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Poutine is for canucks. Fermented potato mash is for commies, and trashy college kids who are “trying to keep it light tonight”

champ is the best. but enough of my waffle.

Mash is so good i feel like ive sinned every time i eat it

still awaiting Miley's long playing homage to mash

"Mash Notes"

i think some of y'all mighta forgotten this isn't the "ITT list all disgusting savages" thread

what thread is this

that laid to rest
on mary's lap is sleeping

Yr in the jungle baby iirc

potatoes vs stroopwafel

poll of the fyourp

I don’t think I can trust potato haters wtf.

that's what makes it a controversial opinion, eh?

In the right hands, the potato is lord of all foods.

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.

― rb (soda), Tuesday, December 5, 2017 12:16 PM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Does anybody remember which thread this was? I'm curious to see this insane opinion (specifically the bolded) advocated in earnest.

In my experience sophistication and character are inversely related so I'm grateful that girls with good taste generally hate me

Eyes Wide Shut is the best Kubrick by miles

Agreed 100%

it's underrated for sure

In my experience sophistication and character are inversely related

this would be a good one to debate

what happened to Treeship

― flappy bird,

i'm more adversarial now maybe

why did you make a new account

taken by both shadow and flame iirc

i scrambled my old password in a pique of wanting to quit ilx and become more productive. a tale as old as time

Beauty and the Treesh

✓

:D

nostalgia is underrated.

there is a need to intellectualize and perform an armchair analysis to dismiss the enjoyment of recurring characters, imagery, story mythos, etc. of past works and the "Infantilism" of modern culture. to do performative penance for your complicity in capitalist consumption. to act out the discerning consumer, one who realizes the emptiness of capitalism, and symbolically sacrifice your idols.

there is a tendency to dismiss nostalgia and to dismiss the emotional attachment. personally as i get older i find myself looking to the past more and more. as i progress through my life and watch people pass away or depart in other ways, it makes an emotional and Jungian sense to return to the celebrated symbolic language of our youth, to re-create via imagery, sounds, sensory input (much as a cosplaying magician/Kabbalist may have done hundreds of years ago). remembering the good times of your life can be an indulgent experience but it is a natural one for all of us. the 30 year cycle may be a capitalist invention but is permeates the subconscious of all engaged in pop culture, it is a real and symbolic language.

certainly there is something to be said about re-evalutating the past, looking at the nostalgia and seeing how our views on the past have changed, how we may have done things differently, etc. but in general the knee-jerk gut reaction against nostalgia (see abuse of the term "Arrested Development") feels a like common thing these days. maybe there is always this kind of reaction against consumable media but i think attacking the emotion itself is misplaced.

nostalgia is both underrated and overrated. all things in moderation

There are definitely legit criticisms of nostalgia (particularly to the extent that it's a blinkered reflection which conveniently skirts past anything regressive) but most of the criticism seems more indicative of embarrassment about the forces which shape us before we start feeling the overwhelming urge to impress other people with the maturity of our critical faculties.

i get nostalgic about making love to a particular woman (different ones at different times, depending on my mood)

hey now

wistful might be the right word

or catholic guilt

"All things in moderation" should be retired

'All things in moderation' in moderation, imo.

Course it shouldn't but that is a good controp

"All things in moderation" should be retired

― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Wednesday, December 6, 2017 1:09 PM (two minutes ago)

from a health perspective it's quite useful actually

did irishman oscar wilde rly say everything in moderation incl moderation?

mods in moderation, been saying this on this here board for years

b4 wilde???

yeah he did

pwnd!

Except potatoes.

controp is brilliant coinage, sturdy and elegant

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Hypocrisy isn't bad, actually it's good because at least the hypocrite knows what's right even if they don't do it

there's an ilx post i think of sometimes that's along the lines of "any attitude beyond total apathy produces hypocrisy"

Hypocrisy is like the factory setting for human beings. We're basically walking talking self-mythologizing cognitive dissonance machines by default.

Walt Whitman had some words for this i think

XP disagree but then we prob know different humans