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when you write on ilx, who are you really writing to?

― minna (minna), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

God.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

All the people at school who never thought I had anything worth saying. Them. I'm heading for a fall, aren't I...

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

This has me stumped.

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Nabisco usually.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

To all the girls I've loved before.

Seriously though, first me and then all of you. Deffo not the googlers.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

What Dave B said.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

who is 'all of you'?
are you ever surprised by the people who respond to your comments? ie. 'i didn't think s/he would read my thread/would know that about me (even tho i posted it for 'all' to see here on ilx)'
(obviously yes, i have experienced this kind of surprise, am i the only one?)

― minna (minna), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Ilxora, the bitch goddess.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Minna - never had that, so can't say.

As regards 'all of you' - I have various people who I know who read this (ie, other ILXers), others I don't know but feel like I have some knowledge of them, and then there's the amorphous mass of lurkers who are unknown and unknowable, so i kind of assume they're just there in a vague sort of way, like gravity.

Even so, I don't write to please everyone, as it were; for example, when I post on football, I'm writing for those people I know like football and can engage/understand/like/disagree as appropriate. For those niche threads, I'm not too concerned what others might think in response as they're part of the gravity type people I mention above.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 14 February 2003 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

partly myself, partly Rener, and partly the great mass of ILXOR readers.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 14 February 2003 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.gutterpress.com/sintonia/images/Jesus-Elvis.GIF

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 14 February 2003 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

and intelligent, liberal reader with a sharp wit who is deeply hostile to me and my opinions.

― g.cannon (gcannon), Friday, 14 February 2003 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

anybody who will listen to me i s'pose

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Friday, 14 February 2003 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Harry Dean Stanton

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 14 February 2003 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Friends on the one hand, people whose opinions i respect on the other. The former are mostly the 'pub mafia' UK posters with some US people, the latter are a bit of everyone.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 14 February 2003 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Usually the person who has asked the question - or the person who - within the subthread I am arguing with. Or myself I I'm telling a joke.

Though on a more metaphysical level I imagine other people being just like me dressed different vis a vis the way their brain works.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 14 February 2003 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I hear that Harry Dean Stanton is an ILX lurker. No really.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 14 February 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I wouldn't do it otherwise, would I?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 14 February 2003 15:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Mr. Stanton - LOVED you in The Missouri Breaks!

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 14 February 2003 15:29 (twenty-three years ago)

On ILM I suppose I'm talking to Michael Wells, Gareth, Stevem, most of the time. Or myself if it's Groove Armada. On ILE I think my questions tend to be more general, I can often guess who will have an answer, Mark S on Journalism threads etc. But I don't think I'm specifically addressing someone so much.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 14 February 2003 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

i post for that guy from hermit's hermits that nude spock once said was a lurker

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 14 February 2003 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

This is a very good question, and very hard to answer. Because in answering "who are writing to?" you're partly answering "why are you writing here?". I honestly don't know.

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 14 February 2003 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't know.
myself? a lot of the time i say things about myself that i'd like to overlook or deny... if i put it on here, i can't run away from it.

well, i can, and do. but fuck it, it's nice to get it out in the open.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 14 February 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Generally I follow the same pattern Pete follows; generally I write in response to a particular person's post/question unless I'm making a joke or telling a story, in which case I'm writing partially to everyone reading the thread and partially to myself.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 February 2003 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

the other people on ile. sometimes specific people, sometimes just everyone.

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 14 February 2003 17:35 (twenty-three years ago)

ronan you hurt me, you hurt me in my heart

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 14 February 2003 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, minna, sometimes I'm writing directly to the person that started the thread.

Sometimes I say something generic and hope someone comments.

Usually, Tracer Hand, I make a reference to another post or poster to show where my comment is coming from, g-kit. It makes it more like an actual conversation.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 February 2003 17:44 (twenty-three years ago)

That's me on the right, ILX in the background

http://www.savethemall.org/images/f5_2.jpg

― oops (Oops), Friday, 14 February 2003 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

What Tom said, plus sometimes I'm just trying to making whoever I'm replying to on the thread question themselves.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 14 February 2003 17:52 (twenty-three years ago)

1) people who post to ILX
2) people who read ILX but don't post
3) Random googlers

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 14 February 2003 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

It varies:
One person (I normally make this specific) who I want to address
The questioner
Those who are in the discussion
My pals here
The people I want to impress/amuse
Everyone

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 14 February 2003 23:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Tracer we will have a GA party someday, the new album is great!!!!

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 15 February 2003 01:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Hot chicks Googling for LURV AXXXION fm a profane and witty contrarian in the maryland DC north virginia area

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 15 February 2003 01:14 (twenty-three years ago)

cuz nobody calls from there!

― minna (minna), Saturday, 15 February 2003 02:53 (twenty-three years ago)

i post for you, minna

< /creepy >

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 15 February 2003 03:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I post for our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

― Chris P (Chris P), Saturday, 15 February 2003 03:41 (twenty-three years ago)

and all m'niggaz

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 15 February 2003 03:48 (twenty-three years ago)

i post only for donut bitch, grim kim, ally, and hanle y.

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 15 February 2003 07:21 (twenty-three years ago)

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― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 15 February 2003 07:30 (twenty-three years ago)

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