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Goatman Sacks
Apr 4, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
:nws: http://o.onionstatic.com/images/18/18053/16x9/635.jpg?1577 :nws:

The Onion owns

http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-one-murdered-because-of-this-image,29553/

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boom boom boom
Jun 28, 2012

by Shine
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boom boom boom fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Oct 6, 2014

Humboldt Squid
Jan 21, 2006


Funnily enough, Japan used to have the same reputation for cheap nockoff crap that china has now.

I almost got this as an avatar, it was a tossup.

Goatman Sacks
Apr 4, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

China doesn't know Wing-Zero Gundam's color scheme

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the night dad
Oct 23, 2006

by XyloJW
Torso plating: Uniqlo from my japanese proxy~

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005

Lord Lambeth
Dec 7, 2011


Humboldt squid posted:

Funnily enough, Japan used to have the same reputation for cheap nockoff crap that china has now.

I almost got this as an avatar, it was a tossup.

What's the source of that and your avatar?

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Mach 30
Dec 16, 2005
That's faster than most planes can go!!!

Armyman25 posted:

Is there a computer that you can buy that is more acceptable?


Not that I know of, and I wouldn't argue as such. To me, though, it just seems blatantly hypocritical.

Fluoride Jones
Aug 24, 2009

toot toot


Humboldt Squid
Jan 21, 2006

Lord Lambeth posted:

What's the source of that and your avatar?

http://unomoralez.com/

E: megarule

Humboldt Squid fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Sep 14, 2012

a slime
Apr 11, 2005

Mach 30 posted:

Not that I know of, and I wouldn't argue as such. To me, though, it just seems blatantly hypocritical.

This kind of brand devotion bugs me a lot. I have a Facebook friend who is constantly posting stuff warning about the dangers of marketing and how we need to free our minds from all this bullshit. This week he flipped his poo poo over the new IPhone announcement and changed his profile picture to the Apple logo. What the gently caress.

Unrelated

Ronald Nixon
Mar 18, 2012
It's cognitive dissonance, isn't it?

Random Google image for the term:


(note the bottom line of text)

From here:

http://lifeinisrael.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/hamodias-dissonance.html

Bathtub Cheese
Jun 15, 2008

I lust for Chinese world conquest. The truth does not matter before the supremacy of Dear Leader Xi.

not a dinosaur posted:

This kind of brand devotion bugs me a lot. I have a Facebook friend who is constantly posting stuff warning about the dangers of marketing and how we need to free our minds from all this bullshit. This week he flipped his poo poo over the new IPhone announcement and changed his profile picture to the Apple logo. What the gently caress.

Unrelated



Did people just not notice it was a bumper sticker the guy probably bought for a car already marketed in the same way people buy computers? Obviously the juxtaposition with the Apple sticker is funny if you leave it at that, but it's an even hollower gesture once you realize that the entirety of the image, including the road and all the other cars are results of the consumer culture that bumper sticker claims we should question. So .. layer upon layer of the illusion of freedom that marketing needs to get you to buy buy buy buy!!!




BUY!

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

This makes me want to watch They Live!

Moist von Lipwig fucked around with this message at 09:56 on Sep 14, 2012

Tias
May 25, 2008

Pictured: the patron saint of internet political arguments (probably)

This avatar made possible by a gift from the Religionthread Posters Relief Fund

Volcott posted:

Do they make a computer hewn from the living bones of Richard Stallman?

Whoops, picture. Have a Volcott classic.



Did he add the dice as a last "gently caress you" aside to roleplayers? :stare: gently caress US christians forever.

They need a date with Spain, if you catch my drift.

Unkempt
May 24, 2003

...perfect spiral, scientists are still figuring it out...

a glitch
Jun 27, 2008

no wait stop

Soiled Meat

Tias posted:

Did he add the dice as a last "gently caress you" aside to roleplayers? :stare: gently caress US christians forever.

I think its just another reference to Jesus' crucifixtion in the Bible - at one point some soldiers got bored and started playing dice in front of him while he was being crucified.

Can't belive someone unironically drew that. It was a joke, right? Please tell me it was a joke.

Also, picture

Babylon Astronaut
Apr 19, 2012

Eggn0g posted:

I think its just another reference to Jesus' crucifixtion in the Bible - at one point some soldiers got bored and started playing dice in front of him while he was being crucified.
They were gambling for Jesus' clothes.

FRINGE
May 23, 2003
title stolen for lf posting

Babylon Astronaut posted:

They were gambling for Jesus' clothes.

So bankers are the people that modern Christians are supposed to hate? (Like Jesus seemed to say..?)
COME ON NOW.

quote:

The Lord looked and was displeased that there was no justice. He saw that there was no one, He was appalled that there was no one to intervene.

quote:

He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives to the rich, shall surely come to want

quote:

And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves

Babylon Astronaut
Apr 19, 2012
I thought Christians were not supposed to hate.


They better, Ayn, or you're up poo poo's creek.

Bear Retrieval Unit
Nov 5, 2009

Mudslide Experiment
Remove the Star of David and you got A Romney campaign poster

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

Tias posted:

Did he add the dice as a last "gently caress you" aside to roleplayers? :stare: gently caress US christians forever.

They need a date with Spain, if you catch my drift.



What am I looking at here? Is that guy firing a spud gun? Are those black things on the dumpster lid umbrella handles? I'm very confused about what's going on in this picture! :psyduck:



"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade without further introduction." - Mark Twain

Mark Twain: Greatest American that ever lived.

Gibbone
May 8, 2011
It's Spanish miners striking and using homemade rockets fired out of steel tubes. The green thing he's leaning on is a wheelie bin full of rocks or something to stop the rubber bullets and golf balls the cops are firing at them. Also they have some beers



Spanish maquis 420 kill fascists everyday.

Mans
Sep 14, 2011

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Crasscrab posted:

What am I looking at here? Is that guy firing a spud gun? Are those black things on the dumpster lid umbrella handles? I'm very confused about what's going on in this picture! :psyduck:

Spanish miners protesting against the closing of the only source of local economy in the area. The mines closing would destroy entire communities for the sake of austerity.



"There are three kinds of states: capitalist states, socialist states, and the state we're in"

massey ferguson
Mar 11, 2012


I'll admit to not knowing much about religion but isn't Allah just the word for God in arabic? As in the same God christians worship? Please correct me if I'm wrong like I say I have only basic knowledge of religions.

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4FJIP-eZCA what could have been...

Bathtub Cheese
Jun 15, 2008

I lust for Chinese world conquest. The truth does not matter before the supremacy of Dear Leader Xi.

massey ferguson posted:

I'll admit to not knowing much about religion but isn't Allah just the word for God in arabic? As in the same God christians worship? Please correct me if I'm wrong like I say I have only basic knowledge of religions.

Basically, yeah.

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

massey ferguson posted:

I'll admit to not knowing much about religion but isn't Allah just the word for God in arabic? As in the same God christians worship? Please correct me if I'm wrong like I say I have only basic knowledge of religions.



On Malta, which is so Christian it's the descendant of a crusader state, the local word for God is Allah. Similarly, Christian Arabs use Allah as well, as do Mizrahi Jews and Sikhs.

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

Bathtub Cheese posted:

Basically, yeah.



Feels American, man.

Fluoride Jones
Aug 24, 2009

toot toot

Crasscrab posted:

"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade without further introduction." - Mark Twain

Mark Twain: Greatest American that ever lived.


And a total hunk! :swoon:

T.Worth
Aug 31, 2012

by XyloJW


Moondyne Joe. Fucker was so hard they built a special escape proof cell for him in the local prison and he escaped by smashing a hole in the outer wall while breaking rocks, the original badarse.

T.Worth fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Sep 14, 2012

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

quote:

so the story is a man paid his traffic fine of $137 in one dollar bills. Folded into origami pigs. Delivered in 2 Dunkin’ Donuts boxes.












also: Racism

ekuNNN fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Sep 14, 2012

Fluo
May 25, 2007

English and Dutch royal family going around on their golden carriages.




He got turned down by the clerk and told to unfold them all :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yTBHCNHaQo

Fluo fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Sep 14, 2012

Dr. Cogwerks
Oct 28, 2006

all I need is a grant and Project :roboluv: is go

not a dinosaur posted:

This kind of brand devotion bugs me a lot. I have a Facebook friend who is constantly posting stuff warning about the dangers of marketing and how we need to free our minds from all this bullshit. This week he flipped his poo poo over the new IPhone announcement and changed his profile picture to the Apple logo. What the gently caress.

I did some media research work at an ad agency for awhile. That agency didn't have anything to do with Apple, but I can pretty much guarantee that the weird brand-antibrand thing going on there there is happening because someone was paid a lot of money to make it happen. Literally any vaguely popular idea that is a threat to consumerism will be co-opted and turned into a Good Reason to Buy Our Thing.



A huge part of Apple's branding strategy is that idea that buying Apple makes you unique, you're a chic sexy noncomformist, thinkin' different, and you should feel great about how enlightened you are for daring to ~think outside the box~ and buy a $2000 laptop with an apple on it instead of THE MAN's $700 laptop.

It's all intentional.

Their 1984 ad campaign hit peak-:psyduck: though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8



Dr. Cogwerks fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Sep 14, 2012

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

Cocaine Bear
Nov 4, 2011

ACAB

NewtGoongrich
Jan 21, 2012
I am a shit stain on the face of humanity, I have no compassion, only hatred, bile and lust.

PROUD SHIT STAIN

Dr. Cogwerks posted:

Their 1984 ad campaign hit peak-:psyduck: though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8




Both the "Think Different" and the "1984" ad campaigns came at low points for Apple. Apple wasn't the largest public corporation in the world when it did "1984", it was a response to the "threat" of market domination by IBM. The "Think Different" campaign was supposed to be about going back to "counter-culture roots" of Apple/Steve Jobs after Jobs returned to Apple.

The whole anti-brand brand is pretty brilliant. I know people who consider themselves impervious to marketing who will only buy Apple consumer electronics because "they're so drat cool!"



For content: things got a bit wacky when the Wall came down.

Nero CCG
Dec 1, 2007
Qualis Artifex Pereo.

Crasscrab posted:

What am I looking at here? Is that guy firing a spud gun? Are those black things on the dumpster lid umbrella handles? I'm very confused about what's going on in this picture! :psyduck:



"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade without further introduction." - Mark Twain

Mark Twain: Greatest American that ever lived.

Almost.

Fuck You And Diebold
Sep 15, 2004

by Athanatos
Does anyone have foxnews.jpg? I seem to have lost mine.

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Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

One of Romney's statements today on Regis and Kelly

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