The Twangout: Like Robin Hood, Only Somehow More Gay. And Merry.

[Fer!]

I accidently ended up as an anonymous today. o__O I was walking with a friend along the bridge, and saw a bunch of guys with signs up ahead. I wondered what it was until I saw the V for Vendetta masks. I didn't realise that there was a Scientology building so close to my house... I've walked past it before and seen some of the stuff in the window about bettering your life, but I never looked very closely and always thought it was just some new-age, alternative therapy type place.

Anyway, we stuck about for a bit out of curiousity. It was...ah...interesting.

POOL'S CLOSED.

[Elin]

POOL'S CLOSED.

DUE TO THETANS?

It's weird to think that people online could be so close by, though. It's like a totally different world here. It felt a little strange...

[Anonymous]

I accidently ended up as an anonymous today. o__O I was walking with a friend along the bridge, and saw a bunch of guys with signs up ahead. I wondered what it was until I saw the V for Vendetta masks. I didn't realise that there was a Scientology building so close to my house... I've walked past it before and seen some of the stuff in the window about bettering your life, but I never looked very closely and always thought it was just some new-age, alternative therapy type place.

Anyway, we stuck about for a bit out of curiousity. It was...ah...interesting.

Two guys tried to go in to get the "personality test", and they were turned away becase they had walked through our group to get to the building. They came back out and grabbed signs to help out. It was awesome.

[Sprung]

I accidently ended up as an anonymous today. o__O I was walking with a friend along the bridge, and saw a bunch of guys with signs up ahead. I wondered what it was until I saw the V for Vendetta masks. I didn't realise that there was a Scientology building so close to my house... I've walked past it before and seen some of the stuff in the window about bettering your life, but I never looked very closely and always thought it was just some new-age, alternative therapy type place.

Anyway, we stuck about for a bit out of curiousity. It was...ah...interesting.

Did you get a complimentary painter's mask?

[Elin]

Did you get a complimentary painter's mask?

Nope, but we were right nextdoor to a shop that deals in tacky crap like that. We went in and bought two really awful monster masks.

[Anonymous]

DUE TO THETANS?

It's weird to think that people online could be so close by, though. It's like a totally different world here. It felt a little strange...

I was expecting 20 people, maybe 25. Headcount at the peak was 78. Cincinnati got right around the same number, I heard.

200+ in NYC, over 500 in London.

[Elin]

Two guys tried to go in to get the "personality test", and they were turned away becase they had walked through our group to get to the building. They came back out and grabbed signs to help out. It was awesome.

Ahaha. We only stuck around for about half an hour. It was more just the novelty factor of it, I think. I've never been one for protests. Or for eBaum's World.

Still, I'd be curious to see if it makes the papers. There was actually quite a crowd, considering it's only Scotland...

[Sprung]

Nope, but we were right nextdoor to a shop that deals in tacky crap like that. We went in and bought two really awful monster masks.

Did you go RAWWWWR?

[Anonymous]

Ahaha. We only stuck around for about half an hour. It was more just the novelty factor of it, I think. I've never been one for protests. Or for eBaum's World.

Still, I'd be curious to see if it makes the papers. There was actually quite a crowd, considering it's only Scotland...

This was the first public protest I've ever participated in. Had the chance before, but it was always for something stupid like anwar or darfur.

[Elin]

I was expecting 20 people, maybe 25. Headcount at the peak was 78. Cincinnati got right around the same number, I heard.

200+ in NYC, over 500 in London.

I think there were about 100 here. It was hard to tell, though, as they were dispersed all the way along the street.

500 in London, though? Ouch. o__O

[Jetsetlemming]

God Bless The Great United States Of America.
:Iron Man:

[Anonymous]

Did you go RAWWWWR?

[Anonymous]

God Bless The Great United States Of America.
:Iron Man:

God hasn't blessed anything in centuries.

[Elin]

Did you go RAWWWWR?

I was a skeleton. I had no tongue.

[Anonymous]

Global Headcount:

Oceania:
200-300 in Sydney, Australia
100 in Perth, Australia
100 in Brisbane, Australia
150 in Adelaide, Australia
150 in Melbourne, Australia
17 in Auckland, New Zealand
10 in Christchurch, New Zealand
20 in Wellington, New Zealand
4 in Canberra, Australia
Total: 851

Asia:
1 in Tokyo, Japan
4 in Tel Aviv, Israel
Total: 5

Europe:
500 in London, United Kingdom
60 in Oslo, Norway
20 in York, United Kingdom
6 in Zürich, Switzerland
5 in Geneve, Switzerland
25 in Gothenburg, Sweden
80 in Dublin, Ireland
25 in Berlin, Germany
40-50 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
50 in Birmingham, United Kingdom
20 in Plymouth, United Kingdom
130 in Edinburgh, United Kindom
150 in Manchester, United Kingdom
12 in Vienna (Wien), Austria
50 in Copehagen, Denmark
3 in Aarhus. Denmark
20-25 in Duesseldorf, Germany
30 in Brussels, Belgium
30 in Paris, France
15 in Sunderland, United Kindom
15-25 in Hamburg, Germany
50 in Stockholm, Sweden
5 in Brighton, United Kingdom
12-13 in Malmö, Sweden
Total: 1379

North-America:
200 in Clearwater, Florida
320 in New York City, New York
80 in Colombus, Ohio
75 in Cincinnati, Ohio
15 in Cleveland, Ohio
150-200 in Portland, Oregon
200 in Toronto, Canada
5 in Brunswick, Maine
50 in Buffalo, New York
25-30 in Indianapolis, Indiana
100 in Detroit, Michigan
160 in Austin, Texas
100-150 in Houston, Texas
90 in Denver, Colorado
270 in Boston, Massachusetts
500 in Los Angeles, California
100 in Minneapolis, Minnesota
200 in Seattle, Washington
115 in Dallas, Texas
30-40 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
40-50 in Tucson, Arizona
40 in Edmonton, Canada
150-200 in Atlanta, Georgia
200 in San Francisco, California
100 in Sacramento, California
25 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
45 in Nashville, Tennessee
80 in Montreal, Canada
65-70 in Kansas City, Missouri
25 in Wichita, Kansas
135 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
200 in Orlando, Florida
60 in Phoenix, Arizona
100-110 in Miami, Florida
200 in Washington, D.C.
65-150 in Chicago, Illinois
30 in Champaign, Illinois
40 in San Diego, California
25 in Memphis, Tennessee
140-200 in Vancouver, Canada
80 in St. Louis, Missouri
35 in New Haven, Connecticut
50 in Charlotte, North Carolina
40 in Louisville, Kentucky
35 in Richmond, Virginia
70 in Salt Lake City, Utah
10-15 in Ontario, Canada
10-15 in Rochester, New York
40 in Albany, New York
20 in New Orleans, Louisiana
15 in Reno, Nevada
12-15 in Boulder, Colorado
30 in Halifax, Canada
8 in San Antonio, Texas
20 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
40 in Mountain View, California
45 in Las Vegas, Nevada
25 in Santa Barbara, California
9 in Boise, Idaho
3 in London, Canada
13 in Chico, California
5 in Santa Cruz, California
Total: 5462

Global total: At least 7598.