# I don't think this guy cares about his job anymore. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 29, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693 "2009-07-29T19:16:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693/1 "2009-07-29T19:16:02Z")
I challenge you not to laugh. [http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/1489/selection20741.jpg](http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/1489/selection20741.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Baby\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@Baby\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baby_Driver)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693/2 "2009-07-29T19:19:56Z")
Oh gawd! (Lost the challenge). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693/3 "2009-07-29T19:21:12Z")
Poor kid, that could really give her issues. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693/4 "2009-07-29T19:27:57Z")
I lost and laughed and laughed! ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693/5 "2009-07-29T19:29:38Z")
What do I win? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693/6 "2009-07-29T19:29:52Z")
What DO you do when you’re a caricaturist and a fat kid or person comes up to you? I imagine they generally don’t (unless they have a sense of humor about it)…but… I mean, I’d assume that most people who don’t have a sense of humor about any bodily flaw would avoid the caricaturist like the plague. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Alan\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Bird)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693/7 "2009-07-29T19:50:44Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > What DO you do when you’re a caricaturist and a fat kid or person comes up to you? I imagine they generally don’t (unless they have a sense of humor about it)…but… > > I mean, I’d assume that most people who don’t have a sense of humor about any bodily flaw would avoid the caricaturist like the plague. Especially when the kid looks so hopelessly miserable. I actually thought the caricature made her frown look a tad less frowny. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693/8 "2009-07-29T20:04:21Z")
It made that little girl look like she’s 40, too. Funny though. I’d love to see the parent’s reaction. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693/9 "2009-07-29T20:08:03Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > What do I win? You gotta split it with me. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693/10 "2009-07-29T20:21:08Z")
I laughed, more at the kids face than the drawing. Still that’s just wrong. I’m sure the kids parent forced the issue, but the artist should’ve tried to ‘soften’ it up a bit. I hate when adults injure kids self-esteem. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693/11 "2009-07-29T20:36:53Z")
I’m really not a pansy. (Just wanted that on the record) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693/12 "2009-07-29T21:00:09Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > I’m sure the kids parent forced the issue, but the artist should’ve tried to ‘soften’ it up a bit. That is one turd that can’t be polished. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693/13 "2009-07-29T21:06:33Z")
Sorry, I didn’t laugh at all. The kid just looks hopelessly sad and imagining what she will feel like when she sees the picture just made me sad. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693/14 "2009-07-29T21:15:37Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > I’m really not a pansy. > > (Just wanted that on the record) This made me laugh more than the picture of the girl. The guy could have made the nose smaller and the eyes farther apart in the picture and that might have made the picture less “fatty”. That’s what I would have done in his situation. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693/15 "2009-07-29T21:17:10Z")
> [@Alan\_Bird](#): > > Especially when the kid looks so hopelessly miserable. I actually thought the caricature made her frown look a tad less frowny. I think if it didn’t make her look so old it wouldn’t have been so awful. And if she wasn’t so unhappy looking in the actual shot. I’d go with **Hockey Monkey** ’s assessment. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693/16 "2009-07-29T21:25:44Z")
No laughing here either. I just felt sorry for everyone involved. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693/17 "2009-07-29T22:17:25Z")
“Hey, kid, how about you stop GLOWERING at me?” ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693/18 "2009-07-29T23:14:55Z")
Nope, not laughing. Add me to the camp that feels very, very sorry for that child. Going thru life fat sucks, and to be poked fun at like that… well, it just makes it 100 times worse. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693/19 "2009-07-29T23:52:24Z")
You know who else was a street artist, right? HITLER! ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693/20 "2009-07-30T01:47:16Z")
I was surprised, but I didn’t laugh. Most street artists try to respect (and often) flatter the people whose pictures they’re painting/drawing. The little girl is not too happy about the procedure, otherwise she’d be rather pretty. She’s still at an age where she has baby fat. It’s unnecessarily cruel to treat her that way, and I hope that picture was photoshopped. Otherwise, the OP is right in the sentiment expressed in the title of this thread. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-this-guy-cares-about-his-job-anymore/504693.md?page=2)