love you KM but i think you need a new metaphor for the day
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 8 September 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
Every thread i dont want to read should be on some other board i’m not even aware of
― Οὖτις
every thread i want to read should be on some other board i'm not even aware of
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Saturday, 8 September 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
xpost lol, it's true
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 8 September 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
Um until this pending request is granted no other new borads
Are you in favor of creating an "I Love Big Butts" board?
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 September 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
i don't know why i clicked on that exactly but just fyi, that is a NSFW link
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 8 September 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
the only recorded incident of the beautiful word "zugzwanged" being used on ILX was on an ILE political thread, need I say any more?
― calzino, Saturday, 8 September 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
maracas.jpg
― mark s, Saturday, 8 September 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
ILX british politics thread are good #content even if I only understand 50% of the words being used
the worst feature of the us politics threads predates the current president: it's the attention given to media and how bad it is, at the evident expense of other frameworks. there's lots of competition for what those other frameworks could be and I don't mean to suppose that my favored ones would be popular here & that's fine, but the media one, it's like talking about rock critics instead of about rock.
basically there was this old h@rv4rd philosopher who said "philosophy is bullshit but history of philosophy, that's scholarship" & that view is bad enough, imagine if we did history of history of philosophy, like, that's what happens here for politics way too much
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 8 September 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
it's like talking about rock critics instead of about rock.
good thing that’s not at all what ILM is like
― the late great, Saturday, 8 September 2018 17:01 (five years ago) link
-wink-
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 8 September 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
I mostly just want to mod a board, which I’m not sure the higher ups were even really considering
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 8 September 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
the phenomenon DC describes takes place on "democratic party direction", the left- and right-wing drift threads, the organizing thread, the silicon valley thread, occasionally the scotus thread etc.. (and of course brit politics threads.) it does not take place on the monthly trump threads, which are foolish garbage without exception. one active thread of foolish garbage at a time p much is a sub-board.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 8 September 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
ILX british politics thread are good #content
Yeah, if you're a duplicitously Eurosceptic tankie whose bedside bibles are The Foundations of Geopolitics and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (grossly exaggerating for effect, obviously, but the doctrinaire partisanship is hard to stomach – there are plenty of reasons to support Corbyn, and even more reasons to despise May, but current UK politics strikes me as rifer with gray areas than its US counterpart).
― pomenitul, Saturday, 8 September 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
I refuse to take seriously anyone who thinks a) Russia isn't that bad, the West is the sole vilain!; b) Corbyn's comments about English irony were not antisemitic; c) Brexit is ultimately a good thing as it is merely the first, necessary step towards utopia on a global scale.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 8 September 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2012/4-7/1z2rNFqTZP-12.png
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 8 September 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
Bring back bethune
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 September 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
Um until this pending request is granted no other new boradsAre you in favor of creating an "I Love Big Butts" board?― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, September 8, 2018 4:30 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinki don't know why i clicked on that exactly but just fyi, that is a NSFW link― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Saturday, September 8, 2018 4:30 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkthe only recorded incident of the beautiful word "zugzwanged" being used on ILX was on an ILE political thread, need I say any more?― calzino, Saturday, September 8, 2018 4:42 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkmaracas.jpg― mark s, Saturday, September 8, 2018 4:48 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, September 8, 2018 4:30 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Saturday, September 8, 2018 4:30 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― calzino, Saturday, September 8, 2018 4:42 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
maracas.jpg― mark s, Saturday, September 8, 2018 4:48 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what a set
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 8 September 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
neither trump nor politics killed ilx
― lee guacamole (darraghmac), Saturday, 8 September 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
They never should have made trump a mod
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 8 September 2018 23:19 (five years ago) link
I Love Tariffs
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 September 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
announcing tariff of ten fps on any poster also posting to twitter
― lee guacamole (darraghmac), Saturday, 8 September 2018 23:37 (five years ago) link
Ilx should never have created twitter
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 8 September 2018 23:46 (five years ago) link
(beats breast) mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 9 September 2018 00:14 (five years ago) link
mine own most grievous
― lee guacamole (darraghmac), Sunday, 9 September 2018 00:17 (five years ago) link
Who let mine dogs out
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 September 2018 01:27 (five years ago) link
I do sometimes feel like the US Politics thread is too much of a giant clutter heap (and yes dominated by Trump), but that can be solved just by making other politics related threads? Like you could just start a Rolling US Non-Trump-Related Politics thread, or a Rolling US state and local politics thread, or a rolling congress/legislation thread or something?
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 9 September 2018 02:46 (five years ago) link
just weighing in to say that i want you all to get yr own board, that way i dont have to write my ilx/lord of the flies fanfic
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 September 2018 04:29 (five years ago) link
Like you could just start a Rolling US Non-Trump-Related Politics thread, or a Rolling US state and local politics thread, or a rolling congress/legislation thread or something?You could!
― Paleo Weltschmerz (El Tomboto), Sunday, 9 September 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
nobody ever bumps the irish politics threads any more
― lee guacamole (darraghmac), Sunday, 9 September 2018 14:06 (five years ago) link
you had a referendum, it's the end of history
― fuck giving a bear beer (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 9 September 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
sorry, forgot to change dn
― duplicitously Euroseptic tankie (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 9 September 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
septic tank indeed
― lee guacamole (darraghmac), Sunday, 9 September 2018 14:17 (five years ago) link
I was going to use "humourless tankie miserablist" the other week, but its too much truth for me to handle!
― calzino, Sunday, 9 September 2018 14:40 (five years ago) link
I am septical about the EU but I've never been that into tanks tbh, except Panzer General is a quality game and doesn't have any of that awful political correctness gone mad like what pom worries about sometimes
― duplicitously Euroseptic tankie (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 9 September 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
mess liberales
― lee guacamole (darraghmac), Sunday, 9 September 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
propose I Love All Being For the Best in the Best of All Possible Worlds board
― duplicitously Euroseptic tankie (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 9 September 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
More doing less talking peepsCan we get another more definitive poll going?
― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 9 September 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
I Love Polls board
― duplicitously Euroseptic tankie (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 9 September 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
No way.
― I'm the wire monkey, not the soft monkey (Rock Hardy), Thursday, October 16, 2008 3:13 PM (nine years ago)
still otm
― WmC, Sunday, 9 September 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
I feel politically homeless. I want about 90% of the UK political classes to be liquidated. But all I could find in the last Labour manifesto was boring stuff about bringing PFI's back in house, re-nationalising utilities and public transport, not being such dicks to the poor and disabled etc...
― calzino, Sunday, 9 September 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
having a bunch of parallel US politics threads would be a drag - same articles getting posted/discussed in multiple places. the dem party direction one is distinct enough, because they're not in govt and don't drive most of the main politics news etc.
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 9 September 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I agree. I think the solution is for trump to not be president. He dominates us politics, therefore he dominates the us politics thread. This’ll work itself out.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 9 September 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
famous last words
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 9 September 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
dammit hoos that was like my one hopeful moment in the last 25 years
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 9 September 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
It's like this and like that and like this and uh
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 September 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
So how do we actually get a politics board? I don't know the decision process for new boards. Do we need to do a new poll?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 9 September 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link
Amendment required. Needs ratification from 2/3rds of thread posters plus gabbnebb
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 September 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
Is there a real answer to this? The thread revive has convinced me it is a good idea.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 9 September 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
not since the 69th amendment passed which states, and i quote: "Congress fhall make no Lawe in contradiction to the Notion of 'Fuck Gabbneb'" which the ilx board lawyers have interpreted to mean that we don't need his approval bc fuck gabbneb.
xp
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Sunday, 9 September 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
xp the "real answer" is in the poll numbers above
― sleeve, Sunday, 9 September 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link