Impressive things that aren't really that impressive...

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1. Keepie Uppies

Orin Boyd (jel --), Monday, 20 April 2009 16:58 (seventeen years ago)

2. Plate spinners

snoball, Monday, 20 April 2009 17:05 (seventeen years ago)

3. Susan Boyle

elmo argonaut, Monday, 20 April 2009 17:06 (seventeen years ago)

4. street entertainers who cover themselves in spray paint and pretend to be statues

snoball, Monday, 20 April 2009 17:06 (seventeen years ago)

ppl who get laid all the time

goole, Monday, 20 April 2009 17:07 (seventeen years ago)

6. 1000 item long ILX list threads

snoball, Monday, 20 April 2009 17:08 (seventeen years ago)

7. Mensa card

the drummer from the hilarious 1990's Britpop act Gay Dad (wanko ergo sum), Monday, 20 April 2009 17:47 (seventeen years ago)

8. owning a BMW or mercedes

macarooni (omar little), Monday, 20 April 2009 17:48 (seventeen years ago)

9. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42444000/jpg/_42444350_skull_getty203.jpg

the drummer from the hilarious 1990's Britpop act Gay Dad (wanko ergo sum), Monday, 20 April 2009 17:55 (seventeen years ago)

i forgot how to internet

the drummer from the hilarious 1990's Britpop act Gay Dad (wanko ergo sum), Monday, 20 April 2009 17:55 (seventeen years ago)

10. 5000 sq. ft. McMansions

Aimless, Monday, 20 April 2009 17:58 (seventeen years ago)

11. engagement rings

someone who is aware how stupid the net is (harbl), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:01 (seventeen years ago)

12. being hung like a horse

henry s, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:02 (seventeen years ago)

13. owning your own condo

someone who is aware how stupid the net is (harbl), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:04 (seventeen years ago)

14. juggling

henry s, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:05 (seventeen years ago)

15. Ph.D.

someone who is aware how stupid the net is (harbl), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:06 (seventeen years ago)

16. ultra-fast guitar solos

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:07 (seventeen years ago)

17. or kick drums so fast it's impossible to tell whether they're in time or not

the drummer from the hilarious 1990's Britpop act Gay Dad (wanko ergo sum), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:08 (seventeen years ago)

18. the amount of stuff that gets called "genius" on the internet every day

Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:08 (seventeen years ago)

19. "Charlie bit my finger again" having 92,807,617 youtube views

Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:11 (seventeen years ago)

20. hey guys, check out my new ringtone

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:12 (seventeen years ago)

21. iphone

someone who is aware how stupid the net is (harbl), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:12 (seventeen years ago)

22. the miracle of life

Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:13 (seventeen years ago)

22. babies

someone who is aware how stupid the net is (harbl), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:14 (seventeen years ago)

oops 23

someone who is aware how stupid the net is (harbl), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:14 (seventeen years ago)

24. your amazing new gf/bf

the drummer from the hilarious 1990's Britpop act Gay Dad (wanko ergo sum), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:15 (seventeen years ago)

25. fancy china/silverware

someone who is aware how stupid the net is (harbl), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:16 (seventeen years ago)

26 big muscles

Shoegaze Knight (Oilyrags), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:16 (seventeen years ago)

27. we flew business class

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:17 (seventeen years ago)

28 never been to jail

Shoegaze Knight (Oilyrags), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:18 (seventeen years ago)

29. huge breasts

someone who is aware how stupid the net is (harbl), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:18 (seventeen years ago)

30. Rental had GPS

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:20 (seventeen years ago)

okay now we're just tossing out challops, aren't we

xp

Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:20 (seventeen years ago)

31. x number of myspace/facebook friends

otmomom (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:20 (seventeen years ago)

32. was down for 20 at Rikers

the drummer from the hilarious 1990's Britpop act Gay Dad (wanko ergo sum), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:20 (seventeen years ago)

33. getting your picture taken with a celebrity

someone who is aware how stupid the net is (harbl), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:22 (seventeen years ago)

34. having gone to school with a celebrity

someone who is aware how stupid the net is (harbl), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:22 (seventeen years ago)

35. being a celebrity

Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:22 (seventeen years ago)

36. having traced an ancestor pre-1900

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:23 (seventeen years ago)

37. having had sex in public places

the drummer from the hilarious 1990's Britpop act Gay Dad (wanko ergo sum), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:25 (seventeen years ago)

38. killed man just to watch him die

Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:26 (seventeen years ago)

39. highest-paid player in the club's history

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:26 (seventeen years ago)

40. large/obscure record collection

Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:26 (seventeen years ago)

41. the internet
42. the grand canyon
43. space travel
44. guns
45. imax
46. killing yourself

ian, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:27 (seventeen years ago)

47. list of zings

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:29 (seventeen years ago)

48. zinging people on the internet

Mr. Que, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:29 (seventeen years ago)

49. slaying dragons

chairman lmao (Lamp), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:31 (seventeen years ago)

50. being a dragon

chairman lmao (Lamp), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:31 (seventeen years ago)

51. dragons, generally

chairman lmao (Lamp), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:31 (seventeen years ago)

52. zinging dragons

s1ocki, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:32 (seventeen years ago)

53. jokes about dragons, specifically

chairman lmao (Lamp), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:32 (seventeen years ago)

54. riding a giant white furry dragon like in the neverending story

chairman lmao (Lamp), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:33 (seventeen years ago)

55. neverending stories

chairman lmao (Lamp), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:33 (seventeen years ago)

56. really high level world of warcraft characters

ian, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:33 (seventeen years ago)

57. wasting most of your workday on the internet

chairman lmao (Lamp), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:33 (seventeen years ago)

58. the internet

chairman lmao (Lamp), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:33 (seventeen years ago)

59. hipster puppets made out of bacon

Mr. Que, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:33 (seventeen years ago)

60. people who work for an internet start-up

chairman lmao (Lamp), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:34 (seventeen years ago)

61. being the first person in your family to go to university

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:34 (seventeen years ago)

61. being a person, with a family, generally

chairman lmao (Lamp), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:35 (seventeen years ago)

that was 61b fyi

chairman lmao (Lamp), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:35 (seventeen years ago)

62. addendums

chairman lmao (Lamp), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:35 (seventeen years ago)

63. postscripts

chairman lmao (Lamp), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:35 (seventeen years ago)

64². Endnotes

chairman lmao (Lamp), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:36 (seventeen years ago)

65. the statistics used to illustrate moves on Match of the Day: '19 yards', '51 mph', 'one end of the pitch to the other in eight touches'

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:39 (seventeen years ago)

66. acting

Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:40 (seventeen years ago)

67. Being a wine connoisseur

otmomom (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:43 (seventeen years ago)

68. working for a famous company

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:44 (seventeen years ago)

69. Being able to do entire monologues from Full Metal Jacket, Clockwork Orange, True Romance or Big Lebowski

otmomom (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:44 (seventeen years ago)

70. round-the-world trip to Dubai, Singapore, Sydney and New Zealand

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:46 (seventeen years ago)

^^coz all they saw was airports.

Orin Boyd (jel --), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:47 (seventeen years ago)

71. Filling an external hard drive with music downloaded for free from the internet

photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:48 (seventeen years ago)

#69 is totally OTM

Bill Magill, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:48 (seventeen years ago)

I only really keepie uppies to add to this thread, but also:

72. Expensively animated adverts.

Orin Boyd (jel --), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:49 (seventeen years ago)

73. pepsi endorsement

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:51 (seventeen years ago)

74. triple lindy

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:51 (seventeen years ago)

> 71. Filling an external hard drive with music downloaded for free from the internet

Still nice to have, though.

Shoegaze Knight (Oilyrags), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:52 (seventeen years ago)

75. owning an artist's entire discography

69, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:52 (seventeen years ago)

76. Downloading 1TB of pr0n from the internet

snoball, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

77. being in a band and having a gig

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:56 (seventeen years ago)

78 - "I don't watch tv."

Shoegaze Knight (Oilyrags), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:56 (seventeen years ago)

75. reference to obscure place in London without reference to that fact

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

80. wanton disregard for numbering

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:58 (seventeen years ago)

81. Oracle buys Sun

(it's only the company, not the star)

StanM, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:00 (seventeen years ago)

71. Filling an external hard drive with music downloaded for free from the internet

― photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Monday, April 20, 2009 2:48 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I've seen people be like "Oh, I have X number of gigabytes of music" and it's honestly like, you'll never fucking listen to all of it, and they mostly just play the same 12 albums anyway

otmomom (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 April 2009 19:04 (seventeen years ago)

there is no sadder brag than the number of gigabytes of music on your hard drive.

otmomom (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 April 2009 19:05 (seventeen years ago)

82. Science

rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 20 April 2009 19:10 (seventeen years ago)

83. Human history

rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 20 April 2009 19:11 (seventeen years ago)

84. Evolution

rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 20 April 2009 19:11 (seventeen years ago)

85. Life on earth

rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 20 April 2009 19:11 (seventeen years ago)

86. universe

s1ocki, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:12 (seventeen years ago)

87. freedom

macarooni (omar little), Monday, 20 April 2009 19:13 (seventeen years ago)

88. speaking lots of languages because you're european

iatee, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:14 (seventeen years ago)

89. being european

iatee, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:14 (seventeen years ago)

90. being American

snoball, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:15 (seventeen years ago)

91. having opposable thumbs

snoball, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:15 (seventeen years ago)

92. your main computer has a Dvorak keyboard

snoball, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:16 (seventeen years ago)

i'm always impressed at how many variations of the "stuff that's overrated" thread ilx can come up with

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 20 April 2009 19:18 (seventeen years ago)

^ relevant because it's not really that impressive

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 20 April 2009 19:18 (seventeen years ago)

9x. being impressed

xp lol

chairman lmao (Lamp), Monday, 20 April 2009 19:19 (seventeen years ago)

93. the adhesive powers of Superglue

photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Monday, 20 April 2009 19:19 (seventeen years ago)

94. complaining about ilx

iatee, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:19 (seventeen years ago)

95. photosynthesis

chairman lmao (Lamp), Monday, 20 April 2009 19:19 (seventeen years ago)

96. being able to put your fist in your mouth

snoball, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:21 (seventeen years ago)

97. backflips

iatee, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:22 (seventeen years ago)

"93. the adhesive powers of Superglue"

I find this pretty fucking impressive.

Bill Magill, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:22 (seventeen years ago)

98. TRAVELING INTO SPACE

otmomom (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 April 2009 19:25 (seventeen years ago)

i fucking already said that you lazy cocksucker

ian, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:27 (seventeen years ago)

99. knowing how to swear

iatee, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:27 (seventeen years ago)

100. Porn star Sasha Grey being into N0ise Mu5ic

Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Monday, 20 April 2009 19:28 (seventeen years ago)

101. A list thread with one hundred items on it

snoball, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:29 (seventeen years ago)

102. being meta

rent, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:31 (seventeen years ago)

the adhesive powers of superglue are pretty sad compared to those of other adhesives.

photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Monday, 20 April 2009 19:33 (seventeen years ago)

#96 absolutely otm

Aimless, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:37 (seventeen years ago)

103. having watched a shitload of movies in one's life

Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 20 April 2009 19:41 (seventeen years ago)

104. moving to new york

rent, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:41 (seventeen years ago)

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/7ad4cd47edd820dbb7f1757b32bd3ec2/96122.jpg

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 20 April 2009 19:47 (seventeen years ago)

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/7193/13935003ru.jpg

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 20 April 2009 19:50 (seventeen years ago)

105. the Renaissance

henry s, Monday, 20 April 2009 20:23 (seventeen years ago)

106. Neil Peart's drum kit

henry s, Monday, 20 April 2009 20:23 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, it's no terry bozzio's drum kit

Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 20 April 2009 20:30 (seventeen years ago)

not THAT'S impressive

henry s, Monday, 20 April 2009 20:33 (seventeen years ago)

107. J-Lo's ass

henry s, Monday, 20 April 2009 20:33 (seventeen years ago)

"not" = "now" (above)

henry s, Monday, 20 April 2009 20:34 (seventeen years ago)

108. Scratching
109. Break dancing

N1ck (Upt0eleven), Monday, 20 April 2009 20:36 (seventeen years ago)

(xpost) that's now impressive...

snoball, Monday, 20 April 2009 20:37 (seventeen years ago)

110. my penis

ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Monday, 20 April 2009 20:49 (seventeen years ago)

your pen is what?

StanM, Monday, 20 April 2009 20:50 (seventeen years ago)

111. how little I paid for everything in the poverty-stricken country where I took my holidays

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 April 2009 20:58 (seventeen years ago)

112. having a high IQ

Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 20 April 2009 21:02 (seventeen years ago)

113. graduating from college

Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 20 April 2009 21:02 (seventeen years ago)

btw have u ever thought it was weird that Jesus miracles were so amazing when surely in those days they were much easier to impress than now so he needn't have put so much effort in?

Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 20 April 2009 21:03 (seventeen years ago)

114. Where you went you college

otmomom (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 April 2009 21:04 (seventeen years ago)

115. the doing of the 5,000 keepie uppies

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 April 2009 21:08 (seventeen years ago)

116. Mt. Rushmore

SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Monday, 20 April 2009 21:38 (seventeen years ago)

117. binge-drinking

I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Monday, 20 April 2009 21:42 (seventeen years ago)

118. your sense of self-worth

chairman lmao (Lamp), Monday, 20 April 2009 21:44 (seventeen years ago)

119. empty nihilism

chairman lmao (Lamp), Monday, 20 April 2009 21:44 (seventeen years ago)

200. truisms

chairman lmao (Lamp), Monday, 20 April 2009 21:44 (seventeen years ago)

156. attitude of ironic disdain that treats everyone and everything as if they were just a little bit second rate, no matter what

chairman lmao (Lamp), Monday, 20 April 2009 21:46 (seventeen years ago)

122." I don't care what anyone thinks, I speak my mind"

Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 April 2009 21:49 (seventeen years ago)

420. That thing you did last week

snoball, Monday, 20 April 2009 21:50 (seventeen years ago)

this shit is just turning into

590. things
591. other things
592. things liek THIS THREAD OMG

use your noggins, dudes

all the some dudes (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 April 2009 21:53 (seventeen years ago)

yeah who could've predicted that a list thread like this would dissolve into people naming everything under the sun

...and you will know us by the trail of banned (J0rdan S.), Monday, 20 April 2009 21:57 (seventeen years ago)

getting upset with how a thread turns out is "unimpressive thing that actually is pretty impressive"

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, 20 April 2009 22:16 (seventeen years ago)

Nuclear destruction

right kids?

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Monday, 20 April 2009 23:39 (seventeen years ago)

594. Match Game P.M.

henry s, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 00:51 (seventeen years ago)

595. Having black friends
596. Having played CBGBs
597. Did coke with [celebrity/band]

Josefa, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 05:36 (seventeen years ago)

130. Learning to paint with your feet

Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 06:26 (seventeen years ago)

131. most of the american consumer choices of the past eight years

i am david suzuki (get bent), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 07:15 (seventeen years ago)

132. finding this thread near the top of the "Site New Answers" page the following morning

snoball, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 08:52 (seventeen years ago)

Impressive things that are actually kind of mindblowing.

Shoegaze Knight (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 11:46 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, except for the music choice

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 12:01 (seventeen years ago)

luckily i watched it with sound off. sort of dissapointing crowd reactions though, except for the last move where they rush to see if he crashed to death.

Ludo, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 12:05 (seventeen years ago)

i liked the one where he jumped off a high flight of stairs, and then there was an obvious break in the filming and it jumped to a load of people walking up to see where the fuck he'd gone

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 12:20 (seventeen years ago)


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