How old are you and how long have you been posting here?

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Curiosity calls. I'm new here, so I'm trying to get a bit of an idea of who ILXers are.

Also: How many of you have met outside of this cushy anonymous web thing? How many of you have, um... shall we say, "hooked up"?

― absolute skittles, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:36 (twenty-three years ago)

26 - been posting for as long as i've been bored at work - approx 1 year. don't go on FAP's as they are mostly (uk anyway, London centered)

― james (james), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:37 (twenty-three years ago)

sorry... FAP's? I take it that's an ILX term for "meeting in real life"?

― absolute skittles, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:40 (twenty-three years ago)

"fancy a pint" - the FAQ explains most of it

― james (james), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm 32, and my first ILE post was in October 02, though I've been posting to ILM since the spring of 01. I've been to one Toronto FAP. Don't know if they'll have me back for another one. Going through the intoduce yourselves pages might be a good idea, um, skittles.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:44 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm 25 in two weeks - i'd be cool with this only my life isnt quite how i want it, but then who's is eh?

i've been posting solidly to ILM and to a lesser extent ILE for about 7 months having flirted with the old greenspun versions once in a blue moon

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm 20, i've been posting to ilx since it started (with ilm, in late 2k). it's dangerous.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Who here has met other ILM/ILE posters in Real Life?

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:50 (twenty-three years ago)

i have been posting for 4 yrs i think, and am 22.

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

27, maybe a year or two?

― hstencil, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:52 (twenty-three years ago)

20; semi-regular ilxor since Sept. '01, or thereabouts.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm 25, and my first post was about a year ago maybe; I can't really remember. I've only been posting regularly since last November or so.

I've never been to an FAP, but I've met quite a lot of ILXors in real life due to a certain other interweb mentalist hobby.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm 21,been posting for about two years,i'd guess,although probably not as regularly as i do now...

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Ambrose - that's quite an achievement since ILX in any form has existed for less than 3 years!

I'm 24, and I've been posting/reading ILX/lurking to varying degrees since about June 2001, I think.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:57 (twenty-three years ago)

24, have been posting for a couple of months and my time here will shortly be coming to an end

― j0e (j0e), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm 25. I think my first post was on October 8th, 2002. So, I really haven't been around that long, but I've posted a hell of a lot.

I met J.Lu and Aaron Grossman at a DC FAP. Nick A. lives with me so I see him every day. I went to school with Yanc3y and Charlie W. and Clarke B. (last 2 mostly post on ILM). And I know stolenbus. Ok, I think that's it...?

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why, j0e?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm 24 years old, I've been posting here since sometime last fall. Tis only one other ILXor I've met outside of these virtual confines, and I knew him years before this "place" even existed.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:01 (twenty-three years ago)

New job, Sarah - so I won't have time to post during the day cos I'll be far too busy (which will make a nice change). I may still post sporadically in the evenings tho

― j0e (j0e), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:01 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm 20. i've posted on ilm since february 2002. started on ILE as well in the summer of 2002. i focus mainly on ILM these days. i've met a few of the irish ilxers.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:02 (twenty-three years ago)

hstencil, did you post under a different name until recently?

twenty-two and since late two thousand and one.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm 27 & have been posting here (or reading at least) for about a year.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't attended a FAP altho I'm intrigued. I live in Cambridge & most UK FAPs are in London.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:12 (twenty-three years ago)

keep posting joe, i need the larfs

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Pinkpanther, How far apart are the two?

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah! I forgot to mention that I've been friends with Sean Carruthers for a long time (13 years or so) and that he was the one who got me to come here. BLAME CRUDDERS.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:14 (twenty-three years ago)

RJG, I've mostly always posted under hstencil. Unless I'm adapting a pseudonym for a bad joke, or (similarly) posting as Geir Honky.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:17 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah j0e do what we who have jobs do - post when no one is looking, and if anyone questions your work decline blame it on a co-worker

― james (james), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

i am 40 yeah FORTY yrs old & i been posting here since i dunno, since ilxor.com started or a bit before that (can't remember)

― duane, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:20 (twenty-three years ago)

i mean i can't remember when ilxor.com started

― duane, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:21 (twenty-three years ago)

heh heh. we'll see how it goes.

― j0e (j0e), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Sarah - the distance between Cambridge & London is about an hour (ish). FAPs are usually during the week & I'd have to get drunk, but getting horribly drunk on a school nite can be a complete nitemare. (altho not impossible!!) Right, when's the next one in London, I'm getting the train and coming down!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:22 (twenty-three years ago)

24 in two weeks; first post here was in summer of 2001. Presence since then sporadic, but pretty regular and frequent for the last six months or so (ie; since I started a job where I can surf all day!). Not been to an FAP yet cos I live in Devon and it's oot thar weigh; one day I will organise a trip to Londinium and an FAP to match.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:23 (twenty-three years ago)

27, been posting here in one form or another since September last year. I was gonna give it all up once I started this here new job but my resolve is too weak....

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I have recently turned 22 for the 11th time. Har har, I mean, I'm 33. Yikes. I'm old and I've done nothing with my life. I have been posting here... jeez, basically since it started. Late 2000, I think?

I live with 2 ILX'ers. That's how engrained into my life it is. I will say nothing of hooking up. I know some has done it, but even attempting to do so was utterly fucking disasterous for me. :-(

― kate, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I am 25 next month (so yes, 24!!), live in London, soon transplanting to California, and I have been posting here for nearly 6 months. I have not met any ILX0rs, but I will this week :)

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:34 (twenty-three years ago)

PinkPanther - details here.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:35 (twenty-three years ago)

And Nick Southall - any chance you will come up to london in the next couple of months? I'd come to your FAP, but I'm leaving soon...

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:36 (twenty-three years ago)

28, been posting here and ilm for about a year and three months. I know no one on here. dan p. is closest to where i live.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:37 (twenty-three years ago)

oh and i have not hooked up with him.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

"i think". *searches*. ok it is only 2 yrs! good guess huh

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Matt - so is it this Saturday then?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

42, posting since early 2001, met c.40 ilxers irl (?), all now friends (i hope), which = a fantastic unexpected bonus*

*this is bcz when v.small and a (not but nearly founder) member of the puffin club i lived too far away from london to get to all the cool puffin club parties and outings :(

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

oh and i have not hooked up with him.

It's a wonderful image.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I will be 25 in June. Have been lurking for about a year, have been posting for about 2-3 months.

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

(like meeting spike milligan when he played ben gunn in treasure island)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm 22 and I've been here since the beginning, scarily.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

23, on ilx since dec 2000. i go to most london faps, and have done since late 2001.

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally by Usenet years I think you would be 30 or so by now. ;-)

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

My information is classified and cannot be revealed.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Skipping 196 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

I am a week younger than Jody Beth. I have been reading ILX since probably day one, and have been posting for a year and a half?

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Uggles... 19 years old, been posting ILM since last June, ILE since a few months later, as I originally thought it was called I Love Everything as a sort of pisstake.

Have met about 15 or 16 of the London ILX types, possibly meeting some of them again Thursday if I have money; also met Dom Passantino on a good few occasions (well, three), and went to uni with infrequent ILM type Ferg and edited the uni paper's music section with Dan Smith, who has posted to ILM twice, and quite liked the Avril remix someone linked to once.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I've never met an ilxor but if all goes well I should be in and around London from 26th to 29th May... So?

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:26 (twenty-three years ago)

hey nice one.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, and Christine - Ferg is a Brummie. I used to be before I messed up uni, but I may yet be again...

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

20 years old, been posting for 3 months, and i lurked a little before taking the plunge.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooh, Cozen, start a thread - we must FAP!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

31, since pre-ILX. Haven't met anyone on ILX in real life! The FAPs sound like fun, but I know from my personality & past experience that I do pretty miserably in those kinds of social situations...

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

There are Brummies, here, online? Wow!

I've thought about having a Brum FAP for a while now. I fancy a quiet drink out on my own, actually.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 20:30 (twenty-three years ago)

22, have made dozens of inconsequential posts on ILM and about 3 here, I like it very much but appreciate that geographical factors keep me in own little foot-and-mouth-esque-quarantine-area of my very own (south yorkshire). Besotted with about half a dozen people on here who have no idea i even exist. Reading thousands of archived threads at work all day keeps me occupied in a way that does not benefit the homeless people of rotherham, but so it goes.

― alexfack (alexfack), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 21:25 (twenty-three years ago)

um, to answer second-half of thread title, have posted HERE over last month or so, ILM maybe since last June.

― alexfack (alexfack), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Hi back to you. Funny how almost all posts to ILM seem inconsequential, huh?

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 23:56 (twenty-three years ago)

hi skittles! i'm 23 and i've been posting on ILE since july 2001. i eat indybois for breakfast. their bones get stuck in my teeth. i have met: ducklingmonster, hamish, spectra/haloist, maryann, duane, menelaus darcy, ess-kay, rainy, issadora, andrew, elisabeth, damian, gaz, B:Rad, ned, petrajane... um i think that covers them all. i haven't yet met clare but i will on friday night! i am saving up to go to the USA so i hope to meet lots more ilxers then!

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 00:27 (twenty-three years ago)

25, posting 366 days man (hey, my ILE birthday thread reached double figures! I am acknowledged by one or two people!). The only ilx0rs I have met are Lynskey and Celeste, as they are dear friends of mine

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 00:38 (twenty-three years ago)

15, since November

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 00:54 (twenty-three years ago)

28 and about a year and a half posting age. i have met (i think) seven ilX0rs. including the Nedster.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 01:23 (twenty-three years ago)

you've met me di? what was i like?

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 02:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm 23, and first posted about a year ago, but was very sporadic with my posts until maybe 2 months ago. I've met a bunch of people who post, but most of them I knew already via Sinister......

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 04:55 (twenty-three years ago)

i am 22 and found ilm in march 2002, ile a bit later. i have met ned, toraneko, esoj, trayce, tim f, keith mcd and semi-lurker michael stuchberry. i have also talked on the phone to andrew but for some bizarre reason i referred to myself as keith in that conversation.

― minna (minna), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 05:19 (twenty-three years ago)

i should have met up with all you melbourne people when i was there... like for 7 weeks, i was in m-town... damn

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 05:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I am 32, I've been here about a year. I live in London and I've almost been to a FAP.

― Alfie (Alfie), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 10:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I’m 25 in a week, and only started posting on ILE after I changed my login name from the moniker I used on ILM, which I first discovered around July 2002. I don’t know and have never met anyone on these boards. :(

― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 11:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Di, you should come to England instead, London in fact!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)

29 years old. As many of the ILXors I was born in the year 1973. I can't remembah when I started posting here, about two years ago? Dunno. I met a few ILXors.

― nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 12:00 (twenty-three years ago)

19. I've been posting here for a while, at least since the boards were on Greenspun.

Minna, let me tell you, at that moment I felt more attracted to Keith than ever before.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:02 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, cozen start a thread closer to the time!

and yeah, I agree with Martin a few posts up.

I've met loads of ilxors. Don't think I'll be at tomorrow's FAP, coz it's May Day and I don't fancy travelling to town in case the tube and all that is disrupted. < /wuss>

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

theres a fap tomorrow? i might go, where is it?

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:19 (twenty-three years ago)

it's at the karaoke place!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:20 (twenty-three years ago)

here's the details: Can we have a London Karaoke FAP in, say, a couple of weeks?

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:22 (twenty-three years ago)

cozen, you don't need to meet anyone from ILx.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

31, been posting on and off for about a year, def. posting much more the past few months. Have yet to meet anyone else on the board.

― H (Heruy), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

RJG, I know.

― Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

a) 36.
b) Posting for about six months? I'd have to check to confirm.
c) I've met/hung out with Douglas, Jen Nstop, J0hn D and a few others.
d) Never hooked up with an ILXer - already married, thanks.

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

gaz if i didn't meet you then i am referring to the other gaz.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I met you many years ago, mike. I keep forgetting to bring it up, tho.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:47 (twenty-three years ago)

20, posting since the beginning (late-ish 2000, I think?)

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 1 May 2003 01:02 (twenty-three years ago)

23, shocked to realize I've been posting since October, I think. Blame Carey.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 1 May 2003 01:14 (twenty-three years ago)

23, posting (or not) just over a year I think, met the Aucklanders and occasional visitors, love Philip Roth and stochastic calculus.

― b.R.A.d. (Brad), Thursday, 1 May 2003 01:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm 27. I've been reading ILM for about a year, been posting to ILE since December. I'm not sure if this makes me "nu-ILE" or not.

Oh, and I've met a handful of you folks, but oddly enough I probably would have met most of the people I've met anyway (and indeed met a few of them before coming here, and had heard of others' reputations).

Hopefully I'll meet some of the Canadians in a few months. We'll see.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 1 May 2003 01:55 (twenty-three years ago)

mid-to-late 20s (too old); several months (too long)

― boutros boutros gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 1 May 2003 02:15 (twenty-three years ago)

39, found this site about 9 months ago, becoming more and more of a lurker lately :-(

― donna (donna), Thursday, 1 May 2003 06:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Brad, a former boss of mine did maths at Cambridge, many years ago (as did I, but that's another story). He had a conversation with one friend of his who clearly believed that everyone was at least familiar with the basic principles of stochastic calculus. They took him to the local Tesco and asked the first assistant they found. She was unfamiliar with stochastic calculus, you'll be astonished to hear. This guy was convinced that she was lying, and that his friends had probably gone there in advance and bribed her to lie to him.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:25 (twenty-three years ago)

donna lurk less!! (i miss yr posts) :(

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:56 (twenty-three years ago)

She's not a tame lion, Mark!

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

*invokes tash the terrible and directs him toward's nicole's place of work*

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Nicole as Lucy and Mark S as Mr. Tumnus in Narnia 2: Electric Boogaloo.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:16 (twenty-three years ago)

n and donna must post more.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I feel so young. I'm only 18.

― babsbunny, Thursday, 1 May 2003 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Thirty. Can't remember exactly how long I've been posting (a few months, slightly more frequently recently), but have been lurking since Madchen came to stay at my house last year and left ILE bookmarked on my computer. All the IlXors I have met, I have known longer than I have known about ILX.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Getting on for 35. Been here for just over six months.

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 2 May 2003 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

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