surprised how many people here seem to know each other IRL. I spent a few hours with a fellow ILXor and it was a seriously surreal experience. especially since most of the conversation was about how the stars consistently kept aligning to integrate Ned Raggett into this guy's life
― frogbs, Monday, February 26, 2018 1:51 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol, was it gr80?
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
It was a direct descendant of 90s alt.music.alternative in a way.
It was indeed.
I spent a few hours with a fellow ILXor and it was a seriously surreal experience. especially since most of the conversation was about how the stars consistently kept aligning to integrate Ned Raggett into this guy's life
...I don't even know what to say to that.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
And katherine OTM of course.
lucky guess
― frogbs, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
I'm kind of amazed sometimes how many people from ilx I've been fortunate to meet either by chance or design
then there's the near misses, like the realization I probably used to walk past the currently-screen-named JCLC in the grocery store all the time before I posted here
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
re: facebook diaspora - I am happy to return to an ad-free, grassrootsy, weird, non commercial environment
Facebook is a tool of the wicked, but we must do what we can with it since so many of us are trapped there
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
I still can't believe the one time years and years back when I was at LACMA visiting with a then-fairly-recently-arrived UK friend (non-ILX) and we were walking around in a courtyard and I heard a 'hello there' or the like right behind me and I turned around and it was gabbneb.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:14 (six years ago) link
I don't even know what to say to that.
"my work is done" or something like that
― frogbs, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
I was going to ask if it was G too lol.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
overemphasis on ID politics, or as we now call it in the USA, the totality of modern life.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
xp to be fair he tells a very good tale of Ned
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
The weird thing is that gr80 has also now collectively met my entire immediate family aside from my mom, as well as meeting my girlfriend, and every time it's been outside of California.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
yeah I know
― frogbs, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
tbh I'd double-check with your mom to make sure they haven't randomly met and you're merely unaware
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
x-post - lol!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link
I only really post intermittently and during polls (especially the metal poll which is always lovely). I start to get really depressed if I spend too long here, which is in part due to my own irrational paranoia but also has a lot to do with how quickly some posters seem to spring to a hostile response. I feel like this level of conflict is unprecedented...I mean, not on the internet of course, but I want ILX to be a haven from all of that. And the conflict is part of the fun, but not when it’s so frequent and really hurtfully personal.
Also it really upsets me how some of you speak to and about imago! Living with him, I think he is just really quite different to how he gets portrayed here sometimes... I know he’s part of creating that perception too of course, but I think the extent of the response is sometimes incongruous with what’s been said, just because it’s imago. Obviously all posters should be held accountable for bullshit or offensive things but the level of aggression is quite high where he is concerned.
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
Wait is this an LJ sock?
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
Hi tt!
― scotti pruitti (wins), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link
Ban tange— no im sorry
― stet, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link
Living with him, I think he is just really quite different to how he gets portrayed here sometimes... I know he’s part of creating that perception too of course,
imagine what he'd be like IRL by the time you met him if he hadn't been so relentlessly bullied by the sculptor's chisel here
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
I like imago and barely interact with him on ilm but I must guiltily admit when gr80 made a zine, I asked if I could be listed in the donors as "Ban LJ" and he wisely denied me
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
the more this place becomes a Twitter Annex the less i care
It's always been a decent aggregator though, now it's an aggregator aggregator.
ID politics killed ilx btw
I would say this is right-but-wrong - a lot of the rest of the web became either less boys-only, or far more so. ILX stayed more or less where it is, but leaking women. But ILX is rarely the only site that anyone goes to, so if other sites have better balances (and are aware of them) then so it goes.
Probably worth revisiting jbr's last posts here, tbh.
The Runaways - classic or dud?
are U a straight white male
I am still a fan of ILX, though.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
I posted 17 or so years ago and left after a thread I started turned into some old fashioned meanness and subsequently lurked after. Current board seems less tough
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
Hi wins!
xps I am in many ways thankful for the grand work the bullying has done, but maybe now it can just be a meme (until the next time he casts a sweeping generalisation with certainty).
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
you're all pricks!
― imago, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
hey tt! not seen you post much outside of metal poll!
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
x-post - awww! I was just kidding. Fwiw the worst thing I've ever seen you post was the fish/chocolate thing. <3
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
worse than poppage?
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
it really has been just a meme for most of the last decade tt!
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
I think that's true for some posters but not for others
― scotti pruitti (wins), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
Most of my posts are sent internally but sometimes I post on the emo thread
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
I once saw real ILE people on the street and I was so amazed, like some fabric of reality unwound right there, I could not bring myself to make contact - how weird!
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
(You can see why ;_;)
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
x-post I honestly don't remember the origins or meaning of poppage (no, I don't want you to tell me) at this point!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
The chocolate thing (cockles in red wine iirc?) was nightmarish tbh
― scotti pruitti (wins), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
Internal sending is an amazing Zen artform and I wish I'd been born with the ability tbh
― imago, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
re irl interactions i feel like if i meet a fatmantis i'll just https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CsyGe4F8CQ
― Global Arming's Terrifying Old Math$ (Hunt3r), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/771051280617791488/sKg0hPNI_400x400.jpg
― scotti pruitti (wins), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
I *just* wrapped up all of lunagate and obviously knew the surface story (found post below). The rest is super sad. That all really sucks.
boys = so easily fooled by big boobies
― Yerac, Tuesday, 16 October 2007
― Yerac, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link
let's all start Hootsuite
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
TT, I can vouch for LJ being the princest among men, though I do feel nearly all on board here feel the same and it's "all in good fun". Until it stops being fun, I know I know, but ILX loves the lad dearly, believe <3
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
neverban luriqua jagger
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
Aaww that’s nice! I think I am overly sensitive and defensive. imago is mostly indifferent to comments in any case haha xp
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 26 February 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
luriqua was truly more than human
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Monday, 26 February 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
I bet he is. Insensitive bastard :D
You are in yr right to defend and b sensitive over the lad tho.
(you prob know he *hugely* helped me out recently w/ something and when ever I get back to London I will repay the good deed. love ot you both <3)
xp
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 26 February 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
I have no beef with LJ beyond his accursed youth. Must you taunt us so.
― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 February 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
i'm 31 as of last week! flopson is the new 'damn u young' guy
luriqua came back quite recently for one post and it was so joyous
― imago, Monday, 26 February 2018 21:06 (six years ago) link
what? on what thread???
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Monday, 26 February 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
when i started posting here i was several years younger than LJ is now.
― omar little, Monday, 26 February 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
also LBI don't bet against our meeting being in Sint Annaparochie - I enjoy a good adventure. to be continued...
― imago, Monday, 26 February 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link