Has ILE become too pally?

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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-one years ago) link

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

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

You are all completely emo.

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

Except me. I'm completely Elmo.

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

Has anyone even come out against palliness yet?

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

fuck you s1utsky. i need my personal space.

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

i cry

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

but we just want to be close to you!

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

(blank stare)

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

Give us all kisses, you silly silly thing!

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

I WILL MAKE YOU LOVE ME, BITCH

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

the new single from cher, extra vocoder.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I go to lunch and I come back to this.

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

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

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

Fine - no love for you. Whateverrrr.

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

I can too. They were bad times.

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

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

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

mark you forgot 'played'

― Josh (Josh), Thursday, 17 July 2003 20:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have no doubt the pendulum will swing back the other way eventually. Or in a different direction

Ormskirk ILX - And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Bickering

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 18 July 2003 00:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Eventually DC/NoVA/MD ILX will take over all yr asses

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 18 July 2003 00:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Josh, why do I never understand you?

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 18 July 2003 14:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

i remember when gareth was british!

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 18 July 2003 21:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

i love ile. i especially like it when the palliness overcomes geographical barriers. if there are threads i don't read - and there are lots of em, it doesn't bother me because (this may shock and stun you all) i don't own the board. dan perry is ace. so is ally.

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 19 July 2003 01:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm sure people will take this the wrong way, but I tend to balk at effusions of emotion and sympathy and love from posters to people they've never even met (so obviously this does not apply to the lot of you who *have* met). It seems to me to trivialize those sentiments.

So if I sometimes seem crotchety, it's largely for this reason.

― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think I may have just put my foot in my mouth.

― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

"foot"

"mouth"

― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

amateurist, i simply adore you.

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

why do you have to have physically met someone in order to show genuine sympathy towards them?

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

The key word is "effusions."

― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

So you're saying emotions can only be genuine if they're shown sparingly?

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

amateurist, i love you more than life itself.

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

did i mention that you're really great and you should move to new zealand right now?

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

amateurist why do you even hang around ile then?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 19 July 2003 04:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Because that sort of thing represents only a tiny fraction of what gets posted!

Incidentally Jess I didn't have you in mind as one of the people who seems unnaturally effusive and enthusiastic.

― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 19 July 2003 05:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Don't I have the right to be bothered by certain qualities evidenced in some ILE posts, without abandoning the board altogether? Certainly you have voiced your problems with certain threads/posts/posters before, Jess.

― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 19 July 2003 05:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm not trying to censure anyone. I just thought I would be honest in responding to this thread's central question.

― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 19 July 2003 05:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

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