Picture of the year

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:13 am

Usually I don't like "funny" things that circulate in e-mails and on internet and this is only funny if you have a black and ironic sense of humour, but I got this from a colleague in Libanon and I felt SYM was the right place for this:

superbob263 · Post by **superbob263** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:41 am

I doint get it?

Greg. · Post by **Greg.** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:22 am

C Elegans wrote:Usually I don't like "funny" things that circulate in e-mails and on internet and this is only funny if you have a black and ironic sense of humour, but I got this from a colleague in Libanon and I felt SYM was the right place for this:

How is this funny?

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:31 am

*almost snorts water over keyboard*

subtle and wicked... :laugh:

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:44 am

Rude, but amusing.

VonDondu · Post by **VonDondu** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:50 am

Assuming that I understand the intended humor, I don't think it's "subtle" at all. Why take a photo of people whose faces are covered by veils? It reminds me of a scene in a Marx Brothers movie in which two people are sitting at a small table for a romantic dinner and they can't see each other because there's a very large floral arrangement between them. I could appreciate humor like that when I was six years old.

I hope nobody thinks it's racist to see humor in something like this.

jopperm2 · Post by **jopperm2** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:52 am

It's clear here who has said sense of humor. Count me among them. :laugh:

TheAmazingOopah · Post by **TheAmazingOopah** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:45 pm

Hehe, now these kind of pictures I can appreciate

I think that besides from being funny when looking at it in a harmless way, it has a clear critical core in it too (presuming it's a set-up), but not the usual crude and flaming criticism that normally gets launched on muslims. As said, it enjoys a good share of subtlety

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Hmmm, though now that I look better at it, it could be a normal picture after all, something serious, no set-up meant as a sneer. Still, funny as hell.

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:00 pm

[QUOTE=Greg.]How is this funny?[/QUOTE]

It is the politically incorrect Muslim version of a guy taking a snap shot of hotties?

Gwalchmai · Post by **Gwalchmai** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:38 pm

Heh. I found that amusing.

Imagine years later as the ladies are going through the photo album, "Look here we are in front of that place that we went that one time! There's me, on the left..... or am I in the middle?"

PostModernBeat · Post by **PostModernBeat** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:54 pm

It made me smile! Sweet Lady Irony!

Like any other, I could rant about whatever ill morals the creator of such a comic piece however... I most definently prefer having a sense of humor.

dj_venom · Post by **dj_venom** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:36 am

PostModernBeat wrote:Like any other, I could rant about whatever ill morals the creator of such a comic piece however... I most definently prefer having a sense of humor.

Is that because it's the easy way out?

Greg. · Post by **Greg.** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 3:57 am

Magrus wrote:It is the politically incorrect Muslim version of a guy taking a snap shot of hotties?

That is what I was thinking...

Chanak · Post by **Chanak** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:08 am

Like Jopp and some others, count me in on getting the ironic humor of this.

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:22 am

Greg. wrote:That is what I was thinking...

Why can't that be funny?

Humor, in large, is based on commentary which makes someone else uncomfortable, or puts them in a bad light. This does just that, in an ironic way.

PostModernBeat · Post by **PostModernBeat** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 6:52 pm

Exactly, though I won't admit to NOT being a bum.

I just didn't think this forum would be a productive place with rants about what everyone knows already... simply trying to smile and save you some trouble. Would you prefer I spout information like a hose which was bludgeoned by a morningstar?

fable · Post by **fable** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 6:53 pm

PostModernBeat wrote:Would you prefer I spout information like a hose which was bludgeoned by a morningstar?

Sure!

Mr_Snow · Post by **Mr_Snow** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:47 pm

:laugh: good one CE

noriva · Post by **noriva** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:23 pm

i dont get it?

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:28 pm

DW]subtle and wicked...[/quote] [QUOTE=fable wrote:Rude, but amusing.

I would say rude and wicked, but amusing

For those of you who don't get it, read VonDondu's and Gwalchmai's post above.