Gah!
Please can someone tell me what 'FTW' means?
I don't understand and it's ruining my enjoyment of Off Topic!

Kthnxbi

*goes back to lurking*
(KittehRedfern, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 21:01, 16 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

FTW FTW
It means For The Win. Which means 'I think that is the best.

For example: I really like chocolate chip shortbread. Chocolate chip shortbread FTW.

HINT: any stuff like this you don't understand, google it. Not that I mind answering this question you understand.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 22 Aug 2008, 21:06, Reply)

Really?
I always thought it meant "Fourpenny Thrush Wrangler'.

As in 'I like Chips. Chips Fourpenny Thrush Wrangler'.

On reflection, that's just stupid.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 21:15, Reply)

Aha!
@ Mrs Liveinabin,

I didn't even think about googling it, I thought it was a b3ta thing.

Silly, but more enlightened, me
(KittehRedfern, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 21:29, Reply)

Hurrah!
Feel much better now.
Ta Mrs Bin, much appreciated.
(KittehRedfern, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 21:44, Reply)

Indeed.
Google is your friend. Without it I would never have found out the meaning of FTW, or who Joey Deacon is, or why people hate Clacton. As an American among Brits, it can be extremely confusing- but Google answers all, eventually.

Ditto on Kthnxbi and other oddball expressions that pop up. "fnar", for example, means For No Apparent Reason. Puzzled the hell out of me the first few times I saw it...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 22 Aug 2008, 21:50, Reply)

Deacon
Very much lodged in the knowledge of all British people in their 30s and no one else.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 22 Aug 2008, 22:00, Reply)

lol
I took "fnar" quite literally. As in somebody saying it...

FNARRRRRRRRRRRRr
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 22:36, Reply)

I thought fnar was like Finbarr Saunders.
I also thought it was out of context on occasion :)
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 23:55, Reply)

Well, I'm buggered
I had always thought it was Finbar Saunders too.

As in, "Look, Mrs. Saunders is helping Mr. Thrower with his large sausage" Fnar, fnar!
(dchurch bah, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 3:40, Reply)

FTW
Has also been used by Colby Buzzell as "Fuck The World" when he was blogging from Eye-Rak. And he's a septic.
(osok Rebel without a clue, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 10:04, Reply)

^ what dchurch said
I thought it was from the "ooh matron" Frankie Howerd/carry on/british smut school of funneh.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 10:16, Reply)

that's what fnarr means when I use it
to highlight innuendo usually
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 11:31, Reply)

Dunno.
I just googled for "fnar" and that's what I got. But in here if I se it as "fnarr fnarr" I usually interpret it as puerile laughter meant ironically, as you've described.

Bear in mind, as an American I'm not familiar with the comedians you cite.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 11:45, Reply)

I too thought it was
in the style of Finbar Saunders (who BTW Loon is a character from the adult comic Viz).
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 18:03, Reply)

Ah! I may need to get a few copies of that comic.
I've heard numerous references to it, and abefroman once told me of Raffles the Gentleman Thug.

FTW can also mean Fuck The World, by the way. But that usage of it was in the '70s.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 19:37, Reply)

Viz is very funny
although it's heyday was the mid-eighties.

It started as a student magazine.
Very similar to b3ta humour.

I suggest a visit to www.viz.co.uk and click archive.
Try Mickey's Monkey Spunk Moped.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 21:08, Reply)