Baffling Thread Titles

You know, like

99% of indie pop is good- you just havent heard most of it yet

The Miracle of the Smiths

"Break up caused by meat! Break up caused by meat!" - The official TERRACE HOUSE thread

The Last Dance: In Praise of One Lone Gold Hoop Earring

Up-the-arse corner

I guess you have never read Viz then?

Just looked it up. Yet another British shibboleth that flew over my head.

Anything to do with American sport, sorry, sports.

The Flashy Crawl on Biryani Carts, Convenience Stores, etc.

Why are Japanese films so terrible?

I'm quite tickled at the idea of pom critiquing Buster Gonad and his unfeasibly large testicles in his inimitable style!

are there not biryani carts in scotland and, if not, where does one find flashy crawls ? xp

I don't know what a biryani cart is or a flashy crawl.

Getting mild Hara-Kiri/Charlie Hebdo vibes from what little I've seen of Viz so far.

Nah it's much sillier than Charlie Hebdo.

Letterbocks is the best part of Viz, for example

http://viz.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/hygenie-laws.jpg

http://viz.co.uk/category/letterbocks/

Fwiw I have no idea what a biryani cart or a flash crawl is either and I've spent most of my life in Canada.

it's a scrolling LED sign on a kebab stand

https://i2.wp.com/bedfordandbowery.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/IMG_5693.jpg?resize=800%2C519

and yeah i'm aware the thread isn't "explain baffling thread titles"

It's confusing for me too as I (probably wrongheadedly) assume Indian food = UK, and I have also never heard of such a thing.

Ah, thanks, I see now. Food trucks were banned in Montreal until 2013 so this stuff is still vaguely exotic to me.

xp

The Miracle of the Smiths

This one hasn't been updated in a long time but it still haunts my thoughts, down to its misspelling of 'Monsieur':

Oh, Monseur le Fopp, you are really spoiling us...

that Charlie Hebdo/Viz comparison wasn't that far off the mark when you look back at The Thieving Gypsy Bastards debacle (in the 90's I think) and the piss-take of an apology they issued afterwards. I think they were annoyed to have to apologise to Romani Gypsies when they were basing the cartoon on Irish Travellers not Romani, like as if that made it acceptable. There are deffo some wankers involved with Viz who shouldn't be proud of that part of the comic's history.

Charlie Hebdo is best known for its politically charged material in the English-speaking world but many of their comics consist of gratuitously puerile butt, dick and tit jokes. This is even more apparent when you skim through issues of Hara-Kiri. Anyway, it’s what I had in mind when I made the comparison.

some of the later period viz is bit more subtle and interesting and some of my fave stuff isn't the puerile stuff, but more the material that parodies old British comics in a very witty manner. That's the stuff that makes still check out a new issue occasionally.

The bits of Viz I have least time for are the John Fardell strips (Modern Parents, The Critics, Ferdinand The Foodie, etc.) - too much flogging of boring political correctness tropes, not nearly enough puerile humour.

I like Gilbert Ratchet a lot which contains some quite fun violence, and some of the one offs that are often parodies of stodgy old brit comics. Yeah the Private Eye style stuff is pretty weak piss.

Is there much of that? I haven't read it in years, mind you, so it's still the Vibrating Bum-faced Goats/ Bears of Murder etc to me.

tbh I've probably bought it about half dozen times in the last ten years, but still occasionally look up old classics online.

it's a scrolling LED sign on a kebab stand

i have never seen one of these in person. i feel like the people that live where these things are commonplace might overestimate how common they are in other cities?

I love all the baffling (to me) ilf thread titles

commendation for outstanding service to human race: resident advisor

2006 4 Life: The Uhh Yeah Dude thread

str8 fire beautiful kix

thread of getting sw0le

... and worse yet...

thread of youtube getting sw0le celebrities

otm

str8 fire beautiful kix

gilbert ratchet is amazing. same artist as 'elton john's naughty swizz' or whatever it's called as well, right? which is always great.

why late at night in the u.s. does ilm get all yessed out

Assumed for the longest time that this was an inexplicable assertion that the vibe of ILM became super positive late at night, eventually clicked through and discovered that it was in reference to the band Yes and yet the thread title somehow became no more explicable to me. Nevertheless, I've happily adopted the phrase 'all yessed out' into my everyday vernacular.

re. Viz, Drunken Bakers is up there with some of the greatest comics of all time

i think of Drunken Bakers as another league altogether.

Top Tips used to be better but it's still occasionally fantastic

In general I feel like Viz is slightly more mean-spirited than it used to be - not all the time, but sometimes - but maybe it's me that's changed

I still don't know what the Lux Aeterna or Damage Control LOLz threads are about

Only sarahell knows what the Lux Aeterna thread is about.

KIP covid thread

Famed ILX poster Kip Morris talks about his COVID-19 quarantine experience

xxp - wait what? Lux Aeterna is probably the least oblique of that era of ILAFL threads -- it's the ILAFL version of rolling enlightening posts

others are multi-layered in-jokes that even I have forgotten a few of over the years.

KIP covid thread

― budo jeru, Tuesday, May 26, 2020 12:44 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah too lazy to click now but someone pretty early said "kip?" and they were not answered afaik. I briefly scrolled up and down and up then I experienced that special little feeling of boredom and exhaustion every time I begin to consider researching ilx vernacular so I moved on.

That's not ILX vernacular, that's darraghmacular.

Keep it positive

LOL yes, I think at the beginning of the thread he has to explain it to me.

Speaking of which, where's deems?

Keeping it positive.

If the implication is that keeping it positive requires one not to haunt ILX, I ruefully concur.

where's deems?

I did a search on his most recent posts. he last posted on May 18. the day before he did post something moderately troubling on the "rona moved in" thread:

ive been getting rushes of hot/cold up my neck/back of head for several weeks now
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Saturday, May 16, 2020 6:45 PM (one week ago)

which is nothing conclusive, but I hope he's OK.

anybody got him on social media?

he is okay

good to hear

Drunken Bakers otm.

Whoever came up with the one-off Viz strip Vidal Baboon deserves some sort of award

Come back, deems, and further baffle us with your gnomic acronyms.

will be p HGB if ye care to know tho it's VC from here lads is it not

how's that

You're making me thinking of socks and sockdom, a fine start imo.

deems wouldn't be able to make a sock last three posts lol

Underestimater.

Hardly any really baffling thread titles mentioned so far tbf, in any case you'll get them the second you click on them. Jo!sla)xa is one that still baffles and mystifies me. Makes me think of coleslaw.

kip is absolutely ilx vernacular

new 77 keeping it positive meta thread to request dudes stop biting their own joeks (started by M0ntell J0rdan S. (and what) on board I Love Everything on 11-Dec-2008)


Johnny Fever wrote this on thread ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2011 (Los resultados!) on board I Love Music on 24-Jan-2012

KIP! KIP!


Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski) wrote this on thread The "New Atheisim" Classic or Dud on board I Love Everything on 06-Jan-2009

KIP, secularists


tuom of finland (m bison) wrote this on thread The articulate Vice President Joe Biden thread on board I Love Everything on 11-Dec-2010

KIP

&c &c

Kick In Penis imo

what's happening to our borad TMI

Mostly because I have no idea what 'TMI' stands for. I assume this is deems' devious doing, again.

Thought this was a widely-known acronym outside of ilx, but TMI = Tooty Menstrual Intercourse

FP = ?

you're right, rogermexico., Challengers is fantastic. i sort of lump it together with Together, which is unfair ... i just revisited the tracklist of Challengers and yes, it's great. it's really only Together that I struggle with a bit.

but again, this band's worst moments are still better than most's best, imo

― alpine static, Monday, 3 April 2017 07:04 (three years ago) link

FP = ?

'face penetrate'

― sleepingbag, Monday, 3 April 2017 07:05 (three years ago) link

hmm, that's worse than i thought

― alpine static, Monday, 3 April 2017 07:29 (three years ago) link

Too Many Intestines

Tormented Male Ibis

I am so glad I decided to click on this thread because "Tooty Menstrual Intercourse" is giving me full-on belly laughs

i think you should leave with tim robinson: sketch poll

... oops that was supposed to be in quotes not italics.

... why is there a thread about the ex-Nottinghamshire and England opening bat anyway?

I don't want to leave with Tim Robinson, stop asking

The Clientele - Best Band Since The Smiths

Jo!sla)xa is one that still baffles and mystifies me. Makes me think of coleslaw.

that was a very clever loujags contribution that requires a mirror or reading backwards "lol"