The Revenant - Zombie vigilantes! - Too Good To Be True

The Revenant is a story about an ancient pestilence recurring to infect modern society. Officer First Class Bart Gregory is killed while fighting in Middle East. His body is shipped back to the United States and laid to rest, but before the lid can be put on his tomb, Bart inexplicably awakens in his coffin and climbs from his grave; confused and horrified–a moldy, putrefying living corpse–a Revenant…In their quest to keep Bart from decomposing, Bart and his best friend Joey stumble into a solution—a way to obtain blood without taking innocent lives, becoming “The Vigilante Gun-Slingers”. But as their macabre crusade continues, they become entwined in an ever escalating cycle of violence, mayhem and ghoulism . . . all while cruising in a 1979 Camaro.

(Via Filmdrunk)

The Daily Mail makes new strides in it's struggle to become The Onion

Here's a typical report from "The Onion":

This doesn't even come close to the insanity of a recent report from The Daily Mail which feels more like satire of sexism rather than a real life example of it. (BTW you can click here for the original article, but I'd rather you didn't since I've provided the contents below and it'd be best if you didn't increase the number of hits to the page.)

Daily dose of housework could cut risk of breast cancer!

A daily dose of housework could cut the risk of breast cancer, research has shown.

Women who stay fit and physically active after the menopause are 17 per cent less likely to develop the disease than those who rarely leave the sofa.

But not any sort of exercise will do. Scientists prescribe 'moderate-to-vigorous' activities such as heavy housework, gardening and hiking.

Tennis, cycling, swimming, brisk walking and fast dancing, aerobics, and jogging also cut the mustard.

But 'light intensity' pursuits such as bowling, table tennis, fishing, slow walking and light gardening do not make the grade.
Previous studies have found physical activity to be a protection against breast cancer, but this was one of the first to look at different kinds of exercise at various stages of life.

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I love how the article focusses on women and gives a whole list of activities they think women might be involved in, but never once does the article imagine that, (like many people who spend all day in an office, for example) women might decide to get fit and healthy by going to the gym. Sure it includes cycling and jogging (presumably including cycling and running machines) as activities which 'cut the mustard', but why bother with those when just doing your 'duty to your husband' by giving him a nice tidy house to come home to does the trick? Ugh!

I especially like the image that goes with the article:

Don't you wish you were a housewife like her? No? Why not? Surely you don't want to get CANCER?!!

(Via Bad Science)

Random Stuff (Twilight Parody + Photoshopped Poster)

Also this is cool:

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Maybe I was wrong about Pat Condell....

In my last few posts about Pat Condell, I accused him of being racist, xenophobic and even sexist. However, while what Pat had to say was most certainly racist, xenophobic and sexist in sentiment, his latest video suggests that he's actually suffering from paranoid delusions. How can I hold a man responsible for his words and actions when he is so thoroughly detached from reality?

His latest video claims that priests are part of a totalitarian system whereby they use religion to increase their own power and to control the populace. He claims that priests are making huge amounts of money and demonstrates this by the fact that certain Archbishops, as well as the pope, live in palaces.

The problem is that this simply doesn't ring true to anyone who actually ever listened to a sermon in an actual church. The priests aren't in some special upper class within society. It's also difficult to claim that their modest collections are part of some kind of racket when Church buildings are falling into disrepair and the biggest source of money for the Anglican Church is land ownership, not contributions on Sundays.

Now I'm a big fan of Nietzsche and he has a few passages where he talks about the oppression by "the priest", but this is an ideological oppression which Nietzsche even recognises is somewhat masochistic in nature. I find it funny that even Mitchell and Webb provide a more realistic impression of the clergy than Pat Condell provides (which also puts pay to the idea that Condell's argument only seems ridiculous because he's exaggerating for comic effect):

It's certainly true that, having achieved the position of Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams lives in a palace. However, this is part of a long tradition passed down from a time when the Archbishop of Canterbury was a leading advisor to the King. Far from being a sign of modern corruption, it's a remnant of the medieval hierarchy. Even if it weren't the home of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lambeth Palace would still be in the same situation as today whereby it has regular guided tours, only it would probably be in posession of the National Trust rather than the Church of England.

Now for a great deal of the video Pat Condell makes some sensible points. The thing is, we've heard all this stuff before and last time it wasn't sandwiched by utter nonsense. So let's go through the true statements in the video that we've heard many time before, followed by summing up the more ridiculous claims of the video.

 

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