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Hell House: Evangelical Christians Scare Children Into Following Jesus
HELL Houses will scare you kids into following the ways of Chris. They can also make you straight.
Brian Kirk told us:
“Part of salvation is being afraid of going to hell,” says the youth pastor at Trinity Church Assemblies of God in Cedar Hill, Texas. As depicted in the excellent documentary Hell House, each Halloween season Trinity Church hosts an alternative to the traditional haunted house. Instead of vampires and werewolves, guests are treated to scenes such as a young girl having an abortion, a gay man suffering from AIDS, a teen dying in an auto accident who failed to give his life to Christ. In each scenario, these presumed sinners are tormented by actors dressed as demons. The implication, none too subtle, is that each deserves both their suffering and their one-way ticket to damnation. The gay man, molested by his uncle as a child, chose to have sex and contract HIV. The teen girl chose to get drugged at a rave, raped, and become pregnant. The boy in the car wreck chose hell because he refused to listen to his parents’ religious teachings. The message of these hell houses is that the same fate awaits us all. But wait! There’s hope. These terror tours usually end with a glimpse of heaven and the opportunity to give one’s life to Jesus.
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Posted: 28th, October 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, The Consumer | Comment
DIY Instructions Of The Day: Steps 1 To 3
DIY: Flat-packed hell:
Posted: 28th, October 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Ann Summers Fights Off Rampant Rabbi Marital Aide
SHED Simove has created the Rampant Rabbi, a plastic phallus that lets a toy Jewish cleric touch your innermost being and turn you on to holy love.
For £99, you can buy the device (tagline: “Oh God! Oh God! Oh God!”).
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Posted: 27th, October 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Juxtaposition Fail: The Girl’s Body In The Discount Suitcase
Posted: 26th, October 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Cruel Men Critisising Their Wives’ Coffee In 1950s And 1960s Adverts (And Her Revenge)
SHE makes terrible coffee. Sure, she has nice hair, pretty ankles and takes her prescription medication without any fuss, but that darn coffee is terrible. There is just no getting away from it.
Shaun Clayton made a study of male reactions to female coffee making in this video below. He took adverts from the 1950s and 1960s and “edited them down to just the moments when the guys were the biggest jerks to their wives about coffee”.
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Posted: 25th, October 2013 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Gertrude Stein: A Great Rejection Letter And A Study Of The Back Of Her Head
ON April 19, 1912, Gertrude STrine received this letter from Arthur C Fifield, Publisher.
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Posted: 25th, October 2013 | In: Books, Celebrities, Flashback | Comment
Tyne And Wear Metro Reminds Passengers Not To Get Decapitated On The Train
TYNE and Wear Metro have created a new safety video. Called “Don’t be insane, use your brain“, the video comes with a song and cartoon passengers being killed by decapitation and electricity.
Train operator DB Regio wants passengers to stop propping the doors open to let late arrivals onboard. They say it’s “madness”. Since April, 80 trains have been delayed this way. No-one has died. To correct thing to do is to let the doors close and then wave at the wet, tired and emotional passenger left standing on the platform.
Sharon Kelly, director of operations and customer services at DB Regio Tyne and Wear, says:
“We introduced platform announcements and put posters up on train doors to remind passengers that they shouldn’t obstruct the doors. But it doesn’t seem to have worked, because people are still doing it. It’s madness really. You wouldn’t stick your hand in the door of a bus that was about to leave a bus stop, would you? But that’s just what people are doing on the Metro.”
We hear you, Sharon. The only thing for it is to equip the doors with whirling blades or, better yet, a jihadi in every carriage ready to wield an axe lest the infidels tamper with the doors. Also, we’d like them to pilot a scheme whereby backpackers, anyone eating a kebab or shouting “Come on you lot, cheer up” is shot in the face.
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Posted: 25th, October 2013 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comment
Samsung Is Making Augmented Reality Glasses For Sport. What Sports?
SAMSUNG wants to put its computers on your face. And has just landed a patent for a new device that will do just that.
Google has staked out the space of face computers and though little demonstrable desire has been expressed for the devices – its Google Glass has been the poster child for the technology.
The idea is you walk around with a pair of glasses with a built-in computer that sits on top of one of your ears. The lenses are transparent screens through which you see the world, but also any stuff that Google wants to push on there, weightloss adverts, vouchers, that kind of thing. You know what Google likes to tell you about.
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Posted: 25th, October 2013 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comment
Eating In Silence At Brooklyn’s Place For Food Monks
DINERS at Nicholas Nauman’s Eat in Brooklyn, New York, can book to eat on a night when everyone eats in total silence. Should a glass break, no-one will cheer. The bill is presented in total silence. The waitress will not ask “Did you enjoy your meal?” You will not speak to your friends, but communicate by raising eyebrows, grinning, frowning or rolling your eyes at the couple by the door who look like they’re having a silent row.
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Posted: 24th, October 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Pokemon Health And Safety Warning: Pet Fighting Is Illegal
POKEMON magazine has issued a health and safety warning:
Posted: 23rd, October 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Great Bench Tributes: She ‘Liked To Sit Down’
PLAQUES on wooden benches are routinely miserable. They make you think of death and loss. Some, however, can make you smile:
Posted: 23rd, October 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Coreyography: Corey Feldman On Growing Up One Step Down From Slavery
IN Coreyography, former child star Corey Feldman tells of his life. Parts of it sound awful. Although, as he said:
“I had a terrible childhood. I can only compare it to someone born in Ethiopia, or Iraq, or who is born into slavery, or gang life. Well I haven’t lived through that, but the next step down.”
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Posted: 23rd, October 2013 | In: Books, Celebrities | Comment
Look What They Did To Frances Quinn Winner Of The Great British Bake Off
FRANCES Quinn wins The Great British Bake Off. The underdog kept her victory over Ruby Tandoh, 21, and psychologist Kimberley Wilson, 30, quiet for three months.
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Posted: 22nd, October 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comments (2)
Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore: A Film About Clubbing In The 70s, 80s And 1990s
IN Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, British artist Mark Leckey produced what one critic called “the finest portrayal of British nightlife ever captured”.
Jonathan Jones added that “(Leckey) haunts the secret parts of modern culture, where memory and emotion linger”.
What he did was to capture the feeling of dancing in a night club in the 70s, 80s and 90s.
Says Leckey of his 1999 film:
“It took two years to create, but it was made of 30 years of repressed desire.”
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Posted: 22nd, October 2013 | In: Flashback, Music, The Consumer | Comment
