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Just post whatever comes to mind.

If Oscar Wilde had lived in our time, he would be a /b/tard.

Actually, scratch that. He does, and goes by Jethro Q Walrustitty.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 11th 2022 at 8:59:26 AM

Keybreak Since: Apr, 2010

#113251: Nov 14th 2011 at 2:43:47 PM

Is my title a little bit expectable? ;P

edited 14th Nov '11 2:44:02 PM by Keybreak

Justice4243 Writer of horse words from Portland, OR, USA Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: Brony

Writer of horse words

#113252: Nov 14th 2011 at 3:02:03 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church#Criticism

A number of Phelps' critics have suggested that the actions of the Westboro Baptist Church are a ploy to receive attention above all else. Counter-protesting against the group, they suggest, gives them attention and incentive that they do not deserve; and a more effective response against Phelps would be to ignore his congregation completely. WBC, through the closely related Phelps Chartered law firm, has collected fees under the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Award Act of 1976 when their protests have been unlawfully disrupted.

A frequent critic of the WBC is political commentator Bill O'Reilly, who regularly calls the church "evil and despicable". Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has also criticized the church.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) describes the Westboro Baptist Church as "virulently homophobic", whose anti-homosexual rhetoric they say is often a cover for anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, racism, and anti-Catholicism. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an anti-discrimination group, has added the Westboro Baptist Church to its list of hate groups. Jerry Falwell referred to Phelps as "a first-class nut". WBC picketed the funeral service for Falwell on May 22, 2007.

In May 2011, representatives of the Ku Klux Klan distanced themselves from the church, denouncing them as "hatemongers".

At what point do you take a long hard look in the mirror, eat about 20 sleeping pills, and call it a life?

Justice is a joy to the godly, but it terrifies evildoers.Proverbs21:15 FimFiction account.

KylerThatch literary masochist Since: Jan, 2001

literary masochist

#113253: Nov 14th 2011 at 3:09:15 PM

In May 2011, representatives of the Ku Klux Klan distanced themselves from the church, denouncing them as "hatemongers".

Wow, that's just... wow.

This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...

BlixtySlycat |like a boss| from Driving the Rad Hazard Since: Aug, 2011

|like a boss|

#113254: Nov 14th 2011 at 3:10:05 PM

Hey, if Insane Clown Posse makes a diss song about them, Fred will have completed the set of "getting people a lot of people hate to hate you".

edited 14th Nov '11 3:10:25 PM by BlixtySlycat

go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagine

Taelor Don't Forget To Smile from The Paths of Spite Since: Jul, 2009

Don't Forget To Smile

#113255: Nov 14th 2011 at 3:29:14 PM

I don't think Tzetze gets many dates, though erm, sorry tze

If tze were a chick, I'd date him.

Why yes, I would totally date a guy if that guy was actually a girl.

edited 14th Nov '11 3:30:58 PM by Taelor

The Philosopher-King Paradox

Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001

DUMB

#113256: Nov 14th 2011 at 3:30:11 PM

This is clearly the source of all my romantic woes.

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Justice4243 Writer of horse words from Portland, OR, USA Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: Brony

Writer of horse words

#113257: Nov 14th 2011 at 3:31:25 PM

Quickly! To Jusenkyo!

edited 14th Nov '11 3:31:41 PM by Justice4243

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Taelor Don't Forget To Smile from The Paths of Spite Since: Jul, 2009

Don't Forget To Smile

#113258: Nov 14th 2011 at 3:31:39 PM

Indeed.

The Philosopher-King Paradox

Tre 82123 from the front to the back, that's where I was at (Unlucky Thirteen) Relationship Status: Singularity

82123

#113259: Nov 14th 2011 at 3:32:17 PM

Things I thought of while watching this video:

1. I always wondered what would happen if the continents merged together like that. The countries themselves would have a fit but WHO CARES GIANT GUETTA PARTY
2. Guetta has great taste in headphones.

edited 14th Nov '11 3:32:28 PM by Tre

oh, that's why I need this binary mind // ⌘

Uberwitch Demifiend from Valhalla Since: Oct, 2011

Demifiend

#113260: Nov 14th 2011 at 3:33:12 PM

Rawls' theory of justice is extremely long-winded and repetitive, but I've come to grudgingly appreciate the book anyway.

Present day. Present time. Hahahaha!

Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001

DUMB

#113261: Nov 14th 2011 at 3:33:21 PM

Don't you have to drown for that?

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BlixtySlycat |like a boss| from Driving the Rad Hazard Since: Aug, 2011

|like a boss|

#113262: Nov 14th 2011 at 3:34:52 PM

It may just be me, and I know I'll get flack for it.

But Yack Fest just isn't very fun anymore.

go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagine

Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011

#113263: Nov 14th 2011 at 3:35:02 PM

@ Maxi. <pat pat>

There, there.

What you mean, peep?

(I'm trying out my new system)

edited 14th Nov '11 3:36:00 PM by Inhopelessguy

AnonymousUser Since: Jan, 2001

#113264: Nov 14th 2011 at 3:45:46 PM

I feel the same way sometimes, Blixty.

RocketDude Face Time from AZ, United States Since: May, 2009

Face Time

#113265: Nov 14th 2011 at 3:48:08 PM

@Tre: That first item is going on my page.

"Hipsters: the most dangerous gang in the US." - Pacific Mackerel

Justice4243 Writer of horse words from Portland, OR, USA Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: Brony

Writer of horse words

#113266: Nov 14th 2011 at 3:54:43 PM

Don't you have to drown for that?

You just need to be submerged in the water. It needed be life threatening or anything like that.

You will switch back to a man when hit by hot water, however, which is sure to happen at incredibly awkward and inconvenient moments.

edited 14th Nov '11 3:55:07 PM by Justice4243

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Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001

DUMB

#113267: Nov 14th 2011 at 4:00:59 PM

Obviously.

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annebeeche watching down on us from by the long tidal river Since: Nov, 2010

watching down on us

#113268: Nov 14th 2011 at 4:01:20 PM

The Westboro Baptist Church do not hatemonger because they believe in some kind of ideal—they hate monger because it gets people riled enough to do something out of the law so they can sue the shit out of them.

WBC carefully tailors their protests to whoever's listening. Chances are even the Ku Klux Klan has been trolled by them before.

Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.

Uberwitch Demifiend from Valhalla Since: Oct, 2011

Demifiend

#113269: Nov 14th 2011 at 4:06:47 PM

Does that litigation tactic actually work?

Present day. Present time. Hahahaha!

Justice4243 Writer of horse words from Portland, OR, USA Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: Brony

Writer of horse words

#113270: Nov 14th 2011 at 4:10:34 PM

I did note that their numbers seem to be lower than what was thought. For a while it was believed there where about 100 of them, but there's only about 40.

It's not proof that they're just social engineering for cash, but it's certainly a small enough number that most of the adults can be in on a scam.

Also, if that 40 includes Phelps family, that means most of the members could very likely be Fred's and Shirley's family members.

The pickets have resulted in several lawsuits. In 1995, Phelps Sr.'s eldest grandson, Benjamin Phelps, was convicted of assault and disorderly conduct after spitting upon the face of a passerby during a picket.[16] In the 1990s the church won a series of lawsuits against the City of Topeka and Shawnee County for efforts taken to prevent or hinder WBC picketing, and was awarded approximately $200,000 in attorney's fees and costs associated with the litigation. In 2004, Margie Phelps and her son Jacob were arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct and failure to obey after disregarding a police officer's order during an attempted protest.[17] In response to pickets at funerals, Kansas passed a law prohibiting picketing at such events. In the autumn of 2007, the father of a Marine whose funeral was picketed by the WBC was awarded $5 million in damages.[18][19] The award was later overturned on appeal by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in a decision upheld by the Supreme Court in Snyder v. Phelps. In June 2007 Shirley Phelps-Roper was arrested in Nebraska and charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The arrest resulted from her allowing her eight-year-old son to step on the American flag during the demonstration, which is illegal under Nebraska law. The defense contends that the child's actions were protected speech, and that the state law is unconstitutional. The prosecution claimed that the demonstration was not intended as political speech, but as an incitement to violence, and that Phelps-Roper's conduct may also constitute child abuse. Prosecutors later dropped charges against Phelps-Roper

edited 14th Nov '11 4:12:03 PM by Justice4243

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Uberwitch Demifiend from Valhalla Since: Oct, 2011

Demifiend

#113271: Nov 14th 2011 at 4:16:15 PM

I wonder if the children have actually caught onto this. Running an entire pariah cult as a front for a compensation-milking scheme? Must be an awfully hard life the children lead.

Present day. Present time. Hahahaha!

Keybreak Since: Apr, 2010

#113272: Nov 14th 2011 at 4:24:55 PM

"A mind consisting of billions of fragments floating in space, enjoying itself with no purpose for eternity? Sounds like a mentally and socially dysfunctional human being on a cosmic scale to me."

How positively...dismissive...

Justice4243 Writer of horse words from Portland, OR, USA Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: Brony

Writer of horse words

#113273: Nov 14th 2011 at 4:39:29 PM

A few of the family members are estranged from the Phelps and consider what they are doing abuse. Shirley has 11 kids (1 estranged). I think most are being forced to drink the "kool-aid" so to speak. Wonder how they'll react when they 're all a bit older.

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BlixtySlycat |like a boss| from Driving the Rad Hazard Since: Aug, 2011

|like a boss|

#113274: Nov 14th 2011 at 4:45:21 PM

Sadly; probably a downward spiral of suicide and depression.

Not what I want to happen to them, but....

go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagine

lolacat Dead? You thought wrong from Vancouver Island Since: Mar, 2011