Has ILE become too pally?

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Would it make you feel better, amateurist, if we balanced the flirtation and self-flattery with a lot of mean-spirited-ness and self-loathing? Cause I think I might could fill those shoes.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:18 (twenty years ago) link

will you or won't you 'fill those shoes'?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:25 (twenty years ago) link

I think he'd feel better if we all shot ourselves in the face, but that's just the voibe.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:25 (twenty years ago) link

Heavens! That's quite the vibe. I don't get that vibe at all.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:27 (twenty years ago) link

I might be being sarcastic! Who can tell?

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:28 (twenty years ago) link

can you feel the void tonight?

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:28 (twenty years ago) link

This is getting very non-pally.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:28 (twenty years ago) link

Hypocrite!

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:28 (twenty years ago) link

Me?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:29 (twenty years ago) link

I have a poor memory for it but it strikes me that if ILE were ILM three years ago, we would now be talking about starting a new board for people to screw around on so that they don't sink ILE by drowning out everything else.

― Josh (Josh), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:30 (twenty years ago) link

People need hope, people need loving
People need trust from a fellow man
People need love to make a good living
People need faith in a helping hand

Man has always wanted a woman by his side to keep him company
Women always knew that it takes a man to get matrimonial harmony
Everybody knows that a man who's feeling down wants some female sympathy
Gotta have love to carry on living
Gotta have love 'till eternity

People need hope, people need loving
People need trust from a fellow man
People need love to make a good living
People need faith in a helping hand

La la la la, la la la la-la, la la la la la la la-la la la
La la la la, la la la la-la, la la la la la la la-la la laa...

Flowers in the desert need a drop of rain like a woman needs her man
If a man's in love and his woman wants the moon
Then he'll take it down if he can
Somebody who loves you and somebody who cares
Isn't that what you'd call a friend?
Gotta have love to carry on living
Isn't it easy to understand?

People need hope, people need loving
People need trust from a fellow man
People need love to make a good living
People need faith in a helping hand

La la la la, la la la la-la, la la la la la la la-la la la
La la la la, la la la la-la, la la la la la la la-la la laa...

People need hope, people need loving
People need trust from a fellow man
People need love to make a good living
People need faith in a helping hand

La la la la, la la la la-la, la la la la la la la-la la la
La la la la, la la la la-la, la la la la la la la-la la laa...
La la la la, la la la la-la, la la la la la la la-la la la
La la la la, la la la la-la, la la la la la la la-la la laa...

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:34 (twenty years ago) link

People need to get the hell over themselves and enjoy it for what it is, and also for what it isn't. If it bugs you, don't read it.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:35 (twenty years ago) link

Or do, if you get off on that kind of thing.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:36 (twenty years ago) link

How is everything else getting drowned out? What is this 'everything else' you speak of?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:36 (twenty years ago) link

how would you know it bugs you if you didn't read it?

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:36 (twenty years ago) link

(x-post)

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:37 (twenty years ago) link

meta discussions are good. if ILX bugs you, do read it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:38 (twenty years ago) link

Well there are certain threads you can avoid by reading the titles... I dunno, I just hate the bitching that crops up every so often... but I suppose I don't have to read it, do I?

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:38 (twenty years ago) link

Ams, are you trying to say you stick around in the hopes that it won't bug you in the future?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:39 (twenty years ago) link

well i don't read much of the pally stuff bcz i don't have time. it can be OK if you're in the mood (as everything else) I suppose.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:40 (twenty years ago) link

http://vincentbridges.com/millennium/images/mobilus.jpg

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:41 (twenty years ago) link

You are all completely emo.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:42 (twenty years ago) link

Except me. I'm completely Elmo.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:42 (twenty years ago) link

Has anyone even come out against palliness yet?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:42 (twenty years ago) link

fuck you s1utsky. i need my personal space.

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:43 (twenty years ago) link

Hahaha! I'm sorry I'm adding to the supposed static-to-signal or whatever but goddamn, that's a good post, amateurist.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:44 (twenty years ago) link

i cry

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

all of my posts will henceforth be followed by numerous line spaces. i think it will increase my aura of impenetrability.

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:53 (twenty years ago) link

but we just want to be close to you!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:53 (twenty years ago) link

(blank stare)

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:54 (twenty years ago) link

Give us all kisses, you silly silly thing!

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:55 (twenty years ago) link

I WILL MAKE YOU LOVE ME, BITCH

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:57 (twenty years ago) link

the new single from cher, extra vocoder.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:59 (twenty years ago) link

You have to admit, an aura of impenetrability beats an aura of easy penetrability every time.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 21:01 (twenty years ago) link

So, who else is contending with Amateurist for "resident crank"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 21:02 (twenty years ago) link

My jokes aren't very funny. Does that count?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 21:03 (twenty years ago) link

the new single from cher, extra vocoder.

I'm hearing it to the tune of Whitney's biggest single. With sample from Eminem.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 21:04 (twenty years ago) link

do you imagine the extended "biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch" like the "youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuueeeeeeeoooooooooo" in the original?

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 21:11 (twenty years ago) link

I go to lunch and I come back to this.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 21:19 (twenty years ago) link

I'm in tears and a couple of guys are talking about Cher

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 21:20 (twenty years ago) link

That reminds me of this one time at summer camp --

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 21:21 (twenty years ago) link

Fine - no love for you. Whateverrrr.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 21:22 (twenty years ago) link

Kenan: quit being so hard on yourself, palzo.
Fules: it's clearly the Barbara Streisand/Trick Daddy collabo

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 21:30 (twenty years ago) link

More people = more posts.

More people meeting each other = more pally posts.

Also: when ILX started the core posters were a few Brits who mostly knew one another anyway and had a separate mailing list for banter and nonsense. Now the locus is a bigger group of New Yorkers who mostly met through ILX so it's natural ILX is the scene for a lot more social stuff.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 17 July 2003 08:01 (twenty years ago) link

yea, totally! i can even remember when there were british people on ilx!

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 17 July 2003 08:04 (twenty years ago) link

I can too. They were bad times.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 17 July 2003 08:10 (twenty years ago) link

Also, there aren't just more New Yorkers on, there are less Londoners too. More than there were a month or two ago, but less than a year ago.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 17 July 2003 08:41 (twenty years ago) link

I don't think there are any fewer Londoners than there ever were, it's just they are posting less and the NYC ilx0rs are posting more regularly. I have no doubt the pendulum will swing back the other way eventually. Or in a different direction - Toronto ILX could suddenly become huge.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 17 July 2003 09:04 (twenty years ago) link

That would be nice, except for banter about Kraft Dinner.

― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 17 July 2003 11:25 (twenty years ago) link

I'm posting quite a bit. South London in the house!

it bugs me that some people seem to be on ilx exclusively to make flirtatious three-word posts and flatter themselves

Yeah, this bugs me quite a lot. There are people who can be absolutely *guaranteed* to follow posts by certain other people with nudge-nudge flirtation and private jokes, and sometimes it's fine, sometimes it's irritating. Mostly I just think it would be better kept off-board, as it's a bit showy-off, kinda territorial and just a bit icky.

Anyway, I'm a touchy fuckx0r, so this may just be me (and amateurist, if I can speak for him, as I suspect he wasn't being sarcastic), but... there you go.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 17 July 2003 11:35 (twenty years ago) link

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