to think that this is brilliant trolling?

[toweraboveyou]

Here (taken for a dating site troll)

Oops, hit post too soon!

When he's clearly asked the first girl if she wanted to be drawn, is it really such a leap to assume that he asked all of them?
(I don't know whether he did or not, I haven't read the whole thread.)

If someone asked me if they could draw me, I would say no. Obviously I cant stop them, but I've seen some bad drawings that are supposed to be good, and would rather not have to pretend I liked the picture more than anything.

Jennifer - To put it how I saw it, if someone asked if they could push me over, and I thought I wouldn't get hurt (assuming they believe he is going to be good?) I wouldn't then complain if I did get hurt

Hmm I dunno Jennifer someone who takes enjoyment out of someone else's humiliation isn't going to be overflowing with self-esteem I shouldn't think, regardless of any bravado.

I haven't read the pages afterwards. I have no interest in a pistonheads thread. I received the link to the pictures on a different website. If the forum posters are trying to copy the pictures but are being extremely crass and offensive (which is what I believe to be the case judging from the comments on here) then that isn't necessarily due to the original post, it's because of the mentality of boys who flock to a website about cars.
The original pictures made me laugh. The racist one didn't. That was wrong. But the others drawings were funny. I'll admit that they are the simplest form of humour and don't require any intelligence to understand, but to assume that appreciating that humour goes hand in hand with a lack of intelligence is also wrong.
The majority of humour is at the expense of others.

"(I don't know whether he did or not, I haven't read the whole thread.)"

You really should.

Well, OP, if you are going to link something 'for the laughs' don't you think it is a good idea to actually take the time to scan through what you are linking?

And if you say that you don't approve of the black woman drawing, did you not see all the 'LOL' posts specifying that particular drawing on the first page, and then surmise that the rest of the thread may well carry on in that vein?

Hang on GetOrf, if you just scroll through the pictures (as I did), there are no comments.

2012 - really? You wouldn't mind being tricked into getting hurt when the person pushing you knew he was going to hurt you, before asking you?

You're bonkers if that's the case.
He asked if he could draw them under false pretences. He said he was an artist and getting quite good.

Then he hit them with that shit.

How is that justified?

What he was really doing was exploiting them. He was trying to construct a sense that they were 'vain' enough to want to see a drawing of themselves by someone who claimed to fancy them.

Then he tried to make people laugh by doing an ugly drawing.

In reality these people probably are not vain at all. They probably are quite aware of their physical idiosyncracies, having a photo online doesn't make you vain nor does accepting someone's flattery or offer to draw you.

They did nothing wrong, he purely and simply tricked them for the benefit of a cheap laugh, and Jeremy Beadle is pretty much the level of 'humour' it compares with.

Would it make you feel better if you drew a picture of me?

Anyone remember that shit programme with the bloke with the enormous mobile phone? I only ever saw a trailer. I knew someone who said he loved it, and tbh that friendship never progressed after that comment.

Setting people up for cheap laughs is just low.

The he might very well be a she it's the internet you know.
As for justifying?
Who set anyone else up as judge and jury?
I'm amazed so many self righteous condescending preachers have found their way onto a thread to lambast someone else's sense of humour.
We're all different and thank fuck heavens barrack room humour still has a place on tv and the internet :)

Leaving the thread now to watch my DVD copies of Love Thy Neighbour Rising Damp and On The Buses.

No, OP, I would get nothing out of that.

Not I wouldn't mind, no, but it would be my own fault to an extent, so while annoyed (at myself for being gullible more than anything), I would see that.

Take it off an dating site, and say he's sat on a pier doing pencil drawings, for example. If you ask him to draw you, and he does and you don't like it (Whether he intends to be nasty or is just a crap artist). It's not his fault you asked him to draw you. He might have thought you'd like it.
Even if he knew he wasn't a good artist, he might have thought you'd find it funny.

I can see why, on a dating site with tonnes of generic people, he could maybe think that making a woman laugh would make him stand out from the crowd?

We were set up, Xy. He told us it was brilliant.

JenniferEight -

You would. Drawing is fun.

2012 - I really, really think you're completely misunderstanding this guy's motives. That's so far fetched it's just unbelievable.

There's no way he meant anything but to take the piss out of these people in a very cruel way.

I'm a painter OP, I know that. But I only like drawing people who interest me.

Sorry, I have typing-diarrhoea again - hope some of that makes sense!

wonders if I'm too trusting of people on the internet, after all I met DH online

''We were set up, Xy. He told us it was brilliant.''

Surely the point of trolling is to annoy? I'd say he was a brilliant troll after almost 450 comments.

ah, see you and I must part company there, JenniferEight. I loved that programme with Dom Joly! And it did set people up sometimes, but not in a cruel way. The target for mirth was Dom Joly himself, or just the surreality of the situations he put people in. And yes, their reactions, but I don't think they ever were made to look stupid.

Well, no congratulations to him, OP. He didn't start this thread.

Maybe it wasn't that bad then Emma, but I do dislike anyone being set up, it makes me feel sick. I couldn't watch it after seeing the trailer.

Maybe he did.

So you chose to be offended by that show without even seeing it?