Category: [Scum]

Up yours, wipe moralist

What’s Jurr Durr complaining about now?

FUCK ME DEAD this is ridiculous even by HIS limited standards. I mean… yeah, using less paper towel and so forth isn’t going to save the world; saving the world will require holding corporations to account for their practices and governments to give a shit more than individuals not using so much bogroll and the like. But the idea that, you know, being asked (like, not even being forced) to use less paper towel in a public bathroom constitutes “petty tyranny” is absurd even for someone who believes just not being an arsehole to other people when he doesn’t have to is an unacceptable imposition. It’s not a hundredth as petty as his own impotent rage…

Foolstencroft MUFFs it!

Once upon a time (since 1952) there was a Melbourne International Film Festival, and once upon a time (around 2000) they rejected a film called Pearls Before Swine by a filmmaker called Richard Wolstencroft. So, because the latter is a grown adult and not a big sooky pissbaby, he started his own event just a few months later to showcase his film and his mates’ films, the Melbourne Underground Film Festival, or MUFF for short. Like I said, grown adult.

I remember following this bullshit back in the day cos at the time I was doing the film show on 2SER so kind of had to stay abreast of this sort of thing, cos it was a kind of big film culture event and we were supposed to be interested in that sort of thing on the show. As such, I’ve been following it on and off for 20+ years now, whenever it’s come back into the news. Which it just did again the other day:

Travis is a friend of various other friends of mine, one of whom is a filmmaker (hi Chris) and retweeted this, which is how I discovered the current situation. It is, incidentally, not just “someone else” who snapped up the name. But more of that in due course. This will be a long one…

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Kent Hovind got whacked

Kent Hovind is one of the worst people I’ve ever heard of, and one of a limited number of people I’d describe as actually evil. I don’t use that word casually, either, but I do think this article adequately describes why I make an exception for him. He’s a dreadful human being in a way that I don’t think even his counterparts Ken Ham and Ray Comfort are. All of them are grifters and all of them are wrong about young Earth creationism, obviously, and the anti-science message all of them push is harmful, and so are a bunch of other things they say and do, but to the best of my knowledge neither Ham nor Comfort quite qualify for the “evil” tag in the way Hovind does.

I discovered Kunt Koresh (I think that was an Aron Ra-ism) in the course of exploring atheism on Youtube, don’t quite remember how; this would’ve been about 2016, I suppose, just after he got out of jail where he’d been for several years and was starting to make his grotesque presence known again. The instance of the child drowning on his property was the first really major new thing I heard against him (and his insistence that the child’s family were, you know, OK with the boy meeting an untimely death at his unsafe theme park has always angered me; what must have he have done to those poor people to convince them not to sue the living shit out of him?); the evident pedophile Hovind is accused of sheltering is another more recent story, and as for why he might be doing that… well, that’s something we can only speculate about. But he does have some track record of associating with abominable people, e.g. Jim Bob Duggar, who notably covered up his own son’s misbehaviour on that front…

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When did you even start?

One thing I hate about Youtube is these fucking bot-produced “motivation” channels that it keeps recommending to me. I had to kind of laugh at this one, called WAKE UP, capitals used advisedly, cos it recommended me a video about Jordan B. Peterson (as an awful lot of these channels do, which is a large part of why I hate them) called “Stop Being the Nice Guy”. Which is, clearly, something I don’t think Jurr Durr ever started being in the first place…

Anyway, went to see what other nuggets of “wisdom” this channel had and, well, I found the above three “Stop Being the Nice Guy” videos in a row, two by Peterson and there’s a THIRD by him further down the page. The third one in the row above is, of course, by Andrew Tate, whose cult is even more obnoxious that Peterson’s and who seems to be the other main source of videos for the channel. Like Peterson, I don’t think that being a “nice guy” (even in the Elliot Rodger “I’m the perfect gentleman!” way) is something Emory has ever suffered from… This appears to be the channel’s earliest video and it comes from him:

“Time to up wake”? And this is a more recent one:

Yeah. That seems more like him. Parenthetically, there was yet another “Stop Being the Nice Guy” video featuring Tate immediately after this one. But I suppose “WAKE UP” works better as a Youtube channel name than “BE A CUNT”, even though the latter appears to be the message it really wants to convey…

Ardern/Abbott

Still a bit perplexed about Jacinda Ardern’s resignation as PM of NZ. Caused shockwaves here and there when that news came out the other day, and a lot of people are speculating as to why… I suspect this piece nails the matter. In any case, the reaction seems to have been largely regretful, lots of people wishing she wouldn’t go, except obviously for Rupert Murdoch’s tools. Some headlines I grabbed via Google:

Stinging! That’ll teach HER to run a country where Rupert has a minimal presence, unlike the monopoly on the Coalition that he has here…

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2 Passion 2 Christ

Apparently the Passion of the Christ sequel we were threatened with a few years ago is finally about to happen… I recall it was supposed to come out in 2021 but I presume a certain worldwide pandemic got in the way until now, assuming of course that it is in fact happening (I don’t know if it’s actually confirmed or not). Either way, the news has inspired a string of possible titles for the film as you can see in the article I linked (I quoted my own favourite in the post title), which further inspired this:

I rewatched the original Passion a few years ago, having not watched it since the day of its release in 2004, and where I didn’t like it on that first viewing, I hated it on that rewatch. It’s pornography by and for an anti-Semitic ghoul, and seeing Jason’s post above moaning about the mockery really let me know where he is as a fucking idiot. Mel Gibson knew exactly what he did, and I’m disinclined to forgive him for it.

Am I the baddie?

Yeah, a “life journey” all the way to the fucking Premiership of New South Wales…

So glorious leader (NSW branch) Dominic Perrottet made a somewhat extraordinary admission:

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has apologised after revealing he wore a Nazi costume to his 21st birthday party.
Mr Perrottet said he was “deeply ashamed” for wearing the uniform to a fancy dress party, saying it had caused him “much anxiety” through the course of his life.
He told a press conference in Sydney that he decided to come forward after receiving a phone call from a cabinet colleague two days ago.
“When I was 21, at my 21st fancy dress party, I wore a Nazi uniform,” he said. […]
Mr Perrottet said he was “not aware” of any photo depicting him in the uniform, denying the announcement was made to pre-empt any political attacks ahead of the March election.
“I thought this was important, that this is my truth, that I should be the one to explain that to the people of our state, not someone else,” he said. […]
The premier said he was “naive” at the time of the incident and “didn’t understand the significance of that decision”.
He said the party’s theme was “uniforms”.
“It was stupid,” Mr Perrottet said.
“It was just a terrible mistake where I, at that age in my life, I just did not understand the gravity and the hurt of what that uniform means to people, not just in our state, but around the country and around the world.” […]
Mr Perrottet said he acknowledged his “mistake” the day after the party, after his parents told him it was “wrong and insensitive”.
“It’s been something that I’ve had to carry with me for my life,” he said.

Dominic has been so haunted by his “mistake” that it’s taken him 19 years to admit to it, during which time he’s had a flourishing career as a Liberal politician in which he is currently the Premier of NSW. He would’ve turned 21 in 2003, only 58 years since the end of World War 2, and somehow he came to adulthood with apparently little understanding of what happened during that war and why cosplaying one of the Bad Guys from that war might be considered… inappropriate at best.

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Some of my best friends are Bengali

On politics, the singer denied he was far-right – a charge that arose after controversial comments on race and racism, as well as his support for now defunct far-right anti-Islam party For Britain.
“Although the left changed and deserted me many years ago, I am most certainly not far-right, and I have not ever met anyone who claims to be far-right,” he wrote.
“My politics are straightforward: I recognize realities. I am therefore sorry to report to some of you that I am absolutely not far-right.”

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/07/morrissey-says-miley-cyrus-exit-was-nothing-to-do-with-his-politics

Yeah, you know who else uses words like “realism” in this sense? Racists. Honestly, Steven Patrick has been dodging accusations of far-right sympathies since the 80s, you’d think he would know better by now than to think this would be enough to convince people. Especially after lending credence to the late and not especially lamented For Britain party, which even Nigel Farage, NIGEL FUCKING FARAGE, said was full of Nazis and racists…