How many posts does it take for anyone on ILX to take you seriously?

I mean really.

Let's see, I've got a little over 9,300 posts, so I'd say...at least 9,301 posts

One great rock post could change the world.

I dunno. How many posts would it take before you said something that's worthy of notice or response? That's just a start, but it's where you begin.

This post, for instance, seems to merit both notice and response, because you have provoked some of each. But in terms of substance it tends to portray you as someone whinging for more attention. Sure, almost anyone can get attention, but being taken seriously requires something worthy of it. No one here can stop you from doing that, but you. Go for it!

Three posts. One to screw in the lightbulb, the other two to take notes and exclaim, "Excelsior!"

aww I only have 4,480 I AM BABBY

Does anyone take me seriously yet?

xxxp

Well it's hard to say exactly why I started this. On the one hand I am frustrated and just want to talk to people and feel essentially ignored. I know it's not fashionable to be so frank about feeling angry, but there it is.

On the other hand I can't help but view this genuine anger in a funny light, hence the ironic/confrontational tone.

I really like your classical music recommendations, if it helps?

after 47000 posts i am rarely listened to let alone taken seriously. you'll grow accustomed to it soon enough

Dude you have 47,000 posts?? jesus

how do you find the number of posts you've posted ?
i got some stats to work out.

You have posted 4,599 messages

click "Boards," look down

4,536 registered users 171,880 threads 8,212,191 messages You have posted 4,600 messages 46 logged in users active in the past five minutes

damn.
i never clicked that before.
4201 in nearly 10 years, which puts me in lurker status.
as to answer coreys q : every non-snark post that i read is taken seriously by me (and yes electricsound, even yours)

in most threads, especially clusterfucky ones, unless you're making salient points, saying something pretty nonsensical but still interesting, asking a question, or being a dick to people, the likelihood of no one saying anything about your post is high

"salient points" varying wildly depending on the context, of course

i think that is actually what the real life definition of salient is

relative prominence

*ilx ignores*

Your path to relevance will greatly expedited if u can get on the good side of the display-name aesthetes - not that I'm speaking from experience, mind.

Well isn't this only counting posts for new-nuILX post-poxy fule?

when all else fails, standing back in an viking, M.I.A., etc. thread until shit gets super heated and then dropping in with a well-timed image zing might earn you a little notice and possibly an SB or two

I have 1,369 posts, and I am taken very seriously.

hello corey how do you do

Holy shit, I have almost 10,000 posts here?

I find that my posts often kill threads. Is that because they possesses such zingy goodness that no one dares follow with some second-rate hack-eyed bush league plop of a post?

I like to think so.

hey corey check out this JPEG image of a scoop of vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup drizzled upon it

http://www.freeclipartpictures.com/clipart/clip-art/pictures/icecream.jpg

xp hahaha your name is Super Cub, do you live in the Castro?

is this a furry reference? because that doesn't do it for me, for the record.

Hahaha, hi Del!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_(gay_culture)#Terminology

Not my point of reference, but I would fall into the bear category.

... and I guess this goes beyond just ILX into IRL, really. I feel like I can't make a single connection in a city with almost 3 million people and it's fucking maddening.

aww I would make a connection with you!

erm

:-*

At last, someone taking corey seriously!

My life has meaning now! ;_;

doing my part to expand the reaches of corey-awareness

I take my (non-pillbox) hat off to you, sir.

9,401 so far. (is that all?)

That cant be right for you, surely ET! Have you changed email addies since the ILX 1-2 changeover maybe?

its kept all mine intact as ive used the same email since day 1... I'm rapidly approaching 33,000 messages. Hahah wow :)

...and none of them are worth a damn, imo

3206 posts, converted lurker...pretty sure I am not taken seriously.
But I take Corey seriously! :D Cosmic problems I take super-criticaltheory-seriously. Heidegger serious. (minus the Nazi stuff).

Let the seriousing begin.

ppl take me pretty seriously because i am a serious kind of a guy

how many posts does it take to get to the tootsie-roll center of a tootsie pop

corey I recommend you start a thread about a controversial thread about vikings and/or poop

good idea

how many posts does it take ilx to go from discussing new poster esteem issues to the merits of cilantro

and how much to tip cilantro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ0epRjfGLw

i'm sort of the opposite i.e. i hope no matter what bs i post that no one would take me seriously. i can't handle that kind of pressure.

^ amazing post

:) now watch him crack under the heat

lol

wow i've only posted 3,776 messages?! question: did everyone have to re-register around the sandbox era or something? i think i've been aware of ilx and possibly posting here since '03, but i don;t think i 'officially' registered til 05. is that possible?

i think everyone had to, yes

Cilantro is CORIANDER? About 1000 recipes I thought I couldn't make just became gloriously available. Sometimes you gotta <3 ILX regardless of mood / its ability to remember you.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/75/Who_Are_You_album_cover.JPG/200px-Who_Are_You_album_cover.JPG

http://rlv.zcache.com/i_am_me_mechanical_engineering_tshirt-p2352151321375706553yi4_400.jpg

In American, "coriander" refers to the seed and "cilantro" refers to the leafy herb tops. Not quite the same taste iirc.

i'm going to assume they're both variations of the same, ass-y taste.

have any of you ever used "culantro" in cooking? sorta similar to cilantro, big in puerto rico, s.e. asia

Culantro sounds like it would be even assier.

you racist

I'm just saying, "culantro" sounds like culo + cilantro. Not so appetizing.

Cilantro is coriander. O_O

Just to clarify, this is a weird revelation to me, as well.

xpost

apparently the fragrance of culantro leaves is indeed more pungent, so your non-racist intuition is happily otm

I was going to do a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup joke but only got as far as "you got your cilantro in my culo!" before rethinking the whole enterprise.

is "culo" latin for lady elbow or something?

Cilantro leaves/stems and coriander seed do not taste the same. We've been over this before, but since there's no way to require people to look at a thread and learn the info in it, we'll go over it again. (cf tipping, username compendium, etc etc)

we're sorry. ):

i think technically cilantro is a subspecies of coriander or vice versa but generally yeah

holy crap, what an obnoxious schoolmarmish post from me

some people find the schoolmarm stereotype 2Bsexy!

In the UK, what you in the US call "cilantro" is called "coriander" - the leaves. In the US, "coriander" only refers to the seeds. In the UK they'd be called "corainder seeds" to make the distinction. No-one's saying the leaves and seeds taste the same; this was all discussed in great depth in the cilantro thread.

i'm going to assume they're both variations of the same, ass-y taste.

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first the light switches and now this!

Read an article a few weeks ago about cilantro that was attempting to explain why people have such strong feelings against it. Apparently the leaves are coated with a substance that has similar chemical compounds to soap so the author suggested that perhaps people exposed to soap before cilantro would associate the herb with soap and in turn hate it. The soap-y substance could be a defense mechanism that functions in warding off insects?

I personally love both the leafy greens of cilantro and coriander seeds.

As for being recognized on message boards, meh.

generally i love cilantro, but sometimes i do think i taste the soapy taste that ppl complain about. i always assumed it just meant it was no longer fresh or something...like how basil can taste really blech if it's past its time

bananas though apparently for some of you just get better with age, like a fine wine

Banana wine! Or banana jam!

corey do you like coriander or do you think it tastes like soap

I once knew a girl named Coriander. She went by Corey.

(True story.)

i was a cilantro hater. now i'm okay with it. got used to it being all over stuff in restaurants.

Yeah, in the last few years so many restaurants have begun to splatter it all over their glassware, men's room condom dispensers, matchbook baskets near the exits, etc.

practically!

it's to keep latino vampires away

JA JA JA JA JA JA JA!

i told this story on the cilantro thread but i went to a pizza place in philly when i lived there and ordered a regular pizza and when we got it it was covered in cilantro! that was the height of my cilantro hate. that someone could do that to a defenseless pizza...

Cooks often use cilantro as an accent when they don't go through the trouble of properly seasoning the food for a few hours.

"the author suggested that perhaps people exposed to soap before cilantro would associate the herb with soap and in turn hate it"
I thought this was a genetic thing? -- like those people who can taste those bitter chemical PCP? strips and those who can't.

Plus, who gets exposed to cilantro before they get exposed to soap? Are you not supposed to wash a child until that child is old enough to ingest pureed cilantro? Are you supposed to use cilantro to wipe the goo off a newborn?

ew

"Plus, who gets exposed to cilantro before they get exposed to soap? Are you not supposed to wash a child until that child is old enough to ingest pureed cilantro? Are you supposed to use cilantro to wipe the goo off a newborn?"

http://bucf.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/fidel_castro_dead.jpg

Bitter PCP strips?

More like bitter after a PCP trip.

I think Philip means PROP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propylthiouracil

if you can taste it, it means you are a supertaster:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster

i'm going to assume they're both variations of the same, ass-y taste.

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