"and that's okay" / "and here's why"

http://flavorwire.com/562709/the-revenant-gives-harrowing-hard-to-watch-films-a-bad-name-and-heres-why-that-matters

No, (X) Did Not (Y)

Ilxors are discussing overused clickbait taglines and it's glorious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhZTNgAs4Fc

Child doesn't like to hunt? That's OK

'Gun-free' signs scarce; for many, that's OK

I'm Not an Emotional Mom — and That's OK

I Will Never Be a Completely Free-Range Parent, and That's OK

You Don't Believe In The Holocaust - And That's OK

You Won't Read The End Of This Sentence - And That's

AND THATS A GOOD THING

BUT NOT FOR THE REASON YOU THINK

You Like to Blame Rape Victims -- and Here's Why That's OK

Even If You Deny It, Deep Down You Have Accepted You Are A Racist - And That's OK

This Is TX, And That's OK

I would win the who hates this most contest easily. I don't think it's possible for a person to hate this shit more than I do.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9FfI4-oRDo

http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348146688l/134353.jpg

Mike Love is your favourite Beach Boy - and that's OK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrFO702T7Sg

Franken has stated that him "going to Al-Anon meetings inspired Stuart"

Idiocracy Is a Cruel Movie and You Should Be Ashamed For Liking It - And That's OK - And Here's Why

Here's 8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter - And What Happens Next Will Mystify You

Man DESTROYS Burger King in Epic Facebook Rant After Being Denied Chicken Fries. Wow. This Was Really Moving. I'm Speechless.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/Screenshot_2016-02-29-17-30-18_zpspqqqoihp.png

Your Life is a Hopeless, Loveless Repetition of Empty Social Rituals and Joyless Self-Gratification - and That's Just Fine

You're Puppyishly Over-Impressed By Any Reference to Shitty Niche Culture - and That's OK.

You Secretly Don't Believe Other People Have Any Worth Whatsoever and You Wallow Like a Pig in Your Own Squalid Sensuality - and That's Absolutely For the Best in the Best of All Possible Worlds

The Incredible Mind Blowing Truth About What Your Doctor Thinks About You And Your Illnesses And What To Do About Them That Will Shock You Because He's Weird And That's Okay

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, and that's ok
Dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn, and here's why

Ginsberg 'negro streets' tweet sets off Twitter firestorm

and that okay. Here's why.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, and that's ok
Dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn, and here's why

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, March 1, 2016 8:39 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahahaha

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me, and that's okay.

because consent

Ten Reasons Why You'll Never Guess What Happens Next And Why It Will Astound You...And You'll Never Guess What Happens Next, And That's Okay, And You Should Be Ashamed Of Yourself When You Realize That There Are Actually Eleven Reasons, And Here's Why, And You'll Never Guess, Ever

(Number 7 Will Shock You!)

I hope someone is archiving as much clickbait as possible. Because we're sure to wake up from this nightmare soon and, as much as we'd like to forget, we need to reflect on the horror that we've wrought. Clickbait is the teased bangs of the '10s.

Best minds? Seven outrageous #fails that will have you looking for an angry fix.

- Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer. Here's why.

- The blood-dimmed tide is loose and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. And that's okay.

When I Was A Child, I Spoke As A Child, I Understood As A Child, I Thought As A Child, But You Won't Believe What Came Next (VIDEO)

My God, my God, you have forsaken me -- and here's why

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, and That's Okay

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, and that's okay, and here's why

To be or not to be
That is the question - And We've Got The Answers!

Pilate's Epic Reaction to the latest #JesusRant will change everything!

He Is Condemned To Go On Forever, Knowing The Truth, And Powerless To Change Anything. No Longer Will He Seek To Get Off The Wheel. His Anger And Frustration Will Grow Without Limit, And He Will Find Himself -- Poor Perverse Bulb! -- Enjoying It, And That's Okay

Dorian Gray Doesn't Look Like THIS Anymore!

If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
And here's why

I got a letter from the government
the other day
I opened and read it
YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT THEY SAID!

the mere act of existing itself has become humanly intolerable- and that's...

It So Chanced, That After The Parsee's Disappearance, I Was He Whom The Fates Ordained To Take The Place Of Ahab's Bowsman, When That Bowsman Assumed The Vacant Post; The Same, Who, When On The Last Day The Three Men Were Tossed From Out Of The Rocking Boat, Was Dropped Astern. So, Floating On The Margin Of The Ensuing Scene, And In Full Sight Of It, When The Halfspent Suction Of The Sunk Ship Reached Me, I Was Then, But Slowly, Drawn Towards The Closing Vortex. When I Reached It, It Had Subsided To A Creamy Pool. Round And Round, Then, And Ever Contracting Towards The Button-Like Black Bubble At The Axis Of That Slowly Wheeling Circle, Like Another Ixion I Did Revolve. Till, Gaining That Vital Centre, The Black Bubble Upwards Burst; And Now, Liberated By Reason Of Its Cunning Spring, And, Owing To Its Great Buoyancy, Rising With Great Force, The Coffin Life-Buoy Shot Lengthwise From The Sea, Fell Over, And Floated By My Side. Buoyed Up By That Coffin, For Almost One Whole Day And Night, I Floated On A Soft And Dirgelike Main. The Unharming Sharks, They Glided By As If With Padlocks On Their Mouths; The Savage Sea-Hawks Sailed With Sheathed Beaks. On The Second Day, A Sail Drew Near, Nearer, And Picked Me Up At Last. It Was The Devious-Crusing Rachel, That In Her Retracing Search After Her Missing Children, Only Found Another Orphan -- And Here's Why

the people they kill get up and kill... and..

Michael Gira and Larkin Grimm are public relations geniuses, and here's why. And that's ok, and here's why.

We Want Our Friends Back! (But Which Ones?)
The pandemic shrank many social circles to a skeleton crew. Maybe that’s not such a bad thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRn2VQWNkgA

Netflix Released Its July Titles And If I Cancel Plans It's Totally Unrelated
https://www.buzzfeed.com/natalieoganesyan/new-on-netflix-july-2021

I'm not sure this is a formula as such but it's a prime example of the kind of posing-as-social-media-discourse that grinds my gears. It reads like some needy teenager trying to fit in.

That person has been writing for Buzzfeed for one week, and appears to actually be a teenager

wait, no, 21. which counts as a teenager for Americans I guess.

Yeah, I don't mean to dunk on her. I'm assuming the headlines are produced by some crack A-B testing team at Buzzfeed, though I guess the writer might contribute them all the same.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-coelacanth-may-live-for-a-century-thats-not-great-news/

OK, I clicked just to find out what the fuck it meant:

People Are Sharing Things That Should Be Illegal, And There Are No Lies Detected

Here's Why That's Okay!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/22/i-live-democratic-bubble-heres-why-thats-okay/

the singularity

a "Democratic bubble" is just "a city"

Under the Dome

If you like to gamble
I tell you I'm your man
You win some, lose some
And here's why that's okay

New headline scourge "is a vibe"

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tokyo-olympics-condoms-unboxing_n_610a75f2e4b0e882ab65579a
Diver Tom Daley Unboxing Condoms In The Olympic Village To Lil Nas X Is A Vibe

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kris-jenner-kim-kardashian-instagram_n_5e0613f5e4b0b2520d14bc3b
Kris Jenner Attempting (And Failing) To Livestream Kim Kardashian Is A Vibe

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/harry-higgs-screaming-fore-wells-fargo-championship
Harry Higgs screaming 'FORE!!!' at the top of his lungs is a vibe and a half

ilx posts that haunt yr thoughts

The mystery of the balances is there
The Masonic secret lies there
The church forbids its angels entry there
The gypsies camp there
Blood is exchanged there
Mothers weep there
It is night there
And that's okay

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, March 7, 2016 1:41 AM (five years ago)

Inventing a browser add-on that makes the news feel more reassuring pic.twitter.com/sl2Zsx8MEc

— Brooks Otterlake (@i_zzzzzz) September 10, 2021

lol!

i just find this headline very weird

https://i.postimg.cc/JnnTKwCM/image.png

Honestly, I enjoyed the Oscars. https://t.co/dNK63IMN0v

— Michael Blackmon (@blackmon) March 28, 2022

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/long-term-relationships-marriage_n_61e09027e4b04d030c353473

After 9 Years Together, My Partner And I Still Aren’t Married — And That’s OK

https://www.washingtonpost.com/music/2022/03/29/mitski-the-anthem-concert-review/

Pulling your ear one way is Mitski’s cathartic rebellion against expectations.

Tugging it in the other direction is her voice lurking under the surface, suggesting that maybe she doesn’t quite know what she wants to be either — and that’s okay.

The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here, and here's why
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
and that's okay

You're eyes without a face
And that's okay

Márgarét, áre you gríeving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leáves like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! ás the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And that's ókay, and here's why.

Musicians Are Begging Fans to Mask Up at Concerts. Here’s Why.

I can't wait to find out

Their fans are ugly

pic.twitter.com/9hSVoSmaLC

— David Adler (@davidrkadler) April 18, 2022

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/05/she-invented-adulting-her-life-fell-apart?utm_source=pocket-newtab

She Invented Adulting. Her Life Fell Apart. She Wants You to Know That’s Okay.

Isn't there a Bible story that goes like that?

haunting my thoughts rn

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me, and that's okay.

― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, March 1, 2016 5:53 AM (six years ago)

The Coachella Lineup Still Hasn't Come Out Yet and It's Fine, I'm Fine

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/white-middle-class-yoga-teacher-problem/

haha! i thought the same thing when i read the yoga teacher headline
the new thing is "I'm the problem, it's me" (and here's why)

free hairshirt with diploma

i hear that headline in Jello Biafra's voice ... and that's okay

These Two Vast And Trunkless Legs Of Stone Have The Perfect Inscription

― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Friday, 4 March 2016 03:57 (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

this was so perfect that every time we talk poetry on ilx i think of it

All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose buildings grope the sky:
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
7 mistakes you're probably making
when you don't love one another

https://fatgirlflow.com/i-cant-wipe-my-own-ass-and-im-ok-with-it/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/september-11-attacks-saudi-arabia-lawsuit/678430/

Saudi Arabia did 9/11… and here’s why that’s fine

Sometimes you have to cut your bros some slacks

Hunter Biden Is Guilty. That’s OK.

"And that's okay."

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MILTON_%281695%29_p362_PL_12.jpg/800px-MILTON_%281695%29_p362_PL_12.jpg

lol

Wisconsin's economy ranks toward the bottom among states. Here's why.

‘Lots of us sadfish sometimes, and that’s okay:’ Researchers define new social media trend
https://ca.style.yahoo.com/sadfishing-social-media-trend-explained-105042156.html

Sleater-Kinney: “Our music has typically appealed to outsiders, and that’s okay for us. We like those people”

Meikayla Moore scored a hat-trick of own goals – but she will not let it define her

Looked up the Washington Post fashion column that Martha-Ann Alito is still pissed off about, nearly 20 years later.

Martha-Ann Alito was not dressed like the quintessential Manhattan mother proud that she and her daughter wear the same size True Religion jeans. She did not look like a Los Angeles mother who does her carpooling in a Juicy Couture sweatsuit. And she did not have the stereotypical style of a Washington power wife with her St. John Knits suit, unflappable demeanor, unmussable hair, and ability to nod admiringly at her husband's every word and look relentlessly engaged by the most long-winded droning.

And that's okay. Her clothes were more Redbook than Vogue. More main floor than designer salon. In her red suit with its black trim -- so Kasper, so Albert Nipon -- she looked average.

(Subect) is (x) by your (y)

Danzy Senna Is Amused by Your Mixed Feelings
Joe Manchin Is Tired of Your Tiresome Questions
Kalamazoo is tired of your Creedence Clearwater jokes
Local Artist Is Tired of Your Garbage
Most of America is annoyed by your unruly kids, new poll reveals
This upgraded Ram pickup is amused by your office job
Kim Kardashian is Tired of Your Lost Diamond Earring Jokes
Dakota Fanning is Tired of Your Expectations

Look celebs, I'm tired too...