it's like you expect to be able to be as irrational and impetuous as you want but everyone else has to tiptoe round you and not comment, or else they're 'unreasonable'.
you sound a lot like someone else who used to post here.
― just1n3, Friday, 15 October 2010 03:48 (fourteen years ago) link
just1n3 - that is a bit harsh - but - a cautionary tale perhaps?
― sarahel, Friday, 15 October 2010 03:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Occasional exploding is just human nature for lots of people iirc. That goes for imploding too. How you handle your explosion or implosion is what matters most - not the explosion or implosion itself. If someone was exploding every other millisecond like a firecracker then it might matter most but a blast every few months is entirely human
I know barely anything about lj and I haven't read any of his posts outside this thread today
― popular music is destroying our youth (CaptainLorax), Friday, 15 October 2010 04:16 (fourteen years ago) link
fookeroo
― buzza, Friday, 15 October 2010 04:18 (fourteen years ago) link
not shocked at all captain truther finds exploding or imploding every few months totally normal acceptable behavior.
― balls, Friday, 15 October 2010 04:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I said it's normal for many people and it's all about how they handle it. I'm not shocked that someone I don't know went out of their way to make a judgmental post about me
― popular music is destroying our youth (CaptainLorax), Friday, 15 October 2010 05:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I get that this is "the thread" for all of this venting, but that's just straight up goading. Lorax was trying to be constructive.
Shit got a little heated, but cmon, show's over.
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Friday, 15 October 2010 05:29 (fourteen years ago) link
i think this is some major bullSHIT. nijoli had a pretty bad day. she didn't come on ilx and start taking it out on ppl. i'm pretty sure some other ilxors probably had pretty bad days too. don't see them doing it either.the whole explode-apologise-repeat thing is really getting old, and you can get all high and mighty and consider it condescending but milo and WmC are pretty otm.it's like you expect to be able to be as irrational and impetuous as you want but everyone else has to tiptoe round you and not comment, or else they're 'unreasonable'.you sound a lot like someone else who used to post here.
the whole explode-apologise-repeat thing is really getting old, and you can get all high and mighty and consider it condescending but milo and WmC are pretty otm.
how about
two ILXors made ridiculous personal attacks on me on a sensitive thread
I get ridiculous personal ad hominem shit thrown at me mostly by Americans every fucking day here
usually I brush off zings with equanimity but character-assassination in such density? I'm going to defend myself
yeah I had a bad evening and that exacerbated my response, and the exacerbation I apologised for, but if you look at how many threads I behave perfectly rationally and fairly and level-headedly in, you'll see this isn't my default mode
'explode-apologise-repeat' is a meme I guess now but in truth I only do it when someone's been a dick, usually a condescending dick - this happens more than it should
sure you don't see many other ILXors spouting off except the ones who get ritually harassed like idk whiney etc
you'll notice I'm extremely polite and courteous 99% of the time here, and that I don't hold any grudges, nor do I really dislike anyone - but I'm an established target, almost exclusively for Americans who haven't met me and realised I'm genuinely affable when I'm not being treated like a prick
― acoleuthic, Friday, 15 October 2010 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link
LJ, I have hung out with you multiple times and think you are affable and good natured and still believe that just1ne is 100% OTM. The reason people go after you is because when you don't think things through, you post in the most amazingly abrasive, thoughtless manner possible. It's not about people suggest-banning you for responding to attacks on you; it's about you saying wildly cavalier and borderline-or-worse offensive shit and then going "oh, jokes bruv!" like your assertion on Nijoli's thread.
Quite frankly, you are terrible at judging tone and reading nuance and you really need to stop treating the boards as a nonstop open mic improv comedy night.
― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Friday, 15 October 2010 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i read the first part of the Nijoli thread, was some offensive LJ post deleted?
― sarahel, Friday, 15 October 2010 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
No.
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Friday, 15 October 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I think the biggest point, lj, is that to talk about fascist police states (and ASBOs) on a thread where an ilxor is freaked and looking for help is an unnecessary derailment.
― A Reclaimer Hewn With (Michael White), Friday, 15 October 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
oh - i didn't think that was offensive - an unnecessary derailment, maybe, but geez, this is ilx - threads get derailed all the time.
― sarahel, Friday, 15 October 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
the offensive stuff is upthread
― sleeve, Friday, 15 October 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not offended but I do think it's germane to the whole gist of this discussion. lj can be a thoughtful poster and be more specific than 'fascist state' since the US has thousands of jursdictions, each different than the other. Saying the sherrif in that county are dicks is totally fair game- I made that point myself - but I wouldn't make any sweeping statements when what I really mean to do is express sympathy for a specific incident that happened to nijoli.
― A Reclaimer Hewn With (Michael White), Friday, 15 October 2010 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
we're spending too much time discussing this lj incident, when we could be posting
http://i54.tinypic.com/11l4yvn.gif
― sarahel, Friday, 15 October 2010 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't really get how this was offensive either. misguided, perhaps, and off-topic on a delicate thread, sure.
of course i didn't think the 'attacks' on lj warranted the full fuck you response either.
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 October 2010 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm glad I tinypic'd that -- hopefully the guy I originally hotlinked that from will never know.
I would however like to thank LJ for taking his irritation at max to this thread and letting Nijoli's thread be about the care and comfort of Nijoli.
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Friday, 15 October 2010 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
WmC - you are responsible for the genius that is
you are my hero!
― sarahel, Friday, 15 October 2010 17:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I discovered the image, but it was a team effort.
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Friday, 15 October 2010 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
was dude complaining about people posting about him again?
― sarahel, Friday, 15 October 2010 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
no
there will be no further comment
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Friday, 15 October 2010 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
he has in the past, so this is awesome in that it solves that problem, so
kudos for
― sarahel, Friday, 15 October 2010 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
ilx's whole explode-apologise-repeat thing is really getting lazy
― Kerm, Friday, 15 October 2010 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck. you?
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 15 October 2010 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
lj's posting style is still surprising?
― dan m, Friday, 15 October 2010 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Didn't really care what he said on the other thread, but:
Someone incredibly dear to me and I had a misunderstanding that was brought about because they in turn have had a horrible day. Fortunately we're meeting in person tomorrow and it will be fine, but I'm very shaken, and I'm sorry if I come across as overly belligerent or unthinking here.
This is bullshit. It's bad enough when people pull this shit every once in a while in real life, but to do it twice-weekly here is fucking annoying. If you can't control yourself, don't get online (or IRL, don't get shitty with friends because a girl didn't call you or what the fuck ever).
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Friday, 15 October 2010 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
but it really merits a Go Fuck Yourself more than a Fuck You
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Friday, 15 October 2010 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
this is way harsh but whatever
M White, I didn't bring up ASBOs on that thread, they were brought up as an ad hominem. Also sure I said something a bit inflammatory as a mark of my anger, sorry.
― acoleuthic, Friday, 15 October 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
and yeah the police quota systems aren't fascist per se - they're just completely bungled remnants of aggressive bureaucracy
― acoleuthic, Friday, 15 October 2010 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I know you didn't, I just meant that it was brought up and was a derailment. Fwiw, I couldn't generally give a fuck about derailments except this was a real case of real angst.
― A Reclaimer Hewn With (Michael White), Friday, 15 October 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, true, which is why I got my contribution to it back on topic sharpish
my reaction to hearing that sort of story is blind rage - much like most of ILX, I suspect, but I'm not as good at moderating it perhaps
― acoleuthic, Friday, 15 October 2010 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
And if you feel that Americans are taunting you unfairly, just remember that there are perhaps no more than a handful who even know what a silly mid off, leg gully, doosra or yorker mean.
― A Reclaimer Hewn With (Michael White), Friday, 15 October 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
they'll never truly know me
― acoleuthic, Friday, 15 October 2010 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Just remember, "To know yourself is the ultimate form of aggression."
― A Reclaimer Hewn With (Michael White), Friday, 15 October 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://m.assetbar.com/uuafNj01H.gif
― acoleuthic, Friday, 15 October 2010 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
stop telling people to fuck themselves all of a suddan out of nowhere and you'll be grand man.
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Friday, 15 October 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
darraghmac, thy arse - copulate
― acoleuthic, Friday, 15 October 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
christ maybe Dan's right about that improv comedy shit, gonna zip it itt
― acoleuthic, Friday, 15 October 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
haha I was writing "WHAT DID I JUST SAY" when you posted that
― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Friday, 15 October 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
nah see you know i'm not gonna pay any odds to that. the improv stuff isn't the problem, it's when you mean it in a flash of drama queen pique that hurts you. just dont take that on board is all, we all have shitty days.
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Friday, 15 October 2010 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty sure the most common improv technique is "yes, and..." not "FUCK YOU!!!!!"
― nitsuh enbb (jeff), Friday, 15 October 2010 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
WHAT'S THE DEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAALLL WITH FUCK YOU?
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Friday, 15 October 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
why would lucifer be in hades? what a fuckin asshole. also, the place name Hades is translated from hadou in the Greek, i.e. Hades in the genative, so it is most literally translated as Hades' - as in, belonging to Hades (and is also occasionally rendered as Hades' House or the House of Hades). therefore, anthropomorphic cartoon animal, one could plausibly argue that you are yourself LACKING an apostrophe, thus rendering your accusation a black stone thrown in a glass kettle. FUCK YOU.
― MAX NOT FOR MOD (Roberto Spiralli), Friday, 15 October 2010 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
― nitsuh enbb (jeff), Friday, October 15, 2010 1:41 PM (12 minutes ago)
lol - or "yes, let's!"
― sarahel, Friday, 15 October 2010 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
lol "cabron"
― dan m, Friday, 15 October 2010 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I had this thread up earlier today, on my work computer. I switched over to a different tab so I could show my grade 6 science students a photo of a duck-billed platypus on the LCD projector. Oops--tab headers are still visible. Happily, only one student seemed to have noticed. "Mr. D_______..." (points to screen). Teacher makes mad dash to computer, clicks off tab, immediately launches into speech about how wonderful and fascinating the duck-billed platypus is.
― clemenza, Friday, 15 October 2010 22:04 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahaha
― call all destroyer, Friday, 15 October 2010 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
amazing
― markers, Friday, 15 October 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
DUCK (BILLED) YOU!!!!
― A Reclaimer Hewn With (Michael White), Friday, 15 October 2010 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link