there are subtle nuances in every single one of those EXCELSIORS, I'll have you LOL

she reminds me of brad pitt and i got your secret shit

Funny, I was saying something almost exactly like that to my neighbor's dog yesterday, the one that is demonically possessed and tells me to kill people.

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/578357_343988352357717_328804177_n.jpg

Again, I am someone who has some of these things, don't try to guilt me into posting it.

― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Friday, September 21, 2012 6:48 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(...)

seems kinda weird & shitty to lump autism in with the rest of those

― the best Laid jams (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, September 21, 2012 7:12 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it seems shitty to lump all of those things together, that is like every single medical issue ever

― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Friday, September 21, 2012 8:56 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(Crohn's, PTSD, DIARRHEA, tummyache, M.S., FACE CANCER, etc)

― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Friday, September 21, 2012 8:57 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lazy eye, phantom limb, the shakes...

― lag∞n, Friday, September 21, 2012 9:00 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rickets, dropsy, housemaid's knee

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, September 21, 2012 9:03 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bee sting, stubbed toe, itching powder in pants

― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Friday, September 21, 2012 9:12 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

weird vibes, ennui, snow blindness

― lag∞n, Friday, September 21, 2012 9:25 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes, the macro is rather dumb and uses guilt inappropriately, but I still have enough empathy with the chronically ill that all this pointing and laughing doesn't feel right to me.

― Aimless, Friday, September 21, 2012 9:28 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

guilt, empathy, pointing and laughing

― lag∞n, Friday, September 21, 2012 9:32 PM Bookmark

lag∞n's presumed humor there still goes over my head, doc.

yup, all those words appear in what I wrote, sure enough, but equating diabetes or cancer with bee stings, stubbed toes or snow blindness as a way of laughing at the macro still seems to me like the wrong way to go about it.

Kinda wish more stubbed toes were hidden.

The macro already nonsensically links a bunch of stuff together at random, using the supposed common thread of "invisibility" which actually doesn't apply to several of the things listed. I don't think anybody involved would remotely consider stubbed toes and snow blindness the equal of cancer. YMMV of course, but if the people I've known with any of these things are any indication, snarky ILX posts would be a greater comfort to the ill than stupid crap like that macro.

(I remember my mom really hating all the rah-rah, up with cancer patients/survivors stuff, and instead getting a lot of mileage out of some pretty dark humor, much darker than her previous stock in trade. I think this is a fairly common experience?)

...but yeah, not everybody handles these things the same, I dunno, the humor for me was in the rhythm/on-screen "timing" more than anything else.

Well I would like to thank the thread for putting this riffage in my head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkbMd3Bygzs

concern trolling defense of a concern trolling macro is some sick shit imo. maybe aimless can come in next and explain how hating patch adams is the equiv of holocaust denial.

He might also explain to you wtf concern trolling is.

an invisible illness iirc

lol

and then everyone shakes hands and leaves it.

oddly missing in the lists of ailments: neti pots, kombucha, where to buy weed

crabbottt's cooler than me since this is what I was thinking...

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

James Young, ladies and gentlemen. An invisible sickness.

supernaut, snowblind, cornucopia

Heart Disease, Epilepsy, Autism, M.D., it's still rock and roll to me.

9/11, Anthrax Scare
Global warming polar bear

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, November 6, 2007 10:37 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We Didn't Start The Fire

last 2 posts are killing me

FWIW, I basically see the entire archive of ILX as one long, endlessly elaborated and tangential Billy Joel thread, which sometimes loses itself so completely that you could be forgiven for not seeing in the manifest content any reference to Billy Joel. Each thread that denies its Joel-ness in the same act asserts its Joel-ness all the more strongly, and each thread that makes overt Joel references serves only to silence the Piano Man lurking in the penumbras of all other threads.

http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs6/3643919_o.gif

I've got that same Ollie North wallpaper here at the house.

With or without the little decorative wall of flames? That's gotta be hard to toddler proof.

While I appreciate those who've taken a few moments from their day to explain to me why the original macro referenced in Doc Casino's excelsior post was very stupid, and why concern trolling is tatamount to genocide, I am still in the dark as to why it was so fucking hilarious to say:

guilt, empathy, pointing and laughing

As punchlines go this seems imo to lack some sort of vital, as it were, humorousness.

Lucky for me, I don't mind embarrassing myself in front of all ilx in saying that I still don't get that joke. Because the chances are good that this will cause untold dozens of ilxors to despise me as an imbecile.

(aimless blabbers his lips with his index finger)

dude, it's just that there was a string of posts of a format of three things strung together, then yours, then a post that strings three words from your post together in the same format...yes?... it's absurdist dopey auto-transformation of post into template, the gag in my eyes is that kind of whatever random crap can be absorbed and spat back out in this fashion. If you're looking for an explanation of how guilt, empathy, and pointing and laughing are all being offered as ailments or something, I can't help you, cause that's not operative there, for me, although there could be some kind of meta-gag, where the persona of your typical jaundiced and cynical free-zinging ILXor sees "guilt" and "empathy" as ailments. Obviously it's hard to square "pointing and laughing" with that since that belongs to a different character than the other two. But perhaps this comes full circle and acts as a critique of the worthless category system set up by the original Facebook doohickey... which is, after all, the thing being mocked here.

also just fyi, concern trolling was compared to patch adams apologists, the holocaust was thrown in as something a patch adams apologist might ridiculously and not realistically cite to bolster his shaky case, at least this is how i remember it all going down

it's absurdist dopey auto-transformation of post into template, the gag in my eyes is that kind of whatever random crap can be absorbed and spat back out in this fashion. If you're looking for an explanation of how guilt, empathy, and pointing and laughing are all being offered as ailments or something, I can't help you, cause that's not operative there, for me, although there could be some kind of meta-gag, where the persona of your typical jaundiced and cynical free-zinging ILXor sees "guilt" and "empathy" as ailments. Obviously it's hard to square "pointing and laughing" with that since that belongs to a different character than the other two. But perhaps this comes full circle and acts as a critique of the worthless category system set up by the original Facebook doohickey... which is, after all, the thing being mocked here.

And at the end of all those mental gyrations, you laughed? Sir, you are made of sterner stuff than I. (sweeps ostrich-beplumed hat across the ground as he executes a deep bow)

sweeps ostrich-beplumed LOL across the ground as he EXCELSIORs a deep ROFFLE

And at the end of all those mental gyrations, you laughed?

i'm only human!

Great phrase, btw.

Yeah when an american says ginger I want to stab them

― jalapeno kloppers (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, September 24, 2012 2:37 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what if they are offering you ginger snaps

― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Monday, September 24, 2012 2:39 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they are really asking for ginger STABS

― Doctor Casino, Monday, September 24, 2012 2:52 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

150 Soundgarden - Hands All Over 311 Points, 5 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/1P4NeCeT76MGWkgVV8uRxP
http://youtu.be/PfUpYM7saz8

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, September 24, 2012 2:48 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

TOO HIGH

― Neckbeard's Castle (Mr Andy M), Monday, September 24, 2012 2:54 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

NOT HIGH ENOUGH

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, September 24, 2012 2:54 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

CAPS FITE

― Neckbeard's Castle (Mr Andy M), Monday, September 24, 2012 2:55 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sometimes, unconsciously, without meaning to, when i'm sitting at my desk and really need to poop, i find myself humming the first couple of lines of semisonic's closing time over and over again, except it's "pooping time, time for you to go out, go out into the world".

no lie

― alpha farticles, Monday, September 24, 2012 6:45 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Markers? Is that you?

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Monday, September 24, 2012 8:13 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if anyone genuinely thinks chinos/deck shoes/rusting bikes somehow nails down a particular type of person or the things they are into, then that's sort of crazy.

― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Monday, September 24, 2012 12:01 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

― MikoMcha, Monday, September 24, 2012 12:02 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This album RULES

― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Monday, September 24, 2012 12:51 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idky this made me lol but it did

edited for IRL lols

http://images.eurogamer.net/2012/articles//a/1/5/1/6/4/6/7/1121.png/EG11/resize/300x-1

are there people going to these shows for lol joeks or

― A.R.R.Y. Kane (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:50 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Early start to that gig, probably wants to get cracking before the reptilians can get their blood warmed up.

― DJ Mooncup (NickB), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:00 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no dinosaur jr are both literally and metaphorically the sound of glenn branca and glen matlock frotting underneath a dying extractor fan in a rural new hampshire restroom during a snowstorm on an unspecified date between november 1982 and february 1983 and j mascis has confirmed this

― A.R.R.Y. Kane (nakhchivan), Tuesday, September 25, 2012 1:09 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Standing In A Shower Of Shits sums up Oasis' career generally tbh

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:26 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm pretty convinced that every person in england either way overrates or way underrates oasis

they were ok guys! but not that awesome, but they did have some jams u can't front on

they had one good song as far as I can tell

It better be "Live Forever," or you and I are quits.

yeah, i tend to see them the same way as foo fighters. they're still somehow famous and in magazines occasionally, they suck now but they had a few good songs in the 90s.

yeah...

I could compile a ten-track CD that'd do me, the rest can go.

The main difference between O and the B's is that all the obscure tracks by one group are like gold, the other like sludge.

they were ok guys! but not that awesome, but they did have some jams u can't front on

hard to have an unbiased opinion of them when they were heralded as BETTER THAN THE BEATLES by almost every media outlet during a certain period of time tbh

actually make that BETTER THAN BLOWJOBS AND CHOCOLATE because maybe u don't like the beatles

People *wanted* a new Beatles, like they *wanted* a new "New Wave", and you remember how good the new wave of new wave was, yeah?

I can't imagine the kind of cultural climate in which you're asked to give an opinion on the worth of Oasis.

Which wave was that?

xp

It was such a long time ago.

Anyways, this is the wrong thread for all this...