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Panasonicyouth, one of the moderators on Buzznet has got to be one of the biggest dickheads I have ever met.

He used to seem okay, but now he's become so petty and immature. As soon as you call him out on unfair treatment of people (suspending someone for making an angry rant about how all women are bitches/whores/evil after getting dumped, but letting someone else make homophobic posts saying that gay and bisexual people choose to be that way and being really, really insulting about it, even though Panasonicyouth is gay himself - because they said 'I bet I'll get suspended for this') he starts flailing and name-calling and crying DRAMA!, because God forbid anyone should mention that someone is being treated unfairly.

I clearly touched a nerve, though, because I got an essay about how wrong I was and how "it's really frustrating to have an outsider who knows literally nothing about my moderation history to tell me how to do my job" - except I do know. I've been watching him for the past year and lately he has just become more and more childish.

I don't know if he's having some personal angst, but the guy wades in on stuff that is completely irrelevant, calls names, tries to patronise people and throws his weight around. There's being a mod and there's being a Little Hitler, and he's not being the first of those.

UGH. I wish FOE wasn't connected to Buzznet. I fucking hate that website, and all the people on it.

Bringing today's LOLZ: Israeli MP

Israeli MP blames quakes on gays


An Israeli MP has blamed parliament's tolerance of gays for earthquakes that have rocked the Holy Land recently.

Shlomo Benizri, of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas Party, said the tremors had been caused by lawmaking that gave "legitimacy to sodomy".

Israel decriminalised homosexuality in 1988 and has since passed several laws recognising gay rights.

Two earthquakes shook the region last week and a further four struck in November and December.

Adoption

Mr Benizri made his comments while addressing a committee of the Israeli parliament, or Knesset, about the country's readiness for earthquakes.

He called on lawmakers to stop "passing legislation on how to encourage homosexual activity in the state of Israel, which anyway brings about earthquakes".

Israeli court rulings in recent years have granted inheritance rights to gay couples and recognised same-sex marriages performed abroad.

Last week, Israel's attorney general ruled same-sex couples could adopt.

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OoooooOOooOOOOOOh, baby. The Earth moved.

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For those who have not seen this comic already, it is definitely one of the funnier ones I've seen.

And today's is rather topical:

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The FOB Civic is on eBay and JoeTroh is wounded, WOUNDED, I TELL YOU!

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So, Joe is understandably a bit pissed about the dude who won the Civic not keeping it. Therefore, all the FOB fans in the world are running around crying MARRY ME PEET! FOUL! FOUL! BURN THE HERETIC!

Now, I wish - as much as anyone else - that a genuine fan who would have loved it and called it Ryan George had won that car. It would have been a nice little awww moment, as some rich college brat won an unattractive motorvehicle signed by Pete Wentz, that fat dude and the two from the backing band. It would. Warm fuzzies, fluffy MySpace pooches and cupcakes all around.

But it wasn't. The guy who won it was a dude with a family who took his perfectly legitimate winnings, and exchanged them for something he could make better use of. Which to me, sounds like a reasonable idea. The car dealer he made the exchange with is now recouping the cost of the guy's chosen SUV in auctioning the Civic.

And the fans? The fans are absolutely appalled that neither of them donated the entire $30,000 to charity.

Yes, the kids think that by rights, this money belongs to charity.

I'm sorry, but no. A man had a stroke of luck, and he used his good fortune to his advantage. How do any of us know his financial situation? Maybe he was desperately in need of a new car for his five kids? I'm always being told that Americans REALLY, REALLY, HONESTLY NEED GIGANTIC GAS-GUZZLING MEGA-CARS, OKAY? because their public transport sucks. So maybe the win was a damn stroke of luck for him and his family.

So, if we assume for a minute that the guy now in possession of the car - the dealer, who has already parted with money in the shape of the SUV - is the person now responsible, do we expect him to give his entire earnings to charity? In the current US climate? Would you give away $30,000 to charity right now?


Don't get me wrong: I find it disappointing that someone who'd really appreciate the car didn't get to drive it away. But expecting someone - either of these guys - to give fairly and legitimately obtained revenue to charity just because everyone else is jealous that they didn't win (but wants Joe to like them by agreeing with him in his pissy mood) is plain ridiculous.

I believe that 95% of us would 'give it a go' in a competition, and if we won the prize we couldn't directly use, sell it on or profit from it however we legitimately could. The greatest sin this man has committed is possibly not appreciating the illegible silver sharpie on the doors. He probably never really expected to win. And how do any of us know that he didn't actually totally fucking love the car and wanted to keep it, but simply couldn't justify it when it provided an opportunity to provide a more practical form of transport for his kids?


I've said it before, and I'm sure I'll have reason to say it again, but so many of the kids who call themselves Fall Out Boy fans are nasty, self-centred, irrational little cunts. A lot of the people making wild, judgemental comments over there are adults.

Fucking hell.

Why do we have to share the planet with idiots?