amateurist

I don't care for his repeated lies that I am an antisemite, and that I "constantly" issue death threats to other posters. Bald, unambiguous lies.

I know this is the internet, and that standards for civil behavior are a Charlton Heston Laughs At Sky gif, but he's really not going away on his own, is he? He unceasingly deploys "fighting words" in my direction, and I don't need to see them. Please get rid of him.

https://media.giphy.com/media/Ic97mPViHEG5O/giphy.gif

v good

If you can't make him go away just by wishing, then maybe you could start calling him Lyin' Amateurist whenever you refer to him. There's precedent for this iirc.

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I don't do Killfile. 1) It's for pussies. 2) I can't even get the goddamn blue tint off my work monitor.

Is this in reference to a specific post, or just general frustration?

try the WikiLeaks thread

Um, I Think It's Time for a Thread on WikiLeaks

and you really think this exchange makes a strong case in your favor?

Amateurist is consistently readable in film threads and at least posts more than a couple of sentences worth of remarks on political threads, and in nine of ten times you're the one who takes it most badly, although I'll admit I'll say so because you've had stand-offs with almost everyone in either thread. I'm inclined to side with a poster who at least understands paradoxes and has apologized on more than one occasion for obtuse posts.

(nothing to do w/you personally, boo)

"stand-offs" are different from the idiotic hard-on he has for calling me a bigot and a psychopath repeatedly.

understood, not personal, somehow i got a college degree w/out knowing what paradoxes are.

"more than a couple of sentences" ... how much of the last 11 years do you want from me?

ideally?

and you really think this exchange makes a strong case in your favor?

Perhaps not, but as you might guess, idgaf. Convene a blue-ribbon panel and review my history w/ the Hater.

As several of the quality posters who have dropped off in recent years have tol' me, the board sucks badly.

You can lock the thread, at least we got a preview of Supreme Court Justice Sotosyn out of it.

As several of the quality posters who have dropped off in recent years have tol' me, the board sucks badly.

you're friends with ethan?!

http://www.discdish.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/TheKingofComedy.jpg

as you might guess, idgaf

I dunno. people don't start threads in Mod Request forum to ask that someone be kicked off the board, bcz they dgaf.

As several of the quality posters who have dropped off in recent years have tol' me, the board sucks badly.

lol perhaps i've been staring into the Trump abiss too long but this sounds like a parody

He unceasingly deploys "fighting words" in my direction, and I don't need to see them. Sad!

people are saying

posting in this forum is a "performative act," like voting for Clinton in Massachusetts

xxxp

iatee you can especially gfys

i'm taking my act to nj fwiw xp

morbs, if ilx got to vote on one of you two being banned who do you think would end up with more votes?

me

this is fucking high school with gray pubic hair, not a democracy

Not a fair q

As well u dont read twitter rly morbs

at least we got a preview of Supreme Court Justice Sotosyn out of it.

it'd be more if fucking Mitch McConnell would bring my nomination forward!

amateurist is an asshole troll, who when he disagrees with someone will pop in and call them names all over the place. This board would be much, much better without him. Also, it's ridiculous to enter a brawl between Morbs and amateurist and say that amateurist is valuable in the film threads...

To quote Addison DeWitt, an opinion.

i'd like to believe that save ilx's compassion morbz would've been banned a long time ago. kinda sad that ilx native ethnographer gabbneb was banned but not this self-loving troglodyte.

amateurist is an asshole troll, who when he disagrees with someone will pop in and call them names all over the place.

He and I disagree often; never happened.

btw Frederik you're a valuable part of the film threads too

I think amateurist doesn't always play nice with others but his posts are worthwhile and I prefer more interesting posts on ilx over more nice posts. Jerk idiot posters are obv indefensible.

kinda sad that ilx native ethnographer gabbneb was banned

no no this was a great achievement

Fred b keeps down his batting average

hi frederik my calling you an idiot in re. your comments on the clint eastwood was a bridge too far, i'm sorry. i still think that reading clint's personal politics (which seem pretty abhorrent these days) into films he didn't write/direct isn't very useful but i was way too nasty about it. i apologize.

er, in re. your comments on the clint eastwood film.

it's a film i like a lot, and i think the very things you suggested made it offensive are actually things that make the film somewhat complex. for one thing, racial slurs are sort of the lingua franca of prison movies (and possibly prisons IRL), from way back when all the way through today. you can't exactly read each slur as being something the writer and director (let alone the star) endorse.

anyway, that's not really apposite here, but i do feel bad about calling you names and wanted to say sorry.

i think i behaved particularly deplorably b/c i've noticed that you take a lot of heat on politics threads and i guess i was kind of joining a pile-in.

fwiw i may have frederik confused with another scandinavian poster who sent out a spray of unprovoked insults (toward me and some other folks) in some forgotten ILM thread (in which i made some puns based on a typo and the poster thought i was being a xenophobe) and i guess somehow that probably seeped into my reaction on the politics thread.

more pricks in this thread than in a vintage Yoko photo show

man Paul Barman's fallen off

fairly certain you do not have frederik confused with another scandinavian poster am

thunderstruck at frederik's otm assessment of Baby Huey btw

ah, ok. it was still childish of me to call him an idiot.

x-post

better music reference than i might have expected

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMIzTh0Lafg

morbs, what do you think of this early-80s french-caribbean jam?

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

this is fucking high school with gray pubic hair

How is this not already the new board description, I ask you.

big morbs fan. sometimes u've gotta mod out the opinion and just bristle in the vicious calumny

remove the opinions and all you have is a pitiful crybaby having the same few tantrums daily, loading ancient one-liners onto his slingshot with shaking hands, never getting a clean hit. Ok to laugh at I guess

Mordy otm tho, considering what people get banned for... I mean it's one thing not to make a fuss when grandad's shit himself again, another for everyone to cough and avert their eyes and pretend not to know what posts like you know who has a lotta self-regard? ppl who practice racist religions. are all about

honestly not sure if that post is about morbs or amateurist

When pubes go grey

amateurist, you're really a clown. For the record, I never commented on the quality of Escape from Alcatraz, I wrote about that one because I'd seen it the day before, and I made sure to put it in context of his other films of the period. Yeah, it's not directed by him, but do you want to discuss Eastwood politics without mentioning Dirty Harry as well? You called me an idiot, thrice, and wrote that said, there is plenty of other evidence of frederik being an idiot. And now you say you're sorry because i've noticed that you take a lot of heat on politics threads and i guess i was kind of joining a pile-in.?? Also for the record, that 'pile-on' you've just now figured out considers to a massive extent of attacking me because I'm a foreigner, but you still somehow know that it was 'unprovoked' when I got mad at you for repeatedly making fun of my bad English?

Mordy also asked you why you kept piling up on him. And you're answer was 'oh, I didn't notice that' back then as well. You're a disingenuous troll, imo. For some reason, you always seem to join pile-ups in process, then claim that it was inadvertent. At this point, I'm pretty sure you're just a liar.

And stop saying you're sorry, and claiming you've felt bad for it all along, only after people call you out on it. If you feel bad and want to say you're sorry, say it when you realize it, in the thread where it happens, that might actually be of some use. Instead of waiting for when the people you shit on get back on you, then try and paint it as if you're actually a good guy, and has known all along that it was over the line, etc. More disingenuous crap.

wow the youtube embeds got fixed!!!

aw I liked the monoliths

(xp) Yep, listening to that early-80s french-caribbean jam :)

boomin' frederik

lock thread

you know who has a lotta self-regard? ppl who practice racist religions

covers most of the major ones

Fred b proves he's not a clown

Maybe there could be an I Love Death Threats board and everyone could blow off some steam.

frederik i actually really have very little idea what you're talking about, a statement that will no doubt consolidate your impression of me. but you're welcome to have whatever impression of me you want!

anyway, eastwood's star-text definitely had a component of reactionary revanchism, although i'm not sure if it was pervasive in the way that, say, chuck norris's star persona was closely tied to a kind of dumbed-down jingoism. i also don't know if we could say with any confidence whether that star-persona somehow seeped into clint's actual real-life persona the way that reagan seemed to appropriate or mis-appropriate elements of his roles into his public persona once he became a right-wing politician. it's entirely possible!

i just don't think alcatraz is the best example to use. the worst you could really say for that film is that eastwood's character calls a black character--with whom he ultimately makes close common cause--a "nigger" and "boy." but as i recall even that is in the context of the two characters sort of testing and sizing up one another -- the black character calls eastwood's character "honky" and so forth. when they realize that they both are tough characters (that they have thick skin, a quality some people on ILX could probably use more of, including myself) they largely drop the slurs and insults.

that's why it seemed "idiotic" (far too strong of a word!) to me to yoke eastwood's latter-day politics to that of all films. i vaguely recall frederik having made similar (?) dismissals of other good films on political-correctness grounds. that's something that gets my gander up a little, i suppose. there are certainly more important matters in the world, though.

(btw in re. reagen i heartily recommend michael rogin's essay "ronald reagan, the movie" in his collection of the same name. it discusses the way reagan selectively utilized elements of his movie roles as a politician. of course in reagan's mind what was "real" and what was in his movies seems to have, eventually anyway, freely intermixed.)

i guess this board sometimes encourages people to draw sharp lines. i find myself agreeing a little bit w/ everyone here, but in terms of where ire is directed, it def seems like certain folks are "marked out" for dismissals and abuse and i've fallen into that trap. sometimes i've also been that "person" (scare quotes because we're all just avatars here, right) and i know it can sting (although for mental-health's sake it's probably best not to let it). whether or not you think it's sincere, suspiciously timed, or whatever, am i sorry i insulted you.

er, I AM sorry, not AM I sorry. :)