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| Sunday, March 21st, 2010 | ||
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unfunnybusiness [ tehrin ] |
10:22a | Terms "Vagina" and "Down There" Banned from T.V. Ads Brought to you from my inbox: Kotex, a women's tampon company had to change their promotional ad because TV executives were uncomfortable with the word VAGINA! Terms "Vagina" and "Down There" Banned from T.V. Ads ( for the link-phobic ) I can't help being reminded of the "Angry Vagina" monologue and "Reclaiming Cunt" from The Vagina Monologues. NSFW due to language. |
| Saturday, March 20th, 2010 | ||
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unfunnybusiness [ harrylovesron ] |
9:20p | Protesters hurt slurs and spit at Democrats Another article on same from the Huffington Post, which also shows pictures of signs from the protest. One of them reads "WARNING: If Brown can't stop it, a Browning can" with a picture of a gun. Charming. ( CNN article text ) ( Huffington Post article text ) Stay classy, Tea Partiers. STAY CLASSY. ETA: And it gets even better! Link via ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} littleshebear: Right-wing bloggers demand apology from lawmakers called n-word by Tea Partyers. Yes, you read that right- they want an apology FROM THE PEOPLE WHO HAD RACIAL SLURS HURLED AT THEM because they're "just playing the race card" and (a direct quote) "So what if some idiot said a bad word?". Yeeeeah. |
| Sunday, March 21st, 2010 | ||
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unfunnybusiness [ ladyofviolets ] |
9:28a | Hetalia is too lulzy, I want it to OFFEND! OFFEND, I TELL YOU! A bit late, but as I told an anon in wank_report, it's here. Sorry for C/ping. Random Hetalia fan chucks the cat within the birds as a reply to a Hetalia secret, by saying: ( History isn't for the weak! And even if I have to make the whole fandom look bad AGAIN, I'll say it! ) You can guess how many shenanigans, troll accusations, "debates" about WWII, horrified screams of the "this is why Hetalia fandom has a bad rep!", etc. followed until the threads were frozen. Current Mood: blah |
| Saturday, March 20th, 2010 | ||
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sparklefield [ darksumomo ] |
4:13p | New York Magazine must love Twilight ...or else their writers wouldn't come up with material like this. Police Are on the Lookout for Man Who Bit Taxi Driver By: Dan Amira A man who pulled a gun on a taxi driver, and then bit him "repeatedly on the neck, arm and back" in the struggle that followed, is being sought by the NYPD. He is described as being around 30 years old, six feet tall, pale, lightning-quick, cold-skinned, and sparkly when exposed to sunlight. The commenters got into it, too. The best came from Delawhere16, who typed, "The NYPD is going to be so pissed when they realize it's part of True Blood's guerilla marketing campaign." As for the tag, it's "Vampire Crime of the Day." Perfect. No wonder I keep reading New York Magazine. Current Mood: Flippant |
| Thursday, March 18th, 2010 | ||
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unfunnybusiness [ tez ] |
8:25p | Letting gays serve openly in the military will totally lead to massacres, amirite? A retired U.S. general said Thursday that the Dutch policy of allowing openly gay soldiers to serve in its military led, in part, to its failure to halt the massacre of Muslims in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995. ( Entire text of article under the cut. ) For once, the comments (at least the first page of them, I'm afraid to go any deeper) are almost universally variants on 'oh shut the fuck up you moron'. (ETA: At least they were when I initially submitted this a couple days ago. I'm sort of afraid to go back and look at them again.) |
| Saturday, March 20th, 2010 | ||
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unfunnybusiness [ kalloway ] |
8:46a | Jury finds author Watts guilty Since I know quite a few people were following this originally~ Toronto man faces up to 2 or 3 years in prison for bridge incident Article here and previous days available on sidebar (local version) ( Full text for link-phobic ) |
| Thursday, March 18th, 2010 | ||
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unfunnybusiness [ telegramsam ] |
12:43p | A whole plethora of hypocrisy and fail wrapped up neatly with a bow I have Roman Catholic friends that I have a lot of respect for and they hold a variety of personal beliefs and values, but none are idiotic to the point of this (if they were they would not be my friends) - from the church itself... "Vatican ends "wall of silence" over child abuse scandal". Some of the attitudes expressed in this article, I must laugh at simply because the other option is banging my head against a wall. "In one case, the priest defended himself on the grounds that he sincerely believed it was not sinful for him to have sexual relations - provided it was not with a woman." Because, you know, women are totes the root of all evil and it's so much better and holier to molest defenseless children. I can understand this priest's confusion though, considering what sort of teachings and attitudes many Christian churches, Roman Catholic and otherwise, have regarding women in general. "He also gave numbers: during the past decade the Holy Office received details of 3,000 Catholic priests reported by their Bishops to Rome for sexual misconduct or, even worse, crimes. Sixty per cent of these cases involved homosexual acts, 30% related to heterosexual behaviour and only 10% - or 300 priests - were, he said, 'actual cases of paedophilia.'" The 60% vs 30% figure is particularly hilarious considering the R.C. Church's wholesale public condemnation of homosexuals. The fact that they chose, for decades, to protect child molesters and abusers (plenty of non-sexual abuse in Catholic schools went on as well apparently), frankly... well they get no sympathy from me in this ongoing scandal. Classic case of real sin (as opposed to the made-up kind like simply being born gay) coming home to roost. ( Pasted text of article for link-phobic, without my teal deer commentary ) Current Mood: oh, for fuck's sake. |
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unfunnybusiness [ felinephoenix ] |
2:06a | Because it's his "right" to be with the kids Girls ordered to spend weekends with sex offender father Headline says it all, really. |
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unfunnybusiness [ sparklepuss ] |
7:49a | Great news: sexism no longer exists! A sockpuppet posts a screed to a Big Bang Theory community on LJ, sheldon_penny, about how the community is objectifying the poor, oppressed men by creating fanart and squeeing about the hotness of Sheldon and the actor who plays him, Jim Parsons. And how it's hypocritical for members to complain about the objectification of the character Penny in light of their objectification of Sheldon/Jim.Members reply "Um, no." Some members try to explain why women objectifying men (if such a thing is even happening at all) isn't quite the same thing as men objectifying women but the OP doesn't get it. Despite the sockpuppetry, the discussion is interesting, and for the most part, thoughtful. Until one of the few male members of the community, awmperry, jumps in and doesn't get it, claiming that sexism no longer exists.He continues to not get it. And not get it some more. A few members try to explain that he's derailing the conversation but he continues to not get it. He even goes so far as to claim that male circumcision is a practice that's as horrifying as female genital mutilation. But the ladies just don't understand! He has no male privilege in a community that's 99% women! He's being oppressed! And the male privilege checklist doesn't apply to him! He's special! In the end, he manages to hit almost every point on Derailing for Dummies. P.S. Thanks to the mousie who first posted this to wank_report. |
| Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 | ||
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unfunnybusiness [ charamei ] |
1:20p | Score one for science Scientists at the University of Cincinnati have successfully created artificial photosynthesis, apparently far more efficiently than plants manage it. ( First article under cut. ) Current Mood: excited |
| Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 | ||
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unfunnybusiness [ platedlizard ] |
10:05p | Encyclopedia Dramatica's owner could face charges in Australia. Link. The US-based owner of a satirical Wikipedia-style website may be charged under Australian law over a deliberately offensive article about Aborigines. The Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (HREOC) contacted Encyclopedia Dramatica owner Joseph Evers, after 20 indigenous Australians complained about the article's content. Earlier this year the same article — which includes numerous offensive depictions of Aborigines — was removed from Google's search listings after a request from the Human Rights Commission. Joseph Evers' blog. For those unaware, Encyclopedia Dramatica has been in a lot of trouble in Australia lately. First ED was placed on the ACMA blacklist, a “secret” list of websites to be censored throughout Australia in their upcoming internet filter. After this list was leaked to the public, we all laughed about how we were put on a blacklist with “Wikipedia entries, euthanasia sites, websites of fringe religions, Christian sites, and even the websites of a tour operator and a Queensland dentist“. Meanwhile, Australia Communications Minister Stephen Conroy called for the arrests of Australians publishing the list. My take on this: ED is a pit of scum and villainy. I haven't read the article in question, but I do occasionally view ED, and if it's like the rest of the site I'm sure it is as offensive as possible. That's what happens when a bunch of trolls make a wiki. That doesn't mean that it should be censored, or that the main 'owner' (who didn't ever write that article) should be brought up on charges. If you are going to protect Free Speech then you have to protect speech you don't like. Don't like it? Fine. You are allowed to set up your own site to say why it is wrong. You are allowed to protest. You should not criminally charge someone for it! As for censoring the Internet... I don't even know where to start with that. Totalitarian states do that. China, Iran, North Korea etc. What does that make Australia? Hell, Australia is making porn of flat chested women illegal because they think it might encourage pedophilia. I really feel sorry for any man in Australia who likes small boobs on adult women, they might end up being labeled as pedophiles. I better stop before I start ranting. I'm just glad that I live in a country where Freedom of Speech is encoded into our constitution. ETA I just love how a lot of the comments here are about how mean ED is instead of the how terrible it is that an American in America with an American-based site may be charged in an Australian court with human rights violations because users of the site posted mean things. Way to keep your priorities straight. |
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unfunnybusiness [ agent_hyatt ] |
2:44p | serious news about Racebending is automatically unfunny, right? Facebook removes the Racebending group for being "hateful, threatening, or obscene". Meanwhile, actual hate groups like WBC are untouched. ETA 3/17: The group's back up now, with no elaboration on why it was deleted or explanation for why it's back. ETA 2: Some other FB groups that are genuinely offensive, yet have not been removed. Including "F*CK ISLAM" and "It's not R.A.P.E. if you scream Surprise!", the latter of which has been reported before and deletion request denied because it would infringe on their freedom of expression. |
| Sunday, March 14th, 2010 | ||
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unfunnybusiness [ faultypremise ] |
11:51p | I can't even begin to make shiz like this up. The man who called for the death of Elton John has been arrested. ( Text beneath the cut. ) And in a really bizarro world twist to this story (as if it wasn't already completely bugnuts), this is the same man said to have had consensual-- you read that right- sex with a mule. |
| Monday, March 15th, 2010 | ||
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sparklefield [ das_mervin ] |
11:56a | Reader, I squee'd.  Oh, you knew they would. I demand more Jasper = Harpo comments. He looked so much like him in New Moon this time that I took to calling him Jaspo. |
| Friday, March 12th, 2010 | ||
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unfunnybusiness [ pantyless_angel ] |
5:18p | Teacher!fail in N.C. Video and article here Why the hell would anyone even think it was ok to do that? Current Mood: *Snarl* |
| Saturday, March 13th, 2010 | ||
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unfunnybusiness [ rosehiptea ] |
3:48p | Don't ask, don't tell... until the police tell... Lesbian sgt. discharged after police tell military As usual, beware the comments. ( Text of article under cut... ) |
| Friday, March 12th, 2010 | ||
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unfunnybusiness [ pyratejenni ] |
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| Thursday, March 11th, 2010 | ||
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unfunnybusiness [ octopedingenue ] |
6:46p | The verdict: Gaylanta 1, police homophobes 0 Georgia NPR just ran the welcome update on this friendly neighborhood civil rights violation case I've been following. Short version: Atlanta police raid a verable local gay leather bar, the Eagle, for alleged drugs (which are never found). The cops harass/physically restrain/verbally assault the bar's staff and patrons and eventually file some weakass charges against bargoers for dancing without a license and running an adult establishment and other things deeply stupid. Today, all charges against the Eagle patrons and staff were dropped. It's my happy Take THAT against homophobia for the day, even though I'm still pissed that it ever happened in the first place. From the Atlanta-Journal Constitution: Judge: Atlanta Eagle defendants ‘not guilty' An Atlanta judge found three defendants in the Atlanta Eagle gay bar case not guilty Thursday, and the prosecutor agreed to dismiss the charges against the other five defendants. Municipal Judge Crystal Gaines said city police failed to produce evidence proving that men danced naked without permits or that the bar operators were running an unlicensed adult establishment. Not in this article but in the radio report was a tidbit about how the police case depended heavily on one police eyewitness, who at one point his testimony got "confused" and identified a bartender as one of the evil nekkid dancers. Maybe he wasn't looking the guy in the face? From what I've seen Atlantans have been universally calling BULLSHIT from the beginning on the dubious justifications of the police raid. Because as you know, the biggest cause violent drug crime is big hairy leather guys macking on each other. America's gayest city = Gayngster's Paradise! Oh man, that tasty pending civil rights federal lawsuit is gonna be SWEET. For the curious/amused, the statements on the Eagle's website about what a nice neighbor the bar is are well worth reading. And the Eagle is still selling T-shirts for legal expenses. Current Mood: Vindicated |
| Friday, March 12th, 2010 | ||
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unfunnybusiness [ snarkhunter ] |
8:42a | I can't even come up with a clever headline here. Woman beaten for refusing to dance with a man in a club. ( Triggery content. ) Current Mood: OMGWTF |
| Thursday, March 11th, 2010 | ||
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unfunnybusiness [ staroverthebay ] |
10:27a | Prom is NOT for Teh Ebil Ghey! A Mississippi school was so outraged that a lesbian student wanted to bring her girlfriend (a fellow student) and wear a tuxedo that they canceled prom altogether. You read that right. ( Full text of article ) Some days it just isn't worth it to even get online, nevermind look at headlines. |
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sparklefield [ das_mervin ] |
10:33a | Eclipse Teaser. The teaser trailer for Eclipse--the whole one--has staggered online. I love a director who is honest. The other two, when they were releasing trailers? They tried to cut them so that it looked like action and werewolves and drama and vampires fighting and actual conflict made up the majority when it didn't. This guy doesn't. It's like he is saying, "That's an insult to myself and everyone who took part in this movie to say that. So here--one shot apiece of Jane and Victoria. That's an even ratio for their time in the movie. The rest? Jacob and Edward alternately peeing on and then pulling on Bella's limp and unresisting hand." You know--canon. |
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unfunnybusiness [ littleshebear ] |
12:48p | The Daily Fail in "making shit up," shocker. Unfunny, social experiments and a side-order of schadenfreude. Following the conviction of a man for the rape and murder of a teenaged girl he met on Facebook (he'd posed as a teenage boy), the Daily Fail published a suitably scare-mongering article in response. It was by a criminologist who said he posed as a 14 year old girl on Facebook as a social experiment. He claimed that within minutes of creating the profile, he was innundated with propositions and obscene messages from adult men. Only it turns out it wasn't Facebook at all but a completely different social networking site and the Fail had to apologise. ( full text for link-phobic ) Edited for clarity: My summary isn't quite right. The criminologist never said it was facebook, the Mail just made that bit up. Current Mood: exhausted |
| Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 | ||
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unfunnybusiness [ quantumreality ] |
3:28p | Cell phone user stabs complainant with meat thermometer This is one of those BZUH? O_o incidents that makes you end up going D: Link to article ( Part of the article reproduced under cut ) Boggles the mind, it does. |
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unfunnybusiness [ giles6688 ] |
12:52p | Another example of Zero Tolerance = Zero Sense A seventh grader in Indiana was offered drugs by a friend. She did what the school taught her and just said no. The result? Suspension. Story here andhere. . ( Story for Linkophobes ) Edited to fixed b0rked links, sorry! Current Mood: GRRRRRR |
| Monday, March 8th, 2010 | ||
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unfunnybusiness [ theelusiven ] |
11:27a | Is it too early to say "fuck the world" today? From a mousie at Wank Report. ( Triggering Content Behind The Cut ) Current Mood: *Snarl* |
