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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
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11:23a - Roger Clyne and the Wankmakers
Don't get me wrong, but I really do love Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers. I just hate their fans. It's like Jesus, in a way.
Recently, I've been lurking the band's message board. I can give you a dozen examples of little wankers, but none of them are nearly as epic as this:
Mexican Acts of War.
Which doesn't seem to be out of the ordinary of general Mexico bashing, etc, until you account for the fact that the band has a huge show in Mexico 2 weekends a year, attended by thousands of fans. And about half their songs are about Mexico, and everything's sprinkled with Mexican culture and Spanish language.
Having been to their Mexico show, I can tell you it's basically a bunch of old fat yuppies tearing through the dunes in their hummers and ATVs, throwing their garbage all over the place, getting sloshed on every corner of every street, and bitching about the locals. Yet these people are the same people who want Mexico bombed back into the stone age, apparently.
Irony, much? I can barely squeak past the first page. But with help, I have managed to compile some highlights:
( Man, I love that song about Mexico. But I hate f'n Mexicans )
Now, generously sprinkle with references to genocide, big business, and The War on Drugs/Terrorism/WMD/Canada and you get the picture
current mood: Fantastico
current music: Mexican Moonshine, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers (38 comments |comment on this)
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11:51a - Common Decency Means the Terrorists Win!
From ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) clairvoyantwank:
michichael posts a rant in customers_suck detailing how much of a sucky customer he is in two incidents: one in which he takes it upon himself to police the local Wal-Mart, and another in which he throws a hamburger in an immigrant worker's face.
Of course, he doesn't think he's a sucky customer.
Cue the wank: diatribes against illegal immigrants, Hispanics, and people who aren't bilingual; accuastions of racism and creepiness;the observation that Canadian isn't a race; and one very interesting reply from the OP:
I'm not your typical American pussy. To use a popular referance, you, by the looks of your comment, would be the type of person to let your plane hit the world trade center or pentagon. I on the other hand would have been a passanger that would rather die with the other passangers in a field than our countries white house, and would have taken action.
Best comment so far:
Secondly, you seem to be under the impression that Americans DON'T travel to other countries with rudimentary or a complete lack of knowledge of the primary language of the land. There's a reason the citizens foreign cities with high American tourist traffic are usually bilingual: Americans are assholes who expect everyone else to speak the language they do. [...] So, that stupid, dirty Hispanic guy at the fast food joint who doesn't speak any English? He couldn't be acting more American is he swaddled himself in an American flag and called himself Yankee Doodle.
And that's just the first page.
ETA: Bahleetion of comments has commenced! (The top comment, along with at least one other thread, was deleted by the michichael; explanation is further down in the thread.) Luckily, there are screencaps courtesy of anax. Whatever happened to not deleting negative comments?
current mood: Spiffy
current music: Ozomatli - "(Who Discovered) America?" (180 comments |comment on this)
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1:34p
So a funny story about killing a scary spider makes it way to metaquotes. No reason to expect wank, but never underestimate LJ. ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) bec_87rb brings the wank with the obligatory reference to feminism and a comparison to killing kittens.
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