Do your friends know about ILE?

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And flatmates/coworkers/parents?

A lot of you people seem to use it as a retreat from the "real" world, so I presume you wouldn't tell them. Do they get suspicious of what you spend your whole fucking life doing?

(Have we done this before?)

― Graham, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

David knows but has agreed not to post because this is my space. he may consider posting in the future. What do y'all think, my homies

― anthony, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My girl frein d knows about it but rarely reads or posts. I consider ILE to be a break form the normal assholes of life and I like it. Discuss.

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Instead you get assholes like me. HA!

My parents are indifferent to the Net, so I'd just say it was a place with friends around. My coworker Tom posts here and there. Friends in general in the area know if I bring it up, which I do every so often. I don't think of it as a retreat, merely an adjunct. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

buncha my friends are still kind of living in the 20th century & don't understand about computers & the futuristic world of the future. i wish i could turn em onto it tho, if only so's i'd be in touch with em more myself. 'cause they mostly live in other towns & stuff.

― duane, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

most of my close friends know about ILE and ILM, about half of them post and others just lurk. others post embarrassing things with my name attached to a fake address. oh okay, so that only happened once.

― di, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My parents are aware of it. My mother: "I don't really aprove but then again I am an old fashioned person."

― nathalie, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yes. some. those that are internetted up and shit (which isn't that many really). you all know ambrose and ed, who are pretty regular now. debbies been on a couple times. i have to say i'm disappointed in janine, john, matthew and mick who i know are lurking motherfuckas

― gareth, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No, my parents don't "get" the internet. At all. I could be doing anything on it and they wouldn't know. As for my co-workers I reckon they know I'm doing something else, considering I'm so fucking slow doing anything they ask me to. I don't have co-workers see, I have many many bosses

― Ronan, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Was going to ask a similar question myself...

Most of my friends are opinionated culture vultures who would prob. have a fine old time on the boards, but for some reason I've kept my presence here (such as it is) quiet from them (unless they've been googling my name and lurking, v. unlikely.) It's not that I want IL* to be mine all mine exactly, but I do like having this 'secret life' and being exposed to new ideas, tastes, opinions, personalities. I'm also a bit of a shocker for keeping different groups of friends separate from one another.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My parents don't use the Internet. I haven't told any friends about ILe, I might, I just don't know.

― jel, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Most of my friends post on ILE. 3 of my very good friends (off the top of my head) don't, because they disapprove or aren't very internetty. This has had the awful consequence that I've not e-mailed one of them in weeks.

Isabel reads and occasionally posts when I point something out to her. My brother knows about the board and posted frenziedly last time he stayed over at mine but phone bills and poverty conspire to keep him off it, and he'd be a bad influence anyway. My Dad is getting more and more net-literate but hasn't found ILE yet I don't think.

― Tom, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My mate John posted on ILM a few times but he doesn't anymore as he said it was too "muso-ish". Whatever he means by that. Other friends have taken a peek from time to time but I don't think it interested them much.

― Michael Bourke, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What the hell does Muso mean? Is it one of those words stupid people use to describe you when you've pissed them off? Like pretentious? I know its to do with music. And I know my brother calls me a muso for a joke, but after that I'm lost. I'm presuming its a cliche.

― Ronan, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My ex-girlfriend occasionally reads ILE as far as I know (Hi Kate!) but has probably stopped by now. Far too many people know about it, because all my best anecdotes begin 'uh, this guy I know from the, uh, well from the internet actually.'

― alex t, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom, you capitalized the word dad! Oh my! Respect your parents taken a bit too far, I have to say. REBEL, Tom, REBEL! ;-)

― nathalie, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i only know about ILE cos Ricky T monopolises our phone line every evening :):) i don't usually mention it to people but i keep finding people i know popping up - hi martin and will! it's not so much a retreat from the real world as a place where there will always be something interesting, funny or skewed and it's better for you than television.

― katie, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not sure it is better for you than telly. I mean, telly doesn't give you RSI.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No, but it does give you CSI, which is almost as painful.

― Nick, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

CSI?

― jel, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

V.bad crime show on C5. Mark S is probably a devotee. Stands for Crime Scene Investigation or something.

― Nick, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

crime scene investigations? that william petersen is a fox. smart too!

― fred solinger, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I wonder if the kak we get on C5 is actually the cream of televisual culture in America?

― Tom, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have never seen CSI. This is because it looks like it's SHIT.

The cream of Amercian television would have to include pretty much the entirety of Cartoon Central's Cartoon Cartoon! lineup. Dexter's Lab may well be the funniest show on television right now.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

crime scene investigation: iz it iz it fiction? i like all the non-fiction crime "documentaries", abt how fat men with bad haircuts and polyester trousers solve horrible murders in iowa: spookiest is when they rebuild the pore hitchhiker's face in plasticene on a skull they found in the pinewoods

C5 = TV of the GodZoR. Yay Shannon Tweed. Tom you hate television anyway so youyr opinion is w/o value.

― mark s, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think CSI is great. Trashy forensics, knocks that Amanda Burton Silent Witless into a cocked hat with a cock. Sleazy, sexy and with rubbish science like "you can tell the killer was left handed by the way he sweapt the carpet with the brush in a dominant handed way, and is a woman because there is a faint greasy residue of lipstick IN THE AIR". Saturday nights and a very handy Monday night repeat.

― Pete, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Look at my new email and name!

― Pennysong Hanle y, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I always thought "muso" was something to describe a person who goes on about chord progressions or how to get certain "tones" out of guitars and all that stuff. Although now it's being used as a word to describe someone who is pretentious about music. At least that's the impression I get when he says that. In his case he responded to a thread about Bax Luhrman and said "has there ever been a better Shakespeare adaptation then Romeo and Juliet", or something like that. Then he got a load of responses about Kurosawa's adaptations, Welles' "Othello" and "My own private Idaho". So he got intimidated that people knew a lot here and left, the wuss.

― Michael Bourke, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Speaking of C5, isn't that documentary show Real Sex on today?...

― jel, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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