King Crumsob haha
― Preach The Crapen (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 28 October 2023 19:07 (eleven months ago) link
In the Hole of the Moping Crum
― budo jeru, Sunday, 29 October 2023 01:15 (eleven months ago) link
gah, just mixed up KC and Grieg again, lol
― budo jeru, Sunday, 29 October 2023 01:19 (eleven months ago) link
King Crumsbob (cos he is, by all or many accounts)
― dow, Sunday, 29 October 2023 01:23 (eleven months ago) link
i know that a surprising percentage of trucks are trans, but this is the first time i've seen a _4chan_ trans truck
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 29 October 2023 13:42 (eleven months ago) link
(less surprising are the number of truckers who are... _gender non-conforming_)
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 29 October 2023 13:45 (eleven months ago) link
king crywank― scanner darkly
― scanner darkly
what's with "crywank", anyway? "tearjerker" not a good enough word?
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 29 October 2023 23:26 (eleven months ago) link
borrowed from the “Artists You've Written Off/Pointedly Ignored because of their name” thread
― scanner darkly, Monday, 30 October 2023 16:45 (eleven months ago) link
ain't going to that thread but i do hope there is a band called the crywankers now
― BEWARE! SPOOKY! BOO! (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:27 (eleven months ago) link
Chris Martin side project
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 03:01 (eleven months ago) link
Boys Don't Crywank
― Breakfast at Tiffani Amber Thiessen's (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 03:31 (eleven months ago) link
It's My Party And I'll Crywank If I Want To
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 06:40 (eleven months ago) link
I'm so lonesome I could stop this now
― Left, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 08:28 (eleven months ago) link
https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/35/590x/secondary/The-original-Cry-video-806579.jpg?r=1686998680160
― soref, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 08:47 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.kuntandthegang.co.uk/images/shop/a1244984697_16.jpg https://www.kuntandthegang.co.uk/images/shop/a0802444472_16.jpg https://www.kuntandthegang.co.uk/images/shop/a2132824978_16.jpg
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 12:14 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3BzzNUyBRE
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 12:17 (eleven months ago) link
Wankin' on Bobo
― don't let days go by, Listerine (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 12:18 (eleven months ago) link
ha if hunt3r wont go the thread, then the thread-- oh no!
― BEWARE! SPOOKY! BOO! (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 14:06 (eleven months ago) link
― don't let days go by, Listerine (Ye Mad Puffin)
everybody remembers the album as being called "The Clones of Dr. Wankenstein", but all the copies of the album clearly say "The Clones of Dr. Wankenstain". This is an example of the "Mandela Effect", which has in turn led to widespread conspiracy theories about alternate timelines.
To me, though, it's all about the pronunciation of "Wankenstain" on the iconic title track:
We love to wank you, Wankenstain! Your wank is the best!Take my body, give it the mind to wank with the rest.
It's spelled "Wankenstain", but it's prounced "stein", not "stain".
That's not to say that we're not in some fucked-up alternate timeline, or that there might not be some timeline where it's spelled "Wankenstein". I've always thought of it as "Wankenstain". I mean, there's a pun there, right? That's the whole point.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 15:22 (eleven months ago) link
Further notes:
Various online sources give the lyrics to the second line as "Wank my body and give it the mind...", however, the official lyrics, as found in the 1996 Parliament/Wankadelic box set "Give Up the Wank: Tear the Roof off the Wanker" confirm that the lyrics do in fact go "Take my body, give it the mind...". Another argument against the so-called "Mandela Effect" is that we sometimes _misremember things_. If our memories were to be trusted, the lyrics to all of Parliament/Wankadelic's songs would just be a load of wanks.
It's also of note that Parliament's use of "Wankenstain" to refer to the doctor accords with the terminology used by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's classic novel _Wankenstein_ - and note here that Shelley _does_ refer to the novel as "Wankenstein" and not "Wankenstain", another probably reason for the confusion. The "Wankenstain" pun just wouldn't have worked in Shelley's day - although "wank" to refer to masturbation was well-attested by this point, the use of "wankstain" to refer to the discharge produced by masturbation had not come into widespread use yet.
Shelley, it is often noted by pedants, used the term "Wankenstein" exclusively to refer to Doctor Victor von Wankenstein. However, it is equally incorrect to refer to "Wankenstein's Monster". It is hardly credible to refer what Shelley consistently refers to as "the Creature" as a "monster" - based on context clues within Shelley's original novel, it is unlikely to be more than nine inches - hardly what I would call "monstrous" proportions! Why, I've taken...
Ahem.
In any event, understanding of Shelley's work has perhaps suffered a little bit from later adaptations, adaptations which significantly alter her source material. In particular, the visual appearance of the creature in James Whale's iconic 1931 film bears no resemblance whatsoever to the creature in Shelley's book. In addition, the behavior of Whale's creature is entirely different. While in Whale's movie, the creature makes no more than guttural outbursts, in the original novel, the creature is intelligent and articulate. I'm certainly sympathetic to the transmasculine contemporary reading of "Wankenstein", but it's not one that's necessarily reflective of Shelley herself.
Indeed, "Wankenstein" is one of those works of art which has engendered (no pun intended) both transmasculine _and_ transfeminine readings. Unlike with other works to garner such interpretations such as "The Addams Family" and "The Legend of Zelda", transmasculine and transfeminine meanings accrue to different versions of the work. The transmasculine reading primarily takes as its source material the film by James Whale, a cisgender homosexual man. In contrast, the transfeminine reading, as expressed in the seminal "trans studies" essay "My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage" (take a shot), takes as its origin the original novel written by Mary Shelley, a cisgender heterosexual woman (making allowances for the fact that both "cisgender" and "heterosexual" are anachronistic terms when applied to Shelley's era.)
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 16:09 (eleven months ago) link
Don't kill us, we'll kill you
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 20:13 (eleven months ago) link
this is another anachronism but I'm pretty sure shelley was "bi" by today's standards (presumably still "cis" although the book does give me pause)
― Left, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 20:45 (eleven months ago) link
Pete or Percy B?
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 21:36 (eleven months ago) link
pete but I'm illiterate
― Left, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 21:40 (eleven months ago) link
I meant mary though
― Left, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 21:41 (eleven months ago) link
that's what i get for not doing my research lol
also i have no idea when "wank" and "wankstain" are first attested in the english language, i made that up
_is_ pete shelley bisexual? i don't actually care but i'm asking anyway
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 13:58 (eleven months ago) link
Yep.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:06 (eleven months ago) link
yes I think he even used the word
(as for mary she was passionately in love with the men she was devoted to and very good friends with the women because that's how historical evidence works)
if wankstain was actually coined by one of that crowd it would probably be byron - mary could be gross but that kind of gross seems more in his wheelhouse
― Left, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:20 (eleven months ago) link
Byron loved his choirboys.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:42 (eleven months ago) link
"the"
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 16:11 (eleven months ago) link
what is Sister Rosetta Tharpe singing from 2:25 here? No looking it up, just what do you hear?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkD0hDi9ZIo
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 18:25 (eleven months ago) link
this traindon't pull no wiggasuh uhthis train!
(admittedly, this doesn't make the rhyme work in the end)
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 23:58 (eleven months ago) link
"yeah, this is a clean train"
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 23:59 (eleven months ago) link
(no worries, friends. flagging myself. cheers.)
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Thursday, 2 November 2023 00:00 (eleven months ago) link
"this train don't pull no winkers"
it's a bit garbled. she probably got momentarily distracted and her mouth couldn't catch up with the lyric. that's common enough, but once you get to the rhyme with "whiskey drinkers" it makes sense if you imagine men salaciously winking at young women & them winking back.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 2 November 2023 01:21 (eleven months ago) link
I thought it might be "pull no anchors", as in people unwilling to commit?
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 2 November 2023 02:45 (eleven months ago) link
come on now. there's no way it's anything but "wankers"
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 2 November 2023 08:30 (eleven months ago) link
misheard lyrics is where ilx is a viking
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 2 November 2023 18:01 (eleven months ago) link
your mum
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Thursday, 2 November 2023 20:06 (eleven months ago) link
lol
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 November 2023 20:23 (eleven months ago) link
heartbreaking that that wasn't the first response
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 November 2023 20:43 (eleven months ago) link
Agree.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 November 2023 21:36 (eleven months ago) link
pic.twitter.com/DgdfZ6R22M— law dog, esq. (@ggooooddddoogg) November 2, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 November 2023 22:39 (eleven months ago) link
when AIP released the film in the US they referred to him as "The Smog Monster".
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 3 November 2023 03:14 (eleven months ago) link
Red Motorcycle Football Club?
― brimstead, Friday, 3 November 2023 21:55 (eleven months ago) link
first you eat the albatross, then you eat the rich.
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Saturday, 4 November 2023 01:33 (eleven months ago) link
*explaining to the wife that you will now stop washing the dishes or yourself for the rest of your life as you monitor the internet for posts that offend humanity*
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― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 November 2023 11:59 (eleven months ago) link
just post the Twitter links
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 23:13 (ten months ago) link
Agreed, if you’re gonna have a schtickt, may as well own it and let the haters hate
― #1 García Fan (H.P), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 23:19 (ten months ago) link
if you show up to a protest with an american flag you are also a fascist so
― budo jeru, Thursday, 9 November 2023 19:18 (ten months ago) link