Inspired by the Mighty Boosh status day http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=399469495438,
Blackadder Status Day http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=342737983905#!/event.php?eid=380330037663&ref=ts (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=342737983905#%21/event.php?eid=380330037663&ref=ts),
Father Ted status day http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=329052454108,
The Hangover status day http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=257717062581&index=1
and the Mean Girls status day http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=283548607603&ref=ts

Come aboard the mining ship Red Dwarf via Facebook, and don't be a smeg head! Please rush me my portable walrus polishing kit. Four super brushes that will clean even the trickiest of seabound mammals. Yes, I am over eighteen, though my IQ isn't.

ALL YOU HAVE TO DO TO ATTEND IS MAKE A RED DWARF QUOTE YOUR FACEBOOK STATUS FOR TUESDAY 3OTH MARCH!

The time for talking is over. Now call it extreme if you like, but I propose we hit it hard, and we hit it fast, with a major, and I mean major, leaflet campaign.

Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!

I'm in! :hihi:

I'm you from the future. I've come to warn you that in three million years you'll be dead.

Awesome!

ssmmmmmmmmmmggg hhhhhhhddddddddd.

epic! Then again it isn't unusual for me to have a Red Dwarf status anyway lol

Not wishing to sound like the old fart I am, but aware that I am going to - what's the point?

Surely things are only funny in context? So whether or not you like Red Dwarf, seeing your friends have irrelevant quotes from it as their status isn't going to be that funny, is it?

I am in, i am a BIG fan of Red Dwarf also Mighty Boosh so i picked both.

Souper! :D

Not wishing to sound like the old fart I am, but aware that I am going to - what's the point?

Surely things are only funny in context? So whether or not you like Red Dwarf, seeing your friends have irrelevant quotes from it as their status isn't going to be that funny, is it?

Why does there have to be a point? I mean seriously? Why does everything have to be so serious? Live a little, do something meaningless for once.

Why does there have to be a point? I mean seriously? Why does everything have to be so serious? Live a little, do something meaningless for once.

Nothing is truly meaningless though, is it? Despite seemingly every other person these days claiming to be 'mad' or 'random' very few people are mad, and very few of their actions are random.

I guess this status thing is about belonging, it is making a statement 'yes, I am part of the group of people that identifies positively with this programme, be it through nostalgia or the belief that it is funny. By referencing it in facebook I hope my status will be raised amongst people whose opinion I value and I will have a greater sense of belonging to something - however, it is important to me that lots of other people do it because I am too insecure to just mention Red Dwarf quotes on a day of my own choosing because there is a danger that people might not spot the reference and then I will feel even less included.'

Either that or someone on Facebook just wants lots of followers to spam.

Nothing is truly meaningless though, is it? Despite seemingly every other person these days claiming to be 'mad' or 'random' very few people are mad, and very few of their actions are random.

I guess this status thing is about belonging, it is making a statement 'yes, I am part of the group of people that identifies positively with this programme, be it through nostalgia or the belief that it is funny. By referencing it in facebook I hope my status will be raised amongst people whose opinion I value and I will have a greater sense of belonging to something - however, it is important to me that lots of other people do it because I am too insecure to just mention Red Dwarf quotes on a day of my own choosing because there is a danger that people might not spot the reference and then I will feel even less included.'

Either that or someone on Facebook just wants lots of followers to spam.

Jeesh..you really sucked the fun out of that.

There is nothing like being totally unoriginal.

Nothing is truly meaningless though, is it? Despite seemingly every other person these days claiming to be 'mad' or 'random' very few people are mad, and very few of their actions are random.

I guess this status thing is about belonging, it is making a statement 'yes, I am part of the group of people that identifies positively with this programme, be it through nostalgia or the belief that it is funny. By referencing it in facebook I hope my status will be raised amongst people whose opinion I value and I will have a greater sense of belonging to something - however, it is important to me that lots of other people do it because I am too insecure to just mention Red Dwarf quotes on a day of my own choosing because there is a danger that people might not spot the reference and then I will feel even less included.'

Either that or someone on Facebook just wants lots of followers to spam.

Then don't do it, it's not like it'll affect you in any way at all so why do you care?

Jeesh..you really sucked the fun out of that.

Back to my original point: What is fun about posting quotes from a 20 year-old mediocre sit-com on a platform designed for people much younger than those that watched the programme in the first place?

I know in my younger days we used to think it the height of sophistication to repeat Monty Python sketches, but at least we were performing them to some extent, and doing so in the company of our friends.

I doubt we'd have got so much pleasure from writing lines from the sketches on bits of paper and giving them each other to read.

Back to my original point: What is fun about posting quotes from a 20 year-old mediocre sit-com on a platform designed for people much younger than those that watched the programme in the first place?

I know in my younger days we used to think it the height of sophistication to repeat Monty Python sketches, but at least we were performing them to some extent, and doing so in the company of our friends.

I doubt we'd have got so much pleasure from writing lines from the sketches on bits of paper and giving them each other to read.

How is it any different from you having that quote in your sig? And tbh reading "'tis but a scratch" always makes me giggle, as does any funny quote, why does it have to be in any context for it to be funny? And the fact you think Red Dwarf is a mediocre sitcom is purely your own opinion, and I think a lot of people would disagree. Now go away or we shall say ni to you again.

How is it any different from you having that quote in your sig? And tbh reading "'tis but a scratch" always makes me giggle, as does any funny quote, why does it have to be in any context for it to be funny? And the fact you think Red Dwarf is a mediocre sitcom is purely your own opinion, and I think a lot of people would disagree. Now go away or we shall say ni to you again.

I think your quote demonstrates why context is important.

The words 'tis but a scratch' are not funny on their own, but become so if you can relate them to a context (the Knights who say ni! I presume?) that makes them funny.

The words 'I was very drunk at the time' are not funny if spoken by someone in court for causing death by reckless driving, but are quite funny on the end of a Fast Show sketch. Context is absolutely everything to comedy.

The quote in my signature is not intended to be funny, but it does have the same purpose as I discern for this group - it is I suppose intended to communicate something about me - that I am a Manchester City fan that knows a little of the history of the club I suppose, that I 'belong' to the group of people who are City fans. I'm not sure that quoting Red Dwarf on FB on a day you are told to says anything about you other than "I am in my early thirties at least, and I desperately want acceptance"

I think your quote demonstrates why context is important.

The words 'tis but a scratch' are not funny on their own, but become so if you can relate them to a context (the Knights who say ni! I presume?) that makes them funny.

The words 'I was very drunk at the time' are not funny if spoken by someone in court for causing death by reckless driving, but are quite funny on the end of a Fast Show sketch. Context is absolutely everything to comedy.

The quote in my signature is not intended to be funny, but it does have the same purpose as I discern for this group - it is I suppose intended to communicate something about me - that I am a Manchester City fan that knows a little of the history of the club I suppose, that I 'belong' to the group of people who are City fans. I'm not sure that quoting Red Dwarf on FB on a day you are told to says anything about you other than "I am in my early thirties at least, and I desperately want acceptance"

I think you're over-analysing something that's just a bit of fun. :)

I think you're over-analysing something that's just a bit of fun. :)

Probably - I just don't get how it is fun, really. Perhaps I'm a tiny bit autistic?

Red Dwarf - reasonably funny

FB staus updates - often make me laugh

Everyone putting Red Dwarf quotes as the FB status on the same day (and I beet 80% of them use the same four or five quotes) = a little bit irritating - surely?

It just seems a bit desperate, for want of a better word. Forced, maybe.

oh well its just a bit of fun.........a lot of people doing this for different classic/cult TV shows on facebook.......Some of the events have HUGE numbers taking part...

Probably - I just don't get how it is fun, really. Perhaps I'm a tiny bit autistic?

I think we all are.

Red Dwarf - reasonably funny

I think it's hilarious, but each to their own. The books are better though.

FB staus updates - often make me laugh

I as well! :hihi:

Everyone putting Red Dwarf quotes as the FB status on the same day (and I beet 80% of them use the same four or five quotes) = a little bit irritating - surely?

Perhaps, but no more annoying than I find it to trawl through all those Farmville and Mafia Wars updates. Each to their own again! You're probably right about the 80%!

It just seems a bit desperate, for want of a better word. Forced, maybe.

If you build it, they will come. ;)

awesome :D

How's it going?

awesome stuff

I guess you were too busy laughing at Red Dwarf quotes yesterday?

Which one was the funniest? What was your status? I need to know, so I can begin to understand!

Red Dwarf was always a show aimed at friendless, spotty teenage male geeks, so admitting to being a fan of this show is something you should be ashamed of. This sort of silly Facebook thing is like admitting you don't have a sense of humour of your own so you have to repeat someone else's jokes. All a bit pathetic really.

They're not friendless teenage geeks any more though. They're middle-aged friendless geeks, aren't they? :-)

Red Dwarf was always a show aimed at friendless, spotty teenage male geeks, so admitting to being a fan of this show is something you should be ashamed of. This sort of silly Facebook thing is like admitting you don't have a sense of humour of your own so you have to repeat someone else's jokes. All a bit pathetic really.

Are you actually serious? Your post completely proves that you don't have a sense of humour mate...

Anyway, the show has a surprisingly diverse audience, I went to the one of the Dimension Jump events a few years ago ago and was surprised to see that it wasn't full of geeks at all, but people of all ages, and pretty much split 50/50 male female. And if it was aimed at such a 'particular' audience, how did it get the highest view count BBC2 has ever had?
Get your facts right before slagging off another popular TV show.


:loopy:

I went to the one of the Dimension Jump events ... and was surprised to see that it wasn't full of geeks at all

So you thought it was only watched by geeks too?

So you thought it was only watched by geeks too?

heh, not particularly, I just didn't think there'd be such a wide audience.