unperson hope your month gets better
― dig me out requiem (Ross), Thursday, 13 September 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
"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""""
― NAGL usa (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
everyone suffers whether ones life is good or not
― Ross, Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
I certainly do everything in my power to make that statement true.
― I Don't Have Any Ears, I Am Positive (Old Lunch), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
It’s trueI suffered today when the cafeteria ran out of my favourite coffee bean for my latte
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
haha
― Ross, Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
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!
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 11:23 (five years ago) link
The President's Anal List
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 11:29 (five years ago) link
Toad of Fawn Hall
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 13:26 (five years ago) link
now that I realize it's about Portland not Poland it makes more sense
― sarahell, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link
never warsaw that coming
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
it's because he's a coked-up [redacted]
― imago, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
Killin' your brain with his mottled limp mushroom
― I Don't Have Any Ears, I Am Positive (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
Not a nice post imago
― Ross, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
¯\_(ツ)_/¯¯\_(ツ)_/¯¯\_(ツ)_/¯¯\_(ツ)_/¯¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
ppl really can throw a tantrum about almost anything
i mean on this board, as well as in the Grifter's cage
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 11:31 (five years ago) link
how do we go about an intervention here
― imago, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
ey man the wife watches it im just in the room grousing on the net
― Dmac TT (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
Yeah I see what you’re doing.
― Ross, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
Oh for fuck's sake stop whining and filling every fucking thread with your fucking self-pitying tears.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 20 September 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
I'm sorry.
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 20 September 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
I don't understand what I'm doing wrong, but I'm sorry.
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 20 September 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
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.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 20 September 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
I mean, there's banter, and then there's outright hostility
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 20 September 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
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.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 20 September 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
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)
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 20 September 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
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!
― crüt, Thursday, 20 September 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
unperson sucks and is a jerk, katherine. ilx 101.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 20 September 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
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.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 September 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 20 September 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
Exactly, there was a hostile arsehole if ever there was one.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 September 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
I mean I don't have beef with him (afaik) but he comes in guns blazing at ppl he doesn't like
lol rest in power turrican
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 20 September 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
I mean it's possible I was not around for the time of those posts, all I can go off is what I see now
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 20 September 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link
he insults my writing whenever i disagree with him
this did not happen in the distant past
i ignore him
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 September 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
I will just say that whatever grief you feel you are getting, it is different in kind and degree from what Turrican receives (and dishes out himself) and also brb I will find you some evidence
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 20 September 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
xp
Well, he's not here now to insult you for not being adequately qualified to talk about Paul McCartney's new album. Don't align yourself with him, for goodness sake!
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 September 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
I don't even remember (or care) what I said to you, but wow, it must have really been something.
Re katherine, as I've said before, I like her and think she's smart and otm about a whole bunch of subjects, but the endless "poor me" BS every time anyone disagrees with her drives me up a fucking wall. Like, she should make "I don't understand what I'm doing wrong, but I'm sorry" her username, she posts it so often, and if she stopped apologizing for her opinions all the goddamn time I'd like her a hundred times more than I already do.
I'm gonna lay it on the line and then never speak of it again: the only ILX poster who(se online persona) I genuinely dislike is Dr Morbius. Everybody else, I'm cool with. That is all.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 20 September 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
here's Turrican giving Brad a load of shit from a couple weeks ago (ie, the last time he posted)
Paul McCartney - Egypt Station
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 20 September 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
but I genuinely don't understand, is the thing. the reason I apologize for my opinions is because people keep saying shit like this to me, and I don't understand why someone would say that if those opinions were not bad somehow
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 20 September 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
albeit at this point i am also hostile to turrican bc it’s been going on for so long
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 September 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link
lotta xp there
I don't understand why someone would say that if those opinions were not bad somehow
maybe they are the ones whose opinions are bad.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 20 September 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
i am at work and shouldn't be posting here but seriously, you're not going to get validation from other people who disagree. they will just say they disagree. but maybe they're wrong or maybe you're wrong or maybe you're both wrong. the idea of this website is discussion and debate.
You can't control what others think say write about you or to you. Trying to "understand what I did wrong" is a fool's errand. One of the keys to (online) life is to not give a fuck.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 20 September 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link
^^^ (last 3 posts otm)
"I am right; you are an asshole." Learn it, live it, tape it to the top of your laptop screen.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 20 September 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
and I also don't understand the motivation or reasoning behind saying something that hostile to a person you like. if I like someone, I... don't say things like that to them? why would I do that? if I feel positively about a person, why would I go out of my way to say something that paints them in a negative light and might make them feel bad? it'd be like going up to someone I supposedly like and punching them.
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 20 September 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
i don't think it's a good idea to get into a "everyone post examples of times they have encountered unnecessary hostility on ILX" thing, but i'm pretty sure most of us have run into it many, many times. i am a very sensitive person and i have reacted badly to it many times, so i understand where you're coming from.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 20 September 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link