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pearwaldorfContext: I have been coding open-ended responses for a Big-Ass Library Survey. It has been interesting seeing what people have to say, and I have been touched by many people's testimonials about how important libraries and specifically library-provided Internet and computing have been for them. I have also been absolutely appalled at some of the less... enlightened responses I have read, of which the one below is an example:
pearwaldorf: Wat too many people playing games and looking up porn, if filters are not turned on. Library computers are great for e-mail and job search, but I feel My space and Face Book are a waste of time. I've used both at a public library and now I feel like if that's all your going to the library for, you should have your own home computer. There's a real problem in most library form people only coming in to play games and use My space.
pearwaldorf: Check your privilege or I punch you in the dick, asshole.
cow: have you ever been to boston's main library?
pearwaldorf: No
cow: the whole outside is done in roman stylings
cow: similar to those found on basilicas and monuments in ancient Rome, in the entablature on each of the main building's three façades. On the south is inscribed: "MDCCCLII • FOUNDED THROUGH THE MUNIFICENCE AND PUBLIC SPIRIT OF CITIZENS"; on the east: "THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF THE CITY OF BOSTON • BUILT BY THE PEOPLE AND DEDICATED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING • A.D. MDCCCLXXXVIII"; and on the north: "THE COMMONWEALTH REQUIRES THE EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE AS THE SAFEGUARD OF ORDER AND LIBERTY".
The last quotation has been attributed to the library's Board of Trustees. Another inscription, above the keystone of the central entrance, proclaims: "FREE TO ALL".
cow: the last of them is the one i saw first (going in through the central entrance)
cow: just this giant roman entranceway with "FREE TO ALL" above it
cow: i was like <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
cow: and the rest of them are so awesome too
cow: "THE COMMONWEALTH REQUIRES THE EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE AS THE SAFEGUARD OF ORDER AND LIBERTY".
cow: we can put that above the door and then, below it
cow: CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE OR I PUNCH YOU IN THE DICK, ASSHOLE
cow: it'll be great.
pearwaldorf: I endorse this
See also: kyriarchy; it's not necessarily a gendered term but I find dickpunching more amusing than I should
Yeah. It's been that kind of week.
pearwaldorf: Wat too many people playing games and looking up porn, if filters are not turned on. Library computers are great for e-mail and job search, but I feel My space and Face Book are a waste of time. I've used both at a public library and now I feel like if that's all your going to the library for, you should have your own home computer. There's a real problem in most library form people only coming in to play games and use My space.pearwaldorf: Check your privilege or I punch you in the dick, asshole.cow: have you ever been to boston's main library?pearwaldorf: Nocow: the whole outside is done in roman stylingscow: similar to those found on basilicas and monuments in ancient Rome, in the entablature on each of the main building's three façades. On the south is inscribed: "MDCCCLII • FOUNDED THROUGH THE MUNIFICENCE AND PUBLIC SPIRIT OF CITIZENS"; on the east: "THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF THE CITY OF BOSTON • BUILT BY THE PEOPLE AND DEDICATED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING • A.D. MDCCCLXXXVIII"; and on the north: "THE COMMONWEALTH REQUIRES THE EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE AS THE SAFEGUARD OF ORDER AND LIBERTY".The last quotation has been attributed to the library's Board of Trustees. Another inscription, above the keystone of the central entrance, proclaims: "FREE TO ALL".
cow: the last of them is the one i saw first (going in through the central entrance)cow: just this giant roman entranceway with "FREE TO ALL" above itcow: i was like <3 <3 <3 <3 <3cow: and the rest of them are so awesome toocow: "THE COMMONWEALTH REQUIRES THE EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE AS THE SAFEGUARD OF ORDER AND LIBERTY".cow: we can put that above the door and then, below itcow: CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE OR I PUNCH YOU IN THE DICK, ASSHOLEcow: it'll be great.pearwaldorf: I endorse thisSee also: kyriarchy; it's not necessarily a gendered term but I find dickpunching more amusing than I should
Yeah. It's been that kind of week.
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Date: 2009-07-31 01:59 pm (UTC)[I also enjoy the "dickpunchings for you" tag.]
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Date: 2009-08-01 05:20 am (UTC)[I was quite pleased with it myself. I anticipate I will get a lot of use out of it.]
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Date: 2009-07-31 08:59 pm (UTC)