Karl, there's another one floating around that reads "Say a name that starts with the letter Z. 4 out of 5 people will fail"/too much time on ilx
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
What are some of these that are actually a brainteaser? I always get taken in by that elephant in Denmark one.
― pplains, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
those riddles going around are a means of people garnering more clicks/hits for their FB pages so they can show up in more people's feeds iirc
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
Not all of them are cynical tricks to get more page views. I note that no one on this thread has been able to solve my riddle
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 16:02 (nine years ago) link
University of California Los Angeleb
jeez
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
I like this one: name an English word that cannot possibly be played in Scrabble (even given the 2 blank tiles)
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
"The search was for 'apiary classroom', but what this reporter found in his investigation will amaze you."
http://d75822.medialib.glogster.com/media/ee/ee63abeae1644e87e4a8774886670464030872d7a9c70017256945c1ef0c4715/white-block-1-jpg.jpg
http://swfbees.com/NHBAD2009a.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
those riddles going around are a means of people garnering more clicks/hits for their FB pages so they can show up in more people's feeds iirc lazily filling the void that is their meaningless modern info-existence
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
let's not fly too close to the sun there, mr. ilx poster.
― pplains, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
a childhood friend of my sisters' i vaguely knew from when they were kids posted one of those banality followed by a threat macros that had some bible verse about following jesus and then 'like and you will go to heaven. ignore and you will go to hell.' i 'liked' it and then commented 'hope this works!' and she defriended me. my stepmother keeps posting these things to my wall of dogs that have come to some horrible end so i get to open facebook and o joy there's that story about cops slitting a shar-pei's throat in front of its owner cuz it wasn't on a leash. with images. thx. i think she had mentioned one of these stories to me once irl and i had agreed that yes torturing and killing dogs is horrible and may have mentioned that sometimes i harbor dreams of tracking down and killing these cops that kill dogs cuz it looked at them funny or barked at them and now here i am, some eli roth version of sarah mclachlan everyday. the other thing that's been happening is when some friend will have maybe engaged in slightly creepy but not that creepy behavior that maybe facebook doesn't need to let everybody know about ie __________ just liked four photos from the official dawn wells page.
― balls, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
keeps posting these things to my wall of dogs
Any opportunity I have to make my stock Richard & Linda Thompson joke, I take.
― pplains, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
There is a certain quality I've noticed lately akin to "Fox turning into a porn channel so slowly, nobody noticed," except it's "my family turned into 4chan posters so slowly, no one blinked an eye."
― pplains, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
"Oh, hey. A dead Palestinian child pic slotted next to one of Kim Kardashian. Uncle Frank must be on a roll."
― pplains, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
The idea is to fill FB with more music, breaking the monotony of selfies and sensationalism. If you "like" this post you will be assigned a letter. Your task is to choose a band, musician or artist whose name begins with that letter, then post a link to a track by them on YOUR timeline, with this text as your status update... I received C.
The Distance by Cake.
― how's life, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
i have this one fb "friend" who posts republican/anti-government/anti-immigrant image macros along with inspirational zig ziglar quotes about teh american dream and stuff like that and then posts stuff about how if you have any problem with him then you're obviously just jealous.
― Neil Patrick Haggerty (get bent), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link
http://gallery.mailchimp.com/c3128cbc75b5968aacd624e4b/images/a2af0906-94e6-4315-93b9-8234d712efcd.jpg
I just really don't get what this is actually getting at. There's going to be an earthquake that's going to blow up the gas pipeline, and that's in turn going to somehow blow up the nuclear power plant? I don't think that's how it works.
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 02:18 (nine years ago) link
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 16:13 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
'characteristically' (because it's bigger than the fucking board)
everyone die
― avicii usque ad arse (imago), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 02:31 (nine years ago) link
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bubsy__4459.jpg
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 02:58 (nine years ago) link
a childhood friend of my sisters' i vaguely knew from when they were kids posted one of those banality followed by a threat macros that had some bible verse about following jesus and then 'like and you will go to heaven. ignore and you will go to hell.' i 'liked' it and then commented 'hope this works!' and she defriended me.
it worked!
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
i've stopped seeing these macros as much lately but i've also started being more vigilant about blocking people who post them (it's still probably not as many people who have blocked me after too many "life with the kid" updates but...)
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
I was thinking "pizzazz" because there's only one z and two blanks.
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
lol antidisestablishmentarianism lol
― Sufjan Grafton, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
PIZZAZZ -- turn a few N's sidewaysCHARACTERISTICALLY -- play over 2 turns (CHARACTERISTIC, ALLY) on 2 lines, use a sideways I or one of the blanks as a hyphen
― Plasmon, Thursday, 3 July 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
with those rules, why not just turn the board over and use a magic marker to write whatever word you want on the back
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Thursday, 3 July 2014 14:00 (nine years ago) link
Ah, a video has started playing automatically in my feed. Could this be some sort of hilarious Damage Contrlol Youtube wonder or... oh... no, it's an Iranian man beating his wife/Korean woman kicking the shit out of her new born child/Skinhead drowning a puppy. Thanks, Facebook poster, what the fuck?
― 3kDk (dog latin), Thursday, 3 July 2014 14:01 (nine years ago) link
These appear often with no commentary at all. Either that or it's 'This terrible person needs to be stopped NOW, share with yr friends' and then people commenting saying the video is from 2006 and the person in question has been in jail for nearly a decade.
― 3kDk (dog latin), Thursday, 3 July 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
Can't play on the back of the board, no way of knowing where the double word scores are.
Tried writing on the front of the board, but after a while all my games ended up the same. :(
― Plasmon, Thursday, 3 July 2014 14:06 (nine years ago) link
Why don't people look shit up before posting on facebook? Why? Why? Why?
― how's life, Thursday, 3 July 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t1.0-9/p526x296/1509928_638702546178833_959776271_n.jpg
― wenus villiams (qiqing), Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
let's try that againhttp://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t1.0-9/p526x296/1509928_638702546178833_959776271_n.jpg
― wenus villiams (qiqing), Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
ok idgi, does the file type have to be ".jpeg" for the image to be displayed?
― wenus villiams (qiqing), Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
it is displaying
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
alas
― which was retweeted by (imago), Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
also I too thought of 'pizzazz' but it's such a ropey neologism that any self-respecting Scrabble dictionary...oh wait fine, as you were
see also quinquenquiquiquillery, a word that has something to do with the number fifteen that I just made up
― which was retweeted by (imago), Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
ah ty ty i think i forgot to enable thread images again
sorry for double posts
― wenus villiams (qiqing), Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
can't believe self-respecting Scrabble dictionaries include words from the early 20th century
― Daphnis Celesta, Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/t1.0-9/421854_10151516798130320_1005409175_n.jpg
46,000 shares, over 300,000 likes
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Friday, 4 July 2014 04:12 (nine years ago) link
briliant
― Mordy, Friday, 4 July 2014 04:19 (nine years ago) link
That doesn't start with an 'a'..
― Mark G, Friday, 4 July 2014 06:44 (nine years ago) link
'If you think you are bri-nylon..'
― Mark G, Friday, 4 July 2014 06:45 (nine years ago) link
anteligence
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 4 July 2014 12:22 (nine years ago) link
arse
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 4 July 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
that's funny, I was thinking "asinine" before I even got to the last line.
― Dan I., Friday, 4 July 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
I was on Absinthe, me.
― Mark G, Friday, 4 July 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
Whoever created that is an Asshole
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 4 July 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
you guys are really smart
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 4 July 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
ale, ate, ape, are, awe, age, Abe, ave, ace, axe
― Mordy, Friday, 4 July 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
i missed aye
― Mordy, Friday, 4 July 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
got one! affable! where is the share button
― mattresslessness, Friday, 4 July 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
i guess its my point for posting that here.
a strange.. game. the only winning move is not to play.
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Friday, 4 July 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link