the estela appreciation thread

speaking for myself, just because she wrote a dumb book about a stern man doesn't mean she deserves to be sexually humiliated by a stern fan.

― estela, Tuesday, July 10, 2012 3:55 AM (1 year ago)

zung

Ha! whats that about, 50shadesofshit, or something?

yes. please don't go back and read the original thread.

i am having #chobanitime RIGHT NOW
feeling no shame though, for some reason

― Untt (La Lechera), Thursday, October 10, 2013 9:14 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whenever i notice the chobani at the market it reminds me of you, ll, and then i have a little think about if it's embarrassing or not and I always conclude it's not in any way I can grasp and then sometimes I will go on to ponder my own deficiencies.

― estela, Thursday, October 10, 2013 10:20 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sometimes I will go on to ponder my own deficiencies

our father came home from one of these one time and said to my sister, "your teacher said you don't even have the brain capacity of a gnat but i defended you and said that you do."

― estela, Thursday, November 7, 2013 10:11 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

loggedin's run

― estela, Monday, March 31, 2014 10:15 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'll laud anyone that owes me lunch tbh

still one of our most valuable natural resources

this is on now and there was a dead body on a beach with severe injuries and a scene investigator was explaining to david caruso how a boat propeller had almost severed the victim's head. he said '...and that's how he ended up with this hanging chad of a head.'

― estela, Thursday, October 25, 2012 8:30 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

to be fair that probably belongs on the scene investigator that was explaining to david caruso's appreciation thread.

curatorial skills are still worthy of appreciation

Where's the new post

on 77

wait wth

o i c

Got it

Would be cool to be able to access the admin log from zing

i wrote a card for my cousin when her husband died suddenly but then i didn't like the awkwardness of my wording so i didn't send it and i intended to get another card but i didn't and then she was killed in a car crash a few weeks later and ever since then i don't worry so much about what i say as long as it's something.

― estela, Sunday, June 1, 2014 9:12 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fucking hell :O

born sagacious, become sagacious, sagacity thrust upon her

finally my secret furry identity is revealed

it's a relief tbh

― arid banter (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, June 3, 2014 4:41 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i hope no one patrinises you for it.

― estela, Tuesday, June 3, 2014 4:54 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"i'm guessing you don't have kids" is def one of the most annoying things parents say to non-parents, esp in that superior tone it usually comes in

damn right i don't and there's a reason for that. i don't like them or being around them. i'm not going to be overtly displeased with kids in bars (well, kid-friendly bars, some bars would be just wrong) but i reserve the right to prefer them elsewhere and bitch about it privately afterwards. i don't think "enjoying the company of strangers' kids" should be a general expectation. i don't like the company of obnoxious adults either and pick the places i socialise to avoid them where possible and basically 90% of kids have the same effect.

kids that i actually know are slightly easier to tolerate, i guess.

― lex pretend, Sunday, 13 April 2014 11:26 (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm sorry they asked.

― estela, Sunday, 13 April 2014 11:48 (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

majestic

call me a ho saver, i don't even care.

estela is the poster about whom I sometimes wonder 'would she have posted that?' after one of my more emotionally wrought or indulgent outpourings. she is the finest corrective ILX has had to offer

I feel sure that it would be an estela-approved sentiment to state that you should consider asking it beforehand anymore

Earliness is a form of unpunctuality. I hate early people, especially if they come to my house before a designated time. Also, if I'm late and they're being all indignant about waiting, a big part of the waiting time they're being indignant about is the period of time they were at the meeting place before they should have been.
(I'm never mad if people are late, I always give them the benefit of the doubt.)

-- estela (estelaisale...), May 1st, 2003 1:13 PM. (link)

If I am ever on "Room 101" (which will never happen), I shall use this.

On the other hand, should I just send it to Ronan Keating, for when he gets his chance?

bene gesserit is if I am not wrong a quality use of the future perfect, which will have been noted

― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Friday, October 17, 2014 2:25 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm not even embarrassed to say that this sentence makes no freaking sense to me whatsoever.

― Gumbercules? I love that guy! (Trayce), Thursday, October 23, 2014 10:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_perfect

it means 'she will have dressed well'

― pecker shrivellage (imago), Thursday, October 23, 2014 10:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I know what future perfect tense is, I'm not sure how I was meant to infer her appearance from what you said tho. Perhaps I am dense. Anyway!

― Gumbercules? I love that guy! (Trayce), Thursday, October 23, 2014 10:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's a Latin joke.

― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Thursday, October 23, 2014 11:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this should bring her rushing back.

― estela, Friday, October 24, 2014 1:57 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My favourite teacher at my primary school, Brownhill St Saviours C of E, ran a group called Crossbearers. Given that it involved not even the slightest religious overtones and much frolicking it wasn't until years later I realised it wasn't anything to do with bears at all. I know none of this is technically a pun. The teacher later turned out to be a paedophile.
― matthew james (matthew james), Tuesday, November 22, 2005 2:19 PM (9 years ago)

I bet that teacher was secretly calling it Crotchbarers.
― estela (estela), Tuesday, November 22, 2005 2:27 PM (9 years ago)

Last year there was a death in the family and a cousin put up a fb memorial page, my mother who has never been online was relaying it to me she said "They have put a memorial on that e-bay, they don't print them in the paper any more ".

<3 this so much. my mother persistently thinks lol means lots of love so i got a text from her saying, 'dad started chemo today lol'

― estela, Monday, February 23, 2015 5:12 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahahaha

was gonna excelsior that + flopson's follow-up but felt bad

kurt godel also a restricted diet

Gödel subsisted on a valetudinarian’s diet of butter, baby food, and laxatives.........He had an obsessive fear of being poisoned; he would eat only food that his wife, Adele, prepared for him. Late in 1977, she was hospitalized for six months and could no longer prepare her husband's food. In her absence, he refused to eat, eventually starving to death.[19] He weighed 65 pounds (approximately 30 kg) when he died.

― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Sunday, April 27, 2014 2:02 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i imagine his wife, adele, sometimes felt tempted to poison him herself as a lesson or a joke.

― estela, Sunday, April 27, 2014 2:13 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Gödel being an SI unit equivalent to approximately 0.15 dead former NFL players

twitter got estelad

http://i.imgur.com/tnqcq1f.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CyzKDAqVEAEm307.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CyzKDAqVEAAoigA.jpg

lol

Disgraceful imo

^este lad

David FrumVerified account
Somebody asked me today what I worry about most urgently. I answered …

estela Retweeted David Frum

...that by decree everyone will have to add the letter 'p' to the end of their surname

hahahaa

still cant forgive estela for twitter

Lol :)

twitter is p much the same as here, though it does limit the number of words.

and for a lot of ilxors - but not estela- that is surely a major positive

:)

1 / I'm not sure that darragh is talking about, the number of characters on twitter is not limiting and

wow never knew estela started twitter

legitimised it far beyond what it was imo

the best ilxor

baby fire truck driver

― estela, Monday, July 17, 2017 8:32 PM (fifty-one minutes ago)

i'm not generally one to gush estela hagiography but this is legit epochal