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i think this is one of the reasons i can't get my head around dating sites - a list of music and films and TV shows that somebody likes is pretty low on my list of priorities for whether i like them or not

If I had all the same interests as my partner that’d be terrible. I’m sometimes bummed out by the things I like they don’t but it’s far outweighed by the things they like I don’t know anything about and get to learn about.

3 criteria ime
-they're attractive
-they're funny
-they're smart

that's it, ime

When I was 19, however, I went to Six Flags with someone I wanted to like me and told her I was into roller coasters. The first roller coaster I ever rode was King Da Ka.

Ok, finish the story treeship.

I know a lot about roller derby because of some friends and exes. Maybe too much.

I basically quit ILX ca. 2009 over a nasty name-calling by some board regulars who insinuated that I would be single for life because I didn’t desire to share the same music tastes as my partner, or value it in any sat, and that a shared aesthetic was the key to happiness and a signifier of blah blah blah good riddance gawker.

She's on board with microtonality, though, so it's all good.

how does she feel about rush

Prefers Kim Mitchell

hmmm i wonder why frederick reacted so strongly to a post about a performatively woke young man?

Ok garrison ease up there now

lake woke? be gone!

Ok garrison

that's legitimately the meanest thing anyone ever said about me damn dude do we have beef i didn't know about?

Haha man it was just the leading hmmmm <3 etc

"one of the good ones"

what is going on here?!

??

I love how saying 95% of men are gropers and "I've grabbed a butt or two" is p much yawnsville. But me admitting I might have gone to a Natalie Angier lecture for reasons that may not have been 100% pure is like BREAK OUT THE PITCHFORKS

People here are idiots

That’s the secret to understanding ilx

clearly
this whole situation is pretty messed up!

I'm such an idiot I can't even figure who is arguing with who

sharing mutual interests so you can have something to talk about is not always relevant imo, mutual love and respect is. my wife and i share vv different interests but that's what makes things so interesting. we love each other a lot, we're each other's best friend, it goes beyond music and so on. idk.

what interests we don't share aren't ones that we put up with or tolerate in the other person, it's just part of the rich tapestry.

I only tell ppl how cool I am to my wife to impress the ladies tbh

High Fidelity is a shitty movie

not controversial

some old politicians aren't inherently malicious, they just have absolutely no idea how normal people live or what life is like outside politics

High Fidelity is a shitty movie

― brimstead, Tuesday, December 5, 2017 2:44 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this would not be controverisal on topix.com tbf

Omar otm. My last ex and I were like fire with shared music interests brh we didn't share the same values at all. Didn't work obvs

I mean even if the 95% stat is true, who on ILX is going to admit they did

Star Wars is a blight upon our culture

xp there were a couple really bad incidents a very long time ago when I was out drinking and then went with a group of friends or new acquaintances to a dance club and did some ill-advised attempted making out that was either cringeworthy or quickly declined

tbh I deserved a shove

i am definitely not proud of me from ages 18-25, though more for my manipulative needy behavior

Star Wars is a blight upon our culture

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, December 5, 2017 2:54 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Controversial only inasmuch as you trained your focus on such a specific source of cultural blight.

It's a fairly large blight

bit strong picking on a bunch of kids' movies

Not a fan, but even I’ll admit “a bunch of kids movies” is a little reductive to describe Star Wars.

More like manbaby movies

(xp) A bunch of shit movies then?

without Star Warses men would be forced to fixate on Shakespeare or something

Chewbacca was a hero to most but he never meant shit to me...

Star Wars is a blight upon our culture

Exactly

yes, if only for creating blockbuster culture along with Jaws
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:24 (thirty seconds ago)Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Read that as, 'yes, if only for creating blockbuster culture along with Jews'

O_O

Adults who are super into Harry Potter are weird

Also extremely otm

Οὖτις, you were still a top poster in the star wars 7 thread that time I counted

Whiney is a top poster in the pitchfork thread.

well, it is the pitchfork is dumb thread

you were still a top poster in the star wars 7 thread that time I counted

it's a never-ending battle

yes, if only for creating blockbuster culture along with Jaws
― flappy bird, Tuesday, December 5, 2017 4

This is the producer's faults, not Spielberg's. But I assume you don't buy Biskind bullshit.

i really liked that new star wars one that ends with the princess giving the robot the secret message. so now i can just watch that and star wars and empire and its the perfect trilogy and i can ignore the rest! i don't care about extracurricular star wars junk. i'm really good at avoiding stuff i don't care about though in my old age.