zing

Blimey

'pretty good'

Rich talk coming from a man whose country is doing its best to eradicate adverbs.

http://www.teamxo.com/xocc/max_king_usatf_big_j.jpg

― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:42 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dom id like to believe you were saving this gif for my 'breakout' moment

adverbs are some weak ass shit--use a verb, limey

Some serious hostility on ilx today.

"today"

See, he just took an adverb and presented it as a noun. Typical illiterate Yank.

Ach, it's too late to stir shit properly innit

stir indoors

^ hair trigger

a banner day for the zing thread

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/122/316431323_b7085624ae.jpg

i don't want to know what you googled to find that but i <3 u doggg

dom id like to believe you were saving this gif for my 'breakout' moment

― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Friday, 16 January 2009 03:46 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The milquetoast era is over. Although for an American Max King does look kinda English.

I like that the inverted look poll drew twice as many voters as the "do you speak to other humans?" poll.

― Francisco Javier Sánchez Brot (onimo), Friday, 16 January 2009 11:17 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

MAD MAX

it'd be interesting to see how reactions to the site would be different if it'd been written by jeff foxworthy and was all redneck jokes.

― tipsy mothra, Friday, January 16, 2009 3:55 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you mean if it had been entirely different?

― Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Friday, January 16, 2009 4:02 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban

2 for 1 special:

I come from a proud tradition of underachievers. My mom started college at 15 and was fluent in French. Never had a full-time job in her life, and now with copious amounts of childless free time, her empty nest lifestyle is about as interesting as ... an episode of Empty Nest. My uncle graduated top of his class in engineering at MIT, had tons of opportunities to make it rich, but he lives an admirably humble lifestyle; his long-term SO is a wealthy heiress worth over 70 million, and he refuses to marry her for that reason. The list goes on and on.

I'm proudly carrying the torch, and what a brilliant flame it is. You look back and think, "wait a second, if I actually made an effort, I'd be doing ok!" Escapism, kiddultism, fear of failure, and general laziness seem like common themes. Also add strings of failed friendships and relationships in there, too. Being a loser rules.

― burt_stanton, Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:21 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

anyone who would call themselves an "underachiever" is probably severely overestimating their potential

― congratulations (n/a), Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:23 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Sometimes, I'm sure. I think the people who do acknowledge that they're underachievers, though, have actual sources for their assumption ... like, I never studied for the SATs, but when I took them I got like, 99.999999999th percentile. Look at me now, you're dripping with envy.

― burt_stanton, Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:27 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no, that's apple butter

― congratulations (n/a), Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:28 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i just want to point out - for the overachievers in the room - that 99.999999999th percentile means you got a better score than at least 9,999,999,999 other people who took the SAT

thats hard

maybe he wasnt including his math score

dude did horrible his first semester in law school

fwiw that burt stanton post is so sad that i'd have passed up the zing opportunity, personally

Scratch "these days" and replace "offensive" with "tedious." Lots of people seem to find the visual assault in movies like this to be exciting, but for whatever reason my eyes glaze over and my mind wanders during big action-packed explosions or car chases or shoot-outs.

(Of course, I've seen none of the movies in the poll, but I'm basing my opinion on things like The Dark Knight.)

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Monday, January 19, 2009 11:48 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i guess it's a good thing hollywood still churns out dumbed-down dreck like rachel getting married for u to watch then!!!!

― i'm a black mage, kid. i'll ice you (Lamp), Monday, January 19, 2009 11:51 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark

6/10, tbh

So when you get a boyrfriend you have to leave ILX?

― Tuomas, Thursday, 22 January 2009 23:53 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you can stay

― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 22 January 2009 23:58 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"kiddultism" wasn't in any of the Kaplan material i saw...

xp i dont know whether to defend the jazz or hit on roxymuzak

― sonderangerbot, Saturday, January 24, 2009 4:47 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

both are pretty pointless so

― roxymuzak, Saturday, January 24, 2009 4:49 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

nice use of "so"

otm

v3ry 'can i just'

that post was heavily and consciously influenced by both "can i just" and "u dudes want to hit that or"

zing of the year imo

well its early AA

that post was heavily and consciously influenced by both "can i just" and "u dudes want to hit that or"

― roxymuzak, Sunday, January 25, 2009 9:39 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

totes

i think one of the most brilliant innovations of both of those is leaving off the ellipse where there usually would be one

dude that's not an innovation it's a natural extension of the messageboard version of zippy the pinhead/flaming carrot dialogue style whereing periods are abandoned--

its always a fine line between innovation and natural extension or

it is an innovative extension

THIS is the work of XPOST MAN!!

whereing

"We have to make fun of him for that as soon as he gets back in the car"

tombot king of the false dilemma

worst brian eno song ever

come on, you know it would be awesome

This never failed to make my French ex-wife snigger as coitus, in French, is coït.

― Last night it was pullulating with (Michael White), Friday, January 30, 2009 3:46 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ohhhhh, now I get it. It has the same first syllable as coitus.

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Friday, January 30, 2009 3:49 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

michael white speaks french?

Ha, that wasn't meant to be a zing. I honestly didn't know why everyone was snickering about the Coit Tower.

u_u