Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
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I don't get it. It started well enough with asking about summer vacation and such, but most of the lines are just nonsense.
GasBandit
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That's usually what BLR does, yes. That's what the B stands for... BAD lip reading.
From Dirty Spaceman: "I can tell I'm beginning to like Alejandro. He's brave, and dapper, and NOT DRUNK. And I loved his junk in High School, he's like a big Swiss hand-rapist."
From Russian Unicorn: "We've been here for too long! We gotta run, OK? And trick those monsters so that they don't shoot my left nut."
From Morning Dew: "One time I drew a pink ice castle with a green hot dog and three light snacks. I'mma teach ya'll how to scrape out the sink drain. A midget said 'Speak with an accent,' so I did just so I could steal his porche while he was tied to a stake. In the rain."
From Everybody Poops: "I'm gon' go find a chicken fight, then gon' go poo poo. Mama wrote me a note. She forgot that I'm a big soft machine man. Howdy! Looks like we got a big mean dookie on deck, and I hate those green potatoes with those soggy fish sticks!"
Guess it's just not my brand of humour.
Most of them were blah, but Ted Cruz and DOCTOR Carson had me fuckin' rolling.
That's not the same kind of humour. Monty Python has some rhyme or reason to their humour. Each skit has its own internal logic and at least the lines actually make sense. In this case, it's mostly just gobbledygook.
Yeah...My problem with BLR is that it's a) usually not really funny and b) usually not really good lip reading, either. that is, if you look at the lips without sound - and I do so often - you wouldn't arrive anywhere near what they're writing. At least one of those two criteria should be met. Putting "other" funny text under people speaking in a different language is a common theme in humor (in these countries where subtitling is common, at least). And that doesn't have to sync up with the lips. But for BLR, you should either have actual jokes, or things that sync at least somewhat.
What makes BLR funny is the juxtaposition of the nonsense words serendipitously matching the lip movements. Once it took off, he has taken to stretching that connection a little further to shape the "happy accidents" a little more to his liking at the cost of being less faithful to the lip movements.
If you're not one to laugh at ridiculous incongruity, then you probably won't think it's funny. It could also be considered absurd, which is why I asked about Monty Python.
--Patrick
If you're not one to laugh at ridiculous incongruity, then you probably won't think it's funny. It could also be considered absurd, which is why I asked about Monty Python.
--Patrick
Yeah, I miss the songs to be honest. Everybody Poops and Russian Unicorn still make me smile.
GasBandit
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I really miss them too. My favorites are Dirty Spaceman, Morning Dew and Russian Unicorn. I mean, Medieval Land Fun Time World was funny and all, but the music is the best.
GasBandit
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Those were good too. Especially Total Eclipse of the Heart and White Wedding.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/201...fronts-ted-cruz-gay-rights-iowa-state-n414041
Ted Cruz is such a clown. Go you tiny Canadian firecracker and make that big Canadian bigot fuckwad say the dumbest shit.
Ted Cruz is such a clown. Go you tiny Canadian firecracker and make that big Canadian bigot fuckwad say the dumbest shit.
Alternate title: Rich, Religious White Man Fears Losing Ability to Discriminate
GasBandit
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The whole "force christian florists/bakers to provide flowers/cakes for gay weddings" thing is such malarky. They freakin shop around until they find somebody who won't, and then they try to make a national case to destroy them. That's why whenever it happens, donations pour in, like that pizzeria. Sorry to say it but Page came off worse than Cruz in that exchange.
This would be true if Christians weren't suing bakeries for not putting their anti-gay hate speech on their cakes. Unfortunately, those people don't seem to realize that hate speech isn't something they can force on a third party...
Regardless, it's completely petty at this point, for both parties.
Oh yeah, he came off great when he started talking about how christians are being discriminated against.
Yeah, but it's really hard to look at a group which is heavily discriminated against and can be fired for who they are in a majority of states and say "Hey, stop being petty when it comes to cake".
When a potential leader of the nation says "Yeah, that's ok", I imagine you kind of see them as the problem.
College age white girls. Based on my observations of the internet anyway.
GasBandit
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I didn't say he looked good, I said she came off worse. She charged right down off that high ground into the mud and got right in there to wrestle. Millions of Americans just saw a lesbian tell a presidential candidate that florists should be forced to violate their moral beliefs.
It's no different than what Ash is talking about - a religious person suing a cake company for refusing to put "god hates fags" on a cake.
Except his hypothetical is something that doesn't happen, ever.
Anyone who even tries to defend the "right" te be against gay marriage based on religious freedom, but doesn't want to ban divorce, is an idiot who doesn't know his own religious texts.
Anyone who thinks his or her religion should somehow be the basis to determine whether or not is legal, has missed the point of separation of church and state.
Anyone who thinks discrimination is OK if it's based on his or her religion should be very, very careful - because that can and will bite you in the ass very, very fast when you realize you have to de facto accept others can do the same. Those people should read some interpretations of the kafir rules and think whether or not they think that's a good plan.
Anyone who thinks his or her religion should somehow be the basis to determine whether or not is legal, has missed the point of separation of church and state.
Anyone who thinks discrimination is OK if it's based on his or her religion should be very, very careful - because that can and will bite you in the ass very, very fast when you realize you have to de facto accept others can do the same. Those people should read some interpretations of the kafir rules and think whether or not they think that's a good plan.
Anyone else remember this guy? Sued because the bakery wouldn't put his son's name on a birthday cake. Son's name was... Adolf Hitler. Another was named Aryan Nations, and a daughter Honzlynn Himmler.
And he claimed he wasn't a Nazi.
(At least *then* he didn't... now he's showing up for court hearings in full uniform.)
(ETA: Hoo, boy is this dude a piece of human garbage. Illiterate, spent his entire adult life unemployed and on disability, fathered nine kids by five women, all have been taken by CPS, and his ex-wife lives with him and his girlfriend.)
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It's not about being for or against gay marriage. Is about the right to freedom of association.
Because if you can invoke the government's monopoly on the use of violence to force someone to cater a gay wedding - and make no mistake, that is exactly what it means any time you get government involved to force anyone to do anything - then you must also be willing for that threat to be made on behalf of the consumer who wants the anti-gay cake. It is two sides of the same coin.
Remember your Voltaire, people. Just because somebody else is wrong doesn't mean you are justified in forcing him to be right, so long as he is not actually violating your rights. And no, a cake or floral arrangement from the boutique of your choice is not a constitutional right. Furthermore, Jack bootery on the side of right is still Jack bootery. For every Baker who gives in, 5000 rednecks will steel their resolve at seeing that they were right all along about their worst fears coming true.
The path to equality is not through being a real life tumblrina.
I'm perfectly OK with making someone make an anti-gay cake. Don't care one bit.
However, sadly, people have already imposed limits on Voltaire. Hate speech and all that jazz.
Jack booting? There are reasons you cna discriminate, and there are reasons, by law forbidden for discrimination. As far as I know, you're free to hang a sign outside saying "we don't cater to anyone over 200 pounds". You're not allowed to hang up a sign saying "we don't cater to blacks". Legally, discrimination based on sexual orientation is equal to discrimination on basis of gender, or age, or skin color. And therefor, illegal.
However, sadly, people have already imposed limits on Voltaire. Hate speech and all that jazz.
Jack booting? There are reasons you cna discriminate, and there are reasons, by law forbidden for discrimination. As far as I know, you're free to hang a sign outside saying "we don't cater to anyone over 200 pounds". You're not allowed to hang up a sign saying "we don't cater to blacks". Legally, discrimination based on sexual orientation is equal to discrimination on basis of gender, or age, or skin color. And therefor, illegal.
One is hate speech and one isn't.
His hypothetical was a christian couple going into a lesbian bakery and asking for a wedding cake and being refused. That's NEVER happened.
That was the excuse in the Civil Rights Era.
And this is why I'm okay with one side winning this over the other. The Anti-gay faction is doing this so that they may de facto discriminate, while the gay faction is only doing this so they may not be discriminated against. It doesn't mean this hasn't become incredibly petty (we're talking cakes here people), but at least one side of this would let the other do whatever they wanted if they dropped the threat of discrimination and violence against them. And ultimately, that is what needs to happen: polite society cannot exist when law abiding citizens can be harmed based on religious opinion alone. There is no logical or sound reason to allow it.
It's not about cakes, it's about removing a rot in American society.
