to not understand all the glue hilarity on MN?

[MardyBra]

I keep seeing references to "are you on glue?" and I remember there was an unreasonable bride who became known as Gluezilla.

I've just been presuming it was something about sniffing glue. Why is that so hysterically funny?

Or am I missing something?

Blame Peter Kaye glue promoting twat! ;)

that was on TidyDancer's thread.

just means "are you high? - are you crazy?"

It's funny in its original context but the hordes of late-to-the-boat repeaters are not funny.

I don't know what the Pom Bears reference is either.
But I do find 'are you on glue' funny though.

It was funny once or twice but it is just one of those things that hoards of poster leap on and use endlessly as if it remains hilarious. When it really doesn't.

Like
'fuck off to the far side of fuck and when you get there, fuck off some more'
'have my first ever '
'wow. Just wow'

Oh and loads more.

Mig

true dat.
warrants another "Pit of stupid" or such, dontcha think?

Zing How the devil are you?

The pit of stupid still has legs in my opinion. .

Why thank you!

ok actually, kids on holiday so no bloody school runs! yay!

26 weeks now and doing ok.
also waiting for moving date - should be first half of May.
can't wait.

how are you?

ThePit

Well hello Pit!

I am fine, chugging along . Glad to hear all is progressing well with you. Have a uneventful move. Some major nesting in store for you Zing!

I think the sort of people who think Trainspotting was a comedy use "are you on glue?" As a statement of incredulity.

Ah, Zing I was only thinking of you the other day!

Did we ever have an update from Tidy for after the wedding? Has Gluezilla realised how mad she was?

Well if you didn't find it funny before all this over-analysing will have taken any tiny hint of humour out of it!

I didn't read the gluezilla thread but it seems pretty obvious to me! Like "Are you high?"

Not piss my pants funny but generally amusing.

People on here seem devoid of humour sometimes.

The Gluezilla thread went on far too long, though.

I think the RL equivalent would be two people whispering in hushed tones 'Do you think she's on something?'

And it's not PO to point out that, if you work with those recovering from substance abuse, such references aren't funny. It's a statement of fact. Well, I suppose they might be funny the first time, but repeated use (or development into idiom) isn't the same thing.

Accusations of PO seem to come about when a joke has worn so thin it really isn't funny, but some posters want to keep the 'joke' going. A certain amount of this is just how t'Internet works of course (not everyone sees things at the same time) so the tipping point from funny to crass isn't the same for everyone.

PB being another example of a 'joke' with a shelf life.

Interesting. Believe me I am all for not offending anyone but I feel it would be a shame if I couldn't jokingly question whether someone had been "on the gin" if they were doing or suggesting something a little unconventional. I think sometimes we have to recognise that something is meant in jest and try to not get offended even if it touches a nerve because of our own life experiences. I would never condone humour that denigrates someone because of their gender, sexuality, ethnicity, disability, etc. However we have all done daft things whilst drunk and would be a little crazy on glue so although the joke wore thin I am not sure that sort of humour should be a complete no-no.

Oh Gluezilla and her requests for a not-invited-guest to decorate the wedding venue.

Hence spawning. 'are you on glue'. As that was one of the responses suggested.

I see it as the same as 'Are you drunk?' or 'Are you on drugs?' when someone does something so out of the ordinary in society.

Thanks for all the explanations and for Notafoodbabyanymore coming along to explain the origin.

It was a genuine question because I wondered if there was another meaning I'd missed - just because it is repeated so much. I remember thinking the "gluezilla" thread was a good'un (at least at the beginning - I didn't follow the whole thing).

I think the funny bit was the transformation of "are you on glue" to "Gluezilla"

I'm in my late 40s so I definitely remember glue-sniffing, although I never progressed beyond a sneaky whiff of Tippex myself.

I am clinging on to in my mid 40s and was about the same! Tipped is not the same nowadays though!