Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

the thing I am objecting to is "these ignorant, arrogant, myopic circle jerks being accepted as any kind of portrait of a/the culture makes me want to go on a birthdate-based killing spree"

sounds deranged. anyway, no one would be relieved if any poster was murdered by any other poster.

It was me, and that post wasn't about katherine (who I like, but who I really wish would abandon the whipped-puppy act). As I said (in that same post), I'm having a bad month and my opinions should probably be ignored for the foreseeable future.

I contributed to the list, so it actually was

if it makes you feel better i can dig out some really mean things unperson has said specifically about me and other posters in the past

https://i.giphy.com/media/hc10gBL10d3Ko/source.gif

I'm sorry

UGH WEATHER!!!

if that was directed at me, that is, I can't tell

UGH WEATHER!!!

I really don't understand what's going on in this thread anymore

TURBINADO SUGAR IS THE COMPLETE PROTEIN!

Is this your dogsandwolves impression?

First thought, best thought.

you could crash a plane in the street

^ shoulda posted that you coward

too soon

for nostalgia

it always used to start with Ives

unperson hope your month gets better

"group x"'s fantasy about "group y"'s easy lives and how it makes "group x" entitled to "overtalk" "group y" is ""embarrassing"" on """"internet message board ilx""""

everyone suffers whether ones life is good or not

I certainly do everything in my power to make that statement true.

It’s true

I suffered today when the cafeteria ran out of my favourite coffee bean for my latte

haha

I've heard the theory that that part of the dick is about cleaning out remaining fluids from a previous mating - real alpha male stuff in that case!

The President's Anal List

Toad of Fawn Hall

now that I realize it's about Portland not Poland it makes more sense

never warsaw that coming

it's because he's a coked-up [redacted]

Killin' your brain with his mottled limp mushroom

Not a nice post imago

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ppl really can throw a tantrum about almost anything

i mean on this board, as well as in the Grifter's cage

how do we go about an intervention here

ey man the wife watches it im just in the room grousing on the net

Yeah I see what you’re doing.

Oh for fuck's sake stop whining and filling every fucking thread with your fucking self-pitying tears.

I'm sorry.

I don't understand what I'm doing wrong, but I'm sorry.

Katherine, I can't think of anyone on here I agree with more often, also I'm enjoying your listening thread a lot and only am not commenting there much because I have nothing really valuable to add.

Sometimes though I feel like, you know, there are plenty of other people whose online persona is a sort of semi-trolling wisecracking cynic, and as I am someone who is always a little too earnest for many people to take and I'm not into "banter" this really rubs me up the wrong way and I often have to quit conversations online because I know if the other person is one of these banterers I am never going to feel like we are actually talking about whatever it is, I'll just have this nagging sense that they're really just making fun of me, and it makes me feel powerless and stupid. This used to happen *a lot* and I am still wary of joining a discussion and will quit it if I ever get that feeling because you know, what's the point?

So what I'm saying is that I understand the feeling, and you are really not wrong to be angry or upset by it, but it isn't your problem and it isn't ILX's problem, it's a problem with the internet and with people, and as it's not getting fixed any time soon even nice people have to develop thick skins, somehow.

I mean, there's banter, and then there's outright hostility

like the post in this thread does not strike me as "banter

You're right, it doesn't. But quite possibly that's how it was intended? I really have no idea TBH, it's certainly not acceptable, I agree.

acceptable or not it happens all the fucking time with zero consequences whatsoever, and it seems to happen primarily to me -- the only person who seems to receive this much outright hostility is Turrican (and I don't understand that either)

that unperson post is definitely unnecessarily hostile, tho paradoxically that is one reason we have this thread

fortunately we can all vote with our flag posts no matter what thread we're on!

unperson sucks and is a jerk, katherine. ilx 101.

the only person who seems to receive this much outright hostility is Turrican (and I don't understand that either)

Now, I'm afraid you've lost me. I assume you never had the experience of him digging through all of your previous ILX posts to pull out and re-post something you'd said 7 years ago with the sole purpose of making you look like a bad person and all because of a disagreement about guitar playing or something equally as inane. Great guy.

the only person who seems to receive this much outright hostility is Turrican

haha waht have you seen Turrican go *in* on people?! cuz that dude does not hold back and will drop it at a moment's notice

Exactly, there was a hostile arsehole if ever there was one.