Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

thank you. I will behave myself, mostly via not getting Saturday drunk on a Tuesday.

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

-Boboscar Wildemarley

Honkin' on Boboscar

this is a less exciting light signaling technological glitch, but it seems like the sensor-driven traffic light programming at the intersection near my house reverts to an older program sometimes.

for the first 10 years i lived there, at one point there were two left turn lanes (to get on the road that takes you to the freeway) and one lane going straight.

this was when my street was an unremarkable residential street and there wasn't a large bougie supermarket on the corner.

the traffic signals at that point had sensors such that the left turn signal would activate if your vehicle was in the two left lanes.

when the bougie supermarket went in, only the leftmost of the three lanes remained a left turn lane, and the middle lane went from being a left turn lane into a lane that goes straight. now, if you are in far left lane, you will get a left turn signal; if you are in the middle and right lane, you will get a green to go straight. This is as it should be.

However, at various points in time the signaling system must encounter an error and revert to its earlier programming, where if you are in the middle lane -- now a lane that goes straight -- and there aren't any cars in the right lane -- which has always been a lane that goes straight -- you will get a left turn signal, but not a green to go straight. in other words, you will sit at that intersection waiting for the light to turn green such that you can go straight and the light will not turn green (because it thinks you are in a left turn only lane) -- until a car pulls up in the right lane.

depending on the time of day, you could be waiting numerous cycles for a car to pull up in the right lane and be released from the Beckett-esque traffic signal. sometimes cars will just run the light because they feel like it should have been their turn already. I have found that the way to get a green light when the old traffic signal program kicks in is to put your car in reverse, back up for a few seconds, then pull into the right lane, and then the light will turn green the next cycle.

Through the '80s, the earnestness/seriousness became their schtick, and came across as slickly (and arguably cynically) choreographed as anything by "pop" artists that some U2 fans dismissed as lightweight (There's probably a parallel between '60s Doors fans and '80s U2 fans, eschewing the Monkees/Madonna in favor of the Deep Meaningful Music of the Doors/U2). Even fans found Rattle & Hum (the movie mostly, but parts of the record) insufferable, so no matter how cringey the humor on the ZooTV tour was, it was a welcome relief from "we're stealin' it back!"

Gentlemen, gentlemen - there's no fighting in the war thread!

You're either a troll or a cunt but you've been here for far too long for the former so it must be the latter.

can totally hear that in Bono's voice tbh

I believe swearing gets posters banned.

first line of The A-posters' Creed?

that's Mr. Apollo to you, fool

https://i.imgur.com/SBIeTMh.jpg?1

Robberbandits: I've a (dead) empire outside

I said, "Fuck the vulgar Marxists, I've a tank outside
Fuck the Leninists, I have a tank outside
And fuck the working class, I've a tank outside
You're being taken for a ride, I've a tank outside
They said, "We don't believe you"
I said, "It's fuckin' true
Swapped communism for capital in 1992"
I don't need an empire, I just need more livin' space
And if you try to cramp my style, I'll shoot you in the face
"I don't need no facts - I own TV
You'll invade in style if you side with me"
And the soldiers ridin' over, their red flag flying high
I look the fuckers up and down and send them off to die

certainly butchered that zing with a double negative

Hitsville Ukraine

@Sufjan, the original:

"I don't pay no tax, no NCT
You'll arrive in style if you ride with me"

just a gentle reminder that ageism and ageist stereotypes are a bad scene and dumb too

This is, appropriately enough, a dogshit point

Will Smith and Vladimir Putin found out that it's not a good idea to attack a comedian.

lol

"Its only natural that a Great Actor like Will Smith will slap around smaller actors in their sphere of influence." pic.twitter.com/5tzQNr6IzU

— PolitiKey (@PolitiKeyUK) March 28, 2022

Good zing of a wise 1!

ilx turned into a "old men moaning about kids" site so slowly i barely noticed

no wait i did

I don’t understand why there are two threads complaining about annoying words and phrases tbh

i would refer my honourable friend to my previous statement

https://c.tenor.com/2uPTZEqzFzoAAAAC/edgeworth-anime.gif

I had the interesting experience of being complained about on here as a naive young person (!) by someone subsequently banned, quite a thing to read about yourself in your mid thirties I must say.

You are young (for ilx)

was there a point at which ILX did not bitch about feckless youth tbh

The Lily Allen thread? Oh wait...

in the good old days we bitched abt each other: "Use other words please."

(thread title contains notion that when whining abt a phrase annoying you, you must offer a stronger alternative or you are the problem)

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As a medical cannabis user who's just had my evening dose, this is the single weirdest and most fascinating post I've ever read. It makes no sense to me, yet it's worded brilliantly. I've read it at least fifteen times. I am completely enamoured with this short paragraph of perfect, meaningless text. Is this what all those people who rave about Murakami are talking about?

Maybe this should go in "use other words" but I am starting to dislike "package" when used about tranches of government funding or about a legislative agenda.

Mostly because I don't want to read a thousand articles about "Biden's package."

"Biden's package" sounds like a euphemism for something I don't want to envision.

Biden's enormous bundle

Joe Manchin is a chastity cage on Biden's package

C'mon, man

It's yuge

It's gonna be incredible.

Oh wait.

Listen Mac, I'll be a good boy for you.

Why did they kill that guy? Why did they kill him? Who was that guy? What was that guy? I thought he was with them. Wasn't he with them? Why would they kill him if he was with them? Oh, he wasn't really with them. I thought he was with them. It's a good thing they killed him

https://i.imgur.com/ctZOoYn.png

unlikely

i keep coming back to the concept of interpellation in terms of taking responsibility in collective horizontally-organized work

realizing i have the longest post on about 30% of the threads i've posted on

we can c&p some scaruffi if it makes you feel better

🙄🙄🙄

zeppelin also probably more likely to put a gun to your head and _make_ you take them

i'm sorry if that's grossly tasteless and offensive, it's just been a long time since i've had to deal with classic rock loving Cis Dudes(tm)

I’ve never thought about this before, I don’t understand what the big fuss is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I Love Rock & Roll Hall of Fame