One expensive word "stupid" - Nutty Story For The Day!

Biggins

Bizarre story from the British Times this morning.

Short version: Welsh councillor passes by a Scientology building, tweets:
“Didn’t know there was a Scientology ‘church’ on Tottenham Court Road. Just hurried past in case the stupid rubs off.”
The message is readable on his twitter for a little while at the most.

Because he used the word "stupid" a cult nutjob from East Grinstead got miffed, dug up the councillor rules small print and used them to complain that the councillor was breaking his rules of office!
The Public Service Ombudsman (PSO) for Wales agreed and instigated a very expensive inquiry which it turn its reported, costing millions!

The ombudsman decided that, because Mr Dixon had posted on a social networking site, and because he called himself a councillor, and because using the word “stupid” is not respectful, he should be further referred to the monitoring officer of Cardiff Council - which led to a further inquiry - which led to people (standing up for the councillor) contacting the council and so their complaints of his mistreatment by the PSO had to be investigated and replied to!

...and all because of one word = "Stupid"

I think the word "Stupid" sums up just about how the man was treated, never mind the waste of efforts by the PSO and the related costs.

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For those that don't know - the yarn that is the basis for their cult:

The heads of Scientology want followers to believe (when they pay enough and then gain high level access to find out this crap!) that 75 million years ago a tyrant named Xenu ruled the Galactic Confederation, an alliance of 76 planets, including Earth, then called Teegeeack.
To solidify his power, Xenu instructed his loyal officers to capture beings of all shapes and sizes from the various planets, freeze them in a compound of alcohol and glycol and fly them by the billions to Earth in aircraft resembling DC8s, then dump them into a volcano. Where thereafter some of their evil spirits escaped and invaded our own bodies!

There's more but thats enough of that nuttiness!

Story in full: http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/8886/wwwthetimescoukttoopini.jpg

genericguy

ironic that you should be talking about scientology, myself and a friend are going down to the abbey street scientology office this afternoon to troll the shít outta them!

easyeason3

Are you sure that didn't happen in America?

Biggins

easyeason3 wrote: »

Are you sure that didn't happen in America?

No, read the source at the bottom.

Blazer

I think the word stupid = all those morons in the Scientology cult..apart from Hubbard that is...the man was a failed writer who managed to make about 400 million dollars from dumbfúcks and live the life of reilly till he died..he's a legend
How the hell he convinced stars like Travolta and Cruise to believe is unbelievable...he surely must have been the best con man of all time

Sykk

I love the way people in office, councillor's and some others aren't allowed an opinion

Biggins

A bizzare aspect is that they sometimes are not allowed to comment on a lot of things!
As the columnist stated:

Most seriously of all they have led to the creation of increasingly baroque regulations restricting the freedom of councillors.

Let’s say that a concrete car park is to be built in the middle of your local park. You decide to stand for the council, promising to speak out against the car park. You win. But then, guess what? You find that it is a breach of the code for you to speak or vote on any issue relating to the car park. You have “a prejudicial interest” in the matter, and are therefore barred.

This need not involve only planning matters. You could be barred from, say, speaking against the council’s decision to contract out its swimming pools if you had told voters in advance that you were against it.

This really happens. All the time. Honestly. It is a rare example in politics of something that actually is as crazy as it sounds. Crazy and dangerous. The Dixon ruling and the “prejudicial interest” policy are a direct assault on freedom of expression, one that impacts on elected officials and restricts democracy.

They were quick enough to chastise the councillors over his use of one word - but heaven forbid they should put so much effort into going after their elected officials who are taking the pee out of their expenses!

...And in America for the record, their version of councillors would have said their were entitled to "freedom of speech" and there would have been no problem thereafter (saving time/efforts & money!).

inforfun

Replace "Scientology ‘church’ " with mosque and see how **** hits the fan.

Religious nutjobs, all of them.

jd83

genericguy wrote: »

ironic that you should be talking about scientology, myself and a friend are going down to the abbey street scientology office this afternoon to troll the shít outta them!

whats the bets you will be posting back here in a few hours how much you luv scientology! Be careful they dont brainwash you like in the simpsons

AnonoBoy

inforfun wrote: »

Replace "Scientology ‘church’ " with mosque and see how **** hits the fan.

Religious nutjobs, all of them.

Yea but one is quite clearly and transparently a money making scam and the other is just a plain old fashioned crazy religion type thing.

Lando Griffin

I done the introduction test for this mob in Amsterdam once after a week of smoking weed and eating cake. I was stoned imacliate and looking for work and met this guy who said he could source some jobs. Off we went into their HQ and had to do a multiple choice questionere with loads of stupid questions. Very quickly I got bored and designed a head on the sheet by filling in all the dots. Off the page went to the super computer and this chap came over and told me my graph was under 40% for all my life skills. He told me over a period of time they would help me gain life qualities. I was sat with a plant behind me and the leaves were touching my face, I started get paranoid and thinking I was a strawberry, Explained this to him and asked could I leave, he said of course, but I should buy a book costing Fifty guilder. I told him no thanks, all I wanted was to go back to Hill Street Blues. I got back to my mates who had a great laugh going in all day and annoying the heads off them.

pickarooney

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Yea but one is quite clearly and transparently a money making scam and the other is just a plain old fashioned crazy religion type thing.

Ah, don't make us guess which is which!

genericguy

Lando Griffin wrote: »

I done the introduction test for this mob in Amsterdam once after a week of smoking weed and eating cake. I was stoned imacliate and looking for work and met this guy who said he could source some jobs. Off we went into their HQ and had to do a multiple choice questionere with loads of stupid questions. Very quickly I got bored and designed a head on the sheet by filling in all the dots. Off the page went to the super computer and this chap came over and told me my graph was under 40% for all my life skills. He told me over a period of time they would help me gain life qualities. I was sat with a plant behind me and the leaves were touching my face, I started get paranoid and thinking I was a strawberry, Explained this to him and asked could I leave, he said of course, but I should buy a book costing Fifty guilder. I told him no thanks, all I wanted was to go back to Hill Street Blues. I got back to my mates who had a great laugh going in all day and annoying the heads off them.

hill street blues rocks.

genericguy

jd83 wrote: »

whats the bets you will be posting back here in a few hours how much you luv scientology! Be careful they dont brainwash you like in the simpsons

hahaha....


I LOVE THE LEADER!

Piriz

Nana Nana Nana Nana Leader!

Louis Theroux investigative documentary on Scientology is excellent. Shows these guys up to be absolute control freaks! In this day and age how can anyone be into this madness. Tom Cruise etc. have no f*ckin respect for them!
Watch the Louis Theroux doc if you have not yet seen it...its great watchin!

We love the Leader!

ballsymchugh

heard about this on five live last week (not sure why the times are talking about it now). anyway, there was a big wave of support for this guy on twitter. it completely backfired on scientology, because everyone copied his tweet, making scientology and stupid the most common words in the cloud (or whatever it's called!!).

punchdrunk

Religion is free...

Scientology is neither

Dermighty

Hilarious, what a good use of money.

F*ck Scientology and everything it stands for.

Terry

Sc@recrow wrote: »

I think the word stupid = all those morons in the Scientology cult..apart from Hubbard that is...the man was a failed writer who managed to make about 400 million dollars from dumbfúcks and live the life of reilly till he died..he's a legend
How the hell he convinced stars like Travolta and Cruise to believe is unbelievable...he surely must have been the best con man of all time

Acting ability does not equate to intelligence.
In saying that, I find it quite difficult to watch a film with Tom Cruise in it knowing that he's a ****ing lunatic.

As for this ruling, it's just another in a long line of politically correct rulings in multicultural Britain. Political correctness is a dangerous thing in the wrong hands. We only need to look at Britain for evidence of this. Minorities are, in a lot of instances, treated far better than the British themselves. A lot of the time this is out of fear of being called a bigot or a racist.
This line of extremism just leads others to the likes of the BNP.

Stercus Accidit

genericguy wrote: »

hahaha....


I LOVE THE LEADER!

The leader is good, the leader is great, we surrender our will cash, as of this date...

Dozen Wicked Words

Any link for the Theroux Scientology film? Don't remember him doing one, had a quick scan on You Tube and couldn't find one.

The John Sweeney Panorama special was fantastic though. (John Sweeney is a legend)

jester77

Sc@recrow wrote: »

he surely must have been the best con man of all time

I think Jesus Christ still holds that crown!

Piriz

Piriz wrote: »

Nana Nana Nana Nana Leader!

Louis Theroux investigative documentary on Scientology is excellent. Shows these guys up to be absolute control freaks! In this day and age how can anyone be into this madness. Tom Cruise etc. have no f*ckin respect for them!
Watch the Louis Theroux doc if you have not yet seen it...its great watchin!
!

It was John Sweeney who did the doc on Scientology.

conorhal

Terry wrote: »

Acting ability does not equate to intelligence.
In saying that, I find it quite difficult to watch a film with Tom Cruise in it knowing that he's a ****ing lunatic.

As for this ruling, it's just another in a long line of politically correct rulings in multicultural Britain. Political correctness is a dangerous thing in the wrong hands. We only need to look at Britain for evidence of this. Minorities are, in a lot of instances, treated far better than the British themselves. A lot of the time this is out of fear of being called a bigot or a racist.
This line of extremism just leads others to the likes of the BNP.

Indeed, everybody should read Francis Wheen's 'How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World'
There is a damning chapter on how the governments from the 1980's onwards became beholden to 'performance management, self help, and motivational guru's' and spent enormous sums of money on 'consultants' and 'experts' who had little or no understanding about how a public service works but endless ideas and reports on how to 'improve them' and of course, like a cancer managed to spread 'management speak' and encourage the breeding of a whole new layer of middle management to generate pointless paperwork, quango's and the maddening 'elf n' Safety brigade.

So instead of applying basic common sense and logic to a situation like that guy's tweet, we have a situation instead where we now commission a quango or consultant body to write an expensive report, to go to a review commission, to decide if a process and procedure has been followed, and if not whether or not sombody needs to have their cases forwarded to a performance review committee to be put on a performance enhancement program and receive some outsourced sensitivity and intercommunity relations training...... huff..huff..breathe...

When what they should have done on receipt of that complaint should have been a short, curt reply of:

Dear Sir/Madam/Nutter,

Kindly F** off!

vangoz

Stercus Accidit wrote: »

The leader is good, the leader is great, we surrender our will cash, as of this date...

Beat me to it!!!

Now off to eat my low protein gruel and leader beans.

genericguy

i went down to the abbey street office around 2pm with my mate. you have to ring a bell and get buzzed in, then you walk up a steep-ass flight of stairs to this weird looking room that's all full of leather couches and what looks like board games, in fact it looks like the board games section of smyths toys - "it's full of stuff like "the knowledge of life" and "DIANETICS: home how-to kit."

home how-to kit? wtf??

anyways, i kept quiet because i'd broken my bollix laughing the whole way up the street and my composed friend did the talking. the very irish, very normal looking girl ran into a back room after he inquired about the stress test advertised outside, then five minutes later she came out and said they'd no stress tests left, could we come back at half five. fcuk that, i'd to get back to making an ass-groove in my sofa.

so, no stress test for us, and thus no salvation - i guess i'm doomed to remain semi well-off and looking forward to an eternity of damnation with the soul of a dead alien inside my body. until next week, cos i want my fcuking stress test now, and so help me xenu, i'm going back to get it.

conorhal

genericguy wrote: »

i went down to the abbey street office around 2pm with my mate. you have to ring a bell and get buzzed in, then you walk up a steep-ass flight of stairs to this weird looking room that's all full of leather couches and what looks like board games, in fact it looks like the board games section of smyths toys - "it's full of stuff like "the knowledge of life" and "DIANETICS: home how-to kit."

home how-to kit? wtf??

anyways, i kept quiet because i'd broken my bollix laughing the whole way up the street and my composed friend did the talking. the very irish, very normal looking girl ran into a back room after he inquired about the stress test advertised outside, then five minutes later she came out and said they'd no stress tests left, could we come back at half five. fcuk that, i'd to get back to making an ass-groove in my sofa.

so, no stress test for us, and thus no salvation - i guess i'm doomed to remain semi well-off and looking forward to an eternity of damnation with the soul of a dead alien inside my body. until next week, cos i want my fcuking stress test now, and so help me xenu, i'm going back to get it.

You've not seen freeze dried packet psudo-religion before?

Dead handy, just add bullsh1t and stand for 5 minutes.

47

genericguy wrote: »

ironic that you should be talking about scientology, myself and a friend are going down to the abbey street scientology office this afternoon to troll the shít outta them!

tell them you`ll give them 50 grand right there to know the `secrets`

I remember going in there myself with a mate.. HILARIOUS