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Can someone tell me why is this supposed to be funny? And especially so with pictures of cats?

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

BAN TUOMAS

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

you are the worst troll in the history of a website that has let itself be terrorized by a fake 14-year-old girl and an oversexed writer for horror magazines

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

(and i don't even mean passantino)

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

It just is funny, Tuomas! I guess it's like slapstick humour, you either get it or you don't?

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

WAHT

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

How the hell is this trolling? I'm genuinely interested in the dynamics of humour behind this phenomenon. Is it that playing stupider than you are is funny? Also, it seems to be mostly an US/UK thing, or at least Finnish Internet users do this a lot less.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

It's like doing a wacky voice in the middle of a sentuence.

― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

MKIÄ

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/picardcat.jpg

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

retarded people are way funnier than those born without such gifts.

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

BREATHING AND WALKING AT THE SAME TIME: HOW IS IT MADE

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

But slapstick is easier to explain, because it's all about exaggerating real life ad absurdum. Whereas this thing seems to rely on assuming a role, and expecting that your audience will know it's a role, and not how you really write. Still, to me this doesn't fully explain the supposed humour of it.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

for me its just plain laziness and regularly spelled words is so 1998

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

(Several x-posts.)

I guess Danbunny and Mark G are closest to explaining it.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

Tuomas, one day there will be a university course on said matter and you will have that long desired climatic eureka experience akin to Ron Jeremy popping on Jenna Jameson.

Something like that.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

are? im not a grammar buff either..ask skot if u need english lessons

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

The best thing about the English language is how breakable it is.

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

Then again, we might ask why retarded people are supposed to be funny in the first place?

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

It's a bit like oranges. But not really.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

wasn't there sum study which said that even if letters are transposed in words in sentences that they are immed. recognized as th actual word,almost as quickly as if they were spelled correctly?

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://frank.harvard.edu/~jason/thoughts/real_genius.gif

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

Ask the Norweigans who terrorised Finn Kalvik!

I think Tuomas doesn't mean MY type of mispellings...

― Sarah, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

Oh FFS, Tuomas, if you were a real woman, I'd ask you if IT WAS THAT TIME OF THE MONTH.
Lighten up (something or yourself), it's HUMOUR. If you really have to explain it, you're actually killing it.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

I'm with Tuomas. I don't see anything remotely funny in this. It's just childish in-joke I'm-in-the-gang stuff.

― underpants of the gods, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

i spiloled cooffee on my dixxkciess
i spilled coffee on my Dickies

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

Oh FFS, Tuomas, if you were a real woman, I'd ask you if IT WAS THAT TIME OF THE MONTH.
Lighten up (something or yourself), it's HUMOUR. If you really have to explain it, you're actually killing it.

I'm not talking about specific jokes... The dynamics of humour can and have been studied, I see nothing wrong with that.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

i also grew up reading jill johnston in th village voice
so she's partially to blame for some of my problems

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

for capitalization errors anyways

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

What the hell's wrong with childish in-jokey behavior?

*flashes bum* Look FOOL MOON

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, I don't think retards themselves are considered funny (anymore), rather than non-retards acting in a retarded way, but also assuming their audience know they aren't really so. So it's the element of surprise and incoherence which is part of it's supposed funniness. Then again, this has become so popular that there's hardly any surprise in it anymore.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

i see nath is auditioning for a role in the big budget hollywood version of bjork&pdiddy.gif

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

tho i have to admit she does prove that ESL foreigners from dont have to be clueless herbs

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

Nath, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it, just that I don't get it myself, which is why I'm interested in why it works on some folks.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

it is funny because it makes words look dumb

― pretzel walrus, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

LURK MOAR

― Alan, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

"Actually, I don't think retards themselves are considered funny (anymore)"...u may be hanging out w th wrong retards....i do agree w th thingy that retarded behave has become some sort of "style" which is sick becuxx the OG tards aint gettin no royalties and shit...and i dont count the Besstie BOyzz or whatever

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

Oh Ethan, I think my brand of English is lost on you. A bit like Tuomas not realizing that retards have been replaced by Finish intellectual students/office works are joke of the day. (Tomorrow it'll be pregnant Belgian twits, I know I know.)

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

It is actually quite hard to explain why it is funny, based on the 'retarded' thing (as opposed to the 'engrish' aspect i.e. 'foreigners trying to write in english but not quite succeeding' which is funny for a number of reasons including farce (in this case the process of somebody trying to accommodate someone else by using their language, meaning well but making what often seem quite basic errors - to the point where you wonder how that mistake could be made intentionally (leading to the ironic/parodic style many of us on ILX indulge in these days) and surreal elements (the distortion and/or subversion of the language itself) and the attitude/tone behind the messages also (using all uppercase for dramatic effect tho the situation is actually quite trivial/mundane etc.).

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

James Joyce and Noize Boarders to thread

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

danbunny: I think the study you're thinking of stated that misspelled words are instantly recognisable as long as the first and last letters are correct (see here...

― peteR, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

lolz at kitty vs. Jean Luc whinging about being turned into an upright hoover.

― kenan, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

But seriously, Ethan, how are you? I mean, really.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

Tuomas, ~~teh~~ the history of this predates the internet by decades.

for example: this.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

tho that explanation doesn't really factor in hax0r thing of replacing letters with numbers

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

so i was p[artially right..i jysut dont have tyme to get it all correct

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

or indeed M0leswurf

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

Google Proof to thread

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

HAY GUYZ

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

Words are always waiting for yur tender touch
should u choose to touch them
they wrap their heads in dreams of your
ability to smudge them

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

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accentmonkey otm

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

I can't generate any situation which would have that as the end result

Haha situation = cat is REALLY BAD with computers

― nabisco, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

like cat bad with computers + GRANDMA bad with computers

― nabisco, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

what do u mean, accentmonkey and edward? nabisco explained in crystal clear detail why it was funny, which was the funniest thing of all, it being kind of paradoxical and stuff

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

Tuomas's question soften remind me of the woman in the James Thurber cartoon who sits in her armchair and looks up from her newpaper and over at her husband in the next armchair and asks "Who is this Hitler and what does he want?"

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

Haha situation = cat is REALLY BAD with computers

How do you know it was a cat? It could have been the elephant seal putting an ad in to get his bucket back, for all you know.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

questions oftern

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

Whatever floats yr funnyboat!

― nabisco, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://images.cafepress.com/product/33209387_240x240_Front.jpg

― bell_labs, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

ewwwwwwww

― bell_labs, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

tuomas be runnin' this ILX ish.

― Eisbaer, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

also, WTF is that pic with the dog with no front legs? is that thing for REAL, or is it a photoshop thing?!?

― Eisbaer, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/ihasacomputer.jpg

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

also, why to hate on 2 legged dogs?

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://cgi.4chan.org/f/src/tetkacat.swf

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

i love that, Edward III :D

― bell_labs, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

thanks now I'm gonna be watching that for the next 3 hours

xpost

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

edward if you took that to 4chan you'd be king for like 8 minutes

― gff, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, elephantsealpaws. You are no good at layout.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

(nb i went there for the first time ever like last week so i'm at near-tuomas levels of out of it-ness)

― gff, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/ihasacomputernooo.jpg

― Edward III, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

the elephat seal was better

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

nabisco, this is the original context of not-good-with-computers-cat

http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-1452-1174421024.jpg
http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-1452-1174421044.jpg
http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-1452-1174421060.jpg
http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-1452-1174421076.jpg
http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-1452-1174421092.jpg
http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-1452-1174421113.jpg

it seems sort of quaint now

― cankles, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

T Street, fuckjob!

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

HOLY FUCK THAT THING IS GREAT

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

Garage (it's full of shit)

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

39th street way the shit up here

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

*more like SARS

― gff, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

a Cilantro or something, lol

― WilliamC, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

the elephat seal was better

yeah but now we know newspaper cat is an ilxor

― Edward III, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

goons goons goons

― kingfish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

wonder what she posts as

― Edward III, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

marissa

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

Hahah TREES AND SHIT. That thing is great!

― Trayce, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~dbailey/gallery/image/elephant.jpg

― kingfish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

This thread has brightened my day.

― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

walruses are far more regal than elephant seals:

http://img2.travelblog.org/Photos/3802/11140/f/46524-Walrus-Attack-0.jpg

― kingfish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42171000/jpg/_42171890_sealion_getty_416.jpg

― kingfish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

Haha. Looks like somebody farted in the tub.

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

(xpost)

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

that walrus is clearly going to murder those ppls

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

I would like to see walrus (tub farter) wearing an ascot.

― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

Growing Up Walrus is my favorite thing Animal Planet has ever aired.

Fuck a shark week, I want walrus week.

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

rare photo of domesticaled baby walrus:

http://www.strawberrybonkers.com/walrus.jpg

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/43/89768504_42fe9e0ab2_m.jpg

"I SAID I WANTED A BURRITO, NONE OF THIS SCHOOLCHILDREN BULLSHIT."

― kingfish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

Wilford Brimley Walrus. My favorite kind.

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/7788/736657112ltf5.gif

― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://lolwtfbbq.tripod.com/o_rly/thumbnails/600x450/aidsrly.jpg

― ken c, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

Can I just throw a manatee into the elephant seal / walrus debate?

http://www.visitbradenton-manatee.com/images/picture_bradenton.jpg

― ailsa, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 23:35 (eighteen years ago)

I heart Edward's rubbish-at-layout editor elephant seal. He rules the internet.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 08:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/i-has-sockses.jpg

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/they-be-stealing.jpg

― kingfish, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

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