How would you characterize the various regional hubs of ILX?

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Do you think that some of the larger geographical centers of ILX activity have distinct personalities?

I was just thinking about how when I first went to a FAP in early 2003, Chicago ILXors had this reputation for being super-intellectual, because it was like Nabisco and Amateurist and Sterling. And now I think, now that there's been some turnover and new folks on the scene, we have a reputation for being twee!

But what about London? NYC? San Francisco? LA? Melbourne? Glasgow? Do you ever think of posters from each city as being of a particular collective type?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

LA = we bake in the sun and say 'yeah, dude' a lot (this is not strictly true)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I find myself vaguely intimidated by the San Franciscans.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

THAT'S RIGHT BITCH! ON YR KNEES

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha I think SFers have a reputation for not showing up to FAPs and flaking like crazy.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

dude don't harsh his mellow, bra.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

...the CO/MN massive seems low-key, to me. Although, chances are very good that I'll be moving to Chi, soon, so maybe I'll have to break out those old Belle and Sebastien albums, huh?

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

we have a reputation for being twee!

I think we have a reputation for being kinda schlubby. And rightfully so. Chicago is definitely a schlubby kinda town. Loveable, too.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

But one day we all woke up early and rode our bikes through a park!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I think everyone on ILX has a reputation for being kinda schlubby, frankly.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a CO/MN massive!?

the chicago & glasgow ilxors are muh peeps

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Chicago = the place I most want to go and the people I most want to be around. They're sweet and welcoming and funny.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

schlubby?! pfft I am a svelte motherfucker, if I do say so myself...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

they don't show up to FAPs!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

They're sweet and welcoming and funny.

i feel that way about the australian ILXers!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

are you talking about me, stevem? :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a CO/MN massive!?

No. Not really. I'm just trying to fit in.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

it's okay jaymc i know you had a doctor's note.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

me, you and geoff c-nn are massive

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

and nabisco is originally from CO.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

CO/MN = Colorado/Minnesota?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Word UP. I'm back in MN now, so I'll have to team up with Hglsn or whoever else it is that lives in MPLS.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

y'know, I have never figured out what FAP stands for... Feeling All People? Flesh Abusing Pupae? Flexible Ass Putty?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

brooklyn ilx = DOZENS OF WHITE PEOPLE

― metal detective (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

(I don't actually know any ilxors personally. Except Fancy Bill, but he posts maybe once a year and lives in NM)

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

who's fancy bill?

― metal detective (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

exactly.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The new York crew is the most intimidating one; Chicago and London are the least intimidating. Then there's Dunedin, but that's such an old-skool ILX thing that I honestly can't comment on it much, it'd make for a great sitcom tho, that much I know.

I never realised that there *was* an LA or SF crew - like, I know about ILXors living on the West Coast, but somehow they seem to have less in-jokes/bickering/collective identity than the other city's guys.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Future Aureoles of Poland?
Forced Aerial Puking?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

SURELY YOU JEST MCSHAKEY

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

London = stuckist

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

giboyeux, look up subgenius and John Justen on ILM, they went to HHS too ('91 REPRAZENT).

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

They're all just alien colonies to me. I have worked out which ones are the slitheens.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that the Chicago people are nice and friendly. They *seem* like Chicago.

I would like to meet all of the glasgow people very much, when I consider the "hubs" of people that I have not met.

I have met many LA ILXers, but not often together, and thus I consider them very disparate and undefined (GREAT individuals, though!).

I have been to one London FAP.

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

why are the chicago ilxors seen as twee? those gys are tough as nails.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm in NYC, but i'm not part of the "NYC crew."

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Ditto.

Shakey, Read the ~~FAP~~FAQ

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, they don't seem twee to me at all.

x-post

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

NICE.

(I am currently at the Home Office, btw. Star Gazette headline: "Hastings police see success with Tasers")

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

why are the chicago ilxors seen as twee?

sarah and n/a, silly!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

is there a "nyc crew"???

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

We don't have FAPS in SF anymore.

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

why are the chicago ilxors seen as twee?
sarah and n/a, silly!

yeah and watching jaymc dance to nick & sarah's band. twee as fuck!!

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Australia = goths?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

oh you love it, phil.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Can you actually taser an El Camino? Otherwise I don't see how they'd help the Hastings police at all.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

LA = we bake in the sun and say 'yeah, dude' a lot (this is not strictly true)

Ummmm, what about Spencer?

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Us lot from the mainland are EuroTRASH to the max. This could only apply to me.

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

There should be more mittel-european FAPs.

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

No one pays attention to Toronto.

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

It is true, that to some degree, every SF ILXer is kind of an asshole, but a loveable asshole. Maybe JaXoN is the only non-asshole. And Leee, when he's around.

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm counting myself as a loveable asshole, too!

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

how does one dance twee-like?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd love to see them bust 'em out a field party, though.

(ps - reading the police blotter is probably the best reason to come home)

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks k/l - of course "Fancy a Pint" didn't occur to me, I am not British.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"It is true, that to some degree, every SF ILXer is kind of an asshole, but a loveable asshole. Maybe JaXoN is the only non-asshole. And Leee, when he's around."

Haha is this really our reputation?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm in NYC, but i'm not part of the "NYC crew."
But Tad, it seems that you are an honorary sheepFAPPer.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

LA = we bake in the sun and say 'yeah, dude' a lot (this is not strictly true)

Ummmm, what about Spencer?

I do those things.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

is there a DC-Maryland crew? so far all the maryland ilxors i know fit into the category of 'friendly Oneida fans.'

― matlewis, Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha is this really our reputation?

It is now.

xxp-exactly!

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not an asshole, but I play one on the internet.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm probably an asshole. It was the lovable part that I was mixed up on.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Local headline (for Wh4astings contigent):

"Vulcan pleads guilty to molesting local woman"

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

SF - all about embracing the inner asshole!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The Ohio contingent is known for their enormous genitalia and rightfully so!

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

brooklyn ilx = DOZENS OF WHITE PEOPLE

*ahem* Not so fast...

― Candicissima (candicissima), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"SF - all about embracing the inner asshole!"

Haha that's what the rest of the country said!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

*ahem* Not so fast...

shes referring to the royaloak review in the brooklyn fap thread.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

No one pays attention to Toronto

on the radio this morning, an Iranian guy called Toronto the "dial-up version" of New York

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

WLX =
one drummer and two writers,
sweet and smart and hottt

― Wisconsinym (Haikunym), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Seattle visitors: "They're really nice.. but, man, the Seattle FAPpers really do talk a lot about music, don't they?"

― donut e-goo (donut), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I pay attention to Toronto! I am going there in a month and a half!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

on the radio this morning, an Iranian guy called Toronto the "dial-up version" of New York

BAHAHA

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Burn. (It is definitely less expensive.)

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

There is a DC crew, because I met them - FAPped with them even! j. lu, Aaron Grossman, T0m... who else?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Toronto's Chinatown >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> NYC's Chinatown

2005 Blue Jays = 2005 Yankees (bwahaha!)

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

asshole

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Go and embrace it, Adam!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

is there a "nyc crew"???

Well, there's plenty of anecdotes about NYCers hanging out with each other, and for some time it actually felt like *the* biggest focal point of ILX, period (before that it wuz London.) I suppose it is a bit split-up, tho.

There's a tiny Dutch contigent on ILM, right?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Go and embrace it, Adam!

gygax? no thanks.

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The Trans-Canadian contingent seems to be the friendliest (but I suppose I would think that).

The Portland team works hard at avoiding any sense of collectivity.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

But Tad, it seems that you are an honorary sheepFAPPer.

hee hee -- it would be a honor if were so ;-)

and so's ned and luna!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"There's a tiny Dutch contigent on ILM, right?"

there's stevo, omar and job. sorry if i forgot some others. i don't know if they meet up though. :-)

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

minnesota ILXers:

http://images.dailykos.com/images/user/3/BrainerdClip.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Brainerd! I've been there.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

For lively repartee, sparkling wit, and knowledge of fine pubs, I'd say the DUBLIN ILXors are the team to beat.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The Chicago crew managed to gather up into something regular right when I left -- I'm totally still jealous. From what I hear, it seems like Chicago in general got slightly more hopping right as soon as I drove the U-Haul past Gary.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

That's because we had a massive influx from Virginia, Texas, and North Carolina. I swear, it was like the Great Migration all over again.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I know! And I assume their being new in town worked as good motivation to get a social routine started.

The New York crew is less intimidating and more just weird. And I like that the London group seems much more like a massive friend-group -- as if they all lived in the same dorm at university -- than like a collection of individuals with some common internet interest.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Which hub is responsible for all the ILX navel-gazing?

― L'Histoire d'Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno, Eric, but I'm two degrees away from you on Friendster.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

nabisco OTM about London.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

and I like that the London group seems much more like a massive friend-group -- as if they all lived in the same dorm at university

Well, to be fair some of them actually did. I think we go out drinking together far more than the others (like an average of about once a week over the last couple of years). The only other hubs that seems to have the same sort of easy chemistry between everyone are Glasgow and Dunedin, although that's kind of a special case.

I imagine NYCers as tearing lumps out of one another one minute and doing karaoke and falling over tables giggling the next.

SF is kinda my favourite after London, I think.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

London: Velma
NYC: Shaggy
Chicago: Fred
SF: Daphne
Seattle: Scooby-Doo
Costa Mesa: Scrappy-Doo

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

You have opened the door into a world of pain, Hootie Boy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely Spencer is Fred all on his own!

― the PSB signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Spencer in an Ascot would rule the roost.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Knoxville: Big Pimpin, Spendin Cheese, etc.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

O you gangsta

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

You have opened the door into a world of pain, Hootie Boy.

Oh, but it was worth it.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the East Bay hub needs to be recognized:

Myself, Kyle, andy, Bobby Peru, svend, polyphonic, xcixxorx/Honda...

― the PSB signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, but it was worth it.

Actually you are *just* lucky in that former Costa Mesan, the good Mr. donut, has expressly vented his hate about Scrappy-Doo many times in the past. So had you switched the cities/designations, your beard would be all that is left of you by now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

What on earth are you going on about now?

― the PSB signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

And Leee, when he's around.

I am around again. Hopefully to work with grebt search engine company in my hometown!

Toronto/Canadia (because I'm Amerkin!) is edgy good tastes! And funny.

― Leeeeee (Leee), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

What on earth are you going on about now?

I thought you characters got Scooby-Doo over there in your callow youth. Or were you only given the Clangers?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Hopefully to work with grebt search engine company in my hometown!

You don't mean who i think you do? Cos that would be awesome!

(let me know if you want to hang out soon!)

― the PSB signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Leeeeee will have to start directing all searches about everything to us, the source of life.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

DB shouting "LEMME AT 'IM! I'LL PULVERISE 'IM!" = CLASSIC

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

at various times in my life, i've kinda looked like shaggy's little brother. shaggy, jr.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Any concrete plans for tomorrow?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I do mean who you think I mean! Also you are very un-a-holish, Adam. But loveable to THA XTREME.

― Leeeeee (Leee), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i wish we'd have a world megaFAP

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

That's nice. I suppose you could be right.

xp we talked about having it! In Oakland!

― the PSB signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought it was going to be in Montreal.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

No, Oakland.

― the PSB signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

mandee, i revived the world fap thread a few weeks ago and it sank to the bottom of new answers pretty quickly!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm in LA, a newbie (2 months) to ILX and what keeps me coming back is the wit and intellect of the ILX community at large. This includes all regions of the world. I don't notice much regionalization in mind set, except some of the slang used (like twee & FAP) and generally all posters are polite and will explain anything if you ask. The ILX board definitely won’t sustain the interest of people who are clueless (saying this makes me feel like a snob) but the group also won’t tolerate cluelessness in its posters either. I think that you’re a pretty bright group wherever you are and I enjoy the banter and have learned many things of interest and some really weird stuff I didn’t know interested me to begin with!

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i met some people who lived in sf recently. they hardly knew what crunk *was*.

― n_RQ, Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Mill Valley isn't SF.

― the PSB signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, the East Bay is so crunk it has its OWN crunk!

― the PSB signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The Mississippi Contingent are a bunch of neurotic nailbiters who never get together for FAPs.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

these were pretty square sf people. they explained to me the BART.

― n_RQ, Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

does the following count as a philly crew?

me
sara
anthony
jt.r

any other philly types? make yourselves known!

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

South Carolina Ilxors be LAZY and unbearably SEXAY

― latebloomer: We kissy kiss in the rear view (latebloomer), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

they explained to me the BART.

It's just "BART"! Spencer told me only SoCal people put "the" in front of things!

― the PSB signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

that sounds weird, adam. "I took BART down South" - people might think you're talking about YOUR BEAU

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i think that strongo is still in philly, maria.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Adam, don't tell me you don't talk about living in "the 510."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Spencer told me only SoCal people put "the" in front of things!

Yeah, it's a sickness. The Northern CA people refer to their freeways all businesslike with simple numerical designations (101, 280, 880). In Southern CA we elevate these mere numbers to TITLES (The 5, The 101, The PCH, etc.).

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

STRONGO HOLD DOWN PHILLY B4 ANYONE

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i always do 'the' bart, man.

― n_RQ, Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Angels"

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

(also, rockist scientist or whatever he's calling himselves these days. oh, and a few ex-pats.)

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Also note that in LA, the "The" I'm referring to is prounounced like so: Thee Five, Thee Four-oh-Five, Thee Ten, etc. Just a helpful tip for out-of-town visitors.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I think jaymc and Sarah are the only Chicago ILXors who are particularly twee. As for myself, I once bit the testicles off of a wild bulldog.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

so wait.. i'm the only dude representing DC [*cough*metropolitanarea*cough*] that's reading this?

― matlewis, Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

that was a kitten, n/a.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Poor kitten.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

DC-area ILXors:

j.lu
TOMBOT
The CDepot dudes
Aaron Grossman (who doesn't seem to post anymore)

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The CDepot dudes

Oh yeah! Zack and Peter and JD, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

If by Northern CA, you mean the rest of the world, then yeah.

― donut e-goo (donut), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, it's not "5", it's "EYE-FIVE!"

― donut e-goo (donut), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

(Admittedly, back when i was in SoCal, I thought that Minutemen's Double Nickels On The Dime meant "Doing 55 mph on the 10 freeway".)

― donut e-goo (donut), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

EYE-FIVE
MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE

― The Ghost of Beck (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I spent basically every weekend of my junior and senior years of high school going to CDepot (and Atomic Music), so I love that those guys post here.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The ILE Oregon contingent is the most poetical. Or should that be poetastic?

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

philly redux:

me
sara
anthony
jt.r
strongo
rockist scientist

ex-pats, you do not count. let's meet up sunday for karaoke at the locust bar.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

well i don't count either as i live in the burbs and am trapped here like zod and pals in superman.

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

lame. you're out of the club.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

AS IT WAS, AS IT ALWAYS SHALL BE

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

miccio don't count either because he's not in philly yet well actually he's in philly right now and hoping maybe people wanna FAP tonight (cuz he's drinking pints either way) but he's not a philly ilxor until august probably

― miccio on sara's computer, Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

and as sara doesn't post on ilx no more we should count Keith Harris in the philpile cuz he's done it on occasion plus when I get to philly I may not be an ilxor cuz I'm gonna trying to find a job where I ain't sitting in front of a goddamn computer for eight hours with nothing to do.

― miccio ?ueesteak, Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Australia = goths?

-- Jordan

HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

― You fondle my trigger then you blame my gun / Kate (papa november), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Any concrete plans for tomorrow?

Remy: yes. Refer to initial plans on LA Metro thread. More tonight.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

DC-area ILXors:

j.lu
TOMBOT
The CDepot dudes
Aaron Grossman (who doesn't seem to post anymore)

Aaron's been sans-computer, but he said something was in the works...

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

anthony i can hang for a bit tonight. sara has my number. give me a call.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Also I resent getting classed as "super-intellectual" in this thread question. I don't know crap about crap. I'd just nod and smile when Sterling said stuff, then go home and look it up later.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

If by Northern CA, you mean the rest of the world, then yeah.

That's precisely what I meant. Why, am I leaving someplace out?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

nice try, n.

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

plus you're from grodey pueblo, nabisco.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Pyeblo rules, Grodey-Greeley drools, and the drool smells so I throw up and your smelly Greeley mama comes around the corner and LICKS it up. Super-intellectual THAT, sucka.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Nabisco. You are a smarty pants.

― rainy (rainy), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

you try to be thugged-out the way that only a super-intellectual can be, nabisco.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I am crewless, these days.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

you will always be an NYCer and you know it, allyzay, don't deny it!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I will be associated forever with the sins of NYC's past.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno, Eric, but I'm two degrees away from you on Friendster.
-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), June 16th, 2005 2:12 PM.

Really? Who's between us?

― L'Histoire d'Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

All3gra Ling0. She transferred from your college to mine.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

She's so cool. I should make an effort to go to the Kieran's pub quiz again. Someday I'll actually beat her. You should try and friend me because I can't seem to find you over there; friendster always freezes my computer up...

― L'Histoire d'Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh wait, I think I found it.

― L'Histoire d'Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice. Yeah, she is cool. Although I'm actually closer friends with her girlfriend Karen. Or at least was. I haven't talked to either of them in a while.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

in los angeles:

i dont think we have anything in common except we waste too much $ drinking.

and half of us are males with long, luxurious hair at some point of another

― Vichitravirya XI, Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

w/ mark and spencer and chaki's hairstyles from last year...hell more than half

― Vichitravirya XI, Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I met K4r3n maybe once and can't really remember much about her. I love that one of the most salient things 4ll3gra remembers about me (at least until we touched base again post-Friendstering each other) was when I made her get up at 7 in the morning to watch the Oscar nominations. She probably also remembers how aghast and unimpressed I was with that best picture nomination for Full Monty. We argued over breakfast. It was great.

― L'Histoire d'Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Spencer and Mark both have wonderful hair. I cannot speak for chaki's hair, though I came close to seeing it, about this time last year.

― the PSB signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

NEW YORK = SUPER DRUNK

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

and half of us are males with long, luxurious hair at some point of another

Hopefully not at the crotchular point, O King of the Kurus.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

No one pays attention to Toronto.
-- Sundar

hell yeah, but also a fact that (immediately after some FAPS) some of us can be rather thankful for!

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The ILE Floridian contingent is very lonely, has manic tendencies (but thankfully not all the time), adores meta-referencing, and usually is very thoughtful -- which is more than you'll get out of other Floridians!

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Hopefully not at the crotchular point, O King of the Kurus.

I'm impressed. Of course I have health problems and am going to abdicate shortly w/ little bro coming up...but for now i'm impressed

― Vichitravirya XI, Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

the new york contingent exist to me in a no-longer-there (if it ever was) gritty/shiny movie version of nyc, and carry themselves accordingly. london seems really smart – i'd like to go there but i'd wind up using slang that didn't fit my mouth properly, and i'd have to get a boring dayjob probably. i imagine everyone there being able to drink me under the table while having erudite conversations about pop and stuff. actually maybe i don't want to go there. dunedin remains a magic wonderland full of nice people i've never so much as said hello to. they rate everything! the other places are all made up, as far as i'm concerned, except sf which is always windier and chillier than i expect it to be, so whoever lives there must be either a nonstop k-way wearing motherfucker or one of those people who can wear shorts all year round without catching a chill. weirdos.

― jones (actual), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty anti-social basically, not really into drinking, or smoke, or groups of lots of people talking at once. I'm not a good, fun person. I also don't show up for union meetings and events, and Sara's (x-?) landlord/housemate could vouch for that. Maybe some day I will show up and see if the FAP looks approachable.

― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Melbourne roll hardcore.

― Mike Stuchbery (Mike Stuchbery), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i haven't actually *seen* any chicago ilxors save for nick and sarah for months!! anyway pretty soon i will be holding down the i0wa chapter w/j0hn "not around much anymore" darn!e11e.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

j0hn lives in n. carolina now!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

(but what's this? are you moving to iowa?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

iowa is great GOOD CALL AMST

― Jacqui Pickles (Jacqui Pickles), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Those of us here in TX are very disjointed, un-united. Which is absolutely no surprise whatsoever, because our state is so massive it might as well be four or five different states. Actually, there are at least four or five varying regions of the state and none of them are like the other, so it's no wonder we're all so... lacking in unity.

I really wish I could find the time to meet up with Sam, though. Seeing as though she only lives about 90 miles away from me and her new home of Austin is in the part of the same Texas my home is in. One day, one day.

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

in new york we give our highways (expressways and parkways and such) real names, like Henry Hudson and Major Deegan!

― metal detective (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

why am i signed in as jacqui pickles?

― Jacqui Pickles (Jacqui Pickles), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

strictly speaking, i'm not an NYC ilxor at all. i'm an NJ ilxor -- AND I AM NOT ALONE. (hurting, o.nate, mike a. [in exile], jbr [in spirit!])

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

okay that's better, i keep posting as my sisters.. damnit.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

YOU HAVE SISTERS?

― DAEREST V1CE MAGAZINE!!!!! (ex machina), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

uhh yeah, two of 'em. gunther heartymeal and jacqui pickles are the names they use on this thing.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I am crewless, these days.

Just for you, then, Ally.....

http://photo.sing365.com/music/picture.nsf/Motley-Crue-photo/48256C71003578A2482568BB00086846/$file/MOTLEY+CRUE.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

how many carolina ilxors are there?

― latebloomer: We kissy kiss in the rear view (latebloomer), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

One day I am going to be a Seattle ILXOR.

― Mike Stuchbery (Mike Stuchbery), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The CDepot dudes

Oh yeah! Zack and Peter and JD, right?

Don't forget Mike O., either. And Mat, you're an honorary CDepot dude at this point anyway.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Melbourne are goths? If anyone is, its only me, and I'm not anymore (yeah yeah sorry). DOn't call Mikey or Jim a goth if you want to live ;P

We're famous FAPPikers as well. Just ask moley/colin. He'll confirm this.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

"No one pays attention to Toronto."

That's great. The city which is constantly berated from coast to coast for it's superiority complex still manages to have an inferiority complex. You really can't get more Canadian than that.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Melbourne are goths. or sci fi geeks. Sydney are good looking hard edged money making yuppies.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

see? this is why the mongrels are so special!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Sydney has that milk-moustache of cocaine around its botoxed lips! =)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Or er... nose even. Yeah. I know my drugs dont I.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I am lonesome in Brisbane. I need to recruit a new ilxor round here.

― You fondle my trigger then you blame my gun / Kate (papa november), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Move to melbourne ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Fancy Bill lives in NC. He claims to have seen darnie11e at a concert once.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, after years of condescension, I have finally come around on Iowa=great. It's BEAUTIFUL down there.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I think LA ILX is very LA. We're joined by no common trait except our freakdom.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.teresco.org/pics/signs/20030821/end40.jpg

One such hub of ilX is to the right!

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Friday, 17 June 2005 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I was born there (Wilmington NC). ILM is therefore my birthright.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Use it wisely.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I was born in Anaheim. I hereby claim Ned's turf as my own. "Warriors, come out and PLAYYYYYYY!"

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been to anaheim

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://photos10.flickr.com/13364747_6071163b08.jpg?v=0

WHICH WAY TO ILX?

― DAEREST V1CE MAGAZINE!!!!! (ex machina), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

omg

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

DC CDEPOT OMYGOD IM LISTENING TO NATIONTIME I WANT A BEER!!!!! ZACK IS HERE!

― peter smith (plsmith), Saturday, 18 June 2005 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I have an unreasonable desire to attend an NYC FAP, but I'm terrified no one would know or care who the fuck I am.
So, pretty much the same problem I have with bars in general.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The last...and only....NYC FAP I attended looked something like this...

http://pharyngula.org/images/zardoz_exterminator.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 18 June 2005 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Austin is in the part of the same Texas my home is in. One day, one day.

no shit dee!

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Saturday, 18 June 2005 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

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