When two or more unrelated threads, especially in Chat, are juxtaposed next to each other to create an amusing unintended meaning. For example:

“Are You Circumcised?”

“Flocc’s Monumental Task”

“1500 Members!!”

Unfortunate Thread Juxtapositions were being occasionally posted in several threads for a while before Thande created a thread devoted to them. Many people contribute to that thread, but perhaps the two biggest contributors are Thande himself and MrP.

Irritatingly, Private Eye have recently stolen the phrase “Unfortunate Juxtapositions”, although since they used it to mock the Guardian, Thande can’t really get all that angry.

Due to the vast number of (often identical) juxtapositions posted involving Max Sinister‘s Chaos timeline, Max has been made the Patron Saint of Unfortunate Thread Juxtapositions. Another claimant to this title is Croesus, whose Fitter Italian Military TL has also been used to similar effect.

The Poirot-esque phrase “use ze little blue dots” (in MSPaint to resize the picture) is used to refer to people who post UTJs with massive areas of white space.

Ran Exilis pioneered the “Ran-Style Edit”, in which the word ‘by’ is removed from a blue-background UTJ (sometimes just a single post), e.g. “Most Evil Woman...” by IronYuppie). Unlike any other editing this is considered acceptable if it is not overused and if it makes a UTJ funnier.

There is also the “Thande-Style Edit”, used for juxtapositions on the front page. Because the thread titles are abbreviated and passing the cursor over the link causes them to pop up as previews, in order to do a full juxtaposition with both threads, two screenshots are pasted together so both thread titles are shown as previews.