February 08, 2006

• What an incredibly naive man.
• Yeah. Doesn't he know there is no 'supreme being' and all religion is merely a throwback to our more ignorant past? Tsk!
• na·ive or na·ïve (nä-v) or na·if or na·ïf (nä-f) adj. 1. Lacking worldliness and sophistication. 2. Simple and credulous as a child. 3. Not previously subjected to experiments. 4. Not having previously taken or received a particular drug. n. 1. One who is artless, credulous, or uncritical. 2. Ahmed Akkari
• He's 31. In theory, the human brain finishes growing at about age 30. The only thing I know of that cures immature judgement is time. Many, many lifetimes is not uncommon.
• Next up: Mr. Akkari captures a pair of squirrels, places them in a suitcase, shakes the suitcase for three minutes, then releases the squirrels into the crowded restroom at Chuck E. Cheese.
• Oh well. I guess Gavrilo Princip didn't realise that shooting good 'ol Archduke Ferdinand would spark over 30 years or horror and war, the collapse of empires, the rise of the Soviet Union, and everything else that followed that one little shop either.
• Oops. That should be "of horror" not "or horror" and "shot", not "shop".
• He ran a little Shop of Horrors?
• At least it partly explains why the furor is starting now, when the cartoons originally appeared in September. I enjoyed the explanation of that Islamic comedian on the ceeb, when he was asked about the delay. "Well, they get everything later over there. They don't even have Brokeback Mountain yet..."
• So, instead of merely reprinting some newspaper cartoons, he also had to dig up as much shit as he could find. Then put it in a handy pamphlet and distributed it. Then did nothing to ensure that there was any differentiation between the real newspaper content and the nasty shit that only he had had access to. Is this fellow a Danish citizen? If not, can they throw his ass out for actions harmful to Denmark? Bomb-in-a-turban meet the pen that is even mightier, when dipped in poison.
• /off to buy some carlsberg, blue cheese, butter cookies, and, er, suggestions?
• Akvavit and herring. Big sellers in Iran.
• (Hey -- I just thought of something -- since Denmark's so distracted right now, let's go in and set up a colony on Hans Island, get our claim in nice and proper... Thanks, Islamic fundamentalists!)
• Bacon.Pastries. Blondes.
• Bacon.Pastries. Blondes. My life in a nutshell.
• Pickled herring. Smoked herring. Smoked eel.
• (Eel Girl's not in Iran, is she?)
• Herring fried in vinegar. Herring in curry sauce. Herring in mustard. How many ways do the Danes prepare herring? Good gravy. All they need to do to get at Denmark is to get the herring fleets and cut of the main source of Danish cuiine.
• No wonder they're melancholy.
• a young Islamic scholar and Danish activist Danish activist?? . . .Shit, I'll be a Danish Activist. More Danish over here!! And two coffees! I'll be an activist beer judge too! Chambers!
• I'd like to echo what TUM said at the start of the thread. How naive do you have to be to NOT think that those cartoons would not provoke violence among what is unarguably (at the current time) the religion most dominated by violent extremists?
• *slaps head for not thinking of pastries* *holds a large pastry to each side of head. does princess leia impersonation. help us obi wan kenobi. you're our only hope*
• And two coffees! I'll have two coffees too. And side of herring. The good side.
• There is no good side.
• Inside! Me!
• Mmmmm. Herring.
• This whole story is a red herring.
• Ah, but other must have helped all this become big news, no? People using this to further their agendas, in all sides of the conflict...
• I don't know what Flagpole's talking about because I'm hard of herring.
• What are you on a-trout now?
• other must have helped all this become big news Helped it along, or caught up in the political flow? Imagine you are a leading politician in Iran. Even if you know all the facts and are well aware that the worst cartoons had nothing to do with the Danish press, let alone popular Danish sentiment, your Iranian population is already up in arms. Try to be the voice of reason and they'll likely turn on you. At the very least your credibility will take a huge domestic hit. Better to protect your political cred by piling onto the Danes who you don't owe anything to.
• Danmark: Scape-Herring of the World since 2006
• /Denmark, Danmark, who cares how you spell it. It's all there fault.
• Really though thank goodness it was Denmark and not Austria. The ban on Vegemite would have been disastrous to the economy.
• GAH!!! "their", not "there". And to think that is one of my biggest pet peeves. Time to knock off the sauce. . . . mmmm fermented herring sauce . . . . .
• fimbulvetr - sweetie darling sweetie Preview is your friend! not that I'm one to talk
• **Lines up roryk, StoryBored, Lara, Capt. Renault, fimbulvetr, gomichild, and Flagpole** **Proceeds to slap them silly with a wet herring**
• 
• mmm, i like my fish with a bit of batter.
• Now now there's no reason to be batter about it.
• Yep. Definitely quaffing WAY too much fermented herring sauce.
• 3 strikes there batter.... yooooooooou're out!
• He quaffs fermented herring sauce just for the Hallibut...
• Me, I take fermented herring sauce when I've caught a Cod.
• Shad up, you bass holes.
• Fugu it - really floundering around for punny comments now....
• Ahh, to think all this could have been prevented with just and apology by Salmon Rushdie... Aaah! That hurt, BlueHorse! Mmh, didn't told you to stop, did I?
• Salmon Rushdie, wasn't he the guy who wrote 'Satanic Perches'?
• Not that I'm fishing around for info on this but: More than 900 Danish websites have suffered defacement during the wave of attacks, said Mr Preatoni. He added that a further 1600 Western sites have also been attacked and defaced as part of the same protest. BBC This dude's "oops" just got bigger.
• The puns! The puns! MY EYES, THEY BURN!
• I dislike cod-botherers.
• I'm thinking you're all a group of great fishermen because you're certainly a bunch of Master Baiters.
• Perhaps this guy is herring the voice of Cod, and being called to a special plaice in history. Or perhaps he's serving his own bass instincts. Either way, it's tuna late for regrets, and problems are bound to croppie up. Squid pro quo and all that.
• Assume for a moment that this is indeed all his fault. If it hadn't been this guy, and these cartoons, it would have been some other idiot and some other cause of offence. There are people all over this world who believe conflict is a good thing and will seize on whatever comes their way to promote it. Having said that, yeah, what a dunce.
• I'm going to have to tuna you guys out.
• Ooops Redux
• The dumb fuck new what he was doing. You don't poke a leopard with a big stick then act surprised when it gets pissed off and eats your face, do you? I know I don't.
• Not after that first time anyway.
• well, the second time was just to make sure...
• Shut up, you carpie.
• *puts on rubber gloves, AGAIN** **reaches down the leopard's throat and retrieves Kit's saliva-covered face, wipes on pants** **swats Kit with big poking stick**
• Really though thank goodness it was Denmark and not Austria. The ban on Vegemite would have been disastrous to the economy. I know, and here's hoping that the EU never realizes we Australians have been pretending that our hills are alive with the sound of music for years now. And we would have got away with it, if it handn't been for those pesky kids.
• Yeaaahhhhh I don't think gomichild is right with the "naive" definition. I'm thinking more like... dis·in·gen·u·ous Pronunciation Key (dsn-jny-s) adj. 1. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating: “an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who... exemplified... the most disagreeable traits of his time” (David Cannadine). 2. Pretending to be unaware or unsophisticated; faux-naïf. 3. Usage Problem. Unaware or uninformed; naive.
• Yeah!. What the new kid said!
• Well, Two major world religions can play at that game!
• Jesus performing a sex act on a capitalist pig..it's funny already!
• no, it just sounds like a detail from my version of 'the aristocrats' ;)