This Excelsior 2024 thread smells like a hot dog

From Dilbert - C or D?

Dilead

― nashwan, Friday, January 26, 2024 12:40 PM

Lock thread, I guess...

I thought the Nicole Holofcener line was funny! goddamn…

Also, reading the accumulated 20 year run of the Dilbert thread change as Adams slowly but inevitably turns rancid and radioactive is some of ILX’s finest writing

Interested to see if he’s going to treat it with homeopathy tbh

― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Monday, 5 February 2024 18:43 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

let's hope so, we'll get another bank holiday

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 5 February 2024 18:48 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

re king charles

The royals should capitalize on the success of Netflix’s The Last Kingdom and bring back Aethlings. And people whose names use that ae character.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 20:42 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Wiliæm

Kæþerine

― Virginia Wolfman (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 20:44 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ændrew

― Virginia Wolfman (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 20:46 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

PÆdophile

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 20:50 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol

"Kwasi Kwarteng is the 54th Tory MP to say they are standing down at the next election"

Has a majority of nearly 20k, but I guess he can grift away at some think tank or some boardroom crap.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 09:57 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Strictly or I'm A Celebrity or gtf.

― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 10:10 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

human centipede or gtfo

― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 10:37 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

human centipede or gtfo

Get the ... fart out?

great Extreme song

cozen itt (wins)
Posted: 13 February 2024 at 10:49:09
I found myself walking a little way behind a youngish man who was on the phone to some friend of his and like 99% of what he said was like, “yes king, I hear you boss, don’t worry about it king” I thought it was incredible


These BetterHelp therapists are really something

"Fraud On Me" was R.E.M.'s best single to date imo

― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, February 16, 2024 12:27 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

greasy crappy people yelling chants

― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal)

xxp "We won't try to force feed you"

well i never.
for my recent 56th birthday i got a kit from the NHS re bowel cancer checking.
i.e. a poo kit.
had no idea that this was a thing until it turned up.
got the "all clear" letter today, albeit with a lot of legally required caveats.

― mark e, Thursday, 29 February 2024 17:44 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I feel like poo-kits-in-the-mail is one of those things Fox News will circulate next time there's a debate about universal health care. "In SOCIALIST countries, you have to POOP in a BOX and MAIL it to the GOVERNMENT!!!"

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 29 February 2024 20:42 (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

You don't even get pictures of the inside of your colon! Total ripoff. It's like the Willy Wonka experience all over again.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 29 February 2024 20:44 (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Different chocolate factory.

― nickn, Thursday, 29 February 2024 20:57 (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

thanking you

Masterful

went slightly book mad and ended up with close to a year's worth of reading:

kafka - stories 1904-1924
grossmith & grossmith - diary of a nobody
somerville & ross - the irish rm
anthony trollope - the pallisers
ivy compton-burnett - parents & children
ivy compton-burnett - a father & his fate
sylvia townsend warner - mr fortune's maggot
elizabeth bowen - the last september
capel boake - painted clay
dali - hidden faces
john berger - g
stig dagerman - games of night
thomas tryon - the other
simenon - maigret sets a trap
henry james - english hours
dickens - selected journalism 1850-1870
stevenson - dr jekyll & mr hyde/weir of hermiston
horace walpole - castle of otranto/hieroglyphic tales
the common muse: popular british ballad poetry
roland barthes - selected writings
cervantes - don quixote
rabelais - gargantua & pantagruel
balzac - cousin pons
gautier - mademoiselle de maupin
flaubert - madame bovary
pushkin - eugene onegin
bulgakov - the white guard
thomas hardy - wessex tales
thomas love peacock - novels of
cs lewis - that hideous strength
michael moorcock - an alien heat
michael moorcock - the hollow lands
roger zelazny - isle of the dead
julian symons - bloody murder
graham greene - a gun for sale
robertson davies - the deptford trilogy
russell hoban - riddley walker
thomas pynchon - crying of lot 49
italo calvino - our ancestors
elias canetti - auto da fe
willa muir - imagined selves
george painter - marcel proust
gerard manley hopkins - poems and prose
joyce cary - the horse's mouth
ralph ellison - invisible man
joseph heller - closing time
deighton - billion dollar brain
deighton - game, set, match trilogy

also a number of pulp/crime/ghost/horror anthologies. now to try and find shelf space for them all.

― no lime tangier, Monday, 25 March 2024 19:41 (two days ago) link

I have come to accept that I do not have meaningful amounts of shelf space left, nor do I have wall space to put shelves against, and I'm just a person who is going to have piles

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:46 (two days ago) link

Carrying all those books will do that to you.

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 12:37 (sixteen minutes ago) link

LOL

who on earth is that tory ad aimed at

― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:18 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Cunts?

― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:34 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Starmer

― nashwan, Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:37 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

My actual first time ever hearing NIN:

I was staying at my Aunt’s house while on a family road trip, and looking through my cousin’s CDs. My cousin is a few years older than me. I was extremely sheltered musically at that point. He had lots of CDs from bands that I hadn’t heard yet: Korn, Limp Bizkit, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Radiohead. I knew Radiohead slightly from the "High and Dry" video, and didn't want to risk straying from what I already knew. So I found that song title on the back of The Bends, put on the CD that was in the case, skipped ahead to track 3, and made it to "Your God is dead, and no one cares" before turning it off in horror.

― jmm, Thursday, April 4, 2024 11:33 AM bookmarkflaglink

^^^~3x typical volume at Domino's adjacent to Pentagon

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, April 13, 2024 1:34 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

As long as it doesn’t have rocket on it

― subpost master (wins)

According to it, this is the burt Stanton rap music

https://www.udio.com/songs/5YbLhqZ5sZ7vb1QzrUYd5z

― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, April 16, 2024 7:13 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Is there a more famous budgie fancier? Not sure I can think of one.

― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 12:59 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Siouxsie

― subpost master (wins), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 13:04 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Since I read that thing about resonating I have heard three separate people (in two different states/time zones) say they resonate with xyz

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, April 19, 2024 10:24 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

tbf I know he can be a bit abrasive at times but he's often otm

― Colonel Poo, Saturday, April 20, 2024 1:28 AM (yesterday)

NO ONE CARES ABOUT HOW MANY FUCKING POSTS YOU HAVE

― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 13 May 2024 20:34 (forty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Is that for those who posted theirs already or for those of us who didn't post ours yet?

― nashwan, Monday, 13 May 2024 20:55 (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

that's whiney's 4644637th complaint.

― scott seward, Monday, 13 May 2024 20:59 (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

A friend pointed out to me yesterday, when I told them that Glen Powell feels like a scam thought up by Hollywood bizzers who think millennials and Gen Z don’t understand sex appeal or get enough sex, that Powell is a psyop.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, June 11, 2024 5:33 AM bookmarkflaglink

he actually had four eyes in this role, so uh no

― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, June 11, 2024 6:09 AM bookmarkflaglink

had this [covid] recently, pretty certain picked up on a train in spain. i felt pretty average and quite tired but the main problem was that i got an infected ear at the same time. which of course *really* doesn’t let you sleep. so a combination of being v tired and not able to get any sleep was not good and although i got over the covid relatively quickly im still managing the overall knock on effects a couple of weeks later.

people have asked how i knew to test and i’m “idk it just felt like covid?” crackly throat, generally run down, sniffling etc. this is my third go round (none of them servere in themselves) and im getting to know the drill.

― Fizzles, Wednesday, 26 June 2024 17:22 bookmarkflaglink

Wonder if the strain in Spain spreads mainly on the train

― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 June 2024 17:29 bookmarkflaglink

lol

*applause*

Ok yeah that deserves applause

good enough to cure a bout of covid

folks watching presidential debates is not a good or cool or worthwhile thing to do

― ivy.

I was in a hipster coffee shop and everyone was watching the debate on their phones

― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes)

ugh that is *not* how the director intended it to be seen

― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac)

recently encountered something that was advertised as "if tesla were a wallet"

― budo jeru, Tuesday, July 9, 2024 3:35 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

"...my ass would be on fire"

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, July 9, 2024 3:38 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

might as well get the story in here, my step-dad once made the national news for doing margin-betting on how many corpses they were going to exhume from the house on Cromwell St. That's how he got his nickname "Sicko"!

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 22 July 2024 08:01 (forty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The over/under taker

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 22 July 2024 08:03 (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Well, it's one way to kill horse racing

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 22 July 2024 08:05 (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

He was on to a dead cert.

― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Monday, 22 July 2024 08:13 (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

will this be Vance's Swift Boat

― rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal), Friday, July 26, 2024 12:24 PM bookmarkflaglink

No one accused Kerry of fucking the boat tho

― laughter is the best weapon (DJP), Friday, July 26, 2024 12:27 PM bookmarkflaglink

the people all said sit down
sit down you're

― rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal), Friday, July 26, 2024 12:31 PM bookmarkflaglink