Images that make you laugh

[C_Mucius_Scaevola]

I repped your post, and complimented the image in my post. I was offering commentary, not a complaint. I assumed you agreed the image is not funny, and I appreciated the irony of posting it in this thread.

Maybe I should have used an emoji or two, because my reply wasn't meant to imply that I took your comment as a complaint, or any kind of disagreement. Such is the nature of text conversation, I suppose. I think any reasonable person would see the image the same way as you and I do. I don't want to come over all Canadian*, but: sorry if I gave the wrong impression.

*And to any Canadians who might be offended by the stereotype, I can only say "sorry".

 

[C_Mucius_Scaevola]

My first reaction was to think of the phrase, 'there but for the grace of g*d go I', or 'giving is receiving'? Or more cynically that the guy on the left is giving to make himself feel better. Or is it that the beggar has worked out a good strategy to get people to give? I wasn't sure what to make of it, but I thought it was clever and interesting.

"There but for the grace of God, go I" is what came to my mind, too. It's a great saying, although it would be more realistic and accurate to say, "There but for the grace of ordinary reality, random chance, and a slew of other events and influences that I can't control and most of which I am not aware of to begin with" but that's not nearly as eloquent.

It's true, though. In a very real sense, we are all each other in terms of what we might do or what circumstances we might find ourselves in. It's mainly just Republicans who don't understand this. At least until they go to jail or lose their job or get sick with no health insurance and there's no rich daddy to take care of it.

Do you mean this?: “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”

The original facebook post (which was certainly not the original source) I nicked it from had the French caption, "a votre bon coeur, messieurs-dames", a phrase used by buskers/panhandlers/beggars in Francophone lands. For those without French (les sans francais), I offer the translation: "(I appeal) to your good hearts, ladies and gentlemen". I don't think that quite captures the feel of the image though, which I see more in line with ruby's "there but for the grace" suggestion.

ZiprHead, that's one of my all-time favourite quotes, which I used to have (along with Diderot's "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest", but I don't think it's applicable to this cartoon. Definitely more in the line of "there but for the grace" or floof's "we are all each other", or John Paul, George and Ringo's "I am he as you are he as you are me
And we are all together".

Goo-goo g'joob.

 

[WAB]

I repped your post, and complimented the image in my post. I was offering commentary, not a complaint. I assumed you agreed the image is not funny, and I appreciated the irony of posting it in this thread.

Maybe I should have used an emoji or two, because my reply wasn't meant to imply that I took your comment as a complaint, or any kind of disagreement. Such is the nature of text conversation, I suppose. I think any reasonable person would see the image the same way as you and I do. I don't want to come over all Canadian*, but: sorry if I gave the wrong impression.

*And to any Canadians who might be offended by the stereotype, I can only say "sorry".

No, I'm sorry. I can be a numbnuts. Just ask my parents.

Bottom line is, it's a great image, and I'm glad you posted it.

 

[Angry Floof]

 

[Angry Floof]

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Is this showing the image for anyone? I only see it as an attachment that you have to click. I don't know if my end is broken or TFT's.

 

[Patooka]

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Is this showing the image for anyone? I only see it as an attachment that you have to click. I don't know if my end is broken or TFT's.

Can't see it, had to click the link.

 

[Old Woman in Purple]

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Is this showing the image for anyone? I only see it as an attachment that you have to click. I don't know if my end is broken or TFT's.

I clicked the link.

 

[bilby]

 

[Iznomneak]

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Is this showing the image for anyone? I only see it as an attachment that you have to click. I don't know if my end is broken or TFT's.

I don't see it without clicking, but here it is. (The cat is on a window sill and the clouds are a reflection from outside a window)

 

[Keith&Co.]

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That....took me much too long. Trying to see if the missing letter lined up with the missing Norseman, or if the men were rearranged the way the letters were...


You win, sir. Take your damned points.

 

[ZiprHead]

 

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[WAB]

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Oh yay. I can look for some Whitesnake CD's, maybe get a few Chuck Norris DVD's, look for some knives, pinky rings, a shotgun maybe, that Lynyrd Skynyrd poster I always wanted...

 

[ZiprHead]

I'll leave now.

 

[Potoooooooo]

 

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[ZiprHead]

 

[WAB]

That cat's got people eyes. PEOPLE EYES!!