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I thought this was a pretty interesting article.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/archaeologists-unearth-lousiest-civilization-ever,18049/

....You do realise everyone here pretty much knows what the Onion is, right?

Man that brings back the memories. Oh wait...

Ketara wrote:....You do realise everyone here pretty much knows what the Onion is, right?

Sure, it's still great!

My rage just went through the roof.

If i ever meet the 'Dr.' Ronald Farber, I plan to stick his head in a f g cauldron of boiling oil, and watch his face slough off.

I mean for christs sake. They find a civilisation, a brand new, never before seen one, and because they aren't as civilised as others, they systematically destroy it. I hope they all get denounced as massive p s by the archaeology society.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGHHH!

I mean, this is a civilisation, and they're desecrating it. The retards have no respect and should all die painfully.

'David Reagan, smashing an asymmetrical clay bowl on a nearby rock'

What.

A.

D k.

Raaaaaaaaaaargh!!


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Oh. Oh god no.

Embarrassed moment.




Im going to crawl back into my hole and die.

Looks like you got at least one Hopeful. I guess that means the thread was worthwhile.

I will hold my hand up and say I didn't know what "the onion" was." It's not like I can't smell bs though.

That was lame.

Ketara wrote:....You do realise everyone here pretty much knows what the Onion is, right?

Apparently not everyone.

Although it exceeds my authority, I declare that Hopeful just won the interwebz.


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Frazzled wrote:Man that brings back the memories. Oh wait...

And Frazzled gets second place.

They were just lucky not to unearth any unspeakable evils.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/archaeologist-tired-of-unearthing-unspeakable-anci,1448/

"I also need to quit dusting off medallions set into strange sarcophagi, allowing the light to hit them for the first time in centuries. And replacing the jewels that have fallen from the foreheads of ancient frog-deity statues—that's just bad archaeological practice."

QFT

ghosty wrote:My rage just went through the roof.

If i ever meet the 'Dr.' Ronald Farber, I plan to stick his head in a f g cauldron of boiling oil, and watch his face slough off.

I mean for christs sake. They find a civilisation, a brand new, never before seen one, and because they aren't as civilised as others, they systematically destroy it. I hope they all get denounced as massive p s by the archaeology society.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGHHH!

I mean, this is a civilisation, and they're desecrating it. The retards have no respect and should all die painfully.

'David Reagan, smashing an asymmetrical clay bowl on a nearby rock'

What.

A.

D k.

Raaaaaaaaaaargh!!


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Oh. Oh god no.

Embarrassed moment.




Im going to crawl back into my hole and die.

Oh how I love The Onion...

@ghosty -

Haha.

whatwhat wrote:I will hold my hand up and say I didn't know what "the onion" was." It's not like I can't smell bs though.

That was lame.

Thing is, the Onion isn't try to trick people into thinking it's real. It makes up fake stories to make a funny point about real life. Here the joke is on real archaeological digs, which are always reporting these incredible discoveries showing these ancient civilisations full of sophistication... surely some societies must have been pretty crappy?

Other classic Onion headlines;
Pharmaceutical Company Says Its New Anti-Depressant Is 'Worthless And Dumb'
Crazy Palestinian Gunman Angered By Stereotypes
South Postpones Rising Again For Yet Another Year
God Answers Prayers Of Paralyzed Little Boy: 'No,' Says God

Nope
You only hear about the Sparklally Shiny stuff.

A lot of mundane artefacts and fragments are just as important to historians. I don't get how a society seems cruddy, by what criteria are you making the judgement.

They may have had an oral tradition which was very colourful but there are no remains of.
Similarly they could have had amazing things made from perishable materials which have not survived.
That Onion article is a bit poor tbh.

The one that KK put a linky for is much funnier imho

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Nope
You only hear about the Sparklally Shiny stuff.

A lot of mundane artefacts and fragments are just as important to historians. I don't get how a society seems cruddy, by what criteria are you making the judgement.

Dude, it's a joke on media, not ancient civilisations. Yes, we only here about the sparklally shiny stuff. So it's funny to turn that on it's head and give us a story about a civilisation that doesn't have the sparklally shiny stuff.

The Onion headline "Doctors to exercising seniors: 'Don't bother'" is not actually telling old people they shouldn't exercise, it's just lampooning the constant stream of news stories claiming that old people should start doing this thing or that thing to live, longer healthier lives.

But it takes the pee out of the civilisation, not our perceptions about them. That is where the target should have been. If that was the intended target, it missed.
It perpetuates the popular image of archeology rather than satyrising it.
This is shown by your own comment. You said some civilisations must have been crappy.
That has nothing to do with jokes at the expense of the media.

I know what The Onion is. It peels away the skin of media dross to reveal another onion. Regardless of the subject, that article just wasn't funny imho. In fact it was lame.
They had asymmetrical earthenware.
*tumbleweed*

sebster wrote:

whatwhat wrote:I will hold my hand up and say I didn't know what "the onion" was." It's not like I can't smell bs though.

That was lame.

Thing is, the Onion isn't try to trick people into thinking it's real. It makes up fake stories to make a funny point about real life. Here the joke is on real archaeological digs, which are always reporting these incredible discoveries showing these ancient civilisations full of sophistication... surely some societies must have been pretty crappy?

I didn't think otherwise. I was responding to the OPs post which was deliberately misleading.

The article/joke itself was the lame part.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Regardless of the subject, that article just wasn't funny imho. In fact it was lame.

Exactly.

sebster wrote:God Answers Prayers Of Paralyzed Little Boy: 'No,' Says God

Now that IS funny!

The onion is pretty entertaining and sometimes even makes you think.

SilverMK2 wrote:The onion is pretty entertaining and sometimes even makes you think.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/supreme-court-upholds-freedom-of-speech-in-obsceni,17372/
(warning... not worksafe, unless your boss has an actual sense of humor)

This article is the best thing I've ever seen in The Onion, and probably the main reason I love it so. I ROTFLMFAO'd when I read it for the first time.

Interesting that onion article has Breyer who came out justa few days ago questioning whether Koran burning qualifies as free speech.

But yea its great.

It could be argued as being free expression, and it could also be argued as incitement to riot or some such.

Kilkrazy wrote:It could be argued as being free expression, and it could also be argued as incitement to riot or some such.

Paraphrasing but under stare decisis, to be limited it would have to be against a specific person, and the incitement must be capable of being carried out right then. As the onion might state of this question: "seriously, what are you a ing newb yokel? dill weed! quit messin with Constituion or we're gonna bust some caps in yo ass!"

AKA
Me shouting down with Immadinnerkjacket-protected.
Me at the head of a mob with torches and pitchforks outside the mansion door shouting - get Frankestein!-not protected.

whatwhat wrote:I didn't think otherwise. I was responding to the OPs post which was deliberately misleading.

Oh, that's certainly true. Trying to trick us with an obviously silly article was pretty lame. And then to make it an obviously silly article from the Onion?!

sebster wrote:

whatwhat wrote:I didn't think otherwise. I was responding to the OPs post which was deliberately misleading.

Oh, that's certainly true. Trying to trick us with an obviously silly article was pretty lame. And then to make it an obviously silly article from the Onion?!

First of all, I simply wrote I thought the article was interesting. So, if you felt you were being tricked there is no way to come to that conclusion simply from what I wrote. You inferred that I was tricking you, when I simply wrote I thought the article was interesting. If for whatever reason you felt you were tricked, that's kind of on you. Unless you're telling me you're a mind reader and you know my every thought and intentions. Then again, maybe I was tricking you.

Second, the article wasn't lame. I laughed my fething @ss off, as such I thought I'd share it with the community since this is the OT forum and there seems to be plenty of silly threads here. I thought at least some of you would find it interesting like I did.

Third and finally, Duh. Obviously The Onion is a fake, satirical, parodic 'news source.' Most people know that and as a previous poster commented, he could see that it wasn't a real news article despite not knowing what The Onion was.

So, if you were tricked, which one person was, then awesome and we all have a good laugh (except those who think it's lame). If you saw this article for what it was, then you win. If you didn't like this article, then I guess we have different ideas about humor.

Cheers,
DarkAngelHopeful

I had no idea what the Onion was, but seeing the headline "Pope Vows to get Church Pedophila Down to Acceptable Levels" kind of blew the cover for me.

Tim the Biovore wrote:I had no idea what the Onion was, but seeing the headline "Pope Vows to get Church Pedophila Down to Acceptable Levels" kind of blew the cover for me.

Awesome, you fall into the category of people who can discern the difference between bs versus those who cannot.

I thought it was funny, DAH.

Thanks Albatross.

@all previous posters: I'm trying not to get adjitated by any naysaying, but I haven't had much sleep the last few days here in the 'stan and I've been here for 6 months already. So, it's an effort to not let little things get under my skin.

Two classics:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nations-educators-alarmed-by-poorly-written-teen-s,1007/

http://www.theonion.com/articles/clinton-deploys-very-special-forces-to-iraq,645/