zing

(it should be noted that was a self-inflicted zing AND thread-wide zing. the holy grail for zingers.)

1330 is a fairly mediocre score, is it not?

― sarahell, Wednesday, May 3, 2017 7:25 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ this is such a classic sarahel "I'll just put this here" post

I did applaud that

i've done my share of faux naïf trolling over the years. i wouldn't dare judge. sometimes it just leaps out of the keyboard. there was an epic response from the person with that score though with a lot of juggling of ancient testing figures found on google. so, mission accomplished.

I removed my bookmark and walked away but I really need to go back for that one

is it really a zing if everyone who was zinged comes on here and is like "heh heh yeah you got me (shrug)"

That thread is so bad

Like even after the first person to come in and call out ppl comparing hi scores, nobody snaps out of it

i'm not gonna justify anything i wrote but i sure as hell never posted scores

that thread is like

https://i.makeagif.com/media/9-23-2015/Luwf1s.gif

I wanted to talk about how much tail I got in HS but figured that'd be gauche (NB, did not get tail in HS).

i don't think i ever read jess's original thread. figured it was just a dumb people be trippin' thing. compulsive score talk is just ilx brain squad par for course. those lovable dweebs.

i'm all in favor of a "you must be this tall must have above this SAT score to post on ilx" requirement

the number will be... 1331

i went to the prom with this girl i didn't know and embarrassed her beyond belief by getting really drunk and doing coke all night and then going to a party and doing coke and drinking until 6 in the morning and then my friends drove me to danbury high school to take my SAT. i didn't do so hot. i suck at tests though. and math. i did good on the part about words though.

you lost me at "went to the prom"

we went to this girl's house and her parents took our picture and i saw the picture later and they had colored in my shoes with magic marker to make them look black. they were a very polite Indian family who had no idea how fucked up i was. she was nice too. still feel bad about that....

my tie kinda fell down...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2334/2128991121_39c3e10ba0_b.jpg

that such a worthless thread ultimately brought us to this wonderful destination... makes me feel like making some inspirational memes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhyhP_5VfKM

xp to Lauren--Because on my way to places that aren't in any way close enough to walk or bike to, I often have to run errands and stop at the post office, bank, library, etc, and buckling and unbuckling every time I have to jump out if the car to mail a letter seems tedious and unnecessary

― Wimmels, Thursday, 4 May 2017 19:09 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what makes you think you don't deserve a tedious life

― ogmor, Thursday, 4 May 2017 19:22 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

absolutely brutal, gladiator stuff, the crowd salutes

I'm always curious what hair was split when an Adam bruneau ends up here instead of in the needle drop comments section

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, October 4, 2017 11:21 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was gonna post that one lol

http://37.media.tumblr.com/d6f35ec785eaa1957daf60a951e3bf02/tumblr_n6fpe2Z1281s8uzeno3_250.gif

Haven’t watched this in a long time but what i have recently started watching again is ren and stimpy

Only into episode 5 of the first season
― infinity (∞), Sunday, 14 January 2018 23:59 (yesterday) Permalink

Cool go to that thread
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Monday, 15 January 2018 00:34 (one hour ago) Permalink

not even a gr8 zing but why is this thread so dead

Cuz ilx doesn’t have a sense of humour anymore

all zing energy devoted to zinging the donald

^ lowest hanging fruit

eww

today was going so well

― jmm, Wednesday, January 17, 2018 12:49 PM

no it wasn't

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 17, 2018 12:50 PM

Yes, it was. You only posted twice.

― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Wednesday, January 17, 2018 12:51 PM

Nice.

Taking nothing away from the people involved in making this happen, which I'm sure has been mind-bendingly complex, but watching that video I've never before seen so clearly the Kubrickian link between a spaceship and a caveman getting excited over a flying bone

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, February 6, 2018 5:42 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you're a flying bone

― the late great, Tuesday, February 6, 2018 6:02 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

isn't it always the same grumpy asshole with terrible taste?

― Simon H.,

somebody dig up Ernest Borgnine

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, February 8, 2018 12:57 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Or Morbs.

― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.)

don't encourage that weak tea

http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/36900000/the-golden-girls-the-golden-girls-36971379-245-199.gif

I don’t understand any of you people

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, March 7, 2018 4:19 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe you don’t love style

― the late great, Wednesday, March 7, 2018 4:26 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

unintentional zing :0(

i was trying to be nice and not bring up polka dot chuck taylors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UocVDjpCJA

i've done a lot of 'shutting up and listening' to feminist rhetoric, i can assure you it doesn't work. hasn't changed opinion #1. if anything it makes it all the more clear how little ppl care to understand men. we are not you.

― sleepingbag, Wednesday, March 7, 2018 10:58 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also is the understood implication to permanently shut up and listen? cos that's a pretty rude and idiotic thing to say to someone

― sleepingbag, Wednesday, March 7, 2018 11:01 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

turns out sometimes shutting up is correct

― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, March 7, 2018 11:02 AM (yesterday)

:D

<3

The belief that the 'majority' of the American public connects all but one element from the list (and not a 'national health plan' precisely but inchoately-expressed improvements to the existing regime) to the improvement of their 'material lives' is about the most desperate, time-wasting shit I can imagine.

― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, March 13, 2018 8:29 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you and nerdstorm ought get in on a podcast together, clueless moderates much less erudite than yall are raking it in

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, March 13, 2018 5:27 PM

have to appreciate a posting style that imparts nothing on first pass other than the understanding that it's not worth trying to figure out the point being made

Leaden irony is the worst.

have to appreciate a posting style that imparts nothing on first pass other than the understanding that it's not worth trying to figure out the point being made

― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, March 15, 2018 10:21 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was grabbing things from the fridge aisle at trader joe’s and had my headphones on, as is my want, but still definitely overheard the young woman next to me say, “he’s a muscle man” and flex. 💪💁‍♀️

― map, Friday, March 16, 2018 11:04 AM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah well you misspelled wont, ya meathead

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive)

this is so good

How do you fix it so it’s just uninterrupted cats all the way through pic.twitter.com/ksBYaAxdYy

— Lynn Coady (@Lynn_Coady) March 18, 2018

Zing!!!!

I would argue that the fact that you don't think there's anything to talk about with a Meghan Trainor or Jason Derulo record, or that their popularity "doesn't say anything about music or society," means that you need to think harder. You're claiming that mumbly nihilistic teenage bullshit "says something about society" but the music that non-teenagers listen to doesn't, but society is not exclusively made up of teenagers. And I doubt your readership is. (I don't know where you're employed as an editor, sorry.) I would argue that writing about xxxtentacion is, in fact, the lazy choice, and that if you really wanted to spend time seriously analyzing popular culture, you'd analyze it in its uncool/off-trend/selling-but-to-the-"wrong"-people aspects.

― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, March 27, 2018 10:27 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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