TS: Most [REDACTED]-Looking Barenaked Ladies Member on This Album Cover

GO OPEN A FUCKING VESSEL, ARSEHOLE!!

This thread has always sucked shit, even after the dim-witted title change.

Better?

when the premise of the thread is basically "lol - someone looks like somebody with disabilities" it is a shitty + offensive thread whatever you call it. Haven't you ppl got FB for this kind of dross?

I don't know if the mods got the memo, but Chapo Trap House is making it ok for liberals to say retarded again

I give up.

just change it to 'dorky'?

tempted to defer to calzino on this tbh

idgaf tbh. just basically fuck y'all who think this thread is worthwhile and it sounds like still not clicking on that blowhards links has deprived me of some lols this year.

http://i1.examiner.co.uk/incoming/article10449205.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/JS76694317.jpg
Some IRL retards in this pic, will this provide much hilarity to (whiney) and this thread?

http://donignacio.com/art/barenakedladiespic.jpg

https://vine.co/v/MhdWmbtQ7jg

What a redact.

most-dookified looking

cat otm

If I can just weigh in with a CONTROVERSIAL OPINION: it is good that this thread no longer has the word "retarded" in the title, even though I had a laugh about it when it did, 10+ years ago, when I was nineteen, & felt no reservations about it at the time. I don't think I would miss it if the entire thread were deleted, leaving only a memory

oh wow but then it crops up like five times in the first few pages of replies... in retrospect it's hard to stomach the indifference -- the people going along with the joke & not seeing anything wrong w/ it -- given what macho internet zing culture hath wrought

you're overthinking it

maybe so, still an embarrassing thread

I'm just hoping this embarrassment will lead us to the critical reassessment of Barenaked Ladies, because Gordon is a fantastic album. I also really enjoyed Steven Page's new solo album from last year, and wanted to vote for it in the end of the year poll, as it was one of my favorite albums of last year, but didn't vote for it because I didn't think there would be any interest.

I absolutely agree with you, bernard.

Thread should be called Pc Gone Mad Safe-Space for complete fucking Arseholes, these days or just lock the fucking wretched thing for once and forever.

Dud

"Fatbeard Badshave" will always be funny

Gordon is a fantastic album

this is easily the most offensive statement in this thread tbh

lol, I got dragged to a Barenaked Ladies show at Universal Mardi Gras once. didn't wanna go cos it interrupted sexytimes with the g/f but I'd already committed to going w/ my best friend and she didn't have an annual pass.

the lead vocalist had just quit like a week before so they had the keyboard player singing. it was the most boring show I ever went to. everybody hemming on about how 'quirky' they are, when it's like, ok they're college frat rock that occasionally writes songs about things like the Big Bang Theory.

"One Week" is such a bad song btw

So is this band an inevitable stage popular music had to go through before P0mpl@m00s3 took it to the next (final?) level?

i think these guys were great, smart power pop songwriters especially page

Can't really imagine a thread titled "Most Faggoty-Looking Barenaked Ladies Member on This Album Cover" surviving ten years without mod intervention

― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, January 29, 2016 8:28 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM. The fact that we're still seeing ""jokes"" like "What a redact" is a pretty clear indicator that there's no way for this thread to get escape velocity from its original premise. I'm sure many people who participated just wanted it to be "most dorky and uncool barenaked ladies member," but it wasn't.

It's long past time to lock thread IMHO.

The ILX hivemind sees your request to lock thread and laughs

if only we had other barenaked ladies threads to use instead

or y'all could quit being passive aggressive and actually ask for the thread lock in the actual thread where the title change was requested, instead of asking the mods to police 11 year old threads.

i tried to do so for you all, but it's on y'all now.........

I thought this was totally rad

https://youtu.be/bkIIS66F72E

I'm not sure I ever knew that thread existed tbh

Gordon and Moxy Fruvous's Bargainville are two albums I still have an affinity for because they remind me so much of being 13

Still think they're both pretty good albums though hard to listen to now. For different reasons I guess.

BNL obviously went on to do a lot of garbage but it's pretty disingenuous to treat them like a novelty group or one-hit wonders, they've been around like 25 years now and they've written a lot of dumb songs but they obviously have some measure of talent. Always thought Maroon was a pretty damn great power pop album, at least.

Always thought Maroon was a pretty damn great power pop album, at least.

otm

I searched for the word 'retarded' to find this thread, unsuccessfully, just to post that the album that inspired it is celebrating it's 25th anniversary and as such Rhino is reissuing it on vinyl.

The press release features this image:

http://image.e.wbr.com/lib/fe8e137075670c7572/m/1/BarenakedLadies_PR.jpg

So this may be the new cover. So maybe the label/band/whatever agree that they all look like Cronenbergs...

It's wild that some of these songs date back to like 1988 or 1989 when they were like 18 or 19 or 20 or something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNvGNjB2Ck

Okay I like "Wishing Well" inordinately and I don't reflexively hate on BNL. Will I die if I hear their cover?

Public service announcement: Please don't listen to this.

Impossible to say whether "Psycho Killer" or "Wishing Well" is the worse crime. I gave them a chance because I try to be open-minded, but no. This is not the vehicle to convert a hata to a non-hata: quite the contrary; I went into it not hating them and came out hating them.

I didn't think it was possible for something to make me wistful about/long for Pomplemoose.

Clockwise from bottom center:

Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, A.O. Scott, Anthony Lane, Elvis Mitchell.

― your way better (Eazy), Wednesday, October 26, 2011 5:43 AM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a very underrated comment

just stopping by as an actual disabled person to say: retard is a slur and if you try to justify tossing it around casually you're an ableist piece of shit, no fucking excuses, no whining about "pc culture" or whatever (and tbqfh mods should have done more than just removed it from the title, they should have actively pruned the posts laughing about it or deleted it and let a new BNL thread happen)

insofar as BNL goes, no strong opinions. got a mild giggle out of "ships and dip" and "fake nudes"

absolutely spot on mate, it's a garbage thread and should have been nuked a long time since.

Like as if putting [REDACTED] makes it less sneery + disablist somehow. Some fucking mods on here are more concerned about the welfare of anti-Semitic oxygen thieves, rather than garbage threads causing grave offence and hurt towards disabled people. It's just the way it is I'm afraid heliogabberlus.

Let the saga of the offensively-titled Barenaked Ladies thread finally draw to a close. There are 8 other BNL threads in existence - use one of them.

I tried to find the best solution for everyone on this board. You do realize that we mods get yelled at just as much for locking "classic threads" as for not locking them, right? We switched the title twice according to user suggestions in an attempt to find a workable middle ground. Apparently both of those workarounds continued to offend. We have many ilxors with mentally disabled family members, myself included. Some people are going to be more affected by words than others. We probably all try our best to treat each other well and not to be assholes.

Calzino, my concern about the poster who got banned two weeks ago was for their mental health, which is something you purport to care about if I'm reading you right. When I learned that their antisemitism had been established over a number of years and was not some recent development as a result of a mental break, I gave up on the issue completely.