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This is supposed to be funny, damnit! (gloria_mundi) wrote in fandom_lounge,
@ 2006-10-24 22:25:00

Ah, the sweet smell of irony in Texas.
If there's an award for completely missing the point, it has to go to this yutz.

Check it out

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	ruaki 2006-10-25 05:31 am UTC (link)
	Goddamn, I hate living near people like that. Like I'll catch what it is they have or something. But we can't blame 'em. I mean, probably all the metaphor that Bradbury loves to drown his books in confused the yutz, so they had to focus on the things they could easily recognize. You know. The ZOMG oppression! (Reply to this)

	fernwithy 2006-10-25 05:39 am UTC (link)
	It's on the most-banned books list, I think. And, in my favorite example of irony, Bradbury mentions in the intro to one of his later editions that his editor wondered if he might cut some offensive stuff out of it... (Reply to this)(Thread)

fernwithy
2006-10-25 05:55 am UTC (link)

(Checked the

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(Checked the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451"Wiki.</a>) Actually, it actually was <i>released</i> censored for schools.

On the actual subject, apparently it didn't occur to her that it was <i>supposed</i> to be offensive when they burned the Bible. Ergo, offense is the intended reaction. So that you read it and say, "Dang, that's one dystopian society they've got there."

That's up there with banning Harry Potter because the books actually have a teacher say, "There is no good and evil." The fact that it's Quirrellmort apparently makes no difference.

:eyeroll:

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squeakytoy, 2006-10-25 08:17 am UTC

fernwithy, 2006-10-25 03:04 pm UTC

your_face, 2006-10-25 07:59 pm UTC

	kannaophelia 2006-10-25 05:42 am UTC (link)
	"Talking about our firemen." Well, he has a fair point, there. The firemen in Fahrenheit 451 are fearless firefighters who sacrifice their lives putting out fires and rescuing small kittens from trees, but their uniforms are unfairly mocked. ~~Nothing to do with books at all.~~ (Reply to this)(Thread)

grand_sealink, 2006-10-25 06:06 am UTC

romana03, 2006-10-25 10:13 am UTC

keri, 2006-10-25 06:18 am UTC

lcsbanana, 2006-10-25 06:09 pm UTC

(no subject) - dracothelizard, 2006-10-25 11:13 am UTC

m_butterfly, 2006-10-25 12:04 pm UTC

chrome327, 2006-10-25 04:25 pm UTC

gloria_mundi, 2006-10-25 05:42 pm UTC

	tez 2006-10-25 06:21 am UTC (link)
	There is very little in this world more entertaining than a yutz trying to get a book about banning books banned. ...try saying that five times fast. (Reply to this)(Thread)

smo, 2006-10-25 06:23 am UTC

tez, 2006-10-25 06:24 am UTC

photosinensis
2006-10-25 06:50 am UTC (link)

Oh dear God.

Conroe, you're on notice! I mean, I didn't see the point in your existence before, and now I'm really beginning to doubt why I haven't just used my replica of the original Tsar Bomba design (100 Mt blast) to rid the world of you.

Oh, yeah, that's right: I'd take out everything from there to Galveston, including my home, my friends, and damn near everything I've ever known and/or loved. Also, I don't have nuclear weapons.

In that case, I'll just have to get rid of you the old fashioned way: raid the town with a massive horde, then salt the earth. But I'll spare the Boy Scout camp up there, as I have memories of the joint. In fact, that'll be my base of operations.

Ray Bradbury, you will be avenged!

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seiberwing, 2006-10-25 03:56 pm UTC

	coffeebun 2006-10-25 09:09 am UTC (link)
	"talking about our firemen" Because... a book that talks about firemen... is a bad thing? shakes head I for one would love to know at what temperature this kind of stupid would burn. (Reply to this)(Thread)

ashenmote, 2006-10-25 09:34 am UTC

kannaophelia, 2006-10-25 10:21 am UTC

paintobscura, 2006-10-25 07:32 pm UTC

	romana03 2006-10-25 09:50 am UTC (link)
	Wow. That's some really special stupid. (Reply to this)

	dracothelizard 2006-10-25 11:16 am UTC (link)
	On the bright side, at least the other students seem to have good taste in books. (Reply to this)

	kayla 2006-10-25 11:58 am UTC (link)
	The stupid....it burns... (Reply to this)

	arionhunter 2006-10-25 01:13 pm UTC (link)
	There are many ways to fail at life. You ma'am? Fail at breathing. Fail at thinking. You fail at existing. Please cease to do so immediately. There are plankton in the ocean who require your oxygen. (Reply to this)

limyaael
2006-10-25 01:50 pm UTC (link)

People like that seem to want to live in a very tiny, very sheltered world where they would never, ever have to see, or hear, or read, or even think about, anything that will challenge them.

On the other hand, if they lived in a world like that, they'd have to find something else to complain about. After all, if people can want The Diary of Anne Frank banned for being "a real downer", they'll find a way to object even if all references to Bibles, Christians, and firemen are edited out of this book.

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fernwithy, 2006-10-25 03:23 pm UTC

(no subject) - verthandi, 2006-10-25 05:44 pm UTC

smo, 2006-10-25 07:13 pm UTC

your_face, 2006-10-25 08:04 pm UTC

	queencallipygos 2006-10-25 02:17 pm UTC (link)
	Soon I'm going to be starting a blog related to books and reading. I think that I'm going to feature an annual drive to vote on picking a banned book to present to an underserved library. Maybe I should focus on a book that's been banned, because odds are their copy of whatever-it-is would be gone. (Reply to this)

	sithwitch13 2006-10-25 02:52 pm UTC (link)
	Goddammit people, stop making my state look like it's full of nothing but fucktards! I promise, there are a lot of sane Texans around. We just tend to go about our lives quietly. (Reply to this)(Thread)

hangingfire, 2006-10-25 09:01 pm UTC

herongale
2006-10-25 03:27 pm UTC (link)

That's ONE way to get your parents to do the assignment for you. That Diana Verm is one crafty bastard.

(well, excepting that she was assigned something else to read, but I'm going to ignore that because I presume that the offense of the burned bibles was so severe that she had the vapours for a month and was unable to participate meaningfully in any of her classes... but I digress)

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smo, 2006-10-25 07:13 pm UTC

	phosfate 2006-10-25 03:37 pm UTC (link)
	"It's not that I mind her reading books. It's just that I mind her reading books where things happen." (Reply to this)

	seiberwing 2006-10-25 03:54 pm UTC (link)
	That has got to be one of the stupidest things in the history of stupid. It's SUPPOSED to be offensive, knuckleheads! remembers when she read it in middle school and how she felt quite ill afterwards (Reply to this)

	soy_latte 2006-10-25 05:20 pm UTC (link)
	I think I lost some brain cells trying to comprehend this one. (Reply to this)

	harrylovesron 2006-10-25 05:36 pm UTC (link)
	Verm lists "downgrading Christians" and "talking about our firemen" as reasons the book should be banned. "Talking about our firemen"? Huh? I always get so frustrated reading about banned books. My best friend wrote a speech on banned books for Speech 101 and, during her research, found that Where's Waldo? has been banned in some places. (Reply to this)(Thread)

gloria_mundi, 2006-10-25 05:38 pm UTC

harrylovesron, 2006-10-25 05:51 pm UTC

fernwithy, 2006-10-25 06:24 pm UTC

harrylovesron, 2006-10-26 04:35 am UTC

limyaael, 2006-10-25 06:26 pm UTC

fernwithy, 2006-10-25 07:01 pm UTC

harrylovesron, 2006-10-26 04:38 am UTC

(no subject) - verthandi, 2006-10-25 05:46 pm UTC

harrylovesron, 2006-10-25 05:54 pm UTC

lcsbanana, 2006-10-25 06:06 pm UTC

harrylovesron, 2006-10-25 06:19 pm UTC

seventy_three, 2006-10-26 03:52 am UTC

harrylovesron, 2006-10-26 04:40 am UTC

seiberwing, 2006-10-26 04:55 am UTC

harrylovesron, 2006-10-26 10:15 pm UTC

seiberwing, 2006-10-26 10:42 pm UTC

coffeebun, 2006-10-26 05:48 am UTC

chibikaijuu, 2006-10-26 06:45 am UTC

westmoon, 2006-10-26 07:57 pm UTC

influencethis, 2006-10-31 03:12 am UTC

chibikaijuu, 2006-10-31 04:18 am UTC

varkias, 2006-10-26 08:07 pm UTC

harrylovesron, 2006-10-26 10:16 pm UTC

seiberwing, 2006-10-26 10:58 pm UTC

	verthandi 2006-10-25 05:49 pm UTC (link)
	F451 is the book that made me want to fight against censorship. I was a kid when I read it (come to think of it, I read a lot of books before I should have, like Lord of the Flies when I was in sixth grade) and it shocked me. Scared me a little too; I couldn't imagine a world where free thought and creative expression was suppressed. (Reply to this)

Aw crap, who is this illiterate fool?

neridne
2006-10-25 08:26 pm UTC (link)

"Talking about our firemen"

I can't believe that is an actual quote because that just sounds like something an elementary school kid would say, not someone who's the father of a high school kid.

"I'm not your friend anymore."
"Why?"
"Because you talked [bad] about me."

Jeez. Did he even read the book? I mean, it looks like he at least perused it to total the number of "offenses" the book had but it looks like he did it with the mentality of MUST CATCH THE LIES AND WRONGS THIS BOOK PERPETUATES instead of with the normal mentality a reader would have.

Also, I'm amused just thinking about how badly the daughter is embarassed now. It can't be good that the students have a protest movement going on and the daughter's basically the catalyst for the father's actions. I don't really have sympathy for a girl who can't make the distinction though between plain offensiveness and using offensiveness to make a point.

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sneakykitty, 2006-10-25 08:59 pm UTC

neridne, 2006-10-25 10:15 pm UTC

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harrylovesron, 2006-10-26 10:18 pm UTC

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seiberwing, 2006-10-26 10:57 pm UTC

	eris 2006-10-25 08:44 pm UTC (link)
	I can't help but notice the irony of the yutz's daughter being named after a pagan god. That just makes the whole thing extra special. (Reply to this)(Thread)

chibikaijuu, 2006-10-26 06:41 am UTC

	pharae 2006-10-26 03:22 am UTC (link)
	Oh, for God's sake... err, oops. She got an alternate reading assignment. When she bitched and moaned about it, the teacher didn't push the issue. You're the one fanning the flames, moron. mops up (Reply to this)

	calluna 2006-10-26 05:16 pm UTC (link)
	Finally, something more ironic than my sister's friend's mom forbidding her to read The Witch of Blackbird Pond because of the FOMGWITCHES!!!1 (A book about a girl falsely accused of witchcraft being falsely accused of witchcraft?) (Reply to this)

	varkias 2006-10-26 08:13 pm UTC (link)
	He's an idiot, but he sounds like my dad... but my dad wouldn't have bothered complaining to the teacher. Assignments like that are why all his kids were homeschooled. Free thought, what's that? (Reply to this)

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