I knew Mormons weren’t allowed to drink an ice cold Coca-Cola on a hot Utah day or enjoy a grande double latte from Starbucks, but I didn’t know they weren’t allowed to watch dumb videos on YouTube. From the Washington Post:
Brigham Young University, the Mormon church school where students agree to live a chaste and virtuous life, has lifted its almost three-year policy of blocking access to YouTube.
Administrators at the Provo, Utah, university lifted the ban Friday, citing an increasing amount of educational material on the popular video-sharing site, university spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said.
YouTube has its own filters for pornography, but BYU added it to the list of Web sites blocked by campus online filters in 2006 because administrators felt there was too much content that could violate the school’s strict standards.
Like most people, I figured their special holy Mormon long underwear protected them against any of the evil running around YouTube. I guess not.
Anonymous
/ June 28, 2009You are a very sad person.
Rick
/ June 29, 2009Sad person? I’ll have you know, I make it a habit of turning my frown upside down each and every day. Except Thursdays. I don’t like Thursdays that much. They’re kinda like Fridays, but not really.
Thursday is the fake Friday.
Smellycatchris
/ June 29, 2009Seeing how gross and retarded you look in your photos explains everything. You fell right from the top of ugly tree and landed head first on a moron boulder. Damn you’re a poor specimen.
Rick
/ June 29, 2009I’m sorry you don’t find me attractive Smellycatchris. I will strive to do better.
Smellycatchris
/ June 29, 2009Well you could start with buying some glasses that suit your face and head type and shaving properly. Beard’s are for… A. Slapheads who try to compensate for the sad state of their bald heads. B. Fat people trying to hide their double chin, it never works! C. Dumb followers of fashion. D. The idle. E. Perverts, murderers, religious nuts and tramps (I think in the US you call them bums). You should try to do better. I notice you didn’t argue with me calling you a moron, can’t really defend yourself there can you?
Rick
/ June 29, 2009You realize that when I said I was sorry you didn’t find me attractive that I was being sarcastic, right? In all honesty, I don’t care what you think.
Lee B.
/ June 29, 2009Stinkypussychris mentions D. The idle and E. Perverts, etc. This implies that perverts, etc. are never idle? So by extension, if there WERE an idle pervert (which his theory doesn’t support), this individual could wear a beard and perhaps be accepted by His Malodorousness, if I follow the reasoning properly.
Further, C. Dumb followers of fashion is also specified categorically to the exclusion of other groupings that shouldn’t wear beards (by CrotchClown’s philosophy), but the same query pervades- if a pervert, idle or otherwise, also followed fashion (and it’s so hard NOT to on many levels, isn’t it?) then said pervert can in fact sport facial hair, yes?
So much to learn…
Smellycatchris
/ June 29, 2009Is English a second language for you? Beards look creepy, everyone knows that men with beards are either trying to hide something or too damn lazy to shave.
Lee B.
/ June 29, 2009Ah- so it’s only men with with beards that creep you out. There are some chicks around Syracuse that may have the five o’clock shadow you crave. And sign me up for the lazy part- who can’t relate to that? As for Rick- he is one good looking fellow, by George.
Smellycatchris
/ June 29, 2009Lee B. You seen to have learnt english from a dictionary and communicate in a very disjointed and grammatically poor manner, to say nothing of your warped logic. I’ll try and aim my comments down to your uneducated level. . . BEARD’S SUCK, DUDE’S WHO HAVE THEM LOOK LIKE SAD FOOLS. And on another point grossy fat and unfit couch potatoes shouldn’t really wear sporting style clothes, it’s silly.
Smellycatchris
/ June 29, 2009Are you on drugs? I don’t crave 5 o clock shadows, though i believe you about the women there being rough looking. Men should be clean shaven, eat a balanced diet and exercise to look good, feel good and seperate themselves from the hoi polloi.
Rick
/ June 30, 2009You know what else looks creepy? A guy who leaves 20 comments in one single day on a blog he doesn’t even like.
Lee B.
/ June 30, 2009You certainly know how you like your men!
Bob
/ June 30, 2009I see a minimum of 5 spelling/grammatical errors in protector-of-the-English-language smellycatchris’s latest post:
1. “seen”
2. “learnt”?
3. “beard’s” instead of beards
4. “dude’s” instead of “dudes”
5. “it’s silly” should be its own sentence, or at least preceded by a semicolon.