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Guy Looking To Feel Horrible About Aspect Of Everyday Life Decides To Watch Documentary I feel this way whenever I go to my local news website!
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Sep 3, 2013 18:16
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Royal Baby Already Making New Friends
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Sep 4, 2013 21:43
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The Royal Baby articles will never stop being funny.
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Sep 4, 2013 23:21
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Ariel Castro Failed By System
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Sep 5, 2013 00:46
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God Feeling Down in Dumps after Death of Grandmother I love this one, just for the various references to a clearly large extended family.
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Sep 5, 2013 01:43
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To Ensure Every Child Wins, Youth Soccer Association Removes Ball ...wait a second.
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Sep 5, 2013 22:40
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All on Black posted:To Ensure Every Child Wins, Youth Soccer Association Removes Ball This is based on a satirical article, although news sites have been publishing the story without that clarification for clickbait.
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Sep 5, 2013 22:44
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Poll: Majority Of Americans Approve Of Sending Congress To Syria "When asked if they believe that Sen. Rand Paul should be deployed to Syria, 100 percent of respondents said yes."
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Sep 5, 2013 23:05
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Civilized Fishbot posted:This is based on a satirical article, although news sites have been publishing the story without that clarification for clickbait. Oh thank god. I knew it couldn't possibly be real. So basically the CBC completely made this story up, because in their version it's a youth soccer organization in Ontario. Wonderful. E: never mind, I didn't read it closely enough and got confused by it being the Washington Times.
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Sep 6, 2013 01:16
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Wal-Mart Announces Plan To Slash Customers’ Throats Can't wait to see this one on Literally Unbelievable.
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Sep 6, 2013 03:40
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Man Puts Glass Of Water On Bedside Table In Case He Needs To Make Huge Mess In Middle Of Night The Onion is the only paper that really gets the plight of the area man.
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Sep 6, 2013 08:29
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Here's The One True Way To Heaven by Pope Francis I. I really hope they run with this like they did with Diamond Joe.
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Sep 6, 2013 15:22
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Study: Average Person Becomes Unhinged Psychotic When Alone In Own House
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Sep 6, 2013 18:53
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Sometimes I'm blown away by how how far they're willing to push it. New Subway Promotion To Honor Subtember 11
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Sep 6, 2013 20:58
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internet celebrity posted:Sometimes I'm blown away by how how far they're willing to push it. Was just coming here to post that.  Onionquote:“From the Structural Steel Melt on Tower 7–Grain bread to the Twin Chowers cold cut combo with Ground Zero–Carb vinaigrette on a Let’s Whole Wheat Roll, we’ve got something for everybody this Subtember 11.” 
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Sep 6, 2013 21:01
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Normally, I don't think the videos that accompany text articles on the Onion really add anything other than crashing my browser sometimes, but this time, it was totally worth it.
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Sep 6, 2013 21:02
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Onion: Person Of Interest Gets Away From George Zimmerman Real news: George Zimmerman's wife files for divorce
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Sep 6, 2013 21:21
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There's been criticism toward the Onion from Slate and Salon recently, about the tonal change in their humor and its reliance on twitter baiting timely-topics, political slants, and shock humor. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/09/changes_at_the_onion_america_s_finest_news_source_adjusts_to_internet_speed.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/09/06/a_final_word_on_the_new_dry_onion.html http://www.salon.com/2013/05/09/has_the_onion_gotten_mean/ The articles claim this is a result of the moving the creative side from NY to join corporate HQ in Chicago (losing many old key writers). This accompanied many procedural changes in the writing process to accommodate the internet. (more content, faster, less editing). I wouldn't say its necessarily "less funny" (I've been reading the Onion since the late 90s, when i found at stack on my friends older brother's toilet), but I do agree, its humor style has shifted. It used to rely more on cleverness and absurd, surrealistic humor. They are going for the gut punch more often, have a Daily Show-like editorial voice, and the "area man" humor seems to aim for a "thats so me!" reaction. CatchrNdRy has a new favorite as of 21:54 on Sep 6, 2013 |
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Sep 6, 2013 21:49
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internet celebrity posted:Sometimes I'm blown away by how how far they're willing to push it. If you're like me and only chuckle at the headlines in this thread and keep on scrolling. Please click this. The picture on top is fantastic.
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Sep 6, 2013 21:58
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internet celebrity posted:Sometimes I'm blown away by how how far they're willing to push it. This is beautiful, and so close to being something a business would actually try. A local pizza place where I live once did a Remembrance Day special and had a giant sign out front that said: LEST WE FORGET... THAT VERN'S HAS GREAT 2 FOR 1 DEALS ON LARGE PIZZAS!
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Sep 6, 2013 22:33
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internet celebrity posted:Sometimes I'm blown away by how how far they're willing to push it. Whoever designed that graphic is a goddamn genius, I nearly howled with laughter here at the office.
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Sep 6, 2013 22:41
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internet celebrity posted:Sometimes I'm blown away by how how far they're willing to push it. Dear lord this is amazing. It's incredibly surreal that we can make light of a terrible terrorist attack and with it get great laughs.
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Sep 6, 2013 22:58
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internet celebrity posted:Sometimes I'm blown away by how how far they're willing to push it. I've never posted in this topic before but I saw this on the Onion and immediately thought "I have to post this".
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Sep 6, 2013 23:14
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World War II Documentary Suffused With Anti-Nazi Undertones It's great because the location they chose has a very high Jewish population. Also on September 11th I'm going to go into a Subway and hand them that picture.
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Sep 6, 2013 23:23
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I enjoyed this short one for the unexpected final line: R.A. Has Bad Feeling About Kid In Cloak
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Sep 7, 2013 01:08
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internet celebrity posted:Sometimes I'm blown away by how how far they're willing to push it. This is magical 
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Sep 7, 2013 03:19
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Reminds me of Giuliani To Run For President Of 9/11.
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Sep 7, 2013 04:17
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This remains the best Guiliani thing they ever did:
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Lego Introduces First Female Scientist Figure “I’ve got a town full of Lego men who are going to be real happy about that.” Casper Faires – Botanist
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CatchrNdRy posted:There's been criticism toward the Onion from Slate and Salon recently, about the tonal change in their humor and its reliance on twitter baiting timely-topics, political slants, and shock humor. I think the fact that this thread has turned into "Post whatever amazing thing the Onion ran today" puts the lie to these articles. They've got to run something in their culture columns; might as well be "Has The Onion Declined In Quality?" The Salon one in particular annoys me for calling this year's Tony Award blurb "tone-dead" and "not terribly acquainted with the current theater scene"; I lost count of how many of my friends in said scene gleefully shared it on FB.
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Sep 7, 2013 17:43
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Salon has to do something to fill the time between sessions of bitching about Patton Oswalt, might as well complain about the Onion.
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Sep 7, 2013 18:14
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They're totally right about some recent articles being insufferable  about how liberal the author is, but classic Onion could be just as smug and condescending. If anything it's only the past few years where they reached a good level of balance between humor and opinion, and it does kind of suck that they're sliding back into that "Haha, yeah, America really is like a dictatorship isn't it? Pee pee doo doo he is a bad president" opining, only with the added benefit of seeming to focus more on making stories that wind up on Literally Unbelievable than actually being funny.
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Sep 7, 2013 20:04
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If anything the internet age has made the onion slightly less consistent. I'd say the Onion was funny almost 100% of the time back in the 90's and now maybe 2 out of 10 jokes are kind of meh, while rest are still great. They have definitely shifted their tone and degraded in quality to some extent over the years though. Luckily I don't think they are even close to jumping the shark or anything. I still think The Onion is just about the funniest thing out there.
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Sep 7, 2013 20:49
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Sep 7, 2013 21:38
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Sep 7, 2013 21:41
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...of SCIENCE! posted:They're totally right about some recent articles being insufferable Nah not really
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Sep 7, 2013 21:52
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I know this type of article isn't exactly unheard of from The Onion, but... does anyone else think they're becoming more frequent? It's almost as though their most over-the-top articles have been coming true so often that they've jumped straight into Eldritch terror so as to avoid being prophetic. I guess I'll sit here rocking quietly while I await Blood...Blood Everywhere becoming reality.
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Nation’s Math Teachers Introduce 27 New Trig Functions All Graduating Students Must Master Gamsin, Negtan, Cosvnx, 24 Others
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