I do wonder if we're going to face some reckoning with cellphones like people did with cigarettes. It'll take another decade or two to see right? I'm thinking wild new cancers
― flappy bird, Thursday, 18 July 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
everybody dies according to the vices of their time maaaan
think a separate thread for lecturing everyone about the things you personally dislike about 2019 tho tbf
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 July 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
Watching this episode of The Golden Girls last night, this scene reminded me of this thread. Even on a largely queer-positive (and queer-beloved) series, 1980s were often indistinguishable from the 1930s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlpVaRyit84
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Thursday, 18 July 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
gregg turkington: the early years
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 18 July 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
the pilot episode of the golden girls had a gay houseboy character called coco which i don't think would fly today
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 18 July 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
incidentally played by that actor who died this week, the guy who played the mohel on that ep of seinfeld
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 18 July 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
flappy your cell phone cancer trutherism is one of your more endearing quirks
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 18 July 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
lol im just spitballin here!
― flappy bird, Thursday, 18 July 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
I’m still suspicious of cancer from office microwave ovens tbhStand on both sides of the escalator. The others will follow. Counterintuitive as it may seem“Block anyone from walking and people will stop walking,” what a galaxy brain revelation from someone who has never seen a married couple use an escalator
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 18 July 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
WS threads
I'll go one better, WDYLL underwear threads! What were we all thinking.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 18 July 2019 23:53 (four years ago) link
More like how much were we all drinking
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 18 July 2019 23:54 (four years ago) link
brb having a few and stripping down
― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, 19 July 2019 01:16 (four years ago) link
Remember the Luna pic
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 19 July 2019 01:27 (four years ago) link
No
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 July 2019 01:37 (four years ago) link
Wtf ppl posted pics in their underwear?!
― Οὖτις, Friday, 19 July 2019 01:44 (four years ago) link
it was the oughts
there were no rules
― Karl Malone, Friday, 19 July 2019 01:46 (four years ago) link
the only rule was to be hot, or not
― j., Friday, 19 July 2019 01:54 (four years ago) link
We really screwed the world domination stately there. Once upon a time ilxor was mentioned in the same breath as Reddit and Metafilter (by the guardian at least). If only we'd worked a bit harder a positing in our underwear we could have overtaken reddit and cornered the market in Nazi,s Flat earth's, anti vaxxers and people with there bits out.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 19 July 2019 02:22 (four years ago) link
ILX: Like Metafilter, without the pizzazz.
― pplains, Friday, 19 July 2019 02:58 (four years ago) link
Wtf ppl posted pics in their underwear?!I don’t know that there’s any evidence Andrew ever had underwear on in his pics, tbh
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 19 July 2019 03:08 (four years ago) link
There were a few full montys IIRC?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 19 July 2019 05:11 (four years ago) link
phrase that will forever haunt my waking hours: Tuomas sundae
― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, 19 July 2019 13:23 (four years ago) link
cellphone radiation
this is seriously not harmful at all
― Vape Store (crüt), Friday, 19 July 2019 13:27 (four years ago) link
I had a more serious contribution but now I can't stop lolling at Tuomas sundae
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 19 July 2019 13:28 (four years ago) link
Ken C doing a flip over Tuomas sundae
― pplains, Friday, 19 July 2019 13:30 (four years ago) link
That's the one that sticks with me the most.
just another tuomas sundae
(woah woh)
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Friday, 19 July 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
Wish it were Finnday
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 July 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
I still say the phrase in my head, notably when there's a sports Super Sunday.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 19 July 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link
if I posted a nude WDYLL photo would you FP (Flag Post) or FP (Fap Posthaste)
― frogbs, Friday, 19 July 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link
Only one way to find out.
― nickn, Friday, 19 July 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
ilxor nude selfies wouldn't really truly be nude as the glasses and beard would still be in play
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 July 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
cellphone radiationthis is seriously not harmful at all― Vape Store (crüt), Friday, July 19, 2019 9:27 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Vape Store (crüt), Friday, July 19, 2019 9:27 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Go on...
― flappy bird, Friday, 19 July 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-ionizing_radiation
― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, 19 July 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfgT6zx4k3Q
― pomenitul, Friday, 19 July 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
just plopping down and watching whatever is on tv, or making plans to watch a block of sitcom shows on a specific night is kind of dead― untuned mass damper (mh), Tuesday, July 16, 2019 5:12 PM
I think loads of people still do this. Mostly non-internet people.
guys fucking each other― Οὖτις, Monday, July 15, 2019 10:12 PM
You used to find socially acceptable? I'm assuming you meant to say you used to be homophobic?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 19 July 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
He was responding to the post immediately preceding his A more interesting discussion might be “behaviors you thought would never become socially acceptable and then they did”
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 19 July 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
Gah, sorry! Don't know how I missed that!
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 19 July 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
Iranian news agencies apparently reporting they have taken a 2nd tanker.
― calzino, Friday, 19 July 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
lol wrong thread
― calzino, Friday, 19 July 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
Capturing tankers will never be socially acceptable.
― nickn, Friday, 19 July 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
"ladies first"
― closed beta (NotEnough), Saturday, 20 July 2019 11:29 (four years ago) link
usage of the word "groupie"
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 20 July 2019 14:03 (four years ago) link
There's a smug arrogance (somewhere along the lines of Frank Zappa) that people associate with bad politics but sometimes I wonder if it didn't really depend on that. I tried to rewatch a documentary series about science fiction from about 20 years ago and I was getting strong vibes of this and I just couldn't be bothered with that.
You still get these people of course but I see less people using this tone as if they're the smartest person in the room. Listening to groups of them try this is nauseating.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 20 July 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
I worked next to a guy who at meetings would do the thing of standing up any time a lady was taking her seat.
We'd argue about it back at our desks. He'd say it was good manners. I'd tell him it was patronizing.
The women completely ignored it.
― pplains, Saturday, 20 July 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
Flypaper in restaurants. This was quite common in many of the mom 'n' pop type of restaurants my family would eat in throughout the summer when I was a kid. Not only did we not bat an eye at the strips of yellow sticky paper hanging from the ceiling and sometimes dangling close to the table surface, we were actually *enthusiastic* about it, as in "isn't it great this place has flypaper? They must be really up on things and care about creating a clean fly-free environment for their customers!"
― gjoon1, Saturday, 20 July 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link
Somewhere around last year I found myself stopping using 'guys' to preface a casual work email and grasping for another collective term, settled on 'folks' instead, am I a savage for not realising this sooner or a hapless liberal worry-wart?
― MaresNest, Sunday, 21 July 2019 11:09 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im3Zj9ZBsyU
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 July 2019 11:30 (four years ago) link
Former then, thanks Limmy! :)
― MaresNest, Sunday, 21 July 2019 11:44 (four years ago) link
Are you really horrified by this?
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 21 July 2019 12:44 (four years ago) link