nabisco posted a cpl weeks ago and no one noticed
― sleepingbag, Saturday, 24 February 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link
*improvements in sex toy technology* suspiciously absent from your choices.
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 February 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link
*reads through list* hmmm yeah ok hmm maybe hmm HEY WAIT
― imago, Saturday, 24 February 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
picked user at random, promise!
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 24 February 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
I don't approve of any one person being singled out in a poll. even a Cardiacs fan.
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 February 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
altho I literally did drive someone off ILX last year and still feel shitty about it :(
― imago, Saturday, 24 February 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
Voted 'demands of career' although I don't really have a career, just a job. I haven't posted on ILX much in the last 2-3 years because of it.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Saturday, 24 February 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
*noticeable lack of Geir* should have also been an option.
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1330670254/come_to_hongro_400x400.jpg
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 February 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
Imago
― Planck Blather (darraghmac), Saturday, 24 February 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
what's the difference between "content" and "hate everything"?
― sarahell, Saturday, 24 February 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
I really don't see myself ever leaving ILX.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 24 February 2018 21:03 (six years ago) link
i was thinking hate everything in a more general sense, not hate everything about the site xp
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 24 February 2018 21:03 (six years ago) link
"trump made everything boring"
― Planck Blather (darraghmac), Saturday, 24 February 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
i voted 'demands of career' and just happened to be checking back in to ilx as this was posted. i love this website but shiiiit man i got shit to do.
― plums (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 24 February 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
I call bullshit AHH I called into covent garden last time I was in London and no sign of u
― Planck Blather (darraghmac), Saturday, 24 February 2018 21:16 (six years ago) link
"price" doesn't really reflect the whole idea of "cost-benefit analysis"
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 24 February 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link
"content" as in they are content to no longer be on ILX or as in they don't like ILX's content?
― had (crüt), Saturday, 24 February 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
other please specify: death
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 24 February 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link
Also if Imago now suddenly leaves, that's on you Rip van Winko
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 24 February 2018 22:33 (six years ago) link
Winko wanko potato potato
the real answer is right in the thread title. they want to banish evil from their hearts.
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 February 2018 22:38 (six years ago) link
other: useless moderators creating problems
― mod, Saturday, 24 February 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
Truth xp
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 24 February 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
I dont work in Covent garden?
― plums (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 24 February 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
missing option: Kolinahrhttps://trekkerscrapbook.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/movies_star_trek_series_gallery_2.jpg?w=500&h=245
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Saturday, 24 February 2018 22:48 (six years ago) link
Other: pourquoi pas?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 24 February 2018 22:56 (six years ago) link
earlier today i somehow found myself viewing a 1991 channel 4 ad break on youtube, and there in the comments was r0bin c4rmody somehow pinpointing the exact date. so my answer is, other: youtube comment section culture more intellectually stimulating
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 24 February 2018 22:59 (six years ago) link
redpilled, joined 4Chan
― louise ck (milo z), Saturday, 24 February 2018 22:59 (six years ago) link
You could've told me that sam
― Planck Blather (darraghmac), Saturday, 24 February 2018 23:02 (six years ago) link
All best posters gone to twitter
― Planck Blather (darraghmac), Saturday, 24 February 2018 23:03 (six years ago) link
Lol not rly
I can think of at least a couple of people who were basically hounded out of here. Whatever you thought about their posting, not pleasant.
― clemenza, Saturday, 24 February 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
So what's Racoon Tanuki like irl?
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 February 2018 23:12 (six years ago) link
Let me clarify: regular, non-joke people.
― clemenza, Saturday, 24 February 2018 23:14 (six years ago) link
Poll
― Planck Blather (darraghmac), Saturday, 24 February 2018 23:14 (six years ago) link
It's sad Garu was a G
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 24 February 2018 23:33 (six years ago) link
i will never log off
― ciderpress, Saturday, 24 February 2018 23:47 (six years ago) link
maybe they forget the url
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 24 February 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link
end up on the greenspun forums, keep posting there wondering where everybody went
jealous of the tireless breast-beating over ex-posters and want in on some of that action
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Saturday, 24 February 2018 23:59 (six years ago) link
figure they'll never get a macarthur grant if they keep fucking around on internet message boards
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Sunday, 25 February 2018 00:00 (six years ago) link
sudden onset of ambition to do something with life?moved out of internet range?lost password during change of residence?realized Excelsior threads had lost their mojo?finished dissertation and no longer needed so much distraction?
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 25 February 2018 01:06 (six years ago) link
They become rockists
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 25 February 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
Realized they were wasting their witty posts here and moved to Twitter?
― change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 25 February 2018 01:33 (six years ago) link
marginalized by being called trolls
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 25 February 2018 01:40 (six years ago) link
New thread viewing algorithm is bullshit to enslave users
― Global Arming's Terrifying Old Math$ (Hunt3r), Sunday, 25 February 2018 01:55 (six years ago) link
i can’t leave now, it’s too late, i even think in lowercase
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Sunday, 25 February 2018 02:01 (six years ago) link
finally heard every record worth hearing
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Sunday, 25 February 2018 02:37 (six years ago) link
See also: why do people stay on IlX
― calstars, Sunday, 25 February 2018 03:38 (six years ago) link
Sunk cost fallacy
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 25 February 2018 03:41 (six years ago) link
can you take me back where i came fromhoney can you take me back?
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 11 May 2020 01:47 (four years ago) link
And indeed, this August -- three months away -- ILX is officially twenty years old.
Whoa, this is weird, in my mind I'm a new ILXor but it seems I've been posting for ... three-quarters of the entire history of the site?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 11 May 2020 03:21 (four years ago) link
thought I started posting as "uh" in 2004 (which I'm not proud to admit), horrified to realize I posted here under my government name 10 times in 2003. which I didn't know until 5 minutes ago.
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 May 2020 03:23 (four years ago) link
sorta kills the point of the big goodbye post when you claim ta-nehisi coates was a seminal ilxor
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Monday, 11 May 2020 03:30 (four years ago) link
I recently ran into one of TNC's posts while doing an ilx search on an unrelated purpose. Surprised me to see the name used in a year prior to TNC becoming well known. It was articulate, pointed, but nothing deathless, much like your somewhat above-average ilx post.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 11 May 2020 03:50 (four years ago) link
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Monday, May 11, 2020 5:30 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Otm. TNC posted a handful of posts, addressing one particular topic, no more. This seems like name-dropping for the sake of it. At least Jimmy the Mod awaited the return of his loved ones en publique.
You owe us nothing, Yelp, and feeling out of touch with everyone here is as good a reason as any to leave, obviously. All the best.
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 May 2020 06:50 (four years ago) link
Might spend the 20th anniversary looking up TNC's ilx posts. They must've had a lot of wisdom in them for a lurker/occasional poster to remember them in his goodbye post 17 years later.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 11 May 2020 07:10 (four years ago) link
Did I remember a rumour that Paul McCartney posted here at least once?
― thomasintrouble, Monday, 11 May 2020 07:11 (four years ago) link
He left after the great 'Defend the Indefensible: Mull of Kintyre' wars of 2006 iirc
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 May 2020 07:14 (four years ago) link
Lol
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 May 2020 10:38 (four years ago) link
i meant to leave after T✧✧@k✧✧.e✧✧ stopped posting
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 May 2020 10:49 (four years ago) link
what eephus said goes for me too - i arrived in 05 or 06 and have always felt very late to the party
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 11 May 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link
a couple years back someone made a poll of all of TNC's ilx posts, it was kinda weird
I also joined up somewhere around 2004 or 2005 and still feel like I'm catching up.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:36 (four years ago) link
Any children-of-ILXors-turned-posters?
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 12:37 (four years ago) link
My kid lurks on here at times and has voted in end of year polls
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:40 (four years ago) link
He was born in 2003, which was also roughly the time frame when I first joined, although my posting history suggests it was later. I must've lurked for a while.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:42 (four years ago) link
what happened in 04 that so many ppl seem to have found this place? That's when I got here but can't recall how.
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:42 (four years ago) link
I don't remember exactly how I found it. I was very active on the Stereolab forum around then, and that may well have been what led me here.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:45 (four years ago) link
I may have first heard about it through hipinion.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 12:48 (four years ago) link
heyday of blogging iirc, and no twitter yet
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:49 (four years ago) link
plus there were people making a living writing about music.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:51 (four years ago) link
I found Tom Ewing's Best singles of the 1990s some time in 2000, I think, and was reading Freaky Trigger for a while - my first ILX post was February 2001, though I probably lurked for a bit before then.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 11 May 2020 12:52 (four years ago) link
i bought my first computer immediately following 9/11 after it became clear that physical media was too slow to keep up with the world. Plus the downloading. I found ILX a few months after.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:54 (four years ago) link
I joined in 2003 but only really lurked. I properly started posting in 2015 (I think). I don't post enough so always feel vaguely like I'm posting from 'outside the room' as it were. I get this with all forums, tbh.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:01 (four years ago) link
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, May 11, 2020 8:42 AM bookmarkflaglink
My friend that posted here told me about Geir and how he said Schoenberg ruined music so I joined purely to wind him up about it
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
I want this to be a true story
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
Hey Geir, I know you still drop by every now and then. What's less musical in your opinion, twelve-tone serialism or rhythm for rhythm's sake?
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 13:15 (four years ago) link
“The return to the board of noted musico-phrenologist geir” may yet be my answer to thread q so steady on pom
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link
lol I think I missed the 'phrenologist' part.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, May 11, 2020 9:12 AM bookmarkflaglink
Lol it totally is. The first post under my gov't name was me ribbing him for it. I didn't realize the dude very rarely responded to barbs so I lost interest, came back a year later to talk rap and metal.
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:20 (four years ago) link
Schoenberg? I thought it was James Brown who ruined music?
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:21 (four years ago) link
Papa's Got a Brand New Tone Row
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 13:25 (four years ago) link
I started posting in 2005? no idea if I lurked before that, probably not for long if I did. I do feel like a new poster, though I've met a people off board which makes me feel more like an insider.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:33 (four years ago) link
get up get into it get inverted and retrogade
― mark s, Monday, 11 May 2020 13:35 (four years ago) link
I once started an 'end of music' Pandora station based solely on the initial inputs of James Brown and Schoenberg. Geir is a good sort, though; some time ago, I reminded him of some of his earlier ILM pronouncements and he lolled
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:45 (four years ago) link
I like Geir, I think he drops by here from time to time. Some weird opinions, but a good guy.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link
So he's not an actual phrenologist? I'mma need a citation, wins.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
everyone who leaves becomes their legend in time, rarely fairly but thats life
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
did… did a nude spock write this?
― mark s, Monday, 11 May 2020 14:23 (four years ago) link
I said musico-phrenologist which is not an actual thing: I was not being literal
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Monday, 11 May 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link
Ah, my bad. I parsed the hyphen as an 'and' instead of a metaphorical qualifier.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link
Is that around when the Baffler excerpted the MIA thread?
― Rodent of usual size (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 11 May 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link
I became a parent so I was under what I call My First Quarantine, don’t know about anybody else.
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 May 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
lol that MIA thread was def one of my first full-on ILM reads
iirc I found this place googling for "Charalambides"
― sleeve, Monday, 11 May 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link
yeah i wonder if 2004/5 had an influx bc google still worked properly
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Monday, 11 May 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
The googlers were great
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 May 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
I learned about google on my first professional job, which lasted from 2000 to late 2003. I feel fairly certain I encountered ILX during that time as well, but it seems too early given my posting history.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 16:09 (four years ago) link