The Stevie of Death

[eclipse]

I think it was a clever idea for a thread...
and it made me giggle and actually laugh...
Stevie with the Nazi's in Paris...excellent!!
Thought provoking? not really-

just meant to be funny- and it was!!
Thanks!

[BTFLCHLD]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

a new Fleetwood Mac album?? Just kiddin', couldnt resist it...y'all!

BWAMAHAHAHAHA! Good one Brian!

[BlackWidow]

Originally Posted by mikeschmike

I love how a pointless thread meant to make a few people laugh gets twisted around until people are getting psychoanalyzed, insulted, accused, hurt, angered, etc. Only on the ledge...

It's funny because if I see something that I don't agree with, the only thing I do is click the little "x" in the corner of the window. Is it that hard of a concept?

Lighten up people, it's only a website for christ's sake.

Preach it Brother!

[David]

Originally Posted by Blondie85

ok , i made some too:

Those are good!

Incidentally, that 2nd photo is NOT of the Boxing Day tsunami.

[David]

Originally Posted by paleshadow

The photo of the tsunami is truely tasteless, and unlike most of the other photos was not even 2 years ago. It's hard to look at that image knowing that most of those people, including children, probably were killed and feel anything remotely close to laughter.

That wasn't the tsunami, although it was posted on the Net at the time as a hoax (in other words, designed to make people think it was the tsunami). That photo was taken in Hangzhou, China, in 2002, of a tidal bore (unusually high tides resulting in waters flowing upstream at high speeds) on the Qian Tang Jiang River. No one was actually killed in that event.

[sparky]

Originally Posted by David

That wasn't the tsunami, although it was posted on the Net at the time as a hoax (in other words, designed to make people think it was the tsunami). That photo was taken in Hangzhou, China, in 2002, of a tidal bore (unusually high tides resulting in waters flowing upstream at high speeds) on the Qian Tang Jiang River. No one was actually killed in that event.

David, you pop up in the least likely of places with the best information.

[David]

Originally Posted by sparky

David, you pop up in the least likely of places with the best information.

The Hawaiian islanders have a very old, wise saying: Never turn your back on the sea.

[mikeschmike]

Originally Posted by David

The Hawaiian islanders have a very old, wise saying: Never turn your back on the sea.

Fortunately for them, they can't on an island.

[ragandbone]

These images on their own, especially the more recent ones, or those whose events I have spent more time thinking about (the bomb, for example) are painful to look at; however the images with Stevie added are absurd, and provide some relief that allows me to actually consider the disasters pictured. I have reached the point of overload, where I am likely to simply turn away from painful images, so for me, a surreal, or absurd black humor is a useful inroad to engagement with difficult subjects.

Stevie has talked a lot about turning her personal pain into art, and alternately claimed that some of her songs are about personal tragedy, or a public tragedy. The lines blur for her, somtimes to the point of ridiculousness, and these images remind of that ridiculous, melodramatic Stevie. If I am laughing, when I see these pictures, it is mostly at that Stevie, with her schoolgirl vanity and self-importance.
She managed to turn a top hat with a scarf—a symbol of mourning—and raggedy tattered Dickensian clothing, into a fashion statement. We have seen her dancing down a Depression era street in her sack dress singing about her "Gypsy", and we know there were breadlines there, and homeless, but she twirls and sings anyway, like Gene Kelly Singin' in the Rain.

Here is a link to an interesting paper on Surrealist Black Humour.
http://www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/pu...s/Suleiman.pdf


p.s. I sometimes find offensive the real—not Photoshopped— images of stars and politicians at scenes of disaster, for example, I am thinking of Bush's photoops at Ground Zero, or photos of Bono or Sean Penn in Iraq.

[seeker007nmss]

Originally Posted by SortaSavageLike

So people, am I pushing some kind of limit?

No......Keep going!

[BlackWidow]

Originally Posted by seeker007nmss

No......Keep going!

god help us all...

[Sahara]

Originally Posted by eclipse

I think it was a clever idea for a thread...
and it made me giggle and actually laugh...
Stevie with the Nazi's in Paris...excellent!!
Thought provoking? not really-

just meant to be funny- and it was!!
Thanks!

I'm with you on this one.

Political correctness is an annoying thing at times....
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[BlackWidow]

Originally Posted by sparky

David, you pop up in the least likely of places with the best information.

gotta love our David..

[sparky]

Originally Posted by Sahara

I'm with you on this one.

Political correctness is an annoying thing at times....
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Indeed. Hurt feelings and offended people rule the world.

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by sparky

Indeed. Hurt feelings and offended people rule the world.

I hate that now kids sports don't keep score - so no one feels bad.

Some areas are trying to do away with the a-f grade system because it makes some kids feel bad....

parents aren't teaching their kids valuable lessons in life...because they might feel bad. Give me a break - how do you learn if you never feel bad?

As my sister says,

"No matter how bad it makes him feel to hear it now, someday Alex's wife will thank me for telling him that underwear is not toilet paper..." Alex is my little nephew - and well he was feeling bad about not being able to wipe all that well - tough break kid ya gotta learn!!!