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Don't get me wrong, I could play with stuff like this all day. But does anyone remember the picture that was posted a couple of weeks ago of Shoey doctored to look like Adolf H? There were some terse replies to that. Isn't it funny how standards vary within such narrow limits. You'd never teach a Martian the protocol with respect to issues like this.
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
I got this in email this morning
www.fotango.com/p/eba00167964f00000015.jpg
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>This attachment contains a graphic photo of a 12-person orgy involving
>multiple partners, same sex couples, mixed race and color couples and sex
>involving jelly. If you feel you may be offended, delete this e-mail. If
>not, and you decide to open the attached file, do not do so within clear
>view of other people who may be offended.
www.fotango.com/p/eba00167964f00000015.jpg
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Don't get me wrong, I could play with stuff like this all day. But does anyone remember the picture that was posted a couple of weeks ago of Shoey doctored to look like Adolf H? There were some terse replies to that. Isn't it funny how standards vary within such narrow limits. You'd never teach a Martian the protocol with respect to issues like this.
Just a thought.
Is it different because these aren't real people?
I remember scowling in grumpiness about the hitler one, but laughing at this. Odd.
JohnL
You're right, it's odd. The people on the game aren't real people (if that's what you meant), but there are no real people involved with the Schoey thing either. Just an historical connection with a very real collection of atrocities, same as this.
There is always a delay between a sad or tragic event occuring and the jokes appearing....but it's very variable. Is it just me, or was there a longer delay before the Diana jokes appeared, than some others. The sick joke world has been even more coy about some more recent US atrocities (although, before the US PHers flame me, I did hear the first one from an American in Vegas, about two weeks after!).
I'll leave myself open here, but I think this is environmentalised hypocrisy and is equivalent to political correctness (or is it correctism?)
>> Edited by DavidP on Thursday 23 May 23:35
You're right, it's odd. The people on the game aren't real people (if that's what you meant), but there are no real people involved with the Schoey thing either. Just an historical connection with a very real collection of atrocities, same as this.
There is always a delay between a sad or tragic event occuring and the jokes appearing....but it's very variable. Is it just me, or was there a longer delay before the Diana jokes appeared, than some others. The sick joke world has been even more coy about some more recent US atrocities (although, before the US PHers flame me, I did hear the first one from an American in Vegas, about two weeks after!).
I'll leave myself open here, but I think this is environmentalised hypocrisy and is equivalent to political correctness (or is it correctism?)
>> Edited by DavidP on Thursday 23 May 23:35
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JohnL
You're right, it's odd. The people on the game aren't real people (if that's what you meant), but there are no real people involved with the Schoey thing either. Just an historical connection with a very real collection of atrocities, same as this.
There is always a delay between a sad or tragic event occuring and the jokes appearing....but it's very variable. Is it just me, or was there a longer delay before the Diana jokes appeared, than some others. The sick joke world has been even more coy about some more recent US atrocities (although, before the US PHers flame me, I did hear the first one from an American in Vegas, about two weeks after!).
I'll leave myself open here, but I think this is environmentalised hypocrisy and is equivalent to political correctness (or is it correctism?)
>> Edited by DavidP on Thursday 23 May 23:35
I meant that the game is cartoon characters and the schoey thing was actual photographs.
Think about this: what if the game here had been animated photo-realistic, with recognisable real people who had actually been killed in suicide bombing attacks, set in a filmed real part of Israel ... I don't think I would have laughed.
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The Yids in this country have been kicking up a stink as well, there was an article in Saturdays Telegraph about it. Some people ah no sense of humour
Shall we change it to the Horseguards Parade Bomb, or Harrods, or Brighton or Omagh - would that make it funnier?? Sorry, but I can see how "yids" would be offended....
Mind you - I only managed 3 dead!
There are worse things that can done, said or posted on the internet. I think that if the Israelis are genuinely trying to shut down the site then this points to a greater fear - why would they look to shut something down like this? Have they something to hide? Maybe not.
Bad taste yes. But hey, this is a free country and as far as I was aware it wasnt illegal to play slightly sick games. Now, as commented before, if there were more direct references and realism to the current plight in the middle east (note that I avoided any "siding there") then fine - ban it for being sick. But I am afraid that humour is one side effect of desperate situations..... it is something that human nature resorts to.
I remember the comment when that British pilot got when he was freed by the Iraqis - his co pilot turned and said "no so much of a fat barsteward now then". (could have been the other way round but the sentiment is there).
Cheers,
Paul
Bad taste yes. But hey, this is a free country and as far as I was aware it wasnt illegal to play slightly sick games. Now, as commented before, if there were more direct references and realism to the current plight in the middle east (note that I avoided any "siding there") then fine - ban it for being sick. But I am afraid that humour is one side effect of desperate situations..... it is something that human nature resorts to.
I remember the comment when that British pilot got when he was freed by the Iraqis - his co pilot turned and said "no so much of a fat barsteward now then". (could have been the other way round but the sentiment is there).
Cheers,
Paul
They did actually quote the guy that wrote the game (american for referance) as saying he was currently working on a more involved version where terrorists had to start in the middle east then work their way across europe completing missions before finishing in America where they would be required to commit a successful atrocity ! each stage would have a target of however many dead of either women children etc.
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