LJ

OK Mordy, you want psychoanalysis? I can only go with what I've detected in myself, which is an increasing disdain for ignorance, reductive argument and silly absolutist statements. I set myself against these perils of thought now.

My notion is that every single ILXor went through that process - of radically amending and improving upon their slapdash youth - but few posted so visibly during the initial stage of maturation. Hence, my presence, validated by its copiousness, became in turn a validation of an idiocy they thought they and their rarefied internet community of cognoscenti had spurned.

I can only say that there were many who zinged with compassion, and that it worked, because well look at me now. One crazy customer hath turned vendor. Of course, it's a continuum - elements remain in both directions - and it is probably harmful to draw a complete binary between before and after, but the process of looking back at your own embarrassing actions and seeing them replicated - amplified - in the present, swamping the discourse of a place that finally - finally - doesn't make 'surprise sex' jokes or generic statements about reggae is, maybe, somewhat horrifying.

But the 'zinging with compassion' thing again - upon discovering any kind of gaucheness, be it gaucheness of cultural reductivity or gaucheness of copiousness (the latter, perhaps, being Treeship's preferred variant, albeit that it has nothing on my own peak output, and when combined with the former gives perhaps an insight into the valid reasons people had for getting pissed off with me - factor in my rampant oversharing and the equation is stretched to virtual calculator error), I must always try to channel it usefully rather than confront it - respond positively but demand strictures, as a tutor to a student, for to confront it and contemn it is to deny its owner the fair treatment I myself received at that stage - treatment which has enabled this graduation to maturity and position of experience.

Of course, if you don't believe in power-dynamics on the free, anarchic space of the Internet, you can disregard all of the above and simply believe that I irritated people quite a lot and ruined their lovely messageboard, except for when it was someone else ruining. Now I post less I ruin it less.

Otm except ilx was better then

zinging = quality control

Zings can be targeted or can be opportunistic based on aesthetics and circumstance, the latter to be preferred at all times

get on with it everyone ffs

Has ronan ever been zung

ILX in 2013 is basically just a bunch of bums muttering into their drinks about how things used to be better round here

Bums otm

i know right

it'll pick up when the northern autumn rolls round again

ronan was piledriverzung by deeznuts once, it was totes hilair

of course it wasn't a funny zing but a nasty one that had no factual basis, and deeznuts was eventually banned

ahhh good times

Warm feelings

the scary thing is that she's a) a philosophy student (AGAIN, why do i always fall for them) and b) she came to the club the other night with a philosophy textbook tied around her neck on a piece of string, so i perhaps wouldn't put that past her...nah, she's a girl i find it just so great to love, she's so amazing and self-determined and funny and lovely...argh i maybe need to sleep
― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1:47 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark

reader, he didn't marry her.

http://media.screened.com/uploads/0/183/576822-sandw.jpg

oh crumbs, crossposted by estela. and hell, she's been rootling around 'Intellectual Flirting', probably the most embarrassing of all my threads

saving deems and vaggy from the full brunt of my crude, yet entirely merited comparison

Calling him vaggy was quite enough i feel

Noodie vaggy

possible 5-letter nicknames for noodle vague:

vague
snood
oodle
noods
noova
novag
pasta
ndlvg

cmon wake up nakhy/nilms we need to sort this once n frall

Nagle

most underrated Fall member; not an acceptable NV nick

nagl dove

fatso

noogy

http://i.imgur.com/vbicgiD.jpg

Nodol Vuh

Valued goone

NOOD VOCK

Voog

The Vooginator

Voog Vikernes

the fuck

i like that one

ilikewherethisthreadisgoing.jpg

Voog Vikernes

sounds like a name from Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I suck at this game, I can only come up with 4-letter ones

revisiting 'intellectual flirting' only affirmed my deep & abiding <3 for you, lj. xx...p

How to decode that

It's a four eyed person laughing and sticking their tongue out

lj. could be an elaborate naval cap worn sideways

NAGL Vadge

lj, did you sing in choir as a boy?

lj thought my 78minute edit of that sunn o))) track with the soprano choir intro was p fuckin dope

progging to the choir

yeah it was during that phase of slowing everything down or speeding it up 8 or 9 times. some people had sped up sunn o))) and it sounded *just like normal metal haha!* so the obvious thing to do was to slow sunn o))) down by the same factor and thus create the most evil music of all

i didn't really sing in a choir. belted it out like anything at hymn services, latin prayers (posh school), compline (posh school next to abbey) etc but never worked especially hard on my pitch & timbre. took singing lessons for a month once. not that i can't sing *at all* but i'm pretty rough

me!

it would be too convoluted to explain how that question came up, but thanks for answering it!

What do you think of this band?
http://poil.bandcamp.com/

As a part-time poster who does a bit of reading back over old threads but usually remains confined to the ILF basement, I confess to being somewhat staggered to discover that imago, who has repped for me on several occasions during a tenure where most of my posts just fly under the radar, is the infamous L. Jagger of L. Jagger fame. The things you discover when you're bored at work.