Most dependably terrible type of ILE thread

TIPPING THREADS!

gonna have to vote movie.

class/money or race

Movie threads
Politics threads

toss up^^

Movie, only because "Hey, things are different on different sides of the Atlantic" threads isn't an option.

Can't believe you left out meta-threads.

dead celebrity

religious!

Class/money threads: usually very bad
Dead celebrity threads: 9/10 it's just boring/pointless 'RIP' posts or a big dumb fite
Food threads: often useful!
Language/grammar threads: too dull to actually get wound up about
LOL threads: fine (esp. now LJ's gone)
Movie threads: often great!
Politics threads: good tho usually very one-sided
Poll threads: depends on the subject
Regional threads: get a room
Religion threads: see politics
What Do You Look Like?: harmless fun but why would you post one every month?
Some other kind of thread: doesn't exist

comic-book/superhero-related

we haven't actually had any huge or terrible religion threads in a while, at least not that i've noticed. there was the one today but it has been pretty civil and focused so far. seems like this was more of a problem a few years ago.

regional a close second

where is the "all of the above" option

Politics threads: good tho usually very one-sided

Thank fuck they are largely one-sided.

where is the "all of the above" option

-- dan m, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 5:14 PM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

somewhere that isn't ILX

religious!

Except when saved by Abbott's crazy tales of Mormonology.

I assume you left race threads off because it would be a runaway victor?

why/how were religion threads particularly bad in the past?

Politics threads: good tho usually very one-sided

Thank fuck they are largely one-sided.

-- Matt DC, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 5:14 PM (29 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

lol jackass

race threads typically end very badly.

or you know, never really end at all.

despite being so one-sided!

Put it this way if ILE were suddenly invaded by Young Conservative types then politics threads would immediately become like 1000 times worse.

why/how were religion threads particularly bad in the past?

-- blueski, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 5:15 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

an overwhelming tone of superiority, total one-sidedness, the idea that anyone with any religious beliefs is complete moron, etc etc.

basically like the political threads are now

race threads were a pretty big oversight, sorry dudes ;_;

lol i'm white

I assume you left race threads off because it would be a runaway victor?

-- Matt DC, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 5:15 PM (1 minute ago)

Already won this poll, thus invalidated competitor: CLUSTERFUCK THREAD SHOWDOWN

this type of thread is pretty bad too (meta i guess)

so chin up, n/a! xpost

CLUSTERFUCK THREAD SHOWDOWN

only 17 votes, hardly a representative sample

well, thank god you're here to sort it all out.

comic-book/superhero-related

-- Dr Morbius, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 5:12 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

i nominate morbius for new ILC troll!

Voted LOL, not because they aren't sometimes funny, but they're where the worst examples of bullying and cliqueiness occur.

an overwhelming tone of superiority, total one-sidedness, the idea that anyone with any religious beliefs is complete moron, etc etc.

totally

I think "dependably terrible" and "clusterfuck" are two very different things.

Heave Ho html playground threads.

Oh wait no those are the best.

Put it this way if ILE were suddenly invaded by Young Conservative types then politics threads would immediately become like 1000 times worse.

but whose fault would that be?

Threads that have IRL consequences.

how do comic book threads usually go, anyway?

They go AWESOMELY.

And are arranged by panel.

Dead celeb threads, from the list offered. Meta-clusterfuck is 1,000,000 times worse than anything else on the list added, or even multiplied together though.

class/money not even close!!!!

the "what does ilx think of rich people" thread was apocolyptic

If you want to see apocalyptic, hunt out some B3cky Luc/-\s threads or a shout for the moderator thread. Actually don't, because a lot of that shit isn't even funny, it's just DEPRESSING.

Class/money threads - don't bother with these
Dead celebrity threads - two initial "oh fuck no" posts followed by 200 "lol the big zing got him/her eh" posts. never less than entertaining
Food threads - meh
Language/grammar threads - no
LOL threads - easiest audience in the world
Movie threads - 50% not terrible some of the time
Politics threads - eh
Poll threads - ok when fucked with. poll results threads are worse
Regional threads - i don't really pay attention outside of l.a. and sometimes chicago.
Religion threads - christ
What Do You Look Like? -
Some other kind of thread - great!

Regional threads - Basically watercooler threads.

"Hey, how ya doin?"
"Pretty good. Went down to Jimmy's Bar last night."
"Oh, yeah? They still got that Addams Family pinball game?"

SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU C.B. CHATTERS.

(I participate in the Southern thread, but at least I know what folks are talking about in there, breaker one-nine.)

i don't have a problem w/ regional threads cuz they are easily ignorable and you have a low chance of missing a chaki/ethan type big deal zing FITE

i can never tell if all the fites lately have been for real or not

but then i lolbeef with lbzc rubes like every day

I don't mind zingfests. Just boring threads.

any thread dealing with race/gender issues

SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU C.B. CHATTERS.

(I participate in the Southern thread, but at least I know what folks are talking about in there, breaker one-nine.)

in other words all regional threads suck except for YOUR region

where are 'complaining threads'?

I like race threads.

i'd have to go with ethan threads and nyc fussy eaters where are we going to drink tonight threads.

in other words all regional threads suck except for YOUR region

Exactly.

Kitten threads?

religious threads. I don't know why I bother with them.

chicago threads.

waah

(I participate in the Southern thread, but at least I know what folks are talking about in there, breaker one-nine.)

the weather? over.

and sweet potato pie, roger wilco.

Class/money threads - A+, best places to learn about people's families and childhoods

Dead celebrity threads - D-, rote like a funeral receiving line; the part that makes them suck isn't that someone inevitably cracks a mean/tacky joke, it's that people proceed to bother taking them to task for it

Food threads - A+, I am still trying to figure out what weird human instinct is triggered that always gets people vehemently disagreeing about what foods taste good, as if it could possibly matter. You like peppers, someone says peppers are gross, suddenly you're like "FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE, PEPPERS ARE AWESOME, LET'S FIGHT ABOUT IT"???

Language/grammar threads - A+, because obviously

LOL threads - B-, because people need to set up the LOLs more for independent reading, instead of just pasting them in as an honor. Sometimes I haven't looked at the board in several days, and I want a stand-alone LOL summary

Movie threads - A+, because I never really look at these, so if they're super-horrible at least they're sweeping the horribleness somewhere I don't ever look

Poll threads - D-, because I'm still mad about the tie on the showerhead thread

Religion threads - god-awful

What Do You Look Like? - A+ when people are cute, D- when they make me feel like the only person in the country who doesn't have a camera

rote like a funeral receiving line

which is what produces the mean/tacky jokes

I am still trying to figure out what weird human instinct is triggered that always gets people vehemently disagreeing about what movies are good, as if it could possibly matter. You like Apatow, someone says Apatow is lame, suddenly you're like "FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE, APATOW IS AWESOME, LET'S FIGHT ABOUT IT"???

Put it this way if ILE were suddenly invaded by Young Conservative types then politics threads would immediately become like 1000 times worse.

I guess so but the problem with the current politics threads is that they are a bunch of not at all Young Conservative types all falling over each other to call each other Young Conservatives most loudly, just like the religious threads are entirely populated by atheists bawling all the other atheists out for saying something which almost conceded that not all religious people were braindead fundamentalist anti-abortionists

love and kisses,
a whining atheist grouch who only didn't post stroppily to religion threads because every time I started typing it came out 60 pages long and nobody would've wanted to read that

(Uh, that last line was meant to be an admission of hypocrisy, not "I meant to wade in and school you all but alas you were deprived" or whatever)

an overwhelming tone of superiority, total one-sidedness, the idea that anyone with any religious beliefs is complete moron, etc etc.

mm.. despite thinking that religion is hocus-pocus, i'd nominate religion threads for the same reason

the problem with the current politics threads is that they are a bunch of not at all Young Conservative types all falling over each other to call each other Young Conservatives most loudly,

you could sub "Young Conservatives" with racists, sexists, child molesters, xenophobes, wife-beaters, dog-fuckers, frotteurs, etc. = ILX on a bad day. 91% of the time this place is pretty A-ok.

if that were true about politics threads, there wouldn't be arguments. but there are. so think on!

(Uh, that last line was meant to be an admission of hypocrisy, not "I meant to wade in and school you all but alas you were deprived" or whatever)

aw, that would have been cool

politics threads = narcissism of minor differences replayed in 3529-post clusterchunks

(and maybe two genuine Republican voters)

WDYLL FTW

the regional threads fill me with a raging rage

(and maybe two genuine Republican voters)

-- a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:37 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

as far as i can make out, in florida that's all it took.

I was going to say I can understand arguing about movies and music and such more than arguing about specific foodstuffs, because at least with art there's stuff to pick apart and talk about, and half of why people post to message boards is to have people to geek out about such things with ...

... but I think with food the visceral thing is that someone says "peppers are gross" and as a pepper-eater it feels like they're saying "YOU are gross" and so it takes off from there. The problem is that ... what are you going to say? "No, peppers are tasty, ass-head." / "No, they're disgusting." / etc., because it's not like you can be all "I think peppers showed promise during the first half, but the aftertaste made too many concessions to attracting a popular audience, especially that key part where they tasted like peppers"

I feel like a "does bleu cheese taste good" argument could come to blows and resentment way faster than an "is Knocked Up sexist" one or whatever

race threads

with everything else, the clusterfuck is always fun or at least funny

I don't mind the regional threads.

Uh YES because bleu cheese is actually GOOD.

guys you don't have to read EVERY THREAD

haha i don't have a reason for disliking the regionals, i just voted for them relfexively. as awful as any of the other ones have been i know i've had fun on them at some point.

what can i say, i like a shitty thread every now and again.

hey ever had bleu cheese on a hot dog?? nice heavy wheat bun, tasty tasty

r u a part of this particular patch y/n

-- dan m, Wednesday, January 2, 2008 3:21 PM (Wednesday, January 2, 2008 3:21 PM) Bookmark Link

I don't get it. Queee?

-- Jesse, Wednesday, January 2, 2008 3:23 PM (Wednesday, January 2, 2008 3:23 PM) Bookmark Link

it's part of a quote taking from nelson algren's epic poem Chicago: A City on the Make.

-- chicago kevin, Wednesday, January 2, 2008 3:27 PM (Wednesday, January 2, 2008 3:27 PM) Bookmark Link

I have no beef with the above posters, but damn that Chicago thread.

Any thread with more than 200 replies. You know there's some shit going down. Usually it's about money, politics or movies. But it can be about anything. As long as it has the usual suspects.

guys you don't have to read EVERY THREAD

-- bell_labs

to beat chaki she had to...BECOME HIM

GOD

looooool

men want to be me and women want to be me

jim wants to swells you

ralph wants to pogo with you

race threads, crackas

any thread with an achewood comic pasted in it.

:(

i think i am dependably pro-achewood

dependably terrible: cross-atlantic threads discussing basically any of the above. how could you miss that one, nick, god. you are the most dependably terrible type of thread.

j/k

do they still have big buck hunter at the bottle????

also you would not beLIEVE what happened after you left on saturday night! omg wtf!!!!!

ps chili cookoff my place this coming saturday
pps this is not a joke it is real, and v v serious

Class/money threads - They are great fun! Esp since Britain's 'system' sounds about as either imaginary or bizarre as India's. And then everyone else is like "I have loans ;_;" and boy, something for everyone.

Dead celebrity threads - Lame except ones of authors I like (like the LeGuin one).

Food threads - The coolest! Except sometimes they make me crave food I can't have at the time (cannot afford or is not sold in my town).

Language/grammar threads - I quit reading the bugbear-type ones because I can only hear or read people complain about the word "irregardless" so many fucking times. Jesus, I get it, some of your coworkers don't got no booklarnin. Ones about confusing idioms = classic! (esp. Tuomas's Finnish idioms thread)

LOL threads - B-, because people need to set up the LOLs more for independent reading, instead of just pasting them in as an honor. Sometimes I haven't looked at the board in several days, and I want a stand-alone LOL summary

Movie threads - They are always for movies I want to see that won't show in my area (Blade Runner: Final Cut, most recently) or that show in my area like 10-14 weeks after the rest of the nation has seen them (There Will Be Blood: coming NEXT FUCKING WEEK to a theater near me.) So I miss the fun heydey of the discussion and can't think of anything later to say about the movie (when I can actually see it) besides "whoa that was rad dudes." I feel angry and deprived by movie threads!

Poll threads - Classical gas!

Religion threads - People make up for their lack of righteousness with painful amts of self-righteousness; I talk about how Mormons have commandments against letting missionaries swim or whatevs bcz I have nothing else to say.

What Do You Look Like? - Rad! It is way easier somehow to conenct w/a user when you know what they look like...?

Oh I would actually say WORST type of thread is:

1. Outing mean secrets about ILXors or just fucking flaming them for no goddamn reason (NB I basically think there is never a reason)
2. Complaining about coworkers threads (I guess I am sensitive person who does not like hearing mean things about strangers, only about people like Huckabee or Jarvik)

hasn't been a good vegetarian clusterfuck in a while

i aam going on a diet

^^^ staying away from this one

Veg debates are as weird and foreign to me as religion debates.

I am still sorry there is no one option poll n/a.

Dead celebrity threads - Lame except ones of authors I like (like the LeGuin one).

wait - she's dead? when?

i guess TITTWIS is some other kinda thread

OOPS I meant L'Engle.

L'Engel

God forgive me

Way to spread false rumors, Abbott!

No bass through guitar amp threads, no credibility.

Anyway, ILE is scary and insular and intimidating to non-regulars, that's why I only post to ILM and the Los Angeles thread and just lurk on most of the rest of this board.

ahhhhh. ok thx abbott.

I wish LeGuin was an ILXor! Then she could tell us computers are horrible (somehow I got the idea she would think that from Changing Planes).

Hahaha Jeff ILM scares the crap out of me (that and I think talking about music in those ways is like overexplaining a wonderful joke).

^^me too. all i can ever muster is 'yeah i like it' or 'nah it kinda sucks bad'

If the "Rolling ..." threads were on the poll, I would have voted for that.

Even though I think I "Rolled..." one myself.

The threads where people are talking about The Fall's new minimal house rap album produced by MIA scare me, to be honest. But I have absolutely no musical talent but love music, and I don't suck at writing, so that's why I like posting there. Although, I don't post on the movie threads for a similar reason to your non-ILM posting one (also Dr. Morbius scares me).

Rolling threads rock! You're just jealous.

I have absolutely no musical talent but love music
Then perhaps your decision to leave ILM was a little preliminary.

Dude Jeff Rolling Rock is the soapiest beer of all.

it is better than ILM

I haven't left ILM. That was Louis Jagger. And yeah, Rolling Rock leaves an aftertaste for hours. I like Heineken.

i have been around here since 2002, and i don't htink i have made more than 100 posts all-told to ILM

lol @ JR&tB

I don't really understand the whole "ILE is better than ILM" thing, it seems like what Nabisco was talking about above with the peppers.

http://soundboard.com/memberphoto/16122353161256.jpg

i just can't deal with the snobbery of ILM. i mean, i am a fairly cultured and decently-educated person, but i don't know 80% of what anybody's talking about on ilm, and asking for an explanation usually nets a really snide LOL or comparison to tuomas

I went to say something recently on some thread...and got my ass chewed from someone I never heard of before in the very next post, and was like, "oh. right. again a reminder. semper fi."

(Actually not the 'semper fi' part.)

This was on ILM

Industrial Light & Magic

Ha ha, derailing threads is fun! I'm sorry you got yelled at? I started a poll here and the first post was chaki chewing me out for getting the name of a movie wrong.

Industrial Light and Morons

Are you sure you have that spelled right, Jeff?

See! Look at this! Insults from all sides! (And it's an MST3K Space Mutiny reference)

religion, followed closely by movies.

i read both types of thread obsessively, of course.

http://www.alamut.com/images/2001_misc/ordet.jpg

http://www.britmovie.co.uk/genres/horror/images/002a.jpg

http://archive.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2000/05/03/incubus/story.jpg

http://www.lovefilm.com/lovefilm/images/products/8/1478-large.jpg

http://www.ns1763.ca/annapco/kennedya04510.jpg

No bass through guitar amp threads, no credibility.

-- James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 24 January 2008 15:30 (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

but these aren't ILE thredz

http://img5.allocine.fr/acmedia/rsz/434/x/x/x/medias/nmedia/18/64/91/75/18813446.jpg

True, esoj. But that kind of logic has never stopped the EXCELSIORZ threads.

It also seems like ILE is slowly turning into the Noise Board and vice versa.

http://filmjournal.net/mike/files/2007/10/bn2.jpg

http://www.britmovie.co.uk/genres/drama/images/060a.jpg

http://bp3.blogger.com/_GlA26bSh-BA/RiWZXf2TjOI/AAAAAAAAALg/XgId4qvstfY/s1600-h/bedazzled2.jpg

Dang.
http://www.cinespia.org/_img_recommend/recommend_bedazzled.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/117/276793073_23678e0ec0.jpg

no meta option?

Actually Brit politics threads at least are usually pretty enjoyable and un-clusterfucky. Mostly because they're similar in tone to football threads only we're all 'lol LibDems you have fucked up again who is this loser?' rather than 'lol Newcastle, Keegan what were you thinking?'

I do usually enjoy the Brit politics threads! The American ones are hard work though. Sometimes they're fun for 50 posts but then there's another 800. But the Brit ones have plenty of accusations of crypto-Toryism and sometimes I wonder if any ILXors bother voting for anyone because every UK political party gets denounced as hapless policy-less flounderers or baby-spiking scum. Though put like that it looks perfectly accurate. Oh well.

I like the threads where Abbott tells childhood tales of the everyday weirdness of Mormon life (hope you don't mind me putting it this way) but the several-hundred-post threads where everyone tries to out-Dawkins each other are almost as depressing as remembering that creationists exist so I will have to vote for religion threads.

It also seems like ILE is slowly turning into the Noise Board and vice versa.

-- Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 24 January 2008 05:12 (6 hours ago) Link

this is actually true.

1P3 is the new Noise is the new ILE

Brit politics threads are just the same 'joke' again and again. Everybody comes with their opinions already fully formulated. A celebrity gets sensationally outed as a Tory, lol LibDems, comparisons to Nazi Germany. I still usually learn something or other tho.

Class/money threads prob. worst. Religion close. Politics OK, unless Israel is involved. Never look at Regional, Food, or What Do You Look Like.

Class/money threads - these are actually the best type of thread at all. It is always interesting to note national and regional differences in attitude to these things, to observe that some people have grudges and chips on their shoulder regarding such issues and some do not, to note the startling naivety shown by some and the depth of insight exhibited by others and so forth. Quite fascinating.

Dead celebrity threads - ok, neither good or bad. Refreshing I suppose, compared with most of what is written about dead celebs on the Web and in other media, in that ilxor's opinions are less likely to be tainted by a misplaced sense of sycophancy and awe.

Food threads - not v good, so rarely insightful. I think I can say I have never learnt anything about food via ilx, not had a recipe or restaurant recommendation that I have taken up.

Language/grammar threads - pretty good most of the time.

LOL threads - good when I'm in a bad mood and need cheering up. bad coz it is the surest way to show my colleagues that I am not working!

Movie threads - usually poor. for some reason usually really inferior to discussions about films in the pub or Pete Baran's film contributions to Freaky Trigger.

Politics threads - quite poor normally. I agree with Stevem that they are one sided, don't agree with Matt DC that this is a good thing, and am curious to hear Matt's explanation as to why he thinks that. is it because he wants the quiet life and does not want to be frustrated and drained by having to argie with those whose views he finds abhorrent?

Poll threads - Almost always great! The only bad polls are actually on ILM when people post the lyrics of a song one line at a time! What's the point of that? IIRC Geir is especially guilty of that.

Regional threads - Brilliant. Would been even better if Robin Carmody still posted.

Religion threads - Nearly always awful but that's not ilxors' fault! If there was a software upgrade that could auto-post Read Hume's Dialogues!!! then lock the thread I'd be all for it.

What Do You Look Like? - Fantastic, always. There are some people who never post who I'd like to, coz I don't know what they look like e.g. Rumpie.

Some other kind of thread - my vote went to this. The kind of thread that goes "BAN [insert name of ilxor] here". I am perplexed by this. All the people who have incurred the wrath of ilxors in this way whom I have met IRL have been lovely people and none of them have annoyed me online. Whether this makes me a good or bad person is something I will probably have to wonder about until my dying day, as I doubt anyone will tell me.

i like 'em all, but don't post regional, food, or wwdyll. i think i'll vote food.

Where are Parody Threads? They're surely the worst? "Most dependably terrible type of ILE bread", that kind of thing.

Rumpie posted a pic one time

I feel sad that I may never know what DJ Martian looks like tho

I hope he looks like a Martian!

xp parodies: I just see them as indicative of the fact that some ppl are very, very bored.

Always found WDYLL threads a bit creepy. Esp. when people seem to post there and nowhere else.

parody threads are awesome!

i had a good one for this, but it'd be kind of inflammatory : /

is it because he wants the quiet life and does not want to be frustrated and drained by having to argie with those whose views he finds abhorrent?

Yes. I do enough of that on a near daily basis in my office and have no desire to do so on ILE as well. Also talking about, gossiping about and more serious analysis/insight into the daily rough and tumble of politics are generally more interesting to me than the sort of endless 'Partisan Politics 1.1' level of debate you tend to get when there's an equal balance of lefties and righties on any given message board.

an equal balance of lefties and righties on any given message board.

can't imagine this actually happening anywhere tho

Or worse, 'Have Your Say' level of debate!

Sounds hideous (xp)

anyone who thinks ile politics threads need a 'wider selection of views': look upon have your say/comment is free and despair

xpost!

I don't really know why WDYLL threads seem to annoy some people so much. Although I agree that it's a bit weird when people seem to only post there.

I think religion threads are the worst, especially the I'm-more-atheist-than-you stuff.

Atheists on religion threads are about the worst posters ever

I mean, get outta there

There's hardly anyone who "only posts on WDYLL threads", it's just that ILX is massive and they post maybe infrequently to a totally different type of thread. WDYLL is one of the few 'universal' threads we have here these days.

I think I can say I have never learnt anything about food via ilx, not had a recipe or restaurant recommendation that I have taken up.

!!!!!

er, you're amazed by *that*?

Can't believe you left out meta-threads.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

you guys are proving the point kinda. assuming that more right-wing posters would automatically be more boorish/aggressive/arrogant/reactionary/ignorant etc. - it may well be likely but i was being optimistic.

it's not a 'standard of debate' issue so much. the standard of conversation (rather than debate) might be good here but that's because it's people more or less agreeing with each other most of the time to varying degrees.

they're all meta threads really.

parody threads are awesome!

i had a good one for this, but it'd be kind of inflammatory : /

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 24 January 2008 11:56 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Most dependably terrible type of ILE poster?

clue: rhymes with 'thread', looks stupid.

lolololololololololol

Cheeky.

you guys are proving the point kinda. assuming that more right-wing posters would automatically be more boorish/aggressive/arrogant/reactionary/ignorant etc. - it may well be likely but i was being optimistic

Nah, I've gone off the idea of wasting my time impotently arguing with people who will only annoy me... believe it or not!

well, we had a good run.

Politics OK, unless Israel is involved

not really just politics at that stage, religion and race impossible to keep out of it. hell, what politics doesn't, eventually.

you guys are proving the point kinda. assuming that more right-wing posters would automatically be more boorish/aggressive/arrogant/reactionary/ignorant etc.

jeez, ya think, quotes renowned ilx racist, fascist sexist darraghmac.

Always found WDYLL threads a bit creepy. Esp. when people seem to post there and nowhere else.

I have a suspicion that some people think that I am one of these when I post on WDYLL threads. But, you know, I've been here for, what, 7 years? I just happen to be pretty quiet most of the time. And I've never noticed anyone who has posted on a WDYLL who hasn't posted elsewhere, once I start remembering the name.

I was going to start a parody thread yesterday called 'roaches caught mid-roach' or something, but then... I didn't.

No, I've noticed your name before many a time!

clue: rhymes with 'thread', looks stupid.

http://myspace-504.vo.llnwd.net/01256/40/54/1256404504_l.jpg

Okay, I'm glad I reminded myself of that parody thread idea, because I've just GISed 'roach', and this came up:

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~pesha/course/roach.jpg

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

The worst thing on the dead celeb threads is when people post frown emoticons.

nothings says sincere grief like " : ("

voted movie threads. i don't really mind when people i don't know are dicks about religion or politics etc, but for some reason i feel personally offended when idiots disagree with me about films.

I don't really mind the film threads. At their worst they're usually a string of revives saying "I just saw this and I liked it because (stuff someone else just said in the last revive)," and they tend to feature occasional moments of insight.

i've probably just read too many threads about movies i hated

I would have voted class/money threads. What turned out to be "money discussion week" here earlier in the month left me feeling depressed. Not as a result of the actual revelations as to people's financial statuses or whatever, but more because it seemed to bring out the worst in people posting here in some weird way.

this one was pretty bad and my posting that is pretty bad too. i think i may take an overdose and take the lot of you with me altough the logistics of that may be a problem.

the people have ated