Say something nice about another ILXor

i’m very pro simon

oh that's good cause I am solidly pro-brad!!!!

Alfred and Brad are both solid posters that I enjoy tremendously.

I'd kiss you all but #socialdistancing

the fact that dmac is so beloved here despite some centristy sentiments is a testament to his charm. i always look for his posts (that are not about football or ireland)

(in b4 dmac charmingly objects that i'm missing his best work)

ur loss

'centristy'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur

Every woman who still posts here, AFAB or not, helps me be a better person. I tried to make a list of notables but it got long, and then I realized I would inevitably leave someone out or far worse, deadname somebody by accident.

I also recognize that “help tombot be a better person” is probably as far as possible from the real reason anybody still posts here, just pointing out a side effect that I personally appreciate.

El Tomboto is man enough to be helped by a woman who posts on the internet

you're a fuckin burrito my g

you're a fuckin bison my nae nae

noble creature etc etc

you guys would make a delicious child

I can’t tell if burrito generation is being snarky at me or not. I’ve had a couple tonight, feel like I never contribute to this thread, just trying to be a sincere doofus on a messageboard as I muddle my way through this meaningless existence

I was ftr

bison chili is good, I just made a batch a week ago. Might be all I eat for dinner for a while!

unless you can get some very online women (VOWs) to come over and help you chow down on that chili batch mmm

yeah girl you can eat this here bowl's diminutive chili amount, but I, the man, will eat this MUCH LARGER AMOUNT mmm yeah

I’m glad my post turned this thread into another place for people to flame each other. Seems utterly predictable in retrospect tbf.

all hate is threadbanned from here

it seems like people with grievances about gender-based chili bowl size disparities should really start a dedicated thread for those

over here wondering if somebody deadnamed chili

I can just share the latest recipe with everyone and they can pick their own serving sizes. If I can say one nice thing about every ilxor it’s that they’ve earned the right to my carefully tuned chili recipe

Tombot tbrr I thought u were a dick way back in the day but now I think u r a cool + smart guy and I'm glad ur here and I think it is beautiful how people and their opinions of other people can change and grow if we allow it to be so, namaste

Maybe over the quarantine I can go back to working on the vegetarian version some more, too

I told Tombot to suck my dick once in a heated thread but i fought with everyone in 07

Tombot is good ppl

I attempt. I’m generally a lucky schmuck with anger issues

our own maron

Can we just go back to my post and stop making this about me

sure. You do the thing? Who are your guys? Flag the post!

Wait who are your guys?

the guys I’m talking about are all women

I have zero guys, I banned all my guys in 2008 I think

i feed my hungry guys bison burritos

no sarcasm response, thank you tombot! i try not to be sensitive or jealous or solicit praise but i'm gonna be totally honest, i've sort of been lurking on this thread a while just in case somebody is motivated to say something nice about me, so i'm glad you did!

tombot is underrating himself itt, others are also underrating tombot itt

^^^^ on this. Really happy that Tombot is back around these parts.

can't believe i missed the chili talk

Fave posters whose posts I always pay attention to, think are smart kind and funny:
Vegemitegirl
A passing space cadet
Sarahell
Karl Malone
Noodle vague
Silby
Simon h
Yerac
Old lunch
Bizarro
Mookie
Dmac
Enbb
Map
Neanderthal
Wins
J.
Rushomancy
Elvis telecom
Estela, obviously

Lots more but it’s 3.30am so

When I first joined ilx 13 yrs ago it was exactly the same time I really started using the internet - I’d literally only used it to check my email once a year. But I got my first computer and dived right in. Not even sure how I found this place. Anyway, I was extremely immature, knew nothing about being *online* in terms of community, was going through a v difficult patch where I wasn’t sleeping or eating on any kind of regular basis, posted a lot without thinking (I hit delete way more often than I hit publish these days). But ilx was generally pretty forgiving of my idiocy and I made some great friends here (still surprises me that anyone wanted to befriend 2007 me), met a bunch of you in person, and ilx has definitely made me a smarter person (although I still feel like I’m the dumbest person on any thread I post to). The last few years my depression-thread buddies have been a particularly amazing source of support.

Ugh how did I forget harbl
<3 harbl

<3 wish u posted more obv

well i tend to shy away from these threads because i don't have a memory for names and because i have gotten a lot out of the posts of most people here, but i do want to specifically say that two people here, reading about their experiences really helped me a lot when i was in a difficult place - big ups to Eliza D. and Branwell.

<3 justin3

Eliza D. = high-quality human

Agree

a general shout out to everyone who makes this one of the sanest places on these here intertubes \m/

Seconded. I arrived here during one form of self-quarantine, viz. post-natal care, will be checking in periodically during this other one, I guess.