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I don't think Robert DiNiro's bits in Godfather II are necessary or an improvement on the movie.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

The 2002 World Cup suffered from bribery of officials.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh shit, with these two posts I forgot that I had to BELIEVE them!

OK, then, something I DO believe; Derek Bailey will have a number one single before this decade's out.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Non-United States nationals who bitch about how their country is so much better than the U.S. should take a few minutes and consider why so many of their compatriots want to live and work here.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

The Sopranos really is the most overrated pile of dreary cack.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

michael keaton was mesmerizing in "multiplicity" *

*does this controversial opinion necessarily have to be mine?

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

''OK, then, something I DO believe; Derek Bailey will have a number one single before this decade's out.''

that's something I WANT to believe.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)

hiv might not cause aids
in jokes are not jokes

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)

None of these opinions are controversial (including this one).

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

it is difficult to discern which stoops to more decrepid methods of pimping it's own putresent ass - lord of the rings or missy elliot.

― Queen G (Queeng), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom Ewing's pro-pop anti-indie stance is a phase.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I envy almost everyone on ILE who I claim to dislike.

AND WHAT ANDREW SAID!!

― Mark C (Mark C), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

(dunno if I already posted this, but I thought I'd better rephrase)

The people who sometimes annoy me on ILE are on the whole the ones whose talents I most envy.

AND WHAT ANDREW SAID!!

― Mark C (Mark C), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

The 'pro-pop' stance seems like more of an excuse for intellectual dishonesty every day.

― maura (maura), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Ouch. There's a lot of pop I'm utterly unthrilled by, but that seems harsh.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

The American government faked the 1969 Moon landing

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

"Disabled people are paying for their sins in a past life"

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 17:43 (twenty-three years ago)

the last part of subject line questions aren't worth reading

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Vanilla Coke just tastes like cream soda.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 19:23 (twenty-three years ago)

* Vanilla Coke tastes just like cream soda.
* Coal Gray is better than black.
* Mail should be delivered on Sundays.
* Private schools should be made illegal to bring money back in to the public school system.
* Down with the Death Penalty!
* Freaks and Geeks was one of the top 5 TV shows ever.
* Billy Corgan looked better with hair.
* Turkey should no longer be the focus of Thanksgiving dinner. The 'side' dishes are far better than the main dish (sweet potato casserole mmm...).
* A Dog, though cute, will never make as good of a pet as a cat.
* Having children in hopes of continuing your own legacy is selfish.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

What? Can't handle my opinions, huh?? Everyone in shock?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 19:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I approve of Michael Jackson dangling his child out of a window. More parents should follow his example.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I approve of Michael Jackson eating his young in front of a live audience. More parents should follow his example.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 20:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Compulsory medical testing and research should be carried out on prison inmates. I like the thought that a serial rapist or murderer could be used as a guinea-pig in helping to find the cure for cancer.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

it is difficult to discern which stoops to more decrepid methods of pimping it's own putresent ass - lord of the rings or missy elliot.

I believe the Harry Potter industry is even more guilty of this.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

"* Billy Corgan looked better with hair."

But he DID!

― Curtis Stephens, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I know I'm going to get a lot of flack on this, especially at this time of year, but...I don't think that sweet potatoes/yams are fit for human consumption. Even topped with marshmallows.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 20:29 (twenty-three years ago)

It all seems funny, kinda like a dream, things ain't always what they seem.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 20:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think that sweet potatoes/yams are fit for human consumption
That's ok.
I am a food connoisseur. It's so hard for me to relate with the common folk!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 20:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I have moments when I think the death penalty might not be a terrible idea. It sometimes seems really expensive and, well, fundamentally perverse to incarcerate someone for life or even for a decade or two.

I don't have a firm opinion on whether abortion should be legal. I've yet to see a totally convincing pro-choice argument (not that I've been reading in depth). My main reason for being sort of pro-choice is that it's a controversial topic and since I don't have a firm decided opinion I want to leave it up to personal choice.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Muppet Show was more annoying than anything else.

― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 22:40 (twenty-three years ago)

George W. Bush is a big poopy-head.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I wuv Sarah McLusty.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)

maura is a closet rockist.

(barely in the closet, mind, but still.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 23:04 (twenty-three years ago)

When Hitler decided to wipe out as many Jews as possible we all (eg Britain, America, etc.) should have jumped on his bandwagon.

― Lek Dukagjin, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

There's no such thing as rape. Those sexy women are asking for it.

― Mr. Nice, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 23:16 (twenty-three years ago)

This thread didn't turn out to be nearly as good as it could have been.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 23:53 (twenty-three years ago)

That "Ruffneck" song that leads off the Femme Fatale set is UTTER PANTS.

― Aaron A., Thursday, 21 November 2002 00:38 (twenty-three years ago)

dinner is served

http://www.lifecorner.org/photos2.html

― Kiwi, Thursday, 21 November 2002 01:02 (twenty-three years ago)

babies: the other white meat

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 21 November 2002 01:07 (twenty-three years ago)

human population should be reduced by 90%

― ron (ron), Thursday, 21 November 2002 01:35 (twenty-three years ago)

If people used scissors instead of toothbrushes, brushing one's teeth would be .04% more efficient.

― Curtis Stephens, Thursday, 21 November 2002 01:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Bring Back Prohibition- Ban All Alcohol

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 21 November 2002 03:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Stupid people should be banned from sections of the internet.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 21 November 2002 05:11 (twenty-three years ago)

sections?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 21 November 2002 05:24 (twenty-three years ago)

there are people with reprehensible opinions on ilx.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 21 November 2002 10:23 (twenty-three years ago)

this thread is depressingly pigfuckish

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 21 November 2002 10:30 (twenty-three years ago)

i agree with ricky t.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 21 November 2002 10:37 (twenty-three years ago)

anne diamond will win.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 21 November 2002 11:08 (twenty-three years ago)

big brother is for people with no life.

― angela (angela), Thursday, 21 November 2002 11:13 (twenty-three years ago)

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its sometimes impossible to do anything right enough for a person who is deeply invested in their own trauma

and some other times anything at all you do can be worth so much, even when you feel it is hopelessly inadequate

― Wichita Referee's Assistant (darraghmac), Friday, 5 December 2025 23:24 (seven months ago)

I have a standard line i use a lot at work to try and avoid this which is "I'm not you, and wouldn't presume to know what you're going through, but I have my own experiences of bad mental health so I recognise some of what you're telling me"

I mean not that clunkily I hope but I think you can tell people "i hear you" without going on a diversion into your own stuff

― Slouching Towards Benylin (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 December 2025 23:53 (seven months ago)

one month passes...

right hand guitars should be called left hand guitars since the left hand does all the complicated stuff while the right hand is just idly banging away

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 29 January 2026 22:45 (five months ago)

This depends on the style of music you’re playing

― trm (tombotomod), Friday, 30 January 2026 00:17 (five months ago)

There are loads of left-handed people who play righty. Me, for example.

― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 30 January 2026 00:22 (five months ago)

Same with violin, other way round with piano.

― Wearing red lipstick and maintaining a neutral expression (Tom D.), Friday, 30 January 2026 07:35 (five months ago)

... I mean fiddly (excuse pun) with left hand.

― Wearing red lipstick and maintaining a neutral expression (Tom D.), Friday, 30 January 2026 07:36 (five months ago)

... fiddly stuff.

― Wearing red lipstick and maintaining a neutral expression (Tom D.), Friday, 30 January 2026 07:36 (five months ago)

“Idly banging away” you said the quiet part out loud

― ron zertnert (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 30 January 2026 07:50 (five months ago)

This depends on the style of music you’re playing

^^^ this. if you're doing music that requires complex picking then the left hand is doing the easy work.

― visiting, Friday, 30 January 2026 07:55 (five months ago)

even if you're not picking it's the right hand that controls tempo, volume, etc.

― visiting, Friday, 30 January 2026 07:58 (five months ago)

... rhythm.

― Wearing red lipstick and maintaining a neutral expression (Tom D.), Friday, 30 January 2026 08:10 (five months ago)

the only important thing these days is rhythm and melody

rhythm

and melody

― Dance Yourself Dizzy To The Music of Time (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 30 January 2026 08:45 (five months ago)

a good use of ai would be to recreate kermit the frogs voice on any new muppet ventures.

― madame defarge supporters club (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 16:43 (five months ago)

lol I too have felt it sounds all wrong

― Gentler Death Squads Please (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 17:23 (five months ago)

like i'm instinctively pro live-voicing and reinterpretation of roles but this role just doesn't need or benefit from it, to me, a nostalgic fool. i mean, maybe the voicer is great and i just need time to mourn.

― madame defarge supporters club (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 17:30 (five months ago)

Bbbut Henson died decades ago. Wasn’t Kermit subsequently voiced by a shithead dude who had a dramatic firing, iirc?

― ron zertnert (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 17:34 (five months ago)

wasn't that Elmo?

― whimsical skeedaddler (Moodles), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 17:35 (five months ago)

No, Steve Whitmire (who played Kermit) was apparently just kinda an ego-maniac, rather than a potential abuser.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Whitmire#Dismissal_from_the_Muppets

― peace, man, Wednesday, 4 February 2026 17:41 (five months ago)

Kevin Clash was the OG Elmo, and had a fawning documentary done about him, just before a series of accusations of inappropriate relationships with minors.

― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 17:50 (five months ago)

Ugh, I forgot about the Elmo guy.

Sometimes it feels like the scene in Wild At Heart when Laura Dern flips out over the increasingly horrible news bulletins on the radio.

― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 4 February 2026 18:01 (five months ago)

For a second I thought you were saying Elmo voiced Kermit

― Bertolt Blecch (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 18:35 (five months ago)

Meta-Muppets

― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 4 February 2026 18:36 (five months ago)

No, I was thinking of Whitmire. I thought he was amazing at voicing Kermit, note perfect. But I read Brian Henson’s statement upon his firing and remember Whitmire seemed off-the-rails. Funny, too: Brian Henson’s statement was the first time I’d encountered the word “brinkmanship” and I just remembered that upon rereading

― ron zertnert (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 22:14 (five months ago)

Even as an adult, The Muppets remain educational

― ron zertnert (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 22:15 (five months ago)

two weeks pass...

right hand guitars should be called left hand guitars since the left hand does all the complicated stuff while the right hand is just idly banging away

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, January 29, 2026 4:45 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

if, as a guitarist, you had to choose between having a great right (picking/strumming) hand or a great left (fretting) hand, you'd be much better off with a great right hand in terms of actually making music

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 February 2026 21:37 (four months ago)

What if you're okay with sucking at both?

Asking for a friend.

― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 19 February 2026 21:40 (four months ago)

that's the best actually

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 February 2026 21:42 (four months ago)

Yea the reason I'm a shit guitarist is i pick like shit

― Abby Gore (Neanderthal), Thursday, 19 February 2026 21:54 (four months ago)

I can move frets like a motherfuckin riot

― Abby Gore (Neanderthal), Thursday, 19 February 2026 21:54 (four months ago)

*bad solo*

― Abby Gore (Neanderthal), Thursday, 19 February 2026 21:55 (four months ago)

I have mostly been playing drums and mandolin/bouzouki for a decade plus. Recently I had to pick up a guitar to record something for a friend and it felt weirdly huge.

Mandolin has a lot in common with drums; indeed in bluegrass it functions as such. Interestingly the bodhran (which I am trying to play) requires a motion weirdly like playing rhythm guitar.

― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 20 February 2026 00:35 (four months ago)

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