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Goodbye.

― Toumas, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

Nice try, but for the lack of attention to spelling.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)

You made me cry when you said goodbye
Ain't that a shame?
My tears fell like rain
Ain't that a shame?
You're the one to blame

You broke my heart when you said we'll part
Ain't that a shame?
My tears fell like rain
Ain't that a shame?
You're the one to blame

Farewell, goodbye, although I'll cry
Ain't that a shame?
My tears fell like rain
Ain't that a shame?
You're the one to blame

You made me cry when you said goodbye
Ain't that a shame?
My tears fell like rain
Ain't that a shame?
You're the one to blame

Farewell, goodbye, although I'll cry
Ain't that a shame?
My tears fell like rain
Ain't that a shame?
You're the one to blame

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

Not a lot of lyrics to that, are there?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

Bye bye Mister Anonymous Guy
Drove my chevy to the levee
But the levee was dry
And good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singin' this will be the day that I die
This will be the day that I die

― dude dude, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

on somethingawful.com they permaban folx who make threads like this

― hint hint, nudge nudge (bato), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

this is ilxor.com

how do i shot web

― Sailor Kitten (g-kit), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

Is it a sign of some sort of ILX celebrity when people begin to imitate you and start threads about you?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

I think so, yes.

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hbc.fi/sture/hallitus/Hallitus-Tuomas.jpg

― bato (bato), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

If you leave, don’t leave now
Please don’t take my heart away
Promise me, just one more night
Then we’ll go our separate ways
We’ve always had time on our side
Now it’s fading fast
Every second, every moment
We’ve gotta make it last

http://www.cafeoperagolf.com/members/tavlingar/hostpokalen/1999/leader.jpg

I touch you once, I touch you twice
I won’t let go at any price
I need you now like I need you then
You always said we'd still be friends someday

http://www.kirstenp.claranet.de/moviefaces/actor/s/asc_kigacop02.jpg

If you leave I won't cry
I won't waste a single day
But if you leave don't look back
I'll be running the other way
Seven years went under the bridge
Like time was standing still
Heaven knows what happens now
You’ve gotta say you will

http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/7782/abesimpsonshotweb9ay.jpg

I'll touch you once, I'll touch you twice
I won't let go at any price
I need you now like I need you then
You always said we'd meet again someday

http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/1607/letigre8xp.jpg

I touch you once, I touch you twice
I won’t let go at any price
I need you now like I need you then
You always said we’d meet again someday

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/4885/rolling13yh.jpg

If you leave
If you leave
Don’t look back
Don’t look back

http://ratcage.com/tv/mash/images/goodbye.jpg

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.kittenrecords.co.uk/slypics/shot_tiara.jpg

― Sailor Kitten (g-kit), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

on somethingawful.com they permaban folx who make threads like this

-- hint hint, nudge nudge (bato12345678...), November 30th, 2005.

They also ban dead folx.

― hay guys, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.anthroblogs.org/nomadicthoughts/archives/logo-ghostbusters%20(2).jpg

― bato (bato), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/6/67/Ghostbusters.png

― bato (bato), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

the asterix img ws a nice touch

― nervous (cochere), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

Voted 5

― hay guys, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

It’s quarter to three,
There’s no one in the place ’cept you and me
So set ’em’ up joe
I got a little story I think you oughtta know

We’re drinking my friend
To the end of a brief episode
So make it one for my baby
And one more for the road

I know the routine
Put another nickel in that there machine
I’m feeling so bad
Won’t you make the music easy and sad

I could tell you a lot
But you gotta to be true to your code
So make it one for my baby
And one more for the road

You’d never know it
But buddy I’m a kind of poet
And I’ve got a lot of things I wanna say
And if I’m gloomy, please listen to me
Till it’s all, all talked away

Well, that’s how it goes
And joe I know you’re gettin’ anxious to close
So thanks for the cheer
I hope you didn’t mind
My bending your ear

But this torch that I found
It’s gotta be drowned
Or it soon might explode
So make it one for my baby
And one more for the road

― gear (gear), Friday, 13 January 2006 20:34 (twenty years ago)

best human award

― öROXYMUZAKö (roxymuzak), Friday, 13 January 2006 21:11 (twenty years ago)

on somethingawful.com they permaban folx who make threads like this
-- hint hint, nudge nudge (bato12345678...), November 30th, 2005.
They also ban dead folx.

-- hay guys (roffl...), November 30th, 2005.

Quoted for truth + lolz.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 13 January 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

okay i'm back. i just went to denny's, is all.

― gear (gear), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Were Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Philippe there?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:13 (twenty years ago)

Moons Over My Hammie?

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:16 (twenty years ago)

i had a wisdom tooth pulled so my lunch was limited to a milkshake. reese witherspoon (walk the line) was there with an extremely pale, emaciated, ryan phillipe (white squall

― gear (gear), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:28 (twenty years ago)

im in jury duty in downtown right now :(

― howell huser (chaki), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:17 (twenty years ago)

i hope you're posting from the jury box

― gear (gear), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:22 (twenty years ago)

i am not. theres this dood reading every thread i click on. fuck downtown courthouse
:(

― howell huser (chaki), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:27 (twenty years ago)

HEY GUY, STOP READING OVER HIS SHOULDER

― gear (gear), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:27 (twenty years ago)

Don't do that, Gear. Alex in NYC is gone... No one will tell me what happened to Nick in KY... It's always been my fear that the ILX Rapture will hit and I'll be one of those Left Behind.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:28 (twenty years ago)

http://www.honkernet.net/library/Reading_over_Shoulder.gif

― gear (gear), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:28 (twenty years ago)

nicaklicious just got fed up with ilx and left

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:38 (twenty years ago)

Where is spencer?

― andy --, Friday, 13 January 2006 23:38 (twenty years ago)

yeah, wtf

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:42 (twenty years ago)

Well, that makes plenty of damn sense, I guess.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:55 (twenty years ago)

I like spencer

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:57 (twenty years ago)

Spencer is also taking a break from ILX for the foreseeable future. He responds to emails though!

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:58 (twenty years ago)

I swear I just happen to know these things. I'm not jaymc.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:58 (twenty years ago)

But I would like you all to know this thread is in my files.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:59 (twenty years ago)

i think spencer is a great guy. i wish he would post here.

― howell huser (chaki), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:59 (twenty years ago)

I think he's still here IN SPIRIT ;) ;)

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Saturday, 14 January 2006 00:02 (twenty years ago)

Spencer wrote a curt "maybe I should just take a break" note, and he was gone like a genie! If only the rest of us followed up on such proclamations.

― andy ----, Saturday, 14 January 2006 00:02 (twenty years ago)

adam, I like spencer

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 14 January 2006 00:04 (twenty years ago)

Thank god Spencer left.

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Saturday, 14 January 2006 00:19 (twenty years ago)

adam, I like spencer

uncynical

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Saturday, 14 January 2006 00:20 (twenty years ago)

i'm not really here anymore. however, i did notice that spencer left.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 14 January 2006 02:55 (twenty years ago)

I wish you were here more Kim

― Latham Green (hanle y 3000), Saturday, 14 January 2006 08:18 (twenty years ago)

jw, sc is hardly someone to hate on.

― howell huser (chaki), Saturday, 14 January 2006 10:42 (twenty years ago)

heh there's a fist coming out of this dude's arse!
http://www.hbc.fi/sture/hallitus/Hallitus-Tuomas.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 14 January 2006 10:50 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorta here, sorta.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 14 January 2006 11:27 (twenty years ago)

I am still here sometimes too - just don't have the luxury of long times at work to post as befroe in q4 of '05 and read the fun threads here. pop in on occasion to lurk and see who's up to what. Alex in NYC is gone? took the cute baby and just left us? Hum. maybe he's just buzy too. and jel came out to say hey. life is like that, sometimes we need ilx more than others and sometimes have more time to participate. it's all good, tho isn't it?

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:44 (twenty years ago)

I also learn a lot here. sometimes you guys have news before it hits the real news! who can really walk away for good? And if so, why make a proclaimation about it?

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:46 (twenty years ago)

Aloha, suckers!

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Monday, 16 January 2006 03:51 (twenty years ago)

Why doesn't everybody try not posting to ILX for a week.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:00 (twenty years ago)

what would be the point of that?

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:04 (twenty years ago)

Asking that question may be a sign that one could benefit from doing so.

― Laura H. WHO IS A GIRL (laurah), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:13 (twenty years ago)

no, still don't see it.

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:14 (twenty years ago)

aw laura, i didn't mean anything against you, i was just trying to fuck with jon and his baldness!

― tehresa (tehresa), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:15 (twenty years ago)

Where is spencer?

making lots of money and screwing beautiful women in his fabulous metrosexual apartment, i'd imagine.

meanwhile, here we all are.

― danielle the animal steel (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:16 (twenty years ago)

aw laura, i didn't mean anything against you, i was just trying to fuck with jon and his baldness!
-- tehresa (boringstandardaddres...) (webmail)

Wait, what just happened? I'm so confused.

― Laura H. WHO IS A GIRL (laurah), Monday, 16 January 2006 05:21 (twenty years ago)

i thought your name was in ref to this.

― tehresa (tehresa), Monday, 16 January 2006 05:27 (twenty years ago)

No, it's in reference to this! lol

― Laura H. WHO IS A GIRL (laurah), Monday, 16 January 2006 05:38 (twenty years ago)

That is actually a different Laura.

― Laura H. WHO IS A GIRL (laurah), Monday, 16 January 2006 05:40 (twenty years ago)

hahahahaha excellent! that sounds more like esteban level trolling than jon. like... lots of words and notlots of funnies.

― tehresa (tehresa), Monday, 16 January 2006 05:54 (twenty years ago)

wtf which laura is that?! because after he said 'that is laura' i was like 'ohhh ok i see it now'

― tehresa (tehresa), Monday, 16 January 2006 05:55 (twenty years ago)

It is a Laura from his college! Check out his myspace page, TOO MANY LAURAS.

― Laura H. WHO IS A GIRL (laurah), Monday, 16 January 2006 06:01 (twenty years ago)

wait i thought you went to his college! oy i am out of the loop!!!!

― tehresa (tehresa), Monday, 16 January 2006 06:07 (twenty years ago)

No, but I met him during college, through Ian, and then he was home for a year while I was going to school in RI. Also we went to competing private schools and knew some of the same people.

I thought YOU went to his college?

― Laura H. WHO IS A GIRL (laurah), Monday, 16 January 2006 06:11 (twenty years ago)

The comedy of misunderstandings.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 16 January 2006 06:14 (twenty years ago)

sort of... my school had a separate campus, but my degree is officially from the u of r, although if anyone asks me where i went to school i say eastman.

― tehresa (tehresa), Monday, 16 January 2006 06:15 (twenty years ago)

this reminds me of the time i was asked why i hated rap

― gear (gear), Monday, 16 January 2006 06:17 (twenty years ago)

what was your reply, gearest one?

― chips rofflety (haitch), Monday, 16 January 2006 06:19 (twenty years ago)

i didn't reply, i was busy enthusing over the beatles and genesis

― gear (gear), Monday, 16 January 2006 06:24 (twenty years ago)

SNAP

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 16 January 2006 06:35 (twenty years ago)

ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

― HAKKEBOFFER (eman), Monday, 16 January 2006 07:08 (twenty years ago)

ADIOS, BROCHACHOS!

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

i hadn't noticed spencer had left. ilx is a cruel mistress.

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 19:43 (twenty years ago)

he was "sick of the puerile shit" iirc

― öROXYMUZAKö (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

IIRC his favorite IRC program is IRCII.

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 00:44 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Pour one out

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

still lolin' @ Toumas

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 23:29 (eighteen years ago)

toumas asli

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 23:36 (eighteen years ago)

I don't vist here much anymore cuz the login every other minute is too much a pain in the butt.

― Wiggy Woo, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 00:44 (eighteen years ago)

real toumas otm

― brownie, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 00:47 (eighteen years ago)

I don't vist here much anymore cuz the login every other minute is too much a pain in the butt

eh? that got fixed aeons ago.

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

Couldn't it be possible that Tuomas just forgot where the letters went in his name

― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 12:05 (eighteen years ago)

what is a toumas

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Guys I am leaving ILX will be back only for medical emergencies, K?

― Tetragram for Holding Back (libcrypt), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 02:01 (seventeen years ago)

ok bye

― jeepski (jergins), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 02:02 (seventeen years ago)

― highly theoretical, of course. (tehresa), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 02:04 (seventeen years ago)

Ha! Just kidding only had to move brown.

― Tetragram for Holding Back (libcrypt), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 02:06 (seventeen years ago)

oh good you are back i was worried

― jeepski (jergins), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 02:08 (seventeen years ago)

too soon ;_;

― J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 02:08 (seventeen years ago)

tease

― highly theoretical, of course. (tehresa), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 02:09 (seventeen years ago)

After some reflection, I am staying on ILX.

― jeepski (jergins), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 02:11 (seventeen years ago)

I'm the charred rocks deep inside the ILX crackpipe

― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 02:14 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

rip toumas

― velko, Friday, 2 April 2010 03:52 (fifteen years ago)

November 30, 2005 10:10 AM -- April 1, 2010 11:55 PM hasn't been the same without him.

― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 April 2010 03:55 (fifteen years ago)

dont tell me tuomas left :(

― homosexual II, Friday, 2 April 2010 03:56 (fifteen years ago)

it was a fake thread, i believe. tuomas is still here, afaik.

― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 April 2010 03:57 (fifteen years ago)

stuck to ilx like the soggy skin tags of a well exercised inner thigh.

― Sock Puppet Pizza Delivers To The Forest (Sock Puppet Queso Con Concentrate), Friday, 2 April 2010 07:12 (fifteen years ago)

dont tell me toumas left :(

― one of the jones boys (sic), Friday, 2 April 2010 07:31 (fifteen years ago)

He is gone.

― Tuomas, Friday, 2 April 2010 14:08 (fifteen years ago)

man see yuo

― k3vin k., Friday, 2 April 2010 14:21 (fifteen years ago)

What about twomas and toomas?

― Convenience Fish (snoball), Friday, 2 April 2010 14:25 (fifteen years ago)

those non-believers? pfuff!

― t**t, Friday, 2 April 2010 16:45 (fifteen years ago)

RIP

― ksh, Friday, 2 April 2010 16:48 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

toumas

― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 02:10 (fourteen years ago)

toumas ran away with the circus, I heard, and the circus owner wants it back.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 02:16 (fourteen years ago)

roxy revivalist

― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 03:32 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

Taking a break.

― Ballistic: ILX vs. Sever (Eric H.), Thursday, 17 December 2015 14:52 (ten years ago)

Man, I can't believe Toumas's been gone for 10 years!

― Tuomas, Thursday, 17 December 2015 15:00 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM0-ZU8njdo

― Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 December 2015 15:01 (ten years ago)

I never understood why Diddy didn't just sample "Missing You" by John Waite, could have saved a ton of cash.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 December 2015 15:07 (ten years ago)

Because that's "I ain't missing you at all"

― Mark G, Thursday, 17 December 2015 21:28 (ten years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/aNrla.png

― Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 17 December 2015 21:31 (ten years ago)

:-D

― markers, Thursday, 17 December 2015 21:32 (ten years ago)

I will genuinely miss Eric H. esp re: film stuff :(

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 December 2015 21:53 (ten years ago)

we'll get him back, I'm sure of it

― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 17 December 2015 21:55 (ten years ago)

Another fallout from Star Wars then

― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 17 December 2015 22:19 (ten years ago)

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

These expressions are genuine. Eric's a good dude.

― Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 December 2015 22:27 (ten years ago)

everybody otm

be well man

― goole, Thursday, 17 December 2015 22:31 (ten years ago)

Eric you are good ppl, I will miss you!

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 December 2015 17:46 (ten years ago)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VIrxGSH4ClA/T8-I3BxmoZI/AAAAAAAAEW8/8_pfZAl1JzU/s1600/Moonraker-For-Your-Eyes-Only-credit.png

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 December 2015 18:18 (ten years ago)

toumas dont go

― black metal is emo for vikings (monster mash), Friday, 18 December 2015 18:24 (ten years ago)

Where did Eric say he was leaving?

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 December 2015 18:37 (ten years ago)

a few posts upthread

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 December 2015 18:39 (ten years ago)

a break, people!

he just wants me to run the Oscars thread this year

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 December 2015 18:40 (ten years ago)

There's no I in run

― darraghmac, Friday, 18 December 2015 18:48 (ten years ago)

*applause*

― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Friday, 18 December 2015 19:00 (ten years ago)

*snif* goodbye

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 December 2015 19:11 (ten years ago)

free toumas!

(i love freeing people)!

― black metal is emo for vikings (monster mash), Friday, 18 December 2015 19:35 (ten years ago)

toumas has left the building, never to return

tuomas abides

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 18 December 2015 19:37 (ten years ago)

five years pass...

Toumas

― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 December 2020 06:35 (five years ago)

Toumas for me to process

― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 December 2020 06:37 (five years ago)

Leaving ILX, guys, will be back in about an hour.

― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Thursday, 24 December 2020 08:59 (five years ago)

Going uot, i may be some time

― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 December 2020 09:00 (five years ago)

did we ever get this sourted

― huge rant (sic), Thursday, 24 December 2020 09:19 (five years ago)

fake Toumas

― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 December 2020 09:41 (five years ago)

I am leaving as well but I promise to stay in tuoch (by posting every day)

― Wet Pretzels and Other Soggy Snacks (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 December 2020 13:31 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo4EnABWB4Y
#OneThread

― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 December 2020 14:00 (five years ago)

Toumas time on my haaands

― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Thursday, 24 December 2020 14:03 (five years ago)

Toumas too young.

― Mark G, Friday, 25 December 2020 10:42 (five years ago)

two years pass...

Possibly not even worth mentioning, given that I already go days and even weeks posting very little if anything at all, but I’m taking a break. I’m in the finishing stages of my dissertation, and I need to clear out as many distractions as I can.

Take care of yourselves.

― niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Friday, 11 August 2023 23:45 (two years ago)

I really must be going.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 11 August 2023 23:54 (two years ago)

your dissertation? god you are so young

I like your posts cryptosicko, hope you come back

― Dan S, Friday, 11 August 2023 23:56 (two years ago)

good luck with everything crypto, always enjoyed your posts

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 12 August 2023 00:02 (two years ago)

Good luck and please return.

― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 August 2023 00:03 (two years ago)

i am never leaving ILX it is the only online space I have left

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 12 August 2023 00:38 (two years ago)

It is a very congenial place. I hate to see anyone leave, best of luck, crypto, hope you come back after the dissertation.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 12 August 2023 00:39 (two years ago)

Good luck with the dissertation, let us know how it went when it's done...

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 12 August 2023 01:00 (two years ago)

Thanks, all. I will definitely be back.

― niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Saturday, 12 August 2023 01:44 (two years ago)

You could even conceivably have time for a film now.

― clemenza, Saturday, 12 August 2023 01:46 (two years ago)

Byeee

― calstars, Saturday, 12 August 2023 01:48 (two years ago)

akm
otm

― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:02 (two years ago)

good luck crypto... see you on the other side.

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:22 (two years ago)

get that bag (of footnotes)

― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:53 (two years ago)

gl crypto

― brimstead, Saturday, 12 August 2023 03:26 (two years ago)

one year passes...

So, what'd I miss?

― cryptosicko, Sunday, 25 August 2024 17:22 (one year ago)

Not a lot

― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Sunday, 25 August 2024 17:27 (one year ago)

This and that.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 August 2024 17:38 (one year ago)

All depends on the value you place on being here versus the time and energy it requires. We can't tell you much about that, but each departure from ilx takes something away from the whole, so the collective would miss your contributions if you left.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 25 August 2024 17:52 (one year ago)

hi crypto

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 25 August 2024 17:57 (one year ago)

Hi, crypto!

Guess I missed when jimbeaux left.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 August 2024 18:00 (one year ago)

how'd the diss turn out?

― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 25 August 2024 19:20 (one year ago)

diss track

― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 August 2024 19:26 (one year ago)

Terrific! I mean, two months post-submission and I already cringe at parts of it--mostly grammatical and awkward-prose stuff--but my PhD supervisor wants to talk to me about turning it into a book!

― cryptosicko, Sunday, 25 August 2024 20:03 (one year ago)

Everyone’s who’s thinking of leaving, please leave. We need fewer active users

― calstars, Sunday, 25 August 2024 20:05 (one year ago)

Terrific! I mean, two months post-submission and I already cringe at parts of it--mostly grammatical and awkward-prose stuff--but my PhD supervisor wants to talk to me about turning it into a book!

― cryptosicko, Sunday, August 25, 2024

congrats!

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 August 2024 20:08 (one year ago)

only posting here because if I post here then people will say "see u next week dawg" and my endless desire to prove people wrong will be the whole thing to make me stick to a short respite.

I'd gotten significantly better mental health wise and then just had a week where I stumbled 30 feet backwards and all I feel like is that I've made myself a resource for other people to drain and I come here for sheer self-abasement purposes which makes me feel worse about myself. so I'll just read in silence for the next 30 days...cos y'all are still entertaining fucks.

bye for now but i'll be back

― if this site were a food it would have NO nutritional value!!!!!!! (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 August 2024 20:35 (one year ago)

While my break was for completely different reasons, I get where you're coming from. Take care of yourself, N.

― cryptosicko, Thursday, 29 August 2024 20:38 (one year ago)

I hope things turn around for you quickly, Neando

(and congrats cryptosicko!)

― rob, Thursday, 29 August 2024 20:40 (one year ago)

Thanks! And thanks--and "hello!"--to everyone who greeted me the other day. I kinda posted and ran.

― cryptosicko, Thursday, 29 August 2024 21:37 (one year ago)

my PhD supervisor wants to talk to me about turning it into a book!

that is exciting!!

― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 29 August 2024 21:44 (one year ago)

Hi, Neanderthal. Be good to yourself. Come back happier!

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 29 August 2024 21:51 (one year ago)

Take care Neando

― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 29 August 2024 22:04 (one year ago)

Yes, be well Neanderthal.

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 29 August 2024 23:56 (one year ago)

Come back when you feel ready to.

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 29 August 2024 23:56 (one year ago)

What they said

― tempted by the food of your mother (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 August 2024 23:57 (one year ago)

same, Neando. and hi crypto

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 30 August 2024 00:41 (one year ago)

take care!

― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 30 August 2024 00:45 (one year ago)

All the best Neanderthal, stay well

― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Friday, 30 August 2024 15:43 (one year ago)

yes neando, will miss you

― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 30 August 2024 15:50 (one year ago)

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BUTTHOLE will flower again upon your return

― he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 30 August 2024 17:08 (one year ago)

I learn from Wikipedia that actual real-life Neanderthals could create fire, build cave hearths, make adhesive birch bark tar, craft at least simple clothes similar to blankets and ponchos, weave, go seafaring through the Mediterranean, make use of medicinal plants, treat severe injuries, store food, and use various cooking techniques such as roasting, boiling, and smoking.

Which sounds like a pretty impressive holiday plan, although the article doesn't say if Neanderthals could do all of those things at the same time. Still, I like to imagine that Neanderthal is, right now, making adhesive birch bark tar, crafting a poncho, seafaring through the Mediterranean, making use of medicinal plants, and using various cooking techniques. Such as roasting, boiling, and smoking. I admire the use of the Oxford comma there. What the fuck is adhesive birch bark tar. Why would Neanderthals need glue?

Okay, waterproofing. That's a good reason. That's a good reason for inventing glue. I'll accept that. Repelling snails is another one. I'm not sure why you'd skip inventing ceramics and/or mining in favour of repelling snails, but what do I know about living in the untamed wilderness of prehistoric France? Was I there? No, I was not.

I also learn from Wikipedia that "Neanderthals are known to have collected a variety of unusual objects — such as crystals or fossils — without any real functional purpose or any indication of damage caused by use", so they weren't all that much unlike modern humans.

― Ashley Pomeroy, Friday, 30 August 2024 17:23 (one year ago)

oh Neando, find some peace, feel better, come back and help me clog up the Prem thread with nonsense

― Yuwen Hu's army (Noodle Vague), Friday, 30 August 2024 17:25 (one year ago)

dittoing what everyone else has said about Neanderthal and crypto.

― Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 30 August 2024 18:45 (one year ago)

Yeah he should buy more, I agree

― JoeStork, Friday, 30 August 2024 18:59 (one year ago)

Lol

See you again soon Neando!

― H.P, Saturday, 31 August 2024 01:29 (one year ago)

See you on the other side Neando

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 31 August 2024 04:33 (one year ago)

three weeks pass...

taking a break, my impulsive posting style has made me realize i can be a mean SOB and i don’t want to be a dick to a community of people i value a lot. will continue to read but refrain from posting for a few weeks as i evaluate how and why i post what i do.

apologies to those i have been a dick to

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 25 September 2024 13:10 (one year ago)

I obviously don't always agree with you table, but I value your thoughts and I know you're coming from a real place. (I don't mean Philly, tho it's pretty real.) I like that you try to keep us all honest. A little ad hominemy, sure, but we can all survive sharp elbows. Breaks can be good, but don't stay away long!

― Blitz Primary (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 25 September 2024 13:22 (one year ago)

take care man. one of the things that's most impressive to me about you is your self-awareness and ability to reflect and modulate your response. something i've also struggled with and learned through difficulty over time. i have no doubt you'll be back a stronger, more thoughtful and more measured poster. impulsiveness isn't necessarily bad imo! fwiw one of the tendencies i pick up from you sometimes is a purity complex, like one thing needs to be absolute evil all the time. i imagine that has its place in some contexts but i'm not sure it's in a heterogeneous message board. this coming from me, who has to battle with having strong opinions and where they might bleed over into harsh judgment and ad hominem all the time. don't mean to come across as a scold and genuinely wish you well. you've been through a lot and you deserve it.

― he/him hoo-hah (map), Wednesday, 25 September 2024 13:50 (one year ago)

Much love Tables. Agreed, don’t stay away long!

― H.P, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 14:04 (one year ago)

<3 tabes. honestly, taking the time to be thoughtful about what you're putting into this community (and what you get out of it!) is really commendable. I've had bouts this year of both not liking the sound of my ilx voice + being frustrated with certain modes of ilx discussion or posting habits, so I get where you're coming from. I have always enjoyed ilx more after a break too

― rob, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 14:07 (one year ago)

Take the time you need!

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 14:11 (one year ago)

table you are a valuable voice here, I hope your break is beneficial but doesn't blunt your expressions of your sense of justice

― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Wednesday, 25 September 2024 14:16 (one year ago)

Hey table, good luck with the break. I know I'm not one of your favorite poster, but I do appreciate your fierce dedication to things you believe in, even if it leads to some abrasiveness. It's clear it comes from a good place and frustration with others for not facing issues with the deep sincerity you do, so even when I've had run-ins with you in the past I appreciate your insight. Don't stay away too long.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 25 September 2024 14:19 (one year ago)

Can't say that i'm not pissed off after today's debacle but i am generally pro-tabes. Good luck and see you you soon.

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Wednesday, 25 September 2024 14:36 (one year ago)

Big fan of Table’s post here even if I don’t agree with them sometimes

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 25 September 2024 14:44 (one year ago)

Todays debacle?

― calstars, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 14:46 (one year ago)

stirmonster left

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Wednesday, 25 September 2024 14:50 (one year ago)

T — I will miss you.

― sarahell, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 14:54 (one year ago)

i am definitely taking a break from any and all political threads! yeesh. i get riled up too easy. i'm keeping it light and fluffy going forward.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 14:57 (one year ago)

stirmonster left

Wait, he did? What happened there?

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 15:03 (one year ago)

We fight all the time, table, but I'll miss you. Come back when you're ready.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 25 September 2024 15:05 (one year ago)

Ned, see the On Djing thread

― jaymc, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 15:12 (one year ago)

table - always impressed how you walk back and apologise pretty quickly whenever you feel you've gone overboard. Like to think that will be enough for stirmonster to come back too.

Personally don't think anyone changes much after some silence and reflection but it would be impressive if a new table comes back!

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 15:21 (one year ago)

stirmonster should never leave for any reason. someone go get him.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 16:31 (one year ago)

stirmonster, stirmonster, stirmonster

― StanM, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 16:41 (one year ago)

(worth a try)

― StanM, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 16:41 (one year ago)

Speaking personally as someone who has a habit of flying off the handle here periodically, I support you table and wish you the best.

― brimstead, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 19:57 (one year ago)

i am very much pro-table and pro-stirmonster and am selfishly hoping you’re both back sooner rather than later xx

― donna rouge, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 21:00 (one year ago)

tabes you make me nuts sometimes but i think your points of view are very important. take good care and i hope for your return to posting.

― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 25 September 2024 21:45 (one year ago)

tabes, no poster enraged me like you: the way you divebombed a thread with what you thought was a truth bomb ("D.H. Lawrence was a stupid imperialist pig and I'm disgusted so many of you like him" is a fictional example but, yeah, you get the idea). The inflexibility.

A few minutes away from my laptop however reminded me that we'd probably have a better time arguing over beers in person.

I value you as a poster and I'll miss you.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 September 2024 21:58 (one year ago)

i wish the table wouldn't get so pissed and mad on here though. he's gotten really mad on here at me and i barely know him. i think i just don't react that well to internet mad in my old age. i used to shrug it off but now it makes me want to flee. fight or flight! i just made that term up.
stirmonster is the bomb and i really hope he didn't go away forever.

branwell was the last person who made me want to leave and never look back. they hated me i'm pretty sure.

i'm all for people growing and learning though. i've grown! Grown huge that is. oof. so huge. and learned! a little!

― scott seward, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 22:00 (one year ago)

Table and stirmonster are two valuable people and hope it’s just a short cooling off break.

― O 'Tis Redding (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 25 September 2024 22:12 (one year ago)

okay Stir is back and okay on ilm.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 22:22 (one year ago)

yay!

― go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Wednesday, 25 September 2024 23:15 (one year ago)

Appreciate you and where you're coming from, table, even if some of my past comments belie that sentiment.

― octobeard, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 23:24 (one year ago)

shortest ilx break...ever.

I hated everything I read by Bellow, Roth, and Updike— I always figured it was because I am gay?

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, September 27, 2024 12:22 AM (twenty-five minutes ago)

― scott seward, Friday, 27 September 2024 00:50 (one year ago)

And sassy as ever (that’s why we love him)!

― Bedrich Smetana's Ma Wife (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 27 September 2024 02:32 (one year ago)

came back to say 'hi, i'm back and doing better'. thought i'd only been gone two weeks, see a month has passed. jesssssssssus time has sped up.

thanks for kind words. I am mostly out of the spiral I was in, and missed you all.

― if this site were a food it would have NO nutritional value!!!!!!! (Neanderthal), Monday, 30 September 2024 16:03 (one year ago)

Glad you are doing well Neando, happy to see you back!

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 September 2024 16:04 (one year ago)

Welcome back!

― Bedrich Smetana's Ma Wife (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 30 September 2024 16:10 (one year ago)

Welcome back, Neanderthal.

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 30 September 2024 16:30 (one year ago)

Welcome back Neanderthal, we have mostly been talking about fruit.

― John Backflip (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 30 September 2024 17:13 (one year ago)

Neando! 💛

― twenteeth dentury (cat), Monday, 30 September 2024 17:59 (one year ago)

Good to have you back :)

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Monday, 30 September 2024 18:08 (one year ago)

heya Neando!

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 30 September 2024 19:30 (one year ago)

one month passes...

If there was anything interesting happening on ILM I wouldn't be clicking on all the overlapping and redundant US political threads. So naturally I blame all of you for my bad mood. See you on Bluesky.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 8 November 2024 19:51 (one year ago)

if these windows dont get smashed up in irvine soon im quitting and all

― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Friday, 8 November 2024 22:02 (one year ago)

dude my firm placed a bid and you rejected it citing "insufficient paperwork", how the fuck am I to fix this on a late Friday afternoon! good day!

― Kurt Dandruff (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 November 2024 22:03 (one year ago)

be the change you want to see in the world / expect a deader sadder internet in the second trump era

― ivy., Friday, 8 November 2024 22:04 (one year ago)

i was considering leaving ilx but it's pretty easy to not click on the us politics threads. i know what's in them

― ivy., Friday, 8 November 2024 22:14 (one year ago)

Yeah I’ve been avoiding them and any other social media. music news is all I crave and I should post moar on ilm

― Booger Swamp Road (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 9 November 2024 01:19 (one year ago)

Yeah I’ve been avoiding them and any other social media. music news is all I crave and I should post moar on ilm

― Booger Swamp Road (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 9 November 2024 01:19 (one year ago)

Yeah I’ve been avoiding them and any other social media. music news is all I crave and I should post moar on ilm

― Booger Swamp Road (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 9 November 2024 01:19 (one year ago)

As long as posting moar doesn't involve this level of blatant stat padding

― H.P, Saturday, 9 November 2024 01:20 (one year ago)

As long as posting moar doesn't involve this level of blatant stat padding

― H.P, Saturday, 9 November 2024 01:21 (one year ago)

Juggalos

― Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 9 November 2024 01:33 (one year ago)

lol

― Dan S, Saturday, 9 November 2024 02:20 (one year ago)

Phil Collins

― Kurt Dandruff (Neanderthal), Saturday, 9 November 2024 02:39 (one year ago)

Jug-jug-juggalo

― abreast of what's afoot (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 9 November 2024 02:52 (one year ago)

The only thing MAGA republicans are good at besides grifting is messaging, and for example the messaging about Helene and North Carolina is intense, it's a total rat-fuck and has consumed the media, and it seems like it’s working
They used to be good at messaging, but now they suck at it. There was a long thread on Bluesky about this today, where the guy pointed out that even as recently as Obama's tenure, the Republican Party would be able to take a Democratic victory, find a few real things that were bad, and hammer on those all day every day until people hated the whole thing, no matter how beneficial it might have been in the aggregate. But now, they spend so much time talking exclusively to each other on podcasts no non-maniac listens to, on Truth Social, on Fox News and OANN, and wherever else, that they've created a whole alternate universe for themselves and they just make shit up that has no basis in reality, and can't possibly be mobilized to do real damage to Democrats, because even cable news anchors will look at it and say, "You people are out of your goddamn minds." The entire party is Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz, and when any one of those people isn't spewing insane bullshit, they're attacking one another. Their messaging is for shit because they're all insane.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 6 October 2024 bookmarkflaglink
Ultimately, their rhetoric has become a form of self-harm; it costs them winnable elections, their people are gonna lose out on government services and money because they think the government is holding things back when it's not... they're fucking themselves over. (And that's fine with me. Fuck 'em all; let 'em starve. I'm not Jesus, I don't give a fuck about your "deaths of despair" or anything else. You wanna put a shotgun in your mouth? I'm not gonna pull it out of your hands.)
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 6 October 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Please stay unperson, what will we do without your commentary on democracy and much else besides, just like the above.

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 9 November 2024 12:08 (one year ago)

Glad to know some people here have a lot of time for this too.

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 9 November 2024 12:09 (one year ago)

Hope he comes back to Rolling Jazz.

― dow, Sunday, 10 November 2024 00:52 (one year ago)

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