What do you think about Uncyclopedia?

[Juxtys]

I find Uncyclopedia, the content-free Encyclopedia a very interesting thing to exist. Some articles are written in a pretty scientific and sarcastic way, therefore, making you to check some articles about things you know very well. My favourite uncyclopedia articles include J.R.R. Tolien, AAAAAAAA, nobody cares, Objectivity(Redirected from Objectivism) and Age Of Empires - with diesel engine to run a game with:D

[eriatarka]

I personally dont find it funny; Ive always considered it to be a poor version of encyclopediadramatica (which is funny).

Its a different kind of humour though.

Edited July 24, 2008 by eriatarka

[01503]

I used to find it funny, but it got old fast.

[KevinDW78]

I've never seen it before today. Very funny imo. But also very The Onion-ish

[Marty McFly]

this had me rolling on the floor laughing!!

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Capitalism

Capitalism is a philosophy of punctuation. Capitalists are people who believe that all words should be capitalized, no matter what the situation.

For instance, the sentence:

"This is a sentence."

would be written this way by a capitalist:

"This Is MY Sentence."

This is, of course, ridiculous.

Some extreme forms of capitalism demand the capitalization of every letter within a word (THIS IS A SENTENCE). Such extreme capitalists are common on AOL, and frequently post to Usenet pushing their capitalist agenda.

Capitalism used to be opposed by Communism, which believes that all letters should be brought together as equals. Therefore, a communist would write the above sentence like this:

"thisisasentence"

Throughout human history there were many important critics of capitalism, the most outspoken of them being Marx. One of his most famous statements on the failures of capitalism is: "capitalismisallwrong,man!itisinhumane,evilandkickkittensfornoreasonatall!". Many critics criticized Marx however, stating that "IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT WHY DON'T YOU DO IT BETTER? BITCH!". To which Marx answered "iam!youjustdon'tnoticeit'cuzyoucan'tseethewayiamspeakingthewords". Marx's critics were baffled, but some years later a guy claimed he understood what he meant, so that he could become a dictator more easily and conquered Russia.

Marx also claimed that he would have supported capitalism, except he couldn't work out how to "get his bling on". Engels often pimped his ride for him. 'sup.

another one:

As of 2017, Islam became officially extinct as a religion, replaced with scientific reasoning instead. Christianity followed suit in 2019, as one ex-priest was quoted at the official ceremony of its demise, "I can't believe we believed this crap for so long, even when science had already obliterated the legitimacy of the Bible years ago; I'll go dunk my head in a toilet now." Judaism did not follow the example of Christianity or Islam; it remained a religion in Israel until 2055 when a gigantic tidal wave killed everybody there, which was the last refuge for Jews, hence wiping out their silly religion.

Edited July 24, 2008 by Marty McFly

[avgleandt]

this had me rolling on the floor laughing!!

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Capitalism

another one:

That capitalism article also makes fun of capitalism, Ayn Rand, and the Fountainhead, and objectivists. Making fun of the good is not that funny.

[D'kian]

I haven't seen the site, but it sounds like one more in a series of imitations of Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary."

[KevinDW78]

The quoted section above is funny. However what is said on the Ayn Rand page is utterly disgusting and vulgar.

[Juxtys]

Uncyclopedia is funny then article authors make complete misinformation and not insults. As example, they made fun of Geddy Lee(www.uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Geddy_Lee):

Geddy Lee is best known for his adventures. In 1857, he went exploring the far east in search of Xanadu, a lost city which was long before built by Kublai Khan (defeated by Genghis Khan later on, who left Xanadu and moved his empire to Las Vegas). Geddy, (or "Geddy Bear" as is his nickname), found the ancient ruins of Xanadu, expecting to find the sweet Ambrosia that was the secret of immortality. He found it, but only added 5 minutes to his life and gave him a lot of gas. This was because Kublai Khan's refrigerator of immortality had been without power for thousands of years, and the ambrosia had gone sour.

Geddy Bear was later thrown into the future, where he brought rock and roll back to civilization and defeated the Solar Federation by merging with an electric guitar he had found and becoming a goliath Mecha. He defeated the horrible priests of the Temple of Syrinx and their Beatles.

[DragonMaci]

That capitalism article also makes fun of capitalism, Ayn Rand, and the Fountainhead, and objectivists. Making fun of the good is not that funny.

Yeah, that was my thought when I read the quoted section on capitalism.

The quoted section above is funny. However what is said on the Ayn Rand page is utterly disgusting and vulgar.

That is my opinion of the section on capitalism. It isn't funny; it is utterly disgusting and vulgar for making fun of the good. Proper humour makes fun of the evil and/or silly not the good.

[KevinDW78]

That is my opinion of the section on capitalism. It isn't funny; it is utterly disgusting and vulgar for making fun of the good. Proper humour makes fun of the evil and/or silly not the good.

I don't disagree, but I disagree that the part on capitalism quoted above was making fun of capitalism - it was suggesting with utter and obvious absurdity that capitalism has something to do with punctuation - that is not making fun OF capitalism - it is making fun of homonyms. There is a difference. The humor in NO WAY has anything to do with capitalism itself.

[DragonMaci]

I don't disagree, but I disagree that the part on capitalism quoted above was making fun of capitalism - it was suggesting with utter and obvious absurdity that capitalism has something to do with punctuation - that is not making fun OF capitalism - it is making fun of homonyms. There is a difference. The humor in NO WAY has anything to do with capitalism itself.

Even if that is true it in no way fits my classification of funny and proper humour.

[Marty McFly]

the islam page is very funny

it makes fun of that religion and others

[DragonMaci]

the islam page is very funny

it makes fun of that religion and others

Well, that is fine since they are evil.

[LiberTodd]

I personally dont find it funny; Ive always considered it to be a poor version of encyclopediadramatica (which is funny).

Damn straight, ED never fails to make me laugh even though a lot of it is outright stupid. They have a pretty funny article which parodies Uncyclopedia.

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Uncyclopedia

[Tenure]

Agreed, LiberTodd and Eriatarka. It's that 'Warning' at the top of ED's page on Uncyclopedia that sums it up for me: "WARNING: This article is totally whacky! We're such a bunch of kooks!!!"

I don't think the humour on Uncyclopedia is evil, especially that quoted bit on Capitalism (which was actually quite well done), it's just usually, not very good. ED on the other hand is bloody hilarious (as well as its off-shoot, the Lolcats Bible). What Uncyclopedia tries to do (making fun of the ability of of wikipedia to make wild aspersions and pass it off as truth; to claim that a mass of anonymous opinions constitutes truth), ED executes flawlessly.

[KevinDW78]

I don't understand. How is this any better?

From ED on Ayn Rand:

Born in Soviet Russia, Ayn Rand rebelled against the system like any angsty teen and wrote a lot of crappy literature that caught on with college students, 16 year old girls, and other selfish, egotistical gaylords and sociopaths. Her sci-fi religion, Objectivism, caught on like wildfire among those who had piles of money and wanted to keep those piles and create newer, bigger piles while they were at it.

It is important to note that Alan Greenspan tapped that as well as the fact that Ayn Rand popularized the notion that all women want to get raped and that it's perfectly normal and rational to have rape fantasy-type sex fantasies. She also had no sense of humour, as attested by the fact that she never, ever laughed due to having a vagina full of centipedes.

Objectivism

A less successful version of Dianetics, it consists of a "technology" to make socially backward basement dwellers into self-righteous zealots. In her own words:

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

This is crap. She hated communism with every centipede in her vagina, because she knew that when you gave people a chance to be fair in all things they'd wait until you weren't looking and steal everything that wasn't nailed down and on fire (On-line communists will argue that capitalism causes this greed, because they have no experience of owning anything anyone else wants). That's why we have the godly government which is composed of people with a higher nature than us and who shit ice cream and piss champagne. Despite this knowledge, she expected all men to be a combination of Indiana Jones and Thomas Edison, fighting looters like gold-crazed Nazis and single-handedly inventing practical new alloys AT THE SAME TIME. Those seeking to become heroes through Objectivism, by contrast, end up as failures who wish Rush wrote songs about them. Her book "Atlas Shrugged" shows that she's a staunch libertarian on all issues except labor, because unskilled workers were put on the Earth by a God she doesn't believe in to be used and abused by the upper class and then discarded. Proletarians aren't human, they're scum - making her "philosophy" a less honest version of Nietzche's.

As an economic theory, objectivism can be accurately modelled using cheese triangles.

The Fountainhead

Rand's first book was "The Fountainhead", a novel that was part rape-fantasy romance novel, part glorified masturbationfest towards people who draw italian postcards, and part condemnation of the dumbing down of the American people. The story involves a down-and-out architect turned rapist and arsonist that no one will hire because he doesn't build according to the tastes of the dumb ignorant mob. During the course of the novel, he rapes a rich girl, who becomes obsessed with him but shows her love by marrying everyone BUT her obsession because she thinks that if they stay apart and remain miserable, it means that they are better than the chattle of humanity. Was made into a movie, which was infamous as far as Rand throwing a tantrum to force the screen-writers to keep her long, incoherent speach at the end when the architect-rapist-arsonist speaks to a jury and successfully gets acquitted by playing the "I blew up the building because I had the right to do so as an individual" card.

Face it. Howard could never, ever, EVER have survived in the real capitalist world.

[edit] "Atlas Shrugged"

Atlas Shrugged is a 10000000-page brick of a book whose supposed climax is a 60-page speech by the main character, who doesn't actually show up until page 600. In it, Rand outlines her utopia: men are men, women are subservient, maniacal bitches, and everybody who has ever disagreed with her, faltered in their agreement with her, or just not agreed hard enough dies a horrible, slow death after the fall of civilization.

The plot goes something like this: America is ruled by socialist overlords who have everyone turned into lazy drunken Russians and broke everything until John Galt, a robot from the future, comes back in time to save computers from not being created. At the same time a nymphomaniac has a crush on the android, and then they have robot sex in the subway. It takes 1200 pages to sum it up.

The opening words of this book are "Who is John Galt?" ParkingStones crossed out the words "Who is John Galt?" and replaced them with "Dude, Where's My Car?" The meaning stayed pretty much the same.

It's more useful as a doorstop than actual reading material.

[edit] "Anthem"

In contrast, her novella by the name of Anthem is written on three toilet papers. Ayn once used them to clean her period blood off of her cat's mouth. She was so inspired by her kitty's explosive tongue action that she immediately wrote every word that came to her brain. The result was Anthem.

This is great to read while fucking a cheap whore, since both are really men in disguise.

This is "Bloody hilarious"? Seems like they're both guilty of the same thing to me.

[Juxtys]

Not all humor about good is bad. Uncyclopedia tells about Lithuania(ns):

From http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Penis :

The origin of the penis is disputed. The Lithuanians like to claim that it is named after the President of Lithuania Sukis Penis, a depressed emo who in 1832 was believed to have invented the penis as a form of population control, as in those days people reproduced asexually.

Some achievment for our president, especially when Lithuania did not existed as a country.

From http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Lithuania :

History

Contrary to the popular belief there is some. Although it's better to avoid the topic, as after a few "bambalis" Lithuanians are much too much talkative about their history--much too much. If you do get into a history lesson, reach for nearest "bambalis", mix it with nearest bottle of vodka, drink the mixture bottom up and fall unconscious under the table. Trust us, it's better than the alternative.

Well, Lithuania was first mentioned in 1009 by some guy in his writings, but it is known that Lithuania is much more older than that, and in the past it was one of those countries who srike terror into the neiberghous hearts, souls, minds and so on ...(of course, in a good way). So everything began many, many years ago, in the dark forest full of preshistoric beasts. There were a bunch of barbarians gathered around and they decided, "Why not establish a vilage instead of wandering around the forests without any clue what we are doing?" So, the decision was made; all of the barbarians established a vilage and named it "Pyragu Zeme" (Later it was renamed in "Lietuva" (Lithuania) but you will know more about that later). Many years passed since that day. Pyragu Zeme prospered and grew into a small city, with it's own army, goverment, hos, etc. And then came the time than people of that city became greedy. They all sent out their pet monkeys to steal everybodys chickens then lithuania fell into world war 7 and everybody died except two people. Those two people ran off through the wilderness and started a new civilization.Then the monkeys came back and killed everybody. The end.

'bambalis' means a bottle of beer;

Lithuania was indeed mentioned in 1009.

We did struck terror, but in a bad name.

'Pyragu Zeme' means 'Pie Land'.

Military

Lithuania has one of the biggest armies in the universe:

* 16 UFO's equipped with magic cannons (armor 5, damage 6, mana cost per shot 10)

* 1251 super tanks with special ability to look like an old woman (armour 9, damage 11)

* National army from Šiauliai led by Saulėns.

* 1 World's Greatest terrorist (ever) named O'Mama Ladin Recycle Bin armed with "KABLYS 9.5" "bambalis" (no armour, no gun, 1 "bambalis" cost per operation)

* Lithuania has the biggest nuclear gun in the world: Wisaginas Nuclear Power Station (codenamed WiNnie the Pooh)

* 12 strippers called "Vakaro ziniu mergaites" ("Evening News Girls" or just "VZ girls")

* lots-a vicious old ladies, bumbling about youth and everyone else. can be indentified because they look like barrels (small and round), with knitted berets (that's why they are called "Knitted Berets") and with old (older than me, you and even your dog) bangs, made of young people's skin. (armor 22, damage 50, speed -1, Validol cost per shot 1kg).

* 1 Lituanica Stealth Bomber of AMB forces (used during the Star Wars and Žalgiris Battle) piloted by Jurgis Kairys. Lituanica has its own artificial intelligence claims itself to be a bird and untertake long distance annual migrations to the South.

There is a top secret project initiated by Lithuanian armed forces. Several terrorists raids on most important state and military objects (SEMA, Vilniaus Degtine, Daumantu Makaronu Fabrikas), caused a project to form special armed forces like SWAT or OMON. Since 1999 project was partially introduced to public. Only facts: Elite squad was named "Aitvaras" (Flying piece of paper crap), it contains about 30-40000 members, heavy armored and armed with newest Lithuanian battle production (Potato cannons, homing cucumber rockets, smart hedgehog landmines). Also available three separate groups of supporting and maintenance named "Tribambis Zydas", "Seks Emisaru Ruros" and "Falck sex curity".

Yes, it is our army

[Tenure]

This is "Bloody hilarious"? Seems like they're both guilty of the same thing to me.

I should have suffixed my comments: "ED on the other hand is bloody hilarious... if still guilty of the same crime at times". It's an open-source site, so of course you are going to get dickhead's making articles about something purely to incite hatred of it. I don't call that making fun of the good for being good; it's making fun of what they think is evil. Making fun of the good for being good would be if they were Objectivists and still made these jokes to be with the in-crowd.

ED's humour is basically edgier and more ironic: it's the South Park to The Simpsons*. It also genuinly produces a higher lulz per word than Uncyclopedia and that's a scientific fact [citation needed].

*I recognise that at times, especially in older episodes, The Simpsons was a riot and it was spot on. I refer here, however, to the mixed bag that it is.

[eriatarka]

ED's humour is basically edgier and more ironic: it's the South Park to The Simpsons*. It also genuinly produces a higher lulz per word than Uncyclopedia and that's a scientific fact [citation needed].

Yeah I agree. One of the reasons why I think uncyclopedia isnt funny is because most of their articles seem like theyre deliberately trying not to be too offensive, and settle for wackyness instead. Whereas ED is just brutal, which is always going to be funnier.

edit: also uncyclopedia users have never had a Fox news documentary made about them :s

Edited July 25, 2008 by eriatarka

[KevinDW78]

*I recognise that at times, especially in older episodes, The Simpsons was a riot and it was spot on. I refer here, however, to the mixed bag that it is.

Not to be off-topic, but I couldn't agree more. The Simpsons hasn't been funny since 12 years ago.

[JMartins]

I found this entry on "bipolar bears" pretty humorous.

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_bear

Edited July 27, 2008 by JMartins

[Devils_Advocate]

That capitalism article also makes fun of capitalism, Ayn Rand, and the Fountainhead, and objectivists. Making fun of the good is not that funny.

I think it depends more on how they make fun of the good.

Examples from the Ayn Rand Article:

The book is over 86,000 pages long, all of which either contain the same five ideas said in a variety of ways, or long-winded, detailed descriptions of irrelevant minutiae, like what color the booger juice on someone's cheekbones is

This is funny because, in all seriousness (and this is NOT a criticism in any way), the same ideas sometimes do seem to be repeated every 10 pages, and because the book is HUGE.

However, this is not funny:

As 56th President of the United States, her platform was primarily based on the death of innocents and the unnecessary consumption of large amounts of infant flesh. While this was fairly disturbing to a significant portion of the voting populace, it nevertheless appealed to Republicans, Satanists, and Objectivists.

First of all, it makes no sense. Second, it is beyond untrue.

[LiberTodd]

I should have suffixed my comments: "ED on the other hand is bloody hilarious... if still guilty of the same crime at times". It's an open-source site, so of course you are going to get dickhead's making articles about something purely to incite hatred of it. I don't call that making fun of the good for being good; it's making fun of what they think is evil.

Agreed. There are a lot of purely comedic gold articles on ED, but there are a few lemons in the mix which fail to deliver since the author obviously had little to no knowledge of what they are writing about and even less of a sense of humor. The Ayn Rand article is amongst those flops.

However, the Socialist article is a bang-up job, brutal and straight to the point:

"Socialism is responsible for more starvation and poverty than AIDS multiplied by famine. It is also responsible for everything bad in an economy; anything good in it is capitalism.

Socialism is the system America had before Ronald Reagan ran the commies out of the government. Eurofag countries still have socialism, which is why Europe sucks. "

And the article on Liberals is great as well

"Economy

In diametrical opposition to the values on which America was founded, liberals believe that mankind is hopeless without government intervention. They trade individualism, initiative, and self-reliance for government paternalism. In other words, liberals are not happy unless the government is doing everything for them which they should be doing for themselves -- such as masturbating. According to a study conducted by the nation's top physicians, liberals are prone to severe depression and aggression whenever the long, thick cock of Government is not embedded in everyone's rectums.

When you confront a liberal, they prefer to be called a 'LIEberal,' because it's clever, and one must wear a big smile on their face and speak down to them with a stern tone as if they were a child throwing a tantrum. Liberals are also obsessed with some company called Haliburton, so presumably they must have stock in that company. Just dismiss their rants about how great they are doing, and tell them you’re glad that they’ve invested well in a great American company. Be warned, prolonged exposure to liberals has been proven to cause random dismemberments due to menstrual blood traveling at fantastic velocities.

Environment

Liberals believe that the rights of poison ivy and spotted barn owls trump the rights of human beings. They have concocted a massive hoax known as "Global Warming" so that they may continue to subject private citizens to buttsecks under the guise of "saving the planet." Liberals tend to advocate abortion on demand while protesting against the barbarism of mousetraps.

Liberals have tree senses. For example, whenever a man chops down a tree for firewood, liberals' tree senses start to tingle in their lower regions and can tell a tree is in danger. This sense is used so liberals can hunt down the man and organize a fundraiser/protest/sit-in/orgy to protect the tree. "

[01503]

According to a study conducted by the nation's top physicians, liberals are prone to severe depression and aggression whenever the long, thick cock of Government is not embedded in everyone's rectums.

I practically pissed my pants reading that lmfao