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Gotta live in an apartment to get this joke, feels like.
Big image - a Japanese satirical map of the world from the late thirties. Quite interesting.
Polish Ferrari
(The title of the article was "42 year old man caught drunk-driving a home-made vehicle".)
(Originally, Jack-o'-lanterns were made out of turnips)
I really do wonder why the one thing people in an internet argument need to do is call out somebody's spelling mistakes as if that'll somehow change their discourse.
The last one is titled "The Polish Butcher". Apparently the meat processing industry has a need for their own journal, and the death of John Paul II was a big enough event for the emat processing industry to put it on the front page. If that's not enough, it would be grammatically correct to read the title as "The Butcher of Poland".
(Source: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/173)
Also fourteenwings apparently I never asked you, why do you think I would like Cure Milky?
She's a blue serious one who is easily exasperated by the protagonist. Though she assumes she's right by default, she also still has a lot of growing up to do.
Yoshino is really giving this role his all.
Because if it isn't, it is probably the most distasteful lighting setup I have ever seen. It somehow manages to be both evil AND tacky.
Yah, they need that to be able to shoot electrons at the screen and/or one's face. It's also why they're so thick and why it's dangerous to have one break nearby.
^ I'm pretty sure it's a suicide joke.
Speaking of suicide jokes:
Besides that...
NSFW
I think there is a genuine concern in regards to people who might be triggered by such things, but I do think there's a place for being facetious with and joking about suicide as long as the audience receiving the message is prepared for it.
It's like the Noose Hoodie at the Burberry fashion show. As a piece of art, it was thought-provoking and kind of funny. But in the context of Burberry, whose shows are broadcast all around the world to lots of impressionable young (and not so young) people, sending that message wholesale is a terrible idea.
Joking about suicide certainly helps make light of what people consider taboo, and that certainly helps. What isn't great is joking about suicide like some sort of idiot with no nuance.
I think that joke definitely has nuance to it; people outside this person's circumstances severely misunderstand their situation, which is a thing I think everybody (and not just people who have been suicidal) can identify with. In that way, it helps bring them closer together, understanding how you can miss certain things and help everybody become more aware of their circumstances.
Or I'm possibly wrong but that's how I see it.
The noose was an often-used symbol of intimidation of blacks for decades after the American Civil War ended. Some blacks were actually hanged after being "tried" (extraordinarily quickly and with no intent for justice at all) and summarily convicted and executed in public ceremonies that some onlookers apparently treated quite casually. The noose was used to threaten others into silence and submission.
These are some of the sordid parts of U.S. history. To this day, the noose is often seen a symbol of this injustice, particularly when race is involved in some way.