Many Rinkies are familiar with sites like Cliff Yablonski Hates You, or Fat Chicks In Party Hats, that sort of thing where somebody takes photos off other people's websites and mocks the way they look.

I have to admit, these sites have cracked me up on more than one occasion and I feel like they shouldn't. It's one of those guilty pleasures where I just *know* it has to be deeply wrong, but it's too funny for me to care. In my defence, I'm almost certain that if I was clicking through either of the above sites and suddenly found my own photo being mocked, I wouldn't care all *that* much, and would most likely still find it pretty funny, even if I wouldn't necessarily be overjoyed that it got there in the first place.

These sites, and others like them, can be pretty cruel to the people whose photos they are using (in most cases, if not actually illegally, certainly without the person's knowledge and consent). I don't approve of making fun of people for their looks, I don't approve of making fun of people behind their backs, and I don't approve of embarrassing total strangers for the sake of dubious humour. Then why do I find these sites so incredibly, fall-over-laughing FUNNY? Huh. I guess I'm a hypocrite. This isn't really a post asking whether I'm wrong to like these sites, because I will continue to like them whether the answer is "yes" or "no", but opinions would be interesting.