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b3ta 9/11 image challenge

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Time for some light relief. One of my very favourite websites, b3ta.com, has 9/11 conspiracies as it's latest image challenge topic this week. Here's the link to the most popular entries:

http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/conspiracies/popular/

This is one of my favourites (by CrimsonSoul):
 

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Some people have way too much time on their hands.



...Like me as I went through about the first 10 pages.
 
I remember an ex friend of mine sending me a clip of people jumping out of the north tower, he thought it was hilarious.
I failed to see the funny side and our relationship went downhill from thereon.
This isnt quite as offensive, but I still find it tasteless to say the least.
I wonder if its underlying anti Americanism at work, my ex friend certainly had that syndrome. Im not sure how many would be laughing if it had happened to say India or China for example.
 
I wonder if I will ever have the ability to laugh at some of these things... Admittedly, though- the images that actually address the challenge of mocking conspiracy theories are sometimes funny. The one's just mocking the dead are not.
 
Totovader said:
I wonder if I will ever have the ability to laugh at some of these things... Admittedly, though- the images that actually address the challenge of mocking conspiracy theories are sometimes funny. The one's just mocking the dead are not.
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And sadly there's a lot more of that than the mocking of conspiracy theories.

The one fourth from the bottom page 5 is a good one on the conspiracy nutters, though.
 
A lot of the submissions seem to be from Brits; I'm afraid we tend to have quite a dark and ironic sense of humour. It can be a coping mechanism, or a way of understanding terrible events. There's a long tradition of bad-taste jokes over here, and no subject is taboo (paedophilia for example). It doesn't mean that we don't think of, mourn, or respect those who have suffered. Not everyone does this or finds it funny, and I don't condone a lot of it.

I can't say that this is the case here, but I suspect it is. Some of you may not understand how I (for example), can look at (for example) the Lemmings-as-jumpers submission, find it horrible and in exceedingly poor taste, and yet still laugh at it - partly because of the recognition/connection factor (world event plus classic computer game I played a lot), partly because it's just silly/surreal, and partly BECAUSE it's in such poor taste. I suppose it's a compartmentalisation of taste and humour that you don't tend to get in the States.
 
Holy hell.

I'm about as tasteless as one can hope to find. I'm probably one of the most rabid fans of John Waters and Todd Solondz, and I get an odd thrill out of inflicting their films on the unsuspecting.

For some reason, that stuff really offends me.

ETA: As your punishment, I resolve to only make eye contact with your breasts if we should ever meet in the Real World. I will stare longingly at your tee-tees and perhaps a little drool will even escape my maul. You will apparently be completely disgusted, but secretly aroused. Then we will retreat to a secluded abode where all manner of debauchery will take place.

I think.
 
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How can you find that funny?
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Come on!

Superman's calender:
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You either "get it", or you don't. I don't think either group should think less of the other for having their respective reactions. Although I do feel guilty for chuckling at some of those.

It really should have been a poke-fun-at-the-CTs exercise, which is what I think it was intended to be. Even that would have been borderline tasteless.
 
There is a fine line that anyone who tries to be funny has to walk. To make it more difficult, that line is in different places for different people.

I looked at most of those pictures. Some were funny, some had their toes right up on my fine line, and some were way on the wrong side of it. I lost a close friend that day, and it's fair to say that the area enclosed by my fine line might be smaller than others'. If it offends me, I can choose not to look at it, though. That was what I did.

I do joke about truthers; those who exploit the tragedy of that day for money or fame deserve nothing more than scorn. Many of us here do the same. I can't ever remember seeing a debunker post that crossed my fine line, though. The debunkers have been, to a person, mindful of the fact that 3,000 people died that day and there is nothing, and never will be anything, funny about that.

Would that the truthers had the same respect JREF shows for the victims.
 
Perhaps a taste for such morbid humour is something I've acquired from over a year and a half of debating twoofers. Or I got it from my husband, who's a Brit. Or I've always been a fan of British humour. Or it's my Aussie sense of humour.

True, some of the entries were crappy, and thus without humour, so what they have left is just the morbidity.

But after reading Lyte Trip or Ace Baker's posts, and then seeing the Statue of Liberty throwing light balls at the towers, I can't help but laugh.

Who said, "laughter is the best medicine?" If you can't change twoofers' minds, it helps to laugh at them and parody their stupid theories, which we can't do as freely as we'd like to here (for good reason).
 
We must have inherited that dark sense of humour from the Brits, because most New Zealand humour is of this nature.

But then "black comedy" has never been something Americans are good at... :)

I wonder if many Americans would be offended by the NEADS technician who joking suggested UA175 hitting WTC2 was just an "input" - moments after having watched it live on CNN.

Personally what I found especially funny was the number of these intentionally outlandish and ridiculous explanations that actually closely resemble theories seriously supported by some 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists.

-Gumboot
 
It's just the British sense of humour....

b3ta.com is a British site with mostly British contributors - many of the images on that challenge feature characters from British TV shows.

Our sense of humour is irreverent/iconoclastic/inappropriate <delete as appropriate>.

If you look at their other image challenges, they take the mickey out of absolutely everything - there are no 'sacred cows'.

It wouldn't surprise me to find out that they've done one for the London bombings that happened in 2005 - there were certainly jokes about them in circulation a matter of a few days after the events.

This tendency among Brits is just one of the many ways in which we show our disdain for authority/orthodoxy.

Furthermore, we Brits are a sick and twisted bunch, and b3ta.com attracts some of the most twisted of us.
If you are not British yourself (or even if you are), then you'll probably find much of its content puerile or offensive.

Juvenile and offensive humour is an ineradicable part of our culture - it can be found in all our 'high culture' such as Shakespeare (a filthy rapscallion if you read all of his stuff), Chaucer, et al.
 
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