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[thebitterguy]

Hey, everyone! Welcome to The Bitter Guide to the Blogosphere!

After the piece in Torontoist kvetching about the World's Biggest Schwarma being a letdown, (at least they didn't make a mess in the nearby World's Biggest Bookstore, requiring a cleanup iwth the World's Biggest Bounty Paper Towel) I figured I'd check out the chattering classes opinions on Little Mosque on the Prarie.

Ah, man. I'm such a glutton for stupidity. The best are the usual suspects, the Lileks Lite, Black Helicopter, "Clinton was Worse!" crowd. Like this winner, which implores Canuck readers to write their MP to complain about this "state funded dhimmitude". They should have said State Sponsored dhimmitude, as that would have been so much sexier. It's sad when somene learns a new word and can't let it go. I'm sure they're heartbroken that this isn't a BBC Co-production set in England entitled "Little Mosque in the Midlands", as then they could have also unloaded with "Eurabia". I wish blogs were around in the '70s, so we could read about calls to write your MP to protest the "state sponsored something or other" imposed by their heartless broadcasting of King of Kensington.

On the other hand, she looks hot photoshopped into that Supergirl costume.

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Why are famous wackos always hot? Or are they famous because they're hot? Are there any ugly female wackos? No, don't tell me.

And does she appreciate the irony of dressing up as an illegal alien? I sincerely doubt it.

The grumpy gusses at Free Dominion pile onto "you can only make fun of Christians!", which would stop if they'd only stop being so damn funny! Seriously, it's a larf.

Generally, aside from a little fearmongering on the wacko right's part, it seems to be mostly either people saying "ZOMG! Canada's making a sitcom about Muslims! Canada makes sitcoms?" (Just watch Trailer Park Boys, you fools! You bloody, bloody fools!) Or people talking about how much publicity it's getting. What's amusing is that then other people talk about the article about how much publicity they're getting, giving it more publicity. It's like the worm Ouroboros.

Reed Solomn takes a moment to complain about the CBC, and FARK, and pretty much everything else. I long for the day we can send people Bran Buds over the internet.

Edit: And I'm looking forward to it, too. I'll PVR it and get a Shwarma on my way home from my massage.
Edit2: Hey, Trailer!

Comments

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Why was I not informed in advance that there was going to be a free schwarmaing yesterday? I was actually in the area!

You've failed your readership if you knew this in advance and didn't tell us!

[thebitterguy]

Hey, man, I got no free shwarma either. And I'm in shwarma withdrawl, living in Milton.

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you know a good place to get shwarma in the TO, let a girl know, eh?

Particularly lamb shwarma - I had awesome lamb shwarma in Rome (ironic, eh?) and here all I can find is chicken or beef. It ain't the same, man.

[thebitterguy]

I honestly don't know any. I figured I'd find someplace on my way home. Montreal, there seems like one on every street. Do a search on Toronto and see if it's ever been asked.

[ludickid.livejournal.com]

Uh, okay, you know that's not really Pam's body in that Supergirl costume, right? She clumsily Photoshopped her own head onto that of a cheesecake model, onto which someone else Photoshopped a Supergirl outfit. In reality, which you can see by watching any of her hilariously incoherent video blogs, she is a hagged-out old drunk who any sane man wouldn't fuck with Rush Limbaugh's oxycontin-weathered dick. She is about the farthest thing from hot I can imagine.

I will admit that there are some decent-looking right-wing nuts (Michelle Malkin has that naughty-girl frat look about her, and Laura Ingraham is attractive in that haughty New England professional sort of way), but Pamela Oshry is NOT one of them. (Not is Ann Coulter, who looks like a junkie transsexual.)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Coulter is rapidly during into an antisexual bleached Crypt Keeper, yeah.

[thebitterguy]

Yah, I popped in "photoshopped" on there. Good to know she's all haggy and stuff; it makes me feel good for their capacity for feminine equailty in wingbatstan.

[noizangel.livejournal.com]

It's my company's show!

I think it's fun.

[thebitterguy]

Excellent. I'll probably watch it, as is my patriotic duty.

You know, a cameo would be a great birthday present.

[ludickid.livejournal.com]

BTW, I love some of the reactions to the show in your link's comments section, especially the guy who bitches about how it's okay to make fun of white bigots, and the numerous people who claim the show will be a whitewash if they don't portray the Muslims forcing their daughters to get clitorectomies and beheading Jews. Because, you know, that's what Islam is all about.

Remember when all those people complained that "Touched By An Angel" and "Seventh Heaven" weren't realistic because there weren't enough scenes where Christians shot abortion doctors in the back and tortured Jews with thumbscrews in order to get them to convert? No? Me neither.

[thebitterguy]

That's because no one is terrified that Christians are hiding under their bed, ready to decapitate them, which is a real fear where Muslims are concerned.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

My parents used to live near one of the co-founders of Free Dominion, the woman who left her husband to hook up with the founder, who is even creepier than she is. She used to live outside of Kingston. She and her family would come over sometimes. For my dad's birthday one year, she and her kids came down the road, playing violins.

My parents first thought they were interesting and eccentric. Home-schooled kids, living a simple life in a country, good, plain Christian folk - sounds great. Salt of the Earth, practically.

But the more my parents learned about their actual beliefs and opinions, the less they liked them. My mom thinks the woman is insane, and the ex-husband and kids likewise.

[thebitterguy]

That they're from Kingston is surprisingly not surprising.

[racing-girl.livejournal.com]

OMG!
1st: that "free Dominion" site... not going there again unless I really want to get my panties in a knot!

2nd: "Kathy" the Catholic who has never been laid, EVER!!! needs to relax a notch and maybe see what the REAL world is like... (see blog entitled "Times have changed and now the poor get fat") I would comment but I'd be wasting my time.

and lastly: I've been wanting to see the show. It looks funny and I think the world just needs to lighten up! You might think I have bad taste, but I'm willing to give it a shot. I could be into worse!

[racing-girl.livejournal.com]

I want to watch it even more now!!! LMFAO!!!

[thebitterguy]

Welcome to the interweebs, where people are crazy.

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

So is it supposed to be bad or what? 'Cause I saw a preview with the muslim family curling with a blonde woman that I thought was hysterical - then again, I'm a sucker for cheap ethnic humour. I thought the humour in the ad was pretty evenly balanced between the two muslim women sweeping while wearing hijabs and doing that typical ethnic woman thing where they talk with their hands and yell at the menfolk (all while sweeping) and the rink of old white guys looking totally dumbfounded (there might have also been a few "yellahs!" in place of "Hurry Hard!"). To me it said 'Canadians are as Canadians do - and we're all pretty nutty'.

And why shouldn't we make fun of Christians? Humour comes from the collision of expectation and result - a show making fun of the strange Islamic family down the street wouldn't be funny because our (by which I mean White!Christian!Culture! ie the dominant Canadian cultural mindset) culture doesn't know enough about Islam - there's no joke in finding orthodox (or moderately orthodox) muslims foreign, eh? It's only when we see ourself through their eyes that humour arises.

Anyway, I'll be watching on Tuesday. Damn the asshats!

[thebitterguy]

No one seems to actually have opinions on its quality; they're all incensed that someone's making a show about the musselmen, and will not portray them as scimitar weilding under bed bogeymen.

[brand-of-amber.livejournal.com]

God forbid we make shows that actually suggest different people live here. We're all the same, or else it isn't safe. Or even if we aren't, we should be on TV.

The only reason I'm not watching it is that its made by Canadians, and those guys just don't know how to make TV that doesn't suck.