there are subtle nuances in every single one of those EXCELSIORS, I'll have you LOL

in the best way possible, he is the bicycle-riding mormon of ilx music polls

once in rural France my gps took me onto a dirt road alongside a river, & the road kept getting smaller & smaller until it ended in a creek

in that creek I saw an iphone floating

― Euler, Friday, September 21, 2012 7:19 AM (2 hours ago)

I didn't think depression ran in my family until I realised denial of depression does.

Suuuuper OTM.

― Old Lunch, Friday, September 21, 2012 2:54 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

needed a snare drum at the end!

― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Friday, September 21, 2012 2:55 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and the sound of a bomb going off

― the late great, Friday, September 21, 2012 3:08 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just cos i'm irish no need to bring terrorism into it.

― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Friday, September 21, 2012 3:09 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

come on man i'm iranian, i gotta bring terrorism into it

― the late great, Friday, September 21, 2012 3:12 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you can't spell iranian without ira, so i think we're grand here.

― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Friday, September 21, 2012 3:12 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lolll

a contra-ira affair

nations coming together

top two england-hating nations in the world i believe

over england?

good point well made, balls

top two england-hating nations, non-england division

my geology professor grandfather - who listens to english-language radio cuba and china on shortwave for "fair and balanced" reportage - seriously thinks the british are pulling the strings behind everything in the middle east up to and including the iranian womd program, the civil war in syria, and the assassination of our ambassador in libya

india wants in on this hating england action except it's also the top slavishly-adoring-england nation

yeah, i feel iran has a significant bigger subset of anglophiles than e.g. scotland too

are guys disputing my rankings

this is the same grandfather who followed up building a violin by doing the HMS victory in a bottle

my parents took their southern california ranch house a transformed it into this federalist-style thing and then filled up the inside with marble and fake ming dynasty vase lamps and paintings of famous british sea battles, armchairs upholstered with dogs hunting foxes patterns, haydn on the stereo etc

you could write a whole book about colonialism just based on home decor choices of iranian expats i think

That is fascinating.

my dad quotes wordsworth's "i wandered lonely as a cloud" whenever anyone's discussing poetry, wandering, clouds, etc

also quotes kashmiri folk wisdom truisms like "never trust a dark cloud or a white man"

LOL

what we don't do is play cricket

grandparents -> weirdly conflicted anglophile/phobe thing going on

parents -> straight europhiles, weirdly conflicted ameriphile/phobe feelings

my generation -> bickering about east coast vs west coast

my dad totes plays cricket

thats why the english were the top colonialists, they mind fucked their subjects in admiring them

well y'all did invent churchill, newton, darwin, byron and the beatles

meanwhile we gave you, uh, hafez, rumi and dead dinosaurs

Admiring the English is one thing, admiring cricket is the Devil's greatest trick.

i think the english were just the most convinced of their own worthiness, & it rubbed off

england beat afghanistan in the cricket today btw = still top nation

also quotes kashmiri folk wisdom truisms like "never trust a dark cloud or a white man"

this is good advice btw, as is "never trust a hippie", which is ironic since many of my favorite people are white hippies like ronan

bono, etc

my recs for y'all:
unit structures
conquistador!
compulsion!!!
out to lunch (DUH)
evolution
some other stuff
destination OUT
NOW!
empyrean isles
components (side 2)
point of departure
of love and peace
contrasts
UNITY
right now!
time for tyner
all three don cherrys
expansions

― 69, Friday, September 21, 2012 12:56 PM (4 hours ago)

This looks like a poem

― Evan, Friday, September 21, 2012 9:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Like William Shatner and some bongos poetry

― Evan, Friday, September 21, 2012 9:18 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pplains I think it's fair to say that anybody's qualified to comment on a fast food dish whether they've tried it or not, c'mon now. this is not exactly wine-tasting

― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, September 22, 2012 10:56 PM Bookmark

that's like saying i can write a review of a singer w/o hearing him sing?

― the late great, Saturday, September 22, 2012 11:33 PM Bookmark

you are pure spirit soul in a limitless universe, you can do whatever you like

― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, September 22, 2012 11:41 PM Bookmark

you know how if you sell a sugar-&-water-enriched fruit juice you legally have to market it as a juice-drink, to avoid confusion & admit what it is you're selling, i feel like mayonnaise should legally have to be sold as Old Hot Eggs, w/the only room for mixing up the description being in suffixes, eg Helmann's Old Hot Eggs In A Jar

― let's get the banned back together (schlump), Sunday, September 23, 2012 11:04 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what thread is 69 listing jazz records on

more importantly, what jazz musician released an album called out to lunch (DUH)

Eric Dolphy and The Sarcastics

I think "Duh" is the label it's on

haha forks excelsior

from the Fiona thread:

"Now, most of the people were very nice to me. There are four of you out there, and I want you to know that I heard everything you did. I wrote it all down with your names and everything you did and said stupidly thinking that I couldn't hear or see you. I then ripped the paper up, but not before I encoded it and-- I got two lock boxes. We'll call them "holding cell one" and "holding cell two". In "holding cell one" is the encoded version of the shit that you did that I know was inappropriate and probably illegal. In "holding cell two" is the decoder. I'm the only one who holds the key, and you and I will be intimate forever because I will hold that secret forever. Unless of course the celebrity that you had so much interest in but you wanted to accuse me of bringing up while you laughed at me all night? Unless you're interested in being a celebrity, I'll make you fucking famous any time you ask and I'll open those boxes. So why don't you stay in your fucking holding cell?"

WTF?

― nostormo, Sunday, September 23, 2012 1:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's the title of her next album.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, September 23, 2012 3:13 PM (7 minutes ago)

omg lol

incredible

she reminds me of brad pitt and i got your secret shit

Funny, I was saying something almost exactly like that to my neighbor's dog yesterday, the one that is demonically possessed and tells me to kill people.

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/578357_343988352357717_328804177_n.jpg

Again, I am someone who has some of these things, don't try to guilt me into posting it.

― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Friday, September 21, 2012 6:48 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(...)

seems kinda weird & shitty to lump autism in with the rest of those

― the best Laid jams (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, September 21, 2012 7:12 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it seems shitty to lump all of those things together, that is like every single medical issue ever

― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Friday, September 21, 2012 8:56 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(Crohn's, PTSD, DIARRHEA, tummyache, M.S., FACE CANCER, etc)

― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Friday, September 21, 2012 8:57 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lazy eye, phantom limb, the shakes...

― lag∞n, Friday, September 21, 2012 9:00 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rickets, dropsy, housemaid's knee

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, September 21, 2012 9:03 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bee sting, stubbed toe, itching powder in pants

― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Friday, September 21, 2012 9:12 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

weird vibes, ennui, snow blindness

― lag∞n, Friday, September 21, 2012 9:25 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes, the macro is rather dumb and uses guilt inappropriately, but I still have enough empathy with the chronically ill that all this pointing and laughing doesn't feel right to me.

― Aimless, Friday, September 21, 2012 9:28 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

guilt, empathy, pointing and laughing

― lag∞n, Friday, September 21, 2012 9:32 PM Bookmark

lag∞n's presumed humor there still goes over my head, doc.

yup, all those words appear in what I wrote, sure enough, but equating diabetes or cancer with bee stings, stubbed toes or snow blindness as a way of laughing at the macro still seems to me like the wrong way to go about it.

Kinda wish more stubbed toes were hidden.

The macro already nonsensically links a bunch of stuff together at random, using the supposed common thread of "invisibility" which actually doesn't apply to several of the things listed. I don't think anybody involved would remotely consider stubbed toes and snow blindness the equal of cancer. YMMV of course, but if the people I've known with any of these things are any indication, snarky ILX posts would be a greater comfort to the ill than stupid crap like that macro.

(I remember my mom really hating all the rah-rah, up with cancer patients/survivors stuff, and instead getting a lot of mileage out of some pretty dark humor, much darker than her previous stock in trade. I think this is a fairly common experience?)

...but yeah, not everybody handles these things the same, I dunno, the humor for me was in the rhythm/on-screen "timing" more than anything else.

Well I would like to thank the thread for putting this riffage in my head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkbMd3Bygzs

concern trolling defense of a concern trolling macro is some sick shit imo. maybe aimless can come in next and explain how hating patch adams is the equiv of holocaust denial.

He might also explain to you wtf concern trolling is.