March 23, 2006
Eh?
Now we know what Gordon Brown keeps in his red ministerial attache case: Crayons.
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Nice.
Later
John
March 19, 2006
w0000000t!
26 New episodes of Futurama going into production!
HUZZAH!!
hyperventilates and passes out
Later
John
Matt Parker and Trey Stone - Truly, you are Gods.
(Totally copy-pasted from this BBC Article)
“So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun!” Trey Parker and Matt Stone told trade paper Variety.
“Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies.
”Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!! “
For those who haven’t learned about the pile of bullshit that is Scientology, Xenu is the evil Alien Overlord who killed all the other aliens by dumping them in earth’s volcanos then brainwashed their souls when they tried to escape. The alien souls (or ‘thetans’) attach themselves to humans and are the cause of all bad feelings.
Xenu is a cross between Satan and Skeletor from HEMAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE.
Hail Xenu indeed!
Later
John
March 15, 2006
South Park
Attention Issac Hayes: STFU
The soul singer and composer who has been the voice of Chef on South Park has left the series after objecting to an episode which made fun of Scientologists in the latest season.
Matt Stone, who co-created the series, said yesterday: “In over 150 episodes of South Park, Isaac never had a problem with the show making fun of Christians, Muslims, Mormons or Jews. He got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion featured on the show.”
The Times offers a lengthy list of the ridicule religious figures and groups have been subjected to over the years that South Park has been in production.
Years before the recent cartoon protests, South Park depicted Muhammad as a Muslim superhero
In the same episode the Hindu God Krishna turns into a beaver in an attempt to kill Abraham Lincoln
In an episode titled Bloody Mary, a statue of the Virgin Mary squirts menstrual blood on to the face of the Pope
In 1998 an episode denounced by Christians showed Jesus in a boxing match with Satan while a priest shouted: “Jesus, you’re gonna kick ass”
In 1999 Satan was portrayed as Saddam Hussein’s homosexual lover According to South Park, the Japanese people and redheads do not have souls
It’s missing a few of my personal favourites:
The episode which deals wholly and exclusively with ridiculing Mormons, every appearance of The Super Best Friends (Jesus, Buddha, Mohhamed, Moses, James Brown, Vishnah), the episode where the Pope is depicted as a drooling retard only capable of making funny noises by wobbling his lips with his finger and of course the episode which reveals that the Catholic Church is in fact run by a giant 300 foot long spider.
Oh yeah and the bit where Jesus performs the miracle of feeding 5,000 by asking everyone to “turn around” and then loading up cartfuls of fish before telling them they can “turn back now”.
Issac Hayes needs to get a life. I just lost all respect for him. The fact that he didn’t turn to his lawyers is the only thing which makes him less of a joke than the other Scientologists who demand absolute immunity from criticism for their faith.
Later
John
Quick post
Mur Lafferty’s Geek Fu Action Grip podcast recently shilled for a song by Jonathan Coulton called “Skullcrusher Mountain”.
It’s fantastic, if you think an earnest and sweet lovesong by an evil genius trying to win the heart of an ordinary girl would be awesome then you’d be right.
In fact the whole EP is a whole lot of fun and massively endearing.
Curse you World of Warcraft for crushing my blogging!
Later
John
March 04, 2006
Dear lord no!!
Tony Blair prayed to god over decision to oust Saddam. Suddenly the anti-war camp is left with a ridiculous dichotomy - two tasty slices of pie from which they must (but ultimately cannot) pick one and one alone. On the one hand there are the atheists who seek to deride faith as a weakness and who would suggest that it has no part in the decision making process, on the other the condemnation of other Christians about the validity of Blair’s choice.
Here’s my take.
Anyone making the first assertion can go take a running jump. Anyone making the second has an argument but the assertions such as “A good Christian wouldn’t be for this war” are unnecessarily judgmental and quite frankly ridiculous.
As a Christian you have two points to straddle:
1) The non-violence preached by Christ
2) His assertion that “Whatsoever you do to the slightest of my brothers you do to me”.
The former prohibits violence, the latter makes a sin against god and your fellow man of disregarding the plight and suffering of others.
It’s a tough moral question and suggesting for one moment that a good Christian could only be against the war (and thusly that someone who is against the war is a bad Christian) is utterly spurious. It ignores the suffering and torture of the Iraqi people at the hands of the most brutal dictator to tread the earth since Hitler. Likewise upholding a path of non-violence and pacifism in place of seeking to aid the people of Iraq certainly does not make one less of a Christian - abhorring violence is a vital aspect of our faith.
The fact of the matter is that there are a lot of Christians in the United Kingdom and the more we hear the shrill cries of intelligentsia deriding prayer as a superstitious practice, particularly prayer regarding in issue as important as this, the more we become disenchanted with the prevailing liberal climate.
Britain has a tolerant culture. Let’s see how willing we are to tolerate a PM asking for help from the man upstairs.
Later
John