Longtime ILXors - how has this board changed over time?

Dear Sir:

Show the enclosed paper to others, make copies if
you like.

I am 51, a Paranoid Schizophrenic, High School
Diploma, Pentecostal, 6'1" tall, 225 pounds, black
hair, green eyes, and get Social Security Disability.

I was born in Forsyth and still live with my
parents. My brother Bob is a medical doctor. I
spent 3 years in the No. Dak. State Hospital and
had 50 insulin coma shock treatments. I escaped
once with a car and butcher knife and was nearly
killed by the Police.

I have never stolen, raped, or killed. A
psychiatrist, Dr. Martin Freese, said it was a
miracle.

I have had sex with over 120 women, most of them
prostitutes.

I am a very handsome and charming Virgo, same as
Alexander the Great, Ivan the Terrible, John
Wilkes Booth, Jesse James, Admiral Bligh, Emperor
Augustus, Cesare Borgia, Cardinal Richelieu,
Marquis de Lafayette, von Wallenstein, General
John J. Pershing, Louis the 14th and Richard the
Lionhearted.

In 1965, I received a batch of letters from
Wyoming school children, saying that my Buffalo
Bill song called Pahaska, was their favorite song
and was sung in class every day.

According to neurologists, I have suffered far
more than any human who ever lived, because when I
was insane, I had skeining power. Skein is found
in Goulds Medical Dictionary.

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ever to walk on the earth.

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Thank you for disseminating this information.

Sincerely,

Tom Lloyd

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/search.php?board=1

whiskeytown, was that supposed to be funny?

I still like a good ILE thread, I've lost track but do threads still really kick off and get great occasionally at about 22.00 UK time, with loads of posts and jokes and things??

There was a great period of that for a while.

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xpost true, getting old

But before I ever posted here like 4 years ago every post was like an essay, right?

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um, xpost

not that i read that many boards or anything, but i *very* much appreciate the non-american character of ilx. sometimes i wish i knew the limey/aussie/nz references better, but it's still grebt. and i think that the yanks here (i am one, obv) are for the most part pretty cosmopolitan/aware of the world outside america. at least by yank standards. sorry if there are too many of us.

the ilx hivemind would never permit a good faith discussion of how they take the milk from cows in the north and milk from cows in the south and put it together

it'll be single-region first-squeeze milk on my corn pops

(and for my latte sippin)

kevin mccallister on the tv, pairing a chalice of milk with kraft dinner. your uncle sips a white russian while his newborn spits up the last bottle. mother sets a pitcher of milk on the table, and you wake up to your subaru interior. with your right foot, you instruct the machine to turn out miles. you grasp the wheel and place the miles between you and the milk.

you're safely home, so you open up the ole 'how has this board changed?' thread on ilx

life is a milk consumption number. life is a fight for a gallon of 2-percent in the mud.

― accordion folder full of Zoobooks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, December 9, 2021 12:34 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box religion

See a lot of the crying about pile-ons, lack of nuance, 'I don't get everything right but I'm willing to learn', the supposed hounding for an imagined inability to display purity in these threads from established journos like Monbiot on here.

I don’t have to look far to see how much trouble the left is in, because I’m confronted with it almost every day.
Here’s a brief thread about my experience, and why we urgently need to get over ourselves and unite against our common threats.

— George Monbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) December 5, 2021

he's such a precious crybaby. It all really comes down to him feeling wounded that people are calling him an unprincipled melt and a bullshit merchant when that is precisely what his actions and words have shown him to be.

'State of ILX' threads really are like a slow walking tour of the alimentary canal. They may meander and vary in pace but you can bet your bottom dollar that they'll all reach the same inevitable destination in time.

Lol jon

We had some version of this debate on a climate channel on a private Discord server I belong to...

and I essentially posted, "It isn't my job as a queer dude married to a non-white dude to engage with people who want to kill the two of us." That's fine if people want to do that, but I simply don't have the patience, and I don't think people should be expected to have that patience.

y hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone) at 11:22 9 Dec 21

excuse me, i'm just here for the resumption of the milk debate.

as a hearty US midwesterner, i drink about a gallon per day

I'm so hearty and Midwestern I only drink milk out of a beer bong

one thing that i find is that the longer this board goes on, the more wood i've chopped out back. i know we probably already have enough wood for the winter, but i like to go back there, drink a milkshake and blow off some steam sometimes

That reminds me, I need to use my friend's chainsaw to shorten some logs. Which seems like a euphemism, but I have no idea what it would be for.

According to this (caveat etc.) the highest liquid milk consumption in the world is Belarus, followed by New Zealand:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/535806/consumption-of-fluid-milk-per-capita-worldwide-country/

In terms of total dairy usage, it looks like India absolutely trounces everyone, with Ireland right behind.

In terms of total dairy usage, it looks like India absolutely trounces everyone

Holy cow!

that's interesting! my friend was telling me how all of his american-born relatives are taller than his indian-born ones and i hypothesized that they consumed more dairy here (note, i have not looked into whether dairy/height correlation is even true)

Maybe when you make ghee it takes out some of the heightamins

or it could be air pollution :(

This is going kinda back in my memory but I remember learning that height is strongly correlated to pre-natal health and resources available to mothers?

yeah, it is probably several things

My two girls are both 5'11" but I don't think they had better resources but