Dear ILE - a plea

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Won't somebody think of the Pringles?

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

Pwingles.

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

Of course

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

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

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

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

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

TEH_YAK?

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

Correct CJ, just outside Bangora.

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

hi dere noizification

xpost

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

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

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

did you use a translator for that?

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

Tell All Certain Truths

spells TACT

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

chillax

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

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

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

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

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

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

If I win the lottery and retire, I'm going to spend all my time giving marks out of ten for every post, so that people don't get the idea that other people are tacitly approved just because I'm tired of them. The madness stops here!

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

i already said that, you two, ¦<33P ¦_¦P!!!111!!

Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (afarrell), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link

xpostssss

Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't know why the sandbox would feel more hospitable/less intimidating in that respect.

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

basically teh-kit, you need to try and be more like Grace Kelly.

resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link

meaning?

teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link

marry the prince of monaco duh

resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

marry rich guy, become tiresome symbol of olden hollywood glamour for people who've never seen an old movie.

temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I have separate lists of ILX cunts, arseholes, shitstirrers, braggarts, nebbishes, goofballs, harmless dweebs, know-nothing fuckmonkeys and twats but I keep it in a locked drawer at home and only update it once a month or so.

Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I couldn't care less if someone I've never met & never will slags me off.

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

you can never have too many nebbishes.

resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link

They're a superfood, y'know.

Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

full of beans and spunk

resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

i am joking.

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

I'm not.

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


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