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[challenge entry] Optimism
One way to Hull, please.

w00t! My first image comp...

From the Demotivational Posters challenge. See all 472 entries (closed)

(corinoco is waiting for the revolution., Thu 31 Aug 2006, 3:04, archived)
# That's actually kinda inspirational
(I helped save b3ta! StickFigureNinja is worried he may be on the list, Thu 31 Aug 2006, 3:05, archived)
# it gave me hope.
that's for sure.
(InsaneKingKong Terrorizes cities, but leaves polite calling cards, Thu 31 Aug 2006, 3:06, archived)
# The judges' opinion?


Don't forget to pearoast it in 11 days' time!
(I helped save b3ta! eXOBeX, Thu 31 Aug 2006, 17:37, archived)
# ^
this
(I helped save b3ta! MrHeed, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 18:10, archived)
# sick fuck!
(I helped save b3ta! Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Thu 31 Aug 2006, 8:42, archived)
# who actually clicked for this?
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Thu 31 Aug 2006, 9:04, archived)
# cor!
is this a new landspeed record for fp?
(I helped save b3ta! c_kick or, as some people call him, Thu 31 Aug 2006, 14:25, archived)
# meh..I just think this image should never be used :(
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Thu 31 Aug 2006, 14:36, archived)
# I agree.
Very poor taste.
(Mr Eraserhead Why aren't you a lemon?, Thu 31 Aug 2006, 14:39, archived)
# Not that I think people shouldn't see that image.
I just don't think it should be used in the context of a joke.
(Mr Eraserhead Why aren't you a lemon?, Thu 31 Aug 2006, 14:40, archived)
# What is it? I don't even get it...
(David Fishwick Minibus Sales - notmad.co.uk, Thu 31 Aug 2006, 14:59, archived)
# It's called The Falling Man
Its a famous photograph of one of the victims of 9,11 who chose to jump from the building to his death rather than be killed in the fire.
(Mr Eraserhead Why aren't you a lemon?, Thu 31 Aug 2006, 15:04, archived)
# A baby elephant/beaver hybrid
lying on the world's biggest towel. 100% of fact.
(I helped save b3ta! grey kid is breakdancing to save a community centre, Thu 31 Aug 2006, 15:06, archived)
# my god.
it is.
(USER No: 21515...FUCK YOU TO FUCK YOU FU see profile for limited time offer., Thu 31 Aug 2006, 19:54, archived)
# mhh.
Why not?
(ieatbananas, Thu 31 Aug 2006, 15:37, archived)
# Since when
were people overly worried about such things on b3ta?
(insanityboy, Thu 31 Aug 2006, 23:52, archived)
# .
I dont agree.
Its true there is a line for bad taste, but you have to cross it once in a while to remind yourself where it is.

I say, commendable!
have a badge
(Foo_Kinnell all the cut will be absorbed by it been a dog, Thu 31 Aug 2006, 16:30, archived)
# But..
this is the website of choice for sick 'straight to hull' 'shopping.
Is it just the Yanks that don't like it?
(empty head, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 11:30, archived)
# No it's isn't just the yanks.
(Mr Eraserhead Why aren't you a lemon?, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 16:34, archived)
# going down!
in every conceivable way.
(I helped save b3ta! urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Thu 31 Aug 2006, 14:24, archived)
# Hull, please.
Well I laughed.
(insert username here, Thu 31 Aug 2006, 15:05, archived)
# Shouldnt laugh.
But still did.



Aren't there two T's in mattress though?
(UTB, Thu 31 Aug 2006, 15:20, archived)
# You are...
A bad, bad man.
(Squash, Thu 31 Aug 2006, 15:36, archived)
# Haha.
He's about to die.
(WonkoTheSane, Thu 31 Aug 2006, 23:53, archived)
# Very sad picture
Not nice.
(I helped save b3ta! Snollock Biffer I don't really sniff Bollocks, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 4:05, archived)
# Is there a traditional front page dance, or do I just have a pint?
The responses have been interesting.

Bloody hell! FRONT PAGE! (does dance).

Oh, bugger I was wondering about 'mattresses', wish PS had spelchekj.

The doco about this pic was on telly last night - which was what inspired me. It also amuses me that quite a few people would have preferred this poor fellow burn to death, or slowly suffocate in pain. Aparently God condemns you for eternity if you try to avoid a horribly slow and painful death; He must Like To Watch, I guess. Good on this fellow for taking one big brave step; after all, people have actually survived falls from this height. Here's a hint though - make fire-stairs out of concrete instead of plasterboard - at least people might have a slim chance of escaping, rather than none.
(corinoco is waiting for the revolution., Fri 1 Sep 2006, 5:18, archived)
# Wish you hadn't.
Just really not something to make a joke about. Being FPed means I get to look at it every day (or chose not to come here for a while) and given the nearing of the date in question it's a pretty raw thing, on this side of the pond, at which to be jabbing. Yes, still. Well shopped, all fine the doc inspired, but well, wish you hadn't.
(Yohimba is overly fond of the ellipsis..., Fri 1 Sep 2006, 8:04, archived)
# Lighten up.
Being a b3tan and being easily offended shouldn't go together!
(I helped save b3ta! Mx-Dr Trying to be somewhere between an ape and a robot., Fri 1 Sep 2006, 9:34, archived)
# Ah but being a B3tan and getting on your high horse
go together like crack cocaine and prostitutes.
(monkeypaws maybe I shouldn't..... Oh fuck, too late, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 10:11, archived)
# Fuck off.
The fact that the picture is from 9/11 has absolutely nothing to do with the joke itself.
(I helped save b3ta! Malchick, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 12:24, archived)
# .
Well said.
(I helped save b3ta! Micro Prawnvica, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 17:37, archived)
# It's not about preferring him to burn to death...
...if you're really stupid enough to think it is about that then there is no point in explaining to you why I find it distasteful.

And I am not easily offended.
(Mr Eraserhead Why aren't you a lemon?, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 9:38, archived)
# this^
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 17:48, archived)
# Wonderful!
I want a full size version to hang on my wall, please.
(I helped save b3ta! Felis Concolor, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 9:07, archived)
# i'd buy it
and hang it in the office.. i work on the 17th floor and it would be a good reminder on our buildings very similar fire procedures
(ShavenLunatic says touch your nose!, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 9:30, archived)
# Hahaha!
(I helped save b3ta! NinjaBadger hides in the bushes and gives you TB., Fri 1 Sep 2006, 10:03, archived)
# Sad but funny
And, IMO, no more distasteful than, say, using Harold Shipman's image in an entirely unrelated advertising campaign...
(rymix, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 10:27, archived)
# i do like that,
well done!
(I helped save b3ta! djol, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 11:00, archived)
# wooooo
I love it and for god's sake there are things we shouldn't laugh at, I suppose, but all of them are regularly featured here so where are thes complaints coming from? are you new?

That picture is funny, and if the idea of death isn't at least a bit funny to you you're going to be awfully disappointed when it happens to you and can't laugh about it :)

love to all
(bloodyHassocks, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 11:41, archived)
# Thanks For Provoking Us
I'm a Yank, and I thought it was funny.

Then again, I've already rented the Banquet Hall in Hull for me and my friends...what a party THAT'S going to be!
(King of Teh Internets wants to give you babies, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 13:31, archived)
# Utterly quality.
This one is going to be hitting inboxes for years to come. Well done sir.

Edit: For those wanting a higher-res version, I found one (created by the original poster, I assume) here.
(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_ =o.o=, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 16:46, archived)
# Yep
I made a smaller one, but couldn't be bothered learning how to link back to the larger one. I still have the vector art, so I can make one as large as you like.
(corinoco is waiting for the revolution., Tue 5 Sep 2006, 5:44, archived)
# I don't find it sad at all
Old people with no life or family left die in shitty council-run retirement homes every minute.

Just because they don't have a photo taken of them 10 seconds before they cark it makes it no different to this... and a lot more than 3000 of them have died today.
(I helped save b3ta! Micro Prawnvica, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 17:36, archived)
# For Serious
Make this big. I want something to send around the office.
(I helped save b3ta! DisgruntledGoat, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 17:36, archived)
# HULL...
...Just a vowel away from HELL.
(thenewts, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 18:44, archived)
# Nice!
I see a lot *SOME* Americans loose their senses of humour when it's a recogniseable American in a potentialy offensive picture.

There's been more offensive images on B3ta that have never received "That's not funny" comments.

Smile, it may be your last. ;)
(_Sarah_, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 19:17, archived)
# *WARNING*
Superlurker!
(I helped save b3ta! Micro Prawnvica, Mon 4 Sep 2006, 17:19, archived)
# nice
i love the fact that people are condemning this pic, but are happy to look at pictures of spunking cocks all day long...
(Cpl. Nobby Nobbs, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 19:33, archived)
# Hehe.
Well said, Sir.
(WonkoTheSane, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 22:35, archived)
# Poor taste
Yet I find it very funny.
(Fluffster, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 23:52, archived)
# Poor taste - yes
Demotivational - no

I actually find this to be quite inspirational, despite the subject matter of the photo.

Yes, the guy is falling from a very tall building, and yes, he is about to die, but consider this... rather than face certain death in a burning building, this guy took a chance - took a chance at life.

"Optimism" is the perfect word for this poster. The guy knew that he was going to die if he stayed where he was, but perhaps he took an optimistic view and thought, "If I jump, I *might* survive".

A lesson in optimism and positive thought for everyone perhaps?
(I helped save b3ta! JugglerJAF It's curtains for you.Lacy gently wafting curtains, Sat 2 Sep 2006, 7:36, archived)
# "If I jump, I might survive?"
Sorry, but no chance. It's absolutely certain death. Good old 9.80665 m/s^2 from a hundred odd storeys onto concrete? You'd have more chance of surviving by flapping your arms and tried to fly to safety.

Still, it is inspirational that someone decided to take action and avoid the horror that is burning to death. That's true courage.
(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_ =o.o=, Sat 2 Sep 2006, 12:11, archived)
# Errm...
I believe he jumped out because he prefered the idea of a quick death from the fall to being slowly burned alive. Not because he went crazy and thought;

"Hey, you never know, Jesus might catch me at the bottom in his big butterfly net of salvation!"
(WonkoTheSane, Sat 2 Sep 2006, 12:17, archived)
# He's American
That's probably *exactly* what he was thinking!!
(I helped save b3ta! JugglerJAF It's curtains for you.Lacy gently wafting curtains, Sun 3 Sep 2006, 16:29, archived)
# No...
he was thinking - 'Where's my goddamn frappuccino????'
(I helped save b3ta! Micro Prawnvica, Mon 4 Sep 2006, 8:46, archived)
# Sick and tasteless
Have you got a high-res, desktopable version?

Err, *cough*, I mean "FIIILTH! EEEVIL! DAMN YOU!"

Sorry.
(daern, Sat 2 Sep 2006, 12:22, archived)
# build it and they will come
What size desktop?

I still have the original PS layers so I guess I can make it as large as you need. Be warned I will correct my spelling though!

Earlier comments stated that falling from this height is fatal - the adjective 'usually' should be added to that. People have survived, either by landing in ponds, soft shrubs, on other people (usually fatal to the landee though). I myself have seen both James Bond and Jaws do this countless times.
(corinoco is waiting for the revolution., Tue 5 Sep 2006, 5:09, archived)
# Hi-res Desktopable Version
is available from www.b3tards.com/uploads/Optimism-redo.jpg
(corinoco is waiting for the revolution., Tue 5 Sep 2006, 6:20, archived)
# clicky
hehehe

demotivators Rule

despair.com/
(kol, Sat 2 Sep 2006, 14:16, archived)
# where's the outrage?
I just noticed someone did a demotiposter* of the New Orleans hurricane disaster, and there are precisely NO outraged Amercians blustering about making fun of the 1,000+ people killed there. Might I suggest that may be due to certain demographic differences of the unfortunate casualties?

*I'd link to it, if I could be arsed.
(corinoco is waiting for the revolution., Tue 5 Sep 2006, 5:40, archived)