Protests

Quote of the Day

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A Central Pennsylvania man wanted to protest a tax hike for local sewers when he came up with the idea to use a sign to voice his discontent. After placing a sign reading “$10,000 TO TAKE A CRAP,” the man was told that he had to remove the word crap due to it being indecent. ... Read more

Strippers in bikinis protest Ohio church

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A Warsaw, Ohio church has had parishioners protest the nearby strip club, The Fox Hole. So, unwilling to bow to the religious will of the church’s angry pastor, the strippers went to the New Beginnings Ministries church and protested them right back. Read more

Clowns protest robbery and murder committed by other clowns

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Clowns scare the crap out of a lot of society, myself included. So when a group of 100 professional clounds protest a murder committed by two “impostor” clowns, well, I’m not exactly excited at the prospect of it. But still…kind of weird. Read more

Nude protestors aren’t very committed to their art

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A group of bicyclists in Brooklyn planned to go topless to protest the removal of a bike lane in the borough (how these two notions are correlated, I’m not entirely sure). Then the biggest snowstorm ever happened. And these naked women proved to be completely incapable of keeping their promise. Read more

Yale students show street preacher what’s up

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Some evangelical preacher who thinks the road to hell begins at Yale began protesting on the school’s campus with his sandwichboard list of the ills of society. So some intrepid Yale students sought to teach him a lesson by having a hot man-on-man makeout session in front of him. Read more

Quote of the Day

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Morbidly obese people in the UK are protesting today, saying that “fat-ism” is as serious a crime as discriminating due to race, religion, etc. And in between buffet breaks, they may have made a salient and tragic (but funny) point or two. Read more

Honesty in protesting

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Protesters are often the most vocal citizens within certain areas of the public debate. But usually, the type of person who’d line up and stand outside for hours on end is probably not the most intelligent person to be discussing the issues. Finally, someone has captured that in a masterful usage of posterboard. Read more

Shut the f up, midgets

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Midgets are getting all midgety about the use of the word “midget” on broadcast TV, calling for the word’s banning and claiming it’s as offensive as racial or sexual slurs. Filthy midgets. Read more

Lindsay Lohan gets powdered by PETA protesters

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Lindsay Lohan likes fur. PETA people don’t like people wearing fur. Lindsay Lohan wears fur. PETA people have a f’ing bucket full of white powder. Then the magic happens (skip to 0:45). It’s kind of funny to see someone doused by powder because other people being embarrassed is always entertaining (like that time I dumped ... Read more

The 14 most WTF pictures from the 2008 Democratic National Convention

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Tonight is the last night of the 2008 Democratic National Convention and, while I’m sure Barack Obama’s speech will be a treat, it should be status quo. Call me crazy, I think he might discuss “change”. All the exciting things are over, so let’s take a look at the most bizarre photos from the convention. ... Read more