RFC: Nazi tattoos on BME?

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

For whatever reason I've been getting a lot more Nazi and white power skin-themed tattoo submissions than usual this week. Below are a few that have been sent in over the last couple days (although I think some of them are ripped off from various online neo-nazi forums).

Now, I have no intention of changing the rules for IAM which exclude this sort of thing, so this question is exclusively for the galleries on the main site. The question is: Should I include pictures like these in the tattoo galleries, and if so, should they be sorted separately or included in the main sets? After all BME does include other things that I (and most people) don't politically agree with.
Nazi tattoos? What do you think? (tons)
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The evil eye

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Via one of my favorite piercers, Kivaka, I got the following deeply disturbing picture of Crazy Dave's tattoo on top of, well, whatever that bulge on the top of his head is… Like some lumpy villager right out of a Bruegel painting or something it's going to haunt my nightmares, but as disturbing at it may be, I sure am glad I live in a world where people have a sense of humor about life.

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Time for a caption contest I think!

Monday, March 28, 2005


My favorites (so far):
“I gotta piss like a faucet” -keebie
“You call this a mechanical bull?” –
“New exotic 'tap dance' routine” – sgthree
“Apparently, not everyone is disturbed by rattling pipes.” -
“that poor blind girl keeps asking why her boyfriends dick is so cold.” -waiting4arson
“Mr Henderson finally realises that his previously scary 'Go stand in the corner young lady' punishment was beginning to lose its fear factor.” -
“David Wilcox's biggest fan, taking lyrics a little too literally.” -Yours truly

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**PIX#LINK** Macro

Monday, March 28, 2005

I've added a new image positioning macro that instead of placing the image or a thumbnail thereof into your diary entry instead inserts a link to it. It literally is inserted as a link, so you have to use it in the following form:


Click <a href="**PIX#LINK">here&;lt;/a> to see the picture.

'#' of course is replaced by the image number… In short this allows you to include pictures in diary entries without having to have them all be displayed (but don't forget to link them). Note that in edit mode the image will display, just in case you miss linking it and for general convenience. I'll finish up this entry by giving you an example of how it can be used.

Take a look at the picture below, and try and figure out what piercing that is…

When you're ready to give up, click here for the answer.

(The first picture was placed using **PIX1FULL** and the second with **PIX2LINK**.)

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"Support the troops?"

Monday, March 28, 2005

I've been very light on the political entries lately, mostly due to time issues, but there's a set today that disgusts me so much that I really feel I have to mention. It's no surprise that US corporate corruption is over the top, with a fairly endless stream of stories of one company after another collecting multi-million-dollar payoffs and then giving nothing back to either the US or Iraq.

Now, it's one thing for greedy companies run by the richest people in America to do mass defrauding of the American taxpayer. That sort of “spreads the evil” out in a way that maybe they can convince themselves that it's a victimless crime or something — rather than vile war profiteering. But when war profiteering gets personal — when it's used to attack a single family, it really makes me sick.

While in theory there are (some) laws (albeit largely ignored) protecting people from foreclosure on their property while they are off at war, tell that to Wells Fargo and other big companies who are recognizing the economic damage that this back door draft has done as an excellent way for them to do massive asset seizure. These are not wealthy people — Osawatomie, Kansas, Fayetteville, North Carolina, and rural Ohio are a big step removed from the Hamptons. Lives are being destroyed by more than guns and bombs… I've linked to it over and over, but you must read this: WAR IS A RACKET.

It's not just big companies taking advantage of it. Having your partner dragged away for years at a time can put a hell of a strain on a marriage, and many families have been destroyed because of it. To make matters worse, courts are effectively accepting the argument that being in the military makes someone an unfit parent and people are losing custody battles while drafted to fight in Iraq… Can you imagine the horror of having to go and fight in a war you don't want to be in, and then having your kids taken away because of it? It's no wonder recruiters are scrambling…

Compare the pictures in this entry and understand
how war affects the rich and poor differently.

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