This Excelsior 2024 thread smells like a hot dog

From Dilbert - C or D?

Dilead

― nashwan, Friday, January 26, 2024 12:40 PM

Lock thread, I guess...

I thought the Nicole Holofcener line was funny! goddamn…

Also, reading the accumulated 20 year run of the Dilbert thread change as Adams slowly but inevitably turns rancid and radioactive is some of ILX’s finest writing

Interested to see if he’s going to treat it with homeopathy tbh

― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Monday, 5 February 2024 18:43 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

let's hope so, we'll get another bank holiday

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 5 February 2024 18:48 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

re king charles

The royals should capitalize on the success of Netflix’s The Last Kingdom and bring back Aethlings. And people whose names use that ae character.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 20:42 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Wiliæm

Kæþerine

― Virginia Wolfman (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 20:44 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ændrew

― Virginia Wolfman (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 20:46 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

PÆdophile

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 20:50 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol

"Kwasi Kwarteng is the 54th Tory MP to say they are standing down at the next election"

Has a majority of nearly 20k, but I guess he can grift away at some think tank or some boardroom crap.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 09:57 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Strictly or I'm A Celebrity or gtf.

― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 10:10 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

human centipede or gtfo

― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 10:37 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

human centipede or gtfo

Get the ... fart out?

great Extreme song

cozen itt (wins)
Posted: 13 February 2024 at 10:49:09
I found myself walking a little way behind a youngish man who was on the phone to some friend of his and like 99% of what he said was like, “yes king, I hear you boss, don’t worry about it king” I thought it was incredible


These BetterHelp therapists are really something

"Fraud On Me" was R.E.M.'s best single to date imo

― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, February 16, 2024 12:27 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

greasy crappy people yelling chants

― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal)

xxp "We won't try to force feed you"

well i never.
for my recent 56th birthday i got a kit from the NHS re bowel cancer checking.
i.e. a poo kit.
had no idea that this was a thing until it turned up.
got the "all clear" letter today, albeit with a lot of legally required caveats.

― mark e, Thursday, 29 February 2024 17:44 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I feel like poo-kits-in-the-mail is one of those things Fox News will circulate next time there's a debate about universal health care. "In SOCIALIST countries, you have to POOP in a BOX and MAIL it to the GOVERNMENT!!!"

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 29 February 2024 20:42 (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

You don't even get pictures of the inside of your colon! Total ripoff. It's like the Willy Wonka experience all over again.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 29 February 2024 20:44 (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Different chocolate factory.

― nickn, Thursday, 29 February 2024 20:57 (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

thanking you

Masterful

went slightly book mad and ended up with close to a year's worth of reading:

kafka - stories 1904-1924
grossmith & grossmith - diary of a nobody
somerville & ross - the irish rm
anthony trollope - the pallisers
ivy compton-burnett - parents & children
ivy compton-burnett - a father & his fate
sylvia townsend warner - mr fortune's maggot
elizabeth bowen - the last september
capel boake - painted clay
dali - hidden faces
john berger - g
stig dagerman - games of night
thomas tryon - the other
simenon - maigret sets a trap
henry james - english hours
dickens - selected journalism 1850-1870
stevenson - dr jekyll & mr hyde/weir of hermiston
horace walpole - castle of otranto/hieroglyphic tales
the common muse: popular british ballad poetry
roland barthes - selected writings
cervantes - don quixote
rabelais - gargantua & pantagruel
balzac - cousin pons
gautier - mademoiselle de maupin
flaubert - madame bovary
pushkin - eugene onegin
bulgakov - the white guard
thomas hardy - wessex tales
thomas love peacock - novels of
cs lewis - that hideous strength
michael moorcock - an alien heat
michael moorcock - the hollow lands
roger zelazny - isle of the dead
julian symons - bloody murder
graham greene - a gun for sale
robertson davies - the deptford trilogy
russell hoban - riddley walker
thomas pynchon - crying of lot 49
italo calvino - our ancestors
elias canetti - auto da fe
willa muir - imagined selves
george painter - marcel proust
gerard manley hopkins - poems and prose
joyce cary - the horse's mouth
ralph ellison - invisible man
joseph heller - closing time
deighton - billion dollar brain
deighton - game, set, match trilogy

also a number of pulp/crime/ghost/horror anthologies. now to try and find shelf space for them all.

― no lime tangier, Monday, 25 March 2024 19:41 (two days ago) link

I have come to accept that I do not have meaningful amounts of shelf space left, nor do I have wall space to put shelves against, and I'm just a person who is going to have piles

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:46 (two days ago) link

Carrying all those books will do that to you.

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 12:37 (sixteen minutes ago) link

LOL

who on earth is that tory ad aimed at

― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:18 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Cunts?

― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:34 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Starmer

― nashwan, Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:37 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

My actual first time ever hearing NIN:

I was staying at my Aunt’s house while on a family road trip, and looking through my cousin’s CDs. My cousin is a few years older than me. I was extremely sheltered musically at that point. He had lots of CDs from bands that I hadn’t heard yet: Korn, Limp Bizkit, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Radiohead. I knew Radiohead slightly from the "High and Dry" video, and didn't want to risk straying from what I already knew. So I found that song title on the back of The Bends, put on the CD that was in the case, skipped ahead to track 3, and made it to "Your God is dead, and no one cares" before turning it off in horror.

― jmm, Thursday, April 4, 2024 11:33 AM bookmarkflaglink

^^^~3x typical volume at Domino's adjacent to Pentagon

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, April 13, 2024 1:34 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

As long as it doesn’t have rocket on it

― subpost master (wins)

According to it, this is the burt Stanton rap music

https://www.udio.com/songs/5YbLhqZ5sZ7vb1QzrUYd5z

― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, April 16, 2024 7:13 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Is there a more famous budgie fancier? Not sure I can think of one.

― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 12:59 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Siouxsie

― subpost master (wins), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 13:04 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Since I read that thing about resonating I have heard three separate people (in two different states/time zones) say they resonate with xyz

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, April 19, 2024 10:24 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

tbf I know he can be a bit abrasive at times but he's often otm

― Colonel Poo, Saturday, April 20, 2024 1:28 AM (yesterday)

NO ONE CARES ABOUT HOW MANY FUCKING POSTS YOU HAVE

― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 13 May 2024 20:34 (forty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Is that for those who posted theirs already or for those of us who didn't post ours yet?

― nashwan, Monday, 13 May 2024 20:55 (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

that's whiney's 4644637th complaint.

― scott seward, Monday, 13 May 2024 20:59 (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

A friend pointed out to me yesterday, when I told them that Glen Powell feels like a scam thought up by Hollywood bizzers who think millennials and Gen Z don’t understand sex appeal or get enough sex, that Powell is a psyop.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, June 11, 2024 5:33 AM bookmarkflaglink

he actually had four eyes in this role, so uh no

― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, June 11, 2024 6:09 AM bookmarkflaglink

had this [covid] recently, pretty certain picked up on a train in spain. i felt pretty average and quite tired but the main problem was that i got an infected ear at the same time. which of course *really* doesn’t let you sleep. so a combination of being v tired and not able to get any sleep was not good and although i got over the covid relatively quickly im still managing the overall knock on effects a couple of weeks later.

people have asked how i knew to test and i’m “idk it just felt like covid?” crackly throat, generally run down, sniffling etc. this is my third go round (none of them servere in themselves) and im getting to know the drill.

― Fizzles, Wednesday, 26 June 2024 17:22 bookmarkflaglink

Wonder if the strain in Spain spreads mainly on the train

― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 June 2024 17:29 bookmarkflaglink

lol

*applause*

Ok yeah that deserves applause

good enough to cure a bout of covid

folks watching presidential debates is not a good or cool or worthwhile thing to do

― ivy.

I was in a hipster coffee shop and everyone was watching the debate on their phones

― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes)

ugh that is *not* how the director intended it to be seen

― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac)

recently encountered something that was advertised as "if tesla were a wallet"

― budo jeru, Tuesday, July 9, 2024 3:35 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

"...my ass would be on fire"

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, July 9, 2024 3:38 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

might as well get the story in here, my step-dad once made the national news for doing margin-betting on how many corpses they were going to exhume from the house on Cromwell St. That's how he got his nickname "Sicko"!

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 22 July 2024 08:01 (forty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The over/under taker

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 22 July 2024 08:03 (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Well, it's one way to kill horse racing

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 22 July 2024 08:05 (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

He was on to a dead cert.

― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Monday, 22 July 2024 08:13 (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

will this be Vance's Swift Boat

― rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal), Friday, July 26, 2024 12:24 PM bookmarkflaglink

No one accused Kerry of fucking the boat tho

― laughter is the best weapon (DJP), Friday, July 26, 2024 12:27 PM bookmarkflaglink

the people all said sit down
sit down you're

― rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal), Friday, July 26, 2024 12:31 PM bookmarkflaglink

I think the Brent character works because he's a very real type of person, a guy who was probably made to feel fundamentally unloved in his youth, and his desperation for love becomes a vicious cycle of making him less lovable. There's this little vague twinkle of self-awareness of how hard he's trying there, but not enough that he can escape it, because his neediness is just way stronger than anything else. He reminds me of someone I know in this way. Whereas Neil is just the cold, practiced, somewhat psychopathic face of corporate capitalism. Neil is fully absorbed into it and handles it with ease. Neil is impervious to love and people love him for it, or at least admire him in a way.

I was about to post that I suspect the character is a bit close to home for Gervais, and then I looked at his Wikipedia page, and sure enough, there's this: "Gervais has mentioned in interviews that, as an 11-year-old, he asked why his siblings were so much older than he was; his mother bluntly told him that he "was a mistake".["

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 17:17 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

sadly it’s hard not to agree with her

― keep kamala and khive on (wins), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 17:25 (fifty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Hillbilly Kennedy, cook us up some vittles

Daylight come and me wan’ go home

― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 4 August 2024 23:00 (yesterday)

yeah Shapiro is on fire

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, August 6, 2024 2:46 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

You got my hopes up there for a minute

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, August 6, 2024 5:12 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I also lol'ed

Hahaha

After my 'real job' has ended I'll be forced to whittle little whimsical sculptures and sell them to tourists by the roadside, until death comes for me

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, August 13, 2024 3:52 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

scythe hustle

― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Tuesday, August 13, 2024 3:54 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Someone Walz’s age would have big childhood Nixon in China memories

Strikes me as more of an Einstein on the Beach guy

― There’s a Monster in my Vance (President Keyes), Friday, August 16, 2024 8:26 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

curse of the 117 club strikes again

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 20 August 2024 14:54 (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's pretty incredible how i'm the only person in the world who likes the grateful dead exactly the correct amount

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, August 21, 2024 11:12 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i like that one song of theirs, "upper mississippi half-step toodleoo"

― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, August 21, 2024 11:23 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I saw Kraftwerk at Sheffield City Hall in '90 . I've never really been a regular gig goer. But that was the first time I had that wow that really is them feeling. Not felt since I saw the pope at York racetrack 10 years earlier

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 31 August 2024 22:54 (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Did he win?

― nashwan, Saturday, 31 August 2024 22:54 (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

loool

a+

That is how it's pronounced here.

― Defund Phil Collins (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 September 2024 15:32 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

ok this is useless

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 4 September 2024 15:33 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

let's hop on a call quick and get this sorted

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 4 September 2024 15:33 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

What’s the NC GOP’s plan b if he doesn’t drop out?

― O 'Tis Redding (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, September 19, 2024 12:44 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

they don't believe in Plan B

― There’s a Monster in my Vance (President Keyes)

back upthread, still blows my mind that anybody still thinks the King James Bible is anywhere near the most authoritative, accurate version

― smears for fears (Neanderthal), Friday, October 4, 2024 12:56 PM bookmarkflaglink

They should have insisted on the Wycliffe translation. It's even older, so in that sense it is 'closer to the original' than the KJV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wycliffe's_Bible

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, October 4, 2024 1:04 PM bookmarkflaglink

Yeah but it’s out of stock till November

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, October 4, 2024 1:06 PM bookmarkflaglink

Nice.

irrationally giddy at what i think is my first excelsior. thanks DJP :)

The real election was the friends we made along the way

― two turntables and a slide trombone (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 8 October 2024 20:16 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

those were bots

― There’s a Monster in my Vance (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 October 2024 20:22 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

The ideal band format is a bunch of musicians who can play anything, and a dictatorial goon to tell them what not to play
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, October 10, 2024 5:08 PM

e.g. Mark E. Smith and a seasoned female percussionist

― JRN, Thursday, October 10, 2024 3:20 PM

From the Craft vs Art thread

At this point he needs to crap himself in public.

― guillotine vogue (suzy), Tuesday, October 15, 2024 3:44 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

There’s no proof he didn’t!

― Judge Judy, executioner (stevie), Tuesday, October 15, 2024 3:45 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Depends

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, October 15, 2024 3:47 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

How is he 'reforming' the band if it's an all-new lineup? Thta's just forming a new band with the same name as the old one.

― joe meek's cutoff (Matt #2), Wednesday, October 23, 2024 8:19 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

The difference between re-forming and reforming

― Mark G, Wednesday, October 23, 2024 8:58 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Just 10 geriatrics in a room

― calstars, Wednesday, October 23, 2024 9:34 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

i.e. ILX

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

I had a momentary fantasy of a piece called "So Why Did I Defend H.P. Lovecraft?" Cthulhu gives a monologue reminiscing about his interactions with the author, noting that "H.P. did so much to bring attention to the culture of the Old Ones", but ultimately "he used/abused our culture as a backdrop for his own human dramas and he cannot be forgiven for it"

― the trombone just keeps getting bigger (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, October 27, 2024 10:39 AM

amazing

AI isn't as good as real humans at detecting cancer in scans. This has been tested.

You know who's really good at detecting cancer? Dogs. Elon should sell all his other companies and become a dog breeder.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, October 30, 2024

We don't need a bunch of half dog/half Elons running around

― Raising Azure Asia (President Keyes), Wednesday, October 30, 2024

https://i.redd.it/vhbevggqdxy71.jpg

120 minutes comp poll?
How does one make a poll anyways?

I’ve been farting around this place for 20 years and I have no clue how things work.

― Cow_Art, Friday, 1 November 2024 13:29 (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

120 minutes comp poll?
How does one make a poll anyways?

I’ve been farting around this place for 20 years and I have no clue how things work.

― Cow_Art, Friday, 1 November 2024 13:29 (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sorry if that comes across as mean, it just made me irl.

*laugh. Ffs. Which way is Dignitas?

why the fuck can't i keep my lean pockets upright

― New No-No Bettencourt (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, July 14, 2023 2:18 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

cough syrup

― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, July 14, 2023 2:58 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

....it sticks out like a sad thumb to me now.

― scott seward, Sunday, November 3, 2024 10:21 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i really only follow the elections through the ilx threads, only way i can take it

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, November 4, 2024 8:07 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ums, we've totally been pranking u

Trump died months ago

― kato kaelin-manuel miranda (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, November 4, 2024 8:09 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

get off the fucking internet all of you

― ivy., Tuesday, November 5, 2024 4:40 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

but i live here!!

― c u (crüt)

fuck this made me laugh harder than it should have

Ok.

BREAKING: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu fires minister of defense Yoav Gallant
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) November 5, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, November 5, 2024 10:17 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Was this expected? (The firing.)

― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, November 5, 2024 10:20 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Apparently he is being replaced by a Yoav Goofus

― symsymsym, Tuesday, November 5, 2024 10:22 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

ty it was a very stupid joke

I loled.

x3

uh, dude, the shotgun stuff is a little too gruesome for me

― a (waterface), Wednesday, November 6, 2024 10:59 AM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Too bad Kurt wasn't alive to see this election

― Grape Fired At Czar From Crack Battery (President Keyes), Wednesday, November 6, 2024 11:02 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

My folks get these round-robin letters from three different families every Christmas. They're photocopies - either of originally handwritten letters or printed documents - and must go to I guess 20 or 30 people? I can't fully explain the feeling they give me.

The mixture of self-dramatisation/grandiosity and soul-crushing banality gets me. It's just the reality of most lives, I guess, but 1) why share your gallstones, your sons' marriage problems, your vitamin D deficiency; 2) turn your afternoons watching the grandchildren put on puppet shows into something from a Trollope novel?

I'm friends with some of the children described in the letters and know how embarrassed they are to be described as 'leading up a global project' when, in reality, they're tending to spreadsheets; not to mention how much of an arsehole the letter-writer has been that year.

My favourite detail this year was how the husband from one family had had several health issues, and that his 'testicles had swollen to the size of a ballcock'.

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, December 27, 2024 7:49 AM (fifty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Refer him to the gay thread.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, December 27, 2024 8:04 AM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i appear to be the only person in the family with an Amazon account. so can i order some things for them? last year it was inter-dental brushes, this year it's a replacement top for the kitchen tap which they seem to think will be a one-size-fits-all kind of deal and i think will be a mess of proprietary standards. "the top is 19mm, the bottom is 11mm"...

― koogs, Friday, December 27, 2024 8:16 AM (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

don't refer them to the gay thread

― hexham head (map), Friday, December 27, 2024 8:19 AM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

home for the holigays

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, December 27, 2024 8:21 AM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

For thousands of years, human knowledge was generally transferred through books, which notoriously do not consist entirely of bullet points, numbered lists, and infographics.

Weirdly, we were able to construct a huge amount of what we know to be the modern world - literature, theology, philosophy, history, political theory, much of science - in this way.

Complete sentences, placed sequentially in paragraphs, with nothing to "break up the text" or "provide some white space." If you got to the bottom of a page and you weren't done describing the topic, you could just keep going on the next page and the reader would actually flip the page and keep going! Can you imagine?

For most of my career a typical technical document was 100-150 pages of closely spaced type. A colleague recently called that "that bad old days."

Nowadays I am advised to cover equally detailed technical topics in 50-75 slides, and I am further advised not to use complete sentences, let alone paragraphs.

― meow mix-a-lot (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, December 24, 2024 11:12 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

tl;dr

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, December 25, 2024 1:00 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

don't refer them to the gay thread

― hexham head (map), Friday, December 27, 2024 8:19 AM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

home for the holigays

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, December 27, 2024 8:21 AM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/StatlerandWaldorf%282%29.JPG

I got Twitter in early 2009, linked it to my phone number and "post by SMS" (dunno when they got rid of that) - then I moved back to China, my phone number expired, someone else got it. So when family members tagged me in something this person would get a text message, assume it was spam and reply to it with "FUCK OFF" - which would then be posted as a reply on Twitter. Eventually my mum asked me gently about it and I had to get a new VPN and try to figure out wtf was going on. Not sure any of them believed me when I explained it.

― MJ Slenderman (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, December 31, 2024 10:03 AM

hahahahaha

Edison mostly an egomaniac con man who stole most of his ideas, so I don't think Musk is a bad point of comparison.

Tbf the latter hasn't electrocuted an elephant yet but give him time.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Monday, January 6, 2025 5:13 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

GOP are represented by elephants so give him time.

― Dan Worsley, Monday, January 6, 2025 5:16 AM

yes, that was actually the main point he made and I missed it because I focused on the wrong thing (why was that gravity stuff even in there?)

― StanM, Friday, January 3, 2025 10:25 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I wanted to ask Pynchon the same question about his novel.
― sarahell, Friday, January 3, 2025 11:03 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

this thread invented r/aita

― symsymsym, Thursday, January 9, 2025 11:05 AM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

nah that was south asians iirc

― rob, Thursday, January 9, 2025 11:11 AM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes

lol

Well done, rob.

Oh my god that took a while for me to get. At first I thought of a potential Reddit thread : r:Am I the Asian?

That took me a mo too because I forgot what aita was and just assumed r/aita was a reddit about Indian dressings

want to feel old? "chaise longue" came out 20 years ago today

― na (NA), Thursday, January 23, 2025 11:34 AM bookmarkflaglink

yes, this happens to me sometimes. one time last year a woman was sort of like writhing around while bent forward over a sub in front of the dj booth staring right at my face for the longest time, with one leg propped (seductively?) up on the sub at various points. i did my best to do the polite smile and look away but she was front and center for the last couple songs of my set and approached me after. idk what she said, i only remember her poor bf standing awkwardly nearby watching the whole interaction. it was clear from his body language he wasn't getting any joy from the whole thing

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, February 3, 2025 8:29 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I have a story like that, probably told it on here before but here it goes again, one time this lady seemed to be acting very flirty with me, she wrote something on a piece of paper and slid it across the table to me and then sorta looked back and winked in a pretty sexy way and I was like "oh shit she just gave me her number", I unfolded the paper and it just said "FRANK ZAPPA"

― frogbs, Monday, February 3, 2025 8:31 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lol

You fool her number was (372) 659-2772

she lived in Estonia!!

I have a story like that, probably told it on here before but here it goes again, one time this lady seemed to be acting very flirty with me, she wrote something on a piece of paper and slid it across the table to me and then sorta looked back and winked in a pretty sexy way and I was like "oh shit she just gave me her number", I unfolded the paper and it just said "FRANK ZAPPA"

― frogbs, Monday, February 3, 2025 8:31 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

if ILX greentexts were a thing (god forbid) then this should be one.

if u do the spoonerism of his name itd be heaven kart which i imagine would a christian version of mariokart

― kendrick lamaze "to push a baby out" (m bison), Sunday, February 16, 2025 9:50 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

as if u needed another reason to hate him

― kendrick lamaze "to push a baby out" (m bison), Sunday, February 16, 2025 9:51 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

would main as wajesus tho bc hes the antichrist

― kendrick lamaze "to push a baby out" (m bison), Sunday, February 16, 2025 9:51 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink