# Just when you thought you'd left jr. high behind forever... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 27, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491 "2008-06-27T19:58:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491/1 "2008-06-27T19:58:35Z")
Seriously, people, I thought this was a message board for mostly adults, with a backbone of fighting ignorance. Yet [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=473383) we have people regurgitating various prepackaged items in poor taste onto photos that probably didn’t have a lot going for them anyway, and yes, it’s an actual thread. I don’t mind dark humor but I didn’t see anything even mildly amusing here. Nothing particularly offfensive, either, but I must say, I am offended by blandness and insipidity. Usually when I come across these kinds of threads I just click on through. This one assumes proportions of awfulness that make me sorry I paid to post here. I could have read this shit for nothing. Almost anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491/2 "2008-06-27T20:04:51Z")
Well that’s nice. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491/3 "2008-06-27T20:09:44Z")
Come ON! That thread is not THAT bad. Live a little. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491/4 "2008-06-27T20:12:11Z")
First **Guin** ’s lame-ass pitting, and now this one? Jesus. I guess since you’re so easily offended, despite your protestations to the contrary, I won’t bother to ask you the requisite “Awww, does your pussy hurt?” for fear you might suffer a stroke. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491/5 "2008-06-27T20:13:20Z")
About the level of 11 years olds, there just isn’t any inventiveness at all.Its the sort of Barbie meets facebook website design school. As for the vulture watching the starving child, might I ask the person how this would go across if it had been an American child that was the subject of the deathwatch? ‘Blinging’ such an image betrays something, not sure what but it certainly isn’t wit. I’t’s something rather less than poor taste, it truly is. If this is what passes for humour, then it diminishes us all, this was a real life, an innocent slipping away in a man made tragedy, the utter helplessness of the child, the pure desperation - and this person ‘blings’ it. The lack of respect - some peopel perhaps deserve or put themselves in the way of adverse publicity, can anyone here see an of that in this image? ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491/6 "2008-06-27T20:14:10Z")
Not a fan of black humour I take it. What’s going on with the pit today? It’s like people feel like they have a pit quota they need to fill and they’re pitting anything and everything. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491/7 "2008-06-27T20:17:45Z")
Did you just get on the internet and complain about the humor being at jr high level? Please tell me it ain’t so… ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491/8 "2008-06-27T20:17:48Z")
[QUOTE=casdave] About the level of 11 years olds, there just isn’t any inventiveness at all.Its the sort of Barbie meets facebook website design school. As for the vulture watching the starving child, might I ask the person how this would go across if it had been an American child that was the subject of the deathwatch? ‘Blinging’ such an image betrays something, not sure what but it certainly isn’t wit. I’t’s something rather less than poor taste, it truly is. If this is what passes for humour, then it diminishes us all, this was a real life, an innocent slipping away in a man made tragedy, the utter helplessness of the child, the pure desperation - and this person ‘blings’ it. The lack of respect - some peopel perhaps deserve or put themselves in the way of adverse publicity, can anyone here see an of that in this image? [/QUOTE] I raped your mother. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491/9 "2008-06-27T20:19:10Z")
[QUOTE=friedo] I raped your mother. [/QUOTE] Dude, if you keep that up, you’ll diminish us all. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491/10 "2008-06-27T20:19:20Z")
I will also add, the other thing that makes this such a disgusting act, is knowing the rest of the story behind the photograph and the fate of the photographer, do some research on it folks, and then tell me this was an appropriate thing to do. Even the poster realises there is some impropriety, maybe that poster should tell all of us what they find out about this image, and how ‘blinging’ it added something more to it, I would be real interested to know. I’ll tell you what, you fucking shitstain, read the following and fucking well justify yourself, [http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds\_and\_oddities/ultimate\_in\_unfair.htm](http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_and_oddities/ultimate_in_unfair.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491/11 "2008-06-27T20:24:21Z")
[QUOTE=alice\_in\_wonderland] Not a fan of black humour I take it. What’s going on with the pit today? It’s like people feel like they have a pit quota they need to fill and they’re pitting anything and everything. [/QUOTE] Actually I am. But “humor” is one of the important components of such. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491/12 "2008-06-27T20:24:40Z")
[QUOTE=woodstockbirdybird] Dude, if you keep that up, you’ll diminish us all. [/QUOTE] Actually I feel rather embiggened. Also, farts. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491/13 "2008-06-27T20:25:27Z")
[QUOTE=friedo] I raped your mother. [/QUOTE] Wow, how clever and original. You owe me a new keyboard. Psych! ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491/14 "2008-06-27T20:30:44Z")
I dunno. Sometimes this board is weird. Someone in CS will post a thread about the most hilarious web-comic ever and I click on it and it’s like, the most boring Family Circle comic ever. Then I wonder what kind of pot some people here are smoking and could you PM me with some seeds? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491/15 "2008-06-27T20:30:54Z")
Turd in the champagne fountain. [(Plug for _Horrible People_)](http://www.mydamnchannel.com/Horrible_People/Season_1/HorriblePeople1_533.aspx) ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491/16 "2008-06-27T20:33:07Z")
**Friedo** Whilst you make that comment, and it may well be amusing - to you, I’m glad you do not know her story, trust me on this. I understand black humour, I also understand that folk make comments imagining they are witty, and completely unknowing and unintentionally do not realise there is another story behind it. But, when we become adults, and have some life experience, and see and feel the unpleasentness of life, perhaps we can be more restrained, maybe even come up with genuine wit, instead of the superb example of childish kneejerk comment you made. Takes all sort I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491/17 "2008-06-27T20:40:10Z")
Well if you can’t take it as plain old black humor, look at it as artistic commentary on the increadible numbness that the internet has spread to everyone and the further cheapening of, well, everything. That image has been shown so many times that it loses it’s initial impact and the only way to help it keep it’s pertinance is to mock it slightly to make the viewer stop and think about it all over again. It’s Post Modern Pop Punk. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491/18 "2008-06-27T20:40:28Z")
[QUOTE=Hilarity N. Suze] Wow, how clever and original. You owe me a new keyboard. Psych! [/QUOTE] Psych? PSYCH?!?!?!?! Fuck me… When did it become the 1980s again? Anywhere we can petition for a name change in others? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491/19 "2008-06-27T20:41:11Z")
Really, is this board so packed with awesome threads that we can’t make room for a few silly ones? I think not. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491/20 "2008-06-27T20:48:45Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Really, is this board so packed with awesome threads that we can’t make room for a few silly ones? I think not. [/QUOTE] It’s not like I have pounced on every silly thread. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-youd-left-jr-high-behind-forever/454491.md?page=2)