Have We All Gone Totally Insane?

[Wiley50]

680+ replies to this?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x858649

[alittlelark]

1. Divisive comment on your candidates mothers species.

We won't even discuss his father.....

[Wiley50]

3. HUH? n/t

[alittlelark]

6. see the post you are complaining about.

[Warpy]

32. Derisive comments on your ancestry. anatomy, proclivities

and ultimate destination.

And leave my mother out of this.

[SpiralHawk]

69. Gigadittoes, with an additional withering rejoinder

And I will not entertain any dissent.

You are either with me on this, or you are not.

[Lilith Velkor]

2. Yeah, pretty much.

But I haven't laughed this hard since the CALL CONGRESS RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!! thread.

It's good to blow off steam now and again.

[Rex]

4. Long ago!

You just figured that out? Welcome to GD! :hi:

[Solly Mack]

5. Yes but polite company would refrain from pointing this out

:)

[Lilith Velkor]

8. GD is all about the rude, dude.

:smoke:

[Solly Mack]

10. Not a dude, she said with 'tude

:)

[Lilith Velkor]

15. Oh, take a 'lude.

:P

[Solly Mack]

17. hehehehe

lololol

[piedmont]

14. I'll see your banana and raise you a dog.

http://www.devilducky.com/media/38524/

[Solly Mack]

18. I love that show!

lmao

[uppityperson]

7. It started last night sardonically to blow off frustrations and sadness

Frustrations with recent flame wars, sadness over state of world and anniversary of parent's death. It is good to blow off steam once in a while. I think this is one of the best posts on the whole thing. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=858649&mesg_id=858764

[wildhorses]

11. oh yes, i agree that post by kelly was classic and THE reason

i recommended the thread

:applause:

good work there;)

[uppityperson]

13. made me laugh so hard Mr.up had to come see.

[Wiley50]

16. OK, If You Say So

But there are certainly more important issues being ignored
while we blow our minds

[uppityperson]

19. some of us are multi-tasking, some taking a break from tasking.

Thank you for continuing on. edited to add another important thread.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=865343&mesg_id=865343

[Warren DeMontague]

20. Outraged observation that not only is OP trying to spin off an extremely popular thread

he appears to be doing it with one of MY (potentially covered by © digital copyright law!) posts!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=858649&mesg_id=862250

Followed by sheepish realization that said post itself was merely an echo of someone else's idea, and wrapped up with tepid proclamation to the effect of, "but my point still stands"

[uppityperson]

22. pointing out that forum posts are probably not copyrighted

acknowledgement of purpose of your posts and gratitude expressed.

[Warren DeMontague]

56. Noooooooooo!

My beautiful mind!

[Occulus]

57. Jeezus Pleezus, *warn* a man next time you post that n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

85. Heh Heh Heh. Heh. Heh.

Yeah, sorry.

[Wiley50]

25. HUH? n/t

[tavalon]

45. Wiley50

If you are going to do a spin off, you might want to review the original posting from which you are spinning off. Otherwise, you just look clueless.

[tavalon]

44. Oh, that is just too funny

You can find this exact complaint on the meta thread. There is always someone who complains that we are ignoring more important issues. The irony slays me.

[moggie]

74. Why are you wasting your time complaining?

There are more important things to do! Why, in just the time it took you to hit the shift key for those unnecessary capitals in your subject line, another species went extinct!

[Hekate]

68. That's hysterical & I totally missed it until your link. It's a masterpiece of DU satire.

We need this kind of thing from time to time. If we can't take a moment to laugh at ourselves, we'll become too grim to endure.

Hekate

[mmonk]

9. If we weren't all crazy we'd all go insane.

[Greyhound]

33. The strong go crazy, the weak go along. n/t

:kick:

[Mojambo]

12. I think that thread is hilarious

Might be one of my atf.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

21. I love DU

for treasures such as that thread.

:rofl:

[Wiley50]

29. I admit that I couldn't get more than a dozen posts into it

before I gave up

but I'm not going back there now

[tavalon]

46. Too bad

because you have copycatted about 5 of the posts so far. It's really funny how predictable we really are.

Meta threads are a hoot. People complaining about meta threads are even more of a hoot, especially when they aren't trying to copycat.

[rasputin1952]

23. Well...sanity isn't all it's cracked up to be anyway...

:D

[northofdenali]

24. This has been more fun than Kudzu or Oscar - and they were great threads.

Everyone needs a break occasionally. I spend most of my free time campaigning for social causes, candidates, the Dem party, green issus, etc.

Sometimes the brain just wants a little fun.

[JeffR]

26. I don't understand the nature of your objection

that's one of the smartest threads to grace this site in years.

[tavalon]

50. I couldn't agree more.

I've had a blast there, reading and posting. We have such smart, witty folks gracing this site.

[juno jones]

27. This thread is brilliant

A work of art. One hand clapping. I applaud the creators (with both happy little hands), Thank You. Best laugh I have had all.. well um..J

on edit: 420th post..I can live with that

[Cabcere]

28. Yes.

:D

[Jim Sagle]

30. It's all about the meta.

[Kelly Rupert]

31. Puzzled response.

Insinuation that you lack sense of humor.

[alcibiades_mystery]

35. Absolute Hegelian agreement

Suggestion that OP lacks sense of poetry, soul; further insinuation that responder has earned the right to comment on others' capacity for humor.

[Swamp Rat]

47. schizopolis

;)

[WilliamPitt]

34. Welcome to DU

You're mocking one of the best threads of the year.

Silly rabbit.

[On the Road]

36. Thank You So Much for Pointing Out That Thread

I usually browse Latest and Greatest, and completely missed it.

It reminds me of the days of Oscar the mixed animal and "I am the Son of God, Ask Me Anything", when DU was more fun.

On Edit: And this one: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=1987508

[Forkboy]

37. It's the rare GD thread that is intentionally funny.

GD makes me laugh a lot,but rarely on purpose. :)

[Erika]

38. Just what do you have against the insane n/t

[K8-EEE]

39. 680 Posts = handful of boring people going at it ad nauseum....

Why do I find those kind of threads SO easy to ignore....and why do people choose to highlight them when so much else is going on here?

[TygrBright]

42. Appreciative agreement with statements of intellectual/ideological superiority...

...in a blatant attempt to bait poster into flaming.

mischeviously,
Bright

[tavalon]

54. Wait!

Let's pop the popcorn first!:popcorn:

[Kelly Rupert]

49. Because we're fun and bright and made of sparkling, gossamer metadelight.

And you're a metagrouch.

[tavalon]

52. Because they're fun

All work and no fun makes GD a dull site!

[Forkboy]

61. Smug accusation that you lack sense of humor.

Wonderment as to why you highlight a post about a post you don't want highlighted.

Full expectations of landing on "Ignore" list.

[Madspirit]

40. It was a great and funny thread...n/t

[loudsue]

41. All?

Dunno! Kinda looks that way.

:kick:

[tavalon]

43. No

We just really, really needed a fun break. Relax, join in and have some fun.

[ContraBass Black]

48. I hope you realize that you accelerated it.

[tavalon]

55. That's what makes this thread almost as fun as the one being complained about n/t

And I will continue on into the message body showing clearly that I do not understand what n/t stands for or more likely that I just don't care. Party on!!!!

[Duppers]

51. insane pseudo inslut

(spell ck. is not my friend.)

Wiley, did you not get your pizza or did you not order any down there?

:+


(your chain's dangling and we're grabbing.....bouncing the ball, bouncing the ball)

[FloridaJudy]

53. Humorless post about the serious nature of insanity

Not really.

I thought this was a hoot: A chance to work out all our nasty/snarky/irritable instincts without actually attacking each other. I think we need a generic flame war every now and then, just to get rid of that roiling bile that watching the antics of this Kleptocracy induces. You can only write so many letters, call so many congresspeople and stand on so many street corners before you're overwhelmed with the urge to just bite someone. This is a harmless outlet.

I also appreciated the humor. I think the ability to mock ourselves keeps us levelheaded and certainly makes us a lot more pleasant to be around.

[tavalon]

60. Exactly

a little self deprecation along with blowing off steam can't help but be good for us once in a while.

[myrna minx]

72. The hilarious self deprecation was just what we needed.

That thread had me in tears. We really needed to blow off steam and have a good sense of humor about ourselves.

[tavalon]

58. Nope

745.............

Bowing and accepting well deserved applause.

[hfojvt]

59. generic attempt to be both profound and humorous

which has probably already been done.

[Forkboy]

62. Hey..that's my gig pal.

:)

[hfojvt]

63. skeptical/hopeful request for a link

:P

[Forkboy]

65. Smug satisfaction of providing one

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=865655&mesg_id=865999

:D

[hfojvt]

67. declaring the link to be a strawman

even though it's really a red herring.

[piedmont]

64. It's like a big game of scrabble

loads of fun

[nolabels]

66. There is no way to GO insane, you either realize your there or not

This a subjective, the ones who think they might be probably are not and those who insist they are not probably are. The realization of a paradigm has no distance to travel when it appears, it's just there.

[bryant69]

70. I'll bet this post can beat that record

I'm sure off it!

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[hippiechick]

71. Yes.

Let no one ever accuse us of being a bunch of pointy-headed intellectuals here on DU. :(

The level of discourse has sunk precipitously over the past 2 years.

[regularguy]

73. Exaggerated reflexive dismissiveness and scoffitude.

[Warren Stupidity]

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[SoCalDem]

95. You conveniently left out the warning about explosive diarrhea and fainting

:)

[realisticphish]

77. The ULTIMATE thread

would be to fill this one to 700 replies :evilgrin:

[uppityperson]

78. Expression of difficulty replying straightforwardly to any thead now

after reading "Stridently held opinion" in full

[slackmaster]

79. Indignant demand for the OP to present credentials as a psychologist

Gratuitous picture of a cute little kitten.

[uppityperson]

80. wonder if OP inadvertantly began another such topic or just contributed to frivolity

snicker into fist smiley

[many a good man]

81. It's the best thread in the history of the internets!

And I say this as an unqualified expert.

[Wiley50]

82. OP checking in

Totally blown away that this thread is still flying

[Cabcere]

86. Obligatory (and very snarky) Ted Stevens reference

(re: "unqualified expert"). :D

[northofdenali]

88. Snide remark that YOU don't have to live with Uncle Ted -

obligatory Alaska photo here.

[DS1]

83. Everyone needs a release

:-)

[PVnRT]

84. HUMOR IS NOT ALLOWED

No one may laugh or blow off steam until there is no unhappiness left in the world and everybody has a magical pony and a rainbow. And a box of puppies, too.

[woo me with science]

87. But the puppies have to be fixed. nt

[PVnRT]

90. Is it OK if they are pitbulls?

n/t

[rosesaylavee]

89. You need to review Sam Becket, Alfred Jarry, Edward Albee, Marcel DuChamp and others

and their reaction to the horrors/terrors of the early to mid 20th century civilization.

Absurdity has a very honored place in art of all genres and reflects humanity's lack of morality, logic, compassion, etc. better than loud wailing and gnashing of teeth ever will.

Recommended reading: Becket's Waiting for Godot and Jarry's Ubu Roi.

[Jim Sagle]

91. Two-word expletive expressing extreme disdain for this thread.

[EFerrari]

94. Interdental sound urging civility.

[krispos42]

93. 963 now...

Call that Alaskan senator, tell him the tubes are gonna need Roto-Rooter.

Which, ironically, will arrive in a big truck.

[achtung_circus]

96. Oops nt