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
I don’t understand what’s so fucked about this particular day on ilx
It's mostly ILM, usually is.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 May 2018 00:02 (five years ago) link
threads i never go near should always be as helpfully titled as:
Democratic (Party) Direction
― scott seward, Thursday, 24 May 2018 00:07 (five years ago) link
https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/33060370_10155618852386275_6790066879470764032_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&_nc_eui2=AeHkqT_d9Gsubh0h00TOrl62QEAfcvKA0I68hD3DSFBGCNc8Cc4Slo6kbVgV76gK29KHpHkpUv5npzvVWnm6gKfZuYF0DepMZodl7WirvRPpEw&oh=19416e957f947a12eccf7383cc744945&oe=5B90EA50
― scott seward, Thursday, 24 May 2018 00:14 (five years ago) link
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
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 24 May 2018 00:32 (five years ago) link
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.
― you bet, nancy (map), Thursday, 24 May 2018 00:43 (five years ago) link
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"
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Thursday, 24 May 2018 00:59 (five years ago) link
Aw, does this shitshow need a widdle bit of Hamburger vs Pizza to make it feel better?
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 24 May 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
My “problem” is the narrowing of my own interests to basically one or two things, and everything else can kind of bugger off ?
― calstars, Thursday, 24 May 2018 02:17 (five years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 May 2018 02:50 (five years ago) link
but are they classic or dud
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 24 May 2018 03:31 (five years ago) link
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 24 May 2018 03:48 (five years ago) link
The again I said some mean ass shit to you back when, and it takes two to monsoon
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 24 May 2018 03:50 (five years ago) link
b-b-b-but how can that be? I wasn't EVEN HERE ALL DAY!
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 24 May 2018 03:53 (five years ago) link
i apologize tom for the old days i think you're great and try to stay out your way <3
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 24 May 2018 05:06 (five years ago) link