xxxpnow you that you are a confirmed sex symbol you've got to protect that brand treesh!
― calzino, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
caveat: if the person is performing/on a stage, you can presume they are consenting to being photographed unless they state otherwise
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
what are you talking about? xp
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:25 (five years ago) link
i am good with the new social norm of not posting pics of people without their consent. i would always ask people, but i didn't know it was a thing before. if someone posted an obviously embarrassing photo, of course i would always think that was out of line/mean
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
but just like group photos and photos from events--i just untag myself if i don't like the photo
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
there are almost no pictures of me online, and none w/ my full name attached, it's good
― ogmor, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
This is not really related but kind of. My friend has recently acquired an online stalker of someone he has never met before. She found out his phone number and calls him repeatedly and is trying to "save" him. In the last month though, he's had fake profiles that has a pic of him as the profile pic requesting to be his friend.
― Yerac, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link
Is she a born again christian type?
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
did it start with her finding his baby pics
― puppy bash (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
I don't know. He used to publicly post a lot of philosophical rants and post on public news stories. He totally stopped doing that.
― Yerac, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
That sucks. People shouldn’t be driven into hiding online because of someone else’s shitty behavior but I’m sure it happens all the time.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
wait your friend is being stalked by a stranger and is trying to save her own stalker?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
well thats at least a positive outcome hey xxp
― puppy bash (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
Baby pics are fine. All babies pretty much look the same anyway and everyone is usually good with the etiquette of pretending they care about the 100th pic.
― Yerac, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
Oh i didn’t read it that way. I thought the stalker was a woman trying to save a man.
NO he is being stalked by a woman he has never met who calls him a lot to save him. And then recently after he was being stalked he had fake profiles that has him as the profile pic, requesting to be his friend.
― Yerac, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:38 (five years ago) link
oh not that cant be right can u check agai
― puppy bash (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:39 (five years ago) link
That sounds like a nightmare. There is a kind of haunted house quality to the internet—all these spectral messages and accounts.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
fake plastic treeship
― puppy bash (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
Ha, does anyone remember that tuomos used to post lots and lots of pics here and then rjg and someone else went to denmark? and totally saw him and was like "are you tuomos?"
― Yerac, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
Fine here's my controversial opinion:
Method acting classes are actually just a format for emotionally abusing aspirant actors into creepy pyramid schemes
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, December 6, 2018 9:47 AM (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'd agree with that too, and add that second city / upright citizen's brigade-style programmes for aspiring comics are pretty much the same deal
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, December 6, 2018 9:53 AM (thirty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Uh, excuse me, but speaking as a graduate of one of these programs, I just have to point out that the participants generally come saddled with ample preexisting emotional damage, thankuverymuch.
― For a superlative chug, only the eggiest nog will do! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
xp that sounds like a straight up nightmare, sorry for your friend :( i have been stalked and it's awful. just one of the many reasons i try to be as cautious as possible (to the point of hypervigilance) online
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
Have you looked in the 'ilxors in their forties' thread lately?
― jmm, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
Yeah, almost every woman I know has had some degree of stalking. I get really annoyed that you have to go to each of those websites (peoplefinder, whitepages, etc) that aggregates your information (age, places you have lived, relatives) to have them remove it.
― Yerac, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
ilx conversations about rights and morality are some of the least enlightening conversations on the site we're much better when we stick to whatever pop album cosmo loves this month
― Mordy, 6. december 2018 17:16 (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Fixed it
Also, I tried to phrase my own controversial opinion about Star Wars and it's weird: I can say 'the new films are worse than the prequels' and it feels sorta right, but if I say 'the prequels are better than the new films' it feels completely wrong.
Also also Tuomas is Finnish
― Frederik B, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
xp yeah my closest friends in high school were stalked too -- like aggressively. one found a guy she kissed once hiding in the bushes with a baseball bat, another was sent a barrage of notes through the mcdonald's drive-thru and then her own mailbox, and then there was me. here's my controversial opinion: being a secret admirer and surveilling your love object from afar is pathological if you are an adult (teens get a temp pass)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
also wtf who gets their music information from cosmo?!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
think that a new hope and empire strikes back are fair offerings also tbf
― puppy bash (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
xp Yes Finland!
― Yerac, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
I want to visit Finland
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:56 (five years ago) link
estonia has cheaper drink
― puppy bash (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:57 (five years ago) link
ireland has better posters
Didn’t that Tuomas sighting happen in Spain? Making it even more improbable
― rob, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
Any Estonians among us?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
You guys need to remove yourself from the paradigm that there are billions of people in the world. I run into people all the time. There is like 100k people max. This is my controversial opinion.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:01 (five years ago) link
yeah, i can only remember that they saw him. I was over ten years ago?
― Yerac, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:01 (five years ago) link
The small world conspiracy. I want it to be the new flat earth.
Nothing short circuits my brain quite like randomly running into someone I know somewhere I would never have expected them to be. It seems statistically impossible that it happens as often as it does.
― I sponsor many ceremony dances in my beautiful pink roses palace (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
It completely is
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
I mean, yes, 'somewhere I would never have expected them to be' usually = Chicago in my case so maybe not that strange but also I can go years without running into people I know who live in the city so it's still pretty damn strange.
― I sponsor many ceremony dances in my beautiful pink roses palace (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
Glad you’re on board with the truth
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
I walked up to a train stop in Chicago once and there was exactly one other person waiting for that particular train -- and it was someone I knew from Iowa
― mh, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
Dude my randomly assigned roommate in copenhagen—a city in finland—was, back at UVA, college roommates with my friend from high school in new jersey.
The day before thanksgiving i was taking a train home—packed train, stops at newark airport not just my hometown—and the person in front of me was someone I used to lifeguard with.
On and on
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
I had a layover in an airport in some state I don't even remember but that I'd never been to before and haven't been to since and, oh hey, what's up daughter of my mom's good friend who is also hundreds of miles away from home.
― I sponsor many ceremony dances in my beautiful pink roses palace (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
(I hope everyone is appreciating these top-notch controversial opinions.)
― I sponsor many ceremony dances in my beautiful pink roses palace (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
if someone posted an obviously embarrassing photo, of course i would always think that was out of line/mean
What if every photograph of you is embarrassing?
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
Nothing short circuits my brain quite like randomly running into someone I know somewhere I would never have expected them to be. It seems statistically impossible that it happens as often as it does
This actually happen to me in Copenhagen, bizarrely enough.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
small world conspiracy
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
You can't take a train from Copenhagen to New Jersey...
― Frederik B, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
Unless...
― Frederik B, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link