How are you feeling about/towards ILX *right now*?

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Is it exciting, inspiring, titillating you? Is it flat, irritable, repetitive? Too many kittens? Not enough kittens? Is it making you happy? Is it making you angry?

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm really enjoying it. Should I feel bad?

Not enough munkis, tho'!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I have been working on making it the best possible cure for office boredom that I know. I think this is far more constructive than bitching about the tone it's been taking lately. It has taken on a threatening and bitchy tone, yes, but it is *our* responsibility to change that. Hence why I've been trying every day to start a non-threatening non-bitchy thread on minutia which I find interesting.

Honestly, I stay out of threads with "kittens" in the title. Kittens bore the fuck out of me.

― kate, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 08:42 (twenty-two years ago)

would a wombat be more helpful ?

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)

kittens 0wn j00.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

drunk. shorry. seems better when drunk. shorry.

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

How about some adorable WOLF CUBS!!!

http://a1259.g.akamai.net/f/1259/5586/1d/images.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/large/10030000/10030013.jpg

― kate, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Die WUL-UFF could eat kittens in one mouthful, yum yum!

http://www.smokymtncabins.com/wolfpups.jpg

― kate, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

How cute are WE?!?!?

http://rosswarner.com/5659med.jpg

― kate, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, you get the point. I'll stop.

― kate, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

im worried that noone will see my post about werckmeister harmonies, which i would like to know other peoples opinions, and maybe some info about bela tarr.

but noone ever pays any attentioon to my posts so this is par for course

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Wolf cubs = twee and menacing in one go. Yay!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Wolf cubs != twee! Wolves = heavy metal thunder and all that. Bobby G named his child Wolf, hence they are dirty and dronerock by default!

― kate, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel good abt it.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

ilx currently feels more like work than play = there is a lot of it, and probably some i wd find v.funny/useful/entertaining/educational, but going through every thread is daunting and i won't

so i feel sad, cz i'm missing good stuff probbly

but of course i am v.busy at REAL LIFE GROWN UP WORK (except today), so naturally i baulk at further lengthy tasks

reports of its demise are exaggerated as ever

in the farthest shore the rogue wizard uses pelnish lore to abolish death, but all that happens is that everyone is captured in a miserable, ratty, senseless limbo

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

yo ambrose where is that post, i wanna check that flick out too

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

ILX:

"...and once more life in its workaday clothes flaunts itself before him"

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"ratty"!

― Ess Kay (esskay), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i posted that it on i love film now.as well as the paul thomas anderson thread - doubling up nightmare!

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to think more meta=not less betta.

ILx is OK.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Vaguely bored, but glad for the distraction...

Ratty! I am going to get pet rats!

Hey Mark did I remember to email you about the Quatermass and the Pit thing? You should come (and I should remember to book tickets).

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

no!! email me (maybe you emailed work, i'm at home today)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:50 (twenty-two years ago)

(oddly enuff there is a passage in one of the other earthsea books where the many names of "moly" are discussed)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh dur what a spaz I am. I was convinced I did - consider yrself emailed. And if it hasn't arrived ARGH THE COUNCIL IS SO EEEEVIL!

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The best 'moly' is obviously 'guac'.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I really did not know very much about people before I started coming here.

People in general seem to be less prone to liberalism and humanism and experimentation than I had assumed (having, before this, got my ideas about people from art, as well as the odd art school student and style press journalist).

I am fascinated by this pattern:

A proposes something quite liberal or even experimental.
B finds it too liberal but, owing to fear of exiting the liberal concensus, cannot attack from the right, therefore attacks from the left. A thinks she is being liberal, explains B, but in fact is being very conservative. Indeed. Dangerously so, in fact.

At its worst, this becomes 'Lord of the Flies'. At its best it's Damian Hirst's 'One Thousand Days' (two glass cases connected by small holes, a cows head, a fly zapper and some flies).

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

alright guv, you have your pound of flesh, now off to the boozer

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

the above statement is baffling, because it presumes momus is a liberal. i find momus interesting and he has a couple of good records but he needs to become more liberal, not less. there is too much restriction and not enough play

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I am having trouble understanding. Example might help, perhaps?

― kate, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

You needed ILX to teach you that, Momus? Blimey.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

ie momus is typical ilx poster, not atypical

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)

typical lad type also, covered up by an eyepatch and a musical career but hey.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

haha momus in "i disdain to communicate w.people who do not already agree w.me" shockah

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

oops edgy stylelab hivemind

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

the above statement is baffling, because it presumes momus is a liberal. i find momus interesting and he has a couple of good records but he needs to become more liberal, not less

Ha ha ha! You just made exactly the move I was describing!

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone else having trouble detecting the disturbing conservatism in Gareth's post?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

you'd make an ugly girl, momus.

plus.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

there is too much restriction and not enough play

This is absurd! How do I restrict? How could I play more? Or are you talking about ilX?

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd really appreciate some specifics, rather than just random Momus-chatter, please. Otherwise, I'm going to have to walk off this thread in boredom. Which seems to be happening worryingly more and more on ILX lately...

― kate, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't mind when ILX challenges or even infuriates me. What I dislike is when it *bores* me.

― kate, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah that one's a real killer.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

momus u r grammatically & orthographically conservative PL4Y MoRE NoW

― nokia txt police (mark s), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

confident, alert, ready for anything

― duane, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)

''I really did not know very much about people before I started coming here.''

that does explain a lot.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

'Give up smoking? Sure I could give up smoking. It's boring. I give it up every five minutes.'

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Right now, I am mainly feeling exasperated with ILX.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I have been doing my best on ILM, ILE is a bit harder work. There are still funny posts and jokes and things, but it's a new crowd really, or maybe they feel it's an old crowd, I don't know.

AIM Chats can be good too.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't forget ILF!!! :)

― N3wb13 (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

To give Kate her specifics:

1. I say that people on ILX are not liberal, experimental or humanist enough.
2. I describe how they attack lib-ex-hum positions from the left, not the right.
3. Gareth, attack from the left, says that I am not liberal or playful enough.
4. Ronan, putting himself to the left of me, calls me a 'typical lad type'.
5. Mark S, putting himself to the left of me, calls me 'intolerant of opinions other than my own'.
6. Matt then defends Gareth's liberalism.
7. Kate then declares the conversation boring.
8. Exception to the 'attack from the left flank': 'You needed ILX to teach you that' and 'that does explain a lot'. These comments are 'You may be right, but you're naive' rather than 'You are conservative'.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

We don't have cooties! Or trolls!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Conversations become *very* boring when your comments are ignored, and even more boring still when they degenerate into non-specific griping about other posters.

Momus, I don't understand enough about politics or art to know what position your attitudes and beliefs fall into. But judging from your attitudes towards sexuality - which are typical libertarian "old right wing subjection of women values dressed up as left wing freedom" - I do see their point.

I don't think you're particularly interested in discussing actual beliefs. You strike me as someone who thinks of himself as a provocateur when really you are just an argumentalist. Not that there is anything wrong with the love of a good argument. But you can see how it could become uninteresting to others very quickly.

Anyway, I can't continue this because I've just had some more work drop on my desk. :-(

― kate, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Momus, I don't understand enough about politics or art to know what position your attitudes and beliefs fall into.

Oh nonsense! You're a critic, for god's sake!

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)

How old are you Momus? How had you managed to get this far in life without realising that people are less humanist/liberal/experimental than you?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm *NOT* a critic. Get that straight.

What never fails to amaze me is how people who think they are so "experimental" in their artistic lives or "liberal/humanist" in their political lives can be so conservative and reactionary in their personal lives. Your attitudes towards sex and women are a LONG way behind your "humanist/liberal/experimental" beliefs.

That's all I'm trying to say.

And I'm NOT a fucking critic.

― kate, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

momus to come back and insist that you are one.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

What I'm saying is that it's you, Kate, who are selling youself short, not me.

Stop talking about my personal life, you know very little about it.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely if you were a humanist you'd have realised long ago that people aren't very exp/lib/hum in their outlooks because you'd have spent lots of time being round them because you're a humanist and love them anyway?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

In what way, Momus, is your original post in this thread either "liberal" or "experimental"?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

attack? there is no attack, merely support. it is momus that attacks gareth from the left.

i am unable to discern the difference between momus and ilx. they are the same. perhaps if i peer in a little harder i will spot the minute difference of who is less or more humanist/experimental?

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"I don't like those non-liberal buggers."

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i am unable to discern the difference between momus and ilx.

Well, judging by the speed in which a thread about ILX has become a thread about Momus, there is very little difference.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The early Tati stuff is better because he aims lower and scores higher. Too many attempts to find "meaning" and forgetting to put in any humour with Playtime, etc.

Slightly more Marian Yule needed, slightly less Amy Reardon.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)

By personal life, I mean your attitudes towards women and sex in general.

Would be interesting to scratch the veneer of liberal humanism and see if your political views were as reactionary under the surface.

BUT! I am violating my own rules here, and what was a meta-thread about ILX is becoming a concentrated attack on one poster, and I will not contribute towards that.

― kate, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. To answer the question; I really like it at the mo. More music and films and oddness please!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I've only really been posting to food and football threads for a while now, with just the odd venture into other stuff. It's too distracting at work is the problem, hence my less posts.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Why did Buster Keaton decline, come to think of it? Was Beckett really waiting for him all that time?

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

In what way, Momus, is your original post in this thread either "liberal" or "experimental"?

(I'm typing this in the bath, which is fucking stupid, so it might be the last post I ever post.)

Liberal because it deplores a lack of liberalism, and because it identifies a certain bullying tendency here (cf 'Lord of the Flies', a dystopian depiction of bullying, not by a liberal author). Experimental... well, it's not. It's trying to be lucid. An experiment would be more like the 'Cage Went In Search Of A Bird' thread, which could have been subtitled 'A Thread Went In Search Of A Rationale'.

I wasn't impressed by the 'Momus V Geir Hongro' thread, not because I deplore Geir (I fail to see any problem with the posts of his I've seen) but because I deplore the kind of mindset that puts cocks in a ring (so to speak) like that. And when this sort of bullying or 'trial by ILX' is conducted, it's done with spuriously 'liberal' values, which makes it as sick as Tony Blair invading Iraq 'on principle'.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

''And when this sort of bullying or 'trial by ILX' is conducted, it's done with spuriously 'liberal' values''

momus= calum.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

not intolerant exactly, just not terribly knowledgeable or insightful, and content to regard this lack of interest as an uncomplicated bonus rather than a deficit

the position your original post set up announced that "right <=> left" was an actually existing continuum which only you had a bead on in all of ilx: the position you've moved to is that ONLY reactionary anti-momusites are still trapped in thrall in the idea of the "right <=> left continuum", while you alone fly free as an experimental bird high above it all

but actually a lot of the rest of the (non-ilx) world flies free of it also, but you — when yr in yr "right <=> left continuum" exists mode — are quite happy to be very dismissive of and uninterested in these ppl, for the art-crime of not being in the same zone as you

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

This is starting to sound suspiciously familiar, yes, Julio.

― kate, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

calum

See I don't even know what the fuck that comment means, but it's probably not good news, is it? It probably means I'm a crypto-fascist of some sort outside the liberal consensus, and can be invaded, no?

Hey, what's this funny tingling... ARGGHHH!

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i like Momus

y'all be afraid now

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

so it's a "when did you stop beating yr wife?" question in the first place

(haha at work, my old boss was once put on the stop in this unwinnable way, and said "well, look, that's like asking 'when did you stop beating yr wife'?" and the person who'd asked the question said, "i object to that phrase, it's offensive and hateful towards women")

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

(I'm typing this in the bath, which is fucking stupid, so it might be the last post I ever post.)

now thats what i call liberal experimentalism

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

calum also thinks he's a kind of model super-liberal

plus he has very low regard for and little understanding of why ppl disagree with him abt specific issues, beyond positional checkers-playing

plus he reads other ppl's posts astoundingly carelessly

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

btw i really like the 'cage went in search of a bird' thread BECAUSE it was ambiguous and free to intepret as i saw fit...i value Momus for his threads on ILX generally.

i do not value Calum for his thread contributions one iota.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

''of some sort outside the liberal consensus''

calum again!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

hey stevem: read the 'home truths' thread and then come back and say you 'value' Momus.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

put on the stop = typographical experimentalism

spot

(darni3113 was in fact roundly criticised on that thread by several ilxers for posting it in the form he posted it in, and apologised)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

julio do you like stalin!?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Shall we stop the pointless Momus bashing and skip straight to the "are liberals allowed to argue their views with people who oppose them or just tolerate them regardless of how fuckwitted they are?" debate?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

mark s do you like mao?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

This is actually a very useful rhetorical wriggle which people use time and time again in predominantly liberal discourse, in that it gives you room for manouvre to be pretty much as right-wing as you want while still claiming liberalism against an oppressive consensus.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

erm i am worried momus in his beleaguered fury has actually dropped his laptop in the bath

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

What's the 'home truths' thread?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

mark: he's careless like that!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

nick: use search and you should find. but rememeber: read but do not revive.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Is nobody else troubled by the mental image of Momus in the bath?!

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

erm i am worried momus in his beleaguered fury has actually dropped his laptop in the bath

It's okay Mark, it slipped but bounced off my gigantic ~~ego~~ penis.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

smee he is hott!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe Momus' bath was not full of water thus he is alright...at least in a physical sense

maybe the bath was full of.....jelly? baked beans? ass milk? you never know with that Momus fella eh?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread may slip into momus pOrn soon!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i understand now, momus is critiqued from both the left and the right? this is unusual how?

i think it is a matter of perspective, poster x can feel they are the individual, picked on by the hive mind, but to someone else else poster x exemplifies the hive mind, and it is they that are the individual. this is both correct and incorrect. because all are part of the hive mind, and all are the individual. if you have posted here more than 10 times, you are part of the hive mind to someone else.

this is neither good nor bad, there is very little differentiation between any of the people on ilx really, at least not to me. to people from outside the social context which makes up ilx, we are virtualy indistinguishable, ned, suzy, ronan, calum, kate, gareth, momus, mark s, jess, marcello, lara. all hive mind to someone

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

it was only a matter of time...

http://www.demon.co.uk/momus/dailyphoto280403.html [MODERATOR'S WARNING: DO NOT CLICK ~~WHEN SANE~~ AT WORK]

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

You are right ~~HM000358~~Gareth!

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I think you're right Gareth, and in fact the poster above who said 'Momus is ILX' was right too. Because I was calling you guys 'insufficiently liberal', and then you were calling me 'insufficiently liberal'. Completely circular. A hive, buzzing.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

to answer Mark's original question, I'm not enjoying ILX anymore and I've pretty much given up posting, not that anyone's prob noticed or cares. This thread is a perfect mini-example of why I'm irritated and pissed off with the whole thing, and tells me I should take a break.

I have an idea to get some good discussion going on ILM which I *might* try if I get round to it, and I'll try and turn up at as many FAPS as poss. (ILX-ers in real life = always better than on the bloody 'net)

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

the defn of a species is (something like): sex between members of difft species will not produce viable progeny

as long as we can actually communicate at all (= aren't at actual real war), we ARE a hive, and everyone is inside

self-differentiation by aggressive solo decree does often seem to get the collective a-buzzin and a-stingin though, even when it is actually content-free as differentiation

i guess it's like when you go into a bar and say: "you're all idiots and i can fight every one of you" (this is a kind of experimentalism but not one i recommend)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, just clicked on Killian's link, in work. Anyone know where I can find a moderator.......and a therapist!

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i guess it's like when you go into a bar and say: "you're all idiots and i can fight every one of you" (this is a kind of experimentalism but not one i recommend)

Harmony Korine actually started a film like that! An experimental film! It was called 'Fighting Harm'. He had to give up half way because he's only little and was getting seriously beaten.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

queen rox u r all drones

(sorry i just needed to get that out b4 someone else thought of it)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

That's something only a queen could think.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"Cage In Search Of Bird" - a great title/precis for the definitive book on the mid-20th century crisis/sea change in music, no? I'll try and get started on it soon ;-)

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Yup. I clicked on that link too at work.

Uh, as for ILX in general right now I'm loving it. My only slight complaint - and I don't really know if it's a complaint anyway - is that there are so many revived threads that I constantly feel behind the times because I can't keep up with reading all of them. But happily at least there are lots of threads that interest me right now. And the picture threads always make me happy.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm too busy singing to put anybody down

― pure conciousness comes to the tuned out mind, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm mainly just sick of the navel-gazing and hand-wringing. If you don't like the way ILX is going, start threads to turn it into what you want it to be. Do something constructive (PS. starting threads about how ILX is going downhill is not constructive).

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

(Julio - re; Home Truths - our protagonist = solipsistic libertarian aesthete? It was not nice reading.)

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Momus, you seem to have confused thinking of oneself as liberal with actually being liberal.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

You all like Hitler, don't you?

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

how i feel about ilx - too much meta (not that one of my threads doesn't fall into that category)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually agree with that point, the regular threads turn meta enough withotu all the navel gazing "How do you feel about the board?" or "Who's the hottest poster?" type bollocks going on. MORE KITTENS AND HITLER, LESS US.

I apologize already for my lack of sleep.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

actually i wouldn't mind more wolf cubs.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone else recognise this scenario?

You remember a comment someone made. But you can't remember who made it. You try a few suggestions. Was it X, was it Y? No, it can't have been X, because the comment was wiser or kinder (or whatever) than something X would say. Was it Y? No, if Y had said exactly the same thing, I would have got angry. I feel a kind of tenderness to the person I'm trying to remember.

The context of the (temporarily occuded) person tells you so much more about how you feel about the person than you would know if you remembered and were staring straight at the person. It's gestalt: the (temporary) lack of figure makes you focus on ground, on context, on position. No matter how charming, diverting and charismatic someone may be when looked at straight on, they may occupy a postion and be in a context which is troubling.

I feel the same way about ilX. Frontally, when it's in my windscreen, I'm actually very entertained and stimulated by it. But when I'm out in 'real life', or somewhere else on the web, reading, for instance, about the Beck's Futures exhibition in the Grauniad or looking at someone's photoblog, for instance, and I rememb a comment in ilX, but not that it was on ilX, it often looks, in the rearview mirror, shabby or lacking somehow. There is even some shame attached to it.

I think for me personally that feeling has something to do with:

1. The school playground / hivemind. (Mea culpa, I also contribute to this. It's compelling.)
2. Textural inadequacy, lack of beauty. I am surrounded by beautiful things, generally speaking. ilX is not one of them. I mean visually, texturally, sensually.
3. Disembodiment. When you're on ilX, you're disembodied. Believe it or not, this is one reason I posted a photo of my body. I want to remember that I have one.
4. The 'spleen magnet' factor. Isolated, bored people with, perhaps, some community issues in 'real life' seek substitute community online. Should we be surprised that there is, sometimes, a flavour of spleen? (Again I do not exclude myself here.)

Nevertheless, it's all very compelling and I've been vastly educated. Merci, les gars!

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i have always used ILx as a way to cut through the boredom at work and like momus above i have learn't a great deal from ILX (for that i am thankful) but lately it has become very confrontational. I dont know if this is because certain people have joined and have upset the equalibrium or what but it has lost a certain edge and has become quite a bitter place.

I still come tho - i still post (crap) and so i guess i'm a part of this down turn and therefore if i want it to improve then i guess it's partially up to me.

― james (james), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I do not recognize that scenario because I can tell the difference between people and remember who said what.

I like IL* ok right now. It's better during the week then on weekends.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

THIS IS NOT AN EXIT.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't you go all Bateman on us, Ally. It's just a forum.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

ilx does not exist. take each person for what they have to give. respond to people not ilx. ilx is not a community. it is a series of continuums, each one is different. the communities of two, of 5 and of 116. to conflate is to mistake. each person you speak to you speak to slightly differently. context is all, dont fall into the trap of reification.

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

wow, i turned into sterling today, whats up with that?

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Momus, you know how hesitant I am to say nice things about you since I disagree with you so strongly on so very many issues, but that was a great post.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

respond to people not ilx. ilx is not a community. it is a series of continuums, each one is different. the communities of two, of 5 and of 116. to conflate is to mistake. each person you speak to you speak to slightly differently.

Gareth is otm.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

CAAAAAAAAAN YOOUUU FEEEEEEEEEEEL THEEEE LOOOOOOOOOVE TOOONIIIIIIIIGHT

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

wow, i turned into sterling today, whats up with that?

It's the influence of the Hive Mind, Gareth.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

b-but a community IS a series of continuums!!?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

y-yeah b-but so is Q off Star Trek . . .

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you, fellow puritan-sensualist folk-spleen artist!

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Business as usual as far as I'm concerned.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm feeling that I must STAY AWAY--I woke up at 2 this morning with the panics because I needed to get so much stuff done at work. I wanted to just get up right then and go to work and get a head start on it. I didn't, but I must stay away for the rest of the day. Maybe I'll see you all on chat tonight.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"to conflate is to mistake” I seriously misread that as “to cornflake is to mistake” shows my level of consciousness....

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Good morning! So, "This is Not an Exit," the last great Anthrax song or what?

(My serious answer -- y'all rock. I move from that point of view outward. :-))

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I was feeling a little out of sorts about the ILX experience, but things have fallen back into place. It's all good.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, that thing that Sean made of Ned on the beefcake thread has made up for about 8 billion bad posts on this board, I swear to god.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The Ned-Beefcake pic = ALL OF OUR SALVATION...AND SALIVATION.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Lick it up, Nick.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned = paul stanley

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

"Eat it like a PIECE OF CAKE!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

My excitement about ILX comes and goes. This place is most valuable to me as a way to engage in really interesting, intelligent discussions, so when those are around (like the Class threads on ILM), I feel very happy and fulfilled. I don't hate fun or kittens or meta threads, but I still feel like too much of a newbie to get as much out of them as some of the regulars do. (For instance, nobody's calling out "Jaymc to thread!" and mocking and/or flirting with me yet.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

hey dr c:

''to answer Mark's original question, I'm not enjoying ILX anymore and I've pretty much given up posting, not that anyone's prob noticed or cares. This thread is a perfect mini-example of why I'm irritated and pissed off with the whole thing, and tells me I should take a break.''

I have noticed and i do care. I hope you come back someday. don't let geir or calum grind you down.

''I have an idea to get some good discussion going on ILM which I *might* try if I get round to it, and I'll try and turn up at as many FAPS as poss. (ILX-ers in real life = always better than on the bloody 'net)''

look forward to seeing you (not that I'll turn up to every single FAP but hopefully I'll see you there).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I have noticed and i do care.

Same here, Dr. C. If it wasn't for you I wouldn't be planning on buying all those Passage reissues, for a start. :-) Stick around if you can, but take a break if you need it!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, I noticed Dr C, wasn't around, and hey man where's that CD?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sort of glad it's here even though I ain't posting much. ILE, that is. Its lack of a specific remit always means something that wouldn't fit in anywhere else can be posted here... and, frankly, try as I might, I've never found very many online forums that weren't either (a) terminally boring or (b) almost dead.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

ILX is kind of like a secret leprechaun.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

...w/tourettes

― buttch (Oops), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like ILX a lot better if more people read Kogan's Disco Tex essay and felt like talking about it.

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Momus has really let himself go. Great new pseudonym though.

― Tag (Tag), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Best link ever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, jaymc. Come round here often? *wink wink*

Jaymc to thread!

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Ahahahaha! I mean, poor guy.

― buttch (Oops), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

That photoshopped pic of beefcake Ned just made ILX so much more happy.

― Sarah MCLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks, Sarah!!!

So tell me, how does your mom know Stephen Tobolowsky?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, I'd like to say that I'm very excited about I Love Film right now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

My mom was on the debate team with him in high school. She doesn't like hang out with him now or anything, but any time we see him in a movie (which is actually pretty often), she's like, "That's my Stevie!"

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha, that's cute. He's pretty awesome.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

By the looks of things, I Love Film has so far been interesting, informed, funny, polite, and blissfully troll-free.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

frankly ilx can eat my fuc these days but i'm trying to avoid it anyway

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

jess, that "anyway" makes it sound like an ilx that can eat your fuc would normally titillate and delight you.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

lady, if you have to ask etcetcetcetc.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I still love it here, and it means a lot to me (the board and very many of the people on it). It's not so great at the moment, but I think there have been some positive things said here. All these meta threads are fine when they are celebrating, I think, but some have been very mean-spirited.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I post less these days (I never was a prodigious poster anyway) but always read it often. I miss a lot of people posting (and have tried to post to threads I thought they'd like posted to so they might stick around, see: Dr. C - Blue Nile & ABC) and some people who do post should post more (mitch, e.g.) Some days ilx can eat my fuc because it can feel like, well, work sometimes which is just not worth it.

It has a weird pull this place though.

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, I stayed away the whole day! I got a lot done but I missed the bear-Momus photoshop. Ah well, turn turn turn.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

What I am feeling RIGHT NOW about ILX is that I need to come up with a really cool schtick, like "donuts," "Prussia," or "hagiography."

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

*coughyouhaveoneit'shosescough*

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

That's a schtick that was forced upon me, dammit. I think I could definitely develop this hagiography of Prussian donuts thing.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I put the ball out there, you picked up and you ran with it.

Really, you did it to yourself.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

listen to the girl
/lame movie

― buttch (Oops), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

So there was this guy, right, and he was Prussian, and he was a priest, and he was all "you know what would be cool? if we used donuts instead of communion wafers." And he died, and people started seeing his face in the fingerprint patterns of the confectioner's sugar on the donuts, so he became the patron saint of donuts. Prussian donuts.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I bet they needed a hose to clean up after all those donuts.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I know I haven't been here long, but honestly, if you guys think this place has gone downhill, you've eiher never used Usenet, or have forgotten how trite and ridiculous it usually is.

ILx is a haven in comparison. And at least here you can (if need be) remove spurious posts which you can't do on usenet (well not easily anyway). I see this anxious inward gaze on various online communities from time to time, and it is more often than not the more longtime posters who start thinking this way. Chalk it up to boredom or a lack of a mental challenge, and as Kate said upthread, make this place what you want, rather than moaning about what it is not.
You're all such intelligent people, I really think you have nothing to worry about! W3rd.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

ILX is a useful way for me to avoid schoolwork. there are some great people here too.

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

censoring oneself is ... fun.

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Naked Momus has two eyes.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Right now, I feel like I should really be doing something other than talking about Momus's penis.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Stop looking at it, then, and look at his eyes. He has two of them.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

What in the name of Pete are you talking about?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

He isn't wearing his eyepatch. Yeah, I noticed that too Millar. Assume it was part of the nakedness. And apart from that I'm making noooo comment!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

So then naked Momus has three eyes, right? *winky winky*

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Woohoo! Snakeeyes!

http://www.alaskasworld.com/NEWS/2002/11/images/gaming_dice_snake_eyes_lg_wht.gif

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel swamped and confused by ILx at the moment and not very inclined to expend mental energy on it. But as Robert Forster didn't say: 'I don't like to read it but I like to know it's there with me'.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Julio - re; Home Truths - our protagonist = solipsistic libertarian aesthete? It was not nice reading.)

Never mind John Peel, what did you think about me?

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

ilxers (ilXors?) are nice and sometimes extremely funny/interesting but i don't come much lately because there are SO many posts, SO many things i don't know about, and it's really hard to wade through. Even when there's a thread i like, it tends to be so big it takes forever to read. (like this one...i just gave up and posted, but if it's a v. serious thread i read.)

― Maria (Maria), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

if its serious I try to read it all. at other times I will just ans the original q.

there's so much you can miss in the end :-(

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

LIke photoshopped pictures of mostly naked people.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, the reading thing. I'm skimming way too much. Ideally, I'd like to shed the compulsion to just post, post, post, but I can't.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm using the later function quite a bit.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

what's the later function??

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

ARe you kidding?
It looks like this:
(later)

You use as a bookmark so you can come back and read the rest of the thread LATER.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

(ignore that, worked it out :) (this message posted before sarah answered, perhaps I should turn on the cross posting thingie too!)

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, there is just too much to read and know about if u want to legitimately post on a variety of threads, which, coupled with my desire to curb my internet addiction, is one of the reasons i come here less now. ilxchat and faps are still cooler than posting though! real time roX0rs

i think the solution to everything, however, would be MORE photoshopped pictures involving Ned and nudity and purple-plastic-pail-lingeried-beefcake-men. it would improve all ilx problems, indefinitely

― Vic, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I like cross-posting because it makes threads more mysterious.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Cross posting is cool cuz the threads become mysterious

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks Cozen, Jel Julio and Ned for yr kind words. I still plan on winding down ILX activity, not really if I'm honest anything to do with ILX. *Life* itself is a bit of a struggle at the moment - work pressure, exams coming up, personal life a bit of a mess... and I have been feeling really ill for the last week or so. Still the momentous return of Dr. C to the London stage is only weeks away (Kentish Town, we Looooove you!) so there's that to look forward to.

Jel - are you interested in a 2-CD compilation of the very best of 60's psyche, freakbeat etc. I deleted the image of the CD I *should* have sent you, but I have this one on my laptop. I think you'd really like it. Sorry for being crap.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

heh, good luck with yr return to the stage (don't know whether I'll be able to make it but we'll see). hope the exams go well and the work pressure eases. get well too.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Godspeed Dr C, and break some bones!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

ILX makes me sad today. : (

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, it's just cuz everyone's playa hating on ya, right?

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

only partially. Also because it reminds me that other people have jobs that don't make them completely miserable.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Best of luck Doc, hang around if possible.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, I'm not even gonna have a job after this week and you don't see me complaining (< ----that was not complaining)

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

well I don't even know what's gonna happen which, as far as I can tell right now, is worse.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, that sux.

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

which is to say, I'm sorry you're losing your job. You know you got my sympathies.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

My job makes me miserable, stence. That help?

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

sure, I guess. but just knowing you helps anyway, luna.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Dr C, I miss you too. It sounds as if you might not be joining us for the FAP tomorrow, which is sad too. Get well quickly!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't have a job and i have no food. so buck up you crybabies.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

i have what passes for food, but no job as of yet. i'm glad it's not the other way around.

― Vic (Vic), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Break some bones!

― Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, i have some things with food-like qualities, so i'm okay

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Is there a Hooter's in your area Jess?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Stence, that's the nicest thing anyone's said to me today - thank you.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

i hope you're only suggesting jess to get a job at hooters spence, since it's more likely that would happen than him finding nourishment there

― Vic (Vic), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

you know, with all the uh, healthy lower class males you'd think there would be, but with all the greener ladies i'm not surprised there isn't.

i look terrible in nude hose.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Jess are you still in Oly? There's one in Tacoma. It's a bit of a commute but probably worth it for the enhanced self-esteem.

― chester (synkro), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

we should take anthony there on memorial day

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

That would be a vision.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Stence, that's the nicest thing anyone's said to me today - thank you

*sobs uncontrollably* (psst...he's STILL here)

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

*cackles*

(at jess's suggestion that is; not buttch's pain)

― chester (synkro), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Shush you.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, ma'am

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

So then naked Momus has three eyes, right? *winky winky*

But then so do most men, underneath their clothes.< /stale_joke>

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

So then naked Momus has three eyes, right? *winky winky*

Depends on if he's wearing the eyepatch, doesn't it?

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

There actually was a boy named Preetam in my 8th grade class who had three nipples underneath his shirt. I am NOT making this up

― Vic, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Ally, every variation of the joke has already been made. See original instance for details. Or don't. It's up to you. I don't want to force you into anything. We can take it slow. How does this feel. Good?

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

YES BUT I WANTED TO SAY IT AGAIN. What are you, the repetitive Nazi?

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

B-b-but you're ruining my material. My MATERIAL!

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

You hate me cos I'm a girl, don't you?

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

And Buttch is a material girl.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

does momus naked really need any embellishment, as a joke?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

jess wins.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

finally!

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i mean, i'm no great shakes naked either, but i also don't go posting it to my website.

("am i naked or not?")

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

That's the incredible thing. He brought this upon himself.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

you should update bitchcakes (hint hint)

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, that's disgusting!

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Blount wins!!

― Vic, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

at what cost though

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel I don't belong here but I wish I did.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Be careful what you wish for, ailsa. :)

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

this is a considered opinion...

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

only Blurillaz belong here. the rest of us are just cockfarmers

― Vic (Vic), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry for being a grump this morning. i am feeling better towards ILx now. i will try to use ILx more wisely in the future ie not go on in a shitty and expect this place to cheer me up.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 1 May 2003 03:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I am totally feeling like crap because I love this place, and I cant post at work, and so I am now falling victim to the shor-attention span inherent in any large community like this one. could we make this a John Hughes film? *CUE:Simple Minds* thanks

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 1 May 2003 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Dibs on being Judd Nelson.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 1 May 2003 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck you, I'm Judd Nelson!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 1 May 2003 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, step off, I got dibs.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 1 May 2003 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I am Anthony Michael Hall of course, but I really want to be Ally Sheedy

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 1 May 2003 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Did I stutter. Go fix me chicken pot pie!

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 1 May 2003 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Naked blonde walks into a bar with a poodle under one arm, and a two-foot salami under the other. She lays the poodle on the table. The bartender says, "I suppose you won't be needing a drink." Naked lady says...

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 1 May 2003 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)

FINE I WILL BE ALLY SHEEDY bastards.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 1 May 2003 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

noooo!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 1 May 2003 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Bwahaha. Scuse me while I rock the denim-and-brooding look.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 1 May 2003 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

what's wrong with Ally Sheedy? She's mad sexy.

― hstencil, Thursday, 1 May 2003 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

yes! except for maybe that dandruff

― ron (ron), Thursday, 1 May 2003 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

You know I really didn't know Momus had two working eyes until yesterday. So fuck it. We are all self-obsessed bastards seeking attention because adulthood is too tough to accept all at once. Damn your eyes. I'm gonna have a moment here, then I'm gonna post to another thread and pretend none of this never happened. Draw yr own conclusions as appropriate. 16oz Coors Light never felt better.

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 1 May 2003 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, Ally Sheedy = Hotttttt. Esp. in Wargames.

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 1 May 2003 05:03 (twenty-two years ago)

(dreams about wargames ally sheedy invading his room after jogging)

the real acting work is in high art, tho

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 1 May 2003 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Sweaty Ally Sheedy after jogging = rock

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 1 May 2003 05:20 (twenty-two years ago)

What happened to the poodle? Did he eat the salami?

― Sarah MCLusky (coco), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

The world may never know. (*chomp*)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

fuck that shit, I want to be Jake from "Sixteen Candles".

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I was wondering when someone was gonna leave the Breakfast Club. I call dibs on whoever Ally wants to be in Sixteen Candles.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Today I hate everyone. Please ignore my rants.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

What's bothering you, Nicole?

I am liking ILX today. la ti da.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

You know I really didn't know Momus had two working eyes until yesterday

To be pedantic, I had two working eyes until February 11th 1998. That morning I woke up in a motel in Atlanta to discover that only one of them could see.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

That's Atlanta for you.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 1 May 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I am liking ILE today as well, which is good as I'll be chewing the fat with a couple of dozen of you tonight. Oh, and btw, I've been Ally Sheedy for weeks. So ner.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 1 May 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

can I be the janitor?

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 1 May 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Today my feelings toward ILX are somewhat similar to what Chihira must have felt when night first fell in Spirited Away, when she got all transparent and all the weirdo twee-yet-frightening spirit-creatures came out. Make of that what you will.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 May 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a really bad ear-infection when I was in atlanta but, to be fair, it became apparent while I was in nashville. if things had been different, I might have gotten to wear an earpatch.

muff?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 1 May 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

muff?

This by itself, out of context = THE ETERNAL QUEST OF MAN

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 May 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, not all men, surely.

Yer Spirited Away comparison = rad.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 May 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

(cool dr C! '60's stuff sounds good to me! Hope things get better for ya soon!)

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 1 May 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I changed my mind I want to be the Donger.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 1 May 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

when i went to atlanta i stayed in a hotel that had been built for the inevitable olympic rush. the hotel had probably enver been used since, as it still smelled like plastic.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 1 May 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks Momus for clearing that up. Why is it pedantic? I can't believe How drunk I got last night. HEY GUYS N' LADEEZ I'M HELLA DRINKIN CL TALLBOYS AND LISTENIN' TO PAUL'S BOUTIQUE AND BIZ MARKIE!!! WHOOO gawd.

I love ILX again, though, so maybe it was necessary

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 1 May 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread was bizarre. But I enjoyed bits of it.

Tom E, Tim H, and N. - to name but three - appear to be absent from ilx. Whatever its current state, those absences are surely a contributory factor to it. Whether those absences will end, I cannot say.

― the pinefox, Friday, 2 May 2003 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Today my feelings towards ILX can be summed up thusly: my hearing is damaged, I've had 1 hour of sleep, I'm dehydrated from sweating like 4 gallons, my tummy hurts, the sun is not shining, but hey bring on the jibber jabber!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

don't worry, Pinefox, they will be back.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Why does the pinefox refuse to make friends with anyone else? It's right bizarre.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

one never knows what the hard kids'll do next.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I am feeling better towards ILX right now. ILX can only fufill certain demands as a community, and not others, and I am only frustrated when I forget this simple fact.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 2 May 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I hope I'm friends with the Pinefox, a bit. There may not be too much more than our often walking to Trafalgar Square together to catch night buses after FAPs, but I hope we're getting there. We always find stuff to talk about - ILX, football, books, country & western music. Also, those three are certainly not his only friends, after all - Jerry the Nipper, most obviously.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 2 May 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

You know what is REALLY REALLY annoying about these forums and prevents me from posting here now. The fact that your posts STAY HERE FOR ALL ETERNITY! This is completely unnatural and very much unlike a regular conversation. It took about a year for it to sink in that I'm going to say something casual, when I'm in a bad mood, and come back and there it is one year later, its pettiness and stupidity not teaching me anything except DON'T WRITE ON THIS FORUM. So I think maybe posts SHOULDN'T be kept so people feel free to speak as they would in conversation, or at least everyone should have the password-thing to delete whatever they want. Sure you can post under a pseudonym, but again THAT'S completely unlike a regular conversation and has terrible disadvantages.

― someone, who cares, Thursday, 29 May 2003 07:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i love it!

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 29 May 2003 07:06 (twenty-two years ago)

The 'say something nice about...' threads are getting irritating.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 May 2003 08:17 (twenty-two years ago)

The fact that your posts STAY HERE FOR ALL ETERNITY! This is completely unnatural and very much unlike a regular conversation.

This brings up vague associations with White Teeth, "the golden age of luncheon vouchers", and "nothing is ever lost here". I just can't seem to connect them properly. Besides, "for all eternity"? Be serious.

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Thursday, 29 May 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to start a thread on William Hope Hodgson but more than this I want people to get their arses in gear so we can to go the bluddy PUB and I can stop doing WORK (hooray for avoidance therapy => ILE anyway rah).

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 29 May 2003 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"for all eternity"?

I *have* arranged for this to happen. (The database is currently being replicated on to tiny nano-robot thingies that are replicating and spreading across the universe)

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 29 May 2003 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I like it that the posts stay around, because there's no way I can see every single thread as they come up. And sometimes I'll search for different topics or someone will revive a thread and I think that's pretty darn cool.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Thursday, 29 May 2003 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I miss Kate. (Or is she posting like mad on a thread I haven't opened?)

― Sarah MCLusky (coco), Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I am glad for the friends I've made on ILX, they've been esp. supportive through a rough time that seems to only be getting rougher. Thanks esp. to Jody, rosemary, luna, DDG, Phil-two, Leeee and anyone else who was around to chat late last night. I'm still in a crappy mood because of the cancer thing, but at least y'all got a few chuckles out of me.

― hstencil, Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

what cancer thing?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 29 May 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

It involves a friend. I'd rather not discuss it here, other than to say thanks to the people last night for being there.

― hstencil, Thursday, 29 May 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Aw man, Stence. *good thoughts and hugs* After what happened with my dad, I perfectly understand. My best for your friend, and hope you're coming through as you can.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 May 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks Ned, I 'preciate it. Despite that and the job stuff, I am feeling happy because I'm excited you're coming to visit!

― hstencil, Thursday, 29 May 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

1] I'm happy that I've curbed my compulsive posting.
2] Activity has decreased a bit, so it's easier to catch up.
3] It occasionally doesn't work, kinda like the old Greenspun days.
4] It's quite good at the mo.

Sarah, Kate asked to have her IP banned so that she can't post on ILe, I believe she still posts on ILM.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Aw, thank ya Stence. Hope it'll be a fun time for everyone. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Really positive: it's been important support for me in recent weeks, and I've been out at FAP things twice this week, and really enjoyed myself both times.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 29 May 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

It was my only outlet for interaction [in english] while I was in China - for that I'm very thankful.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 29 May 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Because I never travel anywhere except to see people, all the geography threads are just clutter to me, so I'm sort of fucked off right now.

We need a simple flag to indicate when a thread has Gone Wrong, and might be worth reading again.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't think i'm in the top 50 anymore, i guess that might mean i'm not enjoying ilx as much as normal. or maybe that means i'm enjoying it MORE than usual. the thing about ilx is that not all the threads interest me, but there are always some that do. i've posted some really embarassing things in the past, but it doesn't bother me. an old thread got revived a few weeks back, where i hassled someone who i would now give myself to in slavery if it was required. i cringed when i saw it, but everyones a dick sometimes, you know?

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I miss ILX. (F these F'n mailers I have to send out for work)
It doesn't seem like that much is going on right now though, so I feel better about not being on here that much. But I'm still emailing some ILXors and looking at friendster.

Now back to signing, folding, stuffing, licking, & sticking.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to be more involved but it seems so sprawling and enormous now. I don't think I appreciated just how much effort it takes to stay on top of things as a reader.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:40 (twenty-two years ago)

its gonna suck around here without kate.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

well, i don't mean that, but i am going to miss her.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't worry, Di. Once K gets a job that doesn't piss her off, I'm sure she'll be back...

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think I appreciated just how much effort it takes to stay on top of things as a reader.

It's pretty involved...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 June 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Feelings towards ILX right now:

If only for the fact that (UNLIKE ON ILM AT THE MOMENT) I can do the Blog View and not have to do the "WOAH NELLY!!!" furious-fast alt+tab to avoid exposing my co-workers to friggin nappy c*msh0ts and tubgirl exploding all over the place, I LOVE IT.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 5 June 2003 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

The only way to read ilx at work is with the pictures hidden, otherwise you are in for a world of trouble.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 5 June 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

nick are they back?

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 5 June 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I tend mainly to lurk rather than post on ILx these days, but will say that when one needs the help of the "community" (e.g. my Brighton thread) it really does make a difference and proves how important it (or, more accurately, the people who contribute to it) still is (are) to me ... :-)

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 5 June 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

No I think they're all gone now Mark, but WOAH that was a shock!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 5 June 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I really enjoy ILX, but I do get a little frustrated when you have days where there aren't alot of people around!?! Sometimes certain threads baffle me, which i just avoid. I am starting to get to know certain people on ilx more, which i like.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 5 June 2003 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I love it now.. I was going through a period of hating it... i think that when I am feeling insecure, ILX makes me worse... also, and this may sound strange but... i have grown, over the course of my life, to become so used to not fitting in, not finding others who actually like the same things that I do, that I sometimes actually become uncomfortable when I actually fit in and am accepted, and this can become a problem here too, because, well, some people on this board actually like me ;-)

sorry to get all psychological...

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 5 June 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

About a month ago i really didnt like ILX that much, there seemed to be alot of in fighting and general bitchiness. One month later and my views have changed wholeheartedly - i am back loving ILX again, particularly ILE as it is generally more fun and in the main a nice way to spend the day at work.
I particularly enjoy the threads where people help out and solve issues or sort out issues, as with todays Marcello "Brighton" thread, i liker the idea of people sharing both good and bad experiences and being able to glean some info from it.

So yeah ILX is back in my heart and the first thing on my computer when i start the day.

― james (james), Thursday, 5 June 2003 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I was looking forward to reading ILX today, so that's a good thing.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 5 June 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, it has been a lot nicer lately. Is the summer making people more agreeable? I don't know, it is actually colder here than it was at the beginning of May but that may be a local thing and the weather could be lovely everywhere else.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 5 June 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Much like how Tower of Power feels about James Brown, I'm diggin' on it.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 5 June 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm liking ILE these days - I don't have much to contribute, it seems, but I am happily reading (and keeping up with) several threads and just keeping quiet, for the most part.

I find that when I am most inclined to post, these days, is when the topic is on books - seems to be the only thing I have much to say about, but even then I'm drawing blanks. I'll be starting a thread this evening, though, in hopes that the good people here can give me some insight, as they've done in the past.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 6 June 2003 03:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I just want to pat some backs again. I really love the way ILX is set up, so hurrah for the creators/mods. It is very easy to read and follow threads. Nice and simple. And I really enjoy the search features. All hail creators/mods. Amen.

― Sarah MCLUsky (coco), Friday, 13 June 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

It's cool, though my attempts to get back in the top ten are failing. This is because of IM, where I probably talk too much, but I like ILXAIMXOR and I hope people don't mind.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 13 June 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i've been trying w/o success to get out of the top 50 for a few months now. what am i doing wrong?

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 13 June 2003 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Everything is great again with CJ's What were you like at 10? thread.

― Sarah Mclusky (coco), Friday, 13 June 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

jel: what's yr aim name again? I don't have you on my buddy list.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 13 June 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to thank Alan for the hard work and good job he's done.

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 13 June 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

julio: buglebear2002

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

From being a confirmed lurker, I have now breached the top 60 for the last thirty days (mostly about football, Sunset Beach and BB4 admittedly). What I am therefore feeling is "slightly more confident about posting", and that's down to you. Yes, you! It seems less cliquey to me than it did, though that may be my perception changing, not ILX.

I'm loving it quite a lot just now. It's cheering me up, making me think, and keeping me out of the pub when I have evenings to spend on my own.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been very bored with it lately (and annoyed with ILM in particular), but I'm kind of grateful for that, since it's pushing me to do other things I probably ought to be doing instead of reading/posting to ILX, anyway. Still, I'm here posting this aren't I? But I need ILX at the moment to help me put off the horrible process of putting in my air-conditioner.

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 13 June 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

ILX is interesting and entertaining and sometimes provides a lift when I really need one. I was just thinking tonight about how ILE sort of reaffirms to me that there are people out there who are intelligent, funny, and kind. I appreciate that.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Saturday, 14 June 2003 04:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i've been trying w/o success to get out of the top 50 for a few months now. what am i doing wrong?

Asking too many questions.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 14 June 2003 06:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel like ILX right now is worth a tip o' the hat.

― Momus (Momus), Saturday, 14 June 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

its been good this week i agree! (partly due to your good self sir)

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 14 June 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Small complaint - the timezone thing is starting to piss me off. Americans are supposed to be stupid right? Ask Momus! (Just kidding Momus, wait this ties into what I'm going to say next!) So how come all the interesting discussions take place when I'm asleep? By the time I reach the screen in the morning everybody's debated themselves hoarse, meanwhile all day over 'here' it's endless football and puddings and Dr Who and "when was the last time you broke a fingernail" etc. Come on Brits stop trying to turn me into a vampire!

― dave q, Sunday, 15 June 2003 08:07 (twenty-two years ago)

you forgot big brother dave.

*note to self: start eating garlic and get a crcifix*

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 15 June 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm feeling very sort of affectionate - it's that 10 year old thread, of course. You can't help but feel sympathy and admiration for the people who've turned out so well after such terrible lives.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 15 June 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

ILE is the only board I frequent.

― Jan Geerinck (jahsonic), Sunday, 15 June 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Stone me, I'm posting more than Dan Perry.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Total Questions: 666 ! ! !

― kephm, Tuesday, 24 June 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Sympathetic. A few of the people I really like best around here have been feeling really low lately, for different reasons and in different ways. I always wish I could do a lot to cheer them up - I do my best, but I'm not like there to hug them, let alone do anything genuinely useful, and I really wish I could do more.

That also makes me feel rather foolish, and even pretentious. One of the people I'm thinking of is someone I've never met even once, and it seems rather odd that I do care how she is feeling. I keep feeling that it might come over as in some way faked, which it isn't at all, and also I don't really know how I come to care about someone who I only know through tangential message board interaction and a bit of AIM.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know if it's surprising: you care about characters in novels who have the same interface to you as ILX people, minus a) interactivity, and b) actually being a real person.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I am definitely enjoying ILE at the moment. I spend most of the day on it & yes my work is suffering, ah well! I like the way that people are so open and request help/advice on really personal things. I always try to post to these threads & am sometimes really moved by them (i.e. 'A good man gone' thread) but i always have the underlying feeling that people take it in the wrong way. Whatever the thread I always post exactly what I think, but I do wonder if people just think I'm sucking up to them. I hope not, as this is not the case. Still I love ILE & there are some great people on here.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm keen on both the main boards right now. ILE is quite fluffy and humane and ILM is spiky and clever, which is just the balance I like.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

ilx is like the rum in my coke

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I am still scared of ILM. I have always considered myself clued up on music that I like, but oh no!!!!
I also got very excited when I posted my first picture, awwww!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I love Pinkpanther, she is eminently readable and brilliant. I thought she might like to be told. ILE and ILM are both ace at present but I also am still scared to contribute anything much.

― Alex in Rotherham (Alex in Doncaster), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Gee thanx Alex! *blushes* Don't be scared to contribute, just dive right in! ;-)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

*sigh*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish it was a bit shit, actually; I have a job application that I really ought to have finished by now ad ilx is distracting me.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I just want to interject and say how much I LOVE how so many people "leave" and ALWAYS COME BACK. Not in a nasty way, honestly, w/one exception.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick - THIS IS ILX SPEAKING - GET TO YOUR JOB APPLICATION SONNY!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you ilx!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Perhaps you could turn it into a thread, Nick. How did it go with the 'fireman' job? (I've just being going through some CVs that have arrived here, word of advice: don't put down 'racquet stringing' as a skill.)

― Alfie (Alfie), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

(it's actually a vocation)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I got the applic. pack through for the 'fireman' job and realised I was hideously unqualified and uninterested for/in it! This is a new job which I'm not going to say anything about because I actually really want it and anytime I mention a job on here i never get it! (I didn't mention this current job til it was in the bag, so that technique must work!)

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

People do leave and never come back. Will McKenzie, for example.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I just wrote an application form too, it's for my own job. So, it hasn't taken that long to do.

I like ILX when I can post in the middle of the day whilst listening to Willie Nelson.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Good luck Nick. ONCE AGAIN, ILX HAS SPOKEN!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Will is too busy ~~shagging~~ teaching in Paris to post here anymore.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

After today? Take a fucking guess.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 29 December 2003 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh. It's about...

― Aja (aja), Monday, 29 December 2003 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm feeling that ILX is not as entertaining as it could be. I am feeling a bit let down and abused by it. It never returns my calls.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 29 December 2003 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Extremely angry, unfortunately.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 December 2003 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Why?

― Aja (aja), Monday, 29 December 2003 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Hurrah, a familiar face!

x-post AJA I HAVE NO PATIENCE FOR THIS.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 29 December 2003 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sorry, but what is wrong?

― Aja (aja), Monday, 29 December 2003 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

why?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 29 December 2003 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

huh?

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 29 December 2003 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

What's that?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 29 December 2003 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, Im feeling the same, but more sick to my stomach then angry.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 29 December 2003 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)

It's Ned Raggett, and I echo Curtis' Hurrah.

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 29 December 2003 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I was going to avoid the recently annoying IL* as a resolution, but you know what, f*ck that. I'm just going to go about doing what I usually do here (i.e. pointless, vaguely self-serving and mildly humorous interjections). Ned, you rule. RAWK.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 29 December 2003 05:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I love how the Last
Brave Stand of Old ILX,
the Line In The Sand,

is against Aja,
a 12-year-old girl who asks
too many questions.

That having been said,
Aja needs to ask "What?" less
and get real-life friends

it is not too late
for you girl! the way it is
for the rest of us

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 29 December 2003 06:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Aja's cool. I will say no more on this topic.

I am feeling relaxed, genial and loving to ILX.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 29 December 2003 06:27 (twenty-two years ago)

tempest in a teapot.
everything's fine.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 29 December 2003 06:51 (twenty-two years ago)

It's taken me 35 minutes to work my way through this thread. Ackage.

I wish I had the same warm and fluffy feelings toward this place that I had even just about a month ago or so. However, I just don't have that in me at the moment. I'm forever thankful that this forum has enabled me to get to know some wonderful people who've become really close friends of mine. (If you've privately IMed with me over the course of the past two weeks, I could not thank you enough.) However, due to my experiences with this forum, I've come to understand that the great majority of humanity is confounding, overly complex, not entirely trustworthy, and certainly not friendship material.

And meanwhile I chat with the same handful of individuals, don't bother to check with my personal e-mail because I know that nothing new will be there save for mailing list stuff, and remain in the holding pattern that I've experienced throughout my life with regards to anything socially related.

― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 29 December 2003 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

It's fucking Christmas time, get over yourselves.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 29 December 2003 09:15 (twenty-two years ago)

otm.

― may pang (maypang), Monday, 29 December 2003 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

So I take it all is not well here then? *sigh*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 29 December 2003 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I got laid last night.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Monday, 29 December 2003 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

describe.

― may pang (maypang), Monday, 29 December 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

sex. lots. all positions. all ways. good times.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Monday, 29 December 2003 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

thx.

― may pang (maypang), Monday, 29 December 2003 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I got laid last night too. I should have said 'no'. One position, fulyl clothed, quite pleasant.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 29 December 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Nice one Sam!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 29 December 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't had my haircut since July!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 29 December 2003 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Fully clothed??

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 29 December 2003 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Yep.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 29 December 2003 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)

As a youngster I had fantasies of making love fully clothed, naughty bits made available only by open fly and pushed-aside panty beneath skirt. In addition to this, two condoms (EACH). If there is no skin on skin contact, is it still sex? No kissing either.

God, why didn't I just join Kraftwerk.

― logd oot (DarrenK), Monday, 29 December 2003 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The way I feel about ILE is that it's lost some of it's appeal coz of the spin-off boards like the film, book, cricket ones, I mean that's three of my favourite things! But, I feel intimidated about posting to those boards as I'm no expert/not that passionate about things in general. I have mixed feelings about these new baords, as I can see why people would want to start them - more focus, less noise, no random pictures, not so meta. Then, I also feel that it was the everything that made ILE good in the first place. We've lost a bit of everything, it's an evolutionary process.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 29 December 2003 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never visited those other forums.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 29 December 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the only one I ever visited was the Conkers one. I don't think ILE has lost its appeal at all coz of that. It occasionally loses its appeal coz of the hataz & trolls & such, but this is always a very fleeting thing.

extra responsibilities at work may mean I need to change my pattern of visiting ILE, e.g. try not to visit until just before hometime or something.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 29 December 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I don't visit the other fora either. However, I feel okay about ILX, quite positive really. It's my default state about most things when I haven't experienced them for a while.

Aja is not ruining ILE, but it really isn't a suitable place for her. I think she should really get out more and find friends her own age who won't mystify her, insult her or try to pick her up. Aja, I'm serious here. This is not real life, and you still have far too much to learn about it to have your mind messed about with by people who should really know better.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 29 December 2003 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

it's pretty disturbing that a 12 year old girl can hook up on ILE but I CANNOT

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 29 December 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I've met you, it isn't.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 29 December 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

uh, you met me at 4pm on a Summer Saturday after i'd already been drinking cider for around 4 hours...so yeah, judge with confidence

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 29 December 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

well when I logged on this morning the first two threads I read were a bit disturbing and things were looking grim.

Fortunately though it doesn't appear to have spread to all the other threads as it so often does, so ilx is looking okay for me today.

oh and well done on the getting laid thing nick and sam!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 29 December 2003 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Sam always gets laid, though. For Nick, a hearty cheer!

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 29 December 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

get in!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 29 December 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

people having sex? who'd have thought it? (sorry)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 29 December 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

''I have mixed feelings about these new baords, as I can see why people would want to start them - more focus, less noise, no random pictures, not so meta''

for me its the more focus, ppl are encouraged to start book threads just by hanging around on the 'i love books' forum. also no need to be apologetic over starting threads abt obscurities.

jel you post on ILM every now and again and this isn't very different.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 29 December 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

xpost

was the having sex part an expression of their feelings towards ILX though?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 29 December 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I honestly have no idea what's going on at this point. I understand that there are now 'children' posting, which reminds me that the only bearable children are your own.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

im sorry, ive just dropped into this thread to wonder why moderators arent deleting calum threads as they used to. they are an eyesore.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 09:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Cos there's pretty much no moderators anymore

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

the bits i like are still around. the bits i don't like, however, have suddenly had their volume cranked to about a billion. i'm pretty pissed off abt calum, and all the other pervy shit that's happened in the past day or two. and it takes a lot for me to get worked up about stuff in my own life...

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 09:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm fairly comfortable with ILX generally. There are usually enough 'interesting' threads going at once to make it worthwhile logging in and I just ignore the rest. C-baiting and C-slagging are all part of the fun, but I can see why the Aja-Dante thing should be more of a worry.

To jel re ILCricket: I wouldn't worry, half the blokes that post there (def including myself) ain't exactly Richie Benaud either! (Only fair to warn we are mostly Aussies though!) We won v India today so we're even friendlier than usual tonight (currently 8.15 pm local time).

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 09:25 (twenty-two years ago)

what happened to the moderators?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Jess played up apparently (shocking news) and everyone got their privileges revoked, except for Dan Andrew and I think someone else.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Other, server Andrew, I mean. Also I thought this was discussed somewhere, can't remember where tho.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Really? wtf? This place seems to be turning into a shitty place. It's such a shame when there are so many cool ppl here. I hope this all passes real soon.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

why were privileges revoked?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

IIRC it had nothing to do with Jess at all.

Mod privs were only revoked for ILE. There was no change to ILM and the other boards.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Jon Bon Jovi would know what to do!

I hope the moderator situation will be sorted out soon.

I will post on I Love Cricket soon!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

So who exactly are the mods now, in case we need them? Or is it just a case of hitting the 'moderation request' button?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

On ILE the mods are Andrew and Dan P. Mark S is a mod too.

And yes the idea is that all moderation requests go on their own separate board now because the shout for.. thread system has been stopped.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

OK thanks!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i am an ex-mod, really

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Did you shed blood in Brighton?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

so ilx has basically fallen mortally ill and i didnt realize? no wonder there are so many calum threads etc. well i suppose i'll start the process of weaning myself off this thing...

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

This sort of summarises it:

http://www.riskman.unsw.edu.au/images/titanic.jpg

but when I was google image searching, this seemed even more horribly appropriate.

x-post, please do not wean yrself off this, amateurist, yer one of the best here imo.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Mine too, y'know I'm kinda pissed about this again actually

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

jess didn't do anything, wtf? Andrew explained it himself when he did it IIRC but it had nothing to do with any specific moderator, just a general dissatisfaction with how the moderations were being done and it was decided an overhaul was necessary.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, fuck off cocksucker; it had nothing to do with me.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

and i gave up giving a shit about my mod privs long before they were revoked. this place can non-moderate itself back to the stoneage for all i care.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.smartlink.net/~dcrane/photos/sleep.jpg

― kephm, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, fuck off cocksucker

http://bitchcakes.topcities.com/spencerchow/jess.jpg

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

haha you only got away with that because i have no mod privs!!

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

the ship be sinkin'

― Micheal Ray Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Well if you weren't such a stroppy bastard who apparently ruined it for everyone ever then you'd still have mod privledges wouldn't you!! Seriously that's my favorite picture of all time though. I got a digital camera for Christmas. It takes MOVING PICTURES, you know. If I ever show up at a FAP again you all are going to be paying me off big time to keep that shit tied up.

With, you know, your vast fortunes.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

actual social interaction here i come

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

aw is that fiddo?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Interesting that ILX took this gigantic nosedive at almost the exact time when the vast majority of decent posters went off on holiday and, like, got on with their lives. I'd like to think order will be restored once we all get back to our soul-crushing desk jobs.

(This reminds me, I should really be getting off to the pub)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Matt OTM.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm beginning to like ILM a lot better.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

We are in the belly of a machine. And the machine is bleeding to death.

(Requisate GSYBE quote)

― El Spinktor (El Spinktor), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I like how every thread in the last 2 weeks that i have read has jumped the shark in a degree that makes my head hurt.

― El Spinktor (El Spinktor), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Always look on the bright side, hey?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

''I'm beginning to like ILM a lot better.''

its always been better. the fights are a lot nastier too.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Like Brazilian league football!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

bring on it you saucy bastard

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I really really really want a killfile function.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not scrolling fast enough. I am desperately bored here, and have no attention span. Need more pictures.

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

http://it.stlawu.edu/~pdot/linsky2.jpg

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

that's very lovely, aja. did you draw that yourself¿

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

No.

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Did your mom?

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

No. I found it on google.

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

the pic or your mom¿

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The pic.

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i like aja

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Please, not like Dante!

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I am about to break out in tears.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Why?

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

i like you like i like my niece i am not a perv like Dante

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Dante is not a perv

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

yes he is

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

No he's not

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

my cat can DJ better than yours

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Dante was a perv. He loved Beatice when she was 9.

― pete s, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

yes he is.
and on the off chance he isn't (which he is) - he is well on his way there.
with terrifying speed.

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Please stop that!!

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i am feeling overwhelmed, and out of the loop. there's so much of it! and i'm so out of the in jokes!

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

So much what?

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

so much of ilx.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, ok.

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

alright, i suppose. i guess i've largely avoided aja; has anyone explained it's quite annoying, to her? i've quite enjoyed posting to and reading the tati thread, this past week, and the 'englishness' thread on ilm. it's ok; the annoying people are quite easy to ignore, as has always been the case i suppose.

― cozen¡ (Cozen), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

it's a place to share ideas and suggestions and comments on art/lifestyle/current events. i don't have more than a sliver of emotional investment here, sometimes when people are way off the mark i conjure up the attitude to call them on it but half the time i can't be bothered.... don't sweat the small stuff, etc., etc.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

gygax, dyou not find that people can sting you though, even if it just means you feel a little upset or miffed for the following ten minutes?

― cozen¡ (Cozen), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i've never felt deeply connected to ilx to the point that it's upset me in any way. that's got its good and bad points, obviously.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread has not been in vain: I've been able to fulfil a longstanding personal ambition and count Trivial Pursuitington's lovely long rows of little white pirhana-like teeth, one by one.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Dyson, thats the funniest thing posted here that wasn't by Hanle y.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

No it's not.

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

what?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not!

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

what's not?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ludd.luth.se/misc/nirvana/gif/bleach.gif

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

er, thanks for the giant picture. i'm sure all our modem people are choking on that.

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

That's the point!

― Aja (aja), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh, is Aja intentionally fucking up ILX? Off with her head!

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh, is Aja intentionally fucking up ILX? Off with her head!

Well Mr Noodles keeps asking those questions. Even I don't ask them that many times!!

― Aja (aja), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

but why do you want to choke modems?

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Well what else can I do?

― Aja (aja), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck off?