why don't the Chicago ppl start "I Love Chicago"??

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― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I like those threads, they bob up and down on new answers like a buoy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Why don't the London people start I Love London?

― Here I Go, Higher! Higher! (kate), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

hey, that is a good idea.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

You know, Tracer, the thought has occurred to me many a time, but I think what I like about the Chicago thread is that it's confined to one thread, and people talk about lots of different things at the same time. If we had our own board, everything would get dispersed into different threads and it wouldn't be as much fun.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

YOU HAVE AN "INTERESTING" NOTION OF FUN

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

When TITTWIS was a heavy use thread this was also suggested.

Ilx has become fractured enough without everyone going off to other boards!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

It's just that there are so many.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

I vote that we make them a board and ban them from ILE.

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

YOU HAVE AN "INTERESTING" NOTION OF FUN

Yeah, it's totally weird that I like having a single place where I can talk to my friends all day.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, I thought the whole point of TITTWIS was being a seperate, safe place away from the boogey-posters under the thread.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

So many what, Roxy? Chicago threads? There's only one in use at any given time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it's totally weird that I like having a single place where I can talk to my friends all day.

DON'T BE PURPOSEFULLY OBTUSE YOU CUNT

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

who cares if there's one thread that doesn't appeal to you?!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Jon, didn't you object the other night to being characterized as "mean"?

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently, a number of people care.

xpost, AT LEAST I DON'T HIT PEOPLE, YOU JERK

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not being obtuse! Tell me what you mean, Jon, and I'll try to answer you better.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

kate because the londoners cleverly distribute their londonocity throughout all threads ever! ilx londonness is rhizomic; chicagoness is more like a... barnacle?

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

i have also proposed "i love the internet" but that wasn't a very popular idea either

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

SORRY I AM TYPICAL OLDER SISTER AND YOUNG 'UNS BE GETTING OUT OF LINE.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

because then someone would be the moderator of that particular forum and the democratic balance of the thread would go right out the window.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

and at the risk of sounding prickly, what's it to you anyway?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

I think I just hate Kenan's "oh look an image in the first post" thing. Kenan is seriously the worst poster on ILX and that is counting the Aamzing Randy mk 2.

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

That's an enormous overstatement.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Uh? Kenan doesn't always start the threads. And the image is a tradition upheld by all of us. Jesse decided that he didn't like album covers always being used as the opening image, so we've used other images since.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

otto, not much i'm just cranky

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

otto, not much i'm just cranky

that's cool with me, i'm kind of edgy right now because i haven't had any food yet today so i've being fuelled solely by nicotine and coffee and i think my blood sugar is out of whack or something because i'm picking fights with people in my office about weird random stuff.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

WOW ok which douchebag is now reviving all the Chicago threads and flooding out new answers?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Basically, if you want to have an insular circle jerk, take it somewhere else. There's good discussion within the Chicago threads but no one wants to tread through 300 posts of Kenan speculating what a woman looks like with no clothing on to get to it. It breaks with the larger community spirit of ILE.

XPOST HI, GRIME IS SHIT

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Uh, who do you think?

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

i just had a slice of carrot cake and MUST KILL MUST KILL EVERYONE

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

ALLY TAKE ONE (1) GUESS.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

ALLY TAKE ONE (1) GUESS.

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― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

jwattentionwhore.jpg

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

ban JW

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Jon, I don't even know how to respond to that post. The Chicago thread is meant for Chicagoans, and anyone else who wants to post to it is welcome to, but they should also know they're going to encounter a lot of Chicago-centric talk, including inside jokes and event planning. If you're up for that, like some people are (Laurel, Jordan), then cool, but if you're not, then there's not really much reason to get worked up about it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.durfee.net/startrek/images/Barclay.jpg

"It breaks with the larger community spirit of ILE."

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

yeah I already knew, in my heart.

JON SEARCHES CRASH THE BOARD. PLZ FUCKING STOP IT.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

"It breaks with the larger community spirit of ILE."

in keeping with that larger community spirit i suppose all future ideas for threads will have to be cleared with jon.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I'm not totally opposed to a Chicago board where we would do the same one-thread-at-a-time thing, but it seems kinda silly. Also, Jon, I really don't think that you'd be able to leave it alone.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha.

Is this JW the community spirit police?

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Basically, if you want to have an insular circle jerk, take it somewhere else.

"Dammit, ILE is my insular circle jerk, and you're ruining it for me! Ruining it!"

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck you, Jon, and thanks to Tracer for starting another thread on this topic! The balkanization of I Love Everything

Jesus fucking CHRIST go in the corner and meditate on the texture of your pubic hair already, both of you. Cunts.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Also Jon, I'd respond to your attacks on Kenan except I don't know why I should be put in the position of having to defend my friends. For what it's worth, nobody who posts on the Chicago thread has a problem with him.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

mean, I thought the whole point of TITTWIS was being a seperate, safe place away from the boogey-posters under the thread.

Well I can't speak for everyone who posted there but for me it was just a thread for ongoing, general conversation. Much like some of the regional threads are today.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I mean you have your little board where you don't have to bother with ILE or ILM anymore, that was the whole fucking point, but that's not good enough, everything has to be right down to your fucking petty pubescent specifications (nobody you don't like is allowed to ever have any fun!) or we get a hissy fit wherein you fuck with shit just to prove to people how eleven years old you are.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc I don't see why "xyz person likes this person" is a reason why Jon should like that person too. I like Jon well enough and don't really expect that's a reason why Kenan should like Jon, just because me or you or the Pope says so.

That being said it's pretty fucking stupid, I mean you'd think that having 95% of Kenan's posts contained in one, easily ignorable thread would be preferable to creating some beef with Chicagoans if Kenan was such a horrible, horrible person but whatever.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

he can be a dick but imagine all the roffles we'd lose if JW was banned

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

you could make a board for all city-related and event planning threads...

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

You can't ban him anyway, he'd use his nunchuck skills to break back into the board and img flood or something else silly.

xpost or we can delete all balkanized boards, including mine, and stop pretending every little subset topic needs a separate board?? Why have ILE at all? Why not just break EVERY topic down?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.acton.org/images/sketches/lockelarge.gif

LOCKE JON

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I never said I thought that Jon, or anyone else, should like Kenan. I'm just saying that Jon seems to think that Kenan's mere presence on ILX is offensive, and I'm saying hey we Chicagoans don't have a problem with him. Which is to say I agree with your second paragraph entirely.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

i prefer the easily recognized Chicago threads (I just ignore them) to the often unmarked London threads. my only tipoff to the latter is the time zone difference, if it's late there are few revived, if it's morning there are a shitload.

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

I quit ILE

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

What? I don't think anyone's asking Jon to like Kenan, much like no one's asking hell to freeze over. I can't even form a coherent sentence on the idiocy of the rest of it. Tom's doing a fine job already.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.losthatch.com/images%5Cscreen_captures%5CS1E01_Orange_Smile.jpg

LOCKE JON

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Taking FAP threads off ILE is a bad idea - they're part of one of the few things that keeps the sense of community going. Exhibit A being the ongoing London-NYC link.

(Haha, why am I bothering, it's not like anything on here is going to be acted on)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

I think I might stop posting to the Glasgow one cause if every sodding city had one then there's be nothing else in New Answers.

-- Alba (albab...), February 28th, 2006. (Alba) (1 trackback) (link)

exactly why they'd all fit nicely on a separate board...
xposts

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

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― Here I Go, Higher! Higher! (kate), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Aren't dere more important things to worry about than how other people waste their time on the internets?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

exactly why they'd all fit nicely on a separate board...

OK, this is an interesting idea. I Love Regionalism?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

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― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Not deleted deleted though, right?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think jaymc is saying anyone should change their opinion about anyone else--nevermind, a few other people said this already.

JW seems to have time and energy to devote to hating the Chicago thread, as evidenced by the surprise I found a while ago when I clicked "New Answers" and found a revival of all threads Chicago. Way to indulge an obsession, duder.

Oh, and TOMBOT too!

The attention is rather flattering.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

If everything has to go to a separate board then why bother having ILE? I don't quite care for having both ILE AND a ton of separate boards, it seems confusing and likely to create problems, like, I dunno, bullies on the separate boards chasing off/banning everyone who looks at them funny or isn't "serious enough" about the topic back to ILE, people who are interested in the topic having no idea the subboard exists, etc etc. I'm saying this as someone who has a subboard too! Taking "general chat" to a subboard seems to be basically the total opposite of why ILE was started.

I mean I really hate threads about certain subjects too! I'd like to have a board called "THREADS ALLY WON'T LIKE" and make them all go there but that seems a bit silly.

I am only mad because the Chicago search killed the board while I was posting shit.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Haters gotta hate,
Lovers wanna love,
I don't even want,
None of the above,
I want to piss on you.
Yes I do, I'll piss on you,
I pee on you.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Everytime I accidentally click on a Chicago thread and see a Kenan post the vein in my forehead grows three sizes.

Also, everyone who accuses me of having too much time on their hands also has too much time on their hands.

xpost,

Ally, it was teeny's mod actions that killed the board. (From experience of banning people from noise board.)

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Delete all other boards but ILE (and Noise).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

What the FUCK is going on here?

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, does anyone want to start an ongoing clusterfuck feud with me that is completely incomprehensible to the 98% of users who quite rightly don't give a flying fuck? I almost feel left out that I still don't have one.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

LOOK WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO TEENY

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

no the threads are still there, I just deleted the one new post which removes the thread(s) from new answers. and yes it was probably the modding which made too many connections so obv I am the bad guy here.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

another fix would be the ability to ignore threads you don't wanna read... wasn't there a suggestion for this feature a while back? woudl it be too much stress to implement a link like "later" that says "ignore" so that thread wouldn't show up on your new answers page?

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Everytime I accidentally click on a Chicago thread and see a Kenan post the vein in my forehead grows three sizes.

so is that why you revived all the threads?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

You just want to get to know me better, don't you.

― The Milkmaid is a nice, approachable person who lives in Chicago (The Milkmaid), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

seeing all those threads in one place IS sorta embarassing, tho.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, does anyone want to start an ongoing clusterfuck feud with me that is completely incomprehensible to the 98% of users who quite rightly don't give a flying fuck?

MOTHERFUCKER DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT PLAYING GAZEBO NEXT FRIDAY

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Everytime I accidentally click on a Chicago thread and see a Kenan post the vein in my forehead grows three sizes.

You "accidentally" click on a thread that is clearly labelled "Chicago:____"? And then what, you "accidentally" post on there, just so it is not a total waste of time?

Also, everyone who accuses me of having too much time on their hands also has too much time on their hands.

Time spent pointing out the time you took to (pointlessly) search for and revive all those threads is not much time at all.

(PS-- explore the reasons for your obsession with Kenan...repressed lust that you fear will be unrequited? It's cute.)

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

a space for ppl to chill, shoot shit, talk about whatever crosses their mind among like-minded people = a web board ... so the chicago thread is a mini-web board stripped of all thread-making functionality and implanted barnacle-like at the top of news answers every day. if people want to silo themselves off, fine, but the silo doesn't have to sit right in the front yard. but whatever, like i said i'm cranky.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Also, everyone who accuses me of having too much time on their hands also has too much time on their hands.

ok that's funny :D

I don't think you have too much time on your hands, I'm just a little concerned about your blood pressure.

xpost
another fix would be the ability to ignore threads you don't wanna read... wasn't there a suggestion for this feature a while back?

This is a good idea! It has been suggested but like "ignore user" it's inexplicably controversial. But if you know a thread is completely uninteresting to you/completely infuriating to you/completely incomprehensible to you I don't see what the harm would be in being able to delete it from your new answers (you could always make it so that it only disappears from new answers, and if you want to see all threads again you can click on questions or something).

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Ally, it was teeny's mod actions that killed the board. (From experience of banning people from noise board.)

Jon I don't think it's actually possible for you to be any more of a pathetic dickweed at this point. You and fucking Morbius start a club, call it "People who keep Tombot from even wanting to come back to NYC for a visit"

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm flattered that somebody cares enough about us to complain. All this time I thought we were just silly little unnoticed internet nobodies, but I see now that we really, truly matter.

Also, my Kenan love increases proportionally to Jon's Kenanhass. It restores balance in the universe, whitens my teeth, and gets my clothes unbelievably soft.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

You "accidentally" click on a thread that is clearly labelled "Chicago:____"? And then what, you "accidentally" post on there, just so it is not a total waste of time?

The problem (as far as I can tell from Jon's earlier post) is actually not that he "accidentally" is clicking those threads, it's that there are things he WANTS to read on those threads but Kenan makes him super duper angry. Which is why it's kind of funny that, IIRC, Jon vehemently argued against Andrew implementing an "Ignore User" feature, despite the fact that that seems to be the answer to his problems.

I think what I'm saying is that Jon perplexes me a little.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, though, not to contribute to an already-stupid discussion or anything, but the Chicago folks basically use one thread at a time to more or less group instant-message one another all day, which is a boon for voyeurs and otherwise pretty ignorable -- if they started a separate board that would be MORE annoyingly balkanizing in that they'd be way more likely to hang out on their separate board instead of scanning adjacent ILE threads, plus the only two outcomes to that would be (a) they'd still all sit on one thread more or less IMing one another all day or (b) it'd somehow develop into an actual many-threaded ILChicago world, which seems like a really stupid idea.

I preferred yesterday when Kenan and Jon both accused one another of being virgins and I set up a funny war in my head concerning their respective girlfriends.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

You guys should just get a chat room and yiff. What's the point of even using threads if you're just going to ramble on and on about 8000 different things.

xpost

a space for ppl to chill, shoot shit, talk about whatever crosses their mind among like-minded people = CHAT ROOM

xpost again

Tom, but but but but you're the biggest self rightous dick on here!!!

xpost again

(Ally, I was actually joking about the Kenan stuff.)

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

so the chicago thread is a mini-web board stripped of all thread-making functionality and implanted barnacle-like at the top of news answers every day. if people want to silo themselves off, fine, but the silo doesn't have to sit right in the front yard. but whatever, like i said i'm cranky.

why single out CHicago tho? you have UK Watercooler, NYC We Should Drink and (less so now perhaps) TITTWIS amonst others constantly being bumped up too. I actually notice the Chicago one the least and never look at it.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

MOTHERFUCKER DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT PLAYING GAZEBO NEXT FRIDAY

FUCK YOU MY SET WILL BE BETTER ANYWAY AND GARETH LIKES ME MORE THAN YOU!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

THIS IS WHY I SAID MAKE A BOARD FOR ALL CITY RELATED THREADS, GENIUS
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― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I have this miraculous ability to "ignore thread" built directly into my very own cognitive skills, but perhaps this is an advancement of the human mind only found in those of us who regularly drink from Lake Michigan.

...if people want to silo themselves off, fine, but the silo doesn't have to sit right in the front yard. but whatever, like i said i'm cranky.

I like that. "I'm going to be an utter douche bag to a lot of people I don't know but that's okay because I'm CRANKY!!!" I'm going to start randomly pushing people into traffic and then use that excuse to explain my shitty behavior.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Also, my Kenan love increases proportionally to Jon's Kenanhass. It restores balance in the universe, whitens my teeth, and gets my clothes unbelievably soft.

Same here, Jenny. You have to love Kenan anyway if you've ever been out drinking with him and had him turn to the stranger next to him at the bar, reveal very personal info to him and then fall off his barstool, flat on his back for NO REASON AT ALL. He's OK with me.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

another fix would be the ability to ignore threads you don't wanna read...

hold up, this is all getting pretty ridiculous now, is it not? if people can't even ignore things on their own, they shouldn't be here.
jw: either move to chicago or just don't read those threads. 'tis all you have to do, really.

xpost what Safety First said

― Gerard (Gerard), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

You guys should just get a chat room and yiff. What's the point of even using threads if you're just going to ramble on and on about 8000 different things.

For whatever reason, ILX suits our purposes. One could just as easily ask you why you bothered to make the Noise Board a part of ILX when you could've hosted it somewhere else altogether. Again, though, the people who the thread was intended for like it just fine, so I don't see why your opinion should really matter much.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

By the way, Jenny: Tracer is usually a pretty friendly and reasonable dude. I do believe him when he says he's just being cranky today.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Agree wtih the GIRLFRIENDS FITE FOR RIGHT TO EXIST IN THIS TIMELINE idea, actually. I dunno Kenan's gal but I'm fond of Jon's -- I think I wanna live in HER parallel universe where everyone wears super-stylish vintage dresses and rides bikes.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

don't we all...

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

A board for all city-related threads would be kind of stupid, really, in that you'd have to actually go over and check it, and it would encourage people to hole up even more in their own city-based cadres, just because of the trip.

An actual city-related board would actually run the risk of bringing in bunches of googlers who just discovered a whole message board devoted to their fair city.

At present the worst thing the Chicago threads do to anyone is to use ILX server resources for a chat room, which -- given that it's like 12 people in one thread -- can't be that significant, and is offset by the fact that even the people who used to post solely to Chicago threads have delurked or spread out or whatever and joined in on the rest of them. (Except for people like McLusky who've done the opposite.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

those of us who regularly drink from Lake Michigan.

Tee hee. This gives me a mental image of all of us on our hands and knees lapping from the lake like Kudu at a water hole. And then jaymc hears a noise and stands up straight like a prarie dog, looking for danger, when suddenly, the hive mind takes over and as if on cue we all run away, down Belmont.

John - he can bake pie for WWI vets in his free time for all I care. I think it's a weak-ass excuse to act like a dick and then claim crankiness as if it were no big deal. Which, you know, ultimately it isn't.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

I mean let's not get mad at this man:

http://theoriginalsoundtrack.com/art/allywedding/IMG_0377.JPG

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

another fix would be the ability to ignore threads you don't wanna read...

Yeh right. Like he would do that. It would rob him of a means by which he amuses himself. Everyone already has the means to ignore the contents of a thread.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

I think Jon is being much more of a dick than Tracer on this thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

An actual city-related board would actually run the risk of bringing in bunches of googlers who just discovered a whole message board devoted to their fair city.

it would not be a whole board related to ONE city... it would be a space for all city talk... just like, oh, ILM is a place for all music talk...

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

What's the point of even using threads if you're just going to ramble on and on about 8000 different things.

Wouldn't this get rid of about 80% of threads on ILE??

Just admit that you hate ppls whose names start with a K and we can lock thread dude!!!

xpost no you see the ignoring threads thing would be good not necessarily because the people who need to use it would use it, but because A) when someone bitches you can point to "IGNORE THREAD" B) presumably a mod would have the power to forcibly IGNORE THREAD on a user if necessary, win win situations. (I basically generally agree with what yr saying theoretically)

Also I too had the image of ppls lapping from a lake like doggies.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

John C true! But I ask you! WHO STARTED THE THREAD???

No further questions, yr honor.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Can we not drag my girlfriend into this nonsense?

― another day, another ho saved (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Tehresa I was talking about the thread question, which asks about an actual "I Love Chicago."

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

hah the whole time i was growing up, my family used the "have you been drinking lake water?" line as a way of saying "YOU ARE ACTING LIKE AN IDIOT" so i don't know if chicagoans wanna necessarily pride themselves on this shared trait!

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Tehresa, but a "location board" still draws people out of other areas and fragments their time/attention from main board topics. And anyway, very little of the Chicago thread talk is ABOUT CHICAGO. It's just about people's lives an' shit.

I have totally swallowed enough Lake Michigan water in my childhood to be put away forever in a nice new jacket with very long sleeves.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

And even if you started an "I Love My Place Where I Live" board, what would the point be in half of everyone here running back and forth from ILE to the other board, linking back and forth, missing things, not knowing where threads are? That sounds far more complicated and irritating to me than just visually skipping over threads about other cities.

"I Love Nabisco" has been dying to happen, though, dudes.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

I prefer to inject our great lake water straight into my veins. I also carry an old visine bottle of it around so I can drop it into my eyeballs, like LSD.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

I AM eternally grateful them for the Oreo. And -- OMG do Nabisco make the ChipsAhoy?? Wait a sec while I look it up....

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

i run back and forth btw here and noise all the time and it seems to work out ok. many people run back and forth among noise, ile, ilm, and all the other little boards with no problem. i do, though, feel like i sometimes miss threads i might have wanted to read on ile because i skip over areas adjacent to the city threads. i'm not saying there HAS to be another board, but if anything warrants one, it's city threads. i would be just as happy with the ignore feature.

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe this many people waste energy getting pissed off at what other people are talking about/how they're talking. who the fuck cares? It's very easy not to click on a thread, if not maybe you need to clean your mouse. As far as seeing the Chi-town threads always on top, I enjoy seeing their witty titles and their presence does not encroach on my ILxing experience in any way.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

whatsthematter with you people?!?!

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

don't confuse having an opinion on the matter with being pissed off.
xpost

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

okay then substitute "pissed off" with "having an opinion that requires starting a thread and arguing with others"

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

You guys should just get a chat room and yiff. What's the point of even using threads if you're just going to ramble on and on about 8000 different things.

Chat rooms are gross if you're over 30. As is IM-ing.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Answer #2: We are the laziest bloggers in the world, and so we do it one sentence at a time in response to each other.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

we are just stating our opinions on ideas that might make ile a little more enjoyable for some of us. as far as i know, people do that all the time and it's never been an issue. i don't really consider it arguing. if i was angry, you'd know.
xposts

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Tehresa, I run back and forth between boards as well, but one thing there is that each of those different boards has its own set of posters and its own distinct social atmosphere -- ILM posters are not ILE posters, no matter how many people switch between both. Starting a cities board wouldn't fit that, at first -- it would be people who talk to each other here suddenly being sent to the next room to say whatever they were going to say. And if those city-board threads did go the way of other boards, developing their own different sets of posters and different atmospheres and such -- well, I personally wouldn't like that very much, because it'd be another step in turning ILX from one big party to a bunch of private rooms where people look at you suspiciously when you come in. (Ha, although the Chicago thread did that to me once, and I was all hurt -- yes, yes, burn them!)

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

What? Who did that?

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

my not exactly earth-shattering criticisms of chicago, tittwis, etc:

i. they go around the format of the board, which is a) ask question b) answer question

ii. they create visible cliques

pullapartgirl, if this criticism = shitty behavior then i guess this is more of the same, sorry :(

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

but if you guys are so confident in how wonderfully your chicago threadness works, why would it matter if it was located in a different spot? the community is not going to change - the same people are still going to post on it, and maybe you'll get a few new googly friends. but the people that post on the chicago threads seem to be quite committed to posting on them, and i don't think that a different location would really change that.

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

that was an xpost to nabisco

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah Tracer I agree with you on those points, and I've long had some kind of snobbery over who I perceive to be in the TITTWIS(ter) clique, but the thing here is that none of the suggested corrections solve either of those problems -- banishing cliques just seems like a way of reinforcing them as cliques.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

I've never read the Washington D.C. threads, but I've always liked the titles.

The only excluding part of the Chicago threads is the blood-in-blood-out code, but everyone has to do that.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

the ignore option != banishing

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

(ii) is well-taken, Tracer.

But as for (i), it's disingenuous to act as if that format was ever really followed rigidly, except in the very early days of ILX. I mean, large regional/watercooler threads aren't the only culprits as far as that goes. Besides, is there any reason why the ask/answer format is a preferable one beyond "that's the way it used to be done"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

the ignore option != banishing

Pretty sure that Nabisco is talking about your I Love Regionalism board in this case, T.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Tehresa first off I don't live in Chicago or post to Chicago threads! And so second of all my point isn't about them -- they'll keep posting there, sure, they're all friends. The point's more about us, which is to say that at least now all those Chicago posters come onto other threads as well. So it seems counterproductive to say "your clique is in the way, please adjourn to the back room," which just makes them even more removed from everyone else, literally and figuratively.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Which is another way of saying: Jesse is a treat.

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

the only crazy thing about all this is apparently jon is now banned from ile?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Ignoring seems kinda ... well, whatever floats folks' boats.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost to Kenan) Haha, I was reminded of that when the "graham crackers" thread was revived on the Noise Board the other day.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

i know he's referring to the new board idea but i'm saying that is not the ONLY option, which some people forget when they won't get off the 'don't banish chicago threads' idea.
xpost to jaymc

So it seems counterproductive to say "your clique is in the way, please adjourn to the back room," which just makes them even more removed from everyone else, literally and figuratively.

isn't that exactly why noise board was created? i wasn't here when it started, but noisers all seem to manage to post on ile ok w/out (too many) hard feelings...

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

As a mostly-Chicago-thread person, I have to remind y'all that I post on other threads, I've even revived threads. I just don't make a lot of noise, so people tend not to notice me.

― The Milkmaid is rather quiet (The Milkmaid), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

Teh, the NB peeps are mostly v strong personalities who're happy to put themselves forward (hello, also guilty right here). Chicago thread, not so much -- some of them will not necessarily extend themselves if unsure of reception. You can say, "whatever, get in line, sister" and yes, fine, this is true for everyone, but...why alienate people if not necessary?

Haha XP

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

i have always been against non-question threads because they don't inspire the kind of cooperative reasoning and argument (= "Science") that i consider ILX's hallmark.

but this was a totally stupid idea for a thread, i mean it was guaranteed to be bad. i'm really sorry. /

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

I've never read the Washington D.C. threads, but I've always liked the titles.

Me, too!

Tracer, criticize all you want. This is the internet; I'm pretty sure that's what it was designed for. It's the criticism followed by the excuse/apology that I find so disingenuous. You should be more like Jon - act like an ass and then blame it on Kenan. It's more honest.

Ha! John C and I both said "disingenuous." This is clearly what happens when Chicago threads are allowed to run rapant across ILE.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

they create visible cliques

OK in fairness this has existed since the beginning of ILE, city threads or not--it was a visible clique on ILM that prompted the creation of a separate board to begin with. This will continue no matter what. It's human nature. I kind of think leaving those threads as is helps un-clique-ify them, if that makes sense? Because, for example, the DC thread is posted to by the DC "clique" if you want to call it that, but also gabbneb, Dan Perry, Miss Misery, and Jon (some more than others). I would think having a separate city "section" would discourage at least some of those types of posters from joining in (especially if they live in areas that aren't likely to also have their own hopping "city cliques"--why bother checking the cities only board then?)--tho yeah more googlers from the individual cities joining in? I dunno.

Also jon is banned from ILE???

I do understand the argument that having too many individual city threads can clog up the New Answers.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, I xposted your last post, Tracer and now I feel like I've just kicked a puppy.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

I think pissing off Jon is reason enough for the Chicago threads to exist.

I don't really give a shit if we're a separate board or whatever.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Tracer, criticize all you want. This is the internet; I'm pretty sure that's what it was designed for.

unless, of course, you have a grown canadian man who calls himself "noodles" and hates you: HEY MR NOODLES CAN YOU MODERATE EVENLY EVEN THOUGH YOU HATE JON WILLIAMS

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

i guess i don't really consider it "alienating"
xp to laurel

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

i promise only to post on OTHER cities' threads from now on.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

(multiple xpost to Tehresa) The difference is that the Noise Board was created because Jon was image-flooding all sorts of threads on ILE, and it was annoying a lot of people, who understandably found it hard to avoid. Whereas Chicago keeps all of our nonsense confined to our single thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, he DOES kind of have puppy eyes. Esp with that new haircut. XXXXP

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Noise board creation also had some personality issues involved, though, which is to say that noise-folks wanted to use space to act a certain way, and creating the noise board gave them a space to do it.

Noise board creation would be like if you had a party and a couple dudes wanted to wrestle in the living room, so you said hey, let's set up a wrestling mat in the yard for you two.

Chicago-talk movement would be like if you had a party and a couple people were sitting quietly in the corner talking only to one another, so you said hey, we're sick of looking at you two sit over there and talk quietly, go do it out in the yard.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

That was an xpost, obv (i.e. JmcOTM)

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to post all my comments in a word document aved locally on my hard drive and then at the end of the day, print it out and throw it away and then GO HOME AND KILL MYSELF.

WOULD THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY TRACER?

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

File - Ave As

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

If people visited the Chicago threads more, they would already know not to fuck with Jenny.

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

i will not rest until every ilXor is insane

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

see, i see it more as, the city talk people have set up in the front hallway and are blocking my path to the keg
xp

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

What the hell kind of parties are you going to, nabisco?????

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

GBX, start a MONTANA thread. I will post on it. I have been there one time.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Mandee started a Colorado thread once.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

and I've long had some kind of snobbery over who I perceive to be in the TITTWIS(ter) clique

::shock:: I am offended Nabisco. (not really)

If people don't want their own board there shouldn't be a move to force them. I would be sad if the occasional appearance of sarah or nick became even more occasional.

I do think the Chicago thread (and it's spawn) had a lot to do with the slow death of TITTWIS (as in drawing regulars away). But that is the nature of an online community, it changes. And I think with a title of "I Love Everything" this is the last board where people should start dictating the flow of interaction.

(FWIW I tried the Chicago threads but they just move to fast for me. I 've been dropping in with the DC crowd a bit, they're a nice bunch. Group Im'ing is fun.)

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

xpost, props must be give to Sunny as well for trying to get a (dirty) South thing going.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Hey assholes, guess what? NOTHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN. You know how I know? Because we've had this debate at least 132 FUCKING TIMES since I've been posting to ILX, and nothing has ever happened. So, you know, get over it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

dudes are all being aggro up in this bitch today!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

"today"

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

see, i see it more as, the city talk people have set up in the front hallway and are blocking my path to the keg

This analogy only makes sense if screen-space were anything like physical space. It's true that we post a lot and so our thread is usually near the top of New Answers, but you can move your mouse all over the screen and click on other threads without much difficulty at all! The only thing we're guilty of is displacing one more old thread at the bottom of the screen than would normally be displaced.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

dude, why the namecalling? i think it's clear that no one here is upset, per se, they are just suggesting ideas/stating opinions, which, i believe, is the purpose of a board like this anyway...
xpost to n/a

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

NEWS FLASH: There will never be "ignore user" or "ignore thread" options either.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not in MT, tho. Yet.

xp JMC - dude, just a funny analogy...save yr brain for something else!

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

props must be give to Sunny as well for trying to get a (dirty) South thing going.

Totally. I like that thread. I like most of the Southerners on ILX, truth be told.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

is this the point in the party where Jon, Tom and n/a start wrestling and we have to make them go do it on nabisco's yard mat? That'd be pretty awesome, if so.

xpost n/a that's not actually true re: ignore options--Andrew's already announced he's doing it, after he's done cavorting the world shirtless.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not angry about people hating on the Chicago threads, I'm angry about people talking about the same boring, meaningless shit over and over and over and over. Oh yeah, "WELCOME TO ILX" HAW HAW HAW.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

gbx, I think Tehresa's front-hallway analogy was pretty similar to Tracer's silo-in-the-yard analogy, so I thought it was worth addressing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, so the upshot here seems to be that we all just read the New Answers page in different ways: city threads have never struck me as any more of a clog or an inconvenience than any of the other threads I'm not going to look at, e.g. joke threads, threads about football, threads about UK foodstuffs, threads about news events I'm not interested in, threads about computer stuff that I don't know what it is, threads I already looked at and they were lame, and so on forever. City threads seem somehow easier, actually, because it's the same title for a month at a time, so I don't have to waste time even reading the title before looking for something else.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

southerners are likable.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

dude, why the namecalling?

I'm sure it's because he sincerely believes us all to be assholes.

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

See? I love Nick. I wish he posted more.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

That was directed at those of you who are assholes, you know who you are.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not angry about people hating on the Chicago threads, I'm angry about people talking about the same boring, meaningless shit over and over and over and over. Oh yeah, "WELCOME TO ILX" HAW HAW HAW.

and what exactly happens on the chicago/city threads?

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even know why I'm posting here, I'm not at work. I'm going to go eat a brownie and read and play Katamari and walk around outside and play music, fuck this.

xpost It happens on the Chicago thread too, and I get pissed off then too. So delete ILX, who cares?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah Nick, your new(ish) job is seriously getting in the way of hilarity.

xpost: Our boring, meaningless shit is fresh every day!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Or, maybe I'm wrong.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

I guess this is the point where I start complaining about the contents of threads that I don't like/find boring/pointless and how I can't ignore them because they're in my way, figuratively? I mean, it's not in my nature to do something like that, but I can start anytime.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

The idea of something being "in the way" on the internet (something that is not a firewall or connectivity issue) is hilarious to me.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Move over, Dan. You're crowding me.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

STOP TOUCHING ME ON THE INTERNET.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not touching youuuuu

I'm not touching youuuuuuuuu

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Nabisco for president.

― Gerard (Gerard), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

xpost You guys are being clique-y. Cut it out.

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'm angry about people talking about the same boring, meaningless shit over and over and over and over. Oh yeah, "WELCOME TO ILX" HAW HAW HAW.

Yup yup!! Bros in boredom dude.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

JENNY, AMANDA LOOKED AT ME RIGHT AFTER I TOLD HER NOT TO.

And then I threw her shoe out the window.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I have a bottle of wine in my bag that's looking awfully tempting right now. :-D

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I am totally going to Astoria tonight and chain-smoking and drinking way too much beer. So i'm with ya, Jay.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

So, now that we've settled this whole "Chicago get yr own board" nonsense, who's coming out for happy hour with me?

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

OH WAIT am I bothering someone with that post?

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

Because all of you are invited. The whole internet.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'm with you, Jenny.

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'f you're extra nice to me, I may even fall off of something and hurt myself.

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'm gonna be at Ginger's Ale House later tonight. Me having a girlfriend now probably means fewer roffles for you guys. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but you constantly mentioning gf is pretty funny.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

So it all evens out.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever, you're married.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

that's all well and good but it doesn't settle the question of who is going to get me drunk tonight. FOCUS PEOPLE, FOCUS.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

You should really ask your balls that question.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

ROOOOFLESSSSSSSS

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

The difference is that the Noise Board was created because Jon was image-flooding all sorts of threads on ILE, and it was annoying a lot of people, who understandably found it hard to avoid. Whereas Chicago keeps all of our nonsense confined to our single thread.

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...) (webmail), May 5th, 2006 1:53 PM. (jaymc) (later) (link)

This is patently untrue.

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

WHO'S GETTING US DRUNK TONIGHT??!?!?

― otto's balls (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Jon, correct me then.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, I would love to get you drunk but I cannot. I must rely on the legal machinations of our community property laws to wrest drinking money from my the hands of my spouse so I can get blotto after work. But if you come out I'll let you have sips of my beer.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Your balls will have to find their own way.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to point out that the Chicago crew (most of whom I've never seen before) turning this thread into one of theirs is the ultimate fuck you.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

JMC: I made the noise board because I wanted to (one large factor was the "improved" ILX HTML parser which prevented some of the more creative thread re-designs). The wrestling ring in the yard analogy is perfect.

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm totally going! Kenan, are you really going to T10 happy hour? Otto, I'll help to get you drunk if you go to T10. Is this an auxillary Chicago thread?

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

they can tag along with me. but damn it i won't be able to get downtown before happy hour ends. working out in the western 'burbs means i can't even get back to the ukie village until 6 p.m.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

damn, thanks jesse. i should've saved that record buying money and used it for gin drinking money instead.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Jon, I liked that analogy, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, I found a good place for kenan and friends to talk about sex!

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost Misery- put the name of this city in a thread, and you're bound to get some Big-Shouldered folks in here)

Kevin (otto)- I said I can HELP. I don't think I can accomplish your drunkness on my own.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

what's the address for T10 again?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, in summary:

1) Having regional threads for FAPordination is good.
2) General inane chatter should break down regional boundries.
3) If you are discussing something suitably interesting, it is nice to put it in a thread devoted to the subject.
4) I hate threading more than Chicago threads.

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to point out that the Chicago crew (most of whom I've never seen before) turning this thread into one of theirs is the ultimate fuck you.

I know. I love it.

Come drinking with us, Sam!

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

why did i think a hot dog from home depot would be a good idea for lunch?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

"what's the address for T10 again?"

10 North Dearborn, downstairs. It's Trattoria Ten. EASY, CAN'T MISS IT.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

I truly wish I could. Or rather you should come drinking down here. It's a gorgeous day in Austin, 80s, and it's Cinco de Mayo. :)

xxpost

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

) I hate threading more than Chicago threads.

OTM

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

We should have a Chicago outing down at Ruta Maya this winter.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

"threading"? What do you mean by that?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

10 North Dearborn, downstairs. It's Trattoria Ten. EASY, CAN'T MISS IT.

I'll be there 5:30-6ish.

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

I might change my mind about this happy hour gathering. Meaning: I might show up briefly.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Should/can we make reservations at T10's bar? I'll call and find out.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

OH LOOK NOW YOU ASSHOLES ARE TAKING 2 LINES

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Los Angeles Area Thread: You Assholes Are Taking 2 Lines

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

shit, if i make the early train i can probably be down there by 5:30 or so.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

if i start drinking at 5:30 i can assure you i'll be taking more than 2 lines by midnight.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

OK- No reservations for the lounge at T10. But....if it's OK with Jenny, I'll drive and pick up the cost of valet? I have to pick up my cat at 5 and if I did that and took the train, I would not arrive until after 6:30-ish.

Is that OK?

SEE YOU THERE.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man I'm going to try to make it, too. The opening goes until 8...

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

This is the official "Let's Slag On Jon Williams" FAP.

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, you can use the car but you have to stay sober for driving home. Because I'm not.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

OH LOOK NOW YOU ASSHOLES ARE TAKING 2 LINES

Is there no end to our douchebaggery? Someone starts a thread bitching about Chicago threads and the Chicagoans decide to stage a coup. How shitty of us!

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago: We roll hard, we roll deep.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Oops, wrong thread!!!!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.sitemaker.umich.edu/orgforunity/files/solidarity.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

2) General inane chatter should break down regional boundries.
I have decided to only post on drunk/weed threads from now on in. In the name of DIPLOMACY. and INANITY.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

"Oops, wrong thread!!!!"

Just post identical posts to both, for coverage.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, that smarted.

Wait, no it didn't.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

ok this is funny guys
# Chicago: The Thread About Chicago (86 new answers)
# why don't the Chicago ppl start "I Love Chicago"?? (241 new answers)
# Fabio Uses My Bathroom: DC Metro Area Thread 7 (31 new answers)
# I'm coming to NJ/NYC (5 new answers)

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

I just realized that the DC thread has a tradition where a celebrity's name has to be in the thread title. Cute.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Actually the tradition is to make an obscure reference to a film set in DC. We made an exception for the latest thread because the Fabio line was too amusing to a couple of us the other night.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think i'm properly attired for t10 so i'm not gonna bust my ass to get there and drink expensive drinks i can't really afford. i think i'll hole up at my usual bar in the village if anyone wants to stop by after.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, T10 requires attire? Over my head.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

As long as you're not in tatters you're fine at T10.

LADIES AND GERMANS, FAGS AND FAGETTES:

I'm off to the Southside (90th and Cicero!) to pick up my TV set.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

DOES NOT REQUIRE ATTIRE.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

It does play host to the downtown yuppie happy hour crowd, but you can wear whatever you want.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Nojacket.jpg

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Good.

Also, fuck Phil Collins.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

i'm very close to tatters. i'll just go to my regular bar. though it will be overrun early because it's friday and it's not warm enough for the patio to be open.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so fucking high.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bean95/cd/images/23323f.jpg http://www.interpunk.com/itemimages2/110829.jpg http://www.smartpunk.com/product_images/5362.gif http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5b/Turnonthebrightlightscover.jpg/200px-Turnonthebrightlightscover.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

To say that Turn on The Bright Lights grows on you is to sorely understate its creeping impact. It grows under your skin, drawing you back again and again with snatches of melody that won't get out of your head, and keeping you planted in your seat to ponder its introspective brilliance, until finally you understand that this is a jaw-droppingly great album. I've eaten my words before, so I'll prepare for that possibility as I say this: this is the best album of 2002.

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

(My friend was all happy because he got to ask c**** d "who are you??!?!???" and cd acting all bummed out he didn't know who he was [even though he did])

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

xpost That's why I stopped writing about music.

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

cavorting the world shirtless.

Is that like tripping the light fantastic?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

YES

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

HI GUYS! WHAT DID I MISS TODAY?

― Dan (Hahahahaha) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Where were you!?!?!

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

today i am champion shit-stirrer.

― Tracey "yay me" Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

I had time-consuming work to do today (as opposed to the 8 bazillion microtasks I usually have)!

SEE PEOPLE THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DON'T POST

xpost: "today", Mr "Why does rap suck now?" Thread-Starter?? ;-)

― Dan (You've Been Warned) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

yes, the trend-lines are worrying.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Tracer Hand now that we have been mean to each other and I called you some names, do you want to be friends now? I'm nice.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

totally! that's the way most of my friendships start.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

I think it was the photo I posted of you in the veil that convinced her. :-D

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen that picture before and I was all like, "Dude, I'm gonna kill that guy."

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Just don't spill my beer in the process.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

God, no.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Hi. Look! I'm posting on something other than the official chicago thread! CRAZY!

I confess I used to post to most threads.
Then I mostly just posted to TITTWIS threads.
Then they seemed to lose speed.
Then I starting posting to Chicago threads.
Then they took on a new life.

I apologize for my wallflowerdome. I guess, to use the party metaphor, I prefer to mingle with just a small group of people for a long time and then move on to the next, as opposed to just working the room.

Ok, f that metaphor.

I mostly just prefer to eat the snacks and drinks margaritas.
I would like one now please.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, I'm now imagining that you've got a big pot of petunias on your head.

― Dan (And Why Not?) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

That's totally how she rolls.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

shit, i could totally go for some rolls right now.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Like... BUTTER ROLLS?

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

I do. I'm practicing my Top Modeling.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

whatever you got!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

GET YOUR MOTHERFUCKIN' ROLL ON, WHAT?

http://www.rhodesbread.com/SeasonalPages/images/ButterFlakeRoll.jpg
http://www.route79.com/assets/images/171104-12.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://i.s8.com.br/images/fragance/cover/img2/191022.jpg

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/27/42675702_6459135ff6.jpg?v=0

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

ROLL OUT!

xpost HAHAHAHAHAH

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

i think i just popped a boner over that butter flake roll.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.urbanhonking.com/kmikeym/archives/ouji.gif

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

holy christ i'm so hungry i'm ready to put some tobasco on my boot and it that.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

That's my kind of roll, Jon. Now I've got the theme song stuck in my head.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

I think that pic was taken the night of my birthday celebration? Perhaps?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

I believe it was. Ben's expression is my favorite. He looks like a mad scientist staring into the eye of the universe.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

I took that photo, bitches! And I also made some mean butter rolls for Thanksgiving 2005.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

thanksgiving 2005 i made a grilled cheese sandwich with frontera jalapeno and cilantro salsa on it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Roffle @ Kelsey and John in that picture.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

2005 Butter Rolls
http://i3.tinypic.com/xaook3.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/blurb/2006-05/23285856.jpg

"i think i just popped a boner over that butter flake roll."

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

I MISS THE TIME WHEN ILE DIDN"T EXIST ALL. IT WAS ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC. NO ONE DARED GO OFF TOPIC.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

I like Nick's pose. He looks as if he's outlining the shapely hips of a woman.

xpost: hahahahaaa

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, Kevin, if I do orphan's thanksgiving again this year I hope you'll come over. We drink.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

hey i did that too!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

me and the ex-roomate did an orphans x-mas our first year together. we marinated a pot roast in jim beam for a day and a half. flaaaaaaaaavorful cut o'meat.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Ooof. That just made me think unpleasant thoughts about barfing after drinking too much Jim Beam.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

last time i had any i think was at the ff/sharx show at ronnys?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that was my bright idea.

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

And then we were forced to downgrade to Hennessy, which is really a nightmare of a beverage. Costs a lot more, too.

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

i forget there are people in chicago. on ilx, i mean. there are lots in the city itself, i saw a picture once

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Remember that time on Halloween that it was like 1:30 and Kenan and Jeff and Jesse were all, "I'm not drunk, whassup???" and then you bought Jim Beam and FIXED THAT BUT GOOD. That was dumb.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Who is "you" in that sentence? Gareth?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Jim Beam is bourbon.

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

If someone is buying Jim Beam, it's a safe bet it's me.

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

It was Kenan. But sometimes I like to pretend it was Gareth.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

But Kenan is already in the sentence.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

Shut up right now.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe it was Gareth Keenan?

http://www.ferrumplus.us/pimg/GarethKeenan.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

John, I think you just got handled.

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

Are you stopping by T10, btw?

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

That's neat that Gareth's last name is Keenan.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

I know, it was one of those moments when I rushed to GIS, all proud of myself for being so clever.

Lame, I know.

I'm not going to T10 -- K. and I are having dinner at the Moroccan cafe where we had our first date.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

Let me be the first to say AWWWWW.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not going to T10 -- K. and I are having dinner at the Moroccan cafe where we had our first date.

Could you maybe use more than one letter to denote your lovely gf's name?

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

Alright, well I might beat you all there, since I'm pretty much running out of here today. I just spent the day doing pennance for being out sick this week, and it was much less than fun.

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Kr.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Aight Kenan if you get there first, select a larger table.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

Larger than who?

― Man Man (kenan), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

Whom

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

I AM STEALING AMANDA AND WILL BE THERE SHORTLY.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

the answer to this thread is

http://www.hitparade.ch/cdimages/chicago-if_you_leave_me_now_s.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Larger than Y'ALLS MAMAS.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry to miss Trattoria, but I want to go another Friday when I haven't had a substantial lunch. My housemate Donna just told me that Rosebud has some kind of free Eye-talian buffet as well.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

And, is anyone else a fan of the $1.99 high-quality happy-hour food at the McCormick and Schmick's bar?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm, hadn't heard about that. Is it all seafood? You know, that's where the gal you called "spunky" works.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, she does? Even better!

It's not all seafood - they have half-pound burgers, um um something good of the vegetable variety, quesadillas, etc.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

I am making homemade white pizza again. Waiting for the dough to rise.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 May 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

NOW THAT'S AN INTERESTING POST!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 May 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

Start a separate thread about dough rising, don't expect me to wade thru all this to find out about that, Nick.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Saturday, 6 May 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

My cat is all messed up. Her cunt ain't the same.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 6 May 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

*runs into the room*

Hi guys, did I miss anything?

Aw.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 6 May 2006 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

haha Oh just read and enjoy.

― Man Man (kenan), Saturday, 6 May 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

The ironing in this thread's so delicious I want to eat all my shirts.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 6 May 2006 04:31 (nineteen years ago)

Her cunt ain't the same.

Um... I'm not sure if you're familiar with the procedure, but her cunt is unchanged.

― Man Man (kenan), Saturday, 6 May 2006 05:08 (nineteen years ago)

I forgive you for all that you do not know about cunts.

― Man Man (kenan), Saturday, 6 May 2006 05:08 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Sometime yesterday we overtook "try glasgow more" as the longest ILX thread ever. Currently at 6400+ posts.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

i can't believe you're bragging about that.
i was hoping for more of a "silent shame" thing but whatever, we're all different. that thread is a monolithic testament to shiftlessness and lost productivity.

mostly on my part, i know.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not necessarily proud of it, either, but I like statistics.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

So is that all of the Chicago threads together? seems kind of small if it is. (and that's longer than all the TITTWIS?) (And you took the time to add them all up??)

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

no, that's the most recent thread.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

ahh, sounds like time to start a new thread then.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

that smacks of effort.

how do you know sherry by the way?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

It seems like the opening of such a mega thread would be too much effort!

I know Sherry from "the scene" here (austin).

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

she stayed with me for the blackout this year, she's good people. i met some other dude who crashed with me for a night, i think it was max? he was a fucking blast.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

It seems like the opening of such a mega thread would be too much effort!

Only show last 50 posts, dude.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

(Also, keeping it all to one thread seemed more polite, I think was the idea.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

DON'T BE PURPOSEFULLY OBTUSE YOU CUNT

― JW (ex machina), Friday, May 5, 2006 10:01 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

classic thread
i got really angry for some reason

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 12 March 2012 16:46 (fourteen years ago)

I Love Cities and Smaller Towns Too

― "marvellously inoffensive" (Eazy), Monday, 12 March 2012 17:06 (fourteen years ago)

I Love Everything Boring and Midwestern

― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 12 March 2012 17:47 (fourteen years ago)

I Love J0rdan S.

― carl agatha, Monday, 12 March 2012 17:51 (fourteen years ago)

I don't know, n/a. "Hey assholes, guess what?" is a pretty classic post opener.

― carl agatha, Monday, 12 March 2012 17:52 (fourteen years ago)

hey assholes, guess what? i'm starting all my posts with this phrase from now on.

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 12 March 2012 18:06 (fourteen years ago)

What happened to JW? I don't miss him.

― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 02:03 (fourteen years ago)

No, I take that back b/c I know some people here are friends w/ him IRL and I don't want to be a dick to them, in particular Laurel.

― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 02:21 (fourteen years ago)

n/a was Rahm before Rahm was Rahm.

― "marvellously inoffensive" (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 02:44 (fourteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Her assholes, guess what? Is it time yet? Someone else is going to have to handle the social planning (this is not my strong suit), but can I raise the idea of a Great Chicago Unity FAP?
Some time in the next few months? ~think about it~

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 8 March 2013 14:31 (thirteen years ago)

oh no! i made a terrible typo! how embarrassing. hopefully that doesn't make you think twice about Unity FAP 2013.

what kind of a slob would not proofread a post like that a little more carefully? this one, i guess :-/

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 8 March 2013 14:40 (thirteen years ago)

I WOULD LOVE IT

― frogbs, Friday, 8 March 2013 14:56 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFnzSmTzgt4

― mimosa pudica (clouds), Friday, 8 March 2013 15:01 (thirteen years ago)

can I raise the idea of a Great Chicago Unity FAP?

What exactly do you mean by this? A get-together of all Chicago-based ILXors? You make it sound like there are factions.

― jaymc, Friday, 8 March 2013 15:07 (thirteen years ago)

A get-together of all Chicago-based ILXors? Yes. I was trying to be funny, ha ha. Then that stupid typo got in the way.

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 8 March 2013 15:12 (thirteen years ago)

Quite simply, there are Chicago-based ILXors who I have never met, and I would like to meet them.

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 8 March 2013 15:13 (thirteen years ago)

I think she means something like what happened in The Warriors.

― Je55e, Friday, 8 March 2013 15:20 (thirteen years ago)

Sweet. Lizzies, form up behind me.

― carl agatha, Friday, 8 March 2013 15:20 (thirteen years ago)

Now that I've finally met jon/via/chi, I'm wondering which CHILXors I haven't met. BlackIronPrison comes to mind. I guess Stormy Davis was at that trivia night at Township, but we weren't introduced. :)

― jaymc, Friday, 8 March 2013 15:22 (thirteen years ago)

Someone else is going to have to handle the social planning

I think this is going to be the death of a good idea.

― carl agatha, Friday, 8 March 2013 15:22 (thirteen years ago)

i have met all three of those people.
here's an idea - jaymc can revive his talent show and we can just take turns doing entertaining things for each other.

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 8 March 2013 15:23 (thirteen years ago)

I'm getting envious of all these NYC get-togethers. I want to have a huge, all-out Chicago FAP sometime soon -- an all-night extravaganza that consists of more than Kenan and I getting a six-pack and watching HBO, okay? That means that the following people are invited: Kenan Hebert, Brian Nemtusak, Ann Sterzinger, Mr. Diamond, Oops, JuliaA, Sarah Pedal, Melissa W, Todd Swiss, and whomever else I've forgotten. What do you all think? Should we just wait until the inevitable "Welcome NA and Sarah McLusky" bash in January?
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, November 7, 2003 10:52 AM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― jaymc, Friday, 8 March 2013 15:24 (thirteen years ago)

Something hilarious to me about "Kenan and I getting a six-pack and watching HBO."

― jaymc, Friday, 8 March 2013 15:25 (thirteen years ago)

Also, Jesus Christ, that was almost 10 years ago.

― jaymc, Friday, 8 March 2013 15:25 (thirteen years ago)

From When can we have another Chicago FAP?

― jaymc, Friday, 8 March 2013 15:26 (thirteen years ago)

Wowza. I found a post from June 2005 and I was like huh. It has been a long time.

I think I may have met the most people and I still haven't met everyone. You and Kenan watching HBO is almost as good as this oldie, "butter rolls"

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/33/42331076_6107faca52_n.jpg

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 8 March 2013 15:29 (thirteen years ago)

jaymc i have a really cute picture of you in the bear mask from million years ago halloween -- can i post it pleeeeeeeease
(then i'll stop i promise)

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 8 March 2013 15:32 (thirteen years ago)

Sure!

― jaymc, Friday, 8 March 2013 15:33 (thirteen years ago)

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/33/57608181_6abdfd7f28_n.jpg
sup

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 8 March 2013 15:38 (thirteen years ago)

lolz

― a monolithic testament to shiftlessness and lost productivity (dan m), Friday, 8 March 2013 15:44 (thirteen years ago)

I would attend all this fap if lack of employment hasn't sent me packing by then. Which has been something of a daily cause for concern for 4+ months now. Erk.

― Coke Opus (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 March 2013 15:46 (thirteen years ago)

I think she means something like what happened in The Warriors.

LL plz do this when unity fap happens

http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/l556/singleladad/OuttoPlay_3fast.gif

― a monolithic testament to shiftlessness and lost productivity (dan m), Friday, 8 March 2013 15:47 (thirteen years ago)

Yup, either that or I will be the one singing this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bpOBAwrFVw

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 8 March 2013 15:51 (thirteen years ago)

i'm gonna make everyone SO UNCOMFORTABLE it'll be great

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 8 March 2013 15:52 (thirteen years ago)

my mind was blown when i realized he was ben horne's brother on twin peaks

― mimosa pudica (clouds), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:00 (thirteen years ago)

OK so ilx user Jordan's shit hot brass band is going to be at the Green Mill at the end of the month. More here Chicago live music but not like blues bars with old people or ~jazz club~ unless it's the Green Mill

I'm thinking Friday for possible unity fap/for old time's sake gathering

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:07 (thirteen years ago)

I've always been up for a trivia night - is that a regular thing? 'Cause I like trivia and meeting new folks. Haven't been to Green Mill in ages, but I know my gal would love going - keep posting fun events (dates help for planning).

― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 11 March 2013 16:17 (thirteen years ago)

Not a regular thing (anymore), but I think a few of us would be interested in trivia.

Btw, allow me to be sappy for a moment and remind you that on this day SEVEN YEARS AGO, I met Kr at the Green Mill.

― jaymc, Monday, 11 March 2013 16:24 (thirteen years ago)

the other problem with making the green mill show a unity fap event is that it's $12 (well spent, but still $12) and that's not as welcoming.

maybe trivia night would be a better idea.

i dunno, this is why i am a bad/unenthusiastic social planner -- i don't like to be consumed with making decisions about variables! got enough of those at work tbh.

xp -- omg that seems like not yesterday, but NOT 7 years ago
it's like that first year lasted for three years and the ensuing 6 years only lasted like 2.

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:25 (thirteen years ago)

trivia night wouldn't be great for a huge FAP because we'd have to split off into smaller teams

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:27 (thirteen years ago)

Also it gets really crowded in there really fast.

― carl agatha, Monday, 11 March 2013 16:28 (thirteen years ago)

We could do karaoke at that place EZ mentioned.

― carl agatha, Monday, 11 March 2013 16:29 (thirteen years ago)

that doesn't exactly scream UNITY, you're right

someone else please plan this. i can't do it!

i'll go wherever you tell me to go.

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:29 (thirteen years ago)

the other problem with making the green mill show a unity fap event is that it's $12 (well spent, but still $12) and that's not as welcoming.

I was also thinking of the fact that if the point is to hang out with a large group and chit-chat, there might be better venues than a loud, crowded club. Better, perhaps, for the Unity FAP to be its own thing, without other distractions.

― jaymc, Monday, 11 March 2013 16:33 (thirteen years ago)

(xposts)

― jaymc, Monday, 11 March 2013 16:33 (thirteen years ago)

i thought having a loud busting distraction would be a good thing tbh :-/

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:35 (thirteen years ago)

Maybe? I dunno, I thought your thing was that you wanted to meet new people!

― jaymc, Monday, 11 March 2013 16:36 (thirteen years ago)

I did say that, didn't I. Still, meeting me is not the focus of the event nor would it EVER be. Good lord, who on earth would leave the house just for that? I wouldn't. A visiting ilxor playing with his awesome brass band might be a more effective draw.

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:46 (thirteen years ago)

also could be fun reunion/memory lane/anniversary of 7 years of good luck for you!
also it's the end of my spring break and likely to be the most fun i have that week since i can't go anywhere

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:51 (thirteen years ago)

Alice's has very good karaoke, lots of good beer, room to mingle and talk. But if it's March 29th, you're on your own, other than when I'm free very late at night.

One way to do this in April/May:
http://www.noveltygolf.com

― your fretless ways (Eazy), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:59 (thirteen years ago)

Let's just all go on a Segway tour this summer.

― Jeff, Friday, 15 March 2013 19:39 (thirteen years ago)

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