The Tyranny of Humour

Some really funny stuff on twitter.com ime

On some days the John Cage-ification of the oldest joke in the world is preferable to the dazzling Tyranny of Cenacle Wit.

If i started a thread about it being good to be able to laugh i doubt the tenor of responses would be any different so im glad i havent tbh

listen, i feel like everyone is afraid of something: being asked to make everyone else laugh. everyone is asking everyone else to laugh, and everyone is feeling all the feelings all about it.

but i will do what no one else has ever done, infinitely, before: i will not ask anyone to make me laugh, ever

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The fart song thread was good for a few cheap laffs and I'd moved on days ago but now I'm feeling strangely compelled to make sure that thing gets bumped to the top of SNA in perpetuity.

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obviously a thinly-veiled continuation of my attack on ilx - 'the tyranny of lame humour' - excelsior tariff lower than ever, genuine waspish wit or ingenuity at an all-time retreat, j'accuse

The irony of this being that the offending thread was started by an old school ILXor who literally posts about once a year.

i'd like to think he started it as an arch commentary on why he barely posts

xps to OL

Scamp Granada (gyac)
Posted: 21 March 2021 at 18:19:58
My stance on stupid threads is that people should be contributing more to ones they like to keep bad threads down, but I also don’t blame anyone for seeing bad threads and thinking “fuck this”.

It's good to know that you don't blame me for my feelings about this thread.

Be the change you want to see in ILX.

(farts)

Streisand effect ftw.

i'd like to think he started it as an arch commentary on why he barely posts

I don't think so, it's seems fairly representative of ken's posting style.

so glad that Old Lunch came here to demonstrate the tyranny of humour in the tyranny of humour thread ...

It's the least I could do.

but sincerely -- it's easier with music, in that, you can avoid threads about music you dislike or don't find interesting ... with humor, it doesn't quite work that way

like the only way that I have found it to be remotely feasible is to make boring sounding threads on a sub-board and then only "my kind of funny" people post there ... you can't just have a NO FART JOKES ALLOWED thread and expect that to be taken seriously

This thread has made its flatulent instigator that much more funny, so thanks for that.

Cruelty isn't humour, btw.

genuine waspish wit - I mean, you're just saying you want everyone to be horrible to each other here. That might be fine for you but tbh my life is shit enough without people who think they're Dorothy Parker making it worse for shits and giggles.

I am not saying that!

Spirited back-and-forth

xxpost Yeah, that's one variety of humor I have no truck with. It's fine if the butt is in on the joke (anything between consenting adults etc.) but that seems too often to be of little concern to the acid-tongued jokester. The true tyranny lies in people being needless dicks to others imo.

And this comes from a familiar place as stinging jibes are like the easiest thing in the world for me to conjure up and I make an active effort to tamp down that inner asshole because it's jest feckin unseemleh.

you certainly are the butt in this instance

i think imago just misses his old m8 nakh very much

obviously this can be done while also being supportive to one another's distresses, problems & such and i don't mean to be callous

do bring back nakh tho

and honestly there are plenty of avenues for funny that aren't the LCD Fartsystem threads ... and that aren't just people being dicks to one another

nakh is not mine to bring back

imago -- what if the fart jokes were in Latin?

an eight-legged essay of fart jokes!

what's the difference between a Cambridge Don and a Fart Joke?

It is a truth universally acknowledged by all ilxors that eventually ones beautifully conceived threads will just end up as methane repositories.

. . . subtile et leue peditum Libonis . . .

somehow I knew Catullus would make it here

i think imago just misses his old m8 nakh very much

Indeed.

ok i'm going to read the fart thread, and award some sort of grotesque quasi-excelsior to the Least Unfunny Post therein

Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 21 March 2021 12:40 (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

i was almost amused imagining the actual song to be about a fart, so this wins Least Unfunny, but it was all about as horrific as i had feared

Thank goodness you survived yr perilous journey into puerility, plz loosen yr ascot and have a lie-down before you succumb to the vapors

ah yes the smell of Old Lunch ... sorry, I would rather watch Bosom Manor re-runs

I dunno, I'm just tired and sad and would prefer a thousand Cuddlestein Mountains to a single perfectly-formed barb right now. And I don't want to start a fight or anything, you know I consider you a bud, imago, but the least funny stuff on Excelsior threads is you telling people that the thing they laughed at isn't funny, and that they should feel bad for finding it funny, and that the poor person who made the post in the first place and didn't even post it in that thread is also a bad person, and that in fact all of us are terrible humans for not living up to your standard of highbrow wit.

I also miss nakh, though.

emil.y otm -- policing the excelsior thread is nagl

Maybe I would make better jokes if we had a thread where someone took nakh's jokes and Big-Birded them to me.

Honestly, I do think being able to craft a good barb or retort is a great skill, used wisely. But I also like fart jokes and puns. Why not sample everything on the humour platter, rather than restricting yourself and everyone else to a single type?

xp - I forget, were you formerly "the useless moderator how's life"?

She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie... methane

xp - yes, but I understood that one.