I would EXCELSIOR, but I haven't got a ZING to LOL

have i mentioned how much i love this thread title

― Two Meter Peter (Ste)

it is great, it's fun to say/think

/sing

i am the author of this thread title and i regret it because it is stuck in my head forever now

haha I def sing it to myself

local eire man (darraghmac) wrote this on thread everybody on ilx complains about reddit on board I Love Everything on 12-Jan-2015

but wouldnt it have been an honour a privilege

derail- first time ms mac met my best friend he got drunk and had to be driven home (several miles along some serious back roads in a pink seicento that was my carriage at the time) and every now and again hed wake up in the back and rear up into the front singing that couplet and on the fourth or fifth time she took off her shoe and rained several sincere thumps down upon his head and i thought youre the one for me fatty

<3

I hate the term 'gaslighting' because I can never remember what it means. I wish there was a good trick using the visual cues of gas and lighting to help me remember; but I can't find a memorable connection of the cues and "sowing seeds of doubt to manipulate a targeted individual/group".

― THE DON IS GONE (FlopsyDuck), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 14:53 (fifty-one minutes ago) link

never seen this term before, are you sure you're ok

― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 15:15 (twenty-nine minutes ago) link

lol

Open goal, but well struck.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.skysports.com%2Ffootball%2Fnews%2F11095%2F12184434%2Fmarine-0-5-tottenham-carlos-vinicius-hat-trick-sends-visitors-into-fa-cup-fourth-round&psig=AOvVaw2_bmwXt-gjwjQ2xgtPl4IL&ust=1610707879452000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCNjg6Mmgm-4CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAP

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bordertelegraph.com%2Fsport%2Fnational_sport%2F19000994.fa-cup-a-lifesaver-marine-historic-run-ended-tottenham%2F&psig=AOvVaw2_bmwXt-gjwjQ2xgtPl4IL&ust=1610707879452000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCNjg6Mmgm-4CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAV

From the “DAAAAAWWWWWWctopus cute pics (no squid allowed)” thread:

Okay I know this isn't the right thread for it but I can't help falling in love with the banded piglet squid

🖼

it says no squid allowed right there in the thread title ffs

Yes and I am protesting that octonormative bigotry

Dammit, there should be an easier way to quote folks with credit in Zing

ok this, this is the nadir

Oh, _you’re_ a nadir.

precious, scarce

i liked "octonormative"

Usually the US politics thread just makes me cry but the string of posts after this embedded tweet really got me (esp M@tt):

Enough With The Cutesy Titles, People Are Dead: US Politics January 2021 pt 2

All kicking off at Leamington. Mike McGrath sent off for Kettering after a physical altercation with the referee , took it out on the changing room then decided that wasn't enough is tried to get back on the pitch to have another go at the ref before the stewards got control and gave him to the police.

― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 20:36

Just seen the video - the ref calls him over for something, he's clearly got a cob on and goes to square up but the ref has his arm out pointing and McGrath meets it with his chest, then slaps it out of the way so he can get closer.

― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 21:14

Leamington spar

― kieth chagrin (NickB), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 21:23

ok this, this is the nadir

This is the redemptive moment

wtf that's a great joke

sometimes a joke's greatness is in its plunge to a nadir

This is the Nader

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2168451223/headshot_nader.jpg

Even if you didnt like the joke theres no need to ralph

unfunny in any case

lol at a decent footcelsior making it onto main and outraging the self-same americans who'd previously described 'octonormative' as a good gag

spoken like a true biped

(also)

Oh wow, CNN is saying Trump left a letter for Biden. Can't wait.

Yes, just one letter...Q.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 14:09 (thirty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbyXBUEOy5A

YALL COULDA WENT TO COSTA RICA BUT YA DUMBASS SAID Q!? 🤦🏾‍♀️ #WheelOfFortune

— Queen Mother Asantewa (@Tunacheckers) February 21, 2020

I chuckled at Leamington Spar ... it's less a footie joke and more a geography pun

It's entirely a geographical pun.

Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or simply Leamington, is a spa town and civil parish in Warwickshire, England. Originally a small village called Leamington Priors, it grew into a spa town in the 18th century following the popularisation of its water which was reputed to have medicinal qualities.

oh right, a spa town.

you don't remember the episode of Bosom Manor that took place at Leamington Spa???

was that the one where Paul Druddington's croquet game went sour at a crucial moment during the annual Curdled Cream Concatenation?

you don't remember the episode of Bosom Manor that took place at Leamington Spa???

― sarahell, Wednesday, January 20, 2021 5:35 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol

Think it was the one where major fuddingtons man dropped a whoozy at the panto

the what now

it involved the local MP, the family solicitor, and Mrs. Fuddington's pussy

oh and the Vicar's unfortunate pudding

the pussy had got into the pudding you see

Uncomfortable memories of “Nancy Reagan pussy pudding”

Just say NO

Simpkins, the boathouse is all at sixes and sevens!

ah yes, Simpkins with the hereditary stutter! And when asked about the "incident" he would stammer "Puh-puh-puh-puh-puh" while everyone impatiently waited for the next syllable so that they could know whether it was the pussy or pudding to which he was referring! Such a droll episode!

Crying over here lol

this is reaching whiney blood pudding levels

Blood puh-puh-puh