Say something nice about another ILXor

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

i fell asleep to a four hour documentary about ‘80s horror last night and didn’t look at my phone once, but unfortunately i shot out of bed at 4:30 am and decided to look at good ol ilx

regardless it was still probably the least bad place on the internet to read about what was happening, i am v thankful for y’all today

Said it before, but I appreciate Neanderthal both because he talks a lot of sense, but also because I can really relate to his rare moments when the anxiety takes over.

I appreciate you too jon, and I feel like sometimes I start having a go at things in general, it might come across as me going at you but it never is - plus you have good taste in music ;).

I am very embarrassed about my outburst last night and that is unfortunately what my anxiety does to me. amazed i haven't been beat up more often.

jon is good people, Karl is good people, Brad is good people

we're all good people

none of us are good people

i've seen all good people

Man I think we are all forgiven our anxieties this week, it's all good. It's part of why I had to duck out of the politics thread earlier this week, it felt like a lot of people had (at that point, anyway) found their zen and were sniping a little at people who brought in this anxiety. Which I get, but I mean, it's helpful to express it too.

I love the lot of you.

with me if I start wigging out, it's usually because the thing someone is saying to me, rational or not, is sparking my own fear, and I am trying to quell that fear.

most of my eccentric posts are to convince myself as much as other people lol.

https://youtu.be/AH0AXa75nWw?t=206

http://youtu.be/AH0AXa75nWw?t=206

one of these days anyway

and you're alright too, hadrian

<3

it's because it's a 'shortened' youtube URL - you have to convert it to the full URL

drives me nuts when I'm on mobile because mobile always shortens the URL and I have to go to the same website to figure out how to write the full URL

ok here goes for posterity (!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH0AXa75nWw&feature=youtu.be&t=206&ab_channel=KarlG