Questions you felt like asking but didn't...

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Or threads you felt like starting...but didn't.

My example...

Academic Text Books: Search and Destroy

I just think no one would care about Alain Anderton's: Economics or my dislike of James and Nobes: The Economics of Taxation.

― j>e>l, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ok, here's one, viz a friend's recent post-romantic fallout: if your boyfriendperson was a behavioural psychologist, specialising in sophisticated and unpleasant forms of rat torture (if he's, like, head rat torturer of, oh, somewhere)wouldn't you just wonder if he might, deep down, be kind of cold? How surprised would you be when, after you've split up (correction: after he dumped you for another woman - another two women, actually, and in a truly soulless way) the rat botherer turned out to be "the closest thing to psychotic there is without actual illness or violence" - no empathy, absence of short term memory, total failure of all social eptness of the tact variety? Might you think: hmm, could've seen that coming if I hadn't been so determined to believe he might be The One? Jus' wonderin'.

― Ellie, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On second thoughts, that post reveals me to be a) irrationally willing to believe that animal experimenters are inherently devoid of human empathy and emotion and/or b) hyperrationally determined to believe that people in love are likely to think long and hard about their beloved's less loveable qualities. Neither reflect specially well on me. Good thing I didn't post it. BTW, Jel, I have no animosity towards any textbooks to contribute, hence this little piece of self-indulgence. Sorry.

― Ellie, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

WHAT'S WRONG WITH TORTURING RATS? THEY STINK.

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hanle y, the St. Francis of his time.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

SEARCH: Russia - People & Empire 1552 - 1917 by Geoffrey Hosking.

― Kodanshi, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But Ellie, wasn't there a sort of cheesy Jonathan Coe novel about precisely that pressing question?

(Don't worry, it's okay if this joke is just for my amusement.)

― Nitsuh, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I dreamed about a thread which was along the lines of "If ILE was a band and split up what would the solo projects be?" but when I came to try to write it down as an actual thread it just looked crap.

― Tom, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think the problem is in the setup, Tom. To get to thread you want, you'd have to go through the "What if ILE was a band?" thread first.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

NED DOES NOT STINK ....YET

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Perv.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i wanted to ask you all how you were feeling yesterday, but I figured you were all probably doing okay, so I just kept quiet.

― rainy, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah yes, The House of Sleep. Who knew there were so many life lessons to learn from it? If anyonen I know is ever considering getting a sex-change to make themselves the object of their adored's desire, I'll recommend it.

― Ellie, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Strangers you've met briefly that you know are the biggest wankers in the world.

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ILE Bad Pun: Smack Down!

It would be a thread where people make bad puns, jokes etc...and the person who is ajudged the winner becomes "ILE Bad Pun Champion" (a title which they could use whenever challenged...they could become the Chris Jericho of ILE). The thing is, I don't think a thread could start with bad puns, as they usually develop over time. (oh and bad puns, jokes etc are good!)

― j>e>l, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ten months pass...

hooray, random has finally found one of my threads!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 5 January 2003 17:55 (twenty-three years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.