GasBandit
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Those Taco Bell burritos will do that to you every time.
That thing is like a dome and 2 lasers from being a Cobra vehicle.Want. Want so bad.
Not EVERY time.
GasBandit
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Wow... just... wow.
I am not a fan of sunshine and happiness through suicide.
I totally get this. I think it's worth asking though, that in a case like this picture isn't it less of a "suicide will make things better" statement and more of a "this is the perception of this person"? I mean, that seems like an important thing, and certainly one worth considering.
I don't care, it is a terribly skewed point of view.
There is only one time that suicide did anyone any good... Hitler.
There is only one time that suicide did anyone any good... Hitler.
Look, I don't want to get into a huge argument here, but what you said is exactly the point and I would argue, exactly why you should care.
I want to be clear, I am not advocating for the glorification of suicide as a way out. Merely that the view of those who are tempted to commit the act shouldn't be marginalized.
I am marginalizing the art. It angers me on a personal level.
Me too. I mean, that desk only has two legs and the back legs of the chair are two short and apparently intersect the wall.
I am with Espy on this one. I see the picture not as a pop-up ad trying to convince me of the tidiness of an easy solution to all of Life's problems, but instead as a window to how the option of suicide might appear/appeal to someone once they become really, truly desperate.
However, my sympathy for the artist's point of view does not mean I don't still get the urge to choke a random stranger on the Internet if their sole contribution to a discussion is to post OMFG U R SUCH A <twit> DRINK SOME BLEACH U NEED 2 DIE
in response to when someone is obviously despondent and is making what might be a last-ditch plea for help on the Internet*.--Patrick
*Not the best place for a last-ditch plea, but by then they're not generally rational.
GasBandit
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By that logic, kicking you in the nuts would be art.
Isn't that why there are pages and pages of youtube vids full of people getting kicked in the nuts, or falling on their nuts, or hitting their nuts on things? Because it's art?
GasBandit
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No, I don't mean kicking "somebody" in the nuts, I mean actually kicking you, the art consumer, in the nuts. Like, if a guy just stood in a museum on a 4 inch pedestal, holding a sign that says "ART" on it, and any time someone stopped to look at him, he'd kick them in the crotch.
Huh... actually....
Interactive performance art?
I would build an animatronic Mr. Peanut sitting in a wingback chair. You would stand right on the two footprints and press a button, and he would stand up and deliver a compressed-air-assisted boot to your groin. The exhibit would be titled "Assaulted Nuts."
You're welcome.
Edit: DANGIT, Gared !
--Patrick
I would build an animatronic Mr. Peanut sitting in a wingback chair. You would stand right on the two footprints and press a button, and he would stand up and deliver a compressed-air-assisted boot to your groin. The exhibit would be titled "Assaulted Nuts."
You're welcome.
Edit: DANGIT, Gared !
--Patrick
I dunno, if I were going to go the animatronic route, I think I'd go with the entire cast of the Country Bear Jamboree, or a bunch of the random pirates from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride or something.
GasBandit
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Welp, I've got MY legal defense lined up then.
Then you can name the exhibit...
THE 6TH GRADE
THE 6TH GRADE
Tetris: This time its for REAL.
...and we are all thankful.