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"Seemingly unplanned gatherings of large groups of people that converge in public (or semipublic) places for brief periods of time. All members of a Flash Mob simultaneously converge to form the mob and then quickly disperse again at a given time, all members departing in different directions."

http://www.ukflashmob.com

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Pointless but quite possibly hugely entertaining dada-esque art happening, or just pointless?

Either way, I'm *so* there!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

With all these threads, I'm beginning to think people are on-line flashmobbing.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Poor Flash.

http://www.moviepostersdelach.com/pics/ithlv/flashgrdn.jpg

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

With all these threads, I'm beginning to think people are on-line flashmobbing.

I searched! I swear I frickin' searched! With both engines! And came up with nothing!

More grist to the "bring back the old search facility" mill, then.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

No biggie, just that there have been at least two already.
With the search function like it is, I just go to the screen that shows all the questions for the past month or so and CNTL-F my keyword there.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

how does this relate to situitionist pyschogeography, and is that the wankiest wuestion i have ever asked ?

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 14 August 2003 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i want to play, either way

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 14 August 2003 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

well, the trend is officially dead. There's a story about it in my hometown newspaper (a wire story, but still), so it's no longer hip. Fucking hippies.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I think a flash FAP is the way to go.
Like one person goes into a pub and order 200 pints. 10 minutes later 200 fappers walk in, down their pints and leave.

― Simeon (Simeon), Thursday, 14 August 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

flashmobbing got mentioned on terry and gaby (daytime, channel5 = lowest of low in televisual terms) therefore it is already uncool.

it wasn't even gaby, it was jenny. that's how bad it is.

andy

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 14 August 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

That took about a week. How long will it be before something is over before it even happens?

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Thursday, 14 August 2003 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

ah david - what a lovely thing to say!

― jed-e-3, Thursday, 14 August 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Really? I was going for bitter and pessimistic. There have been two here in the last week and they were both in the newspaper the day before and apparently there was more media at yesterday's than actual participants. That kind of defeats the point doesn't it.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Friday, 15 August 2003 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah it made one of the big daily papers in Melbourne, too - v small article that I only noticed because I now know what this is... but who cares if that makes it uncool? The idea of people staring at toy dinosaurs then falling on the ground screaming, and suchlike, is hilariously dada to me and I'd be up for it (I think Melb is doing one next week?)

(xpost) hmm. The media being present to expect something makes it way more sucky. But there must be ways around that...

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 15 August 2003 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

YEP - i agree with you dave - i just thought it was a beautiful sentence :-)

― jed-e-3, Friday, 15 August 2003 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

It's such a cool thing to do - such a shame it'll be over before it gets to flourish.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 15 August 2003 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it hopelessly uncool for me to admit total bafflement over this? I mean, it's not like this is the first trend or trendy thing (however short its life span is/was) I've totally missed the boat on. I keep on seeing "metrosexual" and thinking it's some lexicographer's way of taking the piss, and it was only after I actually went to that "hipster bingo" site that I've not only heard about this phenomenon but have also "gotten" all of the things listed therein.

Oh, don't mind me, dearest grandchildren. I'll just fetch me walker.

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 15 August 2003 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I went last night out of curiosity (and in the hope that some dumb silly fun might be had). Hardly anyone there, we got approached by a German TV crew who wanted to film us but we swore too much so they went away.

I love the idea of the flashmob but it's scuppered by its own publicity and the resulting lack of spontineity.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 15 August 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Trig Brother = flashmob played at 16rpm but with the crucial additional element of competition.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 15 August 2003 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone flashmobbing this evening in London?

― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 21 August 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Flashmobbing is *so* last week!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 21 August 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Flashmobbing made the Washington Post = flashmobbing is officially dead.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 21 August 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

Flashmobbing doesn't seem to be that dead. There was one in Paris on Saturday. It was the last day of our holiday, and there we were in the Jardin de Luxembourg, at the fountain in the middle of the park. A crowd of people dressed all in black walked into the park and stood on one side of the fountain. At the same time, a crowd dressed all in white arrived at the other side of the fountain. At three o'clock on the dot, they all chased each other around the fountain. Each time someone caught someone wearing the opposing colour, they both had to stand still. When everyone was caught, they all dispersed. The whole thing took about ten minutes. Daft it may have been, but it was kind of fun to watch.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Sunday, 16 May 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

This kind of thing depresses me awfully, and I'm nto sure why. It all seems to damn phoney to me. I mean, aren't there starving people in the world? Go and volenteer in Oxfam or something.

< / catcher in the rye>

― Johnney B, Sunday, 16 May 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

― James Mitchell, Friday, 16 January 2009 21:57 (seventeen years ago)

five years pass...

doing one of these for a wedding I'm actually not that crushed abt it I mean its their wedding no reflection on me right, right?

― your favourite misread ILX threads (darraghmac), Sunday, 27 July 2014 20:27 (eleven years ago)

nah ur a cunt m8

― r|t|c, Sunday, 27 July 2014 21:01 (eleven years ago)

doin it for a m8 m8

― your favourite misread ILX threads (darraghmac), Sunday, 27 July 2014 21:09 (eleven years ago)

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