LJ

it's hardly for me to concern myself with daz

Answer the fucking question noob

hey no bullying on the "LJ" thread

Watch and learn trees

http://fbcwp.org/images/new%20learning%20tree%20logoweb.jpg

Looks like alien from american dad

treeship is much, much more controlled and self-restrained than haberdager/just got offed/arguably even country matters was

― imago, Tuesday, July 23, 2013 6:17 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

'unfished business' very deliberately left out of this list imo

are those all former l0u1s jagg3r usernames? (my registration for the online course in ilx history is still pending)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY

:)

You were fearless, beautiful. They've made you like us. ;_;

― mundane peaceable username (darraghmac), Tuesday, July 23, 2013 2:37 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he was athwart

imago, i'm a little disappointed by your answer (tbh i was looking for either more psychoanalysis or more social-theory condemnation of ilx) but most of the rest of you are totes on point and make me proud to be an ilx poster.

did you name yourself after a Rovo album?

you know, this isn't meant to be mean, whatsoever, call it tough love maybe - lj, i think that you really need to start taking some lumps/responsibility for this stuff. i mean, you've been googleproofed, you've been ytmnd'd, and getting us to ban you instead of just learning to exert some self-control doesn't seem to be the solution to your difficulties. you are capable of not pissing people off, but your most recent incarnation seems hell bent on trading old vulnerable LJ for new improved LBZC lapdog zingmaster LJ.

maybe just try posting for a while without some arch internet persona, and see how it goes for you.

obv if other mods feel differently, im not opposed to your request, i just think it wont help break the same cycle you seem to tend to go through.

― just makes my strat rage, march and burn the face of the MAN. (John Justen), Tuesday, September 30, 2008 2:35 PM (4 years ago)

even the worst contemporary ilx posters don't receive vitriol this abrasive. is this just an era of cuddlytime or was og lj really an exceptional threat to the well being of ilx?

his ability to go from endearing to infuriating within a post or two was quite remarkable

definitely cuddlytime

hahahaha "vitriol"? oh man you should really go through more of the archives

it's an eon xp

xposts to nilmar, re. the suggestion that i intentionally leave myself open to zings. i thought about this and i still think it isn't true in that i am purposefully inviting zings but i think i write things knowing that i can get zinged but then think fuck it i want to say it anyway and post it. sometimes, however, after doing that i wish i had another account so i could zing myself.

the teenagers I play cricket with were reduced to tears of helpless laughter last weekend when I revealed within an episode of great gadding and tomfoolery on the sidelines that I was married

I then strode out into the middle and blasted an indefatigable 28 not out

think of that as a microcosm of sorts

I've been reading a bunch of 1902 Wodehouse school stories lately and

PS ban Treeship from this thread

the worst contemporary ilx posters are not nearly that bad because the ones that were eventually got clued in

bring back suggest ban

lol

who was the last person to hit 51? froggy?

if a really offensive troll appears on the scene do they usually just get banned outright?

or become regulars

^^^

http://i43.tinypic.com/2j8twn.jpg

lols at that jjj post being vitriolic, iirc it was the nicest thing directed at lj that month

Yeah wth, that jj post was *helpful*, imo

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