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Draw all the bile to this one thread eh.

I still don't have the full story about what happened, but i WAS genuinely concerned that there might be something more complex going on. As it turned out it wa pretty straightforward - an exploit we've already suffered. i will try to fix the various issues asap

Enough with the "Alan is great" stuff - it does nothing for my already fragile ego :-)

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

u rock alan lol

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― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

im beginning to think this was all a hoax

otherwise, has to be the biggest storm in a teacup...all day

― terry lennox. (gareth), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

I don't know if this or the Mod Req Board is the right place to bring this up, but something's hinkey with the TITTWIS thread (maybe lotsa other threads too?)
Regardless, thanks for yr efforts Alan. Much appreciated.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Not really much of a storm. Bet it took a chunk of someone's time though.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Can the noise board admins have full mod privs again?

― Jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

are we all chipping in for the buffy boxset yet?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Jon I've removed Barry and Thermo and given you back FAQ and Revoke privs, but I don't know who else was a mod there so it's going to have to be you doing it manually - sorry.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

thank you!

― Jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't Jon the one putting up all the atari penis images?

― Francis Bazzini, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

he's like that Michael guy who used to go to Studio 54 and piss on people. nobody really minded!

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

What happened? OMG! What happened?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

i think i'd mind being pissed on. luckily internets haven't advanced that far yet.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

"all the atari penis images"

Bah! My internet access wasn't working all morning, and I finally log on to find there was Atari penis images and board shutdowns.

Stupid Telewest.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

This thread still does rather strange things both to my Internet Explorer (stops loading, times new roman font, no scrolling) and my Firefox (I only see a picture and the scrollbar, doesn't do anything, no messages in sight) - is this something to do with one of the problems?

Or are guys locked out of that particular thread about menstruation?

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

xxx-post

you wouldn't believe it, david hasslehoff posted on one of TITTWIS threads. caused a ruckus all morning.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

The menstruation thread locks me out too, albeit with a foxy Claire Danes pic. But that's what I get for looking, I guess.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

How do you mean "it locks me out?" You can't post?

― Nathalie is in Da Base II Dark (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

No, it either stops loading (Internet Explorer) or that picture is on the foreground so you don't see any text (Firefox).

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Ah ok. Well, that's the only solution: turning off the pics in the settings. :-(

― Nathalie is in Da Base II Dark (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

turning off images in ILX prefs doesn't fix it; it has to be in browser prefs.

as someone mentioned elsewhere, in firefox you can block images from a certain URL. i don't think crappy IE5 for teh Mac will let me do that here at work, though ;)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

actually: turning images off in IE prefs doesn't work either. as soon as it tries to load that image, it fucks up with a grey screen. i suppose i could try chucking the cache etc, but really: life's too short.

honestly. jesus fucking wept. etc.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

possibly a moderator could put "clicking on this might crash your browser" in the title?

actually i should try that 'moderation request' thing i guess

― tom west (thomp), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

So exactly who was doing the css (I think?) "tagging" on those threads? Also, why is anything other than basic forum html--fonts, links and images-- allowed on thread posts? Is ILX a subsidiary of Sony?

― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

― Jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

"funny"

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

"peculiar"

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

this is the thread about the OUTRAGE (do you see)

― stockholm cindy is in your extended network (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Outraged kitten snipers?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

― heh, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

http://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/images/2002_jun/savage/londons_outrage.jpg

― KSTFUNS (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Gevalt. If by "funny", you mean "a pain in my ass", because in addition to my home computer not booting up and having 4 fillings er, FILLED today and people shouting that everything's late at work, I was really hoping ILX would be FUX0RED so I wouldn't even have a distraction from crappy real life. Thanks.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

― heh, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

― heh, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

lol @ waaaahmbulance

― stockholm cindy is in your extended network (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

― heh, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

― YARLY, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

[mental note: steal "wahmbulance.jpg" for future use]

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

― heh, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

I still havent seen a single image on any thread, and all I had was "hide images" ticked. This whole thing is just hilarious to me, like watching people get angry at an invisible godzilla.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

The waving kitten was awesome.

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

"invisible godzilla" JW's new nic?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Bah. I turned off images in my ILX settings and browser prefs but some threads still don't display. And it was really the morning shut-down that got my goat. Course, when I got back from the dentist with a half-paralyzed face the boards were back to normal, there's a small consolation.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

I slept through it all. Gorbless the time difference.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

― guygax!, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha Trayce, I'm totally with you there.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

"invisible godzilla" JW's new nic?

Nah. That gives him too much credit, innit.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

[oops, i over deleted there, sorry to a couple of users]

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone remember that episode of the Twilight Zone? You know, the one where the prepubescent boy had, like, superpowers, and everyone had to dance around him really carefully and cater to the whims of this petulant little boy, because otherwise, he'd freak out and destroy the universe?

― Lady Totteringby-Gently (kate), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 08:57 (twenty years ago)

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

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plz none of these dudes are noah wyle (am i right ally?)

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 17 November 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

i love my beard. let your freak flag fly, blount.

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 17 November 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Seriously! If that's what TO is gonna turn into under Parcells he should just go to the Cardinals or somewhere and spend the next ten years feeling misunderstood and, like, owning a beach or something.

I am pretty fastidious about showering 'cos I used to NEVER do it when I ws fourteen and got rightly teased but that deliberate cultivating dirty rock hair thing kinda works way too well to not do.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 17 November 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Not shaving does not make you an asshole, it just maybe makes you someone who doesn't like shaving and is maybe lucky enough to have a job where they don't care all that much and a wife who is indulgent of scruff. For example.

Also, COURTNEY LOVE.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 17 November 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Ok guys I don't really have a thing for Noah Wyle, I'm serious.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Terrell Owens has kind of got 18x the attitude problem that Keyshawn has though, I mean let's be honest about that. Keyshawn never punched nobody on his own team (that I know of). They should maybe fight each other and sell it on PPV?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

yeah i'm with jess and dan, i hafta shower every day or i feel weird.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

please dont say you're "with me" when you talk about showering

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Wait, not shaving makes you Courtney Love???????

― Dan (Methinks Ally Doth Protest Too Much) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

He is kind of like a Keanu Reeves-y weasel.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

So that's a weasel-y weasel?

― Dan (Rodent Superstar, That Is What You Are) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

gypsy i wore a green lantern t-shirt to work yesterday - they don't care if i shave. also, i wore a green lantern t-shirt to work yesterday - i don't have a wife.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

in spirit, jess. in spirit.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

great, now i have to wear a pair of jams every time i shower

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

haha jess is a 'never-nude'

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

not true. just ask my poor old neighbors.

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

http://entimg.msn.com/i/mu/j/jessicasimpson/JessicaSimpson_Christmas_150x200.jpg VS http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38225000/jpg/_38225326_arvil.jpg

― Dan (?) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

the latter

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

tho its a bit like plastic fruit vs. a whole onion

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

i would totally go for toucan sam's whole onion

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

i am a NIGHT SHOWERER!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand that plastic onion thing.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

i think it means blount wants to munch on ashlee simpson's box

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

You guys are fuckin gross.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

don't shoot the translator

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

jess otm, i wanna knaw on her slaw

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

Well, she's better than Jessica at least.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

except that pic upthread is avril, not ashlee!

― elmo (allocryptic), Thursday, 17 November 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

duh she is the median betwixt the two

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 17 November 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

I know that is Avril, but blount brought up the third entity of Toucan Sam.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 17 November 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

gypsy i wore a green lantern t-shirt to work yesterday - they don't care if i shave.

so you just don't like being scruffy? I understand that, I just don't mind a little fuzz and I really really don't like shaving. But I also don't like beards, so shaving every 3-4 days is about the happiest I can be. Men have been ruled too long by the tyranny of the smooth cheek.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 17 November 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

i grew my beard back for a couple of weeks but then shaved it off again this morning. i think because my hair is getting longer: shaggy hair with a smooth face presents a nice contrast, whereas shaggy hair with a scraggly beard makes me look like a fucking slob.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 November 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

night showers for me, too, or i get the greaseball feeling Dan mentioned.

and my handlebars moustache will never come off. it will haunt the userpic threads til the end of all of our days.

― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 17 November 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

No one else can follow (or will acknowledge) my arcane neural map. :-(

― Dan ("With You" vs "I'm With You" WRT To Jess's Showering-With-Jaymc-Phobia) Per, Thursday, 17 November 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

"With You"?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 17 November 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

opening the ysi thread in ilm just tried to redirect me to a site called gagging whores... being somewhat net saavy i think i could safely say that this would have nothing to do with the fact that a person on my wireless network goes to this site, right? pornographic coincidence at the hands of the ilx meanie.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 17 November 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

Pointless note: I've discovered if I shave my 'stache, and the hair underneath my chin line I can get away with "stylish" fuzz on the cheeks for a few days at the time. I like really cheap razors, because I can use them three or four times and throw them out without feeling bad.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 18 November 2005 07:12 (twenty years ago)

Wow, when did this thread become TOTALLY AWESOME?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 18 November 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

When Ally arrived.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 18 November 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

Good morning! How are you guys today? I came up with a question when I was on the train today: Has anyone ever used "Down Under" by Men at Work as their wedding song? What would that be like? Would it be funny or just sad? NB I am not planning on doing this. Not when "We Like To Party" exists.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 18 November 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

The VengaBus? It's coming!!!

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 18 November 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Please tell me the VengaBus is coming to the wedding.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 18 November 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

I'm working on it.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 18 November 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

What about the Ally/Luna collabo? Did I blink and miss it?

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 18 November 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

Oh I had to run and the moment was lost :(

We can try again, though.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 18 November 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Such an amazing thread. And of course showering at least once a day = urgent and key unless you are some horrible person.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 November 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Ned not all of us have 16 feet of hair to care for!!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 18 November 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

But Ned, you don't *wash* your hair every day as well, do you?

I will be going back to short hair soon and am looking forward to hair washing being less of a chore than it is now.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 18 November 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Internet Message Board Trolls

People say "just ignore them". So you try.

And then they hassle you and hassle you, and harrass and borderline stalk you, escalating (sometimes to the point of destroying whole messageboards) until they've finally pissed you off. So you explode.

And then it's all "Bad Kate for responding!" rather than "Bad troll for being such a stalkerfreak in the first place."

Update:

When you ask them not to post gigantic 1000px pictures on your threads, they respond with "turn images off ::insult:: or get a bigger monitor". When you ask them not to sploodge your threads with several hundred identical posts in a row, they reply "what's wrong with your scrollbars ::insult::?"

What's wrong is WHY SHOULD HUNDREDS OF OTHER USERS ADJUST THEIR SETTINGS, CHANGE THEIR HARDWARE, THEIR COMPUTERS, BECAUSE YOU CANNOT CONTROL YOURSELF ENOUGH TO FOLLOW A FEW GUIDELINES OF SIMPLE NETIQUETTE?!?!?!?

The arrogance and the stupidity is just staggering.

posted by Masonic Boom @ 3:13 PM

― Estefan C. Buttez, Esq. (ESTEFAN!), Saturday, 19 November 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

But Ned, you don't *wash* your hair every day as well, do you?

Of course I do!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 November 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

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