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Tweak says, "SUGAR RUSH!!!"

Malcolm Tucker (fuckitybye) wrote in compass_network,
@ 2013-03-15 10:55:00

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All right?

Since things have been sketchy as fuck, and we've lost a load of people as well as gained some new faces- and the night club has been lying empty since the new years party- I thought we could all enjoy a wee get-together.

Since I'm more used to delegating than actually doing anything, one of our new residents you may have heard of, Jay Gatsby, is going to be taking over the club for the evening of Saturday March 23rd. He'll be entertaining you all with some jazz and gin and whatever else they did in the 1920s, I don't know, but it'll be a fucking good night, yeah? Oh, and in his own words, the dress code is "no riff raff".

If anyone wants to contribute anything- or has any questions- you can either pass them through me, or ask him directly. Or I'm sure Mr Carraway will eagerly answer just about anything, as well.

Cheers,
Malc

[ooc: Malcolm has also put up a poster in the foyer of each apartment building, one on the door to the night club, and one on the noticeboard in the pub. It looks like this, but obviously with the information changed to be accurate.]

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	fuckitybye 2013-03-15 12:36 pm UTC (link)
	Don't worry, I think people from my time will be equally confused about etiquette and so on, it's not a strict thing. If you want information on the sort of thing to except, I'm sure Carraway or Gatsby might swoop in with a better explanation than I can offer. Or there's google. Yes, women are welcome. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	worldaboutodawn 2013-03-15 12:40 pm UTC (link)
	This google is still strange to me, I admit. To have such information in the one little box. If only it have been in my day. I think I can imagine the students being very happy. Then I shall inform her and she may want to attend. We shall find out. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fuckitybye 2013-03-15 02:13 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, it must be a bit weird. There was no google in my student days either, it was all fucking searching the library, which is a fucking nightmare when you're looking for old newspaper articles etc. Microfilm was a bitch. Great, maybe see you two there, then. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	worldaboutodawn 2013-03-15 02:18 pm UTC (link)
	I know the library well. And newspaper articles. But I do not understand this... microfilm? Explain please? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

fuckitybye
2013-03-15 04:42 pm UTC (link)

It's really not something you need to know about, it's a lot of shit and no modern person would actually fucking use it anymore. Basically, newspapers are degradable, and if you want to keep a copy of a newspaper it's going to fall to pieces and eventually disintegrate. So archivists decided to sort of make a copy, a sort of photograph- where now you can google and pull up the paper easily enough, you used to have to look through all the copies on a screen- they all whooshed by really fast and gave you a fucking headache and you had to keep stopping the search to check what date you were at and stuff. Like I say, it's a load of shit that no one nowadays would use, so it's hardly important.

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	worldaboutodawn 2013-03-15 05:20 pm UTC (link)
	I... did not understand very much of that. Je suis désolé. Whooshed? But it sounds as if I do not need to know in any case, correct? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fuckitybye 2013-03-15 05:23 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, whoosh! It's the sound something makes as it goes flying past you, yeah? It just means- it moved really fast. Whooshed. No, it's really, really not important in the slightest. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	worldaboutodawn 2013-03-15 05:27 pm UTC (link)
	It seems I learn new words every day. Whooshed. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fuckitybye 2013-03-15 05:35 pm UTC (link)
	Glad to be of service. (Reply to this) (Parent)

OOC

worldaboutodawn
2013-03-15 05:24 pm UTC (link)

Just for lols, this is what that passage becomes after a couple of goes through Google Translate:

This is really not something you need to know about, there are a lot of shit and no modern man would use more fucked. Basically, the logs are persistent, and if you want to keep a copy of a newspaper, it will crumble and eventually disintegrate. Thus, archivists decided to sort of make a copy, a kind of photography, where now you can google and pull the paper easily, you used to have to look through all copies of a screen all whooshed very quickly and gave headaches fucking stop and had to keep looking to see what date you were and all that. As I said, it's a bunch of crap nobody today would use, so it is not important.

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	OOC fuckitybye 2013-03-15 05:31 pm UTC (link)
	[omg I'm actually crying laughing, he sounds like more of a nutjob than he normally does! Brilliant!] (Reply to this) (Parent)

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