# What were they thinking when they had there photo's taken? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 11, 2000, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-they-thinking-when-they-had-there-photos-taken/28945 "2000-08-11T10:41:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astrangefish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@astrangefish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astrangefish)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2000, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-they-thinking-when-they-had-there-photos-taken/28945/1 "2000-08-11T10:41:37Z")
Having lots of better things to do, but not doing them enabled me to spend all morning surfing through the SDMB People Pages. I may be clinically insane, but I wondered what was going through the dopers mind when they were having their picture taken… Here’s a couple to start off: [DoctorJ](http://www.geocities.com/sdpeoplepages/doctorj.html)\>Singing this high ‘F’ _doesn’t_ get any easier. [DrMatrix](http://www.geocities.com/sdpeoplepages/drmatrix.html)\>I could kill you with my thumb. No offense of course 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![astrangefish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@astrangefish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astrangefish)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2000, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-they-thinking-when-they-had-there-photos-taken/28945/2 "2000-08-11T10:44:33Z")
hmmm… forgive my error in the subject line there \> their…I am English, so I have no excuse. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2000, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-they-thinking-when-they-had-there-photos-taken/28945/3 "2000-08-11T10:53:15Z")
A kind of similar thread was started a while back. Not many people took very kindly to it. You can find that [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=32101). ---
**Author:** ![astrangefish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@astrangefish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astrangefish)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2000, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-they-thinking-when-they-had-there-photos-taken/28945/4 "2000-08-11T11:03:11Z")
My intentions were not to poke fun at fellow dopers or be hurtful about their appearances. It’s meant to throw a different angle onto the photograph in a lighthearted way. I do however understand that the it could be used in the wrong way. If the moderators wanna lock this thread down - then please do so. Sometimes I would kill for that edit button to work. Or maybe even a time machine. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2000, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-they-thinking-when-they-had-there-photos-taken/28945/5 "2000-08-11T11:11:24Z")
Just wait until I get around to scanning my picture in. People will be staring at it for hours, trying to understand the ineffable uniqueness that is Smeghead. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2000, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-they-thinking-when-they-had-there-photos-taken/28945/6 "2000-08-11T11:19:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astrangefish \* > \*\*My intentions were not to poke fun at fellow dopers or be hurtful about their appearances. > \*\* I completely understand that. However, the person who started the thread I mentioned in my above post wasn’t poking fun either or trying to be hurtful. It’s just the atmosphere here. People put their picture up in trust. They don’t want people making jokes (no matter how intended) about their looks. That’s my understanding of the whole thing anyway. ---
**Author:** ![astrangefish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@astrangefish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astrangefish)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2000, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-they-thinking-when-they-had-there-photos-taken/28945/7 "2000-08-11T13:03:10Z")
I don’t want to be the cause of any unfriendliness to fellow dopers. As you can tell by my meagre post count I’m fairly new here and should probably learn the merits of the search button before starting contentious threads. I’m requesting that this thread be locked. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2000, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-they-thinking-when-they-had-there-photos-taken/28945/8 "2000-08-11T15:19:20Z")
FTR, I am not offended. Maybe if I understood what you meant, I might be offended. (just kidding) That said, **Silver\_Fire** is right. A lot of people don’t take kindly to humor about their looks, no matter how the comments are intended. Oh yeah, one more thing. There are two errors in the thread title. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisCTP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-they-thinking-when-they-had-there-photos-taken/28945/9 "2000-08-14T07:29:32Z")
I don’t think it’s supposed to be about taking jabs at people’s looks. I think this was supposed to be a sort of “give this photo a caption” thing. ---
**Author:** ![FreakFreely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/48db29/32.png) [@FreakFreely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FreakFreely)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-they-thinking-when-they-had-there-photos-taken/28945/10 "2000-08-14T07:55:50Z")
True. But it’s obvious that people’s feelings would be hurt, even if they did understand that it’s just good-natured ribbing. OTOH, if it were in the Pit, it would be a whole nother thing. Once you step into the Pit, all bets are off. ---
**Author:** ![astrangefish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@astrangefish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astrangefish)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-they-thinking-when-they-had-there-photos-taken/28945/11 "2000-08-14T07:56:14Z")
I wouldn’t worry Chris, no one gets it. I can’t type. My use of English is terrible. Die thread, die.