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See I like pizza / I like cake / but sometimes they give me / a bellyache! // kidbeats in the charts

this goes to the heart of the problem.

ilm is full of awful thread titles of late, time was you'd call something what it was, now most titles are 30-40 lines long and in all-caps. needs an editor. you knew where you were with old titles. they did the job!

Hutton dressed as Lahm (LocalGarda), Thursday, 24 January 2013 09:57 (thirteen years ago)

"The increasing problem of bad thread titles on ILM and how to deal with it // TOO LONG? // CAPITALS? DISCUSS THIS TREND HERE - ***ALSO USE THIS THREAD TO DISCUSS BREVITY***"

Hutton dressed as Lahm (LocalGarda), Thursday, 24 January 2013 09:59 (thirteen years ago)

haha

besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 24 January 2013 10:02 (thirteen years ago)

come anticipate the new Hansel and Gretel "reboot" feat. Gemma Arterton in Kate Beckinsale fetish gear

all of these distended meretricious titles for shit films

moët plaudit (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 26 January 2013 00:11 (thirteen years ago)

localgarda so otm

an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Saturday, 26 January 2013 00:19 (thirteen years ago)

everyone fucking screaming for attention.

Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Saturday, 26 January 2013 12:06 (thirteen years ago)

It's like 'Dallas' if Victoria Principal sang and Patrick Duffy played guitar: This is a thread for NASHVILLE

some dude, Saturday, 26 January 2013 12:13 (thirteen years ago)

NASHVILLE THREAD

Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Saturday, 26 January 2013 13:14 (thirteen years ago)

fucking love nashville btw

Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Saturday, 26 January 2013 13:14 (thirteen years ago)

yeah there's kind of a cloying aren't-i-so-clever vibe from a lot of the too-long thread titles these days

let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 26 January 2013 16:28 (thirteen years ago)

like congratulations on your ability to squeeze a bunch of convoluted pop culture references into the allotted character count, we're still all going to die one day, stop wasting my time

let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 26 January 2013 16:32 (thirteen years ago)

is it all my fault? i'll take the blame. i'm feeling guilty these days.

scott seward, Saturday, 26 January 2013 17:15 (thirteen years ago)

nah, your thread titles are like long Funkadelic song titles and these new ones are like long Fall Out Boy song titles

some dude, Saturday, 26 January 2013 19:55 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=67985&action=showall&bookmarkedmessageid=4088834

an old penis drawing is now "new and notable" (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 26 January 2013 20:11 (thirteen years ago)

that thread title is an all-time classic, forks!

sarahell, Saturday, 26 January 2013 20:24 (thirteen years ago)

well that's what i'm saying: it fits the description and is unintentionally misworded but still works

an old penis drawing is now "new and notable" (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 26 January 2013 20:32 (thirteen years ago)

the key phrase is "unintentionally misworded"

sarahell, Saturday, 26 January 2013 20:34 (thirteen years ago)

too many thread titles on ilm make me think of sufjan stevens song titles hah xps

een, Saturday, 26 January 2013 20:43 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82cJgPXU-ik

cloacachella (how's life), Saturday, 26 January 2013 20:46 (thirteen years ago)

like congratulations on your ability to squeeze a bunch of convoluted pop culture references into the allotted character count, we're still all going to die one day, stop wasting my time

this should be a thread title.

Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Sunday, 27 January 2013 01:52 (thirteen years ago)

too fucking long

standard disclaimer applies (darraghmac), Sunday, 27 January 2013 01:55 (thirteen years ago)

come anticipate the new Hansel and Gretel "reboot" feat. Gemma Arterton in Kate Beckinsale fetish gear

all of these distended meretricious titles for shit films

― moët plaudit (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, January 25, 2013 4:11 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

apologies for that one, however I stand by my description of its essence

christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:18 (thirteen years ago)

feel like 'thread of' or 'itt:' constructions are getting tiresome

乒乓, Monday, 28 January 2013 02:10 (thirteen years ago)

^^ I like this guy's general thoughts

mh, Monday, 28 January 2013 03:05 (thirteen years ago)

ive never understood the "anticipate" convention to thread naming either, why use that word when you know the thread will be used after the film's release much longer than before it?

ned's Star Wars 7 shit talk a bold new direction imo

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 28 January 2013 03:29 (thirteen years ago)

is "anticipate" like the mis-spelled detritus thing?

sarahell, Monday, 28 January 2013 04:23 (thirteen years ago)

I've always read it like that - like it's called "anticipate" less because anyone will anticipate anything, and more because this is ILX shorthand for "thread about a specific film."

Doctor Casino, Monday, 28 January 2013 04:28 (thirteen years ago)

those seem like two different things to me, even if the anticipation is really a false enthusiasm

mh, Monday, 28 January 2013 04:44 (thirteen years ago)

i get the "ilx shorthand" explanation, still wish people would drop it tho

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 28 January 2013 05:11 (thirteen years ago)

1st "anticipate" thread was a doozy:
Come anticipate Kill Bill with me

jaymc, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 04:11 (thirteen years ago)

forks throws pottery (and maybe you do too?)

dirty drone barack boy (some dude), Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:24 (thirteen years ago)

forks throws pots, it's a ringing in my ears

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:37 (thirteen years ago)

don't hate the player, hate the pots

it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 9 February 2013 04:09 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

The Miracle of the Smiths

Woody Ellen (Matt P), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 01:25 (thirteen years ago)

Rolling UK Comedy Thread - "Ricky Don't Lose Larry David's Number

Stephen Thomas Duttywine (some dude), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 02:53 (thirteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

77 thread for just straight up asking for people to tell you you're a good person for when you feel like a fucking lump

lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 17:31 (thirteen years ago)

you should go in that thread and tell them that

--808 542137 (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 19:29 (thirteen years ago)

good idea

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 19:47 (thirteen years ago)

i might just do that

lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 20:05 (thirteen years ago)

Like it or lump it

mister borges (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 20:07 (thirteen years ago)

Reproductive Justice Thread

what a horrible phrase

--808 542137 (Hurting 2), Friday, 12 April 2013 18:35 (thirteen years ago)

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Blood Lust (One of the best rock albums this year)

life went on, sadly (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 09:08 (thirteen years ago)

Spacemen 3 - classic or unutterably shite? [Started by Hymie in January 2001]

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 18 April 2013 21:49 (thirteen years ago)

two months pass...

privilege as a meme

some dude, Saturday, 22 June 2013 10:55 (twelve years ago)

the ones that say BALLET! EXPLODING FISH! and turn out to just be about sports

free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 24 June 2013 15:11 (twelve years ago)

Fuck Buttons: Pretty/Noisy band on ATP Recordings: Dígame Más Por Favor

i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:43 (twelve years ago)

1) what the hell is a "Pretty/Noisy band"?
2) why the fuck spanish?

i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:44 (twelve years ago)

3) colon within a colon

i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:44 (twelve years ago)

The Counselor = Cormac McCarthy + Ridley Scott + (Fassbender + Pitt + Cruz + Bardem et al)

Šite New Answers (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 20:22 (twelve years ago)

Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

Šite New Answers (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 20:22 (twelve years ago)


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