"You're post-post-modern, you suck!"

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I'm trying to figure out why someone said this to me?

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Um were they drunk?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Because you suck?

― dean!dean!dean (deangulberry), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Doesn't 'post-post-' cancel itself out, like a double negative?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

It means you were ahead by a century.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

post doesn't cancel itself out.

post post modern? that'll just be starting then...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

You are in the year 3000, you suck?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

busted didn't tell us about that!

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

It means that you're so "post-modern" you've come back around to just "modern" - I don't know why this would make you suck.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't think it does mean that. post-modernism was born of a disaffection with modernity. to say you're disaffected by the replacement (or by the disaffection) isn't the same as to say you were satisfied with the original.

sucking isn't such a bad thing.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

If you've put this much thought into it, then you are definitely post-post-modern and you definitely suck.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

you have moved on to yet another mode of production (the original definition of postmodern in social theory being a swtich from an industrial to symbolic economy).

tell us what goes on there, in this new economy.

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I think they were just saying 'You're such a smartarse'.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you sir. May I have another?

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

What had you said or done just prior to this outburst Nairn?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought we could fix it in post.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Nobody's mentioned Devo yet.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

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