This is the thread where you write the post everyone would expect you to write

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So for the past week or so (if not longer) I've been noticing a lot of interchangeability to everyone's posts. Pretty much no matter what the thread is about, the answers fall within a certain pattern of predicability - the result being that you know what folks are going to say before you even get to their posts.

For example I post all the time on the food, drone rock, and Macintosh threads with pretty much the same type/content of posts. Other folks post about their hatred or love of NYC or LA, etc. Still other folks post about their unconditional love for Loveless, etc.

Not making a value judgment here, just noticing things. Anyway, this is the thread where you write the most most generic post that everyone would expect you to write.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 9 August 2003 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Abba - "The Winner Takes It All"
2. Sean Paul - "Like Glue"
3. Something by Dexy's.

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 9 August 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

dude! koritfw!

― geeta (geeta), Saturday, 9 August 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

disco fries

― The Four Singing Beatles (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 9 August 2003 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

picture of gareth's head in some sort of unusual scenario

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 9 August 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

haha the bit where husserl talks about facticity is actually abt ALIENS!!

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 9 August 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick, you idiot, that (insert meme or style flourish here) is SO OVER.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 9 August 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I Like Slayer

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 9 August 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

What utensils have you got in your kitchen drawers? How many pets have you got? What's you favourite name? Where do you live? Tell me all about yourself! I love people, me! *explodes*

― C J (C J), Saturday, 9 August 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Something that doesn't make sense with lots of !!!!!!!!!'s.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 9 August 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

So last night I went out intending to tie my shoelace and come home, when I met this guy I know who owed me money, I bought a pint and they were all going to some party on the beach but we decided to go back to mine. Anyway after a while we were all completely fucked, I put on the jacques lu cont remix of something and I swear I saw through time. God I feel awful now though.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 9 August 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I am currently WHINGING on about some stereotype or whatnot that I DESPERATELY want to prove wrong. I am also going on about how much I actually really like San Antonio, in an effort to gain understanding as to why I would actually want to stay here, as well as posting fiery, opinion-filled beliefs of What I Hold To Be True, afterwards purposely avoiding the responses because I just KNOW I messed up again and didn't temper my words. Other things I'm posting include my moments of self-hatred and self-doubt, little silly bits of nonsense, and things that maybe perhaps reveal a bit too much about myself... ?

Excellent thread idea, Chris hon.

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 9 August 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Smoking is deadly.

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 9 August 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

God I feel awful now though.

Other things I'm posting include my moments of self-hatred and self-doubt, little silly bits of nonsense, and things that maybe perhaps reveal a bit too much about myself... ?

Smoking is deadly.

This == the right time to combine self-loathing, deep-rooted insecurity, fatalism, and a religious escape route.

― nestmanso (nestmanso), Saturday, 9 August 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Smoking is deadly != fatalism

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 9 August 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Ass.

― jewelly (jewelly), Saturday, 9 August 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Candy.

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 9 August 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, jess pretty much otm

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 9 August 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ohiohistory.org/etcetera/exhibits/kilroy/posters/images/acarel~1.jpg

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Saturday, 9 August 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

blah blah blah blah blah
thin lizzy blah my kids blah
whoop-de-fuckin'-do

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 9 August 2003 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

you write the most most generic post that everyone would expect you to write.

Doesn't this thread assume that everyone is a little too predictable? I think this thread might benefit from counseling.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 9 August 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm posting this naked, and I'm imagining that you're all the same way.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 9 August 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Unsurprisingly I have read and reread with no large uninterest what the Nipper has to say here. As ever, his ability to spin an inspiring line into the waters of imagination commands shoals of respect. Yet still there are some things about his post that I cannot understand, or cannot agree with. Curiously enough I think (old themes here) that he *underrates* Morley's spatial sense - let me raise a flaccid arm one more time and point to pp.130-1 of Nothing, whose italics always take me such pains to stick on the screen. I have yet, or am yet, to give up on the notion that this brand of localism is something that British writing, or anyone else's, should not try too hard to be without.

Cozen: I admire once again the phrasing, can't buy the whole of the sentiment. Allow me to say that I wish you would sort out your way with punctuation, which skates on thin ice over the gradually freezing back of my neck.

The Doc is OTM.

I agree with Tom E about some of the usual things, and disagree with him, or don't share his emotional locale, about some of the others. Possibly this is unavoidable.

― the pinefox, Saturday, 9 August 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

<singsong>
Someone posted in the wrong thread! Someone posted in the wrong thread!
</singsong>

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 9 August 2003 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate myself.

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 9 August 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm out of here!!!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 9 August 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"Like Glue" is great. But it aint as good as "Punkie." Why can't people talk more about dancehall, anti-capitalism, how great Montreal is, Jamaica, and dancehall?
(Don't answer my question--that's normally how it works...unless you're Dave Stelfox, and then you'll need to mention how necessary the Ward 21 album is)

― cybele (cybele), Saturday, 9 August 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Fucking hell... I mean, do we really need to listen to this record again, or can we just go round to the cunt's house and set fire to his parents? I mean... really.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 9 August 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, there's a few good examples of this sort of thing. I'm going to go the obvious route and say that Beck ca. '93-'94 was probably the best at it. Which reminds me: how fucking awesome would a bitter-as-hell Mellow Gold-style-lyrics Beck sound produced by El-P? Answer: as awesome as Ultimo Dragon driving a Maserati Ghibli with Maggot Brain on the tape deck.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 9 August 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

You emo bastards. Pumpkins. Nick Drake. "Only Lover."

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 9 August 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

derek bailey is playing on monday.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 9 August 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

(he actually is btw)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 9 August 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

WBS I like the D-Side track!!!

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 9 August 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.osric.com/~jeremy/bizarro.jpg

also, Husker Du is cool. i want a girlfriend.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 9 August 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyway, if we wanted to sell em to kids, we could call em Pineapple Zombie Blowpops, see --

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 9 August 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

FUCK THAT SHIT I ATE FOUR POUNDS OF MEAT YESTERDAY AND WE WENT THROUGH A 30 PBRS PLUS A CASE OR URQUELL AND A 12 OF MHL AND I JUST CAME BACK FROM HAVING A BLOODY MARY THAT WAS LIKE 3/4 ABSOLUT PEPPAR AND I HATE MY JOB SO MUCH HOLY SHIT.

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 9 August 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

also Tracer Hand OTM

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 9 August 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The Breakfast Club is on tv!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wtf who forgot to inform me. Who wants some naked pictures of me? I'm bored.

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 9 August 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

?Ally is my favoritest girl ever

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 9 August 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.posterplanet.net/pictures/images/Sa1b1.gif

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 9 August 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh and this morning at dawn when walking home from Shoreditch, some guy chased me offering a lit cigarette, shouting, 'what's your name, what's your name?' I replied, 'that's classified information' and just kept walking.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 9 August 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Can we not at least have a civilized discussion, just this once?

Speaking of civility, that reminds me of Embassy Row and how much I love Washington DC. Don't forget yr manners when the anthems play.

― daria g (daria g), Saturday, 9 August 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 9 August 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

sowerby bridge

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 9 August 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I want naked pictures of Ally! Only one ILXer has taken me up on the similar offer I made! (I won't name and shame that person!)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 9 August 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

http://members.chello.nl/e.visser25/hijskraan1.jpg

― Eriik, Saturday, 9 August 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm posting this naked, and I'm imagining that you're all the same way.

You'd be trying to wash out your memory with soap if you saw what I actually look like naked. That's probably why guys pointedly ignore me, and therefore I will probably never again have another boyfriend.

And I actually liked the place where I interviewed for a job last week, but of course nobody there called me back. But at least I do have a job interview tomorrow -- wish me luck!

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 9 August 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Soul Coughing/Dismemberment Plan/Q & Not U do that better.

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 9 August 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

But the original by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys is so loose and free and fast and fun! Only I have heard it, yet can anyone else tell me more stuff that sounds like this?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 9 August 2003 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Whatever, TX is the center of the world and yr all just fules for not realizing this.

(btw, I love giving blowjobs)

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Saturday, 9 August 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Skipping 125 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

*puts on Spacemen 3's "Dreamweapon"*

That restaurant is indeed very good, but I was having trouble really getting into it because the food reminded me so much of a restaurant in this obscure town which specializes in the northwestern regional style of that cuisine. This place has your basic dishes, but with elements of it's neighboring country so the spicing is unusually strong and the dishes have more fruit and things like pumpkin in it.

Damn, I haven't been there in awhile. I should drop in on my way back from my Nova Scotia road trip.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.lovekisshugs.com/gifs/smokeypaws.jpg

Look! Yet ANOTHER cat that looks like my Pepper!

Blah ti BLah Nick and I are SO in love and blah ti blah my mom is crazy and blah di blah my bands and so on...
And I am hungry AND sleepy AND I don't like my boss that much.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

God Ally (he writes, patronisingly), writing a book, that's so thoughtless to all those people who don't like books, can't you see that your selfish bookwriting is making MY life less easy and comfortable, screw your civil liberties and common sense in general.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Mark C hates me.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I had good food, I am sleepy, I am currently not listening to music, I am typing. Yup.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

http://bitchcakes.topcities.com/images/boyz.jpg

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 11 August 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

[hopeful/helpful but w/too much info]

...and a link instead of html

― stripey, Wednesday, 13 August 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel much better now that I've had like nine beers but you I still hate Billy Corgan's voice

― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Brain freeze, apparently lost my whip, but found the handcuffs. All is right, again.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno, I guess it's okay.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Did I mention Busted recently? And me loving my job?

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't understand you, why do you think fondling of your friend's balls is necessarily sexual in nature?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I *love* anal sex!

teenagers are the spawn of the devil. lazy, theivin' little hoods.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Dave Grohl rules and any musician that has not worked with him sucks!!!!

― Aja (aja), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate my job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

OMGWTFLOLURTEHHFAGETHAHAHA(!!!)

― lisafrank! (deangulberry), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Lighthearted witticism" "Sexual Innuendo" "Effort to be/appear sincere and sensitive" "Blatant Silliness"

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 16 April 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

wait, i have to go to this all-you-can-eat-meat dinner in 40 mins.

-- phil-two (philtw...), January 7th, 2005 5:53 PM. (phil-two) (link)

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 8 January 2005 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

yoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyo!!!!!!!!! what's wrong with dr\/gz huh? i'm trying to listen to homework right now but i think it is teh suck. don't know why... is there something wrong with me? am i a bad person?

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 8 January 2005 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)

payattentiontomepayattentiontomepayattentiontome!

― luna not logged in, Saturday, 8 January 2005 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

roommate couch assblast saint etienne underworld sergio leone cubs rule but suck anyway

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 8 January 2005 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

January leaf-turning-over won't be a cunt any more ooh I'm fat look some new shoes emo nonsense on TITTWIS anyone want to go to see AFC Wimbledon?

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 8 January 2005 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

is it absolutely vital that you go and watch KFC wimbledon?? or is it just to see the tasty hot wingers??

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 8 January 2005 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I secretly want to be a Japanese woman.

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Saturday, 8 January 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

It's well worth contemplating the necessity on further review of our activities in Iraq in particular, where it seems that there's been no real improvement in the situation. My general contempt for BushCo remains steady.

The new High on Fire is great!

What wine shall I buy for dinner tonight?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 8 January 2005 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

[I still don't know what 'koritfw' means.]

― youn, Saturday, 8 January 2005 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

[bump! if geeta is still around...]

― youn, Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Keep On Rockin' In The Free World.

― Anna (Anna), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

[thanks, Anna!]

― youn, Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Alternately, (a) Keep, followed by (b) On, but really I'm more inclined to think that (c) Rockin', because in most cases you'll notice (d) In, which is to say (e) The, insofar as (f) Free -- and, most importantly -- (g) World.

― nabiscothingy, Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

[Mods please add unnecessary italics]

― nabiscothingy, Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread sucks.

― Danzig and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I secretly want to be a Japanese woman.

-- Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (b4ri

{looking intently}...apparently your wish was granted.

― CarefulWhat, Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

last night i got stoned and watched the wizard of oz while listening to dark side of the moon. then I ate a sandwich and procrastinated.

― Ian John50n (orion), Saturday, 8 January 2005 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps the growth in both production values and aesthetic conservatism in Canadian electroacoustic music in the early 80s can be considered in terms of contemporary developments in popular music - increased critical dismissal of prog/AOR/fusion/pomp as bloated and affectively empty while seekng the old countercultural values in more fashionably 'authentic' folk forms and fashionably 'inauthentically' 'authentic' new wave pop forms, with the critically approved face of pop becoming favoured over actual radio content ('rockism' working against, like, rock as usual). Journey's "Separate Ways" and Barry Truax's "Riverrun" can both be considered in this regard. More concise than I dunno "Arras" or "Heart of the Sunrise" or something but with fruity-ass synths all over the place, you know?;) A tasty orchard in these cases maybe.

At least that's how it seems to me sometimes. Maybe i'm thinking too much about this?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 8 January 2005 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"...I'm thinking too much about this?"

(Not that I listen to any of this stuff really all that much these days.)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 8 January 2005 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

(Wait, that "as usual" maybe isn't so typical. Erf, now it looks all snotty or something. Crap.)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 8 January 2005 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

YAY, IT'S ANNA!!! I miss you, girl. *hugs*

*more overexuberant bits of nothing that get attention from Archel, Pink, (Chicago) Sarah, and Huck, and maybe Mark C and Julia if I'm lucky*

[or]

*overpassionate but poorly thought-out and expressed comments about some social issue that gets called out by a wide variety of individuals*

[or]

*"poor, pitiful me" calls for attention that end up actually getting me attention but also make me feel like an emotional prostitute, delivering the "right" words for the payout of other people's acknowledgement*

Oh, and have I told you about Duran Duran? Yeah, I hear their latest single, "What Happens Tomorrow", in ads for the new "Joan of Arcadia" eps on CBS! Really, really cool.

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 9 January 2005 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

(Oh, and also add Mark's Sarah to the list of people I'd probably get some attention from in that first bit there.)

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 9 January 2005 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i am watching pbs right now b/c bright eyes will be on soon, fer realz.

― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 9 January 2005 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:zNP-f_9gXWEJ:http://www.durstfan.zenidhost.net/durstfan/newshit/images/Untitled-1_07.jpg

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 9 January 2005 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

[haha, it's amazing how you can tell who that is from such a small pic]

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 9 January 2005 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

[i have no idea what ppl expect me to write; someone should pretend to be me just for laffs! p.s. i am kinda drunk.]

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 9 January 2005 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)

meme is money

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 10 January 2005 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn! I meant to type:
I have one thing to say to you: meme is money.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 10 January 2005 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course if I had done it right either the first or the second time I would have had the full text and the link in the appropriate place.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 10 January 2005 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Gosh, he is soooo lovely ::crush crush crush:: except his loveliness only makes me more neurotic because I secretly feel I don't deserve him.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Monday, 10 January 2005 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I got very drunk indeed and slept with my best friend's mum when I was 17. Frankly, its been all downhill ever since.

She looked like Felicity Kendall's foxier younger sister. I still love her. Not as much as I love Ledley King though.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 10 January 2005 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck that shit. That's not what I would do.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 10 January 2005 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

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