trenchant social commentary 2

The fact that no one has even bothered to mention the name of the victimized celebrity across 30 posts, because it is assumed you know all about it already, is a commentary in itself.

― Aimless, Monday, 1 September 2014 19:36 (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

30 years ago a nude celebrity would kick a ball on the street.

It was a glorious time to be alive.

he was just trying to trick everyone into spilling the beans

The people who read the Daily Express are the people who believe the bigoted, prejudiced, anti-everything attitude it foists on it's readers. It is the same as all tabloids in that rather than make it's readers think about things or challenge their ideas, it just writes what they know their readership already think and believe.

― Oliver R Tones, Thursday, 23 October 2003 12:58 (10 years ago)

low hanging fruit

true
just a nice lil slice of olde ilx, a simpler time

a cracking slice even

slicey wicey

Corporations are people, my friend. You can even follow them on facebook.

― Aimless, Saturday, September 13, 2014 5:54 PM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry; had to

(struggles to rise above it all)

(does not succeed)

False modesty

honestly, it was done with reluctant duty rather than vindictive glee

ask yourself who is really holding the selfie stick

- you or the phone?

― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, October 1, 2014 12:50 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

this thread needs more (relevant) posts

get cracking!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32863603/Screenshot%202014-10-05%2020.22.46.png

(A poll about modern life)

the couple are in different continents and the only way they can keep in touch with each other is via the internet, score one for technology

^ ungrammatical conclusion

nah they are taking a photo of a projection of both their screens imo

[77 content]

wd have posted that here myself if it wasn't 77 ;)

I think willingness to marry a conservative guy is probably the red flag there, not decision to get married.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/WidowOfDestiny/Jiggle_Panda.gifhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/WidowOfDestiny/Jiggle_Panda.gif

The most pejorative word in my lexicon is 'dickcheney'.
― Momus (Momus), Monday, February 10, 2003 2:06 PM (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

From a vintage thread called "dickhead as pejorative"

one of the scarier things about the internet is it allows people to grow up in an environment where actions don't have consequences

― ciderpress, Thursday, October 23, 2014 11:21 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i aspire to have all my posts pasted to this thread and similar ones

(that one can probably go to posts very much in character)

http://mashable.com/2014/10/27/death-of-a-conversation-photography/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link

Romero says he is not entirely averse to technology, however, thinks "people are starting to derive more pleasure from their 'computer cuddles' than from their person to person interactions."

I'll be so happy when we evolve beyond physical interactions so people will quit bemoaning the inevitable death of it and just accept their fate.

OK let's entertain for entertainment the fact that her "Music should not be free" stern balled editorial wasn't corporate shilling and just the regular blazayblah opinion probably most people on the street might have if you pressed them on this subject of i.p rights and internet downloads that they don't often think about and have never dl'd a song for free in their life. Let's also ignore, for the moment, the fact she's from a rich family a stock broker father and Merril Lynch financial wealth management adviser of millions of dollars. Let's also ignore, for a second, that generation of her grandfathers are banking presidents. Let's also put aside the fact Taylor's parents have been shaping and controlling and market managing her pop career since she was 14, setting up merchendising companies in her name, alienating people with that alleged arrogance and 'pay as little as possible and treat people like shit' attitude.

Let's put all that aside for a brief moment and reconsider her assertion: "It's my opinion that music should not be free".

And remind ourselves: She's only worth $200 million, guys. She only made $120 million on her last tour. We shouldn't forget that. She's only 24. People at 24 with only hundreds of millions in the bank and millions of adoring merchandise wearing fans can only be asked to give so much. I mean come on, her New York penthouse was only bought for $20 million, how do you expect her to keep up this lifestyle? Music should not be free. Music should not be free. It is my opinion that music should not be free.

― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, November 5, 2014 4:30 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Never Coming to a Cinema Near You - Arthouse Cinema 2014 [Started by Frederik B in February 2014, last updated 1 minute ago by Frederik B] 1 new answer
Interstellar: Nolan, McConaughey [Started by That's So (Eazy) in May 2014, last updated 6 minutes ago by da croupier] 68 new answers

NSFW

Hey, Tom - do you mean "written tics" outside of obvious grammatical errors and poor spelling? (I loved those 3rd-grade-level e-mails I used to get asking if I was selling Dave Matthews Band tickets. I felt like I was in a hi-tech version of Fast Times - "No, I DON'T have any Blue Oyster Cult!")

I've always chafed against constant use of those damn emoticons. You know - ;), :), :P, %). Once in a while, okey dokey. Fifteen times in the same "conversation", I'm about to go alkdjfalkj.

Origin of such things (i.e. "Two words:", "Can you say...") - television. Bane of our existance. Glass tit. Sweet oblivion.

― David Raposa, Wednesday, June 13, 2001 1:00 AM (13 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

okey dokey

David Raposa was an absolutely classic poster and I shall hear no ill spoken of him

yeah it's pretty standard from-the-vaults type stuff & I was was only gonna include the last paragraph as the tsc part but stuff like "okey dokey" adds so much to the experience, also hints of cunty spelling & grammar nazism followed swiftly by "those blasted emoticons" followed by "existance" is just like, take a bow whoever you are

xp I'm sure you're right

it was a different time

http://i.imgur.com/ZDyMWHj.png

I don't know if I can make it through this article

http://i.imgur.com/kL6umQG.jpg

Elite Daily

unconvinced that any mode of meeting people is inherently more ~real than any other, real is what u make of it

― lex pretend, Monday, December 15, 2014 11:56 AM (5 hours ago)

so annoying

~ next time

lol matt

Sure, I get that about automation and fragility and buying parts - but the espresso people are less "buy a receiver at the pawn shop" and more "my diamond-encrusted cable really allows me to HEAR this section of Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' for the first time."

Mostly no. The difference between the espresso you get out of a top-quality commercial machine like a La Marzocco and out of a substandard quality home machine is enormous. There are pricey but not insanely pricey home machines where you can get pretty close to the Marzocco quality with the right technique. And certain factors in making espresso are pretty well-established -- pressure, temperature, grind, tamping (not to speak of the beans themselves). The best machines are simply able to produce the appropriate pressure and temperature consistently, which is surprisingly difficult. Other bells and whistles can make a difference -- the bottomless portafilter, for example, but there's a pretty commonsense reason for that one -- in a normal portafilter oils from the coffee build up and are hard to clean away. The bottomless portafilter simply eliminates that problem.

― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, February 4, 2015 9:35 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

meanwhile

http://www.unicefusa.org/press/releases/unicef-too-many-children-dying-malnutrition/8259

― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, February 4, 2015 9:48 AM (5 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf that "meanwhile" could've linked to a local news story about a flatulent dog and the contrast would not have been lost

lol just came here to post that

dog might have been flatulent due to inefficiently made coffee tho

a new use for the tamper really

"I don't like mayonnaise on my sandwiches, only mustard"

meanwhile

http://www.unicefusa.org/press/releases/unicef-too-many-children-dying-malnutrition/8259

oy amateurist

going to post that link after every amateurist film crit post

should be forced to change dn to that link

So the idea is that if someone is derisively called "politically correct" presumably because they are unnecessarily touchy about things. This displays a lack of self-awareness because if you are upset about someone being PC then you are being unnecessarily touchy imo.

― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, February 13, 2015 2:02 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

http://djconnectiontulsa.com/imgUL/doublestuff2007.jpg

As grotesque as fox news is, they are not the root of any of the issues we face

― primal, intuitive, and relatively unmediated (Treeship),

Actually, they are. Manufactured Consent. Chomsky. Get into it ya'll.

― Arctic Noon Auk, Wednesday, April 1, 2015 9:19 AM (21 seconds ago) Bookmark

i want to believe

probably safe to just credit every American song ever written to "anonymous black guy"

― Οὖτις, Friday, April 10, 2015 12:48 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

anonymous black guy's early stuff was better imo

http://i.imgur.com/bzLN9bL.jpg

Rolling Obituary Thread: 2015

Sports writing is and always will be terrible, because sports contests are extremely rule-bound and essentially near duplicates of one another in everything but the outcome of each contest. All the possible stories have been written hundreds of thousands of times. Consequently, sports writers are stuck in horrible dead end jobs they often become wretched unhappy people.

― Aimless, Thursday, May 7, 2015 10:01 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"No more unreleased material in the archives, folks, but here's a vintage recording of John Lennon laying down a shit on his toilet at Tittenhurst Park circa 1971"

"*gasps* Oh my god, such genius! What a musical colon! BEST BAND EVAAAAAAA! MUSIC HAS NOT BEEN IMPROVED SINCE THE '70s!!!11!!"

― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Wednesday, June 3, 2015 3:49 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They just need to dig up the Bible verse where Jesus says it's ok to hate people and mess up your home if there's money in it.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, June 29, 2015 3:30 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That would require actually reading the Bible, it's way easier just to not read it and carry on being human garbage.

― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, June 29, 2015 3:31 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

let's be real here: fuck 'merit'.

― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins),

BB otm, 'distinction' or gtfo

yay!

I remember
when we used to sit
in the government yard in trenchanttown
oba-oba-serving the hypocrites
as they would mingle with the good people we meet

If a thing happens and isn't shared, did it really happen?

― calstars, Sunday, July 5, 2015 4:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that is a st. vincent lyric tbf

http://i.imgur.com/Qeuajx0.jpg

the dumbest philosophical thought made even dumber

wat if someone comes later in the wodds & the tree is lieing on ground

This thread is for reposts, not originals

Is that on a koozie?

http://i.imgur.com/vCblGIh.jpg

cool tablet w the headboard going thru the middle of it

you wdn't really need bedside lamps with the illumination coming off that thing

*wakes up*

xpost yes it's quite similar to st. vincent lyrics, saw her pull it off live recently but it's not good reading material. arcade fire's worse though imo:

We're so connected
but are we even friends?
We fell in love when I was 19
and now we're staring at a screen

sounds like a fucking parish priest sermon circa 1990 except it was instant coffee he was bemoaning - "there is no instant faith!"

No glare for the guy who's trying to sleep, looks good.

http://i.imgur.com/i8LURjg.jpg

that is almost awe-inspiringly bad

dayo's next wdyll a bathroom selfie w/ carrots obv

more hott chix w fresh produce pls

what are the odds you look like david wolfe but with glasses

http://i.imgur.com/PJA1X0Q.jpg

no tablets, unreaistic.

Can someone help me figure out which mental illness these shooters suffer from?

I think 'America' might be the answer you're looking for.

― Herbie Mann's Push Push Pops (Old Lunch), Thursday, August 27, 2015 2:47 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like if you were a remote controlled robot kicking a laser guided ball into an open goal the size of the universe tbh

Great contribution to the thread, thank you.

I'm now imagining an actual hive filled with the buzzing of hipsters.

― The only "doors" I care about are the ones I show to Doors fanatics (Turrican), Thursday, August 27, 2015 7:50 PM (16 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what thread?

wow he changed his display name!!!

http://i.imgur.com/RdxjCg9.jpg

this one has to be taking the piss right? like it's a parody?

the family pictures are a nice touch

that one is a real bummer

having a nice comfy armchair for an arse would be pretty sweet imo

fuckin harsh the week he scores a hattrick in Europe I thought

"It is what it is."

Most cases citing 14th Amendment have been in favor of corporate rights (after all corporations are people and need those rights) rather than it's original intended use.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, September 1, 2015 8:28 AM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

adam is the king of the trench

Yeah it's pretty much cheating to paste AB itt at this point

livin that trenchant life

nintrencho power

lol

took that parenthetical at face value

Hah do i get a trophy?

[http://www.bbb.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/trophy.jpg

That was a dumb thing to write. If you are going to use my 8am no coffee post for a research paper I recommend not doing so.

are you…no use to anybody…before your first coffee

Well i decided to quit and today is the first day w no coffee.

Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau) wrote this on thread US POLITICS SUMMER 2011: The Rise of Neo-Gabbnebism on board I Love Everything on Sep 12, 2011

I mean that I don't really know what those who oppose the GOP want as a replacement, and why. Like, I think it's not some single thing, & that a main cause of the discord & disorganization of the Left is that. Like, GOP voters love war & giving rich people more money, because they love (what they take to be an important kind of) freedom. What's the equivalent on the Left?

End the wars for eff's sake, they are what got us in 9/11 in the first place, and frankly, I'm a little bit worried that if i do have kids, in 20 years they may be blown up by someone in Iraq who's entire family we killed today.

Secondly, actually do something for the environment. See, this is where Obama loves rich people (corporations are people, right?) just as much as you think GOP voters do. Leave the "Oh it's bad for business/not politically possible" smokescreen back home. There are plenty of registered voters who love the environment and would love for some positive steps to be taken.

Guy says thing twice in four years. Hot take!

That was a dumb thing to write. If you are going to use my 8am no coffee post for a research paper I recommend not doing so.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, September 1, 2015 6:18 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are you…no use to anybody…before your first coffee

― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Tuesday, September 1, 2015 6:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

louie

you cad

Guy says thing twice in four years. Hot take!

― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Tuesday, September 1, 2015 2:19 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah I know. In my mind he was the guy who was always saying "Corporations are people, my friend," and when search didn't pan out I was already attached to the idea.

have some coffee

That was a dumb thing to write. If you are going to use my 8am no coffee post for a research paper I recommend not doing so.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, September 1, 2015 6:18 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are you…no use to anybody…before your first coffee

― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Tuesday, September 1, 2015 6:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

louie

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, September 1, 2015 1:30 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i lold

lol

Ahhhh! It's a cookbook! IT'S A COOKBOOK!

http://i.imgur.com/5VHO0wq.jpg

obviously, being trenchanted doesn't preclude being correct.

obviously, being trenchanted doesn't preclude being correct.

― called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, September 1, 2015 9:34 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

being my friend does not preclude corporations actually are people

if the Utah Jazz are people, then surely corporations are people

should ask Karl Malone

ASK KARL MALONE

http://i.imgur.com/GLL7IO8.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribadism

http://www.cagle.com/2014/04/blood-moon/

assuming yrs

only two ppl left from the 19th century, unreg is antsy and i don't blame him

I admit nothing

(but tbh I am still shocked and stunned at the recent passing of anonymous Tokyo resident)

I challenge any of you, then, to accuse me of being a failure in this artificial civilization of yours. For it is beyond dispute that I have played your petty game, and I have won.

Even if Russia has bombed a token ISIS site or two it's obvious that their main actions have been against non-ISIS rebels, including probably US-sponsored groups.

― Mordy, Thursday, October 1, 2015 8:39 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

afaik, they haven't bombed any hospitals yet. Moral ground ceded and no mistake.

― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, October 3, 2015 1:12 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Four Russian cruise missiles fired at Syria from the Caspian Sea landed in Iran, unnamed US officials say.

Any of them land on a hospital?

― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Thursday, October 8, 2015 3:55 PM (56 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was gonna let it go once, but when he did it again I had to trench that.

War on two fronts :)

it's a problem because old white male assholes more or less like me (though not, necessarily, me personally, hell, i don't even have a lawn) run this world. look, my capacity for personal insight is somewhat limited. i don't know why people like me are how we are.

― rushomancy, Thursday, October 8, 2015 2:58 PM (2 hours ago)

"Me head's up me arse. Not sure how it got there, but I'm sure this is me arse."

rushomancy = Sir Charms?

http://qz.com/523746/a-photographer-edits-out-our-smartphones-to-show-our-strange-and-lonely-new-world/

powerful

a photographer edits out our cars for the lulz

i'm gonna edit qz... out of my life!!

Our strange and lonely new world could be a lot cooler if we'd just

Bait My Clickhole

a photographer staged these photos of people pretending to hold smartphones

to show our strange and lonely mime world.

http://www.skepticmoney.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Mime-Artist-Richard-Knight-II.jpg

Pick an album from 2016

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kamil-kotarba-hide-and-seek_56434e30e4b0603773471329?utm_hp_ref=arts

http://i.imgur.com/AFgz9CG.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Fs7M1Wu.jpg

these phone ones are so good

saw another set of this garbage earlier, might as well treat this thread like a rolling document of them

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpl1/v/t1.0-9/12241438_10154267066459186_595620072853016755_n.jpg?oh=06129430cbdd607bcf42625d39ebdbbe&oe=56F72657

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/12241484_10154267066469186_1469518789182669182_n.jpg?oh=2f739849061799c2f2227f84155c56da&oe=56F99E7C

Boards of Canada covers really stuck in a rut now

lol @ the one that's just smartphones with hands, makes ya think

"10 photos of people reading books expose the way we live now"

the hands/phones only one might be funny if it just had the phones floating around without even hands attached.

the acting on the faces in that is priceless. kind of want a video version

A photographer edits the smartphones out of these disembodied hands

https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156319800175078&id=604360077

Cracking slice of trenchant memesis

Sorry, this page isn't available

The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed.

https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/657615079144337409/photo/1

link works fine for me xp

Maybe either you or whoever posted that have some security protection turned on. (Doesn't work for me.)

Weird - I'm logged out and that person's status is public. Anyway, they were linking to this

http://i.imgur.com/NQBRojo.jpg

https://media.giphy.com/media/3o6UB6xM9d9IjtsW4g/giphy.gif

obey the internet of false idols

one of my fb friends just posted that

I'll consume dat ass

http://www.hey-world.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/1003596_904908252956799_8834923152791766589_n.jpg

http://www.hey-world.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/12523043_904908292956795_3270412577806020395_n.jpg

http://www.hey-world.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/934084_904908329623458_5404410309894878718_n.jpg

http://www.hey-world.fr/disney-vs-notre-monde/

hey-world.fr

https://twitter.com/EwartRoyale/status/687572211247497216

trenchant needs no commentary

kids r so dum!!!1111

how dare they not look at that great painting "standing men" by famous old painter dude

and that guy is super smart, appreciates great achievements in history for sure, i bet his house or apartment is kewl, he retweeted banksy, hmmmm, think i'll follow him. NOT

Let's do the TimEwart again

Does TimEwart realize that the brilliant picture he cites was probably taken by someone holding a smartphone?

scanners.gif

https://twitter.com/EwartRoyale/status/682174184106135552

Aw, hope this makes #owl feel better.

http://i.imgur.com/msCu1Ql.jpg

Look at these little shits, listening to rock music while checking out the fancy paintings.

http://i.imgur.com/JXdh33j.jpg

Enough said!!! ��😂��

i've gone in on Ewart, couldn't help meself

ha my nan actually did express her annoyance at all the people on the SS Great Britain listening to their headphones from the 1990s

ultimately i just don't care about celebrities. i don't find them interesting in and of themselves. like at all.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, January 17, 2016 4:38 PM (16 minutes ago)

The defending champ

adam bruneau looks upon this empty society

http://i.imgur.com/avZf09U.gif

please your platitudes mean nothing to me

Let's play a song game mixed up with the latest news. I'll start...

The Royal Scam (my bitch wife's story about me strangling her with my scarf)
Pretzel Logic (my dumbass wife's way of thinking before i knock some sense into her)
Do It Again (beat her with my boot)

Anyone else?

― larry appleton, Tuesday, January 19, 2016 9:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mmmm yes, but the art

― larry appleton, Tuesday, January 19, 2016 9:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mmmm yes, but the fart

ah mmmm yes delightful

www.ilxor.com

http://flavorwire.com/557389/an-argentinian-artists-staged-perfect-insta-life-fools-her-followers/2

http://i.imgur.com/7zELvVx.jpg

wake up sheeple

crossref w/ battle jackets thread on ILM

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/12644835_564526407029021_961083407605529006_n.jpg?oh=fc08ad0c24255f03e0f1e7173b4128ab&oe=57350331

https://unicefstories.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/the-matrix-red-pill-or-blue-pill.jpg

https://www.facebook.com/events/1684753391807202/

“BEYOND THE EYES” is born from an idea by Valentina & Riccardo.

The reason why we started taking photographs of our closest friends was to intentionally put them in a playful and spontaneous mood to see what clothes they were willing to remove.The intention was to bring out of them a potential erotic energy that they didn’t think and or feel they had. We fall in love with human bodies because of how fragile they are and because of their marvelous authenticity. We feel that the act of admitting to oneself in a quiet way that one can be at any moment turned on by even the boyfriends and or girlfriends of one’s closest
friends is one of the most dignified expressions of the mystery of this universe. Without physically making love to our subjects, it is our necessity to create a desire of gentle lovemaking for the spectator of our images. In each one of us there is a space which is timeless; a space that can allow us at any moment to completely fall in love with whatever object or being we have in front of us. This is a space we either deny ourselves through predictable concept of what is right and what is wrong. So often we cover up these feelings of wan-
ting to make love in the gentlest way possible with a perfect stranger and or a close friend. Reconnecting with our inner dreamy timelessness can be a way of fighting against the alienation brought about by imposed conditioning and preconceptions.
We find ourselves disgusted by women who express their sense of femininity with a maniacal and vulgar precision. Our muses are women with a profound sense of eroticism void of excessive jewelry and make up and flashy product placement. We adore when a woman wears a pair of jeans, a t-shirt, and without uncomfortable heels. We are fascinated by the duality of the human being. Lately, humans have lost the habit and or pleasure of observing. Our photographs need to express a sort
of nostalgia of getting lost in others without the need to constantly cover everything up with the simple gesture of obsessively controlling cellular telephones. It saddens us that seduction keeps becoming more and more vulgar. We feel that fashion is a lovely source of inspiration, thou-
gh we personally prefer to photograph friends. Models have the habit or necessity to create predictable machine like poses which make us feel uncomfortable. Perhaps this all has to do with dedicating too much time on our cell phones. Perhaps it could help to give oneself the time and space to observe whatever we have in front of us for the sake of allowing ourselves to fall completely in love in any moment of life. Float.

thinking this might be the most contemptible art exhibition blurb I've ever read

depends, if the subjects are 5 it cd be funny

Xref to lewis Carroll thread

http://i.imgur.com/WygwBvn.jpg

https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/i-can't-draw-hands

Doesnt know how syringes work

When people have no drawing talent they always make everything look phallic.

i, too, see 7 dicks in that photo

https://twitter.com/sam_kriss/status/696527888917594112

Trump isn't racist at all. He encourages people to immigrate to the US legally so that they can clean the rooms in his fabulous hotels.

― maybe my clam is just more toxic (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 16 February 2016 19:33 (23 seconds ago) Permalink

https://56.media.tumblr.com/cf9921f618870d0496121ec6c5599bb9/tumblr_o2qfd7N1S21qhictgo1_1280.jpg

extra points for apple poo emoji

shd be jesus's arm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stephen-hawking-capitalism-robots_us_5616c20ce4b0dbb8000d9f15

does that really belong here??

No the content doesn't, but the headline just sounds trenchant as written.

by which I mean it could be the headline for an onion article in which Hawking is being uncharacteristically trenchant to a humorous degree. and it struck me that way in the context of a news aggregator.

oh yeah that's fair

you can try thinking for yourself

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, May 17, 2016 3:14 PM (7 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Dammmmmmmnnnnnnnnnn

Well, as we're talking about a woman, Sanders supporters are probably threatening to euthanize her as we speak.

― Frederik B, Wednesday, May 18, 2016 6:15 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CcLiq3cWwAEu9ww.jpg

unpleasant truths guy gets "friendzoned" a lot I bet

wait, what if the comforting lies guy is lying with his sign too?

maybe his line is so long because word got around that he actually has useful advice

no, unpleasant truths guy made both signs to avoid this problem

(though you will probably ignore the unpleasant truth of that post, too)

me irl

http://i.imgur.com/VTJ3qcI.jpg

Marketing anything as unpleasant is probably a mistake.

Comforting lies guy has to work overtime and he's not even getting paid by the looks of it. Unpleasant truth guy basically gets to read blogs at his desk all day.
Maybe he should've worn a tie idk

but one is lying on his tax form thereby increasing earnings

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

unpleasant truths guy gets "friendzoned" a lot I bet

― www.ramenclassaction.com (man alive), Wednesday, May 18, 2016 8:50 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/67/e2/41/67e2417ec26157eb0526a143758a847b.jpg

that's a lot of jogging

tie in twitter account https://twitter.com/kurtmarkoneill

279 bloops
364 blorps

that's an average of over 3km of jogging per day over a lifetime. If I managed to do that I would totally want it to go on my tombstone.

what Clinton says hasn't necessarily got fuck to do with fuck. There she and her friend Don have common ground.
I'm not saying there aren't areas where he wouldn't be more damaging than she would be.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, May 24, 2016 6:03 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cool you think Trump is better than Hillary tell me more of your insights do you have a newsletter

xp

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, May 24, 2016 5:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

zzz / *jerk off hand motion* at all the hot aired grandstanding and PEOPLE JUST DONT CARE ABOUT BEING A GOOD PERSON IN THIS SPCIETY ANYMORE trenchant social commentary itt. this war off attrition between two rich dudes with differentially deep pockets was a darkly hilarious twist to a morally queasy trial and raises some thorny questions about what freedom of the press /really means/ *takes bongrip* but do we have to go full guy-seated-next-to-hot-girl-in-polisci-101 with the DEMOCRACYS OVER THE RICH WON BECAUSE WE DIDNT CONFISCATE GUY WHO OWNS 10% OF FACEBOOKS WEALTH?? we're all 40 y/o old dads here

― de l'asshole (flopson), Friday, 27 May 2016 06:03 (1 minute ago) Permalink

zzz / *jerk off hand motion* at all the hot aired grandstanding and PEOPLE JUST DONT CARE ABOUT BEING A GOOD PERSON IN THIS SPCIETY ANYMORE trenchant social commentary itt. this war off attrition between two rich dudes with differentially deep pockets was a darkly hilarious twist to a morally queasy trial and raises some thorny questions about what freedom of the press /really means/ *takes bongrip* but do we have to go full guy-seated-next-to-hot-girl-in-polisci-101 with the DEMOCRACYS OVER THE RICH WON BECAUSE WE DIDNT CONFISCATE GUY WHO OWNS 10% OF FACEBOOKS WEALTH?? we're all 40 y/o old dads here

― de l'asshole (flopson), Friday, 27 May 2016 06:03 (2 minute ago) Permalink

shit i thot zing ate that post $$taks bongrip$$

posts you had second thought about posting twice - put them here

i was trying to figure out what a "bon-grip" was for a while there

The AR-15 is rapidly becoming the shining symbol of our glorious freedom to go on a killing rampage against anyone we don't like, including whoever is standing next to them.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, June 14, 2016 2:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just need more good guys with AR 15s out there to stop them

― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, June 14, 2016 3:28 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/43087620460/i-was-reading-a-book-about-interjections-oddly

I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday which included the phrase “In these days of political correctness…” talking about no longer making jokes that denigrated people for their culture or for the colour of their skin. And I thought, “That’s not actually anything to do with ‘political correctness’. That’s just treating other people with respect.”

Which made me oddly happy. I started imagining a world in which we replaced the phrase “politically correct” wherever we could with “treating other people with respect”, and it made me smile.

You should try it. It’s peculiarly enlightening.

I know what you’re thinking now. You’re thinking “Oh my god, that’s treating other people with respect gone mad!”

Happy Valentine’s Day.

that seems less trenchant, more Rev JC Flannel style platitudinous waffling

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/windsor-heights/2016/07/05/residents-give-resounding-no-new-sidewalks-windsor-heights/86722482/

"Sidewalks were started to get kids off the street," he said. "Where are they now? On their cellphones. They're not even out anymore."

They're literally on their cellphones.

on their indoor cellphones

I have no idea who would show up to a city council meeting in Windsor Heights other than cranky old people, tbh

"Maybe they stay inside because they don't have any sidewalks to walk on! Huh? You ever thought of that old man?"

I grew up in a neighborhood with no sidewalks and it was really shitty. I probably would have spent more time walking/biking places if there had been sidewalks.

19.6% are under the age of 18, 5.9% from 18 to 24, 28.6% from 25 to 44, 25.4% from 45 to 64, and 20.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years.

it's a suburb of about 5k people with no schools of their own, a small retail strip that's mostly known for being a 25mph speed limit trap, big box retail in the corner (wal-mart, sam's club, and a large grocery store) that divides the main residential area from the single park, which is mostly known because it's on another suburb's trail system. I think the park is next to the older houses/apartments/town homes that the few younger people might actually live in

I guess there's a demographic that thinks "affordable house, lower taxes, raise some kids here" but even that group is aging out.

tbh a lot of people forget it's a suburb

they do have a dairy queen that chuck grassley notably has visited

i am so completely unimpressed by ppl's reactions to this shit. you really have a problem with bad cops? go be a good cop.

― yolo mostly (sleepingbag), Friday, July 8, 2016 12:59 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

I'm not even 100% sure what he was going for with that

I'm not sure either but I just joined the police so I guess it worked.

*goes*

me, just a minute ago
http://static.rogerebert.com/uploads/movie/movie_poster/one-good-cop-1991/large_zKnsShbYY3vSv13IYoP1ZM3Ct0M.jpg

salt high vs sal thigh

i hav problem w drone strikes in pakistan so i wil become presidetn lol

I was wondering how long it would be before A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift was suggested as the ideal model for future policy.

― Stevolende, Monday, July 25, 2016 9:19 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just

Ari ______

15 mins ·

..
While everyone is distracted by the constant media infusion of politics, Verizon just acquired Yahoo for $5 billion. The wheels of the corporate kleptocracy bus keep rolling.

would be truly chilling if anyone gave a crap about Yahoo

yahoo maps

yahoo image search

long forgotten email addresses

yahoo's long game of ignoring flickr when it could have done pretty well given its user base and infrastructure still boggles my mind until I remember, oh yeah, yahoo

their tumblr incompetence is nearly as impressive

Yeah Flickr probably could have morphed into what Instagram became instead.

a flickr offshoot using the image storage/recognition/editing where you have the option to have your images also shown on flickr

basically a handful of purpose-driven apps using flickr as the backend

Well, well, well. Verizon finally got into the gambling business with Yahoo's Fantasy Sports. Red pill or blue pill, sheeple?

lol

https://www.facebook.com/CollectiveEvolutionPage/videos/10154383750518908/

I enjoyed Mr. Robot but it is basically Trenchant Social Commentary: the TV Show.

More so than black mirror?

Just realized same dude also posted a pretty pathetic post in another group I'm in about issues with seeing his daughter on weekends -- it actually sounded like his ex was being difficult, but the fool also still had not bothered to get a lawyer and no official custody arrangement had even been set as a result, his ex just had the daughter during the week and then made him jump through a few hoops to get her on the weekends. Dude is just not an adult, basically.

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, September 8, 2016 2:34 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ie an average american

― Οὖτις, Thursday, September 8, 2016 2:43 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

read "same dude" as "some dude" and thought that was a surprisingly harsh post!

haha I did that at first too

http://i.imgur.com/aAUszWp.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/alM5CjP.jpg

Sam... sung
woah

Hell
To
Come

#dale

#dale

https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/dale-gribble-conspiracy-theories.jpg?quality=90&w=650&h=408

Lost
Garden

Nexus or Next: Us?

My first time on this thread, really enjoying it.

I actually liked some art by one of the artists posted on here. I communicated with him briefly and I was considering telling him his political and social criticism art was too obvious and poor but I didn't know how to put it and I'm not used to giving that kind of criticism.

you just gotta man up and say "hey pitbull, knock it off with that shit"

lol

dale!

dale

king of the hill dale was my first thought on #dale too

I think people dont even like music anymore, they just like think pieces about music.

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, October 5, 2016 12:23 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

think posts

Nowadays, people don't want to be taken on a musical odyssey. They just want to be led by the nose to a musical 'DO U SEE?'.

And that's okay.

http://i.imgur.com/oGrjT3K.jpg

Must've been listening to Judas Priest

triggered by kanye, uncle sam, who is the bedrock of "american music," is killing himself with the top 40 music chart gun

i don't get it

https://66.media.tumblr.com/2893201121166fe84cbe99acc29fb9d3/tumblr_ofatadV3wY1u8mshoo1_500.png

jfc I'd like to make a depressing sculpture out of his facial features

4 years of standing under the Trump Tower garbage chute waiting for the next piece of trash to come down, hoping it is the worst yet, hoping that it will be enough to turn back the hands of time, hoping in vain, binge-watching the modern equivalent of Orwell's "Two Minutes Hate"

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, January 27, 2017 6:29 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

makes u think

think we should ban AB posts in here. almost amounts to "trenchant trenchant social commentary"

Or maybe just rename the thread "2 trenchant social commentary"

yeah similar to tuomas and pvmic every bruneau post past present and future should be taken as read itt

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau)
Posted: January 27, 2017 at 8:40:45 PM
on the plus side, in 10 years, they can actually make the teenage mutant ninja turtles IRL

I've heard Ken Loach is like this but I'm not familiar enough with him.

Don't need to know him, just watch his films. Not quite trenchant tho maybe

the themes in Loach movies are commendable, but his idealised proles are very dull - but I wouldn't call him trenchant at all. Probably dogged would be a fairer description.

I think they were possibly talking more about Loach himself.

I'm not really into that stuff. I like some Peter Mullen though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeEWm9q59d0

https://twitter.com/StoryInPicture/status/831162205512966144

Finding images from that account for this thread feels a lot like 1910 guy below:

http://i.imgur.com/Ked5YXr.jpg

yeah that whole account is very MAKES YA THINK

Might have been a rubbish book. Or only one book that has already been taken.

maybe all the free wifi ppl know about libgen

we're off the deep end folks

https://i.imgur.com/WU5Ea58.jpg

Boom

lol

makes u think

about helmets

the band that rob trujillo's son plays in?

was thinking more about UNsung

nice

http://i.imgur.com/fd9R99p.jpg?1

Had they covered Bowie, you could've said UN sung Heroes.

https://twitter.com/ZedTrafficker/status/851869649549631489

makes u think

there's a really weird set of replies to that tweet

that whole account is a treasure trove of trenchant social commentary tbh (and special bonus animal cruelty pictures)

thanks for the warning, think I'll pass

https://twitter.com/pitbull/status/479640583053398017

makes u think

http://i.imgur.com/7JH7hsA.png

I don't understand anything anymore.

you may glom onto the perceived stature of the country you were skillful enough to have been born and raised in.

hey, even the bench players on a championship team get rings. even if they are worse than 98% of the other players in the league, they're still "champions".

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, April 27, 2017 6:53 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/satirical-cartoons?mbid=social_facebook

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-39837963

That'll show 'em.

CNN is not a basic foundation of democracy. the ability to say CNN is shit is.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, May 19, 2017 8:36 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he makes this shit look easy

https://i.imgur.com/pKW9jml.jpg

a+

Even the illustrator of that would have to admit that it would be amazing that thing spin around with the arms and head still in place. Such dexterity!

there's a fb group called "thank mr banky" which is like a mainline to this TRENCHANT SOCIAL COMMENTARY shit on my phone and pc all day every day, i sohuld really dial it back to just this thread

amazing to see
xpost

idgi.

Fidgit spinners are fine imo

it's taking forever to make him spin in the fidget spinner but meanwhile this important work in progress snapshot

http://i.imgur.com/923Vb5z.jpg

there's a fb group called "thank mr banky" which is like a mainline to this TRENCHANT SOCIAL COMMENTARY shit on my phone and pc all day every day, i sohuld really dial it back to just this thread

We need to see some of this without bothering to look at the fb group itself please.

Because that's what we're like these days

here, have 12 i randomly grabbed from the past 24 hours of poss bc i hate myself

http://i.imgur.com/qTzhPEp.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/0TMlEsA.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/4d52abR.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/MGgW3ea.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/dL1Vl9t.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Dv7Z6jG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/isPWrY3.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/60XOs5T.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/5Txwrhe.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/vpDchD6.jpg

"posts" not "poss"

also, this link

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/angry-male-artist-installs-statue-of-dog-peeing-on-fearless-girl-statue?utm_source=vicefbus

That's a pretty biased article

I personally think this should keep escalating until there's a Kaiju-sized sculpture in NYC https://t.co/37lGrqQh4l

— Brenda Regan-Waters (@LGBTOwlMom78) May 30, 2017

why is neil degrasse tyson in the conspiracy picture? my guess is he is supposed to be the dude who gets you woke but in that picture it just looks like he is hanging out with the pope and george soros.

okay I googled it the artist is an actual flat earther

http://68.media.tumblr.com/ec9aa1e9c2f407071d6332ed05dfaf2b/tumblr_oqsl00PZjk1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

its been really funny to see people stick up for wall street today

oh cool he's coming straight to the thread now, no cutting and pasting needed

the pissing dog artist is literally standing up for the sanctity of the stupid bull statue lol

<3 karl

All those pretty trenchant until we got to General Nguyen stepping in for Pat Robertson. Didn't see that one coming.

Fidget spinned man is my new all-purpose gif

thanks guys

i took some heat on imgur for it earlier today and had a minor personal meltdown

one of those moments where you hope dead people that you know aren't watching from the afterworld because you're acting so pathetically

I didn't know how you were going to animate it, and then you hit it out of the park.

If you want upvotes on Imgur, you gotta post a pic of a busty woman about to do a handstand and then label it, "THIS IS MY SISTER. SHE DIED OF CANCER AFTER GETTING HIT BY A DRUNK DRIVER (WHO WAS MY DAD.)"

lol pplains

karl, you're a sick bastard. good job!

thanks guys

i took some heat on imgur for it earlier today and had a minor personal meltdown

Link?? Assholes!!

serious q is imgur a step up or a step down from 9gag

it's not more than a step in either direction i'm just not sure which way

lol that is dead on

this is lame but i have to post the thread:

i post the image with the description "Still working on it, though. It's at 12 frames now, but I'm going to double the frames."

imgur asshole
That someone already did it about and posted it about twenty times today.

me OP
Oh really? I didn't check. Damn. I'll just delete it.

a second imgur asshole
So basically you're a plagiarizer

me
I don't think that word means what you think it means. Also, I'm deep down in the most recent and popular posts, and I don't see any of them

a second imgur asshole
You were taking credit for it "still working on it" but then admitted it was a repost?

me
It's not a repost, I've spent 8+ hours isolating the body parts and animating them. It's a popular meme that you're obviously familar with

second imgur asshole
Then don't remove it! I withdraw my objection. I will even up vote your fidget spinner as all OC is good OC.

---
to which i replied "oh thank you for your generosity! you have truly showed the world your support of OC" in my mind and then thought "HEH! GOT HIM."

i take things way too personally, i gotta stop

http://imgur.com/gallery/qG5PV

xlol that is dead on

xpost to pplains there

man Karl those dudes can't handle someone with your shine, let em eat themselves, you're operating outside their ether

well, you all are really nice and not like the rest of the internet. i don't know why i keep going back to the well (not just imgur but other places as well) with this shit but the endless immediate antagonism i seem trigger everywhere starts to get to me after a while. wtf is wrong with everyone? i know it's the anonymity of the internet working its magic but i remember a golden time when you could log into yahoo chat in the mid-90s and interact with people in the internet commons and it didn't seem like these public internet spaces were packed to the brim with assholes foaming at the mouth

we always seek first the approval of people who would otherwise shit on us because we know if we can win *those* assholes over, we've truly made it.

Thread got trenchant

it's the theme of my oc

oidnc

oicwydt

wait wtf is going on right now

this is the part where i realize i just signed a legally binding contract to give away all of my possessions, entirely with acronyms

From little acrons great trees grow etc

better than mouths foaming at the asshole, but only slightly

Fuck all them shitty statues tbh

Also, the bull statue- did anyone actually care, or even notice this thing before the fearless girl thing? Pretty sure I must have walked past this thing on one of my visits to the big apple, stateside, but obviously wasn't interested enough to even cursorily take it in.

hay guys I too have a covfefe pun

karl, that gif <3

covfefecovfefecovfefecovfefecovfefecovfefecovfefecovfefecovfefecovfefecovfefecovfefecovfefecovfefecovfefecovfefecovfefecovfefecovfefecovfefecovfefecovfefecovfefe

looks great zs!

Maybe not quite as egregious as the post-banky memes of young women getting face-fucked by instagram or whatever bullshit but I've noticed there's been a spate of crap political cartoonists doing tired variations on the old "turkeys voting for Christmas" line and getting RTd all over the place by yr great dismals

https://scontent.flhr3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/18556305_1353194148101524_8193126306724132096_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=2e13c99cb200f33dcb444f29c778b1fd&oe=59A4791F

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/160829_a20072-690.jpg

http://memestatic.fjcdn.com/pictures/Slug+for+salt_b3613c_6167777.jpg

(caption for the nyer being "he tells it like it is", I'm sure you've all seen it)

Then caption was the whole point of it - it's not "turkeys voting for Christmas" it's the existence of "he tells it like it is" as an argument. But yeah, sure you have proved you are better than "great dismals" whoever they are.

lol ok I'm sure the speaker being oblivious to being on the receiving end of the policy isn't part of the punchline at all

(at the great dismal is cyberpunk author and retweeter of things William Gibson btw)

It's just this thread always annoys me when it crops up because it just seems like sneering at people who haven't been around for as long as you. I know I was very pretentious when I was younger, had some pretty simplistic and not-well-thought-through views, but weren't we all like that? Why be annoyed with people just for being in that phase of their lives? And often it's "this is a cliche" but so what? Cliches are everywhere, something being a cliche doesn't make it any more or less true, who cares? I just can't understand what is annoying or even interesting about the 6/10 internet ephemera that lives here.

Trench as fuck

sneering at people who haven't been around for as long as you - NBD?

(that's New Board Description for the clueless noobs among you)

These crap political cartoonists are not teenagers, I can pretty much guarantee that they are older than me

it's always about being a better consumer. detached derision is at the top of the hierarchy of consumption.

in any case I think it's ok to make fun of simplistic and ill-thought-out political rhetoric because... it is simplistic and ill-thought-out

just a thoroughly bad post from camaraderie at arms length tbh I feel superior to it

My favorite NYer cartoon of all time is one where all the different animals are at a conference room table and they all say "woof" instead of their normal animal onomatopoeia and there's a dog at the head of the table and the caption is "everybody gets a raise."

Why be annoyed with people just for being in that phase of their lives?

Some (most?) people have tired "trenchant" opinions their entire lives. Some of the most trenchant people I know are old now and unlikely to change a single thing that they believe before they're interred. Trite truisms and ponderous platitudes of the sort exemplified in this thread are worthy of derision. They are the product of lazy, comfortable minds, and one should always afflict the comfortable.

alright can we just get back to original thread purpose

it's always about being a better consumer. detached derision is at the top of the hierarchy of consumption.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 4 June 2017 16:29 (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://68.media.tumblr.com/69e0f004436d01e9318c842ee6953eb9/tumblr_olpbb9z7Ol1qfvz38o1_400.jpg

tick.jpg

I do enjoy the implication that people might revisit their most stubborn beliefs after they've been buried. That's why I'm going to be cremated!

Few xps, those wolf/sheep, salt/slug, turkey/christmas cartoons are a bit too 'other people are stupid' for my liking

i like the picture of the wolf

Lots of ppl are stupid and it's relevant

Yeah true but always a bit dangerous to say someone voted for something I don't like, why, because they're stupid. Maybe I'm stupid, or maybe me and them are both a bit stupid, maybe something more is going on, etc

It's not because, it's and

lots of ppl vote against their interests it is still true to say these shit cartoons are not good cartoons imo

You afflict my comfort and I'll hurt you

CAAL thinking it's mostly young people spreading these images makes me think he hasn't been around as long as me

Yea some of these started as trenchant chain letters

I thought that the top of the consumption hierarchy were rich celebrities -- I'm getting schooled in this thread

saw this in the grocery store today

http://i.imgur.com/qWs38UW.jpg

poorly considered movie tie-in

If they had the imagination to update these as horrifying metaphorical ways to explore decaying infrastructure and police racism and despair deaths and random terror that plague our society, this could all be awesome, but that's not what they're going to do

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:04 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Poor selection and frankly I think ur the wrong person for the job

-Sad but true....... pic.twitter.com/iyhU23JfMn

— Awesome Planet™ (@Awesome_planet_) March 8, 2017

xp only nixon could go to china

the modern Democratic Party is a Hillary Clinton RT for an ad for a 50 million movie on top of an ad for a hedge fund. pic.twitter.com/tJFt3TBGY5

— andrew kaczynski 🤔 (@KFILE) June 15, 2017

What's the modern Republican Party though? The bull, with a different hat?

it's a portrait of Trump, purchased with Trump Foundation nonprofit funds, displayed at a Trump country club

andrew kaczynski otm

http://i.imgur.com/6E50Mju.jpg

the modern republican party is that demon in the hospital from that episode of buffy who was invisible to healthy people but killed children while they slept and looked like this

qualx's jpeg seems to me to suggest extreme admiration for the figures depicted, verging on worship

Really serious indictment of our democracy that something with 16% would even get near passing

― Treeship

American life at this point in time is pretty much just a series of indictments of our democracy, tbf.

― I Love It When They Call Me Big Pharma (Old Lunch)

posted the article because i'm still shocked to see any attention paid to prog

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, June 25, 2017 5:44 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well it's true

Re: the freeze frame in goole's linked twitter video; this might look like the most overwarn cliche of all time, but when I lived in Beijing I witnessed it in real life - or something worse I suppose.

https://haonowshaokao.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/140220121033.jpg

If you can't make out what it is, they've painted a downtown coal power station sky-blue with fluffy clouds, then painted on men with ladders painting the clouds.

I have no idea what sort of logic was behind this, but it was my view at work for a few months and it never stopped being bizarre.

file under 'weird satire'

There isn't a lot of satire in Beijing, especially 50-foot-high satire painted on government infrastructure

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDvPyFCW0AAboX_.jpg

pic.twitter.com/OnjIxhbIdf

— Julian Assange 🔹 (@JulianAssange) August 28, 2017

That one doesn't even 100% make sense. What does the lawnmower represent? What is the force that makes sure you keep using your phone?

The oppressive Capitalist hegemony

if you keep using your phone it's all good, if you look up your...head will get lopped off?

What is the parapet in the phrase head above the parapet. Who shoots the arrows in this metaphorical scenario

Is the chicken in the chicken/road joke a chicken or is it an allegory. What would the road be in this setup.

once you get your head mowed off you get a mower

Is the messed-up perspective also a metaphor?

julian assange is telling everyone to keep their pubic hair well-trimmed using a lawnmower

when I was little my mom would cut my hair with a flowbee which is basically a lawnmower

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKBLAhFUQAEH5Z5.jpg:small

Completely transfixed by this. What incredibly creative dramatic talent pic.twitter.com/RnFz1ze9nI

— Felicity Morse (@FelicityMorse) October 22, 2017

hahahaha yesssss

'yoann bourgeois' seems a little on-the-nose

Have to admit that looks way more fun than most of this stuff.

yeah this is banky af but fun banky

I don't know what social phenomenon it's commenting on, trenchantly or otherwise, but it looks kinda cool.

yeah it's like it seems obvious and yet I can't put my finger on what exactly it's being obvious about so maybe it isn't obvious?

kinda workplace sisyphean imo?

but they're wearing beanies and no ties

it's called the mechanics of history so presumably some kind of history repeating itself thing

yeah trying and failing to make progress or something like that

specifically, mansplainy philosophy grads who where sportjackets with t-shirts and beanies and fail to make progress as they theorize annoyingly in a pub

you called?

haha

lol j/k

i have just been having a lot of *trenchant* thoughts about the nature of humans and human existence that i know are very sophomoric but feel hard to shake for some reason

such as, humans are really just animals maaaan. not even really intelligent animals

I've really fallen back on some of those lately myself, lots of waking up in the morning from a dream and questioning

sometimes I definitely think we are just idiotic animals with oversized hallucination machines attached

need to find the dream thread before I forget all the details, I had a weird one last night

#lads

what the hell is going on with ilx these days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XebMEOmlP8g

putting my own bias lens on that parthenon trampoline piece, I figure it's about fancy white dudes always getting endless chances at climbing the ladder, no matter how many times their companies go bankrupt or they get caught doing felonious bullshit

Been trying to think of a decent Brian Trenchard Smith joke for months but I don't have what it takes.

chumbawumba “tubthumping” as a sculpture

“sculpture”

I like that you felt the need to name the band in case folks didn’t get the ref

we’ve all tried to attempt to forget

...

piiiisssing the niiight away

Well, that's them told

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWggMYcWkAYUx7a.jpg

can't get enough of that linkedin website

Glad the image doesn't show the number of rt's because I fear it'll be more than I can take

My favourite thing about it is that he's made it in photoshop and then posted it on twitter

Otm. I bet it's champagne and caviar at the vimeo office tomorrow for being included

i wish i could quit my crippling addiction to uh... linkedin and uber wtf

more like FentanylBook

<knits brow, tries furiously to think of one>

<lightbulb moment>

insta, uh... gram?

Instagra

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/28468464_10215969922427335_3852586929598447786_n.jpg?oh=c154475b43297e3bd7889357cd4938ae&oe=5B431375

Maybe if we tell people the brain is an app they'll start eating it

my brain is LinkedIn

This is your brain on Venmo

I deleted mine to free up more memory

^ actually, fuck, that's pretty trenchant

https://i.imgur.com/gSIbzEw.jpg

mourinho has to start giving him minutes or sell him he has too much time on his hands

feel like i've unlocked a level because i know who you're referring to

Lads. That's Frank Zappa.

you probably believe that

mookie and i are on a higher level. possible the toilet mezzanine idk

https://i.imgur.com/kirK2ea.jpg

memes dookie morelike get on my level

more tru than u know

Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino

holy shit yes pic.twitter.com/1TAUE5pCZI

— Stefan Heck (@boring_as_heck) April 10, 2018

The tide pods + condom snorting thing has really taken off among Millennial-haters hasn't it? Has Ben Garrison done a strip about it yet?

not as far as i know but here's the next best thing:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DaBmBq0X0AA2wlF.jpg

greatest hits of this particular stupid rightwing meme
http://agoodcartoon.tumblr.com/post/172603139855/agoodcartoon-agoodcartoon-ayelander

all because a whopping 39 people out of 74 million did this.

https://i.imgur.com/16vWVYe.jpg

lol

haha

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcHyoFhX0AAymRn.jpg

good ratio

ooooof wtf

posts to ilx imo

lol

My father would never have done that.

so much going on in that tweet

glad there is that blue checkmark, wouldn't want someone unverified to make these sort of posts

i too remember the day my father left in a helicopter, waving and smiling, while mother turned to stepfather and said "now you may do what you will with the children and i shan't stand in your way."

weird that trump hasn't made any noise about obama not recognizing his many illegitimate children

it would be a somewhat hypocritical thing to say, so it's right up Trump's alley

back to the trough, sheeple!

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, May 16, 2018 7:10 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

platonic imo

Ohhhhh, I see. It's a portmanteau of 'people' and 'sheep'. Huh. Pretty clever!

Times have changed pic.twitter.com/ZwaDoLX6F2

— jake likes onions (@jakelikesonions) May 19, 2018

^ does not understand how medieval wars were fought. also, "overcoming" cholera was purely a matter of "surviving" cholera. finally, does not mention how many of those four children are already dead.

or that he has maybe 20-25 years left if he continues to be extremely lucky

also "sired" lol excellent use of gendered bullshit verb for "inseminated a woman"

No way yer average 30 year old in the middle ages had fought in three wars.

So we’ve established that medieval 30-year-old man is not accurate. How about car guy

We’re only just getting back to wars that last for 30 yrs tbh. Bringing back the good old old old old old days (but with added hot drone action).

I think he'd likely have some hair.

And some ears.

The best thing about overcoming cholera is the memory of overcoming cholera

car guy is probably an accurate representation of the dude who draws the jakelikesonions cartoons? which are usually not that bad

although his earless bald generic protagonist is not as good as gary larson’s line-for-eyes acute-angle-for-nose simplicity

better cartoon would have been a baby boomer who already paid off his house with his union job vs current 30-year old

let's all promise each other to draw only better cartoons

that cartoon was less like Garfield and more like an editorial cartoon. it posed as making a valid social observation based on something historically accurate, but the only thing underpinning its opinion was a profound ignorance of the subject it was addressing.

there will always be a certain number of people who happily accept ignorance as truthful, because it reinforces their own biases. the fact this piece of nonsense was in cartoon form makes no difference to the process of spreading and reinforcing ignorance that I just described.

So, fuck that noise. the cartoonist is a poopy head.

avg 30 year old of the middle ages would without a doubt ponder buying a car if it were available.

No way yer average 30 year old in the middle ages had fought in three wars.

yeah not for an average 30 year old. tho if you were in the military class you would likely get sent around to different conflicts. you would fight the French or Spanish or other Englishmen, maybe personal/private conflicts, maybe state affairs, maybe both. the same you maybe a modern 30 year old would get sent to Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. different conflicts in different geographical regions.

as for the children he sired, they may be off in these different parts of the land, with bastards all over Europe. frivolous spending on military campaigns was a huge political problem in the middle ages (just as it is now lol). famously the revolt of 1381 was in response to over-taxing to pay for the constant wars.

lol @ "overcome cholera" tho. 1/3rd of the population, were dying off every generation, from various forms of the plague, and medicine was entirely ignorant and often did more to harm the patient than anything. mercury was given as a common cure. even if you could afford a doctor, they would be entirely ineffective. medical knowledge was based on gazing at urine in jars and inhaling all kinds of drugs imported from the East while doing astrological charts. if a family member got sick, there was a strong chance it could spread to the entire family, so may were left to isolate their family members in fear of their own lives. infanticide was at an all time high. xenophobia was at an all time high. as for cholera:

A widely-held theory in western Europe during the Middle Ages was that disease was caused by a miasma, i.e., an atmosphere polluted by air from decaying bodies or from swamps. Risky areas could be identified by a bad smell.

due to the non-existence of a public sanitation system nor corporate/industrial environmental regulations, there were plenty of sitting water sources festering in waste and bacteria around. sometimes public river sources caught on fire from the shit disposed by the nearby wealthy hyper consumers. again, just like modern times, the rich screwing over the habitats of the people they benefit from. for many Jewish citizens, tradition instructed different ways to find water, and these different customs were looked at suspiciously, conspiracies brewing (as always) from misunderstanding. people, in lieu of legal recourse or really any rights to defend against the abusive powerful, resorted to blaming ethnic/cultural minorities for poisoning water sources. this kind of shit has been going on for 700+ years.

https://i.imgur.com/k0Be7od.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/sYagmLc.gif

…knowledge is a broken clock?

we make money like Fred Astaire

time is also apparently a broken clock

which, sounds about right to me

knowledge is a lot like dick-swinging

blah blah flat circle

yeah the information clock is the only one working properly

https://i.imgur.com/PSmq9T9.jpg

banky wanky

https://i.imgur.com/w2CRVsJ.jpg

If Pompeii happened now. pic.twitter.com/bv3tlcMc74

— Helen Dale (@_HelenDale) September 4, 2018

龜

After being cited twice in the first ten posts to this thread, I can't see it bumped without a certain trepidation.

I like the elephant one.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dp53MldXQAErKuJ.jpg

it's only the apocalypse when the middle class gets scared

it's from a Merican on my twitter who I quite like. It's bad but at least it isn't Canary.

"post-apocalyptical"? jesus christ, i try not to be a prescriptivist but that's fucking horrible

agree ugh

i don't think that bookstore even had a post-apocalyptic fiction section in the first place

playing devil's advocate now, "post-apocolyptic" does seem to want to modify fiction [as its own section] rather than lend itself to the phrase "post-apocalyptic fiction"

post-2pac eliptical

i don't think that bookstore even had a post-apocalyptic fiction section in the first place

― shwarmaduke (symsymsym)

i'm choosing not to believe that establishment is a bookstore at all until presented with further corroborating evidence

Язрцыісаиs иззd а sчsтзматіс роllіиg зггог то шіи тнз Ноцsз

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/republicans-need-a-systematic-polling-error-to-win-the-house/?

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 4 November 2018 00:54 (yesterday) Permalink

trenchant yet beautiful

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/49450574_10217466509872662_8579767463812530176_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=0dcb4e02e808119f77f5a819aab20da4&oe=5CCF1C30

We don't want immigrants in our schools?

Can the walls have doors?

listen mr drumpf how about you build a "nuclear bomb" but instead of "splitting atoms" it "splits food" and we call it a "buffet"

what if we make america learn again?

Lift Her Up

For a significant amount of time (before online dating) I had a job where I edited and laid out newspaper personals ads. It was fascinating but also a little heartbreaking.

The way people feel they have to pick a few signifiers, cultural dogwhistles, or whatever. It provides a fast sort, I understand the impulse. If you believe you need to date a juggalo or a knitter or a MAGAnaut, then you pretty much do.

But it seems like with all our algorithms and swiping and such, we haven't come very far from liking pina coladas and getting caught in the rain.

― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, January 22, 2019 3:15 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DN9GTjBWkAE7eKO.jpg

i love this thread

free to half-ass an ellipsis

https://scontent.fphl2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/50751028_1052905178227666_8338504011036491776_o.jpg?_nc_cat=1&_nc_ht=scontent.fphl2-2.fna&oh=f2279b26c047ef305a6ddb71d95ddad3&oe=5CFB5BB6

you sort of subscribe to that view though lol

too self-celebratory

Needs more labels.

Not to mention simple answers can be right and complex answers can be wrong (Occam's razor and all that).

https://pics.me.me/political-cartoon-george-w-bush-pee-pee-doo-doo-he-isa-president-36153395.png

it's a bit of a contraction to assert that the truth is complex and then express it in simple drawing. it is what it's critiquing.

Truth is simple but it's too complex to be understood by the simplistic human mind. #trenchant #dousee

Truth IS.

Ah I understand n- *falls off cliff*

trth

only one who has been doused in truth can truly understand

ur brain truly is a marble marvel

The Onion did a much better riff on the "typical political cartoon" joke iirc.

Not Stan Kelly, an article about a political cartoon. Ungoogleable now bc of stan kelly.

this one? https://local.theonion.com/frustrated-man-forced-to-agree-with-dumbass-political-c-1819580412

lol, that's good too, the one I remember is just about a political cartoon being confusing and having lots of labeled parts

ah this one then: https://politics.theonion.com/political-cartoon-even-more-boring-and-confusing-than-i-1819567298

penguin cartoon description is hilarious

https://66.media.tumblr.com/ec192ace4ba8b2f5e48331f58a991bcd/tumblr_pj7phn38Yb1vlks32o1_500.jpg

I'm glad the book is labeled or I would have had no idea what he was holding.

on first look i thought the facebook laptop was surrounded by an ossuary

that's my kind of trenchant social commentary

I'm pretty sure they're looking at porn.

If I'm reading the cartoon correctly, the new Facebook branded laptop is extremely popular but in extremely short supply, leading to situations where scores of people haplessly attempt to use a single machine at once. Even the popular novel entitled Book (known in part for the irreverent placement of its title on the back cover instead of the front) cannot hold the attention of those in proximity to one of these wondrous marvels of technology.

xp book of etchings

xp that's how i read it as well

There's porn on Facebook now?

boy is there ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i've had more luck on assbook

https://imgur.com/a/qam7fJn

it's slightly hard to discern whether that's a pro- or anti-lib thing

that man would be twice as tall as everyone in the crowd if he stood up

^ trenchant social comment

http://i65.tinypic.com/1zv34hj.jpg

they should have moved it onto the phone

"we started looking at our phones so much because our eyes are so fucked up"

https://i.imgur.com/EY2EPNo.png

Is this about Birdbox?

https://i.imgur.com/uDYh47c.gif