# Now available -- DIY Despair.com images!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 22, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565 "2007-08-22T21:41:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565/1 "2007-08-22T21:41:41Z")
For those who’ve never seen the stuff, [despair.com](http://despair.com) produces “demotivational” posters that give the ironic parody treatment to those cheery motivational posters with titles like “ACHIEVEMENT” and images of sprinters crossing the finish line (e.g., “FAILURE: When your best just isn’t good enough”, with a picture of a runner sitting on a bleacher with his head in his hands; or “HUMILIATION: The harder you try, the dumber you look”, with a picture of a skier wiping out).
Well here’s a new web page they have on their site: a [Do It Yourself](http://diy.despair.com/motivator.php) service that lets you upload your own images, apply your own title and caption, and save it as a JPG! (I can only assume a printing option is not far behind.)
Here’s one I created: [Matrimony](http://pics.livejournal.com/robardin/pic/0001e3d7.jpg) (but don’t tell my wife) 😉
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### Author:  [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565/2 "2007-08-22T22:28:07Z")
So awesome! I don’t have good photos to use on this computer, but rest assured I will be making many a poster. Taking pot-shots at work whenever possible. Yay!
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### Author:  [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565/3 "2007-08-23T02:12:18Z")
That is GREAT!
When I read you did one on Matrimony, my eyes/ears perked up, as all of my siblings have been divorced at least once (and I’ve had to hear all about it).
My brother’s favorite quote during that period of his life:
“Life’s a bitch and then you marry one.”
That would work, too. Thanks for the link.
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### Author:  [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565/4 "2007-08-23T02:33:14Z")
[http://diy.despair.com/show.php?file=poster93412591.jpg](http://diy.despair.com/show.php?file=poster93412591.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565/5 "2007-08-23T05:31:05Z")
robardin & ataraxy22 - Those are hilarious!
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565/6 "2007-08-23T07:49:49Z")
This one isn’t mine, but it’s one of my favourites:
[http://members.arstechnica.com/x/jym/hard\_work.jpg](http://members.arstechnica.com/x/jym/hard_work.jpg)
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### Author:  [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565/7 "2007-08-23T12:22:20Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
This one isn’t mine, but it’s one of my favourites:
[http://members.arstechnica.com/x/jym/hard\_work.jpg](http://members.arstechnica.com/x/jym/hard_work.jpg)
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Oooh, that’s dark. Rather a little too dark 🙂
[Despair.com](http://Despair.com) has a few along these lines (but more ironic than dark): [Laziness](http://images.despair.com/products/demotivators/laziness.jpg) (“Sucess is a journey, not a destination. So stop running”), [Do It Later](http://images.despair.com/products/demotivators/doitlater.jpg) (“The early worm is for the birds”) and [Effort](http://www.despair.com/effort.html) (“Hard work never killed anybody, but it is illegal in some places” [_with picture of Paris and the Eiffel Tower_ – or as the French say, _Bonjour, Paresse!_ ;)]
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### Author:  [@LionelHutz405](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LionelHutz405)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565/8 "2007-08-23T14:16:30Z")
[It’s not my fault](http://picasaweb.google.com/Mr.Lionel.Hutz/Public)
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565/9 "2007-08-23T14:28:31Z")
OK, [here](http://www.gurman.co.uk/stuff/poster42937708.jpg)’s mine
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### Author:  [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565/10 "2007-08-23T20:13:30Z")
[Mine](http://diy.despair.com/show.php?file=poster54530923.jpg).
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### Author:  [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565/11 "2007-08-23T20:35:30Z")
And [this one](http://diy.despair.com/show.php?file=poster69430282.jpg).
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565/12 "2007-08-23T20:58:31Z")
Those are really cool you guys. I’m at work so I have no pictures handy.
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### Author:  [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565/13 "2007-08-23T21:17:25Z")
[QUOTE=Rico]
[Mine](http://diy.despair.com/show.php?file=poster54530923.jpg).
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I am not generally a LOLCATZ fan, but I have to say, that cat had me LOLing.
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### Author:  [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565/14 "2007-08-23T21:24:16Z")
[QUOTE=Rico]
And [this one](http://diy.despair.com/show.php?file=poster69430282.jpg).
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That’s great, [here](http://picasaweb.google.com/richard.ewald/Despair/photo#5102009507514031602) is mine.
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### Author:  [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2007, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565/15 "2007-08-24T12:58:13Z")
Ha, I love these.
[Here](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y23/scotdor/stubborness.jpg) is one I made a while ago. 😃
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2007, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565/16 "2007-08-24T13:33:06Z")
[QUOTE=Dorjän]
Ha, I love these.
[Here](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y23/scotdor/stubborness.jpg) is one I made a while ago. 😃
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[Counterpoint](http://www.gurman.co.uk/stuff/poster90945359.jpg).
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2007, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565/17 "2007-08-24T14:20:12Z")
I’m gonna pitch my hat into the ring with [“Illiteracy”](http://pages.suddenlink.net/maxtorque/illiteracy.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565/18 "2007-08-24T14:37:52Z")
[Carpooling](http://www.gurman.co.uk/stuff/poster98563209.jpg)
The web page for generating these things freaked me out a bit at first, because the guy in the greyed-out sample picture looks exactly like me (well, a few years ago).
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565/19 "2007-08-24T15:39:51Z")
[QUOTE=Dorjän]
[Here](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y23/scotdor/stubborness.jpg) is one I made a while ago. 😃
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stubborn **N** ess
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### Author:  [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-available-diy-despair-com-images/416565/20 "2007-08-24T15:46:46Z")
D’oh! Once again, I should make no attempt to spell before I’ve had my morning coffee.
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