Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2024 12:40:45 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Once Again, the Babylon Bee Predicts the Future Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: <9ICdnTY9o730Esr7nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> Content-Language: en-US From: trotsky In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 104 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.hasname.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2024 17:40:45 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 4486 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17d4f22fe69c7f82$752$273357$d54a64@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 4883 On 6/1/24 11:59 AM, super70s wrote: > On 2024-05-30 23:23:31 +0000, Adam H. Kerman said: > >> super70s wrote: >>> On 2024-05-30 21:03:08 +0000, Adam H. Kerman said: >>>> super70s wrote: >>>>> On 2024-05-30 18:13:43 +0000, The Horny Goat said: >>>>>> Wed, 29 May 2024 21:04:05 -0500, super70s >>>>>> : >> >>>>>>> You don't think anyone other than rock-ribbed wingnuts is going to >>>>>>> follow a link to the Babble-On Bee do you. >> >>>>>> I occasionally go there when I have a yen for satire - but I >>>>>> certainly >>>>>> wouldn't consider it news. >> >>>>>> Hopefully nobody else does either - it's not quite Jonathan Swift but >>>>>> when it's good it's extremely good satire. >> >>>>> It's a rip of The Onion for the rightwing audience. >> >>>> Could you please just shut the fuck up and stopping digging your hole >>>> deeper? >> >>> Well look who's here, the self-proclaimed know-it-all of r.a.t. And >>> he's bursting a vein again. >> >> Never stop doing that thing in which you project your own bad acts upon >> others. No one on Usenet would recognize you if you stopped being that >> immature. > > I said I didn't care for the Babylon Bee. > > You jumped in with both guns blazing and attacked me, ordering me to > "shut the fuck up." > > Who's the immature one. > >>>> They are specifically Protestant Christian. They satirize >>>> church and their own religious beliefs too. "Right wing" is a lame >>>> description. They are religious Christians with conservative politics. >> >>>> But mostly, they are comic writers. They are trying to be entertaining >>>> and to land their jokes. But you wouldn't understand comedy if an anvil >>>> fell on your head. >> >>> "Religious Christians," huh. The most flippant and iconclastic bunch of >>> "religious Christians" I've ever seen. >> >> Comic writers are flip? Who knew? >> >>>>> But in The Onion's defense how could they play to that audience when >>>>> 90% of the people who do stupid stuff worth parodying in the real >>>>> world >>>>> are on the right. >> >>>> I know you are stupid. Do you have to keep proving it? >> >>> Jump up my ass you pompous jerk. >> >> So yes? >> >>>> I have nothing in common with the writers. I still read their stuff. >> >>> Must have a hard time keeping yourself occupied then. >> >> You are super concerned about all this. You're still participating in >> this thread. It's clearly more important to you than anything else >> you've done this year. > > Babble-on, so to speak. > > "Super concerned," lol. I don't give a shit whether you like BB or not, > any more than I care about any other of your arrogant posts. > >>>> They make me smile. It's funny because they fully commit to the comedy. >> >>> And you're easily entertained apparently. >> >> Not really. I find you sad, and pathetic. >> >>>> Comedy first, last, and always. I just don't care about the politics of >>>> the writers. >> >>> That's because you're a pretentious simpleton. >> >> There's that projection thing again. >> >>>> It's simply not for humorless gits like you. >> >>> Oh I'm "humorless" because I don't care to read a rightwing rip-off of >>> The Onion. >> >> No, you are humorless because you utterly lack a sense of humor. As many >> others have already pointed out to you, The Onion didn't invent parody. > > What are you, some kind of control freak? You're the one with a bug up > his ass because someone doesn't happen to like the same website you do. Are you trying to make Verman mad? I sure hope you're trying to make Verman mad.