Why do people leave ILX for good?

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 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.

those are parantheses

shots fired!

I think dull singles are the problem

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

there's a bit of US punctuation chauvinism there, maybe we can leverage something out of that

hold my Br.

hold yr bromine?

I will 100% cop to being a dull, cranky dad. All you youngsters can suck it. Get off my lawn!

bro, mine

Attn, cranky dads: dull singles in your area.

today has been apocalyptically bad & i h8 u all

Send me a photo and I'll see if you deserve a kiss.

landfill

shitting

the smiths thread being active and actually talking about the smiths not just dunking on morrisey

fucks sake

ILX is generally the only saving grace in the midst of my perpetually-apocalyptic bad workdays.

Still: up yours, I'm leaving forever.

all threads eventually devolve into men talking about themselves

or steely dan

not sure which is worse

http://www.wow247.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/fintan-stack.jpg

all threads eventually devolve into men talking about themselves
true

Every thread needs lads x 1000

hey did i ever tell you guys about that time i found morrissey shitting in a landfill

i've been resisting the urge to graphically describe what i do while listening to music for the last 2 hours

imago is part of why i stay

all threads eventually devolve into men talking about themselves

or steely dan

not sure which is worse

― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, May 23, 2018 3:29 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

actual lol

Seconded.

We heard you’re leaving, that’s ok

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.

Disgusting savages ITT

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?

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.

Also I made some good posts in that masculinity thread yesterday

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?

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)

concur that silby did make some very good posts until the thread had to take a bathroom break.

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, 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.

On this day in ILX history...

I don’t understand what’s so fucked about this particular day on ilx

It's mostly ILM, usually is.

threads i never go near should always be as helpfully titled as:

Democratic (Party) Direction

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i'm saying: when the mainstream news, amazon best seller lists and ppl irl are telling you "this man that is famous for shouting down trans kids should be celebrated," having a place like ilx to scream HE'S A FUCKING IDIOT into is actually a good and healthy thing for many and f u for trying to get down on ppl for that

idk i do kind of think there's a point after which screaming too long about someone starts to inadvertently make a place for that person's ideas, like at some point it's good to just put down the garbage person and move on. that point is different for different people though so i don't think it makes any sense to take lbi's high and mighty tone about it.

idk i do kind of think there's a point after which screaming too long about someone starts to inadvertently make a place for that person's ideas, like at some point it's good to just put down the garbage person and move on.

― you bet, nancy (map)

i reserve that approach for topics such as the band "yes"

Aw, does this shitshow need a widdle bit of Hamburger vs Pizza to make it feel better?

My “problem” is the narrowing of my own interests to basically one or two things, and everything else can kind of bugger off ?

today's smiths thread seems to be just the nnnnth iteration of 'if [thing that didn't happen] happened, then [something else that didn't happen] would be totally true!'

i mean i see how people might be disgruntled with it but hey that's ilm and always has been

but are they classic or dud

i'm saying: when the mainstream news, amazon best seller lists and ppl irl are telling you "this man that is famous for shouting down trans kids should be celebrated," having a place like ilx to scream HE'S A FUCKING IDIOT into is actually a good and healthy thing for many and f u for trying to get down on ppl for that

The again I said some mean ass shit to you back when, and it takes two to monsoon

today has been apocalyptically bad & i h8 u all

b-b-b-but how can that be? I wasn't EVEN HERE ALL DAY!

i apologize tom for the old days i think you're great and try to stay out your way <3