Many XPs, but figured WDYLL threads got hamstrung by ilxor picture availability on FB, Insta, Twitter etc.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 8 August 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
Marcos, you used to post a lot — why the change of heart?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, August 8, 2019 3:19 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
That’s not a disingenuous question
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, August 8, 2019 3:20 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
hey ll! a few reasons:
1) reasons mentioned already, i.e. ilx is a primarily white space, these days i feel more drawn to places where there are more people of color, i have a larger network of such folks than i used to 2) there are a lot of things i'd still post about here but frankly it is work to type them out! just hanging in this thread for example has taken up most of my day. 3) twitter is easier to get the instant gratification kind of thing that I used to come here for4) talking music these days, i don't even know what i'd say? all i listen to is NTS radio and it's rare that i even look up a tracklist. i could post links to favorite NTS episodes but i already do that5) i used to hang out on ILH a little in the past but the cleveland cavaliers lost lebron james and i lost interest
a few reasons i stay:1) ilxors i love, there are a lot of smart and wonderful people here who teach me things. i also don't want to diminish the diversity we have on the board in other ways. i feel like queer and trans voices on ilx have been fairly prominent for a long time, even if some of those posters are no longer active2) there are threads in which i know i can still drop in on and have a conversation w/ the same folks - outic mentioned the dub thread for example, any thread on dylan, bisexuality, grateful dead, house and techno, "what are you into right now," etc3) compulsion and inertia?
― marcos, Thursday, 8 August 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
Toni Morrison's name is well-known to the general public
... in the USA.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 August 2019 20:49 (five years ago) link
And therefore the world, n'est-ce pas?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 8 August 2019 20:50 (five years ago) link
You said that, I wouldn't dare.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 August 2019 20:50 (five years ago) link
we do need a good discussion about the yanks again tbh, but they shouldnt be encouraged to participate and ought be compelled listen
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Thursday, 8 August 2019 23:30 (five years ago) link
Let me hasten to point out that the ILX I joined in January 2005 was more hostile in a boys-in-a-messageboard way than now. I have no wish to return to those days.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 August 2019 18:53 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
taking the point about not wishing to return, was it *better*?
to narrow down to the theme of today's revive, had it at that stage a better mix of representation despite being an orrible pit of ell?
i think it probably was, i think it probably did.
makes u think
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Thursday, 8 August 2019 23:34 (five years ago) link
I never think I just post
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 8 August 2019 23:34 (five years ago) link
thinking is goodoverthinking is badposting is goodoverposting is godly
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Thursday, 8 August 2019 23:36 (five years ago) link
i stick around ilx because it's so low-drama compared to the rest of the internet
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Friday, 9 August 2019 00:39 (five years ago) link
aking the point about not wishing to return, was it *better*?
No and no.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 August 2019 00:40 (five years ago) link
by god ill not call you a liar but
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Friday, 9 August 2019 00:43 (five years ago) link
I don’t remember early ilx that well. I've been around since the early oughts but I think I was so suppressed by the rhetoric that I didn't start posting for many years
― Dan S, Friday, 9 August 2019 02:07 (five years ago) link
love you both, Alfred and darraghmac
― Dan S, Friday, 9 August 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link
*aughts
― Dan S, Friday, 9 August 2019 02:15 (five years ago) link
ILX is the only place some of us have an outlet to croak about things.
― Vape Store (crüt), Friday, 9 August 2019 02:57 (five years ago) link
back atcha xp
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Friday, 9 August 2019 06:31 (five years ago) link
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Friday, August 9, 2019 2:39 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is very otm. Old-ilx used to have way more drama, too. I get feeling nostalgic about that from time to time, but would never say old ilx was *better*. The community grew out of it like growing out of puberty (sort of, most of us).
I think ilx has all the specific 'codes' of a group of friends that's been around for ages (though not all are, or have to be, friends). I think it can be very daunting to get a foot in the door and 'learn' ilx's mores - i genuinely enjoy seeing new users blend in but wouldn't recommend ilx to anyone tbf.
I'm sticking around because ilx has become a place full of lieux de mémoire for me. And footy threads with terrible puns for titles, that too.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 9 August 2019 09:48 (five years ago) link
wouldn't recommend ilx to anyone tbf
New board description?
― pomenitul, Friday, 9 August 2019 09:52 (five years ago) link
"Aw, you'd love ILX. Right now on the CCR thread, they're arguing about whether Capt. Beefheart believed in grooves or not."
― pplains, Friday, 9 August 2019 12:54 (five years ago) link
That thread taught me everything I know about chooglin
― maffew12, Friday, 9 August 2019 12:59 (five years ago) link
Lol, I think stuff like that is perfect and hilarious. A mix of conversational shorthand and codes, parsing personalities, taking the piss and talking through things. I love ilxor. A mix of disparate voices and smart people who manifest both attributes in very different ways but almost always (to me) in a familiar way, which feels more personal (at this point) and less like the random bomb throwing of the broader internet. Like a bunch of older/younger cousins or something who only see one another at weddings and funerals every few years and share some history but don't necessarily know one another as well as immediate family.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 August 2019 13:02 (five years ago) link
for real that example about Beefheart is exactly the kind of recommendation of ilx you'd give to anyone who'd care
― maffew12, Friday, 9 August 2019 13:03 (five years ago) link
Sometimes when I'm in the park and I pass a big pile of people in matching t-shirts gathered for a huge family reunion I think how funny it would be if all the t-shirts said "ilxor" and everyone was just sorting themselves out in real life. With the vast majority of posters still at home, posting about how stupid it sounds to have a big family reunion grill-out, or how awkward family reunions can be, or if there really is such a thing as familiy or reunions, or what bands should reunite or how bands are like family, and how the breakup of CCR was like a big ugly divorce, and how Clifford and Cook, when asked why CCR should get back together, immediately answer, in unison, "chooglin'," and when later asked if he'd join the reunion Fogerty says "no" and, asked "why not?" declares "too much chooglin'" or "chooglin' is not what it used to be" or "it was a different time, and chooglin' was different then" or "I've been chooglin' by myself for so long I don't feel I need the other guys to choogle." Or something like that.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 August 2019 13:10 (five years ago) link
THEM: "Ah, look. Your cousin even put on the Parker crest on the shirt even though we're all now either Middletons or Cottinghams!"
US: "God damn, I hate the fucking Eagles. Let's hear another one, Scott."
― pplains, Friday, 9 August 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I_Love_Music&oldid=425870666
Unfortunately it is now full of assholes and criminals and should be deleted.― markers, Tuesday, May 17, 2011 6:00 PM bookmarkflaglink
― i'd rather zing like a man, than FP like a coward (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 August 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link
― Dan S, Thursday, August 8, 2019 10:09 PM
kisses!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 August 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
ILM - giving criminals a bad name since 2007.
― calzino, Friday, 9 August 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
I don't anything about chooglin but it sounds fun.
― calzino, Friday, 9 August 2019 13:48 (five years ago) link
know
I confuse chooglin' and grabblin'
only one involves catfish iirc
― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, 9 August 2019 13:51 (five years ago) link
i refuse to believe you cannot choogle a catfish
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 9 August 2019 13:56 (five years ago) link
you can choogle anything, if you set your mind to it.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 August 2019 13:58 (five years ago) link
only in 27 of the more open-minded of these united states
― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, 9 August 2019 13:59 (five years ago) link
Many stations across the country declined to air the controversial 1974 episode of All in the Family which featured the first televised instance of chooglin'.
― Where Is The Univers (Old Lunch), Friday, 9 August 2019 14:12 (five years ago) link
jeez, it's all you see on the major networks anymore
― maffew12, Friday, 9 August 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
i saw an Acura ILX on the road last night, fwiw
― sarahell, Friday, 9 August 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
a little voice inside your head saiddon't look backyou can never look back
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 August 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link
it did, and I got off at the Buchanan exit, and I think the ILX continued east on I-80 towards Sacramento
― sarahell, Friday, 9 August 2019 16:18 (five years ago) link
lock thread tbh
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 9 August 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
it doesn't really have anything to do w/ toni morrison specifically but more the general notion that, say, a black woman who made art mostly about and for other black women isn't really being talked about on this board primarily because we have no black women who actively post on this board
― marcos, Thursday, August 8, 2019 5:05 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
There is this, but there's also the effect (which I don't know if it's better or worse) where we'll talk about something that has an aspect (possibly a total aspect) relevant to an experience outside of our own, and, ignoring that aspect entirely, conclude that we've nailed it.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 4 October 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
bump, just in case we've had any recent leavers who may want to share their stories.
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 23:39 (four years ago) link
ah but they left
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 23:40 (four years ago) link
I left
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
but you were ijrc fake, dan
yes i know they have left but they all of em still read, we know this
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
You not retiring yet are you Darragh?
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 23:46 (four years ago) link
He's never been retiring.
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 23:49 (four years ago) link
every 2nd post of his seems like fuzzy, oblique bitching about lefties these days, at least before it used every 4th post!
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 23:53 (four years ago) link
lads please, please.
ye have yr thread, dont ye?
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 December 2019 00:04 (four years ago) link
too many threads for the remainers
― mh, Thursday, 19 December 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link