still missing deems, who made me laugh helplessly out loud on many occasions
― assert (MatthewK), Saturday, 12 September 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
Where is Trayce? It’s just me, VG, Ed and sic (?) representing the Aussie massive these days. *waits to realise who I forgot to list after posting*
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 2 November 2020 06:24 (three years ago) link
Trayce has posted in the last week or so, as have estela, monotony, Nag! Nag! Nag! and KBP. not much, though.
― edited for dog profanity (sic), Monday, 2 November 2020 06:37 (three years ago) link
I thought James Morrison was also one of y’all
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Monday, 2 November 2020 06:40 (three years ago) link
yep!
pp is sort of an honorary representative
― edited for dog profanity (sic), Monday, 2 November 2020 06:42 (three years ago) link
Married into the tribe
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Monday, 2 November 2020 06:43 (three years ago) link
The peeps who are missing from the auld cru seem to be electricsound, sash, and haitch. I mean I see em post on FB so theyre *around*, but. Oh and Gaz and musicmole but they left a long time ago.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 2 November 2020 06:55 (three years ago) link
Oh, I must be hanging around in the wrong places. And I'm very glad to see the crew is much larger than I realised! I guess I better keep an eye over my shoulder for overlooking KBP tho.
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 2 November 2020 07:16 (three years ago) link
I assume that the Tennis Opens didn't happen this year so edwardo had no reason to pop in
S- made a one-off post in the last few days too, following up on a one-off post he'd made a month earlier
― edited for dog profanity (sic), Monday, 2 November 2020 08:01 (three years ago) link
ogmor came back to comment on Morbs' passing but otherwise has been missing since calzgate, which is a shame.
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Monday, 2 November 2020 10:19 (three years ago) link
emsworth also aussie
― edited for dog profanity (sic), Monday, 2 November 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
Proud to be y'alls brother-in-law.
However, I'd caution any of you from calling sunny an honorary seppo, at least until after tomorrow.
― pplains, Monday, 2 November 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
i miss ogmor, we need more imperious posters. glad calz is still here, i literally stood up and clapped when he called tombot a flag-fucker (no offense tombot).
there was a uk-based poster who was very cool and knowledgeable and imperious and intimidating in the bobbins / grime threads. miss that guy lol, cannot remember his name :(. and lex of course.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Monday, 2 November 2020 22:56 (three years ago) link
r|t|c?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 2 November 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
yeah, ty!
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Monday, 2 November 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
I cannot think of a poster with more different music tastes than mine than The Lex, but I really missed their posting because it made me question my own assumptions (while also making me batshit crazy).
― the colour out of space (is the place) (PBKR), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
Lex was/is awesome, wkiw
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
I miss lex, I follow him on twitter but he doesn't post much
― Dan S, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 01:13 (three years ago) link
I used to interact with them on Twitter and always found them entertaining and insightful. Are they still mostly writing/posting about tennis?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
The all-time lex thread was Taking sides: Children vs. (non-human) animals
lex would not back down one inch, in spite of the pile on. it was kind of awesome, in a way.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
was that some of the last lex posting on ilx?
best lex content - hatred of comedy, enjoyment of the band elbow
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
his cooking skills seem to have come on leaps and bounds, he does artisan bakery and all sorts of fancy shit these days.
― calzino, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
the first proper meal he ever ever undertook was three full courses, one of them a souffle iirc -- which was extremely admirably bold given that previously he was like im boiling an egg how is it on fire
from the FB pictures the three-course meal was a triumph
― mark s, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
his line was "if i fail at least i fail from a serious level" -- and then he didn't fail
― mark s, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:39 (three years ago) link
that's great to hear.
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
also this is several years ago now, probably around the time he quit ilx
― mark s, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
I'm shocked that the lex was posting as late as 2016!
His long-time beau being a professional chef does soften some of the edges of his Einstein-in-1905 leap - though it is still very impressive!
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
lex regularly posted until 2017, last post in January 2018 with his noms for the 2017 EOY as a slight return. seem to remember he wanted to focus on a book he was writing.
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:07 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
tbf he was posting as a londoner and london parents and their horrible children are the worst
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 11:52 (three years ago) link
I think I actually stopped reading the ILE for a while as a direct result of the quality of that thread.
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 13:00 (three years ago) link
Lex used to get so mad when I tried to persuade him that "anyone can learn to cook", ha
The image of him placing a plastic colander over a boiling pot of water to steam something is all-time
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 13:13 (three years ago) link
Kate wrote a two-word response on the politics thread a few days ago then disappeared again. I miss Kate...
though totally understand needing to take a break from here, particularly the politics threads, which are cesspools of centrist garbage imho. Like get over it, democracy has never existed, you're just propping up a useless myth, the sooner we all understand that the better.
but anyway.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
I disagree with your assessment of ILX as a centrist cesspool but I hope Kate is doing well wherever she is.
― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Thursday, 12 November 2020 13:22 (three years ago) link
I hope Kate is doing well wherever she is.
Same.
table, if you think this place is predominantly centrist then you may want to try interacting with the enemy people outside of your bubble more just for comparison's sake.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 12 November 2020 13:27 (three years ago) link
Mordy.
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 13:29 (three years ago) link
He popped in a few days ago to submit a poem to the ILX Poetry Competition and he also linked to a cool article about glow-in-the-dark platypuses on I Love AFL.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 12 November 2020 13:34 (three years ago) link
Funny thing is Lex DID figure out how to cook. He’s enjoying his time on tennis Twitter.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 November 2020 13:38 (three years ago) link
pom, oh I have! I think I just hold people here to a higher standard because I think you're all very smart. Your politics, though...
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:41 (three years ago) link
I thought ilx is super left?
― Evan, Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:44 (three years ago) link
we're pretty left on average
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
There's only a handful of posters I would consider 'super left'. I'm certainly not one of them!
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 23:00 (three years ago) link
ilx has a (variably) friendly lib-left split, which seems like an absurd superleft phenomenon if you're just walking in from the history-denuded redblue NYT world where bernie sanders is an "ultraliberal" but which don't worry will rapidly become just another dreary fact.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 12 November 2020 23:07 (three years ago) link
ilx is v centrist
― plax (ico), Friday, 13 November 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link
no one in the USA can figure out what is centrist, liberal, leftist or radical, partly because what political ideas are considered to fit each category varies enormously by geography, demographics, and widespread individual eccentricities. The consolidation of media control in the USA has resulted in much greater homogeneity among conservatives, but any form of ideology to the left of FOX and talk radio starts to disintegrate into a patchwork of loose coalitions around salient issues.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Friday, 13 November 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
You're a centrist.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, 13 November 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
yup
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 13 November 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
btw table you are awesome and I'm glad you're posting again, carborundum non illegitimi as they say
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 13 November 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
Thanks sleeve, I can't stay away for too long. I'm also glad there's another left person with whom I get along on a regular basis, which I can't say for some others lol, even as much as I agree with them.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, 13 November 2020 18:54 (three years ago) link
Labeling other people is aggressively rude, table. I'm sure you love it when others do that to you.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Friday, 13 November 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
i've never considered being labeled rude. i think regarding at as rude means a person has a huge ego tbh.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 13 November 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link