I am in rare form right now, Livid does not even come close to explaining my state of mind. I was just watching the news and I saw a group in Tennessee (Catholic Elementary School) banning all Harry Potter books saying that they promoted Idolatry…IDOLATRY!!! :EEK: What the Fuck are you bastards thinking!!
Bitch-> I wouldn’t sooner supress a childs imagination than I would eat shit. You think banning a book series geared for children is OK ?? You are fucking ignorant, inbred, bible toting, vile, low down, dispicable, rat bastard, fuck’in lowest form of life FREAKS!!!
Harry Potter helps expand a childs imagination! And promotes free thinking and fantastical imagry. Why ban it? All you book banning bastard fucks should be locked away with a copy of Clock Work Orange and a vile of KY Jelly in the pits of a Pedophile farm!!!You leftist conservative weasel fuckwads either go back to the 50’s and sing happy happy happy songs or wake the fuck up and join us in the 21st century. Fuckoing assholes.
I would never dream in a million years of taking a book that promotes a childs imagination…I feel sorry for those pitiful people. I feel even sorrier for the children. If they now any better they’ll not take what those ass fucks are saying as gospel and they will think for themselves. I shudder when I think there are still people out there banning books like Harry Potter and preaching horrible untruthes to our youth. They are breeding another generation of ignorance. UUUURRRHHHHGGGGG!!! you fucks.
Would you expect anything less from the state that brought you the Scopes monkey trial? [sub]No, they haven’t progressed much beyond that mentality. Any non-native like myself discovers that rather quickly and painfully.[/sub]
Heh, heh … You remind me of one of my hobbies in high school. Our incredibly repressed school librarian kept the copy of Catcher in the Rye under the counter because he thought it was too dirty to have out on the open shelves.
I made sure I checked it out at least once a year (even though we had a copy at home) just to drive him nuts. He always looked at me with a sad expression and asked “What’s a nice girl like you want with a book like that? Why don’t you get something better, like some nice Zane Grey?”
If you weren’t living in the United States, I’d wager - don’t the UK and commonwealth countries flop our little diagram around and put conservatives (called Liberal party?) on the left and the liberals (called Labour) on the right? I dunno 'bout the rest of Europe and how they line 'em up though.
I’m pretty sure the left-right association comes from Europe–specifically, the French revolution. As my world history teacher in high school told me, the delegates to a convention whose name escapes me sat on different sides of the room from those of a different political orientation, and thus the left-right terminology came to be. I’m not exactly 100% certain of this, though, so don’t go telling everyone it’s the gospel truth.
nods right, ultrafiller, but the UK and Australia (perhaps Canada but I really don’t know about them) put them the other way around, from my experience; so if Phlosphr is from one of those countries he might say “leftist conservative”, and that has little or no bearing on the “rest” of Europe as far as I can tell.
Of course the only way this will ever be settled is if Phlosphr lets us know one way or the other if it was a mistake or his country’s political spectrum.
Oops. ultrafilter, too. Yeah. I’ll learn to preview someday. (I’m still too used to being able to edit one’s own posts to rely on that preview button it seems…)
Maybe the Catholic Church should reconsider having a giant statue of a malnourished, almost naked man nailed to a crucifix in every church as being something that “older children can handle” or just a wee bit “idolatrous.”
Caiata: In the rest of Europe I’m pretty sure it’s the same as here in the States and I’m certain it’s the same in Canada. I think the English are flip-flop for one (or possibly both) of two reasons:
(1) English are notorious for anything and everything French. Maybe the French Revolution thingy had something to do with it.
(2) English are notorious for having no sense of dexterity. There, left is right and right is left. They drive on the left side of the road, which is not the right side of the road!
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not bashing the British. In fact, I’m half British. I’ve got to give them credit for every British comedy show I’ve seen, especially Absolutely Fabulous and Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Plus, how many countries can boast not being invaded for nearly a millennium? (The Normans in 1066)
