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― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 13:14 (three years ago) link
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.
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 13:16 (three years ago) link
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― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 13:17 (three years ago) link
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.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 13:37 (three years ago) link
i'd like to think he started it as an arch commentary on why he barely posts
― imago, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 13:47 (three years ago) link
xps to OLScamp Granada (gyac)Posted: 21 March 2021 at 18:19:58My 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”.
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 13:50 (three years ago) link
It's good to know that you don't blame me for my feelings about this thread.
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 13:54 (three years ago) link
Be the change you want to see in ILX.
― epistantophus, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 13:59 (three years ago) link
(farts)
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:00 (three years ago) link
Streisand effect ftw.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:07 (three years ago) link
I don't think so, it's seems fairly representative of ken's posting style.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:22 (three years ago) link
so glad that Old Lunch came here to demonstrate the tyranny of humour in the tyranny of humour thread ...
― sarahell, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 15:41 (three years ago) link
It's the least I could do.
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 15:43 (three years ago) link
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
― sarahell, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 15:45 (three years ago) link
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
― sarahell, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 15:48 (three years ago) link
This thread has made its flatulent instigator that much more funny, so thanks for that.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 15:51 (three years ago) link
Cruelty isn't humour, btw.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:24 (three years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:26 (three years ago) link
I am not saying that!
― imago, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:30 (three years ago) link
Spirited back-and-forth
― imago, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:31 (three years ago) link
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.
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:35 (three years ago) link
you certainly are the butt in this instance
― imago, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:36 (three years ago) link
i think imago just misses his old m8 nakh very much
― sarahell, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:37 (three years ago) link
obviously this can be done while also being supportive to one another's distresses, problems & such and i don't mean to be callous
― imago, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:38 (three years ago) link
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
― sarahell, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:40 (three years ago) link
nakh is not mine to bring back
― sarahell, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:41 (three years ago) link
imago -- what if the fart jokes were in Latin?
an eight-legged essay of fart jokes!
― calzino, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link
what's the difference between a Cambridge Don and a Fart Joke?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:44 (three years ago) link
It is a truth universally acknowledged by all ilxors that eventually ones beautifully conceived threads will just end up as methane repositories.
― Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:46 (three years ago) link
. . . subtile et leue peditum Libonis . . .
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
somehow I knew Catullus would make it here
― imago, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:50 (three years ago) link
Indeed.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:52 (three years ago) link
ok i'm going to read the fart thread, and award some sort of grotesque quasi-excelsior to the Least Unfunny Post therein
― imago, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:53 (three years ago) link
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
― imago, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link
Thank goodness you survived yr perilous journey into puerility, plz loosen yr ascot and have a lie-down before you succumb to the vapors
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 17:05 (three years ago) link
ah yes the smell of Old Lunch ... sorry, I would rather watch Bosom Manor re-runs
― sarahell, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 17:17 (three years ago) link
I also miss nakh, though.
emil.y otm -- policing the excelsior thread is nagl
― sarahell, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 17:19 (three years ago) link
Maybe I would make better jokes if we had a thread where someone took nakh's jokes and Big-Birded them to me.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
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?
― emil.y, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 17:23 (three years ago) link
xp - I forget, were you formerly "the useless moderator how's life"?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie... methane
― succor MC (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 17:57 (three years ago) link
xp - yes, but I understood that one.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 18:27 (three years ago) link
no offense, but I get you and man alive confused.
― sarahell, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 18:29 (three years ago) link
not all mans
― jammy mcnullity (wins), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 19:06 (three years ago) link
BEST JOKE I HAVE RECENTLY HEARDThere are 2 kinds of people, those who can extrapolate from incomplete information
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 00:53 (three years ago) link
Privileged to be a guest at the consecration of a new bishop @LiverpoolMet yesterday. Some subtle wit here from @Pontifex in the papal mandate for a Liverpool bishop. pic.twitter.com/GZEbnULJOy— Crispin Pailing (@crispin_pailing) September 4, 2021
― calzino, Sunday, 5 September 2021 08:34 (three years ago) link