You are not logged in. Login or Signup
Home » links » Link 1580850 | Random

This is a normal post I'm waiting for the McDonald's ad
It might actually have something to say
 (I helped save b3ta! After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 22 Jan 2022, 20:59, Reply)
This is a normal post What, like homogeneity and uniformity is best perhaps?

(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 22 Jan 2022, 21:08, Reply)
This is a normal post We should all be the same
Except people that would prefer to know the latest McDonald's menu rather than that pregnant black women support Man City too, despite what you racist fucking scum proletariat may think.
 (I helped save b3ta! After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 22 Jan 2022, 21:15, Reply)
This is a normal post I thought it was a better painting than an ad for an already ubiquitous company.
You seem very angry that I mentioned it. A very particular form of anger as weĺl, interesting how very important putting others down is to you.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 22 Jan 2022, 21:34, Reply)
This is a normal post
Working class people - very specifically - are bombarded with targeted messages assuming they are racist fucking scum. You get a 'you're racist' warning before BBC sport clips. Not so much news or arts... only sport. I'd much rather have an ad for fast food than a message from my superiors telling me what a terrible person I am.
 (I helped save b3ta! After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 22 Jan 2022, 22:19, Reply)
This is a normal post Working class people get bombarded with promotions for diets that lead to obesity and diabetes
Both of which are hugely significant problems for ordinary Britains
. I see platitudes about tolerance, however disingenuous and condescending, as probably the lesser of two evils. But I hate all adverting, particularly ads on the landscape like billboards that you can’t avoid. Many cities now have no billboard/outdoor advertising bans, ones you wouldn’t expect like São Paulo, and I’d advocate for none at all than argue about the content
 (I helped save b3ta! cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 22 Jan 2022, 22:46, Reply)
This is a normal post ^THIS
If they turned all the billboards to canvasses for arts/crafts, it would be a different atmosphere than the advertisers trying to out-shout or out-manipulate each other.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 22 Jan 2022, 23:05, Reply)
This is a normal post Cardiff has a few murals like this
They're not usually trying to make a point. This particular one is in Butetown, 'Tiger Bay', probably Wales' least white area that has been either demonised or ignored at various times as a result. People who live there seem to like the mural.
 (horrid, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 0:10, Reply)
This is a normal post If it brightens the place up and people are okay with it.
I'm uncomfortable with overtly political murals though.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 0:31, Reply)
This is a normal post The political murals in Yorkshire are the worst
Ayup the ‘RA
 (I helped save b3ta! cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 0:42, Reply)
This is a normal post Those people who do their own home improvements.
The Provisional DIY
 (I helped save b3ta! Varmint, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 20:36, Reply)
This is a normal post I don't think it's particularly political
People from Cardiff of different politics don't seem to have had a problem with it, but /links can find the politics in anything.

At worse it's probably a bit of an empty platitude. I think the local outrage also ties in with a broader feeling in Cardiff that anything a community likes, industrial heritage etc, inevitable gets steamrollered by developers.

Was the 'soulless' in your title accidental then? I thought maybe it was a pun on soul crew.
 (horrid, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 0:46, Reply)
This is a normal post No, purely, someone blanking out her image with yellow paint looked horrific.
It can be read as a govt sponsored PC diversity message or as a threat to the white working class culture of Britain!!! *cue flag waving, spitfires overhead, Elgar, etc*.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 1:06, Reply)
This is a normal post Yes, it is political propaganda aimed at football fans.
I don't see most of it because I don't follow Sport at all and watch YT rather than TV.
Her face looks well rendered*, they can paint over the rest.

*pun intended
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 22 Jan 2022, 23:00, Reply)
This is a normal post
That assumption wouldn't have to be made if it weren't proven true so depressingly often.

I dunno about you, but a message of 'try not to be a bellend' doesn't particularly irk me. Mainly because I try not to be a racist bellend.
 (Enron Hubbard had a big meaty piss on, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 8:24, Reply)
This is a normal post Would it help if it was a Cardiff City shirt?

(I helped save b3ta! unclepills, Sat 22 Jan 2022, 21:39, Reply)
This is a normal post
I don't give a fuck, that's the thing.
 (I helped save b3ta! After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 22 Jan 2022, 21:46, Reply)
This is a normal post Well, as long as you're not angry.

(I helped save b3ta! unclepills, Sat 22 Jan 2022, 22:10, Reply)
This is a normal post
Well, as long as you weren't trying to score points off the misidentification of a sports shirt, then we're A-fucking OK.
 (I helped save b3ta! After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 22 Jan 2022, 22:14, Reply)
This is a normal post Context matters.
As does the context of the part of Cardiff the mural was in: Butetown. Possibly worth looking up before ranting about how it's aimed at denigrating white working class people.
 (horrid, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 0:02, Reply)
This is a normal post Bear in mind that he felt oppressed by some tiny words on a travel document he doesn't even own
Now that egregious wrong has been righted he's angry about a picture of a black woman on a wall in a city he's never even visited.
 (benito vaselini no not that one, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 7:46, Reply)
This is a normal post Context matters.
Except the context that Butetown is 66% white working class. I feel rather stupid for even looking that up.
 (I helped save b3ta! After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sun 23 Jan 2022, 8:34, Reply)
This is a normal post Pretending to be bothered about the plight of the working classes
Whilst endlessly wanking off Jacob Rees Mogg on here. It just doesn't stack up does it?
 (benito vaselini no not that one, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 9:50, Reply)
This is a normal post
Says the voice of the people, Benito Vaselini.
 (I helped save b3ta! After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sun 23 Jan 2022, 10:24, Reply)
This is a normal post True, but you clearly know fuck all about the place, its history or how its residents feel.
And I imagine that demographic captures the wider area of 'Cardiff Bay', rather than the specific area around Bute Street that people deride as "you can't walk down the street there if you're white" (which is bullshit).

People in Butetown, black and white, seem to like the mural. They're not feeling 'dictated to', except when something they like is replaced by a fucking advert.

But you have taken it upon yourself to have a meltdown on their behalf because someone painted a picture of a black woman.

Hopefully if I tell you they recently built a statue of a black female headteacher from there, you'll have a heart attack.
 (horrid, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 10:48, Reply)
This is a normal post
Tell me more about Butetown, I'm fucking fascinated
 (I helped save b3ta! After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sun 23 Jan 2022, 10:53, Reply)
This is a normal post Given your love of aristocratic land owners perhaps you'd be more interested in Bute himself

(benito vaselini no not that one, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 11:11, Reply)
This is a normal post great
you don't care about the context the mural was in, the city, club, or local sentiment.

That's fine. But maybe don't wade in with some anti-"woke agenda" culture war bollocks where it doesn't exist. There are plenty of genuinely better targets for that.
 (horrid, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 11:22, Reply)
This is a normal post
Have you not got any more sweet Butetown material mate? I've been sitting here pressing refresh for hours
 (I helped save b3ta! After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sun 23 Jan 2022, 14:53, Reply)
This is a normal post “My city, my shirt” or “I’m lovin’ it”
Which is the most vacuous?
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 22 Jan 2022, 21:17, Reply)
This is a normal post
One's selling indigestible crap that makes you feel nauseous. The other's selling a hamburger.
 (I helped save b3ta! After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 22 Jan 2022, 21:25, Reply)
This is a normal post But people do love McDonalds.
What the fuck does some bird wearing some shirt plastered with the name of an airline alongside the abrupt slogan “my shirt my city” even mean. She draws inspiration from a bunch of multi-millionaire footballers? She enjoys spending her money on overpriced replica shirts that are little more than a garish advert? Why am I meant to revere this mural? Send for Benny. Only he can make the scales fall from my eyes.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 22 Jan 2022, 21:43, Reply)
This is a normal post airline?

(I helped save b3ta! unclepills, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 22:42, Reply)
This is a normal post They both are, I prefer the painting of the woman.
In fact I'd rather have a random portrait to look at, than a fast food ad.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 22 Jan 2022, 21:41, Reply)
This is a normal post STOP SAYING PAINTING
You have no vocabulary to describe what you're seeing
 (I helped save b3ta! After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 22 Jan 2022, 21:50, Reply)
This is a normal post Image, does that suit you?
I'm not claiming to have specific knowledge of murals. What should I have referred to it as?
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 22 Jan 2022, 22:21, Reply)
This is a normal post It was created using paint,
it is therefore a painting...
 (I helped save b3ta! Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Sat 22 Jan 2022, 23:04, Reply)
This is a normal post I really fucked up posting didn't I?
'Her face looks better than an MaccyDs ad" naivety, turned into political shouting.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 22 Jan 2022, 23:14, Reply)
This is a normal post I’d agree with that.
If there weren’t a moronic slogan and she wasn’t wearing a fucking dayglo nylon football shirt I’d be much more on side.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 22 Jan 2022, 21:51, Reply)
This is a normal post I ignore the rest, the woman's image looks okay, why ruin it.
Lose the shirt certainly.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 22 Jan 2022, 22:37, Reply)
This is a normal post What, so you could see her tits?

(I helped save b3ta! Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 22:04, Reply)
This is a normal post I really need to see the replacement before i can judge this article
I understand its displaced something however at the point of reading, and from my understanding, nothing has been displaced other than a right of entitlement over a work of art on the wall of a building that neither the artist or McShitBurgers own.
 (I helped save b3ta! hoppitygoestotown The temporal displacement occurred exactly, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 0:44, Reply)