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― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Friday, 11 October 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link
I mean that's me anyway
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Friday, 11 October 2013 19:20 (ten years ago) link
i mean i dunno i was gonna be stuck in front of a fucking computer for 40 hours a week either way i might as well have shot the shit with all of you.
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 October 2013 19:22 (ten years ago) link
I'm just in front of a regular computer ;_;
― Bitch Fantastic (DJP), Friday, 11 October 2013 19:22 (ten years ago) link
fucking a computer for 40 hours a week isn't for everyone
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 October 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
#noregrets
― scott seward, Friday, 11 October 2013 19:40 (ten years ago) link
ums: Adele in the conference roomILXor: yeah, I'd like to fuck on some of that!ums: o_O
<ILXor goes to conference room, sees it's a Dell laptop not the pop singer Adele>
ILXor: Noooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!
― swmp thing (wins), Friday, 11 October 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
hahahahaha
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Friday, 11 October 2013 20:14 (ten years ago) link
incapacitated
― Bitch Fantastic (DJP), Friday, 11 October 2013 20:16 (ten years ago) link
I'd like to have her atop my lap!
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Friday, 11 October 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link
I am afraid that this thread, mordy's thread on "what really matters," and bends' recent revive of the "ILX is sad" thread indicates that ilxors are collectively coming to the realization that they don't want to be doing this and the boards willbe abandoned within a month...
― (emphasis Treeship's) (Treeship), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 19:09 (15 minutes ago) Permalink
or we will all double down on ilx as the only thing to fill the void in our horrible horrible lives
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 19:15 (10 minutes ago) Permalink
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 19:26 (ten years ago) link
in keeping with the "ILX's mid-life crisis" theme
tbf ilx has trained me up pretty good in just ignoring people
― He is "The Developer" and the children view him with a deep susp (c sharp major), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 22:36 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 17:15 (ten years ago) link
young chipotle heads gonna be hit with old man metabolism, beware― brand nubian wafers (bnw)
― ill never click this homo erotic site again (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 November 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
I trust no writer who uses "whilst"
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, November 15, 2013 10:51 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Monday, 25 November 2013 09:17 (ten years ago) link
even Britishers?
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Monday, 25 November 2013 09:21 (ten years ago) link
i had to look it up.
― uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 November 2013 09:22 (ten years ago) link
not the word, obv.
― uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 November 2013 09:23 (ten years ago) link
especially britishers
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Monday, 25 November 2013 09:26 (ten years ago) link
never realised it was infelicitous as Henry Root might've said
― uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 November 2013 09:26 (ten years ago) link
use "whilst" and you enter the realm of these guys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsHCmKc1iBw
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Monday, 25 November 2013 09:27 (ten years ago) link
in my experience, it is used by the worst writers, to gussy up the worst writing.
seriously i almost never notice it, i think i use the two words interchangeably in my head
― uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 November 2013 09:40 (ten years ago) link
or if i use them in different contexts i guess it's purely for auditory reasons based on the words around them
― uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 November 2013 09:41 (ten years ago) link
I probably didn't have a problem with it until I started subbing writers covering prog music
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Monday, 25 November 2013 09:43 (ten years ago) link
the word is like the elbow that links ineptitude with pretention
the thing is i can see what you're saying now and i fear you're stealing my innocence
― uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 November 2013 09:45 (ten years ago) link
It's not common in US English, but I think there's a slight differentiation for UK speakers. See: Among/Amongst. I avoid the '..st' endings these days because I know it annoys non-Britishers, but really if it sounds right I have no problem with it.
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Monday, 25 November 2013 09:45 (ten years ago) link
P sure theres a tone/context that requires whilst, tho it may exclusively be heard on bbc history programmes or something
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Monday, 25 November 2013 10:05 (ten years ago) link
whilst is considered obsolete by most subs, ime. i would always change it to while.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Monday, 25 November 2013 10:20 (ten years ago) link
i hate whilst.
― estela, Monday, 25 November 2013 10:30 (ten years ago) link
whilst estelā gently weeps
― A Skanger Barkley (nakhchivan), Monday, 25 November 2013 10:32 (ten years ago) link
WHILST
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Monday, 25 November 2013 13:01 (ten years ago) link
http://www.safetysignsandnotices.co.uk/images/D/hc60.gif
― buzza, Monday, 25 November 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
wonder how many times I've used 'whilst' on ILX
― veneer timber (imago), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
gonna guess >100
Whilst athwart
― 乒乓, Monday, 25 November 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
I've always given britishes a pass for whilst. If Vyvyan can say it, so can everyone else over there.
― pplains, Monday, 25 November 2013 16:39 (ten years ago) link
as a british among britishes, i don't think i ever rly hear ppl use 'whilst'. it is a little unwieldy for most sentences. the other '...st' endings get more airtime iirc.
― thighs without a face (c sharp major), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
i wonder how the local usage of "while" to mean "to" as in "i'm working from 8 while 5" impacts on the way i use "whilst"?
― uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
in that you'd use 'whilst' to differentiate while-meaning-at-the-time-when (or while-meaning-although) from while-meaning-until?
― thighs without a face (c sharp major), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
sometimes, maybe. like a said before i think it's just an unconscious euphony thing
― uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
it seems to impact the way you use "impact" as a noun >:( xp
― k3vin k., Monday, 25 November 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
What would you use in a while loop
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
kk, grammar pedantry is an oxymoron
― uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
Can anybody tell me if they've heard a 'betwixt' in the wild yet
― 乒乓, Monday, 25 November 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
Hecs excited to give you this one lesson xp
I used betwixt an hour ago on this very site
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
I didn't think I had a problem with 'whilst' but I just searched a 137,000-word document spanning four years of mostly reviews and it only appears once so maybe I have internalised its fannydanglitude
― screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap), Monday, 25 November 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link
whilst is far from the worst turn of phrase in that post imo
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Monday, 25 November 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link
Never used whilst myself until I saw it in the liner notes to Different Class
― Skatalite of Dub (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 November 2013 19:07 (ten years ago) link