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April 3, 2015 8:58 AM   Subscribe

 
For once you really want to read the comments. "OBAMA? More like TERRERIST. Obummer will be out of office and we can have another BUSH in office that is porper america presedent"
posted by Nelson at 9:03 AM on April 3, 2015


"How to tell that a liberel has been in you’re you’re house:

- in stead of playing with truck’s you son is playin with Wheat Grass Juice. Youre daughter got her you-know-whats pierced and got a tattoo of some dreadlocks."
posted by tiger yang at 9:08 AM on April 3, 2015 [10 favorites]


Reminds me, in a way, of the Pronunciation Manual.
posted by miguelcervantes at 9:08 AM on April 3, 2015


This must be fake, right?
posted by Stewriffic at 9:13 AM on April 3, 2015


please no one send this to my uncle
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 9:14 AM on April 3, 2015 [9 favorites]


Indistinguishable from reality
posted by The Whelk at 9:18 AM on April 3, 2015 [9 favorites]


Are these supposed to be stupider than real opinions or something? The whole page is just a repository of examples of why satire is impossible because reality is too far gone. (On preview: the whelks have it.)
posted by Sing Or Swim at 9:20 AM on April 3, 2015 [2 favorites]


Compare to some of the content collected at My Right Wing Dad.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 9:21 AM on April 3, 2015 [2 favorites]


Kind of reminiscent of Seinfeld 2000 (Previously) which is coincidentally anti-Obame.
posted by larrybob at 9:21 AM on April 3, 2015


Maybe we can eventually make facebook a complete impediment to understanding.
posted by cmoj at 9:22 AM on April 3, 2015


Its like if PFT Commenter got a Face Book sight, imo. Those are some funney and hot takes.
posted by Rock Steady at 9:27 AM on April 3, 2015 [1 favorite]


I'm going to share some of these but I don't think everyone is going to know I'm being sarcastic.
posted by bleep at 9:30 AM on April 3, 2015 [3 favorites]


It either shows how accurate our parodies have become, or absurd our reality is, that I can't tell which of the comments are genuine.
posted by Think_Long at 9:31 AM on April 3, 2015 [3 favorites]


This is brilliant. And this.
posted by memebake at 9:36 AM on April 3, 2015 [1 favorite]


post to Face Book and Meta Filter:
IMG_2039_HAPY FIRDAY LIBERELS (resized).bmp

"Thanks for the post"!!!!l ol
posted by divined by radio at 9:42 AM on April 3, 2015 [1 favorite]


I love this, and I was sure to share it, but I shared it on Twitter.

I do the same with stuff from The Onion or Clickhole. I love my damn Facebook friends, most of which are real friends or acquaintances, but a good chunk of them would fail to see any humor in it because they share non-ironic versions of this stuff daily. Those are the feeds I've hidden, of course.
posted by bondcliff at 9:57 AM on April 3, 2015 [4 favorites]


1 like = Jesus will send a space eagle to protect a soldier

OMG
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 9:57 AM on April 3, 2015 [11 favorites]


Metafilter: Boys will be boys but hand's. of. the cardboard Kathy Ireland
posted by bondcliff at 10:02 AM on April 3, 2015 [1 favorite]


n ot sure which ofthecomments are real!!

like & share if yuo agree
posted by Rustic Etruscan at 10:03 AM on April 3, 2015


10 Rule's for dating my DUAGHTER

10 her name aint "baby". It's Colby.
posted by infinitewindow at 10:06 AM on April 3, 2015 [3 favorites]


Oh my god. Janine Eckhart who in the comments just keeps posting confused requests for cornbread searches is amazing.
posted by edbles at 10:07 AM on April 3, 2015 [13 favorites]


I wish I could have recorded the slow transition of my face as it shifted from WTF to peals of laughter as I slowly clued in. Followed, of course, by slight sadness as I realized I didn't have a reliable way to share it without people thinking I was an idiot.
posted by No more Mr. Smartypants at 10:13 AM on April 3, 2015 [7 favorites]


I like the constant corrections on the corrections of the grammar and spelling. Commas go inside the quotes. Wow.

I wish I could tell with certainty if a higher percentage of these are real or in on the joke. That's the brilliance of this for me. The lines are getting blurred so much. I was just sent this today by a very serious friend who was concerned. I drink far too much Coke and she's a hippie out to save the planet, but I really thought she knew what The Onion is. I had to ask and no she wasn't sending it as a joke.
posted by Clinging to the Wreckage at 10:15 AM on April 3, 2015 [3 favorites]


Random family members posting in with updates is also A+.
posted by edbles at 10:16 AM on April 3, 2015 [3 favorites]


I feel like, on the one hand, it's funny and it's pretty obviously satire

but on the other hand, it's like watching a bunch of college educated middle-class people punching down at not-college-educated rural folks, an attitude that became evident with this post

so meh
posted by runt at 10:16 AM on April 3, 2015 [6 favorites]


I think I'm going to add "In the style of Larry the Cable Guy" to my email signature.
posted by bondcliff at 10:22 AM on April 3, 2015


I've been enjoying this for a while. I thought of sharing it and Shares From Your Aunt, but like runt says, some of the humor punches down and I didn't want to have to defend all of it.
posted by Countess Elena at 10:27 AM on April 3, 2015 [2 favorites]


The Space Eagle killed me dead.

The world needed this.
posted by dry white toast at 10:28 AM on April 3, 2015 [1 favorite]


This is run by one of my favorite comedians on Twitter, Jacy Catlin.
Other gold from Jacy:

I'd Like to Return a Dog
Notes
Shorts Unboxing
and his hand-drawn t-shirt line, "Sprots"

He's a unique comic and I think you either really like his senisiblity or you don't. I'm a big fan.
posted by joechip at 10:29 AM on April 3, 2015 [3 favorites]


So good.
posted by fungible at 10:35 AM on April 3, 2015


but on the other hand, it's like watching a bunch of college educated middle-class people punching down at not-college-educated rural folks, an attitude that became evident with this post

Yeah, I'm always happy to be Captain No-Fun with things like this for that reason. And the comments really just add to the pile-on.

Maybe I'd have more of a sense of humor about it if the political situation in the US wasn't already a constant culture war and if things weren't actually really desperate.
posted by padraigin at 10:39 AM on April 3, 2015 [1 favorite]


If there's not a script treatment for a "Space Eagle" movie hitting the desks of Hollywood producers and agents by this time next week, the terrorerists will have won!!
posted by Nat "King" Cole Porter Wagoner at 11:05 AM on April 3, 2015 [1 favorite]


Another escapade from CRIMER?
posted by Kwine at 11:07 AM on April 3, 2015 [1 favorite]


Really makes You Think!!1
posted by porn in the woods at 11:24 AM on April 3, 2015


A man was walking by a home less man with a date. The home less man asked "can I have some money for bread?" The man gladly gave the man a slice of his bread, because he wanted to impress his date. The next day, he walked by that same home less man, but no one else was around. He kicked the man in his eyes, laughing as he hurt them. The next day the man walked by and saw that the homeless man was now dating the woman that the man had originally been dating. He asked "honey, why are you dating the home less man" and she turned to him and said "I was attracted to you because I thought you were kind when I saw you give this man a piece of your bread. But last night I was actually watching you when you kicked him in the eyes. I came out to help him with his eyes and rub bread on them after you kicked him. I got to know the home less man very well. Now we are in love." The home less man reached into his pocket and removed a loaf of bread "here" he said, his eyes still swollen and dripping from the kicks "here is a loaf." The man began walking away with, bread in hand. He may have lost his love, but he gained something better: he found $60 in the bread. The home less man had forgotten he hid it there.
posted by straight at 11:45 AM on April 3, 2015 [21 favorites]


That is generally what I assume church sermons are like except the homeless man turns out to be Jesus or something.
posted by a manly man person who is male and masculine at 11:47 AM on April 3, 2015 [2 favorites]


All I get is a message saying the page requested was not found...link broken?
posted by agregoli at 11:52 AM on April 3, 2015


it's like watching a bunch of college educated middle-class people punching down at not-college-educated rural folks

My Facebook feed is all the evidence I need that middle-class college-educated people post plenty of dumb and offensive stuff on Facebook, and poor, less-well-educated people can be cool and funny. Not sure why you assume otherwise.
posted by Rock Steady at 12:24 PM on April 3, 2015 [6 favorites]


If there's not a script treatment for a "Space Eagle" movie hitting the desks of Hollywood producers and agents by this time next week, the terrorerists will have won!!

I was thinking "t shirt" but sign me up!
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 12:58 PM on April 3, 2015 [2 favorites]


Did you think we were going to get away with finding something funny? Nothing is funny. Everything is problematic. You'd know that if you went to college.
posted by MattMangels at 12:59 PM on April 3, 2015 [12 favorites]


How dare you call me problematic! I don't have a problematic bone in my body.
posted by larrybob at 1:22 PM on April 3, 2015 [1 favorite]


In a very similar vein, but as text and not image macros: April 2, 2015, A Day That Will Live On Infamously.
posted by Copronymus at 1:56 PM on April 3, 2015


not-college-educated rural folks

Not elementary-school educated, surely.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:52 PM on April 3, 2015 [1 favorite]


/r/fellowkids has a lot of the real thing, with a more corporate vibe
posted by idiopath at 5:34 PM on April 4, 2015


My Facebook feed is all the evidence I need that middle-class college-educated people post plenty of dumb and offensive stuff on Facebook, and poor, less-well-educated people can be cool and funny. Not sure why you assume otherwise.

Usually I assume directed and persistent mockery of an entire group of people is not self-referential because there are limits to good faith but sure, I suppose I'm not an angel
posted by runt at 5:47 AM on April 6, 2015


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