EXCELSIOR is the second solo album by British musician LOLZ Coombes.

really it is the usa who got sonned there

nice

Winnnnnnssssssss

:D

*mortal kombat voice*

wins.....WINS

That was my voice too lol

Lol that went completely over my head as well.

So much for that research

shot of wins being carried out of bar by a boisterous crowd, riding on top of shoulders

ok now i don't like it anymore

Yeah, I'm going back to bed.

really it is the usa who got sonned there

― imago, Wednesday, November 16, 2016 2:29 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha I just realized I didn't get it at first, thought it was just a frederik joke

wins, that is incredible

I assume my check is in the mail, wins.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Gartner_Hype_Cycle.svg/320px-Gartner_Hype_Cycle.svg.png

frederik himself still winning excelsior of the year for his noel gallagher effort tbrr

watch out! l0u1s jagg3r is getting really real!

faced with untold despair, america turns on its traditional enemies

i think we have legitimate grievances tbrr

can one no longer simply invoke the really real

is reality more real than the really real now

would not 'truly free' capitalism allow for monopolies? eliminate child labor laws? absolve environmental disasters? where is the line drawn? who draws it and who would 'interpret' it?

― cucky ramen-o (will), Thursday, 17 November 2016 16:23 (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

itt: EVERYTHING

― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Thursday, 17 November 2016 16:33 (six seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are there any other pop songs that rhyme "sandals" with "candles"? I feel like there must be, but I can't think of one.

― soref, Monday, November 21, 2016 3:24 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Your candles burned out long before
Your sandals ever did

― memories of a cruller (unregistered), Monday, November 21, 2016 3:52 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is that a direct ref to the classic mother teresa gag at the time tho

I've always had problems with heights and even working on tower scaffolds and scissor lifts for over a decade never really cured it. Fucking love terra firma, man.
Once I was told not to leave site until I had got a chandelier cable to the apex of a church dome before the painters came in that weekend. it involved going up an illegal tower scaffold built onto the top of a big scaffolding structure with lots jutting steel poles that would skewer you if fell. One of the painters felt sorry for me and said gimme your drill I'll do it. He did an absolute abortion of a job, fucking etch-a-sketch type wiring. I told him thanks but it was fucking dog rough and I'll probably get pumped for this on Monday, but at least I'm alive!
He said "wait until it has been painted, you won't notice it". When I returned on monday it still looked fucking pez with a layer of paint and I got a massive fucking and it actually ruined my reputation at that company. But I'm still glad I didn't do it.

― calzino, Monday, 21 November 2016 22:08 (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My view on the identity/class divide is that both sides are equally planks that complement each other and the left should try, as much as possible, to unite.

― Treeship, 22. november 2016 01:14 (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think I cracked the case and we can move on

― Treeship, 22. november 2016 01:15 (thirty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

systems thinking there

is there anyone on ilx who lives in "the third world"?

― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, November 22, 2016 3:17 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think darragh is the closest

― iatee, Tuesday, November 22, 2016 3:18 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oof

gotta be honest idgi

Still don't get the Fred burn either.

Excelsior cliff notes thread wanted

I would love a coffee table book of annotated ilx threads

it wasn't a Fred burn

Xp I'm never sure when trees is stirring or not

xp Great explanation.

it's wordplay

kitty genovese's murder inspired the idea of the bystander effect; accounts at the time claimed that none of the many people who could hear her screaming did anything because they didn't want to get involved or assumed someone else would help her

thank you

Oh that one yeah sorry schwantz I was looking at the treez post fredb posted

Treezy will u explain what was funny about my living in the third world pls

furthermore, the joke implies that instead of considering the seemingly doomed course of us history, one might focus on other things besides, hence acting as bystander to cultural and social death on an unprecedented scale

I thought it was related to the "to not do" typo.

i'd say we're better than to excelsior a mere typo, but really

Guys pls

xxpz why do u think trés knows? presumably it's just an anti-irish joke

i'd say we're better than to excelsior a mere typo, but really

― imago, Tuesday, November 22, 2016 4:53 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...were not?

I'm just asking anyone

I mean trump isn't even in yet so I figured it couldn't just be an anti Irish joke right

i mean

you can make an argument. based on the original nato/e.bloc/other framework.

but

begorrah

in fact the joke has about 5 different levels to it, but I don't want to give them all away.

the joke will be explained in the next oppo dump