EXCELSIOR is the second solo album by British musician LOLZ Coombes.

I was more confused by the mental imagery than I was amused

surely something is funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9U_C_q6WcU

I think it is in the visualising of Alfred's comment that gave me the lol and also it being a fine example of the poster vmic.

I'm still unable to visualize it.

Please don't describe it to me though.

Public fucking service picking it out of that shitheap thread and depositing here

― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Tuesday, September 13, 2016 2:29 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you combed thru the american election thread and came back with a cripple joke

And it was the pick

"cripple?"

srsly seeing calzino of all ppl praising an ableist joke is some shut down ilx shit

mind you the previous excelsior is even worse

Just wait for the Harry Truman jokes we're going to drop next.

me reading this thread

https://s3.amazonaws.com/idme-wordpress-military/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20114535/FDR-drinking-martini-photo.png

kinda think that acknowledging FDR's wheelchair isn't especially ablist but i ask myself do we want to end up filling an Excelsior thread with unfunny bickering?

So Alfred, are they both riding the chair? What would she be doing to get it to keep hitting the wall? How is he involved in that?

Everyone agreeing with lj in the forced outrage debate just have a lil think for a sec

Just warn me next time so I can brace myself.

I see it more as a Roosevelt joke rather than a disablist one. Different rules apply to poking fun at people from the great American elite families imo. Although I'm not going set up a fortress on this one.

i'm trying to imagine what sex position would result in a wheelchair banging against a wall. i mean maybe franklin delano roosevelt was a masochist but i would put my money on sadist. in any case it's a really generic sex joke trying to adapt itself to a basic fact about fdr and being as awkward as reverse cowboy would be from a wheelchair.

this is true

xp

even FDR would be ROFL at that one

Didnt

I mean technically

He always rof

can someone just post one that will unite ilx instead of dividing it

i thought the point of excelsior was to bring us all together in harmony under dope zings

do not weaponize excelsior

http://i.imgur.com/Mr9ofvK.png

this is clearly part of the noble heritage and unfunny tradition of the Excelsior thread

I mean technically

― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Tuesday, September 13, 2016 3:13 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He always rof

― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Tuesday, September 13, 2016 3:14 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sir

Maybe all of you should just sit this one out.

i cracked an FDR joke on a date with a girl who then informed me of her dad's rare polio-related disability, get on my level

She was probably just looking for a kind shoulder to lean on.

Did you put a finger in your collar and pull it while gulping audibly?

i made a joke about the IRA to someone who later informed me had an aunt die in the Omagh bombing. was tempted to give the rejoinder: "well, technically, i was talking about the Provisionals and that was 'The Real IRA'" but thought better of it

Lj level clarification imo

Also in school a friend and I were joking about a Scottish actor who had committed suicide after being accused of paedophilia and a girl standing with us revealed that she was his niece. That was awkward.

i made a joke on a blind date once about stabbing a hobo to impress her. she then informed me she was a hobo that had recently been stabbed.

feel like in ilx 2016 the wheels are starting to turn that will cause a shakedown of the current establishment

I made a joke about lawyers to someone who later informed me their father is in hell.

I made a joke once and it was on ilx

at work i made a joke about a chicken crossing the road and it turns out everybody in my office is related to the same chicken that got killed in a hit and run accident

when i'm joking no one gets it

when i'm serious everyone laughs

well nobody pays attention to me

ive been posting on ilx for over a decade and have been excelsiored once

I once watched a standup dvd with some schoolfriends of mine, and the standupper is raging about his shitty old german teacher called Leila 'The Whore' Bacher, and my friend says '... that's my aunt...'

heartening to see that the themes of comedy are so universal

My partner has MS and has serious mobility issues at times, sometimes people think she is drunk or on drugs by the way she walks and she is a tea-total lifer. You can never underestimate how much humour can help people navigate through bad times like this. I regularly go to lots of events where the majority of people are either on the autism spectrum or physically disabled. I couldn't face these people if I felt like a hypocritical arsehole who lolled at disablism on message boards. But I really don't feel like Alfred's post is in that category at all.

I don't mean this as pass/agg rebuke to LJ, because I have gone through periods where I might have reacted the same.

anyways I'll stfu now

that's fair enough

sorry everyone, i was more annoyed by the childish non-humour of it than any problematic thorn but excelsior is probably best left unexamined in any sense. i can't help myself when you're all 'lol banging! wheelchair! haw' tho

I would've gone with a "Warm Springs" pun myself.

yalta relax about this

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