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Originally posted by AXO Alum
When I referred to them as "losers" I was specifically meaning this line out of the article:
But the fans are refusing to move, believing the news to be false.
No where in that article did it say anything about raising money for seriously ill children. If it did, I (and others) would not have called them losers or idiots.
We may be a little obnoxious here on GC, but we aren't ugly to the point of purposely degrading people who are raising money for this type of cause.
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Fair enough. The BBC is normally an exceptional news source; however, they just seemed to skip right over additional facts which would have clarified the situation. That's why I stepped in to defend these folks and shed some extra light. This is sort of like when some fight at a fraternity house gets reported in the newspaper. The citizens read and think, "Fraternity members....what a bunch of drunks and hooligans". When, in fact the fight may have been started by an independant student who had been denied admission to the party.
I guess it's a much "better" story to say "dorky sci-fi fans line up at the wrong theatre and refuse to move" than to say "sci-fi fans raise money for charity in spite of concerns about location".
.....Kelly
