/!\~incoming sext~/!\ thread of sex house
― johnny crunch, Friday, 24 August 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know if I can sit through the rest of it. My wife already bowed out.
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Friday, 24 August 2012 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
Cloudy drink kills frog: the Onion's "Sex House"
― Three Word Username, Friday, 24 August 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/nation-celebrates-full-week-without-deadly-mass-sh,29293/
― Three Word Username, Friday, 24 August 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
uh...
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Friday, 24 August 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
UPDATE: Never Mind
― your native bacon (mh), Friday, 24 August 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
Whenever a news item says "this sounds like something straight from The Onion", it rarely actually does.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
They are kicking arse with the dark satire recently, its amazing. The video one of the astronauts dying a "painful high pitched death" choking on helium was just... jesus christ.
― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
Somehow I had never seen this:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/shaq-misses-entire-second-half-with-pulled-pork-sa,2895/
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
Ten episodes of the 60's Batman show
http://www.avclub.com/articles/10-episodes-that-find-the-60s-batman-at-its-campy%2C84592/
Philip Baker Hall on playing Seinfeld's "Bookman"
God bless the AV club.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 6 September 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
Bookman link: http://www.avclub.com/articles/philip-baker-hall-on-the-chicago-8-seinfeld-and-pa,84611/
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 6 September 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/911-truther-convinced-government-destroyed-past-11,29520
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-one-murdered-because-of-this-image,29553/
loooooool
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 September 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
LOOOOOOOOOOL
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Friday, 14 September 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
That is beautiful.
― This Whole Fridge Is Full Of (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 September 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
And yet ... Mohammed conspicuously absent from the fray.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 September 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
it's almost as if...that's the point of the fucking story
― balls, Friday, 14 September 2012 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
lol balls!
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 September 2012 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, I get it now.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 September 2012 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
hahahaha
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Friday, 14 September 2012 02:51 (twelve years ago) link
Theyre on fucking fire lately:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/googles-911-homepage-design-stirs-controversy,29524/
― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Friday, 14 September 2012 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
ganesh some
― mookieproof, Friday, 14 September 2012 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
is it just me or have they been really daring lately?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 14 September 2012 10:44 (twelve years ago) link
I think a lot of this is angry writers who didn't make the move to Chicago and figure their days are numbered, so why not go for it?
― Three Word Username, Friday, 14 September 2012 10:46 (twelve years ago) link
I think the angry Onion writers who did not make the move are no longer writers.If anything, maybe it's an attention getting move from the writers who did make the move, as well as the new writers the old, ex writers prematurely denigrated.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 September 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
I kinda feel like its a cyclical thing with The Onion, they get kinda stale for awhile and then every so often they'll unleash a string of stuff that pushes the limits.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 September 2012 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
that sounds right
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 September 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
what is this move you speak of?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 14 September 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
the onion moved their editorial offices to chicago (where their corporate hq has been for some time) this summer
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2012/03/onions-bumpy-ride-chicago/50149/
― 1staethyr, Friday, 14 September 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
1 group that hasn't moved yet: video. that move is going to happen, though. enjoy sex house while you've got it.
― hot slag (lukas), Friday, 14 September 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
It ended yesterday, so perfect timing!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 14 September 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
Although the video dept. was still based in NY at the time, Sex House was shot in Chicago with Chicago actors. So you neeeever knoooooow.
― Old Lunch, Friday, 14 September 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
ohhh
― hot slag (lukas), Friday, 14 September 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
where had they been located?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 14 September 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
When the sex house writers were on reddit they were saying they'd been onion writers for a while who didn't want to move to Chicago and wouldn't be doing so. I think normal onion video (the spoof news and sport stuff) has all moved to chicago, but the 'onion digital studios' stuff like sex house is funded by youtube and will be staying in nyc?
― sktsh, Sunday, 16 September 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
Surprised me that they're not still in Madison, actually!
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 17 September 2012 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
The Onion is in the midst of the biggest upheaval in the newspaper's 24-year history.
Holy shit, I feel really old. 24 years!?
― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Monday, 17 September 2012 04:21 (twelve years ago) link
yeah`, onion for me has always been a madison thing. feel good about them moving back to the midwest.
― how's life, Monday, 17 September 2012 11:58 (twelve years ago) link
xpost
If it helps, The Onion was largely a local phenomenon for the first half of its existence. It wasn't until the implementation of the website and mass distribution around the turn of the century that the world-at-large knew anything about it.
― Old Lunch, Monday, 17 September 2012 12:16 (twelve years ago) link
think the "creative economy," to use a loathsome but I hope descriptive term, is much stronger if everybody isn't operating out of the same town
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 17 September 2012 12:53 (twelve years ago) link
I got into it through my brother in the mid-to-late-90s, but he had been in college (in Georgia) and presumably it had a decent college-town alt-weekly type circulation. I remember he had the one with "Christ Returns to NBA," which is dated 1996. So it was a "thing" before the internet although obviously it's way way bigger now.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 17 September 2012 13:13 (twelve years ago) link
I first discovered it when I started my freshman year at Illinois in 1994, with one of my all-time favorite covers with the Thompson Changes Title from 'Governor' to 'Sexecutioner' with an awesome cust and paste job showing Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson in full S&M gear.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 September 2012 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
96 was around when their website started - I'm pretty sure I remember that headline (though I may have been backtracking)
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 17 September 2012 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, when they started the website they put up a lot of their old covers. I'm 99% sure that was from the fall of '94 because I remember my roommate's mom getting offended upon seeing it up in our floor lounge.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 September 2012 13:36 (twelve years ago) link
Ah no sorry, I meant "Christ Returns to NBA" - if I saw the other at any point then blessed forgetfulness has robbed me of it.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 17 September 2012 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
Oh gotcha, that was a great one too.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 September 2012 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/local-lutheran-minister-loves-to-fuck-his-wife,854/
pretty sure this is the first issue of the onion i ever saw? i remember it being like samizdat smuggled in by someone's cool brother who went to school in wisconsin
― catbus otm (gbx), Monday, 17 September 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
"cool brother" and "went to school in wisconsin" are mutually exclusive
― barthes simpson, Monday, 17 September 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
boom, take that midwesterners
when in doubt, go to stout
― goole, Monday, 17 September 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link