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
i didn't get it, then i read the comments, now i get it but i'm angry
― cheesons to be rearful (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 September 2021 08:53 (three years ago) link
I guess I still have some schoolboy latin because I got it right away & smh, my nightmare is being around ppl for whom this kind of stuff is the pinnacle of witAlso not sure what is “subtle” about this bit of local pandering
― siffleur’s mom (wins), Sunday, 5 September 2021 09:33 (three years ago) link
the pope doing this = fine, w/e, have funpeople guffawing about it like it's the most witty thing ever written = fuck right off
― fc_TEFH28mo (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 5 September 2021 09:37 (three years ago) link
some of the deeply weird anglican/catholic latinists/priests in the replies/quote tweets really got off on this. Which is what I find very amusing.
― calzino, Sunday, 5 September 2021 09:38 (three years ago) link
see also: cunts who laugh at bad humping jokes in Shakespeare
― cheesons to be rearful (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 September 2021 09:40 (three years ago) link
OMG THE ACTOR DONE A HUMP MIME I THINK MY SIDES HAVE SPLITTED
country matters amirite
― Left, Sunday, 5 September 2021 13:53 (three years ago) link
I did get the Latin on my second try, but I admit my first thought was "you're going home in a fucking ambulance". Which tbf I probably would have found funny coming from the Pope.
― emil.y, Sunday, 5 September 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
the humor of tyranny
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 September 2021 16:00 (three years ago) link
is that like when stalin joked about how he was going to purge you one day and you had to laugh
― Left, Sunday, 5 September 2021 16:42 (three years ago) link
the final form of banter
― Left, Sunday, 5 September 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
Banter road leads to Belsen
― cheesons to be rearful (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 September 2021 18:31 (three years ago) link
Stalin's idea of top bantz with priests was after decades of bulldozing down churches, confiscating monasteries and sending clergy to the gulags he called some chief hierarchs during the war and said what is wrong with you miserable fuckers - we need to work together here!
― calzino, Sunday, 5 September 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link
Cops bantering with the people they arrest, another manifestion of the same thing.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 5 September 2021 18:52 (three years ago) link
this dog outfunneyed the pope
in mexico this dog walked through a parade for the pope thinking it was for him pic.twitter.com/wCBw9AMWWp— Humor And Animals (@humorandanimals) September 5, 2021
― glumdalclitch, Sunday, 5 September 2021 18:58 (three years ago) link
the tyranny of humour and animals etc
― glumdalclitch, Sunday, 5 September 2021 18:59 (three years ago) link
"the humor of tyranny"
a genuinely funny imo example of this is the scene in To Be or Not To Be where the actor playing Hitler walks onto the set to a chorus of "Heil Hitler's" and responds "Heil Myself".
― calzino, Sunday, 5 September 2021 19:20 (three years ago) link
I hadn't seen this thread before so I'm just going to reply to the original question instead of the revive. Sorry to jump into the middle of a conversation! But this made me think about how two of my favorite songwriters are Springsteen and John Prine, and they're in many ways very similar in their preoccupations and the kind of stories they tell, and yet they have these very different approaches to humor that I think end up defining their reputations in a big way. Like, John Prine is known for his humor, it's one of the first things mentioned in all the articles that came out after he died, and that despite his having a ton of grim, grim songs in his catalog. Whereas Springsteen, who can be very funny when he wants to - you see it a ton in his concerts - I think has a general rep as a songwriter for intense seriousness unleavened by humor (or at least not intentional humor.)
And I think that's an exaggeration of both of them but it does get at something real. Like, John Prine's humor isn't a set of haha jokes so much as a kind of detached self-awareness and a constant sense of the absurdity of human existence, which is sort of relatable and distancing at the same time. He'll write something like, "The streetlamp said as it nodded its head, 'It's lonesome out tonight,'" or "bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down/ and won," and you get the sense of someone looking at his own unhappiness from an ironic distance, like ah yes, we're all just wandering through this absurd, surreal world where streetlamps and oatmeal and knickknack shelves and whatever have opinions on how crappily we're living our lives. it me. it all of us.
But Springsteen will write "The dogs on Main Street howl 'cause they understand," and if you stop to think about that it's just as absurd, and yet you don't stop to think about it, the song doesn't let you. This is not funny, it's deadly serious, you are pissed off as fuck and those dogs GET IT!
And you'd think that lack of detachment and self-awareness would be a weak point, and I do think it repels some people, but also invites a really intense and wholehearted commitment once you get past that initial barrier. Like, if you listen to this you'd better be prepared to BE King Lear as a 30-year-old mechanic screaming at the sky for four and a half minutes, and if you can't do that without rolling your eyes, then go away, this isn't for you.
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 5 September 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link