i started posting at 22 and used up every opportunity to embarrass myself in the first year bc i wanted to come off smart and erudite but actually came off totally incoherent. love growing up
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 19 July 2021 13:16 (two years ago) link
― KEEP HONKING -- I'M BOBOING (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 19 July 2021 13:37 (two years ago) link
i started posting here at 23, and i'd like to think that my posts have gotten better in the 8 years hence, but i think the main thing that's changed is that i've stopped bothering to capitalize letters
― bart harley-jarvis cocker (voodoo chili), Monday, 19 July 2021 14:07 (two years ago) link
house style rules
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 19 July 2021 14:07 (two years ago) link
surely most of the people posting in the forum's early years were in their 20s, which is why every thread from more than 20 years ago starts like "Fuck Joni Mitchell."
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 19 July 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link
I think you have to have experienced at least five decades on this earth to have earned the correct level of grizzled cynicism and disdain that a "popular" ilxor requires, not to mention having been on this spinning ball long enough to have all earnestness squeezed out of you.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 19 July 2021 14:20 (two years ago) link
even alex in nyc was young once (which is why every thread from more than 20 years ago starts like "Fuck Joni Mitchell")
Joni Mitchell: Classic or Dud
― mark s, Monday, 19 July 2021 14:21 (two years ago) link
not to mention having been on this spinning ball long enough to have all earnestness squeezed out of you.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, July 19, 2021 9:20 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
speak 4 urself i am bursting full of sincerity and light which is why im the ilxor "Best Poster" from years 2017-18 and 2020
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 19 July 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link
Where once we were clouds, we are now the shakers of fists.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 July 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
going to be interesting what future Historians surmise about past civilizations after the impending nuclear war, when ilxor.com's archives are the only things that survived.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 July 2021 14:25 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bZjKC0EaY0
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 July 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
I thought “getting Peter Thiel’d” meant being totally evil and then buying out all of ILX and converting it to a hidden Quora or wikihow subforum, all on a floating megafortress made of PayPal, and everyone is totally straight
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 19 July 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link
Taking sides: getting Peter Thiel’d vs getting Sean Parker’d
― Luna Schlosser, Monday, 19 July 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
a million young blood sacs isn't cool, do you know what's cool? a billion young blood sacs.
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 19 July 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
I think I realise why I lurk rather than post here is as a 26yo, I feel like I have not lived/consumed enough to participate in the dialogue.
I still feel like this in my 40s and I've been mostly lurking here for probably 15 years at this point. So many smart and knowledgeable people on this board, I feel like my contributions are rarely meaningful and mostly redundant.
― silverfish, Monday, 19 July 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link
Ha, sorry for causing so much confusion. Yes, the Peter Thiel thing is not specific to ilx, and I maybe did overestimate how much other people know/care about billionaire/longevity cult people and their young person vampirism.
― emil.y, Monday, 19 July 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
Oh i really presumed the buy and wreck it for spite thing was the one!
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Monday, 19 July 2021 16:39 (two years ago) link
I just assumed everyone knew the "inject yourself with young person blood" story! I was wrong! I did get a little obsessed with the weirdness of longevity cults for a while but I've seen it specifically in reference to Thiel a bunch so figured it'd be an understandable thing, if a bit memey.
― emil.y, Monday, 19 July 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
the first thing i think of with thiel is just how wealthy he is, how vindictive, how he's like the guy in the master, how he dreams of libertarian free-floating fortresses running on crypto. so he wants to be a vampire too and young guy blood, eh that all fits into his main story.
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 19 July 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
i joined at age 20 and only like 50% of my old posts are embarrassing now
― ciderpress, Monday, 19 July 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
What are decommissioned oil platforms in international waters even for if not youth blood factory farms
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 July 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
I was on a pre-ILX thing and cannot bear to see what I wrote on there, my online persona was definitely "complete prick" at the time. Then I didn't actually start posting here until what, 2013? 2014? - after lurking for a year or two. It is a right and good thing that I and everyone else were spared the 2000s posts I would have made.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 19 July 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 July 2021 17:06 (two years ago) link
ILX is not a mirror. ILX is a hammer.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 July 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
And every post looks like a nail
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 July 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
In each of these polls, the most common age was the age of someone born in 1979-80 (28 in 2008, 31 in 2011, 36 in 2016).
How old are you as of Jan 09, 2008?How old are (were) you as of Jan 09, 2011?How old were you as of Jan 09, 2016?
― jaymc, Monday, 19 July 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
Dat's me!
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 19 July 2021 19:02 (two years ago) link
80
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 19 July 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
i win again
― mark s, Monday, 19 July 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
xpost 80 in what animal's years?
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 July 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/oldest-tree.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 19 July 2021 19:16 (two years ago) link
Well this is all disappointing, I was hoping you meant that someone was actually going to make me Peter Thiel. Is it bad form to put a venmo as your profile name here?
― hrep (H.P), Monday, 19 July 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link
they can make your peter thiel, but it's bad color grading iirc
― "Rocky Top" and "Funky Bitch" are songs I never look forward to (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 19 July 2021 23:40 (two years ago) link
Post in whichever way you thiel best
― Evan, Monday, 19 July 2021 23:47 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfYuczzALbM
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 00:49 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 24 July 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Thumbs up in solidarity with my fellow ilxors who were in their mid-30s or older when they started posting. OTOH - there is definitely a tendency to be condescending I/we need to fight.
― sarahell, Saturday, 24 July 2021 03:58 (two years ago) link
Aja (aka Asiakitty, daughter of Burmakitty, who I seem to have accidently lured over here from a semiofficial Mission of Burma board we both posted on 15 years ago) existed, but I'm not sure that she was the one posting in her name--her father showed up once and claimed that she wasn't.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Saturday, 24 July 2021 05:21 (two years ago) link
I don't smokeI don't drinkI don't post At least I can fucking think
― calstars, Saturday, 24 July 2021 05:35 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 25 July 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Review requested
― i eat ass with a knife and fork (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 September 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
Old enough to know better. Was this ever sorted?
― Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 September 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link
sorted or not, ilx loves its meta-threads about ilx, so if we sort this it'll just be shoved aside for some new form of self-probing, like a tongue obsessively returning to a sore tooth.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 17 September 2022 01:20 (one year ago) link