what have you learned about yourself on ILX

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I, for example, have learned today that I am a junky-hating whore.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't type as efficiently as I always thought I could. And my grammar is suspect.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

And I'm not that smart, really.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm an idiot, apparently. I'll be far more lax towards my essays etc.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I have learned that I'm very blameworthy.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I've learned that the ability to laugh at others' suffering is what separates us from the animals.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Even hyenas?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

not much i didn't know beforehand.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I live in a dream-world.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

im just doin my thing dawgs.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

that i can be an idiot at times.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

That everyone loves my girlfriend.

― NA. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno about that one.

I learned a while back on ILX that I am an annoying cat-lover. Then I embraced my true self. Also, I'm not as wild as I thought I was.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

That im as smooth as kojaks head.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

That almost everything I criticize about other people's writing can be found in my own writing, but worse.

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Not as much as we love you Nick!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Wha? Huh? Wha?

― NA. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

*Humph!*

― Sarah MCLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I've learned to accept that my ganja-smoking, yoga-doing, "dude!"-saying self is a total hippie, no matter how much I don't want that to be true.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I love you both though! One of you without the other would be like salt without pepper, cake without ice cream, Big Boi without Andre...in short, it would be just WRONG.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

thats right Hippie.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

~~They're our Tom and Nicole!~~

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

That I really should never have started posting here and that most people wish for me to stop my yammering.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm crude, witless, undesirable and have little if anything to contribute on matters of music, film, art, literature, philosophy, Momus' dick or anything really.

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Yammer on, Nicole! I love yams.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i yams what i yams (oy)

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

1O PRINT 'NICOLE IST RAD AND IS NO YAMMERER'
20 GOTO 10
RUN

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha the only code I understand!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I've not learnt anything I particularly wanted to know. I'd already figured out I was tedious and repellant (and that it's probably genetic). *sigh*

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

But, ChristineSH! I told you that you were way too hard on yourself more than once!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

''I'm crude, witless, undesirable and have little if anything to contribute on matters of music, film, art, literature, philosophy, Momus' dick or anything really.''

not true when it comes to music. wouldn't know abt momus dick tho'.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks Julio (and to think i've never even heard Borbetomagus or Fushitsusha's Double Live)

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 7 May 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry. I'm insecure and feel almost completely worthless most of the time. I honestly can't think of any ways of changing this, either. I feel like the whole world is stuck on the other side of the fence to me, really. It's a feeling that is very easy to reinforce. That's what I've learned, more specifically, I guess...

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

That's a pretty shit lesson. Sounds like you need to be deprogrammed.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

i learned that I'm digging on the isotopes
this pataphysic's shit is dope
and I just realised that nothing is what it seems

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

That I am intolerant and moody and unlikeable and that my negative self esteem is totally and completely justified.

― kate, Thursday, 8 May 2003 08:00 (twenty-two years ago)

cheer up kate! hum a few bars of the theme tune from 'White Horses'...

"On white horses let me ride away/To my world of dreams so far away..."

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 8 May 2003 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought you wanted her to hum "If you wanna be rich/You've got to be a bitch/Rich!/Bitch!" and it had me all confused

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 8 May 2003 08:21 (twenty-two years ago)

''thanks Julio (and to think i've never even heard Borbetomagus or Fushitsusha's Double Live)''

That's OK aaron. I don't 'judge' ILXORS on whether they hear the same music as me.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 8 May 2003 09:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought you wanted her to hum "If you wanna be rich/You've got to be a bitch/Rich!/Bitch!" and it had me all confused

humming either one of those always cheers me up, so it's all good.

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 8 May 2003 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

That I can piss people off whether I mean to or not.

That some people are just great, and that there are several new people who I really like and am too shy to tell, and others who I hope will be my friend. Sappy but true.

And that pretty much every self-deprecating comment made above is not true. Apart from Kate being moody, maybe :)

next task: to wean myself onto liking kittens. I mean I *do* like kittens, I just am chagrined that they get sucha sweet deal on ILX.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 8 May 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Monkeys do too!

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Thursday, 8 May 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

But monkeys work for it.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 8 May 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember when I would mess as a young child my mum would say "you little monkey" in extreme anger.

Also is the expression "it's so cold outside it would SKIN A BRASS MONKEY" only an Irish one? I expect not.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 8 May 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.sitca.net/photos/gallery/monkey.jpg
Whistle while you work... ooo ooo oo o o ooo oo ooo...

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Thursday, 8 May 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

(If those ooo ooo s don't look like whistling, it's cuz I don't know how to whistle.)

I've never heard that skinning monkeys expression.

Brass monkey... That funky monkey!

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Thursday, 8 May 2003 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark S will know I bet.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 8 May 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

brass monkey weather = fairly standard english expression

derivation: "cold enuff to freeze the balls off a brass monkey"

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 8 May 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq107.htm

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 8 May 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

judging by that page, the way to describe anything anywhere on a ship is to call it either a "______ monkey" or a "monkey ______"

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 8 May 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Well done to Ronan for a rather more civilised version!

CF some episode of Porridge (I think) "I wouldn't say it's cold out there but I just saw a brass monkey carrying a soldering iron". This is obviously a half-remembered misquotation.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 8 May 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

why is skinning more civilised than castration?

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Talk of monkey balls is never accepted by civilised society.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i have learned that i need a job where i can screw around on ilx all day.

― kephm, Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I have learnt that almost everyone here is ace and you can ask almost any question and get answers that are both funny and smart.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

But what does that say about you, Nick?

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

That I ask a lot of questions.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

It says he's a sycophant, Tim ;)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

And don't read the thread titles proper.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

That I like bumming around here more than I like cataloguing films!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

(an important thing I have learnt today, on this thread: Tim H is back on ILX! Hurrah!)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 8 May 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i have been reminded (again) not to mix drinking and surfing
i have suffered further depths of web addiction
i have learned that yunz are some funny, smart, hott people

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 8 May 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

my dad related this version of the monkeyballz story to me (tho stressing that it is prob a myth made up by sea monkeys:)

" It has often been claimed that the "brass monkey" was a holder or storage rack in which cannon balls (or shot) were stacked on a ship. Supposedly when the "monkey" with its stack of cannon ball became cold, the contraction of iron cannon balls led to the balls falling through or off of the "monkey." "

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 8 May 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Tim - start a thread! You haven't started a single one, ever!

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 8 May 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

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