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Grandma loves children
(prev. Old dear. Gin. Problems)
06:34 / 23.05.07
A thread for discussing feelings of anxiety, despair or existential ennui that have been brought on, or at least accelerated, by lolcats.

(I await the forthcoming 'Kitteh' posts with pretty much unmixed dead, you pranksters! I may well have a heart attack! Not, I suppose, that any of you would mind.)
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
06:42 / 23.05.07
"Unmixed dead" -- you keep your corpses in a pile, not catalogued by race/gender/manner of demise? How cosmopolitan!

Personally, I'm concerned by this need to fill up the Convo with irreverant cascade threads followed by threads that bemoan the existence of the first sort of threads and seek to console the Barbebody over the resulting ennui. Do we need to rename the Convo as the Psychiatrist's Couch? Agony Aunt-Forum?

On the plus side, it's like the barbannoy thread has left the Barbezeitgeist.
 
 
Grandma loves children
(prev. Old dear. Gin. Problems)
07:21 / 23.05.07
I'm concerned by this need to fill up the Convo with irreverant cascade threads followed by threads that bemoan the existence of the first sort of threads and seek to console the Barbebody over the resulting ennui. Do we need to rename the Convo as the Psychiatrist's Couch? Agony Aunt-Forum?

Hoist, perhaps, from your own petard, Mr Bond?
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
07:25 / 23.05.07
Merely an intriguing phenomenon, dahling.
 
 
*
08:41 / 23.05.07
They'll all have gone to the great humane society in the sky in a month, alright? When somebody starts writing scholarly articles about a joke, that joke is not merely pining for the fjords.
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
10:33 / 23.05.07

 
 
Mordant Carnival
(prev. DRR... DRR... DRR...)
10:37 / 23.05.07
Don't look at me. I tried to corral them into a single thread.
 
 
Fly Beezy (War Minister)
12:12 / 23.05.07
I don't really mind the lolcats, they're a tad more amusing than ninjas and pirates, for example, but it does seem kind of bizarre to me that anyone might think they were some kind of genuinely useful tool for responding to trolling or bigotry. I think you should fight the real enemy though, Granny, which surely 'Steve' 'humour'.
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
12:26 / 23.05.07
Yes Granny, I do find them slightly annoying when they crop up in threads that are actually going somewhere (which can be quite frequently, currently). Some of them are quite funny. I like Lazercat saying "Pew Pew".

I'm sure it's just a fad, darling. We sort of *want* 'lith to have fads, don't we? It's only when they start to take over completely that Lazercat's pew pewing must be scorched with Lithcat's baleful glare...

And yes, Fly, I must concur. I love Stoatie but do not particularly love Steve.
 
 
Jack Denfeld
12:49 / 23.05.07
yeah granny, we always come up with somethin' that's all the rage at the time. im enjoyin the kitty cats right now, and in the past weve had the huggles, those lil mouse like creatures that people gave hause, some cat glassin, ass candlin, all kinds o stuff. theyre fun for awhile then we move on, dont be scurred.
 
 
Grandma loves children
(prev. Old dear. Gin. Problems)
12:56 / 23.05.07
I'm sure it's just a fad, darling

And I'm sure you're right. I have to object, though, to what seems like an on-line war against Steve.

I love him, the big dummy - is this so wrong?

I'm going to wave my virtual hand in the air, I'm going to stand up and be counted, I'm going to testify in favour of Steve - who's with me?!

Let me hear you say yeah
 
 
petunia
13:50 / 23.05.07
STEEV IZ TEH SUXXORZ
 
 
Quantum
13:52 / 23.05.07


STEVE DO NOT WANT.
 
 
Evil Scientist
13:54 / 23.05.07
You can hear me say "Who?"

You old fogeys with your secret Steve in-jokes. It's like a fascist state in here.

Only, y'know, without the fascism.

Kitteh is probably as close as I'll get to liking cats. At least they're not in my house, provoking my allergies.
 
 
Grandma loves children
(prev. Old dear. Gin. Problems)
13:55 / 23.05.07
Not to say that sort of thing, ,trampetunia. Steve loves you.
 
 
Mordant Carnival
(prev. DRR... DRR... DRR...)
13:55 / 23.05.07
You mean IN YR HUOSE, PROVOKIN YR ALARJYZ, of course.
 
 
Grandma loves children
(prev. Old dear. Gin. Problems)
14:14 / 23.05.07
SUCH THINGS BE NOT COMPUTE! LOLCAT HEAD HAVE EXPLODE!
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
14:38 / 23.05.07
Let me hear you say yeah

/...tumbleweed...
 
 
Quantum
15:06 / 23.05.07
Steve Davis is a famous snooker player, he's the Gary Linekar of the most boring sport evah.
 
 
Nuke Kids on the Bloc
(prev. The Freewheeling Penis)
15:14 / 23.05.07
Not you, Granny.

Not you.
 
 
My Mom Thinks I'm Cool
15:22 / 23.05.07
whew! I thought I was the only one. I mean, not that lolcats are annoying, exactly, but I'm not laughing either. I didn't even know they were around until they got onto Barbelith, actually. so in a way, it's a good thing, because up until that point I had no idea what was funny about that xkcd comic.

I only watched the star wars kid video, like, once. I think there's something wrong with me.
 
 
Happy Dave
15:23 / 23.05.07
Or something very, very right.
 
 
Nuke Kids on the Bloc
(prev. The Freewheeling Penis)
15:26 / 23.05.07
... what colour are both of your eyes, pants? We might have to keep you for observation and visiting Paris might be off the cards for a while.
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
15:26 / 23.05.07
Msr Brigade, AFAIAC you are perfectly normal and it's everyone else that is a loony. But it's okay, I like loonies and normal people both the same.

If it's any consolation I saw the South Park Paris Hilton episode and had no idea who she was, I thought she was a South Park character. Imagine my delight when she said she was too beautiful and exciting to go to jail because her absence from our consciousness would be a blight on our otherwise mundane lives!
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
15:27 / 23.05.07
WHOA Paris coincidence.

Off to Temple with it...
 
 
Quantum
15:55 / 23.05.07
So, I'm assuming you cat haterz are lolrus fans then?

  
 
*
16:19 / 23.05.07
I...

I love lolrus and bucket. I don't know why.

Now I feel ashamed.
 
 
Nuke Kids on the Bloc
(prev. The Freewheeling Penis)
16:25 / 23.05.07
I shouldn't. But I do.

Frankly, walruses aren't crap.
 
 
My Mom Thinks I'm Cool
16:29 / 23.05.07
goddamn it...

yes, the lolruses have actually made me laugh. audibly. meaning I can feel justified saying "lol". fuck if I'm happy admitting it though...guess I've still got some growing up to do. as garfield once said, it takes a big walrus to admit his mistakes.
 
 
Quantum
16:46 / 23.05.07
The lolrus is my wallpaper at home, and it makes me laugh a little bit every time. Check out these follow ups;





Many many more here
 
 
Stoat-ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH
17:43 / 23.05.07
When internet memes get out of hand...

  
 
Nuke Kids on the Bloc
(prev. The Freewheeling Penis)
18:48 / 23.05.07
On the bright side, Stoatie, the Americans wouldn't have noticed you kept saying "cheers".
 
 
Grandma loves children
(prev. Old dear. Gin. Problems)
07:13 / 24.05.07
Those photos have deen doctored, presumably?

There's no way the walrus, as a species, is actually that potentially dangerous, is there?

You may laugh, but I don't know much about marine biology.
 
 
*
09:00 / 24.05.07
What photos? Are you referring to the photos of the trained walrus doing tricks with a handler?
 
 
Katherine
10:29 / 24.05.07
There's no way the walrus, as a species, is actually that potentially dangerous, is there?

Well, I do know of one zoo I went to where the keepers fed the male from the safety of standing on a wall, as the male figured out he could pin a keeper to the side of his enclosure and eat all the fish in the bucket.

Unfortunately as one keeper pointed out the walrus does not realise how much stronger and heavier he is compared to us, the keeper in question was the one who suffered three broken ribs from the walrus the last time he did that trick hence they no longer fed him from inside the enclosure. This is of course about a handreared animal rather than a wild one. But I would guess they can be dangerous in the same way an elephant can be.
 
  

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