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admiral spaceship ([info]dandywolves) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2005-04-16 15:01:00


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Current mood:Grouchy

wicked wank of the west, part dos
yes, more wicked icons wank! sigh.
ok, here's how it goes. [info]chocolicious posts an icon that has a picture of Elphaba doing what looks suspiciously like the nazi salute, and she writes "Hail [sic] Hilter!" on it. a couple people reply and say things like, "I know I shouldn't think that's funny, but I do!!"
Of course, then people start complaining.
Some highlights:
i'm not really trying to put down your icons, but wicked is def supposed to be a family-oriented good morals show and that is really offensive.

firstly, Hitler is never something to joke about, when people joke they loose touch with how real the holocaust was. Second, idina menzel is jewish, think about yourself, as a jew, saying "heil hitler," i dont think a jew or anyone else should ever joke about saying that, let alone be seen on a website. It was just in very poor taste and im sorry your not offended, i think you should be.

The person who posted this icon apparantly wanted to get a rise from people, for all we know, he/she is some neo-nazi skin head who found a new venue to express his/her hatred, and is impressed with him/herself because not everyone was offended by his/her icon.

i do find this offensive. It may be funny to you, but imagine if someone made an icon that offended your religion.

Not very big, considering, but there are still a few gems. if it doesn't die down soon, I'm probably going to just delete the post, so check it out while you can.



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[info]loopywafflehead
2005-04-17 12:25 am UTC (link)
I can understand why people are touchy about Hitler etc., but I'm much more annoyed by the loose/lose and your/you're errors.

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[info]dandywolves
2005-04-17 12:30 am UTC (link)
I was much more offended by the fact that it's heil, not hail.

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(no subject) - [info]loopywafflehead, 2005-04-17 12:35 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2005-04-17 02:44 am UTC

(Anonymous)
2005-04-17 12:45 am UTC (link)
I thought the original icon was really funny.

And yeah, I do think it's a worthy wank... not huge, but good enough, because minimel made it so entertaining.

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(Anonymous)
2005-04-17 07:42 am UTC (link)
Eh, I don't think it'd be terrifically funny in any case, but it'd be better if it just said "Heil." Not because leaving out Hitler's name would somehow make it less inflammatory, but just because, in general, not spelling everything out makes things a little funnier.

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[info]cat_mcdougall
2005-04-17 12:45 am UTC (link)
*headfloor* Not Jewish, but really... that icon is not demeaning anyone. And she does look like she's performing the Nazi salute.

I think some people took a few things too seriously...

and I need a damned 'Bitch. Please.' icon still...

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[info]ninja_stripper
2005-04-17 01:26 am UTC (link)
OMG you have an ROUS icon! *adores*

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(no subject) - [info]cat_mcdougall, 2005-04-17 01:33 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]singe, 2005-04-17 04:17 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]cat_mcdougall, 2005-04-17 01:59 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]singe, 2005-04-17 06:17 pm UTC
Your iconage! - [info]cat_mcdougall, 2005-04-22 11:08 pm UTC
Re: Your iconage! - [info]singe, 2005-04-23 04:42 am UTC

(Anonymous)
2005-04-17 12:51 am UTC (link)
wow. the most disturbing thing about this wank?

someone had a MCFLY icon.

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(no subject) - [info]dandywolves, 2005-04-17 12:55 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-04-17 01:02 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]deadlettero, 2005-04-17 10:37 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]doyle, 2005-04-17 03:11 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2005-04-17 04:29 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]doyle, 2005-04-17 04:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]deadlettero, 2005-04-18 01:30 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]doyle, 2005-04-18 03:08 am UTC

(Anonymous)
2005-04-17 01:04 am UTC (link)
"What if a 'Lost' character were gay?" wank Part II! (http://www.livejournal.com/community/lost_tv/634104.html#cutid1)

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-04-17 01:05 am UTC

[info]greypearl
2005-04-17 01:25 am UTC (link)
All this icon wank makes me tired. An icon will not restart the Holocaust. It will not murder Jews or kill kittens. It will not hunt you down in an alley and rape you. All it should do is make you laugh or roll your eyes, depending on your favorite brand of humor, and then you should go on your way.

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(no subject) - [info]glomobius, 2005-04-17 01:57 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]greypearl, 2005-04-17 02:14 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]platedlizard, 2005-04-17 07:00 am UTC
Hitler
[info]ninja_stripper
2005-04-17 01:30 am UTC (link)
Why does Hitler get all the attention? What about Mussolini? Machiavelli? Stalin? Stupid Nazis get all the attention.

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one of these is not like the other. - (Anonymous), 2005-04-17 01:36 am UTC
Re: one of these is not like the other. - (Anonymous), 2005-04-17 01:43 am UTC
Re: one of these is not like the other. - [info]heddychaa, 2005-04-17 03:04 am UTC
Re: one of these is not like the other. - (Anonymous), 2005-04-17 04:26 am UTC
Re: one of these is not like the other. - [info]heddychaa, 2005-04-17 04:30 am UTC
Re: one of these is not like the other. - (Anonymous), 2005-04-17 04:35 am UTC
Re: Hitler - [info]mucktron, 2005-04-17 01:37 am UTC
Re: Hitler - [info]onetrickpony, 2005-04-17 02:14 am UTC
Re: Hitler - (Anonymous), 2005-04-17 05:24 am UTC
Re: Hitler - [info]fandom_bitch, 2005-04-17 01:32 pm UTC
Re: Hitler - [info]smo, 2005-04-17 04:31 pm UTC
Re: Hitler - [info]rachelmap, 2005-04-17 05:44 pm UTC
Re: Hitler - [info]smo, 2005-04-17 06:05 pm UTC
Re: Hitler - [info]rachelmap, 2005-04-17 06:08 pm UTC
Re: Hitler - [info]ninja_stripper, 2005-04-18 01:42 am UTC

(Anonymous)
2005-04-17 01:32 am UTC (link)
I love how they're all talking about how much they love musicals, and yet don't seem to have ever heard of The Producers - or Mel Brooks.

*scampers back to her mousehole whistling "Springtime for Hitler"*

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(no subject) - [info]dandywolves, 2005-04-17 01:45 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]chaimonkey, 2005-04-18 07:16 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]chaimonkey, 2005-04-18 07:20 am UTC
::points to icon::
dearladydisdain
2005-04-17 02:11 am UTC (link)
Dude, the best part is the REVENGE OF THE JEWS!

I have never seen or read Wicked, but I love the fandom all the same. Best icon wank EVER.

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Re: ::points to icon:: - (Anonymous), 2005-04-17 02:49 am UTC
Re: ::points to icon:: - (Anonymous), 2005-04-17 05:36 am UTC
Re: ::points to icon:: - [info]dandywolves, 2005-04-17 06:11 am UTC
Re: ::points to icon:: - [info]livviebway, 2005-04-17 07:01 am UTC
Re: ::points to icon:: - [info]rosehiptea, 2005-04-17 10:51 am UTC
Re: ::points to icon:: - [info]sizer, 2005-04-19 12:28 am UTC
Re: ::points to icon:: - [info]adora_spintriae, 2005-04-17 01:07 pm UTC
Re: ::points to icon:: - [info]smo, 2005-04-17 04:36 pm UTC

[info]smo
2005-04-17 02:42 am UTC (link)
firstly, Hitler is never something to joke about, when people joke they loose touch with how real the holocaust was. Second, idina menzel is jewish, think about yourself, as a jew, saying "heil hitler," i dont think a jew or anyone else should ever joke about saying that, let alone be seen on a website. It was just in very poor taste and im sorry your not offended, i think you should be.

Clearly this person is unfamiliar with the works of Mel Brooks.

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(no subject) - [info]platedlizard, 2005-04-17 07:12 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2005-04-17 07:26 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]crickets, 2005-04-17 07:45 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2005-04-17 04:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ellensmithee, 2005-04-17 09:45 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2005-04-17 04:27 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-04-18 01:31 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2005-04-18 01:57 am UTC
I haven't seen the musical...
(Anonymous)
2005-04-17 02:55 am UTC (link)
But: "i'm not really trying to put down your icons, but wicked is def supposed to be a family-oriented good morals show and that is really offensive."

Wow. The musical must be reaaaaaaaally different from the book, considering that the book was (I thought) a nice reflection of both Nazi propaganda (All Animals Are Not Created Equal -- okay, maybe that's a little Orwellian), dictators/fascism in general, and even today's society to an extent.

-- Ash the Anonymouse, boggling.

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Re: I haven't seen the musical... - [info]dandywolves, 2005-04-17 03:55 am UTC
Re: I haven't seen the musical... - (Anonymous), 2005-04-17 04:06 am UTC
Re: I haven't seen the musical... - (Anonymous), 2005-04-17 05:36 am UTC
que? - [info]dandywolves, 2005-04-17 06:05 am UTC

(Anonymous)
2005-04-17 02:58 am UTC (link)
I read all those comments and now all I can think about is Spamalot. "You can't succeed on Broadway if you haven't got Jews!" Hehe.

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(no subject) - [info]singe, 2005-04-17 04:21 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]wallflower, 2005-04-17 04:56 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-04-17 07:37 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]wallflower, 2005-04-17 07:50 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]crickets, 2005-04-17 07:53 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]singe, 2005-04-18 03:52 am UTC

(Anonymous)
2005-04-17 04:20 am UTC (link)
Also, I would really like to point out that that is a really ugly icon. If you're going to be funny and inflammatory, put more than three seconds into it, kthx.

-- Ash the Anonymouse

(This is not in regards to the OP's usericon. But god, I loved that troll. :D)

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[info]elektra3
2005-04-17 05:08 am UTC (link)
I'm Jewish. I thought the icon was rather funny. Does that make me a traitor to my faith?

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-04-17 05:38 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]elektra3, 2005-04-17 06:07 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-04-18 01:34 am UTC

[info]sesana
2005-04-17 06:09 am UTC (link)
So if the OP invokes Godwin's by mentioning Hitler, does that mean the wank never happened?

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(no subject) - [info]dandywolves, 2005-04-17 06:12 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ashenmote, 2005-04-17 01:14 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]adora_spintriae, 2005-04-17 01:06 pm UTC

[info]tiki
2005-04-17 06:53 am UTC (link)
So, apparently, fans of "Wicked" are either:

a) easily offended
or
b) easily amused.

There doesn't seem to be much middle ground, at least not in this wank. Also, that "hail [sic] hitler" icon is seriously ass. And she looks like Witchie-Poo from "HR Pufenstuf", which is enough to turn me off "Wicked" in itself.

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[info]isobelsomething
2005-04-17 07:19 am UTC (link)
i do find this offensive. It may be funny to you, but imagine if someone made an icon that offended your religion.

The history major in me wants to point out that Hitler wasn't discriminating Jews because of their religion. At this point, he had already turned Jewishness into a race, which made it so much more dangerous.

Pretty ugly icon, though. I mean, honestly - comic sans ms? That's offensive to my computer.

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[info]gal_montag
2005-04-17 08:13 am UTC (link)
Neither particularly amused nor offended. People really need to try harder to be shocking, the Nazi thing has been done to death.

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(no subject) - [info]annabelle_lee, 2005-04-17 08:58 am UTC

[info]fandom_bitch
2005-04-17 01:49 pm UTC (link)
I think too many people were reading too much into the icon. My reaction was fairly blah, and the revenge icon was about as seriously offensive as...well..as in it wasn't.

Made the offended types look quite foolish to me in their revenge, actually.

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(no subject) - [info]hellespont, 2005-04-18 08:15 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]fandom_bitch, 2005-04-20 09:15 pm UTC

[info]skarrow
2005-04-17 06:15 pm UTC (link)
I don't know much Wicked.

I'm afraid my only thought was, "Wait, why would the green one be doing the heil? I'm sure green's not aryan."

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[info]chaimonkey
2005-04-18 07:13 am UTC (link)
I'm getting the idea that [info]minimel8817 wouldn't like Charlie Chaplin very much.

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[info]deadlettero
2005-04-18 11:39 am UTC (link)
I FUCKING LOVE U!! YOUR I LOVE JESUS ICON IS SO TRUE! just because u hate jesus or think he's not real does not give u the chance to make a fucking icon that no one would use except you. but i love jesus and if u don't then make ur own community that u think jesus sux...cause i think that idina or sho or jlt or kristin would never think jesus sux. HE DOES NOT!

I don't know why, but this makes me laugh and laugh.

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