A quick one question quiz, which all regular readers of Man Boobz should be able to ace.
Question: Over on The Spearhead, commenters have been offering their opinions about the Newtown school shootings. All but one of the following quotes have been taken word for word from the Spearhead, and reflect who or what the quoted commenter blames for the shooting. Can you identify which statement is NOT from a Spearheader?
A) “Guns don’t kill, the culture kills. A culture of out of control children. A culture of child neglect and abuse brought about and driven largely by the feminist philosophy of the fulfillment of women comes before ALL else, including their children, born or unborn. It wasn’t a hard sell because women already have a dark and selfish nature.”
B) “[A] sick person who may have been turned into monster with the help of a selfish and thoughtless woman.”
C) “I wonder to what extent did the shooter’s mom and female teachers have in motivating his actions? what if the shooter is the victim? what if more and more evidence (or strong implications) of the women using their authority as mom and teachers to manipulate a mentally unstable young man keeps coming out? … Of course it’s not actually paranoia if ‘they’ really are out to get you, is it?. And ‘they’ being a feminist police state, well, they really are out to get me!”
D) “Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Actually, in many ways, feminism is Munchausen syndrome by proxy.”
E) “The problem is women running things. Even after all the massacres, the dearies continue to insist the solution is to disarm all the law abiding citizens.”
F) “A Feminized Culture.”
G) “Lifelong sworn conspirators, murder incorporated, organized feminism, the police and judges, the deadly sneak parroting puppet gangsters, using all the gangster deadly Frankenstein-feminist controls—these hand and rope sneak deadly feminazi-gangsters, the judges and the police, trick, trap, rob, wreck, butcher and murder the people to keep them terrorized in in gangster Frankenstein earphone radio slavery from the Communist-feminazi-gangster government and con artists parroting puppet gangster feminist scum.”
BONUS QUESTION: Did anyone on The Spearhead blame the actual killer? Y/N
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ANSWER: A through F are all from The Spearhead. G is the ringer, from a rant by famous paranoid ranter Francis E. Dec, Esq, with the words “feminism” and “feminazi” worked into it here and there to make it sound a little more Spearheadish.
BONUS ANSWER: Surprisingly, yes. This guy.
11 works for some people I know, but I was very happy with 10. Just enough over the top to be fun, but not too much. He strikes me as trying too hard to live up to Tennant’s Doctor. But I’ll still watch, CS. Argenti, I hope your mother has fun with it! Normally I love the x-mas specials, but, well, we’ll see.
(The importance of punctuation.)
@ Argenti- Of course!! You are absolutely right!!
Tennant’s persona felt more hyperactive than pantomime-like to me. I hadn’t watched Dr Who for a long time, but I liked his version a lot. The new one…I think the actor just doesn’t work for me at all. I’ll probably watch the Xmas episode because what else is there to do at Xmas other than cook and watch TV? I just wish he’d tone it down to less Widow Twanky-like levels of over-the-top.
Also, well see! Ill show you!
(I offer this alternate punctuation out of respect for our MRA readers.)
National Review writer doubles down on the stupid:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/336275/newtown-my-critics-charlotte-allen
snicker* Well played CS, Well played.
And yes, Tennant did have the “dude, switch to decaf!” thing going for him. Smith just seems (to me) to be trying too hard to measure up.
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Timetravellingfool: Bifur has an axe head buried in his left prefrontal lobe. I presume it’s from a fight with a goblin. It looks like it’s permanent. I worry that the movie is going to make brain damage jokes. I don’t know if it would be worse just to have no one mention it at all.
I’m worried that I’m being all neurotypical- and lack-of-physical-injury-marker-privileged. I worry that the movie treats TBI as “quirky.”
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@Argenti:
Yes, that’s what I think. The movie’s already doing fat jokes with Bombur, I hope they don’t make light of Bifur.
And I agree that Tolkien is very light on detail with the dwarves themselves. I’m just not comfortable with that element of the character design on Bifur, and that makes me feel hypocritical because I have shelves full of violent media and I spent several hours last night pretending to get into and survive a fight to the rise-as-a-shadow-under-the-control-of-shadows, which is worse than to the death.
I am not getting into the flame war over who’s the best Doctor. I like them all. They all have their good points and their bad points.
No flames! My first introduction to the Doctor was in the 80s, and Tom Baker. But I’ve learned to like all of them over the years.
Since we seem to be going random, I have a question a bit like Nat’s one about maple syrup. Does anyone live in Hawaii? And if so, can you tell me how much Kona coffee costs if you buy it locally there (ie not at the gift shop at the airport)? Last time I was there I wasn’t in much of a coffee-drinking mood and didn’t buy any, but someone recently brought some back from a trip and now I’m thinking I want more.
For all cat people at x-mas time, a familiar image:
http://cheezburger.com/6818007040
I’m sorry but number eleven is THE BEST Doctor. And his hyper, joyful woderfilled geeky self is just right.
See? For everyone, their Doctor!
“The movie’s already doing fat jokes with Bombur,…” — that’s in the book, it becomes relevant towards the end (which makes more sense in the book than in a frikken’ trilogy, the book isn’t that long!)
“…I hope they don’t make light of Bifur.” — I have no clue, seeing how there’s no mention of that in the book. Per the LoTR wiki it does have an effect on him though, so we’ll see how it’s played. I just re-skimmed the book, and yeah, I got nothing — best guess is they decided that the quiet dwarf needed a reason to be a quiet dwarf (but then again, Kili anf Fili mostly just get “and they’re the youngest here”…Olin, and most of the rest, don’t even get that much, so I really don’t know)
And 10’s my Doctor, but YMMV
All my in-laws live there, let me check. IIRC, it is more expensive if you get straight-up Kona that’s not a blend, but I’ll ask.
Since it’s Christmas, they’ve all sent goodie boxes, and we’ve been awash in Asian treats and coffee.
@ hellkell
I’m OK with a blend, if that helps (I’m going to put milk and sugar in it anyway – watch my Dad cringe at the heresy). At one point I tried a Kona blend that came from Long’s in Hawaii (packaging said it was made in Honolulu), which was only 10% Kona, and even that wasn’t bad, partly because I prefer light roasts, which it was. Trader Joe’s sells a Kona, but it’s a dark roast.
Cassandra: here you go, the best, IMO: http://www.lioncoffee.com/coffee-store/
Long’s is where i stock up on my Lion coffee when I’m there, shit’s dirt cheap.
Awesome, thanks! Prices are totally reasonable too. The stuff they sell at TJs is 20 bucks for 13 ounces, and as much as I like TJs in general their coffee often isn’t all that great.
(I’m also going to check out the stuff they sell at the Japanese grocery store and do a price comparison. Since it’s Hawaiian, if I told you the brand do you think your in-laws would know if it’s worth buying?)
Confession: I have never seen a single episode of Doctor Who. Am I still allowed to comment here? 😉
Oh Charlotte Allen, there is no bottom to your idiocy:
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“We now have Hanna Rosin at Slate urging parents to buy their little boys Easy Bake ovens so they’ll be more like little girls.”
Um, what about boys who want easy bake ovens? Way to put us all into nice neat little boxes based on wtf is between our legs, awesome.
“Yes, the Sandy Hook staff’s idea of a “safe school” was a school where kids didn’t say mean things about each other on Facebook!”
Yeah, most schools don’t expect some random dude to come in with a semi-auto gun…they do, however, expect kids to be cruel little jerks sometimes.
“Confession: I have never seen a single episode of Doctor Who. Am I still allowed to comment here? 😉 ”
Yes, though I’d start with Fires of Pompeii, it seems to work well as an introduction, since we all know how history says that happened (and it nicely illustrates 10 “oh woe is me” complex)
Cassandra: sure, let me know what brands.
Katz: all I can say to that hot mess from Allen is, “bullshit, bullshit, BULLSHIT, and shame on you, lady.”
@cloudiah, it’s ok. The Doctor holds no grudges. And yes. She’s astounding in the depth of her dumbth, isn’t she? Easy Bake ovens are to blame.
Of course. How did we not see it before?