can we please have a moratorium on...

Then he'll turn around, shaking with spastic, silent laughter. We'll all shrug and resume our business.

referencing David Lynch.

abstracted floral graphics.

telling people how amazing late Talk Talk is, and how moved you are by them.

"not so much"

please everybody

it's so awful & not even mildly funny at this point

not so much with the not so much

is it meant to be funnie?

I don't think lol funny but you always get the sense that it's supposed to be a somewhat clever way of saying "I don't like this one thing"

ugg boots

oh man can we give up on "that one thing/that one guy/that one time"

s0 played

ugg boots

― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, May 18, 2010 9:40 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Wait, are you saying "let's have a moratorium on Uggs" or is "Ugg boots" your way of expressing disgust at people who say "not so much".

somewhat clever way of saying

"clever" = "Jewish"?

i have no idea how the latter works xp

nicht so sehr

Every time I hear that one phrase, I throw up a little in my ugg boots.

It's like someone saying "Ugh," but then taking it just a little further: "Ugg boots."

UGG BOOTS ARE MADE FROM CLUBBED SEALS

^^let's get ourselves LIBELLED

and worn by clubbing chicks

'would smash'/'bro'

reasons

casually misogynist/sounds homosocial, also fratholish

I don't mind "bro"

I've always hated "would smash" but you gotta pick your battles & save yr ammo and the guys (and gals in fairness) who say are Totally Great Guys After All so y'know w/e

brobrobrocial

tbh being casually misogynist makes my fuckin day, every day.

tbh

starting posts with

"uh,"

"Smash" sounds hot/romantic/cute to me, not misogynist, although I could see how it could be interpretted that way.

you can just ctrl+f & replace with "would snog" tho right?

See, snog sounds really vulgar to me.

dyao do you copy ilx threads into word before reading

I use smash all the time and obv not in a misogynistic manner. I don't really get hung up on or bothered by language often though.

word is my browser :(

am firmly in the anti-'would smash' camp but aerosmith is pretty much otm there

oh lol at that last thing, dyao's more a notepad man i'da thought

xp- awesome concept.

rueful admission- am now concerned that inclusion of the word 'fuckin' in my previous bolshy post comes across as too sexually aggressive. y'all mfers getting to me.

hahahahaha

^this guy balls hard on ILX

not a guy iirc

but she does

u misogynist for noticing

"Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging" could be from H.P. Lovecraft, all the chills it inspires in me.

also makes searching youtube for drunk hen-night shenanigans a pointless exercise ime

dammit can't a dude forgo an xpost for once in his life

snog sothoth

lol am0n

LOL - perfect!

Ugg boots really are the most inexplicably prevalent fashion trends of the last ten years. I'd sooner parse croc-sandals before these glorified granny slippers of which wannabe fashionista girls never seem to tire.

Sure I've seen lots of ILX girls (and gay dudes) use the phrase 'smashable' to refer to blokes.

xp it's a clever ploy - by incorporating the very disgust they evoke into the brand name, they have effectively shielded themselves from all criticism

unless it's an actual bird

I got five years suspended for flipping birds in front of a camera but my lawyer argued that the camera was unconstitutional and now I'm free

free as a bird, you might say

- in sports, calling any game that's not technically a potential elimination game a "must win game".

i won't ever stop saying things are dope.

dope

Fast food restaurant employees stupidly not understanding that wearing gloves during the preparation of food does not mean you can also touch things other than food while you're wearing them (money, your phone, whatever else).

that is nothing compared with customers sneezing/blowing their noses into their hands (for godssakes, when will this country learn to sneeze into their collective elbows..?) and then handing money to the cashier who has to touch snotty cash.

do not even get me started on people not understanding the mechanisms of communicable everyday viruses - that belongs in the "disgusting savages" thread though imo

flipping the bird at the camera. You are not edgy or aggro doing that. Really.

― p.j.b. (pj), Tuesday, May 18, 2010 3:24 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hey WOW yes. or actually I don't know if it requires a moratorium or not; it's just weird. it's like the finger has become such a normal/widespread "attitude" (or even "sexy!") pose that it's basically lost any sense of signifying anything or being directed at anyone. which I guess isn't totally different from what happened to victory/peace signs, photo-wise, but it's totally fascinating to me for something that says "fuck you" to evolve into a gesture that only says "I've got sexy attitude," like the equivalent of a little sneer/pout or whatever.

which seems symptomatic of some way more general thing along those lines

LOLing at the "ew ugg boots have been around for like 5 years now!" thing.

You guys are aware that these are an Australian thing and have existed here since the 1970s and were EXCLUSIVELY the domain of grotty, white trash bogans in acid wash jeans and accadacca tshirts, right?

its like we played a big joke on slebs. It's freakin awesome.

Your putting it that way is helping me make my peace with them. At least until I next see a pair in the wild.

James -vs- The Bogans! i would watch that movie. it might even be as good as my fave aussie rachel ward movie Fortress.

Bogan is a pretty mintox word.

untooooold

I first saw Uggs in like 1984 when the fried hippie-ish third grade teacher from Germany at my school had them - she was bragging them up as an exotic Australian thing in that innocent post-Men at Work, pre-Crocodile Dundee era of American knowledge about Australia.

Former nurse friend gets mad abt this, at her hospital there was no wearing scrubs outside of the ward for fear of them picking up bacteria and also that if folks are left to wash them themselves at home they'll get lax about doing it properly

(dunno if this is a general rule or has any sense to it, but it sounds like it might)

― xylyl syzygy (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, May 19, 2010 2:11 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

lol my dad wears his old scrubs around the house and when doing general household work (full disclosure my dad is not a licensed medical professional, just someone who works at a hospital). he thinks it's absolutely awesome he can get such roomy and comfortable clothes for cheap from work and always asks me if I want him to sneak me any scrubs on the downlow

<3 can we please have no moratorium on dyao's dad and his tricks.

yuh my buddy who's all but finished med gets around in scrubs because 'he doesn't have any other pants'

also busted my ugghs out for first time this year on the weekend : )

<3

other ilxors might not know this but we are allowed to wear what we like in queensland, we are a special case.

i just want you all to be happy

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2010/05/23/gps.last.look.cnn?hpt=T2

For the record, there are some of us in the medical biz who hate hate hate scrubs, and would never so much as wear them on the sidewalk outside the hospital.

That shit don't stretch. At all. And they itch like crazy.

More fashion things that don't exactly look bad, but just seem a bit over-done already:

Roman sandals
1940's fighter-pilot style haircuts

Burden's on you to explain what that even is to me, dog latin.

yeah im not really sure if either of those things are 'things'

since starting work in london i've noticed that the Roman-style sandal is the choice footwear for many women, and the Hoxton "fin" has been usurped by a kind of short-back-'n'sides plus side-parted quiff look on guys. It's not that either are that bad, but the sheer amount of people rocking these looks displays a sincere lack of imagination among trendy Londoners (shockah!)

Quiff has told me all I need to know, right there. Thanks!

gladiator sandals are definitely a thing - h mayne you clearly just aren't spending enough time looking at women's feet.

i have not noticed this hair business tho.

short-back-'n'sides plus side-parted quiff

I am sort of rocking this at the minute although 'quiff' would be stretching a point - if it is a thing (I am of the provinces innit) then so be it, I like it

I noticed the pomaded hair business...about two years ago. Fins are the preserve of the provincial nightclub thug now.

short-back-'n'sides plus side-parted quiff

hmm, not sure if im rocking this or not. more yes than no

got no probs w sandals on girls

men in flip-flops otoh

+ short-sleeved polo shirt + cargo shorts

they all appear out of nowhere on the first vaguely sunny day of the year

that's because it's hot, tbf

men in flip-flops otoh

Not this tired argument again.

Like, I just bought my flip-flops at Wal-Mart last week and my feet have never been happier. Cargo shorts are pretty lame though. What can you put in all those pockets?

a spare pair of cargo shorts

I adore that haircut but maybe the over-use phenomenon you speak of hasn't hit here yet...? Hmmph. Will get in line for being over gladiator sandals, does that start over here by the drinking fountain?

...people thinking contemporary network TV series are great, compelling popular art

Morbsbot is loose on the main deck, I repeat, Morbsbot is loose on the main deck

flip flops are comfortable! might as well have a moratorium on pajamas.

We did pajamas upthread last week.

What else? Cookies? Clean sheets? New tires?

find flip-flops incredibly uncomfortable, myself.

They're tough on webbed feet, it's true.

idgi

Flip flops are hated by podiatrists.

"flip flops cause trouble" lol