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

lies

I am good at amusing myself and no one else. I don't know what I would do without me

Family Tie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57PWqFowq-4

Thank you for that, pom. I just went down a massive MA Numminem youtube hole.

that is a video.

You're welcome. :)

It's not what I had in mind at first, but perhaps it also doubles as an oblique commentary on this very thread's premise.

Clearly not enough to have not wasted my time then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ instinct works so much better than logic for so many decisions

i find i still wish "the c-man" immense and lasting ill

Seems entirely reasonable

im a philanthropist

i find i still wish "the c-man" immense and lasting ill

― mark s, Sunday, 6 December 2020 bookmarkflaglink

That's the spirit

https://i.imgur.com/bsqeRD6.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ClJ2S9V.png

Now I want to know who the least human posters are.

I am a Russian bot

And a puffin.

Unfair imo!

Ye Vlad Pufin

I'm mostly bacteria iirc

You had a good go at it..thanks for your input

m8 what is aresenal - some kind of club for sports? thx in advance

So far most of these examples are tantamount to cool stuff young (mostly anglo) ppl are into that we olds (mutatis mutandis) missed out on. That's a pretty narrow definition of 'blindspot', but *charges headfirst into windmill*.

https://i.imgur.com/m7KtLCj.jpg

The concept of that comic strip is eerily similar to a very short and somewhat...lovely?...story by Tobias Wolff https://public.wsu.edu/~bryanfry/Wolff,%20Bullet%20in%20the%20Brain.pdf

ha, interesting coincidence - the character is a long-time recurring feature in the comedy magazine Viz*, but that one strip is so similar to the short story that one could totally imagine Wolff reading it and deciding to riff it on a type of pedant (or specific critic) that he personally loathed.

* based on the brother of founder/publisher and cartoonists Chris Donald and Simon Donald, diagnosed as aspie decades later, but compared to Mr Spock when they were growing up

Absolutely!

I'm not a big fan of Wolff's writing, generally speaking, but I've taught that story a few times, and I've grown quite fond of it. Students love it, too.

I also enjoyed it, thanks.

Good to see science teaching is in good hands.

nothing says I’m fine and enjoying thisposting calmly as I normally do quite like five increasingly wild posts in a row

well i am kinda mad, the good news is i'm arguing abt something real and important that i care abt instead of, i dunno, some dumb childish bs feud about pronouns with branwell

y'all are some real petty and childish bitches btw

https://rachwriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/chaplin-funhousejpg.jpg

That thread is outwith my pay grade.

https://media.giphy.com/media/xT9GEDhzERbjDD15O8/giphy.gif

Lower left corner: EOY/AOTY poll season
The rest of the gif: ILX gearing up for EOY/AOTY poll season

Speaking of which, I've got too much stuff to nom before I can start whittling down my list, so I think I'll have to sit this one out.

well i am kinda mad, the good news is i'm arguing abt something real and important that i care abt instead of, i dunno, some dumb childish bs feud about pronouns with branwell

― the late great, Thursday, December 17, 2020 10:50 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

y'all are some real petty and childish bitches btw

― the late great, Thursday, December 17, 2020 10:51 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

are / were you mad at me about something?

xp Sit out the entire poll season?

Metal poll aside, yeah. Just too much of a mental hassle.

Your list is always one of my most anticipated, but yeah, I hear you

aw but how are we going to avoid taytay's relentless insincere march to glory ;)

Thanks, LBI! I'll probably just post a bigger unranked list to another thread at some point in January.

xp the time has come for a new generation of specific users to carry that vindictive torch.

Post your unranked best #100 and I'll lap it up ;)

xp I regret to inform you the new generation is on the tay-tay train.

the biggest problem I have with taytay is that she isn't even bad; she's even quite good sometimes, which makes it incredibly hard for me to just spew invective

by that i mean to say that in my subjective judgement her music is often relatively pleasant, if not often truly exciting, hence going off on one about her would have to involve me ignoring my actual opinions

thus we reach taytay impasse, where i essentially have to stop worrying and love the bomb

lots of cheap 'spirit drink' in my coffee today

Same. There's a harmlessness about taytay's music that pre-disarms a lot of criticism; or rather, does not invite to go off on. There's some really good songs on both albums from this year, some mediocre and meh-songs, too. There aren't any real stakes, not like before it seems.

yeah. basically i won't go cray-cray about taytay unless both her albums hit the top ten, at which point i'll have some serious questions

so you'll ixnay the cray-cray for tay-tay?

in essence

there are a few 2020-popular artists (not fiona apple) i might be prepared to get a little more classic-ljish about tho