Thread Killer Champions: Franzbear & Moonbear

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The discussion revolves around the humorous concept of "thread killers" on a forum, where participants analyze who tends to end conversations with their posts. The top offenders identified include franznietzsche, Moonbear, and tribdog, with a playful tone suggesting a competition for the title of "thread killer." Participants debate the validity of counting last posts as a measure of thread-killing ability, arguing that it should be adjusted based on the total number of posts each user has made. The conversation shifts into a light-hearted narrative, likening thread-killing to a horror movie scenario, with participants playfully accusing each other of sabotaging discussions and attempting to "steal" the thread. The banter includes references to fictional scenarios involving dramatic rescues and humorous characterizations, maintaining a light and comedic atmosphere throughout.
  • #1,651
Danger said:
Well... if he's a young'un, he'll probably be finished and asleep in plenty of time for you to sneak out. :wink:

:smile: I see Franz has arrived.
 
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  • #1,652
Should I help out? This thread has been going on forever. I decided against posting in it at the beginning but now I'm wondering how far it is going to get. A good (or bad) thread never dies. And this doesn't one hasn't even started fading away.
 
  • #1,653
This one has already blown the living bajesus out of the quetion thread, we need to start looking at who will get the #3000 reply.

I had #2000

Will i achieve victory again?

Will dexter ever get recognized for anything? Tune in tonight to find out as we race to reply #3000!
 
  • #1,654
Moonbear said:
You don't think they care, do you? It's one less person in the running to hit 3000. Wait, we haven't heard what the prize is yet. For 2000, Evo gave away a "get out of banning free" card (better check the expiration date on that). :biggrin:


I still have that card...if it hasn't expired. Thanx for reminding me Moonbear, i had forgotten she gave me that. That'll come in handy in the days ahead.
 
  • #1,655
Moonbear said:
:smile: I see Franz has arrived.
A page late and a dollar... never mind.
 
  • #1,656
Darn...gotta go...back in about an hour.
 
  • #1,657
Moonbear said:
Darn...gotta go...back in about an hour.
How much chocolate you got left? Maybe you can bribe Evo to lock it until you get back. :biggrin:
 
  • #1,658
Humor is just another of those social cues that people use to say, "I'm in your clan." It's very culture-specific. Smilies are another one of those cues, just another way to say "I'm similar to you, I'm not unusual."
 
  • #1,659
BicycleTree said:
just another way to say "I'm similar to you, I'm not unusual."
Whether or not you're similar to me is unknown, but you are unusual. :-p
 
  • #1,660
Danger said:
How much chocolate you got left? Maybe you can bribe Evo to lock it until you get back. :biggrin:

:smile: What happened? I was gone longer than I planned to be and I was sure the thread would have hit the 3000 mark by now. It's barely budged! You guys just aren't pulling your weight in here. :-p
 
  • #1,661
BicycleTree said:
Humor is just another of those social cues that people use to say, "I'm in your clan." It's very culture-specific. Smilies are another one of those cues, just another way to say "I'm similar to you, I'm not unusual."


Nope still not buying it. From a debate standpoint, you're doing a piss-poor job, you keep making claims without any supporting evidence or logic whatsoever.

That humour is culture specific is going too far in my mind, culture-specialized would be a better term. But the whole "i'm one of you" thing, nope, not buying it at all.
 
  • #1,662
Moonbear said:
:smile: What happened? I was gone longer than I planned to be and I was sure the thread would have hit the 3000 mark by now. It's barely budged! You guys just aren't pulling your weight in here. :-p

I have class every other hour, i can only do so much. Speaking of which, class in ten minutes too.
 
  • #1,663
franznietzsche said:
That humour is culture specific is going too far in my mind, culture-specialized would be a better term. But the whole "i'm one of you" thing, nope, not buying it at all.

Don't worry, you're not alone, none of us is buying it.
 
  • #1,664
Moonbear said:
Don't worry, you're not alone, none of us is buying it.


But I'm always alone :cry: :cry: :cry:
 
  • #1,665
Moonbear said:
It's barely budged! You guys just aren't pulling your weight in here. :-p
Well yeah... we were waiting for you to get back.
 
  • #1,666
Danger said:
Well yeah... we were waiting for you to get back.

:rolleyes: Oh, well, in that case...I'm back...let's get a move on here! I want to hit 3000 before midnight, and I'm a few time zones ahead of you! :biggrin:
 
  • #1,667
franznietzsche said:
But I'm always alone :cry: :cry: :cry:
Perhaps it's your mouthwash? What sort of weird foods have you been eating? Those pickled squirrel heads don't help the breath a lot.
 
  • #1,668
franznietzsche said:
But I'm always alone :cry: :cry: :cry:

Now you're just saying that to get attention.
 
  • #1,669
Danger said:
Perhaps it's your mouthwash? What sort of weird foods have you been eating? Those pickled squirrel heads don't help the breath a lot.

Neither does the vomit containing pickled squirrel heads.
 
  • #1,670
Moonbear said:
Neither does the vomit containing pickled squirrel heads.
True, and that is the most likely place to find them.
 
  • #1,671
Danger said:
True, and that is the most likely place to find them.

Oh, oh, oh, terrible thought...would it make much of a difference if they just scooped them up and tossed them back in the pickle jar? http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/sick/sick20.gif
 
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  • #1,672
Frans you said I had no supporting evidence? PAY ATTENTION... evidence presented so far is how children find it hard to get their minds around the idea of jokes and humor, and how old jokes are NOT funny. There are no old jokes that are funny, tell one, and old I mean well before 1800, out of modern culture. Humor is culture specific.
 
  • #1,673
Moonbear said:
Oh, oh, oh, terrible thought...would it make much of a difference if they just scooped them up and tossed them back in the pickle jar? http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/sick/sick20.gif
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I doubt that it would. If you can't improve upon perfection, I imagine the opposite must be true as well. In that cowboy bar, the urinals drained directly back into the beer taps and nobody noticed. :biggrin:

I am muchly covetous of that very niftly little barfing smiley.
 
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  • #1,674
Humor is a set of semirandom behavior patterns. If you say they are not so arbitrary you must say how they are not because they are. Just a way to pat each other on back and say "we're in the same herd, we share same arbitrary modes we call 'humor'."
 
  • #1,675
Humor in a culture, Like dogs and chemical signaling. "Yes, sniff butt, seems like, sniff butt, we share some genes, sniff butt."
 
  • #1,676
Danger said:
I doubt that it would. If you can't improve upon perfection, I imagine the opposite must be true as well. In that cowboy bar, the urinals drained directly back into the beer taps and nobody noticed. :biggrin:

Just chill it on the way back and label it "Bud Light" huh?

I am muchly covetous of that very niftly little barfing smiley.

:biggrin: I thought you would be.
 
  • #1,677
BicycleTree said:
sniff butt, we share some genes, sniff butt."
Try sniffin' my butt, Junior, and I'll smack you so hard your grandchildren will feel it.
 
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  • #1,678
Racism is such a part of everyone, everyone thinks "are you like me?" "so I like you." It's built into the language.
 
  • #1,679
Moonbear said:
Just chill it on the way back and label it "Bud Light" huh?
Strangely enough, you don't get a lot of Bud Light sales here. Almost nobody has it on draught. Usually Canuk, Bud, Coors Light, Kokanee Gold, Keiths (Newfie stuff, pronounced Keets), or various Big Rock (Calgary brewed) products. I can tell you this about Big Rock... almost everything that they put out tastes like it's been filtered through a moose.
 
  • #1,680
Think of how you behave when someone tells a joke you like. The result is that you feel warmth toward that person and want to associate with him/her. The social function is plain as day. "Are you in my tribe too?"
 
  • #1,681
Danger said:
Strangely enough, you don't get a lot of Bud Light sales here. Almost nobody has it on draught. Usually Canuk, Bud, Coors Light, Kokanee Gold, Keiths (Newfie stuff, pronounced Keets), or various Big Rock (Calgary brewed) products. I can tell you this about Big Rock... almost everything that they put out tastes like it's been filtered through a moose.

Well, Coors Light is pretty much the same thing. Not that I've ever been able to tell the difference between Bud and Bud Light either. :rolleyes: I like beers with flavor. In the winter, a good stout or porter by the fire is perfect, or in the summer, a nice IPA or ESB. Though, nothing wrong with drinking any of them any time of year. :biggrin:
 
  • #1,682
Do you follow my customs pounds the voice in the back of your head when you talk to people
 
  • #1,683
BicycleTree said:
Think of how you behave when someone tells a joke you like. The result is that you feel warmth toward that person and want to associate with him/her. The social function is plain as day. "Are you in my tribe too?"

Are you just babbling to yourself again? Part of being funny is taking note of the conversation around you and saying things relevant to it, otherwise, you just come across as the crazy guy who's talking to himself. :wink:
 
  • #1,684
I'm not trying to be funny at all, this discussion has started a while ago. I'm not going to talk about beer because it has no relation to me. I am not 21 and never intend to drink. I will instead talk about social customs which we all can relate to and discuss.
 
  • #1,685
Why not try opening yourself to my ideas, and try to see through their lenses? You might find it a clarifying experience.
 
  • #1,686
BicycleTree said:
I'm not trying to be funny at all, this discussion has started a while ago. I'm not going to talk about beer because it has no relation to me. I am not 21 and never intend to drink. I will instead talk about social customs which we all can relate to and discuss.

Except all the rest of us gave up on that topic a while ago. We've only just switched to beer from squirrel heads. Would you prefer to talk more about squirrel heads instead? :smile:
 
  • #1,687
BicycleTree said:
Racism is such a part of everyone
That absolutely is not true. I will not tolerate racism in my presence, and if someone tells a racist joke he soon finds that out. My family is quite diverse (I'm Highland Scots, Lowland Scots, Irish, English and Spanish with, I've been told, a touch of black.) A very large portion of my family is black by marriage, but there are also Filippinos, Portuguese, Aboringinal, East Indian, and a few others that I can't even classify. They're all just family, and my friends reflect the same sort of mix.
I know that your country is pretty notorious for it, but even there it must be more tolerant than your reptutation would imply.
 
  • #1,688
You may not think you are racist, and perhaps you aren't, but the broader sense of "tribism" is strong, very strong, even in the most allegedly tolerant. Those who do not share your culture, you do not associate with.
 
  • #1,689
BicycleTree said:
You may not think you are racist, and perhaps you aren't, but the broader sense of "tribism" is strong, very strong, even in the most allegedly tolerant. Those who do not share your culture, you do not associate with.

That's not true either. I find it quite enjoyable to build friendships among people of different cultures. It keeps life from getting boring doing the same old stuff all the time, and helps one keep a truly open mind.
 
  • #1,690
BicycleTree said:
You may not think you are racist, and perhaps you aren't, but the broader sense of "tribism" is strong, very strong, even in the most allegedly tolerant. Those who do not share your culture, you do not associate with.
Kid, there are no smilies on this planet to adequately express what I really want to tell you right now, and I'm not going to use that kind of language here.
 
  • #1,691
Here we have probably the largest number of "nerds" who were rejected from many social groups, so these concepts are abhorrent, representing all they grew up to hate. But they find new social groups of other "nerds" and now they have their tribes... and now though they hate the concepts, they use them unconsciously to bind together to one another and bear watch against the unfamiliar interloper.
 
  • #1,692
Moonbear, how many friends do you have who you would guess have IQs less than 100?
 
  • #1,693
BicycleTree said:
Here we have probably the largest number of "nerds" who were rejected from many social groups, so these concepts are abhorrent, representing all they grew up to hate. But they find new social groups of other "nerds" and now they have their tribes... and now though they hate the concepts, they use them unconsciously to bind together to one another and bear watch against the unfamiliar interloper.

You don't really know anything about the social groups of the people here. Perhaps you assume everyone here is just like you, but one of the things I enjoy about the internet is that I can just as easily find many people who are NOT just like me and share a good laugh with them as well.
 
  • #1,694
And how many good friends do any of you have, who do not tell or respond to the kind of jokes you like?
 
  • #1,695
Notice you said SHARE the laugh... that's what you do when you bring up humor. You find a common cultural basis to which you both respond. The sharing is the most important, binding part.
 
  • #1,696
Moonbear said:
Well, Coors Light is pretty much the same thing. Not that I've ever been able to tell the difference between Bud and Bud Light either. :rolleyes: I like beers with flavor. In the winter, a good stout or porter by the fire is perfect, or in the summer, a nice IPA or ESB. Though, nothing wrong with drinking any of them any time of year. :biggrin:
Good! Back to beer...! Remember that our brands that carry the Yank names are actually brewed up here under license from the parent company. Coors products are bottled by Molson, Bud by Labatt. They are therefore more like Canadian-only beers than the originals. For instance, when I was in Vegas for pool I found out that regular Coors in the US tastes a lot like the Coors Light here. Your Coors Light tastes like our .5 stuff. And up here, there is a very distinct taste difference between Coors Light and Bud Light. I drink the Coors Light because of the taste, not because of the lightness--but I think the lightness is a bonus after the first dozen or so. :biggrin:
 
  • #1,697
Ah, moonbear, I know you are different and had a normal childhood but many people here can relate to that paragraph about nerds. Wasn't aimed at you in particular.
 
  • #1,698
Moonbear said:
Neither does the vomit containing pickled squirrel heads.
Or pickled onions from Tribdog's collection.
 
  • #1,699
Danger, I know you find it uncomfortable to talk about but the important things often are.
 
  • #1,700
BicycleTree said:
Moonbear, how many friends do you have who you would guess have IQs less than 100?

I truly have no idea. I've never asked any of my friends what their IQs are and they probably don't know either. I do have friends with a variety of educational levels though. Some who never went to college, others who have bachelor's degrees, and others who have gone on to more advanced degrees. I can just as easily talk to someone who sells farm equipment or does roofing work as I can to scientists and lawyers, and yes, my family and social groups include people from all of those walks of life.
 

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