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Post by Shoesh on Oct 14, 2008 4:36:25 GMT -5
scrolling hurts
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Post by maidli2 on Oct 19, 2008 9:37:59 GMT -5
I love being alone but... not feeling lonely
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Post by Lungsey on Oct 19, 2008 10:53:37 GMT -5
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Post by manintheshadows on Oct 30, 2008 16:35:54 GMT -5
This fucking stupid collective Grief Athlete mentality that grips this bloody country every now and then.
Two people did something stupid on the radio, they've said sorry and the aggrieved party has graciously accepted said apology. Two people complained to the BBC at the time. Fast forward 8 fucking days when right-wing shitrag the Daily Mail needs to find something to keep their chum George Osborne (who admitted attempting to solicit cash from a Russian billionaire the day before) off the front page, and they decide to stoke up a witchhunt that has so far collected 30,000 complaints from people who probably haven't even heard the bloody prank phonecall in question. And the Daily Heil[/i]Mail have now earned bonus points for paying handsomely for and posting semi-naked pics of the subject of said phonecall, who has magically transformed her opinion on her band's (Satanic Sluts) myspace page from "a bit of a laugh, really" to being utterly distraught by the whole sorry affair, signing up a PR agent and selling whatever story she has to another shitty 'news'paper for an enormous pile of cash.
This non-story was on the 10 O'Clock news as a headline last night (and no doubt will also be tonight), and in other news, 160 people died in an earthquake, the world is still going to financial hell in a handcart and there's an election going on somewhere. It's embarrassing to live here sometimes.
*phew*
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Post by manintheshadows on Nov 19, 2008 8:35:56 GMT -5
Bastards. This advert has been broadcast on UK Satellite/cable TV of late:
So - it's coming up to Christmas, and vulnerable people are feeling more vulnerable than usual - so this organisation decides to play on that vulnerability in the most direct and distasteful manner possible. It's bad enough that SKY feel all fine and dandy about allowing this on their channels, although they might not have noticed yet that the organisation in question is the fucking Scientologists, who have decided to use the festive period to try to weasel a bunch of cash from people desperate for a change in fortune. They even hide their cult behind a website address (I'm sure this bit isn't legal over here). Bah. Even their 'iconography' is stupid *imagines what the last Soulsavers album would have been like if Hubbard had got his zombie claws into it*
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Post by mokkly2 on Nov 19, 2008 17:11:03 GMT -5
So - it's coming up to Christmas, and vulnerable people are feeling more vulnerable than usual - so this organisation decides to play on that vulnerability in the most direct and distasteful manner possible. It's bad enough that SKY feel all fine and dandy about allowing this on their channels, although they might not have noticed yet that the organisation in question is the fucking Scientologists, who have decided to use the festive period to try to weasel a bunch of cash from people desperate for a change in fortune. They even hide their cult behind a website address (I'm sure this bit isn't legal over here). Bah. Even their 'iconography' is stupid *imagines what the last Soulsavers album would have been like if Hubbard had got his zombie claws into it* i bloody well love it. nothing wrong with 'em. the market for people's religious/cult beliefs is free and fair, and they seem to understand the modern world. they've used celebrity endorsements, sci-fi, the internet, television, etc etc. bloody brilliant. i think some of the other religions need to start playing catch up. i want to see Vishnu selling me things on the premise of multihanded brilliance, and Jesus selling me things on the back of his gimmick of being born on Santa's birthday and dying on the day the Easter bunny was born... (man, that Jesus fella didnt live for long did he? 3 months or something?) all of which brings me to this... uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hLGAHepMhbgturn it up, sit back... and enjoy.
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Post by manintheshadows on Nov 19, 2008 17:31:00 GMT -5
I was in a bit of a mood before, wasn't I? Well, they wind me up. It's certainly true that anyone has the right to set up whatever religion they want, but Scientology seems to be the end product of a drunken bet (ie "give us lots and lots and lots of money, and then we'll tell you why we think you're worthless. And you're not going to believe it when we tell you how we all got here, either"), and for all their celeb Hollywood incrowd endorsements, they make most of their cash from going after the weakest and most vulnerable (usually addicts) and take all of what little they've got. I suppose most modern religion centres around profiting from the flock, but this lot seem to just take without returning anything. It's pyramid selling wrapped in a 1950s B-Movie plotline. I'm not in the slightest bit religious myself, but even so, it's somewhat disturbing to see something like Scientology (and they are not alone - their business model has influenced many a new revelation) run so slickly and efficiently, and coldly. Anyway, I cheered up later on when the Simpsons episode on Channel 4 at teatime today was the one about the Movementarians, which says it all
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Post by barriers on Nov 19, 2008 17:35:31 GMT -5
People who don't spell colour (and similar words) with a 'U'
Get with the program America!
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Post by mokkly2 on Nov 19, 2008 17:40:44 GMT -5
People who don't spell colour (and similar words) with a 'U' Get with the program America! there's no U in me. but there's a U in us.
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Post by manintheshadows on Nov 19, 2008 17:42:55 GMT -5
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Post by mokkly2 on Nov 19, 2008 17:47:10 GMT -5
I was in a bit of a mood before, wasn't I? Well, they wind me up. It's certainly true that anyone has the right to set up whatever religion they want, but Scientology seems to be the end product of a drunken bet (ie "give us lots and lots and lots of money, and then we'll tell you why we think you're worthless. And you're not going to believe it when we tell you how we all got here, either"), and for all their celeb Hollywood incrowd endorsements, they make most of their cash from going after the weakest and most vulnerable (usually addicts) and take all of what little they've got. I suppose most modern religion centres around profiting from the flock, but this lot seem to just take without returning anything. It's pyramid selling wrapped in a 1950s B-Movie plotline. I'm not in the slightest bit religious myself, but even so, it's somewhat disturbing to see something like Scientology (and they are not alone - their business model has influenced many a new revelation) run so slickly and efficiently, and coldly. Anyway, I cheered up later on when the Simpsons episode on Channel 4 at teatime today was the one about the Movementarians, which says it all doesnt sound any different than a group like The Jesus Army, who employ vulnerable people and give them somewhere to stay in exchange for a big chunk of their wages... and their eternal soul. and they get a silly necklace. and 'you won't believe it when we tell you how we all got here' - works the same with Catholicism/Christianity etc etc. 'so, yeah... there was this all-powerful being who created everything we've got here in a week. started off with 2 people, so we're all inbred. there weren't any dinosaurs, even though there obviously were.. and we've rewritten it by committee and bad translation a few times, and always adapted it to the times... so, living the life you live now might still get you into heaven, but it would have seen you damned for all eternity if you'd lived the same life a hundred years ago.' it's no more or less ridiculous than the Thetans and Xenu or whatever his name is. it's is just ridiculousness repackaged for a new audience, while presumably the stories of jesus' miracles were at the height of science fiction brilliance 2000 years ago. i dont really care enough about this for me to be talking this much.. which is something that happens to me on this forum far too often.
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Post by manintheshadows on Nov 19, 2008 17:57:03 GMT -5
Yeah, I know. It's just the modernity and sheer upfront crassness and silliness of it all that irks me. But I certainly concede that if they weren't about, it's not like the vulnerable wouldn't be picked on by someone else or a bunch of actors wouldn't form some other halfwitted cabal with a different name.
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Post by manintheshadows on Nov 20, 2008 15:22:06 GMT -5
it's no more or less ridiculous than the Thetans and Xenu or whatever his name is. it's is just ridiculousness repackaged for a new audience, while presumably the stories of jesus' miracles were at the height of science fiction brilliance 2000 years ago. Xenu, I don't want to die alone Xenu, oh Xenu, I don't want to die alone My love wasn't true During Incident II
Xenu, Oh Xenu, I don't want to die alone Xenu, if you hear my last breath Don't leave me here to have my soul encased in a combination of Alcohol and Glycol I know I have sinned but oh sod this, I'm never going to get it all to rhyme I'm quite pleased with the Incident II bit though With my sincerest apologies to Spain, Soulsavers and Mr. Lanegan. And Xenu. And Xenu's lawyers. Especially the lawyers
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Post by Shoesh on Nov 21, 2008 8:39:51 GMT -5
I have to work till 7, but I also have to be somewhere else at 7.
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Post by Shoesh on Nov 21, 2008 18:54:28 GMT -5
hearing bad rumours about ex boyfriend
edit: I won a prize tonight which I planned on exchanging tomorrow.. and then I spilled a drink on it. Wish me luck!
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Post by manintheshadows on Dec 23, 2008 11:21:32 GMT -5
Wrapping up bottles
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Post by breakerfall on Dec 23, 2008 11:24:35 GMT -5
Why don't you use those bottle bags? much much easier
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Post by manintheshadows on Dec 23, 2008 11:28:21 GMT -5
I forgot to buy any. Just the one to do now anyway, and the first one's looking rather nice
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Post by breakerfall on Dec 23, 2008 11:36:19 GMT -5
you are an artist
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Post by manintheshadows on Dec 23, 2008 13:12:17 GMT -5
I would have been if I hadn't ripped one open while picking the bloody thing up. Bah
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Post by breakerfall on Dec 23, 2008 15:34:19 GMT -5
You do know that's the higher powers telling you to drink it, right?
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Post by manintheshadows on Dec 23, 2008 15:40:36 GMT -5
I have my own stash. And as I am back in work tomorrow, I have dusted off the Tiny Wine Glass, like that's going to make any difference.
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Post by Lungsey on Dec 24, 2008 18:54:01 GMT -5
god i fuckin hate christmas
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Post by breakerfall on Dec 24, 2008 19:25:40 GMT -5
god i fuckin hate christmas I'm not partial to it either but just think, it'll all be over soon
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Post by manintheshadows on Dec 24, 2008 19:26:29 GMT -5
Moi aussi. But at it's very worst, it's just one day and I make a point of at least trying not to miss all the people and animals that Xmas serves to remind me aren't around anymore. But fortunately I'm now sufficiently bitter not to let this get to me too much and I try to spread my feelings of general anger and uselessness throughout the entire year so at least it's tolerable. And as a bonus, everyone else is being a miserable bleeder this time round so it's not just me for a change
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