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Late Night Clown Shoe Open Thread: Premature Ejaculation, Texas-Style

by Anne Laurie|  December 13, 201512:19 am| 41 Comments

This post is in: Gun nuts, Open Threads, Clown Shoes

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I owe someone a hat tip for this. James Barragan, in the Austin American-Statesman, “Blink and you might have missed mock shooting protest near UT“:

… Organizers from gun rights advocacy groups DontComply.com and Come and Take It Texas said it was meant to illustrate the danger gun-free zones pose by not allowing people to carry weapons in designated areas.

But opponents saw it as callous and disrespectful, and perpetuating the grief caused by mass shootings that have plagued the nation increasingly in recent years, such as the killing of 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif., this month.

Adding to the insult, opponents said, was insensitivity about UT’s history with mass shootings. Charles Whitman had killed 16 people and wounded more than 30 others in and around the UT Tower almost 50 years ago, not far from the very spot where the protests occurred Saturday.

The counterprotest had been hatched among a mix of alumni and students to disrupt the mock mass shooting by making flatulent noises and pointing sex toys at the gun rights demonstrators — combat through humor, organizers said.

But by 2:30 p.m., when the mock shooting was scheduled to occur and the two groups were supposed to converge, the gun rights crowd was mostly gone, the counterprotesters were confused, and the controversial event was over….

The counterprotesters… said their event had been a success and had driven away the participants in the mock shooting, who were vastly outnumbered. Dozens of people carrying flatulent-noise machines and sex toys showed up for the counterprotest, and no more than 15 attended the mock mass shooting…

Brave Sir Roy Rogers ran away / He boldly, bravely ran away…

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41Comments

  1. 1.

    rikyrah

    December 13, 2015 at 12:27 am

    this is who they are. nothing they do shocks me in the least.

  2. 2.

    rikyrah

    December 13, 2015 at 12:34 am

    Just finished the season of Scream Queens. I’m surprised by how much I liked it, and how well I think they wrapped things up.

  3. 3.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    December 13, 2015 at 12:37 am

    A Matter of Life and Death is on TCM right now. One of my all-time favorites. It seems to be Heaven night since they showed Here Comes Mr. Jordan and Heaven Can Wait first.

  4. 4.

    chopper

    December 13, 2015 at 12:39 am

    Would it be premature to ejaculate? It would be premature not to.

  5. 5.

    ? Martin

    December 13, 2015 at 12:42 am

    So cowards act like cowards. Shocking.

  6. 6.

    JordanRules

    December 13, 2015 at 12:44 am

    I still lurve Mary Poppins!

    Happy Bday DVD!

  7. 7.

    JDM

    December 13, 2015 at 12:51 am

    These guys aren’t even brave enough to face a bunch of unarmed protesters waving dildos and laughing at them. And they think they’re going to face down someone with guns?

  8. 8.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    December 13, 2015 at 12:56 am

    “It was only premature for her.”

  9. 9.

    Feudalism Now!

    December 13, 2015 at 12:57 am

    @JDM:
    You are confused. They don’t want to stop a mass shooting, they want to join in.

  10. 10.

    Petorado

    December 13, 2015 at 1:01 am

    The entire draw of the gun-based crowd has been fear: fear of Obama taking their guns, fear of being out-gunned, and other irrational fears. What defused their valiant protest? Fear. Fear of embarrassment. Fear that they will be confronted by people more brave than themselves. Fear that their phallic representations may be smaller than the phalluses displayed by the opposition.

    Well played counter-protesters. Way to hit them where they hurt.

  11. 11.

    Mike J

    December 13, 2015 at 1:30 am

    Been busy all day. Anybody posted this?

    Which presidential candidate’s supporters have worst grammar?

    Broken down by political party, Grammarly also found that supporters of Democratic candidates as a whole made less (sic) mistakes per 100 words, beating out Republican supporters 4.2 to 8.7. Democratic supporters also generally showed a bigger vocabulary (using 300 unique words per 1,000 words to 245) and used more words per Facebook post (averaging 41.8 words per comment to 32.4).

    That link is in lame click per candidate format. So fuck them and go to grammarly who ran the study.

  12. 12.

    jayjaybear

    December 13, 2015 at 1:52 am

    @Mike J: “made less (sic) mistakes”…now THAT is how unintentional irony is done…

  13. 13.

    GoBlue72

    December 13, 2015 at 2:11 am

    Using the page 1,2,3,4, etc buttons at bottom of page in mobile and they appear to do nothing. Am using an iPhone 6.

  14. 14.

    Punchy

    December 13, 2015 at 2:11 am

    @Mike J: In equally surprising news, the sun rises in the East and pit bulls will kill you….

  15. 15.

    redshirt

    December 13, 2015 at 2:18 am

    @Punchy: The Sun rises in the South East around here these days.

  16. 16.

    NotMax

    December 13, 2015 at 2:58 am

    @Punchy

    the sun rises in the East

    That’s only a theory…

    ;)

  17. 17.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    December 13, 2015 at 3:00 am

    @Mike J: They reference a grammar study, then confuse less and fewer. Cheesy Petes

  18. 18.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 13, 2015 at 3:37 am

    Ammosexuals are cowards. Not surprising in the least.

  19. 19.

    Mike J

    December 13, 2015 at 3:39 am

    @ThresherK (GPad): It’s from a TV station in Jackson, MS. Chances are, the person who wrote it is a Republican.

  20. 20.

    Amir Khalid

    December 13, 2015 at 3:49 am

    @ThresherK (GPad):
    I did think that might have been intentional.

  21. 21.

    hells littlest angel

    December 13, 2015 at 4:26 am

    Are flatulent-noise machines a real thing? Where does one get one?

    Needless to say, asking for a friend.

  22. 22.

    Amir Khalid

    December 13, 2015 at 4:43 am

    @hells littlest angel:
    I believe the technical term is “whoopee cushion”. I understand they are widely available. Failing that, one could always make an audio recording of one’s own, um, flatulent noises and use that.

  23. 23.

    Keith G

    December 13, 2015 at 5:44 am

    Deleted to move next door

  24. 24.

    hells littlest angel

    December 13, 2015 at 5:54 am

    @Amir Khalid: Oh. I was imagining something more steampunk.

  25. 25.

    Gvg

    December 13, 2015 at 6:28 am

    It’s also possible that the majority of the group of idiots realized that this specific idea for a protest was going too far and was counter productive in achieving their goals. I know that would require more intelligence than usually displayed but it really was a boggling stupid plan in the first place. Another possibility is that their weren’t that many idiots supporting this plan in the first place but that a few ammosexuals got the idea and assume that all the rest of their subset agreed with them.

  26. 26.

    gogol's wife

    December 13, 2015 at 7:53 am

    @Mnemosyne (tablet):

    The acting in that early scene by David Niven is unsurpassable. Plus Roger Livesey!!!!!

  27. 27.

    Juju

    December 13, 2015 at 8:32 am

    @Amir Khalid: Or put the butt of your hand on your mouth and blow.

  28. 28.

    Citizen_X

    December 13, 2015 at 10:33 am

    @hells littlest angel:

    Are flatulent-noise machines a real thing?

    One is leading the Republican polls right now, as a matter of fact.

  29. 29.

    PaulW

    December 13, 2015 at 10:35 am

    the bully succeeds when there is no criticism or confrontation over what the bully wants to do.

  30. 30.

    FlyingToaster

    December 13, 2015 at 11:30 am

    @srv:

    You know those unbreakable wine glasses?

    Not.

    I have a husband AND an 8-year-old. They can break anything. Anything, I tell you.

    I swear that WarriorGirl’s Xanth power is to destroy things that are supposed to be ultra-durable. Thank Dog for plastics, which are cheap and easy to replace. Seeing that I replace them all the damn time.

  31. 31.

    The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion

    December 13, 2015 at 1:34 pm

    @Citizen_X: The thread, she is won.

  32. 32.

    My Truth Hurts

    December 13, 2015 at 3:03 pm

    Nothing more appropriate for people who live in a fantasy world to stage a street theater event to “prove” what facts and reality have already shown not to be true. All they prove is that they can follow a script to it’s predetermined ending. Reality still proves them wrong.

    I don’t want an armed stranger anywhere near me. What is so difficult about that to understand? I don’t know you, I don’t trust you. Try respecting that for a change.

  33. 33.

    Gemina13

    December 13, 2015 at 3:11 pm

    I heard last night that the pro-NRA protesters (not gonna call them anything else) claimed they deliberately misled people on the time of their protest, “to throw off terrorists.” Right. And I’m Jeb! Bush’s illegitimate half-cousin four times removed.

    They were outgunned (pun intended), outnumbered, and most importantly, outwitted. Not that that will shut any of them up.

    In other news, what does everyone think about adding the Dropkick Murphys’ “The Season’s Upon Us” to the traditional Christmas music playlist?

  34. 34.

    The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion

    December 13, 2015 at 3:14 pm

    @Gemina13: Wait. There’s a balloon-juice Christmas playlist? Where the hell have I been? Where can I find this?

  35. 35.

    Tehanu

    December 13, 2015 at 3:37 pm

    Please don’t conflate Roy Rogers with these idiots. He could sing. They can only squeal like stuck pigs when somebody suggests their penis size might not be all they claim.

  36. 36.

    mclaren

    December 13, 2015 at 4:36 pm

    @GoBlue72:
    If you’re trying to surf the net with a phone, you need to be put in a burlap sack and tossed in the river. Use a real computer or avoid commenting.
    What next? Some 14-year-old complaining that the links don’t show up properly on his commodore 64?

  37. 37.

    redshirt

    December 13, 2015 at 4:45 pm

    @mclaren: Why are you so mean, mclaren? Do you intend to be? Or is it unintentional?

  38. 38.

    Amir Khalid

    December 13, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    @redshirt:
    It is just mclaren being mclaren.

  39. 39.

    Jerry

    December 13, 2015 at 7:47 pm

    @Gvg: My guess is that a lot of the ammosexuals were concerned that it might go horribly wrong and didn’t want to have to be the good guy who had to guess who the bad guys were without getting shot themselves. IOW, no walk to their talk when it gets real.

  40. 40.

    low-tech cyclist

    December 14, 2015 at 9:17 am

    Brave Sir Ammo bravely ran away, he bravely ran away away
    When sex toys reared their lovely heads, he bravely turned his tail and fled,
    When noises flatulent were about, Sir Ammo bravely chickened out,
    Bravely taking to his feet, he beat a very brave retreat,
    Bravest of the brave, Sir Ammo!

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