Omg, absolutely howling at the scroll through all the posts― gyac, Sunday, May 29, 2022 3:20 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― gyac, Sunday, May 29, 2022 3:20 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is truly amazing and every ilxor should view it.
― peace, man, Monday, 30 May 2022 01:47 (two years ago) link
The way the scrollthrough starts sow and gradually gets faster and faster is a++++ hilarious
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 30 May 2022 02:01 (two years ago) link
when Homer laughs at Milhouse's dad for "Can I Borrow a Feeling?", was he laughing at the idea of borrowing feelings, or laughing at him for recording a lame album
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Monday, 30 May 2022 02:08 (two years ago) link
I started lolling 50 seconds into the scroll and kept going
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Monday, 30 May 2022 02:23 (two years ago) link
i will say that part of me was thinking that acting like scrolling 2000 ilx posts is a big deal marks you as a casual
― call all destroyer, Monday, 30 May 2022 02:39 (two years ago) link
I'm surprised no-one is offended at that podcast copying an entire thread to another medium. It reminded me of that event years ago where someone printed a bunch of threads in a book and caused a great fuss here.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 30 May 2022 02:50 (two years ago) link
Omg that scroll is transcendent
― Jaq, Monday, 30 May 2022 02:52 (two years ago) link
if one could reduce this thread only to the posts posing arguments meant to argue in favor one's considered and sincerely held opinion, removing all tongue-in-cheek posts, posts simply attempting to amuse the ilx collective through some sort of clever wit, or posts on the meta-subject of the why anyone would bother to argue about the supposed subject of the thread, then I'd estimate the whole thing would be about 40 posts long and as interesting as a limp dishrag.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 30 May 2022 03:37 (two years ago) link
feeling very called out but lolllll at that video
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 30 May 2022 13:40 (two years ago) link
I was so confused at first, because it came on after something else and I wasn't paying attention. Then I notice that ILX is scrolling past on it's own, and it broke my brain for a moment.
― a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Monday, 30 May 2022 14:09 (two years ago) link
Incidentally, the video-maker is otm throughout (both his defense of the literal interpretation and his charitable reconstruction of why the metaphor interpretation lands for some people.)
― jmm, Monday, 30 May 2022 14:15 (two years ago) link
literal
― UncannyRhino, Friday, 16 September 2022 03:25 (one year ago) link
omg @ the ilx thread scroll.
― Abel Ferrara hard-sci-fi elevator pitch (PBKR), Friday, 16 September 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
Interestingly someone in the YT comments details a Simpsons book that basically answers the question anyway.
M. Conway3 months agoThis is most likely non-canon, but I had this book called "The Ralph Wiggum Book." In it, there was a section that detailed a typical day for Ralph, in which Ms. Hoover puts him in time-out, where he literally dreams of being a Viking. Because of that, I've always considered the line to be interpreted literally.
Miles Majeran3 months agoHoly shit I own that book, also in the anatomy of Ralph page, in the brain part it says: “Where dreams of being a Viking and little else reside” checkmate.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 16 September 2022 23:21 (one year ago) link
Sounds like literalist propaganda to me. Is there nothing these people won’t stoop to?!
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Saturday, 17 September 2022 00:38 (one year ago) link
sleep is where ilx dreams of being hermeneutic anarchists
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 17 September 2022 01:23 (one year ago) link
jfc, this guy I’ve been hanging out with came over for dinner last night and then when he found out I hadn’t seen/didn’t recall “Lisa the Vegetarian” he insisted we watch it, and apparently it’s this episode, and when Ralph said this I paused it and was like “oh my god, this message board I post on had this whole black-blue/white-gold dress moment 10 years ago ab out this line, isn’t that nuts?” and he was like “wtf, Its OBVIOUSLY that he’s a pro at sleeping!” and I was completely dumbfounded
― music for A★TEENS’ musicians (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 02:25 (one year ago) link
lol my heart goes out to you
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 03:06 (one year ago) link
you don't win friends with salad
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 03:07 (one year ago) link
The two things you don't discuss in polite company: politics and Ralph being a viking
― jmm, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 03:09 (one year ago) link
Hi Stevie
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 03:10 (one year ago) link
I was at the wedding of one of my best friends from high school tonight and then I remembered that he told me that he thought Ralph meant he was a 'viking at sleep' and when asked by the officiant, I objected to the marriage.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 03:56 (one year ago) link
viking @ sleep
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 04:40 (one year ago) link
i hope some high-ranking admin at the Internet sleep info hub sleep.com has the username "viking."
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 04:47 (one year ago) link
Jesus Christ Stevie
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 08:16 (one year ago) link
guy that stevie's been hanging out with otm
― mark s, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 10:21 (one year ago) link
U can post truth, or be post truth, which way western man
― 49 Percent Jesus (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 10:51 (one year ago) link
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this joke was retroactively unwritten, sorry guys
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Saturday, 21 January 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link
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― your original display name is still visible (Left), Saturday, 21 January 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
what happened did some writer say some bullshit
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Saturday, 21 January 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJQnZZ-Wmao
― Kieth Encounter (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 January 2023 17:46 (one year ago) link
k but what about this one then (from tvtropes)
The same episode also has Barney telling Lisa "Go back to Russia!" after she announces that she's made gazpacho for everyone at the BBQ; debate has raged over whether Barney thought gazpacho was a Russian foodnote (possibly confusing it with borscht?), or he was saying Lisa is a communist. He might also be saying that Lisa might as well be foreign for being vegetarian, since he feels eating meat is a big part of American culture. Then again, he’s a drunk, so his understanding of anything is questionable.
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Saturday, 21 January 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
canofworms.jpg
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 21 January 2023 17:56 (one year ago) link
internet sadbois read some reception theory challenge
― Kieth Encounter (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 January 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link
is the "he dreams of being a viking" the dominant hegemonic reading of the joke?
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Saturday, 21 January 2023 18:10 (one year ago) link
I believe so, going by Josh Weinstein and the (slightly oddly worded) winning result of this poll. But the guys who "aren't vikings at understanding things" tend to shout pretty loud about it
It's that or start relitigating the pineapple on pizza wars or whatever I guess
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 21 January 2023 18:14 (one year ago) link
would be curious ifs there’s any correlation with the age that one first saw the episode
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Saturday, 21 January 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
so
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Friday, 2 June 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orhk7TtDN5M
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 2 June 2023 19:47 (one year ago) link
"And then there's the website ILXor."
― jmm, Friday, 2 June 2023 21:13 (one year ago) link
In Season 2, Episode 9, "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge", when Roger Myers, Jr. is reading the hate mail and one goes, "I will never watch your show, buy any of your products or brake if I see you crossing the street." At first I thought this was very cute, like I wouldn't stop my car at a crosswalk you were waiting at. But is it more sinister? if I saw you walking across the street I would not slow down, and might end your life. Thoughts?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 22 September 2023 12:04 (eight months ago) link
the latter interpretation? First would literally have never occurred to me.
― ydkb (gyac), Friday, 22 September 2023 12:07 (eight months ago) link
Absolutely the latter.
― peace, man, Friday, 22 September 2023 12:08 (eight months ago) link
I realize that is the literal interpretation of the words. But I don't think one need to be in the middle of the road to be in the act of "crossing the street". It can include the waiting for a break bit, to my mind. I thought it was cutely petty.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 22 September 2023 12:13 (eight months ago) link
I think it's similar in intent to I wouldn't stop to piss on you if you were on fire.
― peace, man, Friday, 22 September 2023 12:16 (eight months ago) link
you're describing "waiting to cross the street".
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― Tracer Hand, Friday, 22 September 2023 12:16 (eight months ago) link
Always hated that senseless cliche. XP
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 22 September 2023 12:17 (eight months ago) link
because you thought it meant you wouldn’t piss on someone who was about to light a match?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 22 September 2023 12:36 (eight months ago) link
in what scenario would peeing on someone who is aflame help anything. Have at it. This is the thread lol
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 22 September 2023 12:43 (eight months ago) link