posts very much in character

what ILX thread makes me angrier than all the others combined

― imago, Saturday, April 15, 2023 9:06 AM (fifty-three seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Not controversial here. For example, Christina Rossetti's poem In the Bleak Midwinter is set near the winter solstice. By the same token, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream takes place on the night of summer solstice. Thus we are reminded that for most of the past centuries, summertime ended on the autumnal equinox at September 21st, which was also when winter began.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless),

fwiw the system used to allow you to vote as many times you wanted as long as your votes were paced a certain interval (one week? two weeks?) apart. but at least one poster abused the system by voting 10+ times in polls with distant closing dates, so the mods may have tightened up the polling regulations since I regularly pulled that shit

― raised on roddenberry (unregistered)

lol

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino)
Posted: 6 September 2023 at 10:42:10
I heard that on the news this morning and my initial cheery response was: you lads ever considered dying.

Al Jazeera is mostly staffed by ex-BBC broadcasters and journalists including my old friend Imran Khan, who is currently reporting from Ramallah. I’m terrified for him but if you’re on Insta he’s @imranism and worth a follow.

― steely flan (suzy), Monday, October 9, 2023 5:56 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

4.5 is a dumb score to give this album, review aside

― strawberry ice cream, one scoop or two (morrisp)

Boy you lot really hate this electro-swing genre that I’ve never heard of.

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 29 October 2023 10:14 (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he resembles an amphibian of some sort, hard to pin down

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, November 29, 2023 6:58 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

easy: frog

― frogbs, Wednesday, November 29, 2023 9:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lol

I've cracked the top 100 in the Vulture Movie Fantasy League.

― jaymc, Thursday, January 11, 2024 3:27 PM

1. Mad Men

― clemenza, Friday, January 12, 2024 2:55 PM (yesterday)

I'm not sure why I'd take any of this seriously, but it's how I roll.

The 'thing' is unspecified. Based on my reading of the text, the breaking of his heart is not the 'thing' itself, but rather the effect it has on him. First she does the 'thing', then it breaks his heart. He understands she is unaware of the effect the 'thing' has on him, so the effect is incidental rather than intended.

While the specific 'thing' is left to the imagination of the audience, the set of realistic interpretations will cluster around her being cute, lovable and mildly flirtatious, without seriously considering the narrator as suitable for an amorous relationship. It is the first of these attributes of the 'thing' that make it hard to forget her, but it is the last of these attributes that causes him heartbreak/heartache, which is why he singles it out as the required remedy for his heartbreak in the later stanzas.

All of the foregoing amply proves that a careful dissection of the rhetorical constructs of this lyric is overblown silliness.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, February 2, 2024 2:18 PM

fuck this country

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, February 5, 2024 5:19 AM (fifteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think stacy cay said it best: "pineapple on pizza is like penises on girls - it's actually really good but a lot of people are huge bitches about it"

― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, February 11, 2024 8:17 PM (one hour ago)

<3

amazing

fuck yeah, i've finally made it

Can you get an abridged version that stops in 1972?

― clemenza, Thursday, 15 February 2024 04:25 (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

True enough--my basic attitude towards the world.

lol

no it rhymes with frog

― frogbs, Tuesday, March 12, 2024 11:01 PM (twenty-four seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

So it's not pro grok?

lowest it's been in chicago the past 10 years is $1.61 in winter 2015/2016. it broke $2 (just) in march 2020. https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek)

I wonder why Joe Biden doesn’t just lower global gasoline prices

wrong thread!