What have you learnt from ilx?

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Among many other things, I've learnt that American toilet paper is less strong than UK toilet paper because Americans wipe differently. Also countless books and music and things like that. What stands out for you?

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 26 November 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

well, ilx wasn't exactly the place i "learnt" it, more like a place that confirmed this embryonic vague doubt i already had -- that the world is indeed samll, and - in a few peculiar aspects - positively flat.

...oh yes, also that other thing -- that russians love their children too.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 26 November 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I learned how to love again.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 26 November 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

OTM stand for on the money, rather than over the moon

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 26 November 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

And oblique tit monkey.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 26 November 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i learnt my first HTML skills when I arrived here. i stuck around, and learnt heaps of other stuff from a bunch of decent guys and gals.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 26 November 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I learned about the brilliance of Scritti Politti

― lukey (Lukey G), Friday, 26 November 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I learned about the spirit of Christmas.

No-one learned enough about Dunnocks, though.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 26 November 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

On a similarly scatalogical note as Beanz, I learned that people wipe in different way - even within my own family. I would have expected siblings, at least, to develop similar techniques when toilet trained. Thank you ILX.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 26 November 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

What have you learnt from ilx?

teh intranet sucks.

― %#, Friday, 26 November 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

intranet's do generally suck, unless properly maintained, with the appropriate meta-data.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

DISCO INFERNO DISCO INFERNO. Also really shoddy html.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Things learnt:

* I'm easily distracted
* The use of the little side pocket on jeans
* Ideas require follow through
* People are okay, generally

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I have learned that INTERWEB = MENTALISM. Also (gestures vaguely) some other stuff.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, plus, I learned about Marissa Marchant.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

haha

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Things learnt:

* I'm not sure if I feel comfortable with discovering too many people liking the same things as I do, a few people is okay mind. I always have a sense of relief when my nominations don't score too highly in those top 100 etc lists, and finding that I don't particularly like the winning choices. Oh dear. I might've known this already.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I know why digital radio is that little bit slower on the uptake than normal radio. I have yet to learn how to use this to my advantage.

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I learned to love Canadians

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Marge my friend, I haven't learned a thing.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 26 November 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Dunnocks are Britains most underated garden bird.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 26 November 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

C on T's

― Steve.n. (sjkirk), Friday, 26 November 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

It's all about teh funny.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 26 November 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Alternately: it's all about teh sexing.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 26 November 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I learned that politics are still silly. Especially on ILX forums.

― Spinktor, Friday, 26 November 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Questioning peoples' musical tastes is best left to the British, or at least pepople who use words like "dire" or "rubbish" as often as possible.

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Friday, 26 November 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I still dont understand the terms "big up" and "(insert noun) Massive".

― Spinktor, Friday, 26 November 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I learned that I'm much happier staying away from anything ILX-related

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"pepople"!

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I learned to love Pitchfork.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Dom, r u speaking metaphore? or hyperbole, rather?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Some learned from ilx, others simply reinforced:

- that there is hope for the written word

- that people I don't know are funnier than the people I do

- that many things that are important to others will remain a mystery to me

- that insularity and herd mentality are inevitable even in relatively anonymous 'communities'

- that only the most dilligent, skillful and careful writers can make a point without someone misinterpreting it or seeing it as a basis for judging that person as a whole

- that the world is massive and I'm missing out on a shitload of fun and interesting things to do and see

- that racial/religious/national prejudice is alive and well

- that I'm not alone in having a fucked up bunch of conflicting values

- that many people hold extreme views about issues that don't directly affect them

- that I'm less willing to have my opinion changed than I thought I was

- lots of good music, reading, cooking and travel tips

Note: many of the general negative aspects above apply as much to me as anyone else. I'm not having a go.

- oh, and "fuck washing a hat"

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

# Why are "pocket pussies" considered so pathetic while dildos aren't? (6 new answers, 520 total, last at 10:59 pm)
# What have you learnt from ilx? (31 new answers, last at 10:53 pm)

eg.

iwhy digital radio is that little bit slower on the uptake than normal radio
hey is there a DAB thread? i wanted to start soemthing about that

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 26 November 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

- that, as in the the wider world, people are much more likely to react than reflect, and that this results in massive amounts of bullshit rather than constructive efforts at change

- that rememberances of threads of ally's ass past will make me smile always, whereas the latest thread relating to a region/class/media-based experience will make me vmoit and wonder why Ossama hasn't done more during the off-peak TV season

- that if all the energy spent on ascertaining which threads were or weren't work safe was spent on doing work, people could get home sooner to spend their own spare time looking at whatever they wanted

- that there are great minds and great asses out there and, in the case of ally and anthony, the two have united, thus casting Decartes' dualism into the abyss

― Queen Gynocology was not my 1st preference, Saturday, 27 November 2004 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i learned that i am awesome.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 27 November 2004 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Then you learned nothing.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I, for one, learned that I am lame, very lame, but that some people like me anyway.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)

if that happened, then i learned the true meaning of ilx.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 27 November 2004 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)

You dont like us very much tonight.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

aw. i am in the least hateful mood ever. how could i hate the world, especially if i saw britt daniel of spoon perform earlier and then chat it up with a hot guy at an afterparty? right now im feeling easy breezy, elo-production style.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 27 November 2004 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

you're not lame, kenan!!!

― Slocki McDougal (jaymc), Saturday, 27 November 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

There's another thing I've learned -- assuming that I am lame, to a certain degree, makes me cooler.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 07:28 (twenty-one years ago)

...Beacuse it's true! I am lame, to a certain degree! Everybody is!

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 07:30 (twenty-one years ago)

oh. hmmmm.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Saturday, 27 November 2004 07:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Every time you do that "hmmmm" thing, I'm reminded of Rorschach in Watchmen, with his "hrmmmm." And I am frightened.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I've been doing it a lot lately, huh? I haven't read Watchmen, though.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Saturday, 27 November 2004 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I like it, though. It's so totally meaningless / open to interpretation. It's a good response to anything.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 07:45 (twenty-one years ago)

It's like, you're curious, but noncommittal.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i have learned i like kenan lame.

― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Kenan with teeth is way more lame, I agree.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

hrmmm

― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i learned there are loadsa people who like shit i never met anyone that liked before and that i liked.

― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:29 (twenty-one years ago)

take a deep breath and try that sentence again.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, i got lost halfway.

― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

no, really, have another run at it. I think it might have been a compliment.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

ok i meant: kenan: i want to fuck you

― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

You may not after you see my ass.

http://www.goatse.cx

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i meant: some of my enthusiasms had been in isolation for many years until...ilx.

― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

wait... you really do want to fuck me? We may need to have a chat.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)

not now.

― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I learned Nico was a white noise supremacist and thus learned not to dig too deep into the lives of admired artists. I've learned to hew closer to untainted family fare like Prussian Blue to avoid such disappointments.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 27 November 2004 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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