tuomas is a funny bloke isn't he. proper oddball.
― online hardman, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
lol
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
Ey big T, can we get a comprehensive list of celebrities you would recognise on sight
― online hardman, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link
Tuomas's request is completely reasonable and in the spirit of the thread IMO, no one is saying ''go do an hour of research,'' just post the names of the people that caught your eye. If nothing else, it would make it easier to control-f the thread to see if something's been posted already, though obviously it's a bit late for that to help much.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
I realise I've dragged myself into arguing otherwise but I agree.
Asking after each pic when ppl have declined to do so isn't reasonable tho, nor is insisting in bizarre terms like others having a 'duty' to or even 'should' do it, as if 'no' wasn't an answer
― james lipton and his francs (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
Anyway peace out t this isn't an election issue on the doorsteps, see you next time someone posts a pic itt
― james lipton and his francs (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
problem with "kids" nowadays is they don't want to work
― Tributes as popular Lichfield cat dies (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
it would make it easier to control-f the thread to see if something's been posted already
Best argument I've heard against my position yet.
Wouldn't stop reposts and certainly won't keep me from throwing up a pic and flitting off back to some weird tumblr site, but it's a valid point.
― pplains, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
Tuomas's request is completely reasonable and in the spirit of the thread IMO, no one is saying ''go do an hour of research,'' just post the names of the people that caught your eye.
Yes! I'm not asking you to "research" every person in pic with kazillion people, but obviously you instantly recognized at least some of the folks in the pic, because why else would you have posted it in this particular thread? So how hard it is to write the names of those people in your post? It should take you maybe 20 seconds.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
And IMO it's the duty of every poster to be informative when it helps your fellow posters. Being needlessly oblique when others have asked you not to be is just rude. (It's not like the obliqueness is in service of a good joke or something here.) This should be a basic rule for every message board. I'm going to vote for anyone who runs on this platform.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link
takes 0.96 seconds to google an image. being needlessly lazy and stupid when others have asked you not to be is rude.
― balls, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
i mean i get it's yr troll technique for many many years running now, to the point that you've actually been tempbanned over it before, but don't pretend it's not deliberately tedious and hostile
― balls, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
Okay, balls.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
Our intrepid hero stares into the vast seas of search by image.
― pick it up for ripple laser (onimo), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
that this thread of all threads has caused so much friction over the years is incredible to me
― goole, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
i feel like, over the years, maybe i've picked up the subtle style cues that would differentiate an unknown-to-me europoid face among "musician," "pol," "'footballer,'" "high culture icon" or "other media barnacle" but in general it's only rarely worth the investigation anyway? unless other people follow on with a lot of lols
― goole, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
Being needlessly oblique when others have asked you not to be is just rude. (It's not like the obliqueness is in service of a good joke or something here.)
Thru the looking glass here ppl
― james lipton and his francs (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
David Bowie and Keith Chegwin
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
If this thread is about sharing a great thing you've found, deliberately excluding some people from the pleasure of it seems a bit ungenerous to me. I have to confess I have no effing clue who most of the people are in these photos, nor the tenacity to keep asking, and I've only still got the thread bookmarked because of the occasional gem it throws up. The rest of the time it's an annoyance.
― Madchen, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 22:39 (nine years ago) link
But then almost all of ILX is like that too.
― Madchen, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
There is a certain joy in seeing a picture and figuring out what it depicts via inference
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eO6y_zqiUF8/UhA2jwUMlZI/AAAAAAAA5r0/YbW4S3CXxz8/s1600/Au0P0C2CMAAotOd.jpg_large.jpg
John Cooper Clark, Tom Waits, Billy Connolly
― everything, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
who's the guy on the right?
― wmlynch, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
kidding...
There was some pic that a Britisheser posted of a boxer shaking hands with a convicted murderer? Or something like that?
Anyway, typical single-word "whoa" replies followed, so I went ahead and googled it to read the whole story about why the non-boxer was such a pariah. I Learned Something that day.
Now, if there had been a cutline like the one there for John Cooper Clark, a fella I know nothing about, I likely wouldn't have googled it since I already know the name.
I mean, I don't catch half the "jokes" on the Excelsior thread, but I don't insist on the punchline being explained to me either.
― pplains, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
oversimplification but john cooper clarke = british jim carroll sorta. rock poet, releases a pretty great album in the early 80s. if you really really like that hannett factory sound i'd say seek it out. they used one of his tracks in a sopranos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTpsWgaYnS8
― balls, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 23:30 (nine years ago) link
Probably expected, still cool:
http://scontent-b-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1.0-9/10157399_863048133709904_100905553857432747_n.jpg
Weird Al & the Monkees not named Michael Nesmith.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 May 2014 05:00 (nine years ago) link
http://www.looneypalace.com/img/misc/celebrity-friends/celebrity-friends01.jpg
50 Cent | Bette Midler
― pplains, Thursday, 15 May 2014 06:53 (nine years ago) link
ban in orbit
― wins, Thursday, 15 May 2014 08:16 (nine years ago) link
or, some of you are being fucking ridiculous
― wins, Thursday, 15 May 2014 08:17 (nine years ago) link
Aw only some of us?
― james lipton and his francs (darraghmac), Thursday, 15 May 2014 08:23 (nine years ago) link
always think that "dream dinner party guests" is a lazy Q&A standby but if it must be asked this would be a great answer
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 15 May 2014 12:25 (nine years ago) link
and in which year is your dream dinner party taking place
― conrad, Thursday, 15 May 2014 13:00 (nine years ago) link
well i can mix and match in my dreams, but 1980ish seems like a good time
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 15 May 2014 13:08 (nine years ago) link
ritta from parks and rec and the current nhl comish
http://photos-c.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xpf1/10471801_318801704942122_209343282_n.jpg
― jbn, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link
someone whose name you don't know and someone else whose name you don't know
― boney tassel (sic), Thursday, 26 June 2014 00:43 (nine years ago) link
THANK YOU FOR YOUR FABULOUS AS EVER CONTRIBUTION SIC!
― The Littlest Boho (stevie), Thursday, 26 June 2014 08:51 (nine years ago) link
I know :( , but for real though
― boney tassel (sic), Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:24 (nine years ago) link
http://31.media.tumblr.com/60aa2302da7c122eb41f5361ecd8dee4/tumblr_mlq085D9Fm1r19b3po1_500.jpg
Siouxsie Sioux and Marc Bolan. Maybe not too surprising but I don't think of their careers as overlapping.
― a curious shade of pale (onimo), Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link
Seeing pix like that or reading about what John Lennon thought of Bruce Springsteen always weirds me out a little bit.
― pplains, Thursday, 26 June 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link
Bolan met all the punkshttp://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3b/49/8d/3b498d9f684292ed873c0c7637843280.jpg
― everything, Thursday, 26 June 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link
he def had a photo face huh
― leave the web boys alone (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 June 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link
http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfylgq8pHY1qzezj5o1_1280.pnghttp://www.bpfallon.com/blogpix/BPFallonMarcBolanPaulCookEtc1976b.jpg
― everything, Thursday, 26 June 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
can we be shown weirdos + marc bolan
― bill nye mouth (electricsound), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
these Bolan ones are all great
also was going to post what jim said
― boney tassel (sic), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:54 (nine years ago) link
moar bolan plz
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 June 2014 01:26 (nine years ago) link
http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc1x0uLrrs1ri7m8ao1_1280.jpg
Brian Wilson, Keith Moon
(Not to be confused with
http://www.librarising.com/astrology/celebs/images2/B/briankeith.jpg
Also Linda Blair, Keith Moon, Linda Lovelace
http://www.rockandrollgallery.com/prints/W-JF-001.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 27 June 2014 02:59 (nine years ago) link
lol bri's buddah belly
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 June 2014 03:04 (nine years ago) link
Beach Buddha
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 27 June 2014 03:08 (nine years ago) link
Moon idolised the Beach Boys;[16] Roger Daltrey later said that given the opportunity, Moon would have left to play for the California band even at the peak of the Who's fame.[17]
― fit and working again, Friday, 27 June 2014 03:14 (nine years ago) link