Drugs are bad, mmmkay?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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http://pw2.netcom.com/~mfarbish/bmpeshow.htm

What combination of heinous pharmaceuticals and mental derangement could possibly be responsible for this webpage? Was the … being that created this site at all aware of reality? Or did it sit and giggle moronically as it pounded malformed, supremely ugly HTML until the sedatives kicked in?

Reading this site is like being severely sleep-deprived and trying to read a book. In the brain, the verbal centers go to sleep first. Reading while dreaming is impossible: Words are gibberish, nonsense words formed of random groupings of letters. This is why people who talk in their sleep rarely say anything coherent: The part of the brain that controls verbal communication is half-paralysed.

This site, however, makes even the word salad of severe psychosis seem comprehensible. Psychotics use real words in their word salad, they just arrange them in nonsensical ways. Your dreaming mind uses real letters in its dream-reading, it just, again, arranges them in nonsensical ways. This site doesn’t even use real letters. It uses non-English glyphs and punctuation, further mutilated by HTML into something that is as close to painful to look at as text can get.

I would blame this site on an AI program, but that, again, presupposes a retarded alien-beast, this time working as a software developer. The simplest AI program in existence, ELIZA, produces prose more coherent than that. The emacs program dissociated-press, which uses a random number generator and markoff chains to mutilate existing text into something between word salad and dream gibberish, produces prose more coherent than that.

I refuse to believe pot wrought that. No SDMB pothead, no matter how stoned, could possibly be that incoherent. Homer in the depths of a mushroom binge was wonderfully witty and cogent compared to that. No, that site, despite its occasional marijuana leaf graphic, has exactly as much to do with pot as it has to do with anything else in the rational world: Jack Diddly Squatting Shit.

I’m running out of descriptive verbiage here. I’d suggest a parody if I didn’t think you all were carbon-based lifeforms. Read the site and do your best (or worst… or whatever you can muster).

(This isn’t in The Pit because flaming that site is like getting angry at the fact the Martians are cloning cheesemines on Neptune’s fifth ankle.)

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Well that made my brain hurt, then it crashed my browser, and then I gave up.

Pot doesn’t do that to you, that site was written by someone with far more serious issues.

There are plenty of web sites out there equally as bad, if not worse, but most people simply choose not to visit them.

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I think this dude has officially beaten the time cube guy.

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Arrrrrgh! Why did I click on that link!

I would have to disagree with you there, friedo!

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friedo, Gene Ray would be struck dumb at the utter … utterness of that group of sites.

(Yep, there are more pages of that same general kind. I’m exploring them like a good little Student of the Bizarre, but, well, look at this image. That image makes just as much sense as anything else on that site. It’s like a copy of Windows Paintbrush (remember that program from Windows-3.1?) exploded and left an ugly residue, which peeled off to reveal something really bad.)

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I know what you mean because I saw it in the original site, but your image shrunk back to normal size when you linked it! :slight_smile:

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Uh, because you are educated stupid?

I actually agree with friedo completely, because at least Gene Ray is making a point. The Time Cube is a semi-comprehensible concept, debatable on its own non-merits.

The pages I linked to don’t even have that much.

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When I follow the link, the image is large as life.

I’m using Opera. What browser are you using?

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Sorry to disagree, Derleth, but I thought it was kinda funny. I don’t think it was written by a person at all. It looks more like it was done using a script to process code from other pages. There is sort of a pattern to it, like it’s a satire on certain kinds of personal home pages.

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Eh? You mean I was educated, but you are saying I’m stupid? Or I was educated in a stupid way?

If you meant the latter, then you’re wrong. I was educated very well thank you.

I’m using IE5, so that might be why it shrunk in my browser.

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sam, the phrase `educated stupid’ is from Gene Ray’s Time Cube site. It’s the reason he gives for you not immediately grasping what the fark he’s trying to say and agreeing with him totally. It wasn’t meant to insult you, it was meant to make you laugh. I didn’t think I’d need a smilie, as I thought you’d pretty much read the site.

Mmmm… this egg tastes good, too bad it’s on my face.

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No, the egg is on my face.

Many apologies, Darleth. I took offence when none was intended.

Carry on…!

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FINALLY!! A justification for all this technology makes the world-wide-web a reality! Thank god for that web page, and also for the release of The Underground Comedy Film that justifys the DVD!

All of us can stop now!

She said I was terribly handsome. Was that an insult?