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SOME DICKHEAD WANTS MY JOB

I know this will shock you after seeing the blog post of funny photos I put up last week, but I'm not the only person in the world who can save funny photos from other websites! Today we received this email from a young man named Matthew Pelly who tried to steal my job:

"Hi Alex, A friend of mine showed me your new feature, Photo Dump today:

[http://viceland-assets-cdn.vice.com/blogs/uk-photos/2011/01/21/photo-dump/](http://viceland-assets-cdn.vice.com/blogs/uk-photos/2011/01/21/photo-dump/ )

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Although potentially entertaining, in it's current form it is seriously lacking quality. I do a similar weekly photo dump on facebook which has grown to be very popular amongst my friends, see link for example gallery:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=504172624&aid=310044

I propose you replace Jamie Lee Curtis Taete with myself as the weekly contributor for this feature. I have been posting batches of between 40-60 photos weekly (sometimes bi-weekly) since July 2009 and will continue to do so.

I look forward to your response.

Cheers Matt

Note: - I am allowing everyone access to my facebook gallery for today and tomorrow only and will lock it to friends of friends by the end of Saturday."

My initial response was one of "meh," as a funny photo is a funny photo is a funny photo. But when I looked at the gallery, I realized that he had captioned all of the pictures. All 200 of them. The thought of him spending an entire afternoon thinking of captions for pictures he saved off The Chive for his Facebook friends to see is making me want to cry.

He certainly brings a unique brand of side-ways-glance, cock-eyed, shitty, obvious humor to the table that I really don't have the time (or autism) to compete with. Here are screengrabs of some of the highlights:

*siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh*

As this website is a democracy, I'm going to give you, the reader, a chance to decide who does the weekly photo dump from now on:

Who's best at finding stupid pictures on the internet?online survey

Please note: I understand that I will lose this vote due to a combination of two things: 1) Matt will get his friends to come here and vote for him. 2) You all think it will be funny to see me lose. So, I feel that I should clarify that, like with The X-Factor, the public vote only decides who gets to the final round, the final decision lays in the hands of the producer of the piece (IE me).

JAMIE LEE CURTIS TAETE