Ask Raccoon Tanuki

it's not always so hard to figure out

True. The big mystery for me was why I would find myself being discussed on a thread I've never posted to.

the "why can't you people type full words??" criticism is silly, has no place in same space as the "why do you people feel the need to drive off certain posters?" criticism, which is vastly more interesting.

idk if anybody is trying to drive off joe biden so much as not getting a lot of value out of his (not everyone builds their life around deciphering acronyms of lazy Typing Words So Hard people) schtick and other fumbling approximations at understanding or expressing simple things

wasn't talking about him

ILX social norms not "vastly more interesting" than - anything. People were inexplicably talking about me on a thread I had no part in. I wanted to know what it was all about. initials I thought were acronyms = my trying to figure out why. Personal rather than general interest.

Sorry that I don't follow every little spat on ILX. If I was having a fight with somebody that day, for example, I didn't have any reason to think I was. Search functions exist, go show me what obvious thing was going on worth reviving this thread that day.)

Having scanned this thread, I will say the continued group paranoia regarding who posters "really" are is revealing, kind of interesting.

Poster x is really poster y. or poster z come back from before, or A GHOST! I think he got banned. I heard he killed a guy. I heard she's a WITCH.

many lavatories in jr. high, grasshopper. Sorry I stumbled into this one.

sorry I find sociology more interesting than use of acronyms while typing (the explanation of which is plainly obvious)

Sorry I stumbled into this one.

you're not alone in that, believe me

twsh peeps itt

Sincerely, I don't know what "twsh peeps itt" means.

gtfoodytbt

People were inexplicably talking about me on a thread I had no part in

― Vic Perry, Sunday, 25 January 2015 20:04 (8 minutes ago)

just a throwaway remark if i remember correctly prompted by a reply to mordy you made on some other thread which was expressing a very common ilx sort of opinion but in a rambling, unfunny and didactic way

don't take these as final words about your character or an excommunication

if you want someone to start an ask vic perry thread to address anything related to you then that can be arranged, people will probably ask you about albums by bands and that sort of thing

Vic Perry, did you ever manage to find out what rusticated means?

Yes, thanks. True, I had a fight with Mordy. That's very unusual. I get your point.

trust that 'vic perry' will be rusticated in half the time it took for ilx to see off rt

― Hayat Boumkattienne (nakhchivan), Wednesday, January 21, 2015 3:56 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk if anybody is trying to drive off joe biden so much as not getting a lot of value out of his (not everyone builds their life around deciphering acronyms of lazy Typing Words So Hard people) schtick and other fumbling approximations at understanding or expressing simple things

― nakhchivan, Sunday, January 25, 2015 1:33 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same guy writes both posts. Encouraging to see the unforced backtracking.

nakh never backtracks

he is positively Churchillian in his response to shit posters

the first post isnt entirely sincere, just a reference to how rt was similarly obtuse to begin with

The second post is entirely sincere, he believes I am Joe Biden.

wait, is Joe Biden VP or not?

fpd just on the taint of tregaskin tbph

how is not knowing a person's actual identity like middle school? IIRC middle school sucked but we all knew who each other were

"actual identity"

i think it feels like middle school when some dude like RT, displaying standard internet message board traits like arrogance, disdain for post-90s hip hop, and European-ness, shows up on ILX and a bunch of posters can't believe that he could be an actual person and must solve the mystery of whose sock this is.

most posters' greatest online fear is of being duped

sometimes this board feels a little like

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/NoExit_cover.gif

bygone trends in design & typography?

purgatory

next stop paradise!

"actual identity"

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Sunday, January 25, 2015 7:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol cmon now

can we delete all the other threads and just have this one

i am sorry but we must keep pets in uniform, Pippa's Arse, Pippa's Hoarse, and that thread where Whiney tries to prove the Beatles are more omnipresent than pizza

Also mix tape for after you've been hardsonned

otm

I dunno the etiquette for this stuff; is it rude to ask why Racoon got banned? I get why people didn't like him, but did he cross a line, or was it just more of a general irritation thing?

In addition to his usual schtick, he went full-on into a full-on anti-Semitic frothing fit on the Charlie Hebdo thread.

idk racking up 80 FPs in a little over a week mighta had osmething to do with it

xplop

oh wow, yikes, had no idea.

was tanuki banned? i don't see it in the admin log

The banning system was not functioning at the time that he was accruing multiple FPs. Stet said that he didn't know how long it would take him to fix it. As a work-around, since RT was continuing to be a problem for a LOT of posters, we deleted his account. RT re-registered as Arctic Noon Auk and once banning was fixed we banned that account.

gotcha. thanks.

going to leave some half-eaten food in an accessible place near the dumpsters tonight in memoriam.

so that's where Sacrificial Lamb came from!

an illegal hit, got him like bin laden

a fitting tribute

PS the probs w/the ban code are why we got the hilarious 2-post history & subsequent ban of "sacrificial lamb", they were testing it

xp w/sarahel!

I once saved a baby raccoon that had gotten stuck in a tall cylindrical trash can in very hot weather. You cannot save them all.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Circular_cylinder_rh.svg/2000px-Circular_cylinder_rh.svg.png

ilx's h was just too much for our little guy

he wasn't so bad. i liked how he would feel cornered and then lash out, almost like a raccoon.

I liked how he'd swing from branch to branch using his prehensile tail

and I admired his large horn