CNN thinks comedy dildo flag at London Gay Pride is "ISIS FLAG"

You missed “pizzled”, which I suppose doesn’t really count as innuendo: mediaeval types were robust in their attitudes towards anatomy, so heraldic lions and other suitably virile animals would not only be “armed” (clawed) and “langued” (tongued) in a particular colour, but also “pizzled”.

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White on black is a required parameter. Beyond that, sure. But their particular style of flag harkens back to a time when flags were hand drawn by whoever had a paintbrush, a time that ISIS is trying to revive. Aesthetic merit isn’t the hill ISIS fights on. Hell, their philosophy repudiates centuries of Islamic art and non-religious scholarship. At the risk of over-generalizing, I generally say that ISIS is anti-culture, and anti-civilization. Not just because I dislike them, but because it seems like the only way to describe an ideology that seeks to eradicate all those who stand between them and the end of the world.

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…or a finger that had been somewhere else…

This is a slap to the face of bondage enthusiasts everywhere.

Thanksfully, bondage enthusiasts everywhere were reported to quite enjoy the slap to the face and would like to you please do it again.

I believe it is Olde Enlgish for Santorum

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so everyone has to get the joke? Are you sure parody does not elude you?

Look at that problem. Does the flag have it, or do you have it? Please, use honest words. You have a problem with the flag and literally have projected it so that the flag has it and you’re not bothered. But you are. It’s you. That’s okay, say so. That is interesting. I can get behind helping or even caring that you feel uncomfortable.

But blaming a flag for your feelings about it is lame and entitled.

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funny, but bondage and masochism are two different interrelated things. Ask first.

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Precisely, but “someone” wasn’t just some passer-by, it was someone who claimed to be a journalist and never even tried to interview the flag-holder. That’s journalism 101.

The real dumb mistake seems to just be not admitting it on Twitter — indeed, she simply denyed that she reported that.

I think if we’ve learnt anything from the Twitter Mob, it’s to cheerfully admit to your mistake, make a joke about yourself, and move on. That deflates the wind from the mob’s sails much sooner than anything else.

If poor Justine Sacco hadn’t been on a plane for 14 hours and had instead been able to do that quickly, her tweet almost certainly wouldn’t have been as life-changing.

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obviously, because one single person didn’t recognise it as parody.

OH NOE ‘poor taste’ at a gay pride march ;__;

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“comedy dildo flag”? So, is there a dramatic or tragedy dildo flag?

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I know there can definitely a tragic aspect to dildos

Don’t ever let your silicone dildos touch each other kids. They’re really into bondage and will literally melt into each other.

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Actually those look like some form of thermoplastic which are sometimes mislabeled “silicone” for marketing purposes. Pure silicone toys shouldn’t melt (well, below 600F or so) or bond unless you happen to put silicone lube on them and even then only if they were cheaply made.

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