US posters appear more loyal to ILX than UK ones...why?

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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

six years pass...

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

my question is 'what happened?'

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

... and a Martin Parr photo essay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link

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

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


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