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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/24 02:23:25
Subject: If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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mattyrm wrote:It's clearly written entirely humorously. Its also very funny.
The fact that most people don't see the fact is probably the reason another good humored writer (me) gets needlessly banned so often.
I'm actually stunned by the amount of gak people are writing in response on his blog, and here as well.
Are people do desperate to get offended they can see the funny side of absolutely nothing but the most dull In your face humour?
It was a good, and entirely amusing article.
I think the problem, Matty, was that it was published on a "serious" news website (?), which goes a great deal into explaining the lack of humor found in comments on the site, as well as here.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/24 03:51:12
Subject: Re:If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Fixture of Dakka
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Reading the comments alone on this article is worth it! fanBoyzz everywhere!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/24 07:00:00
Subject: If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Stone Bonkers Fabricator General
We'll find out soon enough eh.
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mattyrm wrote: Yodhrin wrote:
What I do find, while not offensive, at least quite irritating, is the way you have consistently attempted to paint anyone who disagrees with your opinion of how hilarious the article is as some kind of dour, humourless plod, or simply complete morons incapable of grasping basic concepts like satire. Robin Ince is a satirist, Jon Stewart is a satirist; this guy just comes off as someone who uses his stumbling attempts at humour to ingratiate himself with "the cool kids", and yes I do find that rather sad, always have.
I don't find it hilarious, I simply said it was pretty funny. I also don't think people that don't find it funny are humorless clods, I think people that don't find it funny, but feel the urge to come in here and incessantly drip their tits off about it rather sad, always have.
Laugh at it, don't laugh at it, I dont give a gak, I didnt write the fething thing did I!
Its the incessant complaining and the modern, consistent desperate desire to be offended that pisses me off in life in general, not simply disliking something I rather like.
Why not just ignore it if you dislike it? If you spent all day dripping about things you DON'T find funny instead of praising things you do, then we would never get anything done. In the same way that people who write letters to television stations disgust me, so too does the massive amount of dripping in this thread, its got nothing at all to do with people being incapable of grasping satire, and everything to do with my loathing of people who are fething pansies.
So yes, I don't mind you not finding the sometimes puerile things that I find amusing, not at all, I just hate seeing grown men get their knickers in a twist over things, as per some people in this thread.
And that is exactly what I'm talking about. You're allowed to (repeatedly) share your opinion of the article, because you find it funny, I don't, so should just go sit quietly in a corner. You don't care whether anyone else finds it funny, yet you repeatedly characterise anyone who dares disagree with you as "desperate to be offended" and "getting knickers in a twist" and "dripping their tits off". The problem isn't the article mate, everyone just commented and moved on until you started slinging crap at anyone who dared say they didn't think it was that funny.
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I need to acquire plastic Skavenslaves, can you help?
I have a blog now, evidently. Featuring the Alternative Mordheim Model Megalist.
"Your society's broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No, lets blame the people with no power and no money and those immigrants who don't even have the vote. Yea, it must be their fething fault." - Iain M Banks
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"The language of modern British politics is meant to sound benign. But words do not mean what they seem to mean. 'Reform' actually means 'cut' or 'end'. 'Flexibility' really means 'exploit'. 'Prudence' really means 'don't invest'. And 'efficient'? That means whatever you want it to mean, usually 'cut'. All really mean 'keep wages low for the masses, taxes low for the rich, profits high for the corporations, and accept the decline in public services and amenities this will cause'." - Robin McAlpine from Common Weal |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/24 07:07:14
Subject: If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Joined the Military for Authentic Experience
On an Express Elevator to Hell!!
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dragqueeninspace wrote:The worst bit about this article is how its gone right over so many peoples head as evidenced by the comments on the blog page. Kinda sad.
Deadshot wrote:What the absolute feth did I just read? Is this a troll? If it is it's a bad one.
If its serious, here's 9 good reasons why not.
.....*snip*........
David Cameron is a  ,  ,  ,  ,  !
Absolutely hilarious
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/24 07:09:08
Subject: If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Fixture of Dakka
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mattyrm wrote:It's clearly written entirely humorously. Its also very funny.
The fact that most people don't see the fact is probably the reason another good humored writer (me) gets needlessly banned so often.
I'm actually stunned by the amount of gak people are writing in response on his blog, and here as well.
Are people do desperate to get offended they can see the funny side of absolutely nothing but the most dull In your face humour?
It was a good, and entirely amusing article.
Well of course it's a joke; or are we going to start pretending the Telegraph is a real newspaper?
Editors note: I know feth all about UK print media.
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Avatar 720 wrote:You see, to Auston, everyone is a Death Star; there's only one way you can take it and that's through a small gap at the back.
Come check out my Blood Angels,Crimson Fists, and coming soon Eldar
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/391013.page
I have conceded that the Eldar page I started in P&M is their legitimate home. Free Candy! Updated 10/19.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/391553.page
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters.. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/24 08:32:27
Subject: If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Well of course it's a joke; or are we going to start pretending the Telegraph is a real newspaper?
OF COURSE IT IS A JOKE HE FINISHES THE ARTICLE DEMANDING ALL GW STAFF BE THROWN IN JAIL AND ALL EX-CUSTOMERS SENT TO REHAB.
Sheesh.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/24 08:56:23
Subject: If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Fixture of Dakka
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Evil & Chaos wrote:Well of course it's a joke; or are we going to start pretending the Telegraph is a real newspaper?
OF COURSE IT IS A JOKE HE FINISHES THE ARTICLE DEMANDING ALL GW STAFF BE THROWN IN JAIL AND ALL EX-CUSTOMERS SENT TO REHAB.
Sheesh.
I find this a good solution to the GW Ponzi crack addiction!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/24 09:18:49
Subject: If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Sergeant First Class
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The amount of butthurt here is quite entertaining.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/24 09:26:54
Subject: If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Wight Lord with the Sword of Kings
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Not even remotely funny, just asking for attention.
Just like his 'Why all left-wingers are evil' article
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/24 09:33:46
Subject: If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Big Fat Gospel of Menoth
The other side of the internet
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Really? In the last 3 pages of this thread, it's been nothing but talking about people being butthurt rather than people actually being butthurt. Now I feel butthurt about all the people butthurt over the people being butthurt.
I just think the author isn't very good at satire. He needs some work on a voice for his piece. Cheap laughs like "girls cure hobby addiction" are fine and dandy, but hardly construct a good satirical piece. Dakka has tread most of this comedy territory in various incarnations and it didn't need a PhD for it either. He could have used it to lampoon Cameron's pornography ban more directly, but he meanders off into what is more or less a self contained article bookended by mentions of the banning porn bill.
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Be sure to use logic! Avoid fallacies whenever possible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/24 12:38:32
Subject: If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
Mesopotamia. The Kingdom Where we Secretly Reign.
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We are now reaching the point that people are butthurt that we are amused by the fact that they are butthurt.
It's butthurt-ception!
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Drink deeply and lustily from the foamy draught of evil.
W: 1.756 Quadrillion L: 0 D: 2
Haters gon' hate. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/24 15:48:13
Subject: If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Water-Caste Negotiator
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Oooh, don't think the author would like you using that comparison...
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100227068/five-reasons-why-left-wingers-are-pure-evil/
Robin Ince is, according to him, an 'alternative' comedian, which to him preclude humour.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/24 15:53:08
Subject: Re:If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Huge Hierodule
The centre of a massive brood chamber, heaving and pulsating.
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"Once you get hooked, you find that the price of the models creeps up and up with every year. New ones are always coming on the market, and every five years or so they change the rules completely – which necessitates buying a whole new bunch of stuff."
We couldn't agree more! These wargaming companies with their constant price rises and expensive rulebooks... I dunno, what are they like?
(Hi. We're Mantic, and we like our hobby to stay sensibly priced. Once you've vented your rage at this fairly lame article, why not head over to www.manticgames.com and check us out?)
Well if that isn't the lamest, most shamless advertising plug I've ever seen.
No, Mantic, no.
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Squigsquasher, resident ban magnet, White Knight, and general fethwit.
buddha wrote:I've decided that these GW is dead/dying threads that pop up every-week must be followers and cultists of nurgle perpetuating the need for decay. I therefore declare that that such threads are heresy and subject to exterminatus. So says the Inquisition! |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/24 16:09:06
Subject: Re:If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Growlin' Guntrukk Driver with Killacannon
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Ketara wrote:Deadshot wrote:
I'm not amused in the slightest. I read it because the only other British paper around is The Sun which, for the reasons specified, I will not read period. All the other papers arounf are local Northern Ireland papaers. The Shankill Mirror and Belfast Telegraph for example.
Again. Not amused.
IIRC, the Sun has a reading age of eight years old. That may be why you tend to find it gets slammed a little.
Nope the Sun has a mental reading age of eight years old, it's actual reading age is 34 so I believe.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/24 16:12:01
Subject: Re:If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Pious Warrior Priest
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Squigsquasher wrote:
"Once you get hooked, you find that the price of the models creeps up and up with every year. New ones are always coming on the market, and every five years or so they change the rules completely – which necessitates buying a whole new bunch of stuff."
We couldn't agree more! These wargaming companies with their constant price rises and expensive rulebooks... I dunno, what are they like?
(Hi. We're Mantic, and we like our hobby to stay sensibly priced. Once you've vented your rage at this fairly lame article, why not head over to www.manticgames.com and check us out?)
Well if that isn't the lamest, most shamless advertising plug I've ever seen.
No, Mantic, no.
I like their followup comment:
Mantic Games wrote:(P.S. As far as we're aware, none of our staff has ever molested a fish, either.)
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/24 16:22:54
Subject: If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Ancient Ultramarine Venerable Dreadnought
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Ensis Ferrae wrote:
I think the problem, Matty, was that it was published on a "serious" news website (?), which goes a great deal into explaining the lack of humor found in comments on the site, as well as here.
Thats actually a good point, the Telegraph is a decent paper, a plausible theory.
So Auston, you got it wrong there mate. Automatically Appended Next Post:
They aren't!?
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We are arming Syrian rebels who support ISIS, who is fighting Iran, who is fighting Iraq who we also support against ISIS, while fighting Kurds who we support while they are fighting Syrian rebels. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/24 18:55:51
Subject: Re:If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Powerful Spawning Champion
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I took it seriously and responded as such. Guess he's just mad he won't be able to search his m4m porn anymore without calling his IP and admitting to another person he browses it regularly. *yaaaaaaaawn*
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/24 22:22:30
Subject: Re:If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Legendary Master of the Chapter
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Lansirill wrote:It reads, mostly, like a bit of fun and satire. There's a little chest-thumping 'I am not a nerd!' stuck in there though, which does make it seem a bit more like a troll than satire. Eh, whatevs Becky. Let's go get some Orange Julius.
No, the "chest-thumping" is part of the satire. It perfectly mimics the tone and content of your average "I used to be addicted to drugs/porn/sex/marriage equality but I got better" article. The only thing missing was Jesus.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/24 23:43:49
Subject: If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Fixture of Dakka
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Evil & Chaos wrote:Well of course it's a joke; or are we going to start pretending the Telegraph is a real newspaper?
OF COURSE IT IS A JOKE HE FINISHES THE ARTICLE DEMANDING ALL GW STAFF BE THROWN IN JAIL AND ALL EX-CUSTOMERS SENT TO REHAB.
Sheesh.
THANK YOU FOR AGREEING WITH ME. BUT I THINK YOUR SHIFT KEY MAY BE STUCK.
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Avatar 720 wrote:You see, to Auston, everyone is a Death Star; there's only one way you can take it and that's through a small gap at the back.
Come check out my Blood Angels,Crimson Fists, and coming soon Eldar
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/391013.page
I have conceded that the Eldar page I started in P&M is their legitimate home. Free Candy! Updated 10/19.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/391553.page
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters.. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/25 00:44:16
Subject: If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Kid_Kyoto
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AustonT wrote:Evil & Chaos wrote:Well of course it's a joke; or are we going to start pretending the Telegraph is a real newspaper?
OF COURSE IT IS A JOKE HE FINISHES THE ARTICLE DEMANDING ALL GW STAFF BE THROWN IN JAIL AND ALL EX-CUSTOMERS SENT TO REHAB.
Sheesh.
THANK YOU FOR AGREEING WITH ME. BUT I THINK YOUR SHIFT KEY MAY BE STUCK.
OH NOES ITS SPREADING.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/25 01:10:37
Subject: Re:If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Courageous Skink Brave
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I found myself sitting amid a pile of skeleton warriors – looking on at the ruination of my life. A little while later, I threw it all in a dustbin and tried to get my stuff together. I’ve been clean ever since.
I don't know if he was joking for this part, but I cringed.
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T'au Sept Urban Ops. W: 1 L: / D: /
Successful trades: 2 |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/25 02:14:36
Subject: If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Terrifying Wraith
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People shouldnt take their newspaper allegiance so seriously, or be offended when people stereotype them for it... I mean, This isn't the 20's, isn't the joke on newspaper readers in general? There's this thing called the Internet, you're on it right now. (Sit back down. You are not, literally, on top of the Internet.)
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Fantasy: 4000 - WoC, 1500 - VC, 1500 - Beastmen
40k: 2000 - White Scars
Hordes: 5/100 - Circle of Orboros
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/25 08:01:32
Subject: If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Big Fat Gospel of Menoth
The other side of the internet
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Monster Rain wrote:We are now reaching the point that people are butthurt that we are amused by the fact that they are butthurt.
It's butthurt-ception!
Weeeeeeee! I'm walking on walls! It's enough to make me forget about 3 pages of cyclical nonsense!
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Be sure to use logic! Avoid fallacies whenever possible.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/25 09:45:37
Subject: If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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AustonT wrote:Evil & Chaos wrote:Well of course it's a joke; or are we going to start pretending the Telegraph is a real newspaper?
OF COURSE IT IS A JOKE HE FINISHES THE ARTICLE DEMANDING ALL GW STAFF BE THROWN IN JAIL AND ALL EX-CUSTOMERS SENT TO REHAB.
Sheesh.
THANK YOU FOR AGREEING WITH ME. BUT I THINK YOUR SHIFT KEY MAY BE STUCK.
People are still commenting in this thread that they think it's a serious article. I may have to superglue by shift key down and set my font size to "giant".
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/25 15:27:53
Subject: If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
Mesopotamia. The Kingdom Where we Secretly Reign.
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Surtur wrote: Monster Rain wrote:We are now reaching the point that people are butthurt that we are amused by the fact that they are butthurt.
It's butthurt-ception!
Weeeeeeee! I'm walking on walls! It's enough to make me forget about 3 pages of cyclical nonsense!
It's cyclical because people can't seem to refrain from posting in a thread about something they don't like, which is amusing to me.
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Drink deeply and lustily from the foamy draught of evil.
W: 1.756 Quadrillion L: 0 D: 2
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/25 15:58:52
Subject: If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Kid_Kyoto
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I think outrage is the opiate of post-modern society.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/25 16:16:27
Subject: If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
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Ancient Ultramarine Venerable Dreadnought
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What a fething excellent way of putting it.
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We are arming Syrian rebels who support ISIS, who is fighting Iran, who is fighting Iraq who we also support against ISIS, while fighting Kurds who we support while they are fighting Syrian rebels. |
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