God forbid― calstars, Sunday, May 6, 2018 9:22 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkthanks for reminding me of the high quality of discourse i'm missing out on
― calstars, Monday, 7 May 2018 02:13 (five years ago) link
ilx seriously has not really changed in over a decade (besides lower volume posting and more ennui) so i get what sterling is saying.
― Yerac, Monday, 7 May 2018 02:15 (five years ago) link
ilx refights the same battles over and over, each time more rotely than the last
... how long have you been on twitter
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 7 May 2018 02:16 (five years ago) link
I can’t...quit you...babe
baaeee baeee baeee baeee baeee baeeiwwwu wannna leeeev youuuu
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 7 May 2018 12:55 (five years ago) link
I guess it depends on the guise. Politically speaking, I can see someone evolving. From a music or film perspective, I'm not quite so sure.
I've seen people change regarding all three of those, but music and movies seem way more common in my social circle, almost everyone I know has changed in that regard from their early 20's to their early 30's. I only have one example of a friend who changed politically (from libertarian to socialist).
I think what's more difficult to change than taste or even political allegiance tho is the premises you start from in making your arguments, the roles you attribute to these things in your life.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 7 May 2018 13:04 (five years ago) link
there are good posts occasionally but the volume and proportion of abysmally dull posts is whelming. every lameass exchange between cranky Dads like the one quoted below brings me one straw closer to throwing my laptop into the ocean
Love the piece but the elephant in the room is that even by his own standards, Kanye is no genius and has never been.― Van Horn Street, Friday, May 4, 2018 1:56 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkHe's not even top 5 rap producers material imo― Οὖτις, Friday, May 4, 2018 1:58 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkMaybe top 5 jackasses?― Josh in Chicago, Friday, May 4, 2018 1:59 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Van Horn Street, Friday, May 4, 2018 1:56 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
He's not even top 5 rap producers material imo
― Οὖτις, Friday, May 4, 2018 1:58 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Maybe top 5 jackasses?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, May 4, 2018 1:59 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― flopson, Monday, 7 May 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
Ok dad
― Οὖτις, Monday, 7 May 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
hold up what specs on that laptop ill make u an offer
― .b derf (darraghmac), Monday, 7 May 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
just pick it up from your side of the ocean dude
― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 7 May 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
maybe a kanye thread is the wrong one to read
― marcos, Monday, 7 May 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
btw i am a cranky dad no shame there really
dull too
― marcos, Monday, 7 May 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
just checking waterproof specs obv ffs
― .b derf (darraghmac), Monday, 7 May 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
i'm dull, not cranky... and SINGLE ;-)
― flopson, Monday, 7 May 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
i have been a bit disappointed in the tenor of ILM lately
seems like it's less and less acceptable to call a dud a dud or to suggest a destroy ... it's all rabid fandom, seems like
i get how "why you like something" is generally more interesting than "why you dislike something"
but there should still be a place for disliking things
― the late great, Monday, 7 May 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
the older I get the less I think anyone really learns anything significant or has their minds changed tbh. Everyone just seems to get stupider and more set in their ways as they get older (not saying I'm exempt from this phenomenon, to be clear)
You should've been clearer by taking the brackets off this as it totally applies to you.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 May 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
those are parantheses
― brimstead, Monday, 7 May 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
shots fired!
― the late great, Monday, 7 May 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
I think dull singles are the problem
― calstars, Monday, 7 May 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
i mean case in point this would have been a really good clusterfuck once upon a time now its just a bit of snark and some rueful admissions
― .b derf (darraghmac), Monday, 7 May 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
there's a bit of US punctuation chauvinism there, maybe we can leverage something out of that
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 7 May 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
hold my Br.
― turf bongs (darraghmac), Monday, 7 May 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
hold yr bromine?
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 7 May 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
I will 100% cop to being a dull, cranky dad. All you youngsters can suck it. Get off my lawn!
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 7 May 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
bro, mine
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 7 May 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
Attn, cranky dads: dull singles in your area.
― Tapes 'n Tapes of Osho (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 06:44 (five years ago) link
today has been apocalyptically bad & i h8 u all
― imago, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
Send me a photo and I'll see if you deserve a kiss.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link
landfill
shitting
the smiths thread being active and actually talking about the smiths not just dunking on morrisey
fucks sake
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
ILX is generally the only saving grace in the midst of my perpetually-apocalyptic bad workdays.
Still: up yours, I'm leaving forever.
― I cop this squat in the name of slack (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
all threads eventually devolve into men talking about themselves
or steely dan
not sure which is worse
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
http://www.wow247.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/fintan-stack.jpg
― R.A. Lafferty, lover of the Russian queen (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
all threads eventually devolve into men talking about themselvestrue
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
Every thread needs lads x 1000
― don piano (Ross), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
hey did i ever tell you guys about that time i found morrissey shitting in a landfill
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
i've been resisting the urge to graphically describe what i do while listening to music for the last 2 hours
― R.A. Lafferty, lover of the Russian queen (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
imago is part of why i stay
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, May 23, 2018 3:29 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
actual lol
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link
Seconded.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
We heard you’re leaving, that’s ok
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
it's been a bad day. like many days recently tbh. smiths thread is a thing to behold, but what vexes me more is the ongoin j*rdan p*terson/alt-right/m4sculinity threads constantly being bumped. white men talking about white men indeed. I had hoped ilx would steer clear of at least the fringes of that nonsense. instead it seems ilx is just as mundane, and gives in as easily, trite and predictable as everything else. rip iirc.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
Disgusting savages ITT
― calstars, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 23:21 (five years ago) link
every post in Jordan P is just 'this guy is an idiot, qed' and yet it's parked at the top of sna for over a week now?
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 23:42 (five years ago) link
hi there are non white people here too and the ilx takes on these issues is actual useful for us so f u tryna police how people deal and talk about racism and nazis being celebrated, magnified and popularized in the goddamn nytimes in 2018.
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 23:49 (five years ago) link
Also I made some good posts in that masculinity thread yesterday
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 23:50 (five years ago) link
I find it very easy to ignore the threads that I don't like/get tired of. Or is it that people wish others would post more on different threads?
― Yerac, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 23:52 (five years ago) link
I don’t understand what’s so fucked about this particular day on ilx I must be reading the wrong threads (Not following the jordan fuckhead one anymore for instance)
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 23:52 (five years ago) link
concur that silby did make some very good posts until the thread had to take a bathroom break.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
― rip van wanko, Thursday, May 24, 2018 1:42 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah, exactly this. it's so bourgeois.
no idea who you are aiming your arrows at chaki, incomprehensible post.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 23:54 (five years ago) link
On this day in ILX history...
― calstars, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 23:57 (five years ago) link