Standing still takes the most courage
(The protester in Tiananmen Square)
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Please remember that the student who’s standing in front of those tanks “went missing” several years ago.
Such an iconic image. I am normally all for LOLZ, but it hard to find humor in any way regarding this one.
if you imagine he was Mr. Magoo crossing the street, its alot funnier
He who crosses the law shall be punished: Back to the house of pain!
I don’t think this was meant to be funny, actually…
He’s usually referred to as ‘Tank Man’, and his identity is very uncertain, so we don’t know if he was killed that day, months later, or if he went on to run an small tennis shoes manufacturing company.
It was a Tv documentary I saw, but the BBC were fairly sure they’d identified him, and found people who had nothing to gain (quite the reverse if anything) who claimed he’d suddenly “gone missing” after the initial hoohah had died down.
You can’t trust the media, even the BBC. I wouldn’t be surprised if he did “go missing”, but it’s hard to say for sure when the only picture of him is from behind.
But for a message that will last for, potentially, forever? I think going missing is worth the risk. However…. this one doesn’t even have a punch line, so it is a poor LOL.
Easy to say when you’re not the one gone missing
I think the guy who was in that picture knew what might come. He did it anyway. Sometimes, you do whats right, even if you don’t make it out.
Guarantee he was NOT aLiberal wimp…
NOT FUNNY
Ohnoes, sub-par troll in the house. Bitter, a lesson, please.
Makes me think of V For Vendetta. “Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. “
From Wikipedia:
“Little is publicly known of the man’s identity or that of the commander of the lead tank. Shortly after the incident, the British tabloid the Sunday Express named him as Wang Weilin (王维林), a 19-year-old student[6] who was later charged with “political hooliganism” and “attempting to subvert members of the People’s Liberation Army.”[7] Numerous theories have sprung up as to the man’s identity and current whereabouts.[8]
There are several conflicting stories about what happened to him after the demonstration. In a speech to the President’s Club in 1999, Bruce Herschensohn—former deputy special assistant to President Richard Nixon—reported that he was executed 14 days later; other sources say he was executed by firing squad a few months after the Tiananmen Square protests.[5] In Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now, Jan Wong writes that the man is still alive and is hiding in mainland China.
The government of the People’s Republic of China has made few statements about the incident or the people involved. In a 1990 interview with Barbara Walters, then-CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin was asked what became of the man. Jiang first stated (through an interpreter), “I can’t confirm whether this young man you mentioned was arrested or not,” and then replied in English, “I think never killed” [sic].[9] A June 2006 article in the Hong Kong Apple Daily stated that there are rumours that the man is now living in Taiwan.[8]“
That clip was featured in “Equilibrium”. Impressing movie.
Um, yeah, because it was largely ignored by the world press until it appeared in that movie.
Also, I was watching The Fifth Element — another impressive movie — and they had a clip of a mushroom cloud explosion!
Well, I reckon lying down would have taken more…
Well, it would have been pretty hard to keep moving in front of the tanks while lying down
This is rather old “news”. Maybe the guy didn’t even protest, he just wanted to watch the military parade?
Thank you. My brain just exploded. Will you help me clean it up?
No, he was a protestor. that’s why he didn’t simply stand in front of the tanks- they kept trying to maneuver around him, but each time he’d move directly in their path
That guy has big brass ones. Aside from that, this isn’t much of a LoL.
Steel. And covered with that armor that they use on the M1A2 Abrams Tank.
it was actually his first time out of the house and he thought those were what buses look like.
No, the baby bird was looking for his mother. Neither the kitten nor the hen, the dog, the cow, the old car, the tugboat, or the airplane respond to his oft-repeated question in the affirmative. But then baby bird sees a big tank …
OMG!!
I love that storybook! But you forgot the steam shovel….
The SNORT!
Well, LG honey, the tank takes the *place* of the steam shovel, see here in the picture? and the baby bird asks the tank … LG? LG? … geesh this kid never makes it past the first page at bedtime.
oh well… that’s this website banned in China for definite now…
too bad for all the chinese commenters.
“Stop … or I’ll say ‘Stop’ again!”
I thought he said “Tanks for stopping.”
I think he’s looking to get tanked …
… so he orders a tankueray and tonic.
It would have taken more courage to urinate on the tanks while moving wen lying on the floor.
I don’t think this guy survived, this image is pretty well known so they probably killed the guy.
Is this the right place to say that this new format is freaking horrible?
OK….this is too weird….now the original format is back. What goes here? Dimensional warp? Time and space distortion? 60s flash?
i still have the weird/new/not-normal format. AND IT SUCKS!
Now it’s jumping bavk and forth. Seems like when you go to read the lols it is the pure sh*t new format and when you go to comments it reverts back to our comfy and much mo bettah old format. We need to get the pressure on the powers that be to FIX IT!!! It stinks beyond all stinkness.
I noticed that last night when I was on my home PC but here at work, it’s the normal one all the time. And you’re right, the new one is garbage.
I still haven’t seen the new/screwed-up format. I’m starting to think this is an elaborate practical joke on me. *is paranoid*
No. The joke is on me, and you’re just hired to say that so I will be lulled into a false sense of security!
*tries to out-paranoia diss*
My format is fine too diss.
yeah, that’s exactly what it’s like for me. comments = awesome. homepage = sucks balls.
So, where do we find a tank to stand in front of?
i’ve got an ohio national guard post not too far from here… there’s a tank sculpture* out front. i’ll stand, you take the picture.
*it’s an old tank parked out front that’s been bolted/welded/something-ed onto a huge concrete slab. it used to actually work but now it’s a sculpture type thing-a-ma-jig.
I’m not seeing anything different. It is about 5:15PM on the east coast. If that matters.
which makes me think of that scene in The Blues Brothers Movie for some reason. Hit it.
Now everything is back to normal. Very weird!
I’ve always hated this picture. What you never see in the thousands of people standing behind him.
Um no. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/33/TankMan.JPG/300px-TankMan.JPG
that was NOT a student, it was a prof who was trying to protect students
Tankman FTW (whoever you are)
Lol, that guy actually didn’t stand still, he continually moved in the path of the tanks. Otherwise they would have just gone around him.
If I was piloting that point tank, history would have been different.
I’d have had to wash the tank afterwards with a pressure hose, naturally, but it would have been so worth it.
Balls of steel. That’s right, hard hard steel balls. Thunderously hard steel balls. Balls of such strong steel. Steely strong balls of hard steel. I really really think that guy had big steely balls.
Or, he was just sick of his life and figured a suicide could at least be stylish. ;p
(NO, this comment is not entirely serious.)
it also gets you run over by a tank.
hahaha yeah. Fail.