ILx "first mentions"

dubious about the veracity of that claim tbh

This thread is quite the time capsule Your favourite Tory. Glad to see T May was loathed back then too.

John Bercow.

Peter Bottomley was (probably still is) a genuinely nice guy.

― Bob Six, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 15:45 (eleven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^ so there we have it: the actual first mention of Pete Buttigieg.

Hahahaha

the old rugged crocs (unregistered) wrote this on thread Great Real Names on board I Love Everything on Oct 19, 2017

Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell[1] (born December 19, 2001),[2] known professionally as Billie Eilish, is an American pop singer signed to Interscope Records.

for a second i saw that as the first mention being on December 19, 2001, which really would be something

Same! :)

There's a band on that lineup called Ogre You Asshole.

OGRE YOU ASSHOLE

― Mackro Mackro, Friday, May 2, 2008 1:42 PM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

first, last, and only mention. dope band!

2024 President of the United States, Gene Gorelik

― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Monday, October 21, 2019 12:00 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

crazy that nobody mentioned the President of the United States until today.

i am kind of a "politics junkie", especially with presidents

boy wait till you find out who we're dealing with right now!

*turns on television*

"hey guys? you're gonna wanna take a look at this..."

“this is your cousin, MARVIN TRUMP”

I changed my user name so I could call Jody Weiss a fucking dummy on the internet.

omg there is just now a total explosion of frat boy debauchery happening outside our apartment... Is there some kind of major midwest college sportsball something or other happening?

― carl agatha, Wednesday, February 8, 2012 11:14 PM bookmarkflaglink

Aww I miss carl agatha

Agreed

cosine

Though Jeane Kirkpatrick and John Bolton were on TV saying, "um no, maybe not..." and, by some accounts, Wolfowitz is clinging onto his job (as is Feith, of course) and refusing to take Chalabi's desperate calls, and Perle is now being treated with frosty reserve by Rice and Rove.
They're not running the show; DoD makes a lot of alarming noise, and its make-up is astonishing for its neo-con and Likudnik bias, but their apotheosis has been. The time for regime change by choice passed in the summer of 03 and they won't get it back.

Not that they don't stop writing and talking and dissembling.

Looks who's here:

Podhoretz on ww4

― oliver craner, Monday, September 6, 2004 3:02 AM (fifteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Apple, gorgeous apple. This thread is distracting as I'm attempting some hairbrained detox scheme over the next couple of weeks, mainly to prove to myself I am not an alcoholic. But - oh - refined sugar, white flour, lard ....
― Anna, Sunday, April 14, 2002 7:00 PM (seventeen years ago)

fred solinger wrote this on thread general chatter thread on board I Love Music on Jun 7, 2001

what is a 'corset'?
fred's role will be, like on the ill-fated birthday weekend, "fred wonders why the hell he is here."

tom, you are so beyond everything. what, besides music, moves you?

how about those sixers? kobe SUCKED last night. what happened to "the greatest player in the world"? looks like mckie slapped some cuffs on him. and iverson, you can't keep the man down. then again, this reminds me a bit of when the "unbeatable" bulls dropped game one to the lakers only to win four in a row.

lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown) wrote this on thread rolling off a molly thread 2013 on board I Love Music on Oct 18, 2013

Lizzo ^ just won the City Page's Picked to Click (strangely the first rapper to do so)

iirc matt was the guy who got me into lizzo with batches and cookies

so "tastemaker"

Wolf Blitzer just asked the Sen. Klobuchar if there were trains on the bridge. He also just asked a witness if he had been walking across the bridge.

Has Blitzer ever seen an interstate bridge?

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Liu Yifei

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Crystal Liu Yifei (born 25 August 1987 in Wuhan, China) is a Chinese actress and singer. Although she is often credited as Liu Yi Fei (traditional Chinese: 劉亦菲; simplified Chinese: 刘亦菲), her legal name is Liu Xi Mei Zi (traditional Chinese: 劉茜美子; simplified Chinese: 刘茜美子: 茜 Xi is from German movie "Sissi" (Chinese translation 茜茜公主—hence the pronunciation of xi not qian; her mother calls her Xixi).[1] At the age of 15, Liu Yifei's role as "Wang Yuyan" in the television serial, Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils propelled her to fame in China.

― Heave Ho, Monday, October 29, 2007 11:09 AM

(Could've also been posted to "Posts in Character".)

this condescending manoc depressive sadboi shit is really working on these boulder college gals tho, i will say

― lumen (esby), Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:45 AM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink

thanks to a fairly insane work schedule i didnt play a gp last spring that was a thirty minute walk from my house so this is a little out of character for me. but i have some miles that im gonna lose soon and i really love barcelona so i figured why not. also would like q for sydeny if i could

― extremely online (Lamp), Wednesday, March 2, 2016 9:59 AM (three years ago)

first first mention that occurred in a display name?

also, miss u lamp

Mr. Snrub wrote this on thread billie eilish on board I Love Music on Feb 6, 2020

wtf is “sadboi”? i did a search and ilx has mentioned the word “sadboi” exactly two times before this post, both unrelated to any kind of musical genre or artist.

the previous posts were about Devendra and REM, this is high quality Snubbery

Is there some kind of major midwest college sportsball something or other happening?

isn't this just a Simpsons ref

first first mention that occurred in a display name?

First posted. However...

terry squad (k3vin k.) wrote this on thread Ideas for ILX on board I Love Everything on Aug 6, 2010

just a way of removing the hollow bullet point from threads you clicked on but don't want to be reminded of the new answers upon any more.

― let me mansplain that to you (Masonic Boom), Friday, August 6, 2010 10:27 AM (9 minutes ago)

^YESSSS

I don't travel that much but have been to Italy a few times, and the pizzas I've had there have been the best. Wood fire seems like the key element to me

― Dan S, Friday, February 7, 2020 7:42 PM (fifty-two seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Pop Culture / Art (Maga)zines (started by helen fordsdale on board I Love Everything on Dec 4, 2001)

C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...) wrote this on thread POX: Working Filmmakers on board I Love Everything on Nov 30, 2005

Others I would've included had I enough enough or their films or had they released more (mostly the former): Cristi Piui, Bela Tarr, Arnaud Desplechin, Guy Maddin, Alexander Sokurov, Mike Leigh, Bong Joon-ho, Kim Ki-duk..

Dr Morbius wrote this on thread Rolling US Economy Into The Shitbin Thread on board I Love Everything on Jul 2, 2009

Greider (pasted cuz it's behind sub wall):

Obama's False Reform

By William Greider

This article appeared in the July 13, 2009 edition of The Nation.

The most disturbing thing about Barack Obama's call for financial reform was the way the president falsified our predicament. He tried to make it sound as though everyone was implicated in the breakdown and therefore no one was really to blame. "A culture of irresponsibility took root, from Wall Street to Washington to Main Street," Obama asserted. "And a regulatory regime basically crafted in the wake of a twentieth-century economic crisis--the Great Depression--was overwhelmed by the speed, scope and sophistication of a twenty-first-century global economy."

That is not what happened, to put it charitably. The regulatory system was not overwhelmed by historic forces; it was systematically gutted and dismantled by the government at the behest of banking interests. If Obama wants details, he can consult his economic advisers--including Larry Summers and Tim Geithner--who participated directly in unwinding prudential rules and regulations. Cheers were led by the Federal Reserve, with heavy lifting by both political parties.

If Obama were to tell the truth now about what went wrong, he would face a far larger problem trying to clean up the mess. Instead, he has opted for smooth talk and fuzzy reforms that in effect evade the nasty complexities of our situation. He might get away with this in the short run--Congress doesn't much want to face the music either. But Obama's so-called reform is "kicking the can down the road," as he likes to say about other problems. In the long run, it will haunt the country, because it fails to confront the true nature of the disorders.

Giving more power to the Federal Reserve to be the über-regulator of banking and finance is a terrible idea. Asking the cloistered central bank to resolve all the explosive questions about the overreaching power of financial institutions is like throwing the problem into a black box and closing the lid. That's the reason Wall Street's leading firms first proposed the Fed as super-cop, then sold it to George W. Bush and now Obama. Give the mess to the Wizard of Oz, the guy behind the curtain. This constitutes the high politics of evasion.

Still, a nascent rebellion is gathering strength in Congress. Some 240 House members have endorsed a measure to force auditing of the Fed by the Government Accountability Office--a small but vital step toward dismantling the central bank's privileged secrecy and intimidating mystique.

As someone who has been around this subject for three decades, I have come to understand that the power of financial titans and their friends at the Fed depends crucially on public ignorance. Most legislators are just as clueless as their constituents. If they knew more about how the system works, they would see that most of Obama's reforms are insubstantial gestures, not actual remedies. The president, for instance, proposes to raise the requirements for capital and liquidity held by commercial banks with strict limits on leverage. That is a virtuous proposal, but it leaves unanswered the question, Why did the legal limits already in place fail to restrain bankers' appetites? Indeed, several times in the past two decades the Fed and other central banks enacted new and supposedly more effective capital requirements. The big dogs of banking broke free of the leash again and again, while vigilant watchdogs at the Fed and elsewhere looked the other way. Why should we expect different results next time?

One reason the old restraints failed is the "modernization" that shifted credit functions outside regulated banks and into a variety of unregulated money pots--the so-called shadow banking system of hedge funds and private-equity firms. These interact intimately with traditional banks and give them profitable ways to evade rules or conceal the condition of balance sheets from regulators and investors. These interactions are dazzlingly complex, but this was not an accident. It was the goal of financial deregulation enacted by Bill Clinton, arm in arm with the GOP Congress.

Summers and Geithner suggest that shadowy outfits like GE Capital or major insurance companies can be regulated by the Fed as "Tier 1 Financial Holding Companies." As Joe Nocera recently noted in the New York Times, "Tier 1" sounds like the new name for "too big to fail." The Fed will watch them (we are assured) to prevent "systemic risk." But that is what the Fed should be doing already as the lender of last resort charged with defending the "safety and soundness" of the banking system. The Securities and Exchange Commission, likewise, is supposed to monitor hedge funds and private-equity firms, which thrive on secrecy. Since the SEC failed miserably to police regular corporations, this does not sound reassuring.

Another example of extremely wishful thinking is the proposed rule on securitization of mortgages. The method of bundling home mortgages and turning them into salable bonds was supposed to reduce risk; it did the opposite. The mortgage lenders were able to execute dubious, even fraudulent, loans, collect profits upfront and then sell the package to unwitting investors. Obama's answer is to require the originating lender to retain a 5 percent interest in the mortgage and pass on the rest. That seems ludicrous and innocent of how that cutthroat world works. The financial geniuses who created the subprime scandal could hide 5 percent of the mortgage value with a couple of keystrokes--adding fees, closing costs or other dodges. To really hold lenders responsible, they should be made to hold on to something like 50 percent of liability for the original loan, with perhaps the other 50 percent assigned to whatever bank or investment house packages the mortgage security and sells it to financial markets. That would be "responsibility" with old-fashioned force.

The one bright spot in Obama's plan is the new regulatory agency he recommends to protect consumers of financial products. This was inspired by Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard professor who has been a brave and brilliant critic of the credit card industry and other forms of predatory rip-offs. While it depends entirely on the details, this innovative agency could become the new tiger among tired, toothless regulators--especially if Obama has the courage to name Warren as the inaugural chair. The bankers hate this idea and will fight to kill it. They know this regulator will not be captive to them, at least not yet.

The essence of what's missing in the Obama plan is hard rules. Drawing up concrete prohibitions and commandments is obviously a tougher challenge, because it requires deep understanding of the financial system. You cannot design far-reaching reforms until you understand what led to the breakdown. Since the government has avoided that kind of serious examination, it assigns these explosive issues over to expert regulators--the same experts who failed to see the trouble coming.

Right now, the imperative should be to slow down the rush to weak solutions. Congress would do well to drag its feet while it conducts deeper investigations. A promising new commission has been authorized to investigate the crisis, along the lines of the one run by Ferdinand Pecora in the 1930s, which investigated the causes of the 1929 crash. Let's hope it is not stocked with bank lobbyists. Meanwhile, give subpoena power to Elizabeth Warren and the Congressional Oversight Panel she chairs. Hire some independent investigative reporters eager to dig deeper into the mulch. What exactly went wrong? Who has bloody hands? What fundamental reforms are needed? If the economy returns to "normal" soon, the ardor for serious reform might dissipate. That is a small risk to take, especially if the alternative is enacting the bankers' pallid version of reform.

ilx fourth mention:

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius) wrote this on thread US POLITICS: "I figured clueless was better than argumentative." on board I Love Everything on Sep 17, 2010

btw ck your MoveOn email:

HUGE news: President Obama just appointed populist hero Elizabeth Warren to establish and lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau!!

Benjamin wrote this on thread Battle of the Sunlamp Tans, or the 2001 New York Municipal Elections on board I Love Everything on Nov 6, 2001

Green or Bloomberg? Lawyer of the People v Capitalist Reptile, or Limousine Liberal Lickspittle v The Man To Rebuild New York?

Fritz Wollner (Fritz) wrote this on thread Gay, Jewish Celebrities From Canada on board I Love Everything on Sep 29, 2003

justin trudeau and ben mulroney should date.

Lisa Nandy, a Wigan MP, had written to Whelan last week to urge the club not to appoint Mackay. Whelan said: “I have invited our MP, the lady, to any football match she wishes to come to. If she will, I’ll introduce her to Malky. She’s not a Wigan lass so she doesn’t understand football. But we can try and give her some help.”

― Matt DC, Thursday, 20 November 2014 11:52 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Trevor wrote this on thread What are you reading on board I Love Everything on Dec 5, 2001

European Human Rights Law - Keir Starmer. By far the most comprehensive book on human rights around. Way way overdue, and for someone like me, indispensable.

During his 138-day tenure, Wigan achieved 19 points from a possible 72 winning 5 games of 24 played in the Championship.

Nandy OTM it turns out.

Posted upthread (by me). Fuck trying to find RLB though, that name’s unsearchable.


Tensions between Labour MPs spilled over into heated confrontations as Clive Lewis, an ally of Corbyn, argued in a Westminster corridor with John Woodcock, who is backing airstrikes. Woodcock has now lodged a complaint with the whips over the exchange, which ended with “fuck you” from Lewis.
Lewis said there had been many robust exchanges across the party. He has said he would be happy to apologise.

― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 3 December 2015

This might be it:

still think that the best case scenario for Labour is Corbyn standing down before the next election and being replaced by someone else from the left of the party (Clive Lewis, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Abbott) - obv the right will fight tooth and nail to keep this from happening, though.

― soref, Monday, 9 January 2017 19:07 (three years ago) link

Tracer Hand (tracerhand) wrote this on thread SARS on board I Love Everything on May 23, 2003

'Professor Wickramasinghe admits there is no hard evidence for his theory; and researchers who have been working on Sars reacted with a mixture of disbelief and ridicule.
There is nothing strange about the Sars coronavirus, they said; it certainly evolved from other known viruses.

One leading expert said Professor Wickramasinghe's letter "must be a joke"; another said it is simply ridiculous.'

surely it is the Professor's name that is the joke here?!@@

Ned Raggett wrote this on thread what are you reading when not on ILE on board I Love Everything on Jul 15, 2001

Is that Huntford's background? Fascinating, I thought he was a Marxist if anything! Certainly he spares nothing towards the late Victorian empire. Guess I had to be there.
I agree that Huntford seems to leave Scott almost nothing, but here and there he acknowledges his gifts -- a good conversationalist and in one telling incident regarding the scientists at McMurdo Sound accompanying the expedition but not part of the naval chain of command, an amiable and enthusiastic participant in general technical debate. Huntford notes that Scott would have been a brilliant scientific popularizer, which suits the positive part of his personality -- but on no account should he have had anything to do with command and responsibility for lives. (My dad was an excellent US Navy officer himself, so I speak from the heart on that one -- you can't have an indecisive, non- planning waffler in charge.)

Other good reads in history/biography I've come across:

Jacques Barzun, _From Dawn to Decadence_ -- a massive, idiosyncratic and fascinating personal study of Western European culture and its offshoots from the Reformation to now. Amusingly even mentions Garbage near the very end. Very French, well worth it.

W. Bruce Lincoln, _In War's Dark Shadow_ -- enjoyable popular history of Russia in the final years of czardom before World War I. A good counterpart to the equally readable if limited Robert Massie volume _Nicholas and Alexandra_, in that Lincoln focuses on the country and culture rather than the monarchs. If you've ever read Moorcock's first Colonel Pyat volume _Byzantium Endures_ (or plan on it), this is extremely good reading to accompany it. But having mentioned Massie, credit where credit is due:

Robert Massie, _Peter the Great_ and _Dreadnought_ -- the first is actually my girlfriend's favorite book, and I can see why, it's a very good narrative take on the Russian emperor, perhaps a little too worshipful but generally tries not to excuse his brutalities (and certainly makes clear the social context in which he learned them). _Dreadnought_ studies the naval war race in Europe before World War I.

Edmund White, _Jean Genet_ -- White's recent bio of Genet, exhaustive and a bit exhausting (I'm still not done reading it, who knows when I'll get back to it!). Helps to situate Genet vis-a-vis his depicted narrative self in texts like _Our Lady of the Flowers_.

Theodore Draper, _A Struggle for Power_ -- another one I need to finally finish, but what I read of it a cogent analysis of where power was located in the 13 colonies before the American Revolution and how that in turn helped feed the eventual Revolution itself. A reasonable power-politics take on an overly hallowed event.

B. Netanyahu, _The Origins of the Inquisition_ -- distinctly non-light reading, this hefty tome; an extremely in-depth study of the Inquisition as it originated in Spain, with particular focus on the insidious switch in focus from religion (practicing Jew or not?) to bloodlines (descended from a Jew or not?), the implications of which don't need to be spelled out, I trust. Horrifying but necessary knowledge.

Fawn Brodie, _No Man Knows My History_ -- doubtless Anthony knows this one! The holy grail of sorts for anti- and ex-Mormons, Brodie's is the definitive biography of Joseph Smith, continually fought against since by Morg-approved historians (notably the utterly flipped out Hugh Nibley) but as yet still unchallenged from a strictly unbiased point of view. Doesn't so much seek to destroy Smith as situate and humanize him. Mormon history itself is one of my particular fascinations, and there's a lot of stuff out there. I'd also suggest two more recent 'true crime' books that actually do well at investigating modern Mormonism -- _A Gathering of Saints_ by Robert Lindsay, an excellent investigation of the Mark Hoffman letter frauds perpetrated on the LDS and the accompanying murders (many ex-Mormons point to this as a key moment that shook their faith, since the obvious implications was that the 'prophets of god' could not in fact recognize falsehood) and...* searches*...bother, can't find it and can't recall the exact title, but it's about a weird cult offshoot of the Reorganized LDS and is a fine study of that often-ignored segment of the Mormon population.

Edward Behr, _Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite_ -- ostensibly a study of Nicole Ceascescu and his regime in Romania, but actually a quite fine study of Romania itself from the late nineteenth century to Romania's fall. Could use some updating.

Hm. More as they hit me.

(his dad, but still)

[Oh come on!!! Keith West's 'Excerpt From A Teenage Opera' aka 'Grocer Jack' is one of the finest records ever made, the children's choir being a key element in it, and indeed a lot of toytown psyche.
My first post. What fun.

― harvey williams, Wednesday, November 8, 2000 7:00 PM (nineteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink