Comments on: LGF: Beyond Parody

By: nupghh

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By: Mike Hunt's Honorable Discharge

Mike Hunt's Honorable Discharge — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:35:49 +0000

“…but do [you] really want to make the 911 memorials a battlefield?”

Yes, because we’re the ones who got all bent out of shape over some trees.

By: James Cape

James Cape — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:07:47 +0000

Kip Watson:

What, exactly, does this discussion have to do with “class war”?

Really, this is one of the few political debates that’s pretty much entirely free of marxist dialectics (known outside stuffy academic circles as “the haves vs. the have-nots”).

Or are you just ignorantly red-baiting in an effort to overlook Jimbo pointing out exactly what I was about to? Namely, you’re unquestioned assumption that anything related to Islam is inherently evil.

By: Kip Watson

Kip Watson — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:41:05 +0000

tigrismus,

You personally? No, why would you bother.

But if you were a businessman and it was your customers who didn’t like a particular word, you just might – and who could criticise you? What better customer relations is there than to do something because a customer asks, even though you’re not obliged to.

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As for some of you others… I understand (but don’t support) your desire for class war, or Blue/Red war, or culture war, or PC counter-counter-revolution or whatever, but do really want to make the 911 memorials a battlefield?

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 05:49:57 +0000

Allah, schmallah. The BK lid design resembled Kip’s Big Boy’s hairdo. Then I saw the sandwich crushing the towers and I knew. Kip is pissed that his flip hairdo has been stolen to decorate a rival’s ice cream treat!

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 03:48:37 +0000

Thank you teh l4m3, we have a winner.

The quasi-crescent-shaped-if-you-squit-just-right memorial is only offensive to those who believe certain religions are inherently evil (COUGH..Kip..COUGH..Islam) or that their symbols are equivilent to the symbols used by the most reviled people in modern human history.

So changing the memorial would be offensive – get it? *SIGH* probably not.

Now, BK’s ice cream bars imprinted with a picture of a snickering Calvin pissing on graven image of Mohammad, well that’s just offensive no matter how you slice it.

But that’s just me.

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 02:59:28 +0000

Although, Timmah, I did enjoy the misspelling of “monument” as “monmument.”

By: cereal breath

cereal breath — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 02:51:26 +0000

anyone ever notice that many telephone poles are shaped like a crucifix? it’s like the government is planning on mass crucifixtions of it’s enemies and incorporated this plan into the public works department or some shit. i mean i have definitely seen some telephone poles that were not shaped like crucifixes, but concievably one could still be nailed up to it.

the moral of the story:

“nutty nutty sees what nutty nutty wants to see, and draw conclusions thusly”

p.s. i have a pop-tart in my possesion, in which the multi colored sprinkles form the discernable bodies of allah and yahweh breakdancing together.
i take it to be a sign that dance is the universal
prescription for religious animosity. peace thru dance people! peace thru dance.

By: Timmah420

Timmah420 — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:38:14 +0000

What really amazes me is how worked up the LGF’ers are getting about a fucking semi-circle. Let’s see here, I complain about thousands dying needlessly and the environment getting destroyed and I’m a nutty left wing commie faggot, they spend 70 pages ranting about the shape and position of landscaping and that’s perfectly logical. “How the hell does crap like this happen? Was it not Muslims that took over the plane that was forced down by Americans? If they don’t get that Allah damned crescent off the memorial someone is going remove it for them after the memorial is erected.”"We simply cannot allow this travesty to be constructed.”"We should spread the word about this so-called monument and DEMAND that a true monmument be built upon this site.

Maybe a HUGE cross.”"Yeah, we should have outlawed Islam and L?iberalism, and deported you all to the same sand Hell on 12 Sept 01.

Then turned the sand to glass. “
Ok, well maybe some are funny and some are death threats, but they’re all crazy.

By: teh l4m3

teh l4m3 — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:24:43 +0000

And as we know, Kip, a crescent and a swastika are exactly the same. Kind of.

And Tim, let me guess: you voted for Santorum, didn’t you?

By: Cap'n Yosef, Th' Hottest Young Scourge o' Th' Seven Internets

Cap'n Yosef, Th' Hottest Young Scourge o' Th' Seven Internets — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:23:38 +0000

Yarr, me memory takes me to th’ Barbary Coast whar I used to live it up to th’ highest order or all tha’ be piracy! An’ BK do be a British company tha’ be makin’ th’ finest boots for plunderin’!

By: Vladi G

Vladi G — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:18:51 +0000

Thanks, I appreciate the ‘idiot’ tag

Hey, no problem. You made it easy for me.

By: Fred Vincy

Fred Vincy — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:56:03 +0000

Having studied Arabic (briefly), writing anything is pretty hard. The fact that Burger King could write “Allah” without even trying — well, that just has me steamed….

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:32:43 +0000

To me, the most interesting thing about all this is that “Allah” in Arabic really does look like a swirly cone on its side. just like “God” in English looks like a hotdog on a roll, as seen end-on. And “Vishnu” in Sanskrit looks like a side order of fries, with catsup.

I think the gods are trying to tell us something here.

By: tigrismus

tigrismus — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:43:26 +0000

Kip, some people are offended by the use of the word “niggardly.” Once they’ve seen the etymology and realize there’s no slight, should I still change my vocabulary?

By: Tim in PA

Tim in PA — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:44:34 +0000

Finding sort-of arabic script in an ice cream lid, and being mortally offended by it, is ridiculous. It’s a vague resemblance to something inexplcicably offensive, in the context of a FREAKING ICE CREAM TREAT.

Now, the flight 93 memorial, we’re talking about something that is not at all vague, and incredibly offensive in the context of a memorial to a planeload of people murdered in the name of religious extremism.

It’s sort of hard to compare the two. DO we really need a disclaimer, “NO PERSONS WERE HARMED OR KILLED IN THE MAKING OF THIS ICE CREAM CONE”?

It’s like making a memorial at Dachau or Auschwitz in the shape of a swastika and arguing that “people are just seeing things, and even if it was one, it’s a symbol with a long history in Greek and Native American art”

By: Rowan Berkeley

Rowan Berkeley — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:29:32 +0000

“We need to triangulate the Muslims”? You mean, initiate them all into Freemasonry?

By: Brad R.

Brad R. — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:54:57 +0000

Goddamn it, I’m sick of people getting offended by shit that just isn’t offensive. You want offensive? Let’s sculpt Janet Jackson’s nipple into Mount Rushmore.

By: jade

jade — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:40:53 +0000

Maybe they could prevent the infiltration of Mohammedality by turning the semi-circle into a complete circle.

But what happens if some gardener leaves a rake lying on the ground between two trees? All of a sudden it’s a crescent again and everybody’s offended.

The other thing is, the complaint wasn’t made by some hook handed fanatic, the guy is a middle manager.

So it was Dilbert’s boss. I thought so.

By: Kip Watson

Kip Watson — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:01:29 +0000

I agree that the ice cream thing was pretty far fetched, but you pick your battles.

You can look at it two ways, you could say it’s PC gone mad (and it probably is), but there’s also a lot of ‘the customer is always right’, which is a nice generous-spirited old fashioned philosophy.

The other thing is, the complaint wasn’t made by some hook handed fanatic, the guy is a middle manager. We need to triangulate the Muslims, because most of them are really OK – if they can get over all the victim cr#p they get through the LW media and their own rabble rousers.

(NB – I’m not trying to be holier-than-thou. I’m still as angry as a hornet after 911 and our own Aussie version.)