The Funny Picture Thread

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Rules:

1) Picture must be funny on its own merit. i.e. no story.

2) No doctored/photoshopped pictures

3) No political shit please.



Bringing in the fall spirit. . .







Cheers
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    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
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    midwintermidwinter Posts: 10,060member




    I took this picture in my father's carport.
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    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    why is that funny?
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    midwintermidwinter Posts: 10,060member
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    Originally posted by Scott

    why is that funny?



    Because it looks like someone is trying to jump start a hand-truck.



    {sarcasm]You see, the humor relies on the viewer's knowledge of the simple fact that hand-trucks are very simple leverage-based tools, and moreover, that they are are powered by the human operating them rather than by any kind of combustion engine, which would, in turn, require some kind of battery power if the fuel is to be ignited. The image suggests that someone was so blindingly unaware of how hand-trucks work that he/she thought the inactive simple machine needed to draw from some kind of external power if it were to work properly. This then, like most forms of humor, relies on the irony of the situation: *we* know something that the individual who (we can only assume) has tried to jump-start the hand-truck does not, and thus our superiority, when combined with the responsible party's almost unfathomable ineptitude, created a kind of ironic distance that registers in the Western mind as humorous. In other words, the idea that someone has so fundamentally misunderstood the situation is so preposterous to us that is can only be considered humorous.[/sarcasm]



    God that's hard. I'd forgotten how difficult it was to explain why things are funny. And I don't think I quite got to it here.



    Cheers

    Scott
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    lucaluca Posts: 3,833member
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  • Reply 7 of 69
    Good stuff gentlemen.



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    cakecake Posts: 1,010member
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    moogsmoogs Posts: 4,296member
    That is one viscious looking cat.



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    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    I love Jesus!







    or







    Oops! I didn't catch that no photoshop thing. Well. Maybe this?



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    giaguaragiaguara Posts: 2,724member




    I just liked the name of this shop.



    ... and no, they are selling shoes.
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    andersanders Posts: 6,523member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Giaguara





    I just liked the name of this shop.



    ... and no, they are selling shoes.




    Scary. Look at that gigantic mime person.
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    giaguaragiaguara Posts: 2,724member
    the mime person was hanging from the yellow building on right. an advertisement for some theater stuff. but that wasn't the main point ..
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    Pick a Presidential one sir!
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  • Reply 15 of 69
    its old, you've seen it, but its still really funny.



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    lucaluca Posts: 3,833member




    I was just waiting for someone to post that so I could post this
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    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    Who do you call when...



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    While we're on this cock topic. . .



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    lucaluca Posts: 3,833member
    I tried to post this earlier but the filename got blocked out by the profanity filter, and my FTP access was down so I couldn't change it. Anyway, here it is:



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    brbr Posts: 8,395member
    What the hell is that?
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