Just me or is ILX pretty damn cranky lately?

More entertaining than Starship Troopahs

NOT.

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

How so, though.

we need new blud

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.

we need more clusterfuck threads

free dom and cankles.

yes, yes and yes

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

lots of great posters have died

grady, ethan, tza, dom, cankles, deeznuts

we're in a transition period

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

cankles banned while others have been paroled and mock the law

^^

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.

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

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

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

more surm threads

yes!

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

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.

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

ethan has freed himself from us tho

x-post that's your new name right there

Tis the law of diminishing returns, maybe? Or another plateau.

law of diminishing plateaus

It's like going downhill on a ziggurat

The best threads lately have been on 1 pWN 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1, I think and I'm not just talking about the ones posting 100s of images on.

Blah. Let's come up with something good. C'mon people, I have faith in u. Sort of.

Hmm. Britishers have been active active active because of government shenanigans but I'm mostly lurking because I'm totally procrasturbating on writing a giant synopsis for something for work.

OK now I feel bad for complaining and insinuating that pple are boring.

just be more specific--Britishers are boring

bring back valuable ilx posters mulvaney/captainlorax & burt_stanton

The best threads lately have been on 1 pWN 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1

otm like sloths, gay coop, and cheese crackers

what really makes me sad is that 77 is deader than a muh

77 was driven by grady and esp. ethan

elephant not in the room is jon williams.

77's allure was its exclusivity, so when we started letting every moran in it was over

otm like sloths, gay coop, and cheese crackers . . . and pwny rides, fake sushi etc.

77 was driven by grady and esp. ethan

― velko, Wednesday, June 10, 2009 2:15 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is very otm

yo this place is definitely less obnoxious than like a year ago

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.

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

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

lebron james said the same thing.

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

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.

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

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

LOL

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)

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

nah, bro

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.

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.

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

oh ok karen is k@te i was wondering

yeah, justine OTM

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."

there you go again, big surprise.

what the actual fuck

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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!

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.

there you go again, big surprise.

This is supposed to be *helping*?

never said i was trying to help.

just lock this thread, someone

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

i'm also not trying to be especially sensitive.

too-shay

Just me or is ILX pretty damn milquetoast lately?

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g123/asofterworld/506204g.gif same shit different thread http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g123/asofterworld/506204g.gif

so on that note...