You see so many postings on various places, offensive, think they’re clever, putting people down to make themselves look smart, all that.
But who are these people? What are they like as actual human beings?
Do I have such a sheltered life that I cannot imagine anyone I come across being like this in private?
Or should this question be deleted before stuff kicks off?
(maybe now is a good time, things are quiet)
You usually find them at Belle & Sebastian concerts (except me).
They are sad, twisted individuals incapable of forming lasting relationships and terrified of the outside world.
Or they just think it’s funny.
People on internet act differently in real life, movie at 11.
HELL YEAH
nude spock was genuinely weird but i don’t think that “dom” or “marcello” or “the lex” are too bad.
What about “enrique”?
history will be my judge
Troll = LOL
enrique is harmless.
unlike some raging assholes.
Unhealthy levels of this:
http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeEight.asp
I think they’re just individuals who have a hard time connecting with other human beings on any genuine level, so feel the need to construct this... exaggerated personna. This, combined with a general lack of empathy for others (unable to see the effects on others of their “bit of fun”).
Is raging asshole a medical condition?
lol pop psychology
explained with diagrams!
bnrq will be my judge.
We can’t all have your social skills and abilities to form long lasting relationships Kate.
People on internet act differently in real life, movie at 11.
— Dom Passantino (juror8@gm
I’ve met a few people off the internet now, all of them were exactly the way I expected them to be from their manner online.
grout is meta-flame-war for life
That Enneagram thing is awesome. It’s like some kind of RPG stats.
I’ve met a few people off the internet now, all of them were exactly the way I expected them to be from their manner online.
— Norman Phay (vietgrov...), December 21st, 2006.
i’ve met a few and... i kind of don’t expect them to be like on the net! so it sort of works out. and tbh only rjg is anything like his online persona (and spookily so).
I’m more or less meaning: Present Company Excepted.
but rjg isn’t fat!
xpost
Trying to avoid the ::
“You a troll”
“I no a troll, you a troll”
continue for 1000 posts
sort of thing.
sometimes one particular aspect of what someone you know online says or does can dominate yr thinking about them. For example, Enrique for me will always be “the guy who lived round the corner from me whom I’d almost certainly seen but who didn’t want to meet me IRL”.
Look under bridges.
grout is meta-flame-war for life
Hahaha, yes. I was going to say a better qn would be what sort of person *is* a troll-enabler, but then I thought about how much I don’t give a fuck. You put it better.
on one of the last big n*d* sp*ck threads, “I shoved a wine cork up my left nostril and really fucked up my nose”, I alluded to some troll guy who got an entire mail list shut down and the archives deleted from the list owner’s server. The guy self-googled, found the thread and now sends me regular hate-mail about it! Based on this, the answer to the original question would be “a nutter”.
Enrique for me will always be “the guy who lived round the corner from me whom I’d almost certainly seen but who didn’t want to meet me IRL”.
haha i know right — i haven’t met any locals here either!
I never did mention you to Fliss Wy4tt. She’s left now.
i don’t think RJG is much like his online persona really, other than the minimal communication thing. and the murderous rage.
mark — the missus designs for your guys quite a bit still! but not for anyone i’ve met.
I’m interested in this idea of troll-enabler.
I suspect I’ve done a lot of this on ILX, simply by not recognising bait for what it is, and rising to it.
How is Grout a troll enabler, though? By asking questions so simple or simplistic that they cannot be taken at face value?
ask her who she deals with here — I’m curious.
haha, I can just imagine “No we don’t use a designer called Mrs Enrique and are you sure her hubby’s first name is Temporary?”
Grout knows exactly which buttons to push (ALL OF THEM) and when (ALL THE TIME)
I wonder what trolls did before they had the internet as an outlet for their creativity? Did they shout at people from cars instead?
Still do.
Do you think he’s deliberately pushing buttons? I mean, the famous Grout thread was that “be cool, just a bit of fun” thing that drove Darnielle off the interweb. And I think he genuinely was innocent of trouble making motives there.
(Oh, BTW, MarkH, since you were asking sede vacante = stevem now)
A mountebank in Leicester-fields had drawn a huge assembly about him. Among the rest, a fat unwieldy fellow, half stifled in the press, would be every fit crying out, Lord! what a filthy crowd is here, pray, good people, give way a little. Bless me! ; that a devil has raked this rabble together, z___ds! what squeezing is this! honest friend, remove your elbow. At last a weaver that stood next him, could hold no longer. A plague confound you (said he,) for an overgrown sloven; and who (in the devil’s name) I wonder, helps to make up the crowd half so much as yourself? Don’t you consider (with a pox,) that you take up more room with that carcass than any five here? Is not the place as free for us as for you? Bring your own guts to a reasonable compass (and be d___n’d) and then I’ll engage we shall have room enough for us all.
I’m interested in this idea of troll-enabler.
are we making a distinction between a troll-enabler and a troll-encourager? Coz I have definitely been a troll-encourager back in the day with that b3cky luc4s. I thought “if this person wants war then she’s got it” and duelled with her on a thread for the best part of a day. She got more and more ludicrously offensive making all sorts of outlandish claims about how she had the IT skills to sabotage my blog and I thought “Yeah, right. Bring it on!”
Thanks for the new stevedentity, Kate. Sounds a bit LATING to me.
Before the internet trolls wrote nasty messages on paper aeroplanes and threw them at people.
We’re all different IRL!
Kate knows me.
From time to time, soe self reflection is a good thing.
I dont *think* I’ve made enemies here, and don’t have a high enough profile to be that well known.
I do post with my real name, as a mark of honesty. That’s not a reflection on those of you who do not, I know there are many reasons why you might not want to.
I wonder what trolls did before they had the internet as an outlet for their creativity? Did they shout at people from cars instead?
— C J (CJ_The_Unruly@ho
Wrote deranged letters in green-ink to local newspapers, maybe?
I think yr OK, Mark, really!
a mark of honesty
Honestly Mr Grout, you should be on the stage!
I was having this conversation with someone from here the other day, curiously enough. Not about anyone in particular, but just commenting on how some people can seem quite angry and confrontational online, when they’re probably absolute sweethearts in real life.
I suppose a lot of it is to do with wanting or enjoying attention. I’m quite an outgoing fule and have never made any secret of the fact I like bantering back and forth with folk and am not shy in the attention-seeking stakes, but I don’t think negative attention via arguments sounds like much fun. Other people don’t feel that way, obv. Each to their own though.
I hope I don’t deliberately wind people up or upset them, because that’s never been my intention. I’m only here for the craic. And the free beer on Hawaiian Shirt Fridays.
Mark you should’ve just turned on the ‘display username’ option in Settings. i’m still
blueski innit
I don’t think I believe in this ‘troll enabler’ concept. I suppose there is an element of naivety among some people who are in their view doing no harm but are annoying or irritating other people to the point where they will react against it in a not particularly constructive way, or just go for the zing (sometimes funny, sometimes not).
You know, I think there are many different varieties of “trolls”.
I don’t think Grout is a troll at all, though he may be perceived as one. He’s more like a big, enthuasistic puppy that comes bounding in, full of energy, and just genuinely wants to have a good time, and everyone else to have a good time. And other people view that as destructive, when there’s no malice there, just boisterous high spirits.
Some people are just wind-up artists, it’s that sense of trying to get a rise out of others—either for pure puerile enjoyment, or to create “dialogue” or “challenge people’s notions” etc. (the former Calum the latter Momus)
Some people are genuinely malicious—those are the ones that I find hardest to understand. Their intention is clearly to hurt, or “score points” off imagined or perceived enemies. They’d be writing letters to the council or the local paper if they didn’t have the internet.
And then there are people like your N*de Sp*cks and your Marissas who are actually genuinely mentally ill, and I don’t think they ever realise or understand what it is that is going on to get them into the messes they find themselves in, until it’s too late. Then they perceive themselves as being attacked, and freak out.
I think Ken C possibly falls into the first of Kate’s categories.
I don’t think anybody thinks of Mark G as a troll, just a guy who starts a lot of silly threads. Wait a minute...
a VERY DISINGENUOUS guy who starts &c &c
but i don’t think that “dom” or “marcello” or “the lex” are too bad
We’re not, either. I’ve had the pleasure of socialising with both Dom and Lex at FAPs and they are both fine and splendid fellows. You really ought to come to one sometime.
I’d never considered Mark G a troll. I think ILX is very ‘Troll sensitive’.
I think I’d be a little taken aback if I were considered troll-y. It’s certainly not my intention.
There’s supposed to be a “Comedy Gold” jpeg after lex’s post.
As my Senior Housemaster once said: “He’s off his troll-y!”
Compared with some of the fiascos I’ve seen on other lists/boards, I do think we’ve got off pretty lightly. Worst things I’ve generally seen are either single-issue ultra-fringe politics/ufo/conspiracy theory guys or coulterists who hunt in packs. They’re the list-killers in my experience.
Their intention is clearly to hurt, or “score points” off imagined or perceived enemies
i don’t understand these ones either, because i find it hard to believe anyone could be hurt by an internet thing! they don’t achieve their desired aim, so...it all seems a bit pointless innit. it seems odd when they are (apparently) nice in real life too, like when matt & gareth were trying to convince me that i should drag myself south of the river for the hstencil fap.
I don’t think Mark is disingenuous really, there’s some other ‘must start a thread’ thing at work (but it’s not attention-seeking, which also distinguishes his ‘work’ from yer trolls). Hi Mark!
I suppose Ken C is like a Type 1, but he often comes across as a Type 2a.
(Gah, look at me, I’m even categorising trolls.)
Norman OTM. Whenever I read the comments section on Metafilter—particularly on music or art threads—I get all killy kill killy.
I’ve had the pleasure of socialising with Marcello at a FAP and found him to be perfectly charming. I’d always assumed that he used his onscreen persona to vent coz of the problems he was experiencing IRL, as so many of us do. Is that a fair comment, mate?
I like Marcello’s verbal dexterity, intellgence and keen wit. ‘E makes oi laaf.
i think Ken C falls into the type of the raging assholes who think they’re funny posters.
ken c isn’t a troll, he just has a sense of humour.
I sometimes have trouble distinguishing Type 3 from Type 4—I suppose sometimes a Type 3 is responding to issues in their own head that are not overtly stated.
I know I can be given to bouts of Type 4 behaviour, but I’ve got better at containing them over the past year or so. Still not perfect, but working on it.
I swear IRL!
I don’t.
i find it hard to believe anyone could be hurt by an internet thing!
I am really surprised to hear this from the Lex who always struck me as a quite cerebral person and that comes across as really flip. The fact is that people can be hurt by *anything* people say or do to them in *any* medium. That’s what it is to be human—it is part of our essence. The salient thing about the playground chant “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” is how breathtakingly false it is.
I think we could replace Myers-Briggs with Kate’s Troll Type Analysis! It would make office away days more interesting! :)
(obv multiple xpost)
Indeed, Mark—it was just a horrible period in my life, full stop, not that that’s an excuse for some of the rubbish I came out with at the time.
That whole Denise Lambert period is a very strong argument for not republishing the old ILx threads on nu-ILx.
I find Dom, with his constant “zinging” and his mysogynistic rants to be a Type 3—but I don’t care to get close enough to find out if he’s really a Type 2a or what.
The Lex, Type 2b. I think a lot of people don’t quite catch his playfulness.
Marcello, type 4 without a doubt and I’m not even going into it for fear of provoking it.
i’ve made an okcupid test ages ago based on this actually http://okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=17565770584930238499
it wasn’t very good, but just a bit of fun
I am uncategorizablez.
I am really surprised to hear this from the Lex who always struck me as a quite cerebral person and that comes across as really flip. The fact is that people can be hurt by *anything* people say or do to them in *any* medium.
i only really think of internet communication as real when it’s with people i know in real life, or at least have some sort of understanding of who they are as a real life person. there are these weird types like hstencil and hoosteen around though who continually post these vaguely insulting things, and it’s like...eh? who ARE you? why on earth did you bother? i don’t know you, i don’t care &c.
and then there are all the people who try to ‘zing’ with pictures! who on earth bothers with images on ilx?
Is it me or has kate done nothing but troll on this thread?
I don’t know. I still get annoyed on ILx when I know I’ve no real reason to do so.
Even Phil/Esteban would doubtless be a very nice bloke if our paths ever crossed (I really ought to have remembered the Doomie precedent—once you’ve met them, then you get it).
What was Type 4 again? *looks up rest of thread*
I am really surprised to hear this from the Lex who always struck me as a quite cerebral person and that comes across as really flip. The fact is that people can be hurt by *anything* people say or do to them in *any* medium. That’s what it is to be human—it is part of our essence. The salient thing about the playground chant “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” is how breathtakingly false it is.
Absolutely on the money.
People who say “how can you possibly be hurt by something said ON THE INTERWEB” are as off the money as people who would claim “how can you possibly be hurt by anything someone says to you on the telephone?”
x-post, I’m not trolling at all on this thread. I’m trying to state my opinions and experiences as plainly and without emotion as possible.
oh right, it’s our old friend *projecting* again.
noodlevague OTM.
it’s less because of the internet as because i don’t know these people at all, really. weird strangers trying to insult me? botherd.
Dear Kate, plz to post one link to a “misogynistic rant” by me, or else I’ll post pictures of SOME FRIENDS YOU HAVE PERHAPS SPENDING SOME TIME OUT OF YOUR COMPANY.
I did Ken C’s okcupid test, some of the questions were very funny! But, it wouldn’t give me an answer unless I registered ;_;
Can somebody that has met my please confirm/deny whether I am the same in RL as on the interwebs? I am suddenly very curious.
Does having a “pseudonym” allow you some removal from “being” insulted by some comment?
(def: something quite removed from yr real name as opposed to something quite close to it)
I love all you guys, in all sincerity. Including you kate. But y’know “mote in brother’s eye, plank in own” etc etc etc
I’m turning into Kilroy, aren’t I?
Plz can I punch you?
Surprised to hear about Dom being misogynistic but maybe I was just not realising that he was at I’m not female, a critical factor in such matters IMHO.
i think lex’s comment re: STRANGERS is much more OTM than it being about the internet. yeah, it’s like if you know the people then it’s real but if it’s some retard lackey internet loser who you don’t care about, who gives a shit!!!
it’s like if someone random stranger phones you up and say “hi you’re a cunt!” and then hangs up, you just have to laugh innit.
I am nothing like I am online
Noodle Vague, you did notice that I included myself in the categorisation? I never claimed to be exempt.
I am not participating in the backtracking and denial all over this thread or trying to “zing” anyone. Just stating my opinions and experiences, like I said. And now I’m done.
Surprised to hear about Dom being misogynistic but maybe I was just not realising that he was at I’m not female, a critical factor in such matters IMHO.
This one time he wanted to kill Tori Amos’ daughter :(
it’s like if someone random stranger phones you up and say “hi you’re a cunt!” and then hangs up, you just have to laugh innit.
OTM. I have the worst hoax caller ever, he can’t even get my name right, but he brings some sunshine and light into my life.
This one time he wanted to kill Tori Amos’ daughter :(
Nobody got The Departure’s back :(
can i post this yet?
No, not yet.
you just have to laugh innit
well do you? I’m not so sure.
I’d probably think “Who is this?”
“Why are they doing it?”
“Is it a mate trying to be funny?”
“Is it a mate whose drunk?”
“Whose voice does that sound like?”
“What have I done recently that might have offended someone?”
&c
lex being an image rockist makes me roffle.
there’s no consensus on funny. how could there be?
No, the entire Fluxblog entry was deleted and just replaced with the words OBIE TRICE for a while.
okay, that is funny.
I actually managed to get this classic up on quite a few entries before the 15-year-olds on the Recent Changes patrol woke up:
I reckon you have a sense of humor, Kate, but also an idea that things that fall outside that sense of humor can’t possibly be funny. I hesitate to say it, because I don’t want to wind you up, but that’s how it looks from here.
Apparently, I’ve been caught vandalising by “a member of wikiproject christianity and wikiproject anglicanism. The reason why I joined is because I want wikipedias christian related things to be of the highest quality. I am a member of wikipedia simple english and there esperanza and am a member of the regular wikipedia esperanza.”
Perhaps. There are some things that I really don’t understand *why* they are funny. And it’s just mystifying, really. Even when I try, like Pinefox, to get people to explain what about it they find amusing, it just fails to compute on any humour level.
You’re right—it’s not just that I don’t think it’s funny. It’s that I can’t conceive of the mental viewpoint that would find it funny.
Explaining why things are funny = massive dud.
Not always.
this is also v. funny to me:
I like explaining why some things are funny. It is still probably dud tho.
I mean, if it’s a cultural reference that you are just not familiar with, then having it explained can indeed make something mystifying suddenly seem hilarious.
But it’s more like, to find these things funny would require me to take on a mental viewpoint which is so alien to me that I just can’t get my head around the humour at all.
Also shout out to the moderator note “edited out non-existent ‘cheeky chappies’ category”, which I suspect was in response to P**l Sc***.
...before the 15-year-olds on the Recent Changes patrol woke up
LOL.
Didn’t the individual who (I thought unfairly) deleted the entry for a certain UK band turn out to be a 15yo schoolkid from Brisbane w/a string of complaints as long as yr arm about unfair rapid article deletions on his talk page?
It’s like... the reactions that some people have to those Right Wing Political Cartoons.
You can read the words and look at the situations, but unless you understand the mindview behind it, they simply aren’t “funny”.
(Though I do actually think that funniest things are simply not explicable—that certain air of utter surrealism and unexpectedness.)
x-post
All the funny wiki-jamming stuff is based on confounding reader expectations plus a touch of the surreal (Fluxblog is a hat? But...how?!). Simple but effective.
If you can’t see what’s funny about confounding expectations via surrealism then dog help you.
This thread was starting to turn into a game of “who’s the *real* troll”, but now it’s all like
damn polite britishers
a present from me to ilm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Petridis
Oh dear.
God bless us, every one.
But how is just inserting “...and has been known to want HEN FAP” into various articles confounding reader expectations?
Yes, it’s a continuum with culture jamming at one end and WE WANT HEN FAP at the other, but it’s like the difference between graffiti art and mindless tagging like a dog marking its territory. Which is art, and which is vandalism? Which is humour, and which is just vandalism?
I don’t really understand how mindless vandalism, repeating catchphrases one didn’t even come up with ... how that translates into humour in any universe.
I don’t either. But it happens. (xp)
God, I’m turning into the Pinefox. Lord help me.
If you look in your history books, you’ll discover that the most graffitied phrase back in Paris ’68 was, “Nous voulons le fap de poule!”
See, I think/thought the hen fap thing was pretty lame & unfunny, but even then, I look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Creole_and_the_Coconuts
do ctrl + f for “hen fap”, and I must admit, I laffed. It’s the incongruousness of it, hidden in there where most ppl won’t even notice it/
mindless tagging like a dog marking its territory.
It is certainly not mindless to the person tagging. There is a valid reason for them to be doing so (as well for the dog.) I think vandalism can be seen as relative here.
410 new answers in a day on a thread about internet messageboard posters: ILX’s self-obsession springs to the fore once again...
see wiki vandalism is y know kinda like a watercooler thread. except the communication of banalties and cute yet mystifying injokes take place er on wikipedia with the added bonus that someone, somewhere might really believe that young jezzy is in sucession to the british throne or something.
‘we want Hen FAP’ and similar is not a particulary good example of the technique. it’s deliberately obscure and rather weak as a ‘meme’.
altho i also agree with pashmina’s point re incongruousness of placement
ILX’s self-obsession springs to the fore once again...
is there anything wrong with this tho? human behaviour is fascinating—esp. on the internet.
i.e. if i was reading the Kid Creole wiki and not expecting to see ‘hen fap’ in there, i may well have LOLd when i did see it—even if i was not aware of the ‘meme’ (because the nonsense and incongruosness of it would probably still be quite amusing on it’s own)
Louis is only irked cos we got to 400 posts without anybody calling for him to be banned.
Also, I suppose it also comes down to the thing that Monty Python/The Fast Show/Dom Joly (delete according to your tastes) is funny, but 14 year olds (or your colleagues) repeating the catchphrases from said programmes endlessly over the lunch table simply *isn’t* funny.
yes it is.
Jeez, I wasn’t expecting the Spanish Inquisition.
AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!
Workday over. Going home. ::insert comedy catchphrase::
And I’ll leave these for certain other posters to take in the morning:
NV, I hadn’t even read the thread when I posted that. Now I have I’d understand it fully if you all turned towards each other, nodded, and rapaciously tore into the flesh of whoever happened to be standing in the doorway disputing your careful days’ work... ;-)
BAN LOUIS JAGGER
Posting before reading the thread = really fucking annoying (well not really but still)
i dont get it. but, carry on!
all this thread lacks is some pussy jagger-baiting
Hen Fap is starting to get legs if only from the moderators there dissing it.
I, by no means advocate disrupting wikipedia in a permanent sense, and I think the comments on the appeal of wikipedia vandalism are OTM here. If you had read the edit history for Israel-related stuff as the events unfolded this summer, it was a very clear way to see all aspects of the zeitgeist.
There’s been a number of fairly high profile ILX related wikipedia edits than have gone unnoticed and gained credibility over the past year. Some of them are pretty easily refuted, but there’s a sense of wonder in thinking that someone in LA may be crate digging for a collaboration between a legendary guitarist and a man who only existed as an injoke ysi. Or that an extreme sport founder is actually a twee office drone in California. Why do we have to chronicle reality as if it actually is objective? It makes the world more amazing to me.
I’ve perpetuated a pretty funny YSI hoax on ILX, but I’d love to try a bigger one.
Now I can’t find my list of funny edits to wikipedia and I wanted to share my gems with you. (My personal funny edits are almost only additive and easily refutable.) I’ve noticed a number of people who cleanup vandalism find it funny and use their cleanup as a method of appreciating the vandalism. It remains in the edit history, much like that Roman Graffti that ILX loved so much. Don’t you think it’d be wonderful for some graduate student in Star Trek to write a thesis on Hen Fap?
Also, in the future, all archaeologists will be computer scientists
As I said.
I dunno if this counts in RL, but in sexclubs they are ppl who don’t understand “No thanks.”
Maybe this will tell you guys why wikipedia vandalism can be funny:
TROLLING OR ART:
He is a former Maxis employee, who was fired after secretly adding code into the game SimCopter, which would cause sprites of males in swimming trunks kissing each other to appear on certain dates. This was not discovered until after the game had been released.
art
The Denny Lethargy/Vertigo stuff is outright brilliant.
ssh jaymc
The Quake article claimed it was released in Japan under the name “Hen Fap” for nearly four months.
still funny
Adam Cadre = HILARIOUS
(I totally feel like it’s 1996 all over again)
the best wikipedia hen fap trolling was the one with the Celtic song
Why do we have to chronicle reality as if it actually is objective? It makes the world more amazing to me.
^^best part of this thread
pointy nose = buttplug
^^2nd best part of this thread
ha my gift is baring fruit. i am the Mark Grout of wikipedia:
Alexis Petridis
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Alexis Petridish is the chief music writer, as well as a columnist on matters of male fashion, for UK newspaper The Guardian. He is also the “under 50s” music critic for GQ, and was final editor of now defunct music magazine Select. In his writing he has praised a wide variety of musical acts, such as Kasabian, Girls Aloud, and Ricky Shakes, writing: “I have seen the future of ant simulation video games, and his name is Ricky Shakes”. Petridis is referenced by Nas in his song “Ether”, with the line “Remember Jay when I got you in Select/ Back then not even Petridis give you respect/ So we went to Wagamama’s instead/ Awesome chow mein”.
Petridis is a regular contributor to the internet forum I Love Music, under the sobriquet “Louis Jagger”.
I lolled and I don’t care who knows.
I wonder if the 15-year-old who just blocked me for 48 hours after slightly vandalising the entry for the May 1968 Riots understood the irony in that.
(Probably not.)
Besides, how do they know that Nous voulons le fap de poule! wasn’t a student slogan anyway...
the best wikipedia hen fap trolling was the one with the Celtic song
YSI
It was me that had the Dirty Vicar name. I changed it as soon as it was pointed out that a another poster had it. Funnily enough on the old board people mistook me for Passatino or even Steve Malkmus. WTF. The internets is an odd place.
the best wikipedia hen fap trolling was the one with the Celtic song
link plz
I feel this thread ending with a “Matt DC locking it” vibe.
You know, I just spent about 15 minutes fighting off the enormous temptation to delete every post on this thread and replace it with the words OBIE TRICE.
Or would TALVIN SINGH be funnier?
i wouldn’t ‘get’ either
anyway thread was pretty fun!
Anyway Steve why are you wasting your life on this thread rather than coming to meet us in the pub like you should be? (I am leaving now).
Merry Christmas ILE.
OK who removed “hen fap” from the Spanish Diplomats article >=(
Matt. Lock. it. Rock. it.
OMG at wiki
Random wiki vandalism—it wisnae me I was looking for a goose.
I love Matthew Perpetua.
what a fucking bore
Didn’t PYHUFLJ,HLTN record Scotland’s song for the ’98 World Cup? Somebody should mention that on the Wikipedia entry.
irony indeed
Hey, The Entire NHS is no longer banned from editing Wikipedia!
still it survives! this edit is here to STAY
i don’t get it
I think that, if this thread has conclusively proven anything, the answer is “someone who is very easily amused”.
esoj: the singer out of slipknot once went to rome to see the pope, and the pope said to his aide “who the fucking hell are slipknot in relation to me getting out of my bed?”. it was a heartwarming moment of humanity
oic
discovered this one by accident
T/S: Being Easily Amused vs Being Easily Po-Faced
where’s the ILX pines/pwns entry? that was always one of my faves.
And then there are people like your N*de Sp*cks and your Marissas who are actually genuinely mentally ill, and I don’t think they ever realise or understand what it is that is going on to get them into the messes they find themselves in, until it’s too late. Then they perceive themselves as being attacked, and freak out.
— masonic boom (kateotheremai...), December 21st, 2006.
This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “takes one to know one.” Aren’t you a junkie in therapy on antidepressants or something?
Speaking of “not understanding,” let me quote for you from my pal Jon “Wizard Is Hungry” Guy’s old website where he quoted thusly, and I quote:
Advancement is a cultural condition in which an Advanced individual—i.e., a true genius—creates a piece of art that 99 percent of the population perceives to be bad. However, this is not because the work itself is flawed; this is because most consumers are not Advanced.Now, don’t assume this means that everything terrible is awesome, or vice versa; that contrarianism has no place in Advancement theory. The key to Advancement is that Advanced artists a) do not do what is expected of them but also b) do not do the opposite of what is expected of them. If an artist does the direct opposite of what is anticipated, he is classified as “overt†(more on this later). The bottom line is this: When a genius does something that appears idiotic, it does not necessarily mean he suddenly sucks. What it might mean is that he’s doing something you cannot understand, because he has Advanced beyond you.
hee hee hee. “Turd Crosby”