www.lj.ru

that sounds more undignified even than the novelty boxing match he was involved in

do even legends of the game of cricket not earn enough to retire gracefully

ljvn

if you could spend a week in the london of the mid 18th century, who would you talk to and what would you do

carl linnaeus is the figure of that time whom i would most like to meet. we would discuss latin taxonomy

failing passage to sweden, i'd probably assist john hunter with his dissections

no wordsmiths?

sterne too northern, blake too young. course you could recommend some

you would know that era better than me but this was prompted by imagining you meeting dr johnson

obviously

what will have been the results of such tempestuous collusion, we wonder

some new words

bet you guys would get it on.

wordsmithery

visit a coffee house in houndsditch

pass comment on olde london's avianry

if you haven't watched any of joanna hogg's films yet (particular the last two) i suspect you might like them

o cool, ty

olde london with its red kites and peregrines, pigeons lived in proper fear then

https://twitter.com/thugclive/status/563709970756423680
https://twitter.com/thugclive/status/563711099879837696

just went to the offie for some cava and rae sremmurd was playing. is there no escape

ive not heard rae sremmurd or run the jewels and not more than about half a youtube of death grips but i enjoyed that anyway

tbf yeah. i actually came to ilx to post that post not knowing of your clive martin retweets, it all came together splendidly

deja vu sense this may have been covered before, but do people irl say lj or is it an ilx innovation

trying to think of a football personality with the same initials who might be pictured wearing a monogrammed tracksuit

An ILX thing mostly. Some usage amongst intimates. LJVN is a new one though.

quite possibly nobody else has identified the divine kinship between yourself and the avian world

my dearest avian has, adeo ut she has mooted a specific nature walk (the 'parkland' walk) around haringey for this weekend. birdwatching might be shuffling towards becoming my primary hobby again

shuffling furtively, like a dunnock

that and wordbotching

:)

http://wordbotching.tumblr.com/day/2012/02/27

your most avuncular post yet, marred by an idiotically weak tumblr concept

how do u feel abt the epithet 'twitcher'

it's fine when used to describe a particular sort of birdwatcher, the sort who will receive text alerts about a twice-recorded rarity blown into colwyn bay on a midatlantic depression & drop everything

i am not that sort of birdwatcher, although i did stumble across sevenoaks' ibis recently, and have also stumbled across a purple heron at dungeness before. seems much more satisfying when you don't have gps coordinates and a ritualistic cavalcade of parka'd telescope-wielding pricks pinpointing the exact location of that lesser tawny-streaked marsh warbler or w/e

loved it when that famous rarity in durham or something got eaten by a sparrowhawk a few years ago

accidental shawx

lol

on the 7th of November 2010, I posted "dear government, get fucked"

<3

that was more for the :) which is the telltale sign of curt lj pique, to be contrasted with :D

all affection mon frère

there will have been prior expressions of impatience to #0

#0 looks like a particularly anguished or indignant emoticon

lol

compulsive autoscarification of the eyes is a known risk of long term exposure to twp

we must always remember whom the real victims have been

http://i.imgur.com/BC0Eh.gif

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 02:07 (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

would treat to tea and scones

― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 02:09 (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why don't more people like the cardiacs

https://writerchick.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/worditout-word-cloud-284025.png?w=300

who stole the body of the president of cyprus??? was it you!?? (rolling graverobbing thread)

well you see nakhers chum

cardiacs' music is extremely intense with unusual melodic sensibilities but a demented punkish energy - the former putting off typical punk types and the latter putting off classical or prog fans

they sit uneasily within the rock in opposition venn set - it's like asking why henry cow or koenjihyakkei don't have more fans. they demand lots of close listening and a level of commitment that most listeners just do not have

they also alienated every single major music magazine during their heyday and the press famously loathed them, probably because they did not want to make the effort to understand them & it was easier to demonise the freaks

they have had something of a revival in the discourse of late, mostly because it's being publicised just how many popular musicians are into them

they aren't remotely like 'henry cow or koenjihyakkei' though, they make quirky indie rock music which is in a fairly recogniseable idiom to anyone who is familiar with indie rock

it would be more apt to wonder why they couldn't get at least some of the support that british sea power or whatever do, different generations but it isn't as if this country has a problem appreciating odd melodic rock music

played a few of their tracks on that youtube yesterday and there were quite a few comments from people who had heard them on radio 6 and been enraptured

this would seem to be a natural audience for them and it would be possible to imagine them being marketed a 'national treasure' to that set, had they not had the mark of cain from the trad music press

also could a moderator of ilxor.com pls move all chess threads to I Love AFL

i can only moderate threads on ILAFL. i cannot move threads from other boards to this board. I can give you a motivational yellow card if you'd like.

thank u sensei

do I have to give you another one for cultural appropriation lol?

lol what was the 'baby' incident again btw

there were several baby incidents! One of the first, was early in my ilxor career and you agreed with me that the term was infantilizing and problematic. Thus, I developed a fondness for you.

Then there were the frogbs baby incident, and the Aimless baby incident ...

Aimless was an 'O, dear' incident iirc? Similar tbf

maybe trying to accurately recall specifics of ilx exchanges involving Aimless is something else you should avoid? Considering?

ugh, fair

saying TWO nice things about a Fader list (and only one not-nice thing) vmooc surely

― imago, Tuesday, December 13, 2022 10:02 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

immediately responding defensively to a meta post about himself, though ... now that's a pvmic

― na (NA), Tuesday, December 13, 2022 10:26 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

look, wait, hey,

― imago, Tuesday, December 13, 2022 10:28 AM (yesterday)

Sorry to say but insinuating that anything about “Moves Like Jagger” is good gets you a FP
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Sunday, March 19, 2023 2:43 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

so much irritation just gone at a stroke if that song never existed

― imago, Sunday, March 19, 2023 2:44 PM (three hours ago)

I think a lot of ilx is just getting old … and are doing the thing where we listen to and talk about music from when we were young

Me included!