why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

Billiams College, Amberst College, Swarbthmore College, Pomonba College...aw, forget it!

Name a SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER that does not have !, # or $ in it.

I bet you can't ;)

life is so hard

the worst thing about those is exactly like this thread. even if its something totally obvious people just keep doing it because some fuckin gif said "bet you can't".

add these two numbers and get a new number, bet you can't: 5 + 7

ps only clever people can answer this

I bet you I caaain!

multiply an even number by an odd number to get an odd number. clever people can answer this.

name a two dimensional shape with fewer than 3 sides. any fucking idiot could.

;)

Karl, there's another one floating around that reads "Say a name that starts with the letter Z. 4 out of 5 people will fail"
/too much time on ilx

What are some of these that are actually a brainteaser? I always get taken in by that elephant in Denmark one.

those riddles going around are a means of people garnering more clicks/hits for their FB pages so they can show up in more people's feeds iirc

Not all of them are cynical tricks to get more page views. I note that no one on this thread has been able to solve my riddle

University of California Los Angeleb

jeez

I like this one: name an English word that cannot possibly be played in Scrabble (even given the 2 blank tiles)

"The search was for 'apiary classroom', but what this reporter found in his investigation will amaze you."

http://d75822.medialib.glogster.com/media/ee/ee63abeae1644e87e4a8774886670464030872d7a9c70017256945c1ef0c4715/white-block-1-jpg.jpg

http://d75822.medialib.glogster.com/media/ee/ee63abeae1644e87e4a8774886670464030872d7a9c70017256945c1ef0c4715/white-block-1-jpg.jpg

http://swfbees.com/NHBAD2009a.jpg

those riddles going around are a means of people garnering more clicks/hits for their FB pages so they can show up in more people's feeds iirc lazily filling the void that is their meaningless modern info-existence

let's not fly too close to the sun there, mr. ilx poster.

a childhood friend of my sisters' i vaguely knew from when they were kids posted one of those banality followed by a threat macros that had some bible verse about following jesus and then 'like and you will go to heaven. ignore and you will go to hell.' i 'liked' it and then commented 'hope this works!' and she defriended me. my stepmother keeps posting these things to my wall of dogs that have come to some horrible end so i get to open facebook and o joy there's that story about cops slitting a shar-pei's throat in front of its owner cuz it wasn't on a leash. with images. thx. i think she had mentioned one of these stories to me once irl and i had agreed that yes torturing and killing dogs is horrible and may have mentioned that sometimes i harbor dreams of tracking down and killing these cops that kill dogs cuz it looked at them funny or barked at them and now here i am, some eli roth version of sarah mclachlan everyday. the other thing that's been happening is when some friend will have maybe engaged in slightly creepy but not that creepy behavior that maybe facebook doesn't need to let everybody know about ie __________ just liked four photos from the official dawn wells page.

keeps posting these things to my wall of dogs

Any opportunity I have to make my stock Richard & Linda Thompson joke, I take.

There is a certain quality I've noticed lately akin to "Fox turning into a porn channel so slowly, nobody noticed," except it's "my family turned into 4chan posters so slowly, no one blinked an eye."

"Oh, hey. A dead Palestinian child pic slotted next to one of Kim Kardashian. Uncle Frank must be on a roll."

The idea is to fill FB with more music, breaking the monotony of selfies and sensationalism. If you "like" this post you will be assigned a letter. Your task is to choose a band, musician or artist whose name begins with that letter, then post a link to a track by them on YOUR timeline, with this text as your status update... I received C.

The Distance by Cake.

i have this one fb "friend" who posts republican/anti-government/anti-immigrant image macros along with inspirational zig ziglar quotes about teh american dream and stuff like that and then posts stuff about how if you have any problem with him then you're obviously just jealous.

http://gallery.mailchimp.com/c3128cbc75b5968aacd624e4b/images/a2af0906-94e6-4315-93b9-8234d712efcd.jpg

I just really don't get what this is actually getting at. There's going to be an earthquake that's going to blow up the gas pipeline, and that's in turn going to somehow blow up the nuclear power plant? I don't think that's how it works.

I like this one: name an English word that cannot possibly be played in Scrabble (even given the 2 blank tiles)

― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 16:13 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

'characteristically' (because it's bigger than the fucking board)

everyone die

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bubsy__4459.jpg

a childhood friend of my sisters' i vaguely knew from when they were kids posted one of those banality followed by a threat macros that had some bible verse about following jesus and then 'like and you will go to heaven. ignore and you will go to hell.' i 'liked' it and then commented 'hope this works!' and she defriended me.

it worked!

i've stopped seeing these macros as much lately but i've also started being more vigilant about blocking people who post them (it's still probably not as many people who have blocked me after too many "life with the kid" updates but...)

'characteristically' (because it's bigger than the fucking board)

I was thinking "pizzazz" because there's only one z and two blanks.

lol antidisestablishmentarianism lol

PIZZAZZ -- turn a few N's sideways
CHARACTERISTICALLY -- play over 2 turns (CHARACTERISTIC, ALLY) on 2 lines, use a sideways I or one of the blanks as a hyphen

with those rules, why not just turn the board over and use a magic marker to write whatever word you want on the back

Ah, a video has started playing automatically in my feed. Could this be some sort of hilarious Damage Contrlol Youtube wonder or... oh... no, it's an Iranian man beating his wife/Korean woman kicking the shit out of her new born child/Skinhead drowning a puppy. Thanks, Facebook poster, what the fuck?

These appear often with no commentary at all. Either that or it's 'This terrible person needs to be stopped NOW, share with yr friends' and then people commenting saying the video is from 2006 and the person in question has been in jail for nearly a decade.

Can't play on the back of the board, no way of knowing where the double word scores are.

Tried writing on the front of the board, but after a while all my games ended up the same. :(

Why don't people look shit up before posting on facebook? Why? Why? Why?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t1.0-9/p526x296/1509928_638702546178833_959776271_n.jpg

let's try that again
http://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t1.0-9/p526x296/1509928_638702546178833_959776271_n.jpg

ok idgi, does the file type have to be ".jpeg" for the image to be displayed?

it is displaying

alas

also I too thought of 'pizzazz' but it's such a ropey neologism that any self-respecting Scrabble dictionary...oh wait fine, as you were

see also quinquenquiquiquillery, a word that has something to do with the number fifteen that I just made up

ah ty ty i think i forgot to enable thread images again

sorry for double posts

can't believe self-respecting Scrabble dictionaries include words from the early 20th century

https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/t1.0-9/421854_10151516798130320_1005409175_n.jpg

46,000 shares, over 300,000 likes

briliant

That doesn't start with an 'a'..

'If you think you are bri-nylon..'

anteligence

arse