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."
― felicity, Friday, 18 April 2008 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Brits are smarter. End of discussion.
― dell, Friday, 18 April 2008 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link
PERSECUTION COMPLEX
friend request Between You and Spencer Chow Spencer Chow Add as Friend 6:41pm Apr 11th Report Message Jon,You keep calling me things like "douchebag" on ilx. Why do you think I'd want to be your friend on here?-Spencer
Spencer Chow Add as Friend 6:41pm Apr 11th Report Message Jon,
You keep calling me things like "douchebag" on ilx. Why do you think I'd want to be your friend on here?
-Spencer
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 18 April 2008 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― bart_stanberg, Friday, 18 April 2008 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
the real answer to the thread question is OUR INDOMITABLE PIONEER SPIRIT
― John Justen, Friday, 18 April 2008 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link
In a business context, "please note:" usually means "this is f***ed up, tag you're it."
― felicity, Friday, 18 April 2008 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
i think we should all fucking relax, smoke some weed and giggle.
― stevienixed, Friday, 18 April 2008 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Ok, but I won't inhale.
― felicity, Friday, 18 April 2008 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
or listen to some crappy 80s music (KOKOMO by the BEACH BOYS or was that the nineties???) and giggle
― stevienixed, Friday, 18 April 2008 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link
1988.
― jaymc, Friday, 18 April 2008 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Close enough.
― stevienixed, Friday, 18 April 2008 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought NB meant "Note By"
― jel --, Saturday, 19 April 2008 10:05 (sixteen years ago) link
RIP
― joie de marsh (imago), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 11:17 (nine years ago) link
UK ILX: too zingy to live, too bored to live again
― joie de marsh (imago), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 11:19 (nine years ago) link
Isn't doglatin and crew coming to Londan this weekend? Sure you will ilx people to hang out with.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 11:32 (nine years ago) link
that doesn't change the fact that UK ILX is more or less dead
― joie de marsh (imago), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 11:50 (nine years ago) link
my question is 'what happened?'
― joie de marsh (imago), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 11:51 (nine years ago) link
squirrels chewed through my broadband
― ogmor, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 11:57 (nine years ago) link
I am still here indeed me ol' chum.
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 11:58 (nine years ago) link
although it feels like a lot of UK posters who used to post a lot have very recently decided to up sticks to social media. that kind of annoys me because even though i like chatting to ilxors on FB, I still see my ILX life and my IR life as separate.
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 12:00 (nine years ago) link
if zappa were alive he'd have def released an album with ignor's post as title
― joie de marsh (imago), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 12:04 (nine years ago) link
Autocorrect Insulted My Posting Comrade
― joie de marsh (imago), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 12:05 (nine years ago) link
I like the total randomness of this place.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 12:43 (nine years ago) link
Good revive btw. Great thread with a few hilarious moments.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 12:43 (nine years ago) link
the cable has been replaced, though it took hours. I had not appreciated that my internet was coming through a tree before
― ogmor, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 13:32 (nine years ago) link
FACT: US posters are more loyal because more of us own dogs. dogs are loyal to their owners, and owners are more loyal to messageboards.
36.5% of U.S. households own a dog, vs. 31% in the UK.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 13:40 (nine years ago) link
i should see if Vox is hiring
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 13:41 (nine years ago) link
People got bored. Covered this in another thread but I particularly dislike or, in some cases, have grown to dislike the contributions of certain of the more prominent (and in many cases celebrated) posters on ILX. I think I called them humourless but that wasn't what I meant at all, what I meant was joyless as well supercilious and just plain cold. I recommend hanging out with the ILB Crew, they're cool!
― ... and a Martin Parr photo essay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
I maintain steadfast and unwavering loyalty to the ILX brand. Bloomps be praised.
― Horrible Health (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:22 (nine years ago) link
hopefully all of these emigre uk ilx posters have found a new place to discuss new bbc2 panel shows, today's daily express frontpage, ben goldacre and the hypocrisy of the liberal democrats
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:27 (nine years ago) link
A pub would be a good place
― ... and a Martin Parr photo essay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
Human contact though, wow
it does feel like a rather quick exit on behalf of the Brits.
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link
seen that new cassetteboy conference rap dog latin?
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
i saw a Cassetteboy thing the other day, but i think it was just Osborne or some other Tory figurehead. Hadn't seen/heard anything else by him since about 2002 though.
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
how many brits post regularly these days? a baker's monkey?
― nashwan, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
Don't know but the number of Yanks is yea big.
― ... and a Martin Parr photo essay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0eVkrDIgAEGxi-.jpg:large
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
I recommend hanging out with the ILB Crew, they're cool!
― ... and a Martin Parr photo essay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:19 (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what it is. in fact we're due an autumn FAP I reckon.
as for me, i'm working too much to contribute regularly, which frankly disgusts me (the work bit, though it'd be good to be contributing more - or at all really - as well.)
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I *did* hang out with the ILB cru after that Pynchon talk recently, was ace
but there's a reticence to post I've noticed, not sure why. The level of discourse is quite good, when it does happen
― joie de marsh (imago), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
would hang quietly in background of an ilb cru meet i think
― local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
I endorse the observation that ILB's UK contingent is top notch. If I were nearer London, I'd gladly FAP with them and be all the better for it.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
not at all, you'd be dancing on the tables in no time (xp)
― ... and a Martin Parr photo essay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
would you fuck deems, that behaviour would only be an indication that you were in need of strong liquor and a contrarywise kick up the arse.
xp!
aimless, should you ever have the luxury of a UK visit - there's some very good walking as I'm sure you know tho i realise circumstances may not be expedient - you just need to send up the signal.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
would you fuck deems
pls dont start sentences like this pls
― local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
now you put it like that.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
poll?
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
by all means don't let's
― local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
the british left
― keep the meat alive: pampas grass (wins), Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link