I've seen ugly, but thats like

August 21, 2004 6:10 PM

Doing a Lynndie
posted by bob sarabia (19 comments total)

assholes.
posted by amberglow at 6:53 PM on August 21, 2004

The name of the site is very apt. It truly does stink.
posted by orange swan at 7:04 PM on August 21, 2004

I'll put my mark in the "funny" column, but only after solemn deliberation and consideration. Honest.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 7:29 PM on August 21, 2004

most of the pictures are of the people that actually run the site. sad sad
posted by bob sarabia at 7:44 PM on August 21, 2004

Much preferred Lindy:


posted by alms at 8:21 PM on August 21, 2004

This scandal was so sureally, beyond-the-pale embarrassing for all Americans that it deserves, and rewards, parody of this moronic coarseness. What else to do with such a loathesome notion as photo-ing oneself with unwitting (war-crime) victims other than herald it as the supreme act of arrogant inanity that it is? So I vote with PST. The whole site is worth it just for producing works of art such as this.
posted by soyjoy at 9:23 PM on August 21, 2004

I bet those homeless guys think they're a freakin laugh riot.

assholes.
posted by photoslob at 9:33 PM on August 21, 2004

lighten up.
posted by punishinglemur at 10:28 PM on August 21, 2004

I thought it was hilarious....I must be evil.
posted by h00dini at 10:37 PM on August 21, 2004

well isn't that just lovely.
posted by dawna at 10:42 PM on August 21, 2004

That's weird, no one rushed to condemn the guy this thread (also known as the "we can finally joke about beheadings" thread) is about.
posted by Krrrlson at 11:11 PM on August 21, 2004

It continues to sadden me that Rush and his band of wingnuts has likened this entire shameful episode to a frat house hazing. To me, the tone of this site comes off in the same vein, it trivializes the events. My discomfort is exacerbated by the meanness of people posing with homeless people and winos. Sad.
posted by madamjujujive at 12:02 AM on August 22, 2004

Maybe I'm just odd, but to me the whole thing is stupid. I don't mean stupid in the sense of degrading the people that made it. More of a stupid in that I take no side other than finding it boring and unfunny, you know... just dumb. There are a million things out there that are funny, this isn't one of them. I find FUH2(previously discussed here) more intriguing than this.
posted by JakeEXTREME at 1:29 AM on August 22, 2004

I'm with Jake on this one. That particular picture did not register enough in the public (or, perhaps, my) conscious for this concept to really work comedically.

Besides, at least in the USA, Tom Green and the boys from Jackass kind of ran the "humiliating random strangers" thing into the ground a couple years back.
posted by Joey Michaels at 2:39 AM on August 22, 2004

Unless you're pointing at a penis it aint a Lynndie
posted by dodgygeezer at 3:15 AM on August 22, 2004

So naughty. If you combinded this with the 'passed out wookiees' what would you get?

Of questionable taste, which is not neccessarily a bad thing.

If the governments of the coalition had treated the Abu Ghraib torture scandal with the urgency and respect it deserved there might be a more mature atmosphere around these pictures throughout society. It is almost worth these people reminding us of the commodification of the images as bargaining tools, which detracts from our society's humanity. The reports of torture should have been enough, why did it take these pictures appearance in the national press for the government to take *action*?

Funny, with a feeling of nausea attendant.
posted by asok at 4:32 AM on August 22, 2004

If the governments of the coalition had treated the Abu Ghraib torture scandal with the urgency and respect it deserved there might be a more mature atmosphere around these pictures throughout society.

I doubt it. And I'm not saying that to dismiss the Abu Ghraib incidents. After every tragic event (at least as far back as I can remember) there's usually a batch of tasteless jokes that make the rounds afterwards. Ethiopian jokes, Space Shuttle jokes, Princess Di jokes, etc. The Internet just provides a new medium for it.
posted by stifford at 7:28 AM on August 22, 2004

That particular picture did not register enough in the public (or, perhaps, my) conscious for this concept to really work comedically.

But it may have more impact in the UK and its a UK website (or at least most of the pictures are in the UK). I liked it.
posted by biffa at 5:09 PM on August 22, 2004

count me in the "funny" column. I liked this one.
posted by pardonyou? at 6:50 AM on August 23, 2004