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Monday, June 19th, 2006
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1:14p - Wank in mock_the_stupid? Surely not!
I can't believe no one's posted this. Granted, I think it's died off, as long as people remember not to feed the trolls, but it still kept me awake reading it last night until long after my brain shut down.
So, over in Mock_the_Stupid, ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) jerrygarciuh posts about politicians from my home state doing stupid things. Like, co-sponsoring a bill to have the Ten Commandments posted in certain public places. Problem was, Westmoreland, the Congressman, let Stephen Colbert interview him. During the interview it came to light that the representative could only name three out of the ten commandments. Oopsy much?
The first 20 or so comments are the expected "What a dumbass" remarks. Then, gnatho decides he wants to make a little trouble.
It all goes downhill from there:
Gnatho is firm in his belief that homosexuality is a fetish and nothing more than that! I see spooge on the horizon?
Foomf chimes in with some actual logic, bringing up the topic of slavery and its basis and biblical support. gnatho didn't really like that, saying the two were incomparable, only less eloquently. He gets points for using the word nul (his spelling), but loses them for misspelling it and just general jackassery.
And what wank would be complete without Hitler? Not gnatho, and not very wanky, but, hey, Hitler!
Enjoy. People seem to still be replying to Mr. "Homosexuality is a Fetish because I say it is and you're wrong!" Gnatho. :)
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4:36p - Food wank? Yes indeed.
I mostly lurk at the LJ food_porn community since I'm still a beginner cook. And just the other day I was thinking whistfully about the communities on my list and how none of them ever seemed to spawn wank. Especially this community, because how can you get wanky about food?
Yet somehow stickemup has managed to do just that.
It all starts when futurology posts a (delicious looking) recipe to the group, noting in the subject that it has 86 calories/serving.
Stickemup is upset that people are posting "recipes for anorexics."
Oikade deleted their comment, but apparently it was calling stickemup out on hir rudeness, because s/h/it replies I don't need to be courteous and being banned wouldn't matter 'cause it's the goddamned internet!
And then in the epitome of maturity, stickemup mentions the OP's user info and friends list, where apparently the OP is a moderator of some form of anorexia group, hence the anorexic accusation to begin with.
This probably wouldn't have been wanky if stickemup had made hir case and left, but s/h/it just keeps coming back!
current mood: *sporfle!* (88 comments |comment on this)
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5:36p - This is WAR!
risk declares war on MetaFilter.
What else needs to be said, really.
edit: apparently deleted - though usually deleted threads can still be read (they're just not on the main page). I'm not sure if this is a members-only feature though.
Is there a website that reproduces another site?
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9:59p - Scientology and comics don't mix.
Looking for wank at the CBR forums is pretty much like fishing on a small glass of water. Every day, there's something new. However this particular gem is quite strange as it doesn't involve comics, comic book writers or anything remotely close to them.
It all starts when at the YABS subforum, Elvisguy shares a funny story of how scientologist Jenna Elfman attacked a friend of his for wearing a t-shirt that read 'Scientology is Gay, very Gay', with pictures of Tom Cruise and John Travolta (the story of the attack, as well as the shirt, can be seen here.
While there's a bit of disbelief at first on who cast the first stone -was Elfman 'minding her own business' and was attaked by the other guy, or was it the other way around?- the thread starts pretty much with the usual 'Scientologists are insane' comments, as well as a very short lived argument on how it's offensive to use the word 'gay' as an insult, even when Elvisguy is gay himself.
But it all changes when in page 3, comes Redjack stating: I don't get the hostility towards the Scientologists. The only difference I can make out between them and the other Faiths in existence is that they are newer.
It takes all kinds to make a world.
And off they go.
In the following 18 pages and counting, we can find some great nuggets from Redjack, such as:
Scientology hasn't got close to any of the crap pulled by the other big faiths in their heydays. So they have wacky mythology and bizarre rites. So they suck adherents' pockets dry. So they don't believe in aspects of modern medicine. So they try to influence governmental policies in their own favor. So what? Tell me one faith that doesn't hit one or all those buttons. in page 4.
The 'Tom Cruise defense', aka. 'You don't know the history of _____ as I do' I'm saying that the baby, Scientology, AT ITS WORST, doesn't come close to the hideous awful crap that has been enacted by the major Western faiths and not a few of the not-so-major ones. starting in page 6 (he goes on an on about that one a bit)
My personal favorite :
There are plenty of faiths with no central "morality." They are just as legit as any other and YOUR definition of what makes a faith doesn't matter one bit. in page 12, that get's even better when people starts asking for examples, and he includes 'Shintoism, Buddhism and Animism' When told by practitioners of the same that's he's full of shit?, well, they don't know their own religions like he does.
Things get a little more complicated when Watsonglenn, famous for other wanks in which he insists that all gay people are perverts and pedophiles, and claims that asking 'what would you do if your (hypotetical) daughter was gay?' is a personal attack, joins in by arguing about the Bible. Curiously, he stays pretty unwanky until page 14, with: You're right, except for one thing. TRUTH. Christianity has it. Scientology does not.
There is a difference between truth and fiction. It is hard to tell the difference sometimes but its there if you try.
Right now they're on page 18 of the discussion, with Watsonglenn arguing about the bible with Redjack, Redjack defending Scientology -while claiming that he's not doing that- and insisting that all religions are insane, everyone else trying to explain why Scientology is not really a religion, a very brief and confusing moment when Neil Gaiman was called a Scientologist and I believe a mention to Nazis somewhere in between (Only that I can't find that comment again).
(Me? I'm waiting for someone to mention either Batwoman or Civil War, being a comic book forum and all. Even if I have no idea of how those two subjects could connect with the Scientology thing)
current mood: Mildly Amused
current music: Whatever the neighbour is listening to at full volume (86 comments |comment on this)
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