Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: super70s Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Once Again, the Babylon Bee Predicts the Future Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2024 11:59:09 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 96 Message-ID: References: <9ICdnTY9o730Esr7nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2024 18:59:10 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c0bf40ff3bbf8dbff20ae51a03cfc609"; logging-data="3028459"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/3vSJX2NaRBwLCLyZbsy8BzUS7CM8bwAo=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:IACQ9RgK/AesY9QtElX98SzLY7Q= Bytes: 4621 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.