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this is not the hamster you're looking for (flightstothesea) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-06-26 12:47:00
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because i had to post avclub wank sooner or later...
The Onion AV Club now allows comments on most of its articles, interviews, and reviews. You can see where this is going already.

Today's tasty bit of wank is about Tom Cruise and Scientology. Apparently, the German Army won't let Cruise's new movie film on a base there because he's a Scientologist. The German government classifies Scientology as a cult and um... well, I'm not sure how that figures into the movie, but the point is, there is lots of wank in the comments. Unfortunately, you can't link to individual comments, so you'll have to warm up your scroll finger.

Is Scientology a cult?

Are the Germans being just like the Nazis intolerant?

Wait, Beck is a Scientologist?


Posted here because it didn't seem fandom-y enough for Fandom Wank.

Really late edit: Germany clarifies its position on Cruise filming.

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[info]miharu
2007-06-26 06:38 pm UTC (link)
YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF SCIENTOLOGY LIKE I DO!!11

(even though that's probably the valid argument.)

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[info]miharu
2007-06-26 06:39 pm UTC (link)
Oh, even better. Godwinned!

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[info]vigilanterodent
2007-06-26 06:51 pm UTC (link)
I really love the before-and-after photos of Hubbard. The first one makes me think fondly of Frank Morgan (the Wizard from The Wizard of Oz) whereas the second one just makes me think "accident with a bottle of hair color".

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[info]evilsqueakers
2007-06-26 10:24 pm UTC (link)
the second one just makes me think "accident with a bottle of hair color".

More like Matilda came for an afternoon visit.

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[info]kumquat_of_doom
2007-06-27 10:57 pm UTC (link)
Roald Dahl reference ftw! *loves those books*

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[info]evilsqueakers
2007-06-27 11:00 pm UTC (link)
I think everyone should love those books. I loved Matilda and BFG growing up.

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[info]kumquat_of_doom
2007-06-27 11:02 pm UTC (link)
I adored Matilda (still do, actually) but never liked the BFG much at all. My other favourites were Danny The Champion, Charlie and Fantastic Mr Fox.

*totally did not buy three of the above at Tesco the other day*



...They were cheap! And I'd lost my copies! *big kid*

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[info]evilsqueakers
2007-06-27 11:09 pm UTC (link)
I have my two somewhere, and I sent a copy of each one to some friends who couldn't remember the books for Christmas one year. I'm nice like that.

I always buy childhood books. You should see how many SVH ones I have. Seriously, it's sad.

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[info]kumquat_of_doom
2007-06-27 11:28 pm UTC (link)
I just missed out on SVH, I think- I'm not quite nineteen. I have a frankly silly number of Animal Ark books, though. And Where's Wally ones, because they're just awesome.

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[info]evilsqueakers
2007-06-27 11:34 pm UTC (link)
I'm a little older so that's probably true. I was done reading them by the time I'm 12. But so cheesy and good. Robert Redford references. *laugh* I spent about 80-100 on Ebay copies.

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[info]kumquat_of_doom
2007-06-27 11:45 pm UTC (link)
Wow, I'm impressed. Wish I had that much money right now. D: Alas, am saving for an iPod. The Precious, aka my current mp3 player, is on its deathbed right now, and I can't cope without my shiny musics.

My current crackbooks of choice are these insanely awesome books by Catherine Webb. The main character's the devil... except he's not evil. Just snarky and bitter and awesome, and prone to giving people absurd nicknames. It makes me incredibly sad that there's only two books with him in.

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[info]evilsqueakers
2007-06-27 11:56 pm UTC (link)
I bought 'em when I had a job last year. None lately. I might end up selling the copies I have, if not most of them, to get some money since I'm money poor. I would ask my godmom for an iPod, but she bought me a BlackBerry, so...better deal. *grins*

Don't you hate it when author's do that? Like reading the Undead and..., I love The Ant, even if she's a major bitch. She's just not in them enough.

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[info]kumquat_of_doom
2007-06-28 12:13 am UTC (link)
Ooh, lucky! I haven't read those, who's the author?

*sighs* Catherine Webb kind of made a habit of writing two-book series... until the series after Sam's, which has three books in it. And made me woe, since the protagonist of that series is not nearly as awesome as Sam. Lookit, evidence!

...Ahem. Yes.

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[info]evilsqueakers
2007-06-28 12:33 am UTC (link)
*laugh* The series is paranormal romance, but it's written in Joss Whedon style. Written by MaryJanice Davidson. It's got more humor than anything else. The Ant is really Antonio, the female lead's stepmom. She's awesome though. Cordelia Chase would be a kitten compared.

Heeh! If you've got Father Time as your dad, you're so screwed. So, so screwed. You can't outlast him.

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flightstothesea
2007-06-26 06:44 pm UTC (link)
Operation Clambake's stuff about Scientology is actually pretty interesting. I'm not sure how much of it is trufax, but it's food for thought.

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[info]miharu
2007-06-26 07:13 pm UTC (link)
Oh no, I completely agree. I find the whole 'secret history' of Scientology to be fascinating and horrifying.

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[info]seiberwing
2007-06-26 07:25 pm UTC (link)
It's the sort of stuff I used to hoard books about in middle school and read them under the desk while the teacher talked.

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iwanttobeasleep
2007-06-26 08:19 pm UTC (link)
There is a musical!

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[info]rennyn_alerothi
2007-06-27 02:48 am UTC (link)
Also: I love it that there is so much resemblence between Xenu and Ming the Merciless (from Flash Gordon.)

*Has sudden mental image of L. Ron writing FG fanfic...and then deciding to change the character names and make a religion out of it.)

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[info]alexielnet
2007-06-27 03:30 am UTC (link)
This would make sense seeing as how Ron L Hubbard is a Mary Sue.

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[info]rennyn_alerothi
2007-06-27 03:55 am UTC (link)
Is he ever. With bells on.

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[info]alexielnet
2007-06-27 04:06 am UTC (link)
He is actually the son of Voldemort and Gandalf, he hangs with a hot elf chick who is really his twin sister, and it turns out that he is Sailor Sun. True fax!

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[info]rennyn_alerothi
2007-06-27 04:18 am UTC (link)
...Is it wrong that I want to write something like this as a fakefic now?

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[info]alexielnet
2007-06-27 04:57 am UTC (link)
Well, as long as everything takes place in Narnia, I think it will be perfectly acceptable and not at all silly.

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[info]lysana
2007-06-27 08:33 pm UTC (link)
I am going to cherish the mental image I now have of Aslan ripping L. Ron Hubbard's throat out. Thank you. No, I mean it.

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