Hi, I'm Benny. Come in, ass wipe. Oh, and Jews, queers, and liberals are welcome too. Find yourself here first.

The avatar creator has more options than just fourth graders...

The avatar creator has more options than just fourth graders...

Suck my balls, ass wipe. You've always got to show off by trying to have something better. Your avatar sucks. If they were balls, I'd make you suck them.

I'm imagination-landing little Benny sucking my balls... ooh, you must have been really ball starved. And I haven't showered, so my balls are particularly vinegary. Look at you go, you dirty girl...

"The Death of Eric Cartman" (season 9)
--featuring Benny!
"La Petit Tourette" (season 11)

Weep.

Here's Benny has been artificially aged to about 45. All that ball-sucking has taken its toll.

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That's great! Love the hair. Output it as wallpaper and email it to me, I'll make you a better gif, without the black mask.

Here's thalo as a fourth grader:

All kinds of Christian groups have come out against the show, but they do end up looking like idiots. The show even helped coin a new phrase "South Park Conservatives", which I must say I count myself among.

Most normal people end up being a conservative of some type, whether South Parkian or otherwise – especially as they grow up, and especially if they have kids. The warm, lunatic glow of young idealism can only last so long in the face of taxes, poop-filled diapers, and having been around the park at least once and seen the bullshit masquerading either as naïve idealism or just bullshit. When a Mormon comes to my house now, I don't give them the tongue-lashing they deserve. But they do get eyerolls instead of the "Oh, isn't it nice that such clean-cut young men are working so hard for something they believe in." Now I just see them as dangerous idiots, or perhaps "useful idiots" as is another somewhat conservative term, although I think it was Stalin or Lenin who invented it.

I was reading a little bit online and, yep, Viacom and the Comedy Channel have caved a time or two because of South Park controversy. And business is business, but Tom Cruise and Isaac Hayes are dweebs. But surprisingly I think the fallout against South Park has been surprisingly minimal, for reasons that I already gave elsewhere. Where misrepresentation or true slander is involved, I might join the side of the peeved. But in most cases we're simply talking about stupidity being revealed by separating it from the lush trappings that usually hide and smooth-out the bizarreness underneath. I've read some more about Mormonism and it's probably on par with Scientology with being weird, and yet the Mormons I know are swell people. I mean, if you have to get brainwashed, you could do worse than a Mormon brainwashing. You really could. But when you say what these people actually believe, and give the history of Joseph Smith, you'd have to be a moron to believe any of that stuff. Truly stupid.

South Park is anti-brainwashing just like James Randi is anti-pseudo-science. It's a breath of fresh air, and given how fascist-like the proponents are of the stuff that South Park typically lampoons, it's nice to see someone out there being the leading edge of the sword. They help to make it safe to fight back against the PC fascists. Group-mind, a la the group mind of 1984, is challenged and sometimes even punctured. Almost any human endeavor is based on, or supported by, the mass-mind of denial, play-acting, and just sheer getting lost in cultural or peer norms, and always because its of some pragmatic benefit to do so, truth be damned. We can become so used to these norms, practices, customs, habits, and beliefs that they no longer seem so bizarre. Me being a literate conservative, these PC subjects are never far from my mind, but still even things like Mormonism and Scientology leave me flabbergasted at the human gullibility, greed, and the desire to be important and to just feel like you're a part of some group. And because normally we *all* are involved in some such tomfoolery, we have this common assent that we will "respect" each other's beliefs. And living inside this fog of squishy half-truth acquiescence, we soon become quite enamored with half-truth, delusions, lies, and outright fraudulence. And so it may strike all the harder when someone, such as the creators of South Park, stop playing this game and start calling a spade a spade.

Satire and parodies such as South Park help remind us which end is up. I never really lost track of it, but it's still damn funny and simply feels good to see someone else say that the emperor has no clothes. No matter how obvious it may be to you that the emperor is naked, it always helps to hear someone say the same thing. And to do it in a funny was has double the impact and double the entertainment value. We have just always responded to the truths contained in cartoons, whether political or otherwise. Of course, one needn't be rude to point out and puncture the little delusions we all carry around with us, usually in groups. But since it's usually considered rude to point out, for instance, that Catholics are involved in cannibalism if the Eucharist is true, then you might as well put some extra rudeness on it anyway and maybe even make some money in the process. Perhaps by calling it art you can avoid most of the wrath that a private individual expressing the same views in his community would get. Doubly better in the form of a cartoon.

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That's great! Love the hair. Output it as wallpaper and email it to me, I'll make you a better gif, without the black mask.

I couldn't get the damn thing to save properly, so I just grabbed a screen shot. It appears to save a jpg to a directory, but then there's nothing there. This sucks balls, but I may try it again at work.

South Park controversies

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More recently, the program has received some publicity over their use of the deceased Steve Irwin, where in an episode, he shows up at Satan's Halloween party. Typically this issue rated a few short paragraphs in mainstream newspapers.[1] In retaliation to this controversy, Parker and Stone included further references to the incident in the final episode of season 10 "Stanley's Cup" where the doctor says that if Stan's team loses the next game then the team-mate with cancer will "die faster than Steve Irwin in a fish tank full of stingrays," and after Stan saying they're (the other team) not going to kill us at a team meeting, a kid replies "That's what Steve said about those stingrays."

Tasteless, insensitive, but funny.

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In the episode "It Hits the Fan", South Park broke the swearing record by using the word shit a total of 162 times uncensored.[9] The 22-minute episode averages one 'shit' every eight seconds, and there was a counter throughout the episode continuously displaying the number of times it had been said. A song by Mr. Garrison that consisted of, 'Hey, there, shitty shitty fag fag, shitty shitty fag fag, how do you do?' (sung to the tune of the title song from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), repeated for two verses, provides an example of how 'shit' was so abundantly used. This was meant as a satire of an episode of NYPD Blue. An additional gag in this episode allowed homosexual or bisexual characters to use the word "fag" freely, while heterosexual characters were bleeped when attempting to use the same word.

I saw this episode yesterday and thought it was brilliant. The way Kyle (or maybe it was Stan) wrapped it all up at the end was also brilliant. And I loved the parody of the PC rule that if you're a fag you can say fag. If you're a black you can say nigger. Etc.

This may be somewhat old news, but I just ran into this news story:

No prosecution for UK minor who called Scientology a 'cult'

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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) of the government of the United Kingdom told the City of London Police on Friday that there will be no prosecution for a 15-year-old boy who called Scientology a "cult" at a May 10 peaceful protest. The City of London Police had previously confiscated the boy's protest placard and gave him a court summons at the demonstration, which took place near St Paul's Cathedral at the Church of Scientology's London headquarters on Queen Victoria Street. The boy's poster read: "Scientology is not a religion, it is a dangerous cult". The human rights organization Liberty has come out strongly against the City of London Police for their actions at the protest, and said they are pursuing an inquiry into the police force for what they say is a troubling freedom of speech issue.

Other than physical violence, there may be no better way to intimidate people than to arrest them. That's a major thing to happen to anyone. People in the increasingly fascist PC state of the EU ought to be shaking in their boots when the police can arrest a 15-year-old boy for – shock of shocks – saying that Scientology is a cult, which it most certainly is. But even it if wasn't, it's 1984-like insane to arrest a kid for displaying a sign that says so. And given the intimidation tacits of the loony and dangerous Scientologists, it is the duty of every freedom-loving person to stand up against that kind of intimidation. And, Christ, when the police become de facto tools of a cult like that, that's really scarry. Any normal cop in normal times would have looked those complaining Scientologists in the eyes and said "Stick and stones. Grow up, why don't you." You boys and girls over there in the EU better wake up and start fighting for your freedoms. You wacko and fascist-minded Europeans are once again dancing with disaster.

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When the boy refused to take his sign down, City of London Police removed it, cited him with a court summons and informed him that the matter would be referred to the Crown Prosecution Service. The boy was the only protester who did not comply with the police requests to remove signs which referred to Scientology as a "cult". According to The Guardian, a CPS spokesman stated Friday that: "In consultation with the City of London police, we were asked whether the sign, which read 'Scientology is not a religion it is a dangerous cult', was abusive or insulting. Our advice is that it is not abusive or insulting and there is no offensiveness, as opposed to criticism, neither in the idea expressed nor in the mode of expression. No action will be taken against the individual."

Under the guise of "toleration," free speech is being massacred in Europe, and we're not all that far behind in America. It's utterly ridiculous that calling a group a cult has to be run through this filter as to whether or not it is offensive, hateful, insulting, or abusive. Hey, sometimes the truth is indeed offensive, as are opinions that could just be wrong. But tough titty. Man, you Europeans are really screwy. And we've got pissants like Obama who want us to be more like you. Suck my balls.

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It appears to save a jpg to a directory, but then there's nothing there. This sucks balls, but I may try it again at work.

Yeah, you have to hit the "jpg" button and then choose "wallpaper"... that gives you a full body shot on a white background.

Another show that helps prevent me from slicing my flesh with a rusty coffee can lid, is Penn & Teller's "Bullshit" on Showtime. They just did one on Green guilt "Being Green" that was out of this world. It's as if they were reading you on thalo.net. And you would not BELIEVE the douche-chills you get seeing some of these morons in action.

Penn & Teller basically outed a scam whereby people pay a "carbon tax" on their energy usage (a company founded by Al Gore). So they sent people around to parking lots. Walked up to people and asked them "how far did you drive to get here?" One lady answers "23 miles"... the shill taps away on a calculator and says something like "OK, it cost you $1.24 to get here" and offers to take that money in payment. The woman not only paid it, but asked if it would be OK if she paid MORE, like $20.

My jaw was hanging open. Just as I'm ready to crap myself, it gets worse... the lady asks for a HUG from the shill. I literally had to go take a shower.

If you know anyone with Showtime and TIVO, you have to get them to tape that episode for you. Eventually, I think they'll have full episodes online, but it's not there yet.

One of my favorite shows.

I'm definitely going to have to check out more Bullshit. Loved the episode of South Park where it's either Stan or Kyle who take on the psychics. He learns to do cold reading himself and inadvertently becomes a star. And the commentary (via the kid's dialogue) in that show in between the gags is just great. It sounds a lot like what Penn & Teller said about these charlatans preying on people who had lost loved ones. They have a good episode on this. Even while Stan or Kyle was explicitly trying to show people what was behind the trick of cold reading, the people were still fallling for it. Comedy gold. I think it's apt to point out that if South Park was just more bullshit, it wouldn't have the impact that it does. If it were just spinning things in a different way, or only going after one point of view and leaving others untouched, they would just be shills for a certain point of view rather than being truth detectors and true lampooners. You see, I don't think you're really lampooning if you're just shilling for the other side, or your side, or just one side. And the dialogue in a lot of the South Park episodes (which surely represents the thoughts of Parker and/or Stone) is really good. They sometimes sum things up quite nicely in the end, as Kyle or Stan come out and become the voice of reason for a moment. Of course, a lot of the best points are made via Cartman where you usually hear the opposite of what is the right thing to do.

I gotta check out that Green episode. I had just heard on the news that some magazine or TV shows had made a list of the worst carbon footprint offenders among the Hollywood elite. And I just had to laugh. Again, I'm fairly sure that this is completely much ado about nothing. It's the 21st century's version of witchcraft. It's ugly. It's stupid. And it's so superstitious. But it's become a cultural phenomenon like pet rocks, magnetic therapy, UFOs, and Bigfoot. And people have become such suckers and stupid-shits over anything labeled "green," whether or not something is actually good for the environment. I hope they do a South Park episode where some nuclear plant allays fears over their toxic waste because it's now been labeled "green" waste and is now contained in green canisters with little recycle arrows on it. I wouldn't doubt the Simpsons have already done something like this. Granted, there are people who are trying to do the right thing and are just misinformed. But I think there are a whole lot of other people who are just posers, dipshits, and mentally challenged.

I did all that stuff to try and save the wallpaper, but I think it's just not playing well with my browser or something. By the way, how do you do a better transparent gif? I was just using Photoshops "save for web" option. I stuck a light gray around young Benny to try to minimize any halo. You must have some better techniques and/or software to do that.

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But it's become a cultural phenomenon like pet rocks

Funny you should say that. In the episode, one of these retards starts handing out friggin' ROCKS from her driveway to people, to--whatever the fuck--remind them of the permanence of nature. That there are really people like this in the world blows my mind. It's TOTALLY superstitious. And I can already see these turds going on carbon witch-hunts, spraypainting SUVs, lord knows what else. I put nothing past these smug, glaze-eyed kool-aid drinkers.

You did your gif correctly, it's probably your magic-wand work that made the black mask... because actual-age Benny was on a black background, and there's an aliasing zone around him that's tough to kill when he's on black.

What browser were you using? I'm on Safari and it worked fine. Tested it in Firefox too. Maybe it's the version of the Flash player driver.

Anyway, you could take your screenshot from the "finish" screen where it's on white instead of black. Hang on, I just entered the Benny specs into the avatar creator and redid it... posted it back in your old post. Looks great. Masked to white, he's here

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What browser were you using?

I'm using the high-carbon-footprint MyIE2, 9.18.20. I'm pretty sure that's the problem, plus anything with "My" in its name generally sucks. My documents. My photos. My porn. Etc. I mean, when people put stuff in the microwave do they think it automatically belongs to somebody else unless "My popcorn setting" is one of the choices? No, not with microwaves at least. But I think I've seen that stupidity with phones and a lot of other stuff besides Windows.

I'll try saving a jpg of that character again via Safari or Firefox. I have to use Firefox when viewing the South Park episodes at SouthParkStudios.com because Safari in Tigard craps out on me. My. Whatever.

Oh yeah, My Benny 45 looks a tiny bit better. If you'll notice the 4-year-old version, he's either wearing mittens or he's gay-tanned from the neck down, although that wasn't an option with the site that just did 4-year-olds. I'm calling them mittens for the time being.

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I'm using the high-carbon-footprint MyIE2, 9.18.20. I'm pretty sure that's the problem, plus anything with "My" in its name generally sucks.

MyIE2 has already undergone a name change: it's now Maxthon. But there's no Mac version that I can see.

You could just redo baby Benny in the Avatar creator, give him whatever color mittens you want.

Did you see him in the playground scene in "The Death of Eric Cartman?" LOL.

You could just redo baby Benny in the Avatar creator, give him whatever color mittens you want.

I think he stuck his hands in a toaster on a bet. I was also considering making him with a machine gun in his hands, but that might be considered too "intimidating" in a family-oriented forum like this. I wouldn't want to put anyone off. By the way, suck my balls.

I few of these episodes I've seen through the years, but don't remember if I've seen "The Death of Eric Cartman." I'll try to get to at least a couple today.

Yeah, I know about Maxthon, but I'm in the "if it isn't broken, don't fix it" mode with My (not yours, ass wipe) IE2. But I'm spending more and more time in Firefox on the PC because it enlarges type better and just works pretty well all-around. The balls stay less dry in Firefox, by and large.

Here's Benny in his draft-dodging days when he was in Canada, at about age 24.

Now that's what I'm talkin' aboot, eh buddy?

Now that's what I'm talkin' aboot, eh buddy?

Draft dodging? You betcha. I'm going to Canada if Obama get's elected. There's an episode for you. All these conservative types along the border illegally migrate en masse to Canada and start doing the jobs that the Canadian's won't do such as exercising their free speech rights, going to the big Calgary rodeos, and dragging queers behind cars.