Harry Potter - who has the time? (PS: poor trees!)

[Darren Dirt]

I personally don't have any interest in the Harry Potter series of books. I don't care either way, and am sick of ignoring all those who for some reason feel motivated to say positive things, rolemodelthis, encouragingkidstoreadthat, etc.





But the bottom of this guy's temporary site made me chuckle and so thus I share with you, my cynical pals...





from: http://dantecubed.com/



P.S. If you bought the latest Harry Potter book, thanks! We don't need all those trees on the planet anyway. Wankers. This is a mini-rant about how stupid the people who read Harry Potter are. Come on, for @%&#'s sake. Just what the @%&# is it that's so @%&#ing good? God, I hate stupid people.

[Lazybones]

Maybe this bash.org post has something to do with it.

<JonJonB> Purely in the interests of science, I have replaced the word "wand" with "wang" in the first Harry Potter Book

<JonJonB> Let's see the results...



<JonJonB> "Why aren't you supposed to do magic?" asked Harry.

<JonJonB> "Oh, well -- I was at Hogwarts meself but I -- er -- got expelled, ter tell yeh the truth. In me third year. They snapped me wang in half an' everything



<JonJonB> A magic wang... this was what Harry had been really looking forward to.



<JonJonB> "Yes, yes. I thought I'd be seeing you soon. Harry Potter." It wasn't a question. "You have your mother's eyes. It seems only yesterday she was in here herself, buying her first wang. Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wang for charm work."

<JonJonB> "Your father, on the other hand, favored a mahogany wang. Eleven inches. "

[Mr. Analog]

Some might say the same about another, fairly popular, widely distributed book.

[Tonnica]

Some counter-cynicisim:



How dare more than a prescribed, personally-determined number of people(1) buy a BOOK and READ! Putting aside the popular opinion(2) of the book being generally good and people walking away from it as a positive experience(3) it's obviously only stupid people who read this book because books are made of trees and only stupid people consume trees as a resource(4). Now let's just skip over the much more debateable issue of the snafu of how the American volumes should have been mostly made of recycled pulp products like the Canadian volumes and instead focus on something more easy to sensationalize like the use of the colour green in the Harry Potter books(5).



(1) OH MY GOD IT'S POPULAR MEDIA OF SOME SORT ATTRACTING A CERTAIN NUMBER OF PEOPLE TO CONSUME IT! HOW DARE IT!

(2) Obviously because it's popular opinion it's deeply flawed and obviously worth being a snide ass about. Everyone on board the bullet train to rejecting popular culture simply because it's popular! Whoooooooosh!

(3) Only sheeple derive anything positive from media!

(4) Lumber and pulp products have a million uses. FOR SATAN!

(5) Harry's eyes are green and there was green icing on his birthday cake and green is the colour of SATAN!!!!!!!!!!!!





I couldn't resist writing something like this in light of that mini-rant. I'm not a big fan of deforesting either, but it also was a bit too Livejournal "OMG! Something popular let's attack it in an attempt to make one paragraph-long joke without including any real jokes therefore confusing it between the realms of satire and seriousness!" to seem all that funny to me.

[Mr. Analog]

I figure it this way: if you made porn mags on toilet paper the world would have more trees.



Also, everything should be interac... or doubloons.



Also, all paperwork should go away!

[Shayne]

As much copies of Harry Potter that we sold, concider how many news papers are printed and sold in the USA on daily basis.



The pros of Harry Potter success (children reading, economy stimulation) far out way the minor dent in the south american forests

[Darren Dirt]

I figure it this way: if you made porn mags on toilet paper the world would have more trees.

...but more ichibans... oops, I mean -well, say it out loud, you'll get me