Keep Calm And .....

It being whatever shit might ordinarily make you lose your cool? Whatever it is, I sure am tired of seeing it.

First heard this phrase when Kevin Shields was going to sack the drummer, but the rest of the band counselled against it and encouraged him to keep going.

"carrying on" is the opposite of "keeping calm"

Oh! I just got this and that had never occurred to me before but I see what you mean. Hmmm. Yeah. Beats me.

I am not fond of it either. It's even more aggravating to me that it was never actually even used as propaganda in actual WWII.

i think the joke is 'lol ww2' basically

Oh wait, is that what it's from? Obv didn't read the article. Oops.

"Keep Calm and Carry On Cowboy"

"carry on" being synonymous with "get rowdy" or something...

Keep calm and carry on (60 million people are about to die)

I just skimmed the article. I never knew that's what it which makes it at least a teensy bit interesting, yeah, no. NO MORE.

knew that's what it which makes

^^ (missing a "was from") in there

Keep calm, enbb.

Keep Calm and Carrion.

Keep Calm And NSFW

x-post - I CAN'T! It enrages me in the same way those Coexist bumper stickers do. It's an irrational thing.

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.

aw, the coexist bumperstickers at least have their heart in the right place.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4154a2S4BTL.jpg

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!! ;)

Is that why they buy KCACO? My sense of it (in a non-ironic, original sense) is something like "resign yourself to death".

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.

I mean, just for the sake if it's history, leave it alone ffs

of

Oh god that Stereophonics album, now I'm really pissed off.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ruNyVjkCL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

ngggh

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/homefront/spies/graphics/p_s4.jpg

http://u1.ipernity.com/15/88/66/7918866.f9040984.240.jpg

GIS for "Keep Calm and Curry On" pretty disappointing.

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.

http://www.thecityreview.com/lonwar3.gif

ws nazi spy

never even been able to figure out that pun

http://www.maam.org/wwii/ww2_images/poster_2.jpg

h anley

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.

Don't let your mother leave the country or she will be fawned over by fascists.

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs21/f/2007/274/5/7/Loose_Lips_Sink_Ships_by_begger4mcgregor.jpg

Hanley's Hitler looks a bit...Blue-ish.

xp: nice!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3579/3542013327_449bbefddc.jpg

those officers around mum are fine brit gents, no? whose mum is she? is she a spy? halp!

http://www.prints-online.com/image/coughs_and_sneezes_poster_1378001.jpg

trap the germans in your handkerchief

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/14/article-1257825-08B223DD000005DC-421_306x468.jpg

LOL XPOST

lol I totally read that as "trap the Germans in your handkerchief".

HER

http://cookit.e2bn.org/library/1245217117/new_grow_own.original.jpg

http://www.easyfreesmileys.com/smileys/smoking-020.gif

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OjCMkUOyiiU/SH44BVnJ8wI/AAAAAAAABEA/bMZCG3P1g4s/s400/carlesstalk.jpg

"apparently the convoy is sailing for england mein fuhrer"

So, thee jigsaw finally comes together. Excellent work, Corporal Ravensburger.

"Nicht problem, and danke for the ring, it's lovely"

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.

the first time i saw the "keep mum, she's not so dumb" i honestly was baffled, like first of all, my mum's not dumb and no i wasn't planning on getting rid of her either

and third she's hott amirite

is "keep mum" brit-only slang?

haha yeah that was the other thing, "why is mum so hot?"

no i think americans say "keep mum" too, i'm just slow on the uptake.

x-post - I don't think so, no. It's not particularly common though.

Keep schtum. Well that might not be either but I have never heard it outside of England.

Oh I meant that keep schtum is brit-only, btw.

haha schtum FROM THE GERMAN

http://stephengreensted.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/careless-talk-costs-lives.jpg

I've never even heard it in German weirdly enough. I think it's Yiddish originally.

Mum's the word

Comes from mummer, btw.

got caught up in a BNP rally once and a few of them were wearing t-shirts with this on. For some time i assumed anyone I saw wearing t-shirts with this on was far right, until the profile became so vague and generally applicable that it was clear it had gone beyond that. Still has the whiff of association though and I'm not sure that the source of its revival can't be located there.

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, October 11, 2011 12:27 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark

I realize that the original poster was not a joke, but it's just astounding to me that this thing would be memeing about for 10-odd years and it would not have - for at least some segment of the population - taken on the jokey connotation I've been reading into it.

Also, regarding the US vs. UK prevalence of this, I've only seen it before on ilxor.

So, thee jigsaw finally comes together. Excellent work, Corporal Ravensburger.

― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Tuesday, October 11, 2011 11:35 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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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

So, thee jigsaw finally comes together

Is this a reference to the clothing store?

http://www.newtsgames.com/images/feature_variant/5/manufacturer_feature_image_26.jpg

My gf shops at Jigsaw occasionally and I've seen the KCACO poster there.

honestly surprised there isn't a

KEEP ON

TRUCKIN'

refit yet.

"DO, please, continue trucking. Pip, pip. Cheerio!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FrHkKXFRbCI

errrrr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrHkKXFRbCI

I hate this fucking thing, and I am glad that I can count on ILX to have already pulverized it.

I saw a dude in a KEEP CALM AND CHIVE ON shirt on the weekend and I wanted very much to punch him

Is it wrong that I'm wearing this right now?

...shill for Warner Bros TV

Keep Calm and Cancel Your Cable Subscription

Keep Calm and Go Fuck Yourself

Keep Calm and Take Speed

Keep Calm and No One Watches Your Show

Keep Calm and Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Television Set And Go Out And Do Something Less Boring Instead?

Keep Calm And Remember When Martha Plimpton Was Awesome

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

keep calm and FUCK RIGHT OFF

as if they couldn't get any fucking worse

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/02/amazon-withdraws-rape-slogan-shirt