Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

it's a good day to bite into a bar of soap and recalibrate

I went to a takeaway snack shop once and everything tasted like soap, made me feel pretty sick too, wouldn't recommend

eating soap in a motel 6 is the ultimate staycation detox event

weird, this morning a guy sitting next to me in the subway said the same thing, unprompted

I nodded

that guy was just hoping you'd respond with something related to cilantro. because his cilantro story is incredibly good

everywhere he goes, he contrives new reasons to talk about soap, which is of course just the bait for his cilantro story

what if cilantro DOES taste like soap and some ppl just don’t have the soap receptors, poor suckers

Isn't that how asparagus pee works?

They don't have asparagus pee receptors?

I don't believe cilantro has a different taste to different people, I just think some people are not willing to expand their horizons to be adventurous about taste

as someone who dislikes cilantro despite not being genetically predisposed against it: fuck off

omg will these troglodytes ever become adventurous? will they agree to love things they dislike?

gtfo

also take this entire thing to the cheese borad ffs

:)

i know!

if it truly tastes like soap, let the soap taster cake themselves in mud and then wash themselves clean with only one bunch of cilantro.

Ilx would be a very different place if we had communists, plural, rather than the Reddit definition of “eVeRyOnE tO tHe LeFt Of Me Is A cOmMuNiSt”

why the camelcase? does this inhibit searches or something

No

Ilx would be a very different place if we had communists, plural, rather than the Reddit definition of “eVeRyOnE tO tHe LeFt Of Me Is A cOmMuNiSt”

― barry sito (gyac)

i'm plural but i'm not a communist. well, wait. maybe one of us is. she changes her mind a lot.

viborg or table or someone called me a tankie, that's as good as a CPUSA membership card isn't it?

viborg or table or someone called me a tankie, that's as good as a CPUSA membership card isn't it?

― papal hotwife (milo z)

god, if it worked like that there would be fuckin' nazis everywhere

oh shit

I mean, there kind of are nazis everywhere.

viborg or table or someone called me a tankie, that's as good as a CPUSA membership card isn't it?

I mean, there kind of are nazis everywhere.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)

that was the joke

it's funny, ha ha, see? the entire world is run by fuckin' nazis

comedy gold

Fwiw you were doing a very tankie thing— waving away Chinese fascism and oppression in the service of attacking US goals that are anti-China. I merely pointed out that you can be against Chinese intrusion into Taiwan and also be against US policy goals in China.

― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table)

i have a sincere request

can we please not relitigate this whole thing

i grant the point that it is entirely possible, though by no means certain, that milo z is a tankie

just to be on the safe side, please nobody give milo z any tanks

xp Sorry Kate, I'm much slower on the uptake than I used to be.

no worries, personally i think there are upsides to my being slower than i used to be. taking one's time is a good thing, but i wouldn't ever do it if i wasn't so old now that i don't really have a choice in the matter!

Fwiw you were doing a very tankie thing— waving away Chinese fascism and oppression

That didn't happen, though. Here's what I actually said before viborg called me a tankie, to refresh your memory: "Heightening tensions with China is so fucking stupid." "Anti-imperialism is when you threaten war on the (other) side of the world on behalf of your client state."

to kill a dragon

Okay, that’s fine.

Frankly, kate, i’ll post however the hell i want about whatever i want.

i have a funny story about tankies IRL

maybe it's not that funny ... it is more kinda lol but mostly sad ... anyway, not gonna post it but my ilxmail works

I don’t want to call anyone “shitass”, but I do want to enquire about why people who can’t follow basic TV plot points watch so fucking much of it.

time to rank the best-loved tropes in ilx pop-critical rhetoric and how *they* changed between 2000, 2010 and 2020

oh!

Oh Tropage Up Yours!

you can't quote your own post before rewriting it, that doesn't work

Okay, that’s fine.

Frankly, kate, i’ll post however the hell i want about whatever i want.

― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table)

fair enough! it was a request, not a demand :)

if yr email isn't actually robot@ilxor then I can't contact you unless you give me your contact info

How is any of this relevant to the fact that Shohei Ohtani deserves to be MVP? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'd rather listen to DMB than Pavement or Modest Mouse, any day of the week. At least getting stoned with a bunch of dumb jock hippies is hot and fun instead of a bummer of old bongwater and PBR.

when I saw MM in 2001 there was massive frat energy… the shins opened and all these fratty guys were heckling them and mockingly shouting “Dave Matthews Band!!”.

Had no idea ohtani released an album in the 90s

Perhaps mods could change the thread name to "Novelists No One Reads Anymore (EXCEPT GINORMOUS DORKS)"

Which would effectively be all novelists, because only ginormous dorks read novels anymore

You could just as well have posted that on the original thread. Except maybe then some mod might have taken it seriously so probably better this way.

His girlfriend isn't that young.

Yeah I don't really mean it, James

Dorks read ginormous novels*fixed*

AND HE STOPPETH ONE OF THREE

alternately, [dead male rockstar] may consider whether he might possibly benefit from confronting his own misogyny, given that he seems to view his own "thwarted, sensitive" , "too wounded to be threatening" traits as evidence of womanhood