You have to read this!!!

Wow, I constantly look through forums on the internet when I'm bored here at work and came across this canadian one:

http://www.frankmag.net/forum/forum.asp?forum_id=2&forum_title=Loose+Lips

Look through there.  They have a Jian thread, and one about the Rhode Island concert fire.  These people are pretty sick and twisted...

the jian thread is here. wow, i don't think i've ever seen so many jian haters in once place. :)

And believe me, he's looked folks!

Geez...who ARE these people, and why are they so angry?

Well, given a quick read of some other threads, it appears there's a strong right-wing contingent posting. Jian isn't exactly going to inspire their love and compassion.

Now, I think Jian's politics are looney, but that doesn't have a whole lot to do with his skill as an entertainer and musician. Why people take disagreement of one aspect of a person and apply it universally to the person is beyond me.

Because people can be very narrow-minded in the views.  And please note this word of caution:  Be very afraid of large crowds of stupid people.

I'm tempted to say that large crowds are always of stupid people. Heinlein said to find the intelligence of a crowd add everyone's IQ then divide by the square of the number of people.

I wouldn't really go that far but people do act stupider in large groups.

If you look in the top left corner of the page, it says:

"FRANK Canada's Definitive Satirical Magazine"

What's this about changing his christian name from John to Jian?  Since when is Jian a Christian? Morons.

I think they're latching on to the fact that when Jian's family moved to Canada from England his mother changed his name to Jean. His name has always officially been Jian and it's what his friends have always called him... but people like this always want to make everything look as bad as possible.

Actually it was Jian who insisted he be called "Jean." He used to say that it was his mom who made the decision, but on an episode of Talk TV, his mom phoned in to tell the story. Jian seemed pretty surprised.  He also said that he didn't "reclaim his name" until college.

And as for this "satirical" magazine. I've been reading some of it, and they don't seem to understand the true meaning of satire. My dictionary defines satire as: "biting wit, irony or sarcasm used to expose vice or folly"  There doesn't seem to be much biting wit, just a lot of anger and mean-spiritedness.  Ironic, since Fruvous were masters of satire...

Heh.. some of the comments about the RI fire are pretty funny, though.

:)

I dunno....I think there are at least that many Jian-haters on FHDC.
;)

well yeah, but we hate because we love! :)

Them's fightin' words.

and what's with them calling Fruvous the "worst band in the word"?

grrrrrrrrrrrrr!

~J~

and what's with them calling Fruvous the "worst band in the word"?

grrrrrrrrrrrrr!

~J~

Fr�lie I agree with your statement.  They didn't have to go that far but darn are those folks angry! Take a pill!

~Karen

 

That's what I say to Fruvous-bashers!