Crying while eating

May 20, 2005 2:34 AM

Crying, while eating.
posted by Tlogmer (38 comments total)

heh.
posted by dhruva at 2:47 AM on May 20, 2005

Yeah, I found out about that like 5 seconds after I posted. I was kind of hoping no-one would let slip, just because the site's so fucking good.
posted by Tlogmer at 2:59 AM on May 20, 2005

funny
posted by zardoz at 3:08 AM on May 20, 2005

You know, I was having a really shitty day until I saw this site. Now I feel better, strangely.
posted by grouse at 4:04 AM on May 20, 2005

I ruined Passover!

[This is hilarious]
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 4:23 AM on May 20, 2005

I ruined Passover

who woulda known that buckwheat noodles with rooster sauce wasn't kosher?
posted by three blind mice at 5:01 AM on May 20, 2005

What he's crying about:
Babe, pig in the city

Thanks.

I don't understand the Contagious Media link. It just means the site is part of a contest, right? It isn't viral marketing or anything. I never thought it was 'real' in the first place.
posted by OmieWise at 5:18 AM on May 20, 2005

Are we really this desperate for entertainment?
posted by Ynoxas at 5:35 AM on May 20, 2005

Yes. Yes we are.
posted by grouse at 5:39 AM on May 20, 2005

Not convinced by Anakin's turn to the Dark Side

Oh, man, I feel for you, brother. I'm tearing up over my yogurt raisins myself.
posted by ulotrichous at 6:00 AM on May 20, 2005

via, yet again, boingboing
posted by rachelpapers at 6:42 AM on May 20, 2005

Strange, I had a completely different take on this. As the son of a mother with untreated depression and an eating disorder, I immediately associated this with some of the worst parts of my childhood.
posted by elderling at 7:01 AM on May 20, 2005

Stupid enough to be funny.
posted by fungible at 7:01 AM on May 20, 2005

I don't find it funny. I would call it authentic. Some of the ways in which we package things up into short labels really eliminate the humanity from experience.

I know from my own experiences feeling miserable, that you sum it up, and it seems ok, but then you think again about some particular exchange or some small piece of having lived the problem, and then you start crying again.

There actually is quite a lot of poor feelings, mostly unacknowledged. It's how to be stupid is to gloss over the detail.
posted by nervousfritz at 7:10 AM on May 20, 2005

There's really nothing funnier than someone crying while eating chocolate.
posted by electroboy at 7:31 AM on May 20, 2005

People eating and crying?!? That pisses me off! What a bunch of PABs. (punk ass bitches) If I ever met any of them, I would have to fight them. And I would win.
posted by recursive at 7:36 AM on May 20, 2005

Homer: [eating, crying] Oh, man, that's good. [sob] Pass the butter.
Bart: Are you gonna eat that all by yourself?
Homer: Uh-huh. Pinchy would've wanted it this way. My dear, sweet Pinchy. [takes a bite] No more pain where you are now, boy. [rips him in half and sucks out the meat inside] Oh, God, that's tasty! I wish Pinchy were here to enjoy this. [takes more bites] Oh, Pinchy ...
posted by Ricky_gr10 at 8:27 AM on May 20, 2005

Who cries over a garden salad? I thought that the whole point was gorging yourself to accelerate the downward spiral of guilt and shame.

What I'm eating: some weird asian dish made from fish heads, wrapped in pork skin and fried, then dropped into soup.

What I'm crying about: my screen name is based on a show that peaked like four or five years ago.
posted by iron chef morimoto at 9:00 AM on May 20, 2005

Wow, I hadn't seen the contagious media thing (thanks dhruva). BoingBoing and MF are both on my more than occasional web perusal and it usually sort of irks me when somebody FPPs something I've already seen on BB.

(No offense, Tlogmer - crying and eating at the same time _is_ weird.)
posted by prettyboyfloyd at 9:12 AM on May 20, 2005

Is this related: Undies and Fixies?
posted by sandking at 9:54 AM on May 20, 2005

Crying and eating? "WTF, mate?"

if anything, it makes me sad
posted by indiebass at 10:10 AM on May 20, 2005

What they're crying about:

Sudden realization that camera operator doesn't understand basics of light source in photography.
posted by soyjoy at 10:20 AM on May 20, 2005

verb + verb = funny.....sometimes

crying + eating = funny

crying + dancing = possibly funny

eating + lovemaking = weird, maybe funny

eating + staring = not funny

crying + lovemaking = sad and pathetic

dancing + lovemaking = ...hmmmm.....that gives me an idea
posted by Idiot Mittens at 10:24 AM on May 20, 2005

i vote a sold 'eh'
posted by ackeber at 11:00 AM on May 20, 2005

solid*
posted by ackeber at 11:00 AM on May 20, 2005

Weird. But what I kept thinking about was that someone somewhere is probably masturbating to these clips.
posted by wannabehippie at 11:08 AM on May 20, 2005

Im glad to find im not the only person to not find this to o funny. This is just too weird for me.
posted by arkine at 12:46 PM on May 20, 2005

eating and staring definitely equals funny.
posted by kenko at 1:19 PM on May 20, 2005

Shot milk out my nose...
posted by Smedleyman at 1:54 PM on May 20, 2005

Depends kenko. Eating a sandwich and staring at BBC News on your lunch hour at work.....not funny. Eating jello cubes with a spoon while watching a televangelist screaming the word Jesus repeatedly......possibly funny.
posted by Idiot Mittens at 2:07 PM on May 20, 2005

Not staring at things. Just ... staring.
posted by kenko at 2:15 PM on May 20, 2005

great.
i love this. i've always found these to be such a funny combination.

it's so hard to eat when you're crying, like smiling and whistling.
posted by chococat at 2:28 PM on May 20, 2005

Ok, I'll give you that one.
posted by Idiot Mittens at 4:49 PM on May 20, 2005

Makes my guts hurt it's so funny.

My fiancee looked over from her FFXI - as she does every half hour or so - and was not amused.
"I'm never looking at your screen again."
"Good! I don't want you to!"
"You're just looking at freaky crap because you hang out at metafilter all day!"
"It's not freaky, it is very very funny. Look at these kitten pictures."
"Ahh...kittens. mew."
posted by Baby_Balrog at 5:32 PM on May 20, 2005

Wow.

I am so not cool.

Poorly exposed digital phots + food + so-so premise = cool + funny?

I am so not cool.
posted by mudpuppie at 6:49 PM on May 20, 2005

Sorry, my earlier derivations were incomplete:

absurdist humour/everyone = undefined
posted by Idiot Mittens at 7:45 PM on May 20, 2005

nervousfritz and recursive: I think you guys need to find some middle ground and realise that it's STAGED!
posted by dubious at 9:59 PM on May 20, 2005

I like the undies and fixies page sandking linked to better. But then, I'm a girl who likes bikes.
posted by handee at 3:02 AM on May 21, 2005