That's not a protest, that's being a dick.

Whirl-Mart is a culture jamming ritual aimed at retail superstores and described by participants as "art and action."

An event consists of a group of supposed shoppers who congregate at a large superstore (usually a Wal-Mart, Toys "R" Us, ASDA, or Sainsbury's) and slowly push empty shopping carts silently through store aisles. Participants will not purchase anything and seek to form a lengthy chain of non-shoppers, continually weaving and "whirling" through a maze of store aisles for up to an hour at a time. Participants describe their actions as "a collective reclamation of space that is otherwise only used for buying and selling". Whirl-Marters seek to mimic and mock what they perceive as the absurdity of the shopping process.

Some variations of the whirl-mart protest involve filling carts but then simply abandoning them or, when checking out, claiming to have forgotten the money to purchase the items in the overflowing cart.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirl-Mart

Whirl-marting, fine whatever.That's fine. That's kind of funny. But the "some variations" is pretty alarming. As someone who has worked in retail, all you're doing is making underpaid employees work harder and stay later (without pay, I might add) to put back the shit you "subversively" gathered. I guess those culture jammers don't have a real strong grip on how the retail business works. See, the scummy leadership doesn't work in the stores. Thanks for protesting consumerism by making me stay an hour late, dude. I'm a wiser person for being more tired, having less free time, and not being able to negotiate because I have to pay rent. I guess buying things and working is sort of absurd if you've always just had money and nice things and have no idea where they came from.

I don't mean to represent this downtrodden proletarian. I'm solidly middle class. I got a 6 dollar a week allowance when I was 13. On my own, I've always had enough money for food (though sometimes it was ramen and canned beans) and so on. But I want people to think about this stuff, in between family vacations in upstate new england and buying organic vegan food that costs five times more than what everyone else consumes. There's no shame in being middle class or even filthy rich, but please, don't let your hip new faux-revolutionary proletarian identity hurt working people, who have enough bullshit to deal with as it is. It's not a world for you to play around in, a place to make you feel moral, or place to make you think your pranks are making things better. People are trying to live here, and shopping carts full of shit they have to put back isn't helping

Quality Cinema, Quality Article

Film Followed by: Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Flesh-Eating Subhumanoid Zombified Living Dead, Part 3

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Day_of_the_Dawn_of_the_Son_of_the_Bride_of_the_Return_of_the_Revenge_of_the_Terror_of_the_Attack_of_the_Evil%2C_Mutant%2C_Alien%2C_Flesh_Eating%2C_Hellbound%2C_Zombified_Living_Dead_Part_2:_In_Shocking_2-D

Gangsta Rap is For Little Kids

The aggressive sense of English "fuck" and "screw" was not strongly attached to futuo in Latin. Instead, these senses attached themselves to pedicare and irrumare, "to sodomise" and "to be sucked", respectively, which were used famously and hostilely in Catullus 16:

Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo,
Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi,
qui me ex versiculis meis putastis,
quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum.

("I will fuck you in the ass and make you give me head, you faggot Aurelius and pervert Furius, because you thought me indecent because my poems are somewhat sissified."

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_profanity

For reals, get in a rap battle with the greco-roman poets and you will probably get served.

Rape Sells?

Effect on Duke University merchandise

Sales of Duke University apparel, especially lacrosse t-shirts, led the Campus Store's sales to triple from March to April 2006.

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Duke_University_lacrosse_case#Effects_on_Duke_faculty

And they say convicts don't have class!

On July 14, 2006, Chas Licciardello was charged with offensive conduct after attempting to sell fake Canterbury Bulldogs merchandise outside an NRL game.^[11] The merchandise included plastic knuckledusters and balaclavas in the Bulldogs' colours, and was supposed to satirise recent violent clashes between rugby league fans. Several Bulldogs fans took offense and attempted to attack Licciardello, and as a result he was charged for offensive behaviour.^[12] On the broadcast following his arrest, Licciardello appeared onstage in handcuffs and within an iron cage. On that same episode, he apologised for his actions, claiming to understand why the Bulldogs fans were offended: because Canterbury Bulldogs fans much prefer to use their fists. This statement was accompanied by footage of Bulldog's supporters assaulting opposing team supporter's during a match. After appearing in court with co-star Julian Morrow, Licciardello pleaded not guilty and the matter was adjourned.^[13] On January 23, 2007, Licciardello was found not guilty of the offensive behaviour charge.^[14] He was interviewed after the case draped in an Australian flag, and said he would appeal "to the Supreme Court, to the High Court, to the UN, to the Jedi Council and the Snickometer." After being reminded he had won, he said "I didn't actually prepare any material for the off-chance that we won."
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaser%27s_War_On_Everything

I Can See Your Junk: A Compelling Legal Argument

Hooters [resturant] targets male customers with a female waitress staff, though men work at Hooters as cooks, hosts (at some franchises), busboys, and managers. The menu includes hamburgers and other sandwiches, steak, seafood, and chicken. It also specializes in Buffalo wings. Almost all Hooters hold alcoholic beverage licenses and sell beer and wine. They sell t-shirts and various mementos.

The chain is controversial on two counts:

1. The uniform is considered by some to be objectification of women. The general environment of the restaurant is seen by many people as sexist and demeaning to women.
2. The restaurant hires only women as servers, and refers to them as "Hooters Girls". Several discrimination lawsuits brought against the chain have been settled out of court or dropped by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), some after an advertising campaign featuring St. Petersburg, Florida, Hooters kitchen manager Vince Gigliotti dressed in a Hooters Girl serving uniform.

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooters

the Gravedigger in me rejoices

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:WPFC

Former countries! What has been shall be resurrected?

The people decide what is the past and what is the present.

The theremin (originally pronounced [teremiːn] but often anglicized as [ˈθɛɹəmɪn] [1]), or thereminvox, is one of the earliest fully electronic musical instruments. It was invented by Russian inventor Léon Theremin in 1919, and it is unique in that it was the first musical instrument designed to be played without being touched. It consists of two radio frequency oscillators and two metal antennae. The electric signals from the theremin are amplified and sent to a loudspeaker.

The theremin was originally the product of Russian government-sponsored research into proximity sensors. The instrument was invented by a young Russian physicist named Lev Sergeivich Termen (known in the West as Léon Theremin) in 1919, after the outbreak of the Russian civil war. After positive reviews at Moscow electronics conferences, Theremin demonstrated the device to Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. Lenin was so impressed with the device that he began taking lessons in playing it^[1], commissioned 600 of the instruments for distribution throughout the Soviet Union, and sent Theremin on a trip around the world to demonstrate the latest Soviet technology and the invention of electronic music.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin
And what makes me happiest of all is that Lenin listened to techno.