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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    10/09/09

    In reply to Tech Playboy's Pimp Card

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    Edited by MissNormaDesmond at 10/09/09 5:22 PM MissNormaDesmond was starred MissNormaDesmond was unstarred
    Image of Swifter Swifter
    10/09/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Quoth the Marsden, Nevermore.
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    Image of RonMwangaguhunga RonMwangaguhunga
    10/09/09

    In reply to Tech Playboy's Pimp Card
    stop eye-raping me, James Wales.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    10/09/09

    In reply to Tech Playboy's Pimp Card
    "Card" without the "r"?
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    10/09/09

    In reply to Tech Playboy's Pimp Card
    Salieri?
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    Image of Our Lady of the Massacre Our Lady of the Massacre
    10/09/09

    In reply to Tech Playboy's Pimp Card
    Dude looks like a villain from Stargate. Also, how much of a dick do you have to be to forbid your wife from finishing her nursing degree? That said, Wikipedia is great. It's just a sad fact that the individuals behind great works are usually quite horrible.
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    10/09/09

    In reply to Tech Playboy's Pimp Card
    Rachel Marsden in 3, 2, 1....
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/10/09

    @Swifter: Yesterday the third-largest referrer to my blog was the search string "Rachel Marsden raincoaster". I mean, she even remembered the capitalization! She was topic du jour in Vangroover twitter circles yesterday because Matthew Good tore her a new asshole on his blog and then I brought up the fights we used to get into on Valleywag.

    And don't kid yourself; she'd still hit it, if she thought it would do her any good. But now she's working for the Torygraph, which is developing quite a line in publishing barely-literate essays by Ex-Mistresses of the Lesser Gods.
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    Image of Accidental Billionaire Accidental Billionaire
    05/29/09

    In reply to Wikipedia to Scientologists: 'Get the F#@% Out!'
    I guess the people who argued over keeping a pedophilic album cover on Wikipedia have some obscure moral standard.


    If you're in community college, I see a brilliant essay coming on. Title: Grostesque aspies on the net for for freedom and what they believe in.

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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    05/29/09

    In reply to Wikipedia to Scientologists: 'Get the F#@% Out!'
    Scientology... Ziontology... Sci-Ontology...


    Anwho, no mention of the Mossad (Mossad Leefkeedeem M'tooskaleem)?


    Also, did you know that these folks own a huge chunk of all the commercial properties in Hollywood?

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    Image of Chocolate Sex Bunny Chocolate Sex Bunny
    05/29/09

    In reply to Wikipedia to Scientologists: 'Get the F#@% Out!'
    I hope Wiki knows Xenu is not going to take this lying down...
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    Image of El Matardillo El Matardillo
    05/28/09

    In reply to Wikipedia to Scientologists: 'Get the F#@% Out!'
    I guess Scientology will now have to make all their edits anonymously.
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    Image of ellagood ellagood
    05/28/09

    In reply to Wikipedia to Scientologists: 'Get the F#@% Out!'
    so what will tory christman's "suicide" look like?
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    Image of Joe Rider Joe Rider
    05/28/09

    In reply to Wikipedia to Scientologists: 'Get the F#@% Out!'
    Other religions have done much worse.. but this is still annoying..
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    05/29/09

    @Joe Rider: Other religions have done some good too, and for better or for worse, did their part (over the centuries) on the path to what we have and what we are today.


    Meaning: you can't just open up a bunch of store fronts and hand out a bunch of pamphlets and say "we should be given the same respect as Christianity".


    I am anti-religious, but I'll give it to major religions: we have to put up with them... history is history. But fuck me if I'm going to accept to deal with a brand new pain in the ass with absolutely zero history to back it up. I don't want to hear about this Scientology shit, period.

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    Image of cdmunch cdmunch
    05/28/09

    In reply to Wikipedia to Scientologists: 'Get the F#@% Out!'
    Scientology is the stupidest made-up religion ever. Worse than the fucking polygamy loving, counterfeiting founders of Mormonism. Tom Cruise and Travolta should get the hell over themselves and come out as the gay power couple they secretly crave to be. Who on earth takes their messiah complexes seriously? I guess they have their heads up their assholes so far they really believe this badly-aging, bargain basement sci-fi pulp bastardizing America's freedom of religion, that this crap has a shred of credibility. It's the worst kind of opportunism, foisting a laughable mix of 1950s Martian mania and drugged out hippie "spirituality" on the mentally ill and wannabe actors looking to blowjob their way inside the industry. The fact these people have somehow bribed their way into tax-exempt status is a shame on America's rights and traditions.
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    Image of forwardmotion forwardmotion
    05/28/09

    @cdmunch: Exactly.
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    Image of LeeroySpitzer LeeroySpitzer
    05/28/09

    In reply to Wikipedia to Scientologists: 'Get the F#@% Out!'
    I can never quite pinpoint just how I feel about Ol' L. Ron Hubbard. Part of me knows he's a giant asshole, performing home-abortions on his wife in front of his children, protesting psychiatry out of his own warped personal experience, in which psychiatry was an enemy working explicitly to destroy everything L. Ron ever made. ([www.xenu.net] Operation Clambake presents: The H-files, consists of all the letters Hubbard wrote to the FBI in his lifetime, note the egotistical paranoid madness! It's all commies and conspiracies!)


    Another part of me is completely 200% jealous. There are lots of people out there who would love to create a religion and not have the competence to do it. In his reality, maybe he was right! He died with a fierce following and left behind a cult enamored in his image, preserving his twisted words and beliefs, even reissuing them to mask some of the original vitriol and hate of Hubbard. He didn't just hate psychiatry, he hated the gays, and had a genuine distrust of minorities!


    So am I jealous of Hubbard? I don't know, not really? It must be nice though, to have people treating you like Jesus and then giving you their money! Is he any wronger morally for selling an invented contrived religion than our priests and rabbis? It's as though his madness gave him an evolutionary advantage, something we try to medicate out of our society turns out to be advantageous for some people!


    Asshole, Entrepreneur, Faith Leader, Evil Megalomaniac, Paranoid Schizophrenic, Father, Prophet. How many of us can pull that off?


    tldr; starting religion - inquire within

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    05/28/09

    @LeeroySpitzer: Well, you seem to have emulated Hubbard's ability to use a huge amount of words to effectively say nothing at all..... so there's that.


    comment editing - inquire within

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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    05/28/09

    @LeeroySpitzer: Very true--on a good day, I can maybe do Asshole, Faith Leader, Paranoid Schizophrenic, and Father before I have to take a nap.
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    Image of Gabrielle Sheinberg Gabrielle Sheinberg
    05/28/09

    @LeeroySpitzer: Hmmm, this sounds familiar, almost as though it's a direct quote from the Greta Van Susteren Scientology thread from this afternoon...
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    Image of DorothyBarker DorothyBarker
    05/29/09

    @Gabrielle Sheinberg: Thank you! Indeed it does/is. And that kind of internet/information technology wallpapering seems like a technique perfected by...Scientolgists. Hmm.
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    Image of random_play random_play
    05/18/09

    In reply to Valleywag: An Instruction Manual
    Goodbye Owen! Thanks for everything.
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