don't drag Balzac into this too
― the arpeggio as will and idea (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 August 2013 16:09 (ten years ago) link
(looks sheepish)
baaaaah!
― Aimless, Saturday, 24 August 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
i would feel honore to be called a poisonous balzac
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 24 August 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
Have you ever noticed that balzac sounds a lot like scrotum? no? ok, nvm
― Aimless, Saturday, 24 August 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
i believe he changed his name from Bolloque
― the arpeggio as will and idea (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 August 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
Ha - I was thinking of that haircutting thread even before your reference
If you can prove I firmly implied I was in any way put off TSWF, rather than minded to construct a fairly sizeable hurdle for my expectations, you can have this one
― which can be sold for meat if they are boys.. (sorry guys) (imago), Saturday, 24 August 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
Internet decorum rule #1:
I have the right to my opinion. When my opinion is criticized or challenged, I will restate this over and over in lieu of an an actual defense of my argument, because your critique is infringing on my constitutional internet right to an opinion free of challenge or dispute.
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 24 August 2013 16:51 (ten years ago) link
I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 24 August 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
Your death, that is, by my hands...after which I don't have to defend shit.
Just saying the two books would at first glance appear to occupy a similar niche (with Barth's perhaps more on the side of out-and-out farce, Pynchon's more sophisticated and philosophical, but with significant overlap) and that the one I'm reading is filling that niche with devastating aplomb - so much so that the other would not, according to my presumptions, represent a particularly enlightening experience - but these presumptions will of course be challenged when I read it, as I have vowed to do. All reasonable?
― which can be sold for meat if they are boys.. (sorry guys) (imago), Saturday, 24 August 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
Shit thread
― firelance photographer (darraghmac), Saturday, 24 August 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
it had goats tbf
― the arpeggio as will and idea (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 August 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
Sot-weed factor is plenty philosopical you dick
― Bleat Generation (wins), Saturday, 24 August 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
GUYS
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 24 August 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link
CIVILIZED
Says neandarthal
― Bleat Generation (wins), Saturday, 24 August 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
lol
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 24 August 2013 17:43 (ten years ago) link
Tell a six year old boy it's not polite to point and as soon as you are not looking, he'll point his finger at you. That's ILX in a nutshell, c21m50nh3x460n.
― Aimless, Saturday, 24 August 2013 17:49 (ten years ago) link
PEOPLE YOU CAN'T FIGHT IN HERE THIS IS THE UNIVERSAL RULES OF CIVILIZED DISCOS THREAD
― the arpeggio as will and idea (Noodle Vague), Saturday, August 24, 2013 4:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ty
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 24 August 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link
http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6476249-M.jpg
― Treeship, Saturday, 24 August 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
Main thing I've always thought about this place is even when we're being twats to each other, it's still more or less like a group of people being twats to each other as opposed to faceless, personality-free shells queuing up to call you a faggot, or people with one-note agendas arguing with you disingenuously
― cardamon, Saturday, 24 August 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
that's a good point. every other messageboard i've read is astonishingly terrible compared to ilx. ditto comments sections for news articles, although i made a friend once in the comments of a nypost article that claimed zizek was dating lady gaga.
― Treeship, Saturday, 24 August 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Knsqzqe.jpg
― unregistered, Monday, 11 February 2019 04:27 (five years ago) link
This long Slate Star Codex post on why he had to shut down a subreddit captures much about what s wrong with the current media ecosystem--and especially, why things feel so toxic https://t.co/37VgkalczK But folks, it doesn't have to be this way. [thread incoming]— T. Greer (@Scholars_Stage) February 23, 2019
― god knows i want to fp (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 February 2019 09:44 (five years ago) link