i can't find the thread i started about how frequently you think about your irrelevance in the context of the universe. not showing up when i search for threads started under my login, maybe it was in the sandbox?
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
i wouldn't worry about it.
― ledge, Thursday, 12 April 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
We are but a little gleam of time between two Eternities, so why then did I spend two hours standing in front of the copy machine today?
― Tuomas, Friday, 13 April 2012 06:23 (twelve years ago) link
nope not it, it was one i started.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 13 April 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
Where is the Norway movie posters thread?
― we gotta move these refrigerators (CaptainLorax), Friday, 20 April 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
What was the thread that was something like minature nostalgic stories of hearing a particular song?
― a lake full of ancient spices (los blue jeans), Sunday, 19 January 2014 02:11 (ten years ago) link
i have a vague memory of a good old nabisco post about the way people use irony (and "getting irony") to mark in-group/out-group status on the internet...does that ring any bells?
― max, Friday, 17 October 2014 11:20 (nine years ago) link
seems people have gotten a little too creative with the naming of wdyll threads (the last one that shows up on a search for wdyll is from june of this year) and they're now impossible to find
― flopson, Monday, 14 September 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
do you look like what, september 2015?
― drash, Monday, 14 September 2015 18:50 (nine years ago) link
hehe, sorry! i named that one. if you search for what do you look like 2015 it's the first result, but i should have added (wdyll) to it as well
― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 14 September 2015 19:32 (nine years ago) link
There used to be a thread that might have been kept in I Love Vinyl that was made up of the radio station playlists of a few different ILXORS. I found so much great music through those playlists but I don't know whatever became of the thread.... anyone have any idea?
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Saturday, 24 October 2015 12:40 (eight years ago) link
a thread for radio shows & play lists
2012 RADIO
2013 RADIO
2014 Radio
― brimstead, Saturday, 24 October 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
Thank you! Hopefully a 2015 one will pop up....
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Friday, 30 October 2015 13:04 (eight years ago) link
what was the thread about people who had more than one accomplishment?
― “Yeah. Huh, thanks.” (los blue jeans), Friday, 24 February 2017 06:04 (seven years ago) link
People who excel at more than one artform
― new noise, Friday, 24 February 2017 07:29 (seven years ago) link
?
Yep!
― “Yeah. Huh, thanks.” (los blue jeans), Friday, 24 February 2017 12:00 (seven years ago) link
the ilm thread about singing different words/lyrics to tunes in your head
― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 14 April 2017 11:10 (seven years ago) link
Do you have weird alternative lyrics for songs that play in your head?
― briscall stool chart (wins), Friday, 14 April 2017 11:15 (seven years ago) link
The Mobb Deep: Joy Division of rap thread
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Friday, 14 April 2017 11:29 (seven years ago) link
Ty wins <3
― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 14 April 2017 11:35 (seven years ago) link
Is it possible that there isn't a generic thread for selling books?
(I don't think this is even the "help me find this thread.." thread that I had in mind, but ... I can't find the other one)
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 25 August 2017 11:51 (seven years ago) link
Here you go
This is the thread where we ask people to dig up things on ILX we can't find
― streeps of range (wins), Friday, 25 August 2017 12:03 (seven years ago) link
can someone point me to the thread of unlikely celebrity photos
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
You mean the one with celebrities you're surprised to see photographed together?
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
Photos taken of famous people together that you would never have expected to be together but make you happy all the same.
??
― sleeve, Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:25 (six years ago) link
^ That's the one I meant. TY.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
I don't know if it's the one KS meant but I suspect it might be.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
THANKS!!
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
where's the thread that's something like "same name, different guy"
found a local news article about a robert smith
― mh, Thursday, 13 June 2019 21:13 (five years ago) link
WRONG DUDE
― omar little, Thursday, 13 June 2019 21:16 (five years ago) link
many thanks
― mh, Thursday, 13 June 2019 21:22 (five years ago) link
is this the thread where we ask if there's a thread for a particular subject? feel like there was another one
anyway, is there a cathc-all thread for worthwhile online reading material? like a thread where you can post links to articles, essays etc. that might help other users with boring desk jobs not feel like they're doing something remotely meaningful in their browser
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 08:21 (five years ago) link
There's this? Rolling Long Form Article Thread
― pplains, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 12:53 (five years ago) link
not bad, thanks
wish it were more active
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:31 (five years ago) link
wasn't there a thread for discussing obscure artists/songs that by accident become extremely popular on streaming services because of glitches in the recommendation algorithms?
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 08:11 (three years ago) link
This one?
Songs that became famous because of a system glitch
― Branwell with an N, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 08:26 (three years ago) link
thanks!
also found this one obscurity in the age of streaming
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 08:42 (three years ago) link
did we have a thread for pandemic streams of theater / opera etc?
― lukas, Monday, 22 February 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link
Met Daily Free Streaming Opera Viewing Thread
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 22 February 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
Is there an ILM thread for misleading names of acts, ie names of bands (or solo artists) that give a very different impression from what the music actually sounds like? Lots of worst band names threads, but this is something more specific.
― Alba, Thursday, 18 March 2021 18:48 (three years ago) link
Bands who don't sound like their name
― visiting, Thursday, 18 March 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link
This is the usual one: This is the thread where we ask people to dig up things on ILX we can't find
― visiting, Thursday, 18 March 2021 19:05 (three years ago) link
Thanks, visiting!
― Alba, Thursday, 18 March 2021 19:33 (three years ago) link
(Wasn't alba once king of search? what happened?)
― koogs, Thursday, 18 March 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
got sent down to the minors
― "Salvation Army FUCK!" (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 March 2021 20:24 (three years ago) link
Lost my mojo
― Alba, Thursday, 18 March 2021 21:21 (three years ago) link
The recent thread featuring accursed internet ads, halp me
― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 14:36 (three years ago) link
It used to be called something really unsearchable. But now I think it’s Internet ads that raise an Eyebrow?
― parenthetically yours, (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link
Yes, that's the one, thank you, I thank you so much 🙏
― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link