Now, obviously these threads just aren't for me. I'm just curious as to what the allure is. Also, what goes on in them these days? I had a quick glance through the most recent one and it looked pretty-much the same as in the beginning.
― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huk-L, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)
xpost: Huck is more of a 5cm virgin, but yeah.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)
Apparently.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)
Some have complained of there being a clique around this thread series, when there really isn't. I think we TITTWISers can all safely say that we encourage more people to come into the TITTWIS fray and never wish to become some sort of closed-door club, exclusive to all but a few. Really, anyone who is willing to participate in a thread that doesn't seek to prove anything or impart any sort of advanced cultural knowledge is welcome.
You know, the thread isn't even geographically specific. The "mongrels sheepfuxors" thread is a perfectly fine one because obv the Oceania contingency here have the right to communicate in a way the residents of those two countries would be able to understand, with all the regional lingo and references and all, but sometimes various bits of this forum get incredibly geographically specific to the point where if you don't live in a specific part of the U.S. or UK, you can't see how in the world you can work yourself into the thread. The TITTWIS threads transcend that.
I love TITTWIS, even when I can't find the time to keep up with it the way I'd like to. I welcome as many people as possible to it.
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)
(xpost) Chris -- yeah, he does. Yay for Ned the Flexible!
(Oh wait. That doesn't mean... that.)
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)
Barbies?
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)
you certainly couldn't include "Try Glasgow More" in this group.
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)
Here are a few (but not the only) threads on the New Answers page at the moment which I regard as 'my type' of ilx thread:
I don't understand the "This is the thread where I say..." threads. (obviously)ZORKBeyond cheapKNowing you've done something wrong, and waiting to be dealt with...Why don't you do drugs?Michael Douglas:The Angriest White Man?Hatred of ItunesGo!!What is the single greatest compliment you've ever recieved?
As you can probably see from that list, I'm not much into the conversational or cliquey threads. I guess I get enough "hey how you doin'? that's nice" and real-life drama stuff in my life offline.
My only problem with those threads (which I don't read at all) is that some of the people who do participate in them always have to critique the rest of ILE as some big-bad scary place that they need to protect themselves from or something.
OTM.
― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)
And yes, some people do sometimes give off a "youre not doing it right" vibe that might engender the creation of threads like these - some comments on this thread are perhaps a good example of that.
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)
Vive la difference! Different threads for different freds.
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)
I suppose it's fine just as long as that mentality stays within those type of threads. I guess I should consider it a good thing that these threads exist for people that feel the urge to post anything for the sake of posting (note I'm not condemning this).
― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)
(wow, i hope those scary guys have gone)
― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)
But that's all of us on every thread! (Well, sorta.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)
The best threads I've read on ILX have been populated heavily by people who have an active interest in participating in a thoughtful discussion of an interesting topic.
― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)
xpost
― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― ron (ron), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huk-L, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)
The original TITTWIS thread was started 16 months ago (!) with more or less exactly the same group of 20 or so people posting - think how far the nascent ILE had come as a community in that timespace. How is that not a real community (or as real as you can get on the internet, and by extension was ILE ever a community, even when it was much smaller)?
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)
For me, the entire Net is a fake community. It makes me scratch my head that all you folks are getting so bent out of shape over ANY social bullshitting thread. Do you *honestly* give a shit? Gah.
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)
I don't get why this is such an issue - I didn't think Andrew was being an asshole - you want to know, you want to know. End of story. I am not intimidated by much of anything, and certainly nothing on ILx. I guess, in the end, all it is is a thread about nothing...like many, many others around. It just happens to be an ONGOING thread about nothing. Boring if you aren't into it? Sure. Hell, it's bored me sometimes, but I started it, so I keep up with it. It's not for everyone, and it's okay if you think it's excruciating to read, banal, or just plain fucking dumb. It isn't for you. No harm, no foul.
Andrew asked, I think he's explained himself and everyone else has explained themselves, too, so really, can't we file this under 'asked and answered' and get on with it?
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)
I get a vibe, sometimes, that certain communities are encouraged on ILX, and others not, but I'm not really seeing any patterns, annoyingly. Like, every Sinist*r thread seems to attract outside attack, but perhaps that's because Sinist*r is a big enough part of ILX for outsiders to feel actually threatened? Whereas you list the Go thread (thanks for the big-up!), where it's pretty much just six-or-so people posting back and forth (new people come come come session tonight, though) as one you like. And a similar thing kinda happens with the occasional freakouts abt SECRET AIM CLIQUES, like on the Boarish thread.
― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)
I am so not a fan of CLIQUEFEAR. Yir ontae plums wi' that.
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)
I would assert that the safeness, cosiness, tweeness or whatever of it makes it *more* real in some ways - it may be emo and moany but fuck, that's because it's what the posters are really like. It's a place to express what you're thinking whether it's funny, banal, angry, upset or just to pass the time - and because everyone there is so comfortable with each other, it's necessarily less try-hard than a lot of other threads.
That doesn't mean it's better, though - there isn't a qualititative comparison to be made. I love Ally but I wouldn't want her on the thread - it's clear she doesn't feel anything in common with the vibe there. Which is great - I get my Ally fix elsewhere.
― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)
I've been here for two and a half years, and been meeting people for over two, and I've not seen any significant sign of cliques. There are groups of close friends, who like each other's company best, but that's absolutely inevitable and universal within any larger group, and I've never had the sense of their wanting to exclude anyone.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)
-real life (i know nothing about this)-ilx and other message boards-things where people pretend to pass each other beers and give them hugs-mud's and chatrooms
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)
haha but then you wouldn't get the chance to bitch about it over and over and over.
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateur!!stroll, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)
I needed this, 'coz you're my raison d'etre for first staying and now I know none other will do as it's over and I should no longer pretend. Regardless, after remembering this MAYBE the Madonna fight was as good a thread. But they're kind of like the pantheon of thread excellence I am proud to have contributed to something worthwhile! I miss Alfonso (but not Jefireeze). Maybe I'll make your list someday, even if it's not the very nice people one.
The check is in the mail - goodnite poochums!
― Vic (Vic), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)