Dear ILE - a plea

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of course it won't work, but we have to try anyway. being a hippie cunt. ;-)

― nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:24 (sixteen years ago) link

I dislike your manner

crosspost

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:25 (sixteen years ago) link

I couldn't give a shit. I dislike you.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:25 (sixteen years ago) link

is it morning tea yet?

― Gem (gem ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:27 (sixteen years ago) link

the internets is a part of real life where instead of spending time with people you a) like b) can earn money with you spend time with a self-selected variety of people, some of whom you like, some of whom are complete fuckwads you want banned.

Yeah, but there's still a difference between reacting to something they say, and just reacting to them regardless of what they do. There people I don't like in real life, but I don't go on shouting "HEY, ASSHOLE!" every time I catch a glance of them.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:28 (sixteen years ago) link

fulfilling your own prophecy is sort of cheating, g-kit

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:30 (sixteen years ago) link

dude, that must be a great thing for you, cause in my *real life* i have a lot of people i want deleted

i guess it is. but the aggro i have with some people on ILX can sometimes be just as annoying and can have some implications on my social life (living in london as i do).

― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:31 (sixteen years ago) link

i generally keep a big ol' wall between irl and ilx, it allows more freedom of disagreement/hate here.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:32 (sixteen years ago) link

nice for you!

― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:33 (sixteen years ago) link

that said if i move back to cambridge, the idea of *not* meeting louis jagger feels just... wrong.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:33 (sixteen years ago) link

if u want to score with girl, never let her see your disagreement-hate

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:36 (sixteen years ago) link

never let your fuck-want see your disagreement-hate.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:36 (sixteen years ago) link

If kittens and skunks can get along, surely we all can?

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:37 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm all for a bit of peace and quiet, I scaled down being around these parts because the lol pwnage was just getting too tedious for words.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:37 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.acc.umu.se/~zqad/cats/1161382099-1161360523005.t.jpg

PWEASE

― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:37 (sixteen years ago) link

Won't somebody think of the Pringles?

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:38 (sixteen years ago) link

Pwingles.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:39 (sixteen years ago) link

Of course

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:43 (sixteen years ago) link

if i see one more photo of a g*ddamned cat i'm gonna snap

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:43 (sixteen years ago) link

Frankly I'm disappointed my Alpaca Movement didn't get more momentum behind it.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:45 (sixteen years ago) link

If alpacas are making 'movements', you don't want to be getting behind them.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link

fulfilling your own prophecy is sort of cheating, g-kit

lolz
But oh, that's not so fair. Telling somebody you dislike them is hardly an atrocity. It's not possible to like everyone.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link

Sloths never got of the ground either; apart from the unfulfilled promise of a DC ilxor to get one tattooed emerging from her cleavage.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.perutrip.net/imagenes-peru/high-peru-galeria/arequipa/alpacas-arequipa.jpg

The best thing is how they always look like they're smiling at you.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link

The Alpaca movement did inspire me to go looking for Llamatron, though.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link

http://bss.sfsu.edu/geog/bholzman/courses/fall99projects/sloth2.jpg

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link

The Alpaca movement did inspire me to go looking for Llamatron, though.

Is that in Wales?

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link

TEH_YAK?

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:49 (sixteen years ago) link

if only moon jellyfish were cute:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/163/388510636_ee98553599_m.jpg

― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:50 (sixteen years ago) link

I think part of the problem is that it's impossible to communicate in writing with the nuances of speech. Quite a lot of the barbed comments made on this board are, I suspect (I hope) intended as no more than light-hearted ribbing and banter, but it's very hard to get that across when the mode of communication allows no inflection.

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 (sixteen years ago) link

Correct CJ, just outside Bangora.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:52 (sixteen years ago) link

Or these spindly things I don't know the name of:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/386735658_bc58d0a825_m.jpg

xpost

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:53 (sixteen years ago) link

i'm not sure you can extrapolate snappy terms like 'pwned', 'zing' and 'noob' from a sense of frostiness or indeed obnoxiousness, however good your intentions may be. if so perhaps that is part of the problem.

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 (sixteen years ago) link

I just went to a meeting and was dreading re-reading this thread. But it's not yet become the shitstorm. Perhaps by lunchtime in the US :)

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 (sixteen years ago) link

hi dere noizification

xpost

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:58 (sixteen years ago) link

P¦-¦/-\Y \/\//-\Z 0¦\¦[3 T¦-¦33 0¦\¦¦_Y 11!!111111

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link

did you use a translator for that?

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:03 (sixteen years ago) link

It's not possible to like everyone.

But it's possible to not tell them.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:04 (sixteen years ago) link

These are good sentiments Mark. Most of these bad vibes have gone over my head since I have kind of retreated to posting on a few threads only. (I've never even heard of Mickey fwiw.) I enjoyed the sandbox last time as it sort of seemed smaller and more friendly in general. I was planning to stop posting altogether, but haven't (yet) done so. There are still some really great people on here and that's what keeps me coming back.

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Tell All Certain Truths

spells TACT

― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:07 (sixteen years ago) link

But it's ok to tell somebody you dislike their manner? I was simply reacting. I srsly doubt RJG is crying into his lunchbox over this. I'm 100% certain he feels the same way about me. Who's the victim here?
I get shit for being passive/aggressive, I get shit for telling it straight. I get shit for trying to encourage people to be nicer on ILX, I get shit when I'm not nice. How 2 win @ ILX plz?

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link

chillax

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:10 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah, stop making a big deal about this

(this is the suggestion re 'how 2 win')

― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:11 (sixteen years ago) link

if you do post something like 'I'm just gonna go back to being a cunt whenever I feel like it' you should probably expect someone to voice their disapproval.

― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link

even if it was meant as a 'joek' or whatever

― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link

Otm. I think part of the reason ilx is fracturing into serious cliques is that people stay in the threads where they feel safe, and don't venture out. It'd be good if they didn't feel like that.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:14 (sixteen years ago) link

Haha, Steve I used to post in h4x0r-speak all the time back in '01! I gave up after I wrote a post that I couldn't actually read myself when I looked at it the next day.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah but hardly anyone else did back then (so it seems)

― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link

Starry's molesworth speak is pretty semantically similar, I've always thought

― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link

x-post stet

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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let go

― onimo (nu_onimo), Sunday, 18 February 2007 00:05 (sixteen years ago) link

roffle?

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Sunday, 18 February 2007 00:11 (sixteen years ago) link

roll to me

― acrobat (acrobat), Sunday, 18 February 2007 01:37 (sixteen years ago) link

If it gets too serious the fanny is removed, but usually "ignore ~~him~~ her, ~~he's~~ k8's a fanny" suffices.

-- onimo (ilx.onim...), February 15th, 2007 1:10 PM. (nu_onimo)

fixed XD

― amon (amon), Sunday, 18 February 2007 07:09 (sixteen years ago) link

GAIE

― fake pablo (Pablo), Sunday, 18 February 2007 10:01 (sixteen years ago) link

bump

― amon (amon), Monday, 19 February 2007 01:29 (sixteen years ago) link

I don't really see why the Watercooler hasn't been taken onto its own closed mailing list by now. It's always the same ten or so posters anyway, and at least it would allow Kate to do the 'my gaff, my rules thing' to her heart's content without worrying about undesirables reading the thing and using it against her.

I think this of the rest of the chat threads as well TBH but the Watercooler in particular seems to be of even more limited appeal.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 19 February 2007 09:53 (sixteen years ago) link

Anyone can post on it. I never posted on the early ones, i didn't know Kate at all yet I was welcomed there.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 19 February 2007 11:22 (sixteen years ago) link

i just think of it as another local thread like mongrels/sheepfux0rz which i've literally never gone into.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Monday, 19 February 2007 11:29 (sixteen years ago) link

Historically the Watercooler threads were started because K felt she was being shouted down or ridiculed on the TITWIS threads, so really there's no reason why anyone unhappy with the way things are done in WC land couldn't similarly start a chat thread of their own, even though I agree with Matt that this type of thing will most likely lead to further atrophy/entropy at board level.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 13:14 (sixteen years ago) link

shit is so fucked people don't even know what is or isn't a parody thread.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link

This is my high horse, get the fuck off.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link

shit is so fucked people don't even know what is or isn't a parody thread.

Then stop being the shitfucker!

― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link

Q: What is ILX about?

A: ILX

― resumo impetus (blueski), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link

I can't even tell who is and isn't joking any more.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link

i am joking.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm not.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 14:32 (sixteen years ago) link

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