Keep calm, enbb.
― rustic italian flatbread, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 14:51 (fourteen years ago)
Keep Calm and Carrion.
― Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan M. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 14:52 (fourteen years ago)
Keep Calm And NSFW
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 14:52 (fourteen years ago)
x-post - I CAN'T! It enrages me in the same way those Coexist bumper stickers do. It's an irrational thing.
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 14:53 (fourteen years ago)
I had a friend in college who would randomly interrupt someone who was speaking with "Calm down, _____". It was a successful tactic for really pissing people off.
― rustic italian flatbread, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 14:53 (fourteen years ago)
aw, the coexist bumperstickers at least have their heart in the right place.
― rustic italian flatbread, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 14:54 (fourteen years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4154a2S4BTL.jpg
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 14:56 (fourteen years ago)
I know, I know and so do the majority of ppl who buy this stuff wanting people to be chill. I said it was irrational goddammit!! ;)
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 14:56 (fourteen years ago)
Is that why they buy KCACO? My sense of it (in a non-ironic, original sense) is something like "resign yourself to death".
― rustic italian flatbread, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 14:58 (fourteen years ago)
I don't desire to ever own a product with this slogan on it, but trying to buy and copyright it makes me irrationally angry, damnit.
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:00 (fourteen years ago)
I mean, just for the sake if it's history, leave it alone ffs
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:01 (fourteen years ago)
of
Oh god that Stereophonics album, now I'm really pissed off.
― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:02 (fourteen years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ruNyVjkCL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
ngggh
― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:03 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/homefront/spies/graphics/p_s4.jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:08 (fourteen years ago)
http://u1.ipernity.com/15/88/66/7918866.f9040984.240.jpg
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:09 (fourteen years ago)
GIS for "Keep Calm and Curry On" pretty disappointing.
― rustic italian flatbread, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:10 (fourteen years ago)
There are Keep Tidy And Carry On or Keep Calm And Tidy Up signs on all the meeting room doors on one floor of my office. Makes me want to strew the artfully-arranged books everywhere.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:11 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.thecityreview.com/lonwar3.gif
― mark s, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:14 (fourteen years ago)
ws nazi spy
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:15 (fourteen years ago)
never even been able to figure out that pun
― antiautodefenestrationism (ledge), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:16 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.maam.org/wwii/ww2_images/poster_2.jpg
h anley
― mark s, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:17 (fourteen years ago)
I love that the Hitler wallpaper actually doesn't have ears.
I'm waiting for a tedious article about how post-Diana Britishes occasionally pine for stiff-upper-lip times.
― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:17 (fourteen years ago)
Don't let your mother leave the country or she will be fawned over by fascists.
― rustic italian flatbread, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:18 (fourteen years ago)
http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs21/f/2007/274/5/7/Loose_Lips_Sink_Ships_by_begger4mcgregor.jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:18 (fourteen years ago)
Hanley's Hitler looks a bit...Blue-ish.
― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:18 (fourteen years ago)
xp: nice!
― rustic italian flatbread, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:19 (fourteen years ago)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3579/3542013327_449bbefddc.jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:19 (fourteen years ago)
those officers around mum are fine brit gents, no? whose mum is she? is she a spy? halp!
― antiautodefenestrationism (ledge), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:20 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.prints-online.com/image/coughs_and_sneezes_poster_1378001.jpg
― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:20 (fourteen years ago)
trap the germans in your handkerchief
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/14/article-1257825-08B223DD000005DC-421_306x468.jpg
― antiautodefenestrationism (ledge), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:21 (fourteen years ago)
LOL XPOST
lol I totally read that as "trap the Germans in your handkerchief".
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:21 (fourteen years ago)
HER
― rustic italian flatbread, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:21 (fourteen years ago)
http://cookit.e2bn.org/library/1245217117/new_grow_own.original.jpg
http://www.easyfreesmileys.com/smileys/smoking-020.gif
― antiautodefenestrationism (ledge), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:23 (fourteen years ago)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OjCMkUOyiiU/SH44BVnJ8wI/AAAAAAAABEA/bMZCG3P1g4s/s400/carlesstalk.jpg
"apparently the convoy is sailing for england mein fuhrer"
― mark s, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:25 (fourteen years ago)
So, thee jigsaw finally comes together. Excellent work, Corporal Ravensburger.
― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:35 (fourteen years ago)
"Nicht problem, and danke for the ring, it's lovely"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:37 (fourteen years ago)
Keep Calm and Carry On was irritating enough BEFORE I found out from this thread that it is a Stereophonics album. Now it is officially the worst.
― DaTruf (Nicole), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:44 (fourteen years ago)
you never not even HER
― triple black belt in ILX-fu (snoball), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:49 (fourteen years ago)
Wait, reading between the lines of ENBB's posts, this stuff is ubiquitous in the US too?
I am very, very tired of seeing this stuff, but the first time I saw one of the posters it did raise about 0.001% of a "lol ironic hell-in-a-handbasket/stiff-upper-lip WWII kitsch" smile, and I thought that association was the only reason anyone might find any redeeming features in it. The idea that people might be buying it without that is weird to me.
― how do i shot slime mould voltron form (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 16:11 (fourteen years ago)
Eh, maybe there are buying it because of that and it just sort of passed me buy? All I know is that there is tons of this (and various variations on the theme - Keep Calm and Carry Yarn, Keep Calm and Love Hedgehogs*) on Etsy. Here, have a look:
http://www.etsy.com/search/handmade?search_submit=&ref=auto&q=keep+calm+and+carry+on&view_type=gallery&ship_to=US
* OMG WTF IS THIS? I like a nice little hhog as much as the next person but good Lord.
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 16:18 (fourteen years ago)
don't worry be happy
― conrad, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 16:22 (fourteen years ago)
In thinking about it, I guess I did know but had just forgotten the origin. Anyway, hedgehogs people, hedgehogs.
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 16:23 (fourteen years ago)
Hm, most of those sellers are in the US. I guess this is a worldwide thing. I suppose there's nothing specifically British about the joke, especially since the original poster never ran, but I'm still a bit surprised.
Also, many of those are pretty ugly and/or wtf, as you'd expect from Etsy, and yet none of them are as ugly as the stuff sold by the guy trying to copyright it.
― how do i shot slime mould voltron form (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 16:25 (fourteen years ago)
look it's not a *joke* okay? and part of the joke is that it *is* a peculiarly british sentiment i.e. stiff upper lip and getting on with things while the bombs rain down
― conrad, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 16:27 (fourteen years ago)
So it's not a joke, and the joke has parts?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 16:29 (fourteen years ago)
i'm not quite old enough to remember the war (that war) but my mum and dad were schoolskids, and afaict the "keep calm and carry on" posters were MUCH less part of shared memory than the "careless talk costs lives" cartoons, maybe partly bcz the cartoons have a sense of fun in the CTCL which appealed to them (also they were a series)
my mum also talked about radio malt as a favorite memory (she was 4 in 1939 and basically always said "The war was great!")
― mark s, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 16:29 (fourteen years ago)
I find that there is nothing calm about my hedgehog love.
― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 16:31 (fourteen years ago)
ew
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 16:31 (fourteen years ago)
― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Tuesday, October 11, 2011 11:35 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
a+
― max, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 17:23 (fourteen years ago)
i like the keep calm and carry on poster, its gorgeously designed, i appreciate the sentiment too, i feel like maybe some people in this thread should "keep calm" about the posters ubiquity
― max, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 17:24 (fourteen years ago)
So, thee jigsaw finally comes together
Is this a reference to the clothing store?
― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 17:25 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.newtsgames.com/images/feature_variant/5/manufacturer_feature_image_26.jpg
― max, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 17:26 (fourteen years ago)
My gf shops at Jigsaw occasionally and I've seen the KCACO poster there.
― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 17:28 (fourteen years ago)
honestly surprised there isn't a
KEEP ON
TRUCKIN'
refit yet.
― banana mogul (goole), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 17:31 (fourteen years ago)
"DO, please, continue trucking. Pip, pip. Cheerio!"
― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 17:58 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FrHkKXFRbCI
― "marvellously inoffensive" (Eazy), Monday, 12 March 2012 11:09 (fourteen years ago)
errrrr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrHkKXFRbCI
― "marvellously inoffensive" (Eazy), Monday, 12 March 2012 11:13 (fourteen years ago)
I hate this fucking thing, and I am glad that I can count on ILX to have already pulverized it.
― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 18:16 (fourteen years ago)
I saw a dude in a KEEP CALM AND CHIVE ON shirt on the weekend and I wanted very much to punch him
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 18:54 (fourteen years ago)
Is it wrong that I'm wearing this right now?
― Leslie Mann: Boner Machine (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:01 (fourteen years ago)
...shill for Warner Bros TV
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:36 (fourteen years ago)
Keep Calm and Cancel Your Cable Subscription
― Dog shave the Queen / 'Cos tourists owe money!!! (snoball), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:42 (fourteen years ago)
Keep Calm and Go Fuck Yourself
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:52 (fourteen years ago)
Keep Calm and Take Speed
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:57 (fourteen years ago)
Keep Calm and No One Watches Your Show
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:00 (fourteen years ago)
Keep Calm and Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Television Set And Go Out And Do Something Less Boring Instead?
― Dog shave the Queen / 'Cos tourists owe money!!! (snoball), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:04 (fourteen years ago)
Keep Calm And Remember When Martha Plimpton Was Awesome
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:04 (fourteen years ago)
Oh ffs, enough already.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41mjnwhvFbL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://www.music-news.com/showcompetition.asp?H=Win-1-of-3-Keep-Calm-and-Stay-Cosy-CDs&nCompetitionID=2704
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:42 (thirteen years ago)
keep calm and FUCK RIGHT OFF
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:50 (thirteen years ago)
as if they couldn't get any fucking worse
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/02/amazon-withdraws-rape-slogan-shirt
― prolego, Sunday, 3 March 2013 13:12 (thirteen years ago)