The dad joke amnesty is still on I hope.
― Noel Emits, Thursday, 4 February 2021 22:16 (three years ago) link
Leamington Spar!
― sarahell, Friday, 5 February 2021 00:40 (three years ago) link
Don't leave that thing in here. It will attract mice.
― Compromise isn't a principle, it's a method (Aimless)
You rang?.gif
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Friday, 5 February 2021 01:51 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1mXo0qnJ28
― brimstead, Friday, 5 February 2021 02:21 (three years ago) link
where's that Dale Cornish joke from?
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Friday, 5 February 2021 17:23 (three years ago) link
Aphex Twin thread?
― sarahell, Friday, 5 February 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
oh i won't go there.
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Friday, 5 February 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
There's no way lads. Cmon.
― cpt otm (darraghmac), Friday, 5 February 2021 22:40 (three years ago) link
oh shit Tottenham concede again?
― he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 February 2021 22:41 (three years ago) link
right now they can concede when they aren't even playing
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 5 February 2021 22:43 (three years ago) link
we plays games of 'lops to avoid the depression
― brimstead, Saturday, 6 February 2021 20:04 (three years ago) link
for goodness sake a splash of Old Spice does the same job!
― calzino, Sunday, 7 February 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
Old Spice is actually named as an example of how men’s fragrance can be both cheap and great-smelling in the legendary Perfumes: the Guide, but as with anything else in life, you like what you like...
― scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Sunday, 7 February 2021 17:49 (three years ago) link
Olfactory Resources for Dummies
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Sunday, 7 February 2021 17:53 (three years ago) link
what’s the classic Chanel fragrance that smells like a urinal cake?
― brimstead, Sunday, 7 February 2021 18:40 (three years ago) link
No 5
― scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Sunday, 7 February 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link
A little bit of
― he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 February 2021 18:45 (three years ago) link
No 1, surely?
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Sunday, 7 February 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
idk it kind of sounds like you never grew up past 14 ;-)
― Joses Chrust (map), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 01:51 (three years ago) link
How many helicopter rides a year do you think he will take in retirement?
― Rocky Thee Stallion (PBKR), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 18:09 (three years ago) link
The Parsee came down from his palm-tree and recited the following Sloka, which, as you have not heard, I will now proceed to relate:
Them that takes cakesWhich the Parsee-man bakesMakes dreadful mistakes.
And he put on his hat, from which the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour.
― 4 QAnon Blondes (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 11 February 2021 07:08 (three years ago) link
If that's about my post, I agree that there's a fair amount of othering and racist language in the Just So Stories, though it still doesn't feel as deliberately malignant to me as Roald Dahl's stuff. Kipling was a product of his time, and definitely had some ingrained racism that shows up in the Just So Stories and some of the poems, but imo Kim, the Jungle Books, and many (though not all) of the Indian stories - the fiction that he put a lot of love and thought into - put him light-years ahead of other white Victorians on issues of race, religion, and culture.
Maybe I'm breaking an unwritten law of ilx (what Kipling would call an Error in the Fourth Dimension) by responding here, but I wrote two theses on Kipling, love talking about him, and don't want to come across as ignoring or downplaying his problematic side. I keep wanting to start a discussion about him in the Kipling thread, but I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 11 February 2021 19:33 (three years ago) link
i would be interested in reading that though i wouldn't have anything to contribute
― lord of the ting tings (map), Thursday, 11 February 2021 19:37 (three years ago) link
xp definitely do it, I’ll share some pictures of a 40s edition of Kim I own
― scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Thursday, 11 February 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
Kipling defended the Jallianwala Bagh / Amritsar massacre which even Churchill condemned so I can't believe his racial politics were better than most regardless of what else he wrote
― Left, Thursday, 11 February 2021 20:10 (three years ago) link
Kipling was a very strange, screwed-up, two-halves sort of person. His expressed political beliefs were very conservative; his fiction-writing was overall very progressive and compassionate. There's not a lot of overlap. If he were around today, he'd be one of those people with great long-form writing and a toxic Twitter personality.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 11 February 2021 20:24 (three years ago) link
I cannot and will not defend Kipling as a person, or his racial politics. But good gravy, that writing. The cadence, the mannered looseness, the richness, the humor. It was an indelible part of my childhood and probably shapes some portion of how I think to this day.
It wasn't intended as a direct response to a particular post or specific line of discussion here, by Lily Dale or anyone. Hence, putting it here
― 4 QAnon Blondes (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 11 February 2021 20:26 (three years ago) link
Having a little moment, are we?
― scampsite (darraghmac), Friday, 12 February 2021 10:03 (three years ago) link
lmfao
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Monday, 15 February 2021 03:40 (three years ago) link
Endearingly exotic thread.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link
The snow thread?
― scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 20:36 (three years ago) link
Yep, although now that I’ve just found out that at least 17 people have died it’s less ‘endearing’. Mostly I’m just fascinated by the possibility of life without snow, it’s unfathomable from where I’m standing.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 20:46 (three years ago) link
17 people on the thread have died?
― sarahell, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 00:08 (three years ago) link
RIP
― lord of the ting tings (map), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 00:09 (three years ago) link
damn, that's a lotta threads we have to start or bump
― sarahell, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 00:13 (three years ago) link
😏
― scampsite (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 17:57 (three years ago) link
inaccurate tho?
― imago, Friday, 19 February 2021 13:19 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/vclId.gif
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 19 February 2021 13:25 (three years ago) link
not having a great time in my life right now and and I am oversensitive to stuff at the best of times so probably best if I just stay off here for a bit if people are going to be like this.
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 19 February 2021 13:28 (three years ago) link
Stay classy
― scampsite (darraghmac), Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:08 (three years ago) link
My thoughts exactly. Genuinely shocked.
― scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:09 (three years ago) link
carabiners on belt loops are fine idk?
― sarahell, Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:14 (three years ago) link
didn't even have to open up the thread, saw the 'last posted by' and knew instantly
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:19 (three years ago) link
Not entirely fair tbh
― scampsite (darraghmac), Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
(my comment was not related to the two above it, gah i hate this thread sometimes)
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
Heh its an issue def bytimes
― scampsite (darraghmac), Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
I have no idea what any of you are talking about and that is fucking annoying.
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
Ah tom isn't that what you always say tho!
― scampsite (darraghmac), Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
Love Tom
― scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link
I've caught up now and I feel sad for Mark, such a nice guy.
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link