Someone explain this "joke" to me

[shakotan]

blindswelledrat said:

SoapyShowerBoy said:

BWS do you have arthritic fingers or are they just a little chubby?

Half of me thinks you are talking to me, but the other half is in such disbelief that someone would abbreviate blidswelledrat to BWS that it assumes the first half of me is mistaken?

Fail!

[SoapyShowerBoy]

blindswelledrat said:

SoapyShowerBoy said:

BWS do you have arthritic fingers or are they just a little chubby?

Half of me thinks you are talking to me, but the other half is in such disbelief that someone would abbreviate blindswelledrat to BWS that it assumes the first half of me is mistaken?

Edited by blindswelledrat on Friday 7th August 11:09

I too cannot believe that I abbreviated your screen name to BWS, have I just been pwned? Blast!


I'll explain, I constantly see your posts with the first two letters in CAPS. I assume your little finger is lagging somewhat.

[BrabusMog]

shakotan said:

blindswelledrat said:

SoapyShowerBoy said:

BWS do you have arthritic fingers or are they just a little chubby?

Half of me thinks you are talking to me, but the other half is in such disbelief that someone would abbreviate blidswelledrat to BWS that it assumes the first half of me is mistaken?

Fail!

What, no picture? Hardly in the spirit of this thread, is it?

[Mexico.]

blindswelledrat said:

BrabusMog said:

Seeing as you are a random picture poster- a coupld of questions if I may

1)WHy did you post that there?
2)Is it supposed to be funny and if so-what is the joke?
3)Why is the question 'Oh really?' spelled 'O RLY' in it?
4)WHy did you post it there?

Edited by blindswelledrat on Friday 7th August 11:00

Upsetting more piston heads i see

1) Why caps WhY oH WhY use CapS ?? text talk chav ?? or just stupid ??

[blindswelledrat]

Oakey said:

No no, I believe that the person who is using said image to show they've 'pwned' someone is implying they are like Jennings and the 'pwnee/s' are the losers. I'ts not really amusing thoughh, is it.

Jesus. Does thier humour have no bounds?
It was, I believe, by an English poster who posted this. Could it be possible that an English person made a joke about a good american quiz show player?

[Justayellowbadge]

Oh, good, lassie's here.

[BigBen]

sleep envy said:

Ken's PWNED!!!!TWELVE!!! them because he can write his name in, like, a totaly kewl way

My assumption was that it was some kind of American game show where you got rewarded for writing your name really quickly. Not only did Ken win, so get the prize money, he also had time to do it in a fancy typeface, hence 'pwning' the other competitors.

As far as I can tell this suggestion is no more far fetched than the premise upon which deal or no deal is based.

Ben

[blindswelledrat]

SoapyShowerBoy said:

I'll explain, I constantly see your posts with the first two letters in CAPS. I assume your little finger is lagging somewhat.

Pretty accurate. My small finger has turned into a spastic but largely as a result of aquiring a tt of a keyboard that has the RH keys slightly offset from the LH keys which is supposed to help tying but turns your small finger into a mong somehow.

[sleep envy]

Justayellowbadge said:

Oh, good, lassie's here.

it was just a case of when not if

[Dan_1981]

Justayellowbadge said:

Oh, good, lassie's here.

BSR & Mexico today?




this IS the random picture thread isn't it?

Edited by Dan_1981 on Friday 7th August 11:19

[blindswelledrat]

Mexico. said:

Upsetting more piston heads i see

1) Why caps WhY oH WhY use CapS ?? text talk chav ?? or just stupid ??

Wierdo stalker. Im going to have to get an internet injunction at this rate.

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/xforums/topic.asp?h=0... Mexico

[Davi]

blindswelledrat said:

Oakey said:

No no, I believe that the person who is using said image to show they've 'pwned' someone is implying they are like Jennings and the 'pwnee/s' are the losers. I'ts not really amusing thoughh, is it.

Jesus. Does thier humour have no bounds?
It was, I believe, by an English poster who posted this. Could it be possible that an English person made a joke about a good american quiz show player?

Sadly whilst your remonstrations are perfectly valid, I think Oakey has hit the nail on the proverbial here. It is on the internet, it has the word PWNED below it, therefore by default it is assumed to be amusing.

[blindswelledrat]

Mexico. said:

1) Why caps WhY oH WhY use CapS ?? text talk chav ?? or just stupid ??

Feel free, my cock-staring friend, to believe that secretarial/typing ability is a sign of intelligence and success.
I feel the world would be my oyster if only my typing was a little better.
WHat could I achieve in life if it were.
Could I possibly end up as succesful as you if I did a secretarial course?

[M3CHA-MONK3Y]

blindswelledrat said:

Mexico. said:

1) Why caps WhY oH WhY use CapS ?? text talk chav ?? or just stupid ??

Feel free, my cock-staring friend, to believe that secretarial/typing ability is a sign of intelligence and success.
I feel the world would be my oyster if only my typing was a little better.
WHat could I achieve in life if it were.
Could I possibly end up as succesful as you if I did a secretarial course?

As this is the random picture thread:

[john_p]

Yeah, it's because he totally trashed the other two contestants, who were so bad they ended up in negative scores. They were clearly Jepoardy! n00bs

[WorAl]

SamHH said:

Dan_1981 said:

Does that mean you know the answer but aren't going to tell anyone?

No this means he has found the picture of the parrot on a stand leaning over, with "Whoosh" written above it.

[ShadownINja]

Ikemi said:

Anyone care to explain ha><0r and 1337 sp34k (leet speak)?

I wonder if it (and the use of pwned, !!11One etc) originally started off as a joke to mock the idiots who typoed but then started being used in a clique kind of way (part of a gang/family/tribe) and then was perceived as being cool to use because you were associated with this family of like-minded individuals and felt clever, being above normal society, and also associated this kind of typing with good times had playing your favourite computer game. Or am I thinking too much into it?

Edited by ShadownINja on Friday 7th August 11:52

[Neil_H]

blindswelledrat said:

BrabusMog said:

Seeing as you are a random picture poster- a coupld of questions if I may

1)WHy did you post that there?
2)Is it supposed to be funny and if so-what is the joke?
3)Why is the question 'Oh really?' spelled 'O RLY' in it?
4)WHy did you post it there?

Edited by blindswelledrat on Friday 7th August 11:00

I think I can explain here.

You see the Owl is a bird (no really, look it up), and someone has just suggested he takes a flight from ORLY Airport in Paris (maybe he's a French owl, or perhaps was visiting French relatives in Paris, who knows). Obviously he has his own wings so he doesn't need to buy an expensive flight on Air France, so he's quizzically asking "ORLY?". As you can see, he is also amused at the prospect.

I don't know how this is relevant here, I'm still working on that.

[Ikemi]

ShadownINja said:

Ikemi said:

Anyone care to explain ha><0r and 1337 sp34k (leet speak)?

I wonder if it (and the use of pwned, !!11One etc) originally started off as a joke to mock the idiots who typoed but then started being used in a clique kind of way (part of a gang/family/tribe) and then was perceived as being cool to use because you were associated with this family of like-minded individuals and felt clever, being above normal society, and also associated this kind of typing with good times had playing your favourite computer game. Or am I thinking too much into it?

Edited by ShadownINja on Friday 7th August 11:52

Err ... Yeah, that last bit

Seriously though, I think you've hit the nail on the head ...

[BrabusMog]

Neil_H said:

blindswelledrat said:

BrabusMog said:

Seeing as you are a random picture poster- a coupld of questions if I may

1)WHy did you post that there?
2)Is it supposed to be funny and if so-what is the joke?
3)Why is the question 'Oh really?' spelled 'O RLY' in it?
4)WHy did you post it there?

Edited by blindswelledrat on Friday 7th August 11:00

I think I can explain here.

You see the Owl is a bird (no really, look it up), and someone has just suggested he takes a flight from ORLY Airport in Paris (maybe he's a French owl, or perhaps was visiting French relatives in Paris, who knows). Obviously he has his own wings so he doesn't need to buy an expensive flight on Air France, so he's quizzically asking "ORLY?". As you can see, he is also amused at the prospect.

I don't know how this is relevant here, I'm still working on that.

It wasn't, that was the point