are crushes awesome or what?

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do you have one? who is it? tell me tell me!

― umm.whats.her.face, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

i don't want to type about it.

― ^@^, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

why are they awesome?

― braveclub, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

you first

― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

does one suddenly become too old to form a crush? or do they happen forever and ever.

― umm.whats.her.face, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

har! he works with me! I think it's true love! swoon.
just kidding, i barely know him.

― umm.whats.her.face, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

My current 'crushes', although I define them slightly different form THE HUSBAND LIST! However the Husband List must come in units of five and unfortunately I only have two at the moment, they ARE:

1. John Simm as a chinless pleeceman in the 70s, I love his little screwed up face!
2. Simon Pegg as a chinless pleeceman in the 00s, I love his little screwed up face!

As you can note, there is a theme. SUGGEST MORE PLEASE. Robert Lippok was suggested yesterday but I can't have an ex member of To Roccoco Rot on my Husband List for goodness sake now.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

Crushes are rubbish. They should be banned. They are a waste of time and energy. I vote "dud".

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

I am aware this is sort of strange.

My real ACTUAL TV Husband is over and above this list though and it is Logan Echolls on Veronica Mars, I love him, I love him, I love him I do.

David Tennants is not on the Husband List but Dr. Who [i]is[/is]. Wouldja go figger?

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

wolverine in cartoon form

― umm.whats.her.face, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

Life is better with crushes, and worse! "What torments you've thrust me into all over again....Torments that I wouldn't exchange for all the greatest joys" and so on.

Also useful for giving you a reason to get dressed and come to work in the morning.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

these days crushes are just on celebrities I see cute photos of and usually fade in a day or two. I don't develop all-consuming crushes on real people anymore.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

I have ordered "Lego Star Wars 2" for my GameCube so Lego Han Solo might be on the Husband List soon if the game is any cop.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

Kinda crushing on new gf at the mo. I haven't cared about anyone like this for so long, it's really weird. And horribly cliched - the feeling of wanting to skip through meadows and proclaiming how wonderful everything is grates horribly against my natural cynical instinct. I'm sure it'll fade soon.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

J'en ai toujours au moins un petit béguin pour une demoiselle ou une autre.

― Michael White, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Surely real people aren't allowed to be crushes - how would anybody get anything done? You must try harder Johnney B. What about the lady pleeceman from Life On Mars? Don't worry, we won't tell yr gf.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

hmmm... lego han solo!

the right crush on the right person is just magic (but it fades). bleh.

― umm.whats.her.face, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Go away. The whole point of a crush is that it is on someone you don't actually have.

Actually, I've decided that what is rubbish is *not* having a crush. Everything seems better when you have a crush. But when you've not got one, the world seems grey.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Police OFFICER!

Haha I have no chance with beardless chinless Pegg at this rate.

Michael White said "petit big 'un".

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

i can't think of anyone really crushable on my TV these days.

― blueski, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

celebrities are dumb

― umm.whats.her.face, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

This is why I should do you that dvd of Veronica Mars if I ever figure out "compression". Or you should just buy it. I'd probably crush on Veronica (I think I DO a little bit, but mostly I just like her huge bags full of photographic equipment).

HAHA maybe I should add Keith Mars to the list, but he is more one for the I Wish He Was My Dad List.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

make mine a robinson's fruit crush

― unfished business, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

What about the lady pleeceman from Life On Mars? Don't worry, we won't tell yr gf.

Wrrrrowr!

― Michael White, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, someone I don't actually HAVE? Oh well, J0@nn@ N3ws0m (still). But crushes on people you don't have are rubbish, esp. if they're people you see every day. I don't like being controlled by my subconscious that much. But this is an old ILXrgument, I'm sure.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

I would like to hear more about wotserface's crush.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/Juror8/powerglove103.jpg

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

I kinda had a crush going on Julian Barratt for a while, but it unfortunately seems to have faded, mainly due to lack of exposure. Crushes on musicians are better, because you can listen to them all the time. With persons off the telly, you actually have to watch them.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

Thank you, Dom, for making a perfectly diverting thread non-work safe.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

I had a bit of a crush on a dude on the bus for about two minutes. From behind, I thought he looked like Jake Gyllenhaal. But then when he turned around, he didn't. :(

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

i love the feeling of pure glee that comes along with it.
it intrigues me a lot, but it feels so sappy and clichéd.
i too feel like skipping in the meadow or something...

― umm.whats.her.face, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

I have a crush on either Keef or Stet, whoever invented the magical thing that turns pictures off so I am blissfully safe from whatever, I'm sure, very attractive picture Dom posted.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Oh please, we've all had crutches on Keef since like 1998.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

No power glove, no nerd love.

― Michael White, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

it burns, it burns, sarah

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

Does it feature a Fimble?

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

it looks terribly 80's, doesnt it?

― umm.whats.her.face, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

Oh please, we've all had crutches on Keef since like 1998.

Sounds somewhat painful, really. Poor Keef.

― Michael White, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

crushes are awesome

― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

dom REDEEMED this thread, what are you all talking about

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

she ain't no nerd

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

I never meant to imply that was a bad thing, Ed.

― Michael White, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

total dud. i refuse 2 have them anymore.

― pisces, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

i should note that dom could have also posted goatse and he would have redeemed this thread

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

Aw, pisces! Not even TV Husband/Wives?

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

I fear Dr..Strongo has been spending too much time crushing on those SOUR GRAPES (do you see).

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

You're not fooling anyone w/ that curmudgeonly exterior, Jess.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

mostly I just like her huge bags full of photographic equipment

Ha ha, you said huge bags.

I am never without a good crush. It passes the time. Although I do think somehow that it was more acceptable when I was 19 than it is now that I'm 36.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

six years of false fronts

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

I did hear on the radio today that plastic surgery is almost compulsory in the US :(

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

Skipping 428 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

of course, i'm aware of that post and everything.

― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 May 2010 13:44 (fifteen years ago)

e v e r y t h i n g

― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 May 2010 13:44 (fifteen years ago)

sadly that post really isn't the end of it

― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Saturday, 29 May 2010 13:45 (fifteen years ago)

crushes suck.

― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 29 May 2010 13:46 (fifteen years ago)

I'm actually WAY more embarrassed by my contributions to a different crush thread ('Intellectual Flirting') these days; this has a certain tragic nobility at least, a certain springtime dementia

― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Saturday, 29 May 2010 13:47 (fifteen years ago)

so embarrassed that you namedropped it

smh

― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 May 2010 13:48 (fifteen years ago)

some men enjoy the feeling of being pwned

― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 May 2010 13:48 (fifteen years ago)

I also have a date on Monday. If you've googled this thread, O prospective date, then hi!

― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Saturday, 29 May 2010 13:49 (fifteen years ago)

key point about crushes- attainability of target will determine the level of suckage.

― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 May 2010 13:49 (fifteen years ago)

smh x infinity

― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 May 2010 13:49 (fifteen years ago)

My god, what a thread.

::blinks::

The funny thing for me is, I've no idea who this Gretsch boy I had a crush on in 2007 even was any more.

I've gone back to the conclusion that crushes are shit when they are on people in your day to day life that you might actually have some hope of turning into something more than a crush. Because that never ever works, and what you're left with is ALWAYS a mess. Because I never, ever learn, and I always, always get burned.

Much, much better to keep them always in the realm of fantasy.

― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 29 May 2010 14:01 (fifteen years ago)

Cyberwanking girl above always reminds me vaguely of...

http://www.sixtiescity.com/SciFilm/Images/SF083.jpg

This was a whole aspect of the future that never really took off, did it? Never going to get that iVibrator that hooks up to iTunes and throbs in time with the music, am I?

― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 29 May 2010 14:02 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj5S1RCUDvM

― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 29 May 2010 14:02 (fifteen years ago)

my god I had no idea that this thread contained...The Post

― /\/\ /\ Y ( ) (dyao), Saturday, 29 May 2010 15:30 (fifteen years ago)

three years ago this thread was the future of ilx, which is why so many people left i think

― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 May 2010 15:38 (fifteen years ago)

see I have a vague recollection of reading this thread in real time back when I was lurking. somehow I forgot what the thread was about before the derail

― /\/\ /\ Y ( ) (dyao), Saturday, 29 May 2010 15:40 (fifteen years ago)

yeah well you think of crush and if the first image that pops into your head is ...... that, then i dunno, not much hope for you.

― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 May 2010 15:42 (fifteen years ago)

I will think of this thread every time I fly. still trying to figure out if it's a good thing or a bad thing that all the britishisms prevent me from having a clear picture of what exactly went down that night. maybe some things are not better left to the imagination

― /\/\ /\ Y ( ) (dyao), Saturday, 29 May 2010 15:43 (fifteen years ago)

for a given level of imagination, that's true. ie up to probably lovecraftian levels in this particular contretemps

― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 May 2010 15:47 (fifteen years ago)

things i have learned from this thread: british people schools are really weird

― CUSE EX MACHINA (jjjusten), Saturday, 29 May 2010 16:12 (fifteen years ago)

Crushes are all about psychoactive bodily secretions. They can be fun due to the passionate feelings and fantasies they often arrouse, but they're just as likely to cause a bad trip irl.

― Aimless, Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:16 (fifteen years ago)

Crushes are all about psychoactive bodily secretions. They can be fun due to the passionate feelings and fantasies they often arrouse, but they're just as likely to cause a bad trip irl.
― Aimless, Saturday, May 29, 2010 6:16 PM (7 minutes ago)

Brain secretions rather than body (sorry, mind/body divide at work here) but otherwise, this is completely OTM.

― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:24 (fifteen years ago)

otherwise OTM, you say??

(Slowly rises to his most impressive height, which includes a bit of surreptitious heel lift, clasps his hands behind his back and assumes his most pontifical mien)

Young lady, I don't know about you, but I always take pains to ensure my brain remains a part of my body.

(lifts nose haughtily, turns and stiffly walks away)

― Aimless, Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:40 (fifteen years ago)

(brain falls out of head at the most inopportune moment)

cue audience laughter, hoots

― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:43 (fifteen years ago)

what is the most opportune moment for one's brain to fall out of one's head?

― dud rock (crüt), Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:44 (fifteen years ago)

in sitcom tropes, it is the moment after which you have just avowed that you shall never be so careless as to let it happen yours, imo

― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:44 (fifteen years ago)

YMMV, obvs- i guess there are times when it's even less convenient, like when you need to solve an arithmetic problem really badly or w/e

― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:45 (fifteen years ago)

I am asking about opportune

― dud rock (crüt), Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:47 (fifteen years ago)

ah fair enough.

i suppose, in a way, it's just after you've avowed that you shall never be so careless as to let it happen yours, from the point of view of a sitcom audience/writer.

― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:52 (fifteen years ago)

(sheepishly he picks his brain up from floor, where it has acquired a light coating of dust and hair, tucks it inside his jacket, and shambles away in the hope of finding an unattended bottle of gin)

(mumbles something incoherent about his dignity)

― Aimless, Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:54 (fifteen years ago)

LIke I said, mind/body divide. But, seriously, I consider my head (including my brain) to be attached to my body, rather than part of it.

― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:55 (fifteen years ago)

fair dinkum

― Aimless, Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:57 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

why do I never remember that this thread contains the post

― dayo, Thursday, 29 September 2011 00:33 (fourteen years ago)

which post

― uhhhhhh (admrl), Thursday, 29 September 2011 00:41 (fourteen years ago)

I never knew this contained the post. Altho I knew exactly what you meant when I read this revive.

― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 29 September 2011 00:43 (fourteen years ago)

lj's post.

― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 29 September 2011 00:44 (fourteen years ago)

http://nickshell1983.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/candle_in_the_wind_bennie_and_the_jets_allemagne.jpg

― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Thursday, 29 September 2011 00:55 (fourteen years ago)

http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/212377/212377,1240674051,2/stock-photo--d-rendering-of-a-badge-with-percent-off-29118226.jpg

―  (gr8080), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:46 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

i am appalled to report that for a period of perhaps thirty seconds i succumbed to this dare and with my right hand gently massaged his old fella into a state of turgidity.

― crüt, Monday, 28 January 2013 22:12 (thirteen years ago)

never forget

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 28 January 2013 22:14 (thirteen years ago)

I will be watching over you
I am gonna help you see it through
I will protect you in the night
I am smiling next to you
In silent turgidity

― sleepingbag, Monday, 28 January 2013 22:26 (thirteen years ago)

three months pass...

legend

― mookieproof, Monday, 13 May 2013 01:59 (twelve years ago)

classic hardman tombot posts in there

― tweeship journey to 77 (mh), Monday, 13 May 2013 02:22 (twelve years ago)

pulling bird ends in drunken drag wank tourney = dud

― dylannn, Monday, 13 May 2013 04:55 (twelve years ago)

congrats louis! how far did it go?
― modestmickey, Monday, March 12, 2007 1:03 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

― ḉrut (crüt), Monday, 13 May 2013 04:58 (twelve years ago)

I'm shocked by the levels of self-righteous puritanism and misanthropy demonstrated by many posters in this thread back in 2007. A perfectly amusing anecdote about a harmless erotic skirmish was apparently going to ruin a young man's future. Well, here we are six years later. Did it?

No it did not. The person in question has proved the pompous, humourless scolds completely wrong; he's a respectable and responsible educator with glowing testimonials. He obviously boasts interpersonal skills far beyond those of his critics.

― Grampsy, Monday, 13 May 2013 06:11 (twelve years ago)

Yeah I remember once when there was the wife of some fellow who was in the papers for getting arrested for being a racist or something, she was posting here how awful it all was and next week she was getting quoted verbatim from ILX by some bitch reporter who didn't read the FAQ, not that it mattered one bit.
TOMBOT wrote this at 2007-03-12 17:40:55.000

I don't think I've heard this one. ILX was quoted in some news program?

― how's life, Monday, 13 May 2013 10:42 (twelve years ago)

Yes

― peel hat-trick narrows (electricsound), Monday, 13 May 2013 10:43 (twelve years ago)

Except it was a paper iirc

― peel hat-trick narrows (electricsound), Monday, 13 May 2013 10:43 (twelve years ago)

The only thing I found was when the New Zealand Herald ripped off content from a thread, but it was Adorable Parent Factoids and not anything about racist criminals or anything.

― how's life, Monday, 13 May 2013 12:23 (twelve years ago)

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