― onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link
yrs,flouncy, shallow, image-obsessed-and-i-bet-limp-wristed-and-lisping-too drama queen "Dude.Shut up.
Saying someone behaves like a little girl is SEXIST and perhaps agist(though that's entirely different, as teenagers are as a whole fucking stupid).It is not homophobic at all.As such it's either true or not.Also, liking Paris Hilton in any way is comperable to saying "you know, cocaine is actually pretty fun! it's not nice to make fun of things I like!"Paris Hilton is a cancer, a pseudo-human, a vampiric monstrosity, an airwave-borne social disease destroying human decency, one of the many reasons it's become 'cool' to be undereducated and bratty.
In any case, you're overreacting and/or trying to pull some 'gay card.'My ex boyfriend (who is a joyless hobbity lawyer-wannabe, but decent human in some ways) would probably be more offended than I.And I'm offended that you would use this to defend bad taste.Grr.
The problems I have with the internet and what's spreading into ILE are:Sardonic/sarcastic/snotty 'humour' that's often not even relevant.Passive agressive baiting."Hey! I don't care that i'm wrong! I now decide to get everyone's sympathy and use it against you!" which is the behavior of...a 12 year old girl.Refusing the benefit of the doubt/never getting confirmation of intent/not caring about intent.
These things bring out the worst in me. I dislike feeling that way.
― Geza T iz tha Rainy G. Toronado (The GZeus), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link
gosh, the words of a truly level-headed, rational and functional human being! i think you should go see someone about this, i can feel the twitching from here
― lexpretend (lexpretend), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link
This might be a joke. Might be.
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link
i'm pretty sure if you or someone else started a 'UK daytime idle chit-chat' thread that pretty much all of them would post on it. why wouldn't they?
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― jw (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link
omgggg huggle
― jw (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:34 (seventeen years ago) link
(also I don't post from work!)
xpost
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― doctor morbius (bundgee), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link
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― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― the kwisatz bacharach (sanskrit), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link
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― the matrix (bundgee), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link
watching alisa and kate fight makes me so hot
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 15 February 2007 01:02 (seventeen years ago) link
GZeus I kiss you.
― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 15 February 2007 01:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― the kwisatz bacharach (sanskrit), Thursday, 15 February 2007 01:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 15 February 2007 01:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Hi Ailsa... OK will do.
― KeefW (KeefW), Thursday, 15 February 2007 01:51 (seventeen years ago) link
-- lexpretend (lexusjee...), February 14th, 2007."Hooray for avoiding the issue and taking my exaggerations(slight as they may have been) seriously(and somehow PERSONALLY) as you have.Slight of hand in attempt at putting any annoyance on me.How entertaining...oh wait, I mean boring.
― Geza T iz tha Rainy G. Toronado (The GZeus), Thursday, 15 February 2007 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― ghkghkg (Pablo), Thursday, 15 February 2007 06:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 15 February 2007 08:07 (seventeen years ago) link
I think you should.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 15 February 2007 08:14 (seventeen years ago) link
And Stet said this: “Kinda tricky to prove a negative, innit.”
I discovered ilx after someone pointed me to a thread where something I had done happened to be mentioned (all good-natured, I was amused). I liked the place and starting posting a little tiny bit but stopped when I was living at a friend’s. Once I got an internet connection in my new house, I was really very reluctant to post because of the bad-naturedness of some of the threads and the general feeling that it might end up being unpleasant. I wasn’t necessarily intimidated (maybe a bit?) but I just thought: nope, that’s not the environment in which I want to discuss things.
It was a shame, because I liked reading some threads (and now and then still do), particularly after an interesting or important news story. It is difficult in real life to get access to people wanting to discuss the same things you do right there and then (and with the same wit and intelligence that some ilx posters do). I wanted to join the Isabel Allende thread, for example, for that reason.
As Ailsa said, if people don’t like the way things are, they can just go away and not post - which is what I did. I’m just saying this because someone was wondering whether willingness to post has been affected, and in my case I think maybe it was.
But then I’m posting this - so maybe that shows that really what I should do is just contribute and not pay any attention to the badbits. Cos clearly I think it’s a generally a decent place, worth the effort of Saying Something in an attempt to be constructive.
fwiw
― zoe espera (zoe), Thursday, 15 February 2007 09:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Whilst Ailsa is OTM about the current state of things; I don't have any desire to watch people being unpleasant to other people I think it is worth pointing out (given the increasing frequency of this sort of thread since "Has ILE gone down the dumper") that I do think something has been lost. I remember a thread a few years back about an ILE compilation album that went off co-operatively and without a hitch. Now I suspect it would be a mere five posts old before some goon posted "lolz people on internetz be making shit musics". I don't think that it matters that someone would, it's relatively easy to ignore: it's just a shame.
Re the balkanization of the boards, I don't think ILE should be treated as a sacred cow. I actively prefer I Love Cooking, in part because I actually get some response to posts, due to the pace being slower and more considered, same goes for I Love Books.
― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Dunno about that -- I have good memories of the book threads, the film threads on here I always read. I'd say it would be great if ILB (as much as I like it and have no problems with) would simply move back here. Except of course you can get readers at these satellite boards that you don't get anywhere else.
This 'plea' at the beginning of this thread is the most pathetic load of shit I've read in a while. This thread getting 500+ messages is the 'problem'.
ILE will never be another sinister Barry. LEGO!!! xp
― xyzzzz__ (xyzzzz__), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Agree with the latter, think [mggmgh -mod edit]
― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Or did I 'bully' you into it?
― xyzzzz__ (xyzzzz__), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link
obviously that was never going to last forever - it's 5 years later and ILX is huge now. I think it is true that a lot of ILE has turned into a huge zing-fest, which is a bit if it makes people ignore the really good bits of ILX - eg for me the dance/jazz/experimental threads on ILM, the noise boards, and on the rare occasions I remember they exist the books and cookery boards (which I agree could easily be moved back to ILE - see eg the ILE pynchon thread).
i've just installed killfile, and I rather suspect that's going to improve ILE a lot for me. perhaps some other people here should try it too.
― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link