posts very much in character

it's all <3

i <3 u warts words and all

Should I buy an Apple laptop?

well, the whole continuation really

he's slowly turning into tuomas isn't he

caek was also being vmic there

it makes u wonder if caek would attempt to explain wryly the entire theory of relativity to someone if they looked sufficiently hapless

rolling HARDSCIENCE thread

Poll Closing Date: Thursday, June 28, 2012 8:00 PM (in 2 days)

For the past few weeks, I've been polling the best of the songs that hit #1 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks. (The latest poll, for 2007, can be found here.)

I thought I would take a break this week and do a poll for the songs that didn't quite hit the top, and instead peaked at #2. By my count, roughly 150 songs have stalled in the silver-medal position since the Alternative chart was created in 1988. Below are 30 of the most notable #2 hits from across the years that struck me as significant.

With that, what's the best Modern Rock #2 of all time?

1989 – The Cult, "Fire Woman"
1989 – The Cure, "Lovesong"
1990 – Jesus & Mary Chain, "Head On"
1990 – Chris Isaak, "Wicked Game"
1991 – Divinyls, "I Touch Myself"
1991 – The Las, "There She Goes"
1992 – R.E.M., "Man on the Moon"
1993 – Lenny Kravitz, "Are You Gonna Go My Way?"
1993 – Radiohead, "Creep"
1993 – Bjork, "Human Behaviour"
1993 – Breeders, "Cannonball"
1994 – Counting Crows, "Mr. Jones"
1994 – Soundgarden, "Black Hole Sun"
1994 – Stone Temple Pilots, "Vasoline"
1994 – Weezer, "Buddy Holly"
1994 – Pearl Jam, "Betterman"
1995 – Stone Roses, "Love Spreads"
1995 – Oasis, "Live Forever"
1995 – Collective Soul, "December"
1995 – Foo Fighters, "This is a Call"
1995 – Smashing Pumpkins, "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
1996 – Spacehog, "In the Meantime"
1997 – No Doubt, "Don’t Speak"
1998 – Green Day, "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"
1999 – Fatboy Slim, "Praise You"
1999 – Blink 182, "What's My Age Again?"
2000 – Incubus, "Stellar"
2002 – Jimmy Eat World, "Sweetness"
2005 – Queens of the Stone Age, "Little Sister"
2006 – Muse, "Starlight"

― LimbsKing, Monday, June 25, 2012 10:17 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait what are the other 120?

― some dude, Monday, June 25, 2012 10:18 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

post brilliantly in character:

When Dicky CHeney heard the law had been upheld he wept, then took off his pants and undies and showed up at a local McDOnalds and said "FILL me up with your fatty fatty greacakes! I want a chicne! I want grease of the lamb! Obama will serve me my stomach as thine ham!"

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, June 28, 2012 7:37 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

2 weeks pass...

WCC referenced the "CaptainLorax debacle" on another thread, so I decided I'd look into it. What a depressing read, though I found crut to be pretty OTM throughout. Also weird how everyone assumes that the Captain is this ultra-hegemonic straight dude -- I assumed that his half-baked musings on gender had at least something to do with his documented attraction to androgynous women.

― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Thursday, July 5, 2012 4:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

.xls

Hey jaymc, you forgot this.

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/2505/lorax.jpg

wait, is that Lorax with Lorax?!

Sexual perversion in Ohio

just the fact that there's a post permalinked under that thread title relevant to this moment is making me lol v had

Forrest Gump is superior because of its use of computer graphics. However, since technology has advanced, both films are obsolete and must be destroyed.

― Banaka™ (banaka), Sunday, 8 July 2012 20:12 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

classic material

a+ ... what thread?

T/S: Forrest Gump vs. Zelig

there are hardly any songs i even want to skip on the nicki album though!

― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Monday, July 9, 2012

i saw the forrest gump film when i was about 12 and i remember having a real scales-falling-from-child's-eyes moment about what twee bullshit adults fooled themselves with

― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, July 10, 2012 5:17 PM (5 hours ago)

the origin story

l∞l

that's an amazing post, admittedly

curiously, bob dylan appeared on the forrest gump soundtrack

wonder if aero had a lex moment when he heard CCR on the soundtrack

omg @ lorax w the lorax!

omg @ lorax w the lorax!

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, July 10, 2012 10:31 PM (6 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the forrest gump film

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/11/12/what-does-a-goatee-say-about-you.html

the forrest gump film

http://www.baumanrarebooks.com/BookImages/77670f.jpg

what-does-goatse-say-about-you.html

Larry grew a full beard, but that was a smidge too country—“I looked like an Oak Ridge Boy”—so he pruned it down into a goatee. Paired with a baseball cap and sleeveless shirt, these days Larry looks like he has just exited a Golden Corral buffet. He has redneck gravitas.

well sometimes the "X" really isn't designed to hurt anybody and almost all these posters who are dialing up the outrage meter are not part of that minority anyway, so it just devolves into self-congratulatory "you are so stupid and a horrible person" for 1000 posts

― frogbs, Wednesday, July 11, 2012 3:07 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just putting this here as a reminder, of whenever this bloke complains he's unfairly persecuted, hateful assumptions and shit EXACTLY LIKE THIS is the ~actual reason~ why he gets called on stuff so often.

(And holy shit, I did not even see the "joke" he made 2 posts later.)

hateful assumptions like what, WCC? please elaborate :)

if you need help, I think the "anyone who uses the word 'uppity' is definitely making a racial slur" hardman stance so many posters were taking several months ago is a pretty good example of what I was talking about

1) making assumptions about what people "get" to be outraged about. Not your call to make.
2) making assumptions about what minorities people on ILX, that you have never met, belong to. Also not your call to make.
3) the big one: That only people who are members of minorities are "allowed" to call out hateful shit as opposed to, y'know, anyone who is a decent human being has not just a right but a moral duty to address inequality when they see fit.

I keep hitting flag post but you just don't go away. You have officially made me regret ever asking for the change to be made.

http://www.decibel-design.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/uppity_frog.jpg

I'm not telling anyone what they should and should not be outraged about or what they are allowed to call out. I'm just saying that it doesn't lead to intelligent discussion. We've gone over this plenty of times and hasn't led to ANYTHING but a bunch of people feeling hurt and vowing to never post again (that's you, btw) (okay, I did legitimately learn about why there's a "certain word" you shouldn't say, so thank you guys for that). Also I'm not sure you understand what the word "almost" means so at this point I'm just going to say your reading comprehension sucks. At least am0n is on the ball!

http://www.apartment48.com/shop/frog-playground-ball.jpg

lol at the uppity frog

Your idea of "intelligent discussion" seems "everyone always agrees with Frogbs and no one ever calls him on the offensive and untrue shit he comes out with."

I don't often say things like this, but seriously. If you don't think that the discussion on ILX that you get involved with is intelligent, you might want to look in the mirror.

Now here is my funny gif, and I'm done.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxkb2hjTyM1qjp4z6o1_500.gif

That's not true. There's plenty of intelligent discussion on here and people rarely agree with me on anything. I've learned a few things along the way. However there are a lot of posters who just straight-up aren't willing to accept that other viewpoints exist or use THAT as a springboard for massive character judgements on issues that they barely understand themselves. Not "here's what's wrong with what you said" but rather "here's what's wrong with what I hope you meant".

is it just me or does this feel like some sort of marvel dc xover battle

As I see it, Frogbs, there are two things going on here:

1) There is a difference between a Viewpoint and a Prejudice. The difference is that a Viewpoint is usually accompanied by either direct personal experience of an issue, or study and careful interpretation of evidence relating to that issue. A Prejudice has no basis except "Well, I believe that..." People on ILX are often accepting of multiple Viewpoints, but they do not have a duty to accept Prejudices.

2) You do not seem to understand that there is a difference between "You need to check your Privilege" and "You are the worst person forever." The former is a nice way of saying "of the people in this debate, one is speaking from a Viewpoint based on direct personal experience and the other is not. You might want to examine if you have a Viewpoint or a Prejudice before you go making any further assertions about things they have experienced and you have not."

The latter is what people say to you when you carry on insisting that you are being censured by "OMG the PC police" because you cannot tell the difference between your right to a Viewpoint and a Prejudice. Or because you persist in espousing the false belief that it is somehow making a "character judgement" about you, personally, to suggest that you might be the recipient of Privilege, rather than a statement about power dynamics within a society.

the false belief that it is somehow making a "character judgement" about you, personally, to suggest that you might be the recipient of Privilege, rather than a statement about power dynamics within a society.

To be fair A TON of basically nice people miss this point all the time. A ton. Possibly most. In all kinds of intersectionalities.

I'd love to discuss that at greater length, Laurel, if I didn't think it would turn into a giant clusterfuck instantly.

Everyone misses that from time to time, because people are human.

(another profound interjection from DJP)

Haha. I don't say that to undermine WCC's point, btw, I say it to reinforce that having someone point out that you can AFFORD not to be aware of things that hurt others, is not the same thing as being accused of hurting them yourself.

But if you CONTINUE to let them get hurt and not see them as part of your web, which is a web of everyone, THEN in the future you are increasingly complicit in their harm because you do benefit from people of other types/groups/populations being kept down. I mean almost everyone benefits somehow from someone else being kept back or kept down. All we are saying is, lift them up.