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rrneck

(17,671 posts)

17. Yep.

Reply to 1000words (Reply #15)

Sat Feb 22, 2014, 05:42 PM

Feb 2014

A football game is a "closed system". Cultures are anything but.

And while the symbol in the football game is specifically designed to not resemble the intended action, the popular images are frequently interpreted to do exactly, literally, that.

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Two pairs of images. [View all] rrneck Feb 2014 OP

Nice bike! edbermac Feb 2014 #1

I miss mine. rrneck Feb 2014 #2

The public works safety body vest he's wearing ... 1000words Feb 2014 #3

yes Duckhunter935 Feb 2014 #4

Of those two pairs of images rrneck Feb 2014 #5

Doesn't Oregon football use this as a play call? 1000words Feb 2014 #6

An interesting comparison. rrneck Feb 2014 #8

In the case of Oregon football, there is a definitive interpretation: 1000words Feb 2014 #15

Yep. rrneck Feb 2014 #17

I want JJChambers Feb 2014 #7

All at once? nt rrneck Feb 2014 #9

Ok (nt) JJChambers Feb 2014 #12

A youtube video of that might get you ten million hits rrneck Feb 2014 #16

"Tonight, we dine in hell" Warren DeMontague Feb 2014 #10

I'd fight to get out of either one. nt rrneck Feb 2014 #11

Commercial images with fetishization of parts. Wouldn't put the 4th in quite the same category El_Johns Feb 2014 #13

I don't think so. rrneck Feb 2014 #14

Not this shit again. Kingofalldems Feb 2014 #18

Why not? ntt rrneck Feb 2014 #19

kick rrneck Feb 2014 #20