Quieting the Imps in Your Brainz

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To talk animatedly about air disasters to strangers when flying.

If you are ever sat next to me on a plane and do this Louis I swear to god my imp will tell me to punch you in the face and I can't promise that I'll be able to keep it quiet.

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link

I can't find any, Abbott :(

lol Erica do you feel bad because I'm copping flak? Or because I've gone monster?

Also I don't ACTUALLY do any of these, tempting as they all are

thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link

in places with stadium seating i imagine diving from the upper rows and body splashing into people down below.

― Kerm, Tuesday, July 7, 2009 1:19 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

This is actually a big one for me. I was at a baseball game recently and kept imagining what would happen if I did this.

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link

You should be lobotomised.

thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link

Louis I feel bad because ppl are giving you a hard time. I would venture to guess that your imps are no stranger than a lot of those other posters would never actually admit to having.

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link

c'mon now louis, regardless of the total lack of respect i have for you, i don't seriously think you should be lobotomised. uh, my "imp" told me to say that.

ian, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link

They tell me to walk insane distances between two vaguely-known locations.

I don't know ENBB, this is kind of unforgivable.

her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link

Naughty imp! You should have quieted him though :( xp

also lol Dan

thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link

^_^

her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link

hahaha ha ha?

kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link

imp is a creepy word

kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link

it's like gimp without the g. or limp without the l.

ian, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link

I sort of love it tbh.

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link

my imps get annoyingly loud when i'm hungover (or prob still slightl;y drunk) and stuck somewhere i don't want to be.

^prizes the praise of the media, and the Europeans (will), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link

^^^ my imps.

ian, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link

when i see a hot guy with a great round ass i wonder what it would be like to bury my face in it but i don't think that's an "imp" as much as a "healthy libido"

faster pussycat master blaster (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link

^^^ quieting my imps.

ian, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link

Elmo see that's different because it's not completely absurd unless maybe you're imagining doing so right then and there on the street or wherever it is you may see said person

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link

my lovely lady imps? xps

haha there's definitely a libido-imp crossover elmo but i'm talking about situations where sexual contact would be remarkably inappropriate or even damaging, i.e. a sports changing-room, a train etc...in your situation, it could be highly appropriate and logical.

thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link

Basically what ENBB just said.

thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link

in some cultures it is considered rude NOT to bury your face into a hot stranger's great round ass

her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link

On especially frustrating days at work I have impy visions of picking up my keyboard and smashing my target (boss, coworker, customer, etc) across the face with it. This vision is usually a lot like that fantasy scene in High Fidelity where they hit Tim Robbins in the face with a phone and his teeth come flying out of his mouth like candy corn.

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link

ie there is usually rock music and jack black somewhere

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link

and a dream chamber

kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link

Next time I get the urge to lick a stranger I'm going to blame this guy. He looks like just the sort of imp would would encourage me to do such things:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/imp.jpg

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link

the thing with asses, and burying your face in them, is that if the person is walking it's hard to get down on your knees in time to position yourself before they walk away. this is why my imps usually just tell me to give it a good hard smack as i walk by.

ian, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THh1pPWEoWs

Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Not an imp.

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link

Also, I don't remember that scene being that funny from when I actually watched that movie. lol.

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link

My imps tell me to spit in the faces of drunk, sexist boys or to tell prostletyzing Christians that God doesn't exist.

going vogue (suzy), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link

lol xp

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link

i dont have these really anymore which is good? or maybe i let them out enough when drunk

5:00 manatee showing (jjjusten), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link

I don't know. The article seems to suggest that it's totally normal.

But a vast majority of people rarely, if ever, act on such urges, and their susceptibility to rude fantasies in fact reflects the workings of a normally sensitive, social brain

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link

uhoh

5:00 manatee showing (jjjusten), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link

i don't often have these impulses either, aside from the occassional road rage moment and the aforementioned "horny wolf" perv moments

faster pussycat master blaster (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link

x-post Maybe you just need to nurture your imps to prevent them from plotting against you and eventually causing you to think Henry is communicating messages to you like that dog upthread did to Berkowitz.

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link

I'm sorry you guys don't have normally sensitive and social brains. :-(

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link

"what would happen if I pantsed this dude, right now"

faster pussycat master blaster (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link

(xpost) if we did would we be hanging around on ILX?

snoball, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah i dont know most of henrys secret messages seem to be things like "lets eat shoes!" and those are fairly crushable on the impulse control scale.

5:00 manatee showing (jjjusten), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link

i have the urge to reveal many examples, even though it wouldn't be too hard for someone to figure out who I am IRL and find this post and get upset. I'm gonna resist the urge ... or wait until I can come up with something non-damaging.

incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link

i have succumbed to the "hey! lets go pee in the back yard!" suggestion once or twice so far tho xpost

5:00 manatee showing (jjjusten), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah i dont know most of henrys secret messages seem to be things like "lets eat shoes!" and those are fairly crushable on the impulse control scale.

― 5:00 manatee showing (jjjusten), Tuesday, July 7, 2009 2:22 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

Awwwwww Henry.

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link

wait is henry the dog or did you name your imp

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link

I think the imps are different from my rage under certain conditions, or elmo's road rage, or emotional triggers. It's like...not an emotional thing, it's strictly the rational brain going "what if what if what if" just to see what happens.

But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link

sarahel are you barack obama

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link

"i frequently want to box joe biden about the ears"

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link

Woah, I didn't even realize little guy was gone.

kkvgz, Friday, 15 April 2011 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link

four months pass...

My mind has taken to replacing the word "crazy" with the rapper name "C-Rayz Walz". And considering that I use the word "crazy" like a 1920s jazz man... God, will ECT help with this?

kkvgz, Friday, 9 September 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link

i have a theory that it's impossible to have imps/earworms/any number of mental maladies while doing hard math in your head, and another theory that mathematicians are too good at math, and need successively harder problems not to go mad, and that's why they go mad so often.
maybe cure is worse than disease though?

Philip Nunez, Friday, 9 September 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link

wow kkvgz that's really c-rayz walz

zvookster, Friday, 9 September 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link

c-rayz walz was no pumpkinhead

the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 September 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link

two years pass...

A few years back I remember it seemed like there was a mild ilx obsession with the british ASBO, or Anti Social Behavior Order, which is part of their legal system. I don't think people even talk about it much these days. But the idea of it worked it's way into my brain and began to take over, such that it sometimes creeps into my brain in the form of "ASBOlutely!" or even "Anti Social Behavior Order - lutely!"

how's life, Thursday, 12 June 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link

missed your true calling as a writer of tabloid newspaper headlines imo

Groovy Wordbender (soref), Thursday, 12 June 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link


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