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JVC, I wouldn't want to see you go permanently, but maybe a break is a good idea. Of course I've noticed the usual bullies trying to get a rise out of you, but I write them off as incorrigible. What pissed me off recently though is the way one relatively likeable poster has been hounding you with petty jibes and judgments. That person's ILX persona is sort of "tough" and no-nonsense, but they're usually decent to other people, except they seem to have decided that you're some kind of special project for ~telling it like it is~ in a way that seems aimed at getting you to grow a pair or some shit. Anyway, I'm sorry that's happening. I usually have no problem speaking my mind, but I've been less involved in ILX culture and after feuding with Morbs a while back, I've been avoiding conflict. Sorry I haven't spoken up on your behalf, but just know that I'd much rather keep you around than bullies and personality police.

xps

lol xp'd Morbs himself! I have been interested in reading about baseball and hockey players recently. Say what you will about Frank DeFord (sp?) but he has sparked an interest in sports (personalities) in me.

Oddly, I have never found Whiney very hard to deal with. We don't really interact, but he seems sort of innocuous to me. Note, that is MY experience only.

Now explain that RA Dickey reference.

hahaha NEVER MIND XPOST JINX FUCK YOU

Say what you will about Frank DeFord

He's a terrible person and shouldn't be allowed within 500 feet of a radio transmitter.

whiney def pushes all my buttons

You know who RA Dickey is, right? He throws knuckleballs and I arbitrarily chose him to make reference to b/c of our conversation about communicating via references.

xp

I love Whiney and I want to hike to journey to the peak of Cuddlestein Mountain with him.

thanks Je55e. i don't expect anyone to stand up for me, but it is nice to know that i'm not the only that notices some of this stuff. i guess thats what is bugging me today. it isn't just that, on no poster x decided to give me shit today. its more that its poster x today, poster y yesterday, poster z in a different thread. each of these posters seems to think, "oh come on, what i say to you isn't that big of a deal", but its like, cumulatively, this shit gets to be a drag and bums me out on ilx on the whole.

(xpost)

frank deford is terrible but in kind of an amusing way

guyzzzzzzzzzzzz please stop talking about whiney. He is not here, and I really really really would hate to see the Chicago thread turn into a Chicago v. Whiney referendum.

I'm sorry. I'm being the thread police but it's 100% fear based aggression.

i remember n/a defending frank deford before, and i continue to remember that every time i hear frank deford and think about how much i can't stand him

him - frank, not n/a!!

the all-day posting professional ilx cru are the WORST

it def tells you something about how highly ilx values its trolls that (a certain amphibian poster) not only hasn't been banned, but has a small contingent of people that defend his "persona"

all-day posting professional ilx cru

omg copyright that because it's brilliant

Honestly I feel some sympathy for amphib-bs these days b/c of the knee-jerk pile on to literally (almost literally) every single thing he says, regardless of its being totally uncontroversial.

i can definitely see that, he did get piled on a lot. i started to feel some sympathy for him at one point, but then he said something totally racist again and i got over it.

As posted on Spin, a photo of the 'Do Not Buy' list from Laurie's Planet of Sound:

http://www.spin.com/sites/all/files/styles/style620_413/public/120718-do-not-buy-list.png

what did Therapy? do to piss ppl off?

LOL Spin Doctors

http://www.contactmusic.com/videoimages/sbmg/spin-doctors-how-could-you-want-him-when-you-know-you.jpg

What'd I do to you???

lol

I can't tell if that one in the first column is 'Suede' or 'Svede' but if the former, fuck that, because I'd love to find some cheap used Suede to fill in some gaps in my collection.

Btw, Jon, I very much sympathize with your feelings about ILX. I occasionally felt like a punching bag around here ca. 2004-06. Whenever people mock or criticize me, especially if I feel it arises from a misunderstanding, my natural instinct is to become defensive and explanatory. And so that happened a lot, and it never really did much good.

I don't know that I ever adapted in the sense of developing a thicker skin or learning to brush things off, but over time, because of changes in my personal life, I began to feel less emotionally invested in ILX (even as I continued to enjoy the community) and so I simply didn't participate as often in those kinds of heated conversations. Also, a couple of my "enemies" stopped posting or posted less often. Not sure if that's ultimately helpful, but I wanted to throw it out there anyway.

What are the words before "pitchforky"? looks like:

everyday "pitchforky" - I just getting everyone prepared for the 2010's.

And so that happened a lot

I just reread this thread, hoo boy:
ban kenan

everyday "pitchforky" - I just getting everyone prepared for the 2010's.

I think it's "everything," not "everyday." The implication is that in a few years, all the Pitchfork faves from 2000-09 will be as unwanted as the Spin Doctors are today.

Thanks jaymc, I think that is really pretty similar to how I feel. I dig myself into those holes because I want to overexplain stuff when misunderstandings arise or someone misinterprets one of my posts, but it just makes things worse.

xp In my view, history has been much kinder to you (jaymc) in that thread than it was to those other assholes.

Ha, "history."

The Noise Board at its peak was a strange thing.

yeah was that like the first major ilx crisis? or like the first major shift in ilx tone?

crisis on infinite boards

I think the tone of ILX gradually evolved in its first few years as the sheer number of posters increased and the geographic balance shifted from the UK to the US. But the tone of the early Noise Board did feel significantly different, and I think it's definitely had a big impact on the board as a whole.

Fucking kids and their ironic detachment and fear of sincerity IMO. Which is kind of rich coming from me but whatever I'm old and I have feelings now.

Hey! One last reminder that tonight is PIZZA NIGHT. Thank you.

i ordered our pizza at like 7:30 this morning

Thunderstorm and rain. This drought is a major bummer, but a rain storm helps lift buoy the spirits at least.

Fucking kids and their ironic detachment and fear of sincerity IMO.

this is pretty much why I took a break from ilx. but now instead of leaving altogether I will just avoid engaging certain posters.

hi btw!

oops, forgot -- this is c0r3y

Hey!

Hi Corey! what's happening?

Dan - My cousin in Mexico friended me and at first glance I thought you were a mutual friend b/c of this https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dani-Martin/106046552768232?rf=107977299229886

<3 welcome back corey!

LL, this post reminded me of what you were saying about using references to gate-keep:

Giving 'normal people' pop-cultural references or long words that are just one shade too obscure for that particular person to get, requiring convoluted explanation.

― WHEN CROWS GO BAD (suzy), Monday, June 14, 2010 7:38 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

from this thread yr affectations, list them

Gah, Suzy.

that's an affectation alright

Fucking kids and their ironic detachment and fear of sincerity IMO.

Those aren't the kids anymore. +30 = irony. -30 = absurdity.

I'm almost 40 so I'm really into diagnostic healthcare and going to bed early.

+40 = bingo.