champ is the best. but enough of my waffle.
― after "after cease to exist" (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 02:08 (six years ago) link
Mash is so good i feel like ive sinned every time i eat it
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 02:08 (six years ago) link
still awaiting Miley's long playing homage to mash
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 02:10 (six years ago) link
"Mash Notes"
― after "after cease to exist" (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 02:16 (six years ago) link
i think some of y'all mighta forgotten this isn't the "ITT list all disgusting savages" thread
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 02:24 (six years ago) link
what thread is this
― .oO (silby), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 02:30 (six years ago) link
that laid to reston mary's lap is sleeping
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 02:31 (six years ago) link
Yr in the jungle baby iirc
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 02:33 (six years ago) link
potatoes vs stroopwafel
― crocus bulbotuber (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 02:53 (six years ago) link
poll of the fyourp
― crocus bulbotuber (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 02:54 (six years ago) link
I don’t think I can trust potato haters wtf.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 03:54 (six years ago) link
that's what makes it a controversial opinion, eh?
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 03:59 (six years ago) link
In the right hands, the potato is lord of all foods.
― omar little, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 04:25 (six years ago) link
I basically quit ILX ca. 2009 over a nasty name-calling by some board regulars who insinuated that I would be single for life because I didn’t desire to share the same music tastes as my partner, or value it in any sat, and that a shared aesthetic was the key to happiness and a signifier of blah blah blah good riddance gawker.
― rb (soda), Tuesday, December 5, 2017 12:16 PM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Does anybody remember which thread this was? I'm curious to see this insane opinion (specifically the bolded) advocated in earnest.
― JRN, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 04:30 (six years ago) link
In my experience sophistication and character are inversely related so I'm grateful that girls with good taste generally hate me
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 04:54 (six years ago) link
Eyes Wide Shut is the best Kubrick by miles
― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 05:33 (six years ago) link
Agreed 100%
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 05:39 (six years ago) link
it's underrated for sure
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 05:43 (six years ago) link
In my experience sophistication and character are inversely related
this would be a good one to debate
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 05:48 (six years ago) link
what happened to Treeship― flappy bird,
― flappy bird,
i'm more adversarial now maybe
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 05:49 (six years ago) link
why did you make a new account
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 05:51 (six years ago) link
taken by both shadow and flame iirc
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 05:54 (six years ago) link
i scrambled my old password in a pique of wanting to quit ilx and become more productive. a tale as old as time
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 06:05 (six years ago) link
Beauty and the Treesh
― .oO (silby), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 07:57 (six years ago) link
✓
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 08:01 (six years ago) link
:D
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
nostalgia is underrated.
there is a need to intellectualize and perform an armchair analysis to dismiss the enjoyment of recurring characters, imagery, story mythos, etc. of past works and the "Infantilism" of modern culture. to do performative penance for your complicity in capitalist consumption. to act out the discerning consumer, one who realizes the emptiness of capitalism, and symbolically sacrifice your idols.
there is a tendency to dismiss nostalgia and to dismiss the emotional attachment. personally as i get older i find myself looking to the past more and more. as i progress through my life and watch people pass away or depart in other ways, it makes an emotional and Jungian sense to return to the celebrated symbolic language of our youth, to re-create via imagery, sounds, sensory input (much as a cosplaying magician/Kabbalist may have done hundreds of years ago). remembering the good times of your life can be an indulgent experience but it is a natural one for all of us. the 30 year cycle may be a capitalist invention but is permeates the subconscious of all engaged in pop culture, it is a real and symbolic language.
certainly there is something to be said about re-evalutating the past, looking at the nostalgia and seeing how our views on the past have changed, how we may have done things differently, etc. but in general the knee-jerk gut reaction against nostalgia (see abuse of the term "Arrested Development") feels a like common thing these days. maybe there is always this kind of reaction against consumable media but i think attacking the emotion itself is misplaced.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
nostalgia is both underrated and overrated. all things in moderation
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
There are definitely legit criticisms of nostalgia (particularly to the extent that it's a blinkered reflection which conveniently skirts past anything regressive) but most of the criticism seems more indicative of embarrassment about the forces which shape us before we start feeling the overwhelming urge to impress other people with the maturity of our critical faculties.
― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
i get nostalgic about making love to a particular woman (different ones at different times, depending on my mood)
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
hey now
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
wistful might be the right word
or catholic guilt
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
"All things in moderation" should be retired
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
'All things in moderation' in moderation, imo.
― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
Course it shouldn't but that is a good controp
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Wednesday, December 6, 2017 1:09 PM (two minutes ago)
from a health perspective it's quite useful actually
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 6 December 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
did irishman oscar wilde rly say everything in moderation incl moderation?
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
mods in moderation, been saying this on this here board for years
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 6 December 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
b4 wilde???
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
yeah he did
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
pwnd!
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
Except potatoes.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
controp is brilliant coinage, sturdy and elegant
― fuiud, mac (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
http://www.kgbreport.com/images/kovacsepitaph.jpg
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 19:36 (six years ago) link
Hypocrisy isn't bad, actually it's good because at least the hypocrite knows what's right even if they don't do it
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
there's an ilx post i think of sometimes that's along the lines of "any attitude beyond total apathy produces hypocrisy"
― brimstead, Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
Hypocrisy is like the factory setting for human beings. We're basically walking talking self-mythologizing cognitive dissonance machines by default.
― Smoothie Newton (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
Walt Whitman had some words for this i think
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
XP disagree but then we prob know different humans
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
kinda wish Ernie Kovacs drank more moderately on the night he crashed the car
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link