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Grondoth: Feb 18, 2011

I sniped, sorry

MarxCarl posted:

Found over in the PYF Funny pics thread DON'T gently caress THE CAR HOT!

Goon Boots posted:

abandon all hope, etc.
but then again, the path less traveled?
https://jalopnik.com/sex-with-cars-a-tutorial-285522

Man that site makes you register for it, there are people there complaining about how the site is going downhill. Buddy, if you cannot laugh at "never gently caress the car hot" then you are too far gone

although

zch
Wes Siler
12/28/07 12:29am
Iam one of the people who have sex with cars from my point of view it is fun

means that their audience may be the wrong kind of receptive.

Grondoth fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Aug 7, 2022

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Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

"from my point of view it is fun" is incredibly powerful Internet Comments Energy, up there with "I don't have that problem, goodbye!"

# ? Aug 7, 2022 23:29

Djeser: Mar 22, 2013; it's crow time again

I have friends who know nothing about the F Plus but have picked up "I don't have that problem, goodbye" from me using it on occasion because it's such an iconic post of internet.

I think there's some line in some F Plus ep like that, something like "So in a sense psi energy is real." and probably Lemon goes "...and in a diffferent, more correct sense it isn't." I think about that one too.

# ? Aug 8, 2022 02:07

Zero_Grade: Mar 18, 2004; Darktider 🖤🌊

~Neck Angels~

Nyoro posted:

I'll continue to take Lemon's word that "just skip the first 50 or so episodes, they're bad"

It was really jarring to hear him drop a hard r in one of the early episodes. Charitably, in context it sort of made sense but c'mon man that wasn't acceptable even in 2010. The rest of the episode was really... interesting to listen to in the present though, in the sense that you can guess with what I suspect would be a high degree of accuracy exactly how these people's lives have gone since then.

Zero_Grade fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Aug 8, 2022

# ? Aug 8, 2022 15:05

Skanker: Mar 21, 2013

Zero_Grade posted:

It was really jarring to hear him drop a hard r in one of the early episodes. Charitably, in context it sort of made sense but c'mon man that wasn't acceptable even in 2010.

That came to my mind reading that post as well. I listened to it last month while revisiting old episodes and it really put a damper on the whole thing.

# ? Aug 9, 2022 00:35

Lumbermouth: Mar 6, 2008; GREG IS BIG NOW

Goddamn, #101-151 is an insanely good run of episodes.

# ? Aug 9, 2022 02:13

ShellGame: Apr 10, 2016; stack 'em to the heavens

I've only really got one argument against skipping the first 50 episodes of the f plus:

Episode 49 is Reno Iz Drezt In A Kostoom

That is just some great times reading descriptions of terrible OCs.

# ? Aug 10, 2022 06:38

RandomPauI: Nov 24, 2006; Grimey Drawer

I have that episode downloaded and favorited

# ? Aug 10, 2022 08:08

carrionman: Oct 30, 2010

Trip report: the allrecipes was pretty drat good.

I skipped the juggalo episodes, I just really don't care about them.

The PUA episode was the perfect mix of skin crawling creepiness

An unironic MySpace reference in the pyros of porn!

# ? Aug 10, 2022 08:23

Djeser: Mar 22, 2013; it's crow time again

only missing a few of the new ones

# ? Aug 10, 2022 09:01

mycelia: Apr 28, 2013; POWERFUL FUNGAL LORD

I haven't listened to it recently, but #35 "No Adult Supervision" has a line that sticks in my head for no reason: someone introducing Lemon as "lemonlemonLEMONlemon". It plays in my brain whenever I buy lemons. So, that and 49 can stay.

# ? Aug 10, 2022 10:34

Lumbermouth: Mar 6, 2008; GREG IS BIG NOW

ShellGame posted:

I've only really got one argument against skipping the first 50 episodes of the f plus:

Episode 49 is Reno Iz Drezt In A Kostoom

That is just some great times reading descriptions of terrible OCs.

Also Episode 43 is My Fanfics Are Full Of Emotion. No exploration of The F Plus is complete without Garfield The Lover And Fighter Man.

# ? Aug 10, 2022 13:30

Grondoth: Feb 18, 2011

LAUNCH FIGHTERS!

# ? Aug 10, 2022 13:49

BootsRaingear: Sep 10, 2013; I can't grow a beard.

mycelia posted:

I haven't listened to it recently, but #35 "No Adult Supervision" has a line that sticks in my head for no reason: someone introducing Lemon as "lemonlemonLEMONlemon". It plays in my brain whenever I buy lemons. So, that and 49 can stay.

Stog was just reading everybody's Skype names that episode. Lemon's was:

Lemon "Lemon" LemonLemon

# ? Aug 10, 2022 15:38

mycelia: Apr 28, 2013; POWERFUL FUNGAL LORD

BootsRaingear posted:

Stog was just reading everybody's Skype names that episode. Lemon's was:

Lemon "Lemon" LemonLemon

Huh! The more you know.

# ? Aug 11, 2022 09:02

Zero_Grade: Mar 18, 2004; Darktider 🖤🌊

~Neck Angels~

carrionman posted:

Trip report: the allrecipes was pretty drat good.

Yeah this is another rare good early episode (it's #26: Ranch Dressing & Other Delights). The recording quality is what you'd expect and for some reason there's nine participants, which might be the most I've ever seen, but the content is fantastic. The hosts are immediately and constantly grossed out at the various awful combinations of corn chips and mayo, including microwave roux, disgusting vegetable "pizza", and the incredibly pointless Taco-in-a-Bag! A personal favorite touch is towards the end when the recipe writers start including drink pairings for their terrible dishes. Another point towards my thesis that there's No Bad Food Episodes.

Zero_Grade fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Aug 11, 2022

# ? Aug 11, 2022 17:27

Deformed Church: May 12, 2012; 5'5", IQ 81

https://thefpl.us/episode/375

Mystical artifacts. You owe it to yourself to visit the site they're reading.

carrionman posted:

The PUA episode was the perfect mix of skin crawling creepiness

This discussion has had me going back to the really early ones and the PUA episode is really weird, because it has some absolutely incredible content but also has a section in the middle that's basically just a guy describing rape. Like, the (point to schlong) and "big juicy mangoes" bits still pop into my head extremely regularly, but going back and listening to the whole episode is hard at this point.

# ? Aug 14, 2022 08:42

Grondoth: Feb 18, 2011

Deformed Church posted:

Mystical artifacts. You owe it to yourself to visit the site they're reading.

Holy poo poo you absolutely do, I haven't seen anything this good in decades.

# ? Aug 14, 2022 14:28

KirbyKhan: Mar 20, 2009; Soiled Meat

Grondoth posted:

Holy poo poo you absolutely do, I haven't seen anything this good in decades.

Haven't listened to pod yet, but I pressed 3 buttons to get to that page and it was a treat for the senses. Delightful!

# ? Aug 14, 2022 14:48

change my name: Aug 27, 2007; Legends die but anime is forever.

RIP The Lost Otakus.

Deformed Church posted:

https://thefpl.us/episode/375

Mystical artifacts. You owe it to yourself to visit the site they're reading.

I can confirm this guy is not part of the New York Art Scene

# ? Aug 14, 2022 15:54

Djeser: Mar 22, 2013; it's crow time again

But is he a part of the New York Art scene?

# ? Aug 14, 2022 16:28

change my name: Aug 27, 2007; Legends die but anime is forever.

RIP The Lost Otakus.

Djeser posted:

But is he a part of the New York Art scene?

# ? Aug 14, 2022 16:35

tokin opposition: Apr 8, 2021; I don't jailbreak the androids, I set them free.

WATCH MARS EXPRESS (2023)

change my name posted:

I can confirm this guy is not part of the New York Art Scene

It's an old boys club but for catboys

# ? Aug 14, 2022 16:56

Djeser: Mar 22, 2013; it's crow time again

Tired of all this nyapotism in the New York Art Scene/New York Art scene

# ? Aug 15, 2022 02:18

RandomPauI: Nov 24, 2006; Grimey Drawer

Ah, Ascended Masters references.

Nonsense Bazaar has a few episodes on the topic but the tldr is: in the 1800s a well-read con woman made up a religion. She died, the grift continued. That inspired new con artists who simplified things. 150 years later and the idea's seeped into the general public because it has to be ancient wisdom right?

Edit: There were a few episodes where they read spiritually significant texts. Including the "I Remember Lemuria" series.

It read like 1930s fanfic: a super cool smart and talented artist and his dear woman girlfriend teamed up with amazonians to defeat evil robots.

The thing is, these stories were published as fact, and became the origin of several archetypes about UFOs and alien encounters. Like how the chupacabara and Slenderman were made up but now they're accepted parts of folk lore.

RandomPauI fucked around with this message at 09:37 on Aug 16, 2022

# ? Aug 16, 2022 09:26

Nemo2342: Nov 26, 2007; Have A Day; Nap Ghost

RandomPauI posted:

Ah, Ascended Masters references.

Nonsense Bazaar has a few episodes on the topic but the tldr is: in the 1800s a well-read con woman made up a religion. She died, the grift continued. That inspired new con artists who simplified things. 150 years later and the idea's seeped into the general public because it has to be ancient wisdom right?

Edit: There were a few episodes where they read spiritually significant texts. Including the "I Remember Lemuria" series.

It read like 1930s fanfic: a super cool smart and talented artist and his dear woman girlfriend teamed up with amazonians to defeat evil robots.

The thing is, these stories were published as fact, and became the origin of several archetypes about UFOs and alien encounters. Like how the chupacabara and Slenderman were made up but now they're accepted parts of folk lore.

Monster Talk had a good 2 part episode (Part 1, Part 2) about the Shaver Mysteries (i.e. Lemuria) and how it has tied into both the UFO movement and more modern conspiracies.

# ? Aug 16, 2022 17:44

Grondoth: Feb 18, 2011

RandomPauI posted:

The thing is, these stories were published as fact, and became the origin of several archetypes about UFOs and alien encounters. Like how the chupacabara and Slenderman were made up but now they're accepted parts of folk lore.

Wait what? Slenderman's part of serious folklore now? How can that happen when it's publicly and concretely documented as to how it was created? There's no mystery about the stories, we know exactly who told them, when they did, where they did, how they did, why they did...

# ? Aug 16, 2022 17:49

Arrhythmia: Jul 22, 2011

Grondoth posted:

Wait what? Slenderman's part of serious folklore now? How can that happen when it's publicly and concretely documented as to how it was created? There's no mystery about the stories, we know exactly who told them, when they did, where they did, how they did, why they did...

10 year olds don't give a gently caress about any of that

# ? Aug 16, 2022 18:17

Grondoth: Feb 18, 2011

Is folklore just 'stupid poo poo kids believe?'

# ? Aug 16, 2022 18:18

KitConstantine: Jan 11, 2013

RandomPauI posted:

Ah, Ascended Masters references.

Nonsense Bazaar has a few episodes on the topic but the tldr is: in the 1800s a well-read con woman made up a religion. She died, the grift continued. That inspired new con artists who simplified things. 150 years later and the idea's seeped into the general public because it has to be ancient wisdom right?

Edit: There were a few episodes where they read spiritually significant texts. Including the "I Remember Lemuria" series.

It read like 1930s fanfic: a super cool smart and talented artist and his dear woman girlfriend teamed up with amazonians to defeat evil robots.

The thing is, these stories were published as fact, and became the origin of several archetypes about UFOs and alien encounters. Like how the chupacabara and Slenderman were made up but now they're accepted parts of folk lore.

Q Anon Anonymous did a good episode on the I AM Cult, which is the name of the religion in the US that sprung up around "Theosophy" which is the term the lady who invented it used

Theosophy is the basis of a bunch of esoteric Nazi poo poo, so be very careful googling/going down a rabbit hole about it. There's a lot of Theosophic underpinnings in the doctrine of The Order of Nine Angles, for example, which is tied to a whole bunch of no-poo poo ritual murders in Europe and the United States

# ? Aug 16, 2022 18:51

Parakeet vs. Phone: Nov 6, 2009

Grondoth posted:

Is folklore just 'stupid poo poo kids believe?'

I've seen some older than zoomer people believing it either because they don't know about Slenderman stuff or because one of the YouTube series made up a backstory that the Germans had a folk tale about The Tall Man (or something like that). And people thought that that was true and that Slenderman stuff was riffing off of a real tale.

To be fair, "tall, unnatural, not quite human dude in a suit" has been a common enough figure in spooky stuff anyway.

# ? Aug 16, 2022 20:42

tokin opposition: Apr 8, 2021; I don't jailbreak the androids, I set them free.

WATCH MARS EXPRESS (2023)

It's time for the slender women to #leanin

# ? Aug 16, 2022 20:52

KirbyKhan: Mar 20, 2009; Soiled Meat

Never been a better time to make lore out of 9 year old let's plays, based on 12 year old videogame, based on 15 year old shitposts. What a world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7U983e-UvM

# ? Aug 16, 2022 22:15

ewe2: Jul 1, 2009

Many great moments in Fplus episodes but one more recent episode that I regularly go back to is #332: Why Don't The Females Understand Bitcoin? with a brilliant doc and everyone firing on all cylinders., Bozarth hit with crypto being the "gift certificates for the Internet" . I cannot think of it any other way now :v:

And Portaxx so witty about the eye-rolling chauvinism, and Boots got to utter that Ferengi koan "Women is really a paths duck". :confuoot:

# ? Aug 17, 2022 11:21

sexpig by night: Sep 8, 2011; by Azathoth

ewe2 posted:

Many great moments in Fplus episodes but one more recent episode that I regularly go back to is #332: Why Don't The Females Understand Bitcoin? with a brilliant doc and everyone firing on all cylinders., Bozarth hit with crypto being the "gift certificates for the Internet" . I cannot think of it any other way now And Portaxx so witty about the eye-rolling chauvinism, and Boots got to utter that Ferengi koan "Women is really a paths duck".

the fact that 'Women is really a paths duck" just broke the podcast for a bit was so great.

"If you just keep repeating it we'll never move on."

"GOOD"

# ? Aug 17, 2022 15:22

Owl Inspector: Sep 14, 2011

Which episode had kumquat screaming HONEY B FINE?

# ? Aug 17, 2022 23:18

That Old Tree: Jun 24, 2012; nah

Gay Rat Wedding posted:

Which episode had kumquat screaming HONEY B FINE?

245: In Memoriam IMDb Forums.

# ? Aug 17, 2022 23:20

Grondoth: Feb 18, 2011

Listening to older episodes is making me wonder when Magick's pronunciation was agreed upon. It doesn't seem to be a thing everyone gets until everyone gets it.

Also the fplus had an edit of Lil' Kim's Magic Stick with a boots quote edited in and when I heard the song in the latest episode I was waiting to hear it.

# ? Aug 18, 2022 00:10

Djeser: Mar 22, 2013; it's crow time again

I feel like magick got its pronunciation either in the butt ghosts or one of the spells of magic episodes. I want to say Lou brought it to the F Plus but that could be confabulation.

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Heliotrope: Aug 17, 2007; You're fucking subhuman

It was this episode, with JT using that pronunciation for a voice.

# ? Aug 18, 2022 03:55

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