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Anybody who can't use the word resistentialism or one of its deriviatives just isn't paying attention to the universe.

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Socks that notoriously escape, leaving a pair mate behind, must be among the resistentialists.

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'Resistentialism is futile' mwahahaha.

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 Originally Posted By: olly

'Resistentialism is futile' mwahahaha.

And jocular, too, reportedly. Beware of masochism.

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resistentialism (ri.zis.TEN.shul.iz.um) n. The belief that inanimate objects have a natural antipathy toward human beings, and therefore it is not people who control things, but things which increasingly control people.

But they do


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Looks like you encountered resistentialism at the keyboard when you were typing your subject. Just goes to prove the point...

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But I speld deriviatives rite.

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My computer always does exactly what I tell it to do. If only it could think for itself I wouldn't blame it so often. 'Puters' exist to soak up our time, under the guise of being 'useful tools' Their ultimate goal is to propogate frustration and dissent among us mere mortals so that we create more of them. Bigger, faster, flasher, we are there playthings.....Anyway, back to work.

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and you can blame microsoft for that spelling mistake as well...

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 Originally Posted By: The Pook
and you can blame microsoft for that spelling mistake as well...


Assuming you were referring to deriviatives, nope. Microsoft had nothing to do with it. It was done using Firefox on a Linux system.

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