ILE: worse than ever

Oh, I won't have that! There was April 2006 to consider!

not enough nice people for the zingers to poke fun at.

what happened?

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september 2006 was a high point for me :D

time to kill region threads :D

I long for the better days of 2007.

oh! 2007. great year.

I remember the time when ILE and I ate spaghetti from the same plate. Oh, how we laughed!

Post like you live in the early days of a better message board.

i quaver at the thought of 2009 and what it means for ILX.

we won't even have luna.

but LJ will be back!

if only we had changeable usernames

and could embed flash and use html and css

and ban ban ban. everyone should have mod privileges. go out with a bang

we certainly need new mods. the current bunch are like a mob of down's syndrome oompa-loompas

i don't know which group thats harsher on

DS sufferers or oompa loompas, that is. not mods.

darraghmac out

God created Arrakis ILE to train the faithful.

-- The Wisdom of Muad'Dib, by the Princess Irulan (Dune)

just cos i don't like art, dave kitson or jol. harsh

there are still flashes of brilliance. like felicity r3dwell repping for Nascar.

the abscence of the 'random' button has hurt ILE, it's just the same threads atop New Answers for days. And no changeable names is a lol-censor.

Srsly. The ILE threads I've been reading lately have included a lot of posters with sour dispositions, rather like a lot of irritable drunks discussing what ticks them off. I blame the Bush administration.

On the bright side, there must be a hit C&W song to be written out of all this malaise and testiness.

i think it's also a bit of that january "most depressing time of the year" effect. At least, I know it is for me.

Also, otm re: random button. Sorely missed.

Just me or is ILX pretty damn cranky lately?

great thread

i remember how ilx used to be back in the old days. there was a lot of hope, a lot of important discourse, fresh ideas, optimism.

9/11 changed everything.

The day Kennedy was shot was truly the day ILX lost its innocence.

http://www.sirgalahad.org/paul/sw/winlock/img/pong.png

http://www.themadpigeon.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/05/08/reagan.jpg

http://www.tamut.edu/academics/mperri/AmSoInHis/John-Adams.jpg

http://blog.alexgalmeanu.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/preview9.jpg

http://www.wopvideos.com/imgvideos/grandes/239.jpg

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye

Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Maciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dancron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichman, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Good scaling, ken c!

Thanks!

It's all those smug middle-class posters taking their offspring to private messageboards, leaving the comprehensive messageboard system to bear the brunt of the recession.

This may be worse than ILM getting ruined by heavy metal.

I think you're mixing up ILM with the Houses of Parliament there.

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ILM
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Remember it this way

Even that thread was better then than it is now.

http://static.flickr.com/132/318263814_c459ade057_o.jpg

The whole thing's been going downhill since approximately five minutes before it started.

this place was much better when ally posted!!!!! why doesn't ally post anymore????

http://vagalume.uol.com.br/wet-wet-wet/sweet-little-mystery.png

http://www.porkbelly.net/azupload/uploads/widow/top10moments/Chinatown.jpg

wow that song is totally written by fran healy

I had no idea the Houses of Parliament were ruined by heavy metal! Maybe should be watching more of them on C-Span.

Number of Posts Per Month:

2007/1 98195
2007/2 52238
2007/3 84535
2007/4 92889
2007/5 101476
2007/6 87792
2007/7 84254
2007/8 79861
2007/9 80435
2007/10 93167
2007/11 86283
2007/12 72389
2008/1 102684 <-----

more posts than 5/2007 and the month isnt over yet.

most impressive :D

what happened in 5/2007?

The build-up to the "ILX Has a Festival" that june?

if you can remember what happened, you weren't really there!

the one where 12 people turned up?
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In some universe it's better than ever, and I didn't post this.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT

add changeable username functionality and do a new poll

what we need is a poll surge

what we need is for someone to routinely revive old threads

were the 12 who voted 'strongly disagree' the only ones who noticed the lex was gone?

I think I said 'strongly disagree,' and I think it was because ilx doesn't seem to be as sensitive/precious as it was a couple of years ago.

blame minnesota

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels,
the dizzy dancing way you feel
when every fairy tale turns real.
I've looked at ILE that way.

But now it's just another show.
You leave 'em laughing when you go
and if you care, don't let them know,
don't give yourself away.

Tears and fears and feeling proud,
to say "I Love Everything" right out loud,
dreams and schemes and circus crowds,
I've looked at ILE that way.

But now ILE friends are acting strange,
they shake their heads, they say I've changed.
Something's lost but something's gained
in posting every day.

I've looked at ILE from both sides now,
from give and take, and still somehow
it's ILE's illusions I recall.
I really don't know ILE at all.

no j blount, that's why

blame minnesota

pretty much always a decent call

READ THIS

As you may notice, there have been some posts deleted from the end of this thread. 'paul' or whatever you answer to, stop being a cockfarmer on our nice message board. Everyone else, please try not to respond to stuff like this.

-- Josh (ILM Moderator), Tuesday, 15 May 2001

poor doomie

I actually checked ILX out because of your OMG WTF complaining about b3cky luc4S, Jim! Those were the days. Or maybe not.

you were here long before BL surely? i saved you from 3v3rything2 as i recall

So this sort of thing is like listening to old people but in internet years.

Plus, props to that one guy's Chinatown reference.

God, E2, I'd forgot all about that site. Nar the BL stuff was just petering out as I joined (about April 03?)

HOLY SHIT IVE ALMOST BEEN HERE FIVE YEARS WTF OMG :|

interestink

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(xp) oh shit me too then, if you include the 2-3 years I wasn't.

i saved you from 3v3rything2 as i recall

-- electricsound, Thursday, 14 February 2008 16:11 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

As incredible freaking coincidence would have it, I'd never heard of that site before today and right now someone at work is looking at it.

It was a bit of a pre-wikipedia failure wasnt it?

omar with the truth-bombs.

This one maybe

m8 I dunno if you've missed it but things are getting pretty heated in the astronauts vs popstars thread

What an awful thread for ilx to get heated about ffs

nah it's good some ppl are really really into astronauts but others are like "popstars4eva!" it's pretty tense

was gonna do some kind of "have to listen to the fucking Beatles or be fired from a canon into the moon at high speed" but i can't be

P fucken bored w/ ilx atm aye; can't rly complain tho as a messageboard is its posters so if I wanted anything to change I'd change it myself. fauntleroy mode: engage!

ah, bollox to that

Question is, what interesting discussions are out there, waiting to be ground into paste and sandwiched between two intact metashitfights

wins bringing the necessary joie de vivre at least. kiu wins

it's been a kinda boring month but the pr0n thread was pretty good im(ag)o. Everyone's busy having important opinions about daft punk atm I think. I'm not complaining cause it's not like I contribute anything of substance. you'll get no fucking joie de vivre from me today either; to the extent that I can even bear to be looking at a screen I'll mostly be grumping up the hangover thread.