Blue Footed Booby posted:

I think the funny images guy was different, and people just accused him of being Guy to irritate him. Unless I'm thinking of the guy who posted images so consistently unfunny the mods created the "mildly interesting pictures" thread just for him.

OPAONI posted:

There have been multiple people in the Schadenfreud thread that post nothing but attractive women getting hurt. Last one was banned a while ago

OPAONI posted:

There have been multiple people in the Schadenfreud thread that post nothing but attractive women getting hurt. Last one was banned a while ago

oldpainless posted:

Wow nice bansplaining

Blue Footed Booby posted:

I think the funny images guy was different, and people just accused him of being Guy to irritate him. Unless I'm thinking of the guy who posted images so consistently unfunny the mods created the "mildly interesting pictures" thread just for him.

Blue Footed Booby posted:

Unless I'm thinking of the guy who posted images so consistently unfunny the mods created the "mildly interesting pictures" thread just for him.

Baron von Eevl posted:

Oh my god, I remember that, there was a rule for a while where he had to write a paragraph explaining why he thought every image he posted was funny.

Inceltown posted:

Guy Goodbody. I really wish that rule was enforced a bit more because his explanations on why the images were funny were actually interesting and made it seem like it did fit the thread. Unfortunately - like all goon projects - it was abandoned before it could be run into the ground.

oldpainless posted:

Wow nice bansplaining

MelonWheels posted:

Ugh, this is the sort of garbage that makes me think that Something Awful is becoming what it originally set out to mock.

Guys, absurdity is the easiest form of humor. It wasn't so funny to begin with, but now you're running it into the ground. I'm not trying to infringe on your rights to be idiots, but you guys are seriously degenerating to the level of fart jokes.

Bye.

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Inceltown posted:

Guy Goodbody. I really wish that rule was enforced a bit more because his explanations on why the images were funny were actually interesting and made it seem like it did fit the thread. Unfortunately - like all goon projects - it was abandoned before it could be run into the ground.

Inceltown posted:

Guy Goodbody. I really wish that rule was enforced a bit more because his explanations on why the images were funny were actually interesting and made it seem like it did fit the thread. Unfortunately - like all goon projects - it was abandoned before it could be run into the ground.

Captain Invictus posted:

who is guy mann

Lobok posted:

drat, I'd be happy if I could upgrade my posts to the level of fart jokes.

Karate Bastard posted:

Can we get a Guy Goodbody / Wizard Master showdown up in here please!

OPAONI posted:

There have been multiple people in the Schadenfreud thread that post nothing but attractive women getting hurt. Last one was banned a while ago

EorayMel posted:

Now you don't have to deal with how stupid and unfunny we are. Goodbye!

Evilreaver posted:

[Googling "how to make sex to a lady"]
So it says here I'm supposed to find the man in the canoe huh

[Continues Googling]
[Later that evening]

SARAH HELP ME! SARAH HELP I CAN'T SWIM
oh gently caress this guy's good

freeedr posted:

Say Nothing also used to post lots of content but got thrown out for being a creep I think

Desert Bus posted:

The last and really ONLY one who constantly posted attractive women getting hurt got banned for much much worse poo poo:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=2892

Zetsubou-san posted:

is there any point to be keeping those vanity smilies around?

Baron von Eevl posted:

When jumping into this thread to read the new posts I forget we're talking about Arthur Conan Doyle and think everyone's talking about Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein, who is God's perfect idiot and probably also believes in fairies and that Houdini could perform real magic.

Dauphine posted:

I would have read Moby Dick much sooner if someone had told me that the book is actually very funny. A lot of critics make it out to be a portentous classic tragedy, like Charles Olson comparing it to King Lear and Rick Moody saying that Melville taught him how to write long impressive-sounding sentences. While the book is tragic and uses a lot of high language, it is balanced out by the narrator's self-deprecation and completely absurd situations that are described with a dead-pan or eyebrows-raised sense of humor.

Ishmael is very good at making fun of himself, and this allows him to make fun of the surrounding characters and situations without insulting others. The opening part of the book when he meets his cannibal friend Queequeq is probably the funniest part, and both characters act ridiculously. Ishmael is assigned to share a room in the inn with this Polynesian harpooner but the harpooner, Queequeg, comes in late and scares the crap out Ishmael, who screams like a girl and causes the innkeeper to laugh at him. He describes Queequeg's bizarre behavior like his method of getting dressed in morning: only half-adjusted to Western manners, he crawls under the bed to put on his boots and top hat out of modesty. Ishmael is intrigued but not judgmental. He even approves that Queequeg has an "innate sense of delicacy." Queequeg sells shrunken heads to make extra money, but the Ishmael has to persuade him not to do this on Sunday so as not to offend New England morals. Ishmael is quickly won over by Queequeg, and participates in his native religious worship on the rationale that (mentally shrugging his shoulders) Christian missionaries are always forcing themselves on the natives, so he sort of owes him one. The introduction of Queequeg is full of humorous characterization, but it's also very warm and human. Ishmael is afraid of the cannibal but tries to be as civil to him as possible, and then falls in love with him.

Humor is extremely important to offset the tragedy of the novel, especially once they put to sea and are exposed to the enormous dangers and hardships of whaling. One chapter, "The Hyena," outlines Melville's philosophy of humor. After Ishmael almost dies when his whaling boat is crushed, he becomes detached from the horror by entering a state of mind where he "takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke." He says, in a gloriously dead-pan manner, "“Queequeg, my fine friend, does this sort of thing often happen?” I can't help but imagine him saying this in a slow Downeast New England accent, like my grandfather when he told dirty stories about the French Canadians. Like a hyena, a person has to laugh at the world, even if it's an involuntary laugh brought on by tragedy. This is demonstrated further in the personalities of the ship's officers. Starbuck is melancholy, Flask is hot-headed, but Stubb, who constantly jokes with a straight face, is the only one immune to the morbid obsession of Ahab. Melville shows us the absolute necessity of a sense of humor for survival. It's grim, but it gives us a reason to laugh.

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EorayMel posted:

Used too many "Q"s in one post.

My Lovely Horse posted:

Riot Carol Danvers posted:

Wait is Doyle a known idiot? I mean his brother is a turbo chud now, as is Michael Graves, but I know Jack and poo poo about Doyle.

Baron von Eevl posted:

I don't know if he's terrible (I assume all of the current lineup are pretty conservative to even be able to get along, although I don't think Jerry was ever quite as lovely as Graves turned out to be) but I think he's stupid, like just not very bright. He's like a puppy, a 60 year old jacked puppy that got lost in a Hot Topic maybe. By all accounts he's sweet but he's also a professional guitarist who's played thousands of shows over 40 years and has absolutely no idea how to play guitar. Like he knows how to play every Misfits and Doyle (the band) song he has to play, but the extent of his knowledge is "hand goes here, then here, then here."

FreudianSlippers posted:

Nobody that has ever been in the Misfits is going to be the sharpest bulb in the shed.


See:
Danzig
Jerry Only
Arthur Conan Doyle apparently

Jel Shaker posted:

elon thinks the mother of his children is an NPC, and probably his kids too?

RealityWarCriminal posted:

the prophecies foretold a PC/NPC hybrid child who would bring balance to Number

World War Mammories posted:

the ersatz posterach

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Scratch Monkey posted:

Elon created Grimes to be his perfect companion and she still divorced him