who is the most curmudgeonly man on ILX?

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― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

who is the most curmudgeonly man on ILX?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

who is the most curmudgeonly man on ILX?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

not me.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

x-post.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

That dumb guy I hate

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Me I mean

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The first one who jumped into my mind is unlikely to be a contender right at the moment, what with being on his honeymoon just now.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a Nirvana song called Curmudgeon, I always misread it as Cumagedon.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Eisbär

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

nah, not Eisbär

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a bit curmudgeonly. But I'm not a man.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

what are the necessary qualities for curmudgeonliness?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

RJG has moments of curmudgeonry.

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

That was a real nomination, I just wanted to say 'curmudgeonry'.

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

sadly he doesn't meet the manliness quota!

(xpost)

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

curmudgeon - bad tempered, stubborn kinda like Victor Meldrew.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"An ill-tempered person full of resentment and stubborn notions" or "a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas" according to dictionary.com

x-post

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

wow. worse than I thought.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe we should come back to this question in 30, 40 or 50 years from now, and see who is the most bad tampered and stubborn out of all of us.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

amateur!st

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

(wasN'T a real nomination, I meant)

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

bad tempered, stubborn kinda like Victor Meldrew.

why not "like Van Morrison"?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

haha I would have said amateur¡st but I didn't want him to take it as an insult, which it is, because I like him.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

strongo thinks it's him, but it's really me

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

no it's not!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't actually realise about the bad-tempered-ness of it before (i have been accused of being curmudgeonly by several people, and tend to not take it as an insult) - I kind of think of curmudgeons as being amusingly grumpy folks rather than crotchety old bastards. Which is why I'm not going to nominate Mr Lasagne anymore.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

which ILXor is most likely to turn into a grumpy old man?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

certainly not Alex in new york

― Aaron A., Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

fatherhood has made him soft.

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

My idea of a curmudgeon isn't as nasty as dictionary.com's. I think of it as more harmless grinch than mean-spirited bigot. Like when my dad tuts at the television, mutters something grumpily and trudges upstairs at half past ten.

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

women can't be curmudgeons? < /curmudgeon>

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I think women do surly better rather than curmudgeonly.

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Women can be curmudgeons. It's just that the thread asked who was the most curmudgeonly man on ILX?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

nice grumpy old men = cuddlyudgeons

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

me right now.

― pete s, Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

amateur!st

-- Eisbär (llamasfu...) (webmail), April 25th, 2004 9:23 AM. (llamasfur) (later) (link)

why???

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 25 April 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

curmudgeon only - the good natured need not apply

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 25 April 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

come on people. obviously the resident curmudgeon is Chris Barrus. Hello!!!!

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 25 April 2004 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Would you people keep it quiet in there! Young people these days!

― Michael White (Hereward), Sunday, 25 April 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Not M*m_s then?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 25 April 2004 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

not a bit of it! he's more like the enigmatic garden gnome.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 25 April 2004 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

With a tangy smile indicating he's being severely rogered just out of your veiw.

― omg, Sunday, 25 April 2004 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

My idea of 'curmudgeonly' is pretty much the same as dictionary.com's, though the 'old' bit seems a bit ageist and unnecessary. It's one of those words that people seem to have odd ideas about. I forget what Nickie thought it meant but it was something quite odd. I think she was confused by Lee & Herring.

Basically, it = hating fun.

I thought strongo was the curmudgeon-in-chief of ILX.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 April 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary defines curmudgeon as 'a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person' -- so even though the term is usually applied to old men doesn't mean it has to be.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Sunday, 25 April 2004 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

that definition also doesn't fit amateurist at all

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

dave q then?

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

its an unattractive trait. sometimes it can be amusing and distracting for a short period, but then it become cliche. avoid

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

marc*llo.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

finally!

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

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perhaps this combination can best be described as Bilkonic.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 26 April 2004 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"dupacious"

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 April 2004 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I second Darn-to-hell.

Just to be a curmudgeon about it, that'd be a mispronunciation - my last name rhymes with "Tarheel" if you scanned it as an iamb instead of a trochee.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 26 April 2004 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://home.iprimus.com.au/spud1/Tumbler_Koros.JPG

This much I know to be true.

― Kiwi, Monday, 26 April 2004 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW this MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCH...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I nominate the anti-Ned.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, I'll vote for that. Um, who is this person?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

He is the little man behind the scenes. He is the mover and the shaker.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

it's me. i just don't show it.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

He knows your deepest, darkest secrets.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

pah. back to lurking. grumble grumble, mutter mutter.

see?
told you so, yo.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

VengaDan, that sounds like the protagonist from every Siouxsie and the Banshees song.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"Please......no.........not the anti-Ned!!!"

"I'm afraid so"

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

you know on irc, the /ignore setting? do you get that on here, too?

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

He will menace you with his horrifying baby-arm.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

It's all so clear now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

His hump has crushed nations; the drool on his chain inspires terror in one hundred languages.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I read this as "he humps nations"
time for coffee.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

It is said he makes his enemies walk only through riddle, having removed their legs.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

He once killed a man just to watch him vainly attempt to stuff his intestines back into the gaping hole in his midriff.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, Groo the Wanderer.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

the anti-ned is bald with sideburns.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

is he Scott Ian from Anthrax, then?

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 26 April 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

that'd be cool, Anthrax rule!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 26 April 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I was about to say! I like him! And he lives nearby anyway, over in HB.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Does Scott Ian have a baby arm?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 April 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

We could graft one onto him.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

good times

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 26 April 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Leave your baby arms behind.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

twelve years pass...

A series of polls broken down by continent (had considered by major theme but overlap and difficulties with classifications) leading to (let's face it) us politics curmudgeon #1 the beloved morbs with warts and all realness and several hundred years of excellent movie recs and the eventual uk politics contender who is to be determined but is more likely than not indiscernible as an entity aside from being a pissy no-content collection of bad university activist cliches and shrivelling oncoming high level misanthropy.

Prob requires a bonus royal rumble surprise entry of banned/departed noteworthies that could be submitted undr random headings deemed noteworthy enough by the committee

― EU don't negotiate with errorists (darraghmac), Sunday, 26 June 2016 01:00 (nine years ago)

But rly i spose im asking

Did we ever get this sorted

― EU don't negotiate with errorists (darraghmac), Sunday, 26 June 2016 01:01 (nine years ago)

no honorable mentions for the most curmudgeonly woman on ilx, eh? an oversight, no doubt.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 26 June 2016 03:30 (nine years ago)

i've called for ilx going full meta for a while - countless polls about which poster is the most or least this or that

― Treeship, Sunday, 26 June 2016 03:45 (nine years ago)

Youre showing yr youth

Aimless- i took it for granted that women were included and certainly we'd have some in the bonus category (indeed theres scope there for a few multiple award winners) but not imo in the running for the main event though imo if the lamented estela had ever chosen to go full 'mudge we would live yet under the thrall of a great dark queen but for good or ill she passed on the power of that ring when tested and we do not speak of her now except in wearied sighs

― EU don't negotiate with errorists (darraghmac), Sunday, 26 June 2016 08:14 (nine years ago)

aye. estela restrained the full force of her curmudgeonly talents for the good of humankind, which conclusively proves the milk of kindness ran abundantly in her.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 26 June 2016 18:05 (nine years ago)

I prefer to think she was under a court order from before

― EU don't negotiate with errorists (darraghmac), Sunday, 26 June 2016 18:15 (nine years ago)

everyone here is a fucking curmudgeon, handing out medals for it is a dimwit project, and fp for citing a quality poster so soon after a literally worthless one

― oh, amazonaws (wins), Sunday, 26 June 2016 18:35 (nine years ago)

I mentioned an unspecified contending group u curmudgeon

― EU don't negotiate with errorists (darraghmac), Sunday, 26 June 2016 18:46 (nine years ago)

"ppl who aren't the worst ever"

― oh, amazonaws (wins), Sunday, 26 June 2016 19:12 (nine years ago)

;-)

― oh, amazonaws (wins), Sunday, 26 June 2016 19:12 (nine years ago)

i do not have high level misanthropy dammit

― Inglan is a Bitch (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 26 June 2016 20:00 (nine years ago)

Oncoming man u in denial

― EU don't negotiate with errorists (darraghmac), Sunday, 26 June 2016 22:47 (nine years ago)

this country is probably utterly fucked and will never get better in my lifetime because that's how enough fuckers like it and this referendum is only a tiny bit of that

― Inglan is a Bitch (Noodle Vague), Sunday, June 26, 2016 11:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

LOL NV. A shade curmudgeonly perhaps?

― They could have been Stackridge. (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 June 2016 23:23 (nine years ago)

mere real talk your honour

― Inglan is a Bitch (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 26 June 2016 23:23 (nine years ago)

Tudge of 'mudge, judge

― EU don't negotiate with errorists (darraghmac), Sunday, 26 June 2016 23:27 (nine years ago)

six months pass...

bit of mudge about the place again, mudge to kill rising

― trilby mouth (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 January 2017 23:43 (nine years ago)

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mudge

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 12 January 2017 23:45 (nine years ago)

Your true curmudgeon has quaffed deeply from the bitter springs of life and has adapted himself accordingly, unlike all you callow, shallow, doe-eyed naifs who think it will only get better if you try harder, or some such milk-fed, weak-kneed Sunday-schoolism. Fie on you!
The most curmudgeonly man on ILX is a namby-pamby goody two-shoes compared to the correct yardstick. Why, you wet-behind-the-ears greensick fools couldn't put together a complete curmudgeon, even if you pooled parts into a composite and then lied on its resume.
Harrumph!
― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, April 25, 2004

I see it was on a Sunday in springtime, the only pretty ring time. Meanwhile, Morbs has been slaying all competition for months now.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 13 January 2017 00:55 (nine years ago)

how could it be anyone but our beloved morbius?

― marcos, Friday, 13 January 2017 02:17 (nine years ago)

in fairness ive him listed as the champ against whom all contenders must be tested

― trilby mouth (darraghmac), Friday, 13 January 2017 02:19 (nine years ago)

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