A court will strike it down as unconstitutional since apparently Pahrump has never heard of the First Amdenment.
Posted by Chris (Member # 71) on :
Now is the perfect time to outfit my car with millions of Canadian flags and park it in Pahrump's town square.
Posted by OnToMars (Member # 621) on :
So this town actually exists. Ironically enough it was just featured in "Studio 60," in which the characters make a running gag of the comically unlikely name.
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
I first heard of it in "Mars Attacks".
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
I've always been taught that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. And I've tried and tried but I can't come up with a response that won't offend any American posters here. And it vexes me so.
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
Oh, just post it for fuck's sake. I lived in Vegas, and Pahrump was often the butt of local jokes -- pun unavoidable.
--Jonah
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
Well, If you insist.
I can't fucking believe what's become of the United Fucking States of Fucking America. I'm sickened and discusted by the actions of the US government. And of the US media (Borat anyone?)
Ok, I just read an article about that sick diseased excuse for a movie. Did you know that Fox paid the villagers in Khazaktan (sp?) between $3 and $5 to let a bunch of animals into thier houses so they can defacate on the floor? They taped a sex toy to the amputated stump of a poor old man. They told the villagers of a small Romanian hamlet that they were doing a documentary when all they were doing is making a comedy movie at thier expense. Just so you can get your fucking jollies! Anyone who watches that movie is a sick twisted racist son of a bitch who deserves to eat month old cow feces for the rest of thier lives. Fox made millions with Borat and they did it by abusing and decieving people who are so poor they don't even have running water or safe food. I hope someone at Fox gets his head cut off.
And I'm going to delve into the polluted waters of the Immigration reform now. Mass arrests/deportations of illegal immigrants? I thought America was built by immigrants? And arresting foreign nationals based on thier country of origin, holding them without due cause, torturing them, and imprisoning them without access to a lawyer or a trial? You have all the makings of a fascist state people. How long before Bush decides Canada is a member of the Axis of Evil and decides that we're better off as an American conquest?
I'd say I don't blame the general American population for this, but I do. You know why? Because YOU elected these monstrous, despicable men to your government. I hope your fucking happy.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Can you link to credible evidence for the Borat stuff - or is it a case of trying to cash in. What would have happened if it was a straight-to-video movie? Do those people still try and suck money out of the movie producers?
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
Don't feel like hunting down the Borat stuff right before going to bed, but it's been in the news over the last few days. Straight-to-video? Just the same, I expect. The writing was amusing, but what the producers perpetrated on people in other countries to make their movie was horribly demeaning and uncalled-for.
--Jonah
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
"voted 3-2". Does that just mean that this story is about 3 silly people in an equally silly town?
At least they are aware that there are in fact other countries outside Fart-City.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
No one has pointed out that those three were elected officials, so the mean only 3/5ths of the town is fucked.
Posted by Johnny (Member # 878) on :
Looks like I'm a sick twisted racist son of a bitch who deserves to eat month old cow feces for the rest of my life.
I watched the Borat movie after enjoying his segments in Ali G in da USA. I didn't know about the wages of pittence given to extras in it until after seeing it. I did wonder how on Earth they filmed those scenes when I was watching it, but naively I thought maybe they'd built a set for the village.
Anyway, watching the film doesn't make me racist or prejudiced towards any other minorities. The film subverts such views by showing how ludicrous they are. There's a scene where a man at a rodeo tells Borat to shave his moustache off so he'll look Italian, or anything that isn't Arab. He goes on to say that they're trying to have gay people hung in America. That's not the audience or Fox or Sacha Baron Cohen being racist, that's a racist member of the public being exposed and being made a mockery of. Anyone with half a brain who's watching it will be disgusted by him. Watching the film doesn't make anyone a sick twisted son of a bitch, but thanks for the generalisation. Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: Can you link to credible evidence for the Borat stuff - or is it a case of trying to cash in. What would have happened if it was a straight-to-video movie? Do those people still try and suck money out of the movie producers?
I didn't read it off a website. I read it in The Globe and Mail at the Starbucks yesterday.
To Johnny: Sorry for generalizing, but I just think the creators of that movie are terrible human beings.
[ November 17, 2006, 01:52 PM: Message edited by: Da_bang80 ]
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
You guys know that Sacha Baron Cohen is English, not American, right?
Posted by Wraith (Member # 779) on :
No he isn't. He's British. Or Welsh-Israeli if you're going to be unnecessarily picky. Also went to my college.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Well, apparently, he's from London. So, unless they moved it...
Posted by Wraith (Member # 779) on :
His father's Welsh, mother's Israeli. God, I love Wikipedia... Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
And I have enough ancestry from that island group to know that Welsh isn't English -- which is, I believe, the point being made.
Ya know... Given that I have ancestors from most of those peoples -- English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh (and not counting the Dutch, German, and Swedish) -- I've been at war with myself for centuries, and it's no wonder my head's a mess...
--Jonah
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
quote:Originally posted by Peregrinus: And I have enough ancestry from that island group to know that Welsh isn't English -- which is, I believe, the point being made.
Ya know... Given that I have ancestors from most of those peoples -- English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh (and not counting the Dutch, German, and Swedish) -- I've been at war with myself for centuries, and it's no wonder my head's a mess...
--Jonah
Dude I totally know where you're coming from.
I have ancestors from Ireland, England, Norway, Germany, Denmark, and Blackfoot native. A few of them are relatively famous. Enough so that you'll find them in a history book if you look hard enough. It really kind of sucks when half of you wants to pillage and murder the other half.
Posted by Zipacna (Member # 1881) on :
quote:You guys know that Sacha Baron Cohen is English, not American, right?
No matter where he's from, he's still about as amusing as having your genitalia cut off with a rusty bread-knife...
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Aiiight man.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Hyperbole 2006. Same as ever.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
That's your problem, Zippy. You're supposed to be turned into a woman with a rusty SPOON.
Posted by Zipacna (Member # 1881) on :
quote:Originally posted by Shik: You're supposed to be turned into a woman with a rusty SPOON.
*makes mental note: playing knifey-spoony could be dangerous with this new rule!* Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
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