Clearly not enough to have not wasted my time then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ instinct works so much better than logic for so many decisions
― scampus fugit (gyac), Saturday, 5 December 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
i find i still wish "the c-man" immense and lasting ill
― mark s, Sunday, 6 December 2020 12:47 (three years ago) link
Seems entirely reasonable
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 December 2020 13:19 (three years ago) link
im a philanthropist
― mark s, Sunday, 6 December 2020 13:21 (three years ago) link
― mark s, Sunday, 6 December 2020 bookmarkflaglink
That's the spirit
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 6 December 2020 21:59 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/bsqeRD6.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ClJ2S9V.png
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 08:31 (three years ago) link
Now I want to know who the least human posters are.
― pomenitul, Friday, 11 December 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
I am a Russian bot
― Dr. Dreidel (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 11 December 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
And a puffin.
― Tizer Beyoncé (Tom D.), Friday, 11 December 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
Unfair imo!
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Friday, 11 December 2020 23:49 (three years ago) link
Ye Vlad Pufin
― kinder, Saturday, 12 December 2020 00:06 (three years ago) link
I'm mostly bacteria iirc
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Saturday, 12 December 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
You had a good go at it..thanks for your input
― scampostiltskin (gyac), Monday, 14 December 2020 22:25 (three years ago) link
m8 what is aresenal - some kind of club for sports? thx in advance
― cosmic vision | bleak epiphany | erotic email (map), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
So far most of these examples are tantamount to cool stuff young (mostly anglo) ppl are into that we olds (mutatis mutandis) missed out on. That's a pretty narrow definition of 'blindspot', but *charges headfirst into windmill*.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/m7KtLCj.jpg
― Cheese flavoured Momus (wins), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
The concept of that comic strip is eerily similar to a very short and somewhat...lovely?...story by Tobias Wolff https://public.wsu.edu/~bryanfry/Wolff,%20Bullet%20in%20the%20Brain.pdf
― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link
ha, interesting coincidence - the character is a long-time recurring feature in the comedy magazine Viz*, but that one strip is so similar to the short story that one could totally imagine Wolff reading it and deciding to riff it on a type of pedant (or specific critic) that he personally loathed.
* based on the brother of founder/publisher and cartoonists Chris Donald and Simon Donald, diagnosed as aspie decades later, but compared to Mr Spock when they were growing up
― huge rant (sic), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link
Absolutely!
I'm not a big fan of Wolff's writing, generally speaking, but I've taught that story a few times, and I've grown quite fond of it. Students love it, too.
― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
I also enjoyed it, thanks.
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 23:27 (three years ago) link
Good to see science teaching is in good hands.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 17 December 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
nothing says I’m fine and enjoying thisposting calmly as I normally do quite like five increasingly wild posts in a row
― scampostiltskin (gyac), Thursday, 17 December 2020 22:44 (three years ago) link
well i am kinda mad, the good news is i'm arguing abt something real and important that i care abt instead of, i dunno, some dumb childish bs feud about pronouns with branwell
― the late great, Thursday, 17 December 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
y'all are some real petty and childish bitches btw
― the late great, Thursday, 17 December 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link
https://rachwriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/chaplin-funhousejpg.jpg
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 05:13 (three years ago) link
That thread is outwith my pay grade.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 10:49 (three years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/xT9GEDhzERbjDD15O8/giphy.gif
Lower left corner: EOY/AOTY poll seasonThe rest of the gif: ILX gearing up for EOY/AOTY poll season
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
Speaking of which, I've got too much stuff to nom before I can start whittling down my list, so I think I'll have to sit this one out.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 14:55 (three years ago) link
― the late great, Thursday, December 17, 2020 10:50 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― the late great, Thursday, December 17, 2020 10:51 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink
are / were you mad at me about something?
― ffolkes (map), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link
xp Sit out the entire poll season?
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
Metal poll aside, yeah. Just too much of a mental hassle.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
Your list is always one of my most anticipated, but yeah, I hear you
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
aw but how are we going to avoid taytay's relentless insincere march to glory ;)
― imago, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
Thanks, LBI! I'll probably just post a bigger unranked list to another thread at some point in January.
xp the time has come for a new generation of specific users to carry that vindictive torch.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 16:04 (three years ago) link
Post your unranked best #100 and I'll lap it up ;)
xp I regret to inform you the new generation is on the tay-tay train.
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 16:06 (three years ago) link
the biggest problem I have with taytay is that she isn't even bad; she's even quite good sometimes, which makes it incredibly hard for me to just spew invective
― imago, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
by that i mean to say that in my subjective judgement her music is often relatively pleasant, if not often truly exciting, hence going off on one about her would have to involve me ignoring my actual opinions
― imago, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
thus we reach taytay impasse, where i essentially have to stop worrying and love the bomb
― imago, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
lots of cheap 'spirit drink' in my coffee today
― imago, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 16:12 (three years ago) link
Same. There's a harmlessness about taytay's music that pre-disarms a lot of criticism; or rather, does not invite to go off on. There's some really good songs on both albums from this year, some mediocre and meh-songs, too. There aren't any real stakes, not like before it seems.
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
yeah. basically i won't go cray-cray about taytay unless both her albums hit the top ten, at which point i'll have some serious questions
― imago, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
so you'll ixnay the cray-cray for tay-tay?
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link
in essence
there are a few 2020-popular artists (not fiona apple) i might be prepared to get a little more classic-ljish about tho
― imago, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
Would hate to see it any other way.
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
I saw Vindictive Torch open for the Dinosaur Surfers back in '91
― coup coup kajoo (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
She seems to have a vindictive torch-a
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
Did you see the course on dis one
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
B-
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link
dere's more to ILX dan discourse
― kinder, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dis_(Divine_Comedy)
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link