News that makes us laugh, cry, or both

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 10:29 pm

my first mental response: "The god of gays is PISSED." "and really, why wouldn't he be?"

edit:
there's also this, a cult of Gadget Hackwrench. Yes, from Rescue Rangers.

as disturbing as I should probably find this, it's kind of fucking awesome... makes as much sense as any other religion, really..

Count Arioch the 28th · Sat Jul 17, 2010 12:18 am

Prak_Anima wrote: a cult of Gadget Hackwrench. Yes, from Rescue Rangers.

I partially blame that character for the existence of furries.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Jul 17, 2010 12:19 am

just be short and inclusive and blame Disney in general. I know one furry whose favourite movie is the Disney Robin Hood. I personally, when I was a kid, preferred Disney movies with anthropomorphic characters.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Sat Jul 17, 2010 12:58 am

Guys, can we keep threads to their topic, please? This is news, and pictures of thunderstorms for their rainbows and discussion of furry religions just aren't it.

-Crissa

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Jul 17, 2010 1:04 am

define News. To me it's "new information".

The existence of a photo of both lightning and a rainbow was news to me. The existence of a furry religion was news to me.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sat Jul 17, 2010 1:16 am

Prak_Anima wrote:The existence of a furry religion was news to me.

I wish it was news to me. Or better still, I wish I was oblivious to it.

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Sat Jul 17, 2010 2:59 pm

Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a 'world-killing' event Are you fucking kidding me? I mean, I read about methane pockets as an extinction event nearly a year ago on Cracked, but this is seriously maybe happening?

I don't get too worked up about scaremongering that often, but if this is true...what the fuck can be done? I'm guessing very little.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sat Jul 17, 2010 3:46 pm

http://ebonymompolitics.wordpress.com/2 ... was-right/

Golly Bob Howdy.

I love it when conservatives go batshit insane. It's just so much more entertaining than when liberals do.

Edit: Another link: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tea-party-ex ... raws-fire/

Gnosticism Is A Hoot · Sat Jul 17, 2010 10:10 pm

Maxus wrote:http://ebonymompolitics.wordpress.com/2 ... was-right/

Golly Bob Howdy.

I love it when conservatives go batshit insane. It's just so much more entertaining than when liberals do.

Edit: Another link: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tea-party-ex ... raws-fire/

What is this I don't even

Well, I guess he sure showed us who the real racists are in all this! Yes sir!

*weeps*

Ganbare Gincun · Post by **Ganbare Gincun** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:45 pm

My conservative friends totally believe that the Tea Party proved that they are not racist and that they have the NAACP backed into a corner now. Right.

erik · Post by **erik** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:28 am

Meikle641 wrote: Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a 'world-killing' event Are you fucking kidding me? I mean, I read about methane pockets as an extinction event nearly a year ago on Cracked, but this is seriously maybe happening?

I don't get too worked up about scaremongering that often, but if this is true...what the fuck can be done? I'm guessing very little.

I am often baffled at how many of these things are labeled as putting humanity back to the dark ages. Granted it would suck extremely bad, on the order of millions upon millions of lives lost and worldwide economies crapped upon extra hard, but I imagine civilization at large would continue on. The effects would be global, but humanity would continue.

Oh, I just watched a short youtube video on the methane bubble extinction events, and see why it is more globally horrific (I originally assumed the greater global impact would largely be dissolution of food chains and economies). Apparently flaming tsunamis and such are only the beginning. Riiiight at the end Ryskin mentions 50 meter coverage of the entire Earth in methane gas, which would be ungood. Of course the video ends before that description can be explained further.

I presume for dramatic/descriptive effect he just compared total volume of gas released by a bubble versus volume of space that would cover the earth in 50 meters. It would be deeper nearer to the site, and would not reach up mountains.

(checks Indianapolis' sealevel, ah good, over 200m... that means I win, right?)

I wonder if the contingency for such an event (if there could be a contingency) is to nuke the fucking bubble and hope to fight fire with fire accelerating the burn before gasses reach all of civilization. I imagine in a global extinction event there really isn't a reason to hold back and be reasonable.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 5:49 pm

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/07/19 ... ?icid=main

MSNBC will be interesting for the next couple of days.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:07 pm

On a more cheerful note:

http://ursulav.livejournal.com/1385606.html

And the follow-up: http://ursulav.livejournal.com/1385765.html

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:32 pm

#1: there is nothing wrong with people putting weird historical mythological crap on posters.

#2: Horus is not a goat. He is not a serpent either. He is a falcon. What the fuck?

The ability of fundies to flip out about stuff they don't understand should really just stop surprising me.

-Username17

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:47 pm

I'm preparing to slam my head against a brick wall for a few days... by which I mean I actually registered to go tell those people "it's ok to enjoy some fantasy art. It won't make god hate you"

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:54 pm

Read both links, didn't see Horus mentioned. What are you talking about?

Jilocasin · Post by **Jilocasin** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:20 am

Orion wrote:Read both links, didn't see Horus mentioned. What are you talking about?

The link in the second link has someone complaining that "there are several clear references to pagan gods in this picture" and that "horus the egyptian was often represented as a ram with a serpent".

erik · Post by **erik** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:03 am

Are those links NSFW?

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:15 am

work? yes. sanity? no.

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:21 am

I am strangely reminded of this.

EDIT: Black people seem to care more about race than white people do.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 3:56 am

Psychic Robot wrote:Black people seem to care more about race than white people do.

QWIK-Tip: Poor people care more about class struggles than rich people, women care more about gender than men, and non-straights care more about gay rights than heterosexuals.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:26 am

>implying foxnews is a valid source for anything.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 6:04 am

Also, newsflash: If you're an asshole to someone, they feel less compelled to work on your behalf.

-Crissa

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:51 am

Just learned that the "pesticides" in GMO corn is actually just a protein, normally created by a bacterium, which is toxic to insects.

and spent a good hour or so berating well-intentioned extremists on facebook about their fear-mongering.

Bt FAQ
Bt-CORN: WHAT IT IS AND HOW IT WORKS

oh, and that this protein has been used in Organic Gardening for 50 years...

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:08 am

Pedophiles destroyed. Score one for government bureaucracy.