Driving someone from ILX - classic or dud

700 posts by Wednesday, 3 people to have left forum 'for good'.

Yay another pointless stirring thread from the vicar!

700 posts by Wednesday, 3 people to have left forum 'for good'

Nah, I give it less than 10 posts before it's locked or deleted.

Don't look at me, I'm quitting ILX forever.

i'm not letting any of you people in my car.

So far only Dr. C has said he misses having Kate around. I'll also take credit for Marcello. Plus I banned some people. Mighty and powerful isn't quite the word, more a swell of civic pride. Like Jim Broadbent in Hot Fuzz.

Surely Matt DC has the best claim to Marcello? You can have the assist, if you like.

I'd like to claim on Carmody and Dog Latin, anyway.

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Tombot was either going to lock this or buy into its concept. Or both. Move to ITR?

That'd be two dirty vicar threads in as many weeks. Has he really earned it?

Marcello was my doing, but mostly because he thought me accidentally banning him was Stevem deliberately banning him.

I am leaving ILX.

^^^thread contains last ever funny Esteban post

It was truly the goalmouth scramble of ilx departures xp

was the Marcello one deflected off my shin or was the NHS IP thing a red herring

maybe I was the one who lofted the free kick into the penalty area

huzzah

It took me a few posts to realize this didn't mean something along the lines of "What ILXors would you carpool with?"

My answer to THAT would have been "ALL THEM, I hate busses"

i nearly got tombot to go :(

I'm working on one now

stand back and watch the master

i anticipate funnies and lockage

let me guess jw is it a GURL you know in REAL LIFE?

In all honesty, I know I overreacted to everything last night. But between the feeling that I'm part of the "nu-ILM" that some people want exiled and the fact that I can't post anything about rap (or anything period) without trife stumbling in trying to start some shit, I'm getting that "hitting my head against the wall" feeling. That, and I figure I've contributed little of substance but one-liners, probably because it's the only stuff I feel safe posting without getting shit thrown at me. (I don't know how nickalicious can take it, personally. Well, OK, maybe I do -- he's not fucking neurotic.) And yeah, I know trife was trying to be "friendly" in my birthday thread, but then he just turned that into another "let's shit on Def Jux" thing. And "punk is for racists"? See, I can't even tell if he's joking anymore. I've seen him post about Balzac without making the obvious scrotal reference, so I know he's not a moron, but the only thing he seems to be trying to do most places is get himself over. Seems like 90% of the time, when he's not starting his own threads, his contributions are limited to jumping into other peoples' threads and bitching about how awful everybody's tastes are, as if he thinks he's rescuing hip-hop for the REAL ILM heads or something:

Exhibit A
Exhibit B (where he gets served by Chuck Eddy)
Exhibit C
Exhibit D

And really man, I could get on some Pee-Wee's Big Adventure shit with an Exhibit Q (a model of the ENTIRE SHOPPING CENTER!), but I won't. Maybe I can't take a joke, but I just don't feel like that sort of shit is really laden with humor potential in the first place.

At the risk of quoting KRS-One and thus making myself out to look corny, my problem (if you're curious) is that I take this hip-hop shit too serious. Every time someone posts about rap it's "trife to thread" this and "i need some advice from trife" and "wwtd?" which makes him out to be the ILM rap grand poobah of huge swinging dickdom, and when the ILM Rap Authority's main arguments are things like "Outkast fans are patronizing closet racists", that makes me feel like my opinion on ILM re: hip-hop isn't welcome. I've been having a hard time in the last few days, and usually music is the thing that cheers me up, but when I feel like I can't be "right" about music then I just get pissed off. And then I make a retard of myself on a public messageboard. Hooray!

I am feeling somewhat better, at least. Johnny "Guitar" Watson's "What the Hell is This" can have that effect.

-- Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, September 20, 2003 11:06 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

Bored at 26

without even counting his hammer-happy banfinger I think JW probably has to be the absolute champion of this in terms of sheer numbers

I wouldn't like to set OUT to drive someone off ILX, but if someone left b/c of me without my having made a special effort to make them unhappy, I wouldn't be wracked with guilt, that's for sure.

chaki scored a hat trick without really trying

Who finally pushed Kate off the diving board?

The actual winner of this tournament doesn't even exist, so lol at the rest of you.

Becky Lucas?

i guess i wuz dead wrong

Whoever created lj.ytmnd had me for a few months. They can have an Honourable Mention.

Kinda miss hardcore Ethan.

If I've ever driven anyone off of ILX, I don't know about it. I know people have attempted to drive me off, or at least have taken potshots at me because I've either agreed with someone they dislike or have expressed myself in an imperious manner that wasn't meant to be taken as seriously as the offended party took it. Also, I've upset people because my sense of humor finds unintentional and/or ironic cruelty funny. I don't think anyone's left because of me, though. (I suspect I helped one person decide to leave, mostly because said person was emailing other people about how awful I was. That situation was odd because this was a person I never said anything negative about and regularly defended against a lot of unnecessary criticism.)

Whoever created lj.ytmnd had me for a few months. They can have an Honourable Mention.

-- Just got offed, Monday, 5 November 2007 16:25 (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

^^^^still #2 when they google yr name

and i miss Kate too!

xpost: I know! TBH I don't really mind much.

i thought kate left cos she got in trouble at work.

i thought that was just what the illuminati wanted fnord us to think

i guess i give everyone the benefit of the doubt and assume they leave ilx because they have gotten a more interesting and fulfilling life.

or strict web control at work and/or better job

Kinda miss hardcore Ethan.

-- Dom Passantino, Monday, November 5, 2007 11:26 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

weed >>> coke

gotten a more interesting and fulfilling life babby formed/laid off/in trouble/a new SO

intentionally driving someone out would be douchery of the highest order. but some people be havin ridiculously thin skins.

Poor Martin Jol.

you always try to make this about HIM!

how do the types of geeks who post on ILX make it all the way to fucking college with such thin skin? you'd think they all came from incredibly privileged insular backgrounds, that or they spend all their time being miserable

-- El Tomboto, Monday, 5 November 2007 16:00 (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

#1 reason for people being driven off ILX: generalisations! I can roll with the zings, the stick, the abuse, but I can't roll with the judgements and character assassinations. There's a difference between being thin-skinned, and not letting people walk all over you.

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bleach?

what snoop dogg does his laundry with

pimp-hand wash only

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lol amirite.

(sorry_

was that posted by cricket?

oi

I'm still laughing about that watches joke. And Louis' follow-up was classic Simpsons style taking a good jo0ke and making it special. Good work people. Keep this up and we'll soon shed this 'all britishes are whiners' slander.

Oh wait...

just wanted to add this excerpt from a paper i'm working on with some coworkers

"Cyber Bullying: Cyber bullying can take place in email, over instant messenger, in chat rooms, at gaming sites, through cell phones, and at social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. Cyber bullying can involve Flaming (“A brief, heated exchange...that occurs via any kind of communication technology”), Cyber Harassment (“A unique form of cyber bullying that involves repetitive offensive messages sent to a target”) and Cyber Denigration (“Information about another that is derogatory and untrue”, including altering photos and dispersing them as real)."

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gimme all your lunch credits, two-eyes

In order to address cyber bullying the teacher must recognize that, by its nature, cyber bullying occurs when there is no supervising adult present. Therefor any action plan must hold, at its center, training and empowerment for youth. Part of the prevention can be explicit teaching of students about how to use the internet in an appropriate way.

So yeah, classic.

It's nice to see this board can still reach a consensus when it discusses an issue calmly

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Post by Dom Passantino deleted

Somehow this is still really annoying.

It's an annoyance that's unequivocally over the line.

You can't tempt me to peak at your inane drivel.

Christ you're an insufferable prick.

TO THE MODERATOR REQUEST FORUM

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Let me guess, I have been skewered on Passantino's rapier like wit?

join the club, ed. there well be room further in, maybe in the snug.

Passantino out

It's like watching a spider in the bottom of the bath.

I think you already got crushed by the asteroid-like bad manners of King Boy Pato, to be honest.

But yeah, maybe like killfile Dom or something, rather than passive-aggressively baiting him then getting annoyed when he responds.

Boy howdy, this thread has been a trainwreck!!

-- King Boy Pato, Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:44 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Link

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Panels 1-3:

1. A nice quiet day on ILE
2. Ed prepares to make a salient point about why people who were born into less money than him deserve to starve
3. Ed clears a dangerous zing off the tracks, allowing the train to keep on choo-chooing its way to squeeness

o that passantino.

It's people like Ed who make happy-slapping acceptable.

-- Dom Passantino, Friday, 9 November 2007 14:39 (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^isn't that a bannable offense?

LJ, I will never know if that quote is accurate.

I don't have bad manners. I tell it as I see it. I am not afraid to voice my opinion and that is quite healthy from a mental perspective.

Unlike Dom who has to compensate with eating and having sex with BBWs.

Or unlike Ed who has to compensate with excessive whining about civility and by looking like a pineapple.

no matter how fat they are, he shouldn't eat them :(

ya, i'm kinda confused by the order in which he does it.

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Dom, you're one of those guys who whines that people are better/fitter/more networked/richer than you as if there is a vast metropolitan conspiracy against your sorry, provincial, undervalued arse. Your solution: the only way to become memorable is to be hateful. Public response: MEH. When they find you as a pensioner, freeze-dried to a chair three months after your lonely death, wearing a bathrobe and dried remnants of excreta, and with more unpublish/ed/able work than Colin Wilson to burn off, nobody who was here will be very surprised AT ALL.

If you really need to insult me, feel free to take well-informed pot shots at my career, friends, looks, physique, sexual partners over the years, or social class. It will be as enlightening or original as anything else you 'contribute' here.

For the purposes of fairness, and not to be all Cap'n Save-A-Dom about this, but I don't think Dom takes pot-shots at anything other than perceived inanities or hypocrisies in ILX posts. He has a genuine zeal of dislike towards certain social strata (yours, that of the wealthier woman, he actually finds "hot", funnily enough), and his judgement is frequently harsh, but if he's read as a barracker rather than a genuine misanthrope I think it scans far more logically. Sure he crosses the 'line' sometimes (read: often), but I really don't think his criticism is born out of envious loathing for "better" people. Plus, I don't think reams of unpublished work are his style. He strikes me as one who'll only write when there's a) money at stake (Powerslam) and b) when people are listening (ILX).

I fully understand those who find him a complete and utter cunt, though. I used to feel the same, before I stopped taking it so seriously.

I love how the photo is EVERYTHING bad about America all in one place: icky summer clothes, fat ankles, mirrored pseudo-Vuarnet shades, people wearing flag shit, spelling errors and misplaced patriotism. All worn by what appears to be an off-duty Embers management trainee.

-- suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:39 (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

i dunno it was missing america's smug expatriate self-hatred of its own working class until now

-- +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 23:43 (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

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^^^I think that's as close as we'll ever get to Dom OTM'ing me.

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Current bookmarks: The Pioneer Woman Cooks, Jaden's Kitchen, Beppe Grillo blog, AMP street t-shirts, a Dirty Dancing talking pen.

"a dirty dancing talking pen"?

I know, us hopeless pathetic proles are such suckers for dreadful trash culture. One day I hope to see Dinos Chapman on the tube, and bask in a little bit of his glow. Maybe then I'll, if only for a few seconds, know what it's like to be Suzy.

You're so bitter, Dom! WTF.

Has Bimble posted in the last three days?