can't wait to do improv w/ Old Lunch on my next trip to Chicagoland
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 September 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
I was never more than middling at best but the better part of a decade off the boards has surely atrophied my ability to 'yes and' with any real panache. And yet I would come ever-so-briefly out of retirement to indulge you, Morbzy.
― Mummenschanz in a Metal Mood (Old Lunch), Friday, 21 September 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
Old Lunch just seems like a good soul, I like him being around
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 22 September 2018 04:03 (five years ago) link
Big old lunch fan here, Zep reminiscences are top
― calstars, Saturday, 22 September 2018 04:07 (five years ago) link
Aw, thanks, y'all are tops, too. And I have to say, more than being thought of as smart or funny or good looking to a point which is ridiculous and frankly almost unbelievable, it's my overriding life goal to be seen as kind, so that's a high compliment imo. I'm still kind of a long way off from achieving that goal (had to reeeeeally dig deep through a couple interpersonal interactions yesterday), but I try to bring it 'round these parts as much as possible and only rib those posters (like the Morbz) who I'm relatively sure know that there's no malice involved in my ribbing.
On the Zep front, I was just the other day wishing I had a lawn to mow because sweatin' it out to a LZ side was about the only thing that made that particular activity tolerable. Made me feel like a badass, tbrr.
― Mummenschanz in a Metal Mood (Old Lunch), Saturday, 22 September 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
old lunch is super funny
― Ross, Sunday, 23 September 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
ow my rib
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 23 September 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
omar little is named after a great character.
(go cubs)
― felicity, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 09:25 (five years ago) link
do we have a 'backhanded compliments' thread cuz uh
― CRABCORE’S NOT DEAD (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 09:43 (five years ago) link
felicity!
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link
Felicity w/the ten years later callback!
― omar little, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
euler started the amanda meme here, and i would like to thank them for that
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
haha thanks, it is a favorite around my house & I am happy to have shared it with others
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
what's that?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
Scroll down: Boston - Third Stage
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link
omg that! i hated that! no shade on any individual ilxor but my name is @manda and it's hard to see that stuff :(
weird how i managed to forget about it and when i saw "boston" it all came rushing back.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
lol that’s funny, i just reshared it with someone who was named after the song
she loves it but i can def see why you would hate it
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
when i was in 8th gr i went to a new school (my first co-ed institution) and boys used to yell down the hallway "i'm gonna take you by the thighs and make you realize AMANDA" and i was very sensitive and young. it scared me. i realize this is my own situation and it's obviously ancient history but it seems worth mentioning why i don't find it amusing.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
ugh <3
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
Felicity Redwell?!
― Tim, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
Felicity, a sephora is opening across the street from your old apt.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 02:42 (five years ago) link
It seems like everyone made it through 8th grade largely intact and for that I applaud you all, because that’s a year that sucks
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 02:58 (five years ago) link
My 8th grade was a big improvement on my 7th grade.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 03:01 (five years ago) link
in my limited experience, that is an extremely low bar
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 03:12 (five years ago) link
define "largely intact"
― Dmac TT (darraghmac), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 03:37 (five years ago) link
seriously8th grade gave me a preview of what i could expect from high school and what i saw was not super great
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 03:39 (five years ago) link
I can def relate to being scared in 8th grade.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 03:54 (five years ago) link
I'm sorry La Lechera
I try now to make non sexual versions of it but I can see that those aren't necessarily any better
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 06:13 (five years ago) link
I'M GONNA TRY POSTING SOMETHING ELSEA POST THAT WON'T REPEL
LA LECHERA
― pplains, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 11:52 (five years ago) link
thank you :) that's a charming rhyme -- else/repel is a clever rhyme!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
THAT'S A CHARMING RHYMEELSE/REPEL IS A CLEVER RHYME
― Evan, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 13:40 (five years ago) link
:-/can we stop now please?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 13:46 (five years ago) link
Aw sorry! Now I feel bad...
― Evan, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 14:05 (five years ago) link
now i have to listen to that scary sludgy slowed down chipmunk punk version of that song (the only version of that song i recognize as real)
― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
drive by shout outs to Yerac, Maura, Moka, sarahell, dmac, FA, EL and all of you fine peoples
another rep to Alfred, who is a great writer and personality, always got yer back
― Ross, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 22:28 (five years ago) link
love you
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 22:33 (five years ago) link
big love my main man :)
― Ross, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
Alfred should have an academic sinecure teaching rhetoric at, like, Harvard imho
- de l'asshole (flopson), Saturday, May 28, 2016
Update: this is happened, only not at Harvard.
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 October 2018 03:12 (five years ago) link
this is happened
(Aimless pulls out his trusty red pen with a flourish.)
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 11 October 2018 03:17 (five years ago) link
put that pen down, you'll ruin the screen!
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Thursday, 11 October 2018 03:32 (five years ago) link
aimless is a key reference point for decency and fairness imo
― gabbnebulous (darraghmac), Saturday, 15 December 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link
well, damn if that's not the nicest thing I've heard today. thank you.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 15 December 2018 01:11 (five years ago) link
I concur. Most of us have done our part to earn the flak we receive 'round these parts, but I'm always baffled when people take aim at Aimless.
― Home Despot (Old Lunch), Saturday, 15 December 2018 01:37 (five years ago) link
Aimless fan here.
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 15 December 2018 01:49 (five years ago) link
sometimes i start reading a post and it has a kind of regular talking plain guy just saying some reasonable stuff tone and i immediately think it's an aimless post and it never disappoints it always is and sometimes this immediate recognition is amusing and sometimes it's annoying bc it makes me feel like i'm being lectured about something i already know. but lots of ppl don't know anything at all about anything so for them it's probably useful material.
― Mordy, Saturday, 15 December 2018 01:53 (five years ago) link
like you see sometimes people have different tastes in styles of communication and some people like a more complex idea presented in a more compelling tone and some people like more straight forward homespun wisdom and sometimes people in one group may not understand what the people in the other group are seeing because perspectives are complex and we all see things from our own point of view. a nine to me could look like a six to you. and so it's best to be kind by recognizing our own limitations in seeing another perspective.
― Mordy, Saturday, 15 December 2018 01:55 (five years ago) link
Mordy I've really been appreciating your posts on the Amazing News From The Natural World thread, thanks
― sleeve, Saturday, 15 December 2018 02:13 (five years ago) link
Ay yi yiXpost
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 15 December 2018 02:21 (five years ago) link
Mordy otm
― Dan S, Saturday, 15 December 2018 02:25 (five years ago) link
mordy thank u for that post. ive been thinking about this a ton in my own life lately:
sometimes people in one group may not understand what the people in the other group are seeing because perspectives are complex and we all see things from our own point of view. a nine to me could look like a six to you. and so it's best to be kind by recognizing our own limitations in seeing another perspective”
engendering a kind of fundamental humility, I guess. like what the fuck do i know? someone posted in the masculinity thread something like “it must be nice to feel so sure of things” and it got lost in the thread but it resonated with me.
there are a lot of different kinds of people in the world, and people are complex, difference exists I remind myself all the time and it helps me to be a compassionate person and less concerned with having right or wrong opinions and beliefs
― marcos, Saturday, 15 December 2018 03:32 (five years ago) link