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Well, don't talk about it then.
Go and punch him.
apparently he's a big fan of ready meals
Who can balme him.
Who, can, blame him.
feel free to contact him at
http://www.alaindebotton.com
I would,
but he seems like a pretty dull bloke.
*bottom
thats where most of his ideas seem to come from hohoho
Talking about sex really isn't much fun is it?
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A webchat about sex with Alain de Botton is one of the least appealing offers in the world.
crikey.
I think I generally agree with his position on much of this stuff, but his approach is so dull I could barely concentrate on what he was writing. There are people out there who write interesting, funny (sometimes pretty hot) stuff on sex; I'm not sure why giving Alan The Bottom more column inches is the done thing.
its almost like universalising his limited + gendered experience of sex is a really stupid idea
I don't really have a problem
with people writing with a certain amount of confidence in what they're saying. I'm sure he'd say that he wa putting these points out for discussion/rebuttal. Thing is, as you say, it's bloody well unconvincing, especially when put in this lofty a tone.
he's written a 'self-help' book about sex but is totally flummoxed by questions like uhhhh, idk, gender.
Cheers, Alain.
His response would probably be
ooh, but gender doesn't matter, it's all sex isn't it, and besides, I'm picking out the core universalities of the sexual experiences.
Perhaps one day someone will extract the core universalities of the sphere of sexual desire and cognition. I think we will be shocked and extremely humble if that person turns out to be AdB
sex was alain de botton all along
a return to form for m. night shyamalan
ALAIN DE BOTTON (Alan the Button) anecdote!!!
Context ... I had always disliked the man, based on his terrible, psuedy, bullshit books and pompous appearances on the telly. However,
Anecdote ... I met him, and whilst opining to a table full of female students (detail... he was wearing what can only be described as platform shoes) about his journey to fame, he said one of the most posturing, pretentious and patronising things I have ever heard:
" I was doing some work on paintings of Edward Hopper and every day I used to drive to a Little Chef just off the motorway and sit for hours just soaking up the Hopper-esque tragedy of the people there, eating greasy food of plastic tables, living their greasy plastic lives"
:(
what a hypocrite
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2010/may/28/alain-de-botton-dinner-party
http://www.bugarrishoes.com/
Something about "botton sex".
The entire internet is in a sense pornographic,
it is a deliverer of constant excitement which we have no innate capacity to resist, a system which leads us down paths many of which have nothing to do with our real needs.
thrilling stuff
Love the bit where someone asks a detailed, intelligent, nuanced question about his philosophical approach
and gets the flaccid cop-out response of "You tell us more about gender... I'd love to hear your thoughts."
also, just fucking admit that you watch porn you mealy-mouthed pseud
This book argues that 21st-century sex is ultimately fated to be a balancing act between love and desire, and adventure and commitment.
isn't that just a description of all relationships, ever
girl, sincerely, u seem troubled.
i agree that u should b upset about this alain de botton. damn him, baby girl. i'm hatin on that damn alain.
Alain de Botton is easy to enjoy
You just have to imagine him pulling a "blue steel" face every time he delivers his latest ponderance.
I wanna take a swipe at de Botton for being boring and frequently conservative
but then I see some of the questions/comments and suddenly he seems refreshingly enlightening and interesting
can you tweet punches to people?
...
Alain de Botton ?@alaindebotton
The politics of the distant future glimpsed in Norway or Switzerland - ie when most of what is politics nowis solved but problems remain.
lol switzerland what a paradise
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/swiss-poster.JPG
oh wait
^party that did that are the one in charge btw
I really don't understand why anyone cares what this guy thinks or says about anything.
I couldn't really read much further than the part where he started telling people how to have sex/enjoy sexuality
Hi Alain
speaking as a philosopher
alain de botton is a fucking dickhead
:D
he's like a simpsons character or soemthing
I call him alain de bottom cos i'm really funny
also his heads like a big bald bottom, fuck him
:(
Big sweaty, shiny bottom.
:"D
fingsaint asks:
I'd like to ask Alain de Botton, if it's not too late (or do I mean forward) whether getting into a position of pontification is sexually satisfying - and do staff highlights heighten the pleasure?
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Most of the time, we're worried about being gross and revolting: sex purifies us. So much so that in oral sex, the most 'dirty' sides of us are symbolically blessed by the mouth of the other.
now imagine alain de botton saying that out loud.
and doing "blue steel"
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The furniture insists that we can’t change because it never does.
Hence the metaphysical importance of hotels.
apparently I did this thread like a year ago
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/4280708