I'm not a mod but you two need to stop this. Please end it here thanks!
Anyone See This On An Auction Before?
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I'm not a mod but you two need to stop this. Please end it here thanks!
It's an ad.. How is this offensive? I think anyone with half a brain knows that no one is going to kill a dog if the auction or whatever isn't bought.. I agree with mrmopar that people get too sensitive over dumb things..
I prefer to use the pictures of the items Im selling vs. pictures offering to kill anything. I assume it works better, though I've never tried the latter, so I can't say from experience. Fighting amongst each other isn't going to change someone else posting such a picture, so what's the point?? We are a community here, let's keep it that way.
dp33, I suggest you think before you comment again, if you do choose to respond. I was not looking to ignite something, but apparently I did. I was merely responding to your comments, which made inaccurate assumptions about me as your follow up response does as well. Your comments appear to be emotionally driven here where as mine are not.
You don't make much sense to me with your comments...I would honestly welcome some clarification.
What does this even mean? What do I do to win items?
What???
Here, you still believe that you know something about me that you obviously don't, yet you are very confident that you are right based on a single comment I made. I could tell you that I owned/operated an animal shelter at this point and you would probably wouldn't allow yourself to believe it, if it were true. That is not the point however, I could oppose animal cruelty and empathize with the plights of abused animals and still feel the same way about the photo as I do now.
I've spoken my mind. I don't find the picture offensive, nor do I find it funny either. I get the point of the photo and I know that the picture is "faked" for the purpose of humor, as someone mentioned it was either used for Cracked, Mad or maybe both back in the 70s. I saw it in it's original form as well.
If anyone is offended by it, fine. You're entitled to those feelings. As I joked about the video games earlier, I bet a good percentage of you here play the newer video games that show gratuitous violence, watch the blockbusters that show the same, etc. Is that also offensive to you who don't like the picture? If the dog and arm/gun were cartoons, would it be less offensive? We seem to be more appalled by cruelty to animals than to other humans.
If it was 1903, we could all be offended by everything we see, but it's 2011 now. I think whipping into a frenzy over this photo is a bit much.
You don't make much sense to me with your comments...I would honestly welcome some clarification.
What does this even mean? What do I do to win items?
What???
Here, you still believe that you know something about me that you obviously don't, yet you are very confident that you are right based on a single comment I made. I could tell you that I owned/operated an animal shelter at this point and you would probably wouldn't allow yourself to believe it, if it were true. That is not the point however, I could oppose animal cruelty and empathize with the plights of abused animals and still feel the same way about the photo as I do now.
I've spoken my mind. I don't find the picture offensive, nor do I find it funny either. I get the point of the photo and I know that the picture is "faked" for the purpose of humor, as someone mentioned it was either used for Cracked, Mad or maybe both back in the 70s. I saw it in it's original form as well.
If anyone is offended by it, fine. You're entitled to those feelings. As I joked about the video games earlier, I bet a good percentage of you here play the newer video games that show gratuitous violence, watch the blockbusters that show the same, etc. Is that also offensive to you who don't like the picture? If the dog and arm/gun were cartoons, would it be less offensive? We seem to be more appalled by cruelty to animals than to other humans.
If it was 1903, we could all be offended by everything we see, but it's 2011 now. I think whipping into a frenzy over this photo is a bit much.
Thought I might add this before it is too late..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lampoon_(magazine)
The link doesn't want to work. Click on did you mean National Lampoon (magazine)...to see what I meant.
This line from the link is appropriate for this thread too...
National Lampoon humor often pushed far beyond the boundaries of what was generally considered appropriate and acceptable. As co-founder Henry Beard described the experience years later: "There was this big door that said, 'Thou shalt not.' We touched it, and it fell off its hinges."
This is fairly interesting from the article...
Cover Art
A dog looking worriedly at a revolver pressed to its head, with the famous caption "If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog" (January 1973). The cover was art directed by Michael Gross and was selected as the seventh-greatest magazine cover of the last 40 years. This issue is the most coveted and collectible of all the National Lampoon's issues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lampoon_(magazine)
The link doesn't want to work. Click on did you mean National Lampoon (magazine)...to see what I meant.
This line from the link is appropriate for this thread too...
National Lampoon humor often pushed far beyond the boundaries of what was generally considered appropriate and acceptable. As co-founder Henry Beard described the experience years later: "There was this big door that said, 'Thou shalt not.' We touched it, and it fell off its hinges."
This is fairly interesting from the article...
Cover Art
A dog looking worriedly at a revolver pressed to its head, with the famous caption "If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog" (January 1973). The cover was art directed by Michael Gross and was selected as the seventh-greatest magazine cover of the last 40 years. This issue is the most coveted and collectible of all the National Lampoon's issues.
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Hard to believe that piece is that old....................
mrmopar said:
mrmopar said:
You would hope that everyone else is turned off by the picture so that you could win a cheap auction. If that would bring you such great satisfaction, enjoy the something you wanted.
mrmopar said:
dp33 said:
There is no point in you saying that the point of the picture is humor unless you think it is humorous. I know what the point of the picture is. It didn't work.
mrmopar said:
And I am very confident that you would be the only person who opposes animal cruelty and empathizes with the plights of abused animals that feels the same way you do. You're trying to pass this picture off as a joke and a tribute to old 70's magazine gags. No one who empathized with the plights of abused animals would do any such thing.
mrmopar said:
You say things like "you're entitled to those feelings", and then call these same people "too sensitive". You use words like "ignite" and "frenzy". You appear to be the one getting worked up over this and posting on an emotional level rather than thinking through your post. You and Myerburg are fine with the picture. Does that change my opinion of you? Yes. Does it whip me into a frenzy? Hardly.
And yes, I'm more appalled by cruelty to animals than to other humans. That was the whole point of my first post which you missed entirely.
Ok, enough. No need to beat a dead horse...thread locked.
OK -- We're done with this....
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