thread suggestions to revitalize uk ilx

marcello curates a regularly updated and comprehensive review of baby changing facilities in exurban london shopping centres

online hardman writes a coruscating and blackly comic piece for vice in which he goes undercover cosplaying as a teenage feeder fan in order to solicit maudlin and histrionic quotes about the death of jon lee; ilx discusses the ethical implications

UK holds General Election for which every possible outcome is unbearably bleak

Cheers Nakh, more Joe bish territory iMO

the pinefox writes a haunting sebaldian reverie about his days spent travelling around bedsitland in search of the ghosts of the lost paradisiac age that was pre-9/11 uk ilx

someone does a thread called 'list of current ministers who aren't total bloody weapons' with the first post being LOCK THREAD

minimum unit price introduced on alcohol but only for jobseekers

A professional music writer says "eh?"

popular bands from 10 years ago that self-identified as being alternative

the ronaldinho bottle opener thread is referred to the criminal threads review commission in the light of new evidence offered by uk posters that ronaldinho may have been capable of consenting to his exaggerated portrayal after all

Pashmina posts thoroughly researched and impartial 250,000-word history of the still-fresh trauma that was the 2009 "ilx zing war", why it was important and what can be learned from it. Gets banned for "meta"

pash was the best moderator, would welcome his return

rolling dean burnett 2015

that era is fascinating to me xp

Zing wars or the Pashmina era?

Dapper Laughs trolls the board incognito as an EDL apologist for 6 months before accidentally outing himself on the Kasabian thread

ilx posters wonder why they hadnt sussed this 'kappa scarfs' poster before

assumed it was a Passantino sock

Marcello's twitter btw....christ.

2015 Hard House thread after the genre is awarded UNESCO world heritage status

Prince Harry announces that he intends to live as a big bottomed bird

I don't know who dapper laughs is

Was about to say...

He's a fucking LEGEND mate!!!

Also I like marcello

^^^ suspects #1 & #2

I don't know who anyone is anymore tbh

thread in which Tom D. and Tuomas discuss who people are

thread of internet protestor public schoolboys

something something NRQ

we don't need new threads let's just dig in and fortify Real England and London Realness and fp anyone who doesn't put in a fair day's posting.

assumed it was a Passantino sock

You mean he still posts?

yeah i think his DN is something about ships

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P87Z_r2WfZw&list=UUE28F7WMG2mqpbLokfIKsJg

BlackCountryBikeCam becomes a regular

Is this an extended version of the fake ILF poster thread?

This oughta teach those UK ex-posters driven away by joyless yet supercilious other posters not to be driven away, if that was indeed the case.

hoolie memoir book club

1000 times ^

This oughta teach those UK ex-posters driven away by joyless yet supercilious other posters not to be driven away, if that was indeed the case.

I'm still here though

joyless AND supercilious, get it right ffs

xelab lists everyone he hates and why, and wins c&ps that list to every thread about how hard it is to be an american adult male

Garu G write-in poll

Hi guys

hows things?

Eh, same old. WTF happened here? UK ILX decided to re-enact the end of The Italian Job or something?

:(

Even NV has gone I see

the end times

this is the sort of content uk ilx used to be able to provide

Throw one more vote in the "irony has a bad rep but is misunderstood" camp. In fact I don't think irony opposes sincerity at all; on the contrary it seems to me a necessary element of a sincere and humane worldview. This could just be a silly bias that is the product of my own experience. But I will say that expressions of "sincerity" (see how I can't avoid putting it in scare quotes in this context) without guile or irony put me on guard--I will doubt your sincerity the more sincere you are trying to convince me you are. This is why I can't stomach e.g., Mumford & Sons.

― zchyrs, Monday, 20 October 2014 00:18 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A good example of an artist I like who uses irony in a good way would be Andrew WK. His shtick seems so one-dimensional and trite on the surface, but when you listen to his music or see him live or consider his weird career trajectory, it becomes pretty clear that he is aware of the fact that he deploys a ridiculous shtick, and *the awareness of how ridiculous it all is* is what makes it so much fun. Not unlike a Quentin Tarantino movie, definitely a product of the "ironic" 90s. (I don't tend to associate the 90s with irony much because it was the decade of my childhood, and my perception of it all as it was going on was almost irony-free)

― zchyrs, Monday, 20 October 2014 00:26 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ohno_fite_ohno.jpg :(

Even NV has gone I see

― DG, Wednesday, October 22, 2014 5:11 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf,

...nah, he's gone, it's hopeless

nakh do you have any advice for future curators of uk ilx content?

Curator is an apt term as UK ILX does belong in some sort of museum.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/2005-07-12_-_United_Kingdom_-_England_-_London_-_The_London_Dungeon.jpg/300px-2005-07-12_-_United_Kingdom_-_England_-_London_-_The_London_Dungeon.jpg

do you have any advice for future curators of uk ilx content?

Don't talk about "Vice Magazine"

Tom D., what is your favourite situation comedy and also what's on your iPod?

Poll it

Bop it

controversial april 2015 thread in which ilx discusses the validity of theresa may's refusal to let mc bin laden into the uk for his debut performance at the ica

the ronaldinho bottle opener thread is referred to the criminal threads review commission in the light of new evidence offered by uk posters that ronaldinho may have been capable of consenting to his exaggerated portrayal after all

― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan)

<3

wait is that a ref to nakh

?

it's a short thread and ilx isnt exactly bursting with content buck, im not giving it away

are you speculating that nakh might be the ilxor at woof's wedding

my money is on a certain chimp

no the ref is ITT

the ilextra at woofs wedding is not a strawman that is all I know

oh obv ppl think nakh is joyless & superciliious. i find him to be merely the latter, and who doesn't raise their brow now and then

mine raise automatically its from a youth spent running into corners

professionalism tbh

lost

i suppose in fives they can just kick it off the boards back into play

oh ok

I meant like concrete walls and shit I was shortsighted and prone to rushes of blood when sprinting

like the gta bloke but with presumably lower-calibre firepower

wish i'd had a spud gun at all times as a kid tbh

Turn back on fps