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napalmnacey ([info]napalmnacey) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2010-07-21 09:17:00


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Entry tags:animals, ayn rand is a jellyfish

A tiny, weeny WTF_Nature wank...
I was unsure whether to post this here or iwank, but I posted twice, once to LOL and once to say, "Dude, you're being really annoying", so I figure it might go better here. Right.

WTF_Nature is a super fun community on LJ devoted to the crazy shit nature comes up with. Freak storms. Animals we didn't know existed. Animals that do exist but mutate. If it's in nature, and it makes you go "WTF", it's in the comm.

Yesterday, writerspleasure decided to post about a species of goby in South African waters that has turned on its natural predator, the jellyfish, and made those squishy suckers into their dinner. A really interesting subject, full of fascinating ramifications for the local ecosystem in that area. For some reason, he brought in an Ayn Rand reference.

[info]markslj is tired of this political bullshit.

Wank is soon in the waters once the first blood is shed.

[info]pazi_ashfeather makes a comment on writerspleasure's behaviour.

Thing degenerate and get mighty personal after that, all while the both of them argue about Ayn Rand. I don't know why, but people arguing about Ayn Rand always makes me laugh.

So anyway, one minute you think it's over, but those crazy kids start up the argument again in another thread. Are the Bearded Gobys Libertarians or Bolsheviks? A question for the ages!

Ahhh... Ayn Rand. *chuckle* Tiny, to be sure, but like the Bearded Goby, kind of cute as well.



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[info]bemysty
2010-07-21 10:16 am UTC (link)
Everything I know about Ayn Rand I learned off Sewer, Gas & Electric (which comes highly recommended IF you can get past the literal African genocide).

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[info]b_jellybean
2010-07-22 04:07 am UTC (link)
I was JUST about to comment about how grateful I was that SG&E was my first exposure to Rand, thus I felt insulated against ever falling for her crazy.

(I often mention the book to others, in conversations about Rand or Derrida, and they always look at me so very, very askance.)

Anyway, Matt Ruff=Awesome.

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[info]skarrow
2010-07-27 04:59 am UTC (link)
Likewise. I actually wound up reading The Fountainhead and then Atlas Shrugged out of curiousity.

...wasn't worth it, but SG&E is still great.

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[info]b_jellybean
2010-07-27 02:40 pm UTC (link)
I read Anthem, which I kinda liked, and We the Living which I did not. I was not going to go near either of the monster books.

It is so great.

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