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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1925 on: September 16, 2011, 05:14:21 PM »
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44547904/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

Guys, Weekend at Bernie's was funny. That doesn't mean you should actually re-enact the movie.
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1926 on: September 16, 2011, 06:23:45 PM »
But you know the corpse was cool with it!  He had to type in his PIN number after all.
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1927 on: September 21, 2011, 07:22:22 AM »
http://news.yahoo.com/peta-plans-porn-website-promote-message-171544732.html

Because people didn't think PETA was crazy enough yet.
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1928 on: September 21, 2011, 01:31:42 PM »
As dumb as it is, every majour media outlet knocking them for using porn to get their message out there can go fuck themselves in hell as hypocrites.

Also lol at oh noes moral outrage at pornography!  You will turn people against you with porn!  No one at all looks at porn!  it is disgusting and something that only a fringe fraction of the population looks at and they are all filthy filthy deviants.

Bullshit, get your heads out of your arses, it is just people being people.  It is just dicks for fucks sake, get over it.

Edit 2 - For the record, I think offering up a free clean porn website to teens early twenty year olds is a pretty effective way to win over the hearts and minds of a generation.  PETA aren't exactly targetting middle aged white people with moral qualms about vaginas and penises here.  They know who they are going for and marketting it pretty damned effectively if they carry through on the above.  Of course their message is batshit insane, but that doesn't stop their basic campaign outline from being a pretty smart idea.  Better than throwing paint on rich people's clothing.
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1929 on: September 21, 2011, 01:55:24 PM »
I think it's a target audience mismatch, actually.

I don't know what PETA's demographics are, but when I imagine a PETA supporter, I imagine a vegan, probably female, probably militant feminist in her spare time.

By comparison, the target audience for visual pornography tends to be men (whereas women tend to be more into romance novels).  And militant feminists if they're more second wave-style feminism, tend to be pretty strongly anti-pornography (there's definitely a branch of feminism that claims pornography is always degrading to women--it's a branch that has largely been outdated by third wave feminism, but PETA supporters don't strike me as the types to take a half-way opinion on an issue).

So...yeah, they probably will alienate a section of their existing audience with porn.  Maybe they'll pick up a different crowd of supporters to make up for that?
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1930 on: September 21, 2011, 02:23:23 PM »
They aren't exactly targetting to preach to the choir with it certainly.

Given PETA's whole damned point in general?  I don't exactly see someone giving up on them and starting to harm animals or start eating meat just because they start making some porn.  Even if they cut all ties from the core PETA group they still have someone following their message.  You lose and advocate, but aim to gain more.

They are a pretty extreme group, they most likely see no real loss to lose some members who disagree in unrelated philosophical issues as long as they stick by their central concepts after they have moved on if it gains them access to a whole new range of impressionable young minds.

Sadly, second wave feminists are getting on in years.  PETA either has the ones they will have or not at this point.  It is a bridge they can likely afford to burn at this point unfortunately.

Ignoring all this of course there is always just the PETA is kind of fucking crazy anyway argument.  So who knows what members will put up with that conflicts their other beliefs if it gets them a soapbox to work from.
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1931 on: September 21, 2011, 03:07:35 PM »
Honestly, I am far more curious about the content of this site. I mean, is this going to be porn with a PETA banner at the top? Or is this going to be porn based around PETA's messages?

"Being a vegetarian is proving to be so hard but I love all the animals so much. I'm just really craving some meat right now..."

"I think I've got something that can help you with that."

"Ahn~ <3"

I mean, inquiring minds need to know.
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1932 on: September 21, 2011, 03:27:07 PM »
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1933 on: September 22, 2011, 01:16:14 PM »
Fortunately Fox Sports is far too classy to claim "Cutler? More like Cuntler!" was a headline, not just a forum post on the Internet.
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1934 on: September 24, 2011, 12:10:13 AM »
Quote from: AndrewRogue on September 21, 2011, 03:07:35 PM
Honestly, I am far more curious about the content of this site. I mean, is this going to be porn with a PETA banner at the top? Or is this going to be porn based around PETA's messages?

"Being a vegetarian is proving to be so hard but I love all the animals so much. I'm just really craving some meat right now..."

"I think I've got something that can help you with that."

"Ahn~ <3"

I mean, inquiring minds need to know.

Is this where I make a joke about nuts being an alternate source of protien? Or perhaps about non-dairy creamer?
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1935 on: September 29, 2011, 02:58:31 AM »
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1936 on: September 29, 2011, 06:19:43 AM »
Kind of an old link but still vaguely interesting for Orson Scott Card's steady descent into madness.

http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2011summer/card.shtml
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1937 on: September 29, 2011, 11:55:58 AM »
Yeah, that was posted a couple pages back, I think (or in misc. links). It is indeed a pretty epic act of stupid.
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1938 on: September 30, 2011, 01:01:09 AM »
Not only is it crazy, it's REALLY poorly written.
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1939 on: October 06, 2011, 04:28:48 PM »
http://yfrog.com/hs7q2jscj

This one speaks for itself.
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1940 on: October 06, 2011, 10:41:29 PM »
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1941 on: October 07, 2011, 01:35:35 AM »
what really
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1942 on: October 07, 2011, 11:18:45 PM »
If you're going to work in PR, you should probably know how to R with P. Unlike this guy: http://thebloggess.com/2011/10/and-then-the-pr-guy-called-me-a-fucking-bitch-i-cant-even-make-this-shit-up/
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1943 on: October 10, 2011, 04:26:37 PM »
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/conservative-journalist-says-he-infiltrated-escalated-dc-museum-protest/2011/10/09/gIQAIKxCYL_blog.html

IotD: Definition of Journalism Edition

I mean, the guy works for American Spectator.  Could you make this stuff up?
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1944 on: October 10, 2011, 07:55:44 PM »
http://gawker.com/5847970/woman-files-lawsuit-over-misleading-trailer-for-drive

If only she'd seen Bridge to Terabithia. That suit I would have helped with.
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1945 on: October 17, 2011, 01:43:53 PM »
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/31/9-11-children-colouring-book-muslims?intcmp=239

Let's print a colouring book that say "Radical Muslims hate us because we are FREE and they hate FREEDOM", and then call said book completely factual.
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1946 on: October 22, 2011, 04:35:57 AM »
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1947 on: November 11, 2011, 10:03:08 PM »
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1020129-Porn-Legend-Sasha-Grey-reading-to-1st-graders-right-or-wrong

This is full of retarded in the first few posts.  Then somehow WoW forumites manage to be better human beings than the school and parents involved.

OH NO SOMEONE WORKED IN PORN THEY MUST DEPRIVE THEMSELVES OF ALL HUMAN INTERACTION EVER AGAIN!!!!!!
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Re: Idiot of the Day
« Reply #1948 on: November 14, 2011, 05:48:36 PM »
People who have sex should never be allowed near children.
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