Why I should probably not be left alone with either GIMP or ROFLbot

[camwyn]

A while back on one of the LJ groups I sometimes visit, there was a veterinarian who was getting very, very tired of being mistaken for the receptionist or otherwise being ignored by clients. Said veterinarian let off a bit of steam that would otherwise have resulted in some very bad vet/client relations, and one particular sentence of it caught my attention. Mostly because it sounded like something one of my RPG characters might say if he was annoyed enough.






The first pic is capped from the movie Dog Soldiers, which I have noticed tends to induce odd faces in old-school Whovians. As Sean Pertwee gets older he looks more and more like his father, and in Dog Soldiers he sounds and looks enough like Jon that the end result is "Doctor! In fatigues! Holding a big-ass weapon!" followed by ".... interesting vocabulary."

The second, the macro base, is capped from the movie Seven Days To Live. It's an awful horror movie with a script that reminds me of something I might have written in eighth grade, but it does feature gratuitous use of a hammer, the FLYING LEAP OF POINTLESSNESS, and the post-screwdriver-stabbination line, "I mean, look at this. You ruined my favourite shirt and a perfectly good kidney." There is nothing sonic whatsoever about either the screwdriver or the hammer.

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[colubra.livejournal.com]

I have no idea why, but lately, I've been making image macroes lately. You're on my flist, so you should be able to see the batch of David Lynch ones; loltrekkers has the other batch that I've done on it.

It's a strange little means of communication, isn't it?

[camwyn]

Awfully, but an entertaining one at that. I think in some ways it makes up a little bit for the lack of emotional modifiers and cues in text alone, since there's facial expressions or a charged image to go with the text.

And in other ways it's just an excuse to make people accidentally snort cola all over their keyboard, so, yeah, we're all good.

[colubra.livejournal.com]

heheh indeed; snorting beverages is always for the win.

Aside from the win there, though, I think you have a very good point about the use of expression and / or postural cues in the image.

[camwyn]

One of my favourite examples of this:



On its own there's a certain amount of snicker-worthiness to the statement- but having the blatantly insincere smiles and gestures of apparent amity for the Benefit Of Anybody Who Might Be Watching amps it up a couple of notches. You get a much clearer picture of 'I dislike you intensely but I am restraining myself nonetheless' thereby.

[mephron]

My first submission to ihasatardis. It seemed to go over well.

Also, I need you to contact me with a proper email address. The one I tried to use invoked the Failure Power.

[camwyn]

I saw that one! Laughed hard enough to wake up the nearest sleeping cat.

As far as my proper email goes, it would be my user name at megaloceros dot net.

[colubra.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, the email window was JUST big enough for down to Dr. Two's navel. And scrolling down to see the text made it That Much Funnier, for some reason.

I am wearing tea now.

[camwyn]

We would appear to have the same screen resolution, then, or at least the same size email application window. My apologies for the clean-up!

[colubra.livejournal.com]

Absolutely no apology is required- I needed a giggle. :)

[prodigal.livejournal.com]

Did you see his cameo in the first episode of the Tudors? I swear to god he looked the most like his dad that he ever has.

[camwyn]

I've heard about it, but I never got around to actually firing up the 'watch online' link for the first Tudors ep.

[prodigal.livejournal.com]

It's a very brief role, but it's always good to see Doctorspawn in things.

[camwyn]

One of these days I'm going to pull out the copy of Twelfth Night that came with the Macbeth mentioned in that icon there. It's got Troughton's son in it. (Also the guy who played the Operative in Serentity, and a transvestite in Kinky Boots.)

[fuchsoid.livejournal.com]

He also sounds more and more like his dad as he gets older.

[camwyn]

True dat. Which is kind of creepy when you catch him in a horror movie.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_ruthven_/]

He's delightful.

So are these macros. Good God, I can't have roflbot any more. I just had this awful urge to use it to screw around with Udo Kier pics, and need to go outside and have a cigarette now.