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IRAQ
AVRIL

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

"Let's Post Pictures of..." (also known as "You've still got a dial-up modem? You fucking pauper...")

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Dom Passantino: I think the only one I clicked was the TATU one. God, I am a pervy.

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I am a ... Parts 1, 2 and sometimes 3.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

CIRITH UNGOL
INDIE
JOHN UPDIKE VS. EMINEM
THE LOCUST

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Any that are LOTR or Duffy-related.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Any thread about rockism that inspires arguments about why people like music

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)

most

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Any thread with some reference to something an ILXer did outside my scope of knowledge

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

ones with only boys on it

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Anything where reading all the comments is mandatory and there are more than ~70 replies unread.

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)

so, um, why are you here then?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:30 (twenty-three years ago)

anything over 150 posts. becomes a headache to sort through.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:32 (twenty-three years ago)

You mean Jess isn't a woman???

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:33 (twenty-three years ago)

For the elitism. I like threads directly relevent to what I'm interested in. I can't stand reading threads from 2 years ago that corss reference 50 other threads.

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Search and Destroy
classic or dud
this is the thread where you
What are you listening to today?
What are you - heh heh - wearing right now?
Okay, so how many of you
Thread Connections
POO/OPO
ILXors as cartoon characters
Kitten
Norah Jones is not that good
New Apple Lust Objects
Choose between
Top 10
Top 100
Best

― David (David), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:35 (twenty-three years ago)

war ones and kittens

― donna (donna), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Anything pop music related.

Kitten threads always descend into rimming!

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Do not confuse kittens with ferrets.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't avoid anything.

I'm all about the stats.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I AVOID METATHREADS

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)

oh great metath, read to us

― g.cannon (gcannon), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I avoid asteriods, I am a spaceship.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:46 (twenty-three years ago)

META THREADS

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

haha yes i'm aware, but this is one too, y'see

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I AVOID TURTLE SHELLS. I AM PRINCESS TOADSTOOL IN A GO KART.

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I avoid the ones about events not taking place near me, as I get all jealous that I can't get to the FAPs in NYC and Dunedin and so on. Also those about American sports which I don't get to see at all. I read pretty much everything else on ILE. On ILM, I read about 5% of the threads, just those on some subject that catches my interest.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 24 February 2003 20:37 (twenty-three years ago)

FAP
computers
sports
copycat threads (usually)

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 24 February 2003 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

kittens

― Ed (dali), Monday, 24 February 2003 20:42 (twenty-three years ago)

21st Century Feminists Suck

― cprek (cprek), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

--Kittens
--"This thread is just a cliquey big-up to an ILXor with quite a big enough ego already, thank you"
--[insert name of artist/architect/poet/social commentator I have never heard of]
--"This is a thread being nasty and sarcastic about the middlebrow"
--Blazing Squad rox0r!

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

The first three of those are among my favourites, Mark!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:00 (twenty-three years ago)

London or NYC centric ones. Unless I'm feeling particularly argumentative.

― celeste (Celeste), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm with Dom - picture threads. I have dialup at home. I find it amusing, to wander slightly OT, that people wanted the ILX logos to be got rid of, but will happily slather 100kb jpegs all over the place!

Maybe it isnt the same people...

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Trayce, you are OTM.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 00:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I avoid threads where people say things like "OTM"

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 02:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Lynskey = OTM

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 02:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Football.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 03:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I will keep that to myself, because threads like this only make some people feel bad or self-concious for discussing certain subjects on ile.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 03:47 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm not sure really, i go by juicy headlines.

examples of threads i haven't read:

www.rotten.com: C/D
The Wicker Man - C/D? (the wicker who?)
Found Magazine (what magazine?)
UNIX commands - S/D. (what is unix?)
In praise of unbridled avarice, DVD-style (don't have dvd player)
War Pool (sounds unpleasant)
Blade II (never saw it, i like that roni size/cypress hill song on the soundtrack tho)
Hasil Adkins: Out To Hutch (hasil who?)
ILX Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball League 2003 (ew, baseball)
Ok so how many of you got useless degrees? (me :()
SOCIAL SCIENCE DEGREEHOLDERS REPRESENT! (enough with the degree threads, it's bringing me down)
What did you study? And is it related to the job you do now? (etc.)
okay, so how many here are engineering majors? (etc.)

(p.s. my non interest in these subjects has nothing to do with their value in the real world! i like bawdy sex romp threads. carry on with the baseball/university ones, everyone else likes them!)

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 03:59 (twenty-three years ago)

oh my, my trousers seems to have fallen!

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 04:06 (twenty-three years ago)

haha!

naughty boy i'd better GET YOU A BELT

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 04:25 (twenty-three years ago)

haha "carry on"

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 04:34 (twenty-three years ago)

nothing in particurlar as even the ones that aren't promisingly titled might have something interesting in them.

(having said that I don't have much time most days so I don't click on most of them).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 10:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I do tend to avoid *posting* to threads about Iraq, as I fear I might be out of my depth, tho I wonder whether perhaps my fears are unfounded. I do like reading them tho.

Whilst it is unsurprising that ppl hold very strong positions abt Iraq, I am somewhat surprised that the same is true of Avril. I'm indifferent to her myself.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 10:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I end up looking at huge kilopost threads because I feel it's my duty to.

I avoid birthday threads unless it's somebody I really want to say Happy Birthday too. Obviously I don't want the rest of you to have unhappy birthdays.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 10:52 (twenty-three years ago)

minna:
> Found Magazine (what magazine?)

found magazine doesn't quite fit in with your list in a way i can't quite explain. it's mainly web based and just consists of things that the author (and other people) has found. it's kinda like bagpuss but without the rubbishy folk songs sung by the dolls. anyway give it a go, there are some very poignant things on there.

reminds me, also, of beerframe magazine, a little fanzine that a friend recommended which is just some bloke reviewing, er, things. just things he likes the look of - cat food packaging, hole punches, those things that you use to measure childrens' feet, men's chocolate pocky, random stuff.
http://www.core77.com/inconspicuous/index.html

andy

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 12:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Threads I avoid:
* kitten threads
* cat threads
* threads with pix of kittens or cats
* threads with pix of cutesy things and pleasantries
* threads about what fish I should put on my desk at work
* what are you listening to today?
* anything about love, music, peace, cats, or clothes +

+This may all be one big lie.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 13:36 (twenty-three years ago)

PS: What's up with all those fuckin' threads about cats? I mean, who looks at those fuckin' things anyway??

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 13:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Threads I really do avoid:
* Ones about specific books or music groups or places or politicians or what-have-you that I have never heard of before.
* Ones directed towards a particular poster involving something that has nothing to do with me (especially those, "Hey, so-and-so, did you get my email?" ones).
* Ones about the war (unless I'm in a particularly serious mood).

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm a little tired of avril threads, too. eminem threads always seem to be sources of conflict, but i don't necessarily avoid them...

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

pix of cats threads rok u r are all gay

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 14:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Speaking of which - is the 'missionary position' thread RUDE or not? I'm very bored and it seems to be egtting a lot of action (prob rude then).

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Sarah half of it is about the sexyuwull position and half of it is about sweets.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh sod it then.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I vow to avoid serial killer threads.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 16:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Iraq, yeah, but I avoid political discussions in general online.

I've started to avoid C/D threads -- and the equivalent elsewhere -- because they always seem to attract people who just enjoy going on about how much they hate something, which seems like a nonsensical way to spend one's day.

Sometimes I'll religiously read the very-very-British threads full of terms I understand vaguely at best, just cause it's fun to try to figure out what it all means, given the context.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 23:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Ones about specific books or music groups or places or politicians or what-have-you that I have never heard of before.

I usually do take a look at these -- sometimes they're good heads-up to artists or works I wasn't previously aware of.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 23:51 (twenty-three years ago)

who wants to be exposed to stuff one isn't already familiar with?

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 23:59 (twenty-three years ago)

*sigh*
What I meant was...well... For example... threads on specific cities in England which site specific pubs or coastal villages or what-have-you... I have never been there and don't have any plans to visit in the next couple of years, so that really doesn't strike my interest.

Similarly, detailed critiques of movies and books I haven't seen/read do not interest me as I can't be active in the discussion and don't want to bump into any spoilers.

Or, if you prefer, you can just decide that I am stuck in my own little world, and it will never change, and then one day I'll day.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

sex ones. zuh.
and all the ones i don't understand, nooch.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

You were making a lot of sense, dang.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

(How does one sod a sexual position?)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

and then one day I'll day
Obviously, I meant one day I'll DIE. I got a little caught up there. I've been feeling awfully sensitive and frustrated with the world lately. Sorry.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

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