#put-down

[karmakaze]

Text: »Overheard from one of the cubicles in my row: "I bet you ask Clippy actual questions, don't you."« »Wow, that's got to be one of the best putdowns in an IT department I've ever heard.«

[ukdamo]

Anathema

Martha Zweig illustrates why you should never piss off a cat lady :-)

You what? You put Pepperjack the cat to sleep? He slept just fine & he hated without euphemism. I list being-you first among your outrages, I seethe.

In your own pitted boiled baggage pack yourself. Strap fast, lock knuckles, & be found or not among the years tumbling slowly down around the carousels

of Gehenna of Baal, where only departures arrive, where concourses run beyond all alphabets, & I reassign your gates beyond number.

[pramsheds]

We will leave Monsieur Le Corbusier’s style to him, a style suitable for factories and hospitals, and no doubt eventually for prisons. (Doesn’t he already build churches?) Some sort of psychological repression dominates this individual — whose face is as ugly as his conceptions of the world — such that he wants to squash people under ignoble masses of reinforced concrete, a noble material that should rather be used to enable an aerial articulation of space that could surpass the flamboyant Gothic style. His cretinizing influence is immense. A Le Corbusier model is the only image that arouses in me the idea of immediate suicide. He is destroying the last remnants of joy. And of love, passion, freedom.

Ivan Chtcheglov, 'Formulary for a New Urbanism'

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