The Tyranny of Humour

Damn I didnt know their was a shadow world of the ilx elite

You need Vic Serotonin to give you a tour of the Saudade Event site.

Yeah see I don't understand what any of that is. Feel scared, like maybe this is a cult that lures people in with the promise of impassioned yet fairminded debates about pop music.

Nobody promised fairminded

ilx is really into puns

You need Vic Serotonin to give you a tour of the Saudade Event site.

:)

though i kind of hate all his "presenting" shit

Treeship, if you have ever seen the old BBC series The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan, then you will have a fair idea of life in the ilx commune. 77 is just a place where the all-powerful ilx Guardians can go to relax and have a gin and tonic before resuming their onerous duties.

crambs

hm... that board seems awesome. i think i am going to have dreams about it.

cramps
Don't pick it up

Oops. Completely messed up the execution of a dumb joke that probably only made sense to me and even then only barely. Ah Humour, Ah The Tyranny!

the more cryptic the pun, the more impressive, as it makes the people who don't get it feel embarrassed. that's what humor's all about

I believe that is a particular sub genre of humor, the screen name, or more precisely, the rejected screen name.

today i went to the local bagel shop and some gross dudes out front were making lewd comments about all the women who walked past. i didn't understand all of the things they were saying, which made me feel like i was in middle school all over again.. left out of an adult conversation. it wasn't a great feeling, but then i realized that i didn't really want to know what they were saying, and felt better.

77 is the invite-only board that only those invited can see.

just want to point out that this is wrong. you have to ASK for an invite. it's de-indexed from google, so it's not open unless you ask to access it. there's a thread dedicating to asking for access.

how seasoned/accomplished a poster do you need to be before it is appropriate to ask for an invite?

level 5

the tyranny of invisible levels

Exclusive pic of an ilx moderator unwinding in the 77 board's member's only lounge:

http://buildaclubhouse.com/images/cushion-clubhouse.jpeg

hate to ruin the mystique but it's not like at some point you get a private message saying "you have been chosen, prepare to witness and perhaps even contribute to the greatest threads of all time". it's more like if you want to look in there, you'll get to see (even more of) me talking about sweaty balls or whatever.

speaking of the greatest threads of all time, this is a good one. i don't have anything useful to say, but i often think of what it might be like to be born in a different time and location, and instead of spending my days trying to think of semi-humorous ways to refer to a secret borad on the internet because it's awkward to talk about without at least trying to make a joke, maybe i'd be slowly walking on a stone path imagining the many faces of imagined solemn gods with folded hands

for me to poop on

dammit i didn't even do that correctly

can i have an invitation to the stone footpath lined with invisible statues of gods with folded hands?

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=51

Be careful you don't come back in toothpicks, Treeship.

you mean when navigating my treeship to the deepest circle of hell, in a quest to retrieve a secret object that, upon returning it to the board moderators, would grant me access to the coveted Board 77? i'll be careful.

there's a thread dedicating to asking for access.

yeah, i linked to a search that pulls the 77 request thread, but maybe that was too arcane a cloo. point is there's a 77 request thread. i hedged for a long time before asking, but access seems p much unrestricted.

I would like to be on 77 too pls.

― the questeon

77 is the invite-only board that only those invited can see.

just want to point out that this is wrong.

Not really. You need and invite to post, you need an invite to see it - it is not precisely my fault that you've mistaken this for me talking about the board where we hunt the Greatest Game.

ssshhhh!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMcmDTX1JwQ

http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-79-of-sincere-thoughts-played-off-as-jokes,33026/

went to amateur stand-up this evening and it's close to being the worst not-actually-tragic nights of my life.

I've come to the strange realization in recent years that the "tyranny of humour" is actually the tyranny of my own mother, who tends to make an almost constant stream of irrelevant and mostly unfunny "witty" remarks, ruining any normal conversation she takes part in. Well she either ruins it that way or just by slyly shifting the topic to herself in a way that isn't really within the scope of the original conversation.

false laughter and faked emotions exist without time

thats sad u guys should go to a therapist. it's horrible to have "grating" relaionship with loved ones. i used to feel like the above statement re: my mother, self, etc. ican't wait to get to a therapist. my entire family is resolutely mad.

yes, "grating" is the word for it. The real reason it's irritating is that it belies a certain amount of obliviousness to the feelings and interests of other people, which I would guess most people find at worst mildly annoying or at best even charming, but it's depressing for a son.

Take it easy Hurting, she's not going to be there forever and nobody is perfect. Look at the big picture.

I hope you realize, Hurting, that by posting about this issue on an intranetz message borad what you are asking for is some tough love.

holiday confessional ilxing

irony is pretty much our primary tool as a feeling species and eventually when all of us who grew up in the 1990s are finally dead people will remember that the word doesn't mean "making fun of stuff" but refers to an attunement to the failure of expectations that is at root deeply humble, and that since probability and not physics is on some level the mother of the sciences lacking or failing to develop this sense is like never understanding that objects move when you push them, i.e., you won't ever have any idea what's going on

― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour)

booming post tho

most difficult listening hour posts are booming posts

separate thread for 'laughing fits at funerals: what are the protocols?' or can we do that here too

original thought leading to current DN: "the arid banter of Rob Brydon"

twat

well I asked him about you and he says you're lovely, so

even our Hannah joeks about how bad that Blankety Blank rip-off is

Remind me again was part of the basis of this thread a few usuals claiming to be threatened by ppl with senses of humour within normal range or was there more to it (all dues to NV who is often the thoughtful vehicle too much obliging of some deeply questionable passengers imo)

To be clear I feel it wasn't but I do reset to that view in my head, iirc there was a decent discussion of this for a while.

Did, obv, we ever get it sorted? Good to get it up on the FAQ

i think u can just like read the thread?