, for reasonable prices.
Contrast with the crappy, overpriced swill that they deceitfully advertise as “Noodles” at Boom Noodles “restaurant” at 12/Pike, where they claim to have studied Japanese noodle-making. Bullshit!
False! Facade! No truth at Boom Poodles!!
I’m with TeaHag! This is ridiculous. And @ 5, agreed.
I hope someone wrote down Jack’s license plate number and gave it to the person he hit.
@9 why would you, the guy wrote down his details and put it on the guys car…are you in the habbit of double checking people’s work? I sure wouldn’t, maybe I would now, but I wouldn’t have a care in the world before.
About that note…
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/thenote.…
@7
Tru dat. Boom noodle sucks.
I hope you die in a fire, Jack.
oscar is right. the second image is a hoax.
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/thenote.…
and an old one.
there is no truth in the second image.
Goddam people! Learn how to fookin’ spell idjit.
I thought the thing that connected the two images was “LAME!”
This reminds me of when I met a dude at the park yesterday, he was being weird and cryptic, and I felt like I was being fucked with – so after four minuets – I shook his hand and was like “welp! good seein’ ya!”