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

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

fred b was luna?

― velko, Tuesday, December 6, 2016 12:13 PM (four minutes ago)

I watched a Danish show recently -- it involved a mentally ill woman who was a sociopath as a teen who talked to her miscarried fetus that she kept in her purse. Kinda pissed Fred is banned, so he can't respond to my assumptions that most Danish women carry miscarried fetuses in their handbags and talk to them when they are alone.

― sarahell, Wednesday, December 7, 2016 9:12 AM (forty-eight minutes ago)

miscarried twice if vera bradley

miscarriage jokes, that'll raise the level of laughs round here

vera bradley bags are ugly you see

i lol'd

Or you live in, say, Hoboken so your local clubs only represent douchebags and terrible music
― Evan, Thursday, December 8, 2016

dont be mean to yo la tengo
― flappy bird, Thursday, December 8, 2016

Just realised I was confusing Vera Bradley with Vera Drake the abortionist mike leigh movie, which made sufjan's joke seem nastier than it was

Vera Bradley might not be so well known. Either way, I apologize for any nastiness felt. Not a good topic for clumsy jokes.

As if a danish woman would carry a vera bradley bag, fetus or no

Perhaps if she had a semester at IU

Nørmkorjenn

if pizza is allowed as pie, pie will wipe the floor with cake. or something else a bit less disgusting sounding.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, December 15, 2016 1:30 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not necessarily, if pizza is allowed as pie then it stands to reason that gin & tonic can be allowed as cake and then it's all to play for again

― banfred bann (wins), Thursday, December 15, 2016 1:32 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink