Clusterfuck Summary Corner 2 - Back on the Corner

no sorry

they might sit Fred on a sexy horse while they're slipping the noose over his head

xp depends on what you call sexy

not going to open it, is this where we declare universal Freddy B fatigue

it was quite cute tbh watching a Hilary Clinton stan calling somebody else out for being a right wing apologist

Freddy B, didn't he play tambourine for the NPG

you know what's way more entertaining imo is the latest morbs-mordy fling in the us election thread

*chews cliff bar*

ilx is lucky that frederik is such an anomaly he stands out a mile. I've frequented places where he'd be one of the milder annoyances, almost invisible compared to the assorted paleo-bullies vying for supremacy.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1484956/matthew%20knows.png

whats frederiks schtick

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gsmqMqKsUuk/maxresdefault.jpg

very moderate/pragmatic american politics dictated by a condescending danish man who knows how our country _really_ should be run

hmm sounds bad

beyond the danish thing it's just the general annoyance caused by someone who is very strident in a teapot all the time but has no discernible stake in anything, i.e. the internet arguer.

^^^

map's got it

It's not America. Stop trying to police it, using you're own values and cultural systems.

― Frederik B, Sunday, February 24, 2013 5:02 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bwahahaha

Sasha Frere-Jones: Really?????

dlp9001: "i belong here / pay attention to me / i'm really dim sadly"

https://media.giphy.com/media/13hXaf5gbmYiti/giphy.gif

The last thirty ppl that think writing yr opinion about music is a career or even should be one all turn up in the one location at the one time to well idk what

dlp defending the misunderstood men of america one thread at a time

deems otm lol

deems otm

xxp important to keep one's swans in a row

that thread is a delight actually

Like I don't see ILM in my SNA when I'm logged in on my laptop but I knew today would be a special day to visit

Me too obv

dlp defending the misunderstood men of america one thread at a time

makes a break from his demented defending of tidal, tbh

can we foxtype all clusterfucks

https://foxtype.com/concise

wow this is really making me hate my longer posts

concision's for punks

brb running proust through there

To quote myself on this subject:

How To Write A Really Really Good Posting

No one likes to be called "uninteresting", whether or not they know what that means. That's why so many people who might post here don't. If you think about how many people there are, and then you think of how many people post here, I think you'll see what I mean. Fear of being "uninteresting" keeps a lot of people from letting their light shine and that's a shame.

That's why I want to help all of you write things you can be proud of, things you want to show off to the whole wide world wide web. So, let's get started, ok?

First, use small words. No one likes big words, so use lots and lots of small words. Don't use any words that most folks can't figure out right off. With big words they have to read what you wrote more than once to see what you meant. If you put a lot of big words in there, there is a good chance they'll just get all balled up any way, even if they read it over and over. Then they'll just get mad at you or give up. Short words are easy. Every one likes them. They are good friends. Use them.

Make your sentences short, too. Lots of people run out of breath when a sentence is too long. Then they have to stop right in the middle for a while and that's not a good place to stop. They can lose their place or forget what came before. Using lots of short sentences lets their minds rest a tiny bit while they pause in between. This helps. I don't know about you, but my mind gets tired real quick and maybe yours does, too!

Don't be clever. Most folks like new ideas to be simple, the kind they can get a good grip on right off the bat. But what people really like is to read ideas they have already thought before. That makes it super easy to think them again. Thinking a thought for the first time is always the hardest. So keep those new ideas out of your posting if you can help it. This works out great for Reader's Digest and it will work for you, too.

By now you might be thinking, "Hey! This is easy!" And you'd be right! But if you want to write the best you can, keep reading because there's even more to come!

I bet you never stopped to think how much more exciting it is to read a posting where the writer is real excited about what they're writing. But it's true! Excited writers write exciting stuff. And the best way to let the reader know how excited you are is to use lots of exclamation points! They're cheap, so don't worry!

Here's another smart tip from the writing pros. Write about what you know best. That way you don't get all tangled up with looking for new facts about things you don't already know. That's just hard work and you might even get mixed up and write it all wrong and not even know it! Why should you risk looking stupid, when you can write about something where you know all there is to know about it? That way you don't even have to think twice about what to say. You can just say it, and that's that.

Write like you talk. Good talkers just grab you by the ears and don't let go. The same goes for good writers, except they grab your eyeballs. If you write like you talk, you'll find the words will just come squirting out of you and onto the page. And right up into your reader's eye, too! That's what you want.

Use colorful words. It's hard to say what words are colorful, but I think you'll know them when you see them. They're the words that zap you and make your teeth hurt, that float as pretty as butterflies, that make your mouth water and your gums tingle. Think of as many colorful words as you can and fling and hurl them all over what you write. Your readers will be hypnotized.

The last thing I have to say is - have fun! Writing doesn't have to be so hard it makes you sweat like a pig. It can be a breeze! So, what are you waiting for? Let your juices flow and you'll write the kind of real good postings that won't be pushed off into the Dunce Corner. So, lick that pencil and get started today! I can guarantee, you won't be sorry.**

**The author of this piece does not actually guarantee that you won't be sorry.

i ran my posts through https://foxtype.com/concise and it advised me to turn off my wifi and donate my laptop to YMCA

flaubert me no flauberts iirc

i dream of a day when english can be used to create something other than furniture assembly instructions and vox explainers but until that day comes these writing rules remain essential

these rules explain an awful lot

tl;dr

a ritalin prescription

Thread of Lil Peep?

(Clutching at straws here)

poster starts a thread about a musical artist, other posters post about how they don't like said musical artists (with varying degrees of politeness), original poster responds to them.

Also grunge is all about non-blues based modes (or is it??!?)

It's only for those with exceptional taste

it's not a clusterfuck.

thraed <- stop

― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 23:24 (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Has the Trump thread established whether racism is bad

That argument is convulsing through the left in general right now as people try to figure out how central race is or isn't to the electoral success of an unqualified narcissist

it's an improvement over the blaming 3rd party voters and the safety pin arguments of the past week

its gonna take ilx weeks if not months of bad faith arguments on ilx to fix the united states isnt it