what do you do when you find yourself using ILM terminology in real life?

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i was at Wendys yesterday and there was this Crystal Gale lookin' chick there with hair way past her ass, and i motioned to her and asked my two dining companions - "hair like that - search or destroy?"

same day - asked my sister "Capri Pants - classic or dud?"

thsi happened to anyone else? what do i do??

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 16 June 2003 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Using ILM terminology in real life: Laugh or Cry?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 16 June 2003 05:30 (twenty-two years ago)

u r so gay for asking this question!

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 16 June 2003 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I recently found myself describing a conversation some friends and I were having as 'increasingly infolded'. Luckily everyone ignored that comment.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 16 June 2003 05:40 (twenty-two years ago)

more classic ILXor terminology and imagery:

http://www.co-junk.net/martin/domo-kun.gif

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 16 June 2003 06:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I reckon you'd have to be a complete COCKFARMER to start using expressions you'd picked up on ILM in real life!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 16 June 2003 08:48 (twenty-two years ago)

TWUNT.

― kate (kate), Monday, 16 June 2003 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I reckon you'd have to be a complete COCKFARMER to start using expressions you'd picked up on ILM in real life!

I would have to agree with that wholeheartedly.

― woo woo, Monday, 16 June 2003 08:50 (twenty-two years ago)

well, it happens.

I think its classic up to the point where you have to explain what you mean.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 16 June 2003 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Using ILM terminology in real life = grebt

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 16 June 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://home.maine.rr.com/waco/shirt1.gif

"I hate all the people who diss me but shot all the peple who like me."

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Monday, 16 June 2003 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

As a sideline here, could somebody explain to me the practice round these parts of ending words '...xor'? e.g. 'suxor' and the like.

― M Carty (mj_c), Monday, 16 June 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't axor.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 16 June 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

here

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 16 June 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Ilxor has permeated my existence to the point where it even provides my .sigs...

'there is no "i" in experimental' -- mark s
'yes there is, right before "mental"' -- jess

― kate (kate), Monday, 16 June 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i always walk around the house saying "{fieldsofsalmon} in cheese sandwich shockah!" or "{fieldsofsalmon} in doing the washing up shockah!"

the g/f is suitably baffled.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Monday, 16 June 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

My g/f is confused when I start lezing people up.

― NA. (Nick A.), Monday, 16 June 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

...ILM terminology? ...in real life??

Heh, I don't even use much English in my "real life", outside the virtual ILM-o-verse i.e.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 16 June 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

My b/f was devastated when I came home with the term "teabagging". He thought that he had made it up, and was being all "experimental" and shit, only to find out that it's so common there's actually a term for it. Next he'll find out that Scanner is trying to claim credit for the term, and he'll hit the roof.

― kate (kate), Monday, 16 June 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh, I don't even use much English in my "real life", outside the virtual ILM-o-verse i.e.

I don't speak English IRL either but that doesn't keep me from saying "shockah" quite a lot lately.

And look at this - the sub-headline translates to "The world in Matrix two weeks late SHOCKAH". ILX catchphrases in spreading all over the world Schock!

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Monday, 16 June 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I've stolen "cockfarmer", "twunt", and the phrase "...but can we eat it?"; but thats about it.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 16 June 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

("cockfarmer" is truly funtastic, yes)

but-t-t-t -- i think i'd readily carry, with gladitude, some ILMagery on me any day

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 16 June 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"... and can we eat it?" has slipped into my vocab occasionally.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 16 June 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Urgent and Key has worked its way into some intraoffice emails!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 16 June 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

At the sushi place the other day with my buddy's I blurted out (after my third Asahi) "ha ha ha Sushi: Pick Only Ten!" and they looked at me like "wha?", and I said "oh right...(long pause)...ha ha CLASSIC!".

Other things I've said multiple times out in the world: "and then they all lez up" as well as the obligatory exclamation ending "...shockah!".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 16 June 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

"... and can we eat it?" has slipped into my vocab occasionally.
which is odd, because I haven't seen "...and can we eat it?" in an ILM thread in, like, months.
Has anyone started using "Psuedo-esque" yet?

Oh, here's one to mull over: I was overhearing a conversation in a Burger King (I couldn't help it, they wouldn't keep their voices down).
It was two post-dot.com drones nattering on about current rap music. One said that there hasn't been anything decent in rap since Run-DMC did "Walk this Way" and his compatriot disagreed, saying that Rap was never music, much less good music...and I thought to myself as I sipped my OJ..."from Techie to Geir-head in one easy step..."

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 16 June 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

no one has started using pseudo-esque

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 16 June 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

damn!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 16 June 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I was this close *holds thumb and fore-finger as close as possible without touching* to saying "sub-trifean" the other day.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 16 June 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

serious question: what nearly instigated you saying "sub-trifean" in meatspace?
frivoulous question: is there such thing as super-trifean or hyper-trifean?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 16 June 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't the point that nearly everything is super-trifean?

― NA. (Nick A.), Monday, 16 June 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, except when its sub-trifean, psuedo-trifean or meta-trifean.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 16 June 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

you forgot 'at best!'

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 16 June 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

haha!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 16 June 2003 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i use 'at best' and 'shocka' on a half hourly basis

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 16 June 2003 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

and if anyone questions you about it you look at them like they are stupid and tell them to get with the program.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 16 June 2003 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

and that they hate fun.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 16 June 2003 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

and then you tell them that nothing they have to matters because they don't know who junior senoir is.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 16 June 2003 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

at which point i logistically beat them down whilst stuffing copies of "Complicated" into my pants

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Fool's errand = trying to explain funny ILM/E/X jokes to non-user

except the klassik Dan Perry "triangular area/vulva" line, which my brother quite enjoyed

― Neudonym, Tuesday, 17 June 2003 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

ILM/E/X jokes, they're this thing...

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Jon Williams has been known to use "such and such -- classic or dud?" without cracking a smile.

― Ian Johnson, Tuesday, 17 June 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Argh! I did it again yesterday. Walked around my office growling "Does anyone in this bitch have the staple remover?!?!?"

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 07:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I wouldnt even use it on this board, let alone in real life. However, I do sometimes say, "I feel my current emotion would best be expressed through the sunglasses emoticon," or, you know, whatever emoticon is applicable.

Thats as close as I let internet life seep into real life.

― David Allen, Tuesday, 17 June 2003 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)

What is this "real life" of which you speak?

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 07:31 (twenty-two years ago)

funny that *you* should ask this, kate!...

(living with a Handsome Jedi Knight who's E-bowing everything in sight - all that not real enough for you??)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

This is not real life. This is some fantasy that has come true! Maybe HSA isn't really real at all and I'm actually living in a cardboard box in Russell Square, talking to myself. Sometimes I look at him and wonder this.

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

i use cockfarmer and classic quite often, that's about it...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I use classic or dud nad shockah on a regular basis; and I am aaaalways saying that people hate fun in real life - usually to nods of agreement.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"...at which point i logistically beat them down..."
um, did somebody else use "logistical beatdown" before me...or have I created a monster which will one day require killing?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

It could be worse. You could be the person who invented the "people who only own 12 CDs" Meme.

Curse those pesky self-replicating memes! ::shakes fist::

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Most ILXisms sound ridiculous in conversation but a well-placed, uncredited "_____ in _____ shocker!" joke gets laughs, if used sparingly.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"classic or dud nad shockah"

That sounds painful.

― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, I do say "in this bitch." Also, I accuse people of being rockists -- not that that's ILX-specific, but popular all the same.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Blah hates fun is fairly difficult to misinterpret.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"______ owns this thread"

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I find myself accusing people of hating fun, usually my wife when she tells me to come to bed.

― Dan I., Wednesday, 18 June 2003 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I can hold my head up high and say that I used 'you just hate fun' and 'who up in this beyotch' before I came across ILX.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 03:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i was deffo using 'eat my fuc' pre-ILx but i'm well glad it's spreading..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

what's the proper tone of voice to convey haxor?

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

robotic

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I asked someone at a café what kind of cookies they had in that bitch.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 04:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I cannot stop laughing as I read this thread.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

sometimes i say "corny indie fuxx"
and have also noticed myself saying "shocker" at the end of sentences..

― reo, Friday, 20 May 2005 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, 2003. Happy days...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 20 May 2005 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Aye, we won't see the likes of them again.

Ned remembers when this message board was all fields, as far as the eye can see, y'know.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, to answer the question, I don't think I've tried it...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Or, to put it another way: "Mark Grout in 'not using ILM terminology in real life' shockah!"

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Not even with my own..

Paranoia: I say "Amber, Alice, look at these trousers, you guys!"
At which everyone in the shop turns and says "IT'S YOU!!!!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Shouldn't you be asking "Amber, Alice, what sort of trousers have they got in this bitch?"

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I usually speak Norwegian in real life, but I have been close to using ILM terminology in Net discussions outside ILM on various occasions. Probably wouldn't have made much sense.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)

do you raise melodic only ire internet wide geir?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I firmly believe that, many centuries from now, a team of archaeologists and anthropoligists will unearth the ILM archives from beneath the ruble of our former civilisation, and that; already being aware that in the late 20th / early 21st Century, most people were still enslaved by a barbaric routine that meant that they had to work for 5 days before they were allowed to rest for 2; they will be able to identify within a matter of minutes of beginning to study those archives, which days had been Fridays.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Sure.

I've been saying "What the fuck" a lot more.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I have recently started using the expression "get with the [fuckin'*] programme!" so often that I've even started annoying myself.

I have absolutely no idea where I've picked this loathesome phrase up from, but I'm going to have to introduce some sort of system of fines or punishmnent beatings if I don't stop it soon.

(* - optional)

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

'in this bitch' is not an ilxism, but i use it anyway. i quite often say 'taking sides', 'roffles', 'oh em gee' (so do lots of people). shocker is something i've always said. but of late 'get one ___'has crept in, and it's harder to explain.

― N_RQ, Friday, 20 May 2005 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"'in this bitch' is not an ilxism"

I'm sure you're right, but I've never come across it anywhere else.

Similarly, although I recognise now that it's actually in fairly common use elsewhere, before discovering this forum I had somehow managed to get through the first 39 and a half years of my life without having become conscious of the word "rockism".

Indeed until quite recently I still assumed this was another "Ilx-ism".

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 20 May 2005 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I have led a very sheltered, and almost entirely blameless, life.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 20 May 2005 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

beneath the ruble of our former civilisation
I enjoyed this typo.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 20 May 2005 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pleased.

I derived enormous pleasure from creating it, just for you.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 20 May 2005 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

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