If you’ve been coming to this site for a while, you may recall Linkapalooza, and the sad fate of same.
Linkapalooza was a little feature I had that allowed anyone to post their favorite links to anything at all. When the list grew to 50, the oldest link would drop off, keeping the list fresh.
Eventually, spammers got into the mix, and started polluting the board with everything from erectile dysfunction meds to links back to their own shitty sites. One shitbird in particular spammed the page so much, that his site was often taking up all 50 spaces on the list.
After a while, it just got to be too annoying to police, and I had to shut it down.
Now I see that a little weirdness is going on here, this time among registered members. There are lots and lots of little sock puppet accounts, and that just spells trouble. Add this to the fact that I was hacked a few weeks ago, and I think it might be wise to clean house.
So this weekend, all suspicious accounts will be deleted. This includes multiple accounts from one IP, members with strange email addresses or screen names (”jkjkjkjkjkjkadhsh@anonymous.com”) and anyone who appears to be spamming. I’ll also be jettisoning anyone trying to send me a message (”yoursiteisapieceofshit”). You know how to reach me, my email link is right over there. Click it or ticket.
Ahhh. It smells better in here already.
Whatever, Mary
Apparently, Rupert Everett doesn’t like us.
In an interview with UK’s Radio Times, washed-up pretty boy Rupert Everett says Americans are “whiny victims” whose nation has become “unattractive.”
“I’m totally off the States now,” he told the magazine. “The reaction to 9/11 and then George Bush – really, they’ve got very blobby as a nation.
“Now they (the Americans) are whiny victims whose language is entirely taken from two TV shows – Friends and Sex And The City – and there’s nothing sexy about them any more. And that kind of semi-blindness about the rest of the world, which was attractive when America was exciting, is really unattractive now.”
There is nothing I like more than English actors who make it rich over here, then go back to their countries and talk about what a shitty country this is. I found it so charming when Kate Beckinsale used to do it (you know, back when people cared about her).
It’s also really cute when American celebrities go to England, taking all of their American money with them, and talk about what a toilet America is. I love it when Gwenyth does that; it really makes me want to rent Duets.
Normally, I would say that he should probably stay in England, and not accept anymore American jobs. But he doesn’t seem to be in danger of getting any.
As much as hate this sort of posturing, I do have to give him some leeway when it comes to talking about people becoming unattractive. Because if anyone is qualified to speak to that, it’s him.
Perhaps he can save his residuals from jobs he took away from American actors, and come to the states for his next procedure.
We may be a nation of blobby whiners, but we know how to do a face lift that doesn’t make you look like Jeremy Iron’s corpse.
69 responses so far ↓
1 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 7, 2008 at 11:59 am
Yes, we need to start cleaning out some of this riff-raff.
Though I would appreciate it if you didn’t delete Roger Daltrey. I mean, he’s a legend and all.
2 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 7, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Oh, and I think you mean “multiple accounts from one IP” not ISP.
Because if you’re only allowing one user from every ISP, we’re pretty much fucked.
3 April // Jun 7, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Ooops. Fixed. Thank you.
4 pal Jacky // Jun 7, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Rupert evert was in my favorite horror film of the last twenty years ,’dellamorte,dellamore’ translated as ‘cemetery man’. He plays a groundskeeper at this scemetery but his real job is to ‘re-kill’ the bodies, since they rise up seven days after their first death. Funny, and provocative. Its influence can be seen in everything form ‘Shaun of the dead’ to ‘28 days later’. Brilliant.
That being said, let him hang. He is a non underpant wearing member of ‘the agenda’. If this wasn’t bad enough he did a movie with ‘madonna’ directed by hopefully for legacy a senile John Schlesenger’. I don’t want to think the directore of ‘midnight cowboy’, ‘Marathon man’ and ‘the day of the Locust’ to have wanted to direct madonna. However, since he joined ‘the agenda’ late in life, they might have forced him to do this film. They do that you know.
5 eBayEnigma // Jun 7, 2008 at 2:06 pm
April, I couldn’t have said it better myself! ^5
6 Mavis // Jun 7, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Maybe Rupert Everett is talking smack, because he can’t play those convincing straight parts anymore.
7 pal Jacky // Jun 7, 2008 at 3:30 pm
off topic, my dog got to christen a fire hydrant!!. Yeah, they are putting in new water pipes all around my neighborhood. As they unveiled the new hydrant in front of my house I thought how great my male dog can be the first. I took him out there and he sniffed and nothing. He has no problem with new lawn furnature, but this thing nutin’. So I took him to the old one which is still up and one sniff leg goes up and I grab him before anything and take him to the new one. What a great moment for a dog, being the first to piss on a new hydrant. Okay, what a great moment for a master.
8 JohnnyBoy // Jun 7, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Congrats palJacky-dog !
9 JohnnyBoy // Jun 7, 2008 at 3:45 pm
I hope not to be doing wrong by posting this link, however, this site has the best price on the boots that I wear almost all the time…the Corcoran Jump Boot
http://militaryboots.biz/50-99.htm
10 albo // Jun 7, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Thank god April’s clearing out the riff-raff who would be competing with me to offer all of you great prices on herbal V*!*A*G*R*A(*
11 BigFatBob // Jun 7, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Linkapalooza was always my favorite part of this website in the olden days.
The political stuff will certainly stink it up though.
BFB
12 rmsrmsrms // Jun 7, 2008 at 5:33 pm
hey don’t delete me because my user name is rmsrmsrms ;-( Those are my initials (well rms is) and when I apply for this email address back in 1998 rms@x was already taken, so I tried rmsrms@x and that was also taken, so I became rmsrmsrms@x
13 weizer2 // Jun 7, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Don’t delete me either…I’m legit!!! However, what do we know about pal Jackey? Just kidding!
14 Doug // Jun 7, 2008 at 7:11 pm
yeah, you’re too legit to quit, right?
Hammer time.
15 Doug // Jun 7, 2008 at 7:11 pm
16 renedrivers // Jun 7, 2008 at 7:28 pm
He’s just angry that gay men look at him as old inspite of his spending tons of money on face lifts.
17 thefifthbeatle // Jun 7, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Right on April!
That is all
18 pal Jacky // Jun 7, 2008 at 7:33 pm
oh my god, I cannot believe the perversion I am reading.
19 pal Jacky // Jun 7, 2008 at 7:39 pm
actually, I wish I looked older than I am. I want a hoveround to gyrate in place on, and I want my catheter bag to break so I’ll make a puddle wherever I go. This is all because I know I’m not going to live long enough to actually make it there. I keep trying to act crazy enough to get myself in a board and care, but it really is harder than it looks.
20 joshpincusiscrying // Jun 7, 2008 at 8:18 pm
I couldn’t even name a movie Rupert Everett is is. Oh, wait – “Citizen Kane”, I mean “Inspector Gadget”.
I always get those two confused.
21 joshpincusiscrying // Jun 7, 2008 at 8:18 pm
I couldn’t even name a movie Rupert Everett is IN. ooops!
22 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 7, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Holy Shiite, JB. Some of those boots look mean as all hell. Once my current Harleys wear out I might stray to a pair of those nasty jump boots.
Also, April: Linkapalooza was great. I found some great sites through it. So I’ve been thinking… why not bring it back?
Now hear me out. Your site is now on a semi subscription basis. If you only allow registered users to submit links (like with the comments), I would have to think it would be easier to IP ban the spammers and other assorted douches. Hey, maybe you could even post their IPs for all to see and let the chips fall where they may.
I think it would be nice. It would have more of a “community” feel to it now that we’re all named and known to each other. The only problem I could think of was whether or not your new WordPress software would support it.
Oh, and speaking of CAPTCHAS, do any of you crackas use Rapidshare? Their CAPTCHA has pictures of kitties on it! Example: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Rapidshare
Scroll down a little.
23 JohnnyBoy // Jun 7, 2008 at 9:10 pm
same with my link…scroll down some…to the Corcoran 1500
24 JohnnyBoy // Jun 7, 2008 at 9:14 pm
ok I guess I have “seen” Rupert Everett….in Shrek 2 and 3
25 JohnnyBoy // Jun 7, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Ah…Madness of King George…..played a whiny snot…..I thought it was good acting……..but now I see it doesn’t count
26 David // Jun 7, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Puke
27 socalfrank // Jun 7, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Just checking to see if I was cut, or I made the cut.
28 John Foley // Jun 7, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Please don’t delete me. I promise not to whine anymore.
29 socalfrank // Jun 7, 2008 at 9:50 pm
John, if she deletes you, you can always join my blog anytime.
30 pal Jacky // Jun 7, 2008 at 9:58 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dellamorte_Dellamore
Despite rupert evert, this film is required viewing. Kind of like despite cybil sheperd, taxi driver is required viewing.
31 chrisbcritter // Jun 7, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Hi April – please don’t delete me and I promise I’ll send you a song “sung” by Butch Patrick…
32 TalkinHorse // Jun 7, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Don’t tase me, sis!
33 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 7, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Alright, Mister Foley.
Who wins? Huh? WHO THE HELL WINS?!?!
34 John Foley // Jun 8, 2008 at 12:26 am
Depends. Pre-Crisis Superman beats everyone, even Galactus. Thankfully, Pre-Crisis Superman went the way of the dodo. In which case, SS Goku is the clear winner.
35 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 8, 2008 at 1:14 am
Correct.
And correct.
This here is a man who knows his shit.
Though I don’t think it would be quite as clear as you seem to think. In spite of his Post-Crisis nerfing, Supes is still on bad motherfucker. And he’s a crafty bastard. Let us not forget The Elite. But yeah, ol’ Goku would have him at a serious raw power disadvantage. Gotta give the match to him.
Though I must say, I can’t stand any of the Dragonball iterations. They’re just horrible shows. Just sayin.
36 Taro Tokyo // Jun 8, 2008 at 2:17 am
Hey I am erectile, dysfunctional, on meds, and love to put to links back to my own shitty site such as today’s Japanese SCREW KEWPIE.
http://news.3yen.com/2008-06-08/screw-kewpie/
news.3yen.com/2008-06-08/screw-kewpie/
Can I be considered, ‘to smell better in here’?
37 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 8, 2008 at 3:14 am
OMG WEEABOO GTFO
*ahem*
Sorry, internet Tourettes.
38 John Foley // Jun 8, 2008 at 9:31 am
A lot of this also depends on who is doing the writing. I prefer the Superman who has to sweat a little and use his noodle and fighting skills. The limitless strength, totally invulnerable, immortal, super smart, faster than light, super-ventriloquism stories bore me to tears. Even Grant Morrison can’t make those work.
The battle also would depend on which country it’s written for. It could be like a King Kong v. Godzilla scenario.
39 John Foley // Jun 8, 2008 at 11:54 am
I should amend that. I meant that it could be like the MYTH of the King Kong v. Godzilla battle, where it was believed that King Kong won in the U.S. version but Godzilla won in the Japanese one. The truth is that King Kong won in both of them.
Doesn’t change the fact that the Chinamen would have preferred Godzilla to have won, and would certainly be rooting for Goku in a battle versus Superman.
40 OLDFART // Jun 8, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Your medication charts were checked and only the ones who are taking their meds without resistance made it. You are the lucky ones.
41 Andre // Jun 8, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Whew! I’m still good.
I’m sure many April readers saw this little article on Defamer:
http://defamer.com/5013694/which-celebrity-spawns-are-dating-before-their-10th-birthday
Apparently Kate Beckinsale worries about her 9 year old daughter using “American” words like “elevator” and “trunk” instead of “lift” and “boot”, put has no worries at all about her using enough make-up to look like a cheap kiddie whore.
Makes you want to take a spanner to her head.
42 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 8, 2008 at 1:05 pm
>I prefer the Superman who has to sweat a little and use his noodle and fighting skills.
Mmhmm, so I assume you’re a fan of the Superman DCAU series?
43 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 8, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Hurp durp how do you do indented quotes in WordPress?
44 John Foley // Jun 8, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Here’s the thing about British words and phrases- some of them are just really stupid. Doesn’t matter to me that the English invented the language, that’s no reason to use silly words that sound ridiculous and anachronistic. I don’t mind lift for elevator, but boot instead of trunk sounds asinine. Holiday instead of vacation is especially retarded, since holiday is a word with very specific etymology. It literally means “holy day.” So what if you go on vacation but it’s not a holiday? Dumb.
Bin instead of garbage can is fine, but knickers instead of underwear is not good. Especially since knickers sounds a lot like another word.
Where was I? Oh yeah. Fuck Kate Beckinsale.
45 Sloganeering.Org » Blog Archive » Whole Cloth // Jun 8, 2008 at 1:33 pm
[...] our surprise when we learned (whilst reading April Winchell’s blog) that Rupert Everett has gone right off America: “I’m totally off the States now,” he told [...]
46 pal Jacky // Jun 8, 2008 at 2:13 pm
http://www.viz.co.uk/?%2Fprofanisaurus%2Fprofan_index.php%3Ffb%3D1
Here’s a slew of briish words and prhrases that are brilliant.
47 eBayEnigma // Jun 8, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I concur with you pal Jacky…this is one of my favorites:
“FOR SLOVENLY HOUSEKEEPERS: Always keep a few ‘Get Well Soon’ cards on the mantlepiece. When unexpected visitors arrive you can tell them that you have not been well and that’s why the house is untidy.”
48 JohnnyBoy // Jun 8, 2008 at 6:29 pm
I like this one, as I like any joke associated with “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter”, and also “Dogs Don’t Know It’s Not Bacon”
MUMS. Confuse your children by mixing butter with their I can’t Believe It’s Not Butter. They won’t know what to believe.
49 JohnnyBoy // Jun 8, 2008 at 6:36 pm
On a somewhat related note, TCBY, which supposedly now stands for The Country’s Best Yogurt, was originally an acronym for “This Can’t Be Yogurt”, but the FDA made them change it because it was actually Yogurt
Wikipedia says they were sued by a competitor named “I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt”, but I heard the first story was the real reason
50 Scott // Jun 8, 2008 at 6:46 pm
I promise to not make any more lame jokes that nobody understands. Begging not to be deleted.
51 JohnnyQuest // Jun 8, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Johnny – At our house we sometimes refer to it as “That’s Not Fucking Butter!” or simply, “What The Hell Is That?”
John – I had forgotten super-ventriloquism! That’s awesome! And remember his platoon of Superman robots? Also awesome. However, “Chinamen”…? I mean, it’s a little derogatory, and besides, aren’t you talking about the Japs?
52 JohnnyQuest // Jun 8, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Or is it Nips?
53 John Foley // Jun 8, 2008 at 7:52 pm
JQ-
I call all of them Chinamen. If I’m going to be clueless and offensive, I might as well get the nationality wrong, too.
54 jim // Jun 8, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Damn, I was just going to change my name to “Kiosdghjkas” too … oh cruel universe, that hath such spammers in it!
Amen on “boot” for trunk, though I like “loo” & have to smile whenever I hear references to “petrol” … it’s just too easy to mock folks whose restaurants offer fried bread, & who consider fried Mars-bars to be a treat … & I’m one-half Welsh. Bloody ‘ell.
55 JohnnyBoy // Jun 9, 2008 at 12:14 am
Why is it that “Chinamen” by itself is presumed offensive, when in order to have the same with “Irishmen” you have to add an adjective like “Drunken, and also why there is no “Mexicanmen” ?
56 Speedy Cerviche // Jun 9, 2008 at 4:18 am
Wait, “Chinamen” is considered offensive?
57 EllenRonnie // Jun 9, 2008 at 6:59 am
Yikes! That is one scary face.
Looks like a combo of Al Pacino, Matthew Perry and Ricardo Montalban.
What a fugly kvetch!
58 DavidinBerkeley // Jun 9, 2008 at 12:06 pm
“Don’t tase me, sis!”
Comment of the Day!
Five points!
*Ding!*
59 DavidinBerkeley // Jun 9, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Who is it that all these celebrity face-lifters are trying to look like? First is was this upper-lip-connected-to-both-cheekbones look, sort of like those doctors in that Twilight Zone episode with Ellie Mae Clampett. (Lee Grant, Dolly Parton and Faye Dunaway seemed to be aiming for this.)
Now it is some sort of “cheekbone + chin = heart-shaped” fad. (e.g. Rupert Everett, Joan Rivers)
Brrr!
60 DavidinBerkeley // Jun 9, 2008 at 12:22 pm
See my post here for some pictures of what I’m talking about.
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=48045&forumID=7&archive=0
61 JohnnyBoy // Jun 9, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Lee Grant’s like 80-something so I’d cut her some slack
62 Andre // Jun 9, 2008 at 1:05 pm
“…cut her some slack”?
That has to be the unintentional pun of the day.
63 JohnnyBoy // Jun 9, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Oh, I know what I’m doing, Andre, I may be a fool but I’m no idiot
64 Andre // Jun 9, 2008 at 7:00 pm
No. That would be me.
65 Shannon // Jun 9, 2008 at 10:46 pm
I think it has more to do with the botox on a daily basis than actual cutting. But yes, I’m seeing this facial phenom all over the tube. Even on Gordon Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmare the mother of the Sweet 16 girl could only move her bottom lip.
This must really interfear with blowjobs, not being able to move the upper lip. That and eating soup.
66 darkkommissar // Jun 10, 2008 at 12:45 am
I am not actually a kommissar…I admit it. But please dont delete me.
67 JohnnyBoy // Jun 10, 2008 at 5:44 am
Interfear…….I like it…they’re even scarier than Intergang !
Plus which, they’re always getting in the way
68 DavidinBerkeley // Jun 10, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Everett’s recent face can be seen in unprecedented detail in the following photo:
http://www.spurspies.tv/rupert.jpg
69 thefifthbeatle // Jun 10, 2008 at 2:26 pm
^PURE EVIL manifested in a jpeg.
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