posts very much in character

look, wait, hey,

the answer to the thread is obviously dud along with kubrick and all the other great men of cinema whose abuse of women is glorified by film nerds. i'm sure the films are great in some sense, i'm also told birth of a nation and triumph of the will are great films

― Left, Thursday, 5 January 2023

If Left is frequently being told Birth of a Nation and Triumph of the Will are great films, on a regular basis, their posting style makes a little more sense to me

Riefenstahl put automatic cameras on balloons and stuff and was an innovative director, but give me Rossellini's war trilogy any day over that shite.. even though he was a wrong 'un himself!

It's obvious you're not a woman.

https://i.imgur.com/SyLA5Mm.gif

You beat me to it

I mean, people were telling me that Intolerance was a good film on this very message board just a month ago.

Morbs, you're in a better place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVkJ2992mRo

is this about Star Wars?

left is a great poster overall and i fully support their occasional trolls because honestly folks the sniffy armchair critic circlejerk here gets a little old imo

and yeah the auteur theory is kinda antihuman bs if you have a heart and any inkling of what creativity can be outside of the culture industry

Never said they aren't and I appreciate'em. To me, if I post you in this thread you've made it.

But I disagree lol with your conclusion. This place may have many things but it doesn't have armchair critic circle jerks. Look at the Glass Onion thread for proof.

Contemporary criticism as journalism doesn't even pay for armchairs. All it does is teach us how to post Bette Davis gifs.

map, I like you a lot but you're wrong for this

Ah tho, for the golden age of armchair criticism

https://i0.wp.com/www.americantheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/little-man.jpg?fit=900%2C827&ssl=1

Trying and failing to find a gif of a certain James Thurber cartoon.

Haha I didn’t even read the thread or post in question but I’d rather read Left than a good portion of ilx, who do nothing but bump threads to complain about annoying phrases young people use or spam YouTube links. At least Left is interesting.

yes and it is very much in character for you to come and post on the very much in character thread and speak your mind about how most of us are mediocrities. What do you want on a decades old message board, doctoral dissertations in the chatbox?

Oh, I don’t know. People making posts?

who do nothing but bump threads to complain about annoying phrases

That'd be me, I believe...and she really loves me on baseball.

Nope, it’s not you, and I do love you on baseball! Unironically!

Mea culpa--thanks.

its time we started celebrating annoying phrases young people use

young people can use any phrase they feel like I am almost 34 and I no longer use phrases

🫡

its time we started celebrating annoying phrases young people use

― lag∞n,

Start the thread! I don't use phrases at all.

This thread brings out the worst in everyone here, which means it also lives up to its title

you are permitted to use the stupid annoying phrases young people use if you are young at heart, but if they aren't any good then you can all fuck off!

I like the idea of an armchair criticism forum.

TS: Eames vs. Breuer

Ikea POÄNG: Classic or Dud?

Defend the indefensible: La-Z-Boy

how much padding is too much?
Recliners: Are They Worth the Weight?

This Is The Thread Where We Discuss Sectionals

UpPOLLstery: Best Colors and Patterns

TS: antimacassar vs. macassar

rosensale - biggs

The entire drama now focuses on Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who must vote entirely for Kevin McCarthy. A present vote or not voting at all would leave McCarthy short of the majority and force another round of voting.

oops!

very much in character, too, this week. i hang my head in shame and i am sorry

posts on fleek

Stevenson, as usual, is knowledgeable, brisk, cool in his assessments of Western military and intelligence. A great LRB asset.

He doesn't mention the oddest thing about "Five Eyes", that most people (not all) have two eyes and thus, for a better image, five subjects with eyes should really add up to "Ten Eyes".

― the pinefox, Friday, 27 January 2023 10:58 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Lol

quintessential the pinefox

Based on the name alone, I will never voluntarily listen to this band.

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, March 16, 2023 1:24 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I would say that's more in character for King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard than anything else, lol

https://jordanforeman.com/assets/images/why-not-both.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPO8PqHGWFU

nobody ever has anything good to say about this record yet it rules

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, April 13, 2023 8:08 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

what ILX thread makes me angrier than all the others combined

― imago, Saturday, April 15, 2023 9:06 AM (fifty-three seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Not controversial here. For example, Christina Rossetti's poem In the Bleak Midwinter is set near the winter solstice. By the same token, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream takes place on the night of summer solstice. Thus we are reminded that for most of the past centuries, summertime ended on the autumnal equinox at September 21st, which was also when winter began.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless),

fwiw the system used to allow you to vote as many times you wanted as long as your votes were paced a certain interval (one week? two weeks?) apart. but at least one poster abused the system by voting 10+ times in polls with distant closing dates, so the mods may have tightened up the polling regulations since I regularly pulled that shit

― raised on roddenberry (unregistered)

lol