Miscellaneous Prats and The Regular Twats05 Mar 2008 10:40 am
By Nelson

Thanks to Chloe for this one. L A Odicean is responsible for a couple of other of my favourite works of understated comedy genius.

Too much healthy food is causing children to be taller than they used to be. It was once very uncommon to see a 6ft tall 11 year old, but now they are two-a-penny. On the one hand healthy food is a good thing, preventing rickets and such, but on the other an 11 year old boy/man with testosterone levels way in advance of his general knowledge (in particular biological), is not to be taken lightly. Certainly modern eating habits have a lot to answer for. Let’s have fewer vitamins and protein.
L A Odicean, London

What if these gigantic children get angry? Confused and unaware of their own awesome power, they might pick up the town mayor and bang him on the wall! Then where would we be?

38 Responses to “Big Childs”

  1. on 05 Mar 2008 at 10:50 am James

    She just wants to keep all the healthy food for her beloved dogs, and let the kids starve. Bitch.

  2. on 05 Mar 2008 at 10:58 am Gin'll Fix It

    I wonder if he could get his theory on the correlation between consuming your 5-a-day and becoming a violent sexual predator published? I bet Nature would be fascinated to hear from him; or failing that he could try a journal more in his scope of understanding – like The Beano.

  3. on 05 Mar 2008 at 11:02 am Debbie

    It’s too much of a coincidence that this isn’t the same person..

    http://laodicean.wordpress.com/

    laugh…wee escaping..you know the routine..

  4. on 05 Mar 2008 at 11:27 am James

    Oh God, her “deep thoughts” on that blog…

    Whenever I see a headline with only the name ‘Clinton’ in it, I still think of Bill before Hillary. Is it just me?

    You couldn’t make it up and it’s funny because it’s true!

    Are tea cosies a waste of time? Do they in any way improve the tea, beyond simply keeping it warm for some time longer. I am minded to say that they have a detrimental effect on the taste, over-brewing the tea slightly, and I have therefore ceased to use mine.

    Well I believe it was le Corbusier who said “a home is a machine for living in, but a tea cosy is a pointless contrivance for overly twee cunts.”

    Having thought back over yesterday afternoon, the afternoon that preceded the Great Market Rasen Quake of 2008, I think I have identified a few signs that might have warned us of the imminent geological event.

    I have mentioned elsewhere the extra loud barking of a dog during the afternoon, the circling of birds which settled in a tree only to fly off again IMMEDIATELY for no good reason, and the agitation of two houseflies in the kitchen which I swatted with more than usual difficulty. On further reflection the two houseflies seemed more intent on getting OUT of the window than usual. I now wish I had observed them for longer, but of course I could not have known that their panicky inclination to leave the house was due to a fear of being indoors during an earthquake. We live and learn. Sadly I slept through it all, and may not be able to wait 25 years for the next one.

    THE FLIES WILL SAVE US

  5. on 05 Mar 2008 at 11:39 am Padwick

    I say that we should return to the days of scurvy and rickets. But we all know how Nelson feels about opinions. The cunt.

  6. on 05 Mar 2008 at 11:50 am Russell

    Surely that blog is not real, just reading the first few early post revealed these two nuggets:

    After all my car has an excellent catatonic converter and does not pollute any more than other cheaper vehicles.

    and

    Like other drug taking it is often pier-pressure that causes young people to take up the habit and so it was for me while I was in Brighton (and Eastbourne, come to that).

  7. on 05 Mar 2008 at 12:00 pm Debbie

    I think we should support our lovely lunatic friend, and post some comments of support. Poor soul had a real bitch of a time in Tesco recently.

    Lettuce eater.

  8. on 05 Mar 2008 at 12:04 pm James

    I honestly can’t tell, sometimes it seems like a divinely inspired satire of a stupid person trying to sound informed, and sometimes it sounds like a stupid person trying to sound informed. Is L A Odicean an anagram of anything?

  9. on 05 Mar 2008 at 12:08 pm Debbie

    A nice load?

  10. on 05 Mar 2008 at 12:43 pm Perfidy

    Acid Alone, A Acne Idol, A Lead Coin,
    A Laid Once, A Alien Cod, Anal Code I,
    Acid Ale On, Ace Load In, bored yet ?

    My favourite bit ? “Recently (Michael Martin) underwent heart surgery and doctors found a tiny balloon in his heart, and I guess nobody knows how it got there.”.

    I do, but I’m not telling.

  11. on 05 Mar 2008 at 1:41 pm gazzag

    I think you’ve been had, Nelson.

  12. on 05 Mar 2008 at 1:45 pm Nelson

    So everybody constantly assures me, on every other post :) I decided, a while ago, to ignore the nagging doubt that these people can’t possibly be real.

  13. on 05 Mar 2008 at 2:11 pm Russell

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Laodicean

    Not sure how it is appropriate though.

  14. on 05 Mar 2008 at 2:41 pm Liberal

    I concur, these children being too tall for their general knowledge is a serious problem, I mean, they’re tall enough to get served in pubs but lack the knowledge to do well in the pub quiz, therefore leading to resentment, anger and violence etc… I demand to know what the government plans to do about this, they work FOR US!!

  15. on 05 Mar 2008 at 2:49 pm Perfidy

    It’s an uncomfortable thought that the likes of Laodicean, Atom John and Derek Bells are reading this blog and laughing at our naivety. Well go on, have a good laugh at our expense you cunts.

  16. on 05 Mar 2008 at 2:53 pm Shallot

    Nah, it’s a piss-take. Has to be. Quite a funny one, too…

  17. on 05 Mar 2008 at 3:12 pm James

    I wonder if one of the usual suspects like b3ta or popbitch are having a competition to get as many recommendations for blatantly insane HYS as possible.

  18. on 05 Mar 2008 at 4:19 pm Debbie

    Nadgers. Someone’s fake posted on the LA blog under my name.
    Perfidy – how do I get over that feeling of shame – that I’ve been taken for a naive fool by these sly foxes?

  19. on 05 Mar 2008 at 4:20 pm Bisyss

    “What if these gigantic children get angry? Confused and unaware of their own awesome power, they might pick up the town mayor and bang him on the wall! Then where would we be?”

    *Gasp* You’re right! Someone get the Powerpuff hotline installed, NOW!

  20. on 05 Mar 2008 at 5:16 pm UnderHerd

    Despite calling ‘Poe’s Law’ on Derek Bells in a previous comment, I’m perfectly happy if some of these posters are piss-takes for *exactly* that reason.

    These people are either excellent satirists, or there really are people with this kind of mental bulimia, stuffing their brain-gullets with the Sun and Daily Mail until they guiltily spew it all back up in the toilet of HYS.

    If the former, they deserve to have their work disseminated. If the latter, I have no qualms about pissing myself laughing as they parade themselves in their DIY freakshow.

    If (e.g.) Atom John is a real person, and his posts accurately reflect his views, I suspect he would gain cold comfort from being considered too ludicrous to exist. On the other hand he’d probably feel important for the first time in his life because peple are now talking about him.

    Oh! The dilemma!

  21. on 05 Mar 2008 at 5:26 pm James

    The row over the origins of “Hobbit” fossils found on the Indonesian island of Flores has taken a new twist.

    “An Australian team claims the little people were not a new human species, but modern humans with a form of dwarfism caused by poor nutrition.”

    They should the Midlands for even more evidence, because where health food is concerned, there’s Nuneaton.

    See, now I’m confused again, because that pun’s a sub-Now Show level of unfunny, packed into a sub-Now Show topic reach.

    Possibly we’ve discovered a Now Show writer.

  22. on 05 Mar 2008 at 5:30 pm Nelson

    To my eternal shame, I was once near enough to Mitch Benn to smear faeces on his face, yet I failed to act.

  23. on 05 Mar 2008 at 5:31 pm Daniel Harper

    “but on the other an 11 year old boy/man with testosterone levels way in advance of his general knowledge”

    His general knowledge? Does said boy get asked this question in the school quiz or something?

  24. on 05 Mar 2008 at 5:38 pm Perfidy

    Debbie, same way as I do, go into denial.

  25. on 06 Mar 2008 at 9:27 am Billyo

    I’m calling “real loonie” on L A Odicean. On HYS she says all the kids are real because they are nourished too well.

    On the blog she says that the people of Nuneaton are undernourished Hobbit dwarfs.

    A satirist would be smart enough to realise that you can’t have it both ways.

    These are the confused ramblings of a loon.

  26. on 06 Mar 2008 at 11:56 am Shallot

    Nooooo. The contradiction’s just an extension of the satire. I mean come on, it can’t possibly be real. The whole tone is just too serious and deadpan to be anything but comedy, and 6ft tall 11-year-olds being two-a-penny? No-one could possibly believe that. Come on, get a grip, guys, it’s obviously absurdism.

  27. on 06 Mar 2008 at 12:07 pm Nelson

    I understand your incredulity and am fully prepared to accept that any of the people on here could be piss-takers.

    I take issue with your reasoning though. If you think its utter ridiculousness is evidence that it’s not real then you need to spend more time on HYS. You’re probably used, as are most of us, to interacting with a range of internet loonies on niche forums, like this. It’s worth remembering that, in contrast, the BBC is visited by almost EVERYBODY WHO HAS A NET CONNECTION. It would be surprising if there WEREN’T a few people this bizarre :)

  28. on 06 Mar 2008 at 1:46 pm James

    Yes but in this case there does seem to be the occasional flash of Henry Raddick-style wit in there. The description of the dog food factory comes to mind. Plus the fact that, like Derek Bells, L A Odicean seems to have sprung into existence fully-formed and very recently…

  29. on 06 Mar 2008 at 1:53 pm Perfidy

    Nelson, I think we need a scientist to develop something akin to the Drake equation. I’m rubbish at scientis but here’s my effort anyway:

    N= (c/100) x (tp / (tc / pt))

    where N is reliability of posts
    c is cynicism, tp is total population, tc is number of genuine cunts and pt is the number of piss takers.

  30. on 06 Mar 2008 at 1:57 pm Nelson

    James: Yeah, like I said, I wasn’t taking issue with the conclusion. Just Shallot’s weak argument :)

    Perfidy: That looks great. I’m just not quite sure about there being such a big difference between “piss takers” and “cunts”. I reckon that “piss takers” who spend their time writing HYS comments that are almost completely indistinguishable from the real thing are in fact just “a slightly different type of cunt”.

  31. on 06 Mar 2008 at 2:03 pm Nelson

    btw, L A Odiciean isn’t a recent addition. He/She was one of the first ones I posted on here, way back in early 2007.

    Definitely one of the few that’s actually intrinsically funny though, rather than just an “ironic racist” or whatever it is you reckon Derek Bells is supposed to be :)

  32. on 06 Mar 2008 at 2:03 pm Perfidy

    N= (c/100) x (tp / (tc / pt)+sdtoc) then.

  33. on 06 Mar 2008 at 2:16 pm Debbie

    Here’s a further twist to Odiceangate
    …he/she has given such varied opinions on

    Newsniffer – size zero models and the new Airbus (someone also pulled him/her up about the contradictions in argument).
    The Telegraph – Cricket, football and female sports presenters.
    Fiat – curiously on the Beckhams..?
    Joey Barton – where he/she slagged off Joey Barton.

    ..and our favourite, the BBC, on bullying and gambling. Some of the comments go back to early 2007. I’m betting on some unfortunate brain injury – sudden and drastic.

    Do I have too much time on my hands?

  34. on 06 Mar 2008 at 4:06 pm billyo

    Do I have too much time on my hands?

    Yes.

  35. on 06 Mar 2008 at 4:48 pm James

    I caught that Vishnu stealing from my herb garden the other day. The bastard had too much hands on my thyme.

  36. on 06 Mar 2008 at 7:15 pm domino

    Nelson said “you need to spend more time on HYS”

    Dear god, that’s a bit cruel, isn’t it?

  37. on 06 Mar 2008 at 11:07 pm Nelson

    I don’t know what came over me.

  38. on 07 Mar 2008 at 7:57 pm Simon

    http://laodicean.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/congestion/#respond

    Yet more comedy genius

    “I drive a very thirsty car. She is big, comfortable, even luxurious, and a real head-turner. Why should I not be able to drive her around the city given that I already pay extra road tax, the congestion charge, extremely high servicing bills without being further punished for my hobby by extra fuel tax which will hit me far more than Joe Bloggs in his Ford Fiesta? After all my car has an excellent catatonic converter and does not pollute any more than other cheaper vehicles.”