"i tend to pay no attention to what any popstar says in interviews though! i mean, when i talked to pusha t he didn't know what a choir was, which is arguably dumber than beyoncé not bothering to go into the complexities of 'irreplaceable's narrative. -- lexpretend (lexusjee...), February 13th, 2007.
"do you really think beyoncé's going to say outright in interviews "the song is a lie to myself"? that is not the sort of thing i've ever heard any pop star admit to, it would be...too revealing. i'm not sure it matters what beyoncé says about it. -- lexpretend (lexusjee...), February 13th, 2007.
we have established exactly why it would be a bad idea for beyoncé (or any pop star doing a similar song) to openly talk about how it's a lie! it doesn't matter what she says in interviews, anyway.
-- lexpretend (lexusjee...), February 13th, 2007."
I WONDER WHAT POSSIBLE SUBTEXT THERE COULD BE
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, but for some of us, even having to read other people doing this is kind of tiresome. You post on a thread, then someone else posts, then someone who has a beef with them sees that they've posted and follows them to be hilariously dickish, and the next thing you know, the nice conversation you were having is gone. It's kind of annoying.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link
i like a bit of ballbreaking but you probably do go too far Madam Dom. A LOT of people do seem to be sick of it. I just don't know if there are MORE people on ILX who enjoy it. Maybe 50/50?
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link
(Lex, if you get to play the unwarranted slander game, I do too.)
oh it is all there if people want to look and read the obvious into it.
fwiw, no one complained when i, along with many others inc yourself, said i liked music made by people who were sexist (sundry hip-hop) or homophobic (sundry dancehall). i still really like the paris hilton album, which doesn't mean i approve of whatever racist things she's said (i haven't seen the video).
yrs,flouncy, shallow, image-obsessed-and-i-bet-limp-wristed-and-lisping-too drama queen
― lexpretend (lexpretend), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
(xpost I've seen hitler's paintings. They rubbish)
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnney B's got a system (stigoftdumpilx), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
including one purely for ball-breaking where people can be as nasty as they wanna be
This actually worked for a forum I was on about 10 years ago.
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
There is only one code of conduct, be civil to everyone, everywhere.
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Mark S, if you want to discuss any incidences take it off board. I am not very appreciative of being used as some kind of beacon of pile-on bullying.
This is true. See above my thing about crossing over of threads.
― kv_nol (kv_nol), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link
xxp
― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link
sort of but it doesn't have the same audience as ILE so doesn't work. as long as ILE remains as big focus point for everyone all the negativity will infiltrate here.
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
lame: people who want proper fights to prove their masculinity doing so in organised fight club style settingso much further beyond lame: the same, but only in front of their laptops :o
― lexpretend (lexpretend), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link
I love Reasonable Discourse.
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link
xxposts
― onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link
I disagree. One of the things I like about ILE is the random collection of threads like the Beryl thread and the banal conversations thread, and the stuff about telly programmes, and Scott's pictures, and so on and so on and they're all in one place, and I don't have to go to separate boards to find them.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Not even close, unless you mean by posting volume.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
i'm aware this is a virtue for some
but it's already happened with many subjects and should happen with many more
i dislike this halfway-house situation as it stands. I Love Most Everything more like etc.
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link
Nobody ever posts on it.
Oh, I get it.
― Michael Annoyman (Michael Annoyman), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Tell us why?
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
This really proves my point.
― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Annoyman (Michael Annoyman), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link
I mean, I'll be perfectly honest about why I started mine own little Balkan - because I was being repeatedly and focusedly bullied on a variety of threads by very specific individual(s), which was killing those threads. A single thread to corral my chatter also had the result of the ability to ban bullies focused on a person.
Maybe others are more localised for localised chatter that would bore/clutter the rest of ILX, but I would venture to theorise that much of the "Balkanisation" is an indirect *result* of bullying and "Fight Club" Culture, not a cause.
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
as with 'reg-only' and killfile i'd like it to at least be TRIED so we can actually see if the pros outweigh the cons in practice. yes there are drawbacks but imo none significantly worse than status quo (lol)
it wasn't too long ago that anyone had the ability to set up their board. presumably this option is never coming back.
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
anyway, i think ilx is at its best when it sticks to ANSWERING tHE QUESTION (you know, the bit at the top) and goes off course when it becomes about talking about other posters. The good posts in this thread are about the topic. The bad ones are about poster x and whether or not they are y.
i've got half a mind to ask mods to remove any personally directed posts on the main boards, at least for a bit. Unless the thread is about a particular person, natch.
attack someone's ideas, not them.
― stet (stet), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link
-WDYLL?
-can't say
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link
A ban on off-topic might be nice, but then, off-topic can be fun. Oh, I don't bloody know.
― Johnney B's got a system (stigoftdumpilx), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― jw (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Subtractive Synthesis (Subtractive Synthesis), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link