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But we’re all still going to run to the polls to vote for Joe Biden, right?

seems cruel to post here a post that would be in character for every thread. no chance of guessing.

Taking Sides: Blur or Oasis?

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i always thought it rhymed with "tamale" but with an "uh" ... rather than "pamela" with a "k" ... educational!

zappa is music's glenn greenwald comments are closed

can't disagree with that

never posting in another political thread in my life

I think I'd rather listen to glen greenwald's music!

just because this variety of music annoys you, it doesn't mean you are actively obliged to rage about how it is shit and all sounds the same, if you did this for any other genre of music you would be rightfully called out for trolling or at least subjected to weary sighing, but uk indie music for various reasons is exempt from this rule

a double standard I can understand is still a double standard. I'm not into this music but reading this thread makes me want to get very into it just to piss people off, not going to do that but I am not pleased to be tempted

“rage”

*swaggers oasis-like*

landfill indie /= all "uk indie music"

oh it's one of them threads where pompous middle class book club pricks chirrup amongst themselves about how important and powerful they are as they slowly die!

Show trial?

You're right, it would be inefficient to wait until his body's cold before taking shots at his role choices.

It’s OK Andrew, for some people it’s just never not a good time to take cheap potshots at the most popular movies in the history of the world. It makes them feel smart.

Gone with the Wind was racist

When there is only one poster left, ILX will have finally attained its true form. Their name?

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I suppose that’s one way of looking at it.

It’s OK Andrew, for some people it’s just never not a good time to take cheap potshots at the most popular movies in the history of the world.

this is probably the first and only bad time to do so tbf

The poster (redacted) doesn't actually exist outside his head; it's a straw femininst / anti-racist / ~trans activist~ / whatever who he blames for why things aren't still the way they were back when he liked it in the 70s.

I think Lao Tsu concisely summarised Aimless's ponderous and verbose post 20+ centuries ago, without feeling the need to get in an unsubtle ad hominem (ad feminem) attack:

Govern a great country as you would fry small fish: (Lightly - neither gut nor scale them)

It shows.

Fuck it. This shit isn't fun or even diverting anymore, and I've got things to do.

Mods, is it possible to autoreplace every post itt with monkeypissinginitsownmouth.gif? Not that substantive a change but could be fun.

how odd the last two posts are merely a monkey micturating in his own mouth

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can't take back a RIP, not unless you want him to come back as a ghost or a zombie

Surely he meant Recovery Is Possible.

even if we're just postin' in the dark

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ewww just stop

What the fuck

Seconded.

-_-

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You remind me so much of myself at (what I assume to be) your age, I want to take you to Mordor and throw you in Mount Doom.

I, for one, never cracked any deliberately tasteless jokes in my late teens/early 20s because I thought edginess was hi-la-ri-ous and so did most of my friends at the time, some of whom possessed firsthand experience with the things we were cathartically making light of in the crassest possible way because for some people (read: not all) the occasional bout of laughter in the face of trauma is preferable to unrelenting self-seriousness. Phew, good thing I emerged a fully formed 2020 woke Twitter warrior from my mother's womb (look ma, not even a C-section!), perfectly fit to mete ovt trve borad jvstice on ILX.

the occasional bout of laughter in the face of trauma is preferable to unrelenting self-seriousness.

otm -- otherwise I would be long dead.

Yeah, this is something I've thought about a lot (if not particularly deeply) since a couple of events around 2008/2009

1. A guy in a hostel in HK trying to show me a "hilarious" video of a man destroying his genitals
2. A black woman who was teaching at the same ESL school in Lewisham as me getting me to explain "black comedy" to her class as she simply didn't understand it.

also I've just remembered

3. A video on the "failblog" website of a car plowing into a load of cyclists, and a bunch of internet people defending its use as humour. (should maybe mention here my step-grandad was a semi-pro cyclist who was killed on the roads in this way)

The thing I cottoned on to (sure this isn't a major revelation to anyone) is that there are people with gallows humour trying to laugh in the face of the horrors of the world, and there are people who get a genuine thrill from other people's suffering and discomfort, and think victims probably have it coming. It is not as easy to tell the difference between the two groups as it should be, especially at first, either in real life or online. The first group have to always do more to be careful when meeting new people who cannot be expected to know they aren't the second.

a "hilarious" video of a man destroying his genitals

I firmly declined to see the video but it was described as a man cutting off his testicles with a scalpel so probably not Steve-o.

what did he do with them afterwards?

his description did not include this important detail

what a ball tease

I think we're currently at a point in history – especially in English-speaking countries – where ambiguity (whether comic or aesthetic or merely discursive) is viewed with suspicion because it's been successfully co-opted by alt-right trolls who wear it as camouflage. In response, we tend to err on the side of caution by keeping uncertainty at a minimum so as not to risk misleading the reader, perhaps because deploying language with care is needed to make up for its nihilistic destruction on the other side of the aisle. I totally get how and why we got here in the first place, but as with all blanket solutions, including the most necessary and effective ones, I can't help but wonder about the outliers. So yeah, it's not always easy to tell the difference, but that doesn't mean every instance of edginess is tantamount to dog whistling, nor is everyone who seemingly never slips up in public a woke saint.

xps no kink-shaming plz thx.

pomentiful otm and also I think that Vladimir Putin is a very handsome and strong leader, wouldn't you agree?

Depending on your definitions of 'handsome' and 'strong', I might agree a little.