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A kind of excelsior thread for posts that made you think "oh really?".

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 18 February 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

I bet it's been done before... well - you try searching for "interesting".

Inaugural snippet:

(Paddington is the only station in the country with 'transepts' in the roof arches like that, so it's easy to recognise)

-- caitlin (wpsal...), February 18th, 2005 12:19 PM. (caitlin)

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 18 February 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

You guys are so funny.

-- Matt DC (runmd...), February 18th, 2005.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 18 February 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Paddington is the only station in the country with 'transepts' in the roof arches like that, so it's easy to recognise

useful indeed -- if you wake up in a large railway station with trains heading to the south west and with no memory of how you got there this fact could help you to 'recognise' it.

― NRQ, Friday, 18 February 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

Well, you'd be able to tell you weren't at Waterloo.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 18 February 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

you wake in a train station with no memory of how you got there.
what do you want to do?
> look at roof
the roof has transepts.
> buy ticket to swindon _

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 18 February 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

you have no money

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 18 February 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

This thread has been done before, and it bombed. But good luck this time.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 February 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

An interesting post from this thread:

This thread has been done before, and it bombed. But good luck this time.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 18 February 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

beat me to it

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 18 February 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

mule hybrid type thingys are not allowed in Scotland
-- Dadaismus (dadaismu...), February 18th, 2005.

― NRQ, Friday, 18 February 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

I think most people are used to TV actors playing characters much younger than they actually are, skewing their perceptions of age. I call this the 90210 Factor.

-- Fat Anarchy on Airtube (jonathan.william...), February 19th, 2005.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 20 February 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

is the fact that these "interesting posts" thread bombed a testimony to the interestingness of ilx?

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 20 February 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

maybe ilx just isn't that interesting.

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 20 February 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

or maybe every post is so interesting, it's hard to pick out the particularly outstanding ones.

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 20 February 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

but then looking at the excelsior thread you wouldn't think people put such high standards against things they cut and paste.....

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 20 February 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

all phones are designed so that you hear your own voice back slightly in the earpiece, to help you unconsciously judge your own volume. However, it shouldn't be delayed, and you shouldn't actually notice it.

-- caitlin (wpsal...), February 11th, 2005.

― Patrick Allan (adr), Sunday, 20 February 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

And yes, I do tell that to everyone I meet.

― Patrick Allan (adr), Sunday, 20 February 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Ken, I think it's because interesting things are probably less likely to be short and as functional out of context of a discussion than funny things are. Or maybe because they are more likely to be in a discussion, so if you are interested in subject X, and there is an interesting point about subject X there, why post it somewhere else less likely to be seen by those interested in subject X, if you see what I mean. (Note: subject X is not necessarily Momus.)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 February 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

An example of the Hand's percipience:

Staccato no-comma just-the-facts journalism was the "new journalism" for awhile, and it was invented by Samuel Morse. Prior to the telegraph reporters wrote discursive poetical-novelistic charge-of-the-light-brigade missives that took weeks to reach their destinations. Everything was a "feature." Wolfe's stuff is really the old stuff, so the starch-collar conservative white suit crap isn't such a cognitive dissonance after all. I'd love to see him interviewed by Katie Couric.

-- Tracer Hand (tracerhan...), February 10th, 2005.

― youn, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

I loved pi when it first came out, partly because I didn't know whether I was supposed to be laughing or not.

pi is silly fun, but it's also maybe anti-intellectual silly fun.

But I still love pi for its acting - every single performance is great if not wonderful - and maybe even more so for its mise-en-scene: Aronofsky is showing people and places that are distinctly New York and Jewish and academic in ways that don't appear in films by other filmmakers who work in those environments. Sol's apartment in pi is maybe my favorite location in any movie."

-- gabbneb

I want to see the apartment. For some reason, I thought of the parties in New York apartments in Shadows by Cassavetes, but they're probably different.

― youn, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 05:33 (twenty years ago)

The scene after Sol dies where they show his coffee table and Go board is a truly lovely shot.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

ok this may just be because I'm high, but I read this: coming home late one night from the bus in winter, i slipped on a perfect thin sheet of black ice on the sidewalk. it was like a comedy fall, both feet waaay in the air before my back hit the pavement. between having my feet leave the ground and my ass finding it again i yelled JESUS FUCKING CHRIST and then just laid on the ground for a second to take in the beauty of it — until i heard a dude across the street ask sheepishly "uh, are you ok?" and i had to chuckle and get up and move along, and thought that you know, that's precisely the type of person I need to fall in love with.

-- luna's eeeee (lunace...), February 26th, 2005.

― youn, Saturday, 26 February 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

seven years pass...

This is hands down one of the best posts ever.

I am going to wait for on-demand at home for this. I think the idea of a space jockey prequel is just something that was way too sexy in my head to be satisfied by anything real - had I my druthers, this would be a giant flop of epic proportions (John Carter!!!! Speed Racer!!!! Blade Runner!!!! ok and I guess it would also have just been called Space Jockey!!!! because all my fave flops share dactyl titles that I can add many bang bangs to the end of) wherein the space jockeys are the main characters and the plot would probably go along the lines of Project X with a dash of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, except xenomorphs in place of simians. So it's not that, obviously, and so, with lowered expectations, I will wait.

I did enjoy the long bad review by the archeologist guy whose name I forgot. Discussing his point re: holographic spaceship interfaces that get replaced with 1979 technology in the future gave me a chance to bring up the antikythera mechanism in conversation the other day.

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