I'm running for New Mod!

[norton ash]

I think this horrible winter is giving some people cabin fever, ffs. Keep the whiskey out, just put the fucking knives away.

[seemslikeadream]

I think this horrible winter is giving some people cabin fever, ffs. Keep the whiskey out, just put the fucking knives away.

bows and arrows norton ....only bows and arrows



and an occasional bazooka or flame thrower





and lots of pot

[justdrew]

Jeux Sans Frontieres

It's a knockout

so peter gabriel is the one behind the knockout game! Dang kids gettin crazy ideas from that rock music

[jakell]

Has there ever been a non-European analogue of Jeux Sans Frontiers (formerly 'It's a Knockout')? It was quite an institution here for a while.
I don't know why it folded, maybe the world got too serious for it.

[MacCruiskeen]

Oh my good golly gosh, I leave the house for five minutes, trusting you to behave yourselves, and this is the thanks I get?



Just wait till your father gets ho... Ah fuckit.



Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about.

PS We are all going to die.

[seemslikeadream]

[Nordic]

Being a mod would be squandering Jack's talent, by handcuffing him. So, I don't like that. But then again, I think Jack would make a good mod. If serious: Don't do it, but if you do it, then I support it.

But Jack needs to be handcuffed.

His main "talent" is verbal violence toward other members of this board.

His other talent is breaking all the rules here and never ever getting a time-out.

Like Jaimie Dimon, he must be extremely talented, so I say let's make him a mid AND take up a collection and PAY him.

[Nordic]

A few more points:

A. Jack started this thread as a joke. Because he had the horrible realization, which he verbalized here, that nobody likes him. Since that time he has heavily edited what he wrote. Thus Drew's comment about the Submit button needing to be the Commit button.

Jack is using this thread as a way to offer up some laughs, to make light of the whole bruhaha, and actually be (for him) self-effacing. As in actually admitting he would be bad at something (imagine!) -- a mod.

2. The "go kill yourself" line should not be focused upon. That would actually be a distraction from the overwhelming pattern of non-stop abuse and verbal violence that he constantly uses as a tactic here. Hell, we all occasionally say something in a brief fit of anger, but Jack actually enjoys this. He admitted it in one of these threads where he bemoaned the fact that there weren't any more fellows of the verbal S&M community to engage with him here. He probably edited those comments, too. He was going through a very revealing implosion there for a while; it was actually him at his most honest and desperate.

So let's stay to the point. If you want to have some "jocularity, jocularity!" moments with Jack The Ripper this is the place to do it.

Other than that, this thread is best abandonded.

[FourthBase]

Wow, so even Nordic feels entitled to prance by on a high horse, lmao.

[justdrew]

[semper occultus]

Has there ever been a non-European analogue of Jeux Sans Frontiers (formerly 'It's a Knockout')? It was quite an institution here for a while.
I don't know why it folded, maybe the world got too serious for it.

...it was always called It's a Knockout in UK & JSF in the franco-phone world.....in an early example of subsidiarity I presume each country had its own title although generally I strongly suspect a Euro-Federalist softening-up psy-op exercise......the budget was probably diverted to the single currency project and colour revolutions....

[jakell]

Has there ever been a non-European analogue of Jeux Sans Frontiers (formerly 'It's a Knockout')? It was quite an institution here for a while.
I don't know why it folded, maybe the world got too serious for it.

...it was always called It's a Knockout in UK & JSF in the franco-phone world.....in an early example of subsidiarity I presume each country had its own title although generally I strongly suspect a Euro-Federalist softening-up psy-op exercise......the budget was probably diverted to the single currency project and colour revolutions....

Being in my early teens at the time, I sort of assumed that the former morphed into the latter, but maybe you're right in that each country had it's own variation. I noticed that once the contest became JSF and Europe wide, the costumes and setting became more sophisticated and consistently so
I've noticed there are some episodes on Youtube now, I may download a few to watch when I feel I'm becoming too cynical and serious.

BTW, I think you are probably the first person ever to attach sinister intentions to JSF, congratulations. If someone wants to start digging a (suitably silly) rabbit hole here, they might want to bear in mind that Stuart Hall was a fixture on the British version, and a regular on the Contintental one.

[semper occultus]

Being in my early teens at the time, I sort of assumed that the former morphed into the latter, but maybe you're right in that each country had it's own variation. I noticed that once the contest became JSF and Europe wide, the costumes and setting became more sophisticated and consistently so
I've noticed there are some episodes on Youtube now, I may download a few to watch when I feel I'm becoming too cynical and serious.

BTW, I think you are probably the first person ever to attach sinister intentions to JSF, congratulations. If someone wants to start digging a (suitably silly) rabbit hole here, they might want to bear in mind that Stuart Hall was a fixture on the British version, and a regular on the Contintental one.

….yeah….I found these magic sunglasses in a box down an alleyway once….but I seriously doubt you will ever find them as funny as Stuart Hall used to ( apparently )…”…here come the Belgians…!!”

Actually I think you’re at least partially correct - there were the domestic heats which lead up to the European league fixtures…...one does not simply walk in off the street and start running up grease-covered ramps in diving flippers and a comedy foam rubber duck costume attached to a bungy rope to deposit buckets of orange water in a plastic container without weeks of careful training…..the Germans had their own training camps at altitude as I understand it….

If someone wants to start digging a (suitably silly) rabbit hole here

Oh I'm just getting warmed up.....in further It’s a Knockout related conspiracy news Mr Hall was quite clearly a KWH on this fella

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hall_(cultural_theorist)

Hall's work covers issues of hegemony and cultural studies, taking a post-Gramscian stance. He regards language-use as operating within a framework of power, institutions and politics/economics. This view presents people as producers and consumers of culture at the same time. (Hegemony, in Gramscian theory, refers to the socio-cultural production of "consent" and "coercion".)

For Hall, culture is not something to simply appreciate or study, but a "critical site of social action and intervention, where power relations are both established and potentially unsettled."[17]

Hall has become one of the main proponents of reception theory, and developed Hall's Theory of encoding and decoding. This approach to textual analysis focuses on the scope for negotiation and opposition on the part of the audience. This means that the audience does not simply passively accept a text — social control. Crime statistics, in Hall's view, are often manipulated for political and economic purposes. Moral panics (e.g. over mugging) could thereby be ignited in order to create public support for the need to "police the crisis". The media play a central role in the "social production of news" in order to reap the rewards of lurid crime stories.

[jakell]

….yeah….I found these magic sunglasses in a box down an alleyway once….but I seriously doubt you will ever find them as funny as Stuart Hall used to ( apparently )…”…here come the Belgians…!!”

Actually I think you’re at least partially correct - there were the domestic heats which lead up to the European league fixtures…...one does not simply walk in off the street and start running up grease-covered ramps in diving flippers and a comedy foam rubber duck costume attached to a bungy rope to deposit buckets of orange water in a plastic container without weeks of careful training…..the Germans had their own training camps at altitude as I understand it….

I see you're an afficianado. Either that or you're a conspiracy theorist out on a limb and have made a serious study of the contest.

I still wonder what the rest of the world made of this serious silliness, you're not from Europe are you? One thing I recall is that some of the games were incredibly gruelling and often dangerous. Maybe it was the health and safety people that put a stop to the whole business.

Regarding the other Mr Hall etc, I'm a bit too nostalgic about the whole thing ATM to go down any funny looking side roads

[coffin_dodger]

I do like to see the occasional squirm.