Ilxors u miss

Hope he is doing well

I miss Lex. His taste generally could not be more different than mine and his argument style sometimes frustrated me, but this is a poorer place for his absence.

Mixed feelings: anyone not sharing his particular enthusiasms was deemed ‘negative’, he was sometimes over-dismissive of other people’s views, and he was quick to denounce people as ‘idiots’ when tbh they were sometimes posting at a higher level of knowledge.

xp I've learned so much over the years from ILM as a whole and from a great many posters with crazy levels of specialized knowledge, but to me Scott was maximum ILM: deep knowledge of way too many genres, extraordinarily wide taste, and endless listening enthusiasm. Scott, we salute you.

Lex was awful

Scott was great

I will prefer to believe Scott just found better things to do

lex was the ying to geir hongro's yang. both strident warriors for pop music as they understood it. both kind of annoying, though lex has the upper hand because i guess if you shared his enthusiasms his posts were good to read?

most infuriating aspect of lex's posting for me: posts about how he literally could not cook a meal, and him not enjoying literally anything that could be classed as comedy.

scott seward is a canonical ilx poster, hope his lack of posting means he's busy doing something better.

sorry for using literally twice in one post

i lost all remaining shreds of respect for the lex when he admitted that he didnt know what a potato looked like

wait was lex the "taste's very strange" guy all along

i lost all remaining shreds of respect for the lex when he admitted that he didnt know what a potato looked like

― . (Michael B), Friday, June 28, 2019 9:26 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark

my word

he didnt know what a potato looked like

wait...no. no. this can't be right

what about mr potato head??

I like the dogs vs. children lex debate.

imagine looking at mr potato head and having no idea what he represented

Well, heads don't have arms so the whole thing is very confusing.

Lex's most irritating habit was to loudly and proudly proclaim his ignorance about all manner of things, as if it was some kind of bold political stance and not the braying of a cloistered moron

how’d you like it if someone brayed your cloisters bud

the potato story is ill-told in that post

Lex was one of the few posters I was aware of before coming on here as he had written a mean review of a friend's music, and I found him objectionable at first, however I have come around to his pov on quite a lot of music since then. Only thing I'd stick on is his enthusiasm for hating things, it seemed like his main motivation when it came to music and this is something I will never get my head around. Some of his posts are absolute gold of course.

Although he pops up on very rare occasions, I miss the urbane, humorous, compassionate and sensible presence of Michael White.

Judging from twitter, Lex is a good cook now, and has even cooked potatoes? Could probably get him back if there was an I Love Tennis.

fuckin what

Lex was v v otm on stand-up comedy.

lex just disliked "comedy" writ large tho

obv standup is mainly vile

Thought it was mostly stand-up. His sense of comedy wasn't the greatest - I remember praise for Marina Hyde.

But given how reactionary so many of those ppl are...his instincts on it were otm.

i met Ade/Hungry4Ass last night! wot a sweetheart

legend

otm

hungry4ass is my favourite ilx username i think

seward good hungry4ass good

so did they live up to the username or

xp actually h4a was a major asshole and posted a lot of racist, misogynistic, hateful shit (maybe just to be "edgy") -- hopefully he's not like that irl

its a game of opinions trevor i mean i managed to not mention the other cunt tbf

i'm sure many of our worst posts are regrettable (mine are), but i don't recall "a lot" of that

xp

sore thumbs have a way of overshadowing other body parts

i don't even miss sb-ing that fool, speaking of which ... will neb come back?

i mean, H4A aint perfect; he likes football

true

scott's posts were a huge influence on me. i like to think he's just found more fulfilling outlets.

lex was funny and a glimpse into a world of gay i've never known but have always been fascinated by.

camaraderie at arms length is, i think, a new-ish poster who i am very much enjoying.

i do miss lex -- his antipathy for small children and comedy exceeded even mine!

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Not a lot, just the correct amount of racist misogynist hateful shit, the correct amount being “enough for other posters to notice that that’s what you do”. That amount, a good amount.

enough for sarahell's moronic woke judgments. Be sure to throw shit on me when I'm dead.

i'm homophobic too

yes we know

so is this going to be the thread where we dig up offensive H4A posts

Pretty sure there’s no such thing as homophobia or racism actually? It’s p much good for anyone to do or say anything

enough for sarahell's moronic woke judgments. Be sure to throw shit on me when I'm dead.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, June 28, 2019 11:21 AM (four minutes ago)

my "moronic woke judgments"? some of these gems resulted in mod bans ... like, congrats on being a white non-Jewish male -- plenty of his edgelord style wasn't targeted at you