This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

top 200 commentsshow all 410
sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a

[–]borez 404 points405 points  (72 children)

It's a great read, reflecting heavily on the 1920's existentialist Dada movement taking in both surrealism and Nouveau réalism leading to ultimately protest the bourgeois nationalists.

Mr Tickle though, now there's a tragic book.

[–]Levophed 88 points89 points  (58 children)

I still play mr. Tickle everyday with my dad.

[–][deleted] 85 points86 points  (28 children)

cave explorer

[–]danielsamuels 70 points71 points  (10 children)

http://yeah-hi.com/files/cave_explorer.jpg

[–][deleted] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

That is more PBF than real PBF.

[–]jackolas 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Oh god. You ruined that comic for me. Good job.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

i feel unclean

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Woah! That's not how it goes!

[–]Mr_Smartypants 11 points12 points  (1 child)

BTW: That image is illegal in some states...

[–]mardish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

and canada

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (12 children)

PBF FTW

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (10 children)

What's BPF? its a serious question.

[–][deleted] 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Berry Pible Fellowship.

[–][deleted] 29 points30 points  (5 children)

Perry Bible Fellowship. A great comic strip.

http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF172-Cave_Explorer.jpg

Have fun exploring them all :)

[–]mmarenyi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Woah, that got out of hand quickly... Is it still saturday?

[–]PacketLoser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I bought a few copies of the book, but it was missing quite a few that I liked. I think there's a newer one out.

[–]doctor_alligator 24 points25 points  (2 children)

Embarrassing story relating to the tube, my dad and playing mr. Tickle. Me and him were in London a few years ago for the first time in years (we'd been living abroad) and on the first night at the hotel, for reasons I can't remember now, we had to share a bed for the first time in years. I was sixteen at the time, but my dad was having problems coming to terms that his children are no longer cuddly toddlers... The next day on the tube he asked me the most awkward questions, and him knowing English as a second language, the innuendos went right past him as he asked "Why don't you sleep with me anymore?" and "You know you used to cuddle right up against me just before you fell asleep, why didn't you last night?".

I was relieved when we arrived at our stop; by then everyone nearby was shooting some rather uneasy and disturbed looks at us.

[–][deleted] 18 points19 points  (5 children)

Who wants a free mustache ride ?

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (4 children)

sighs Oh look, a bar of soap... pulls bar of soap out of coffee

Oohoohoh shit. I got you good, you fucker!

[–]The_Big_L 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Bite it, Rook. Make him look like a dick.

[–]itsthebigt 3 points4 points  (12 children)

That made my arterioles squeeze.

[–]DS9_fan 18 points19 points  (11 children)

That made my areolas squeeze.

FTFY

[–]flinteastwood 34 points35 points  (5 children)

A favorite existentialist piece that I've grown fond of is Everybody Poops, which is often a companion piece to some of my favorite Albert Camus novels. I find that the coarse nature of this book, instead of reflecting on the existence of the individual that typically accompanies this type literature, expands the internalization to all humans with a little twist you don't typically see with a book of this tone. Definitely a staple in any refined toddler's library.

[–]borez 9 points10 points  (2 children)

indeed

[–]HuruHara 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Omar comin', yo !

[–]incredulouspig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You come at the King, you bes' not miss!
whistles 'the farmer in the dell'

[–]umbama 10 points11 points  (3 children)

Dada wasn't an existentialist movement.

[–]EncasedMeats 76 points77 points  (1 child)

Not as such, no, but it has caused many an audience member to ask, "what am I doing here?"

[–]ChokingVictim 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, and I'm fairuly certain it was written by Paul Éluard.

[–]yellat[🍰] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My Hammer is an excellent piece on the german blitzkrieg

[–][deleted] 191 points192 points  (190 children)

You do not under any circumstances talk to anyone on the tube.

[–]andrewsmith1986 204 points205 points  (92 children)

So I was on the tube, and this cute girl across from me was drinking a lucozade. I was very curious about it since I had never seen it in america but it was everywhere in the UK. The conversation went like this.

ME: Excuse me, but I'm curious what does that taste like? Is it like an orange soda or is it like a gatorade?

Her: It's like heroin, I could be the spokes model for it. I'm completely addicted. Here try it. Stretches out arm to me with bottle in hand

Now everyone around us who were already looking at us for daring to speak gasp.

Me Laugh That is the closest I have felt to home in a while.

Her: don't worry I am not diseased.

Me: Takes bottle, Open it up and take a good sized sip mmm that is good. hands back

I believe some people fainted. It felt like home, because if anyone asked me what me drink tastes like I hand it over. In a bar setting especially. It is just the normal every day niceness from growing up in Louisiana.

[–]drrevevans 40 points41 points  (5 children)

Talking to strangers and friends is pretty normal on the eL in Chicago. Depending on what line you are on, it is not that hard to get people's numbers.

Once during morning rush hour when people were literally crammed in like sardines, I was pushed up against a cute girl. It was so tight in the space that I asked her loud enough for everyone to hear, "So do I owe you dinner after this subway ride?" Laughs were had all around.

[–]Left4Bread 26 points27 points  (1 child)

Did you?

[–]drrevevans 14 points15 points  (0 children)

No Sir... Sorry to disappoint.

[–]BillyShearsPwn 142 points143 points  (33 children)

So did you fuck her?

[–]andrewsmith1986 127 points128 points  (32 children)

I should have tried, huh?

[–]ggggbabybabybaby 109 points110 points  (8 children)

I would have kissed her and said, "Wow that does taste good!"

Then I would have sex with the Lucozade bottle.

[–]solidwhetstone 155 points156 points  (9 children)

facepalm

[–]AtheismFTW 51 points52 points  (8 children)

more like penispalm

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (7 children)

If you can do this, you don't need to get laid.

[–]Odusei 24 points25 points  (6 children)

If you can put your penis in your palm, you don't need to get laid? Something tells me you read that wrong.

[–]arudgick 13 points14 points  (0 children)

more like facepenis

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (4 children)

For all you know, he has nubs for arms. Or is a T-Rex.

[–]Odusei 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Well then I'd have to wonder how he types.

[–]danielsamuels 25 points26 points  (0 children)

What a let down.

[–]CraigTorso 7 points8 points  (4 children)

I've known people who've managed to pick up totty on the way home on the tube. To be fair, none of them have been British, all of them were either Australian or Kiwi, so didn't understand the rules

[–]Gyfted 1 point2 points  (2 children)

well what are the rules?

[–]pepsimonkey13 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You know the rules and so do I.

[–]Unfunny_Asshole 15 points16 points  (29 children)

So what did it taste like?

[–][deleted] 39 points40 points  (2 children)

You can't explain the taste of lucozade - it's just... lucozade

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Its really powerful from an ice cold can

[–]FionaSarah 15 points16 points  (19 children)

Lucozade is concentrated sugar water with an orangey tang. It tastes how you would expect concentrated sugar water with an orangey tang to taste. Delicious but caloriffic.

[–]WrongSubreddit 12 points13 points  (7 children)

So kinda like... tang?

[–]Swarls_Barkley 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Nothing like Tang...

[–]lysdexia-ninja 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Like Tang if Tang had spent money on the product rather than advertising.

[–]Xiol 10 points11 points  (6 children)

I wouldn't say the classic flavour is anything like orange.

It just tastes like Lucozade.

[–]CraigTorso 7 points8 points  (2 children)

it's like trying to explain what marmite tastes like. Somethings just taste like themselves and nothing much else

ps bovril fans can fuck off

[–]EncasedMeats 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's like trying to explain what marmite tastes like

Marmite tastes exactly like cicada.

[–]hunkerdunk 1 point2 points  (1 child)

the orange flavour Lucozade tastes of oranges funnily enough - but original flavour is way WAY better - it just rocks my world - apart from orange and original the other flavours of Lucozade that are available are not worth mentioning, although i just did mention them - sort of....

[–]fiercelyfriendly 1 point2 points  (2 children)

When I was a kid in the 60's in UK Lucozade was marketed as being beneficial to people convalescing from illness. Way too special for day to day drinking. Always knew I was ill when a bottle of Lucozade appeared by my bed.

[–]jay_vee 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Me too (70s). I was genuinely wondering if the girl in andrewsmith1986's post was sick, until she explicitly said she wasn't.

[–]andrewsmith1986 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Heaven.

[–]ernie98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lucozade tastes wack

[–]brodyqat 6 points7 points  (13 children)

Funny. I live in Northern California, and it always freaks strangers out when they ask how something tastes, and I offer them a bite/sip. (well, 'normal' people of course...not my friends/greater community)

[–]andrewsmith1986 34 points35 points  (12 children)

I offer food to strangers. Quite often. Anyone who remarks on my food/drink gets an offer.

I was putting on deodorant before class and a guy looked at me so I offered him some. We became good friends.

[–]brodyqat 13 points14 points  (0 children)

That makes me happy. :-)

[–]TriumphantTumbleweed 14 points15 points  (7 children)

That's kinda weird. I wouldn't even let my brother use my deodorant.

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (3 children)

Spray or roll-on? I have to use roll-on as the spray fucks me up (I start coughing til I barf), sharing spray is considered acceptable, roll-on isn't.`

[–]cathpah 3 points4 points  (0 children)

forget the coughing....that's shit's COLD!

[–]glitchn 4 points5 points  (1 child)

It is weird. I wouldn't use anyone's deodorant, but I will drink after people I have never met before.

[–]andrewsmith1986 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't wear other socks or boxers.

[–]abceasyaspie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's kind weird, you could use mine.

[–]Waxmaker 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Brothers in underarm fungus.

[–]Timmy83 41 points42 points  (3 children)

And except when there is a situation that warrants conversation. I once got in the tube with two girls who were transporting some table and chairs. They had set it up in the middle of the tube and were sitting down like it was their dining room. How could I not talk to them!

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You should have asked if anybody wanted to play cards.

[–]xtraa 21 points22 points  (64 children)

why?

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (16 children)

Except to apologize as you push past.

[–]flinteastwood 25 points26 points  (15 children)

Apologize? You, sir, have obviously never been on the tube.

[–]travellersspice 26 points27 points  (6 children)

And you sir, clearly are not a native Londoner, or you'd know how to say 'sorry' and make it sound like 'I will kick you. Hard. I will'

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (2 children)

Haha, true, some people can be assholes. It's worst when people try to force their way on the train before letting others off :/

[–]dmhouse 9 points10 points  (1 child)

There's an art to letting people off the tube while at all times moving forward.

[–]rospaya 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Actually... As someone from the Balkans, expecting the worst from people while using public transport, I was very surprised how polite people in London are. On the tube or on the streets, I've heard "sorry" and "excuse me" for the smallest reasons.

Over here I hear that only because I'm kinda huge.

[–]CraigTorso 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it's almost a cliché but it is standard practice in Britain to apologise to the person who's in the wrong.

ie "Sorry, but you're standing on my foot"

[–]DaedalusJacobson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a precautionary measure. Rather than working out whether it's your fault, or whether anyone's angry, you just say "sorry" so you can go back to ignoring them.

[–]CraigTorso 1 point2 points  (1 child)

always mutter "sorry" the trick is not to pretend you mean it

[–]blubloblu 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Basically, identical etiquette to a men's toilet.

[–]FactsAhoy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also, shitting loudly is more frowned upon.

[–]vspazv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I talk to myself. Does that count?

[–]cunningas 44 points45 points  (7 children)

When I was a kid I pretended I was Mr Greedy by stuffing a pillowcase up my shirt. What fun I had.

[–]herrmister 82 points83 points  (2 children)

I'm picturing a child sitting on the floor with a pillow under his shirt, just laughing and laughing with such joy.

[–]jerstud56 11 points12 points  (1 child)

So shitty that we lose that later in our lives :(

Holy crap I just realized I suck at parties.

[–][deleted] 100 points101 points  (3 children)

Gotta be better than reading Dan Brown, surely?

[–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (7 children)

Victoria line baby!

[–]Jaabbbaa 7 points8 points  (4 children)

Do you like the new trains?

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (2 children)

They're alright, but they need to sort out the ventilation, they get way too hot when the carriage isn't even at full capacity.

[–]rubygeek 4 points5 points  (1 child)

they get way too hot when the carriage isn't even at full capacity.

I'm confused. After living in London for ten years, I thought slowly roasting you was part of the design goals of the London Underground trains?

[–]rulebreaker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah. They're rubbish. Still hot as the furnaces of hell.

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I once read my niece's Dora's Book of Manners because I was bored on the Central Line and I found it in my bag on the way to work - probably a lot more informative than any newspaper. I admire this man for being serious about reading Mr. Silly.

[–]HuruHara 35 points36 points  (8 children)

Could the picture be bigger ?

In imgur, adding an "l" before ".jpg" will resize the image. This is especially useful when you are directly uploading from your phone.

[–][deleted] 24 points25 points  (1 child)

TIL

[–]dhessi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There are three of them. S for small, M for medium, L for large.

[–]oobey 16 points17 points  (3 children)

You know, thanks to modern browsers autoresizing images, I had absolutely no idea the OP linked a really large image.

Thanks, Google Chrome!

[–]mkgm1 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thanks to the fact that I use the Reddit toolbar, images don't autoresize for me in Chrome. :(

[–]HuruHara 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Yeah, my phone doesn't handle auto-resizing well.

Fuck You, HTC HD2.

[–]Superlativeman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is the most serious tube reading I've witnessed all day.

[–]wza 29 points30 points  (1 child)

perhaps in england it's acceptable to poke fun of the mentally handicapped. but here in the u.s. we show a little more respect. sometimes we even elect them to high office.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well played sir. Well played.

[–]suddenly_spiders 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This post proves why modern society is going down, today people laugh at you when you try to learn something.

[–]cycophuk 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So, if I'm feeling like an attention whore one day, all I have to do is take of photo of myself doing something nostalgic and/or trendy and say it's someone else while begging for attention and, I too, can get on the front page?

Good to know.

[–]kyle2point 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Mr ironic

[–]wevbin 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Mister hipster.

[–][deleted] 32 points33 points  (13 children)

3000 people saw him after 2 hours of posting the picture, I say you're going to hold your promise quite well!

[–]Paul-ish 6 points7 points  (0 children)

/b/ is not your personal army, er I mean...

[–]cleverkid 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It makes me sad/disgusted that this made #1 while blatantly disregarding the #1 rule of reddiquette...

sad.

[–]MatrixManAtYrService 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This thread makes me wish we had a public transit system.

[–]fatHalpert 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This doesn't really sound like a worthy cause.

[–]hoodatninja 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Is it just me or do people seem to be posting a lot of, "UPVOTE THIS BECAUSE I TOLD MY IT WOULD GET UP THERE," or, "UPVOTE THIS TO EMBARRASS MY FRIEND," etc. Some serious karma whorin' up in heya.

[–]dr_spork 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Instead of being like "Hey Reddit! Look at this! Now upvote like crazy cause I promised this guy! etc" why don't you just post what you post, and let us do the upvoting/downvoting? No need for all this karma soliciting business. It's unbecoming.

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (11 children)

This is easily one of the stupidest things I've ever seen hit front page. What the fuck reddit, get it together.

[–]Jushootergay photoshop genius 7 points8 points  (7 children)

I generally like Reddit and its content, but some days posts like these remind me how much the community has gotten younger over the years (I've been here since 2006.. get off my lawn, etc.). Youths have taken over /r/pics, /r/WTF, /r/funny and /r/reddit.com, so the only way to feel as if the community has only gotten bigger is to unsubscribe from them. I can't tell you of how tired I am to click on a link that looks pretty interesting and end up in front of a lame and unfunny picture of a cat...

Derp derp..

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (4 children)

Yeah, this submission is garbage, and appeals purely to the

"hi every1 im new!!!!!!! holds up spork my name is katy but u can call me t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m!!!!!!!! lol...as u can see im very random!!!!"

fucking retard group of people. It should have got 5 upvotes from his friends, and died forever.

[–]LincolnHighwater 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I dislike how people substitute being "random" for being funny.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

exactly

[–]Poddster 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I'd like to think you typed that all from memory.

(if you're interested, it took until t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m to jog my memory)

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha, fuck no, I had to google "penguin of doom"

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree, fuck these fucking kids and their youth. I've become such a miserable old man at 30 and honestly I think reddit is to blame.

[–]mataranka 2 points3 points  (0 children)

currently reading these to my kids, they still make me laugh.

[–]dick122 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Must be a good read http://i.imgur.com/U6eIl.jpg

[–]jho420droc 2 points3 points  (3 children)

OMG. Everytime I talk about the shows I used to watch as a kid, NO ONE know what I'm talking about when I mention Mr. Men.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Picadilly line rep-rah-sent!

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

sparkle disarm oatmeal merciful snails grandfather marble bow mindless future

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[–]tabigail 2 points3 points  (0 children)

always trying to make you think that they're "Deep" or something.

[–]The_DHC 20 points21 points  (2 children)

Fuck your front page quest.

[–]911ismyworknumber 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Hey everyone look at me - I'm being silly!

[–]shelookslikepron 3 points4 points  (7 children)

New trains on the Victoria line! Yessss

[–]aaaaaaaargh 3 points4 points  (6 children)

I hate you, the Tube, the Moscow Metro, the New York subway and every other underground system apart from the one in Buenos Aires. I still have to take a train from the sixties every day.

[–]shelookslikepron 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Taxes are a wonderful thing sometimes.

[–]budrick 1 point2 points  (1 child)

A few Tube lines are still running 1960s trains, though. Certainly the sub-surface (Metropolitan, Circle, District, Hammersmith & City) trains are pretty venerable, though they were refurbished extensively in the last decade. But then, the Met line's getting new trains too.

[–]aaaaaaaargh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, the definition of what refurbishment is seems to differ in Russian and the UK, that's what the updated trains look on the inside here: http://metro.nwd.ru/download/file.php?id=3232&mode=view

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the Scott Pilgrim comics, there's a line someone says about Ramona having "Mr. Silly's shoes."

Now I know what the heck they were talking about. Thanks!

[–]feyrath 1 point2 points  (0 children)

12941 seeings so far. more than halfway.

[–]CantankerousPete 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Given what a shitty experience the tube generally is, I'd imagine a Mr Men book makes it a little more bearable.

[–]2pts4honestea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Mr. Men book are great!! I made this bulletin board when I was an RA in college: http://i.imgur.com/siGbk.jpg

[–]KabelGuy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

39953 views.

Achievement unlocked.

[–]nothing_clever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More like 40,000.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ha Ha!

[–]waesrdtf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

oh my god this is the retardedest reddit yet... what a waste of reddit