@dlowan,
dlowan wrote:
Izzie wrote:
The latest blurbs over here are "Gadaffi recongises the rioters as the UK's new goverment"
<sigh>
to zzzzzzzzzzz - nite y'all!
You don't find it funny?
Yep, that's why I posted it. I can see the irony 'innit'!
I'm seeing loads of blurbs right now from very ordinary every day folk - some of the things that folk say are just so clever.
I'm sighing that there are folk, as clearly seen on this board, who do actually believe that this rioting is for the
same serious reasons as what's going on in Libya and comparing the two as a like for like
The UK news is quite delicious for a few who will use it the wrong way. It almost seems as tho certain people delight in all these events occuring in the world - just so they can have a go and say how right they were all along blah blah blah.
I'm all for injecting a little humour and have been reading quite a few satiricals which, sad/weird as I am, make me chuckle.
http://thegoldrush.co.uk/index.php/tag/riot-satire/
There's also a programme over here called
Mock the Week, (try and catch a show if you can) and some other amusing programmes too - which make you laugh really badly - to a point where you think, "nooooooooo, you can't possibly say that, no no, you didn't say that out loud did you" as you're sitting there trying to stifle a guffaw and then find yourself chuckling about it a little later too. Terrible at times, but funny. Course, some of it goes completely over my head.
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Watching some of the recent interviews, people who will show their faces and speak into the camera - they are quite happy to shout, 'let's riot, let's do this that and the other, it's party time'
I know of a photojournalist - he was in the thick of it on Monday night - as he thinks about what photos to take whilst standing on the heels of the riot officers, he has to retain a sense of humour - capturing shots such as this which is harmless, as such
<not his shot>
but also capturing shots that some may find offensive. No doubt there'll be a time and a place to publish them.