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# 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)