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[challenge entry] War is not funny.
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From the The Funny Side of War challenge. See all 422 entries (closed)

(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:28, archived)
# sure it is sweetcheeks
(I helped save b3ta! TopUpTheTea you ain't seen me, right?, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:28, archived)
# yeah, this.
(I helped save b3ta! dotmund .co.uk, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:29, archived)
# eh?
the link is broken for me...

*edit* - fixed
(Tefty thought long and hard about posting this on, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:28, archived)
# It is just an example:
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.2886404475
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:30, archived)
# And I know I would normally be pissed off about this sort of post,
but I have been to war, as have many other board members, and it is not really to laugh about en mass like this.

Yes, it has funny bits, but mostly it is just wank.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:29, archived)
# You know this is b3ta right?
(I helped save b3ta! The Coast Of Yemen, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:29, archived)
# Oh yes.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:31, archived)
# Yes but it's not 4chan
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:31, archived)
# Maybe
What's your point
(I helped save b3ta! The Coast Of Yemen, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:33, archived)
# Oh, no, I was just stating a fact.
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:36, archived)
# says the man with
a Hitler icon.
(I helped save b3ta! Holly Would long wheel based tranny, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:32, archived)
# Yes..
Hitler is funny.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:36, archived)
# But also not so funny...
and I'm sure you could find much more horrible stories about him than the one you have linked. Obviously.
(I helped save b3ta! hanke murphy, I'm a mess, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:41, archived)
# I am not sure I could.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:41, archived)
# Well I guess you're right
in that comparing accidentally hitting some aid workers and providing the run up to genocide and a world war would be like comparing apples and oranges.
(I helped save b3ta! hanke murphy, I'm a mess, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:44, archived)
# Not at all.
Unnecessary loss of life is not about scale.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:49, archived)
# I'm not going to argue with you about it because you obviously know more about this than I do
but I think you still should recognize that if we started saying "that's not funny, in real life it's pretty terrible" this website would cease to perform the function we desire from it.

I mean, maybe we would have Snarn Cat unless we could connect that to some horrible genetic condition that caused cats to look completely retarded.
(I helped save b3ta! hanke murphy, I'm a mess, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 19:01, archived)
# Many would disagree.
If my brother died in a car crash I would not feel as sad as if my entire family died in a car crash.
(I helped save b3ta! xihpete A neutrino walks straight through a bar, with v>c., Thu 8 Jan 2009, 19:02, archived)
# To be fair though,
he is a bit of a cnut.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 19:09, archived)
# Who I guess guess is
partly responsible for the current conflict.
Hilarious.
(I helped save b3ta! Holly Would long wheel based tranny, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:41, archived)
# No.
Hitler persecuted the Jews, we put them in Palestine.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:42, archived)
# ...because Hitler persecuted the Jews
(as did we and many other countries)
(I helped save b3ta! Holly Would long wheel based tranny, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:47, archived)
# Yes, I said that.
I think that this is actually the one factor which is tempering the Israeli persecution of the Palestinians.

Really though, war sucks, trust me.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:50, archived)
# Hmm
Who was it who wrote the B3ta bumper book of sick jokes again?
'cause I'm sure that's full of controversial stuff.
(I helped save b3ta! xihpete A neutrino walks straight through a bar, with v>c., Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:33, archived)
# Well,
it was not bloody me, was it?
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:53, archived)
# I'm just saying, it was B3ta
/the makers of B3ta, so it's how either B3ta is or what the makers of B3ta see B3ta as.
(I helped save b3ta! xihpete A neutrino walks straight through a bar, with v>c., Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:57, archived)
# Not normally.
But this is b3ta, we make un-funny things funny.

(I helped save b3ta! Mstandot I suppose I should post more often., Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:31, archived)
[challenge entry] A lot of people disagree, but I am only making a point and I will only make it this once.
but I am only making a point and I will only make it this once.

You will notice that this image came 5th in this compo:
www.b3ta.com/challenge/conspiracies/
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:35, archived)
# I agree with you
I disagree with your general hamtouchery :P
(I helped save b3ta! The Coast Of Yemen, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:37, archived)
# So do I,
and so do I.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:39, archived)
# Neither is child abuse
but I've seen plenty of jokes about it and not taken issue.
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:37, archived)
# I have taken issue.
I think it is important to laugh and also important to remember.

This compo had taken a turn for the 'laugh at the poor Palestinians, fuck 'em' and I think it needed mentioning.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:41, archived)
# Fair enough.
As is often the case I suppose the line is between concept and
individual real event. One death is a tragedy and all that.
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:44, archived)
# I haven't seen a
shift toward the 'laugh at Palestinians', and from what you are saying I take it you are anti-Zionist or are you more anti-Semitic?
(I helped save b3ta! Holly Would long wheel based tranny, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:49, archived)
# Neither.
That said, in this particular conflict I feel that Israel is the guiltier party.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:51, archived)
# Actually, I am a little pissed off that you feel that it is okay for you to accuse me of racism
simply because I did not want a UN aid worker to be needlessly killed.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:53, archived)
# it was a question not an
accusation.
(I helped save b3ta! Holly Would long wheel based tranny, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:56, archived)
# Perhaps you need to re-read your own post?
"I take it you are anti-Zionist or are you more anti-Semitic?"
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:56, archived)
# surely
you can be anti-Zionist without being anti-semitic.
The 'more' wasn't to suggests you were partially anti-semitic.
accept my apologies, I honestly didn't mean to offend you.
(I helped save b3ta! Holly Would long wheel based tranny, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 19:00, archived)
# I am not particularly anti-Zionist either.
I mean, I think that it was wrong for the Cypriot Jews to move so in such a wholesale fashion into Palestine and I do not think that stealing land and giving it to others is good, but I also do not believe that the current situation should reflect the past. The situation exists that both Israel and Palestine have to co-exist in that part of the world.

What I am opposed to is the fashion in which Israel is behaving, the slaughter and lack of respect they show, the random acts of violence and the constant extending of walls.

I also hate the fact that it is treated as acceptable so often.

It is time that Israel was stopped from making proactive war.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 19:14, archived)
# ^this
along with many other examples
such as AIDS, racism, the twin towers, the disabled, ugly people etc.
(I helped save b3ta! xihpete A neutrino walks straight through a bar, with v>c., Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:41, archived)
# You will often see me abusing racists as well.
I am not against jokes, but they need to be jokes, not just 'niggers!' or 'dead people!'

Others being less fortunate is not fun.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:43, archived)
# quite right. That's 4chan
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:45, archived)
# I see, that makes sense enough
I haven't seen most of the compo entries so far, but the ones I have seen have been alright. Perhaps there's a minority bringing down the popularity of the majority, as is often the case with a great many things.
(I helped save b3ta! xihpete A neutrino walks straight through a bar, with v>c., Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:49, archived)
# ...including the image challenges
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:54, archived)
# We were making fun of the London train bombings AS THEY WERE HAPPENING
we were photoshopping the pictures seconds after they appeared on news sites.
(I helped save b3ta! hanke murphy, I'm a mess, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:42, archived)
# And some were funny.
the bloke who posted it with teh quo in it was a dick.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:44, archived)
#
Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy.
To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

- Peter Sellers.
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:54, archived)
# I agree.
I do not say that we should not make jokes, I just wanted to raise the point.

Once.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:55, archived)
# Wait, so you've posted a link to something you didn't make and isn't shopped AND you've compo'd it?
(I helped save b3ta! Nathanial Hornblower, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 19:01, archived)
# no its not something I can find
giggles in tbh. world war woman's institute was the closest I could find to a joke I felt comfortable with.
(I helped save b3ta! Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 19:06, archived)
# Bad stuff is not funny
So I URGE you to close the site down as I've BEEN THERE MAN


You all make me sick.

Stop.
Bad.
Stuff.
(I helped save b3ta! whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 20:28, archived)