why did u join ILX?

what happened in 04 that so many ppl seem to have found this place? That's when I got here but can't recall how.

― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, May 11, 2020 8:42 AM bookmarkflaglink

I don't remember exactly how I found it. I was very active on the Stereolab forum around then, and that may well have been what led me here.

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, May 11, 2020 8:45 AM bookmarkflaglink

I may have first heard about it through hipinion.

― pomenitul, Monday, May 11, 2020 8:48 AM bookmarkflaglink

heyday of blogging iirc, and no twitter yet

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, May 11, 2020 8:49 AM bookmarkflaglink

plus there were people making a living writing about music.

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, May 11, 2020 8:51 AM bookmarkflaglink

I found Tom Ewing's Best singles of the 1990s some time in 2000, I think, and was reading Freaky Trigger for a while - my first ILX post was February 2001, though I probably lurked for a bit before then.

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, May 11, 2020 8:52 AM bookmarkflaglink

i bought my first computer immediately following 9/11 after it became clear that physical media was too slow to keep up with the world. Plus the downloading. I found ILX a few months after.

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, May 11, 2020 8:54 AM bookmarkflaglink

I joined in 2003 but only really lurked. I properly started posting in 2015 (I think). I don't post enough so always feel vaguely like I'm posting from 'outside the room' as it were. I get this with all forums, tbh.

― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, May 11, 2020 9:01 AM bookmarkflaglink

what happened in 04 that so many ppl seem to have found this place? That's when I got here but can't recall how.

― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, May 11, 2020 8:42 AM bookmarkflaglink

My friend that posted here told me about Geir and how he said Schoenberg ruined music so I joined purely to wind him up about it

― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, May 11, 2020 9:04 AM bookmarkflaglink

I want this to be a true story

― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, May 11, 2020 9:12 AM bookmarkflaglink

Hey Geir, I know you still drop by every now and then. What's less musical in your opinion, twelve-tone serialism or rhythm for rhythm's sake?

― pomenitul, Monday, May 11, 2020 9:15 AM bookmarkflaglink

“The return to the board of noted musico-phrenologist geir” may yet be my answer to thread q so steady on pom

― Microbes oft teem (wins), Monday, May 11, 2020 9:17 AM bookmarkflaglink

lol I think I missed the 'phrenologist' part.

― pomenitul, Monday, May 11, 2020 9:19 AM bookmarkflaglink

I want this to be a true story

― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, May 11, 2020 9:12 AM bookmarkflaglink

Lol it totally is. The first post under my gov't name was me ribbing him for it. I didn't realize the dude very rarely responded to barbs so I lost interest, came back a year later to talk rap and metal.

― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, May 11, 2020 9:20 AM bookmarkflaglink

Schoenberg? I thought it was James Brown who ruined music?

― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Monday, May 11, 2020 9:21 AM bookmarkflaglink

Papa's Got a Brand New Tone Row

― pomenitul, Monday, May 11, 2020 9:25 AM bookmarkflaglink

I started posting in 2005? no idea if I lurked before that, probably not for long if I did. I do feel like a new poster, though I've met a people off board which makes me feel more like an insider.

― Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, May 11, 2020 9:33 AM bookmarkflaglink

get up get into it get inverted and retrogade

― mark s, Monday, May 11, 2020 9:35 AM bookmarkflaglink

I once started an 'end of music' Pandora station based solely on the initial inputs of James Brown and Schoenberg. Geir is a good sort, though; some time ago, I reminded him of some of his earlier ILM pronouncements and he lolled

― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, May 11, 2020 9:45 AM bookmarkflaglink

I like Geir, I think he drops by here from time to time. Some weird opinions, but a good guy.

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, May 11, 2020 9:46 AM bookmarkflaglink

So he's not an actual phrenologist? I'mma need a citation, wins.

― pomenitul, Monday, May 11, 2020 9:49 AM bookmarkflaglink

everyone who leaves becomes their legend in time, rarely fairly but thats life

― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Monday, May 11, 2020 9:55 AM bookmarkflaglink

did… did a nude spock write this?

― mark s, Monday, May 11, 2020 10:23 AM bookmarkflaglink

I said musico-phrenologist which is not an actual thing: I was not being literal

― Microbes oft teem (wins), Monday, May 11, 2020 10:28 AM bookmarkflaglink

Ah, my bad. I parsed the hyphen as an 'and' instead of a metaphorical qualifier.

― pomenitul, Monday, May 11, 2020 10:31 AM bookmarkflaglink

what happened in 04 that so many ppl seem to have found this place? That's when I got here but can't recall how.
Is that around when the Baffler excerpted the MIA thread?

― Rodent of usual size (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, May 11, 2020 10:31 AM bookmarkflaglink

I became a parent so I was under what I call My First Quarantine, don’t know about anybody else.

― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, May 11, 2020 10:37 AM bookmarkflaglink

Why don't people leave ILX for good?

I was told geir left

I had something important to say about an important musical group.

To spy on you conspiratorial lot.

I returned in 2004 I think to argue that The darkness didn't sound like Queen

and to talk shit about Jay-Z, the terrible rapper who is now one of my favorite rappers.

college was weird.

At least one of us must have uncovered this place by googling 'the ratpure'.

No idea.

I earned a peerage out of it, though!

specific user such as imago?

lol

anybody get into ILX-inspired fistfights?

lj actively stans for ILX on his RYM profile so it’s likely happened before.

xps

'01 I was looking for people talking about Luomo, found ILM on Greenspun

ran across it via google search at the peak of my indie music phase, decided people were more insightful about music on here than on any of the other sites i used at the time, also liked the barebones UI

13 years later i'm still here but i only post about basketball and video games

bunch of music writers i admired were on it. the '09 77 tracks results were so good i stuck around

In January 2005, I at last found a place where the pedestal on which I placed the Rolling Stones' Dirty Work would earn as much respect as ridicule.

Googled 'O Superman' c2000/2001

Stumbled on it from links in Bookslut and TMFTML (RIP blogs, miss u) circa 2002. Lurked for a long time. Never did get into ILM, have been strictly ILE from the get go.

wanted to take the step up from only liking music

I think I looked up Emmanuelle Parrenin after hearing about maison Rouge.
& this was one place it was being talked about at one point. Now realising I have no idea how that tied in chronologically with when i was looking. But did notice there was other stuff being talked about of interest.

tom ewing identified with something i wrote on a now-long-vanished section of rockcritics.com and invited me over late 2000, i started posting regularly in early 2001

came up a lot in the google

From googling Studio Ghibli around 2004-ish, iirc.

Followed the alt.music.alternative Star Chamber to Freaky Trigger; a message board followed. Was intrigued by good writers who wrote about Destiny's Child and Ryoji Ikeda with equal seriousness and took on the then-prevalent rock-critical orthodoxy; thought they could use someone who would rep for Boston and Boulez.

i lurked for seven or eight years reading only american football threads and defences of the academy before actually jumping in under four or five usernames with wildly different personas on ILM from 2016 thru about summer 2018. settled on this one in late 2018 and am delighted with the place since.

I found it from the side roll of a music/mp3 blog in that era, I think it was josh blog.

Which, oh my god, I see is still going, and is now a serious philosophy blog rather than a philosophical music blog: http://www.ellipsis.cx/~kortbein/blog/

I am eternal.

i first became aware of ilx through the ilx slack last week

believe I was googling for reviews of Blur's 13, found Blur - 13: POO, got the wrong idea and grew quite irate. these fools would have to learn

xposts Yeah Josh is good people.

there was this guy who'd published his favourite 136 or so albums of the 90s; I held the list in some esteem and got terribly excited that he posted to this newly-discovered messageboard, thus endeavouring to post myself, and under my own name to boot

forgot his name mind you

i do recall a small measure of ensuing nastiness though ;-)

Mm.

I was a little surprised to see RATM at the top of that list but it was a classic debut tbf.

joined to vote in the elvis costello pollin late 2013 and stuck around for some reason

*poll in late 2013

I don't remember but

Stumbled on it from links in Bookslut and TMFTML (RIP blogs, miss u) circa 2002. Lurked for a long time.

this could be it for me too?? I definitely read both those blogs at the time.

same for me

Luomo's Vocalcity brought me here first. It took me a while to realise that topics other than Luomo's Vocalcity were also discussed.

lol yes, it took me months to figure out there were other ways to look at the site besides "New ILM Questions"

Like some of the folks in these threads, I came over from the FMBB in the mid 2000s.

there was this guy who'd published his favourite 136 or so albums of the 90s; I held the list in some esteem and got terribly excited that he posted to this newly-discovered messageboard, thus endeavouring to post myself, and under my own name to boot

same, tbqh

was googling the band Excepter in early 2004 and a thread on here was one of the only results. Been lurking and occasionally posting ever since with this lamentable screen name I am too lazy to change.

i found this site off of some google search i can't remember and was intrigued that, like, ppl whose names i recognized from @llmus1c and the drummer of p@rts + l@b0r posted here, lol. good forum!

~2005/6

I joined in 2007. I was at one of the lowest points in my life and was googling things like "I am sad" and "I am lonely" etc. One day I made a conscious decision to turn that around and google things that I actually liked instead, and I googled "I love music". It was a move that exponentially enriched my life.

― how's life, Friday, February 10, 2017 12:42 AM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

That's how I found it. I joined because I felt like I had stumbled on the right kind of community. Music-obsessives who weren't just obsessed with one band or genre and whose knowledge was way deeper and more esoteric than anywhere else I'd tried to fit in. There was such a chaotic group of personalities, and I hadn't even let myself look at ILE or the noise board or anything like that!

This was also right in the middle of the controversial introduction of polls, which I couldn't really weigh inat the time on whether they were a good thing or bad thing for the site, but they made it easy to participate even if I didn't always feel like my opinion was something worth stating.

was googling the band Excepter in early 2004 and a thread on here was one of the only results. Been lurking and occasionally posting ever since with this lamentable screen name I am too lazy to change.

― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Monday, May 11, 2020 10:42 AM (thirty-six minutes ago)

3 (or more?) members used to post here regularly.

Induced to check this place out back in '04, woke up shackled in the basement, have been screaming at passersby ever since to no avail, please help, please

For realz tho: I was part of a small Barbelith enclave who started posting here back in those days at the behest of Matty Perps and of whom (AFAIK) only I remain.

i can't even remember although i lurked for a pretty long time before ever posting.

was linked to it on this site: https://www.jahsonic.com/

I remember being so ridiculous in 04 that I pissed Ned off enough for him to tell me "Chill the fuck out"

To post.

Boldly, where no man has posted before.

xxpost Huh. No memory of that one!

This one?

Uh, I think we're all familiar -- VERY familiar -- with differences in personality online and offline, and how somebody who can be extremely friendly, garrulous even, online can offline be extremely quiet, shy, whatever you'd like to say. And many of us here have freely admitted to feelings, moments and full bouts of depression, and I am one of them. You don't want to be me in my moments of mental self-laceration, at all.
So I'll grant you that, with understanding. But I draw a very VERY clear distinction between your claims of feeling misrepresented on one thread and the, to be blunt, shit-stirring you've done elsewhere. That isn't because you were cornered in most instances, you came in dismissive, you continued being dismissive, you endlessly claimed you were being misunderstood and everyone else somehow lacked the intellectual ability to notice when you were being clever.

If you want to act that way all the time, get used to being regarded that way all the damn time. If you feel you have to blow up every damn time someone disagrees with you, then get used to being seen as someone who can only do that, every time, any time, ALL the time.

Otherwise, chill the fuck out. I'm not saying this because I'm mad at you, but because I'm mad at the situation. These boards, for all their frustrations and problems and more, thrive because they have value for those who post here, even if only on a few threads for a few folks. We welcome it as an oasis in the Net where there's too much stupid shit already. If you dropped the confrontationalism and took several deep breaths, you might realize you've found something that's infinitely better for everyone when not every post or every opinion is a trigger for lashing out or defense.

The choice, like I said, is yours.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, May 6, 2004 2:04 AM (sixteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Heh, an evergreen time capsule if ever there was one.

Addressee notwithstanding, of course.

Impressive. That's like the time I behaved like enough of a preadolescent turd that my grandma flipped me off.

i met a girl

Where were you when you saw your first ILX?

I'm over here humming "you can get with this / or you can get with that" to myself

Can you get to that?

Found Freaky Trigger by searching for lists of the best songs of the 90s so I could become cool and well-listened. Thence to NYLPM, thence to ILM. If I recall correctly, first there was just ILM, then there was the great splittening of ILE, which I didn't realize had happened and wondered why suddenly everyone was just talking about music and where were all the funny threads about books and movies and cultural differences of the Anglosphere? Eventually I clicked on the link at the top of NYLPM that said "I Love Everything || Join Our Club" which I had previously avoided because it sounded like a Social Thing, and was delighted to rediscover all the unhinged nonmusical ranting that I had pined for so. Over half my life up in this bitch, like daaamn.

I think I was previously aware but probably saw the same reference as Old Lunch while casually lurking, then eventually posted at the end of 2003 only to continue lurking some more

I think I was into ~deep thoughts~ on music and the entire thing where people were working out their thoughts on music, new and old, some of them later publishing reviews or articles, seemed cool

ah, the naivety of youth

I'd likely be less discursive now -- but the sentiment does hold.

I believe I first heard about this place on the Pitchfork forums (aka the Smackdown!) back when those existed. Probably in 01, but I didn't post until 02.

LOL peace,man, that is exactly the post, hahaha

(I mean, I deserved it and I knew it even then, but I was a much bigger hothead in my 20s. i came here then to dunk and I got pwned)

I landed here because (iirc) I followed a blog that posted a Shirley Collins song and there was a link to ILM in the sidebar. This was the only other place where I had ever seen people discussing music in this depth, so I lurked for a while, changed my username a couple times, met up with the Chilxors during the summer of 2005 (?) at an outdoor music fest (that turned into Pfork fest). I decided to stay and then 15 years passed.

wow

im about 14 years deep iirc. started posting in 2006. have no recollection of how I found the place but I assume it was minimal bobbins related or something to do with boredoms or jazz because that's what I was mainly into at the time. I have never met an Luxor. playing Modern Warfare in a game party with Cozen once is the only time I've talked to an ilxor.

damn my autocorrect

i have met many
that is how i managed to feel comfortable here!!

there are excellent ilxors in both the cities I've lived in while posting here as well. I am quite socially awkward and a bit of a hermit tho so vmic

i joined because tom and blueski couldn’t figure out how to enable comments on new york london paris munich iirc?? which was the only place i knew of where people were writing about music i liked in a way i thought was exciting and different and interesting. and then ilm was very curious - peopled with these very distinct personalities, and i was very trepidatious about dipping my toe in. for while i had a rule that i would only post if i was pretty sure no one else would say what i was saying, or if i could say it funnier. guess i gave that one up pretty quick lol

Simon Reynolds mentions the board in an essay on record collecting included in the first Experience Music Project anthology, This Is Pop. He mentions starting a thread on "hyperintelligent Internet forum I Love Music" asking which albums members found in the cheap bins most often. I sought out the board and joined in 2004 ("maybe I could talk to Simon Reynolds on the Internet!").

I've mostly just lurked since—about 10% of my posts must be about how I just lurk—and I'm inclined to say it's because my intelligence is more listless than hyper. But then, finding myself thinking about how I could work that into a pun about making lists, I have second thoughts: this post really belongs in the "Posts you had second thoughts about." Alas, at this point it is too late: some forty minutes later, I am already on to third or even fourth thoughts. No more dallying, I must tuck in my chin and hit "submit post." I do so, only to find I have been logged out, and must log in and write the whole post all over again. The X- in x-post is a substitute crucifix for TIME!

when I first posted I would post rubey stuff in music threads and be abused by noise board posters

via ilm when i googled hypnagogic pop in 2008 or something. classic shitposter johnny come lately arsehole road to ilx!

I still think lots of the foundation elements of this board like momus and british homes sores and sebastien suck absolute dogshit

I'll admit to a tinge of relief upon realizing that Momus was no longer a regular poster when I returned to ILX almost 15 years after my first stint as a quasi lurker.

I Love Dogshit was a good board

I wasn't here long enough in the early years to fully familiarize myself with the original cast of characters but I also recall vague memories of Dom P (or whatever his name was) being a relentless ass.

I just got recommended Momus as a potential friend on social media. No ilx0rs are mutual friends, for some reason, only a non-ilx musician who is a little less grandiose and is himself friends with several ilx0rs.

Over half my life up in this bitch, like daaamn.

same tbqh

I got zinged by Dom, max, J0rdan, Tombot, Ally, Deej, Rev, hoos, Ethan, and chicago_kevin...among hundreds of others.

got smoked by the best of them
shot at by the rest of them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybUqM8jf3mU

I wasn't a fan of the fierce zinging at all tbh.

No, nor I.

a little vague on how i got here, but i'm pretty sure i stayed because i recognized ppl like ned and nabisco from their allmusic reviews

also i was working my first 'boring job with internet'

lol yes, it took me months to figure out there were other ways to look at the site besides "New ILM Questions"

same but worse, I think I thought this was a dedicated site for that album lol. I'm much better at the internet now, people. too good, in fact.

there are excellent ilxors in both the cities I've lived in while posting here as well. I am quite socially awkward and a bit of a hermit tho so vmic

― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Monday, May 11, 2020 5:40 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I get it, but I would just say you would be in my top tier of posters to have a drink with fwiw.

Absolutely no memory of how I got here. I'm just here.

I think I've met 4 ilxors in person, and 3 of them no longer post here.

oh you got mad at me too. I wrote Metal Edge sucked in a metal thread at the time you were editing it (though I hadn't read it in years at that point). really knew how to step in it when I first joined.

i met bamcquern once. he was a cool dude

there are excellent ilxors in both the cities I've lived in while posting here as well. I am quite socially awkward and a bit of a hermit tho so vmic

― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Monday, May 11, 2020 5:40 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I get it, but I would just say you would be in my top tier of posters to have a drink with fwiw.

― Pissed Jeans Genie C. Riley (PBKR), Monday, May 11, 2020 3:22 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

:)

lol I just googled my old user name and am somewhat embarrassed by the sheer volume of posts, all on ILM. I was expecting 10-15, tops.

i read a Nick Hornby thing back in 02 or 03 and it pissed me off so much i went online to see if anyone else had written about how stupid it was - i found an ILM shitposting thread that lined up perfectly - and then i lurked for ages until I was sure it was safe

I don't remember how I arrived at ILX, but I definitely remember how I got hooked: the first day on ILM in 2007 I came across a thread about Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again" and the revelation about the original "hobo" lyrics made me laugh so hard I never left.

I then lurked for 11 years before posting.

i made the third ever post to ilm and have never posted to any other of the boards and have not and never would meet an ilxor irl

cos u not real

He is more real than the sun.

I think I've met 4 ilxors in person, and 3 of them no longer post here.

Hm, meaning I'm the remaining one!

you are eternal, like Moses

the waters will part, ILXs will come and go, but when all is said and done, Raggetts endure

Have known...three, I believe? ex-ILXors ITL but have not (knowingly) encountered a single one of you current lot in person.

when did the metamorphosis from New Lunch to Old Lunch happen

the waters will part, ILXs will come and go, but when all is said and done, Raggetts endure

otm

Thank you, go in peace and sin some more. Uh wait.

The great majority of posters seem to have entered via ILM. I came in the bathroom window.

In 2002, Ask A Drunk was on Greenspun, so were ILM & ILE. Back then I posted extensively to AAD and I popped over to ILE every now and then under a couple of names. Then Greenspun shut down, ILX moved to a new server, and the panjandrums of ILX graciously allowed AAD to share a corner of their new space. AAD soon faded out, much to my sorrow, but by then I was a fully operational ilxor. I've since lost my edge, and lost a step, but I haven't lost my way here.

Don't really remember, possibly via the Stereolab forum, or perhaps from Simon Reynolds or K-Punk. Reynolds had been a major source for my senior thesis on electronic music a few years earlier. I stumbled across Generation Ecstasy in the stacks while doing research.

like if gr8080 sent u here

when did the metamorphosis from New Lunch to Old Lunch happen

― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, May 11, 2020 6:05 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Someone left the Lunch out in the sun
And I don't think you should eat it
'Cuz you're likely to excrete it
And you'll never want a mid-day meal again
Ohhh nooooooo

should start an .xls of all the ilxors I have met, and maybe a second tier of current zoom chats

dubious claim to fame is spotting s1ocki at a late night festival concert and before I could go say hi, he joined some sort of conga line type of thing and I was already leaving

joined because someone linked to a stupid scoldy tumblr post i wrote and i wanted to pop in with my govt name like "heard you were talking shit" because i was the most sensitive person on the planet, don't think anyone noticed, continued to post under my govt name for several years which i regret every day

I landed here because (iirc) I followed a blog that posted a Shirley Collins song and there was a link to ILM in the sidebar. This was the only other place where I had ever seen people discussing music in this depth, so I lurked for a while, changed my username a couple times, met up with the Chilxors during the summer of 2005 (?) at an outdoor music fest (that turned into Pfork fest). I decided to stay and then 15 years passed.

wow

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, May 11, 2020 5:31 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

ha weird, i was at this festival, i think it was called intonation at the time, the summer after my HS graduation. but i didn't discover ilx until a few months later while googling some band in my dorm, maybe liars or modest mouse or something. i stayed b/c nabisco was otm (and tim f.) my first foray into posting was sort of dismissive and aggro but i was appropriately embarrassed so i lurked for years while i chilled out

karl... sent me here

Found ILM somehow in late 2000, lurked until early 2001. I think the first non-music thread was about cheese? Drifted away for a long stretch but kind of back now. Also worthy of note that I got a family out of the deal.

very few of these are whys imo

wherefores at best

otm

why because it looked intersting

wherefore because it looked intersting

I wanted to argue in favor of bootlegs :)

very few of these are whys imo

the quality of engagement by other ilxors was engaging to me.

Yes, that.

Wanted to find out who this Ned Raggett fellow was and why he wore a purple tie.

Googling for some obscure thing, Clifford T. Ward maybe?, and found this site where people were talking about all sorts of music, including writers I actually knew of/had read like xhuxk.

Pretty sure I discovered ILX by googling for 2002 Pazz and Jop results, then poked around and was impressed at the intellectual level of discussion about indie and pop music.

bcz I Love Baseball. Period.

Wanted to find out who this Ned Raggett fellow was and why he wore a purple tie.

Tsk.

(Said tie is long since gone...somewhere, I think.)

youre wearing it right now arent you

Around my forehead, as I am currently in the middle of a 1980s office party, having travelled back in time.

What are the canonical periods of ilx?

1: people saying "EVAH!", ft etc, rockism
2: mean period, "challops."
3: "rolling" threads, poll everything
4: Twitter embeds

???

that's a pretty good summary! missing "YSI" tho

2 isnt done justice

Mean period is the golden age ?

The golden mean

"mean period" there, if that were a good name and not reductive (you were there for a fair part of it, right, you know better!) is prob subdivisible again

lbzc a part of it but not the whole of it
jagger/max eras, maybe

77 worth a think when slicing it too

yeah, i would divide "mean period" into 2004-06 Noise Board era and then 2007-09 jagger/max/etc. the second era is distinguished by the arrival of smartphones, which significantly changed posting styles.

interesting point that

cant respond any further, on a smartphone

the arrival of smartphones, which significantly changed posting styles.

otm and beyond

replace twitter embed era with the every thread devolving into a reassessment of board history era

maybe those 2 things supplement each other well

Sorry if two word summary was reductive. Conversely as someone "there for a fair part of it" i would argue "challops" would have sufficed

is there an ILXor who became a better person as a result of being exposed to said challops?

all of them

and the true history needed "mean" to be in

I believe you.

Compared to my boss's "shocking provocations" (claiming apartheid might have been good for South Africa, claiming feminism has no reason to exist) the classic challop has comparative elegance as an idea

replace twitter embed era with the every thread devolving into a reassessment of board history era

― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Saturday, 16 May 2020 18:19 (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

second post to ilx was this type of reassessment of the first post iirc

plax you must very well know that you are an angel amongst us in my eyes and can do no wrong and any comment ever i pass is in such a context

Lol good

if it helps that goes for most of the rest of ye too some of the time i guess

I joined ilx because I have lots of opinions and I like pressing "refresh"

I didn't own a smartphone until like 2012

massive reasons tbf

plaxico joined ilx because i joined exactly four days earlier and he wanted in on the fun tbh

twinsies!

Jesus. I just wanted to say hello. For the love of God.

― from The ends of your fingers (prosper.strummer.), Sunday, 30 July 2006 16:48 (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

FPed

those were bracing times truly they were

The bworst of times.

Tbf being mean was very in generally in the early to mid '00s

yes but so was actually discussing/arguing things, which sometimes boiled over and sometimes was great and sometimes mean fed into that and sometimes mean was just a good zing and sometimes, more often than is now good to say, mean was the fuckin right response to carryon

I meant more generally, like "America's next top model" etc

i started off also meaning generally, i think

started posting bc i love music

How did that work out for you?

16 y/o indie hipster teen yearning for "p4k with a comments section", found it in the Said the Gramophone blogroll

i love music more than ever!

Omg I h8 music now turn it off

Hard hitting, yet nuanced political analysis.

I came here for the waters

http://philip.greenspun.com/images/pcd0133/monument-valley-goats-40.3.jpg

Exactly!

you were misinformed

Anyone put the greenspun goats on a t-shirt yet? Wearing it would be like a bat signal to old ilxors.

I had a question.

I couldn't get Glastonbury tickets in April 2004 and there was a thread here where people had worked out how to tweak some urls and bypass the queue. But I'd already met a few people from here IRL pubs anyway at that point, definitely Matt DC and Stevem, possibly a couple of others too.

briefly back in my happy place

😃