Just me or is ILX pretty damn cranky lately?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 December 2005 08:30 (7 years ago) Permalink

But I like stuff like that provided I'm not involved in it.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 2 December 2005 08:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 2 December 2005 08:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 2 December 2005 08:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

― howell huser (chaki), Friday, 2 December 2005 09:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Friday, 2 December 2005 09:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 December 2005 09:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 2 December 2005 10:01 (7 years ago) Permalink

you are jealous because i am a legend and you are nothing

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Friday, 2 December 2005 10:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 2 December 2005 10:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

― .ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Friday, 2 December 2005 10:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

i like trains too much ^__^

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Friday, 2 December 2005 14:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

"lately"

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:48 (7 years ago) Permalink

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:48 (7 years ago) Permalink

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

― Dan (Close Enough) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:01 (7 years ago) Permalink

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

More entertaining than Starship Troopahs

NOT.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

― Sailor Kitten (g-kit), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:17 (7 years ago) Permalink

Just me or is ILX pretty damn sorta cranky boring lately?

― sloth say hi to me (ENBB), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:31 (3 years ago) Permalink

How so, though.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:32 (3 years ago) Permalink

we need new blud

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:32 (3 years ago) Permalink

That's a good question - it probably *is* just me. I don't know exactly how so. I will think on that and get back to you.

― sloth say hi to me (ENBB), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

we need more clusterfuck threads

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

free dom and cankles.

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

yes, yes and yes

― sloth say hi to me (ENBB), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:34 (3 years ago) Permalink

not just you. i've been paying attention but not much to post about this week.

― DUDE, I DON'T LOSE (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:34 (3 years ago) Permalink

lots of great posters have died

grady, ethan, tza, dom, cankles, deeznuts

we're in a transition period

― let free dom ring (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:34 (3 years ago) Permalink

Not all of those people have died. Tza is on vacation/moving and dom and cankles well . . . :-( they should be unbanned.

― sloth say hi to me (ENBB), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

cankles banned while others have been paroled and mock the law

― gangsta hug (omar little), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:36 (3 years ago) Permalink

^^

But I feel like the past week or two have been esp . . . slow. I don't really have any suggestions for how to change this except what's already been mentioned, I'm just saying.

― sloth say hi to me (ENBB), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:37 (3 years ago) Permalink

if you sb all the crazies, things get nice and orderly (and boring)

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:38 (3 years ago) Permalink

sometimes it's nice to have the slow, because it offers you the chance to just post about random crap and not have to pay attention to the 500th bump of some stupid thread about who was banned for whatever bullshit

― surm, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:38 (3 years ago) Permalink

early summer doldrums...life has been a little boring recently if i'm being fair.

― DUDE, I DON'T LOSE (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:38 (3 years ago) Permalink

more surm threads

― let free dom ring (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:39 (3 years ago) Permalink

yes!

― mark cl, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:44 (3 years ago) Permalink

All my favourite things are a bit boring - Hal Hartley films, Steve Roach music, motorways. Boring is good.

― Old Ned 1962 Vinyl Edition (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:48 (3 years ago) Permalink

re SBs creating boring times = I suggest banned someone for the first time ever last night and it'll probably be the last time I ever do. I just don't get getting worked up enough to SB people but this one well . . . I did it in the name of justice.

― sloth say hi to me (ENBB), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:55 (3 years ago) Permalink

free dom and ethan and cankles the loveable pretend(?) racist dude

― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:58 (3 years ago) Permalink

ethan has freed himself from us tho

― AMYL NATHRAKH (jjjusten), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:59 (3 years ago) Permalink

imo the threads you've been on lately have been pretty cranky

this should read 'a lot of the threads', sorry.

― illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:17 (2 years ago) Permalink

FWIW I'm pretty cranky lately and it has undoubtedly shown in my posts independent of what anyone has or hasn't done to provoke it. And yes, that applies to my interactions w/you, kate, on the clusterfuck thread. A delicious combination of going off SSRIs, job dissatisfaction, Ohio weather woes and seeing shit from my mom on Facebook like "I'm flying this flag to oppose the Muslim worship center at Ground Zero.
I am the 482,601st person to fly the flag in opposition of Muslim mosque at Ground Zero. I hope 5 million will join me!" kinda puts me on edge.

― Shock and Awe High School (Phil D.), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:18 (2 years ago) Permalink

he's a good guy mucking about. don't hate.

cap'n save-a-troll

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

Muslim mosque isn't 'at' at Ground Zero, but whatevs.

― Mark G, Monday, 20 September 2010 15:21 (2 years ago) Permalink

yes, we all already know who doesn't like who, there's no particular reason to have yet another "here are all the ways in which I despise poster [x]" party

― juggalo iglesias (HI DERE), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:22 (2 years ago) Permalink

he's not a troll!! seriously, if a dude's got a flippant register he's probably just a bit bored

― cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:22 (2 years ago) Permalink

well, he's a troll but i for one approve. better to be a troll and at least know it imo.

― illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

OK, fair's fair. I have been pretty cranky lately, and I am definitely in need of a holiday.

I am certainly aware that I often have quite different opinions - and strong opinions - to the seeming majority of ILX, and this often puts me on the defensive. I think this often *reads* as provoking clusterfucks or something like it, but I don't think having a differing opinion or defending that opinion is *necessarily* wrong or bad or something to be avoided for the sake of artificial consensus on a messageboard. Which is what it feels like nakhchivan is implying.

Anyway, I guess that's that. If it's me that's particularly cranky I should go do something more enjoyable with the rest of the afternoon. If I can find something.

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Monday, 20 September 2010 15:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

i lost my flippant register and my "tiller" on the same day

― dude (del), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

Sun's out!

― Mark G, Monday, 20 September 2010 15:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

FWIW I'm pretty cranky lately and it has undoubtedly shown in my posts independent of what anyone has or hasn't done to provoke it. And yes, that applies to my interactions w/you, kate, on the clusterfuck thread. A delicious combination of going off SSRIs, job dissatisfaction, Ohio weather woes and seeing shit from my mom on Facebook like "I'm flying this flag to oppose the Muslim worship center at Ground Zero.
I am the 482,601st person to fly the flag in opposition of Muslim mosque at Ground Zero. I hope 5 million will join me!" kinda puts me on edge.

― Shock and Awe High School (Phil D.), Monday, September 20, 2010 11:18 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Phil, you are one of my favorite fellow ilxors. Just wanted to send something positive your way. Peace.

― kkvgz, Monday, 20 September 2010 15:29 (2 years ago) Permalink

quit facebook, leave ohio.

― dude (del), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:30 (2 years ago) Permalink

dammit if i were only close enough to ruffle ur hair

― illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:32 (2 years ago) Permalink

FWIW I'm pretty cranky lately and it has undoubtedly shown in my posts independent of what anyone has or hasn't done to provoke it. And yes, that applies to my interactions w/you, kate, on the clusterfuck thread. A delicious combination of going off SSRIs, job dissatisfaction, Ohio weather woes and seeing shit from my mom on Facebook like "I'm flying this flag to oppose the Muslim worship center at Ground Zero.
I am the 482,601st person to fly the flag in opposition of Muslim mosque at Ground Zero. I hope 5 million will join me!" kinda puts me on edge.

― Shock and Awe High School (Phil D.), Monday, September 20, 2010 4:18 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Muslim mosque isn't 'at' at Ground Zero, but whatevs.

― Mark G, Monday, September 20, 2010 4:21 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

really don't see the point of this post. i dunno if that's unduly cranky or snarky.

― paying AFFECTIONATE homage to his somewhat exaggerated teeth (history mayne), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:33 (2 years ago) Permalink

What do you mean? That puts a whole new spin on the situation.

― Rocky's Banter Cruise (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:35 (2 years ago) Permalink

Thanks, kkgvz -- and I don't want it to seem like I'm trolling for huggz or something, just that I seem to have only two gears lately: "Angry" and "frustrated." It sucks.

LOL at "leave Ohio." I bought a house, man, I'm gonna die here.

― Shock and Awe High School (Phil D.), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:35 (2 years ago) Permalink

actually, that was way glib of me. i spent some time in lakewood/cleveland and cincinnati, and found good ppl there, etc.

family members will forever espouse daft political views. don't let it eat you up.

― dude (del), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

I don't think having a differing opinion or defending that opinion is *necessarily* wrong or bad or something to be avoided for the sake of artificial consensus on a messageboard. Which is what it feels like nakhchivan is implying.

that is not what i was implying, i like a lot of yr lengthier posts without necessarily agreeing with them, and i've said that before today

threads will get disputatious but it helps if they don't become unduly personalized/psychologized

― Chinedu "Edu" Obasi Ogbuke (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:39 (2 years ago) Permalink

LOL at "leave Ohio." I bought a house, man, I'm gonna die here.

lebron james said the same thing.

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 20 September 2010 15:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

Thread's gone kinda cuddlestein for Phil D now. Which is a good thing. :D

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Monday, 20 September 2010 15:42 (2 years ago) Permalink

threads will get disputatious but it helps if they don't become unduly personalized/psychologized

i think it's like how our minds are sometimes filled with self-antagonistic arrows. prob most of us have occasional bouts of self-loathing. letting that contribute out of hand to our self-definition doesn't make sense. so much more so ppl's msg board output.

cbt ppl say the same thing, like nak, more eloquently.

― dude (del), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:47 (2 years ago) Permalink

whoever came up with the expression "the meta the betta" never read ILX

― I'm just Grinderman, y'all never mind me (markers), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

As it happens I'm starting at point guard for the Cavs this season, so.

― Shock and Awe High School (Phil D.), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

LOL

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 20 September 2010 15:52 (2 years ago) Permalink

Though, to be completely honest, I can never entirely shake the fear that some or indeed most people are pretty much always given the benefit of the doubt, but I very seldom get extended that same benefit, that there is always someone who has decided that I am "just a cranky person" and that the most negative or unpleasant or hateful explanation of my behaviour is the right one, and I could never just be being straightforward or playful or whatever.

But that *is* my latent paranoia, even if it does occasionally get backed up in fact.

(i.e. there is never ever a cuddlestein mountain for me to balance out the pile-ons)

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Monday, 20 September 2010 15:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

there is always someone who has decided that I am "just a cranky person"

nah, bro

― dude (del), Monday, 20 September 2010 15:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

xp see, that is what drives me crazy about you: you act like it's you vs. ilx-the-entity (which if that was true i'd wonder why you would bother posting here at all), yet any clusterfuck/thread you're involved in i ALWAYS see PLENTY of support for you!!!! even in the worst of it, ppl are backpedaling and apologising for upsetting you, or for posting things that might be misinterpreted.

― just1n3, Monday, 20 September 2010 17:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

Things look very different when you are on the receiving end, rather than on the watching end. I think it's human nature to feel criticism more harshly than praise.

I don't think I've seen an apology or anything outside of the girl thread, nor have I actually *expected* one, for what it's worth, so I think that assessment is actually unfair and a little harsh? But whatever. This pair of posts will just leave you feeling a little more driven crazy and me feeling more generally criticised/disliked.

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Monday, 20 September 2010 17:21 (2 years ago) Permalink

srsly i came here to say that my first reply to kate itt was needlessly unpleasant and indeed unacceptable

justine in general is right tho

― Chinedu "Edu" Obasi Ogbuke (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 September 2010 18:07 (2 years ago) Permalink

oh ok karen is k@te i was wondering

― rawkan the chief (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 20 September 2010 18:19 (2 years ago) Permalink

yeah, justine OTM

― master of retardment (ENBB), Monday, 20 September 2010 18:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

That's the thing, about feelings and fears, they are not about me saying "this is true" or "this is false", they are *feelings*. They are sometimes irrational, but that doesn't stop them from existing.

Kate: I sometimes *feel* like this. It might be paranoid, but that's how I *feel*.
Justine: You're wrong. You have *no right* to your feelings. (and you don't really belong here if you do actually feel that way.)

That's not "OTM" - that's someone telling me flat out "your feelings are INVALID p.s. I have no idea why you feel so invalidated all the time."

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Monday, 20 September 2010 19:04 (2 years ago) Permalink

there you go again, big surprise.

― just1n3, Monday, 20 September 2010 19:07 (2 years ago) Permalink

what the actual fuck

― cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:08 (2 years ago) Permalink

oh ok karen is k@te i was wondering

Damn I was starting to have smh for some of your post itt and others way before I even realized it was you. but when I did I was like oh that’s just K@te and then all the hate just left me.

― Aerosol, Monday, 20 September 2010 19:09 (2 years ago) Permalink

kate you know I'm trying to help but what the fuck. you cannot help yourself if you say these ridiculous things.

― cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

Kate she never flat out said you were wrong. She was pointing out that there was a lot of support for you whenever these incidents happen which there is. For however many "enemies" you have or perceive to have here you also have tons of people behind you. I would think it would help knowing that and reminding yourself of it whenever you start to feel persecuted, no?

― master of retardment (ENBB), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:13 (2 years ago) Permalink

K@te, take a deep breath and go read justin3's post very carefully, as I just did. In it I could not detect any statement about your feelings that called you out as wrong to have them or invalideated them.

AFAICS, she:

1) made a statement about her feelings (that an aspect of you drives her crazy),
2) made a statement about your actions ("you act as if" a thing were true),
3) made a statement about what she saw to be true (those threads contain some support as well as harshness)
4) and stopped there.

― Aimless, Monday, 20 September 2010 19:24 (2 years ago) Permalink

yeah, I didn't see anything up with justin3's post either

― I'm just Grinderman, y'all never mind me (markers), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:25 (2 years ago) Permalink

See I honestly can't think of many (or any, really) other posters people go to that extent to break things down for. Fuck the haters and be thankful you have so many people that do support you. I realize that is easier said than done but it can't hurt to try!

― master of retardment (ENBB), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

See I honestly can't think of many (or any, really) other posters people go to that extent to break things down for.

this was also another thing i was going to add.

― just1n3, Monday, 20 September 2010 19:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

there you go again, big surprise.

This is supposed to be *helping*?

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Monday, 20 September 2010 19:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

never said i was trying to help.

― just1n3, Monday, 20 September 2010 19:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

just lock this thread, someone

― cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:58 (2 years ago) Permalink

also just1n3 that last post of yours while technically accurate isn't especially sensitive

― cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

i'm also not trying to be especially sensitive.

― just1n3, Monday, 20 September 2010 20:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

too-shay

― cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 20:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

Just me or is ILX pretty damn milquetoast lately?

― 4 my muthafuckin mods (crüt), Monday, 20 September 2010 20:11 (2 years ago) Permalink

same shit different thread

― am0n, Monday, 20 September 2010 20:11 (2 years ago) Permalink

so on that note...

― juggalo iglesias (HI DERE), Monday, 20 September 2010 20:16 (2 years ago) Permalink