your daily update from wapo. wonder if they just hired a disgruntled (or just enterprising) intern for these vacuous and award winning updates.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 May 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
why did Sub Pop and SST sign a lousy metal band?
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 May 2017 00:45 (six years ago) link
White House Official Says Everyone is Pooping Pants
If that's not news, idk what is
― meekseeks mill (voodoo chili), Saturday, 20 May 2017 00:46 (six years ago) link
Meanwhile:
This is what sonic the hedgehog might look like in real life and I'm not a fan tbh pic.twitter.com/RcM88jbkax— Cameron Walker (@CameronBW3) May 8, 2017
― sleepingbag, Saturday, 20 May 2017 00:49 (six years ago) link
Yeah, thanks for reminding me I shouldn't start threads. Again.
― StanM, Saturday, 20 May 2017 14:21 (six years ago) link
everyone was on yr side man dont embrace false pariahdom
― spud called maris (darraghmac), Saturday, 20 May 2017 14:34 (six years ago) link
xp - some men start threads that are born great, and other men start threads that have greatness thrust upon them
― sarahell, Saturday, 20 May 2017 21:46 (six years ago) link
Yeah and on a tangentially related topic, cf. the persistent misapplication of stoic analgesics in how people discuss disease.
Like praising the "courage" of someone who is "fighting cancer." OMG, she's so brave, he's battling cancer, he lost his fight with cancer, she kicked cancer's ass, etc. There's a narrow tightrope of tone. One understandably wants to praise courage. But turn it a notch further, and it implies that people who are completely fucking terrified kinda deserve to die. We want to praise self-reliance and resilience, but doing so always carries a risk of victim-blaming.
Human dignity doesn't just apply to "brave" "upbeat" "fighters." It also applies to people whose response to something terrible is... terror. People who respond with sorrow to that which is sorrowful.
Viewing extinction through a moralizing human lens is a silliness
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 May 2017 13:18 (six years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/article/loved-ones-recall-local-mans-cowardly-battle-with--772
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Monday, 22 May 2017 13:46 (six years ago) link
What's with the thread-policing tonight? Who made you think you are the sheriff of this town all of a sudden?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 00:03 (six years ago) link
another great week of https://www.lamarketing.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Fresh-website-content-418x278.png on ILM
― The Remoans of the May (Noodle Vague), Friday, 26 May 2017 07:27 (six years ago) link
"I don't think he's inherently evil or machiavellian or anything, he just can't help being how he is because he was never taught otherwise. Anyone who ever refuses anything he demands gets fired, anything that goes wrong is always someone else's fault, he's incapable of doing anything wrong in his mind because he's always been right - he's been surrounded by yes-men and enablers his whole life because of how capitalism works. This makes him extremely dangerous (he won't deliberately destroy the world, but all it takes is a little suggestion from the truly evil realpolitik guys who have really been ruling the world before he got here: e.g. if enough people can convince him (using something the length of a Tweet because he has the attention span of a goldfDID SOMEONE SAY GOLD? We have the biggest amount of gold in the world-and not only that, the BEST gold! Everyone is talking about it!) that nuking Iran would be the best way to prove he's the most important man in the world, then by god, he will just go and push the button. Whoever refuses gets fired ("who's the president, you or me?"). The nuclear war that happens later won't be his fault, because this or that advisor had told him it wouldn't happen, it's clearly that guy's fault. Stop persecuting him.
In short: he's the product of his surroundings and there's nothing that can be done (impeach? he never did anything wrong! it was those disrussians who disrupted everything!). It's only a matter of time before he accidentally does something truly apocalyptic."
Not posted to Trump thread because I should stay out of politics threads and also meh, it doesn't matter what I or anyone else thinks.
― StanM, Friday, 26 May 2017 10:43 (six years ago) link
we could have done a better job of keeping the meme alive
Pippa's Arse >>>>> The Beatles
― sarahell, Friday, 26 May 2017 12:32 (six years ago) link
Sgt. Pippa's 'Orrible Post Sug Ban
― sexualing healing (crüt), Friday, 26 May 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
lol
― the ghost of markers, Friday, 26 May 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
hahahaha
― sarahell, Saturday, 27 May 2017 00:20 (six years ago) link
I love you man but why can't you just extrapolate or something instead of embedding every semi-relevant tweet
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 27 May 2017 01:01 (six years ago) link
If his dick is huge, he is Satan.— Kimmie (@JuniorBrokerBae) May 21, 2017
― sleepingbag, Saturday, 27 May 2017 06:55 (six years ago) link
I'm a secret Donald Trump voter
you're white
― soref, Saturday, 27 May 2017 09:29 (six years ago) link
http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/11100000/Clash-of-the-Titans-clash-of-the-titans-11158130-1280-1024.jpg
― in a soylent whey (wins), Saturday, 27 May 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
Except funny
― ultros ultros-ghali, Saturday, 27 May 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/BurialUntrue.jpg
― brimstead, Sunday, 28 May 2017 00:44 (six years ago) link
I believe threats of grievous bodily harm against writers get tracked by marketing under "engagement".
― Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Sunday, 28 May 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
asinine obscurantist sixth-rate dada on ketamine and feedback loops in (redacted), tbh
― royce jung (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 21:00 (six years ago) link
12 years a n00b
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 01:57 (six years ago) link
covfefe in the morning
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
^ hero of this thread
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 13:43 (six years ago) link
but does ilx deserve him
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
ashut you ass
― Violet Jax (Violet Jynx), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
she's a tin-eared oligarch and everyone w/ standards was tired of her
-30-
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 June 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
Maybe there should be some sort of Soylent Green assisted suicide / organ harvesting program for people who'd like to add purpose to their early demise. Working towards a society that invites everyone to stick around & die of old age is obviously not realistic.
― Wes Brodicus, Sunday, 4 June 2017 11:08 (six years ago) link
if that happens I can be a broken and pedantic misanthrope just like you, sounds chill
― royce jung (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 11 June 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
that's the spirit -- never back down from your own dumbass statements
― mookieproof, Sunday, 11 June 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
if anyone did that we'd have no internet
― royce jung (slothroprhymes), Monday, 12 June 2017 03:08 (six years ago) link
the what?
― brimstead, Monday, 12 June 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
The penis knows the real facts
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Monday, 12 June 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
thread titles that appear to be vmooc until you realise what board they're on and then they become vmic
― pray for BoJo (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 05:59 (six years ago) link
and yet all these people continue to attend to this shit
― pray for BoJo (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
Jesus that opening post though
― May o God help us (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 19:53 (six years ago) link
REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED
― pray for BoJo (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 07:26 (six years ago) link
is it a vibrant area?
― sarahell, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 09:19 (six years ago) link
this thread has one of the most brilliantly self-clowning opening sentences on ILX
― pray for BoJo (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 15 June 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
and that's why I have a likeness of Bruce "Old Engine 42" Sutter tattooed on my scrotum
― croque monsoon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 16 June 2017 20:28 (six years ago) link
ah, the old forkballs
― mookieproof, Friday, 16 June 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
:D
― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Saturday, 17 June 2017 18:57 (six years ago) link
Stop saying "concern trolling" ffs, this isn't 4chan
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 18 June 2017 00:09 (six years ago) link
mookie u talking to me?
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 18 June 2017 04:56 (six years ago) link
whatever should be whatever and whoever should be whatever
― sleepingbag, Sunday, 18 June 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
xp lol no
― mookieproof, Sunday, 18 June 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link
Every time somebody tells you a true fact and you come back with "Yeah, but blah blah blah blah blah," I change the channel before it gets to the blah blah blah part.
― Mr. Crackpots (WilliamC), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 00:06 (six years ago) link