Comments on: teh free markets, ur doin it wrong

teh free markets, ur doin it wrong

Asparagirl — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:46:37 -0800

LOLFed. Doan cry, emo banker! If you hate the latest financial crisis news, but love image macros, then this is the site for you. It's like I Can Has Cheezburger meets the Wall Street Journal.

By: chuckdarwin

chuckdarwin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:54:55 -0800

A joke I made at dinner today has already been photoshopped and posted to the internet. Huh.

By: Xoebe

Xoebe — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:59:32 -0800

All your bankz Are belong to us ...it just had to be said...and it was teh funny

By: neilkod

neilkod — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:02:32 -0800

It's funny...but...Long Live the H4x0r Economist!

By: turgid dahlia

turgid dahlia — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:02:56 -0800

A joke I made at dinner today has already been photoshopped and posted to the internet. Huh. _:D/

By: tkolar

tkolar — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:03:31 -0800

Also includes footage of two men consoling each other outside a failed brokerage.

By: turgid dahlia

turgid dahlia — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:05:28 -0800

More like FAILderal Reserve amirite?

By: Kikujiro's Summer

Kikujiro's Summer — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:07:31 -0800

I feel like 'Go Cry, Emo Banker" is cool enough to deserve it's own off broadway musical.

By: DU

DU — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:14:13 -0800

"teh free marketz--ur doin it wrong"

By: bardic

bardic — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:16:05 -0800

Meh. I have a twisted sense of humor, but in now way can I find a bright spot in corporate socialism. Fuck these guys. Fuck them for taking my money and giving it to failed Republican douchebag IB guys.

By: Lacking Subtlety

Lacking Subtlety — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:16:29 -0800

Finally! My girlfriend and I can communicate economic regulation!

By: Cool Papa Bell

Cool Papa Bell — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:17:22 -0800

OK, the shot of Christiano Ronaldo ... I laughed.

By: bardic

bardic — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:18:19 -0800

*no, even

By: Talez

Talez — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:21:16 -0800

im in ur fed unloadn my toxic waste!

By: jnaps

jnaps — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:24:11 -0800

I learned about credit-deficit swaps. I was not expecting that. Huh.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:28:46 -0800

LOLFed, iz funni, i swearz tkolar, that video, ROFL, *wipes tear

By: longsleeves

longsleeves — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:46:29 -0800

I can has 700 billion moneys? Kthxbye.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:49:49 -0800

I did not laugh inappropriately.

By: sebastienbailard

sebastienbailard — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:50:22 -0800

Needs over-the-top, fawning neologisms in the text, like cute overload. Aww, what cute 'tocks and armani, I just want to snorgle that bankerpuff.

By: YoBananaBoy

YoBananaBoy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:55:15 -0800

Hey, metafilter needs a bank.

By: Talez

Talez — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:56:58 -0800

OK, the shot of Christiano Ronaldo ... I laughed. In the interests of correct LOLGRAMMER you should say "I lol'd" Just sayin is all.

By: Zambrano

Zambrano — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:00:19 -0800

Funny picture of Ronaldo. Text still racist.

By: jimmythefish

jimmythefish — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:03:26 -0800

Where's the LOLforclosure site?

By: delmoi

delmoi — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:41:14 -0800

BuyMyShitpile.com

By: Electrius

Electrius — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:52:53 -0800

If you hate the latest financial crisis news, but love image macros, then you should kill yourself

By: Kadin2048

Kadin2048 — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:55:04 -0800

This really should have just said "Fail."

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:17:16 -0800

This may be tired and all, but by god and his swinging goat balls, the only rational responses after a certain point have to be either pointing and laughing or breaking out the automatic weapons. I approve of the pointing and laughing.

By: CheeseDigestsAll

CheeseDigestsAll — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:20:21 -0800

Needs more cats.

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:25:19 -0800

We'll be LOLling all the way to the poor house.

By: FuturisticDragon

FuturisticDragon — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:31:32 -0800

This is awesome, thanks!

By: MiltonRandKalman

MiltonRandKalman — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:46:27 -0800

I used a WaMu ATM today and it asked to borrow $20 till Friday.

By: matteo

matteo — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:47:23 -0800

the eternal monument to the American people's grace under pressure is the fact that instead of marching on Wall Street with pitchforks to figure out empirically if the throats of those bankers are harder or softer than broken beer bottles, Americans are actually creating websites with Photoshop jokes about the whole mess. seriously, I'm in awe.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:53:52 -0800

Ah, I see that one guy that thinks lolcatspeak is racist has showed up. I love that guy, he's wacky.

By: wendell

wendell — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:04:48 -0800

Your deposit is insured by the ROFDIC. WTFed?!? WaMu always sounded like a dumb Internet meme even before there were dumb internet memes. But MeFiWaMu? Doesn't sound like a good investment. But you know what's funny? This bailout will cost each American at lot OVER 9000 dollars. Ha ha. I also approve of the pointing and laughing, but only because my neighbor with the automatic weapons can't hit the broadside of a bank. Grace under pressure? No, we of the Greatest Country in the World have all been taught well not to question the authority that comes with massive amounts of money. But when the word gets out that some of these Financial Bigwigs are Black and may have benefited from Affirmative Action at some point in their rise to the top, look out, here come the pitchforks!

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:44:21 -0800

parteepoopr

By: empath

empath — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:54:00 -0800

When do people start getting sued/imprisoned?

By: Jilder

Jilder — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:03:32 -0800

Tragically, this version of the meltdown will still be too hard for some to understand.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:07:50 -0800

Whistling past the graveyard....

By: l33tpolicywonk

l33tpolicywonk — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:10:41 -0800

Quietly puts in Google Reader under category "Policy" and hopes no one notices...

By: davejay

davejay — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:47:51 -0800

Text still racist. Really? I always read it as how animals would spell if they tried to communicate via the written word; the idea being that they'd kind of get it phonetically from listening to us all these years, but they'd have neither the education to understand proper spelling nor the dexterity in their paws to type accurately.

By: [expletive deleted]

[expletive deleted] — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:29:58 -0800

If only we had listened to Banker Cat, maybe we wouldn't be in this mess.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:31:29 -0800

Text still racist. U R STOOPID

By: vrakatar

vrakatar — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:46:15 -0800

Oh. thank you thank you thank you I needed a good laugh and this post gave me three or four, best investment I made all week.

By: Mayor Curley

Mayor Curley — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:31:07 -0800

When is this LOLCATS shit finally going to die? It's not funny anymore. Maybe it will finally be over if Newsweek does a story on it. There seems to be a causal relationship between Newsweek covering a fad and it being over. If some lazy journalist is picking over Metafilter for story ideas, please write a piece on how new and fresh LOLCATS is and submit it to Newsweek please. Thanks!

By: ryanrs

ryanrs — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:14:12 -0800

Uh, what race should I be thinking of when I read the captions? Maybe the alleged racism would be clearer if I knew what to listen for.

By: aeschenkarnos

aeschenkarnos — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:33:58 -0800

ryanrs Uh, what race should I be thinking of when I read the captions? Maybe the alleged racism would be clearer if I knew what to listen for. Some race you're not. Just pick one, there's plenty to choose from. Or if you're insecure enough, whatever race you are. :) matteo the eternal monument to the American people's grace under pressure is the fact that instead of marching on Wall Street with pitchforks to figure out empirically if the throats of those bankers are harder or softer than broken beer bottles, Americans are actually creating websites with Photoshop jokes about the whole mess. Dude, that's not "grace under pressure". They just haven't been told they're allowed to grab pitchforks and make with the stabby-stabby.

By: ryanrs

ryanrs — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:55:50 -0800

Where's Kibo when you need him?

By: bwerdmuller

bwerdmuller — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:05:45 -0800

1930s: Herblock et al. 2000s: Lolfed. My, how we've progressed.

By: Kadin2048

Kadin2048 — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:05:20 -0800

I CAN HAS STABBY-STABBY NAO?

By: Uther Bentrazor

Uther Bentrazor — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:44:03 -0800

Some banks do it for us.

By: EarBucket

EarBucket — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:58:46 -0800

From my inbox this morning: From: Minister of the Treasury Paulson Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP Dear American: I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you. I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe. This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred. Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds. Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:50:17 -0800

Nice.

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:54:49 -0800

When is this LOLCATS shit finally going to die? It's not funny anymore. Yes, because a thing remains funny to everyone exactly as long as it remains funny to you. Also, everyone else has known about LOLCATS for exactly as long as you have.

By: Flipping_Hades_Terwilliger

Flipping_Hades_Terwilliger — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:14:33 -0800

I'm sorry, your comment . . .it . . . it just begs for LOLCATICIZATIONZ. When is this LOLCATS shit finally going to die? It's not funny anymore. Maybe it will finally be over if Newsweek does a story on it. There seems to be a causal relationship between Newsweek covering a fad and it being over. If some lazy journalist is picking over Metafilter for story ideas, please write a piece on how new and fresh LOLCATS is and submit it to Newsweek please. Thanks! "When teh LOLCATZNESS diez!?? It cannot haz funneh. Oooo, NOOZWEEkz shld maek storee on LOLSPEEKZ an maek it go 'way!!! NOOZWEEKZ is fadkillr. If URA lazee failjournal ritee-cat, plz rite storee on teh LOLCATZ freshnezs an gives to NOOZWEEKZ for sharez teh lulz! " Ahhhhh . . . social norms restored. Conventionalz grammarz iz cowerz in teh cornerz. Maek way for teh LULZ.

By: everichon

everichon — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:26:38 -0800

Racist? Why, some of my best friends are kittehs...

By: neroli

neroli — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:32:09 -0800

FAIL (Found on NPR's great Planet Money blog)

By: patrick rhett

patrick rhett — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:28:19 -0800

All this talk of racism is actually species-ist. Specist? Specious! That's it.

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:34:53 -0800

That NPR photo is great.

By: woodway

woodway — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:36:14 -0800

o hai, kongres!

No one on the committee missed the opportunity to: A) Lash out at Wall Street fat cats and B) Lash out at Washington regulators who they said let the fat cats get away with their fat cattery.

By: homelystar

homelystar — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:19:56 -0800

From: Minister of the Treasury Paulson Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP Earbucket, that's awesome! Although with only one or two intentionally (I assume) misspelled words and relatively straightforward syntax, it might not be mistaken for your garden-variety 419 spam. I wonder if anyone has posted free personal ads written from the point of view of, say, Merrill Lynch looking for a buyer?

By: empath

empath — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:35:12 -0800

FAIL

By: tkolar

tkolar — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:25:15 -0800

"I used a WaMu ATM today and it asked to borrow $20 till Friday." Sigh. I passed that on to rec.humor.funny but they stripped the attribution. Sorry MiltonRandKalman.