Six cases of dumb before lunch

[misscam]

Supremely Dumb, Take #1: Making a public post on an icon community begging for illegal downloads. (Side dumb: Giving links in said post.)

Supremely Dumb, Take #2 (With spoilers for Prison Break): Whinging about a character's return on a comm for fans of said character - and anon flame a poster who tells you you're being dumb. (Side dumb: Failing at apology and name-dropping probable fake!law-firm and fake!maid. msgenevieve, you made me laugh, though. Well done, heh.)

Supremely Dumb, Take #3: Alamaba has a ban on sex toys. (Side dumb: Cam didn't know this was the case until know and still suspects it of being a prolonged April 1st.)

Supremely Dumb, Take #4: Chinese ambassador to Norway delcares she has the Norwegian people 'behind' her on Tibet issue and Olympic fire demonstrations. Norwegian people: Bitch, please. Norwegian people have varying views on the situation, but the only thing we get behind is wanting spring. Everything else is up for debate.

Supremely Dumb, Take #5: Selling mole repellers in a country that has no moles.

Supremely Dumb, Take #6: Deeming The Simpsons 'inappropriate' in an early morning slot - and replacing it with *Baywatch*.

Comments

[msgenevieve.livejournal.com]

Lamest. Troll. Ever.

She left an anon flame on one of my stories while I was in the middle of replying to her on the community. I knew it was her, beyond the shadow of a doubt, but I sent a message to one of the mods of swcfans anyway. They turned on the IP logging, the troll ranted some more, and then we had an exact IP match. *rolls eyes*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

It takes dumb to flame someone you're supposedly having a civil discussion with - it takes a special kind of dumb to do both under the same IP. Then you're just looking to get busted, like a troll in the headlights.

I don't even watch PB and thus found this rather amusing. Ah, the stupidity one can find of the Internet. The entertainment never dies.

[longtimegone]

Alamaba has a ban on sex toys. (Side dumb: Cam didn't know this was the case until know and still suspects it of being a prolonged April 1st.)

Yeah, it's not an April Fools joke. My state is really that dumb. I generally say that all this proves is that the legislators all need a good orgasm. :)) *buys the state senate and house dildoes*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

But WHYYYYYY?!

I mean, I get why you'd ban porn. (Not that I necessarily agree - or disagree! - with that, but at least it's something with reasonable arguments that most people will at least recognise as so even when disagreeing.) But dildos??? Safest sex there is, sex with yourself. It doesn't get anyone pregnant or STDs, it doesn't exploit or degrade anyone and it isn't cheating. So... WHY?!

I am dumbfounded.

[longtimegone]

Because a bunch of old white men in my state capital feel like they have a God given right to decide what I can and cannot to with my vagina. Charming, isn't it?

Plus, God forbid women have sexual agency and the like! I might start getting ideas! Scary, sexy IDEAS.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Like IDEAS that sex is enjoyable and not something to be suffered, which will mean marriages can be more harmonious?

*hits Old White Men with bananas*

Get your heads out of your middle aged conceptions of women and sex already, or I'm confiscating all your penises!

Gah, hiccups over female sexuality just drives me bananas.

[longtimegone]

YES! Ideas just like that! Because don't you know that enjoying sex means they will want to do it? PROMISCUITY AHOY!

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

You have to remember, a large proportion of our public still thinks that masturbation is disgusting and morally wrong, and will lead to blindness, insanity and Communism. And, of course, selling dildos encourages that kind of thing.

Sex is the filthiest, most disgusting thing there is, and the ONLY way to do it is with someone you love, with the intent of having children. And God loves you, and you're going to Hell. (/sarcasm)

[nenya_kanadka]

Yeah, that always amused me: Sex is terrible and dirty--so save it for the person you promise to love madly all your life!

Apparently *some* states with similar bans (can't remember where) will let you buy dildos if you promise (like, sign a waiver) that they are only "for educational purposes."

And, of course, there is sometimes the option of ordering them online. Still.

[marcasite.livejournal.com]

Saw the request for the DL and then people actually posted comms to go and get the DL!?! Way to get yourself kicked out of said comms.

Wow.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

How fast would we have put that person on moderated status on T&C, you think?

I'll be very surprised if that post doesn't get a royal boot fairly fast. For one thing, it's not even on topic. For the second... Yeah. HAI BBC PLEASE KICK ME.

[marcasite.livejournal.com]

So fast! That's how you get comms deleted. Who needs that kind of headache!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

It's like walking over to the BBC with a sign on your crotch saying 'Kick me', really. Without wearing a cusp.

[broken-enemy.livejournal.com]

No sex toys in Alabama! But why?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I DON'T KNOW. It makes no sense to me. It's like they just don't want anyone to have any fun.

[broken-enemy.livejournal.com]

Although you could probably start selling them illegally and make tonnes of money.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Dildo smuggling?

[broken-enemy.livejournal.com]

Of course. We could disguise them as... banana guards?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

It would give a new dimention to 'peel it off'.

[broken-enemy.livejournal.com]

It would indeed :D

I can seriously see the resemblance though.

[nenya_kanadka]

*blinks* Banana guards. They exist? I had never heard of them. (Probably because fruit of any sort doesn't last long in our household. Oh geez, just realized how that sounded, hehe.)

[longtimegone]

We do have sex toy shops here. I think it's just marketed as "personal massagers" and the like. And the front of the stores are all lingerie and like "bachelorette party" stuff. The good stuff's in the back.

[broken-enemy.livejournal.com]

So they secretly sell illegal goods from the back, huh?

[longtimegone]

Not even from the back! It's just in the back. I honestly don't know how they get away with it. There's one here in Birmingham, AL where I live thta they've been trying to shut down for years. But it's a decent, clean store (read: one I don't feel uncomfortable going into) and they've managed to hold on.

[colorstoobright.livejournal.com]

Deeming The Simpsons 'inappropriate' in an early morning slot - and replacing it with *Baywatch*.
To me, nothing is more offensive than the sight of David Hasselhoff first thing in the morning.

Side dumb: Failing at apology and name-dropping probable fake!law-firm and fake!maid.
That was the best part of it all: having a mental breakdown in front of your fake!maid over ~the internets~ and, later off, laughing it off with fake!hubby (debatable) and fake!law firm. LOVE IT.

[colorstoobright.livejournal.com]

Oh, she does have a hubby -- taking it back now. :P

[siraj.livejournal.com]

yeah, for some reason sex toys have to be sold as "novelty items" (and yes, that's the actual term) in Alabama, here in Oregon, down in Texas...

[lilli1553.livejournal.com]

...the only thing we get behind is wanting spring

Haha. While I'm not Norwegian, I've been to Norway twice...and only once in the winter (and certainly never again). Honestly? I don't know how you folks deal with winters like that. Although I suppose if I were given enough time, say, my entire life, I might be able to acclimate. :)

[despertarse.livejournal.com]

Every time I see you write the word "whinging", I pronounce it "win-jing" in my head.

[tinwetari.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah...I think sex toys should be forbidden everywhere...maybe that's one way of getting the birthrates up or something...WTF???