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

Someone should mold a clay likeness of his head.

Hello?

you should post more pix of you at scenster parties with attractive womens.
gr8080 only posts photos of himself with cougars : /

Spencer is great.

We can talk about Spencer now, I think we've solved the thread "problem".

I always viewed ILX as kind of "transatlantic", possibly also "metrosexual" when that was still cool.

so kind of transsexual, then?

oo-er!

UK folks have higher standards

And higher teeth

I can't imagine why anyone would dislike Spencer. He always comes across as such a straight-up, likeable guy.

I don't think anybody does. Lots of people have been friendly to Spencer lately.

These threads always amuse me because I keep forgetting that there's an entire other layer of people who dislike each other standing right behind the layer of people who dislike each other that I always notice.

-- HI DERE, Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

it's like a beautiful onion of hate

I am sorry that you think so. It isn't for me.

a blooming onion.

i wasn't seriously saying it was beautiful, btw

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it makes me cry, certainly.

occasionally amusing perhaps, mostly irritating, and sometimes sad.

it makes me cry, certainly.

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that's the nature of an onion

they also go unpleasantly rotten after a time ... i don't think i'm going to pursue this metaphor.

Worse comes to worse, you can deep fry them.

"You seem pretty new in this thread."

Thank you jaymc - so I guess it's been four years, and I still don't know what the abbreviations mean. NB?

I just found out what <3 is - I thought it was something rude.

I'm loyal because, as stated above, I am consistently amazed and amused by so much that goes on here.
Anyway <3 does not look like a heart at all.

it means less than 3

take one anatomy lesson, aimurchie.

you obviously have no heart!!

take one maths lesson, he has <3 <3

And still no explanation of NB!

It's not ilx-ese, but I think it's more commonly used in the U.K.?

NB: a British thing, short for "nota bene" in Latin. US equiv would be "Note:", I think.

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Thank you!
You see how my loyalty is constantly rewarded!

I feel like much of what I've learned about rhetoric I've picked up from NaBisco's posts here.

NB, I hope that doesn't convict him in any way by means of guilt by association. I still write like Keanu Reeves trying to "act".

I don't think I'm gonna attempt an NB anytime soon.

I just went on the internet last year, and then there didn't seem to be a good jumping on point. Then when I came back it was all a big hoo-hah about secret boards, and blah. Then I came back again and it was all about dr.who.

wrt the hate onion.

yeah i've been here like forever and i still don't even have a clue as to what ppl like know each other or hate each other or had falling outs IRL and stuff....i still get confused by a lot of stuff on here like the luna stuff or whatever.

i think that's why i don't go on ILE that much.

Plus ILX is a testimony to my ineptitude, and years of coming home from work and posting inane comments. I can just do that on facebook now.

I would really like a brief history of ILX in 2007, if that's possible? Who was naughty, who was nice, etc etc.

I attempted an NB WITH a <3 - on a different thread.

I'm feeling brave - should I start a poll? j/k.

I think we need a wiki.

NB: a British thing, short for "nota bene" in Latin. US equiv would be "Note:", I think.

I'd imagine Brits far more likely to be Latin-familiar, but I wouldn't call n.b. a British thing.

I didn't see it used much until ILM. Americans don't know what I'm talking about if I use it. I also think the translation is more at "note well" but in a slightly lighter way than that sounds.

I have only ever known Brits to use it, and I have actually listened to British colleagues explain it to other USians over the phone or in person, when "NB" had been used in an email or memo. So I'm not the only one! I don't think it's EXCLUSIVELY British, maybe, but outside maybe the legal profession and a few other specialties, Americans don't know it or use it.

maybe it is more common in legal-world, but I thought it was pretty universal among intellectual types

My point exactly.

in uk pretty much everyone uses it (ie not just intellectuals) for emphasis on emails and written notes

Is it really all that obscure? I thought it was in the MLA style manual.

I think it means "pay attention: I am about to backtrack/equivocate."

Brits are smarter. End of discussion.

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Jon,

You keep calling me things like "douchebag" on ilx. Why do you think I'd want to be your friend on here?

-Spencer

Why do you think I'd want to be your friend on here?

NB is definitely used in school in the US, etc, like what you'd write in the margins by an important passage or something. I've never seen it used in the US in business or formal emails, etc., but I've never seen "note:" used, either (usually it's "Please note, <///#~~~". People in the US are hyper-formal with communications, moreso than the UK, from my own experience at least.

the real answer to the thread question is OUR INDOMITABLE PIONEER SPIRIT

In a business context, "please note:" usually means "this is f***ed up, tag you're it."