FP: Should 31 be the new 51 y/n

I now remember why I mostly avoid ILM
can we get quotes around the word "love" in the board name plz

Quotes around "music" also a fair request imo

at least I got a new screen name out of this

this is the story: I accidentally posted something in the "unusual details in wikipedia articles" thread that was meant for the twin peaks thread. it was a detail about the building in the opening scene of the first episode not existing, and that someone had figured out the made up building was in the same spot as a church that was destroyed on 9/11, along with a very old Sycamore tree. just something to think about within the twin peaks thread. then Turrican said "Flappy bird is to 9/11 as Roger Waters is to WWII," because i guess he's read enough of my posts to figure out that I lived next to the Twin Towers when 9/11 happened and felt it was necessary to insult me apropos of nothing. Fuck him.

DJP with all due respect it's really not funny

do you think he has a little counter on his screen where he gives himself points for being rude

xp. it's at least a little bit funny

knowing you actually lived there, what the ever-loving hell was T doing

i'm not sure T thinks he's engaging with real people.

i mean i hope not.

"Flappy bird is to 9/11 as Roger Waters is to WWII,"

Right, I see, so you father died in 9/11.

being an annoying pedantic asshole is one thing but the 9/11 comment is so over the line & I really don't want that to become a joke because it's not funny and I'd really like to not have to read it in display names and shit, sorry if i'm being a downer

Is this better?

none of my family died. i'd rather not get into it for obvious reasons.

jim & DJP- i really don't like that line or any reference to it because it was by far the most hurtful thing anyone has ever said to me on ILX. separate from 9/11 references, which obviously I have to deal with every day, it's a fact of life. i mean i'm not gonna FP you but i'd appreciate not having to read a display name that references a really fucking mean line directed at me

xp lol, yes. sorry for being a stick in the mud

tbh flappy i thought the way you changed your o.g. login name without making a fuss about it when some of us were having a go at you was v classy so

fair's fair i meant to add

apologies for being flippant

#neverforget

oh yeah, i mean i had no idea my old username was offensive outside the USA, as soon as someone said as much, it was only right to change it

xp no worries jim! love ya ;p

huh i have no idea what flappy's o.g. login name was.

I'm really confused about this Roger Waters thing, tbh.

yeah it doesn't make much sense to me, shd ban Turrican anyway

musical hang-ups about history and fathers iirc

but in flappy's case it's weird projection and personal attacks

comparing someone to roger waters is way over the line imo

otm

I took it as "he brings up 9/11 and how it affected him as frequently as Roger Waters brings up WWII and how it affected him," which is something people have said to my family and me in the past so it was especially nasty and ignorant because dude knows nothing about me

total respect to you flappy bird, because I probably had a pop at your o.g. login and was probably very unnecessarily rude and tactless, such was my m.o. at the time and probably still is sometimes. Anyway you seem a million times better a poster than that unmentionable one.

proud of my part in this: no way sna

Roger Waters' father was killed in WW2, later in life I think he might have wrote a few songs about this... or something. The implication being that flappy was somehow milking his personal connection/experience to 9/11 for... something or other.

lol, calzino certainly did have a pop, if you follow my link there :D

lol i forgot that it happened in the no way sna thread

flappy's a good guy and upright citizen imo

flappy's film opinions are amongst my favourites on ile

thanks guys, i appreciate it, i love ilx

flappy bird is totally cool i appreciate them

turrican bums me out

i frequently mix up flappy and turrican, and i am shocked to find they are enemies

one of them hates future islands

one of them hates animal collective

i have researched this matter, and i offer apologies to flappy bird

i think because flappy bird and turrican are so often interlocutors in a circuitous and seemingly endless colloquy it was, at first, easy for me to also confuse the two

true

flappy not an aggressively tedious dullard so I have no problem distinguishing him.

I took it as "he brings up 9/11 and how it affected him as frequently as Roger Waters brings up WWII and how it affected him"

Yup, I remember this and this was pretty much the way that it was intended, although I didn't actually know that you lived so close to the twin towers when I wrote that (I've only found that out, like, right this second) - I just assumed that you were more than a touch obsessed with 9/11 and didn't bother to look into why that was. Now that I know why, it's understandable that you'd want to talk about it so much and now feel my comments were unwarranted and incredibly mean.

i was unaware that flappy allegedly 'brings up 9/11 and how it affected him frequently' -- i had him tagged as 'knows too much about smashing pumpkins'

* updates xls *

I sometimes get my flappy birds, flopsons and frogbs confused, one of them is a YMO stan.

Like, I don't really give much of a shit if people get upset over my posting style or my opinions on music, but I really don't want to be upsetting people over their very real offline issues.

i appreciate the apology, turrican. i don't think i talk about it that much on here but i can see how one could misconstrue w/o context i guess

and i know way too much about the smashing pumpkins

and by know too much i mean i saw 3 shows with Mike Byrne on drums

ok back to regularly scheduled programming

lol