Banksy C/D

Everybody saying "how could this ever have been done in secret" has clearly never been to Weston-Super-Mare.

LOL

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2015/08/23/%E2%80%98dismaland%E2%80%99-does-not-start-as-soon-as-you-leave-the-m5-insist-tourist-board/

^^^ lol

both of you get in the sea

its not far

is there a thread about these unfunny fake news sites? so many awful ones. wunderground prob the worst, but that hip hop that posted the fake news story about ja rule being gay deserves a mention. oh and the worthless manchester one 'newsmanc' with its pithy observations about the metrolink

wunderground is about the weather ime, and is p dece

i think there are a few music-oriented ones that are so devoid of humour there's an element of the surreal to them. more generally the daily currant is the lowest of the low imo. the daily mash used to be embarrassingly unfunny tho they seem to have upped their game to solidly below-average lately?

http://wundergroundmusic.com/

SCOTTISH CHIP SHOP CAUGHT SELLING DEEP FRIED ECSTASY

WORLD’S BIGGEST UNDERGROUND RAVE DISCOVERED UNDER KÖLSCH’S HAT

STEPHEN HAWKING TO USE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER TO CREATE WORLD’S BIGGEST K-HOLE

There was a fake car news site that had only one funny bit about Audi introducing 6 new colors and they were all the same gray.

both of you get in the sea

― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Tuesday, August 25, 2015 7:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its not far

― Mark G, Tuesday, August 25, 2015 9:21 PM (Yesterday)

Clearly you have never been to Weston-super-Mare.

there's a punk rock-themed one called The Hard Times which I keep seeing reposts of. it's really laboured (and suffers from the same prob of all of these, that it blows its whole wad on the headline and makes reading further superfluous) and not funny but still far from the worst thing mentioned so far

am loving the appropriateness of the thread in which we number & declaim shit spoof news sites

trenchant usque ad aras

is there a thread about these unfunny fake news sites? so many awful ones. wunderground prob the worst, but that hip hop that posted the fake news story about ja rule being gay deserves a mention. oh and the worthless manchester one 'newsmanc' with its pithy observations about the metrolink

think wunderground is irish - it's incredibly basic. plus i can't stand supposed "satire" that is actually just someone's rote opinion about culture barely concealed behind flimsy sarcasm.

there's a punk rock-themed one called The Hard Times

This was faintly amusing for a while (maybe because it was new and pertained to my interests) but yeah it seems to have run out of steam quite badly

they're only making the framley examiner look better and better with each passing year

Also I was totally going to make this joke:

both of you get in the sea

― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Tuesday, August 25, 2015 7:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its not far

― Mark G, Tuesday, August 25, 2015 9:21 PM (Yesterday)

Clearly you have never been to Weston-super-Mare.

I have, actually. Tide goes out a long way, granted. OK, it's the Bristol Channel. It's wet.

I think a while ago someone posted this article about spoof news sites that aren't obviously spoofs, or funny, or SATYRE and are just there to confuse people and get ad clicks
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118013/satire-news-websites-are-cashing-gullible-outraged-readers

the hard times is the unfunniest thing ive ever encountered in history

http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/meteorite-fragment-contains-trace-amounts-of-thc-claims-nasa-expert/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2NG-MgHqEk

is Weston-Super-Mare near the setting of Fawlty Towers? was that Torquay?

Yes, it was Torquay and it's pretty close.

John Cleese is one of the three famous people to have ever come from W-S-M so that may be where it's got mixed up. (The other two being Jeffrey Archer and Richie Blackmore.)

as a kid i used to mix up Westward Ho! with Weston S-M

they had something about this on that Canadian radio show "Q" where someone was sniffing that it was an insult to the residents.

anyway, I exit through the nearest window and not the gift shop when it comes to Banksy.

real irony here is that Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen already made one of these installations last year

try driving between WSM and Torquay on a bank holiday weekend then tell me they're 'pretty close'

feel like I spent half my holiday on the M5 :(

yeah I consigned the hard times to the sea shitter with the rest of this waste in April, with the epitaph "the world needed a #justpunkthings waterford whisperer"

on that note did u finish that book about 'the irish'

Yeah, I can post it to you if u want!

It was about "the modern Irish writers"

i really hope this is an official banksy stunt

https://www.groupon.com/deals/gg-banksy-prints-on-gallery-wrapped-canvas

It's from his official store, they have had stuff on group on and achica before.

I bought a limited Banksy print for 50 quid in 2003 or so, it's worth about £5000 now.

http://casey.kolderup.org/tweets/roommate-banksy-tweets/

Daughter was told by one of the 'security guards' when she was going through the checkpoint "yellow's far too happy a colour, you'll need to take your top off and walk round in your bra." So much for Unity of Oppression.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/magazine/banksy-and-the-problem-with-sarcastic-art.html

Ah, sarcasm: the very highest form of wit. In the dictionary, “sarcasm” is still defined as the use of irony to convey contempt. But what we call sarcasm, especially on the Internet, has become less a technique than an attitude: a contempt so settled that it doesn’t bother constructing ironies. I submit that this sarcastic attitude, which presents itself as the perspective of a knowing few, is actually one of the dominant aesthetics of our age. Sarcasm is our kitsch.

I like this.

this made me chuckle a lot :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQPJfyVxNv8

https://www.facebook.com/events/406402122895655/

cool opportunity for ny ilxors

"your friend j0n w1ll1ams is going"

Further proof that Banksy has been made obsolete by bad facebook memes:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/12/11/banksy-paints-steve-jobs-as-syrian-migrant.html?via=FB_Page&source=TDB

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/03/04/bansky-unmasked-robin-gunningham_n_9381552.html

graffiti is considered a "minor terrorism-related act"?!

yeah that sucks

Mystery solved - Banksy was Massive Attack all along!

it seem so obvious now!

and to think that all these years I'd assumed he was Sneaker Pimps