05Mar / 2002

Observations on New Media, I

In Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan wrote “For the message of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern it introduces into human affairs.” While it is perhaps almost tautological to state that with the progressive development of instantaneous, global transmission media, including the so-called “Instant Message” (IM) media, a tremendous change in the pattern of human affairs has been introduced, eliminating the necessity of physical proximity for the development of communities, it remains, nevertheless, crucial to observe that while these new media may greatly alter many facets of human discourse, most chicks still don’t like poop stories.

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10 responses to “Observations on New Media, I”

  1. space

    Damn. You mean they’ve been pretending all these years?

    I’m not sure whether that makes me feel good or bad.

  2. BtC

    while it is quite true that chicks most certainly do not like poop stories, it is a little known fact that they cannot resist a good fart joke.

  3. The Dodd

    melly does.

  4. michele

    My poop story wasn’t nearly as good as yours. So it wasn’t that I didn’t like your poop story. I was just jealous that you pooped so spectacularly when mine was just a….plop.

  5. pat

    as long as we’re being scatological…

    Rhypophobia- Fear of defecation.

    Scatophobia – Fear of fecal matter.

    and my personal favorite

    Defecaloesiophobia- Fear of painful bowel movements.

  6. Mig

    Sometimes, there is a very narrow line between a good fart joke and a poop story, as I will illustrate with someone else’s story, told to me by another person:

    A woman of my acquaintance woke up one morning in a stranger’s bed, remembering only vaguely how she’d ended up there, thinking, “he’s actually quite cute” and with a tremendous urge to fart. She figured she could sneak one out and it would dissipate before he woke up and [INSERT TOO MUCH INFORMATION HERE 1010011110010 100101010 010101010 10101 010101010 101 010101010 101010101 END TOO MUCH INFORMATION] never saw him again.

    Now I’ll have to post something civilized about cellos to atone for this, won’t I?

  7. kd

    hangover farts are the WORST. ack.

  8. michele

    Two words:

    Beer farts.

  9. Miguel

    That would be only one word in German:
    Bierfurtz

    (Maybe I ought to start doing a word-of-the-day thing too like Francis. If I could only figure out how to make the font red…)

  10. Bauke

    use this blabla bla (Without the spaces though)

    That will give you a red font