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

is that a direct ref to the classic mother teresa gag at the time tho

I've always had problems with heights and even working on tower scaffolds and scissor lifts for over a decade never really cured it. Fucking love terra firma, man.
Once I was told not to leave site until I had got a chandelier cable to the apex of a church dome before the painters came in that weekend. it involved going up an illegal tower scaffold built onto the top of a big scaffolding structure with lots jutting steel poles that would skewer you if fell. One of the painters felt sorry for me and said gimme your drill I'll do it. He did an absolute abortion of a job, fucking etch-a-sketch type wiring. I told him thanks but it was fucking dog rough and I'll probably get pumped for this on Monday, but at least I'm alive!
He said "wait until it has been painted, you won't notice it". When I returned on monday it still looked fucking pez with a layer of paint and I got a massive fucking and it actually ruined my reputation at that company. But I'm still glad I didn't do it.

― calzino, Monday, 21 November 2016 22:08 (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My view on the identity/class divide is that both sides are equally planks that complement each other and the left should try, as much as possible, to unite.

― Treeship, 22. november 2016 01:14 (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think I cracked the case and we can move on

― Treeship, 22. november 2016 01:15 (thirty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

systems thinking there

is there anyone on ilx who lives in "the third world"?

― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, November 22, 2016 3:17 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think darragh is the closest

― iatee, Tuesday, November 22, 2016 3:18 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oof

gotta be honest idgi

Still don't get the Fred burn either.

Excelsior cliff notes thread wanted

I would love a coffee table book of annotated ilx threads

it wasn't a Fred burn

Xp I'm never sure when trees is stirring or not

xp Great explanation.

it's wordplay

kitty genovese's murder inspired the idea of the bystander effect; accounts at the time claimed that none of the many people who could hear her screaming did anything because they didn't want to get involved or assumed someone else would help her

thank you

Oh that one yeah sorry schwantz I was looking at the treez post fredb posted

Treezy will u explain what was funny about my living in the third world pls

furthermore, the joke implies that instead of considering the seemingly doomed course of us history, one might focus on other things besides, hence acting as bystander to cultural and social death on an unprecedented scale

I thought it was related to the "to not do" typo.

i'd say we're better than to excelsior a mere typo, but really

Guys pls

xxpz why do u think trés knows? presumably it's just an anti-irish joke

i'd say we're better than to excelsior a mere typo, but really

― imago, Tuesday, November 22, 2016 4:53 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...were not?

I'm just asking anyone

I mean trump isn't even in yet so I figured it couldn't just be an anti Irish joke right

i mean

you can make an argument. based on the original nato/e.bloc/other framework.

but

begorrah

in fact the joke has about 5 different levels to it, but I don't want to give them all away.

the joke will be explained in the next oppo dump

xp omg the surrounding apartments had five levels... wins you've done it again you wily cockface, Bravo, bravo

It's like I want to FP every one of you, but it's really not my business.

best thing about this site is that it's full of geniuses

I just got pinged. Did someone say oppo dump?

just go back to bed, pplains, i'm sure someone else will do it

i can't stop thinking about this

Alexis de Wokeville

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, November 21, 2016 10:54 PM (two days ago)

best thing about this site is that it's full of geniuses

― Treeship

I would love a coffee table book of annotated ilx threads

someone should totally do this. just print all this up and annotate the hell out of it. what could go wrong?

ILM Strokes Thread NEVAR FORGETN

Still don't get the Fred burn either.

― schwantz, Tuesday, November 22, 2016 4:30 PM (six hours ago)

It hinges on knowing who Kitty Genovese was.

Good morning. UK shift starts...

it's wordplay

is the implication here that it's to do with Irish pronunciation of "third world"

Pronounced 'Trócaire' iirc.

Some of you not immediately knowing who Kitty Genovese was is forgivable, but not bothering to look her up on your own only adds to the punchline.

In fairness the need to research an entry on the Excelsior thread is somewhere in the sub-basement of my pyramid of needs.

Aren't most basements subterranean?

I know, I know, I could look it up, but that would take me away from my view of the street.

i was gonna look up Kitty Genovese on Wikipedia but just figured someone else would do it so I didn't bother

I'll save everyone some googling: it's a brand of cat food.

which contains a good deal of pesto

ME, TODAY: "You know, a month from now, you and some other posters are going to be cracking Kitty Genovese jokes on the Excelsior thread."

ME, LAST MONTH: "... ... ... Trump's going to somehow win this thing, isn't he?"

Way more surprised at and disappointed in Iago than in Trump.

― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Saturday, November 26, 2016 8:05 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Iago's selection of a diehard torture proponent for his attorney general was the last straw

― El Tomboto, Saturday, November 26, 2016 9:31 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink