User talk:Argylesocks
Welcome![edit source]
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Uncyclopedia:AAN/Adopters[edit source]
Hi, just letting you know that since you don't seem to be active these days (at least not with adopting users and such) I've moved you from the list of active adopters to the list of inactive ones. If you should become active again, you may want to move your name back to the active list. – Llwy-ar-lawr (talk • contribs • logs) 19:27, 16 Mar 2014
IRC[edit source]
Now. ~ Tue, Mar 18 '14 23:49 (UTC)
- Last time he was on he said he'd lost the password to Argylesocks. I hope he's found it again, but it's also possible he hasn't. – Llwy-ar-lawr (talk • contribs • logs) 00:35, 19 Mar 2014
OBLIGATORY TALKPAGE RAPE!!!!!11!!ONE!!![edit source]
Lolololololololololol. -- 03:56, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
NO U[edit source]
Here I was, all like, I am most definitely going to start editing that page that I said I would totally edit, and you fled like a orphan from an orphanage fire. Totally all your fault, and most definitely not my fault. I was TOTALLY about to really start editing it for real. The Woodburninator Minimal Effort ™ 20:53, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
UnSignpost: yet another new format but still less news[edit source]
By Llwy-ar-lawr
So it seems nothing much goes on these days that's really newsworthy. Sure things happen, new users stop by, edit a while then leave, people write things, but...nothing really notable, you know. But we won't write an entire article about how nothing's happening and how depressing that is because, well, it's depressing, you know? So we're going to tell you about one thing the author - in her extreme vanity - thinks is worthy of reporting and make it seem like that's important and trick you into caring, when you'd really much rather be playing video games or (gasp) writing an article.
This forum resulted in our acquiring a new admin, Llwy-ar-lawr, who is still all over the place just like she was before but now shows up in different places and is making this slow website go a little faster to hide how slow it is (we hope). There are rumours that she sleeps sometimes, but they have yet to be verified. She also happens to be writing this text right now, which is a terrible conflict of interest so we can't say any more on the matter; this means we will distract you with more pointless drivel about nothing. Now back to our regularly scheduled commercials, which we've forgotten to serve you. We bet you were really missing them because they're so yummy and informative. And yellow. That comes from the pee, which is high in nice nutrients like phosgene phosphorus...we think. Probably. We're telling it to you as a fact, though, because we're never wrong.------------
Retro Week happens
By Anton199Uncyclopedians, rejoice! A great victory over the forces of liberalism has been won!
We, the Conservative users of Uncyclopedia, have decided that we don't have enough featured in-jokes, clowns, Really Big Trees, user and disambiguation pages, as if we haven’t pulled enough boners (and templates), we are putting all our past glories on our main page, once again, one by one, ten days a week.
Dear readers, only a few days late, the UnSignpost declares the Retro Week open! Applauds!
Originally Shabidoo's very controversial idea, the Retro Week has grown to become the time when all the Uncyclopedia administrators take an official rest from their site work, unless they are also the UnSignpost editors. You don't believe us? Check the recent changes!
So the 2014 Retro Week opened with a really big tree. A very big one. But it is pretty much everything original about it. It pursued with Slender Lorises, that are able to live in wet and dry forests, next - with Template:Boner, which we are not going to use in this UnSignpost, no matter how many times you ask us. Then came the turn of Hardwick Fundelbuggy's Userpage, featured not because it was funny, but because its author had written a lot of funny stuff (following this logic we can feature sandboxes and user contributions). Finally, we saw the Fire Hydrant spreading its waters around Uncyclopedia and slowing down - if not destroying - the servers.
Amongst other pros of the Retro Week are the facts that it gives users a good excuse for not voting on VFH for a while, because nobody does this anyway and that it is keeping our main page busy, while we are making an UnSignpost for you.
Thank Sophia, it happens only once a year!
Biopic
We haven't managed to get hold of anyone long enough to get sufficient information out of them for a biopic. They always managed to ooze away just in time. Must be that slime that's got into the works.
From The Logs
Top VFH Competitors
VFH Highlight Of The Week This is not an article (12/2)
From The Forums
UnSignpost News This is the first UnSignpost issue since August 2013. If that's not news I don't know what is, so stop complaining.
Chat Quote [22:15] <snerk> I just can't help but think that this is a pattern that is indicative of an anarchist takeover.
– Llwy-ar-lawr (talk • contribs • logs) 05:06, 5 May 2014
RIP[edit source]
looks like you went to deep into the deepweb and got deepwebbed. rip in pieaaces --Y (torlk) 05:31, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
Shit...[edit source]
So you try this literally the day before I will almost assuredly have no internet for 4-5 days. If I can remember anything about the time, I'll jot down some unfunny bs on some paper. Like with a pen and everything. I may be able to actually do something Monday. Or next week sometime. Probably. Maybe. Possibly. Who knows? The Woodburninator Minimal Effort ™ 06:21, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- We're in the home stretch, I think. It's just starting to hit the point where the "New World" starts gaining independence, all hell breaks loose in Poland, and the narrator starts flipping out. Also, vote. --Argylesocks (talk) 06:38, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
So for some reason[edit source]
I have, to date, edited or created four different Jimbo Wales pictures. This keeps up and I'm gonna get a reputation even worse than my bear-fetish one. ~ Fri, Aug 8 '14 2:31 (UTC)
- You have a bear fetish?? Elaborate, in the form of every picture in a gallery directly beneath this line of text, please. --Argylesocks (talk) 02:37, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
- This would be some of them:
- Also I've done, like, five articles that involve bears or something. ~ Tue, Aug 19 '14 19:14 (UTC)
HowTo:Repair a broken smartphone[edit source]
Hi Argylesocks! Thanks for your edits to this new article! I guess it makes it half yours already, so that if it's featured I propose you take at least half a point! Anton (talk) 08:36, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
- So I've looked through all of your additions and liked them, but would you mind if I edit them so everything fits the general tone I'm trying to establish? Anton (talk) 10:08, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
- Of course to everything! Collaboration! Hooray! --Argylesocks (talk) 01:36, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
- Really, thank you for everything! If I've removed a few jokes, it a very small fraction of everything you added and I very much appreciate what you are doing. I can't call it "help" because I am not even sure who is the author of this article. You are making me ashamed. You have grasped all the thoughts I wanted to express with only a few edits and you are expressing them, a lot better than I could have ever done. I am not even talking about your own ideas and jokes. I don't how it's possible and this is very impressive.
- Of course to everything! Collaboration! Hooray! --Argylesocks (talk) 01:36, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
Now, about Siri and Droid. Sorry, if the fact that I deleted the references to them disappointed you. My point was that to impress his customer, John Brown (I prefer referring to him this way, although he doesn't have a name in the article), has done a very small bit of research (though, not very successful one) and tries to talk about smartphones in the introduction as convincingly as possible, despite the fact that he doesn't know a thing about them. I would lead such ignorance to the absurd and I would presume he doesn't know what Android is, not even mentioning its problems. The same with Siri, the iPhone guy. I tried to pursue either the religious imagery at the beginning, but I assume that the attempt at a joke was probably very lame.
And for the swearing, I guess it's my own principle not to do this, even when I am writing from another person's perspective. It might also scare the customer, who must be extremely naïve, but who must have at least the minimal analytic capability, while all of Brown's mono-dialogue is about keeping a balance between scaring the guy and inspiring him confidence about his smartphone.
Hope this explains something and hope you don't find the message too long. It is a pleasure editing with you! Anton (talk) 23:08, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
- Good points about the narrator being too thick to know the difference between models, I'm just a sucker for a joke that slams Droid, and came up with the Siri joke because, frankly, I had nothing else. But I think the prayer stuff works pretty well! Especially tying it to the throwaway I made about the damned, turning that into an angle. Dropping hints of religious zealotism through the narrative would be a good undercurrent to play with; I thought being haunted by his friend's tiger mauling was a good callback too, but if you disagree, eh who am I to argue. --Argylesocks (talk) 04:27, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
- "Who am I"?! You're the co-author! I agree with the tigers haunting the narrator and I've just realized that "oh, not the tigers" placed where it was fit perfectly. I'll try to re-add it as well as a few more references to that scene later. It worries me a bit, though, because I'm not sure how to keep the plot going (the smartphone one I mean) with these references, flashbacks and ghosts, but stuff like this always gets sorted out sooner or later. Anton (talk) 11:31, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
- On a second thought, "heavens" is also a great exclamation where it is and probably as effective. But it's as you wish. Anton (talk) 11:32, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
Wow, this was a lot. Great additions! But I am curious: are we making the narrator gay? In your flashback, I modified the very end because I think the funniest thing would be to let his cynical remarks get even into this tragic scene. Very funny lines about the photo-safari and the prayers! I'll do more in a while. Anton (talk) 12:34, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
- Everyone's sexuality exists on a spectrum. In my mind, however, Eugene just had a beautiful face. No shame in just admitting it. If it's alright, I took off that little tag at the end, though. The tonal shift was just too extreme and didn't play very well with me :/ In any case, I think I'm done with my additions. Back in 2007, they called that being THINKER'D. I can't think of anything else to call it, so I guess I'll just call it a day. --Argylesocks (talk) 19:49, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Sure! Thanks for everything! I laughed so many times when I read what you've written! I'll re-read it once again and take care of anything else that needs editing. And I wanted to ask you: will you allow me to bring your edits to the wikis uncy? It will be perfectly understandable if you wouldn't, but I would love to see this article on both sites. Anton (talk) 12:46, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
- I don't see why not! And if anyone else sees why not, balls to them. It's been great collabbing with you! I've loved your tune-ups and additions too. --Argylesocks (talk) 16:29, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello[edit source]
Anything that you could suggest by way of improvements to my article? I get that you don't think it's A) Amusing or B) Finished, but very little more than that. You are well within your rights to dislike my work and if you want to write a long paragraph on that topic I'll hand you the pen, but I don't understand the logic behind just sticking a tag on the article and declaring that it isn't funny. We write articles here, as you are probably aware having written many excellent articles yourself, and we all improve through constructive criticism of our work. If you simply don't like the article for a fairly trivial reason then feel free to keep that to yourself or vote against it should I nominate it to go on the front page.
This site lives and dies on funny stuff and if your reaction to people putting time and effort into trying to be funny is simply to ICU their work with no helpful input or constructive criticism then I can't see this wiki expanding its community very much. Please let me know if you have any suggestions as to how my article can be improved, or if your only suggestion is to delete and start again, please try and explain why.
Also, sorry for threatening to ban you, didn't realise who it was. --ChiefjusticePSX 12:00, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
- Nah I was just tickling yr nuts, the article looks great. Great to hear from ya! --Argylesocks (talk) 01:36, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
- Bastard. --ChiefjusticePSX 19:43, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
grueslayer pages[edit source]
need to revive http://en.uncyclopedia.co/w/index.php?title=Template:Slayerstart&action=edit&redlink=1
move http://en.uncyclopedia.co/w/index.php?title=Game:Grueslayer/ch1&action=edit&redlink=1 back to mainspace, and move User:Trar/Game:Grueslayer back to the main space as well as the talk page and its Game_talk subpages including the archives
that is if you don't plan to move everything to my user domain
--Trar (talk|contribs|grueslayer) 08:28, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
- Everything is gonna go back to your mainspace, Bizze's just tinkering with the script right now. Grueslayer as it stands was deleted by the community, apparently, so I reckon it ain't fit to just go back just yet. --Argylesocks (talk) 08:32, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
- Right. I'm going to work on relinking the talk page stuff and maybe see why some of the templates don't seem to be working. You might need to revive those too. --Trar (talk|contribs|grueslayer) 19:38, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
- I moved everything I could find already. Please list any that are still missing or haven't been moved yet. ~ Mon, Aug 11 '14 19:51 (UTC)
- http://en.uncyclopedia.co/w/index.php?title=Game_talk:Grueslayer/info&action=edit&redlink=1 needs to be revived. There may be also some talk pages in the PvP subdirectory. Also SPIKE deleted the transplanted pages on uncyclopedia.wikia because he saw the tag I put up on it that said 'this is broken, use the .co one'. --Trar (talk|contribs|grueslayer) 19:38, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
- I moved everything I could find already. Please list any that are still missing or haven't been moved yet. ~ Mon, Aug 11 '14 19:51 (UTC)
- Right. I'm going to work on relinking the talk page stuff and maybe see why some of the templates don't seem to be working. You might need to revive those too. --Trar (talk|contribs|grueslayer) 19:38, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
HEY[edit source]
Please give us advanced notice next time you leave for good. The last time you left for good it was so sudden I didn't even get a chance to say goodbye :( --ShabiDOO 20:40, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
- Well then you better say Goodbye right now, just in case! And if you really do want advance notice, then I'm not kidding. I've been around so much because I've been needing to kill excess amounts of downtime (while also not spending a ton of money, aka doing fun things) during a housesitting gig that ends in five days. --Argylesocks (talk) 20:54, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Heyy[edit source]
I've been kind of doing the Featured Article (pieces that the non-admins can do, that is) such as writing up Uncyclopedia:Top 10 of 2013 just to clear things up. Since the Top 10 lists are usually accompanied by a captioned picture of celebrity, that's why I changed the picture from the imaged used on the Top article of 2013 to Rihanna playing Xbox. Sorry for any confusions. 02:39 8.14.14
- No prob at all. I just kneejerk reverted it, so it's my bad. I get trigger happy on pages like that. --Argylesocks (talk) 04:54, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
Another missing Grueslayer link[edit source]
User:Game:Grueslayer/10minutes/race should be moved to User:Trar/Game:Grueslayer/10minutes/race. If you could get someone to unhuff Template:Anvaronlolbi and unhuff/move Game_talk:Grueslayer/PvP & Game talk:Grueslayer/PvP/Conniving that would be great as well --Trar (talk|contribs|grueslayer) 06:43, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
Retrospective[edit source]
Hello again! I am really interested in your retrospective project. If it's not a secret, I would really like to know what happens to all the information you receive, how it is used and what you are planning to make of it. For instance, will you look at what most users value on Uncyclopedia and then concentrate on developing these strengths?
And, of course, if you need any help with it, I am very enthusiastic about discovering this project. Anton (talk) 12:21, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for asking! I plan on collecting interviews from as many past and active users as I can covering their impressions of the wiki, the community, and what struck them as the biggest moments in the site's history. In the end, I hope to compare my own experiences against these and sketch a portrait of the website from its inception, to its heydey, to its current state, and hopefully draw some "profound" conclusions about the life and nature of communities in the digital age. If you wanna throw in your voice, especially as someone who's spent a considerable amount of time at the Wikia wiki, I'd love to hear it. Do the Special:EmailUser thing to User:TKF and I'll send you the questionnaire.
- As for what I do with the information I receive from everyone, for now I am just cataloging it, but once I get enough I plan on asking some follow-ups. If I decide to use any bit of information in the final piece, I will notify the persons affected beforehand to guarantee that they are okay having their name attached to what they said. If not, I will present it relatively anonymously, only using qualifiers like how long they've spent on the site and stuff. --Argylesocks (talk) 18:43, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
Feature![edit source]
Thanks for writing this one with me! It was a great pleasure for me too and a very interesting experience! Anton (talk) 00:06, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
Hey![edit source]
Thanks for voting to feature Jared Leto on the main page!
~Formerly Annoying Crap 05:38, 26 August 2014
Bad Nigger Attitude[edit source]
Did you really have to trash Funnybony's writing and his article when you closed the VFH page? --ShabiDOO 16:43, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- Yes. It was a racist, awful pile of shit. --Argylesocks (talk) 07:57, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
- If you closed everything like that, the entire internet would be gone. The Woodburninator Minimal Effort ™ 19:34, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
- Yes...well when we compare it to Filial Piety, certainly the most admirable praiseworthy article that was oh so funny, not-pointless in any way, non-pediophillac article that totally deserved to be featured...despite the 25 previous attempts made with countless admins trashing it themselves for the same arguments you are giving now...I can't argue with you there. ShabiDOO 16:05, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
- If you closed everything like that, the entire internet would be gone. The Woodburninator Minimal Effort ™ 19:34, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
You're a Nidiot![edit source]
It is very important to me that you know this. Also, I wrote a few words on our article. By my calculations, for every paragraph I write, you have to write 10-15. So, uh, chop-chop. The Woodburninator Minimal Effort ™ 04:53, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
- Go cock yourself.
- Also, I will, but later. My priorities are super junglelanded right now, plus I don't have internet at my apartment right now. Also I need a job first. --Argylesocks (talk) 04:55, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
- From experience, I say write while jobless. I wish I had the time to write now. But jobs get in the way, and they suck. The Woodburninator Minimal Effort ™ 04:57, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
New Best Seller[edit source]
Hey, I heard about your project and I'm quite open to the idea! My e-mail is the horrendous mattaidepikiw@hotmail.com and I'd be happy to participate to your project! Hit me up, you have been a mentor here to me since my first article, Heaven's Gate. Mattsnow 08:47, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
Quitter[edit source]
You are teh wurst. The Woodburninator Minimal Effort ™ 00:16, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
Re-feature queue[edit source]
If you want, you can go to Uncyclopedia:Re-feature queue/Nominate and pick one featured article that you wrote to be re-featured. You can also pick three features written by someone else to re-feature. -- 18:22, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
you are very nice[edit source]
its me kewieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee i like you as you are nice tkfeck
- thanks! you seem sort of inscrutably cool as well. when you drop the vendetta against ZB (I guarantee it, that guy's joking around p. much all the time) then you should make an account and stir up trouble the old fashioned way: giving people dickenvy at your huge writing talent. --Argylesocks (talk) 12:32, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
you are very smooth and hairless[edit source]
I like twinkies. ~ Mon, Aug 3 '15 18:53 (UTC)
Hey! Butt hole guy![edit source]
You ever IRC anymore, or do I have to beg you or something? The Woodburninator The vote was legitimate! ™ 19:08, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
- U R butt hole, y u no talk me front butt? The Woodburninator Minimal Effort ™ 04:06, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
Going to continue to bug you[edit source]
Ignoring is rarely the answer. The Woodburninator Minimal Effort ™ 12:29, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
- SRSLY. Also, what's a guy gotta do to write a retrospective for funsies? The Woodburninator Minimal Effort ™ 19:42, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
I am durnk[edit source]
HOLDY MAYN ANM I DRUNK AND YOU SHOULD BE MHERE MORE BECUASE GUNNY = YOU. LIKK I KONW YOU HAVE A HIGHER COMDDYU THAN SOME OF THE FEST OF US ONOW, BUT MAN CAN YOU BE FUNNY HWNEY YOU WNAT TO. I LIKE YOU FUNN YMAN. GOOD GUY WITH A FUNNY HUMOR. LETS HAE A FUN TIME GUY!!! 07:01, 8 February 2016 (UTC) TILEDE!!!
- So I drunkenly posted this to your userpage last night.... But I feel like the message still stands. The parts of which you can actually understand that is. The Woodburninator Minimal Effort ™ 00:56, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
- aw thanks --Argylesocks (talk) 07:22, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
- A true legend. -— Lyrithya ༆ 18:33, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
- Nah, nevermind. I take it all back. The Woodburninator Minimal Effort ™ 08:57, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
- aw thanks --Argylesocks (talk) 07:22, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
Welcome back![edit source]
Hey Argyle, it's great to see you around. A lot has happened since you last edited, so I wanted to invite you to our official Discord server, where almost all of our active users (and familiar names from times past) hang out, such as Codeine, Zombiebaron, Dr. Skullthumper, EMC, and more. Cheers! →L A B O R A T O R I E S 06:32 1 July 2019
Happy Monkey Competition 2021[edit source]
Hey its HAPPY MONKEY TIME 2021 (Feb 21-28). Your favourite writing competition where we write articles on one another's suggested topics. Go ahead and sign up because the more users we have competiting the more ridonculously fun it is. If you don't wanna write you can sign up to judge! Sing up here. Remember it's not about writing a sure fire VFH article, but pushing the limits of your originality and creativity and spitting out an article on a topic you had never thought about writing before. Also...Shabidoo will love you forever and owe you like a zillion favours for it. He will literally do anything to please you if it means you participate. Happy Monkey Farts!!! ShabiDOO 15:35, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
It's beginning to look a lot like…[edit source]
Up for grabs is the coveted Clark Griswold Award for Holiday Cheer. Who will be crowned Holiday Victor?
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It's that special time of year. A wonderful time for friends and family to rejoice in gaiety. Not you! You usually spend all of your hard-earned money on gifts for them, and now you just want to hibernate until your finances recuperate. Well, here at Uncyclopedia, entering our newest competition won't cost you a penny — Sign Up Today! (pretty please) – ...·º•ø®@» LEG CUN GUN DUN 13:42, 13 December 2021