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What is up with that lately? Pretty soon it’ll look like just anybody with a computer can make a lol.
Otherwise, this one amuses me. What’s with all the shoes on the ground?
In Transchechkoslovanyia where this riot occurred, throwing shoes is an ancient symbol of righteous protest against unjust use of force by oppressive regimes.
This made me think of Tom Robbins’ “Skinny Legs and All”.
Agreed…very perceptive of you, RMB.
The secret life of inanimate objects is a recurrent theme in Robbins’ works.
Whatever happened to the golden ball?
*sigh* I love Robbins. “For you, sir, I hope death comes with cotton teeth.” *double sigh*
Shoes vs. guns, tear gas, riot hoses…hmmm…So, you toss a shoe, then have to run away barefoot…they may want to rethink their battle tactics…
I thought someone had just gotten batton’d so hard their shoes flew off. I learn something new every day.
Hey, that really hurt! Who throws a shoe? Honestly!
In muslim society it is a dreadful insult to smack somebody with a shoe. I am not making this up. Remember when Saddam’s statue got pulled down? Everyone in the crowd was smacking it with their shoes.
Very true; however, when faced with baton-wielding, tear gas-firing, bullet-shooting riot police, tossing a shoe to insult someone may not be the best way to go. Rocks at least sting a little when they hit body armor
. Perhaps a molotov cocktail?
What do you call a Transsexual from Transcheckoslovania? Would that be a “trannie-tran?”
Transgenders! More than meets the eye! (Sorry, 80’s kid.)
Cartoon Idea or Bar Room Pick Up Story!?
We’ll find out after these messages.
There once was a transsexual from Transchkoslovania…
Bored with the riots, moved to Pennsylvania…
The townsfolk were confused…
About her appearance they mused…
When she lapsed into a shoe-throwing mania.
I approve, this is win.
LMAO! Excellent!
This should be submitted to the limerick site
my name links too.
good stuff.
Decepticon or Autobot?
Not sure, but the late Freddie Mercury was a Zoroastrian from Zanzibar.
What’s your favorite dish? I won’t make it, but I’ll order it from Zanzibar!
Sry, Tenacious D song stuck in head now.
Crap, sudden urge to re-enact superly awesome Bohemian Rhapsody scene with Mike Meyers.
“Galileo”
“Galilieo”
Galileo Figaro!
“Magnifico…o…o..o..o”
I’m just a poor boy, nobody loves me…..
“He’s just a poor boy from a poor family…”
“Spare him this life from this mostrosity!”
“Easy come, easy go. Will you let me go?”
Dishmill loch no, we will not let him go!
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(I’m totally guessing at the spelling there, lol.)
Let him gooooooooo!
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Bismillah! We will not let you go!
(I totally cheated at the spelling there, lol.)
Never never never
Let me go-o-o-o
No no no no on no no!
Oh mama mia
mama mia
mama mia Figaro!
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me!
for me…
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(I’m not doing the high note!)
:archetypal ’70s guitar solo:
:archetypal ’80’s hair tossing head bobbing:
Why am I wearing rolled jeans and white high heels with pearls around my neck? Oh well *head bangs with bangs a mile high and hairsprayed to a glossy sheen*
ZOMG it’s Texas big hair! You could put someone’s eye out with thise bangs, you know……
In Texas, we call it “Dallas Hair.” You wouldn’t catch a Houstonian looking that creepy! ;o)
The least you could do is get it stuck in your head right.
The least you could do is not criticize like a drunken mother-in-law.
Here is a ‘joke’, take liberally when feeling uppity
Unless it’s at the late night
(What kind of feature?) Double feature
(What kind of show?) Picture show
By RKO (RK Who?)
Oh ohhhh…….
In which row?
FSCK THE BACK ROW!
*runs rapidly in place, like a cartoon character*
*Zoooooom!*
OK, now, we’re going to do the windshield wipers. That’s left, right, left, right.
For those of you on speed, that’s leftrightleftright.
For those of you on quaaludes, that’s l e f t , r i g h t , l e f t , r i g h t.
For those of you on acid, that’s blue, yellow, red, purple.
For those of you on crack, that’s lef– *collapses*
LMAO!!
for those of you on ecstacy that’s leftrightleftright….dood, I love you, dood. I loooove….YOU…dood *makes out with strangers*
Wow, see, you’re just that leeeetle beet younger than me, to gauge by the pop culture drug references of choice. :^)
Protesting against the typical Middle East regime is a little more hardcore of an activity than your average American or European protest march. Those are hardcore xxxtreme protesters! So darn right they’re gonna throw some footwear!
maybe put the molotov in the shoe?
now THAT’s a hot-foot…
What, you haven’t heard the Eastern version? “sticks and stones may break my bones, but shoes will fill me with such shame that I will never be seen in public without a facial covering again”
Well, at the riot that this image is taken at, they also threw cobblestones and molotov cocktails. I presume those lacking in the homemade-bombs-department simply took anything they had at hand (or at foot, as it were).
Do you know where this riot was?
Yes, thanks to Google! (Doing a search on the words “protester”, “throwing” and “shoe” was easy compared to figuring out the usual pictures on here. “four male politicians in line one makes funny face” just doesn’t help much.)
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Anyway, I quickly found two image hits and both on sites that claim this to be a photo from: “Far-right anti-government protesters throw cobble stones, Molotov cocktails and shoes at Hungarian riot police in downtown Budapest, in front of a monument to the Soviet Red Army on September 20, 2008. They are protesting against recent government policies.”
Wow, thanks…
Why on Earth is God posting???
Thank you!
… And, well done!
Aah, it just felt relevant to myself to find out what it was all about, especially since the “moslems find shoes insulting” just didn’t feel right in this context. For some reason.
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Random piece of useless information: While searching, I also stumbled across a number of articles about how Thai protesters threw shoes and plastic bottles at their prime minister about a month ago.
Me thinks this be a muslim riot police. Armed with boot-launchers and shoe-throwers.
I think it’s a form of biological warfare
Around my sons that would be true..
Sabotage, and Saboteur are from a French word “sabot?” meaning “shoe.” They throwed ther shooz intoo the factory mosheens that were putting the cottage industries out of werks.
“Pretty soon itโll look like just anybody with a computer can make a lol.”
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OH NOES! That would be horrible!
I was hoping the sarcasm was clear enough.
You know what I want for Christmas from the Cheezes? A sarcasm font. You know how on some forums you can make your text bold or italicized? I want something to indicate snark which will be universally recognized. It’s not too much to ask.
you can here too.
For italics, use the open arrow and closed arrow with an “i” in the
middle, then to stop it do the same thing but with “/i” between the
arrows. For bold, use “b.”
or for snark, use snark
It’s easy, just do this:
“[insert sarcastic comment here]
/sarcasm”
As in:
Bush is the greatest president EVA!!!!
/sarcasm
Yeah, I was actually at first assuming that you were being sarcastic. Then I remembered other times I have made such assumptions and realized that it was better to play it safe. My response was, however, meant to be read tongue-in-cheek (despite the articulation issues that brings to the whole thing).
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I kept it brief because I am tired of PK eating my lengthy posts, but I have now figured out that posts get posted as long as I avoid making smilies. That makes it even harder to convey sarcasm, irony or general giddiness.
I’ve taken to posting with crook-nosed smilies for just that reason. ;^)
Yeah, later yesterday I realized that the smiley face whose nose has been stomped on works.
) (But the :^) one might be a bit better. o-nose just looks a bit too friendly, which just doesn’t feel right.)
/
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:^/
Hmm…
Test message, please ignore.
strikethrough
strikethroughYES! WIKTORY!!!
Gotta love that <html>
I’ll test some more for you: <b> <i> <u> <s> <strong> <em> <acronym&title=”acronym”gt; <abbr title=”acronym”> <ins> <tt>
<code><kbd> <html> <dfn> <sub> <sup> <var> <samp> <h1><big> <small>
if <pre> works there should be
a space between these lines
And finally, one you already know that works
<del>I think I missed some, because your strikethrough text looks different to mine.
I don’t think all of those work as advertised in this system, however, which was kind of the point of testing <strike>
Not all of them work, but you can see there which ones do.
b, i, strong, em, acronym, abbr, code, q, blockquote, del.
And one more I’ve forgotten because I forgot to change the text.
Sarcasm is a subtle mistress indeed….
The ones on the ground are not Air Jordans. This one is.
*Groan*
Thanks for keeping the ‘pun’ in pundit kitchen!
“Slipps”, although not the technically correct spelling, does have a certain slippery quality to it, don’t'cha think?
1 transposed letter, and one too many key strokes from rushing. Will it be all better if I write it on the blackboard 100 times?
First of all, thank you for the votes people!
Second, sorry for the typos. Posting while in a rush can have embarrassing repercussions.
I don’t have the heart to correct it and resubmit as we will loose all
We shall greet the Americans with bullets and shoes!
… and quite slippers!
Quite? Quite what? Warm? Comfy? Threadbare?
I dunno, but apparently they’re very quitely and slippery.
or we can save money and supplies by combining the two for the ULTIMATE INSULT…rubber bullets!!!
Or shoes that shoot bullets.
Maxwell? Is that your shoe ringing?
Or dogs with bees in their mouths, so when they bark at you, they shoot bees.
i prefer freakin sharks with freakin laser beams attached to thier heads
but I’ll settle for ill-tempered mutated sea bass
Gunwhales!
Wow ! A funny LOL ! This is great !
I miss the good old days when protestors lit themselves on fire. Those were good times.
I brought marshmallows.
Rofl
If you’re referring to suicidal buddhists, then that is so far into the realms of bad taste I’m surprised your tongue hasn’t shrivelled up…
Seconded.
Eh, I laughed. I miss the days where protestors had the strength of their convictions to make a statement that strong. Then again, I can laugh at anything when put into proper exaggeration.
There’s an old Buddhist tale that puts this in context. A Buddhist monk and his buddy, a holy man from some other religion were out for a stroll when a tree fell behind them. The monk jumped, and the holy man, looking smug said, “I see you still have it,” meaning attachment to the dualistic, material world. Latter, they stop for lunch. The monk draws the pictogram for ‘Buddha’ on a rock and invites the holy man to take a seat. He won’t, saying, “I can not disrespect the Buddha like that!” to which the monk replies, “Ah, I see YOU still have it too.”
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If we take anything too seriously, we lose. We are the ones who create all meaning in our universe, when we invent a meaning like “His actions mean he disrespects Buddha! Disrespecting holy dudes is bad!” we fail utterly to grasp the message of Buddhism.
Mostly, I objected to the “marshmallows” comment. That was bad taste, no matter who was on fire…
I have a sense of humor, and I totally agree with you. There is a fine line where you can tell more about a man by what he laughs at…..even if it’s my mother-in-law on fire.
I laughed, now tell me about myself what you have learned.
I curse my fingers for they make me type grammar fail. Least it is still kinda sorta readable.
I thought you were just speaking Yoda.
Damn, too late to take it back. >_<
Oh definitely bad taste. Who wants a toasted marshmallow flavored with human smoke and grease? Yuck.
very unhealthful
Ya, let alone that Monk would be too lean for my taste even without the marshmellows.
Ugh, with or without. God, I can’t type today.
What do you want ME to do about it?
gimme s’more …
Strike me with lightning or do something productive. How about making an actual appearance so your followers can get the truth straight from you instead of a propoganda play book they can’t even read?
Or if all that is too much for an omnipotent being to do, I want to find some loose change to get some candy with.
Eh, God did make an actual appearance.
Heard of a fellow called “Jesus”?
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And seriously, you didn’t need to blaspheme.
She’s right, you know….
A. Grow up.
B. Jesus was the son of God not God. Not everybody believes in the trinity or even in the existence of God.
C. Seriously, grow up.
“Whoever has seen me has seen the father.”
Direct quote from Jesus.
“Jeezy Creezy, what on Earth is that?”
“Don’t call me Jeezy Creezy! Look Dad, I went down there, I taught ‘em to be hang out, be groovy, drink a bit of wine, they split into different groups!
You’ve got the Catholics, the Protestants, the Jesuits, the Methodists, the Evangelicals, the free Presbyterians, the locked up Presbyterians… the Quakers, the Bakers, the Candlestick Makers… The Mormons are from Mars, Dad, we’ve had that checked out.”
“And what does the Holy Ghost think of all this?”
“Oh, he’s useless, Dad. Got a sheet over his head these days.”
( spookily ) “Oh… Holy Ghost! Holy Ghost… Holy Ghost!”
“Holy Ghost, this is not an episode of Scooby Doo!”
“I would have succeeded if it wasn’t for those pesky God and Jesus fellows!”
And God made Adam in his own image. Thus all of man is an image of the Father. Nice of Jesus to remind us.
I also remember Jesus praying to God to have his burden pass him by before God gave him the courage to press on. If he is God, then why would he pray to himself for strength and cry tears of blood.
I honestly wonder if you actually read that book you claim to follow.
Ok, it seems the “Jesus wasn’t God” thing has been covered above.
If you want me to “grow up” because I object to blasphemy, please just consider whether or not you would like to hear Lynn’s name used as an expletive, or hear her spoken of disrespectfully.
Anyway, I thought “in God’s image” meant as thinking beings with souls and consciences.
N8, The Jews had sects long before Jesus turned up. (Pharisees, Saducees etc.)
Yes, I do believe I covered the Jesus isn’t God part above with logical discussion.
As for name in vain or blasphemy, eh, say what you want. I can deal with it and defend as need be.
“Anyway, I thought โin Godโs imageโ meant as thinking beings with souls and consciences.”
Finally, here is the inherent problem with the Bible. Interpretation. In God’s image can be literal or figurative. So can Jesus’s direct quote above. He could be referring to family resemblance, he could be stating that he is in fact Yahweh, he could be stating that all have God within them and are images of God since we are created in God’s image.
If he is stating that he is God, then we have a problem since he was praying in the garden to God for the burden of death to pass him by. If he is God and his prayer is meaningful, then why do it that way since he is right there and can change the game plan?
Though I will remind you that the word image is a visual term.
Look, if you want all the world’s answers handed to you on a plate -alright.
I think we should use our (God-given) brains to find the truth. Otherwise, its just complacency on our part.
Have to go, will address rest of your post later.
Actually, I am finding pretty much all of my answers myself. Nor do I believe a 14 year old girl who needs half of everything explained to her will give me any answers I don’t already have.
AC, n8 was quoting Carlin…
No, Eddy Izzard not Carlin. ; )
Without the trinity, christians would be breaking one or more of the ten commandments.
But of course, with the trinity, there are the problems mentioned above.
Oh sure… famine, war, and ruin stalk the land, and THIS you take an interest in? Just go back to smoking your weed and put Buddha on the line.
If you’re worried about the wrongs of the world, then exercise my gifts to you: free will, fearless love.
Bitterness and disillusionment can’t right wrongs: put them aside and change your world to the good one I long for.
If you long for it, then you can change it. I’ll be busy dealing with my own concerns.
Well God, you put a bunch of imperfect beings you made onto the planet and expect a perfect world. We are only a reflection of yourself as an artist. Can only critique an artist off of their work. Well this is your work, if you don’t like it, who’s fault is it really?
Seriously God, quit whining. You’re supposedly all-powerful and all-knowing, so why would you need we puny little mortals to effect the change you seek? Snap your fingers and make it so! Oh, you can’t, can you…? Because you don’t exist!
*sneaking away in case lightning strikes*
I am told that God is a benevolent being so he would only strike us down so you should be safe from our blasphemy.
Any smiting would’ve happened long before now, anyway.
What are all these locusts doing in my office?
HE DID IT!!! *points to n8*
That last is a good example. Judgement and mercy, both existing in the same land for different people.
N8, this world is yours, I made it for you. If you desire to let it die, do so. It’s your choice. You can account for it later.
Strong words for somebody who can’t post under their true name and for somebody who will rain punishment upon those who aren’t towing the line, let alone already has a place of torment set up for those who aren’t minding every detail.
If it is our and the consequences of destroying the world are apparently, why add a secondary punishment after the fact? And since you’re here, shall we clear up how you hate a group you created? Or hate any group for that matter?
Or the fact that you are an all forgiving being who has an unforgivable sin clause. Let alone that you wish to teach us and guide but have a place of ETERNAL torment and horror of which there is no escape when we mess up.
A lot of questions and I am not even speaking to you. I am speaking to a person with God in their name title. At the very least, you could represent yourself by your actual name. I believe the Jews called you Yehwah and the modern translation is Jehovah. Surely you knew that I would recognize you in either format.
*trying to repel hordes of frogs*
Could you maybe take the fundamentalists who seem to mangle the message behind Your word first?
That would make the most sense…
I won’t be accounting for anything “later”, as I’ll be dead, and that will be the end of me, “god.” Note to poster using the name God, isn’t there some clause in your ten commandments about that sort of thing?
Ya, god should sort out all those who presume to speak for him first. Maybe look into that kid a couple LOLs back with that sign?
I am just sitting here, annoyed at my typos… And yes, posting and impersonating God is covered under blasphemy rules. He is blaspheming. It would be quaintly ironic if it wasn’t so tragically hypocritical.
I can just imagine God leafing through the Bible with Jim Bakker standing in front of him: “OK show me again where I said I needed $40million for a themepark”…
I do wonder…
I vote we stretch a definition, and invoke the “No replying to someone posting under the handle of a real person” clause re: God. As a polytheistic pagan, I certainly don’t find it offensive, but using it as a device to argue is both self-important and lazy.
I agree. This is still well within the original spirit of the rule.
Taking PiMan’s “I agree” as a second, all those in favo(u)r say “Aye.”
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rhorho: “Aye”
Froo: “aye”
Slan: Feckin’ “aye”
The motion carries by a “Quorum of the Cool,” as is clearly stated in the book of *Sh!t I Just Made Up.* We are agreed to non-reply where appropriate hither, thither and yon. Slainte!
The clergy is really too coarse and too mealy.
Try actor, that’s compacter…but it always arrives overdone.
I’ll come again, when you have judge on the menu.
The history of the world, my love
Is those below serving those up above
How gratifying for once to know
That those above will serve those down below!
*applause*
Yes, that’s even worse than when they taste like lighter fluid.
Thรญch Quแบฃng ฤแปฉc, were he alive, would not give a rat’s ass if people made fun of him. Think about it. Dude lit himself on fire and then never moved a muscle. His facial expression never even changed. You think someone with that kind of self control would be phased in the slightest by some dork’s comments? There is nothing anyone could possibly do to someone like Thรญch Quแบฃng ฤแปฉc to make him lose his compassion for them. Nothing. He did what he set out to do. It worked, and got the results he was after. Thรญch never wanted to be deified. I am 100% sure that the fact that his actions would cause people to call him a Bodhisattva never even entered into the equation. He just wanted people to stop harassing and imprisoning Buddhists. Perfect win. Remember, if you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.
did you say ‘thick wang duck’?
“Aflac”
For he is not the true Buddha for he is within us. If I remember correctly or I might have just failed my Knowledge Buddhism skill check.
Either way, lighten up people. We are all going to die and humor can be a coping mechanism.
“On the road” refers to a spiritual path, the Buddha one meets on it is one’s conception of Buddha. That conception is within us, but is a false conception. The message is basically, ‘don’t worship Buddha,’ same as the monk-holy man-rock story below. Or more generally, if you think that someone or something out there has ‘The Answer,’ you aren’t even asking the right questions.
Ah, I was kinda sorta… not even close. But if it helps my street cred at all, I understand the message. Thanks for updating my Knowledge Buddhism skill.
DWN: Now with +2 to Knowledge Buddhism!
Life sucks and then you die?
Here’s to that!
Life’s a bitch and then you die.
We’re on the road and we’re gunning for the Buddha
We know his name and he mustn’t get away……
This would be perfect if not for the awful spelling fail
This is good. Perhaps the captioner was so excited they clicked submit before realizing they misspelled.
It even looks like it’s flying away, with the Bunway Airlines bunny ears all ready for takeoff. *realizes how gay I just sounded* *realizes that ‘gay’ should not be used in a deragatory manner* *kills self to stop all incriminating thoughts and putting actions in asterisks*
*pheonix down*
Question for anybody and everybody:
Do gay people use the word “gay” in the unflattering colloquial sense, e.g., “I wouldn’t be caught dead in that sweater; it’s totally gay”?, in the same way that certain ethnic groups can use terms that are definitely NOT acceptable for anyone outside the group?
I once accidentally said to a blind guy, “see ya”, then I was mortified and tried to apolgize, but he exasperatedly said, “I know all the same expressions that you know, OK?”
My BFF uses ‘gay’ as a derogatory term all the time, and he’s almost as gay as they come. (hur hur). He doesn’t mind it when I use it, and thinks it’s funny when others use it. That’s a small microcosm of life, though, and there may be others who take offense at it.
Here is my experience as a 21 yr old lesbian who is active in the gay community:
Although I do know gay people who use the term in the negative sense, the vast majority that I have met avoid “that’s so gay”. Although my friends and I aren’t outright enraged or deeply hurt by the term, we usually view it as an immature social faux pas which is, at this point, pretty cliche. whether the person saying it is coming from a place of homophobia or not is irrelevant; what stands out to me is always the acceptance, hell, encouragement, of homophobia which is implied by the phrase. For this reason I never use “that’s gay” because no matter how I intend it, I cannot stop others from taking it the wrong way.
There are, of course, always exceptions to the rule, usually when blatantly ironic.
friend: “I was going to buy tickets to go see The Indigo Girls but I decided to stay home and groom my seven cats instead.”
me: “Dude, that’s totally gay.”
Hey, as a bisexual woman who stays home and grooms seven cats, i’m suing you for emotional damages and therapy costs. Lol
I find that ‘gay’ as a word is changing once again.
It originally meant happy.
Then it changed to homosexual.
Now it appears to be changing into a generic insult, completely unrelated to homosexual stereotypes.
Yes, we gay people do. well, I’m bisexual, so do I use straight and gay people deragatory terms? I’M SO CONFOOZED!!!!! *hides in closet*
Neither. You’ll just have to be nice for ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and … ever, now.
LMAO Tessie!
Soon it will be joined by the sandal, and they will go in search of the gourd.
Quick! Shoet it!
I think that we have just witnessed the birth of another LOL icon…
There’s HappyCat, Ceiling Cat, LOLrus, and now there’s the levitating shoe.
Thank you for sharing this miracle of lolife with me *passes gum cigars, sparkling cider*