Say something nice about another ILXor

stevie (the one with cats) is indeed a fine fellow -- a great host to me back in 2005, and the best chocolate chip pancake maker outside of the US itself.

difficult listening hour, Noodle Vague, ShariVari & goole are all super-reliable and frequently inspirational 'go-tos' for me on all matters political, in the context of what is obv. a dark time.

SV & goole I value for always being so well-informed on all sort of current events & trends, and also being able to succinctly and pithily summarise e.g near-eastern domestic politics or obscure factions of online crypto-fascist neer-do-wells for the rest of us.

dlh & NV can do this too, but what I really value them for is their ability to place events in a broader analytical framework and convincingly connect them with some kind of positive leftist narrative of change, but without slipping into sentimental pieties and platitudes. NV also a knack of putting forward analyses which prod me out of some of my more complacent, basically bourgeois reflexive assumptions (but without resorting to challops or falling into the trap of being 'provocative' for its own sake).

wow thanks Andy, nice to think that in amongst all my rubbish posts there's the odd one that speaks to somebody

the American politics threads boast my favorite posters.

But only this morning right

so long as Treeship isn't wringing his hands into a fine powder.

the American politics threads boast my favorite posters

smdh

Gotta find something else to do with my hands.

I've got a couple ideas

i don't post here very much anymore but the three regs above me are some of my faves (along with tombot and josh in chicago). go team :)

goole should get a grant to write a Rick Perlstein-style history of the alt-right/batshit online conservatism

I should pre-empt him with a Reagan bio.

I love Neanderthal for going on the friends and family no speak bcz trump thread and talking about wanting to glass a random drunk redneck, and all the other admissions that make me want to go "+1, x2, bro"

I love JJJ for taking my job as mod hardman and doing it actually well, and sharing his family and guitar knowledge with us like we matter one bit

I love Old Vague, Noodle Casino and Doctor Lunch the best, though. Top four posters

And anybody (qualmsley dude) who mentions me on this thread is secretly REALLY THANK YOU but also come on, shut up, naaahh.

You're too kind! But let's not forget Doctor Frogbius, fact checkin calzino, and Veg Raggrrl.

Are Frankensteinian experiments escaping from the create-a-super-ilxor thread and surpassing the people they're based on?

you are correct, Robert, Lord Gilmourson

certainly it would be "vag reggrrl", no?

gonna go with "no"

no accounting for taste i suppose

I guess I'm being fused with Alfred because I found his opinions and tastes so mysterious. All will be revealed.

i like chatting it up w/ mh on the topic of jeans and buying a house

I guess I'm being fused with Alfred because I found his opinions and tastes so mysterious. All will be revealed.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 1

lol nah you were nearby.

Am I so mysterious?

ulysses yr on notice

it's from a place of love veg!

ulysses yr on notice

I think she speaks for both of us.

lol

Am I so mysterious?

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 17:39

It might just be a result of the threads I frequent, not getting to see the bigger picture of Alfred.

I found Nakhchivan quite difficult to get an overall sense of him too.

Nakhchivan is a principle

nakhchivan - knows about wine; likes those weird places in eastern europe that are unrecognized by the international community; likes association football and wordplay; occasionally flips his shit and says some nasty shit to a poster he doesn't like

Gaz Coombes and Hitler loom large in his legend.

ha id forgotten about the gaz coombes thing

plays piano i think? at least when we have talked about liszt he has sounded like he was coming from a person who plays place

The best posters are never understood in their own time.

i clearly understand your point there.

I hope I can convey to marcos whether it's ok to buy used jeans someone smoked in

nakh's aesthetic is reasonably well-served with facebook-style context-free image posts but I miss the ilx version

I miss Search. Search was really good at telling you (when you wanted them -- gender neutral -- to) if someone was posting about you in another thread.

Nachkhivian was a blowhard nothing and none of his jokes made sense

high praise from darragh

he loved his ill manors

andy and flopson that is very humbling and kind, thank you. i'm just a guy whose office job is not demanding enough, i swear!

being a chronicler of extremity is kind of a crowded field atp... i fell into the rabbit hole early, but i have to admit the fate of a number of harassees that put their heads above water really put me off trying to take it further

i always liked nakh's posts as well, i thought he was long gone?

Nakh's moved onto his own universe. He wasted way too much time with us mortals already.

Pfft whatever

we're all mortal here c'mon

banaka cannot die