Europe’s most westernmost country tyvm!It’s afternoon in Australia tbf
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 1 January 2021 00:45 (three years ago) link
(nearly)
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 1 January 2021 00:46 (three years ago) link
aw emil.y i miss you too and hope that things are going better for you oop there in thee east midlands! seriously!
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Friday, 1 January 2021 00:54 (three years ago) link
cooking bolognese sauce for lasagna dinner& listening to Nick Cave i think we might be watching Godfather pt3 w the new ending tonight i have a weird pain in my eyehate u 2020 am not welcoming 2021 until such time as I see some kind of discernible improvement on current state of affairs
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 January 2021 01:15 (three years ago) link
Love a good bolognese.
― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Friday, 1 January 2021 01:18 (three years ago) link
Just finished doing my round of hogmanay WhatsApp messages to my people back in Scotland.
I bought my wife a couple of bottles of pet-nat. Going to watch king of the hill, play some backgammon. We might end up doing some sort of video chat thing or watching a stream, although that wouldn't be my preference. I dont mind a quiet new year's eve and have had many disastrous nights out in the past. I remember ending up a party where the host was very against drugs and spending the evening in the kitchen hiding lines of cocaine under the toaster.
Last new year's eve we ended up not going out as the party we were going to got cancelled last minute, so we got high on acid and watched movies and listened to records at home. That was quite enjoyable.
― Babby's Yed Revisited (jim in vancouver), Friday, 1 January 2021 01:28 (three years ago) link
wallowing in heartbreak this week, familial and not...
tying one on at home alone and wishing every last one of you a happy and much improved new year
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 1 January 2021 01:29 (three years ago) link
happy new year to all itt <3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 January 2021 01:32 (three years ago) link
Alistair Cooke's America
Ah, yes! I remember this series, by that well-known expert on America. Why, he actually knew several real Americans and had bearded several others in their lairs, which was qualification enough back then. It was shown here in the US, too, because Americans always are eager to hear what foreigners think of their exceptional nation, so long as the ratio of compliments to mild criticisms is roughly 5:1.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Friday, 1 January 2021 01:53 (three years ago) link
Happy New Year’s everybody although it still 3 hours away here. Will report back later.
― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 January 2021 01:57 (three years ago) link
xp
I'm not saying it is good but I do have an inexplicable affection for it from the years of listening to his R4 bulletins in the 90's despite his politics being just as bad as yours and tbf I think he probably lived there just as long as you in the end!
― calzino, Friday, 1 January 2021 02:08 (three years ago) link
happy new year ilx, and thank you for helping me get through the last one
xx etc
― scampus unrest (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 1 January 2021 02:30 (three years ago) link
despite his politics being just as bad as yours
hmmm. remind me which bad policies I've advocated for and which bad politicians I backed. I can't improve until I know what needs improvement.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Friday, 1 January 2021 02:32 (three years ago) link
found a goth club DJ in Toronto taking video requests on Mixcloud while testing the Optimo stream-to-TV for later, 🖤🖤🖤🦇🦇🦇⚰️⚰️⚰️
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 1 January 2021 02:35 (three years ago) link
happy new year aps! hope all is well with you! :) xps
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Friday, 1 January 2021 02:36 (three years ago) link
xxp
just search posts by display name Aimless on I love Everything board from the last decade, no probs.
― calzino, Friday, 1 January 2021 02:38 (three years ago) link
iow, you have no idea. it's just a vague impression based on nothing you can describe. thought so.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Friday, 1 January 2021 02:45 (three years ago) link
here comes the discourse zzz zzzz, but unfortunately I'm going to bed now. I'll try and have a lucid dream about how to make a post to viscerally describe my hatred of tedious bullshit supercilious American libs, it probably won't rival the next perry anderson essay but I'm sure you'll be waiting with baited breath.
― calzino, Friday, 1 January 2021 02:52 (three years ago) link
Watched the phantom menace with the kids, now having a beer by the window
― calstars, Friday, 1 January 2021 02:58 (three years ago) link
here comes the discourse zzz zzzz
you're the one who decided it would be fun to jab me in the ribs with your elbow. don't be surprised if I feel an urge to jab back. happy new year, calz.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Friday, 1 January 2021 03:00 (three years ago) link
soz i'm a bit pissed
― calzino, Friday, 1 January 2021 03:05 (three years ago) link
(dw, I think most ppl itt would read Aimless as getting your back up first by snarking at the very idea of your NYE listening.)
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 1 January 2021 03:07 (three years ago) link
well yeah, let's not that first strike go completely unnoticed! ffs there are better ways of expressing *strong* opinions - even though I've been just as bad myself in the past! But you are an old bastard, you should know better!
― calzino, Friday, 1 January 2021 03:13 (three years ago) link
Spending the night at home with my wife as I have every night for the last 9+ months. Ordered fancy pizza, watched an episode of The Great British Bake-Off, and played a game of chess (yes, we are one of the legions who bought a chess set after watching The Queen's Gambit). Now eating ice cream and listening to some tunes with the cat in my lap.
Happy New Year, all.
― jaymc, Friday, 1 January 2021 03:18 (three years ago) link
Happy New Years, folks! My prediction appears to be accurate: definitely not making it to midnight.
― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Friday, 1 January 2021 03:30 (three years ago) link
Happy new year to all, but esp my B-brook brethren
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 1 January 2021 03:44 (three years ago) link
Happy New Year, everyone! Got triggered by fireworks just outside my trailer, had a long and moving chat with someone on FB, and I'm now slurping down ciders, plotting out my New Year's post on FB, and waiting for the ball to get ready to drop.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 1 January 2021 03:55 (three years ago) link
lol the world already spent most of 2020 dropping the ball. Happy New Year!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 January 2021 04:01 (three years ago) link
Happy New Year! Hope it won't be a case of out of the frying pan and into the dumpster fire....
So I rewatched After the Thin Man, and my Jimmy Fucking Stewart allergy is worse if anything. I'm particularly bewildered by modern-day film fans who think he was hot.
An hour to midnight where I am, and the idea of drinking out the rest of this year is strangely grim. Hope everyone else is having a better NYE.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Friday, 1 January 2021 04:02 (three years ago) link
Gummy worm binge
― calstars, Friday, 1 January 2021 04:07 (three years ago) link
happy new year, ILXors! I'm listening to Yagya and staring at the fire.
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Friday, 1 January 2021 04:08 (three years ago) link
lol I made a joke about the bangs outside being gunshots, and my wife responded casually from the other room where she's busy doing a puzzle, "very funny, they're just Fourth of July fireworks."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 January 2021 04:18 (three years ago) link
most ppl itt would read Aimless as getting your back up first by snarking at the very idea of your NYE listening
Sorry, I forgot my ilx etiquette, sic.
if there's one thing we never do around here, it's snark at movies, music, or any other form of entertainment for which another ilxor has expressed their approval. By snarking about Alastair Cooke, by extension I attacked calzino's integrity. I don't know how I messed up so badly. mea maxima culpa.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Friday, 1 January 2021 04:28 (three years ago) link
STFU and happy new year
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 1 January 2021 04:38 (three years ago) link
HNY, sleeve
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Friday, 1 January 2021 04:39 (three years ago) link
lol
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 1 January 2021 04:41 (three years ago) link
moving on from the obligatory bottle of champagne to Scotch, entertaining the cats, listening to Sinatra, Basie, Ellington, Holiday
2020 is hindsight, happy new year y'all
― Brad C., Friday, 1 January 2021 05:01 (three years ago) link
It's cold. It's raining. And the sirens haven't stopped since eight o' clock.
Good times.
― pplains, Friday, 1 January 2021 05:07 (three years ago) link
Happy New Year everybody! ILX helps keep me sane (and/or distracted, which is almost as good). I hope everyone has a safe and happy 2021.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 1 January 2021 05:08 (three years ago) link
Happy New Year all, especially to those west of EST. Good night.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Friday, 1 January 2021 05:21 (three years ago) link
HNY! Some loud fireworks out there right now, seem to be scaring the cats.
― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 January 2021 05:22 (three years ago) link
― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 January 2021 05:23 (three years ago) link
I love the lot of you. Thanks for indulging me.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 January 2021 05:32 (three years ago) link
indeed
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Friday, 1 January 2021 05:56 (three years ago) link
Happy new year, ilx <3
― flopson, Friday, 1 January 2021 05:57 (three years ago) link
HNY my beloved ilxors
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Friday, 1 January 2021 06:04 (three years ago) link
Kicking 2020 out by watching Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1st time) and Face the Music while people move into the flat above ours - it's been empty since March. Here's to better days ahead, for all of us.
― Jaq, Friday, 1 January 2021 06:32 (three years ago) link
Bogus Journey is important for continuity btw!
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 1 January 2021 06:44 (three years ago) link
Happy New Year to all -- usually out like a light at this point but I'm pushing through things as much as I can watching the New Years Queens thing at this point, basically waiting on Trixie and Katya to hit in about forty minutes. Glad to get this year finally out of the way, seventy minutes to go!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 January 2021 06:49 (three years ago) link
Happy New Year to you fools, each and every one of you. Even though I still kinda feel like I haven’t cracked into being a “real” ilxor yet, many of you have helped keep me slightly more sane during a really trying year - even when we were butting heads in the politics threads. Best wishes for all of you.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 1 January 2021 06:59 (three years ago) link