Also I feel like reading morbs through the lens of a more arch Alex in NYC helps quite a bit.
Note: I don't read the politics thread if that's the other one in contention
― torture prom (jjjusten), Friday, 30 March 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, I just pay no attention to Morbs in the political threads. That way lies madness.
― The Iceman Cometh Bucketseth (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 30 March 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
I refuse to take personal attacks srsly on a goddamn comedy film poll thread, largely because I am reserving the right to call everyone on ilx filth eating scum if/when Napoleon dynamite places
― torture prom (jjjusten), Friday, March 30, 2012 3:53 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
truthbomb
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Friday, 30 March 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
also maybe i've just been here too long but i think people have a hard time distinguishing between the handful of honest to god damaged, ugly souls we've occasionally weathered and somebody with a shtick.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 30 March 2012 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
strongo what are you gonna do when yer 80? yer like jerry garcia singing black peter when he was 30. just you wait! man yer gonna be a cranky raisin!
― scott seward, Friday, 30 March 2012 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
it's easy to say stuff online and be the person you wish you were irl
maybe some of us don't need to do that and don't understand the freedom of being able to unleash when you wouldn't normally. yes you can judge someone's online behaviour as unpleasant or offensive or whatever. but 9 times out of 10 that behaviour does not translate into irl because it takes a lot more inner asshattery to say those things to someones face. and I don't think most ilxors, even morbs, have the kind of inner asshat necessary for that kind of irl behaviour. maybe that's me being naive, but I like to think it's true.
personally i'd like to meet Morbs in real life. I'm pretty sure we'd get along just fine.
tldr
as usual bleh
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
scott i've been ready to be an old man since roughly kindergarten
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 30 March 2012 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
i met a really nice ilxor yesterday! he came in my store. i meet nice ones all the time. ilx is great. would hang with morbz any day.
― scott seward, Friday, 30 March 2012 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
I'd do you one better and (in the spirit of VG's post) say that ILX is pretty damn lucky that it's managed, by and large, to avoid the honest to god damaged, ugly souls that run rampant throughout the rest of the internet.
― Charles Nelson ORLY (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 30 March 2012 04:08 (twelve years ago) link
well we just beat them into submission until they become beloved fixtures six months later
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 30 March 2012 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
you used to be good at that jess!
― scott seward, Friday, 30 March 2012 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
jess/blount/matos triple-tag-team, man, those were the days. send the cockroaches scurrying.
― scott seward, Friday, 30 March 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
ILX has rendered me into a bitter husk of what once I wuz.
― zooey bechamel (Trayce), Friday, 30 March 2012 04:23 (twelve years ago) link
puppyrompinghugglezlolz.jpg
― Aimless, Friday, 30 March 2012 04:28 (twelve years ago) link
thx for the pleasant words, jjjusten, esp since in my pre-senility or general drunkenness I don't remember the FAP we met. At.
I am not cynical.
I am admittedly vicious when I feel I have been pricked, but then I never claimed to be more than a lousy Christian.
I do NOT believe ppl should get more leeway on the Web than in "real life," which is why I don't want to meet Jesse either. (thx for using my real name too. I didn't know you've loathed me since the last time I was in Chi, which is like 4-5 years)
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 March 2012 04:49 (twelve years ago) link
damn yall get real butthurt about some words on a screen huh
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 30 March 2012 04:57 (twelve years ago) link
It was at some patio in NYC w laurel and ally and vic? Plus others and there were vague attempts made to make it to a boredoms show but instead my (future) wife and I got shithoused and ended up walking back to park slope for like 5 hours totally lost. Either that or some other nice dude in NYC is prob still confused as to why some hammered asshole kept referring to him as dr. Morbius every so often in a bar, which is more possible than I would like to admit.
― torture prom (jjjusten), Friday, 30 March 2012 05:03 (twelve years ago) link
Oh I think tehresa was there as well but i am as always an unreliable witness.
― torture prom (jjjusten), Friday, 30 March 2012 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
Isn't The General one of at two with train tricks? The train tricks are cool. Morbs is cool too. This post is really cool:
― scott seward, Thursday, March 29, 2012 11:01 PM
― bamcquern, Friday, 30 March 2012 08:36 (twelve years ago) link
you are a train trick
― sarahell, Friday, 30 March 2012 08:41 (twelve years ago) link
morbs is way too defiantly consistent to feel toxic or negative to me; if i get insulted by morbs for making light of bob hope i don't feel shocked and betrayed any more than he does. when he stalks out of a thread it might feel more like Drama if he ever made any attempt to convince anyone he won't be back+welcomed after lunch. sometimes shtick shades into real fighting but that happens with almost every person on this board/planet. plus (as horrified as he'd profess to be to be lumped with a josie-voter) we share several comedy ballot picks and a last name.
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Friday, 30 March 2012 09:13 (twelve years ago) link
i love morbs like morbs loves drama
― less of the same (darraghmac), Friday, 30 March 2012 09:55 (twelve years ago) link
I haaaaaaaaaaate needless life-drama MORE THAN ANYTHING ON EARTH. I've dropped friends over it. They were like Je55e.
we share several comedy ballot picks and a last name.
:O
jjj, the infamous outdoor line to nowhere at 7/7/07? I might've met you there, but as soon as none of us (except JonW) got in, I lost everybody and went home, no bars. So it was probably someone else.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 March 2012 11:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.comicbookdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/asm-101.jpg
Left: Morbius, right: ILX.
― Tuomas, Friday, 30 March 2012 12:00 (twelve years ago) link
(That wasn't to imply you're a monster, just that you're unstoppable. :) )
Je55e's drama is fine IRL. When he gets out of line we just punch him in the head.
― Jeff, Friday, 30 March 2012 12:01 (twelve years ago) link
Just as Triumph the Insult Comic Dog != Robert Smigel, I'm pretty confident that "Dr. Morbius" != Bi11 W3b3r. I wkiw Morbs anytime I visit NYC. Frankly I wish he would post more/longer on movies as I think he has real insights that we don't get to see, and he may be an even bigger Spielberg stan than I am.
― jpattzlovevampz 2 hours ago (Phil D.), Friday, 30 March 2012 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
― torture prom (jjjusten), Friday, March 30, 2012 1:03 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hah this is an amazing post
― lag∞n, Friday, 30 March 2012 12:55 (twelve years ago) link
It's the Cycle of Morbs (Morbstruation?):
Dr. Morbius ramps up the snippy, mean, name-calling, insulting posts.People get annoyed and call him out (or he gets SBed).If he's still around, he makes some self-effacing comments but never actually apologizes or acknowledges being a utter jerk.Everybody falls all over themselves to pat Morbs on the head reassuringly and talk about how much they love his irascible on-line persona or how he's actually different IRL.
― carl agatha, Friday, 30 March 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://twistedsifter.sifter.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/owl-getting-sprayed-with-hose-water.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 30 March 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
Hahaha obv we need independent conformation to solve this mystery. I think it was before people even headed to the show iirc. Maybe that helps? Although now I am afraid that laurel etc are going to show up and say wtf I have never met you freak and ilx is going to intervention me.
― torture prom (jjjusten), Friday, 30 March 2012 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
that owl!I love Morbs, ESPECIALLY if he said true Keaton fans prefer Sherlock Jr. to the General!!! (have not read that thread bcz it poll results are such timesucks)
― Did you drop some flug in my cup? (Abbbottt), Friday, 30 March 2012 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
that one goes beyond timesuck into "rapidly growing vat of medical waste"
― Whiney Houson (WmC), Friday, 30 March 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
Everything is comedy, with the right sense of humour.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 30 March 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
I've got a lot to post in the elevator today.
It's the Cycle of Morbs (Morbstruation?):If he's still around, he makes some self-effacing comments but never actually apologizes or acknowledges being a utter jerk.
If he's still around, he makes some self-effacing comments but never actually apologizes or acknowledges being a utter jerk.
+ self-pity and martyr poses at being called out
Which leads to the last step.
My beef is that there is no other person here who even touches his consistent level of ugliness.
Overall, ILX has a pretty KIP vibe.
His "schtick" is more at home on SA or some parts Reddit - and at least there he would be downvoted to oblivion.
― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Friday, 30 March 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
Any chance you could just FP him and let it go? Jeez.
― Whiney Houson (WmC), Friday, 30 March 2012 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
WmC otm
― tempestuous alaskan nites! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 30 March 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
i'm with aero here, randomly calling out posters just because you can is nagl
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Friday, 30 March 2012 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
OK, I'm done. Except it's not all random.
― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Friday, 30 March 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
every time I'm in NY & I see there's a movie I'm interested I think about hitting up Dr. M to jaw about stuff & then I remember that recreational hangin-out is p. much off the menu for me when I'm up there. However I did take a night to go see End of the Rainbow last week + it cost stupid money so everybody respect my Garland fanhood, I love her more than yall, the end
― tempestuous alaskan nites! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 30 March 2012 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
Saw In The Good Old Summertime one morning in college and it changed my life.
* PS I was tripping LSD.
― pplains, Friday, 30 March 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
there's one ilxor i have no desire to meet after the little episode above, and it sure as shit isn't dr. m!
― call all destroyer, Friday, 30 March 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
thanks mods for restoring the thread title!
― sarahell, Friday, 30 March 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
np
― fka snush (remy bean), Friday, 30 March 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
poor C. Thomas, it may be the last time he's ever remembered in this universe. I wish we could have like a ghostly #FFFFCC palimpsest 'now with...' appended to the end of the title.
― fka snush (remy bean), Friday, 30 March 2012 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Friday, March 30, 2012 1:41 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
jjusten?? sounds like a simple drunken mixup dude
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Friday, 30 March 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
pretty sure it's deric. he has terrible taste in movies
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
thread really needed the ole jess and teddy bear pic
― bnw, Friday, 30 March 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e)
man, not even close imo. there have been far worse (and there still are worse.) not to imply morbs is bad, i love him deeply tbqf.
― omar little, Friday, 30 March 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
there's something endearing (if exhaustingly predictable) about morb's endless stream of crotchet. he hit me, and it felt like a kiss.
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Friday, 30 March 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link