Nutbusterz!
November 1, 2009 2:52 PM Subscribe
If you think tea-baggers aren't doing enough to fight ACORN and its radical leftist agenda, well worry no more, because now you can get all your info from the Nut Busters.
This post was deleted for the following reason: Point-and-laugh at a blog with only two posts? This is pretty thin for a post. -- cortex
The name has an S at the end, but the domain name has a Z. I don't know why that bothers me as much as it does.
posted by box at 2:56 PM on November 1, 2009
posted by box at 2:56 PM on November 1, 2009
What is it with conservatives and balls?
posted by cj_ at 2:59 PM on November 1, 2009 [2 favorites]
posted by cj_ at 2:59 PM on November 1, 2009 [2 favorites]
Conservatives United to Make Communist Homosexual Unitarians Get Godly Enough to Repent Sins
posted by Sys Rq at 3:07 PM on November 1, 2009 [10 favorites]
posted by Sys Rq at 3:07 PM on November 1, 2009 [10 favorites]
It's because it's POLITICALLY INCORRECT to be coarse assholes, guys! The coarser and more debased you can be, the more REAL you are and the more you can STICK IT to those snobby liberal elites and piss them off!
Charting the way things have been going, ten years from now these teabagger types will be waving their dicks in the air and throwing poop. When it comes down to it, they're threatened-feeling primates doing dominance displays.
posted by dunkadunc at 3:11 PM on November 1, 2009 [3 favorites]
Charting the way things have been going, ten years from now these teabagger types will be waving their dicks in the air and throwing poop. When it comes down to it, they're threatened-feeling primates doing dominance displays.
posted by dunkadunc at 3:11 PM on November 1, 2009 [3 favorites]
LOL Right-Wing Testicles. Yawn. (I think I accidentally ate a right-wing testicle at KFC once)
posted by evilmidnightbomberwhatbombsatmidnight at 3:18 PM on November 1, 2009 [2 favorites]
posted by evilmidnightbomberwhatbombsatmidnight at 3:18 PM on November 1, 2009 [2 favorites]
It's a funny name and all (el oh el!), but the blog seems a little lot thin. Two posts? And one is a verbatim reprint of a NY Post article?
posted by mullingitover at 3:20 PM on November 1, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by mullingitover at 3:20 PM on November 1, 2009 [1 favorite]
These little pissers are no Ghostbusters, but it brings new meaning to 'don't cross the streams'...
posted by evilmidnightbomberwhatbombsatmidnight at 3:21 PM on November 1, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by evilmidnightbomberwhatbombsatmidnight at 3:21 PM on November 1, 2009 [1 favorite]
Where does the tea-bagger term come from?
Wikipedia is surprisingly detailed in defining Teabagging, noting the history of use in sex, erotica, hazing and humiliation in multiplayer video games, as well as use of the term by critics of Tea Party protests.
posted by filthy light thief at 3:44 PM on November 1, 2009
Wikipedia is surprisingly detailed in defining Teabagging, noting the history of use in sex, erotica, hazing and humiliation in multiplayer video games, as well as use of the term by critics of Tea Party protests.
posted by filthy light thief at 3:44 PM on November 1, 2009
Well, teabagging is a practice from first person shooter online games, like Counter Strike. It's not clear where the term originated, whether online or in real life, but it almost certainly became popular on Counter Strike.
In almost every FPS, the player is able to crouch, which is good for taking cover and other tactical moves. Crouching over an enemy player's corpse is practice known as teabagging, because it puts the player's crotch in the enemy's face.
If you want to know what "teabagging" itself means, imagine a teabag going in and out of a cup of hot water. Then imagine the cup is someone's mouth, and the teabag is a scrotum. That's the sex act which the video game move is based on.
As for why we attribute it to angry people at the Tea Party rallies: Back when the tea parties were getting started, some campaigns said their volunteers should mail Obama or Democratic congresspeople teabags to "teabag" them. It's pretty obvious those campaigns meant it in a way to humiliate them in a dirty way, like in the Counter Strike games. Following standard internet parlance of calling a member of a movement by the movement's name plus -er (Truther, Birther, Freeper, etc), teabagger was the obvious insult, especially since the people at the tea parties were demanding to be called Tea Party Patriots, a long term which also implies that we have to say their rallies are patriotic, and that those who disagree with them don't love America as much as they do.
posted by mccarty.tim at 3:45 PM on November 1, 2009 [2 favorites]
In almost every FPS, the player is able to crouch, which is good for taking cover and other tactical moves. Crouching over an enemy player's corpse is practice known as teabagging, because it puts the player's crotch in the enemy's face.
If you want to know what "teabagging" itself means, imagine a teabag going in and out of a cup of hot water. Then imagine the cup is someone's mouth, and the teabag is a scrotum. That's the sex act which the video game move is based on.
As for why we attribute it to angry people at the Tea Party rallies: Back when the tea parties were getting started, some campaigns said their volunteers should mail Obama or Democratic congresspeople teabags to "teabag" them. It's pretty obvious those campaigns meant it in a way to humiliate them in a dirty way, like in the Counter Strike games. Following standard internet parlance of calling a member of a movement by the movement's name plus -er (Truther, Birther, Freeper, etc), teabagger was the obvious insult, especially since the people at the tea parties were demanding to be called Tea Party Patriots, a long term which also implies that we have to say their rallies are patriotic, and that those who disagree with them don't love America as much as they do.
posted by mccarty.tim at 3:45 PM on November 1, 2009 [2 favorites]
If you want to know what "teabagging" itself means, imagine a teabag going in and out of a cup of hot water... forever.
posted by Faint of Butt at 3:52 PM on November 1, 2009 [9 favorites]
posted by Faint of Butt at 3:52 PM on November 1, 2009 [9 favorites]
I just find it weird because I only know "teabagging" from spending hours of my youth playing CS, and judging by the people showing up at these rallies, they are not exactly in that demographic. Was this bit of slang widespread in some other subculture that these (generally) older, far-right types would be familiar with it enough to pick the name intentionally? I'm still thinking they had no clue and were aiming more for the historical aspect. Which makes it a lot funnier.
Nutbusterz, on the other hand, is obviously an intentional pun. And really lame, even for a pun.
posted by cj_ at 3:53 PM on November 1, 2009
Nutbusterz, on the other hand, is obviously an intentional pun. And really lame, even for a pun.
posted by cj_ at 3:53 PM on November 1, 2009
It's not clear where the term originated, whether online or in real life, but it almost certainly became popular on Counter Strike.
In high school in the early 90s we used to crack jokes about teabagging; this was 4-5 years before Counter-Strike came out, and also before the movie Pecker, which Wikipedia lists as the first major explosion of the idea of teabagging into the mainstream.
posted by Saxon Kane at 3:53 PM on November 1, 2009
In high school in the early 90s we used to crack jokes about teabagging; this was 4-5 years before Counter-Strike came out, and also before the movie Pecker, which Wikipedia lists as the first major explosion of the idea of teabagging into the mainstream.
posted by Saxon Kane at 3:53 PM on November 1, 2009
But if the conservatives are nutbusting, who will stand up against the emasculation of America? If they don't continue stand up for the manly way of life, soon we'll be driving small environmentally friendly cars and eating vegetables instead of steak. And we all know who designed a small fuel efficient car and was a vegetarian...
posted by mccarty.tim at 3:57 PM on November 1, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by mccarty.tim at 3:57 PM on November 1, 2009 [1 favorite]
Yeah, I didn't want to imply that the Tea Party Express folks were Counter Strike players. I just always had the impression that's where the term grew popular before inoculating society at large.
Besides, the people I meet in FPS tend to be either progressive or so antisocial that they're either too libertarian for Tea Party rallies or too anarchist for rallies or movements period.
posted by mccarty.tim at 3:59 PM on November 1, 2009
Besides, the people I meet in FPS tend to be either progressive or so antisocial that they're either too libertarian for Tea Party rallies or too anarchist for rallies or movements period.
posted by mccarty.tim at 3:59 PM on November 1, 2009
Well, teabagging is a practice from first person shooter online games, like Counter Strike. It's not clear where the term originated, whether online or in real life, but it almost certainly became popular on Counter Strike.No way. I first heard "teabagging" used in this manner well over a decade before Counter Strike even existed.
posted by Flunkie at 4:01 PM on November 1, 2009
This seems like pretty thin FPP material. There's a crazy conservative person on the internet who doesn't like ACORN. No real news there. I'm all for pointing and laughing at the teabaggers, but it seems like the NY-23 thread down the page is a perfectly good place for doing that.
posted by EarBucket at 4:01 PM on November 1, 2009
posted by EarBucket at 4:01 PM on November 1, 2009
(I think the first place I heard the term "teabagging" was in the 1998 John Waters film "Pecker.")
posted by EarBucket at 4:02 PM on November 1, 2009
posted by EarBucket at 4:02 PM on November 1, 2009
I have it on good authority that teabagging originated in a Baltimore gay bar, during the tragic espresso shortage crisis of 1962.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 4:04 PM on November 1, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 4:04 PM on November 1, 2009 [1 favorite]
mccarty.tim:
Oh yeah, I know, I was just saying that when I heard the term it was pre-CS. If I remember correctly, someone mentioned it in my psychology class senior year of high school. We were talking about human sexuality, and one guy, obviously wanting to embarrass our female teacher, asked her if she knew about teabagging, which he described as "squatting over a chick's mouth and dipping your nuts into her mouth like a teabag" (he or someone else may have asked if she did that with her fiance). Since we were a rowdy bunch of teenage boys (it was an all-male Catholic school) and our female teacher had little disciplinary control over us, it quickly became our war cry. Eventually, the teacher had to ban the word "teabag" from class on the threat of getting detention for saying or writing it. Then she had to ban the words "tea" and "bag" spoken in isolation, because we started doing a call-and-response thing. Finally, we all brought a bunch of teabags and hung them all over the classroom, even having some teabag fights.
So anyway, yeah, hearing about teabaggers is always kinda funny for me.
posted by Saxon Kane at 4:08 PM on November 1, 2009
Oh yeah, I know, I was just saying that when I heard the term it was pre-CS. If I remember correctly, someone mentioned it in my psychology class senior year of high school. We were talking about human sexuality, and one guy, obviously wanting to embarrass our female teacher, asked her if she knew about teabagging, which he described as "squatting over a chick's mouth and dipping your nuts into her mouth like a teabag" (he or someone else may have asked if she did that with her fiance). Since we were a rowdy bunch of teenage boys (it was an all-male Catholic school) and our female teacher had little disciplinary control over us, it quickly became our war cry. Eventually, the teacher had to ban the word "teabag" from class on the threat of getting detention for saying or writing it. Then she had to ban the words "tea" and "bag" spoken in isolation, because we started doing a call-and-response thing. Finally, we all brought a bunch of teabags and hung them all over the classroom, even having some teabag fights.
So anyway, yeah, hearing about teabaggers is always kinda funny for me.
posted by Saxon Kane at 4:08 PM on November 1, 2009
To be clear, tea baggers (the kooks who shout at liberals and ostentatiously display teabags, that is) took that name for themselves before any of their critics applied it to them. Apparently they had no idea of the term's sexual connotations.
Though they probably do now.
posted by adamrice at 4:23 PM on November 1, 2009 [2 favorites]
Though they probably do now.
posted by adamrice at 4:23 PM on November 1, 2009 [2 favorites]
Teabaggers + Wolverines! = Wolfbaggers
posted by acb at 4:27 PM on November 1, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by acb at 4:27 PM on November 1, 2009 [1 favorite]
adamrice, I don't know if that's true, but I want it to be true. It'd be really awesome if Archive.org could find really early blog posts from the teabagger movement proudly calling themselves Teabaggers, and not in the "owning the insult" sense.
posted by mccarty.tim at 4:33 PM on November 1, 2009
posted by mccarty.tim at 4:33 PM on November 1, 2009
I don't get it. It looks like some political blog that copied an article from the New York Post.
Is the funny part supposed to be that the author is conservative and has poor grammar? That doesn't do it for me so much.
posted by Slap Factory at 4:36 PM on November 1, 2009
Is the funny part supposed to be that the author is conservative and has poor grammar? That doesn't do it for me so much.
posted by Slap Factory at 4:36 PM on November 1, 2009
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