The best thing is how they always look like they're smiling at you.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Is that in Wales?
― C J (C J), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/163/388510636_ee98553599_m.jpg
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Having said that, there has been some seriously nasty and deplorable shit going down recently, exemplified in the bullying of Louis, who seems totally inoffensive to me ninety percent of the time (unlike some of his more persistent bullies).
― Chap (chap), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/386735658_bc58d0a825_m.jpg
xpost
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link
when did '133t' speak take off on ILE anyway? only in the last couple of years have i really noticed it here. even 'lol' and similar didn't seem so ubiquitous three years ago.
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost - resumo, it's been around since I joined in Nov 2001, I reckon.
― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link
But it's possible to not tell them.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:06 (seventeen years ago) link
spells TACT
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link
(this is the suggestion re 'how 2 win')
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link
maybe.
For my part it's not a question of feeling 'safe'. I couldn't care less if someone I've never met & never will slags me off. I can ignore it quite easily. It's just where's more fun to be.
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link
other than i guess the general BLITZ SPIRIT that emerges in such disaporatic (a word now) situations. and there being a bit less traffic (tho all the regulars persist).
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link
I wouldn't like it. So I do tend to stay on threads where I know people will be civil to me and, by and large, to each other. I think if someone was actually rude to me I would leave and never come back.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link
tbqh i have FAR less problem with the back-and-forth mark is complaining about than attempts at actual character advice, eg
"Also, seriously man, burying everything in leetspeak and ILX in-jokes doesn't make you look adorable, it makes you look incomprehensible and defensive. -- Andrew Farrell (afarrel...), February 14th, 2007."
and something similar mark said to teh kit the other day. i thought teh kit was dead wrong wrt louis and dog latin preceisely because it was never really personal but based on comedy internet personas; it's when the 'you could be a better person' craps somes in that i start to worry.
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link
personae surely
this is correct but a lot of the stuff aimed at l jagger goes waaay beyond comedy banter (the clue is when it's not funny) or what he could reasonably have expected to have brought on himself. lots of people seem unable to tell when they're crossing the line from banter into vicious bullying - a lot of these people have fairly obvious psychological/emotional 'issues' though so it makes sense.
― lexpretend (lexpretend), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark coleman (lovebug ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm sorry, but "be excellent to each other" isn't such a big ask, is it?
― Johnney B's got a system (stigoftdumpilx), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link