Funny? or does it leave a bad taste in your mouth?

[Guest]

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Oc...g/hawkmain.jpg

[WOM]

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Well, certainly not that funny. But I wouldn't call it distasteful. Seems like a fairly accurate homage. Really depends upon what its intent was, I'd say.

[My Name Is Ian]

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I was having a nose around The Bear Factory in Brighton a couple of months ago and they sell little wheelchairs for the bears in there.

It's difficult to say whether it's in really *bad* taste or is just a kind of lazy joke without knowing the context, I guess.

[Guest]

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There was no context to this post on Digg, just the image, so you can't tell what the intent was.

[Mumpo]

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Offensive? Offensive? It's the best thing I've ever seen in my life.

[Mumpo]

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Well, top 5, anyway. Certainly the best Lego.

[evilC]

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No 'worse' than The Brick Testament.

In fact, we can at least prove that Stephen Hawking exists, so yet again it's religion 0, hard Lego ...I mean science... 1.

[My Name Is Ian]

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Lego vs Science - Score Draw.
Lego vs Christanity - Home Win.

I also went into a Lego shop recently and was utterly befuddled by all the things they had on sale in there. It's not often that I feel really old, but I did in there. I had no idea what was going on.

[Er Liquidatore]

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Fucking hell, that made me dribbling water all down my front.

[Femme Folle]

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Not offensive. As loathe as I am to use this phrase: It is what it is. How could you depict Stephen Hawking any other way? To do so would not be realistic. It would be, in effect, saying that he's not 'perfect', so he needs to be made 'perfect' in artist renderings. I'm sure he would find that more offensive than this.

[Femme Folle]

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The_Liquidator wrote:

Fucking hell, that made me dribbling water all down my front.

Apparently it also made you losing your ability to speak English as well.

[Bruno]

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The Brick Testament is high fucking art.

[Etienne]

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Suggested tribute thread title: Fanny? Does it leave a bad taste in your mouth?

[My Name Is Ian]

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I gave it some consideration this afternoon whilst sitting in the pub, and came to the conclusion that I can't see that he would get offended by it. If he wouldn't (and there is obviously a degree of supposition going on here), it's difficult to see why anyone else should on his behalf.

[Ant van Oviedo]

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I gave it some consideration this afternoon whilst sitting in the pub

Blimey, it's a tough old life, isn't it?

[My Name Is Ian]

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This is my first holiday since May. I thought I'd better use it constructively.

[Guy Profumo]

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evilC wrote:

No 'worse' than The Brick Testament.

In fact, we can at least prove that Stephen Hawking exists, so yet again it's religion 0, hard Lego ...I mean science... 1.

God, eh?

What a git

[evilC]

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Femme Folle wrote:

Not offensive. As loathe as I am to use this phrase: It is what it is. How could you depict Stephen Hawking any other way? To do so would not be realistic. It would be, in effect, saying that he's not 'perfect', so he needs to be made 'perfect' in artist renderings. I'm sure he would find that more offensive than this.

Maybe he could get some hard-line cosmology organisation to decree that "Thou shalt not depict Hawking or make objects bearing his likeness, on pain of death"?

[Eggchaser]

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twohundredpercent wrote:

I also went into a Lego shop recently and was utterly befuddled by all the things they had on sale in there. It's not often that I feel really old, but I did in there. I had no idea what was going on.

Do they still make proper Lego kits that can be made into something else when you're bored with what's on the box, because whenever I look at Lego kits they seem to be very specific in what parts you get, so you can't turn a plane into a motorbike like you used to be able to.

[Ek weet nie]

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Etienne wrote:

Suggested tribute thread title: Fanny? Does it leave a bad taste in your mouth?

It would no doubt lead to hilarity due to the Atlantic cultural divide. As an aside, just how did the divergence in meaning happen in the slang world of American english and the Queen's?

[WOM]

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Why? What's 'fanny' mean there that it doesn't here?

[Bruno]

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U.S. fanny = posterior

British fanny = anterior

[My Name Is Ian]

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Do they still make proper Lego kits that can be made into something else when you're bored with what's on the box

Yes, but you have to look very, very hard for them amongst the dragons, space ships and motorbikes that turn into dragons and space ships. I bought a Lego chess set in the end.

[Bored Of Education]

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That is excellent but, if I ate it, it would probably leave a bad taste in my mouth