Say something nice about another ILXor

Do you know what I mean?

all my people right here right now

Appeared on this thread with a plan to say something along the lines of "I really appreciate loads of people on here who respond to posts and I don't really know who you are" (There was a point where I recognised people - could link posts to real names but not so much now)and then I read the above stuff. It would be weird to name people but ta.

i really love this board and i love all of you. i don't know what kind of person i would be without ilx's massive influence, but i know i would be worse off.

Same. I want to like crüt's post a thousand times.

i love you too, ilxor.

It has never been perfect, but at its considerable best it is so much better than so much else.

It's true.

otm

Sometimes you’re like UGH but then you look at the rest of the internet and hold on for dear life

yeah, i just stopped by a movie site where a week-old post about "the liberal agenda of race-mixing" remains pasted like used toilet paper to their forum and remains only somewhat challenged. it's an ugly ol' internet.

Seriously. The amount of verbal sewage that festers on video game websites in particular is kind of staggering.

to think my buddy Oystein told me about this place and I only joined initially to troll Geir

Which ILM Poster am I?

so like, should I get an "OTM" tramp stamp or ...

― sarahell, Thursday, 22 October 2020 17:32 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

is otm an ilx thing?

trademarked by nabisco iirc

to think my buddy Oystein told me about this place and I only joined initially to troll Geir

Every time someone trolls on ILX they move one step closer to acquiring Norwegian citizenship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfQ8-aZx-2M

TS Askeladden vs. The Troll in An Eating Contest

One time when I was still attempting to learn Norwegian I was talking to a well-known Norwegian-American writer about her father’s grammar book- she was telling me he never lost his accent until the day he died- which seemed to make her better-known Francophile writer husband a bit jealous. He was a cinephile too, I used to see him around at screenings, although I never saw him and Morbius in the same room.

Wait, are you Norwegian too? Does that mean there are four of you?

― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, October 23, 2020 2:56 PM bookmarkflaglink

nah, but he used to post on Satan Stole My Teddybear and write reviews there, as did I for a few years

zchyrs is a very good poster imo. i always make too many jokes about how our names are (or seem to be) so similar, but it really is kind of bizarre because their background seems to be very similar to my own, down to age and conservative upbringing. it's hard to explain, but the effect is of seeing like an alternate reality version of myself that composes great ilx posts and seems to be doing well and a good person. it's nice! so cheers to you, zchyrs. may the 2020s be the decade of great prosperity for Z's throughout the world

is otm an ilx thing?

Yes, it's very frustrating because I get the impulse to say "person x OTM" in other corners of the internet all the time.

echoing KM's post :)

Awww, thanks KM & fgti. It's cheering to read that on kind of a dismal morning. I think y'all are rad too.

one thing i like about old lunch is that we share a visceral, intuitive understanding of metaphor of someone taking a shit on your dining room table and pretending like everything is normal

some, but not all, of the turmoil of the last 5 years has been the sensation of sitting at that table in the immediate aftermath of what happened, before you even have time to scoot out your chair and stand, and half the table has no problem with the situation at all

just saying, in 100 years, "someone shit at your table" is going to be on the level of "6 in one hand, half a dozen in another" in terms of ubiquity. and it's all because of old lunch

*hugs*

true on many levels

the table is the table, after all

hetfield is the table

best hetfield this debate for another time

Lol

Neanderthal is a righteous dude

aw thanks YMP ;). yr pretty dope yrself

he sure is!

Like both those dudes

It was a rough night with emotions running high but you folks have been a been a beacon of... relative sanity? Or, as much sanity as can be expected under the circumstances?

Not sure how to put it, but thanks.

Seconding this; I didn't post anything in the politics thread because I don't feel I know enough to weigh in, but I lurked on it all evening, and you all kept me somewhat sane and helped me make sense of the news as it was coming in. So thank you!

I want to commend harbl for being almost perpetually otm about political and ethical issues. I've definitely questioned my assumptions and kneejerk responses as a result.

lol. me? are you sure?

i rarely post more than one sentence, it's like i'm not even here

who's posting. i see text but

your sentences are v good

Seconding this; I didn't post anything in the politics thread because I don't feel I know enough to weigh in, but I lurked on it all evening, and you all kept me somewhat sane and helped me make sense of the news as it was coming in. So thank you!

― Lily Dale

i agree. i mean, it was a sad thread to read and sometimes frustrating, but i don't know of any better place to be during such a stressful night.

also it would be great to have your thoughts there, even if you feel like you know enough. i never know what i'm talking about, so it's nice to have company :)

sorry, even if you feel like you ^don't^ know enough, i meant

people who think they "know enough" are always wrong imo

I'm glad my husband got me off the internet relatively early— we were drunk and high and made weird electronic music from like 8:30-11p, which was bedtime....and I skipped through the thread this morning because of a clusterfuck moment that I wasn't having...

that said, I really do appreciate many of you for keeping things updated and in perspective.

Neanderthal is a righteous dude

― balsamic jihad (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, November 4, 2020 2:54 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

hard agree