NorthOfNorth wrote on May 9^th, 2010 at 8:26am:



Is that a quote from mustapha attawank?
Perhaps his cousins mustapha attacrap, or mustapha attapiss will hwlp karnal get the play on words.
Do you think he really did not get it, or just chose to ignore it?

I would have chosen the latter, but you just cannot tell, we are all wired differently.

So you reckon it was a second language comprehension issue?

You may be right, but I really do not get Karnal at all, most members here I can visualise pretty well, and assign them stereotypical characteristics for the type of person I believe them to be, but Karnal refuses to fit any attempt I make to categorise him, and I see posts which go from deeply insightful and empathic to oddly bizarre, with no hint of deliberateness about it.

Initially I thought Karnal was an extremist redneck loon pretending to be foreign so as to further the negative cultural stereotyping of cultural elements we have some conflict with, but I doubt that first impression was right, so I have to admit to still being puzzled about where he is coming from.

He's a Pakistani who's grown up in an English speaking environment and has studied postmodernist theory (god help us!) at uni.

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You thought Karnal was a false flag operation at first? This is a bizarre first impression. He's just a minority that espouses liberal orthodoxy. The only thing that is pecuiliar about him is that he has a tendency to carry on with a joke for a very long time, but like bad sketch comedy, he doesn't realize when the joke was never funny in the first place and continues on with it regardless of who is laughing.

There are hundreds of thousands of 'Karnals' in every university campus, political message board and office-park across the entire Western world. An anomaly he is not.

Annie: You caught me. I'm one of those self-hating jiggaboos.  

I found Annie anyway.

I doubt he's first generation though. I think he missed the point of Soren's post because he was just looking for racism in it and in his search, completely misapprehended the intention of the letter.

aikmann4 wrote on May 10^th, 2010 at 12:28pm:


Yes indeed. I think there's a Karnal in all of us. Fear not, old boy. Go to school, apply yourself, go to work - go on the dole - end up in the gutter on more than one occasion, live, laugh, die, and you too can cultivate the Karnal within.

Big Donger wrote on May 11^th, 2010 at 12:37pm:



Oh... that's what the recurrent pain in the @rse is...