HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
Subject: Re: Accents
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 13:05:13 GMT

Datasbuild (datasbld@bnr.ca) wrote:
: 
: Sorry to rattle on like this but I did like Denmark and to hear someone 
: pretending to have angst about their accent when speaking a second language is
: just plain silly!  Most of us do not know a second language as we English
: speakers are so f*cking superior that we never bother learning one!  I am 
: taking French lessons for the umpteenth time but I seem to have an inbuilt
: resistance to learning languages.  I spent a year in The Netherlands and only
: picked up about fifty or so words and couldn't speak to a four year old child 
: properly!  :(
: 
And here I thought I was the only one with foreign-language angst.  The USA'n school
systems are generally terrible, and they have to stress trying to make people literate
in ENGLISH, let alone the foreign languages.  I personally am a bit resentful that we
weren't required to take a full course of at least one language.  Yes, I had the option,
but try to explain to a stubborn high-schooler (me) that it is important.  No chance.
If our schools stressed foreign languages, like civilized countries' school systems do,
then I could at least read/speak German at a better level than that of a 3-yr old.

ObAngst:  I'm going through a series of interviews for a promotion.  Not in itself
angstful (much), but I won't know for over a month because one of the candidates is out
of town, and can't interview until he comes home.  Oh well.

TurboBah <stolen>
--

Dave Hinz  -  Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's.  Obviously.
hinz@picard.med.ge.com
From: llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Date: 21 Aug 92 06:50:55 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

In article <1992Aug18.011202.2123@utkux1.utk.edu> you write:

: Fear not!!!!  The only reason I would consider cutting my hair is
: for job interviews.  Not to get laid.   I kinda like women who like
: long hair more than those who don't anyway.  

hmmm. with the exception of my exboyfriend the
jesusclonestonergeekjerk, i dunno that i've encountered this attitude
before. whyfor do you feel that way? what makes them different?

: True.  But I think that it is also true that people are often such
: bad communicators that these situations may lead to misunderstandings.
: Misunderstandings that can lead to the destruction of good friendships.

one of the many reasons i stopped being promiscuous... i lost someone
i really cared about because of one of those misunderstandings. sigh.
we're friends again, but the closeness we had is gone; dunno if we'll
ever get it back.

: I have a copy of The Austin Chronicle from last year that does make
: Austin seem pretty enticing.  Perhaps I should go there, and stand
: on the shoulder of the interstate with a sign that says:  
: "Physicist-- will consult for food and gas!"

it might work... <grin> or you could just convince ut to take you on.
or just become a slacker like the rest of us (really, ma, i swear i'm
gonna finish my grad degree some day. sigh).

--
sine nomine
debbie martinson
"green mind, red tongue, white milk
and august the most peaceful month."  -- wallace stevens
From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: PEACE, HAPPINESS & BROTHERLY LOVE...
Date: 17 Aug 92 17:45:20 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <1992Aug17.155803.3250@u.washington.edu> reinstat@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Reinstatler) writes:
>
>My latest Angst:  I've never posted.
>Anyway, here goes:  You will probably have to go to Borland to
>get permission to Turbo your bahs.
>
>phooey     Bob Reinstatler     reinstat@u.washington.edu


yay bob!!! (ahem, excuse me.)

your "latest angst" is a contradiction in terms...is that angstful?

bah.
--
		-just give me what for,
	rachel perkins =  rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu
      "Chastity..the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions...."
					-Aldous Huxley
From: nexus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Arseny Nikolaev Markov)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend (and strange states of matter)
Date: 18 Aug 1992 13:34:03 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:


>C'mon, slug me, beat me, lest I reprogram myself into becoming a
>beaming blissful optimist!!!!  Stop me, before it is too late!!!!
>Before I am Reborn!!!!

>						Meech
Well, happy "Rebirth", Meech. Did you try to read the local newspaper
again this morning? Or maybe start a highly intelligent conversation
with an undergrad about her/his boyfriend/girlfriend? That will get you
back "in shape".

Cheers,

the NEXUS>
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
Subject: Re: WHY, HELLO AGAIN, DAVE! (right-justified te
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 09:44:48 GMT

Jeff McAffer (jeff@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp) wrote:
: In article <78088@ut-emx.uucp> llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
: 
:  >horntho@eng.auburn.edu (Jake Martling) writes:
:  >: In article 241@lrc.edu, blosser_cy@lrc.edu () writes:
:  >: > My life is so filled with chaos, discord and entropy that I find it quite
:  >: > comforting to have at least a little bit of order on my computer terminal
:  >: > hence, my right-justified text.
:  >:
:  >: And you probably have your computer's mouse in a little crocheted "mouse cozy" 
:  >: too, don't you? You anal retentive weenie...
:  >
:  >i'm currently arguing with my best friend about whether or not it's
:  >anal-retentive to have a box full of disks that are all completely
:  >filled (0 bytes free) that were made that way on purpose.
:  >
:  >doesn't everyone?
:  >
:  >--
:  >sine nomine
:  >debbie martinson
: 
: I used to.  There are great disk library programs that can list your
: disks by free space.  Simply find the disk with the appropriate amount
: of free space and copy.  I probably had 100 such disks.  
: 
: "Oh, now this is bad.  See, this disk has 4K free.  We'll never be
: able to use that.  Most annoying.  Well, we'll simply have to move
: some of the files to another disk and get a more efficient
: distribution.  See, isn't that better?" (All said in the voice of the
: anal-retentive chef from SNL?)
: 
: Of course, I may have been anal retentive :-)
: 
: Now I think I own 5 or 10 floppies besides original distributions
: (which I don't backup)(ohh, living on the edge!!!).  However, I do
: have .5 Gigabytes of disk space (1 GB using Stacker) in my PC.  I
: think I have yet to use the 'del' command :-)
: 
: Of course, I like to think I am not anal-retentive.
: 
: Moral: Hard disk space is a cure for anal-retentiveness!
: 
: Question: How to you all feel about doily* mouse pads?  *(shit, how do
: you spell that?)(me, here without a dictionary or an english speaker
: around) (you know what I mean, the little lacy things).  Just curious.
: --
: atode, |m         -- "What happened to all my disk space?"
:                      "I hear Mike took it."
:                      "Bastard!"

I wrote this ACE program that copied files to floppies.  It prompted you for 
the next floppy when the current one was full and it sorted the files to be
copied to be more space efficient.  Nearly always it left the floppies with
0 bytes free except the last one.  It used to give me such a GOOD feeling to
see a floppy like that!  Mega-anal retentiveness and smug satisfaction
combined.  I advertised but only 10 people bought it, sigh.  I am not a
millionaire.  :(  I also made programs that changed the floppy serial number to
whatever you wanted and that copied disks with a single read and a single write
but they didn't sell either.   Sheesh begorrah!  I will NEVER be a millionaire!


Nick (the failed businessman)

Angst>  Nobody wants me or my products.
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: randy@rdr.com (Randy Tidd)
Subject: Re: a girl in McDonalds
Reply-To: randy@rdr.com (Randy Tidd)
Organization: RDR, Inc.
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 00:05:10 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.035414.2613@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> steve@cse.fau.edu  
(Steve Smith) writes:
> I saw a really cute [ sweet thing ] ...
> ...
> What should I do?

I can call upon the advice of Sir Arnold Bax and say:

    "A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the
     remark, `You should make a point of trying every experience once,
     excepting incest and folk-dancing'."

I would say go into the McDonalds when she's working, hang around the sort  
of lobby area until she notices you're there, then go through great pains  
to get in the line she's working, wait patiently through the line with a  
goofy smile on your face, then when it's your turn in line, order a Coke,  
and ask her what time she gets off of work.  When she replies (it doesn't  
really matter what time), ask her if you can buy her a cup of coffee at  
one of the nearest coffee shops (all decent coffee shops stay open until,  
well, they never close).

And I insist that you post here on the Net to let us know how it went.


Randy
"Believe me when I tell you,
 Life will not break your heart.
 It'll crush it."
			- Rollins
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 01:31:49 GMT

In article <16pi13INNo5b@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> nexus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Arseny Nikolaev Markov) writes:
>llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
>
>
[trimming (sine nomine's) assertion that sex for sex's sake is ok,
which I think it is, with some qualifications mentioned in a previous
post]

>
>I'm sorry but I'd like to return to the original point that Lucifuge
>made. To fuck just for the fuck is shallow. Exactly because the involved
>in the sexual act "are aware that that's all that's going on". It's
>simply an act of sexual mechanics, without the warmth and emotional and
>if you want intellectual involvement in what's going on. And this
>involvement gives you the most of sexual satisfaction and togetherness
>if you are really "together". No wonder you got bored. I was also when
>I was younger *grin*

On one hand, I agree that sex for sex's sake is not an inherently
bad thing.  I mean we all encounter someone of the appropriate gender
every once in a while whose clothes we would like to rip off, and
whose body we would like to have our way with for days if not weeks,
verily in an orgy of savage, unrestrained, sweaty lust.  This can be fun, 
but as pointed out above, it may have certain elements of shallowness 
associated with it.  Which is why people do get bored of it. Why people do 
more of this when they are younger....  Why people may do more of this when 
they are unhappy, because quick and easy responsibility-free sex can be a
placebo which can make you feel better-- in the short term at least.
And they do it for other reasons.

And, of course, these days sex is not necessarily so safe, so it may
not be such a good thing to be promiscuous.  But that is another thread
again.

I think the ideal may be best expressed by the quote from "The Good
Soldier" by Ford Madox Ford which I posted yesterday.  But that is my 
opinion.  Others may disagree.

					Meech
From: nexus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Arseny Nikolaev Markov)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Date: 15 Aug 1992 20:05:09 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes about the miniworld
he has to live in:


>Yeah.  Clearly. But they do not even show any interest in learning about
>other ways of living.  When I lived in Spain a few years ago, everywhere
>I went, people wanted to know what the place I came from was like, what
>people were like there, what they did.  Not in TN.  Nobody seems to have
>any interest in the outside world.  The only thing they want to know is
>how much you like Tennessee, and that you believe it is better than where
>you came from.  

Exactly. Do you see now why I want to merge with the Void?
Kansas is not that much different.


>I don't believe the attitudes are superficial necessarily.  See above.

Sad but true.


>						Meech


the NEXUS
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
Subject: Re: PEACE, HAPPINESS & BROTHERLY LOVE...
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 07:19:55 GMT

Stephen J. Okay (sokay@cyclone.mitre.org) wrote:
: In article <1992Aug15.063522.28774@mr.med.ge.com> hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:

: >TurboBah....hey, I like that one.  Can I claim it, Steve?  
: 
: It depends...I guess I'd have to see some more detailed info on it, like a 
: White Paper or something. You might have to get the Bah portion of it licensed
: from Rachel, since it sounds like you're working off her prior art. 
: And you'd have to license the Turbo part from me since I think I first mentioned
: it last week(EmbeddedAngst:I'd quote the posting but our NaziNewsTransportProto
: col has its expire set real short, so I probably won't be able to prove it, thus
: leaving me wide open to cheap knock-offs of my Angst Expression Technology)
: 
: Other than that sure...no problem :)
: 
: ---Steve

Steve,

It sounds like a lot of hassle.  I think I'll just steal it, and use it
without permission.  So sue me.

Later,
ME

--

Dave Hinz  -  Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's.  Obviously.
hinz@picard.med.ge.com


Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
Subject: Re: bird poop angst
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 09:54:47 GMT

Mary E. S. Morris (mesm@netcom.com) wrote:
: 
: Insomnia angst - I love those times at 2 in the morning when you
: wonder if you will ever fall asleep again. Of course by 4am you know
: you never will. Then just as you realize you have to get up in
: a half hour, you suddenly feel so sleepy....
: 
: It's really better to stay up for a few days (and nights) and 
: have a full blown paranoia attack. After that you appreciate the
: hour or two that you get....
: 
: --
: Mary E. S. Morris    |  The future exists first in imagination, then
: mesm@netcom.COM      |  in will, then in reality. -- Galivan Burwell
: =====================================================================
: Netcom - Online Communication Services San Jose, CA

I used to HATE to be able to see the time at night.  I would do semi-
unconscious calculations of how much time I have left for sleep, knowing that
if I have less than 8 hours then I would feel shitty the next day.  All clocks
had to be turned away, my watch left upside down and my wife was not allowed to
mention it on pain of death.

Now, I don't have a wife, I feel shitty all day anyway, I often go into work 
late and there is a f*cking church clock down the road in the village which
bongs the hour!  I seem to have got used to going to sleep after 2 and waking
at 9 but I know that I should go to sleep at twelveish and get up at 8 then all
would be well and I would feel much better and I would be able to meet a woman
and do my job better and lose weight and.......... and........


Nighttime angst!


Nick (yawn).
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome
Keywords: (perhaps grotesquely rotund, spheroid, fragrant and radioactive)
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:16:24 GMT

In article <h38mahn@lynx.unm.edu> jennyb@triton.unm.edu (Jenny Ballmann) writes:
>In article <1992Aug16.162455.24849@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:

>>Oh, I forgot to mention the flock of vultures that hangs out in the parking
>>lot of my building at the Oak Ridge National Lab.  I kid you not!  They
>>get sighted once in while.

>Los Alamos is infested with ravens.  No one has shot them here for
>almost half a century, so they're almost tame.  How about Brookhaven?
>Jenny

Well, the problem at Brookhaven is the deer ticks.  You must live
in perpetual fear of contracting this most nasty disease from tiny, tiny
insects that grab on to your ankles whenever you walk through the grass.
you see, we have the largest wild deer population at the site that I've
ever seen.  They run the place like vermin.  The redeeming factor is
that they're still pretty to look at.  The damning factor is that
they're like giant, organic vacuum cleaners for ticks.

-- 
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schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov         |  .sig may cause retinal damage and 
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From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: New Job Angst
Date: 13 Aug 92 18:14:35 GMT
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA

In article <1992Aug12.164401.23275@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
>In article <1992Aug12.135459.16854@linus.mitre.org> sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:
>>ObAngst:I'm all out of Pop-Tarts(some scummy git snagged my last package)
>>and the Coke machines only have Fresca left. I shall most definitely starve now.
>
>no pop tarts? does that mean you won't bring any to the miniangstcon? i will 
>be terribly disappointed. however, we won't have toasters _or_ microwaves
>where we're going. how about fire-toasted pop tarts? 

Hmmm....Pop-Tarts on a stick? Sounds neat! I will have to see what I can do 
to round some up then..

>ObAngst: time to assign grades to my horde of little darlings. added bonus:
>sorority rush started saturday, and they're everywhere! aaaaaigh! bowheads,
>and proto-bowheads! 

proto-bowheads?...does that mean they can still be saved? Or are they a lost
cause already?

---Steve
-- 
Stephen Okay  sokay@mitre.org
"Welcome to the Politically Correct States of America. Please turn your mind
in to the nearest oppressed minority pressure group. It will be returned to
you once we've decided what you can think"
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: "Alt.angst angst" angst
From: hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Anthony 'the Bard' Hobbs)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 01:24:08 GMT
Reply-To: hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
 <1992Aug17.135341.20729@linus.mitre.org> <1992Aug18.225029.8617@peponi.wcc.govt.nz>,<1992Aug19.101901.498@acme.gen.nz>
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wgtn, NZ

In article <1992Aug19.101901.498@acme.gen.nz>, kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
>hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:

>If she's depressed far too much of the time, I'd guess she just defines angst
>in a different way than most.
>
>> She defines angst in a slighty different way to most. She says she has no
>
>See?!

*clap clap* How perceptive, Craig. Go to the top of the class and jump off. :-)

>> expectations, and thus has no angst that things will turn out all right... she
>> just takes things as they come. I wish I had that attitude.
>
>So how come she's depressed. C'mon man, we need *answers*!

Hmm... she's failing half her classes, she's too broke to move out of home,
all of her eight siblings have separate personal vendettas against her and the
buses from her place to mine don't run after 11 p.m. (I'm depressed about the
last one myself.) Is that enough?

>> DISCUSSION TOPIC: Can we separate the concepts of "angst", "depression" and
>> "weltschmerz"?
>
>Welt-who? Sheesh.

I thought someone used it once. It's German for "world-weariness" or something.

ObBah: Bah [tm].

anthony ("Bah" is a trademark of Rachel Perkins. The cheque is in the mail.)
--
Anthony Hobbs             the Bard                hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz    
OverPope, First Holy and Unreformed Church of Frozen Yoghurt - romantic poet - 
synth player extraordinaire - kate bush is goddess - hail Eris - praise "Bob"!
DISCLAIMER: I am not Romanian and was not head of the Securitate for 15 years.
From: Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: "Alt.angst angst" angst
Date: 19 Aug 92 23:45:25 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <1992Aug18.230350.9392@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>BTW, when did Muldoon get trademarked?

When he died, same as the Queen (tm).  Of course, she died a long time
before Muldoon did.  Fishface Charles (tm) just hasn't caught on yet.

I feel sorry for you guys.  Now that your national joke is dead, the rest
of the world will have to go back to the sheep jokes.

ObAngst:  Someone will discover that the Americans actually *lost* the
Revolutionary War and I will be beheaded on Tower Green for lese majeste.
--
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Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: tcarsten@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Teresa C D Carstensen)
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 13:11:55 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.040827.10042@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:
>I can understand how it might be annoying if you felt like your SO was always
>trying to prove you are wrong.  But that is not exactly what I am talking
>about.  What I am talking out is bright women with pre-programmed low
>self-esteem, who, no matter what you say, always act like you are out
>to get them even though you are not. 

Hmm.  It sounds like your experience with smart women has been quite different 
than mine.  The high-IQ women I know either have a great a great amount of 
confidence in their intellectual abilities (unfortunately often as in "I may 
be homely, but at least I'm smart!) or have no confidence and end up hiding 
their smarts so well you'd never guess they were geniuses.  I don't know any 
that feel a need to prove or question their intelligence all the time.  

> I think that the constant competition
>with men in the workplace leaves them with a complex. 

It starts way earlier than that.  I keep seeing studies on how children are 
taught that say teachers spend much more time on the boys, encouraging them 
to learn and express themselves, than they do on the girls.  When your 
intelligence is being ignored all through your life, I can see how that might 
give one a severe complex.  Then even when their intelligence is acknowledged,
they tend to be treated as freaks because of it.  That no doubt applies to boys
as well.  Oh, the trials and tribulations of being a supra-genius!  

> So that they feel 
>compelled to say to you:  "Why are you interested in me?  I'm boring! I'm not
>beautiful!" and feel unjustly provoked by everything you say, and no matter
>what you say, they cannot believe that you honestly care about them, 
>even though you do, and they don't hear a word you say, and
>then they wind up attached to somebody who has a job mowing lawns, who
>seems so outrageously wrong for them, that you cannot but be hopelessly
>confused as to why they would even bother speaking to such a person,
>because you know you wouldn't.  I don't think that is what you are
>talking about.

I know plenty of women like that, but they are either of average intelligence
or are the kind that hide their intelligence.  It's pathetic to see someone 
who has so much going for them have their mind so warped.  But what can you do?
Pity it isn't legal to force people to go see a psychotherapist, not that a
shrink could necessarily get through to them, either.

.
>
>					Meech


TC   
-- 
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