Nuke an ILX Balkan Republic

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Which would you bomb the fuck out of never to see again?

Just a bit of fun etc

Poll Results

Option	Votes
watercooler	21
tittwis	7
dc	5
chicago	4
hastings	3
middle class english home counties wotsit thingy	3
one that onimo forgot to mention	3
mongrels & sheepfuxors	0

― onimo, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

I don't read any of them, but English Middle Class Home Counties Roffles thread gets my vote because

a) it takes up the most space on the New Answers thread
b) it is therefore annoying
c) i bet there are no actual roffles on there

― Matt DC, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

same one for me as well. its jokes are probably made by ken c. nuke it

― 688, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

i love the smell of democratic napalm in the early evening

― blueski, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

although these polls are annoying too. poptimists disease, they have to vote on what to have for breakfast

― 688, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

You people be crazy. It's a great thread!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

The polls are really irritating 'tis true!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

I've never read any of these but such threads make me feel 2/3 of board are not for me, faraway plebe of semi-known towns.

― Abbott, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

middle class english home counties wotsit thingy

What the hell is this?

― jaymc, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

TITTWISers are from all over, though.

― Michael White, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

middle class english home counties wotsit thingy

What the hell is this?

It's a bit like the American Deep South/'Hick' states... but INVERSE

― tissp, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

DC and 'cooler both have pretty international memberships, pick one, barge in.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

I know, but I've never seen a thread about it.

Also, you forgot the U.S. South thread.

― jaymc, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

jaymc:

teh WTF down south neighbouring counties genuine middle-class roffles all round thread with no londoners plz except ken c

(or here http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=47190 if my link doesn't work or turns out to be ILLEGAL)

― onimo, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

League of Annoying Balkan Thread Titles

1. 'teh WTF down south neighbouring counties genuine middle-class roffles all round thread with no londoners plz except ken c'
2. Chicago
3. Hastings
4. Watercooler
5. Mongrels/Sheepfuxors
6. DC, because theirs are actually good

― Matt DC, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

Also, you forgot the U.S. South thread.

It's at the bottom of the list!

(sorry Southern staters for not giving you a proper chance to get nuked)

― onimo, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

nuke them ALL

― unfished business, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

was try glasgow more, the original one?

― 688, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

NUKE L0U15 J4GG3R!

― onimo, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

No, do not just barge in, that's terribly rude! Pick on, lurk for a while, hang out, get a feel of what kind of personalities people have, what the written or unwritten rules are, and if you're still interested a week later, then start posting.

I don't actually hate any of them. ::shrugs::

I think ILX should get MORE Balkanised, that way you always know what you're getting into.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

I think TITTWIS came before Glasgow?

― Matt DC, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

Mogrels and fuxors was the first.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

Nuking try glasgow more would only put a slight dent in the side of it.

― onimo, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

League of Annoying Balkan Thread Titles

The MC Hammer quote on the current Hastings thread is really irritating

― jaymc, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

Actually yeah I think Hastings probably leapfrogs Chicago.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.thomasmichaelcorcoran.com/no%20nukes%20plate%2001.jpg

― tissp, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Oh god, yeah, Glasgow, nuke that one. It goes on FOR EVER AND EVER IMMER WIEDER, ARGGGHHHH!!!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

I think TITTWIS came before Glasgow?

As long as everyone was happy in the end...

― Michael White, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

[quote]I think ILX should get MORE Balkanised, that way you always know what you're getting into[/]

I don't want to get zingy, so I'll just calmly say that this makes me sad and angry all at once.

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

A bit like the non-HTML tags.

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

I wish there were Balkanised threads for places I was actually interested in, that gave you an insight into the way of life. I'd even forgive them for being called annoying things like 'Baghdad 17 - Falalala Down To The Sea We Go' or whatever.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

noodle vague completely otm

― unfished business, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

fuck these poll hatas

― blueski, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, the 'Cooler have decided that we WANT to be nuked, because it will give us all SUPER MUTANT RADIOACTIVE POWERS!!!

Then you will be powerless against our glowing eye beams.

So yes, nuke the 'Cooler. And welcome your free jazz overlords.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

hate to tell you but that's not what happened in x-men.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

http://roshaizulnizam.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/ultraman.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

of course if you want to balkanise ILX further you could always drop ILE completely and just have different boards for different subjects - maybe even put each board on a different domain/server.

― blueski, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

i totally voted chicago as i've had post-apocalyptic thoughts for a week. and i've only seen downtown without people twice since i've lived here (and once there were still cabs everywhere) so that would be cool.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

the Glasgow one was best because:

a) it didn't serialise

b) sensible short title

― blueski, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

i voted chicago because it seems to be the most popular one - 1000+ posts every month. sorry windy citizens.

― blueski, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

DC and 'cooler both have pretty international memberships, pick one, barge in.

In fairness to Onimo, he did ask a question on the Watercooler thread a while ago, but nobody answered him. Perhaps people thought he was trolling, or simply did not notice him in all the excitement of folk guitars.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

Or perhaps it was about a verboten topic.

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for TITTWIS because it's sucked since I stopped posting there like three years ago.

― n/a, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry - I've just searched the last 'Cooler. The only specific question I've found in the past few weeks that Onimo asked was asking Kerr how his Gran was getting on, and Kerr replied to him.

I'm not sure what this has to do with anything. If the 'Cooler doesn't suit you, as above, there are a dozen other balkanised threads that might.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

the two british ones are the only ones with 'rules' i think?

― blueski, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

Try the current one.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

The only rule in the hstngs thred is that if we stay on topic for more than 10 posts, I tend to have some sort of image seizure meltdown. Not really a rule as much as a personal flaw, I suppose.

That being said, I welcome you all, unless you suck.

― John Justen, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

That being said, I welcome you all, unless you suck.

I'm not sure I can live up to that 100 percent of the time.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe everyone should switch a core member for a day, and exchange random members between Balkan states, so people can see what life on the other sides is like! Like, Ally goes to the Cooler, Dan goes to DC and I go to Hastings or something. Wackiness ensues! Oh, the hijinx!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

i post more to the dc thread than i do to the chicago thread.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

Skipping 19 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

ok this is hilarious

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

Kerr, how did you get on with the council about your gran's bathroom?

aldo on Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:47 (Yesterday)

tada
ailsa = jock jaymc
jw = otm

― onimo, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

You guys are just serious rubberneckers and as bored as work as I am. Though some of you UK people must actually be home by this point of the night so for crying out loud, get a life or something.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, OK, I thought you meant this one

Kerr, how did you get on with the council about your gran's bathroom?

aldo on Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:47 (Yesterday)

since that what you posted doesn't actually look like a question whereas what aldo said very definitely was. Wasn't meant to be pointless bickering, was going to be a point about something, but I can't be arsed now.

― ailsa, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

erm, xpost with ~~aldo~~ Onimo.

― ailsa, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

I am totally rubbernecking. I am also cowlegging.

― HI DERE, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

Hang on, Onimo started this thread, he can talk about what he likes on it!

― ailsa, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

get a life

omfg my kingdom for a statscock

― onimo, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

my kingdom for a statscock

I can't say I ever thought I'd ever see this sentence.

― HI DERE, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

I've never read any of these but such threads make me feel 2/3 of board are not for me, faraway plebe of semi-known towns.

Words, mouth, taken, out.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

I only just got home, and I don't post from work :(

― jel --, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

what are the unwritten rules of this thread?

― gbx, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

1. Make popcorn.

― HI DERE, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

Ha. I read Hastings when it first started but haven't looked at it in several months.

Many of us on the Hastings thread understand this.

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

Which one does ILG's very pwn GZeus post on? Is that Hastings?

― onimo, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

Yes.

― HI DERE, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

Does the Scottish Football Predictions thread count as a Balkan?

― ailsa, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

Scottish football threads aren't populated well enough to be Balkans. We're like some shitty little principality or something that won't be targetted but will no doubt suffer in the fallout.

― onimo, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

the thing is none of us are really rubberneckers. it's not rubbernecking if you fucking take your truck and crash it into mine.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

I don't even know where Hastings is.

― onimo, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

It's in Minnesota! It's on the Mississippi! It's full of very strange people!

― HI DERE, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

It's full of very strange people!

You already clarified that :-P

― onimo, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

(Also most Americans don't know where it is, so I wouldn't sweat it.)

― HI DERE, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

I thought it was in New Zealand!

Actually, I thought it referred to the former Scottish rugby captain.

― jel --, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

I have posted on the mongrels & sheepfuxors threads a total of like 4 times because they are the really active ones when I'm up too late and wasted.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

Hastings thread was originally invented as a place for John, Dan Sara and I to drag ourselves when we were in danger of derailing a thread with our communal buffoonery. The only other Hastings alum I know of is gbx.

It makes no sense. Anyone is welcome to come and behave like an ass. Also, better w/working killfile.

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

subgenius shows up from time to time! (Not recently, I know.)

― HI DERE, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

wtfdsncmcrofls thread is balkan thread satire thread / uk lost fan holding area. it has its uses ;_;

thread thread thread

― g-kit, Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:10 (eighteen years ago)

And we love it when you pop in and say something crazy, Nicka! :D

I dunno, I find it a bit sad that this idea of "balkanizations" has turned into something so meanspirited a topic to whine about.

Lady Di started the mongrels/fuxors thread for a reason: on regular threads, we'd find an Australian spin on things, and the rest of you (Merkins especially) would pile on us and tell us to shut up because we made no sense talking about "obscure" Antipodean things :( No one wanted us to join in with our angle on life... (well, except for the Pseudo Echo and Neighbours threads but they hardly count hehe).

Anyway so Di started a catchall thread so people wouldnt complain. YOU PEOPLE WANTED THIS, END TIMES ETC ETC

Srsly , y'all ought to come over to mongreltown some time. We just talk shit, you'd like it in there.

― Trayce, Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:39 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno, I find it a bit sad that this idea of "balkanizations" has turned into something so meanspirited a topic to whine about.

Enh, sociopaths... what are you gonna do?

I'd like to post on a mongrels thread, I spent 6 months living in Adelaide when I was a kid.

― dan m, Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

i'm going to go on a region threads tour to spread the mongrels/fux0rs message to these godless republics.

― haitch, Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

lol @ watercooler

― g®▲Ðұ, Friday, 2 March 2007 00:26 (eighteen years ago)

Hastings thread - minimally hated, minimally noticed.

― John Justen, Friday, 2 March 2007 00:30 (eighteen years ago)

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 2 March 2007 00:41 (eighteen years ago)

only a plurality though!

― TOMBOT, Friday, 2 March 2007 00:44 (eighteen years ago)

fyi i voted for dc

― ghost rider, Friday, 2 March 2007 00:50 (eighteen years ago)

Haha no one voted for us! I retract my complaints. You guys are ok /rodneydangerfield.

― Trayce, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:51 (eighteen years ago)

haw

― electricsound, Friday, 2 March 2007 06:41 (eighteen years ago)

We Won, yay.

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 07:38 (eighteen years ago)

Rest assured, if we ever make it to thread #2, the title will be even more annoying. This was a nice bit of market research.

― g-kit, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:09 (eighteen years ago)

Skipping tens of thousands of rubbish messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

― Ste, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:33 (eighteen years ago)

and hey i missed this poll, i would have voted for mongrels etc

― Ste, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

I thought I'd set it to run for two days. Oh well, thanks to everyone who voted. Congratulations to our Aus/NZ cousins on being the safest place on Earth and congratulations to Kaet and her Watercoolerers on their newfound ~~instant death~~ special powers!

― onimo, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:12 (eighteen years ago)

YYAAAAAYYYYY!!! A WINNER IS US!!!

I would like to thank my mother and my father and my shrink and my probation officer and my music teacher from the 5th Grade and my brother's congressman's psychiatrist's dog! I would never have got here without you guys! Love you all! Mwah! Mwah! You hate me! You really hate me! Mwah! Mwah!!!!

I'd like to accept this nuclear bomb on behalf of the whole watercooler, now BRING ON THE RADIOACTIVE MUTANT POWERS!!!

http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9903/08/kubrick.obit/strangelove.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

looks like 'mongrels vs sheepfuxors' is how to do it...

― blueski, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

i.e. be at the top of new answers only during the night.

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

and congratulations to Kaet and her Watercoolerers on their newfound instant death special powers!

Of which you are one, Onimo.
How will you use your new powers fallout boy?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:30 (eighteen years ago)

I think we can assume that with this poll and subsequent victorydancing, Onimo has disassociated himself from the Watercooler somewhat? crct me if wrong etc

― g-kit, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

I don't make music.

― onimo, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

Neither do I.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

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