Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post on the "Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here" thread - put them here

Do you even differentiate between what you post on the actual threads and what you put here? Is it just a random percentage? Is this so we can all have a look-see at the angel's share of your fine barrel-aged curmudgeonly predictableness?

Tom that is a beautifully written post I gotta say, seriously

Seconded. Best thread ever.

misère en abyme

It's actually just for posts you has second thoughts about posting to that one thread what's the issue here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiSKXxWgA4w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Xsj9-3Pvo

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/theamericans/images/4/45/The_Americans.jpeg

l-r: me, Treesh

hahahah

both looking pretty good

yet to see evidence of first thought tbh

if you're going to make it obvious what you are subposting there is no pt to bumping the second thoughts thread just post it in the original thread

spontaneous beef is a rare commodity nowadays

most people are savvy enough to not run into beef when the opponent has more pieces attacking the beef square, as is usually the case. manoeuvring for an opportunity can be arduous and you have to have the full measure of the beefee before making the fateful move

Putting the beef t into posing

beeefffeee

as I'm sure we'll all find out

Oh wrong thread ffs fuck you dead search function

Do we know anyone else like that do we i think we do but do we hmm.

I forgot there was a "second thoughts about second thoughts thread" thread so I posted that here anyway.

The above is the text of a post I had second thoughts about posting to the second thoughts thread, in respect of a post I'd posted to the second thoughts thread in response to another post on the second thoughts thread. If only I'd posted my first response here both my subsequent post to the second thoughts thread and this post would not have been necessary and we'd all have saved some time.

It was about bannisters, and balustrades.

slippery slope huh

^watch-list!

Oh wrong thread again FFS, can we just lock this one

HIIIIIII-YA!

"I'm afraid that I was very, very drunk"? ;)

LJ hie thee to the cluiche cheannais thread btw

Can't even post it itt tbh

Can't believe an ilxor knows any of those obv

I never hied to the GAA thread

Became a Flann O'Brien fan instead, hope that'll do

The gaa is actually one of the pillars it's ok not to have grasped in order to fully get FOB I think.

But you really should his thee for other reasons

I was going to post something like 'I was going to post something like "I wonder what musicians have to do to get a good review on AMG" on the Weinstein thread but it's no joking matter' on the second thought about thread, but it's all too serious and I don't know what offends people anymore.

Otm

EASY NOW TYSON EASY NOW

We know of no spectacle as ridiculous

That age tbf

()

why can you say "they should be blinded" but not "they should be deafed"

deafened?

Soundly defeated

probably shd've said "they should be visually impaired"

Blound?

emblindened

blindicated

i

deocularized?

depercussionated

"shown the wonder"

Oh good you two have met

c3p0, r2d2 and bb8 are bad and you should all feel bad

"whatever you do: don't be yourself"

How do you know they weren’t written by a music critic getting paid by Apple?

I don't think an Authentic Self exists, Kate!

― hungover beet poo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

sort of me too. except i think i have a bunch of different "authentic selves", which may or may not be effective to lean into at any given moment.

I just want to mention that I don't think I ever achieved a lot of relative "cred" with the ilx "clique", but I am proud of the fact that I at least

credibility is just the stock market for emotions. poptimism was the 90s tech boom.

In the worst writing thread I missed the first bit about Joshua Clover so did a double take of

Did Clover champion country music?

AND

Gavin Newsom likes Huey Lewis & the News

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clover_(band)

The Newsom post was a reference to American Psycho

Does no-one use the "Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here" thread anymore?

it was locked, iirc

Not enough second thought

Straight up now tell me do you really wanna have second thoughts about posting to the second thoughts thread forever

before posting you must first confront and overcome a recursive labyrinth of self-doubt, otherwise it probably wasn't worth sharing

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

Straight up now tell me do you really wanna have second thoughts about posting to the second thoughts thread forever

so as a thought experiment, to start a debate, let's say we make a time machine and go back to 1930 and shoot Hitler in the neck, would that be a good thing? go on, debate me, what are you scared of?

https://i.imgur.com/4flYr0y.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dj6udCPF5M

I've been practicing in case Adrian Chiles dies and The Guardian needs a new columnist. This is what I came up with. I started at 10:27 and it's now 10:34. Hit it.

"Over the last few weeks I've been using a new body spray. This morning I took the time to read the writing on the front. DEO Body Spray it said. It struck me. What does DEO stand for? And then I felt old, because it's just another one of those modern things that pass me by, like MILF and SMS. One moment they're random strings of letters. The next moment everyone under the age of seventeen is nattering on about them. Where do they get it from? I blame Twitter. Madame Is Lusty Fox. Super Messages, Sassy. What does it matter.

When I was young we used full sentences, with punctuation. Because clear writing is the sign of a clear mind. Have you ever had to deal with a complex problem, such as the global economy or the future of humanity? A lesser man would founder but I can clearly delineate the path of our future. Because I can break those problems down into clear, concise elements, as if they were Meccano components. And so, dear reader, I can see the future, and you can see the future through my eyes.

But it haunted me. DEO. Dust... no, it's a body spray. Is it an American legal term, like 420? Is it Spanish? Obviously it isn't French, but perhaps it's a pan-European packaging term added for legal reasons. A relic of the time before a tiny majority of stupid people in the north decided that Ashley Pomeroy had to use a different and slower passport control line when he flies back to his home in France. Was it a stupid abbreviation aimed at foreign kids? The kind of screeching, empty-headed inhuman little fucks who gather to smoke in the car park behind my garden despite my entreaties to the local Conseil that the smoke is making my dogs ill.

Then it dawned on me. It wasn't an acronym at all. And before you complain I am fully aware that I'm actually talking about an initialism. Well done. In any case it dawned on me. It dawned on me. DEO. Deo. Deodorant. Deodorant. The packaging was trying to help me, in its stupid way.

Did I take this moment to reflect on my mistakes? No, because I am not capable of making a mistake. But nonetheless I was chastened. Today I will see the world with fresh eyes, and tomorrow I will share with you the secret of manhole covers."

Gloria

In excelsis DEOdorant

“The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible,”

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/f9/34/2f/f9342f9da3914e596a544e308ea6b5cf.jpg

Not even worth pointing out pot/kettle similarities… in terms of cognitive dissonance, there is so much worse atm

so hear me out...

we get mangione acquitted. in a totally chaotic neutral mangione move, he gets in cahoots with kirk's assassin, and they finagle a landslide against trump/vance. in a move to show a commitment to unity, mangione takes the veep. but the run was a gamble; the verdict comes through the day after inauguration, and damn, hail to the now-incarcerated chief. chain of command being what it is: mangione is prez. lol shitpost assassin ftw.

thank you for reading my media analysis podcast.

all that to say: fuck Emmanuel Goldstein!

we're all in horrible danger

I think your use case problem is akin to my pathways problem

"just here for the show", as it were.

also i apologize for the level of crass and cynicism in my above postings. not directed at anyone, giggling crazily at myself the whole way. what a world.

The shadow raised its arm, and instinctively Bond took cover. The dart missed him by inches.

Bond drew his Walter and rolled clear. He fired, twice. And a third time just to make sure.

I know who sent you, thought Bond. Besides which that was a very nice couch. Buzzini. The exquisite stitching of the leather was unmistakeable. It would have been a shame to ruin it.

Bond turned to his partner, but it was too late. The dart had struck his little plastic spout. Cheeseoid's robotic eyes were already fading.

"CHEESE", said Cheesoid, struggling to speak. "CHEESE".

"No, you fucking moron", said Bond. "It isn't cheese. Jesus Fucking Christ."

rest well stirmonster.

i'm not saying i'm an average case scenario, but it's kind of cool that even though i never knew him in person, he's yet another example of a guy from glasgow who had nothing but violence and intolerance in his heart for misogyny and alpha male dickhead bullying. keep up the great work, glasgow!

Maybe we can start another thread to have an argument about it, that's one way I like to unwind.

lol

I was in a meeting yesterday and I was asked what’s on your iPod

lol ok

Thought focusing so much on lyrics was rockism?

careful now

Thought focusing so much on lyrics was rockism?

― Mr. T's Ballroom (Boring, Maryland), Monday, October 6, 2025 11:25 AM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

no one has ever seriously argued this

if this is about taylor swift then i just want to say that she comes from a tradition (pop-country) where lyrics matter and that was how she distinguished herself from the very beginning her career. ok

I would say focusing on music with lyrics has been argued to be rockism, not so much focusing on lyrics maybe apart from that Pitchfork review that criticised the lyrical depth of the words "where's your head at"

did she really nick the "where is my mind" chord progression?

if this is about taylor swift then i just want to say that she comes from a tradition (pop-country) where lyrics matter and that was how she distinguished herself from the very beginning her career. ok

Fair!

xp - and interpolated “Gigantic” about Kelce’s hog

For reasons known only unto the userbase of RateYourMusic, The Life of a Showgirl has a score of 1.68/5 over there, which means that it's worse than Iggy Azalea's "Mo Bounce":
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/taylor-swift/the-life-of-a-showgirl/

One of the reviews, a really big one, is written in the style of a conversation with Taylor Swift.

Taylor Swift's career is a 3/5

When uploading albums to Bandcamp the other week I discovered that Hungarian has a diacritical mark I've never seen in any other language; it's like an umlaut except instead of dots it looks like a quotation mark sitting on top of the vowel, like this:

ő

How metal

i know that from the Erdős number

Fascinatingly his dad had two kind of umlaut in his name at different times, because in 1900 he renamed himself from Lajos Engländer to Lajos Erdős.

Presumably Engländer wasn't a fashionable surname in the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the turn of the century.

this makes me think there surely must be some relation to Sütterlin

this hurricane is so horrible but i've had kokomo stuck in my head all day.

loanword is a calque. calque is a loanword.

"earworm" is a calque. i feel better now. i'm going back to bed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJj-QsxPcu8

portmanteau is not a portmanteau