Is there such a thing as an "ironic" crush?

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No, really, is there?

If you can like music ironically, can you be attracted to a person ironically?

― kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I develop inappropriate attractions frequently, mostly to pas the time. I have no interest in getting to know the people, as they already excel at the roles they play in my life.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 11 November 2002 20:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I have people that I like to look at. I'm not attracted to them in any way, other than their general funnylookingness. I want funnylooking children.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Monday, 11 November 2002 20:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I swear, sometimes I think I only develop crushes to make the day go faster.

― kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 20:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate, that's very perverse.

Also, it sounds like fun.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 11 November 2002 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I misread this as "ionic". I was expecting HOT QUANTUM ACTION.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 November 2002 20:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Like hanging out with retarded kids?

― jm, Monday, 11 November 2002 21:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I knew this was Kate. This is the problem with irony. Ironically, it refuses to stay that way.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 11 November 2002 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah it is, i totally have one.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 11 November 2002 23:03 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm well aware, mitch.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 11 November 2002 23:12 (twenty-three years ago)

It may be possible to have an ironic crush, but it's not possible to have an ironic erection.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 11 November 2002 23:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I like that sentence more than anything you've ever said Momus.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 11 November 2002 23:34 (twenty-three years ago)

but jess how did you "know"?

i think i got an email last week promising me an ironic erection.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 11 November 2002 23:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I like that sentence more than anything you've ever said Momus.

Thanks, Ronan! I just know I'm going to read a review somewhere of a record of mine, or a record on one of my labels, and find that sentence used against me!

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 00:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Felicity that is a bon mot of Wildean stature! Ironic crushes...I never, liked someone who looked midwestern just because I thought that I also looking midwestern and he could make an ironically midwestern looking couple...

Segue: Is there such a thing as an ironic couple? Yes, here in New Yawk, ironic couplings are perhpas the mean... Though perhaps I have been on the LES too long, sort of like being on the lam, for you Brits out there...

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 00:54 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.theonion.com/onion3544/ironic_porn_purchase.html

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 00:58 (twenty-three years ago)

All of my crushes with straight men are ironic -- by necessity.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 01:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Re: Maria's Onion link.

Ha ha, it's Jess, getting off on Vice but in front of his friends going 'Isn't this the dumbest thing ever?'

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 01:24 (twenty-three years ago)

momus, i'm beginning to think you have some sort of financial stake in vice. outside of the "critical support", of course.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 01:30 (twenty-three years ago)

It may be possible to have an ironic crush, but it's not possible to have an ironic erection.

I don't believe that this is at all true.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 01:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Jess. No, but what really lies behind my attitude is an admiration for Williamsburg. I hate it when people attack the labs where people are preparing future styles. And that's what Williamsburg is, to me. (Like Mitte, like Harajuku, like Menilmontant, like Shoreditch, recently satirised in TV show 'The Shoreditch Twat' in the UK.)

Now I know why people attack the cliquey and often pretentious behaviour that goes on in these 'labs'. Of course trustafarians play a part, and can be obnoxious. But I think people who can't participate are often just jealous that they aren't able to get into the playpark. So they pretend it's stupid, and stand outside throwing stones.

Maybe we should start a new thread. 'Let's talk about Style Lab areas.'

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 01:35 (twenty-three years ago)

B-but Momus, Williamsburg and Harajuku are soo over! Don't you know the current labwork is being done in Red Hook and Nakameguro?

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 01:39 (twenty-three years ago)

heh, you know momus i went to art school, lived in nyc, and dj'd. so it probably wouldn't have been a great leap to end up in williamsburg/electroclash/nu-pigfuck by now had i a. cared to and b. stayed on the east coast. that is, if the jealousy argument rings troo. (and lord knows i'm pretentious and part of the "media elite".)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 01:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Let's talk about Style Lab Areas.

Don't you know the current labwork is being done in Red Hook and Nakameguro?

Ha ha, you're right, Mary, which is why I'm sitting in Nakameguro right now!

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 01:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Blimey! When you think you've got him, hoisted on his own petards as it were, he comes back with a saving riposte. Organic Cafe then is it, Mr. Currie?

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)

See you there in twenty, Mary!

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 02:55 (twenty-three years ago)

ANYWAY there is a huge sexual tension between me and a coworker not because we really have one, but because everyone thought something happened between us and it really amuses the hell out of me, so I've cultivated this electricity for no reason other than an inside joke. I think that qualifies but is it really ironic?

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:36 (twenty-three years ago)

shoreditch momus? you have been out of the country for a while havent you? thats where office workers go to listen to groove armada and bar hits cds!

suzy, robin, momus, jess, kate, dave q, dr c, and everyone else in world ever to thread.

gareth away from thread...swiftly

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 09:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Momus, get off my thread! You've ruined it by turning it all psuedointellectualwankvicemagazine when all I wanted was good dirty fun (and pictures of Julian Casablancas' ass.)

It's official, Shoreditch is over. The haircuts are all wrong. I'm getting the hell out of here.

(I have also decided to take a break from the internet for a while because it's really not doing me any good, and I suspect it's only making my current poor mental state much, much worse. Take care and I'll see you all later.)

― kate, Tuesday, 12 November 2002 09:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Will someone let me know when East Ham (my home) becomes a major trendy centre? I'm afraid that it will happen and I won't even notice.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

I have been perving secretly, inappropriately and completely unethically on opposing counsel all week because the hearing is extremely dull and I have only mundane responsibilities in it.

When opposing counsel hands me my copy of the gigantic oversize chart, he mentions that he taped it together himself. When I hand opposing counsel our settlement calculations he says I am confusing him.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:52 (twenty-three years ago)

i have like a dozen right now, and i'm pretty sure they're all related to ilx in one way or another

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Aw, thanks Jess. :-) Oh wait, not me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:56 (twenty-three years ago)

ARRRGGGH.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:57 (twenty-three years ago)

*flees*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:57 (twenty-three years ago)

The transcript will also reflect opposing counsel's belief that because of the possible storm tomorrow we should all exchange phone numbers.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:58 (twenty-three years ago)

nice!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 27 February 2003 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Perhaps I should call opposing counsel's cell phone and tell him that because of the storm the gigantic exhibit blew apart so he better come over and tape it togather again.

I am, or course, joking.

IT IS SICK, WRONG AND UNETHICAL

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 27 February 2003 00:02 (twenty-three years ago)

*insert "briefs" joke here*

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 27 February 2003 00:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeowch, Felicity! That's a very good ploy...

togather = Felicity just visualised him bending over, with TAPE.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 27 February 2003 00:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Luckily, the chairs at the hearing are of the extremely stable, rolling variety.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 27 February 2003 00:05 (twenty-three years ago)

if you ask me you're being a bit jurisprudish

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 27 February 2003 00:07 (twenty-three years ago)

(i'll get me coat)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 27 February 2003 00:08 (twenty-three years ago)

(door hits jess' ass on the way out)

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 27 February 2003 00:09 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/bgr0060l.jpg

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 25 November 2007 03:47 (eighteen years ago)

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 November 2007 05:08 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

It may be possible to have an ironic crush, but it's not possible to have an ironic erection.

It's too bad I don't have a penis, because I could totally prove this wrong.

I was wondering who my ironic crush was up there, but then remembered. Oh good lord.

It's happening again. If you pretend to be something for long enough, you will eventually become it.

This includes attraction.

― Ironic Crush - LOLFAP LOLFAP LOLFAP (Masonic Boom), Friday, 12 December 2008 09:43 (seventeen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7779024.stm

― Not the real Village People, Friday, 12 December 2008 16:39 (seventeen years ago)

If, in your mind, you had a crush ironically, but would actually fuck the person, given the opportunity, your crush is not ironic. So, I guess, a crush could be ironic only in a puppies n' kittens kind of way, and not at all if it were sexually-motivated.

― D'Andrelo, the gay white ex-con (Pillbox), Friday, 12 December 2008 16:44 (seventeen years ago)

lol, I guess I just restated this already perfect locution: It may be possible to have an ironic crush, but it's not possible to have an ironic erection.

― D'Andrelo, the gay white ex-con (Pillbox), Friday, 12 December 2008 16:47 (seventeen years ago)

Hang on. Just because you have an erection doesn't mean you have to act on it. I still maintain that you can have an ironic erection.

In fact, I maintain that you can *sleep* with someone ironically - see also the lyrics to Common People.

― Ironic Erection - LOLFAP LOLFAP LOLFAP (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 13 December 2008 00:32 (seventeen years ago)

Well, maybe the pretense that led to the sex was ironic, but if the act itself was standard, mutually-enjoyed physical pleasure, ain't nothing ironic about that. Now it could go right back to being ironic in the post-coital stage, I suppose..

― D'Andrelo, the gay white ex-con (Pillbox), Saturday, 13 December 2008 01:03 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.theonion.com/onion3544/ironic_porn_purchase.html

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― country matters, Saturday, 13 December 2008 01:05 (seventeen years ago)

The proper descriptor, here, is sarcastic erection.

― ＴＥＥＮＡＧＥＤＩＡＬＥＣＴＩＣＳ (libcrypt), Saturday, 13 December 2008 01:08 (seventeen years ago)

I prefer the less academic "sarcastic boner"

― D'Andrelo, the gay white ex-con (Pillbox), Saturday, 13 December 2008 01:14 (seventeen years ago)

sarcasm-on

― ＴＥＥＮＡＧＥＤＩＡＬＥＣＴＩＣＳ (libcrypt), Saturday, 13 December 2008 01:16 (seventeen years ago)