I don’t control the ads around here. I just write the smut, and a much larger media company does the ad sales, and then contacts me several times a month with angry emails employing the phrase “this is a real problem” when they feel my content has “crossed a line” and will potentially reflect poorly on their company. And then my response is something along the lines of “Didn’t you read anything on the website before you bought the advertising rights?” and we go back and forth like that, and sometimes I have to pull an image or, you know, an entire Dita Von Teese sex tape, in the interest of keeping my job, and then we move along our merry way until next time.
So imagine my surprise when I load up my website today and find that the Church of Scientology is advertising on it.
Um …
I need to talk with my boss.
And, in the meantime, I’m sorry. To both you guys and the Church of Scientology, I suppose.
Update: Email from boss: “I asked them to block/pull that ad. I have no idea how it got there in the first place.” I ::heart:: boss.
I heart this website.
I personally find it quite amusing to see a Scientology advertisement alongside the ‘Hating on Scientology is Fun for Everyone!’ post.
Oh, the irony.
i love that you had that ad. i actually clicked on it and watched all the mildy disturbing “informational” videos in which they NEVER TELL YOU WHAT THEIR”RELIGION” IS ABOUT. So weird.
three words: FREEDOM OF RELIGION.
Why you hating on the Scientologist? They need to do all the advertising they can, to fill there bodiless souls quota for the year.
> FREEDOM OF RELIGION
It is NOT a fraking religion! How many times do we have to post this before some of you guys will get off your fat asses and actually do some research in to this cult.
shut the fuck up donkey, just because a religion isnt yours doesnt mean its not real.
im catholic btw. and i dont feel guilty either
Yeah, I’m all about freedom of religion. But what kind of religion advertises on a celebrity gossip blog? I think I’d be equally concerned if the Catholic church, the Jews, the Mormons or the Buddhists were advertising on here. Like if I loaded up my website one day and there was an ad that read: “Judaism: Now Accepting Applications” I’d probably have had a similar reaction.
i’m not gonna question why, but i don’t have any advertisement and that makes me very happy.
> im catholic btw. and i dont feel guilty either
Yes, I figured that was why you were being so blindly defensive of them.
You call them a religion? Show me what God they believe in. They don’t believe in any because Scientology isn’t about worship in ANY way. As I said the only thing they come close to worshiping is L Ron Hubbard and the last time I checked bad science fiction authors aren’t God material.
Scientology is a science fiction version of self help. It is a cult. What real religion costs you hundreds of thousands of dollars to “worship”?
I understand it I do. You religious folk feel you must stick together because the evil Atheists are your worst enemy. You feel like a friend of your enemy is also your friend. These people are using the laws to protect real religions and are scamming everyone.
Correction: Woops, shouldn’t post when half awake. When I typed “You feel like a friend of your enemy is also your friend” I of course meant to say “and enemy of your enemy is also your friend”.
To clarify further:
Dark Helmet: I am your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.
Lone Starr: What’s that make us?
Dark Helmet: Absolutely nothing!
catholics arent blindly supportive lol. theyre judgmental, a trait you might be more understanding of.
now lonestar, you see that evil will always triumph over good. because good is dumb.
““this is a real problem—
hahaha. i laughed at that for ten minutes, then i laughed about scientology. i less than three you.