things you once thought socially acceptable which now horrify you to remember

or care about

I do wonder if we're going to face some reckoning with cellphones like people did with cigarettes. It'll take another decade or two to see right? I'm thinking wild new cancers

everybody dies according to the vices of their time maaaan

think a separate thread for lecturing everyone about the things you personally dislike about 2019 tho tbf

Watching this episode of The Golden Girls last night, this scene reminded me of this thread. Even on a largely queer-positive (and queer-beloved) series, 1980s were often indistinguishable from the 1930s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlpVaRyit84

gregg turkington: the early years

the pilot episode of the golden girls had a gay houseboy character called coco which i don't think would fly today

incidentally played by that actor who died this week, the guy who played the mohel on that ep of seinfeld

flappy your cell phone cancer trutherism is one of your more endearing quirks

lol im just spitballin here!

I’m still suspicious of cancer from office microwave ovens tbh

Stand on both sides of the escalator. The others will follow. Counterintuitive as it may seem

“Block anyone from walking and people will stop walking,” what a galaxy brain revelation from someone who has never seen a married couple use an escalator

WS threads

I'll go one better, WDYLL underwear threads! What were we all thinking.

More like how much were we all drinking

brb having a few and stripping down

Remember the Luna pic

No

Wtf ppl posted pics in their underwear?!

it was the oughts

there were no rules

the only rule was to be hot, or not

We really screwed the world domination stately there. Once upon a time ilxor was mentioned in the same breath as Reddit and Metafilter (by the guardian at least). If only we'd worked a bit harder a positing in our underwear we could have overtaken reddit and cornered the market in Nazi,s Flat earth's, anti vaxxers and people with there bits out.

ILX: Like Metafilter, without the pizzazz.

Wtf ppl posted pics in their underwear?!

I don’t know that there’s any evidence Andrew ever had underwear on in his pics, tbh

There were a few full montys IIRC?

phrase that will forever haunt my waking hours: Tuomas sundae

cellphone radiation

this is seriously not harmful at all

I had a more serious contribution but now I can't stop lolling at Tuomas sundae

Ken C doing a flip over Tuomas sundae

That's the one that sticks with me the most.

just another tuomas sundae

(woah woh)

Wish it were Finnday

I still say the phrase in my head, notably when there's a sports Super Sunday.

if I posted a nude WDYLL photo would you FP (Flag Post) or FP (Fap Posthaste)

Only one way to find out.

ilxor nude selfies wouldn't really truly be nude as the glasses and beard would still be in play

cellphone radiation

this is seriously not harmful at all

― Vape Store (crüt), Friday, July 19, 2019 9:27 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Go on...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-ionizing_radiation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfgT6zx4k3Q

just plopping down and watching whatever is on tv, or making plans to watch a block of sitcom shows on a specific night is kind of dead
― untuned mass damper (mh), Tuesday, July 16, 2019 5:12 PM

I think loads of people still do this. Mostly non-internet people.

guys fucking each other
― Οὖτις, Monday, July 15, 2019 10:12 PM

You used to find socially acceptable? I'm assuming you meant to say you used to be homophobic?

He was responding to the post immediately preceding his

A more interesting discussion might be “behaviors you thought would never become socially acceptable and then they did”

Gah, sorry! Don't know how I missed that!

Iranian news agencies apparently reporting they have taken a 2nd tanker.

lol wrong thread

Capturing tankers will never be socially acceptable.

"ladies first"

usage of the word "groupie"

There's a smug arrogance (somewhere along the lines of Frank Zappa) that people associate with bad politics but sometimes I wonder if it didn't really depend on that. I tried to rewatch a documentary series about science fiction from about 20 years ago and I was getting strong vibes of this and I just couldn't be bothered with that.

You still get these people of course but I see less people using this tone as if they're the smartest person in the room. Listening to groups of them try this is nauseating.

"ladies first"

I worked next to a guy who at meetings would do the thing of standing up any time a lady was taking her seat.

We'd argue about it back at our desks. He'd say it was good manners. I'd tell him it was patronizing.

The women completely ignored it.

Flypaper in restaurants. This was quite common in many of the mom 'n' pop type of restaurants my family would eat in throughout the summer when I was a kid. Not only did we not bat an eye at the strips of yellow sticky paper hanging from the ceiling and sometimes dangling close to the table surface, we were actually *enthusiastic* about it, as in "isn't it great this place has flypaper? They must be really up on things and care about creating a clean fly-free environment for their customers!"

Somewhere around last year I found myself stopping using 'guys' to preface a casual work email and grasping for another collective term, settled on 'folks' instead, am I a savage for not realising this sooner or a hapless liberal worry-wart?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im3Zj9ZBsyU

Former then, thanks Limmy! :)