Steve Irwin was based, bankers should rot in hell, and pedophilia is bad.

Bothriolepis said:
No idea what the average age on this forum is, and it's not technically a celebrity, but I can remember when Scientology used to be seen by most people as just being one of those weird religions that movie stars get into for some reason. I mean, the information that brought them down was already out there, and the public had some vague idea they were a litigious UFO cult with a few skeletons in their closet, but the general impression was that it was something similar to the Hare Krishnas or Transcendental Meditation. Bizarre and maybe kind of sketchy, but not to the point of deserving any real attention. South Park putting both their ideas and practices on blast at the same time, and on a major television program that millions of people saw, played a major role in turning public perception firmly against them.

I doubt that Chanology would have ever gotten off the ground had it taken place before that episode rather than in 2008, or that it would have gotten into the spotlight if it did, as opposed to languishing in obscurity and being framed as "the hate group known as 4Chan attacking the websites of a controversial, minority religious movement", with most channels focusing on factoids about Tom Cruise. Scientology wasn't exactly thriving before the episode, but it lost all public legitimacy almost overnight.
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back in my day I learned what the fuck an ftp was to get that sweet sweet OT3 from Norway or whoever it was
 
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I have very little opinion or knowledge of Steve Irwin but its funny how everybody hated that guy that got popped by the taipan awhile back but Irwin did stuff like that on camera all the time and he's beloved. I guess get a bunch of resources and a tv show behind you and don't look like a slob and suddenly a lot of 'immoral' things become fine.
 
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grump said:
I have very little opinion or knowledge of Steve Irwin but its funny how everybody hated that guy that got popped by the taipan awhile back but Irwin did stuff like that on camera all the time and he's beloved.
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The guy who got popped by the taipan was a relative newcomer onto the reptile scene and a major shit talker. He got into online fights with other reptile collectors, claim their tips on safe handling were false (Steve did practice safe handling and was experienced) and made a point of buying the most dangerous snakes so that he could say more experienced people in the reptile world were pussies who didn't know what they're talking about. He was hated because of that type of behavior and it was seen as come uppance the taipan popped him.

He is a very good example of the newcomer try hards who cluelessly try to become somebody in a niche community in the fastest way, taking short cuts and talking shit the entire time. You see the same type on here, they'll spam too many /pol/ memes, or try and set up a discord server or offer to janny an online game server for free, all of the time talking shit and trying to climb the social ladder. Nobody actually like these people, which is why we all laugh when a deadly snake nearly kills them.
 
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XYZpdq Jr. said:
back in my day I learned what the fuck an ftp was to get that sweet sweet OT3 from Norway or whoever it was
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I seriously have to wonder what it would have been like to be a Scientologist back in the day reaching OTIII. You've spent years of your life, and thousands of dollars of the meager income that you can still scrape out while doing non-stop TRs, to get to this point. Finally, you can peer behind the Curtain of Fire. You shuffle the handwritten notes by L. Ron Hubbard atop the desk, wondering what great secrets you're about to learn, only to see this written in the scrawling font so undeniably born of your prophet's hand:

"The head of the Galactic
Confederation (76 planets around
larger stars visible from here)
(founded 95,000,000 yrs ago, very space opera)
solved overpopulation (250 billion
or so per planet -- 178 billion on
average) by mass implanting.
He caused people to be brought to
Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H Bomb
on the principal volcanoes (Incident 2)
and then the Pacific area ones
were taken in boxes to Hawaii
and the Atlantic Area ones to
Las Palmas and there "packaged."
His name was Xenu. He used
renegades. Various misleading
data by means of circuits etc.
was placed in the implants.
When through with his crime Loyal Officers
(to the people) captured him
after 6 years of battle
and put him in an electronic
mountain trap where he still
is. "They" are gone. The place (Confed.)
has since been a desert."

I mean...what do you do when you find out that you're in a cult run by a lolcow? Suicide? Murder-suicide? Suicide by cop? Parasuicidal behavior until finally it becomes suicide accidentally but also kind of on suicidal purpose? Ultra-suicide? I can only think of so many options here.
 
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Bothriolepis said:
I seriously have to wonder what it would have been like to be a Scientologist back in the day reaching OTIII. You've spent years of your life, and thousands of dollars of the meager income that you can still scrape out while doing non-stop TRs, to get to this point. Finally, you can peer behind the Curtain of Fire. You shuffle the handwritten notes by L. Ron Hubbard atop the desk, wondering what great secrets you're about to learn, only to see this written in the scrawling font so undeniably born of your prophet's hand:

"The head of the Galactic
Confederation (76 planets around
larger stars visible from here)
(founded 95,000,000 yrs ago, very space opera)
solved overpopulation (250 billion
or so per planet -- 178 billion on
average) by mass implanting.
He caused people to be brought to
Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H Bomb
on the principal volcanoes (Incident 2)
and then the Pacific area ones
were taken in boxes to Hawaii
and the Atlantic Area ones to
Las Palmas and there "packaged."
His name was Xenu. He used
renegades. Various misleading
data by means of circuits etc.
was placed in the implants.
When through with his crime Loyal Officers
(to the people) captured him
after 6 years of battle
and put him in an electronic
mountain trap where he still
is. "They" are gone. The place (Confed.)
has since been a desert."

I mean...what do you do when you find out that you're in a cult run by a lolcow? Suicide? Murder-suicide? Suicide by cop? Parasuicidal behavior until finally it becomes suicide accidentally but also kind of on purpose? Ultra-suicide? I can only think of so many options here.
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at least it isn't a reminder to drink ovaltine
 
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