You are both lads, iinm
― brimstead, Friday, 1 December 2017 00:21 (six years ago) link
stop it with the lads shit ffs
That's racist, dude.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Friday, 1 December 2017 00:22 (six years ago) link
Limmy
― ultros ultros-ghali, Sunday, October 1, 2017 8:30 AM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i declare a fatwa on you
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 1 December 2017 00:23 (six years ago) link
Don't be a sulky dullard brimstead there's a good chap
― moyesery loves kompany (darraghmac), Friday, 1 December 2017 00:23 (six years ago) link
alright it's all goodI need to snap into a slim Jim before I post or something, I'm always posting so hangry
― brimstead, Friday, 1 December 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link
you rang?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-fjmZsVcg4
― saer, Friday, 1 December 2017 00:27 (six years ago) link
I had the council lads come round and install a system and up this popped
― saer, Friday, 1 December 2017 00:30 (six years ago) link
Go with god brimstead
Am half curious as to the meaning ppl have on lads now but I'd guess it's all things to all lads probably
― moyesery loves kompany (darraghmac), Friday, 1 December 2017 00:32 (six years ago) link
Alls lads that ends lads
― infinity (∞), Friday, 1 December 2017 00:41 (six years ago) link
Re: Limmy I don't even feel hostile towards the guy, and admittedly I've only seen the odd sketch here and there, maybe his stuff has a cumulative effect I'm missing out on idk. It's just that all the clips of him I've seen seem like some laboured set-up for a feeble pay-off but that makes him no worse than, oh, pretty much all sketch comedy ever made.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 1 December 2017 11:07 (six years ago) link
I was interested to hear an Irish girl at work use 'lads' the other day (in an 'oh come on', eye-rolling context) directed at two female workmates.
― MaresNest, Friday, 1 December 2017 12:32 (six years ago) link
I have explicitly noted this on more than one ilx occasion but if I may allow myself a very limited martyr moment there's many lads around the place determined to misunderstand or project to maximum reproval and always at the expense of increased cultural comprehension
― moyesery loves kompany (darraghmac), Friday, 1 December 2017 12:50 (six years ago) link
xp, I think I may have noted in the past that my other half has, on at least one occasion, referred to her mother as ‘lads’ in the same situation.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 1 December 2017 13:02 (six years ago) link
Danny Baker ahahahahaha gosh you're whimsical you smug cunt
― a Rambo in curved air (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 December 2017 10:15 (six years ago) link
there's more that could be c+p'ed from wiki but this
Baker is a lifelong supporter of his local football club, Millwall.
is all you need to know really.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 23 December 2017 10:25 (six years ago) link
everything on 5 live is very bad.
― calzino, Saturday, 23 December 2017 10:30 (six years ago) link
sometimes you want to listen to a sports game
― a Rambo in curved air (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 December 2017 10:31 (six years ago) link
Baker makes Colin Murray seem like a passable attempt at a radio presenter tho, that's a tremendous achievement in the field of twattery
― a Rambo in curved air (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 December 2017 10:35 (six years ago) link
I used to like Tim Vickery and 606, but I find them unbearable these days. I've probably changed more than either of them have.
― calzino, Saturday, 23 December 2017 10:38 (six years ago) link
some days i end up listening to the World Service because it's less aggravating than whatever's on 4 or 5
― a Rambo in curved air (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 December 2017 10:41 (six years ago) link
some very good stuff on there, apart from when it gets too Trumpcentric.
― calzino, Saturday, 23 December 2017 10:45 (six years ago) link
What's wrong with millwall?
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 23 December 2017 10:50 (six years ago) link
xpThe major danger of falling asleep with R4 on is waking up to Chris Grayling's voice. You don't get no trigger warning ffs.
― calzino, Saturday, 23 December 2017 10:51 (six years ago) link
I grew up following Rangers, no offence but I wouldn't expect too much off this site.
It's almost as if it was......my fault, or something.
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 29 December 2017 04:05 (six years ago) link
off = of
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 29 December 2017 04:07 (six years ago) link
Frankie Boyle.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Friday, 29 December 2017 22:10 (six years ago) link
I presume he's on the box. He can make me laugh sometimes, but when he's bad he absolutely fucking reeks.
― calzino, Friday, 29 December 2017 22:14 (six years ago) link
He's a joyless prick with no charisma and no comedic skills - he's a comedy writer not a performer.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Friday, 29 December 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link
I used to absolutely hate him for his attention seeking lol disablism type shittiness. But his short lived election/Scot-ref shows were at least not HIGNFY, and quite funny in places. I know, a very low bar, but I think I'm slowly going back to my original position, but that he's not much cop rather than hating him.
― calzino, Friday, 29 December 2017 22:34 (six years ago) link
if a millwall fan started posting to ilx i would engage in good-natured top bantz with them
― imago, Friday, 29 December 2017 22:39 (six years ago) link
About right, yes.
― Mark G, Friday, 29 December 2017 22:39 (six years ago) link
I'd make up a cruel football chant to piss them off, based on the Your Relegation one.
We all know you're going down to live in Doncaster (Talkin 'bout your relegation gentrification)
― calzino, Friday, 29 December 2017 22:43 (six years ago) link
Well it's the right thread for it.
― calzino, Friday, 29 December 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link
fuck me that Leigh Francis is hilarious
― he's one of our pwn (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 7 July 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
wow.doxxed
― repartee is deft (darraghmac), Saturday, 7 July 2018 23:22 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRqa3tyeisM
― del griffith, Sunday, 8 July 2018 00:04 (five years ago) link
The Festival looks like a new Inbetweeners movie in all but name
Just. everybody. die.
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 August 2018 00:37 (five years ago) link
why hasn't Jonathan Pie been mentioned in this thread? Why hasn't he been mentioned in every post in this thread?
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Monday, 8 October 2018 13:39 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/8SMeQpo.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 16 March 2019 19:46 (five years ago) link
!
― StanM, Saturday, 16 March 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6512/558/1600/File0057.jpg
― everything, Saturday, 16 March 2019 22:07 (five years ago) link
My mind is trying to process the idea of Dara O'Briain, Frankie Boyle, and David Mitchell being considered "not funny" because they've become three of my favorite comedians ever. OTOH, I cannot second the "Bat Dad" mention strongly enough and every time one of my friends on FB repost that fucker it only makes me want to beat the shit out of him and his entire horrible family.
I'm really sad to find that "Family Ties", which was one of my favorite TV shows as a little girl, has aged terribly and isn't very watchable these days. OTOH I'm delighted to see how well "The Facts of Life" has aged and that my adoration of it as a kid was correct. I also find a lot of American stand-up comedians hacky and as diametrically opposite of funny as possible, e.g. the examples am0n posted on October 31, 2012; the first one is especially "LOL flyover country amirite?" hackneyed and tired.
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 01:11 (five years ago) link
The fly on Mike Pence’s head
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 15 October 2020 05:28 (three years ago) link
it's still there?
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 15 October 2020 07:37 (three years ago) link
It's here all week
Ba-dum-tsss!
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 15 October 2020 07:38 (three years ago) link
actual lol
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 16 October 2020 02:56 (three years ago) link
People keep sharing videos from something called Channel 4's The B@it and it every single one of them is the worst thing in the world, like a perpetual turtles-all-the-way-down festival of unfunny bullshit
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 09:58 (three years ago) link
viz: https://www.comedy.co.uk/videos/group/the_bait/just scrolling down the list of video titles brings me to a special level of despair
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 10:31 (three years ago) link
Can’t decide about this:
Whimsical French woman, written by a man who's never met a woman. #LazySusan pic.twitter.com/FCFXnDhGQK— BBC Comedy (@bbccomedy) July 30, 2019
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 11:00 (three years ago) link
Is it something to do with getting older that i feel like i haven't seen anything truly funny coming out of UK TV comedy in ten years?
That "French woman" sketch was okay... It didn't make me laugh but the idea was funny enough. Some of the jokes and observations were well written. But something about the execution made it feel clunky and kinda cringey. It plays on a pretty tired trope for a start, while not really doing anything original with it. As such it's more of an extended meme than a sketch.
And I think that's part of the problem: Comedy writers are now competing with meme artists for the lols, and the memes are winning. Memes can make an observation in an often surreal or oblique way and get it to land instantly. Memes also have an open-source anonymity to them, meaning you know they were made by SOMEONE but you don't know who, which is part of the fun - it feels like an in-joke despite having been shared thousands of times. By comparison, TV sketches and satirical shows feel like lumbering dinosaurs roaring "The Channel 4 Corporate Board Has Written This Funny Sketch About A Man Who Identifies As Being 7-foot Tall Isn't It Funny Because That Is A Bit Like Trans People Which Is A Topic That Is In The News A Lot These Days HaHaHa".
At the same time, UK comedy still seems to be cribbing off older shows like Big Train, the Chris Morris shows, Armando Iannucci Show, Fast Show etc, but not doing it anywhere near as well. I can see the people behind B@it thinking of themselves as the edgy progeny of The Day Today and Brass Eye. But the anarchic nuance and flair of those shows has dissipated into tired lampooning of wokeness, kink-shaming, transphobia etc, with the thinnest veneer of surrealness or gross-out humour to cover for it.
But I couldn't really see Armando's "Hallo Hugh!" sketches being successfully turned into a meme, for example. The format of those sketches only really work on TV, and because they're so well executed, they land perfectly.
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 12:14 (three years ago) link