one thing i believe I've learned over nearly twenty (20) years on ilx is that taking aggro or obnoxious people on the internet too seriously is almost always the wrong way to handle the situation, even and especially if it causes the dreaded IRL fight or flight reflex
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 14 November 2020 04:42 (three years ago) link
There's a BBQ at John Gacy's houseHis neighbors are all invitedWith Gacy cooking all the foodEveryone will be delightedTo make the BBQAnnual Gacy has decidedFor all his friends and neighborsWith the drinks and food provided
The annual party at Gacy's houseEveryone had much funHe invited his friends and neighborsAnd Gacy cooked for everyoneThe BBQ at John Gacy's houseEveryone was outsideBut nobody knew of the dead boysThat Gacy stashed inside
Gacy cooks the food at a furious paceHis BBQ pits ignitedWhile contemplating great BBQEveryone's very excitedThe food is served, and they take a biteEveryone is delightedBut they'd have a fit if under the pitThey knew dead bodies resided
There's a BBQ at John Gacy's houseCome on everybody let's go check it outThere's a BBQ at John Gacy's houseWith free drinks and food we'll scream and shoutThere's a BBQ at John Gacy's houseWhere all the dead boys are buried aboutThere's a BBQ at John Gacy's houseCome on everybody let's go check it out
Now I have to pee
When you walk in there you best prepare, the smell of deaths all aroundHe was the clown who made boys frown at Gacy's house it was stinkyHe's over the pit as the flames emit the favorite all over townThe hit of the day till you go urinate everyone knows it's stinky
It's stinky, stinky because of all the dead boysIt's stinky, stinky he didn't kill girls only boys
It's stinky, stinky because of all the dead boysIt's stinky, stinky he didn't kill girls only boysAt Gacy's house it was stinkyEveryone knows it's stinky
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Saturday, 14 November 2020 04:46 (three years ago) link
don't waste your breath with them
― is right unfortunately (silby), Saturday, 21 November 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
this is both true and not
― scampus fugit (gyac), Saturday, 21 November 2020 00:33 (three years ago) link
Eldritch even looks good with a beard - what a fox
― sarahell, Saturday, 21 November 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
if the primary media you have consumed in the past month are twitter and podcasts then you don't get to sneer at people for (your perception of their) reading young adult books
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Sunday, 22 November 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link
Ooh I want to know what that was in response to lol
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 22 November 2020 03:03 (three years ago) link
the latest instance of thousands of people unprovokedly ganging up on to mock what seem like a few perfectly nice people who didn't do anything morally wrong and who just seemed to be talking among themselves for wanting to know beforehand if the book they were reading was going to have a depressing ending
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Sunday, 22 November 2020 03:08 (three years ago) link
and this is as someone who both reads and writes things with rather bleak endings: who gives a fuck? who is harmed by this? conversely, why is this worth hurting people over, unless you just like hurting people? which more and more it seems most people do
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Sunday, 22 November 2020 03:10 (three years ago) link
more and more
I think people are just finding new ways to do it; baseline is still the same, more or less.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 22 November 2020 03:11 (three years ago) link
To look on the bright side, COVID-19 should extend all those projections of the eventual bankruptcy of the Social Security System by quite a few years.
― The Solace of Fortitude (Aimless), Sunday, 22 November 2020 04:59 (three years ago) link
we'll spend a shift in the forthcoming Suck Joe Biden's Dick thread to atone
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
i don't know if anyone on this board desperately needs to remind everyone their politics are to the right of joe biden every hour of every day
― foopin posts and pissin shits (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
oh, ok. thanks.
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 21:48 (three years ago) link
hello everybody, are we having fun here? i hope we're having fun here
― imago, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link
I'm glad I don't understand that because if I did I'd be so mad
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 23:50 (three years ago) link
New borad description
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 23:50 (three years ago) link
TS: American exceptionalism vs. British exceptionalism.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
What British excepetionalism?
― Naughty Boys Hoo! (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
Don't mind me, I'm just a third party troll aiming for low-hanging fruit. I know that things are far from fine in the UK right now, compared to other parts of Europe. The US is in a class of its own, of course.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
I hear you, pom.
― Naughty Boys Hoo! (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
I keep seeing that map (that has aged so well) from January of last year of the most "exceptionally" pandemic ready countries of which the US and the UK are of the top rank of course!
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
Ah yes, a classic.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 16:21 (three years ago) link
having your mentions filled with people telling you that you have a dogshit opinion is not the same as a targeted harassment campaign, you fucking babies
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
from the Star Wars, Clone Wars, Rebels, Oh My thread
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
trump is great trump trump trump moar threads about TRUMP
― the late great, Thursday, 26 November 2020 02:25 (three years ago) link
T
― pomenitul, Thursday, 26 November 2020 02:33 (three years ago) link
If this is a joke it's admirably straightfaced
― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 November 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link
I deleted my DD earlier in the year and the begging letters have now stopped, though not the emails from the local group.Haven't gone to the trouble of blocking the word "starmer" on twitter but am getting pretty close to it.Might check in again in a couple of years, I dunno.
― discogs marketplace of ideas (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 28 November 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
Mine own kitchen n'est pas
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Saturday, 28 November 2020 22:47 (three years ago) link
where did this "brunch = liberal" thing come from? who amongst us does not like a good brunch now and then ?
― sarahell, Sunday, 29 November 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
there was a sign at one of the anti-trump marches that said something like if hillary won we’d be at brunch right now. left twitter turned it into a meme to make fun of the kind of privileged liberalism it was considered to typify. the meal “brunch” was collateral damage
― Left, Sunday, 29 November 2020 20:30 (three years ago) link
a variation of the latte-sipping quinoa-munching metropolitan elite whatevers
― calzino, Sunday, 29 November 2020 20:36 (three years ago) link
thank you both! it's just funny because the people I know on the left who are perpetuating the meme, are also privileged and eat brunch, or at least quiche, and it seemed like some narc of small d's to me
― sarahell, Sunday, 29 November 2020 20:39 (three years ago) link
like, they used to go out to brunch on the regular until their neighborhoods got gentrified and the brunch prices and lines were "too much" and now they hate liberals and brunch
― sarahell, Sunday, 29 November 2020 20:41 (three years ago) link
"croissant-munching, latte-sipping": instances of misconceived media-class self-loathing ITT
― mark s, Sunday, 29 November 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link
^^ aha! the motherlode!
― sarahell, Sunday, 29 November 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link
it's often more of meme to use against the left in the UK, often by right wing MP's of the Labour party to suggest ppl like that Jezza Crumblyn is out of touch with the earthy w/c people they he is supposed to represent blah blah blah. And then sometimes it is used against them by tories to suggest their lack of enthusiasm for brexit makes them elitist scum. Nobody wins.. not even the quinoa brunch.
― calzino, Sunday, 29 November 2020 20:48 (three years ago) link
there is definitely a lot of narcissism of small differences & protesting too much in the spats between liberals & leftists from similar cultural & class backgrounds
the weird thing is in the UK the socialist left gets hit with this effete cosmopolitan stuff more often from centrist liberals but in the US it seems to be the other way round
― Left, Sunday, 29 November 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link
xp yeah
unrelated
I don’t know how to process the fact that there are actually people who think things are generally going well and we’re more or less on the right track. must be nice
― Left, Sunday, 29 November 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
Some things have gotten better, others have gotten worse.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 29 November 2020 21:36 (three years ago) link
Left, I'm in the same boat.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 29 November 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link
it’s weird, these opinions/feelings are actually very common but somehow they feel incredibly marginal at the same time
― Left, Sunday, 29 November 2020 22:25 (three years ago) link
the less panglossian ones i mean
― Left, Sunday, 29 November 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
anybody who has these feelings but expresses them with insufficient rigor is immediately lambasted for being a panglossian liberal schmuck, might be part of the problem
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Sunday, 29 November 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
The post-occupy emphasis on the 1% (or the .1% or billionaires or some other classification) has obscured the divide between the upper-middle class and everyone else. For people in the top third socio-economically, the last couple of decades have been going quite well.
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Sunday, 29 November 2020 22:37 (three years ago) link
ie Biden's promise to not tax the poor downtrodden souls earning only a quarter mil a year.
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Sunday, 29 November 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link
Promising not to tax themselves.
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 November 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
lads
― scampus fugit (gyac), Sunday, 29 November 2020 22:41 (three years ago) link