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

I forgot that if you aren't willing to support complete arsehole politicians over there you are either a cultist or a narcissist

Check the Bernie thread – the word 'cult' was used explicitly.

Errr, sorry, the Dem primary thread.

No reference to any ilxor. Absolutely context-free. *whistles*

Check the Bernie thread – the word 'cult' was used explicitly.

Oh right, I misread. My bad.

What's interesting to me is people who say this seem not to have noticed changes in media over the last 15 odd years. Which candidate has *not* had a cult of some kind around them, in the last few years? All of that has clearly been amplified by social media, internet memes etc. It's the nature of the beast these days, afaic.

if a Tory is polling at 50% then nothing to see here. If a leader of the opposition inspires a membership surge of a mostly youngish demographic making it the biggest party in Europe, then they have been mesmerised by a shaman trickster! When they all start melting towards Starmer - me: it was a cult after all!

It's fine not to be a socialist

preferable, even

https://consequenceofsound.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/jcpzhsz9hb1xjl8c1zkw3holx6o.gif

the B who cried alph

Seriously, dude? We'll always have Derek Bailey but wtf?

eat my ass drill sergeant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRgNbis14pE

ts eeyore vs tigger

nb tigger is an ex, eeyore is now yr husband

Missing third option.

poor piglet

how much bad feedback for yr discernible posting style is required before you start having second thoughts about yr performance of self in everyday ILX life

🧐

What if your discernible posting style consists of never having second thoughts about anything?

Just site-ban him and him alone, ffs. Problem solved.

I love how you take the high ground on this dude.

Was trying to some sort of 'xyzzz delenda est' pun (how do you say 'perma-banned' in latin?), but it would work much better if it was imago I was against. Thinking of switching sides, but nah.

comes delendus est

(comrade must be destroyed)

Of course the fact I know Latin means I've been scheduled for processing

Pom how do you say perma banned in Latin, don't disappoint us on this

You'll be going to the countryside right away, with your bourgeois language skills.

Did I say I was a Latin scholar?

Maybe something like 'interdictum in perpetuum'? Sounds bad-ass, actually.

google says "ban permanens" which is massively disappointing

interdicum in perpetuum sounds appropriately biblical

You speak at least two Romance languages, you’re probably able to fake it enough (at least for a pleb like me not to know better)

Thought you had some serious multi-lingo skills, Pom. Imago's skillset is a bit like our PM, more making it up as he goes along bullshitter type.

I don't see what the problem is here, once Comrade Alphabet has racked up enough FPs he'll be banned, you, of all people, should know that, Fred.

Only for a month

Fred, you're not very good at zinging our comrade, watch and learn

Knowledge of Romance languages does help, true. Latin grammar is a mad science unto itself tho.

xps

And the reason this thread was revived is that it's the third time in a couple of weeks - I think - where the behaviour of xyzzz has caused people to call for him being thread banned. Except never just him, always a group of people. It's quite interesting that nobody ever just goes 'get rid of the problem poster' but always has to both sides it.

Only for a month

You've got to start somewhere.

Missed this v gd tick

the B who cried alph

― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Saturday, 1 February 2020 bookmarkflaglink

x-post: Nah, just get it over with and fix the problem once and for all

It’s fine if alphie is banned, he’ll just move into one of his alts like me or MR Seumas Milne and continue posting as he normally does.

calzzzzzino logging on tomorrow

interdicto means forbidden, which applies to actions not people

you want something more like banishment or casting out or being sent into exile, masculine singular gerundive form thereof

banished: expulsus, exemptus, excisus, profugus, extorris, ejectus
exiled: profugus, extorris
driven out: expulsus, eiectus, ejectus, extorris, exactus

other possible verbs (mostly with the suggestion of being physically chucked out): eructo, propello, apstergo, sepono, paello, pello, excutio, emitto

since banishment was an actual legal thing in the republic there must be a correct technical term of legal art, since the roman entity was a very legalistic one (even in the empire except by then murder was probably the preferred option) (i can't find my v small latin dictionary bcz lol a bulb isn't working in the right part of my flat) and plus on-line latin research is notoriously fucking useless

going with ejaculus

the only good book (mostly written by his daughters as we now know)

https://blackwells.co.uk/jacket/l/9780582362406.jpg

Makes sense, mark, although one may be interdictum from posting.

read some effing ovid:
http://web.colby.edu/ovid-censorship/exile/history-of-roman-exile/

(turns out "aquae et ignis Interdictio" is a banishment-related thing tho it has a heavily symbolic framing)

Tbf is being permabanned (from posting) the same thing as being banished? Lurking remains an option for the permabanned of ILX whereas banishment from Rome is more than just a sentence of non-participation.

the phrase "Codex Justinianus, PDF format" is (a) intrinsically amusing and (b) dragging me further down a rabbit hole i shd possibly be resisting *jojns the federalist society*

I don't see what the problem is here, once Comrade Alphabet has racked up enough FPs he'll be banned, you, of all people, should know that, Fred.

― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Tuesday, February 4, 2020 5:09 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The problem is we've not 51 ppl left.