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It would kind of interest me to know just how many of the people who've used terms like "funny", "laugh" and "lol" in this thread have actually been using them in any sense that I - and the sort of civilized, decent human being that I'm representative of - would even vaguely recognize to be the right one.
Schwill, I would venture to guess, when he says "laughing", probably really does mean "laughing", as I would understand the term and activity. He seems like a guy who's not entirely lacking in intelligence and fundamental good nature, despite the rumours I hear of his mental illness.
The "lols" and "so funny"s from the rest of you, though, I fear, have as their referent only that "mirthless chimpanzee screech" that I've referred to several times in the past, and that doesn't have very much at all to do with the joy of healthy human laughter as I understand it.
Because, of course, my contributions to this thread - which was probably started with the grim, mirthless, stupid, "chimpanzee" determination to attack and humiliate me - really do have no mysterious ulterior sexual or conspirational purpose beyond just that: giving people (even my mirthless enemies) a bit of a laugh.
Personally, I'd prefer if I managed to get a laugh out of you with my subtle interpolations of notorious British television interviews from 1976 into threads about Cracky and punk rock. But if your taste in humour runs rather to fat men with tiny penises - a convenient model for which I happen always to have to hand in my own humble person - well, that's fine too. Humour can be broad without ceasing to be humour. There's room in my pantheon of comedy heroes for Benny Hill as well as Whit Stillman.
My worry, though, as I say, is that you people's puzzling and scratching your heads about all this - "can it be real?", "what's his excuse?", "but we have his address..." - probably means that your generation are long since completely and irredeemably dead to genuine humour and to that adventure of self-exposure - be it in the subtlest or, as in this case, the very crudest and most literal sense - which genuine humour always implies and demands.
You were all brought up in a world where everyone spends every waking - and most likely also every sleeping and dreaming - second sweating and planning about how they can best protect themselves and shield themselves against any possibility of being mocked, humiliated, and "owned".
The key to the posts above that seem to have baffled so many of you is that I was raised in a different world entirely and have never devoted even a moment's thought or worry to how to avoid "losing face" and all that nonsense. I like to laugh and I'm quite as willing to laugh at my own absurdities and inadequacies as I am at the absurdities and inadequacies of others.
People's knowing my name, profession etc., in any case, is certainly nothing that would make me hesitate for even a second about staging a good joke. Maybe I'm naive, but frankly I can't imagine anyone deciding that they don't want their operating instructions for a Chinese vacuum cleaner translated into English by me just because there's a nude photograph of me floating around on the Internet. But if anyone really does think and feel like that, my only response is: "Well, fuck 'em then".
Geht Dein Fuss auf Wahrem nicht, wie auf Teppichen?
Drum, mein Genius, tritt' bar ins Leben, und sorge nicht!