Sorry, "Chaffey Community Republican Women", not GOP.
― LJ OA UG IG SE RR (libcrypt), Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
OHHH YEAH
― bnw, Saturday, 18 October 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Unfuckingbelievable
― J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
holy shit
― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Friday, 21 November 2008 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Combined with the price for that thing, what better way to show you're stupid?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 November 2008 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I...have to admit, the thing is hideous but it wouldn't have occurred to me that it was racist. Maybe too many bible stories about burning bushes and pillars of fire?
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Suggested Donation: $81.85
― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Friday, 21 November 2008 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Laurel, it's a burning cross for your lawn. That it's not actually on fire isn't really distance enough from, you know, crosses being burnt on black people's lawns to warn them that they're going to be killed if they don't leave town.
― J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
"like a prayer" vid to thread?
― the birdman from the hilarious "alcatraz" prison (get bent), Friday, 21 November 2008 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't think today's racists would be practical enough to even know how to assemble and light a burning cross. this is just the product for them.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 21 November 2008 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Uh yeah I get that. But only because ILX pointed it out; I would not bet money on my having thought that otherwise. Or at least not right away.
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link
hah I knew a kid in high school whose parents made one of these, only it was red lights and it was on their tv antenna. He came out to them the year after telling us about it.
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, ILX/I got it from Professor Ann Bartow, who probably heard it from elsewhere - I mean, it took me a second, after which second I was like "are you guys serious? a burning cross on a lawn? for Christmas? you're joking, right?"
― J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Let Your “Light” Shine For Christ This Christmas Season!
inappropriate roffles
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL
― J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
what part of this is "burning"?
― gabbneb, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link
the AFA online store has been much blogged about in the last week and a halfthe video they sell about the gays coming to your town to take it over was a popular topic as well
― TOMBOT, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link
that site is hilarious
― bnw, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
(fwiw I think this falls much more easily into the "tacky" bucket than the "racist" one)(also everyone should be psyched when the gays take over, that's when your property values go up)
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
guys look at these racist frenchmen omg:http://i33.tinypic.com/ajoz83.jpg
― Kerm, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link
they don't seem to understand the concept of suggested donations
― bnw, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
so sick of fucking justice
― TOMBOT, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link
well stop fucking them, then
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
ps thanks to that site, today I have learned that women's gym Curves is run by scary God-bothers with horrible taste in music:
https://store.afa.net/pc-53-6-curves-freedom-fitness-cd-united-we-stand.aspx
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, I already knew that! It's one of the reasons I didn't renew my Curves membership when it lapsed. Although the music at our gym was better.
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link
https://store.afa.net/pc-54-6-curves-freedom-fitness-cd-vol-2.aspx
Is the world ready for a handbag house version of "You Lift Me Up"?
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link
https://store.afa.net/p-42-its-not-gay-dvd.aspx
waht
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Falling into the tacky bucket:
http://kidshow.dcmemories.com/BozoWinner_230.jpg
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Dan, you have a stronger stomach than I, to be browsing through that site. Make Laurel angry.
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link
The one about the gays taking over Arkansas looks pretty fucking funny!
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
https://store.afa.net/pc-33-4-i-surrender-all-rebuilding-a-marriage-broken-by-pornography.aspx
hahahahaahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahhahahahahaha
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link
https://store.afa.net/pc-10000134-2-i-was-wrong-dvd.aspx
― Trail of Dead is one of thousands of cheesy death metal acts (Roberto Spiralli), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link
oyce Zounis' choice of abortion, not once but seven times, nearly cost her life.
I think that maybe abortion isn't the problem here.
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
FREE SHIPPING!!!!
i'm with Laurel on this one. site is making me feel ill.
― Trail of Dead is one of thousands of cheesy death metal acts (Roberto Spiralli), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
gosh you're right gabs, a lit cross on a lawn in no way recalls crosses burning on lawns, it's just a bottle opener after all
― J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
srsly would consider plunking down $82 for a 5.5 ft light-up combination cross/bottle opener
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
It'd be perfect for opening this:
http://www.wotif.com/webdata/image/promotion/big_bottle.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
John, I really do not disagree w you that this product should never have reached the market, but I think you're VASTLY overestimating the mental complexity of both the creators and their market. Even when it's punitive, racist, and evil, this religious belief/lifestyle set is IMMENSELY earnest. And not very sophisticated, nuanced, etc.
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
it's not just that it's a "light-up cross", the construction of it (ie lumpy lights) WOULD and DOES resemble fire. it's not purposeful but that doesn't stop it from being retarded and anyone who is saying otherwise is a disingenuous spoiled white brat OR a secret british. DEAL
xpost more directed at gabbneb and kerm than you, laurel, but i think it's pretty lame to pretend everyone purchasing this product is some kind of forrest gump.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I think it's pretty accurate to pretend everyone purchasing this product is some kind of Forrest Gump!
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
"Life is like a box of racist products."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Ned for win
― J0hn D., Friday, 21 November 2008 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I have no idea who's purchasing the thing, I don't know who's purchasing those propaganda videos either but they make my skin crawl. The cross strikes me as being as tacky as light-up Baby Jesuses for your lawn at Christmas, but if not for ILX I would have passed right over it! Maybe I'm just being naive/sheltered?
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
lolz Ned zing
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I just have this strong feeling that the light-up cross is going to be hung from the pinnacle of garages as the "nativity star" in neon creche scenes for the holidays. I wouldn't put ANYTHING past those people.
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm just trying to imagine the mindset of someone who sees a 5+ft light-up cross and thinks "IT'S PERFECT" but I am probably discounting the part where the person is earnestly browsing this site intending to make a purchase.
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
they're taking it back.
― Kerm, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link
For instance: I'm kind of shocked there isn't one in this photo:
http://studio1seven.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MWC/_DSC5234.JPG
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 21 November 2008 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
the cross came later.
― Kerm, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Then there's the institutional level example -- this is about five blocks away from me (sorry about the small photo size):
http://www.markdroberts.com/images/TBN-Xmas-lights-5.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 November 2008 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link