when you think about the time you've spent on ilx, do you feel:

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a) mild embarrassment
b) reassuring warmth
c) extreme embarrassment
d) slight uneasiness
e) nostalgia
f) anger
g) all of the above
h) none of the above
i) some combination of the above
j) fear and loathing

― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

k) like a beer, depending on the time of day

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

l) yourself over your clothing

― Huk-L, Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

m) like you don't have enough work to do

― dean? (deangulberry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Some happiness, some regret.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i found myself on the ILM search page, about to find out if we'd had a thread with the exact title "autumnal music", and then i thought "WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING?".

on the other hand, at times when i've used ilx sparingly or not-at-all, i've found my life no richer. it's between c) and j) for me lately, i think. i don't mean to offend anyone here.

― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

o) (not) better than james brown

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

HOW DARE YOU INSINUATE THAT WE HAVE HAD AN AUTUMNAL MUSIC THREAD BEFORE!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

A lot of times, it just makes me feel lazy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

x) pleasing aftertaste, some monstroism.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i think, on the whole, though, that it has made me smarter. ilm has, anyway.

― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

monstrosism, rather

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

guilty

It takes time from other things -- I work for myself so it just makes my work take longer, which means Scott has to spend more time watching the baby....

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

(h) none of the above.

Most of the time I've spent on ILM has been during periods where I've had to be sitting in front of a computer, waiting for news to break (i.e. work), so it's not like it was time wasted when i could've been find a cure for polio or learning to cook or flying a kite or something. I don't lament a second of it. I've said some stupid, opionated and inflamatory things, yeah, but I don't like awake at night worrying about it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

a) mild embarrassment
d) slight uneasiness
f) anger

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus, I can't type.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Around 98% of my ILX time has been spent at work, so I don't feel like I've *wasted* much time. Plus its given me a whole new social circle and some fantastic memories, so probably e)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel fine about it. It's not that bad a thing, surely?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i blame this thread on: 1) me going through one of those rare periods when i don't hate myself so much that it i become completely deterministic about my problems - ie. "i'm unhappy because i'm ugly/pathetic etc", and instead become concerned with (what i perceive as) squandered time and opportunity, 2) the above compounded with my university career speeding to its end and 3) my friends either being away on holiday, or studying, or spending their last few days together with their girlfriend before she goes overseas.

― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 9 September 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah... my ILTime is usually the time I'd spend fucking around and avoiding real work anyway. At least there's a sense of community and (albeit mediated) interaction.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 9 September 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

It veers wildly between smugness and faint nausea.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 10 September 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Usually silly and amused. But there are certain people who on certain occasions really irritate the piss out of me so sometimes I get cranky, but eh, it passes. Its a fuckin' internet board, Ive better things to do than allow myself to get stressed over it.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 10 September 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Like I'm not alone.

And really, feeling alone can be the worst feeling in the world sometimes.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 10 September 2004 08:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I am quite glad about it, have met some great ppl as a result! Sometimes feel guilty about always ilxing whilst at work, but then my work is always done, so it's not really a prob.

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 10 September 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Guilty for not working hard enough (by definition), and thereby endangering my future success. Then again, when I didn't have internet access at work I played an *awful* lot of games of Freecell.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 10 September 2004 08:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i feel scared about all the things i've posted and cannot remember..

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Friday, 10 September 2004 08:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I envy people who have x amount of work, and either manage to do it, or don't. I don't think I've ever had a job (apart from chatroom moderation) when it was as simple as that. There is ALWAYS stuff I can do, and if there isn't, I need to create it, whether it's research, sorting files, reading, rights checks, learning contract law etc. etc.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 10 September 2004 08:29 (twenty-one years ago)

n) As if I've reached that "Karen McDonald moment."

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Friday, 10 September 2004 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I have X amount of work, and it is rarely actually enough to fill the time that I have in order to do that work any more. Maybe that makes me an underachiever, but hey, ILX has genuinely made a difference in my life and made me a happier person in a way that work seldom has.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 10 September 2004 08:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh my life!!! Isn't Corrie so good right now?? Karen throwing a mad fit in the Trafford Centre?? BRILLIANT! And playing Scrabble with the Croppers! Woo-hah!

― Starry (hello chickens), Friday, 10 September 2004 08:39 (twenty-one years ago)

starry did you ever get that cd i sent katie to pass on to you?

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Friday, 10 September 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

nausea, anger, wherehasallthetimegone embarassment and frustration. but then i log on again.

― splooge (thesplooge), Friday, 10 September 2004 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm an ILX / ILM newbie, so I've yet to hit "What the???!!" critical mass.

Having said that, I had to abandon another net community because I'd experienced the full gamut of emotions described in mitchnet's original post, and I wasn't having fun anymore. Who's a web addict? Yeah, that'd be me.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 10 September 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

extreme embarassment / anger / self-loathing / my feet falling asleep / bemusement

― Vic (Vic), Friday, 10 September 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it all just wasted time,
Can you look at yourself when you think about what you left behind?

― Sebastian Bach (jel), Friday, 10 September 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I was really kinda disappointed that Wasted Time wasn't on the greatest hits album.

Serious answer:
A bit of d and e. A bit like I might have said too much, but still very little. Like all my charcter flaws are there for the person with a high boredom threshold to find, but that's okay.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 10 September 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually feel gladdened that I've spent as much time on ILX as I have. Because there are a hell of a lot of OTHER online communities out there and not all of them are filled with the same, high quality types of individuals as the ones who frequent this site. This place is pretty great for an online community, as inscrutible as it can sometimes be, and I consider its greatness to be relatively vast. I mean, where else online am I going to find all sorts of film fanatics coexisting with a bunch of TV fanatics, a bunch of music fanatics, a bunch of book fanatics, a bunch of food fanatics, and so much more, to where practically anything and everything can be and is discussed here? Plus, I like how so many individuals here have a similar temperament to mine, which makes me feel more "normal".

Yeah, like it or not, you guys are stuck with me.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 11 September 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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