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

but seriously and honestly, seems like the fewer details i know on this one, the better.

Why aren't you also condemning Viet Cong atrocities when you talk about the Phoenix Program?

would it really hurt to give steely dan a week off every now and then?

Agree, this week is the time for the Hall & Oates thread to shine

kinda want a pretzel lobster tbh, sounds kinda good

like a pretzel lobster roll? or something? you're right that does sound good

that's a royal scam if you ask me

who is the female morrissey?

is it natalie merchant?

[tucker]I'M JUST ASKING QUESTIONS[/tucker]

One does not simply walk into Baltimordor.

even if he chose good rather than evil i'm not sure i'd want to get to know her.

thread idea: make a song lyric more offensive

my favourite is whichever one is responsible for the oven chips

my favourite is whichever one is responsible for the vagina chips

i promise you i'm not a paid shill for HAL 9000

the motherfucker deadnamed me yesterday, we're not on good terms

aww that guy is total sweetheart (Mark not Hal)

we've investigated ourselves and found we do nothing wrong

Pick it, pack it, fire it up
Come along

one thought i've had recently is that in some ways using social media (which i do) is like using a megaphone. it's really tough to be nuanced on a megaphone! and i think if you just hand a megaphone to someone, you are likely to get very silly results. it is incredibly annoying when goofy kids find a megaphone. it's also incredibly annoying when talkative adults use a megaphone. megaphones are useful for distributing information in chaotic situations. some people were born to hold a megaphone and to point it at people while talking. other people should be banned from using it altogether. one version of free speech is a bunch of people screaming at each other with megaphones while never listening to anyone else. another is for people to speak to each other at moderate volumes. it's possible to use a megaphone for good but in general we've learned not to use them.

sorry to get meta here, but to make this an experimental ilx post i'll break the 4th wall - i'm just totally goofing off here. i know it's not great but i like to write and sometimes other people like it. but also it's confusing to some people who might expect me (not "me", but anyone in this situation) to be speaking literally or formally or persuasively or, maybe to even have a point. having a point is something that is considered essential by so many people! some people, posters on ilx, people irl, seem to always have a point, and hold their tongue unless there's a reason for it. i admire and really adore these people, you are like gods to me! there are some things beyond me that i could eventually reach by practicing or trying to understand it, but in the case of having a point i feel like an ant trying to emulate a tank. all these words should supposedly add up to something, but i've always found the most joy in piecing it all together and rearranging things.

posting this on the second thoughts thread because it's an example of a second thought which isn't about tearing someone down, but is instead about some total bullshit

https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/mast_image_landscape/public/mastimages/Megaphone%20main%20Mk%202.jpg

https://jambands.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Screen-Shot-2019-07-03-at-11.50.28-AM.png

rly appreciate that post z_ . fwiw i always have felt that the relative user consistency at ilx makes it a sorta special online environment (in addition to posters mostly being v high-knowledge/advanced insight).

i’ve not met a single poster irl i think, and yet i am able to maintain a pretty consistent sense of individual poster’s preferred posting ‘modes’ (as to analytic/persuasive/feels/humor). as such i hear some megaphones and can go “oh that’s just x doing their thing.”

i liked that post a lot z. as someone whose default is to hold my tongue, i'm fascinated by habitual sharers, and i vm appreciate posters like you who keep the lights on in this place. i've never thought of it as those who have to have a point vs those who don't, but that's an interesting way to put it.

i've had a chance to reflect on my stage fright/fear-of-being-observed lately b/c i've been gradually DJing in front of more and more people, and i think part of my reticence is rooted in a fear of a lack of control over how i'm being perceived, and maybe more specifically fear of the possibility that everyone else will see something obvious that i'm missing about myself, thereby exposing myself as a fraud/idiot. but maybe that's just rationalization for the basic fact that some of us get off on performing for others and some of us are drained by it

okay nvm, i support the death penaltu

penalty even

what if the Watergate Apartments had instead been called the Waterbury Apartments? Then we'd have the Partybury Scandal, Sharpiebury, Deflatebury, etc.

i got tú is second person familiar right

El burro eres tú

Mama tambien

i support the death penaltu

― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin

in Romanian!

I love you all.

Ciao, penaltu

lotta next levellin’, this place eats.

no soy burro, but i’m schoolboy spanish only

Yo no soy marinara

soy calamar

i do not think we need any more discourse where a fascist gnome says something and someone is like “i agree with what he’s saying but not for the reasons he’s saying it”

at least nobody on this website has ever called me "kind stranger"

a fascist gnome

Terrible Bowie deep cut

terrible bowie era tbf

i do not think we need any more discourse where a fascist gnome says something and someone is like “i agree with what he’s saying but not for the reasons he’s saying it”

T is more of a pixie than a gnome fwiw

fascist gnome sounds bad but laughing gnome is good.

It was actually focused on My Dick

Laughing Dick

My Dick Put on My Dick shoes and dance My Dick

i was responding to convo waaay upthread, i didnt realize that. and zing said “yo someone posted” and i was like “fuck an intervening post or two” SEND.

and so i like dropped random nonsense hours later. as opposed to my immediate nonsense. sorry

is there a thread for being completely out of touch with the cultural zeitgeist

i'm looking up this show called "DAVE" (which at least is capitalized, you can't have a show called "DAVE" and not at least ironically capitalize it) and it turns out to star novelty rapper lil dicky

who i have also learned still exists

and also that he has hypospadias

also only about 10% of people with hypospadias are intersex

does anybody younger than 40 actually call themselves "DAVE"? it seems like one of those names like "Obadiah" which are currently reserved exclusively for villainous CEOs

maybe the biggest UK rapper atm, who is 25

probably a us/uk split here tho

if we're judging by the number of reaction videos, Dave is also the biggest rapper in the US right now

(not that you should use that as a criterion obviously)