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Fuck the cockfarmer J (Ross), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link

this thread/title has proven very self demonstrating

aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link

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a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link

there’s bullies here. I’m too old for this shit

Love to all the cool people

Fuck the cockfarmer J (Ross), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link

thanks

frogbs, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link

Ross, my post was an attempt to empathize with where you're at. I said nothing to warrant that response. You might consider that in light of the reactions you're seeing itt.

Caddyshack III: Back to the Shack! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link

there’s bullies here. I’m too old for this shit

Love to all the cool people

― Fuck the cockfarmer J (Ross), Wednesday, August 8, 2018 2:32 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thanks

― frogbs, Wednesday, August 8, 2018 2:36 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok lol

The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link

I don't know if there was a well-meaning message behind what j. wrote but the delivery of said message was completely fucking wretched

I know this is a messageboard and tone can be hard to suss out but, jesus christ

mh, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link

ross is trying to protagonize every thread he is on in a way that seems unhealthy and should probably be temp-banned for his own good imo.

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link

and we used to actually bully on this website

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link

semi-regular reminder that ilx is a terrible place to work on one's mental health, which doesn't make it different from anywhere else on the internet.

call all destroyer, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link

I'd never recommend it for anyone else, but getting really tweaked on caffeine and writing a long screed that completely misses the point in the conversation, only to never open that thread again is my horrible form of catharsis

now the cat's out of the bag

mh, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link

xpost A terrible place in general, yes probably, but there are dedicated threads which are treated as safe spaces and can be genuinely helpful.

This, notably, is not one of those threads.

Caddyshack III: Back to the Shack! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link

Is all of this happening on the secret messageboard because there is a lot of peoples' reactions here that is confusing.

Yerac, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link

Also, I don't recall bullying on this website really. People seem a lot more aggro now. Except I know some of us used to follow orbit around saying "twoooooo weeks" after her posts and I think that scared her.

Yerac, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link

Doing that to orbit was pretty mean

But I'm also clueless why ppl are upset here but I also have hardly posted in the last 5 years

homosexual II, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link

Yeah, it's regretful now especially since it was supposed to be innocuous at first. It was so long ago I can't even remember much about her.

Yerac, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link

there is a lot of peoples' reactions here that is confusing.

do you mean people's reactions to Ross' months of flying off the handle and wishing violence or death or illness on people, then saying "peace" afterwards, or do you mean Ross' reactions to people suggesting that he might be going through a tough time as evidenced by his actions

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link

Is this happening on hidden threads? I've posted sparingly for a decade so maybe I am missing historical stuff.

Yerac, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link

I'd never recommend it for anyone else, but getting really tweaked on caffeine and writing a long screed that completely misses the point in the conversation, only to never open that thread again is my horrible form of catharsis

now the cat's out of the bag

― mh, Wednesday, August 8, 2018 12:53 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hi there

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link

I'd never recommend it for anyone else, but getting really tweaked on caffeine and writing a long screed that completely misses the point in the conversation, only to never open that thread again is my horrible form of catharsis

now the cat's out of the bag

― mh, Wednesday, August 8, 2018 12:53 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ironically this is a great post

Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link

i haven't been around for 84 days and now i come back ... to this?

god this is sad

the late great, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link

well, maybe if you were the punctual great.....

dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link

doubt that helped, deems

rip van wanko, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 20:54 (five years ago) link

:-/

dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link

should feel good that things go to shit in one's absence

for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link

now save us, please

for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link

I never wished death on anyone?
I’ve definitely been an asshole and I’m sorry for that.
As a former addict I did post while in frames of mind that were counterproductive to peace. Anyway I’m sorry for damage caused and yeah temp ban me or delete me, it’s cool

Fuck the cockfarmer J (Ross), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:01 (five years ago) link

Sorry old lunch I thought you called me wobbly lol
I misread you entirely. Owch. Easier to walk away now really

Ross, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link

^^ round and round we go

the late great, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link

I never wished death on anyone?

not since yesterday, anyway

honestly i wish anvils would drop on some of you spineless jelly fish fuckers

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link

Look I just want to be banned or deleted.
Mods please do this.

Ross, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link

Is it me or is this board way busier and livelier than this time last year? Must be the world cup lifting everybody's spirits up.

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link

heyyyy it's the roundly hated dickhead that called me a middle eastern uncle tom and prodded me into quitting!

the late great, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link

didn't work!

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link

obviously!

the late great, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link

Carry on then!

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link

(thousand word off topic post ensues)

mh, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link

late great >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>xyzzzzz

late great I was really enjoying yr posts on the Gene Wolfe/NEWSUN thread yesterday (since I just started re-reading that), good stuff

xp

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link

Good stuff!

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link

xp thanks buddy

i apologize for calling you rapey mo in 2003

the late great, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link

i could not get into newsun

which killed me because yes tlg posts on it are brilliant

tlg > gene wolfe, essentially

dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link

that's the kind of thing you move to the top of the resume, templates be damned

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link

i apologize for calling you rapey mo in 2003

I don't remember this tbh (and besides I blame ethan for all that crap)

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link

There's a Gene Wolfe thread? Point the way!

pomenitul, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link

I don't really consider dropping anvils on fish fuckers to be a sincere death threat. ymmv.

Yerac, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link

there's a couple, but this is the good one: gene wolfe's book of the NEWSUN!!!!! reading club

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link

Thanks!

pomenitul, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link

I don't really consider dropping anvils on fish fuckers to be a sincere death threat. ymmv.

I didn't say threat.

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 22:03 (five years ago) link

Remember the good ol days when we used to make fart jokes

F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link


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