level 5
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Friday, 3 May 2013 04:46 (eleven years ago) link
the tyranny of invisible levels
― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Friday, 3 May 2013 04:49 (eleven years ago) link
Exclusive pic of an ilx moderator unwinding in the 77 board's member's only lounge:
http://buildaclubhouse.com/images/cushion-clubhouse.jpeg
― Aimless, Friday, 3 May 2013 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
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
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Friday, 3 May 2013 04:52 (eleven years ago) link
for me to poop on
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Friday, 3 May 2013 04:53 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Friday, 3 May 2013 04:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=51
― Mordy, Friday, 3 May 2013 04:55 (eleven years ago) link
Be careful you don't come back in toothpicks, Treeship.
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 May 2013 05:00 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Friday, 3 May 2013 05:14 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Friday, 3 May 2013 06:50 (eleven years ago) link
I would like to be on 77 too pls.
― the questeon
― buzza, Friday, 3 May 2013 06:54 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 3 May 2013 07:03 (eleven years ago) link
ssshhhh!!
― Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Friday, 3 May 2013 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMcmDTX1JwQ
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 May 2013 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-79-of-sincere-thoughts-played-off-as-jokes,33026/
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 8 July 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
went to amateur stand-up this evening and it's close to being the worst not-actually-tragic nights of my life.
― Fizzles, Monday, 8 July 2013 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Saturday, 30 November 2013 21:58 (ten years ago) link
false laughter and faked emotions exist without time
― Phoebe (color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that), Saturday, 30 November 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Phoebe (color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that), Saturday, 30 November 2013 22:10 (ten years ago) link
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.
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Sunday, 1 December 2013 01:18 (ten years ago) link
Take it easy Hurting, she's not going to be there forever and nobody is perfect. Look at the big picture.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Sunday, 1 December 2013 01:33 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Skatalite of Dub (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 December 2013 01:46 (ten years ago) link
holiday confessional ilxing
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Sunday, 1 December 2013 02:12 (ten years ago) link
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
― dn/ac (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 01:48 (ten years ago) link
most difficult listening hour posts are booming posts
― Treeship, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 01:55 (ten years ago) link
separate thread for 'laughing fits at funerals: what are the protocols?' or can we do that here too
― dn/ac (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 02:03 (ten years ago) link
original thought leading to current DN: "the arid banter of Rob Brydon"
twat
― arid banter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 June 2014 06:39 (ten years ago) link
well I asked him about you and he says you're lovely, so
― dn/ac (darraghmac), Friday, 6 June 2014 06:58 (ten years ago) link
even our Hannah joeks about how bad that Blankety Blank rip-off is
― arid banter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 June 2014 07:43 (ten years ago) link
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)
― darraghmac, Saturday, 19 December 2015 03:12 (eight years ago) link
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
― darraghmac, Saturday, 19 December 2015 03:19 (eight years ago) link
i think u can just like read the thread?
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 December 2015 07:48 (eight years ago) link
:O
― just sayin, Saturday, 19 December 2015 08:07 (eight years ago) link
Feel tyrannised
― darraghmac, Saturday, 19 December 2015 09:09 (eight years ago) link
Gershy never had to put up with this shit I'm sayin
― darraghmac, Saturday, 19 December 2015 09:16 (eight years ago) link
Started with me wondering why kids couldn't just blog about their art projects without trying to work a stand-up routine in there iirc
― djfartin (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 December 2015 09:17 (eight years ago) link
I remember really agreeing with this thread when you posted it. Yet now I live somewhere that no one understands my dialect, and i can't be casually jokey in a natural way, and i feel like im fundamentally unable to express myself
― Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 19 December 2015 09:24 (eight years ago) link
yeah i'm probably tyrannically "funny guy" myself quite often when talking to people but here's the thing, when i catch myself doing it sometimes it feels like i'm performing rather than sincerely one to one communicating and that i think is the tyranny of every fucker wants to be Jimmy Carr
― djfartin (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 December 2015 09:35 (eight years ago) link
I think being "funny guy" isn't just about self-serving performance - and if showboating can make you feel better about yourself sometimes, there's nothing wrong with that - just as long as you understand when to turn it off. I work in a pretty emotionally demanding office - from the level of bureaucracy and bad managerial behaviour, to the nature of the work itself (helping child refugees). When life is tense, humour - even of the showboating variety, although preferably not - can put people at ease and designate places as safe spaces, where people can speak more freely.
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 19 December 2015 12:49 (eight years ago) link
(i.e. a good joke can free up a room of people to talk more honestly, rather than just create a circle jerk of one-upping banter)
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 19 December 2015 12:57 (eight years ago) link
article starts interesting and then talks about amy schumer, the ostensible reason for it, and then gets boring fast: http://thebaffler.com/salvos/knock-yourselves-out-schwartz
― germane geir hongro (s.clover), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 20:27 (eight years ago) link
I have been working a lot lately on reducing my own use of humor and irony as a social defense, at just being able to take new people as they are, ask them genuine questions about themselves, take interest in them as people and be decent to them. It's partly a necessity of the awkwardness of being in this totally new social situation where people I never would have been friends with before are now my scene, being "dads" and living in the neighborhood. It's also a matter of overcoming personal insecurities and realizing that there's no reason to expect people to have some kind of natural dislike of me if I don't disarm them with humor.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 03:20 (eight years ago) link
Did, obv, we ever get it sorted?
Otm
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 12:37 (eight years ago) link
"“Punching up” and “punching down” are relatively new pop-political terms, often found not far from words like “mansplaining,” “problematic,” and “trolling.”"insightful
― kinder, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 13:39 (eight years ago) link
Problematic for the People
This would have given me a chuckle if it was about Peter Buck making an off-color remark.
― how's life, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 13:50 (eight years ago) link
Like man alive, I am actively trying not to use humor as a default social pose.
That said, I'm rarely trying to be "funny" in the conventional ha-ha sense, but I _think_ that I think in jokes - they are pretty much how I process the world.
To be more precise, the way I think is heavily dependent on quasi-jokey constructs especially puns and absurd exaggerations.
My mind is very language-based; correspondences between words preoccupy me 24/7. I could no sooner stop seeing anagrams, palindromes, and homonyms than I could stop seeing colors. I saw the word "standoffish" yesterday and went on a long mental expedition where it became "stand of fish," and so there I was imagining a fish-selling stand, and by the time I got back to the sentence in question, I'd lost the original thread of whatever it was I'd been reading. If I see a 2-pack of something in a store, I will reflexively call it a Shakur. It's hard for me to say the word "warmth" without reflecting on how "coolth" isn't its opposite. None of this is really funny or original, it's just how my brain occupies itself.
Sometimes I say stuff like this out loud, and people think I'm trying to be funny - as in, trying to make people laugh / trying to garner attention for myself / trying to be thought original or cute. But it's really not that, it's just that this is the way my mind works and I can't stop it. It is incumbent on me to curtail it.
The absurd exaggeration or completely over-the-top inappropriate suggestion is another tic, one I wish I could turn off. If I'm standing next to a barbecue grill and holding a baby, I'm going to suggest that the baby would be tasty if given a ginger-lime marinade. When I forget where my keys are, I tell my wife that it's time to put me out on the ice floe to die.
Again, none of this is really LOL funny, but it's where my head goes: say the thing that is very much not so, as a means of indicating that I really do love the baby and would absolutely never put her on the grill. Nabokov said something once about how his evilest characters are like gargoyles on the exteriors of cathedrals: they adorn the OUTSIDE, to show that they've been expelled and they're not inside.
― too much blood in my alcoholstream (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 14:13 (eight years ago) link
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coolth
to save you the effort the page lists "Clotho" as an anagram
― conrad, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I am also a compulsive mental punner. I was just talking with my wife about that the other day, who is completely not one at all to the point that she was actually curious as to how I come up with all my stupid puns.
I have a running joke with my four-year-old, who asks for a granola/kashii bar every morning by saying "can I have my bar now?" And I always respond "what, you want a barn owl?" And we riff on this for a few minutes and it never seems to get old. Or she'll say "Okay, so..." and I'll say "What? Queso?"
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link
I read the punching up piece btw, and even had an exchange with its offer. I didn't much like it, and I hate to be that guy but it's noteworthy that the author and the comedians he quotes complaining about the phrase are white dudes. As I pointed out to him in the exchange, being "funny" should not be the supreme value, and in fact it's super easy to be "funny" by being crass or mean, probably the easiest way to get laughs. That's why they're called "cheap laughs." That's why every shitty nobody stand-up comic you go see in the worst dive clubs relies on bad ethnic stereotypes, women are dumb or annoying, non-punchline punchlines about sex and bodily functions, etc.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 14:26 (eight years ago) link