omg guys i'm dating an a
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 2 May 2010 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
i only looked at this thread a couple times and don't remember which answers were a, b, and c. the answer is ralph means that sleep is literally where he becomes a viking
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Sunday, 2 May 2010 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
more like call all dealbreaker imo
― Wir fahren fahren fahren auf der Autoban (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 2 May 2010 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
1st place: b2nd place: a3rd place: c
― Wir fahren fahren fahren auf der Autoban (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 2 May 2010 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i am a viking
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Sunday, 2 May 2010 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
hagar the harrbl
― kind of loam but mostly sand (los blue jeans), Sunday, 2 May 2010 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty conclusive results
― A-voter: An All New World (of Language) Awaits (cozen), Sunday, 2 May 2010 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
looool at turnout
― mdskltr (blueski), Sunday, 2 May 2010 13:23 (fourteen years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Saturday, May 1, 2010 10:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i'm married to a major b
wait that kinda sounds wrong
― jacka husalah terrier (some dude), Sunday, 2 May 2010 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah it was hilarious--i was setting up the question just like whiney did, but i offered "literally a viking" first, and then she completed my sentence with option a, because that's what she always thought it was, and because option b isn't funny, and she basically nailed all the classic a arguments in about 5 minutes. my jaw just dropped--it was so hilarious and perfect.
but she is smart and opinionated and strong-willed and neither of us were about to be swayed so we laughed and she made fun of me for engaging in a weeklong debate abt it on ilx, and those are all reasons why i <3 her so much.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 2 May 2010 13:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I introduced the question to a couple friends the other night, and it was like an instant rehash of this thread, almost beat for beat.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Sunday, 2 May 2010 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
the way the B-ers are so resolute really makes u think ... about their extreme need for stability in an unstable world
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Sunday, 2 May 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
"Oh boy, sleep! That's where I can dream that this mixed-up world still makes sense."
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 2 May 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
deej: master psychologist
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 2 May 2010 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
the way the B-ers are so resolute really makes u think ... that maybe they know they're right & don't need "everything's subjective!" crutches with which to parse easy jokes
― brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 2 May 2010 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
"The inconceivable arrogance of people who aren't open to the idea that there was ever a Coltrane record called 'A Love Sub-prime'"
― brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 2 May 2010 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I understand that point of view - its the same way that rational peoples certainty makes m,a a creationist and a global warming denialist.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Sunday, 2 May 2010 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
yes, it makes m,a a creationist too
― brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 2 May 2010 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
seriously A-voters - welcome to reality, where sometimes you're wrong & have to come up with all kinds of extraneous nonsense instead of going "hmm...maybe the overwhelming consensus here is meaningful"
kinda like with creationism & global warming, where the overwhelming scientific consensus indicates that while little is certain, we're certain enough that the creationists & deniers are wrong
― brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 2 May 2010 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i think reality is a much more nuanced place, and that your resoluteness is as bad as dem party supporter blindly apologizing for every bad move democrats make -- sometimes the truth is complicated
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Sunday, 2 May 2010 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
it's like you don't even know the discussion is about a fucking simpsons joke
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 2 May 2010 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
oh man i really hope this can become a Leftie Dem vs. DNC Dem thread!
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 2 May 2010 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
yup
other time it ain't
this is one of them
― brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 2 May 2010 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^ doesn't believe in miracles
― jacka husalah terrier (some dude), Sunday, 2 May 2010 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Ralph: I'm a brick!
Ralph: I'm happy and angry
Ralph: I look like cable TV!
Ralph: I'm a unitard!
Ralph: I'm Idaho!
― am0n, Wednesday, April 28, 2010 10:10 PM
― am0n, Sunday, 2 May 2010 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
if u can't see the pattern of his character making literal jokes u mad
― am0n, Sunday, 2 May 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
according to deej what ralph means by this: anything you want him to mean!
― brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 2 May 2010 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
thats not what i said at all?
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Sunday, 2 May 2010 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
idaho known for potatoes, "I'm Idaho!" is ralph's comment on the american couch potato
― am0n, Sunday, 2 May 2010 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
if you dont think theres a subtext of him being an adventurer/explorer in the world of sleep by using 'viking' rather than, i dont know, potato, then you are being willfully ignorant. i said it before -- the way its written obviously indicates this. the idea that its hardline "he just means he is a viking -- theres no way he could also be implying that hes a hero of sleep during sleep" is some literalist objectivist bs
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Sunday, 2 May 2010 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
u created the subtext out of thin air
― am0n, Sunday, 2 May 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
If I was the writer and knew about this, I would probably have killed myself by now, and pinned a note to my chest that read "Gone to where I'm a viking."
― This is four-dimensional art; the 4th dimension is incredibly powerful. (Abbott), Sunday, 2 May 2010 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
realling lolling at the idea that the majority opinion on this indicates that a cryptic ralph wiggum joke has a RIGHT interpretation....this is not physics, guys
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 2 May 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
yes, his viking dreams are undoubtedly full of adventure, perhaps he feels like a champion during them. this is not the same as the A argument, and if you can't see the difference I don't know what to tell ya.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 2 May 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
if you dont think theres a subtext of him being an adventurer/explorer in the world of sleep by using 'viking' rather than, i dont know, potato, then you are being willfully ignorant.
lol
― brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 2 May 2010 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, May 2, 2010 2:37 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
the thing is...it's not cryptic.
― jacka husalah terrier (some dude), Sunday, 2 May 2010 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
this is not the same as the A argument, and if you can't see the difference I don't know what to tell ya.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, May 2, 2010 1:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
then if im actually on your side in this argument, im just really put off by you personally
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Sunday, 2 May 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
should Viking immigrants be allowed y/n
― If You Ain't Gonna Wash It, I Ain't Gonna Eat It (Cattle Grind), Sunday, 2 May 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
in a thousand years of ilx there would not again be a thread as stupid as this
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 2 May 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Is that the sound of a gauntlet hitting the floor?
― Daily Sport Stunna Yasmin Alibhai Brown (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 May 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
think we should settle this on the basketball court, deej. my assholishness vs your condescension. should be an epic battle.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 2 May 2010 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm a furniture!
― Mordy, Monday, 3 May 2010 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm a computer
stop all the downloadin
― going non-native (dyao), Monday, 3 May 2010 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
lol, it's like the writers of this week's episode saw this thread
― Mordy, Monday, 3 May 2010 00:29 (thirteen years ago) link
what happened on it?
― iatee, Monday, 3 May 2010 00:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Ralph said, "I'm a furniture," and at the end it turned out that England was watching Springfield as a reality show on TV and Queen Elizabeth said, "I will miss that Ralph boy, he reminds me a bit of my own boy," and Prince Charles walked in holding a cat and said, "Oh mummy, my cat's breath smells like cat food."
― Mordy, Monday, 3 May 2010 00:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm a computerstop all the downloadin― going non-native (dyao), Sunday, May 2, 2010 8:21 PM Bookmark
― going non-native (dyao), Sunday, May 2, 2010 8:21 PM Bookmark
never will get tired of this one honestly
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 3 May 2010 06:18 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm a mac. i'm a champion at computing.
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Monday, 3 May 2010 06:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I think deej has defended A but only to the extent that his interpretation incorporates both A and B. So it is incorrect to claim that he's always been on A's side.
― jaymc, Monday, 3 May 2010 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah deej seems more confused about the difference between the 2 options than anything else tbh
― hey lol hipster (some dude), Monday, 3 May 2010 13:26 (thirteen years ago) link