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# Free e-card
mod: click for dead bodies, yay
(Tiberius2, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:25, archived)
# "Will you start the fans, please"
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:26, archived)
# I wouldn't bother
They didn't even get one crystal!
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:27, archived)
# 2 gold
and 99 silver :(
(I helped save b3ta! kingsuperspecial is in an audience, wanking furiously, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:29, archived)
# FAIL!
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:26, archived)
# I do hope you're instant banned
for the file size alone
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:27, archived)
# Sod that
Just for thinking Xmas was two words!
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:30, archived)
# hahahahaha
come on Mods, lay the smackdown
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:33, archived)
# Turns of The Prodigy
Smack My Picture.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:34, archived)
# You should be ashmed
how about giving us a NSFW chance there eh?

twat.
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:27, archived)
# thanks
(I helped save b3ta! Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:28, archived)
# would be funny if it wasn't true...
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:28, archived)
# Ah, you have a new account now eh

Welcome to ignore, again
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:28, archived)
# Is he a sequel?
Tiberius2: The Klumps?
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:28, archived)
# I think he is probably
the second coming of Tibberius Gracchus, who was a dickhead of a Belgian if I recall correctly....
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:36, archived)
# I recalled something once
It was blue.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:40, archived)
# Oh so THAT's Tiberius
I wondered why he was on my ignore list.
*ignores another one*
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:39, archived)
#
(I helped save b3ta! the_rhyme_minister has a little bit of gold and a pager, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:29, archived)
# HAHAHAHA
That fits so well there!
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:30, archived)
# That was the most productive drunken ten minutes I've ever had, making those three.
(I helped save b3ta! the_rhyme_minister has a little bit of gold and a pager, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:33, archived)
# Now you sound like my ex!
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:38, archived)
# Hahahaa
Nice.
(I helped save b3ta! XLVII .uk, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 12:06, archived)
# hmmm
photoshopped: yes
under 200k: yes

not sure what all the fuss is about... maybe you should have put a picture of a kidnapped child or a terrorist attack...
(I helped save b3ta! yanmania... last shagged your mum on, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:31, archived)
# Yeah but it needs to be under 100k:P
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:32, archived)
# Blimey
When did the filesizes change?
(I helped save b3ta! executiverocker only wears C&A, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:35, archived)
# About 2 months ago
100k for an image 400k for an animation.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:37, archived)
# Well that's gone up since I joined!
hurrah... more pixels!
(I helped save b3ta! SubCulture Hero ... ... He... .... Comes ... ...., Tue 23 Dec 2008, 12:17, archived)
# ...
There's a difference between the picture of a child, or a smoking building, and a picture of two bloody corpses. If you don't get that you might want to look up NSFW again.
Furthermore, it's hardly 'photoshopped'. It's just TOAP - which is ok if it makes an amusing joke but in this case is a complete waste of bandwith.
(I helped save b3ta! Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:37, archived)
# Your definition of NSFW is based on your work environment
They show this sort of picture on the news.

EDIT: looks like the mods agree with you... this is what happened to the carry on films
(I helped save b3ta! yanmania... last shagged your mum on, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:41, archived)
# Erm, to be honest with you, they don't really show
pictures like this on the news as a matter of course at all, and if they do, regardless of time of day, they will say that the following piece contains pictures of a distressing nature, thus giving people the option to turn over. Linking the picture would be the same thing!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:45, archived)
# True.
I don't think they should give warnings on the news. War is brutal and nasty. Why not show it?
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:58, archived)
# took about four seconds to find... dead body
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7793236.stm
(I helped save b3ta! yanmania... last shagged your mum on, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 12:06, archived)
# But yet again,
you are ignoring my point about the warning. That video, of which the screencap is not discernible as a dead body, has a guidance warning along the bottom.
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 12:48, archived)
# Erm
So now you're comparing a picture of a child, the carry on films, and two blown up dead bodies? You've got from incongruous to ridiculous.
(I helped save b3ta! Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:49, archived)
# no youve missed the point
i was comparing b3ta to carry on films

Get off your high horse.

I long ago realised that different people see b3ta in different ways. You obviously see it in a different way to me.
(I helped save b3ta! yanmania... last shagged your mum on, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:54, archived)
# Well obviously everyone draws the line in a different place
My point was there's a clear and objective difference between making a distasteful inference and shoving visceral gore down people's throats. You might think that, say, a joke about the twin towers is in bad taste, but it's a different issue to posting images of people killed in the attack.
(I helped save b3ta! Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:58, archived)
# of course its bad taste
my point is that you are not logged into disney.com

The day something is too risque for b3ta is a sad day
(I helped save b3ta! yanmania... last shagged your mum on, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 12:00, archived)
# "Everything goes" isn't necessarily a good thing
Look at 4chan and its offspring
(I helped save b3ta! Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 12:08, archived)
# For what it's worth...
... and at risk of incurring the wrath of people who contribute more to this board than I...

This isn't as bad as all that. Maybe the execution is a bit unsubtle, but the point being made - assuming I've read it aright - seems straightforward (and, in its way, honourable) enough.

*puts on asbestos clothing*
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:32, archived)
# 177k
Plus they think that Xmas is two words:P
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:33, archived)
# Ah...
So it's a filesize thing? I've got no idea how that stuff works.

Fair enough, then. I thought it was about the content, the sentiment of which is one (I think) I share.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:36, archived)
# I think it's because they're not famous or part of a huge disaster
if that were the case, we'd all be laughing our heads off...

*goes back to the lurking*
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:35, archived)
# *Attempts to photoshop Maddie at Bhopal*
You're right! It's much more funny!
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:37, archived)
# welcome to the fickle 'world of b3ta'
/It's a bit like Dickie Davis' World of Sport but doesn't have a catchy theme tune
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:39, archived)
# DER der der DER der der der DA DA DADA DAAAAAAH! DAAAAAH!
Oh, arse. That's Grandstand.

*gives up*
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:41, archived)
# fickle, hypocritical
not as good as it used to be etc etc
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:48, archived)
# surely not! ;)
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:50, archived)
# fields, bus stops
spirit of the blitz and so on and so forth
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:51, archived)
# Do you really think so?
If the picture was, say, of the Sichuan earthquake everyone would be laughing? I don't agree, i think everyone would still be calling him a cunt.
(I helped save b3ta! Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:43, archived)
# It depends what you do with it.
Juxtaposing a picture of a war with the banality of Christmas may be a tad sophomoric, but it does have a point. It may not be lolsome, but that's just too bad. It can still be witty.

If you can use a picture of an earthquake to make a comment about the world in a witty way, then you're welcome to give it a go, I'd've thought...
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:49, archived)
# My point was
It's the graphic nature of the image that people are complaining about. I don't think the 'fame' of the event has anything to do with it; if he'd used a gory picture from a more recognisable tragedy the same people would still be complaining in the same way.
(I helped save b3ta! Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:55, archived)
# Sure - I got that point.
I still think that it's what you do with an image that counts in this sort of context. Likely as not there'll be counterexamples. But the original post here was an attempt - I take it - at a black-as-pitch joke about smug middle-class westerners celebrating Christmas. I don't see anything particularly problematic about that.

If you're offended by the image, you've misidentified the problem. The problem is that people are getting mutilated for no good reason, not that there exist photos of the mutilation. The photos, used well, might actually turn out to be a good thing.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 12:02, archived)
# I don't disagree there
We simply place a different weight on the level of artistic quality required to legitimise the use of potentially objectionable material.

Furtrhermore, ... oh bugger it i don't have time for the furthermore.
(I helped save b3ta! Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 12:22, archived)
# i personally find mutilated corpses far more disturbing than, for instance, 333333333333333333333222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222
i was about to get on my high horse, but a cat just sat on the keyboard
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:35, archived)
# i think the discription of nsfw needs to be extended a little
some people may find pictures of blown apart bodies, burning children and dead viet cong a little upsetting and that these should be linked.

although extending that argument will lead to every single picture ever posted here being linked...
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:37, archived)
# Hell, yeah.
If the real world refuses to be nice, then I just don't want anything to do with it.

:)
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:38, archived)
# IN the real world people rape small children and sadistically torture helpless victims
Would you like to see some in-depth footage on b3ta?
(I helped save b3ta! Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:51, archived)
# If it's done intelligently and for an identifiable reason.
There's a difference between perpetrating it or endorsing its perpetration, and doing something with it. I don't know where I'd draw the line, or if there is one to be drawn. And so I won't be drawn either.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:56, archived)
# And that is the key
Saying 'well, it happens in the real world' is not itself a justification or an excuse.
(I helped save b3ta! Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 12:04, archived)
# You're right.
Your point would carry more weight if that was what I had said, though.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 12:07, archived)
# you say that like it's a bad thing...
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:40, archived)
# every picture here a link?
that would lead only to idiocy. Oh Hai, i did what you said and shopped a kitten, hahah click the link
www.rotten.com/runoverkittenwithspunkinthewounds.jpg

(k3b/-\b Peace man., Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:43, archived)
# if only that link were real


(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:53, archived)
# dissapointed
(I helped save b3ta! Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 12:25, archived)
# Call me old-fashioned, but I don't find dead people funny.
If it had been linked, at least I'd have a choice about whether to view it or not.
I'm not going to get into an argument about whether it's suitable for the board - I know some people here get a good old rofl out of real people's pain and death - but if it's alright with you, I'd like to choose not to see this. Toodle pip!
(salty_sea_dog Pillaging since 1886. Oh, and "Yahaarrrr" as well., Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:38, archived)
# that's sad, i find spike milligan hillarious.
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:40, archived)
# Drat you
for finding the logical inaccuracy in my post! Alright, I meant I didn't find pictures of dead people funny. I like the comedy stylings of Tommy Cooper, Laurel and Hardy and Bill Hicks. See? I'm not anti-dead people.
(salty_sea_dog Pillaging since 1886. Oh, and "Yahaarrrr" as well., Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:43, archived)
# hahaha :)
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:46, archived)
# Well I am,
the lazy bastards never do anything new!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:46, archived)
# Yay, I get to use this!
(MattDP (Squiggle), Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:33, archived)
# lol
this is brilliant
(I helped save b3ta! Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:34, archived)
# fuck,that was some crimbo party
somebody even attempted to roast that poor chaps leg
(Rattlehead all time with the gay, forever touching, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:34, archived)
# I was hoping for a 'he got completely legless ' gag in there
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:36, archived)
# You said Merry Xmas, our survey said
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:40, archived)
# oh hell... Not you again.....
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:41, archived)
# i understand people getting pissed off about
the filesize but about the bodys i dont get
(Rattlehead all time with the gay, forever touching, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 11:42, archived)
# Oh wow
a new tiberius to ignore!
(I helped save b3ta! XLVII .uk, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 12:04, archived)
# at risk of feeding the troll...
you are a TWAT. now FUCK off
(I helped save b3ta! Spunky McPunk not dead yet, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 12:15, archived)