this is the thread where we ask why so many people start out threads saying "this is the thread that..." or something of the sort

and yeah, freinds was never funny either. (ditto sex in the city. i think both of them have the idea that if you say something unfunny over and over again, it was suddenly turn funny by virture of its repeated nature. a total fallacy, obv.)

*turns away from mirror*

but isn't it like where you have a funny shared experience with friends, and the merest knowing reference to it will start a contact-buzz ripple of hilarity amongst those who 'get' it? how is this any different? i mean, if people weren't there or didn't find it funny then that's fair enough, but dissing people because they have shared jokes that still make 'em laugh seems pointless, dumb, and not a little rude.

I'm not meaning to attack specific people or call anyone out here incidentally, its really not something that bothers me hugely and I'm perfectly happy to ignore it. Maybe I'm just in an argumentative mood and should find a more useful outlet for it... carry on everyone.

Remy, I've been here long enough to think of you as a newcomer, but I miss some references too, and still feel kind of like a newcomer. Some stuff goes back to before ILX existed, where various subsets of ILXers knew each other on other boards.

The only thread I can defend/explain in this context is the sheepfux0r one - Di started that, and it was because we found a group of us had common local interests that kept derailing threads. So we started a catchall thread to keep it off other ones.

I dont "get" much of ILM.

hahahahaha!!! just kidding. i'm a metasexual.

That was actually a usenet newsgroup -- alt.music.alternative -- where some of us knew each other going back to 1992-3 (Dan and Brian aka donut bitch I think were the first to sorta bond that way, then I was in in 1993, while Chris Barrus and Matt Maxwell had also been long established from even earlier times via attending UCI together).

Scott Seward, meanwhile, was clearly a shameless crook FROM THE START oh hi there.

and before that, it was your ham radio, right ned? what was your handle again?

(Actually it was communication via carrier pigeon. I would wait long days for one to come in to his hutch, tired and forlorn, only to carry a message from Jon W that read 'ROFFLE'.)

1. Pre-ILE - Sinister, AMA, Tom Ewing's Friends, Noize Dudes etc - there's a history to all of these that isn't documented anywhere on the boards so there are rivalries and friendships and the like that aren't immediately obvious to the casual reader and probably never will be.

2. Geographical - London being the biggest and (I think) the closest but also NYC, Glasgow, Dunedin, Seattle, Melbourne, LA etc etc. These aren't always as strong or as friendly or as exclusive as outsiders may think. But there's usually a lot of going out and drinking involved, and a hell of lot of offboard background history as well.

3. Interest based - the thing I like about the football threads is that we seem to have our own mini-community (myself, Dave B, Chris, Mikey G, Martin, Stevem, Ailsa, Vicky, Swygart, Dom, Zemko, Kilian, Ronan, Mike Jones and several others) who can relied upon to chip in with something amusing or worthwhile. Ditto ILB, US political threads, grime/Kompact/improv threads over on ILM. I think I'd probably put This Is The Thread Where I Say into this category as well.

And that's it, really. I think AIM friendships are more a fleshing out of the above three - I can't really think of anyone I got to know well over AIM who I wasn't already interested in onboard.

And I must stress I don't have a problem with that whatsoever, I was simply highlighting one area I do see it in myself. I don't think of it as cliquey at all! :)

I dont think of any area of the board as cliquey truth be told. *Except* to a very minor extent, some times when originalOldSkoolILXors mutter about things not being like they used to be. But hey, that happens.

I'm a usenet refugee myself as it 'appens, I just hung out on alt.music.4ad and aus.gothic rather than AMA.

I was on alt.music.alternative as well from 1991 for a few years too. I still don't have a clue what's going on with ILX.

And you wonder why people keep accusing you of being a goth?

multiple xpost (been to see blood brothers - they covered 5 to 1!!!! OMG!!!!) hope it didn't seem an overreaction and i didn't mean to have a go at anyone... its just, the original post - i mean, is it supposed to be funny or something? because it's not. it's just dumb seemed, to me, to be in of itself an overreaction to what is, essentially, just some harmless in-joking that's perhaps gone beyond a joke now, but which is wholly natural and not, IMHO, remarkable at all.

katie melua is on TV now. goddam she's dreadful... x

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Or um, a fact. One or the other =)

SPOKEN SECTION:
Oh girl, oh boy, you've been my bucket of chicken for so long
Now with all white meat...
Wait, this piece looks funny.
OMG, it's a deep-fried rat!
YOU FUCKING BITCH, YOU TRICKED ME
A deep fried rat.... OF LOVE!
Oh, never mind then, you didn't trick me.
So, um, wanna go grab some milkshakes?

It's very absurd and not at all ILE-centric and it's the funniest part of the "song".