Phelps and the Westboro creeps...

[Bluenose]

I worked somewhere once where I had three different business cards.  Which pocket I produced one from depended on whether I was supposed to be technical, managerial or executive on that day. I really needed Dr Who's psychic paper.

Oooh!  Oooh!  I want some of that too!

[Bruder Cuzzen]

Hateful people like the WBC , Limbaaaah , Couter et al , leave me speechless .
They make me see Bill I'll Rile Ye  more favourably .

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Hateful people like the WBC , Limbaaaah , Couter et al , leave me speechless .
They make me see Bill I'll Rile Ye  more favourably .

I just try to assiduously avoid False News as much as possible....

[beagle]

I worked somewhere once where I had three different business cards.  Which pocket I produced one from depended on whether I was supposed to be technical, managerial or executive on that day. I really needed Dr Who's psychic paper.

Oooh!  Oooh!  I want some of that too!

I'm not sure it works in the real world. To turn from a technical anorak to a pretend salesperson you need several showers, a haircut, a shave, a sharp suit, artificially whitened teeth, a false Rolex and industrial quantities of gold jewellery and after-shave. A bit of paper doesn't cut it.

[roystonoboogie]

I'm not sure if this is good news or not.

The Westboro Baptists are not coming to Britain.

We banned them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7898972.stm

I wanted to extend our hospitality to them, wait for them to break our laws and then bang them up good and proper. Now we've just given them ammunition, which fans the flames rather than allowing them to fizzle out of their own accord.

[beagle]

I'm not sure they'd fizzle anyway. They have a knack of doing more and more outrageous things until people are forced to react. Might have been amusing to lock them up under some ancient blasphemy law for slandering God or taking the Lord's name in vain or similar though.

[roystonoboogie]

I'm not sure they'd fizzle anyway. They have a knack of doing more and more outrageous things until people are forced to react. Might have been amusing to lock them up under some ancient blasphemy law for slandering God or taking the Lord's name in vain or similar though.

I think they might actually have fizzled - we don't really do hellfire and brimstone, we're a nation of shopkeepers after all - but the laws in question are brand spanking new and are specifically aimed at racist, religious and homophobically motivated crimes.

We went through a similar thing a few weeks back with a controversial Dutch politician called Geert Wilders, who made an allegedly anti-Islamic film. He was taken off a plane at Heathrow and sent home, and became a cause celebre, when he should just have been allowed to disappear into obscurity with his crappy movie.

[Aphos]

At a recent Fred Phelps "God Hates Fags" protest, here is one counter-protester.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

That is AWESOME.

[Swatopluk]

Yeah! (Though I have some doubts that the Phelpses will understand it)

[beagle]

Apparently only one Phelps supporter turned up at that Basingstoke play, and went home when heckled. On his way to Hell for not having enough religious zeal, along with these ducks I imagine.

[Swatopluk]

Birds seem to have Teh Gay very often these days
But what about that nazi polar bear on the same page?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01361/animals-of-the-wee_1361628g.jpg

[beagle]

I think that's one of a series. After "Never smile at a crocodile" this is "Never lie down in the snow to take a polar bear's picture unless you like being patted on the head".

[Darlica]

Can't you see? He's doing Pilates!

[Swatopluk]

Can't you see? He's doing Pilates!

You mean, he is going to crucify Christ? Phelps would not like that.