The fact that every interesting recent thread has devolved into a pun war.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I'm pissed off because apparently there has been a streak of pun threadjacking that I wasn't aware of, and people choose to crawl up my ass when I do it a little bit.  I was done after two.

I think that it was probably a sense of dread on their parts, like, 'oh Jeez, here comes another one'.

[Cain]

One two three four I declare a pun war?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I'm pissed off because apparently there has been a streak of pun threadjacking that I wasn't aware of, and people choose to crawl up my ass when I do it a little bit.  I was done after two.

NOT EVEN ONCE, SIGGIE.

Puns will not help you "hook up".  They will not make you dance better.  They WILL, however, fuck up your skin, make your teeth fall out, make your face curl up like a fist, and cause you to think you have bugs under your skin.

Stick with 'stache.  It's a better high, and it won't make your nose suppurate.

[AFK]

Poppycock!  Puns are manna from heaven.  They are the key to higher spiritual existence!  A good pun allows you to shake hands with Yahweh himself!  Do not listen to the unbelievers! 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Poppycock!  Puns are manna from heaven.  They are the key to higher spiritual existence!  A good pun allows you to shake hands with Yahweh himself!  Do not listen to the unbelievers! 

Only the first one is free.  By this time next year, these kids will be mugging octagenarians for pun money, and living in squalor under bridges.

[Adios]

Poppycock!  Puns are manna from heaven.  They are the key to higher spiritual existence!  A good pun allows you to shake hands with Yahweh himself!  Do not listen to the unbelievers! 

[Jasper]

I'm pissed off because apparently there has been a streak of pun threadjacking that I wasn't aware of, and people choose to crawl up my ass when I do it a little bit.  I was done after two.

I think that it was probably a sense of dread on their parts, like, 'oh Jeez, here comes another one'.

I can understand that.  What I can't stand is how often any amount of hijack becomes full-on "thread roont" mode.  It seems like everybody's way too eager to crap on the parade.  Thread ruined.  Because discussions on the internet are always so orderly.  If you don't care for a post in a thread, fucking skip it.  Quote something earlier and respond to that.  The only thing that actually ruins a thread is making people not want to talk about something anymore, and if a couple jokes is all it takes, maybe you never actually cared that much.

I'm pissed off because apparently there has been a streak of pun threadjacking that I wasn't aware of, and people choose to crawl up my ass when I do it a little bit.  I was done after two.

NOT EVEN ONCE, SIGGIE.

Puns will not help you "hook up".  They will not make you dance better.  They WILL, however, fuck up your skin, make your teeth fall out, make your face curl up like a fist, and cause you to think you have bugs under your skin.

Stick with 'stache.  It's a better high, and it won't make your nose suppurate.

'Stache will always be my preferred drug.  

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I can understand that.  What I can't stand is how often any amount of hijack becomes full-on "thread roont" mode.  It seems like everybody's way too eager to crap on the parade.  Thread ruined.  Because discussions on the internet are always so orderly.  If you don't care for a post in a thread, fucking skip it.  

Problem:  On several occasions recently, any on-topic posts have been buried under 2 pages of puns.

On top of that, while a genuine, well though-out pun can be funny, the ones that are nothing more than plays on words - not even GOOD plays on words - are painful to read.  Not in a good way.  It's like hearing dittoheads call Clinton "Klintoon", convinced that they are the next Oscar Wilde.

It makes me want to spontaneously combust.  No shit.

[AFK]

I love me a good Jubilee!

[Jasper]

I had no idea it was that bad lately.  Would not have sprung for such cheap humor if I did. 

[Whatever]

I realy hadn't noticed it either.  I guess I've just been too relieved that we seem to be going thru a "tard fee phase" where all the wanna be trolls who are trying to teach us how to be really real discordians in every damn thread just have disappeared.

I was enjoying the quiet of just us.....

Personally I would prefer puns, even bad ones, to trolls.

[Triple Zero]

I'm pissed off because apparently there has been a streak of pun threadjacking that I wasn't aware of, and people choose to crawl up my ass when I do it a little bit.  I was done after two.

I only saw you do one (missed something i think), which was the first one that started it off, so you're not part of the pile-up, therefore the OP wasn't directed at you.

Also it was mainly directed at the much worse pun-runs in other threads* , I just copied my reply to a separate thread to not derail the oak-tree one further, thereby giving undue weight to the pun-run in that particular thread. We okay now?

(*which I probably played part in a few times, so the OP is also directed at me, except not really cause I already got the message for having written it)

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm pissed off because apparently there has been a streak of pun threadjacking that I wasn't aware of, and people choose to crawl up my ass when I do it a little bit.  I was done after two.

Yeah, YOU were but by then it was too late because a bunch of other pigfuckers decided to jump on the bandwagon.

Here's the thing: Puns are not funny. And a bunch of puns in a row are not clever.

They are the domain of average-intelligence gamer geeks who obsessively watch Monty Python and think that makes them geniuses. Have you ever been in a room with those people? Do it once, and you will never think puns are funny again.

Puns are extra unfunny when they are placed in threads with real content. My current policy is, once the punning starts in a thread I was interested in, I'm done with that thread. It's over. The way things are going, this whole board is THIS close to being as much of an inane circlejerk of mediocrity as The Cellar, because a bunch of people, some newbs and some not, have started seeing EVERY FUCKING OPENING as a glorious golden opportunity to show off how clever they think they are by stringing completely lame puns off each other.

If it actually keeps going that way and everybody keeps making excuses for why it's OK, I would be perfectly happy to institute a zero-tolerance hateshitting policy that will fuck up every single fucking  thread of everyone who drops a single one of those retard shitbombs in any thread, ever, except for RWHN who gets a special pass by virtue of that being his identity and actually putting effort into it.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I think occasionally it's ok. I indulged in one with Peleus earlier today, but it was only one that metalheads would get. No one bit, and as far as I know the thread went on.

[Jasper]

I'm pissed off because apparently there has been a streak of pun threadjacking that I wasn't aware of, and people choose to crawl up my ass when I do it a little bit.  I was done after two.

Yeah, YOU were but by then it was too late because a bunch of other pigfuckers decided to jump on the bandwagon.

Except only one other person made one solitary pun in response.  Some bandwagon. 

Whatever.  Fuck it, I'll stop punning since it's such a big deal.