Let an EXCELSIOR be an EXCELSIOR, and let sleeping LOLS lie

lol

Instrumental classical music SUCKS. Get back to your job of making bangin' tracks for Opera divas to sing over.

this is OTM tho

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, February 8, 2012 1:57 PM (25 minutes ago)

careful what you wish for

http://www.allflac.com/covers/b_21917_Bill_Laswell-Operazone__The_Redesign-2000.jpg

― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Wednesday, February 8, 2012 2:01 PM (21 minutes ago)

omg Jordan, that is on Spotify

I think I am in for a treat

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, February 8, 2012 2:02 PM (21 minutes ago)

;_; I was wrong ;_;

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, February 8, 2012 2:21 PM (2 minutes ago)

lol

Well-seasoned douchecanoe seeks quiet doormat with just the right amount of sluttiness for LTR

― carl agatha, Wednesday, February 8, 2012 1:38 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just in case we'd forgotten his Arsenal tattoo:

Born in London's east end in 1947, he supported Arsenal as a boy, spending his weekends on the terraces at Highbury.

http://www.channel4.com/news/harry-redknapp-footballs-cockney-rebel

― James Mitchell, Thursday, 9 February 2012 06:35 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

His whole weekends?

― Monkee Trial (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 9 February 2012 07:06 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they was ard times son

― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 February 2012 07:09 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

shivering on the terrace at ighbury waiting for the all clear to sound

― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 February 2012 07:10 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bat people was friendlier then too, you could leave your front door open and when you got ome somebody would've slipped a undred grand totally legal payment under the doormat

― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 February 2012 07:11 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they only ever bunged their own

― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 February 2012 07:11 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the dear old queen mam used to cam dahn the ighbury all the time shaking ands and anding out bags of sand to teary-eyed street urchins

― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 February 2012 07:15 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AXhWXW1FFeA/TBy-E_KIkCI/AAAAAAAAIxE/4zBwLqKPryc/s1600/royals+laughing.jpg

i'm totally shocked at this reaction from a school where 98% of the student population actively practices a religion that actively had a "black people can't get into heaven" clause until 1978

― dave cool, Thursday, February 9, 2012 9:13 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm furious that black parents would send their kids into that environment with little to no knowledge of their own history, if for no other reason because all of those white kids are going to be turning to them to ask questions like "what do your people think of slavery" and "what was it like growing up on welfare"

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, February 9, 2012 9:21 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

god i feel guilty right now for wanting to say "incidentally, DJP, I've been meaning to ask you..."

― Alshipleyan Goalpostmover (some dude), Thursday, February 9, 2012 9:29 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so, what lessons did we learn from this entire phenomenon?

― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, February 9, 2012 1:18 PM

i learned that mods are still dicks years after i hung up my lawyer badge

― max, Thursday, February 9, 2012 1:19 PM

*gazes forlornly at badge hook*

― lag∞n, Thursday, February 9, 2012 1:19 PM

giving up politics on ILE & Facebook for Lent

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, February 9, 2012 1:39 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

god bless you my son

would suggest removing everything from room, finished plan should be similar to this:

http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/40600/40690/pb_sq_40690_md.gif

― I DIED, Wednesday, February 8, 2012 12:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Might be reading this completely wrong, but The Glorious Land sounds like a call-and-response/dialogue (possibly between anthropomorphic embodiments of England and America). The "Oh America / Oh Eng-er-land" refrain sounds like the two states are in the midst of a sexual act, but the tone shifts on the last line to scolding: "Oh, America!". It's as though America climaxed and then England, disgusted, is saying hypocritically "Look what you've done, shameful! Clean up this mess. You can sleep in the wet spot tonight", even though she was largely responsible for goading America on in the first place.

I also like how there's no response to "How is our glorious land bestowed" - just a silence.

― Laughing Gravy (dog latin), Friday, February 10, 2012 11:38 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I would rather picture the muddy, bloody corpses of the fallen at Gallipoli than America and England fucking.

― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Friday, February 10, 2012 11:44 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

both valid pov's imo

In re: Schoolboy Q:

--

i like some of his songs, still think it's weird/disheartening when a rapper uses the word "fags" and no one seems to think it's a problem, not really interested in a big discussion about it because i know it's been talked to death but i'm just tired of it. sorry.

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, February 9, 2012 2:01 PM (Yesterday)

cosign n/a's post. otoh most of the music I listen to is dudes talking about who they're going to kill & with what gas-powered garden tool so glass houses I guess

― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, February 9, 2012 9:08 PM (Yesterday)

Aero's got a gun

from the whitney housten rip thread:

would not want to be in a karaoke bar tonight.

― pplains, Sunday, 12 February 2012 01:29 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a modest lol but still a irl lol

Haha I just came here to post that ^

i read that after i had just sat down at one and irl loled.

there must be eleven dozen books that use the title palimpsest

― Aimless, Sunday, February 12, 2012 3:04 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's almost gross

― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Sunday, February 12, 2012 3:05 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ip law : libertarians :: honey : vegans

― iatee, Sunday, February 12, 2012 11:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you know what they say a libertarian is a vegan whos been covered in honey

― lag∞n, Sunday, February 12, 2012 11:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

How many old white male guitarists can we get on a stage

― curmudgeon, Sunday, February 12, 2012 11:29 PM (36 seconds ago)

Broken Social Security Scene

― Evan, Sunday, February 12, 2012 11:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

p good

Do you actually suffocate if all your skin is painted and sealed off from this oxygen-bearing world?

― one little aioli (Laurel), Monday, February 13, 2012 10:52 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes, if at the same time u do not breathe through your mouth/nose

― lag∞n, Monday, February 13, 2012 10:53 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahaha

it never clicked with me until now, but looking at that dirty harry pic its clear that harry callahan is the most badass sweater vest-wearer in cinema history

suddenly Santorum makes sense

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, February 13, 2012 10:27 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"And then, in early 2012, after ILX did away with the 'Suggest Ban' feature, user CaptainLorax said, in reference to Nicki Minaj, that he 'figured pop stars wouldn't be so ghetto.' It's widely believed that statement swayed public opinion and eventually led to the 'Suggest Ban' feature being reinstated."

― J0rdan S., Monday, February 13, 2012 2:28 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

holy shit SB went, huh.

Good results so far, voted for Die Hard 3 and Assault on Precinct

― Tuomas, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:54 (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh the first one in the series?

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:55 (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

holy shit SB went, huh.

― a hoy hoy, Monday, February 13, 2012 7:34 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i hadn't even noticed dag

My dad called me this morning and said that "the guy from the Foo Fighters" looked like "the guy from the Chili Peppers" "except with a shirt on."

― jaymc, Monday, February 13, 2012 8:37 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Then he hung up.

― jaymc, Monday, February 13, 2012 8:37 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

holy shit SB went, huh.

Not really no, its just been renamed.

you may be surprised to find that there was a thread about it

Haha :)

otm this is where facists come together and express themselves openly, and nobody judges them, it's a liberating and accepting environment

― iatee, Monday, February 13, 2012 7:28 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I mean, not that liberating, I guess

― iatee, Monday, February 13, 2012 7:28 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OH "flag post" is "suggest ban"?? I thought it was something to do with Wire

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4541085120_62da5cf0b9.jpg

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

omggggg

You missed the ILX "Wire covers" set then?

a runnier bunnier Donnie Darko

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, February 7, 2012 4:58 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

BI is just a dude? I assumed it was a band. lol.

Justin Vernon is the dude's name, Bon Iver is a nom de plume or a band depending on how many people are playing

― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Monday, February 13, 2012 7:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

vernon is just his middle name tho, his full name is: Justin Vernon Bieber

― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 (dayo), Monday, February 13, 2012 7:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I picture someone running around trying to trap Dave Mustaine and he keeps escaping, like a malevolent hateful hyperreligious Schmoo

― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, February 15, 2012 2:23 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wait for it . . .

So that other thread is gonna be "I can't be bothered to read thd book but do I ever have PINIONS about what it all means" which is p much my gender theory nightmare.

This is why I don't discuss gender with men any more. Failed experiment, tears before bedtime.

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:20 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm gonna try and make them read the book and if they don't I'm gonna tie them to a chair and feed them the book one piece at a time. Until I get tired. I get that you've been round this course too many times but I haven't - outside of the sociology of gaming at least - and I'm excited about it, at least for now.

― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:23 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm not doing this any more. I'm going back to threads about trees and coastline and Cornish grammar and Radiohead records. :-(

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:23 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk u got sniffy w me for quoting monique wittig. its like also there is not one single syllabus for doing womens studies. there are feminisms.

― judith, Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:24 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I must've missed it: what book are we talking about?

― jaymc, Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:27 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"The 100 Greatest Action Films of All Time"

― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:28 PM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You missed the ILX "Wire covers" set then?

Not entirely but apparently I never saw the end product's cover! That'd be me basically never reading ILM though I suppose.

Well, it was posted as a link, so it's quite likely few have seen it.

fwiw this actually seems pretty straightforward but (capricious bolding to follow)

METHODS:
Sixty mature Leghorn* type chickens were chosen and divided into three groups. The 25 chickens in group A were given a weekly dose of 3 mg/kg/week methylprednisolone acetate(1) intramuscularly(2). Four chickens in group B died after the first drug injection and were excluded from the study(3). Therefore, the remaining 21 chickens in group B were additionally given 25 mg/kg/day pentoxifylline(4) intramuscularly(5), along with the steroid medication(6) as given in group A. The ten chickens in group C were not given any injections, as they were accepted as the control group(7). After the sacrifice(8) of the animals at week 14, both femoral heads(9) were taken from each animal. The animals which died along the course of the study also underwent pathological examination(10) but were not a part of the statistical analysis.
RESULTS:
In this study, steroid induced femoral head osteonecrosis(11) has been experimentally observed in chickens after high doses of corticosteroid therapy(12). The chickens were given pentoxifylline in order to prevent the effects of steroid on bones and bone marrow. The results showed that chickens are suitable osteonecrosis models(13), and that steroid causes adipogenesis(14) and necrosis(15) in the bone marrow and the death of the subchondral bone(16).

* lol
1) what the hell is this and why didn't you say what it is and not what it's named
2) this should seem obvious, "intra," "muscularly," but it's still not layperson
3) "excluded from the study" is a meaningful statistical concept, that MIGHT have implications, but this isn't clarified
4) ok waht is it
5) there's that word again
6) so the first one is a steroid medication?
7) is this like being popular
8) my god
9) this is a kind of fish, right
10) staring contest
11) wait is this what you're suggesting is happened? is everything that you described above...this?
12) didn't realize that was especially high
13) osteonecrosis is not for sale!!!!
14) chill wave
15) death metal
16) decemberists album

― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Thursday, February 16, 2012 2:15 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha beat me

Anyway technically speaking what TurnItIn probably does when you upload your paper is check a bunch of n-grams (chunks of words a few sentences long) and checks its index for matches. When it finds matches on an improbably long chunk of words, it flags it as plagiarism.
Basically it types in random phrases to google but advanced and automatic.
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:02 AM (1 hour ago)

imna reverse engineer it and sell a product that can write papers for people
― iatee, Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:05 AM (1 hour ago)

im gonna sell people chunks of words
― lag∞n, Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:06 AM (1 hour ago)

i will sell them dream words and nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town
― (_()_) (Lamp), Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:17 AM (57 minutes ago)

that does sound like a pretty good business model
― lag∞n, Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:23 AM (52 minutes ago)

at the very least it's better than the groupon business model
― iatee, Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:24 AM (50 minutes ago)

that's the premise for my romance writer's phrase book, and it was published in 1984!

(not the phrasebook i wrote, the phrasebook i HAVE)
it was written by kent and shelton
it is a campy masterpiece of weirdness