the real answer to the thread question is OUR INDOMITABLE PIONEER SPIRIT
― John Justen, Friday, 18 April 2008 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link
In a business context, "please note:" usually means "this is f***ed up, tag you're it."
― felicity, Friday, 18 April 2008 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
i think we should all fucking relax, smoke some weed and giggle.
― stevienixed, Friday, 18 April 2008 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Ok, but I won't inhale.
― felicity, Friday, 18 April 2008 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
or listen to some crappy 80s music (KOKOMO by the BEACH BOYS or was that the nineties???) and giggle
― stevienixed, Friday, 18 April 2008 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link
1988.
― jaymc, Friday, 18 April 2008 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Close enough.
― stevienixed, Friday, 18 April 2008 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought NB meant "Note By"
― jel --, Saturday, 19 April 2008 10:05 (sixteen years ago) link
RIP
― joie de marsh (imago), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 11:17 (nine years ago) link
UK ILX: too zingy to live, too bored to live again
― joie de marsh (imago), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 11:19 (nine years ago) link
Isn't doglatin and crew coming to Londan this weekend? Sure you will ilx people to hang out with.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 11:32 (nine years ago) link
that doesn't change the fact that UK ILX is more or less dead
― joie de marsh (imago), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 11:50 (nine years ago) link
my question is 'what happened?'
― joie de marsh (imago), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 11:51 (nine years ago) link
squirrels chewed through my broadband
― ogmor, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 11:57 (nine years ago) link
I am still here indeed me ol' chum.
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 11:58 (nine years ago) link
although it feels like a lot of UK posters who used to post a lot have very recently decided to up sticks to social media. that kind of annoys me because even though i like chatting to ilxors on FB, I still see my ILX life and my IR life as separate.
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 12:00 (nine years ago) link
if zappa were alive he'd have def released an album with ignor's post as title
― joie de marsh (imago), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 12:04 (nine years ago) link
Autocorrect Insulted My Posting Comrade
― joie de marsh (imago), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 12:05 (nine years ago) link
I like the total randomness of this place.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 12:43 (nine years ago) link
Good revive btw. Great thread with a few hilarious moments.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 12:43 (nine years ago) link
the cable has been replaced, though it took hours. I had not appreciated that my internet was coming through a tree before
― ogmor, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 13:32 (nine years ago) link
FACT: US posters are more loyal because more of us own dogs. dogs are loyal to their owners, and owners are more loyal to messageboards.
36.5% of U.S. households own a dog, vs. 31% in the UK.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 13:40 (nine years ago) link
i should see if Vox is hiring
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 13:41 (nine years ago) link
People got bored. Covered this in another thread but I particularly dislike or, in some cases, have grown to dislike the contributions of certain of the more prominent (and in many cases celebrated) posters on ILX. I think I called them humourless but that wasn't what I meant at all, what I meant was joyless as well supercilious and just plain cold. I recommend hanging out with the ILB Crew, they're cool!
― ... and a Martin Parr photo essay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
I maintain steadfast and unwavering loyalty to the ILX brand. Bloomps be praised.
― Horrible Health (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:22 (nine years ago) link
hopefully all of these emigre uk ilx posters have found a new place to discuss new bbc2 panel shows, today's daily express frontpage, ben goldacre and the hypocrisy of the liberal democrats
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:27 (nine years ago) link
A pub would be a good place
― ... and a Martin Parr photo essay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
Human contact though, wow
it does feel like a rather quick exit on behalf of the Brits.
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link
seen that new cassetteboy conference rap dog latin?
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
i saw a Cassetteboy thing the other day, but i think it was just Osborne or some other Tory figurehead. Hadn't seen/heard anything else by him since about 2002 though.
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
how many brits post regularly these days? a baker's monkey?
― nashwan, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
Don't know but the number of Yanks is yea big.
― ... and a Martin Parr photo essay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0eVkrDIgAEGxi-.jpg:large
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
I recommend hanging out with the ILB Crew, they're cool!
― ... and a Martin Parr photo essay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:19 (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what it is. in fact we're due an autumn FAP I reckon.
as for me, i'm working too much to contribute regularly, which frankly disgusts me (the work bit, though it'd be good to be contributing more - or at all really - as well.)
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I *did* hang out with the ILB cru after that Pynchon talk recently, was ace
but there's a reticence to post I've noticed, not sure why. The level of discourse is quite good, when it does happen
― joie de marsh (imago), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
would hang quietly in background of an ilb cru meet i think
― local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
I endorse the observation that ILB's UK contingent is top notch. If I were nearer London, I'd gladly FAP with them and be all the better for it.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
not at all, you'd be dancing on the tables in no time (xp)
― ... and a Martin Parr photo essay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
would you fuck deems, that behaviour would only be an indication that you were in need of strong liquor and a contrarywise kick up the arse.
xp!
aimless, should you ever have the luxury of a UK visit - there's some very good walking as I'm sure you know tho i realise circumstances may not be expedient - you just need to send up the signal.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
would you fuck deems
pls dont start sentences like this pls
― local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
now you put it like that.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
poll?
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
by all means don't let's
― local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
the british left
― keep the meat alive: pampas grass (wins), Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
A thread connection if ever there was one
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
loool wins
― pecker shrivellage (imago), Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
I blame our less extensive cinematic comic universe
― DG, Thursday, 30 October 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link