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PaperclipPerfector  10mo ago (text post)   2603 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for July 14, 2023

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Probably too low-brow for the normal thread but apparently the RFK Jr campaign dinner was a real gas:

RFK Jr. Press Dinner Explodes in War of Words and Farting

I'm amending my will to make sure my epitaph reads "Beer-Fueled Sex Rocket".

Edit: fixed formatting

I always get annoyed when I read articles or see pictures of the well-heeled hobnobbing at 10K a plate dinners or whatever. Like every year when they do the Met Gala thing and you find all these pictures online and I think "Assholes, all of you." Especially because these days you look at them and they're like gargoyles. Maybe it's the high resolution of camera tech. Anyway that's off-topic to your post, but did anyone, anyone shout that all these flying farts were contributing more methane to the atmosphere? If not, opportunity lost.

The gentle strains of a Soviet anthem fade in...

I agree that the photography is particularly ghoulish. Tabloids probably have a vested interest in making their subjects look eldritch, so maybe they use a different flash? RFK Jr. looks like he was built out of Legos no matter who is photographing, though. Curious.

My suspicion is that they use a worse flash than they would at a photoshoot so that the event is bearable for attendees. But that results in the HDTV era soap opera look.

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