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[challenge entry] Not sure about this.

From the The British Empire Strikes Back challenge. See all 91 entries (closed)

(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 17:29, archived)
# Don't kill him, Pike!
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 17:33, archived)
# Ouch
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 17:47, archived)
# They don't like it up 'em!
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 17:53, archived)
# Nicely!
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 18:03, archived)
# hahaha fucking hell

in fact I reckon this is the best use of this one I've seen.
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 18:07, archived)
# ^This.
Nice to see it well-used, rather than to just annoy the more senstive denizens.
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 18:47, archived)
# The background to the original photograph is quite interesting for 'sensitive types'
The Viet Cong communist had apparently been picked up right next to an atrocity where members of Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan's family had been found in a mass grave, shot up and dead
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 19:27, archived)
# Mmmmm
All we really know is he was murdered in cold blood. The rest is stories.
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 19:37, archived)
# This is still one of my favourite pictures of another human being.
www.doctorhugo.org/firsttime.html

Part shock, part wonder, and ready to either laugh or cry.
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 19:42, archived)
# Nice antidote
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 19:45, archived)
# That is indeed utterly wonderful
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 19:50, archived)
# ^ This but even more so.
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 21:26, archived)
# Nguyen Ngoc Loan used to torture prisoners by making them drink soap
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 20:05, archived)
# Bit like a McMullans pub then.
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 20:13, archived)
# Only prisoners with potty mouths.
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 20:16, archived)
# Sounds like a nasty bastard
I read he opened a restaurant in California
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 20:20, archived)
# According to who?
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 21:21, archived)
# I like soup.
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 22:40, archived)
# I don't like this picture, mainly because it's a picture of a dead body that hasn't fallen over yet.
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 22:36, archived)
# That´s exactly why I don´t like having my photo taken...
 
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 23:15, archived)
# THat's all of us man.
(, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 0:21, archived)
# Not all of us still have a bullet leaving our head though.
I can laugh at most things, not corpses.
(, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 0:36, archived)
# Not a fan of "Shaun of the Dead" then?
(, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 1:30, archived)
# Those are actors portraying dead bodies, whereas the image above is of an actual corpse.
The bullet is just exiting his skull, hence the face. I just don't like seeing dead people.
(, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 1:41, archived)
#
Think of it as a commentary on the violence that was inherent in the British Empire, perhaps even a dig at the rose tinted view of Empire as demonstrated in the other posts in this compo.
(, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 8:38, archived)
# Do we get a lot of Clive Dunn pictures?
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 18:51, archived)
# i dunn a lol
gonna do a seppuku now
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 20:10, archived)
# Oof!
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 18:08, archived)
# I particularly like the unintentional Gary Glitter beard
Somehow it seems fitting given the location
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 18:58, archived)
# I wonder if this has bin Dunn?
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 20:30, archived)
# Hahaha
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 20:59, archived)
# Hehe
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 21:44, archived)
# TOO SOON, MAN! TOO SOON!
(, Sun 13 Jan 2013, 22:40, archived)
# ha ha!
(, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 1:49, archived)