are you some kind of tweeist?

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what is the tweeist thing you have done?

this is quite twee i suppose...

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 11 November 2002 09:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm against Tweeism.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 11 November 2002 10:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Recorded a song with glockenspiel on it. And I will NEVER live this down. No one turned it over and heard the fantastic sub-Velvets spacerock with crazy stereo tremolo on the other side. They just heard the Glockenspiel, went THIS IS TWEE and dismissed it. Sigh.

― kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 11:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't do twee anything. Although I have a Hello Kitty sticker on my walkman and many on my gitbox.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 11 November 2002 11:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Hello Kitty = SURE SIGN YOU ARE PART OF THE AXIS OF TWEEEEVIL!!!

― kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 12:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I own about 40 soft toys.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 11 November 2002 12:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm trying to get rid of twee things in my life, by being as hard as nails. I am not actually very twee anyway, so it's quite easy. I own 3 soft toys, and ahem, a comfort blanket.

― alix (alix), Monday, 11 November 2002 13:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmm...the only Sanrio item I own is a Chococat coin purse. But surely black = Goth?

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 11 November 2002 13:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Gothocat.

― alix (alix), Monday, 11 November 2002 13:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I have an Afro Ken watch and [I left at Gareth's] a multicolored plastic glitter hearts bracelet I got from a cracker. I have 12 soft toys position in every cranny and nook of my bedroom.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 11 November 2002 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I have some cutesy little barrettes I put in from time to time. And loads of glittery lip gloss that was marketed for 14 year olds. The tweeist thing? hmmm... Maybe my senior year of high school when my friends and I had an easter egg hunt together at a park.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 November 2002 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)

does liking the Kings of Convenience make me a tweeist?

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 11 November 2002 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

No, it just makes you a wimp that we should Snicker-snag on. Wait, that's gross.

I have been accused of being twee by some. Ya rat bastards. TWEE PEOPLE DO NOT WORSHIP AMBROSE BIERCE.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

ha i saw ginger bloke from KoC at camden tube trying to work out how to buy a tube ticket the other week. he looked soooo confused, bless his little cotton sox...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

i think most of the music i listen to makes me a tweeist, seeing as most of it has been considered TWEE. Yay, TWEE, TWEE, TWEE!!! It doesn't make me a wimp Ned, it makes me sincere and the chicks dig that.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I was going to say I'm not twee, but now I remember what happened this weekend. My room was painted last week or something and so everything had to be moved out, including these massive teddy things that I've had for years and years, like fucking huge novelty toys. Anyway they'd been moved to the conservatory (it's above the wine cellar but below the swimming pool, ahem). So when me and my friend were drinking on thursday night we decided we needed some company and he put them on chairs around the tables with empty cans in front of them. It was pretty stupid, but they're still there now and anyone who has come in since finds it a bit odd.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

and the chicks dig that

Your wife must really appreciate that these days. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Didn't Suzy punch one of the Kings of Convenience ... ?

― kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

your use of the passive voice in the second sentence betrays your aristo habits well enough, ronan

i have a knit winter hat with a pattern of ducks

*ducks*

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I am the exact opposite of twee.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)

(Haha I am eewt.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)

i meant to follow it up with the chicks did dig that, 7 years ago! the wife chick hates it.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Which is why you have wisely switched to the Adam Ant option, as the man is anything but twee. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I decorate things with Pokemon and have a Sailor Moon scroll hanging in my room, but musically I don't think I'm very twee.

Dan, I thought you were a proponent of Butterfly (Pikachu mix)! (Which of course would automatically make you twee)

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Monday, 11 November 2002 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think I really qualify as twee. Now, before anyone who's been to my house argues with me - THOSE ARE NOT MY STUFFED ANIMALS! I mean, they ARE but not by my own personal choice. Apparently everyone I date thinks I'm 13.

Oh, wait, I guess I watch cartoons sometimes, that's pretty twee.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 11 November 2002 19:35 (twenty-three years ago)

TWEE music rools. Musically, I bet I am the tweeist on ILM. I am not especially twee in my day to day life though.

― g (graysonlane), Monday, 11 November 2002 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)

i am not twee, i do not like stuffed toys and tolerate them in my sons room because he is only 8 months old, otherwise they would not be permitted in the house.

the closest i get to being anywhere Near twee is a cushion i made in the style of a fat cat, and i did that whilst under the ( short-lived ) delusion that the moron i was dating was cool, and he liked 'bagpuss' - apparently a cat on tv from his childhood.

― donna (donna), Monday, 11 November 2002 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I once cried at an episode of the Powerpuff Girls

― Go On (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 November 2002 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

"bagpuss = apparently a cat on tv from his childhood" is like saying "dallas = apparently a soap opera about rich texans"

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 11 November 2002 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

NO DISSING BAGPUSS! And Ronan, one of us (chants with Alang)? But you left out the orangery. (Run! Run while you still can!)

Yes, my life is a mass of lazy bloody student 80s nostalgia, and I am indeed a despicable tweeist, even if I did swear at University Challenge last week when nobody knew who Ambrose Bierce was, so I'm afraid you're wrong, Ned. Sorry and all that.

― Rebecca in space (reb), Monday, 11 November 2002 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I only wear burlap and sleep in sheets made of stainless steel. Yall're pussies.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Monday, 11 November 2002 20:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan, I thought you were a proponent of Butterfly (Pikachu mix)! (Which of course would automatically make you twee)

That merely makes me a proponent of absurdity.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 November 2002 20:13 (twenty-three years ago)

One Christmas I made my tiny greyhound wear the fuzzy, monogrammed sweater my mother had knitted for the dog. I recall that a greyhound wearing a fuzzy sweater is Mr. Perry's very definition of twee.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 11 November 2002 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)

ESPECIALLY a tiny greyhound. (I must now find the thread where I said this.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 November 2002 20:23 (twenty-three years ago)

behold

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 11 November 2002 20:33 (twenty-three years ago)

The only review of my band so far:

"The Id took the stage next, and one of the band's members wore a K Records t-shirt, which appeared to foreshadow the The Id's sound - minimalist rock with purposefully off-kilter drumming and vocals. The band seemed very practiced in their slightly off-balance twee pop, bringing to mind many K Records bands."

We were pissed. Then we cried. Just kidding about the crying.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Monday, 11 November 2002 20:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Can someone please explain to me how ILM's hardline anti-tweeites are fundamentally different from the gay-baiting frat-rockers that said anti-tweeites also so often claim to despise?

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 11 November 2002 21:14 (twenty-three years ago)

WTF? Are you serious?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 November 2002 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck you mark! Let's go get the keg, Dan.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Monday, 11 November 2002 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

WTF? Are you serious?

Haha! Well, kinda, yeah.

(Or maybe I just have an especially out-of-whack definition of twee. I wouldn't have linked Hello Kitty and stuffed animals to twee; more cordouroy and Belle & Sebastian and... ah fuck it.)

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 11 November 2002 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

NB: I am NOT twee!

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 11 November 2002 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I take severe issue with the statement "You dislike twee => You like homophobic frat-rock". That's not a valid inference.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 November 2002 21:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't say that, Dan!

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 11 November 2002 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Perry, DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LETS HIT THE BEER HUT!!!!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 11 November 2002 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

B-b-b-but will they have apricot wheat ale?

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 11 November 2002 21:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I was going for the weaker interpretation. The stronger interpretation is "You dislike twee => You are a homophobic frat-rocker", which is even worse.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 November 2002 21:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Carsmile, I've *been* on the rtube several times with Erlend, who lived here for long enough! You're just trying to hang with the un-twee kidz, admit it :)

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 11 November 2002 21:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan, the correlation I was making was one of seemingly similar (dis)spirit; I absolutely at no point meant to imply that anti-tweeism was latent homophobia (or for that matter, latent frat-rockism).

(Anyway, this was a fun thread and I'm sorry for derailing it.)

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 11 November 2002 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

was bagpuss cool? i like my cushion but never saw the show, i dont think it even got here.
mine had a handle but it fell off, and his whiskers have disappeared inside his tum somehow :-(

― donna (donna), Monday, 11 November 2002 22:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Urgh, stuffed animals, gonks, etc make me RAGE. They are HORRIBLE.

Also despite being small and accused of Tweevil on many occasions (mostly by Nick trying to wind me up), I prefer Murakami to Sanrio in any case.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 11 November 2002 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)

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the ironing is delicious

perhaps i should have said 'death to contrived twee'

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 20 March 2003 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

the ironing?

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 20 March 2003 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

soz, simpons reference

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 20 March 2003 01:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Twee=contrived!

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 20 March 2003 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Hello trees! Hello Taglet! Hello big red fire engine!

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 20 March 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Big *bad* fire engine, actually.

― Tag (Tag), Thursday, 20 March 2003 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Although Amelia Fletcher suggested we call it "Big red love pump", as I recall.

― Tag (Tag), Thursday, 20 March 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"It".

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 20 March 2003 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Exactly.

― Tag (Tag), Thursday, 20 March 2003 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I received a Candy D*rlings retrospective CDR in the post last night.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 20 March 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

You lucky devil. Actually, I don't think I ever heard them. They may be the future of music for all I know. Are they the future of music?

― Tag (Tag), Thursday, 20 March 2003 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

No. See the Fallacy & Fusion thread on LIM for that. Sorry that wasn't very twee. The future of music = the video for "My Suitor" which I saw the other day. They move! A bit!

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 20 March 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

whoops, ILM I mean. I don't know what LIM is.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 20 March 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

You saw the video to "My suitor"? How? I am jealous.

― Tag (Tag), Thursday, 20 March 2003 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Keith D had it on his computer in NYC (also an interview with Drita & the boys on tele Belgique). But "My Suitor" isn't twee either, obv., and I'll fight the man who says it is.

I know what LIM is now: http://www.lim.com/

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 20 March 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll fight them too.

I need this video in my life.

― Tag (Tag), Thursday, 20 March 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Elisabeth has written a good anti-twee manifesto, it should cme out soonish

tee hee hee I sincerely hope she wears her yellow cardigan with the little elephant on the pocket to the official anti-twee manifesto release party!

*ducks back into the shadows until next time calum sends me a link as good as this*

― alex (alex), Thursday, 20 March 2003 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Twee=contrived!

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 20 March 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

four weeks pass...

I made a flower pot for my high school girlfriend and painted it pink and purple (I swear, I thought the colors would be deeper and less twee when they tried) and brought it to her house but her dad was there and he gave me a funny look when I handed it to him.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 18 April 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

We are The Twee-est Generation

― Aaron A., Friday, 18 April 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

één, twee, drie, vier, vijf.

― €rik, Friday, 18 April 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

REVIVE!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Is a peace-sign tattoo twee or just indescribably lame? (There are mitigating circumstances, honest.)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

it is a tweettoo!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:56 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

http://img44.photobucket.com/albums/v136/primrosehill/emilywitharabstrap.jpg

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I've gone and posted that, haven't I?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/aqkorhon/kaivopuisto2.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, or any of your pictures! (No offense, I'm the same.)

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Last weekend I had lunch in a country café. A COUNTRY CAFÉ. And it had SCONES.

― That's the Way (uh huh uh huh) I Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, this is perhaps even twee-er than that BandS one up there:

http://img44.photobucket.com/albums/v136/primrosehill/MVC-004X.jpg

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.stashtea.com/cat-gif/801009f.jpg

― That's the Way (uh huh uh huh) I Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The reason I post the same pics repeatedly is that there aren't any other pictures of me online. Plus I'm an egoist, obviously.

If the previous pic wasn't twee enough, there's always these two:
http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/aqkorhon/kaarela2.jpg http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/aqkorhon/meilahti1.jpg

And this:
http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/aqkorhon/suomenlinna5.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Roxy, what IS that green picture all about? Are you stabbing yourself with a snake?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

it's the new belle and sebastien ep

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

girl with the nylon strap

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I prefer my snake idea.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

for me, it has to be a tossup between this:

http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/eb5f5b5_m40c466cd/bc/bea1/__sr_/127b.jpg?phygEBBBDPdyfaGm

and this:

http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/eb5f5b5_m40c466cd/bc/bea1/__sr_/f20e.jpg?phqgEBBBmumhTYSZ

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

goddamn the B&S pic is cracking me up.

I'm guessing I'm too tall and gawky to achieve tweeness. It always comes out emo.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

or gay.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

my god, dude, you really do look different in every picture.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

the question is, which one is me?

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/saint.jpg

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

this was actually taken a couple of years back
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v323/kenjuggle/front.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 July 2004 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

and this was taken when i was 12, obv.
ihttp://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v323/kenjuggle/DCP_1365.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 July 2004 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Somehow that pic is even twee-er now that I know you took it in Glasgow.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 26 July 2004 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

it was taken the day before the fabled one-time-only Red Bull Dozers concert.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 July 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Does the book make it more twee or less?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

a balloon just nearly came down in my yard!

― George W. ILX (ex machina), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Tuomas --

the tweeness can be explained thusly:

http://gauntlet.ucalgary.ca/imgcache/200__~gauntlet_eg_eg2_20031204_belle.jpg

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

http://chicagoist.com/2012/05/30/twee_universe_collapses_on_itself_a.php

― buzza, Sunday, 3 June 2012 03:41 (thirteen years ago)

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