Say something nice about another ILXor

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.

Just hoping I enjoy hanging with you during these seeming end times as much as I enjoyed the begin times.

Honoured to be in just1n3’s list, also meant to say

I also enjoy his(?) posts, probably the poster I agree with most (besides wins, lol).

<3

just1n3 your ilx origin story is so great! i also started full time ilx duty around that time, also under somewhat lone internet wolf circumstances. sometimes you're just driftin' on the internet, and then you come along a messageboard and make a post, see what happens. i like that we've been in the same internet town for 13 years! honestly, i think the fact that i haven't shaved since i started feeling weird about 'coronavirus' is giving me this drifter mentality. it's hard to say what ilx was like in 2007, but it wasn't the wild west.

i'm high as hell, sorry. <3 you just1n3!

tomboto did something incredibly thoughtful and caring for me a couple years ago, as a surprise during some really dark days for me. i haven't had too many irl tears in general the last several years (which is weird because i used to cry at everything. i guess now that i'm a longtime ilx "drifter", some emotional states have gummed up the works, so to speak), but what he did was no nice, and i felt so undeserving at the time (feeling better now!), it was just...something else. anyway, he was already an all-timer before that but now i'm like robert redford/zack galafanakis nodding and giving the thumbs up in that one clip, in his direction, all the time. *tumbleweed and dust*

It’s like we went through all of school together
*hi-fives*
Some day you me and Jordan (my Jordan) will hang out and it’ll be great

Hard to ctrl-F for him, but Ed is a very smart, informed, concise and straightforward poster.

yeah Ed's a good 'un

He certainly is.

honorary pittsburgher

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

Seconded

thirded

otm x4
i feel like ilx is my "ace in the hole" when it comes to adapting to being on lockdown

i check here before i check the news tbh

you prefer hysterically unsourced twitter embeds?

no less hysterical than "the news"

*no more hysterical

i prefer to hear what my ***0nL1n3 Fr13Ndz*** are thinking and doing and seeing and then add that plethora of diverse experiences to what the media has to offer

plus, music.
speaking of which, shout out to the classical thread for providing the song that has best represented my internal voice for the past three weeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fug7Z7eHOts
(cenk ergün's Sonare as played by JACK Quartet... score notation begins with "IIx"!!!!)

Hard to ctrl-F for him, but Ed is a very smart, informed, concise and straightforward poster.

xp - i'm friends w/that dude -- haven't seen him in like 10 years tho

i check here before i check the news tbh

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, March 18, 2020 5:38 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yes, same. I don't post too much but have been here years and feel like I get sense out of the good people here.

cosine