Why do people leave ILX for good?

let's all start Hootsuite

TT, I can vouch for LJ being the princest among men, though I do feel nearly all on board here feel the same and it's "all in good fun". Until it stops being fun, I know I know, but ILX loves the lad dearly, believe <3

neverban luriqua jagger

Aaww that’s nice! I think I am overly sensitive and defensive. imago is mostly indifferent to comments in any case haha xp

luriqua was truly more than human

I bet he is. Insensitive bastard :D

You are in yr right to defend and b sensitive over the lad tho.

(you prob know he *hugely* helped me out recently w/ something and when ever I get back to London I will repay the good deed. love ot you both <3)

xp

I have no beef with LJ beyond his accursed youth. Must you taunt us so.

i'm 31 as of last week! flopson is the new 'damn u young' guy

luriqua came back quite recently for one post and it was so joyous

what? on what thread???

when i started posting here i was several years younger than LJ is now.

also LBI don't bet against our meeting being in Sint Annaparochie - I enjoy a good adventure. to be continued...

imago is mostly indifferent to comments in any case haha

Yes we can tell.

crutis was really young when he started.

Did we ever find out if it really was Aja posting or her mum pretending?

Ohh, most welcome imago! We have bogs here. And peat. Scrawny locals barking in ye olde dying language. You'll love it.

luriqua came back quite recently for one post and it was so joyous

― imago, Monday, February 26, 2018 3:06 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait what...????

i will give you my home phone number call me collect international if this happens again

God it feels like 20-whenever-things-were-good in here

LJ likes to think I rib him good naturedly but it's not fhi

Lol at LBI and his cod-ireland theme park

Lol at LBI and his cod-ireland theme park

― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, February 26, 2018 9:16 PM (fifteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha! Best be rushing yr skinny Irish arse up 'ere before LJ beats you to the punch iirc

bogs means bog birdwatching, i'm down

also lol 'cod-ireland theme park'

Bemused at skinny from a man I've met no less

fwiw I never want xyzzzz to stop upbraiding LJ

I have a real job but that hasn't stopped me, tbh. Also I get the majority of my news and commentary from ilx, the denizens of this remit mostly supplying the info and angles that I need to understand things. Other news outlets are largely incomprehensible and/or don't really give the inside scoop commentary that I appreciate.

ilx feels less like a "freewheeling" space where anything could happen, these days, but half of what could happen back then was going to be mean, sexist, racist, or some variation on all three. There were major shakeups among nb/nyc ilxors back in the day incl v srs interpersonal issues. It wasn't all kittens and bike polo.

The bike polo aspect was so overrated imo

xp to LJ

Renowned for it! Avocets, spotted redshanks, red knots, common redshanks, grey plovers, bar-tailed godwits, golden plovers, curlews, dunlins. All here.

Skinny is relative Deems, compared to me iirc

ah man, wading birds are p much my favourite and you have named nothing but wading birds

it occurred to me once that the only people who never bug me on facebook are past and present ilx people. like, ever. plus, i never have to explain myself to ilxors there when i post something. which is another reason why i still come here. that and the ocd.

I sort of miss when jon used to break the nb so that it would rain neon unicorns or w/e across the screen, I have to admit.

i'm 31 as of last week! flopson is the new 'damn u young' guy

― imago, Monday, February 26, 2018 4:06 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah there are quite a few posters who are younger than me now, most notable is flappy bird iirc

Wading birds R us

I just realized who in orbit is. I think.

fwiw I never want xyzzzz to stop upbraiding LJ

― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 26 February 2018 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Its nice to be appreciated like this.

half of what could happen back then was going to be mean, sexist, racist, or some variation on all three. There were major shakeups among nb/nyc ilxors back in the day incl v srs interpersonal issues. It wasn't all kittens and bike polo.
otm
it never seemed very hospitable to me, but i did enjoy watching the insider/outsider language grow, change, and pretty much disappear
where are these secret chatrooms?!

fp'd jclc for forgetting when the speed-up started

there is an ilx group on facebook but nobody ever goes there.

except geir

i was never invited to that

sorry - realised that luriqua didn't actually return a couple of years ago after all

here is his final confirmed sighting, in 2014: your terrible ideas

Wasn't there a late night aim chatroom that people would start and invite certain people to? I can't really remember.

Yes aim/ILX was a thing for a good while.

Yerac I have literally been to your house. Two of them. (laurel)

all the internet is bad not good

It was. I miss putting shoes on my head tho I don't know that anyone will remember that.

I think there is a regional slack room for one group and then I know about one entirely separate "secret" board but I am not a part of either.

CHATZ on AIM

tho enbb will remember we all did some yahoo webcam thing for a while. I wonder what happened to CHAD?!!

Oh I remember that. That was actaully very fun. Wait - I only barely remember Chad. Who was chad?? Some random person, right?

aye some californian guy , i think we crashed his room

AG, I remember where I was living at the time and think that was all 2008 so exactly 10 years ago. O_O

Chadz