Do you find feeding real people to real alligators funny?

[GIJane]

To the OP:

I don't see it as funny, but I can see fans of Sadler thinking it is.

 

[CaughtInThe]

Isn't that in the Bible?

 

[Hatuey]

To the OP:

I don't see it as funny, but I can see fans of Sadler thinking it is.

Fans of Sadler think feeding real people to real gators is funny? Who is Sadler?

Lol.

 

[Felis Leo]

Fans of Sadler think feeding real people to real gators is funny? Who is Sadler?

Lol.

I am going to go out on a limb and presume she meant to write "Sandler" as in Adam Sandler.

 

[GIJane]

I am going to go out on a limb and presume she meant to write "Sandler" as in Adam Sandler.

You are right AND I misread the question to be feeding people to gators in MOVIES. My bad

As to feeding REAL people to gators, then no, not cool.


Unless, of course, they kill a family member and get off due to a technicality. Then their ass is fair game.

 

[Juin]

Thank you for posting how painting can influence other arts.

I’m glad that someone in the 21st century appreciates the French Academic style of Gérôme. Impressionism dealt the death blow to the popularity of Academic painting. Quite rightly, according to many critics.

I did learn how closely Italian follows the Latin in the case of pollice — same word for thumb in languages. Verso has a different meaning in Italian — in the direction of. Not until I looked up the phrase pollice verso did I see that it is (generally accepted as) Latin for ‘thumbs down’ although the exact position of the thumb in Roman times in unknown.

Bonus trivia - a Roman double edged sword is a gladio, and the person wielding that sword is a gladiatore.

It was also my luck that Gerome's works were on display at the Getty Museum when I happened to be there- yeaaaars ago- on a visit with my daughter. (we visit there quite often). I had no idea Gerome's works were gonna be there, so it was a pleasant surprise. There were banners announcing it draped all over the place, so there was no way any visitor was not aware Gerome was in the house.

I do wish I was familiar with both Latin and Italian. I am more familiar with Latin than with Italian; but then the bit of Latin I know is strictly limited to Roman Catholic Latin hymns and prayers. So close to zero. I am also a big fan of Roman history. Books on Roman history are usually full of quotes from Roman figures in Latin; they come across as beautiful and pleasing, you almost feel like memorising them. I dont have any such feeling with say Russian or German quotes. Quotes in German come across as hard, where those in Latin and Italian come across as soft and pleasing. When you glance through say Dante, where pages in English are juxtaposed with pages in Latin - Now I am not sure Dante wrote in Latin or Italian- I have this feeling the pages in Latin/Italian flow like the lines of some gifted pianist. In losing Latin as global language the world lost a truly beautiful language It was a descent into the dark ages in the literal sense of the word.

 

[Old 'N Chill]

I watched the Happy Gilmore movies last night and the alligator scenes caught my attention because of the recent Laura Loomer thing with the real gators, and feeding a few million real people to them.

Anyways, in the movies, a running gag is multiple characters die, for a multitude of reasons, by being eaten by the gators. I thought, boy, that is funny because it is portrayed in a cartoonish manner and even as punishment for the smallest offenses that hurt nobody. I knew there were no real people being fed to the gators.

Thinking on this Laura Loomer thing, I thought that feeding real people to real gators, even if within a claimed joke just wasn't something I could easily find funny if at all. You know, cause of the implications... behind systematically eliminating real people via real gators.

Anyways, without further ado, the question : Do you find feeding real people to real gators funny?

Since you either find something funny or ya don't the options are pretty self evident. Vote accordingly and feed your pets!

NO.

 

[NoMoreDems-Reps]

I watched the Happy Gilmore movies last night and the alligator scenes caught my attention because of the recent Laura Loomer thing with the real gators, and feeding a few million real people to them.

Anyways, in the movies, a running gag is multiple characters die, for a multitude of reasons, by being eaten by the gators. I thought, boy, that is funny because it is portrayed in a cartoonish manner and even as punishment for the smallest offenses that hurt nobody. I knew there were no real people being fed to the gators.

Thinking on this Laura Loomer thing, I thought that feeding real people to real gators, even if within a claimed joke just wasn't something I could easily find funny if at all. You know, cause of the implications... behind systematically eliminating real people via real gators.

Anyways, without further ado, the question : Do you find feeding real people to real gators funny?

Since you either find something funny or ya don't the options are pretty self evident. Vote accordingly and feed your pets!

So ask yourself this! WAS ANYONE FED TO ANY ALLIGATORS ? Or is this Propaganda to rile up the Sheep ? Or a smart ass remarks to piss off the overly sensitive ?

Having alligators surrounding a prison to deter people from escaping is not "feeding" , it deterring!
See the difference?

 

[Hatuey]

So ask yourself this! WAS ANYONE FED TO ANY ALLIGATORS ?

Do we need to feed real people to real gators for it to be unfunny? Is it funny when it isn't happening but we are still talking about feeding real people to real gators?

 

[venice_ca]

It was also my luck that Gerome's works were on display at the Getty Museum when I happened to be there- yeaaaars ago- on a visit with my daughter. (we visit there quite often). I had no idea Gerome's works were gonna be there, so it was a pleasant surprise. There were banners announcing it draped all over the place, so there was no way any visitor was not aware Gerome was in the house.

I do wish I was familiar with both Latin and Italian. I am more familiar with Latin than with Italian; but then the bit of Latin I know is strictly limited to Roman Catholic Latin hymns and prayers. So close to zero. I am also a big fan of Roman history. Books on Roman history are usually full of quotes from Roman figures in Latin; they come across as beautiful and pleasing, you almost feel like memorising them. I dont have any such feeling with say Russian or German quotes. Quotes in German come across as hard, where those in Latin and Italian come across as soft and pleasing. When you glance through say Dante, where pages in English are juxtaposed with pages in Latin - Now I am not sure Dante wrote in Latin or Italian- I have this feeling the pages in Latin/Italian flow like the lines of some gifted pianist. In losing Latin as global language the world lost a truly beautiful language It was a descent into the dark ages in the literal sense of the word.

Knowing Latin from the mass, you’ll always be able to order lamb from an Italian menu. Agnus [dei] - agnello.

Dante wrote in the vernacular, the spoken language of Florence, and so considered the father of the Italian language. Had someone from another part of the peninsula — say Venice — been the first to pen an important work in that dialect, they would have had that title.

I never studied Latin, but the vagaries of Italian grammar are enough for me to avoid the more complicated structure of the dead language. (People coming to Italian expecting a rational grammar and pronunciation as in Spanish are disillusioned very quickly.)

When Roberto Benigni was in town for the Academy Awards, he gave a recital of cantos from Dante’s masterpiece at UCLA. All from memory. A truly amazing experience. Of course humor preceded the serious.

 

[NoMoreDems-Reps]

Do we need to feed real people to real gators for it to be unfunny? Is it funny when it isn't happening but we are still talking about feeding real people to real gators?

LOL!
Well you're the only one talking about feeding real people to alligators here!
You should really not get worked up about made up stuff.

You would hate a comedy show!

Also the whole premises is that the alligators are a deterrent, so you need to calm down about your made us stories !

 

[Hatuey]

LOL!
Well you're the only one talking about feeding real people to alligators here!

Nah, pretty sure Laura Loomer was talking about feeding millions of real people to real crocodiles.

 

[NoMoreDems-Reps]

Nah, pretty sure Laura Loomer was talking about feeding millions of real people to real crocodiles.

LOL?
Who is this Laura you carry on about ?
Is she an elected official? Does she have a job in Trump's administration ? OR are you just trying REALLY HARD to whine and complain about someone who has an opinion that riles you up?.....

 

[Hatuey]

LOL?
Who is this Laura you carry on about ?

If you are ignorant of the basic facts, I am sure you could google them.

 

[Felis Leo]

True enough . . . after 1933 . . . for Julius Streicher. While I loathe the temptation to wallow in reductio ad Hitlerum, that is a fair analogy to make. Even the NAZI party leadership wanted Streicher gone. It was only the Fuhrer's protection that kept him safe at work doing his anti-Jewish demagoguery publishing his newspaper.

As a propogandist, how much influence and power does Laura Loomer wield compared against Julius Streicher?

When we casually throw around the Hitler comparison, we trivialize the industrialized slaughter of millions and the global devastation caused by that particularly monstrous figure. Worse, we shut down any possibility of a thoughtful, fact-based critique of today's political leaders. Instead of holding them accountable for their specific actions and policies, we reduce the conversation to cartoonish hysteria. -- Trump is not Hitler, Katherine Brodsky, Newsweek, 5/1/2025

Indeed. And since she has been able to get Donald Trump to fire administration officials at her behest, Lara Loomer has far more power in American society than Julius Streicher had in Nazi Germany. And I do not know anything about Mrs. Katherine Brodsky’s work nor do I care about it. I do not need one of another ten thousand revolving billionaire-owned liberal commentators trying to normalize Trump’s dictatorship to me and the rest of the American people.

My point remains the same. The powerful cannot perform satire against the powerless. Presidents, congresspersons and their coteries cannot satirize everyday citizens or illegal immigrants anymore than Kings and courtiers could satirize peasants and serfs. That is just belittling and bullying at best and persecution at worst.