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eSJayBee · Awesome Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 896 Location: Canada

I ran across this on another site. It's a mix of funny and creepy and mysterious and surprising.

http://www.extraordinarymommy.com/blog/are-you-kidding-me/stolen-picture/

I mean what are the odds...you're in North America and you friend just happens to see a pic of you on a poster in the Czech Republic? Just wow. I'm curious as to how that person managed to get such a high res photo (it looks pretty high in definition on that poster)
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Immer · Sliced Bread Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 457

That is really creepy..
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LukeSurl · Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 8:20 pm Post subject:

This happened in the UK recently. We've just had a round of elections, and there's this really horrible xenophobic party called the British National Party (BNP) competing.

So on the BNP leaflets they distributed they had photos of smiling (exclusively white) nurses, lawyers, builders etc. under the heading: "British people like you who are supporting the BNP"

On closer inspection it's discovered that these people are from stock photos and are all American.

wendyw · Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 8:33 pm Post subject:

LukeSurl wrote:

...and are all American.

Haha.
Oh dear...
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eSJayBee · Awesome Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 896 Location: Canada

LukeSurl wrote:

This happened in the UK recently. We've just had a round of elections, and there's this really horrible xenophobic party called the British National Party (BNP) competing.

So on the BNP leaflets they distributed they had photos of smiling (exclusively white) nurses, lawyers, builders etc. under the heading: "British people like you who are supporting the BNP"

On closer inspection it's discovered that these people are from stock photos and are all American.

Hehe

While that is rather amusing and ironic, the difference here is that the photo of this woman and her family was not a stock photo (meaning available as official, licensed free-for-all use).
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vulpeslibertas · Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 9:02 pm Post subject:

LukeSurl wrote:

This happened in the UK recently. We've just had a round of elections, and there's this really horrible xenophobic party... ...and are all American.

I'll join that party. Every country should be American! Razz

@the photo though. That's really bizarre. Completely understandable how it could happen, though. It can't be that hard to find models though, can it?
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Miluette · Joined: 03 Feb 2009 Posts: 679 Location: TN, USA

I knew this happened to celebrities and public figures, but regular people and their family photos? Really?
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LukeSurl · Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:20 pm Post subject:

Sometimes people just steal images off google images without studying them that closely (not quite SFW if your boss has very good eyesight)

Varethane · Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 542

That is hilarious! A little bit creepy, yes, but rather amusing at the same time.
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Zoe Robinson · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 1:24 am Post subject:

LukeSurl wrote:

Sometimes people just steal images off google images without studying them that closely (not quite SFW if your boss has very good eyesight)

Isn't that image using a quote from Chris Rock? I'm pretty sure he says this about those doughnuts in one of his stand-up routines.
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dlouquet · Joined: 05 Dec 2008 Posts: 28 Location: Seattle, WA

that's really eff'd up.

Harrington AW · Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 843

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I mean what are the odds...you're in North America and you friend just happens to see a pic of you on a poster in the Czech Republic? Just wow. I'm curious as to how that person managed to get such a high res photo (it looks pretty high in definition on that poster)

So their photo was cached by a Czech?....

-S
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eSJayBee · Awesome Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 896 Location: Canada

Harrington AW wrote:

Quote:

I mean what are the odds...you're in North America and you friend just happens to see a pic of you on a poster in the Czech Republic? Just wow. I'm curious as to how that person managed to get such a high res photo (it looks pretty high in definition on that poster)

So their photo was cached by a Czech?....

-S

Pardon me? Confused

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Harrington AW · Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 843

Old joke.

"Cash a check"
"Cache a Czech"

Sort of lame, really, but I pride myself on preserving our heritage of old lame jokes. If not for people like me these old wheezes would be lost in antiquity.

-S
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eSJayBee · Awesome Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 896 Location: Canada

Harrington AW wrote:

Old joke.

"Cash a check"
"Cache a Czech"

Sort of lame, really, but I pride myself on preserving our heritage of old lame jokes. If not for people like me these old wheezes would be lost in antiquity.

-S

Haha

Clever, Harrington. :]
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